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Child/Children )


Childhood.


With many a childish dream enwrought - J.H. "The Churchyard by the Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.8-v.I, 23 Feb. 1884]

From childish eyes hide elder woe - M.P. "The Vales" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]


The ocean's childless oracle - Jennifer Chang "River Pilgrims"


Far above the antics of such childlike games - Bruce Boston "Marble People"


Foster-child of Silence and slow Time - John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Sin is the foster-child of Doubt - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"


Half fragile as water, half hydrophobic wildchild - francine j. harris "There are inanimate things out there loving each other"


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Chant )


The deep star-chant of the seraphs - A.E. "Love"


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Check )


The checquered glass of Time - John W. Forney "Time's Changes"


Checkpoint.


Answers tumble from her mouth unchecked - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"

Unchecked by peril, unawed by fear - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"

The tide of grief would flow unchecked - Emily Bronte "Song [The linnet in the rocky dells]"

Burning sympathy that glows unchecked - C. L. Graves "'Bleak House'"


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Chariot )


Charioteers of punctual sun and moon - Luisa Hewitt "Ave Atque Vale"

The rapid wheels of Babel's charioteers - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


Day's chariot-wheels upon th' horizon - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"


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Remember the black cherries' gleam - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"


Cherry )


When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers - Robert Frost "The Oven-Bird"


Cherry Blossom )


Spray the cherry-boughs with light - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"


Cherry Tree )


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Change )



Wearing her changeable season - Ada Limon "The Bird Knows He Is Going to Die and Wishes Not To"

Assume the changeable parts of fate - John McCarthy "At Six I Learned How to Cook"


Changeful )


Trembling with change and fear of counter-change - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"


Tangled braids of ever-changing light - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]


Unchanged/Changeless.


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Charm )


My balm-charmed breath to stoke the blaze - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"


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Chaste )


Perhaps after a chastening apocalypse - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"

Muses with chastened melancholy - Louis J. McQuilland "In a Library"

Will call to light the chastening light - Joshua Ross "On a Lady's Eyes"

A chastened glow from fires celestial caught - Edith Wharton "Raffaelle to the Fornarina"


Chastity )


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Chemical )


Chemistry )


Our biochemical keys fit fossil locks - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Raised by Wolves"


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Chain )


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


Northward moved his chainless soul - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

Came as chainless as the wind - Toru Dutt "Savitri"

Borne upon the chainless air - George Martin "In Memory of Joseph Guibord"


Causing a chain reaction of giant black holes - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"


The frame for this chainsaw night - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"

A chain saw gnawing the bruised air - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"

Stealing chainsaw refrains and shutter clicks - Amari Low "Themself"


Used to chainsmoke on the mezzanine - Patrick Phillips "Galleria Ode"


Warm daisy chains, holy dandelions - Jennifer G. Lai "In My Mind's Coral, Mother Still Calls Us from Inside"


Enchain.


Carnivores in their own essential food chain - Achy Obejas "Dancing in Paradise"


Unchain.


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Chalk )



No abominable chalkboard emanation - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"

A chalkboard blooming with equations - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"

Written with stars on a chalkboard sky - Diane DeCillis "View from a Room, NYC"


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Cherish )


But uncherished would decay - E. Sutton "The Bugle"


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Cheer )


Cheerful )


Walk the cheerless shore - E. Pauline Johnson "Through Time and Bitter Distance"

Found me in cold cheerless ways - Alice Wellington Rollins "Miracle"


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A lone chickadee undaunted - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"

A chickadee's feather on a snowflake - dg nanouk okpik "Spring Thaw"

That would scare a chickadee - Walter S. Percy "Cherries"

The green haunts of the chickadee - Alexander Posey "Spring in Tulwa Thloco"

Only the chickadee chirrups his song alone - Mary N. Prescott "Where?" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]


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He shed the Harlequin's chequered skin - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

From the solemn graveyard's checkered floor - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]

The garden of old men playing checkers - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"

The checkered squares of his poverty and anger - Major Jackson "Mighty Pawns"

Chequers the shade with her forerunning light - Henry David Thoreau "Greece"


Her checkerboard of battle squares - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"


The cool of an oak's unchequred shade - D.H. Lawrence "Last Hours"


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Flames growing into chrome strips - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"

The chrome skin of a girl behind glass - Mary Jo Bang "If Wishes Were Horses"

Into chrome and sun and shotgun confection - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

All chrome and cybernetics - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"

The reefs gleam with chrome and absence - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"

Sun-chromed ravens in early devotion - Natalie Diaz "Duned"


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A warm chat with friends gone sour - Willis Barnstone "At My Funeral"

How to chat with death - Gwendolyn Brooks "Gay Chaps at the Bar"


Chatter )


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A lighted chandelier in a fog - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

Dusty as unlit chandeliers - Chris Dombrowski "October Suite"

Crack your jaw on a chandelier - Aimee Le "Theft"

A small chandelier fostering a golden air - Grace Nichols "Ode to a Daffodil"

A chandelier of rain - Hai-Dang Phan "River to River"

Through the crystal chandeliers of morning - Iris Tree "Streets"


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Fierce winter's chronicle - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel V: On the Sea-Cliff"

Scarred with the chronicles written by flame - Henry Kendall "Beyond Kerguelen"

A cadence of perfectly chronicled images - Achy Obejas "The Land of Regal Elephants"

In the chronicle of wasted time - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"

Better to be the last chronicler of twilight - Charles Wright "My Old Clinch Mountain Home"


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Chance )


The nurse of fell mischance - Michelangelo Buonarroti "II. On Dante Alighieri" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Blessed beauty from mischance - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus

If we count up the world's mischance - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Why Sad To-day"


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Some cold and charitable visit - A.H. Jerriod Avant "Who Can Govern Themselves Out of Governance?"

Die in the large and charitable air - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"


Charity )


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Chaos )


The chaos-cleaving mind - Louis Golding "Creed"


Chaotic )


Out of the torture and tumult of inchoate Time - Arthur Stringer "The Steel Workers"


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Choke )


On the chokesome cherry bent - Henry A. Beers "Ye Laye of ye Woodpeckore"


Wind and mere are phantom-choked with voices - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"


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Chase )


Vain as swords against the enchased crocodile - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"


The salt-chased seas uncurled - Edith Wyatt "Sympathy"


A steeple chase marked by clocks - Dom "Seaside Sunrise: Happiness when it Comes"


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Chill )


Where chill-winged curlews dip and call - Adam Mickiewicz "Tschatir Dagh (The Pilgrim)" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood


Unchilled by damps of doubt - Thomas Hardy "A Woman's Trust"


Clasps his hands in the wine-chill air - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"


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Choose/Chose )


Chosen )


A sly wander from the course unchosen - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"


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Chart )


Chartless in all that wild immensity - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]


Uncharted.


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Our stars like chess pieces - John S. Blake "No Room to Form"

Chess pieces resting upon the jade mantle - Paul Cameron Brown "Pondicherry"

War makes people disappear like chess pieces - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

Play the desperate chess - Ezra Pound "Near Perigord"


Paints a chess-board on paper - Tu Fu "The River Village" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough and Amy Lowell

Chess-boards neatly bound - "Turvey Top"

A pawn on the chess board of intellect - A. Van Jordan "'Integrated School Books' Apeggio"

a chessboard pawn that rears up into a castle - Monica Youn "Blueacre"


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Charge )


Down from the overcharged clouds - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan


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That chafe for the rushing of wheels - Gilbert Frankau "A Song of the Guns"

Chafe against the secret spell - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

A flame chafes in our blood - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

While the feverish branches chafe - Kiki Petrosino "Young"

Chafing sighs hew my heart round - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound


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Upon his back an enormous Chimaera - Charles Baudelaire "Every Man His Chimaera" transl. not credited

To keep secure my wild chimeras - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

In the chimaeras sought with so much zeal - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

A determination from the chimeric neural net - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"

Any old chimera of the grave - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"


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Amidst their chirping he hears words - Daniel Errico "Prescott Hawthorne"

The urgent chirper, fledgling flier - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"

A lark chirps calmly on the river bank - Bianca Rae Messinger "After the Living Dead Girl"

A grasshopper chirped of rain - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Quest of the White Heather: Schwartz Wald"

The chirp of foxes will wake us in the morning - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"

Birds' chirping along the hidden acacia - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"


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Built of bricks of chocolate - Alise Alousi "Mess"

No different than large amounts of chocolate - Quincy Scott Jones "Why Wake Up Happy"

Whose throat blossoms with spicy chocolates - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"

Into a bitter-chocolate vein - Adrienne Rich "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"

Kisses and hatred, chocolate and vengeance - Benjamin Rosenbaum "A Gardener Betrayed by Roses"


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Chime )


And let the folly-chimes outvoice the tone - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"


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The chromatic topography of our shared mind - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"

The exquisite chromatics of decay - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender: Praeludium"

Chromatic words, seraphic symphonies - Helene Johnson "Magalu"

Chromatic flames in labyrinths of reflections - Mina Loy "Brancusi's Golden Bird"

Zither of chromatic scale - A.E. Stallings "Momentary"

The slow chromatics of a bruise - A.E. Stallings "Olives"

Chromatic fifths of derision - William Carlos Williams "January"


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Of henbane steeped in chaff - Maya Angelou "To a Freedom Fighter"

This chaff a mountain crested with fire - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

Merely chaff from life's storehouse - Fenton Johnson "Harlem: The Black City"

Choose the wheat, incurious of the chaff - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

A millstone to grind chaff - Marianne Moore "To Military Progress"

From the chaff of shiftless falsehood - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

The chaff from bleeding wheat - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"

Vacant chaff well meant for grain - Tennyson "In Memoriam"


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A charnel that affronts the sky - Arthur Davison Ficke "A Watteau Melody"

The charnel stench of the end of the world - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"

Beside us glides the charnel shark - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"

Stinging thistles round a haunted charnel - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]

Made my bed in charnels - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

'Mid hollow charnel let me watch the flame - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"


From slanderous charnel-houses burst - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"


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The changeling cursed with a quickness too sharp - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

Made me a changeling to my own - Walter de la Mare "Bewitched"

Till they take this changeling creature - Walter de la Mare "Peak and Puke"

Cold-blooded, faint-hearted changeling - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "Bruce's Address"

Garden for a changeling child - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

Put in his place a changeling - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Fairy Changeling"


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Somewhere between mermaid and chicken - Flower Conroy "Frog"

Chicken little in a broken shell - Paul Bernstein "Day One of the Deluge"

Stray dogs and chickens roam obsolete highways - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

Smart chickens, rickety world - Charles Simic "Windy Evening"

Chickens call from the tops of mulberry trees - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

Can snap chicken necks five at a time - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"


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Cheek )


Weighed down with many a red-cheeked little Cain - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"


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