Jan. 5th, 2011

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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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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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Minor )


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


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Mint )


A soul newly-minted each exhalation of light - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]


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"

Who but a witless gambler plays for farthing stakes - Stella Benson "Two Women Sing"

Those witless sentinels guarding thousand-autumn dust - Wang An-Shih "Reading History" transl. by David Hinton


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"


Melting music-mirth she scatters - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"


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Carries the cruel miasma of ash - Devan Barlow "A Tree, At Peace" [Strange Horizons 31 March 2025]

Miasmas steaming up from sunless fens - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

The miasmatic mist of the soul of the lonely - Sade Iverson "The Milliner" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

Afloat in their ancient miasma - Mary Karr "Metaphysique du Mal"

start with any miasma dispersed - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]"


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One hundred and eighteen miniatures - Mary Jo Bang "In the Book of All That's Befallen"

The miniature moon of some perfect little planet - Russell Brakefield "After the Labor Day Procession"

Made a miniature of me to witness the raising of the sea - Monica Ferrell "Subclinical"

Miniature Edens where nothing is ragged and torn - Harry Martinson "Aniara 54: Chefone's Garden" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Princesses of the miniature world - Alberto Rios "November 2: Dia de los muertos"


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And twenty other unforeseen Mishaps - "An Answer to The Pleasures of a Single Life: or, the Comforts of Marriage Confirm'd and Vindicated" [1709]

Should they too meet with some severe mishap - Euripides "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Treating each symptom as a mere mishap - Thom Gunn "Lament"

Such dreams as brought poor souls mishap - Frederick Locker-Lampson "The Castle in the Air"

Behind this elixir there are no mishaps - George Warwick "Schneider Von Groot's Christmas Dream"


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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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To disarm, and mitigate the stings of woe - Euripides "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

The mitigated laws of kingdom, district, & tribe - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"

With slight anguish mitigate much wo [sic] - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Adversity" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Try to mitigate the distance from doorstep to checkpoint - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha "Dialogic"


A shadow of unmitigated gloom - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway I: The Shadow on the Shore"


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Mineral )


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


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Invade resplendent Pomp's imperious mien - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination Book. A Poem, in Three Books. III"

Descend with venerable mien - Euripides "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

A daughter also of majestic mien - Euripides "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Fierce in their look and ghastly in their mien - Edward Edwin Foot "The Death, Burial, and Destruction of Bacchus"

Superb in mien, and venerably grand - Edward Edwin Foot "The Death, Burial, and Destruction of Bacchus"

With secret and sarcastic mien - Paul Verlaine "Le Faune" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell


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Mischief )


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


Mischievous thunderbolt - Gregory Corso "Bomb"


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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"

Though my path be laid through mire - Evelyn Gage Browne "Flight"

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"

Mingled through the mire and the mist - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Heroes"

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"


Taunts you for the mileage of your solitude - Sally Wen Mao "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles"


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 dwindling toward the horizon - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"

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"


Because you half-surmise my quarter-mile - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"


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


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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"


To feed the million-throated swine - Sam Walter Foss "The Wail of the Hack Writer" [The Fly Leaf, v.1 no.2, Jan. 1896]


More than one million years past her last sigh - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]


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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"


A meaningful click in the minutiae - Leslie McIntosh "ANAMNESIS"


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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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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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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]"


Who burned in the high-minded hell of it - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"

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


Calculated and subjugated under the hivemind queen - Jason P. Burnham "A Journey Through the Dystopiaverse" [Strange Horizons 9 June 2025]


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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Might (noun) )


I hear it in the mighteous laughter of the sea - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott


Mighty )


By the Almighty set at Fortune's wheel - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]

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


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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 )


Commingle.


Intermingle.


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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The tedium of midges lifted - Brian Blanchfield "Edge of Water, Portage Bay, Washington"

Great gold midges cross the chasm - D.H. Lawrence "Embankment at Night, Before the War"

Caught for him the wriggling germs of midges - Sir Ronald Ross "The Frog, the Fairy, and the Moon: Dedicated to Lovers"

Midges by thousands, stinging and bold - Joseph Victor von Scheffel "The Cloister Cellar Master's Summer Morning Song" transl. by Charles Leland

When midges' wings make a thin music - Francis Brett Young "On a Subaltern Killed in Action"


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

And with us adore the midnight sun - A.E. "The Feast of Age"

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

Great City of the Midnight Sun - Richard Le Gallienne "A Ballad of London"

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

bird bones whisper belligerently under midnight sun - K. Meera "Low Flying Owls" [Strange Horizons 21 April 2025]


Midnight.

Sun.


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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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