somethingdarker | Jan. 5th, 2011

Jan. 5th, 2011

The oar guiding their course in this land of 'milk and honey' - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"

Dark ones seeking milk and honey - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

Someone who won't speak of milk & honey - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

A cup of milk and honey blent with fire - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"

Swim in milk and honey till we drown - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"

Honey.

Milk.

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What the migrant heart knows - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Ginsburg"

Immortal migrants, the ever-returning stars - Cale Young Rice "Passage"

Below the migrant winter stars - George Sterling "The Night Migration"

( Migrate )

( Migration )

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The mistletoe with globes of sheenless grey - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"

In the old woods leave the mistletoe - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

And mistletoe strange berries of bitter tears - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

No garden here, apples nor mistletoe - Edward Thomas "Under the Woods"

One kiss beneath the mistletoe - Nora C. Usher "Mistletoe" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.49--v.I, 6 Dec. 1884]

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( Minerva )

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( Mill )

Your miller does not rest in her sanctuary - "First Hymn" transl. by Sophus Helle (per translator's note, this claims, internally, to be Enheduana speaking but references things not built until well after her probable dates)

A minnow down some wild mill-race - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VIII: To a Forgotten Triton"

Millstone.

In a powder-mill with a lighted match - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

Saw my sisters in the sawmills - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong on Silent Films"

The sawmills of the night - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

With the whine of saw-mills and whirr of hidden wings - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"

Windmill.

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( Misfortune )

Fortune/Fortunate.

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( Mimic )

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( Minor )

Lost and missed in minor-key pentameter - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"

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( Mint )

suburb of identical, pillow-mint homes - David Trinidad "9773 Comanche Ave."

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The miserable forebodings of the night - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Miserable sons of meagre soil - W. Force Stead "The Burden of Babylon"

( Misery )

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Water will outwit a wall - Linda Gregerson "Waterborne"

Outwitting the fairies, befriending the furies - Marianne Moore "Spenser's Ireland"

Though the cunning gods outwit us - Isaac Rosenberg "Sleep"

( Wit )

Whoever ran pell-mell from smoke-witted man - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"

I wandered witlessly through miracle - William Rose Benét "The City"

Unwitting, held them an hour at bay - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Child on the Battle-field"

Unwitting of celestial worlds afar - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]

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( Widow )

Sun-widowed and veiled with thin air - Frederick George Scott "Thor"

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( Mirth )

Tired of mirthless mirrors - Nathalia Crane "Old Maid's Reverie"

And mirthless laughter of the loon - Lloyd Roberts "The Kill"

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( Mindful )

Mind.

Mindless.

Unmindful.

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( Misplace )

Place.

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( Mississippi )

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Burn a page to set the mixture boiling - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"

Such mixtures are my forte - Julia Alvarez "Passing On"

A mixture of whitelime and brine - Angela Figuera Aymerich "Women at the Market" transl. by Hardie St Martin

The wind's a mixture of linen and salt - Chris Dombrowski "Little Derivative and Forgivable Anthropomorphism with Dawn"

Mixture of Mephistopheles, Don Quixote, and Diogenes - Oliver Herford "George Bernard Shaw"

Bewitched mixture of fuel with sea water - Bruce Smith "Beautiful Throat"

Mix.

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( Mineral )

Mineralizing scars into my becoming - Daisy Aldan "I Awake in These Hills"

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( Minnow )

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( Minstrel )

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( Mischief )

Mischief-making Time would never dare - Sterling A. Brown "Challenge"

Mischievous thunderbolt - Gregory Corso "Bomb"

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( Midas )

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( Milton )

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And minister to them with tender care - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"

The night wind ministers to dreams - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"

The ministers of sun and shadow - Archibald Lampman "In May"

Minister of cooling dew - Theodore H. Rand "The Rain Cloud"

Walking with radiant ministries - Arthur John Lockhart "The Lonely Pine"

Earth and sky and the fair ministries of Nature - Henry van Dyke "Dulciora"

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Through moor, and moss, and many a mire - "Annan Water"

Sunk in the mire and the fen - Roger Casement "The Irish Language"

The mire and the fen of our nameless desires - Roger Casement "The Irish Language"

More rabid than mired winds - Raquel Salas Rivera "the independence (of puerto rico)"

From this shore of bog and mire - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

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Have known misgivings of light - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"

Abundant causes for misgiving and dismay - C. L. Graves "The Flapper"

Promised to evict the misgivings - Marcus Jackson "Letting the Emptiness Become My Government"

Her misgivings never strayed from liquid night - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Marker Memory"

In his song no tremor of misgiving - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"

No misgivings of the morrow - D.E.A. Wallace "Life and I"

Give.

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A lost ghost on a mission - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"

Hundreds of missions passed & failed - Yona Harvey "Dark and Lovely After Take-Off (A Future)"

The wayward mission of your body - Carl Phillips "Permission to Speak"

On a mission to the Aztecs - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

your mission statement was always insufficient - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"

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( Mist )

From the dream-mist doubtful and dim - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope V: New Birth"

Mist-wrapped vines and rocky caves - Han-Shan "[As for me, I delight in the everyday Way]" transl. by Burton Watson

( Misty )

That struggles through sea-mist - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"

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Thy spirit intermix with earthly hope - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

( Mix )

Mixture.

And make a mixtape of time - Nuola Akinde "Mothering"

Who knows no good unmix'd and pure - George Crabbe "The Library"

Not an unmixed consolation - Linda Gregerson "Maculate"

Arched with halos of hopes unmixed - "RÊVES ET SOUVENIRS" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)

Unmix'd with gross compounding of my earth - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: II"

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( Mile )

Must keep to a half-mile track - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Saltbush Bill"

Mileposts on that road of dread - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: V. Portrait of the Incomparable John Cowper Powys, Esq."

Had passed some milestone unaware - Dana Gioia "The Road"

The milestones into headstones change - James Russell Lowell "Sixty-Eighth Birthday"

The gleam of the milestones you must pass - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XI. The Lodger"

That has a ten-mile voice and shines as far - W.H. Davies "The White Cascade"

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( Middle )

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( Mild )

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( Million )

A millionaire in little wealths - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love III"

Until the dreams of millionaires are clothing for the poor - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

That no millionaire can buy - Tom Hall "She Is Mine"

A million-dollar god with a two-cent heaven - Hanif Abdurraqib "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This"

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

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( Minute )

Swap you last-minute with a dream - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"

Some minutest atom shake - Walter de la Mare "The Dark House"

In Time's smallest clock's minutest beat - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"

The timid prayer of the minutest cricket - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature I: Mother Nature"

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( Miracle )

Miraculous.

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( Mirror )

Looking-Glass.

A mirror-creature in a red dress - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Cast mirror-fogged webs into the center - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

listen for the thoughts of their lost mirror-images - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"

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( Milkweed )

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( Miser )

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Of mildew and rust - Simon Armitage "Privet"

When the keen mildew desolates the field - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"

Indulgence like a mildew reigns - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: Alfred and Jennet"

Down Death's mildewed stair - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"

A maze of mildewed storage rooms - Dana Gioia "Haunted"

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( Miss )

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( Millennium )

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( Milky Way )

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The indexing here may be erratic as I'm not planning to index the possessive pronoun and may misread or mis-sort certain usages.

( Mine )

Holds a goldmine in the sky - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

And undermine it rock and root - Madison Cawein "The Speckled Trout"

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( Millstone )

Mill.

Stone.

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( Misunderstand/Misunderstood )

Understand/Understood.

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( Mindless )

Mind.

Mindful.

Unmindful.

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( Mind )

Words tumbling from absent-minded lips - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

The color of brittle-mindedness - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"

Your high-minded acrobatics - Pablo Neruda "Elegy: XIV" transl. by Ilan Stavans

Have solved the mind-body problem - Terese Mason Pierre "A New Face"

freeing the minions from their mindcontrol helmets - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"

All the morning minded earth - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

The mind-forged manacles I hear - William Blake "London"

Mindful.

Mindless.

Only a mind reading God could unfold - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"

Unmindful.

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( Midsummer )

Summer.

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( Miraculous )

Miracle.

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( Might (noun) )

( Mighty )

The silent who and almighty why - Arthur Solway "What Is Not"

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( Mirage )

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( Midnight )

Her night will kisses that midnight sun - W.E. Christian "Weaning Time"

Mistook him for the midnight sun - Oliver Herford "Henrik Ibsen"

The setting midnight sun - J. Patrick Lewis "The European City Song"

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( Milk )

All the sweet buttermilk watered the plain - "Kitty of Coleraine" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Milk and Honey

Pillows made from breath captured in milk cartons - Kyle Dargan "Olympic Drive" [Poetry Feb. 2016]

Milk teeth sharpening a father's heart - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"

White and milk-warm sphinx - Aldous Huxley "Revelation"

Every building wears a milk-white dome - Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond "After a Snow Storm"

A be-jeweled lair of pear-milk for the deer - Catherine Bowman "Pears"

Your body made full with starmilk - Sara Eliza Johnson "Parable of the Unclean Spirit"

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( Mingle )

The brave pure winds commingling - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"

Might commingle with a dire wolf's bones - Kendall Evans "This, a Kind of Prayer"

Earth and air in snowy sheen commingle - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Sleigh-Ride"

Crowd in intermingled ranks - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

an intermingling of viridian and chetwode horizons - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"

Intermingled in being and blended in breath - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Disappear upon the sorrow-mingled pathway - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Garret" transl. by Frank Sewall

Prove scarce unmingled blessings - Edward Dowden "Paradise Lost and Found"

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

Full of thought and microbes wend their way - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

Microbes in the palms of our hands - Patricia Spears Jones "Saturnine"

The microbes frozen in each soul - Adrienne Rich "Char"

Through the system microbes sprout - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Labor"

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Wanton mistress to the veering winds - Adelaide Crapsey "Birth-Moment"

Gentle mistress of my hopes - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

Mistress of the breakfast nook - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

Weaving robes of slumber for her mistress - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

The moon's my constant mistress - "Tom o' Bedlam"

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Silken mittens soft and quaint - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Her First Season"

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

Mittens and rose colored peppermint creams - Miriam Clark Potter "The Dream-Ship"

Let sugar snow on my mitten - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Brussels"

Into the glistening mittens of the same clouds - Charles Wright "Ancient of Days"

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( Mistake )

Mistook the maid for his own Psyche - "The Belles of Williamsburg"

A voice mistook for stone - Saeed Jones "Anthracite"

Mistook the willow tree for a home - Joseph Millar "One Day"

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