Potential Titles: Wax
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somethingdarkerThe waxed reeds and the double pipe - Richard Aldington "Bromios"
His wings ache from so much wax - William Archila "Beyond Bruegel's Shore"
Waxen wings by Daedalus designed - James Beattie "Epistle to the Honourable C. B."
A tumbleweed down the waxed hallway - Nickole Brown "Mercy"
The eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly - Lord Byron "The Destruction of Sennacherib"
When the ends of the world waxed free - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Paint, wax, fat dragon tears - May Chong "Kamcia"
Sunshine waxing the freckled curves of a pear - Rita Dove "Insomnia Etiquette"
Waxed fat and rich on public iniquity - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Four wax candles in a darkened room - T.S. Eliot "Portrait of a Lady"
Wax burned in the land of milk - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"
Adamant no less than wax - Hafiz "The Divan IV" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Mumbling the grey wax of a song - francine j. harris "until it comes"
Candle wax from last year's vigil - francine j. harris "what you'd find buried in the dirt under charles f. kettering sr. high school"
Use wax, and thread, and awl - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]
Never Icarus with wax melting - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
Keyed to waxing or waning crescent - Christopher Kondrich "Placeholder"
The houses of withering wax - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"
Wax bells of siren-teeth - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"
Wax molds itself sublime - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"
Among the vapours waxing dense - George Meredith "To Colonel Charles (Dying General C.B.B.)"
The wax seal dried on this common twilight - Michael Meyerhofer "I Christen Thee, My Higgs Boson"
Awaiting his daughters of wax - Claire Millikin "The Candle-Maker's Daughters"
Where the fight had waxed the fiercest - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Missing" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.136-v.III, 7 Aug. 1886]
A broken honeycomb spilling over the waxen edges - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
His clutch is waxing stronger - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"
From the mouth of a wax museum troubadour - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"
Six wax candles still alight - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"
And draw the wax of the world - Arthur Sze "Water Calligraphy"
Collecting the tax on honey and wax - John B. Tabb "The Tax-Gatherer"
The wax dilates wide around the candle - Brian Tierney "We Dream the Dreams Dreaming Us"
To mount upon these waxen wings - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Same, Continued"
Sets spinning on waxen wings - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
The sun that melted the wings' wax - William Carlos Williams "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
Waxy orbs bereft of shine - J. Deery Wray "Eidetic"
Inscribed on the infinite wax cylinder of the world - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"
The sky tore strips of wax paper - Rodger Kamenetz "The Living Hive"
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His wings ache from so much wax - William Archila "Beyond Bruegel's Shore"
Waxen wings by Daedalus designed - James Beattie "Epistle to the Honourable C. B."
A tumbleweed down the waxed hallway - Nickole Brown "Mercy"
The eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly - Lord Byron "The Destruction of Sennacherib"
When the ends of the world waxed free - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Paint, wax, fat dragon tears - May Chong "Kamcia"
Sunshine waxing the freckled curves of a pear - Rita Dove "Insomnia Etiquette"
Waxed fat and rich on public iniquity - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Four wax candles in a darkened room - T.S. Eliot "Portrait of a Lady"
Wax burned in the land of milk - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"
Adamant no less than wax - Hafiz "The Divan IV" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Mumbling the grey wax of a song - francine j. harris "until it comes"
Candle wax from last year's vigil - francine j. harris "what you'd find buried in the dirt under charles f. kettering sr. high school"
Use wax, and thread, and awl - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]
Never Icarus with wax melting - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
Keyed to waxing or waning crescent - Christopher Kondrich "Placeholder"
The houses of withering wax - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"
Wax bells of siren-teeth - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"
Wax molds itself sublime - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"
Among the vapours waxing dense - George Meredith "To Colonel Charles (Dying General C.B.B.)"
The wax seal dried on this common twilight - Michael Meyerhofer "I Christen Thee, My Higgs Boson"
Awaiting his daughters of wax - Claire Millikin "The Candle-Maker's Daughters"
Where the fight had waxed the fiercest - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Missing" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.136-v.III, 7 Aug. 1886]
A broken honeycomb spilling over the waxen edges - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
His clutch is waxing stronger - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"
From the mouth of a wax museum troubadour - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"
Six wax candles still alight - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"
And draw the wax of the world - Arthur Sze "Water Calligraphy"
Collecting the tax on honey and wax - John B. Tabb "The Tax-Gatherer"
The wax dilates wide around the candle - Brian Tierney "We Dream the Dreams Dreaming Us"
To mount upon these waxen wings - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Same, Continued"
Sets spinning on waxen wings - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
The sun that melted the wings' wax - William Carlos Williams "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
Waxy orbs bereft of shine - J. Deery Wray "Eidetic"
Inscribed on the infinite wax cylinder of the world - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"
The sky tore strips of wax paper - Rodger Kamenetz "The Living Hive"
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