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Aug. 2nd, 2010

( Haughty )

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( Haze )

( Hazy )

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( Hail )

Hailstones galloping across the hard earth - Chris Dombrowski "Strange Lullaby"

A myriad hailstones infected with her name - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"

The last hail-storm to trouble spring - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"

Hailstorms and diffracted confusions of light - Katie Ford "Colosseum"

Underneath a hailstorm of light - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"

Rising up through a hailstorm - Matthew Zapruder "As I Cross the Heliopause at Midnight, I Think of My Mission"

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( Habit )

( Habitual )

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( Harbor/Harbour )

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( Half )

( Compound words containing 'half' )

Halfway.

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( Hades )

Pluto/Plutonian.

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( Haggard )

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( Halfway )

Half.

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( Hallucinate )

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Hall.

( Hallway )

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( Harm )

May your dreams be harmless as my own - Natalie Clifford Barney "Apology"

Harmless as a bubble - Kurt Cyrus "Hotel Deep"

Harmless phantoms on their errands - Henry W. Longfellow "Haunted Houses"

If all swords were as harmless as this - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"

Unharmed by the touch of human hand - Lucinda Elliott "The Linnaea Borealis" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.418, 3 Jan. 1852]

Tread unharmed the blaze of stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

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( Harness )

Unharnesses as the wind - Christopher Morley "America, 1917"

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( Happen )

Happenstance and helium - Lauren Russell "Exposition"

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( Hat )

Hatrack: See Rack.

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( Harp )

Among the harp-like morning-glory strings - Robert Frost "The Death of the Hired Man"

Leave his name upon the harp-string - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Zeus is a silver kite tethered to Olympus by harp strings - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Made the moving lip a harp-string for the thought - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Laura Bridgman"

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( Haven )

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( Hatch )

A crosshatch of deletions and smears - Liu Cheng "Poem without a Category" transl. by Burton Watson

Cross-hatchings of the nettle - James Whitcombe Riley "A Barefoot Boy"

Crosshatched with a lacquer frieze of ink - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"

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( Halo )

A Halo-crown of vapoured Vortex Rings - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

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( Hare )

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( Hawthorn )

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( Haste/Hasty )

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( Habitat )

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( Hammer )

No icy jackhammer pneumatics - Carolina Ebeid "Relapsing/Remitting"

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( Harsh )

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And hark, to the funeral dirge of the Bee - J.L.B. "The Butterfly's Funeral"

Still harkening to the bee - Edmund Blunden "The March Bee"

Hark! the wind is sorrowing still - E.W.C. "November" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]

Hark to the thrush's trilling - Joyce Kilmer "The King's Ballad"

Hark to an exiled son's appeal - James Ryder Randall "My Maryland"

Hark the rumour of ten thousand ancient Springs - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"

He who hearkens to the Seer's advice - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. They are not wisest who are conscious most] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

Must I now hearken to your bitter cry? - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

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( Hall )

Hallway.

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( Happiness/Happy )

Unhappy/Unhappiness.

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( Hawk )

Takes from the fish-hawk his newly caught prey - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"

Hawk-eyed hunters of solace - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"

Twin gods hawk-headed and immense - Robert Nichols "Polyphemus His Passion: A Pastoral"

Hawk-skied, carrion-clean - Adrienne Rich "Camino Real"

And the scream of the night hawk is heard - William Hodgson Ellis "The Wanderer's Song"

Dream upon the night-hawks peopling heaven - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"

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Harbingers ushering joy or sorrow - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]

Harbinger of blankets and socks - Hailey Leithauser "Jiminy"

The harbingers of thy approach - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines"

Harbingers of hard wisdoms - Patricia Smith "10 Ways to Get Ray Charles and Ronald Reagan into the Same Poem"

Harbingers of halcyon days - F.H. Wood "At the Mill" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.124-v.III, 15 May 1886]

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( Haul )

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( Hallow )

Unhallow.

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And let the crabs hack at my armor - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two at the Crossroads"

Their little axes hack and tease - Donna Masini "Anxieties"

Firemen hacking into the heart of the blaze - Mark Rudolph "Tarot Cards and UFOs"

Hacking through layers of obdurate rock - Su Tung-p'o "White Crane Hill" transl. by Burton Watson

A hacksaw through the evening's calm core - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "jackdaw"

A violin plucked with a hacksaw - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

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( Harlequin )

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( Harrow )

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When a hazard has made them one - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender XXII"

Hazard so much free of compulsion - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"

The hazards of playing at innocence - Tony Hoagland "Ten Questions for the New Age"

Venturing all on the hazardous cast - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

And left a prey to hazard wild - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

Forfeited at some wild hazard - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"

Mountains turned hazard-orange mid-air - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"

Perfect sunny fives haphazard in the air - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"

My dependable, haphazard presence - Hayes Davis "Thhhat was great"

Wormholing haphazard between those spaces - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"

During my haphazard childhood - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"

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( Handle )

The manhandled grammar of nature - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

How the blade forgives itself for being mishandled - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"

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Battered our door with a hatchet and a telescope - Diana Marie Delgado "Late-Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust"

Cuts roses with a hatchet - Diana Marie Delgado "Twelve Trees"

Behind the stars' dull hatchets - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"

Stars' dull hatchets behind the black - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 1"

Stars' dull hatchets - Jennifer Foerster "from 'Shadow Poems'"

The pelican takes a hatchet to the water - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"

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( Hazel )

A lively wren from the hazel-bough - "King and Hermit" transl. by Kuno Meyer

A whisper among the hazel bushes - Seumas O'Sullivan "The Twilight People"

Bearing pleasant mead of hazel-nuts - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull

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The harmonious echo from our discordant life - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: A Lost Chord"

Until the whole harmonious landscape rang - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"

In concerts of harmonious joy - William Somerville "The Chase"

The harmonious thunder of the field - William Somerville "The Chase"

Harmonize the thunder of the storm - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"

Morning harmonizing like emerald waves - Tiana Clark "A Blue Note for Father's Day"

Harmonize with bronze bells ringing - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Despojo"

( Harmony )

With inharmonious rhyme - James H. Cousins "On Some Twentieth Century Forecasts"

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( Harvest )

For the hour of the red battle-harvest - Gilbert Frankau "A Song of the Guns"

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

The harvest-hymns rise - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

The blessed, long-harvested rains - Susan Coolidge "A Thunder Storm"

The hollowness of the unharvestable wind - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"

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( Handful )

Hand.

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( Hate )

( Hatred )

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( Hard )

The hammer-hard heels of noon - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Serpent's Crown"

Beneath the hardback hour - Lucie Brock-Broido "Spain"

These mottled green and hard-bottled mineral songs - Catherine Bowman "Pears"

Not tears by a hard-bought mirth - Faith Baldwin "The Last Demand"

On our hard-bound soil - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To Miss R. B."

Hard Luck.

( Hardly )

In our hardscrabble dreams - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"

Hardship is a limit not a failing - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"

How I in harsh days hardship endured - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

Teach us the hard-truths and hurt - Catherine Bowman "Pears"

Unfolded into the hard truths - Sharon Olds "Voices"

A mutation of myth hardwired - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"

Hard won by cosmic art - Charles Bertram Johnson "Negro Poets"

On some hard-won eminence of hope - Don Marquis "The Comrade"

Without a single bounce hitting the hardwood - Edward Hirsch "Fast Break"

The terrible stillness of the adamant core and the steel-hard chain - Aldous Huxley "The Burning Wheel"

Your mind un-hardened by heart - Rebecca G. Biber "Little Portrait"

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( Havoc )

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( Haunt )

The mystery of bluebell-haunted ways - Maurice Baring "Vita Nuova"

In Pushkin's clock-haunted house - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"

Cloud-haunted turrets pointing high - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Amavi"

Of a memory in demon-haunted men - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

The heart-haunted home of the ever-faithful - Donnchad Ruadh MacNamara, c.1730 "The Fair Hills of Eire" transl. by George Sigerson

Such heavily-haunted harmony - Thomas Hardy "A Duettist to Her Pianoforte: Song of Silence"

Near music-haunted springs - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.V--To a Wild Flower"

No memories abide to star the music-haunted dark - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

About their shadow-haunted circle clings - Rennell Rodd "On the Border Hills"

Snag and fall and siren-haunted islet - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

An April bud on winter-haunted trees - Walter de la Mare "Sleeping Beauty"

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( Halt )

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( Hay )

Clover-top and berry-bloom, and haycocks in the sun - Miriam Clark Potter "Summer Weather"

Brown hayfield in the dew - Jeannette Marks "Thatch"

An urgent revelation in a haystack-mounded field - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

Sporadic haystacks standing on the grass - Victor Hugo "Letter II.vi." transl. by E.H. and A.M. Blackmore

A needle in a haystack of light - Mary Oliver "Mindful"

Boulevards sprouting their haystraw weeds - Mark Jarman "Tale of Two Cities"

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( Harpy )

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( Hang )

( Hung )

Whatever double-hung treason - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Watching the Election Results Come In"

The hangman wind that tortures temper and light - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"

A crystal ball lowered into low-hanging helium - Ian Goh "Firework"

Bats at noontide rafter-hung - Robert Graves "Ghost Music"

Over woods of snow-hung oak - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Web-hung blackness of night - Robert Graves "Cynics and Romantics"

Honey cakes in tombs wisteria-hung - K.A. Campbell, Jr. "About It and About"

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( Hair )

The crosshairs of a hidden life - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"

how you hold a cottonmouth in a crosshair - C.T. Salazar "River"

Hiding from the sniper's crosshairs - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"

Where the fire-haired comet runs - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

The rocks where gold-haired syrens sang - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Bad haircuts and sloppy tailors - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

( Hairline )

( Hairpin )

Allergic to hair dye and silver - Hala Alyan "Truth"

concealing an infinity of hairtrigger malice - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

Or long-haired page in crimson clad - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"

End up with one ox-hair worth of gain - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

Slays the serpent-haired Medusa - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"

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( Hand )

Handful.

By demon-hands in warning shaken - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

Arrive empty-handed and alone - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Hunting Party"

Help arriving empty-handed - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

In a hands-behind-back colloquy of feints and nods - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"

In the handbook of heartbreak - Wallace Stevens "Madame la Fleurie"

Wild cat with a hand cannon - Andre F. Peltier "At the Grave of Little Sadie"

The handcuff of obligation - Ada Limon "The Lost Glove"

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

My handhold on the planet is no longer tiny - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Of eleven maidens the handiwork - "Valdemar and Tove (A)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Their handless work of transmutation - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

Pull a ribbon of honey into handmade mugs - Rage Hezekiah "Lake Sunapee"

Handmade armor of bone - Saeed Jones "Terrible Boy"

With your handmade apocalypse - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"

Handmaid: See Maiden.

That my hand-me-down is out of style - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Dirty handprints on my skirt - Diannely Antigua "Blessing the Baby"

Hand-sewn and set to memory - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Wall"

A handshake that becomes a squeezing contest - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"

Absence held in the handspan - Patrick James Errington "Half Measures"

The glass globe of hand-spun conjurings - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Insects of my fateful handwriting - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Testament" transl. by Alastair Reid

Who know my left-handed handwriting - Danni Quintos "Quintos"

A handyman when something breaks down - Mouna Ammar "Ode to Ammou"

Blues played lefthanded - Harryette Mullen "Page 5/sun goes on shining"

Made friends in a left-handed trance - "Nonsense"

Who know my left-handed handwriting - Danni Quintos "Quintos"

a burglar caught red-handed - Valzhyna Mort "crossword"

Infinitely second-hand - Aldous Huxley "On the 'Bus"

Nothing but secondhand details - Randall Mann "September Elegies"

A bughouse peddler of second-hand gospel - Carl Sandburg "Billy Sunday"

Who appreciates secondhand revelations of wolves - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"

Spinning with spider-hands the miser's web - Iris Tree "Smoke"

Lifts up its thousand-handed face - Pablo Neruda "Born in the Woods" translated by Donald D. Walsh

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