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Jan. 5th, 2010

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( Admire )

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( Admit )

Knocked at every door, yet no admittance found - Calder Campbell "By the Sea" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.425, 21 Feb. 1852]

Seek admittance there in vain - "Heaven" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]

The unadmitted terror - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

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The fervent adorating of the heart - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

( Adoration )

( Adore )

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( Add )

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( Advance )

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( Adventure )

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( Addict/Addiction )

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To adapt the way water does - Nikita Gill "Ares, After"

Tortured lungs adapting to breathe blood - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"

Diet and circulation adapted for this - Rajiv Mohabir "Water-Owl, Cuvier's Beaked Whale"

Cactus adapted to thrift - Kay Ryan "Desert Reservoirs"

Adapting it to the unimaginable - Kay Ryan "In Case of Complete Reversal"

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Focus adjusting over decades - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Adjust the various seasonings to taste - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"

Adjust such live-long growth to rules - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"

Adjusts vision from three dimension to four - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"

The hours adjusting the neatly clicking gears - Edgar Kunz "Tuning"

Keeps adjusting the ash heaps - Marianne Moore "The Fish"

Taste buds adjusting to the taste of hunger - Susan Nguyen "Letter to the Diaspora" p.56

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( Address )

My insomniac answer to self-addressed prayers - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"

Its own unaddressed question - John Bosworth "A Boy Can Wear a Dress"

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( Advice )

If the lion was advised by the fox - William Blake "Proverbs of Hell"

Ask no ill-advised reward - Thomas Hardy "Epitaph"

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Bid the dusty streets adieu - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Unearthly goblins shriek their last adieu - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

When even the dead will bid adieu - J. Beauchamp Jones "An Hour Among the Dead" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

From fickle fair to bid adieu - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

What now I feel in writing this adieu - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"

Bade adieu to each golden-hearted queen - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]

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( Adorn )

Must rely upon ever new adornments - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough

Avenues porous with ill-built adornments - Adrian Matejka "16 Bars Poetica"

Witness of all the adornments - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell [Delirium I]" transl. by James Sibley Watson

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( Adam )

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As they serenade the ghosts of our adversaries - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

Ongoing interest in their old adversary - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Denies all its adversaries - Ada Limon "The New World of Beauty"

( Adverse )

Old companions in adversity - William Cullen Bryant "A Winter Piece"

The stern pupil of adversity - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"

Their labor no adversity to the spirit - Mary Oliver "Self-Portrait"

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The torn marrow of an adder's spine - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

Where no fatal adder hisses - John Philip Bourke "The Pilgrimage"

Story of the adder's brood - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Like the language of an adder - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Says She's Not the Madwoman in the Attic"

Fox and adder and weasel know - Walter de la Mare "Bewitched"

Where the adder darts horizontal - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"

An adder's grasp about its chords - Mrs. Amelia B. Welby "The Brother's Lament"

Like asp with adder fight - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Adder-tongues in coats of gold - Bliss Carman "The Deserted Pasture"

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