somethingdarker | Jun. 2nd, 2010

Jun. 2nd, 2010

( Fairy )

Snapping their beaks against the fairyglass - Ashley Bao "Secrets from a Telepath"

Fairyland.

In her fairy-queen pride - M.B.M. Toland "Aegle"

Fairy Tale.

The clocks strike fairy-time - Eleanor Farjeon "Fairy-Time"

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( Family )

Under the shelter of the family tree - Robert Frost "The Generations of Men"

Crashing against the family tree - jessica Care moore "She Was"

write a family tree in chalk - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

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( Fade )

Above the fadeless stars on high - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]

Build with fadeless rubies - Frances E.W. Harper "The Building"

A spirit-planted, fadeless flower - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"

Fadeless and fair is that glorious dawn - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

To the never-fading sun-fields - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"

Unfaded too its crimson brands - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

The unfading crown of sacrifice - Francis Brett Young "Sonnet [Not only for remembered loveliness]"

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( Faint )

Some far faint-gleaming hour of Hell - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

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

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

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( Farewell )

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Afar.

( Far )

Faraway.

A far-blown breath of snows - Albion Fellows Bacon "Lost"

The far-famed Hospice crowns the heights - "The Brave Dog of St. Bernard" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

Far-fetched and dear-bought - Algernon Swinburne "A Singing Lesson"

Far-flown in black occlusion - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

Resume its far-flung harvests - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"

Far-flung blossoms of desire - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XII" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Far-off.

The javelin of the far-ravening levin - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

From sun far-set or moon unrisen - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

Call the far-sighted foxes - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"

Wardens of the far-sought gold - George Sterling "The Homing of Drake"

Tempests of solar melody, vibrant and far-winged - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

( Farther )

( Farthest )

This far-spread conflagration of the fields of snow - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"

Far-travelled herald of some distant storm - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"

Further/Furthest.

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( Fact )

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( Fast )

Under a sky fast-blue with change - Alessandra Lynch "Funeral: For Us His Gold"

A fast-driving diesel flatbed of felled trees - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"

( Faster )

( Fasting )

( Fastness )

Fast-forward into a bleaker future - Jane Yolen "Fence of Bones"

Hand-fast to her twilight appearance - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"

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( Falter )

Unfaltering.

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( Fashion )

One of those old-fashioned peeping keyholes - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

With the innards from an old fashioned clock - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

The legend of a soul's refashioning - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Sin"

Flame in my unfashionable closet - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 15"

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( Fake )

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( Falling Star )

Fall.

Star.

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( Familiar )

Unfamiliar.

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( Fathom )

Fathomless.

Unfathomable/Unfathomed.

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( Faultless )

Fault.

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( Fawn )

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( Fay/Fey )

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( Fantastic )

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( Fame )

Famous.

Unhallow'd thoughts might soon defame - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XXXV: The Young Shepherds" transl. by Sir John Bowring

The far-famed Hospice crowns the heights - "The Brave Dog of St. Bernard" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

Infamous/Infamy.

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( Fatal )

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( Factory )

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Through fine purple clover was faring - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "A Bobolink's Song"

Grown tired of shepherd's fare - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"

Prosperous leeches settling to their fare - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lunch at a City Club"

Do their best work on vegan fare - May Chong "Catering"

Fared on to the Well of Tears - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"

With tidings of the myriad faring sea - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

How many miles shall he fare? - Annie Willis McCullough "The Journey" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

In the chant of a home-faring crew - Algernon Swinburne "At Sea"

Keep watch over the wayfarers - Richard Jones "Rest"

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( Fat )

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( Father )

The forefathers of stone - Pablo Neruda "Land and Man Unite" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A foster-father to your memory - Thomas James "Epitaph on Companions Left Behind in the Northern Seas"

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In the fabulous folds of tomorrow - Geffrey Davis "King County Metro"

Nor conquests fabulous nor actions vain - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

A stream past fabulous shores - Aldous Huxley "Stanzas"

Bubbles up fabulous algal paints - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

With its fabulous waters of gold - James Whitcombe Riley "The Circus Parade"

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Face to face with the moon - Elizabeth Jacobson "14 Love Songs"

Face to face with Monsanto - Bruce Smith "Ballad and Proposition"

With Wonder face to face - Sara Teasdale "Open Windows"

Stands face to face with bitter Truth - A.D.T. Whitney "Bo-Peep"

Face to face on this road - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"

Face.

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Fastened to one pathetic puzzle - Max Bodenheim "Baby"

Fastened my voice with a stitch - Chiyuma Elliott "A Story About Longing"

Fastened us to one common frame of mind - Michael Heffernan "The Empress"

Fasten their hands upon their hearts - A.E. Housman "Last Poems X"

Another talisman to fasten down the day - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

Fastened by the measure of limitation - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

Sequins fastened to sunbeams - Hai-Dang Phan "River to River"

Swift to fasten and swift to sever - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Copper-fastened and well found - John Breslin "The Cruise of the Catalpa"

Unfastening all ferocities - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Till the links of the universe are unfastened - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"

Unfasten your mind, and follow it hence - Mark Van Doren "Wind in the Grass"

Unfasten each stitch of her - Jenny Xie "The Game"

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As swallows swerve in the fallow air - Geffrey Davis "The Epistemology of Rosemary"

My team unyoked, my fallow unsown - "Eamonn an Chnuic, or 'Ned of the Hill'" transl. by P.H. Pearse

Crazed gnats in the fallow - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"

A rusty tractor sits fallow in the field - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"

Pulled at the island's fallow gardens - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Smoke"

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But the famine will not fall forever - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan

But only served a reminder of famine - Hawa Haji-Hassan "Carrying Anticipation"

Ghastly Famine's bony hand was stretched - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

In her famine waisted flamingo gown - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

A famine where abundance lies - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"

While famine and pestilence stalk'd in thy train - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The War-Spirit"

Over hills where famine flowers - John Wieners "For Huncke"

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A Faun a-peeping through the green - Rupert Brooke "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"

Dance with jolly faun and fay - Benjamin Copeland "A Prophecy"

Fauns who pass in mocking masque among the trees - Mona Gould "You Being Dead (For J.R.T.)"

Woodland fauns that know no fear - Robert Graves "The Dying Knight and the Fauns"

Nor faun nor fay can match - Emily Lawless "From the Burren XII: Yet a Little Longer"

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( Faithful )

Faith.

Faithless.

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( Faithless )

I break my heart on your hard unfaith - William Ernest Henley "Or Ever the Knightly Years Were Gone"

Faith.

Faithful.

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( Famous )

Fame.

Infamous/Infamy.

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( Fairyland )

Fairy.

Land.

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A fanfare of tambourines and glory - Jabari Asim "Some Call It God"

Nightfall without fanfare - Stephen Dunn "Here and There"

Heralded with the fanfare of sun - Frank Horne "Immortality"

No fanfare no terror - Ruben Quesada "XI"

The arousing fanfare of the sun - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 2: The Unborn"

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( Far-off )

Far.

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( Famish )

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( Favorite )

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( Faraway )

Far.

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Farm soil too rich in microbes - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Human Habitat"

Its plow for the farming of bones - Pablo Neruda "Puerto Rico, Puerto Pobre [Song of Protest]" transl. by Miguel Algarin

A farmer's spring prayer - Teresa J. Scollon "Drought Year"

Sour blueberries from the farmer's market - Richard Solomon "Ann Arbor Art Fair 2005"

The owls were bearing the farm away - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

In fable and folklore from farmyard to seashore - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "jackdaw"

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Elaborate truth from fallacy - Arthur Hugh Clough "Love and Reason"

Inoculate us from the fallacies of hope - Achy Obejas "Succession"
[Falsehood]

A fallacy halfway through - Matthew Zapruder "Brooklyn with a New Beginning"

( Falsehood )

False.

Lie/Lying.

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( Favor )

Favorable hours hymned by Pan - Lionel Johnson "Summer Storm"

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( Fail )

( Failure )

More fallible than mere caprice - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

By December's infallible bureaucracy - Matthew Zapruder "The Book of Oxygen"

Death unfailing will strike the blow - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"

To mount the tempest-cloud with nerve unfailing - Mary E. Hewitt "I Follow" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

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( Fair )

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( Fall )

Befall.

One field sparrow song down-falling - Janet Kauffman "Air Here"

Falling Star.

Hunkered down in the old fallout shelter - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"

Inside the fall-out shelter's quarantine - Richard Solomon "Possession IV: Shoe"

Footfall.

A broken elevator trying to contain its freefall - Alise Alousi "Skip"

Of a landfall won barely - Carl Phillips "Said the Horse to the Light"

Greet us at landfall - May Sarton "Coming Into Eighty"

Nightfall.

Mid snares and pitfalls scattered - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds

With Pitfall and with Gin beset - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

That pleasures are pitfalls prepared to deceive - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Raging rainfall of fire - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

In the rainfall of light - Mary Oliver "Gravel"

Then heart would join with lips at shadow-fall - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. They are not wisest who are conscious most] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

The soft harp of snowfall - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"

Heavy with portents of snowfall - Kwame Dawes "Dawn"

Stepping light as snowfall - Emily van Kley "Ways to Hunt Deer"

Sunlight, treefall, decaying signals, shade - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"

Waterfall.

The windfalls of my mistakes - Carl Phillips "Capella"

Down the rivers of the windfall light - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

Fell.

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( False )

May well outweigh all false-born things - "Vates" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

Falsehood.

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( Fancy )

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Solo of magma, baritone of fantasia - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

( Fantasy )

Blur the club into a blue fantasia - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

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( Fate )

( Fateful )

To survive the fate-rained slaughter - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"

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( Faith )

Faithful.

Faithless.

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( Fault )

Faultless.

Faultline.

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( Fable )

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( Falcon )

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( Fathomless )

Fathom.

Unfathomable/Unfathomed.

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( Faction )

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( Fairy Tale )

Fairy.

Tale.

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( Faultline )

Fault.

Line.

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( Face )

On its time-defaced pedestal - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"

Face to Face.

Build a backdrop of the faceless - Mary Jo Bang "O Means the Mouth"

Come from afar and faceless - Carl Phillips "And Swept All Visible Signs Away"

Faceless souls dancing in its ashes - Lillian Tsay "The Resolution of N" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]

The stars will lean down and stare from their faceless spaces - Charles Wright "Nothing Is Written"

Factories carved into cliff-faces - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"

Green-faced violin players guarding vertical streets - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

Robber-bands of grim-faced years - Annie Fellows Johnston "Banditti"

Looked Janus-faced to innocence and guilt - William Wetmore Story "A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem"

Idly pluck a thousand meek-faced daisies - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Outfaces now my silver moon - John Keats "To Fanny"

The pale-faced marble tells the softened tale - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]

Their shamefaced grays and reds - Maxwell Bodenheim "North Clark Street, Chicago"

A shame-faced galaxy - James Galvin "My Second Angel"

Who birthed one two-faced desire - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"

Ice of this hard two-faced month - Seamus Heaney "Audenesque"

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( Fabric )

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( Fan )

Under the breath of the winnowing-fan - Thomas Hardy "Without, Not Within Her"

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( Fang )

From the ice-fanged polar jaws - Louis Golding "The Advent of Mars"

The spitting foam and the ice-fanged caves - Marian Thanhouser "Home"

A venom-fanged hydra prowls my chest - Arthur H. Manners "Now You Know"

Or crush them in my white-fanged hands - Effie Lee Newsome "O Sea, That Knowest Thy Strength"

Defanged marionette, flattened clown - Simone Person "Awkwafina Clarifies That She's Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)"

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