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useless as an oath against dying - Kaveh Akbar "Against Dying"

Useless as wounded pride - Maya Angelou "Insomniac"

For which praise is useless - Jabari Asim "Some Call It God"

And flap those useless wings - Anne Bronte "The Captive Dove"

Some bear a freight of useless tears - Frank Oliver Call "The Ships of Memory"

Useless as next morning's sun - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXVI: Till the End"

Call me a useless miracle - Cornelius Eady "Running Man"

Like soldiers in a useless war - Louise Gluck "Parable"

Our tools were useless all - "The Golfiad"

Desire's strong prayers and tears fall useless - Eliza Calvert Hall "Possession" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]

With bated breath and useless oar - Frances E.W. Harper "A Story of the Rebellion"

Useless in the face of flood - francine j. harris "Wetland"

Useless to dream, more useless to regret - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--It Might Have Been"

To tie-back or prune branches is useless - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"

This net of useless woe - Archibald Lampman "Chione"

Hell's first wild useless word - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "On Signorelli's Fresco of the Binding of the Lost"

Of useless grief and rueing - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "When as a Lad"

What is a map but a useless prison? - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"

His useless labor never done - William Morris "Pygmalion and the Image"

All the rattle of useless memory - Rusty Morrison "please advise stop [the rustle of a Sunday bundle of newspapers tucked under my father's arm stop]"

Useless for lips to deny - Alice Wellington Rollins "Because"

Made from his useless musket-barrels - B. Simmons "London Cries" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]

The leaves' useless ruined currency - Brian Teare "Californian [You want to go back]"

And idle lay the useless oars - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The door of useless words - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Neutral"

Useless for gift wrapping and relay races - Dean Young "I Said Yes but I Meant No" [Poetry Oct. 2003]

The heart's a useless sliver in a glacier - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]


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