( Break )( Broke )Satisfied before bread-breaking - Mina Loy "The Dead"
Breakdown way more wicked than Noah's flood - Mike Allen "Deluge"
Spouting breakers were the only thing a-lee - Robert Louis Stevenson "Christmas at Sea"
Breakless chain, and iron thrall - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
A doorknob statement, a breakneck goodbye - Randall Mann "The Fall of 1992, Gainesville, Florida"
Far beyond the breakpoint - Caroline Harper New "The Sargassum Fish"
Breakwaters of eternity - Ruben Dario "Poets! Towers of God!" (translation by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva)
Broken Heart.
Pity a broken-winged wanderer - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson
This cloud-break that ravels the night - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"
Heartbreak.
Pity's long-broken urn - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
The thyroid and the pancreas joined the outbreak - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"
Respected the pause between lightning and skybreak - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"
( Unbreakable )Unbroken.
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