impelled

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Upon your faint sweet breath is borne a sigh, Within your petals lies a tear impearled; I hear you to my garden say good-bye.

From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various

The consecrated candle shed a yellowish light upon her face impearled with the sweat of her last struggle and death agony.

From The Comedienne by Obecny, Edmund

To him who hears them grief beyond control, Or joy inscrutable without a name, Wakes in his heart thoughts bedded there, impearled, Before the birth and making of the world.

From Alcyone by Lampman, Archibald

Fresh, ah, fresh behind you, Sunlit and impearled, As it was in Eden, Lies the lovely world!

From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss

In the light of that star Lie the ages impearled; And that song from afar Has swept over the world.

From Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse by Schauffler, Robert Haven