Aug. 6th, 2010

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As quivers a humbird his honey to drink - "Asleep" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]


Hummingbird )


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Human )


Humanity.


Up the inhuman steeps of space - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

The ghost of his inhuman curse - George Martin "Marguerite"

The smiling and inhuman stars - George Santayana "Avila"


Little thistles between the humans & non-humans - Brenda Hillman "& After the Power Came Back"


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Hugged close by the cool rhododendron - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Hugged by a timeless wind - Herbert Woodward Martin "On Reading Wendell Berry's 'Sabbaths'"

Hugging the feet of our failure - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"

Hug them to my eager heart of fire - Robert W. Service "The Song of the Camp-Fire"

Hugging the earth in August - William Carlos Williams "Daisy"

That hugs me with a thousand waves - Adolf Wolff "Questionings"


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Err on the side of humanity - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

My last refuge from humanity - Alexis LaMantia "Waiting"

Grounds my belief in humanity as mystery - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"

Gods tangled in humanity - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"

humanity is the eyelid of the sun - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

Star-sentinelled from our humanity - Edith Wharton "Heaven"

The still, sad music of humanity - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"


Human.


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Hurt )


His heart unhurt by brooding woes - A.C. Ainsworth "The Meeting at Sea"

Unhurt by a thousand storms - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"


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I'm separating these out mostly for the noun version of the word but am not distinguishing parts of speech while I sort.


Hunted )


Hunt.

Hunter/Huntsman.


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At midnight in the sod huts of lost hope - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

Huddled by the space heater in Baba Yaga's hut - Lincoln Michel "Another Tuesday Afternoon"

As burning paths reveal veiled huts - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"

Will build their huts out of mud and bones - Gregory Orr "The Dead in Early Spring"

Hut of wood and hingeless door - "Queen Bengerd" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier


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Husband )


Husbandry to pluck golden fleece - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"


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Hurry )


Like an onward-hurried swan - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode of the Tuscan Shore"


The unhurried charge of time's collapse - Katherine Edgren "The Gift of Warning"


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Makes a nest of inbound hulls and masts - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

In which the hulls of whales steered them - Katie Ford "All I Ever Wanted"

From the hull of bows and rare imagination - Herbert Woodward Martin "Translucent Fish Scales"

To serve the family's splintering hull - Rajiv Mohabir "Water-Owl, Cuvier's Beaked Whale"

Deep cargo in the hull - Miguel Murphy "The Sunlight"

A creature roping hulls to the reefs - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"

Planted in the hull of twilight conversation - Diane Wakoski "Snowy Owl Goddess"


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Hush )


Drenched with the perfumes of summer nights and rose-hush - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"


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Hunt )


High heaped above the hunting grounds - "The Red Man's Plea: Almost Literally the Reply of 'Red Iron to Governor Ramsey" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]


Strains from that mighty hunting-horn - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"


Hunter/Huntsman.

Hunted.


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Hundred )


Had given a hundredfold return - Charles Baudelaire "The Corpse" transl. not credited


Carved the city into hundredths - Art Zilleruelo "Someone's Property"


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Hurtling into that unrelenting future - Shutta Crum "Reading Brodsky (in English) While Stirring Soup"

This hurtling mystery - George Allan England "The Watchers"

Hurtling through the aeons - Sarah Jackson "The Time Bureau Came to Careers Day"

Hurtled in a Beethoven surge - Rodger Kamenetz "The Living Hive"

Touches hurtling mute waters - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt

To hurtle headlong down each slick & proper lane - Jacie Ragan "The Secret Lives of Fingerprints"

Heart hurtling toward its final career - Emily van Kley "Weight Training"


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Hue )


A hueless warp of light - Clark Ashton Smith "Crepuscle"

That hide a hueless poison - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"


To sing of pink-hued vapors - Adolf Wolff "Excuse Me, Muse"


Frail decoy to merit myriad-hued - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems I"


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Hunger )


Abandon the hunger-suffering vulture - Roger Reeves "The Head of the Cottonmouth"


Hungry )


Just before they crawl into a honey-hungry sleep - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

And still the winds are hungry-cold - Lloyd Roberts "One Morning when the Rain-Birds Call"


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