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The Sisterhood that was so sweet,     The Starry System sphered complete,     Which the mazed Orient used to greet,   The Four-and-Thirty fallen Stars glimmer and glitter at her feet.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 National Spirit by Carman, Bliss

His imagination, "nigh sphered in Heaven," claimed kindred only with what he saw from that height, and could raise to the same elevation with itself.

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney

Last night, sphered in thy shining, A Circe—mystic destinies divining; To-day but as a feather Torn from a seraph's wing in sinful weather, Down-drifting from the portals Of Paradise, unto the land of mortals.

From Song-Surf by Rice, Cale Young

Yea, for the sake of the wild western wind The sphered spirit scorns her flame-built throne, Because of primroses, time out of mind, The Lonely turns away from the Alone.

From A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry by Various

So sings Milton to the sweet Birdmonth—he whose mighty mind "nigh sphered in Heaven," hymned the soft beauty of the first day that dawned upon the infant world, which surely must have been a May-morning.

From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.