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When all its marrow worth was known - Léonie Adams "Early Waking"

See a heaven worth having - Ruth Awad "In the gloaming, in the roiling night"

Till in full worth it breaks at last - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"

gained a world not worth the lost - Elizabeth Bartlett "maturity"

Couldn't shoot an arrow worth a cent - "Boy Billy and the Rabbit" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

If any worth or virtue were in me - Anne Bradstreet "Before the Birth of One of Her Children"

Unable to spin or spend even a nickel's worth of lies - F. Douglas Brown "Aubade with Edits"

Only one thing worth hearing - Nickole Brown "Parable"

My longings ripen into worth - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "The Plains of Peace"

Worth thy vanished diadem - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"

Is ever worth one thought - Willa Cather "Evening Song"

All wheels or webs of any worth - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"

Makes an angel worth the view - Nathalia Crane "The History of Painting"

Worth the world's envying - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"

Queen of beauty and of grace and precious worth - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Verily, Love, I have no language, none" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Wasn't worth a lead dollar - Mary Mapes Dodge "The Dainty Miss Rose"

A winter's worth of melting snow - Chris Dombrowski "Coda"

My worth decay - John Donne "Elegy V: His Picture"

Remuneration inadequate to our worth - William Hodgson Ellis "The Lyric League"

Whate'er we prize of love and worth - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]

Your fame is consequent on worth - John Gay "Fable LXI: The Pack-Horse and the Carrier" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

By a physics worth the name - Linda Gregerson "De Magnete"

Its Platonized embodiment of worth - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Outweigh the worth of all the angels - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Worth whole encampments in fool's dust and deed - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

High spirit of ascendant worth - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"

The aching earth has no more worth than this - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"

Seven years' worth of blood moons - Faylita Hicks "Photo of X, 2010: A Box of Wine"

And you had your Candle's worth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Painting pictures worth nothing at all - Richard Hughes "Isaac Ball"

That always leavens whate'er we hold of worth - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen

Expansive enough to fill years' worth of slumber - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

Her coffers filled with their countless worth - Edward Smyth Jones "A Song of Thanks"

In a teacup's worth of dirt - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Shoes never worn enough to be worth the price - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Woke to know their native worth - Henry Kendall "Australian War Song"

Less mindful of its worth - Kim Unsong "Sojourn"

Who occupied every planet worth having - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Wise and Now-Departed Uncles"

Tests our worth through slow disintegration - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"

A hope worth flying to - Alfred Kreymborg "Peasant"

Have their utmost worship's worth - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"

Gathering crops whose worth no man might tell - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]

whenever I was worth your time - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"

Worth a score of dead Boccaccios - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Here is pillage worth a war - Edwin Markham "In Poppy Fields"

Eight thousand inches' worth of false dimension - Harry Martinson "Aniara 36" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Magic arts in truth not worth the spirit I expend - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

By virtue of his worth - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

Here, their worths exchanged - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Worth the effort of a second look - Michael Mesic "Night Letter"

Was not worth the life - Elizabeth Metzger "Won Exit"

Worth its weight in smoke - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Merry Maid"

Never worth immortal misery - Kamilah Aisha Moon "#17"

Not worth a bent penny - Mary Oliver "West Wind 2"

Of his genius know the pith and worth - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

Could by the gilding guess the fabric's worth - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

Shall prove its sterling worth - Arthur Caswell Parker "My Race Shall Live Anew"

Worth only its own weight - Linda Pastan "The Burglary"

To a life worth the hardness - Carl Phillips "But Waves, They Scatter"

A lesson worth the heed of all - Susan Pinkerton "Autumn Leaves" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.306, 10 Nov. 1849]

End up with one ox-hair worth of gain - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

Worth whole ages of imagined bliss - "The Poetical Character" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

With sun's November worth - John Presland "November"

Tears and strife to give him worth - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"

Several hundred cathedrals worth of water - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"

A privileged view of questionable worth - Ann K. Schwader "Deconstructing Night"

Shooting stars not worth the wishing on - Ann K. Schwader "To Theia"

Stones of worth they thinly placed - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LII"

The sun is worth ten of you - Brenda Shaughnessy "I'm Over the Moon"

A June's worth of moons - Danez Smith "in lieu of a poem, i'd like to say"

One hour worth a thousand gold coins - Su Tung-p'o "Spring Night" transl. by Burton Watson

Not yet worth patience to regret - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"

For ten times the amount it's worth - Amber Tamblyn "Epilogue"

Those who deem their happiness of worth - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Who did all worths in him combine - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: IV"

Wherein I found no bit of worth - Rudolph Valentino "Gratitude (To A.T.)"

For their worth can no man tell - "What the Clock Says" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

So I would forget what I was worth - Assétou Xango "Eve"


Worthless.


The small worthwhile pieces - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"


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