Potential Titles: Paw

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Lazy paws of light claw idly up and down - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"

Entry barred by the paws of tigers - Ana Bozicevic "The Fall of Luci"

The dangerous pawing at the door - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"

A mystic dog with paws of fire - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Noon"

Where Reynard's paw could not molest - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Kites"

My paws no good for fire-starting - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"

Paws like a long arctic night - Joy Harjo "White Bear"

To resist the stroke of unpermitted Paw - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"

Silenced Beethoven with one paw - Rodney Jones "For Katy"

Who claims compassion for a wounded paw - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Two Monologues I: The Nietzsche Man"

The grim wolf with privy paw - John Milton "Lycidas"

Lie between two lions paws - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

A wind frail as a kitten's paw - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

At home in his pelt and subtle paws - Tom Sleigh "The Fox"

Night with its black paws curled - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"

Licked a bloodied paw with a nettle tongue - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: High"


A gamester's catspaw and a banker's slave - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]


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