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Wisdom alembicked out of dust - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"

Watery reflections where the wisdom lies - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

The time to question false wisdom - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"

Gathered wisdoms [sic] seed from fruits of joy and pain - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"

I am Wisdom's mirror! Behold me not! - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

The wisdom of the present hour - Park Benjamin "Press On"

The wisdom of a thousand years - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"

Leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake "Proverbs of Hell"

The defeated wisdom of a smile - Maxwell Bodenheim "Expressions on a Child's Face"

Postulants for the stars' previous wisdom - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"

Where wisdom ever laughed at love - Emily Bronte "How Clear She Shines"

Safe wisdom's peaceful way - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob"

In after-wisdom not disowned - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob's Wives"

And quiet Wisdom entered there - Arthur Colton "Martial to Pliny"

With wisdom's precious grains - Eliza Cook "Song for the New Year"

Wisdom on Folly's tongue - James H. Cousins "Heaven and Earth"

By the wisdom of a wraith - Nathalia Crane "The Chess Game"

The men I wed in wisdom - Nathalia Crane "My Husbands"

Held in his hands the book of wisdom - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

kisses are a better fate than wisdom - E. E. Cummings "[since feeling is first]"

Despising the world's wisdom - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"

Who masquerades as wisdom - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

And wit goes hunting wisdom - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Doubt with certain wisdom - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"

If wisdom's right law they obey - "The Fox and the Geese"

The glare of wisdom blind my eyes - Edgar A. Guest "The Simple Things"

Gather true wisdom from war's desolation - Robert M. Hart "The Patriot's Wish" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

With wisdom born of sorrow - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Making Home"

The wisdom with salvation fraught - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

With wisdom would be reconciled - Umar Ibn al-Farid "Khamriyyah" [selections] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

With endless wisdom sad - Elinor Jenkins "Artificial Light"

With wisdom's wiser heart - Charles Bertram Johnson "Now and Then"

Sipped of cups that wisdom banned - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"

Have you no wisdom thus to despair? - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"

The perfect work of wisdom - Fanny Kemble "Lines, Written in London"

The priceless harvests by her wisdom spread - "The Lesson of War" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.1, Jan. 1862]

What is wisdom when the wind howls - Sandra J. Lindow "The Wolf from the Door"

And wisdom's mountain scale - Vachel Lindsay "The Comet of Prophecy"

The wisdom of the stars sufficient - Naomi Long Madgett "Clock"

As Wisdom trod in Reason's dusty way - A.G. Marius "Wisdom and Fancy" transl. by William Hodgson Ellis

Wisdom is life upon the tickle edge - John Masefield "Esther"

Who in bounty gives in wisdom takes - John Masefield "Philip the King"

Genius is wisdom and youth - Edgar Lee Masters "Alexander Throckmorton"

Not all kinds of wisdom console - Khaled Mattawa "Beatitudes

Ripened wisdom of the age - H.P. McKnight "Dedication"

Fortified by wisdom's splendid armor - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"

Borrows wisdom from its ancient heat - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

What words from Wisdom come - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Golden beads on lips of wisdom hung - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

In the honeycomb of her wisdom - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney

The wisdom of a planet as it burns - Urayoan Noel "cinquains written during a tropical storm"

Aligned in a place of wisdom - Naomi Shihab Nye "Elementary"

Wisdom in the agitated motions of the mind - Mary Oliver "Seven White Butterflies"

Passes wisdom's means - Walter S. Percy "The Snail and Star"

Walked with Wisdom, though they knew her not - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"

Sought every means which wisdom can suggest - Philo "The Tribute"

Fit shrines for wisdom's queen - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"

For the glad diffusion of wisdom's light - "Potential Moods" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]

Being smitten with an unusual wisdom - Ezra Pound "The Study in Aesthetics"

Feeds his soul at Wisdom's lip - Theodore H. Rand "In the Cool of the Day"

Old wisdoms of the loam - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

The gestures of your warm wise hands - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Has not a school where we may go for wisdom - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Discovery"

Cheated wisdom for the sake of sorrow - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Eyes dazzled see less wisely - Alice Wellington Rollins "Thought"

Has taken your lips for its wisdom - Reg Saner "What Wilderness Tells You"

Speak the wisdom of worlds past - Ann K. Schwader "Alexandria Next Time"

Ancient wisdom like the bitterness of stars - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"

Strange wisdom from a god long dead - Ann K. Schwader "Set in Whitechapel"

All my word was wisdom - Clinton Scollard "A King in Kerry"

The perils his wisdom foresaw - Sir Walter Scott "Song"

Truth is the raw material of wisdom - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

That Wisdom does not scorn - Anna Seward "Sonnet 92 [Behold that Tree, in Autumn's dim decay]"

More wisdom than near tongues can make - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Distant Voices"

His wit ne'er drives his wisdom out of court - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

And cures the wound of wisdom - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

Harbingers of hard wisdoms - Patricia Smith "10 Ways to Get Ray Charles and Ronald Reagan into the Same Poem"

In this wisdom of the Holly Tree - Robert Southey "The Holly Tree"

Measured wisdom of wide symphonies - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"

Set wisdom beyond my reach - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 148: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

My underworld of ultraviolet wisdom - May Swenson "At Truro"

The water's murmuring wisdom - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"

Blinking through the oldest tree of wisdom - Iris Tree "[Old woman forever sitting]"

Wear a diadem of Wisdom's towers - Henry van Dyke "Urbs Coronata"

Have now entered a wisdom - Derek Walcott "For Adrian"

Dim wisdoms that outweary Time - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

The world deserves its wisdom - Helen Hay Whitney "Lyric Love"

Dreaming wisdom - W.B. Yeats "Fergus and the Druid"

All night’s fathomless wisdom - W.B. Yeats "Her Dream"


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