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Quietness he loved, and books, and the grave beauty Of England's Helicon, whose eternal light Shines like a lantern on that road of duty, Discerned by few in this chaotic night.

From The New Morning Poems by Noyes, Alfred

The saint, up-gazing through the dew Of pity brimming o'er his eyes, Discerned in Heav'n's remotest blue The Son of God lean from the skies.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various

Had not the press with all its hundred eyes Discerned the wolf beneath the sheep's disguise And raised the cry upon him, he to-day Would lack your company, and you would lack his pay.

From Black Beetles in Amber by Bierce, Ambrose

To disentangle one clear wish Not of her sex, she sought; And womanish to womanish Discerned in lighted thought.

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George

And I Discerned that John could hardly hold the tongue of him for joy.

From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas