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The 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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