somethingdarker | May. 15th, 2010

May. 15th, 2010

( Enemy )

The bristling enmity of icebergs and rain - Pablo Neruda "The Oceanics" transl. by Jack Schmitt

More substance in our enmities - W.B. Yeats "VI - The Stare's Nest By My Window"

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Cursing England's throne and altar - Aion "The Land of Slaves" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]

Where seven sunken Englands lie buried - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

A flash from your eyes would light England's last pile - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

( English )

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Who could possess an enterprise or an empire - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"

The issue of their enterprise - L.P. Hartley "Candlemas"

The risky enterprise of talking - Brenda Hillman "Micro-minutes on Your Way to Work"

When I learn of your enterprising viciousness - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"

An enterprise global and interdisciplinary - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"

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( Enamel )

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( Enough )

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Gold and houses and lands encumber - Ellen Tracy Alden "[Wandering, wandering all the world over]"

Aware of space encumbered - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

The burden of a salt-encumbered tide - C.H.B. Kitchin "Eschatological Sonnet"

Encumbered with the shriek of lapwings - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver

Let them disencumber your bounty - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"

Descends, quite unencumbered by his friends - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Unencumbered by love of earth - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"

Through the unencumbered dark - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

Unencumbered by moral valence - Carl Phillips "Somewhere It's Still Summer"

A cumbersome dream vehicle - Elizabeth Spires "The Snowy Day"

Filtered the dross that has cumbered the way - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Service" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Proud palaces of cumbrous lies - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

Cumbered with her clinging shades immense - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: Rain" transl. by Alma Strettell

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Engineered to calculate the cycle of the moon - Julie Babcock "The Moundbuilders Country Club"

An engineer's dream-feat of astonishment - Chen Chen "In the City"

Half engineering, half a work of art - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

engineering an unfamiliar ache - Safia Elhillo "Transport"

Constructing intricately engineered endings - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

Engineered for uprooting - Nikky Finney "O'Noblesse O'"

No safe engineering for this much want - K. Iver "The Gotham Hotel"

Engineered to navigate an illusion of deep water - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"

Engine.

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( Enjoy )

Bidding hearts revel in enjoyment wild - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

Do not mar their brief enjoyment - "Kind to Everything" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Joy.

Darker woe come o'er calm self-enjoying thought - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

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( Enshroud )

Shroud.

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With bolder passion the bitter day endowed - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

Endowed with finite life - Kim Unsong "Universality (Buddhatva)"

Will endow the words with nonsense - Ada Limon "The Echo Sounder"

Endow with changeful splendors - E. Seton "Mary, Virgin and Mother"

The wide hallways of a great endowment - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"

Yet endowed with confidence - David Trinidad "Ode to Dusty Springfield"

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( Enlarge )

Large.

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Brave offspring of a disenchanted age - Coningsby Dawson "A Brave Life"

Earth and sky to eyes once disenchanted - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

( Enchant )

On a night of moon-enchanted tides - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

Like a moon-enchanted boy - Louis Golding "Still Life in France"

Star-enchanted hollows of the night - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

( Enchantment )

( Enchanter )

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Reveal you both aloof and enthralled - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"

With passionate music to enthrall - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"

Enthralled in the garden - Jenny George "Sunflowers"

Fell grief her throbbing heart enthrals - J.H.I. "Ethelbert and Elfrida" [The Mirror of Literature issue 576 Nov 17 1832]

The power to enthrall such chivalry - Alice Wellington Rollins "I Know Myself the Best-Beloved of All"

Enthralled by war in distant lands - Kim Stafford "Wren's Nest in a Shed Near Aurora"

The magic that's enthralled the world - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 192: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Thrall.

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( Endurance )

( Endure )

This emanation of a long-endured despair - Henry S. Leigh "To a Certain Somebody"

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( Enter )

Entrance.

( Entry )

How does one re-enter a calendar? - Jay Deshpande "Actually Very Simple"

Sealed forever by reentry's kiss of peace - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"

Till my name re-entered me - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament II"

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( Entire )

Pressing the entirety of a universe into a shell - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Pō"

A few hours to encircle in entirety - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

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End.

( Endless )

The doors of never-ending gorges - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies I"

Stretched in never-ending line - William Wordsworth Longfellow "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

Over never-ending roads - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

A timeless avatar of never-ending dooms - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Unending/Unended.

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( Enchain )

Chain.

Unchain.

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( Endear )

Dear.

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( Enfold )

Fold.

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( Enthrone )

Throne.

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Raging Fortune watches to ensnare - 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]

Lose all their power to dazzle or ensnare - Charlotte Elliott "Monday Evening"

And Satan stared as though ensnared - "Jolly Father Joe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

Whose eyes ensnare your wildest fear - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"

Ensnared in the network by monetary necessity - Margaret B. Simon "A Collective Invention Revisited"

Snare.

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( Envy )

Envious.

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( Encircle )

Circle.

Circling.

Circular.

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( Entertain )

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Aggressive disputes between entities without boundaries - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Formed by acts of other entities - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"

Keep strange faith with entities of elder void - Ann K. Schwader "Void Flyers"

Daughter of envy and nonentity - Tommaso Campanella "XVIII. To Death" transl. by John Addington Symonds

When one may be so Famous a Nonentity - Oliver Herford "The Sea Serpent"

The terrible faces of our nonentities - William Carlos Williams "Apology"

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( Entrance )

Enter/Entry.

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Enhanced by your imagining - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"

Enhanced the grandeur of the mournful hymn - Edward Edwin Foot "The Death, Burial, and Destruction of Bacchus"

Yet your mystery enhances - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]

Clinging with tendrils of enhanced love - William Albert Sutliffe "A Midnight Fantasy" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.4, Oct. 1852]

Bliss enhanced by rapture of surprise - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"

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( Endeavor )

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( Engrave )

Graven.

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( Entice )

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( Engine )

Each a steam-engine of crime - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"

Engineer.

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( Envelop/Envelope )

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( Entangle )

Thy threads of wonder deep-entangled - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"

Disentangle instinct from desire - Katherine Edgren "Burying"

Disentangled the murderous knot - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Tangle.

Untangle.

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( End )

Talked in mellow day-ends - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"

Step out before the endgame - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

In the endgame of her days - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Chess"

Endless.

some end time we have already faced - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"

Those who thought it was the end times - Mara Pastor "Los Bustos de Martí/The Busts of Martí" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong

To a mind tired of loose ends - Sue Budin "I Dream About Weaving"

Having tied all the loose ends - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"

Loose end of a rainbow dangling - Lynn Powell "Driftings at Anchor"

Where avarice meets in never-ending fray - Thomas S. Chard "The Blessed Vale"

The gloom of soundless days and never-ending nights - Howard V. Sutherland "The Return of the Sun"

But space was still an open-ended game - Harry Martinson "Aniara 87" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Unending/Unended.

A pitcher of inky black upended - Paul Cameron Brown "Twinkling of an Eye"

Upended by error and X-rays - Janet Kauffman "Upended By Error"

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Our consensus on entropy - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Scalar"

To invest in entropy - Camonghne Felix "On Entropy"

Engaged with serious entropy - Michael Lauchlan "Carolers"

Dwindled through the world's entropic ways - Harry Martinson "Aniara 87" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Whose samite masks veil little more than entropy - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"

Entropy incarnate in the blood - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"

Entropy unravels the very best of us - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

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Morning enshrines the empty hill - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

The beckoning stars enshrine the parapet - Geoffrey Dearmer "A Prayer"

Bestirs the seed enshrined in Winter's store - Geoffrey Dearmer "Spring in the Trenches"

Enshrines him with eucalyptus - Megan Fernandes "In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife"

Enshrined by the sounds of blackbirds - David Hornibrook "Gone"

The pure silver radiance enshrining - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"

Shrine.

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Entombed with the hourless night - Djuna Barnes "Call of the Night"

Fossil of a seahorse entombed - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"

Murderers entombed behind Arkham's walls - Andrew Kozma "The Black Death" [Strange Horizons 8 Sept. 2025]

Entomb blind joy in its spell - Rickey Laurentiis "Because we love each other"

The amulets of home entombed for solace - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"

Tomb.

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( Engulf )

Swift engulfments of incalculable tides - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]

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A thought encased in deep, riverine bowels - Paul Cameron Brown "Reading the Tides: Petroglyph Park"

Stone hand encased in an arm of ocean - Paul Cameron Brown "Serenade"

Encased in a memory of stone - Paul Cameron Brown "Wild Card"

Encased in a local thunderstorm - Billy Collins "Mappamundi"

Encased in a gauntlet of steel - Emily Pauline Johnson "Guard of the Eastern Gate"

On the panes with frost encased - "Winter" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

Case.

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( Endymion )

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( Enrapture )

Rapt/Rapture.

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All future ages will your deeds enroll - John Church, Jr. "The Fall of Jerusalem: Part I"

Upon their brightest list enroll - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"

Brave in the pages of glory enroll'd - Henry Scott Riddell "The Grecian War Song"

The dark troubled tablets which enroll the Past - Friederich Schiller "To Laura (The Mystery of Reminiscence)" transl. not credited

Enrolled in the college of nightfall - Frank Stanford "The Forgotten Madmen of Menilmontant"

Roll.

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Read a lecture o'er the entrails of a gnat - Mark Akenside "The Virtuoso. In Imitation of Spenser's Style and Stanza."

Look into the entrails of Uranus - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"

In the darkest entrails of greenness - Pablo Neruda "The South" transl. by Alastair Reid

Nostalgic crab and other shellfish with blue entrails - Yaxkin Melchy Ramos "Capybara Hot Springs" transl. by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

To the entrails of the earth - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954

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No law that restrains enormity - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 20" transl. by Katherine Silver

( Enormous )

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( Encounter )

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Layered with energetic grids and pathways - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Chaco and Olivia"

Energetic fossils of a Big Bang - Dean Young "Interference & Delivery" [Poetry, January 1988]

( Energy )

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