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Word:Announcing the 2016 RhymeZone Poetry Prize

Rhymes [Lyrics and poems] Near rhymes Synonyms Descriptive words (New!)Definitions Similar sound Same consonants Related

Filter by rhyme...

From A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, scene II:

Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears.

From A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act II, scene II:

How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears: If so, my eyes are oftener wash'd than hers.

From The Comedy of Errors: Act III, scene II:

O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears: Sing, siren, for thyself and I will dote: Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs,

From Love's Labour's Lost: Act IV, scene III:

Your eyes do make no coaches; in your tears

There is no certain princess that appears;

From Pericles, Prince of Tyre: Act I, scene IV:

With their superfluous riots, hear these tears! The misery of Tarsus may be theirs.

From Shakespeare's Sonnet CXIX.:

What potions have I drunk of Siren tears, Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within,

Applying fears to hopes and hopes to fears, Still losing when I saw myself to win!

From Shakespeare's Sonnet CXLVIII.:

How can it? O, how can Love's eye be true, That is so vex'd with watching and with tears? No marvel then, though I mistake my view; The sun itself sees not till heaven clears.

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From "The Sorrow Of Love" by William Butler Yeats:

A girl arose that had red mournful lips And seemed the greatness of the world in tears, Doomed like Odysseus and the labouring ships And proud as Priam murdered with his peers;

From "TO DEATH" by Robert Herrick:

Than for to shed some tears For faults of former years;

From "HIS AGE:DEDICATED TO HIS PECULIAR FRIEND,MR JOHN WICKES, UNDER THE NAME OFPOSTUMUS" by Robert Herrick:

Thus ripe with tears, And twisting my Iulus' hairs,

From "HOW PANSIES OR HEARTS-EASE CAME FIRST" by Robert Herrick:

Love, in pity of their tears, And their loss in blooming years,

From "HIS MISTRESS TO HIM AT HIS FAREWELL" by Robert Herrick:

--Take then tribute of my tears; So long as I have fears

From "THE DIRGE OF JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER:SUNG BY THE VIRGINS" by Robert Herrick:

Receive, for this thy praise, our tears; Receive this offering of our hairs;

From "COMFORT TO A YOUTH THAT HAD LOST HIS LOVE" by Robert Herrick:

She sees no tears, Or any tone Of thy deep groan She hears;

From "The Song of the Women" by Rudyard Kipling:

But old in grief, and very wise in tears; Say that we, being desolate, entreat her That she forget us not in after years; For we have seen the light, and it were grievous

From "The Totem" by Rudyard Kipling:

Then they taught with palm and toe--

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Then I learned with yelps and tears-- All the Armoured Man should know Through his Seven Secret Years...

From "Gifts" by Sara Teasdale:

I gave my first love laughter, I gave my second tears, I gave my third love silence Through all the years.

From "The Ghost" by Sara Teasdale:

Oh, love that lives its life with laughter Or love that lives its life with tears Can die -- but love that is never spoken Goes like a ghost through the winding years. . . .

From "In Allusion To The French Song. N'entendez Vous Pas Ce Language" by Richard Lovelace:

How often have my tears Invaded your soft ears,

From "To A Lady With Child That Ask'd An Old Shirt." by Richard Lovelace:

And then expect no end of its chast tears, That first was rowl'd in down, now furs of bears.

From "A Valentine's Song" by Robert Louis Stevenson:

I care not if the wit be poor,

The old worn motley stained with rain and tears, If but the courage still endure That filled and strengthened hope in earlier years;

From "Death, To The Dead For Evermore" by Robert Louis Stevenson:

After the loud wars, triumphs, trumpets, tears And clamour of man's passion, Death appears,

From "Death sets a thing of signigicant" by Emily Dickinson:

Now, when I read, I read not, For interrupting tears Obliterate the etchings Too costly for repairs.

From "Address To Edinburgh" by Robert Burns:

With awe-struck thought, and pitying tears, I view that noble, stately Dome,

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Where Scotia's kings of other years, Fam'd heroes! had their royal home:

From "Skeleton in Armor, The" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

Time dried the maiden's tears She had forgot her fears,

From "Republic, The" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,

From "Sunrise on the Hills" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

Go to the woods and hills! No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.

From "Russian Fugitive, The" by William Wordsworth:

"My thanks with silent tears Have unto Heaven and You been paid: Now listen to my fears ! "Have you forgot"---and here she smiled---

From "Russian Fugitive, The" by William Wordsworth:

He loved, he hoped,---a holy flame Kindled 'mid rapturous tears; The passion of a moment came As on the wings of years.

From "To A Sexton" by William Wordsworth:

By the heart of Man, his tears, By his hopes and by his fears,

From "Sonnet IX" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears As salt as mine, and hear the sighing years

From "Sonnet XLI" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

To hearken what I said between my tears, . . . Instruct me how to thank thee ! Oh, to shoot My soul's full meaning into future years, That they should lend it utterance, and salute

From "Sonnet I" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

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I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,

From "To Flush, My Dog" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

And if one or two quick tears Dropped upon his glossy ears

From "Fountain, The: A Conversation" by William Wordsworth:

"My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.

From "Frederick Douglass" by Paul Laurence Dunbar:

She weeps for him a mother's burning tears -- She loved him with a mother's deepest love. He was her champion thro' direful years, And held her weal all other ends above.

From "Beyond the Years" by Paul Laurence Dunbar:

Beyond where brood the grieving skies And Night drops tears. Where Faith rod-chastened smiles to rise And doff its fears,

From "Beyond the Years" by Paul Laurence Dunbar:

And to the eyes that still were blind

With blood and tears, Their sight shall come all unconfined Beyond the years.

From "Hymns Of The Marshes." by Sidney Lanier:

Thy will, or lock mine eyes from tears, Part wept for traders'-woes, Part for that ventures mean as those In issue bind such sovereign hopes and fears.

From "The Harlequin Of Dreams" by Sidney Lanier:

Yet thou canst more than mock: sometimes my tears At midnight break through bounden lids -- a sign Thou hast a heart: and oft thy little leaven Of dream-taught wisdom works me bettered years.

From "Psalm Of The West" by Sidney Lanier:

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Fears, hopes, chills, heats, hastes, patiences, droughts, tears, Wife-grievings, slights on love, embezzled years,

From "Psalm Of The West" by Sidney Lanier:

Go by, old Field of Brothers' hate and tears: Behold! yon home of Brothers' Love appears

From "A Birthday Song. To S. G." by Sidney Lanier:

Their petals, red with joy, or bleached by tears, Waved to and fro i' the winds of hopes and fears.

From "My Spectre Around Me" by William Blake:

Their marble tombs I built with tears And with cold and shuddering fears.

From "Mariana In The South" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson:

Large Hesper glitter'd on her tears, And deepening thro' the silent spheres

From "Prisoner of Chillon, The" by George Gordon, Lord Byron:

Our bread was such as captives' tears Have moisten'd many a thousand years

From "Bride of Abydos, The" by George Gordon, Lord Byron:

And if her eye was fill'd with tears

That stifled feeling dare not shed, And changed her cheek to pale to red, And red to pale, as through her ears

From "To Romance" by George Gordon, Lord Byron:

Ye genial Nymphs, whose ready tears On all occasions swiftly flow; Whose bosoms heave with fancied fears, With fancied flames and phrenzy glow

From "Self Communion" by Anne Brontë:

Thou pilgrim through this vale of tears, Thou, too, a little moment cease Thy anxious toil and fluttering fears, And rest thee, for a while, in peace.'

From "Self Communion" by Anne Brontë:

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In pain or ease, in smiles or tears, He still keeps adding to my years

From "Verses To A Child" by Anne Brontë:

Can overflow my own with tears, And that each feature soft and fair And every curl of golden hair, Some sweet remembrance bears.

From "Verses To A Child" by Anne Brontë:

Art witness to my streaming tears. This lingering love will not depart, I cannot banish from my heart The friend of childish years.

From "Alexander And Zenobia" by Anne Brontë:

'It may be foolish thus to weep But I cannot check my tears

To see in one short hour destroyed The darling hope of years.

From "Call Me Away" by Anne Brontë:

He starts, he smiles, and dries the tears, Still glistening on his cheek, The lady of his soul appears, And hark! I hear her speak --

From "To Cowper" by Anne Brontë:

With floods of silent tears. The language of my inmost heart, I traced in every line; My sins, my sorrows, hopes, and fears,

From "Humanitad" by Oscar Wilde:

The winter's icy sorrow breaks to tears, And the brown thrushes mate, and with bright eyes the rabbit peers

From "The Snowman in the Yard" by Joyce Kilmer:

They say that after Adam and Eve were driven away in tears To toil and suffer their life-time through, because of the sin they sinned, The Lord made Winter to punish them for half their exiled years,

From "The Fourth Shepherd" by Joyce Kilmer:

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With ashen bread and wine of tears Shall I be solaced in my pain. I wear through black and endless years Upon my brow the mark of Cain.

From "Waverley" by Joyce Kilmer:

Who raised Prince Charlie's cohorts from the dead, Made Rose's mirth and Flora's noble tears, And formed that shining legion at whose head Rides Waverley, triumphant o'er the years!

From "The Unfortunate Lover" by Andrew Marvell:

The Sea him lent these bitter Tears Which at his Eyes he alwaies bears.

From "Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax" by Andrew Marvell:

"And Holy-water of our Tears "Most strangly our complexion clears.

From "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe:

In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully

From "New Year's Eve" by Robert W. Service:

Don't you remember that long, last waltz, with its sobbing, sad refrain?

Don't you remember that last good-by, and the dear eyes dim with tears? Don't you remember that golden dream, with never a hint of pain, Of lives that would blend like an angel-song in the bliss of the coming years?

From "Tamerlane" by Edgar Allan Poe:

I'd throw me on her throbbing breast, And pour my spirit out in tears- There was no need to speak the rest- No need to quiet any fears

From "The March of the Dead" by Robert W. Service:

The cruel war was over -- oh, the triumph was so sweet! We watched the troops returning, through our tears; There was triumph, triumph, triumph down the scarlet glittering street, And you scarce could hear the music for the cheers.

From "To M--" by Edgar Allan Poe:

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It is not that my founts of bliss Are gushing- strange! with tears- Or that the thrill of a single kiss Hath palsied many years-

From "I see around me tombstones grey" by Emily Jane Brontë:

And my eyes cannot hold the tears That memory hoards from vanished years

From "The Eve Of St. Agnes" by John Keats:

Or look with ruffian passion in her face: Good Angela, believe me by these tears; Or I will, even in a moment's space, Awake, with horrid shout, my foemen's ears,

From "Stanzas to -" by Emily Jane Brontë:

One word turned back my gushing tears,

And lit my altered eye with sneers.

From ""I am the only being whose doom..."" by Emily Jane Brontë:

In secret pleasure - secret tears This changeful life has slipped away As friendless after eighteen years As lone as on my natal day

From "Plead For Me" by Emily Jane Brontë:

And wrings a blessing out from tears By deadening me to earthly cares;

From "Sympathy" by Emily Jane Brontë:

There should be no despair - though tears May flow down like a river: Are not the best beloved of years Around your heart forever?

From "Think Not of it, Sweet One" by John Keats:

Still so pale? then, dearest, weep; Weep, I'll count the tears, And each one shall be a bliss For thee in after years.

From "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" by Matthew Arnold:

Our fathers water'd with their tears

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This sea of time whereon we sail, Their voices were in all men's ears We pass'd within their puissant hail.

From "Loves' Infiniteness" by John Donne:

Which have their stocks entire, and can in tears, In sighs, in oaths, and letters, outbid me, This new love may beget new fears, For this love was not vow'd by thee.

From "Slumber Songs" by John McCrae:

There is no place in Slumberland for tears: Life soon enough will bring its chilling fears

From "In Reference to her Children, 23 June 1659" by Anne Bradstreet:

If birds could weep, then would my tears Let others know what are my fears

From "By Night when Others Soundly Slept" by Anne Bradstreet:

My hungry Soul he fill'd with Good; He in his Bottle put my tears, My smarting wounds washt in his blood, And banisht thence my Doubts and fears.

From "Another" by Anne Bradstreet:

My dumpish thoughts, my groans, my brakish tears My sobs, my longing hopes, my doubting fears,

From "Here Follow Several Occasional Meditations" by Anne Bradstreet:

My hungry soul He filled with good, He in His bottle put my tears, My smarting wounds washed in His blood, And banished thence my doubts and fears.

From "Three Voices, The" by Lewis Carroll:

Through the thick curtain of his tears

Catch glimpses of his earlier years,

From "Fame's Penny-Trumpet" by Lewis Carroll:

Who preach of Justice - plead with tears That Love and Mercy should abound - While marking with complacent ears The moaning of some tortured hound:

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From "Lang Coortin', The" by Lewis Carroll:

I coorted thee by looks; By nods and winks, by smiles and tears, As I had read in books. "For ten lang years, O weary hours!

From "Lang Coortin', The" by Lewis Carroll:

"Nae use, nae use for sighs and tears: Nae use at all to fret: Sin' ye've bided sae well for thirty years, Ye may bide a wee langer yet!"

From "Hunting of the Snark, The" by Lewis Carroll:

While the Beaver confessed, with affectionate looks More eloquent even than tears, It had learned in ten minutes far more than all books Would have taught it in seventy years.

From "Frances" by Charlotte Brontë:

Think of the glorious waking-hour, Which will not dawn on grief and tears, But on a ransomed spirit's power, Certain, and free from mortal fears.

From "The World is with Me" by Thomas Hood:

Forboding fancies and prophetic tears, Quelling a spirit that was once elate.

Heavens! what a wilderness the world appears, Where youth, and mirth, and health are out of date;

From "A Better Resurrection" by Christina Georgina Rossetti:

I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numbed too much for hopes or fears. Look right, look left, I dwell alone;

From "The Witch Of Atlas" by Percy Bysshe Shelley:

She spoke and wept. The dark and azure well Sparkled beneath the shower of her bright tears, And every little circlet where they fell Flung to the cavern-roof inconstant spheres

From "The Convent Threshold" by Christina Georgina Rossetti:

She laves her soul with tedious tears:

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How long must stretch these years and years?

From "Robin Hood's Flight" by Leigh Hunt:

And Scarlet took and half roasted it, Blubbering with blinding tears, And ere he had eaten a second bit, A trampling came to their ears.

From "Robin Hood, A Child." by Leigh Hunt:

For all a woman's tears, And see the noble Gamelyn Laid low with the De Veres." The lady went with a sick heart out

From "Some Account of a New Play" by Richard Harris Barham:

And a fine cambric handkerchief, wipes off the tears From Miss Violet's eyelash, and hushes her fears.

From "Lay of St. Odille, The" by Richard Harris Barham:

Drip, drip from the fissures, like rain-drops or tears: -- Odille's, I believe,-- which have flow'd all these years;

From "Yellow Clover" by Katharine Lee Bates:

With a strange dew of tears? So it began, This vagabond, unvalued yellow clover, To be our tenderest language. All the years

From "Bereavement of the Fields" by William Wilfred Campbell:

Sufficient in the sweetness of his song. Outside this prison-house of all our tears, Enfranchised from our sorrow and our wrong, Beyond the failure of our days and years,

From "A Year's Carols" by Algernon Charles Swinburne:

Thine eyes are thick with heavy tears,

But lit with hopes that light the year's.

From "Love and Folly" by William Cullen Bryant:

"Behold," she said, "this lovely boy," While streamed afresh her graceful tears, "Immortal, yet shut out from joy And sunshine, all his future years.

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From "Song from Abdelazar" by Arphra Behn:

From me he took his sighs and tears, From thee his pride and cruelty; From me his languishments and fears, And every killing dart from thee;

From "Gertrude of Wyoming" by Thomas Campbell:

But hark, the trump!--to-morrow thou In glory's fires shalt dry thy tears: Ev'n from the land of shadows now My father's awful ghost appears,

From "Peace. A Study" by Charles Stuart Calverley:

And laugh'd aloud. Each sight and sound To him was joy too deep for tears; He sat him on the beach, and bound A blue bandana round his ears

From "On Death" by Anne Killigrew:

Thou gentle drier o' th' afflicted Tears, Thou noble ender of the Cowards Fears;

From "The Discontent" by Anne Killigrew:

The Lovers Sighs, and the Afflicted Tears, What e're may wound my Eyes or Ears.

From "An Elegy on a Lap-dog" by John Gay: Cease, Celia, cease; restrain thy flowing tears, Some warmer passion will dispel thy cares.

From "The Deserted Village, A Poem" by Oliver Goldsmith:

His lovely daughter, lovelier in her tears, The fond companion of his helpless years,

From "Revenge" by Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

Ay, now by all the bitter tears That I have shed for thee,-- The racking doubts, the burning fears,-- Avenged they well may be--

From "The Exequy" by Henry King:

And I remember must in tears,

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Thou scarce hadst seen so many years

From "HARD TIMES" by Bob Dylan:

Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears While we all sup sorrow with the poor. There's a song that will linger forever in our ears, Oh, hard times, come again no more.

From "MAKE YOU FEEL MY LOVE" by Bob Dylan:

And there is no one there to dry your tears I could hold you for a million years

From "BUCKETS OF RAIN" by Bob Dylan:

Buckets of tears Got all them buckets comin' out of my ears.

From "WENT TO SEE THE GYPSY" by Bob Dylan:

Outside the lights were shining On the river of tears, I watched them from the distance With music in my ears.

From "Let Her Be a Child" from "A Tale of Two Cities":

She mustn't know the tears Tomorrow mustn't bring her A future that she fears How many now lay crying?

From "Finale" from "The Pirate Queen":

Fighting back tears Finally as one After so many years?

From "Sons Of." from "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris":

The same sweet smiles, the same sad tears The cries at night, the nightmare fears

From "Why We Tell the Story" from "Once On This Island":

To come share with her our laughter and our tears And there's mysteries and miracles befall us Through the years

From "Sittin' On The Fence" from "Fame Becomes Me":

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Leave him a trail of my tears? Sweet chariot, it's been It's been the longest of years Sweet chariot, come

From "Why Can't the English?" from "My Fair Lady":

The Scots and the Irish leave you close to tears. There even are places where English completely disappears.

From "Sirens" from "Jane Eyre":

I cry his tears I sense the secrets of his past I feel his fears And I believe

From "Come See About Me" from "Motown":

Smiles have all turned (to tears)

But tears won't wash away the fears

From "Sally Simpson" from "The Who's Tommy":

Her cheek hit a chair and blood trickled down, Mingling with her tears. Tommy carried on preachin' And his voice filled sally's ears.

From "The next best thing to love" from "A Class Act":

Forget the tears I know a dozen girls whoâ d run with this for years

From "I Once Knew" from "Edges":

And hands that can wipe away anyone?s tears A women?s whose life wasn?t measured by time Who stayed the same age despite passing years

From "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from "The Phantom of the Opera":

No more memories no more silent tears No more gazing across the wasted years

From "Confession Of A Vampire" from "Dance of the Vampires":

An ocean of pure tears So many pleas for mercy, howls of pain Intoxicating fears I used my body just like a bandage

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From "The Schmuel Song" from "The Last 5 Years":

And Schmuel cried through a rush of tears "Take me back! Take me back all forty-one years!"

From "We're in the Money" from "42nd Street":

Gone are my blues, And gone are my tears; I've got good news To shout in your ears.

From "Sobbin' Women" from "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers":

Them a women was sobbin', sobbin', Sobbin' buckets of tears On account o' old dobbin', Dobbin' really rattled their ears.

From "Before I Gaze at You Again" from "Camelot": Before I gaze at you again I'll need a time for tears. Before I gaze at you again Let hours turn to years.

From "You Learn to Live Without" from "If/Then":

An hour with no unprompted tears And not to count the deadly days As they fade into years

From "If Prayin' Were Horses" from "Civil War":

There ain't enough tears To empty the ocean of my sorrow We're strangers a'wanderin' The prairie of years

From "Lift Me Up" from "The Ark":

AND DRY MY TEARS

LIFT ME UP AND PILOT ME THROUGH THE OCEAN OF MY FEARS

From "He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones:

I went to see my friend today Oh, and I didn't see no tears He was all dressed up to go away First time I'd seen him smile on years

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From "The Salt In My Tears" by Dolly Parton:

You ain't worth, you ain't worth the salt in my tears Treated like dirt, i'm hurt, i ain't hangin' 'round here You've left me crying, left me crying for years But you ain't worth the salt in my tears

From "At The First Fall Of Snow" by Hank Snow:

And there as I listened then my eyes filled with tears I knew she was part of his happier years

From "They Gave In To The Blues" by Barry Manilow:

Drownin' in a river of her own tears Cryin' for a man who's name she can't remember 'Cause it's been too many years

From "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" by Barbra Streisand:

My love life is boring me to tears After all these years

From "Baal's Hymn" by DAVID BOWIE:

Under gloomy stars and this poor veil of tears Baal will graze a pasture till it disappears

From "Too Many Nights" by Diana Ross:

Too many tears Too many years

From "Missing You" by Diana Ross:

I've cried so many tears Gotta face now all my fears

From "Rap Superstar" by Eminem:

But you don't know about the blood sweat and tears

and losin some of your peers

From "Passengers" by Elton John:

Company conductor, you need the salt of tears Falling on a ticket that no one's used in years

From "Baby I Miss You" by Elton John:

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'Cause seeing your face only brings me out in tears Thinking of the love I've wasted all through the years

From "Candle in the Wind 1997" by Elton John:

The truth brings us to tears All our words cannot express The joy you brought us through the years

From "Angel and the Little Blue Bell" by Brenda Lee:

Saw all his lonely tears And watched him tried his best to ring Each Christmas through the years

From "In The Summer Of His Years" by Bee Gees:

He would save his tears He would always hear When there was no one near

For the summer of his years

From "Honky Tonk Downstairs" by George Strait:

And darkness helps me hide my shameful tears. My wife works all night long For a man who's halfway gone She's the barmaid in the honky-tonk downstairs.

From "She" by Elvis Costello:

Me, I'll take her laughter and her tears And make them all my souvenirs

From "Somebody Cares" by Perry Como:

As you fall asleep in tears, Somebody hears!

From "The Colour of My Love" by Celine Dion:

I'll trace a hand to wipe out your tears

A look to calm your fears

From "Buckets Of Rain (with Bob Dylan)" by Bette Midler:

Bette & bob: nuggets of rain, Nuggets of tears. Got all the nuggets Comin' out of my ears.

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From "Buckets of Rain" by Bette Midler:

Nuggets of rain, nuggets of tears Got all the nuggets comin' out of my ears

From "May I Have a Talk With You" by B.B. King:

Oh, your smiles are my happiness and your sorrow are my tears If you just whisper love to me, baby, you know it'll linger through the years

From "Pressure Zone" by Beck:

Masterpieces liquidate in fertile tears I could sleep inside her bones a hundred years

From "Presure Zone" by Beck:

Masterpieces liquidate in fertile tears I could sleep inside her bones

A hundred years

From "Mer Girl" by Madonna:

I tasted the rain, I tasted my tears I cursed the angels, I tasted my fears

From "Evergreen" by Roy Orbison:

So hold my hand and tell me You'll be mine through laughter or through tears

Then let the whole world see, our love will be Evergreen through all the years

From "Amish Paradise" by Weird Al Yankovic:

If you come to visit, you'll be bored to tears We haven't even payed the phone bill in 300 years

From "Help Is On The Way" by Michael W. Smith:

He sees your tears

He fights your fears

From "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" by Britney Spears:

And you didn't hear all my joy through my tears All my hopes through my fears

From "Changes" by Black Sabbath:

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Are filled with tears Wish I could go back And change these years

From "Say Say Say" by Paul McCartney:

Standing Here, Baptisted In All My Tears, Baby Through The Years,

From "Cygnus X-1, Book II: Hemispheres" by Rush:

I bring joy and I bring tears I will soothe your primal fears

From "Everyday Glory" by Rush:

Pushing back the tears Till the pain disappears

From "Ordinary Pain" by Stevie Wonder: You're cryin' big crocodile tears Don't match the ones I've cried for years

From "Someday at Christmas" by Stevie Wonder:

Someday at Christmas there'll be no tears When all men are equal and no man has fears

From "Lover Man" by Billie Holiday:

Someday we'll meet and you'll dry all my tears Then whisper sweet, little things in my ears

From "You Won t See Me" by Anne Murray:

Though the days are few, they re filled with tears And since I lost you, it feels like years

From "Lament" by Nick Cave:

I'll miss your urchin smile, your orphan tears Your shining prize, your tiny cries Your little fears I'll miss your fairground hair, your seaside eyes

From "Clean" by Depeche Mode:

An end to the tears An' the in between years

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From "Clean -- Violator" by Depeche Mode:

An end to the tears And the in-between years

From "Through The Long Night" by Billy Joel:

The warm tears The bad dreams The soft trembling shoulders The old fears

From "Guns And Cigarettes" by Atmosphere:

My peers have been held back for years, holding back the tears Everybody knows our name like we was the cast from "Cheers"

From "All Through the Years" by Erasure:

Where the moon hides her tears All through the years

From "Bitter Green" by Gordon Lightfoot:

Waiting for her master to kiss away her tears Waiting through the years

From "Slaughterhouse" by Goo Goo Dolls:

All the flowers I can grow and all the children's tears

And everything I know will vanish with the years

From "The Liar" by Ozzy Osbourne:

Other people's tears And in their eyes They have reflected wasted years

From "Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)" by Ella Fitzgerald:

Someday we'll meet

And you'll dry all my tears Then whisper sweet Little things in my ears

From "Friendly Fire" by Pet Shop Boys:

When I look back my eyes are filled with tears Danger to mascara, applause to my peers

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From "You Are The Flower" by Toto:

It's worth the pain that makes the tears It's worth the light of a million years

From "To Make You Feel My Love" by Garth Brooks:

And there is no one to dry your tears I could hold you for a million years

From "Could This Be Love" by Toto:

Holding you in tears Someone finally hurt you After all these years Got to get my message to you somehow

From "A New Door" by Lenny Kravitz:

All the drinks you had just turned to tears

For too many years

From "I Love The Rain" by Lenny Kravitz:

So many good times and many tears I share my dreams with her, I share my fears

From "White Feather" by Marillion:

I felt barbed wire kisses and icicle tears Where have I been for all these years?

From "Blown Away" by Akon:

'Cause I done seen the block break down tears And I done seen the cops break my peers

From "Bring on the Night/When the World Is Running Down You Make the Best O" bySting:

Don't waste my time with tears I run 'Deep Throat' again

It ran for years and years Don't like the food I eat

From "The Bridge" by Joe Jackson:

And where am I, as I swallow your tears? And the prince with the slipper appears

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From "This Is That New Song" by Badly Drawn Boy:

If I knew where all the tears Were coming from Add up all the years That you've been gone

From "Hellfire" by Gamma Ray:

Silent tears Shadows of fears

From "Shine On" by Gamma Ray:

Shine on now, and warm the tears we've shared through years

From "Beyond My Wildest Dreams" by Mark Knopfler:

Haul a trailer of tears Just to see you smile

And as the dawn appears

From "Kiss the Dirt (Falling down the Mountain)" by INXS:

Don't water them with your tears Don't think about all the years

From "(Rap) Superstar" by Cypress Hill:

about the blood, sweat and tears and losing some of your fears

From "Every Time You Go Away" by Clay Aiken:

Why do we lose so many tears? Oh, so you go again When the leading man appears Always the same theme

From "Care for You" by Dokken:

Even though your gone, I taste your tears

You think it would have passed after all these years

From "When I Get Where I'm Going" by Brad Paisley:

There'll be only happy tears I will shed the sins and struggles I have carried all these years

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From "Care for You (Unplugged)" by Dokken:

Even though you're gonna taste your tears You think it would have passed after all these years

From "Century Ends" by David Gray:

Out to the lake of tears See society admiring its own reflection Chase a light that shines and disappears Careful what you say 'cause reality offends

From "New Year" by Sugababes:

I'm older than my years, drowning in my tears I'm older than my years, I'm older than my years

From "Little Lady Love" by Sugababes:

But feeding from the tears Falling with the love

I've holding back the years

Word:Announcing the 2016 RhymeZone Poetry Prize

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Filter by rhyme...From All's Well That Ends Well: Act II, scene I:

Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.

From Shakespeare's Sonnet CXX.:

O, that our night of woe might have remember'd My deepest sense, how hard true sorrow hits, And soon to you, as you to me, then tender'd

The humble slave which wounded bosoms fits!

From "The King of Broadway" from "Producers":

I always had the biggest hits The biggest bathrooms at the Ritz

From "I Got One for Ya" by Kid Rock:

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Record companies stressing 'cause they all want hits And yeah, I'm 'bout it, 'bout it so I make 'em like this

From "So Beautiful" by Darren Hayes:

There's no phrase that hits Like an ocean needs the sand Or a dirty old shoe that fits

From "Top Of The World" by BIG PUNISHER:

And your own sitcom, Brandy hand me one of the platinum hits People talk but they don't know the half of it Well the fact this is, we're in the worst business And anything you have you deserve it miss

From "Ghetto Child" by Benzino:

It ain't nothing about hits It's about these grits

From "Stayin 4Eva" by Benzino:

In the studio all night makin' hits Since you claim, I don't right, I'm a put it like this

From "Here I Come" by Fergie:

Just stayin' consistent flippin' them hits Can't hate on this

From "Radio" by Eazy-E:

We combine to put out hits But jealous people, they just have fits

From "Bounce" by Blazin' Squad:

Neva wrote so many hits Back, Slake same old lyrics I miss

From "Double Or Quits" by Ice Mc:

Big up to Charlie helpin to make hits Little down to Zetta boy we break you down to bits

From "Rap Dis" by Oxide & Neutrino:

I got big hits I've got dough

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I didn't even really need to rip dis Are you feelin tha vibe that I give dis?

From "Dreaded Fist" by Rascalz:

Lethal doses leaves comatose hits To match the Fist, there's no equal to this

From "Top of the World (Remix)" by Big Punisher feat. Brandy, Fat Joe:

Brandy hand me one of the platinum hits People talk but they don't know the half of it Well the fact this is, we're in the worst business And anything you have you deserve it miss

From "Medley: I Love You Drops/Quits/Heavenly Sunshine/S" by Bill Anderson:

It sounds like the easy way out But oh, when it hits The longer you live with someone You can't live with, the harder it gets.

From "Quits" by Bill Anderson:

It sounds like the easy way out but oh, when it hits The longer you live with someone you can't live with The harder it gets We called it magic then we called it tragic

From "Coal Train Robberies" by Elvis Costello:

the hits

As another Mercedes-Benz gets blown to bits

From "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies:

Bert Kaempfert's got the mad hits You try to match wits

From "The P.A.S.E.O. (The Poem Aaron Saw Extra Ordinary)" by Tech N9ne:

Lets take a journey startin at 85th, wrote some of my latest hits Off 85th came back from Cali then i stayed with Chris

From "I Got One For Ya'" by Kid Rock:

cause they all want hits and yeah I'm body body so I make 'em like this they say "hey there boy

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From "8-3-1" by Lisa Stansfield:

That's when it hits With my heart and soul I say this

From "Fresh Azimiz (feat. J-Kwon)" by Bow Wow:

Every year, same time come wit them hits man Tired of makin girls fall out wit a kiss man

From "Losing Weight Part 2" by Cam'ron:

She'll do anything for me, nothing but hits Cause when she needed help I got her nothing but fixed Needed coke, needed dope, ya I gave her a fix So she went across the street, gave him a kiss

From "Crack Raider Razor" by Andre Nickatina:

At 9AM man the contact hits Cocaine beats in stereo thinkin every car behind man is 5-0

Keepin all my rhymes on a computer chip The Sugarhill Gang got me doing this

From "The Trinity" by Sean Paul:

When dem hearin' all mi new hits. Watch it make mi show dem how fi do this.

From "The Trinity" by Sean Paul:

Cause this is how di dutty get mi true kicks.

We school them on di true hits. Year after year dem caan dispute it. Real dancehall dem caan dilute dis.

From "Brakes" by De La Soul:

It be them hits Hangin' out of them stereo kits

From "I'll Kill You" by Lil' Rob:

Known like the mob cuz I be dropping them hits Giving it till you whores can't stand, giving it till your heart quits

From "So Beautiful (feat. Savage Garden)" by Darren Hayes:

Whether I'm right or wrong there's no phrase that hits Like an ocean needs the sand or a dirty old shoe that fits

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From "R. I. T. Z." by Erykah Badu:

Pull out the whips, put out the hits Cause we put on the ritz

From "Karaoke King" by Nerf Herder:

And Hall and Oates hits Even Julio Inglesis can't top this

From "Headlights" by Nine Black Alps:

That you can survive when it suddenly hits And all that i have to resist, The blood in my body, the bones in my wrist It's not like i asked for this

From "Get Rich" by Elysian Fields:

Why don't you get hits..., Why don't you get rich...,

Why don't you get bliss..., Off of me

From "Born To Roll" by Masta Ace:

Strictly the hardcore dirty street level hits God's on my side so watch what the devil gets

From "2 Hard 4 The F-Ckin' Radio" by Mac Dre:

Down and dirty bout spittin' my hits

And if not, I'm gettin' my grits

From "Wrong" by Lindsey Buckingham:

Puttin' on the hits Here we have another Another piece of glitz

From "Veejay The DJ" by E-Rotic:

Keeps playin all the hits

Just putting on the ritz

From "N.Z.H.I.P.H.O.P" by Nesian Mystik:

Change songs to hits You ready for this

From "Rap Dis" by So Solid Crew:

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I got big hits I've got dough I didn't even really need to rip dis But the flows are addictive

From "Voices" by Shaquille O'Neal:

My flow register under license hits My man Reno hold straps with lights and clips Finally wish you was as nice as this Got a priceless gift people flow rap device is swift

From "Easy Comes" by Thornley:

Early morning hits I found a way to get out of this

From "Live At the Tunnel" by Cru:

Hit 'em in data once again with buttah hits

Baby Chris ridin' with my peeps Mark Pitts

From "Sophisticated Swing" by Michael Feinstein:

There'll be an orchestra playin' the latest hits While we are swingin' and swayin' down at the Ritz

From "Truth" by Chiddy Bang:

I profit off my topic hits. Periodically, I m in my element, phosphorus.

I m prosperous, say we loud and too rockerish. Pro, how long are you lockin this?

From "Souljahz Don't Stop" by Souljahz:

Check it Souljahz don't stop we bring y'all hits Check my high hat my snare and kick Reverse that so its sounds like this Now put all them sounds back up in the mix

From "Smash Myself To Bits" by Steve Wynn:

so i've had to turn the tide and still i take my hits forget my vows and find new ways to smash myself to bits

From "Ma Name Bpm (I Ain't Mista Nice Guy)" by Bpm:

if i dont get enough hits ill get into a hundred fits

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From "Other Script" by Spooks:

Consensus these cats are forever flippin' hits But every time I turn around spooks got to prove this

From "Paper Covers Rock" by American Taxi:

First real not when the needle hits Your high five's rolling into a fist "Oh, God! Turn the radio off! He's getting into this!"

From "Take Control" by Jaimeson:

who was making these hits selecta, tru, complete and now this

From "The Bible" by Lil B:

bliss. Cats have nine lives so im living for hits,

as i swim in the ocean god gave me a kiss.

From "King Of Broadway" by Mel Brooks:

I always had the biggest hits. The biggest bathroom at the Ritz.

From "Ballers" by Body Head Bangerz:

I make nothing but hits fella I'm waking up to bacon, eggs and grits fella

From "Contini Submits" from "Nine":

Contini Submits Guido Contini submits that the flops aren?t hits

From "Pulled" from "The Addams Family":

And afternoon banana splits, Angels watching as I sleep, And Liberace's Greatest Hits!

From "Everybody Hates Cris" by Ludacris:

Now I stay fresh to death draped in gangsta fits over 12 million sold I drop gangsta hits

From "All the Rest" by Twiztid:

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Normal people call me abnormal because I'm pissed, She smiled and she chuckled, and blew me a lil' kiss, Musta got lost in the Jose Quevo with Lemon twist, Or the sounds of bodies slappin', grindin' to club hits,

From "Neckbones" by Eve:

My attitdue is confidence, Philly sponsored this And I ain't happy wit just that's hot, I'm makin' monster hits

From "Southern Gul" by Erykah Badu:

Home of the never miss Home of the platinum hits

From "Straight Jacket" by Beatnuts:

Beat this y'all Beatnuts with the funky hits, y'all

From "Betcha Can't Do It Like Me" by D4L: D4L, ya can't see this Stayin' down with them ghetto hits

From "Bounce" by Blazin' Squad:

I never get wroten in dis Neva wrote so many hits

From "Anatomy" by Rascalz:

As I kicks this >From my inferno Internal organs To do with more hits

From "Syllables (feat. 50 Cent, Ca$his, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z a..." by Eminem:

long as they can go to the club and get blitz pick up some chicks and get some digits and the DJ s playing them hits oh this my jam, this my sh-t

From "Medley: I Love You Drops/Quits/Heavenly Sunshine/S" by Bill Anderson:

Quits, quits, we called it quits It sounds like the easy way out But oh, when it hits The longer you live with someone

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From "Quits" by Bill Anderson:

Quits, quits, we called it quits It sounds like the easy way out but oh, when it hits

From "Like This (feat. Raul Midon and Western Union)" by Snoop Dogg:

Put it on me little mama, let me see you stroke this It seems like, the mo' hits

From "Fiesta" by R. Kelly:

Cop mo bricks, pop mo Cris Ay Kelly drop mo hits

From "When It All Goes South" by Alabama:

'Til one day you're craving hominy grits And scanning the jukebox for George Jones hits

From "Know what, you're right" by Gilbert O'Sullivan: Gonna see a band we used to love to bits Dressed up in the clothes we wore When they had hits You think at my age I'll look a sorry sight

From "Streetwolf" by Rage:

He grabs you at your throat, his jaws will cut you into bits It's just what he always did, the thunder made his hits

From "8-3-1" by Lisa Stansfield:

And when we kiss that kiss That's when it hits

From "Fresh Azimiz (feat. J-Kwon)" by Bow Wow:

And ain't another young'n keep it fresh like dis man Every year, same time come wit them hits man

From "My World" by Fat Joe:

But it gets no better than this consecutive hits

From "Crack Raider Razor" by Andre Nickatina:

Microphone flow like the Caddy at Ritz At 9AM man the contact hits

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From "Make Way (feat. Lyfe Jennings)" by Trina:

When you living like this If you aint making hits

From "I'm The King" by Royce Da 5'9":

Man ya missles, I plan to dis you Unleash wit' about 30 punches before the first lands and hits you

From "Sex Crymee" by Dj Quik:

I wanna show how raw that a jaw gets Bang down on ya kidney and it all hits

From "Your Missus Is A Nutter" by Goldie Lookin Chain:

Fighting with bouncers and flashing her bits, After too flamin' sambucas she dont care who she hits,

From "Boom Bye Bye" by Aesop Rock:

Bigger miss, while I'm kickin this You miss, I can put you on the list, in the studio to make hits

From "Bring Me To Life" by Thousand Foot Krutch:

And take it to the limit, if you ride like this And if you feel alive, then pump your fist 'Cause there's no turning back when the energy hits

Down comes the rain like a hurricane

From "Rawkfist" by Thousand Foot Krutch:

If you're feelin' it when I drop this, unh,unh, that's the sound when the rock hits,

From "The Birth Of Uncool" by Tism:

Where it's not post-modern to like Kiss Your desert island discs are full of greatest hits

From "A Crowd Killer" by Cage:

So I push cop killers and things, they call quits Then let off one in the crowds, they all hits

From "I Dare You" by Black Rob:

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I hear voices calling me, givin' me fits Singing tonight's the night black rob, let's write these hits

From "I'm Talkin' To You" by U-God:

We annihilator, out the alligator pits Show 'em your strength, breathe easy on them hits

From "I Want Your Love" by Chic:

To try my love and see how well it fits? Baby can't you see, when you look at me I can't kick this feelin' when it hits All alone in my bed at night

From "Giving Up the Gun" by Vampire Weekend:

My ears are blown to bits From all the rifle hits

From "Freind Of Mine" by So Solid Crew: please tell me why you wanna piece of this, why you wanna slice of the platinum hits

From "D.R.E.A.M." by Transplants:

(?) city scapin this If it's a law kid, we be breakin' it we makin hits so one for the treble

From "Counting the Hours" by Digital Summer:

And I love the moments just like this Where the walls come down, and the chaos hits

From "Critic's Darling" by Steve Mardon:

When the day is done and we're takin' it easy, she finds some music that fits She may not have the boxed set, but she's got the greatest hits

From "Man Behind The Music" by Queen Pen:

What I did, what I'm doing, where I take this It's kinda simple cuz it's nothing just to make hits

From "Nobody Made Me" by Skepta:

Whatever the weather I get through this

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Long as I keep making the hits

From "All Luck" by Jon Young:

Came from nuttin to this Mothafucka's get pissed when they see my hits

From "You Want More?" by TY:

So you want more? Come girl just give me a kiss now Oh you want more? Big dreams now, big hits now

From "Everyday I Work On The Road" by Voicst:

You say you miss me Every second I'm away, yeah, it hits me