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So were the continents by His crownéd grief Together bound, before that Genoese Flamed on the dim Atlantic: so have we, Whose aspect faced the scene, unchallenged right Of language unto all, while memory holds.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various

And soon along the perilous line Flamed out the lurid warning sign, While round her staggering horse the crowd Surged with wild cheers and plaudits loud.—

From The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland by Various

With unrelated glance I looked the rose in the eye: The rose in the hour of gloaming Flamed like a lamp hard-by.

From Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson by FitzGerald, Edward

And now the king, snapping his silver rod Of power, with sudden eyes made clear, with cheeks Flamed by swift vision, through the silence speaks.

From Etain the Beloved and Other Poems by Cousins, James Henry

And lo! as through the western pines, On meadow, stream and pond, Flamed the red radiance of a sky, Set all afire beyond.

From Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Thomas, Edith