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Feb. 3rd, 2010

( Bereave )

( Bereft )

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( Beacon )

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( Beam )

The balance-beam of Fate was bent - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Uriel"

The daybeams creep along the serried pines - Edward S. Rend, Jr. "Promise" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

The kindly-beaming eye grow cold and strange - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "Love Not"

Moonbeam.

Through spray of splintered star-beams - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Sunbeam.

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( Bear (endure or carry) )

Not the bearable light - Lucie Brock-Broido "Self-Portrait as Kaspar Hauser"

Whose illusions were bearable - Tom Sleigh "Blueprint"

Good citizen torch bearers out to set the night ablaze - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

Bearer of fire and space-invader - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"

Bearers of ghost that burns - John Masefield "King Cole"

Sometimes the bearer becomes the bad news - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"

Unbearable.

Cup-bearer at feasts of God - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"

Felled their rich fruit-bearing orchards - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull

The meteor-bearer of our parting breath - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Twilight"

Watery pallbearers heading seaward - Carl Phillips "Swimming"

The standard-bearers of the future - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

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Veiling all that may befall - Rupert Brooke "Beauty and Beauty"

Considering the time when this rupture befell - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"

Mindless of whate'er befalls you - Frank Oliver Call "On a Swiss Mountain"

An end to all the miseries that do befall - James Stephens "George's Street"

Ill befall the yellow flowers - William Wordsworth "To the Small Celandine"

Fall.

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( Beat )

The backbeat of a world of great machines - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"

An ocean brow-beaten by a river - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"

( Drumbeat )

On sleep's faint-beating wings - James Weldon Johnson "Blessed Sleep"

( Storm-Beaten )

Firm as the wave-beaten rock - Frank E. Smedley "The Enchanted Net"

Alone by the wind-beaten hill - Thomas Campbell "Exile of Erin"

( Wingbeat )

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( Behead )

Head.

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Dragging a belligerent sun to the sky - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"

At the near edge of the belligerent horizon - Camille T. Dungy "Ars Poetica Apocalyptica"

With her old crumpled horn and belligerent hoof - C.C. Hine "Mrs. Leary's Cow"

Its fragile refined petal's belligerent fragrance - Margit Kaffka "Father" transl. by Laura Schiff

Prayers in belligerent grasses - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"

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Bright bowers of orange, bergamot and broom - Mrs. Agnes S. Coleman "The Spanish Maiden" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

The bergamot's red blossom leans the stilly stream across - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Merge with night like oil of bergamot - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"

A twirl of cocoa nib and bergamot - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

I bring you flaming bergamot - Agnes Lee "The Silent House"

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( Beach )

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( Beer )

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The last bird's belated flight - Charlotte Bronte "Stanzas"

And the belated blackbird paused - William Dean Howells "The Pilot's Story"

A band of black, belated crows - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"

The belated hornet humming - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Solitary Woodsman"

And the belated moor refilled her sphere - George Santayana "Cathedrals by the Sea"

On the breeze a belated linnet calling - James Stephens "Merrion Square"

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( Beard )

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( Bequeath )

New bequest of sun - Zona Gale "One Dawn She Woke Me--"

Nature's bequest gives nothing - William Shakespeare "Sonnet IV"

The daylight's withering bequest - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"

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( Benediction )

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( Belt )

The worn steel of belt-hooked hammers - Chris Dombrowski "The Roofers Listen to Heart's "Crazy on You" as They Work"

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( Bewilder )

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( Beloved )

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( Befriend )

Friend.

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( Bear (animal) )

Contrails tracing messages to bear-cubs and insects - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"

Unwound them where the Great Bear swung - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"

These dogs once hunted polar bears - Matthew Thorburn "How We Found Our Way"

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( Belly )

The tide with the grainy underbelly of industrial light - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"

Fear and hands, underbelly and blade - Nicole Homer "Underbelly"

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( Betray )

Self-betrayal in its sudden burn - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"

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( Bench )

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And beryls of autumn next - John Lynch Adair "Hec Dies: an Imitation"

Banks of beryl bright - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

And cajole with tears of beryl - Iris Tree "[The adored, wild, strange, irresistible]"

The scarlet rhapsodies and beryl-cold sonatas - Iris Tree "[O faces that look so coldly at me]"

Shrined in a beryl cup - Helen Hay Whitney "Pot-Pourri"

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( Bestow )

The Muse's laurel unbestowed - Thomas Warton "To the River Lodon"

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( Betwixt/'Twixt )

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( Berry )

Clover-top and berry-bloom, and haycocks in the sun - Miriam Clark Potter "Summer Weather"

The barbed berry-vines gone haywire - Chase Twichell "Inland"

Chewing bitter rowanberries - Krystyna Dąbrowska "Confession" transl. by Karen Kovacik

Your rosary of yew-berries - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

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( Beast )

Possessing still the bestial fire - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"

Distantly tethered to the bestial earth - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

Sulphur sun-beasts - D.H. Lawrence "Fish"

The water beasts roaring in the night - Ben Hecht "Moods"

Tarnishing the homes where water-beasts are born - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"

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( Beetle )

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( Became/Become )

Deepest tunnel of unbecoming - Niki Herd "The Stuff of Hollywood"

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( Before )

Since faith knows its way before hand - Baron Wormser "Anecdotes"

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( Between )

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( Beckon )

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( Beguile )

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( Belong )

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( Below )

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( Bed )

Folded in the bedclothes of night - R.B. Lemberg "In the Third Cycle"

Rises from bedrock hematite - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"

A goose arrives at his bedroom window - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"

The bedside of the dying world - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

And bedtime brought the storm - Thomas Hardy "Trafalgar"

In the bedtime story she tells herself - Timothy Yu "Chinese Dream 61"

Deathbed shooting star - Atom Atkinson "closet with the letter 'd' on either end"

In a variety show of deathbed ways - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

To capture time on its deathbed - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "An infinite outing; or the cemetery"

Embed.

Always a sparrow flitting in the flowerbeds - Bartolo Cattafi "My Love, Don't Believe" transl. by Dana Gioia

Where reed-beds start and quiver - Francis Brett Young "The Gift"

The riverbed's washed dream of gold - Seamus Heaney "Come to the Bower"

A road-bed newly built and clean - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"

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( Beg )

( Beggar )

The beggar-king, November, frets - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

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( Beget/Begot )

Move with phantoms unbegot - George Sterling "Sonnets on the Sea's Voice"

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( Began )

( Begin/Beginning )

( Begun )

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( Behind )

In a hands-behind-back colloquy of feints and nods - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"

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( Behold/Beheld )

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While I don't normally track forms of 'to be,' I'm tracking these because the lines are extremely blurry between noun/verb/adjective here.

( Being )

Smoke-beings flung in constellations - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"

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( Bell )

Bell jar over our ills and endless infirmities - Charles Wright "April Evening"

Singing faint little bell-notes of joy - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"

Before they ring the dinner-bells - "Secrets" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

For her the passing-bell did toll - "The History of Will Worthy and Nancy Wilmot"

Ghost of sleigh-bells in a ghost of snow - Robert Frost "Hyla Brook"

Thro' the night the storm-bells toll - Ellen Tracy Alden "He Will Come Back"

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( Bend )

( Bent )

Hellbent on election - John Updike "To Two of My Characters"

A riverbend dredged of impossible children - torrin a. greathouse "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"

Unbend/Unbent.

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( Beneath )

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( Beside/Besides )

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( Best )

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( Better )

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( Beyond )

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Held close by flowers too beauteous for the day - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]

Beauteous streams flow through the dark of night - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

( Beauty/Beautiful )

Must not always beautify wreckage - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"

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( Belief/Believe )

Disbelief/Disbelieve.

his holy make-believe childhood - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"

Unbelief is you with a gun in heaven - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"

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( Beset )

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( Bee )

And all that bee-buzzed jazz - Barbara Crooker "This Summer Day"

( Beehive )

Heard her bee-hummed lullabies - Charles A. Gunnison "California"

From beelines to star routes - Elizabeth Bartlett "Landscape: With Bread"

A bumble-bee fumbling for a foothold - Sandra McPherson "Poppies"

Bumblebees buzzing inside a lotus - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 16: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Honeybee.

Sonorous as the queen bee's fat hum - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

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( Bead )

Pulling a swaying bead-chain of moonlight - J.D. McClatchy "Late Night Ode"

Seven bead-strings and necklets seven - "The Vision of Mac Conglinne"

tiara of sunbeads, scepter of starlight - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"

The tearful-beaded rain froze into gems - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

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Wild herds when they bellow loud - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"

At the bidding of the bellows - Helen Parry Eden "Simkin"

Draws me to its bellowing spiral - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen a"

Three thousand phantoms bellowing in your dreams - Dana Gioia "The Ballad of Jesus Ortiz"

Towering bellows of babbling businessmen - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"

Staunched his wounds where the black guns bellow - Herbert E. Palmer "The Bushrangers"

The coal fire cherished by the bellows - A.E. Stallings "The Rosehead Nail"

And echoes bellowed in the bush - Francis Brett Young "After Action"

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( Beware )

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( Beak )

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( Beech )

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Butter beans, potatoes & cotton seeds - Mahogany L. Browne "When Fannie Lou Hamer Said"

Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

The shriveled garlic and the bent bean - Naomi Shihab Nye "Half-and-Half"

As if to contemplate the history of beans - Nicholas Wong "Intergenerational"

Climbing the beanstalk down the gravity well - Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"

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Hell isn't where I place my bets - Andrea Gibson "Daytime, Somewhere"

Your neurons place their bets - Conrad Hilberry "A Dialogue Between the Body and Soul"

Having lost a bet about a minor thing - Ada Limon "The Great Erector of Invisible Pets"

Make bets with destiny - Naomi Shihab Nye "Shadow"

A bet that in the void vanishes - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

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Bewitched gods tracking time - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"

Thrown open to the bewitching evening's twin sorceresses - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

Bells that with bewitching chime - Cora C. Bass "A Song to the Zephyr"

High road to bewitchment - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"

Sheds her light with a more bewitching cheer - D.M. Matheson "Indian Summer"

The hunter's moon illuminates it with her bewitching rays - D.M. Matheson "Petoobok"

Yet those black seas bewitched us - Ann K. Schwader "A Voyage(r) Too Far"

Bewitched mixture of fuel with sea water - Bruce Smith "Beautiful Throat"

Witch.

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