Jun. 3rd, 2010

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Fell )


Among the wind-felled bodies of my quince trees - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"


Fall.


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Fence )



For their fenceless acres shed - Benjamin West Ball "The Forgotten"


Like a lost mitten on a fencepost - Gregory Pardlo "Giornata 8"


On the unfenced height - Charles G.D. Roberts "Hill Top Songs"


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Fern )


From the zenith stars to the sea-ferns - Trumbull Stickney "At Sainte-Marguerite"


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Fed )


Pastures deep in rain-fed grass - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

Some gentle spirit sorrow-fed - Emily Pauline Johnson "Fire-Flowers"

Derived sun-fed design - Xan Forest Phillips "No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits"

Altars unfed and temples overturned - Matthew Arnold "Mycerinus"


Feed )


Harvest-feeding dews, fine-winnowed light - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"


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The details of his festival in brown - Max Bodenheim "Psychology from Mars"

Our paler festival of hope - Susan Coolidge "Easter"

For a festival of sun - Frances Cornford "Spring Morning"

Festivals in memory of you - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"

Returning from the midnight festival - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

A festival of collaged laughter - Major Jackson "Spain"

My festival upleaping from an ember - Agnes Lee "The Silent House"

High festival I need not miss - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"

The floating notes of festival encores - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"


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Fetch )


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


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Fear )


Fearful )


Fearless.


Woe to the gun in a fearsome hand - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

I know each step of the fearsome way - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Don't Be Afraid"

A fearsome assortment of wildflowers - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"


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Fervent )


The eagle builds his eyrie nearest to the fervid skies - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]


The wise fervour of a blameless mind - Tommaso Campanella "XXIII. The Modern Cupid" transl. by John Addington Symonds

All the fervor of high noon - Susan Coolidge "A Blind Singer"

The fierce noon fervour to allay - Edward Dowden "At the Oar"

The sun's inspiring fervours fail - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]

stricken with the fervor of cosmic beings - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."


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Ferry him if you have the oars - Chris Dombrowski "Going Home"

To carry the passenger flames o'er the devil's own ferry - C.C. Hine "Mrs. Leary's Cow"

The schedule of departing ferries - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"

Ferries where the whales bloom - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"

Even his shade by Charon ferried - James Russell Lowell "On Planting a Tree at Inverara"

Something ferried by the wind - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Dear God Please Make Me a Bird"


The toll men pay to that strange ferry-boat - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"


This hooded ferryman with forked tongue - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

This road requires a toll, a tip to the ferryman - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"

A whisper lost on the ferryman's lips - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"


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Fen )


Fen-fire that conducts her to her doom - William Watson "Ireland (December 1, 1890)"


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The ferocious lies of ice - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

With the ferocity of a second lover - May Chong "Catering"

How ferocious that shock of light - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

Unfastening all ferocities - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

The abrupt ferocities of chance - George Sterling "A Character"

No trace of a ferocious air - William Wordsworth "The Danish Boy"


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Fertile )


Crop-grower of infertile seed - John McCarthy "Portrait of a Preacher's Secret, Dekalb, Illinois"


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Fever )


While the feverish branches chafe - Kiki Petrosino "Young"


Grown from scattered fever-seed - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"


Its blood dried up with treason's fever-taint - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]


When the scarlet fever delirium claimed him - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"


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Fetter )


Exulting on fetterless wing - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"


In unfettered mahogany abandon - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"

Unfettered and yet side by side - E. Nesbit "[The swans along the water glide]"

Unfold unfettered from the tyranny of sun - Ann K. Schwader "Flash Specters"


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Everyone a hazy quilt of features - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"

How dim and strange your features - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"

Torn features of wrath - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Wake with haunted features - Hoa Nguyen "Heartlessness"

Whose features are a timeless genealogy - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Beneath the Southern Cross"


Featureless and polished plutocracy - Boris Dralyuk "The Passing of the Bungalows"

Featureless winter of grief - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"


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Feather )


Featherless birds in the ruined trees - Charles Wright "Remembering Bergamo Alto"


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Feel )



Feeling )


Felt )


Hangs in the air like the start of heartfelt applause - Adrian Matejka "Soave Sia Il Vento"

Such a breathless honey-feel of bliss - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"


Unfeeling/Unfelt.


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Feet )




Foot )


Barefoot

Here's the crow's-foot for a sign - Don Marquis "'King Pandion, He Is Dead'"


Footbridges love the past - Stephanie Burt "At the Providence Zoo"

Through a footbridge's fenced floor - Chris Dombrowski "I Canonize Dick Curran"

The old foot-bridge and the murmuring mill - Mrs. Amelia B. Welby "The Brother's Lament"

No footbridge or boat over Lethe - Charles Wright "Bees Are the Terrace Builders of the Stars"


Footfall.


Foothold.


When pain has forced a footing there - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"


Over lightless pane and footless road - Edward Thomas "Aspens"


spilled past the footlights - Leah Bobet "Notable Escapes"


Left no footmark on the floor - Anna Bunston de Bary "Under a Wiltshire Apple Tree"


We were footnotes on a charred parchment - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

A footnote to someone else's grandeur - Charles Rafferty "Forecast"

To footnote lesser evils - Adrienne Rich "Camino Real"

The beer and barbecue footnote - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"


Footprint.


Whisper in a foot-shuffle vortex - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"


Footstep.


Their boots knew the footwork - Vickie Vertiz "Under the Spell of Conjunto"

Shadows on the foot-worn threshold fall - Rainer Maria Rilke "Initiation" transl. by Jessie Lemont

The flight of the fox-foot hours - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Vagabondia"

Light-Footed.

Through their million-footed dirge of unconcern - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"

Stark hours of panther-footed dark - Coningsby Dawson "Unanswerable Questions"

A seven-foot cyborg on a quest - Adam Ford "Arrival!"

Guarded by silver-footed antelope - John Presland "To a Robin in December"

On a six-foot stage of dust - Carl Sandburg "Old Osawatomie"

Stirred by some soft-footed breeze - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

Following with sorefooted pain - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"

Letting your hunger ride a ten-foot span - Conrad Hilberry "Pelican"


Underfoot.


Gallop through the unfooted asphodel - Maurice Baring "Julian Grenfell"


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Voices to feeble to utter a cry - Vera M. Brittain "Vengeance Is Mine"

Feeble their tones and low - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Lend its virtue to my feeble sight - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

Knew the feeble tenure of dominion - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

With false and feeble pity - Sara Teasdale "The Answer"


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And stand idly by while our fellows bear stones - Horatio Alger Jr "Nothing to Do"

That draw their fellows deep into impiety - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne

Villainous fellows for War's regalia - Herbert E. Palmer "The Bushrangers"

With a strong fellow feeling for brandy and sherry - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

That we are fellows till the last night falls - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"


Three of one fellowship - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

Whose fellowship isn't a fetter - James W. Foley "Some One Like You"

The winds of my fellowship - Lionel Johnson "In England"

Of ancient fellowships and new dissensions - Henry S. Leigh "The End of an Old Year"

Eyes for pirate fellowship - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"

If only they could be of that fellowship - Rihaku "Exile's Letter" transl. by Ezra Pound

Though I have known the fellowship of kings - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"


My ancient way-fellows convene - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"


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