somethingdarker | Apr. 3rd, 2011

Apr. 3rd, 2011

( Pearl )

A crown of beams pearl-born and silver-born - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

Of mother-of-pearl and moonshine made - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"

Knew pearl-powder was still sweet - Donald Evans "Love in Patagonia"

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( Perfect )

( Perfection )

Imperfect/Imperfection.

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( Perfume )

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( People )

In all that unpeopled day - W.S. Merwin "Paper"

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( Peak )

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( Peal )

Rave 'mid thunder-peals and clouds of fire - Paul H. Hayne "A Comparison" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Oct. 1878]

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( Pent )

All wild things unpent - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

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( Pensive )

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( Pebble )

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( Peer )

Peerless.

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( Pelican )

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( Pencil )

The penciled-in figure on the painted-over mural of time - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"

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Impenetrable as its own beauty - Jim Harrison "The Golden Window"

Attacking the necessary and impenetrable wall - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

( Penetrate )

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( Penitent )

Penance.

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( Peony )

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Pepper is all flattery and insolence - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Pepper and orchid behaving thus - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Clean as soap, crisp as pepper - Dorsey Craft "Domestic Poem"

Peppered with a million spent moths - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

The heady perfume of pepper-scented roads - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

Swaddle of electric pepper compressing - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"

We will prepare you chai with cinnamon, sugar, ginger, peppercorns, milk - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]

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The borders of peripheral vision - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"

Caught elegy's peripheral glance - Claire Millikin "Rooms Before Television"

the peripheral inkling of a meteor - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

Saw-edged teeth in my peripheral vision - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

( Periphery )

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( Persephone )

Nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

The harshness of grim Proserpine - Jan Kochanowski "Laments II" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

To pluck one rose from Proserpine's hand - A. Pickler "At Achensee, Tirol" transl. by T.M. Kettle

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( Pear )

Pear-green and freckled sky - Richard Scott "Peridot"

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

The pixy-pears burn in yon hawthorn tree - Walter de la Mare "Sam's Three Wishes; or Life's Little Whirligig"

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( Persimmon )

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( Pen )

Echoing tones your touch unpenned - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"

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( Perch )

Window-perched cats and foraging chipmunks - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

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( Penance )

Penitent.

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( Peace )

Peaceless they fell - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)

And peaceless discontentment reigns within - William M. MacKeracher "Lines Written on a Sabbath Morning"

The blaze of peaceless stars - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

Dawn's chorus is a peace-making operation - Amie Whittemore "Future History of Earth's Birds"

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This pedlar's pack of mine - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "A Line's a Speech"

Too busy peddling my fire - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"

Peddlers of the gorges - Lu Yu "I Had Occasion to Tell a Visitor about an Old Trip I Took Through the Gorges of the Yangtze" transl. by Burton Watson

Peddles the notions of the hour - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

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

'Twixt Yankee pedlers and old gods - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

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Erratically indexed.

( Perhaps )

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( Perplex )

Endlessly lifted to the perplexity of your smile - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

And many a heart-perplexing opposite - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]

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( Penny )

Those penny-ante Xanadus - Boris Dralyuk "Bargain Circus"

Third cousins of the penny press - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

And frugal housewives, strictly pennywise - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"

Of bread one pennyworth - "Father Prout's Inaugurative Ode: To the Author of "Vanity Fair""

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Imperiled by the current and the wind - Boris Dralyuk "The Catch: On Translation"

( Peril" )

( Perilous )

Divine accomplice of those perilous-sweet - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

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Imperishable blue this bitter sky - Ann K. Schwader "Maya Blue (At Chichen Itza)"

Fate gazes back imperishable blue - Ann K. Schwader "Maya Blue (At Chichen Itza)"

( Perish )

The perishable chalice of your grace - Coningsby Dawson "Remembering in Heaven"

Like all things that are perishable - Nikita Gill "Reminders About Healing"

Her perishable souvenir of hope - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

What the perishable flesh might hide - Mark Van Doren "The Last Word"

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Articles of their own impermanence - Thomas Lynch "Lessons from Berkeley"

taught me more about impermanence than betrayal - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Mona Lisa's Abecedarian to Leonardo da Vinci"

This is the lost, impermanent light - Charles Wright "Yellow Wings"

( Permanent )

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( Perpetual )

Want the perpetuity of circles - Gregory Djanikian "Children's Hospital, Emergency Room"

Possesses the perpetuity of nothing - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Is it distance or is it a far god?"

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( Persist )

Persistence.

Persistent.

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Perchance in the pale halls of Hecate - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"

With gold perchance might purchase me - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

For perchance to-morrow's sun - P. Gerhardt [untitled]

Perchance have never in communion met - W. Gilmore Simms "Sonnet: To Mrs. -- -- --" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

Perchance may tune its strings again - Sidney R. Thompson "At Waking" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.108-v.III, 23 Jan. 1886]

Chance.

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( Petty )

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( Person )

Personal.

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Drink peppermint tea with the ghost of morning - Bruce Boston "A Life in the Day Of"

Put peppermint in my hair - Jordan Jace "I Want"

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

The music of so many peppermint candies - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"

And make peppermint resolutions to the New Year - Tobias Seamon "A Daybook of Devils"

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Assault of undeserved perdition - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Not perdition only but a star - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

Over the yawning gulf of her perdition - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

That bard of heaven, earth, chaos, and perdition - "Rhyming Ruminations on Old London Bridge" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20, no.557, 14 July 1832]

Though we civilize perdition - Ann K. Schwader "Darkest Anodyne"

The realm of perdition engraveth thy name - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The War-Spirit"

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( Peel )

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The avaricious words of a meager, petrified man - Maxwell Bodenheim "Nondescript Typist"

Liquid ticking in a petrified railway station - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"

Petrified words to reveal the infinite - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"

A sphinx has elicited Medusa to petrify a centaur - Diane Mehta "Walking to Athena"

Elicited Medusa to petrify a centaur - Diane Mehta "Walking to Athena"

A petrified fleck of partridge - Ira Sadoff "The Soul"

Punctures this petrified silence - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 6" transl. by Katherine Silver

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Persevered to grow abundant - Ken Chen "Fingernails"

Fortune's frown still perseveres to hold you down - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Under the weight of its perseverance - Ted Kooser "In the Hall of Bones"

Only in this hoarded span will love persevere - Anne Sexton "All My Pretty Ones"

For such I afford whoever can persevere to win - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanok"

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( Persia )

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Between the planets' pewter light - Chris Dombrowski "Boreal"

Pewter on a porcelain field - N. Scott Momaday "The Snow Mare"

The pale pewter path of the trees' parting - Joyce Sidman "Riding a Bike at Night"

The fire-lit pewter glowing - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"

Pewter light ensilvering the Heath - David Wojahn "For the Scribe Gar.Una of Uruk, 3,000 B. C."

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Death in one bright peerless day - William Talbot Allison "Vanishings"

Full-veiled in peerless robes of light - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]

Giant strength and peerless height - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"

Ageless aristocracy of a peerless soul - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"

Where the sun-crowned souls sit peerless - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

The peerless apples of the Hesperides - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

Peer.

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( Permit )

Permission.

To resist the stroke of unpermitted Paw - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"

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( Persistence )

Persist.

Persistent.

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( Persistent )

Persist.

Persistence.

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Through heaven's rolled, impersonal blue - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"

( Personal )

More symbol than personality - Mary Alexandra Agner "Be True"

Your own personalized orange revolution - Jena Osman "To the Reader"

Person.

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( Petal )

A bright geyser of metal-petaled sound - May Swenson "A Bird's Life"

Walks the paths of the petal-strewn park - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"

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Persuade the squirrels to teach me - Clive Bell "March"

Tried to persuade the moon - Chiyuma Elliott "When I Was a Wave"

To persuade iron and fire and marble - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

By fantastic wiles persuade the passions - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets IV: Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Persuade to drink that charmed cup - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

Quibbled each morning with gravity's persuasion - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"

The bland persuasion of some breeze - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

Crooked grin of ice cream persuasion - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"

Where all persuasions & equations lose their grip - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah V: Through Certain Angles"

All the swift persuasion of the Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

Their most persuasive dead - Benjamin West Ball "To --"

The wind's persuasive violins and bells - Iris Tree "[Oh canst thou not hear in my heart all its whispering fears]"

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( Perimeter )

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( Pestilence )

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The beautiful geometry of Mendel's peas and their grim logic - Rita Dove "Family Reunion"

And taffy's thick as peas - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"

In pink velours and pea green checks - Oliver Herford "John S. Sargent"

Stripping the pods from garden peas in the suburbs - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

Pea gravel clicks and walks - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"

A proud sweet-pea that scorns to be a vine - Oliver Herford "The Bachelor Girl"

Sweet-peas with wings for flight - Jeannette Marks "To Some Flowers"

Sweet pea twisted through my hair - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"

buried in a garden with snow peas and basil - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"

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The peasant's curse upon his head - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

The music of a peasant people - Fenton Johnson "The Banjo Player"

Known alike of peer and peasant - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]

Now bid the peasant pay no tax - "Queen Dagmar's Bridal, 1205" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

And tax not the peasant's plough - "Queen Dagmar's Bridal, 1205" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

For a peasant century's bread - Adrienne Rich "1941"

That which peasant's scythe demands - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

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Lost in some peculiar note - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"

An infinite finitude I see in those peculiar lovely variations - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"

Maddening peculiar purgatory - Tony Hoagland "Proof of Life"

The peculiar joy of returning to earth - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"

Twisted in a peculiar way and fallen in an unlikely place - Charles Simic "First Thing in the Morning"

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A Faun a-peeping through the green - Rupert Brooke "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"

One of those old-fashioned peeping keyholes - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

When the roses in golden light peep - George Cooper "Little Home-Body" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Wintergreen peeps through the snow - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

Even the devil gets a peep at heaven - John Masefield "The Return"

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Swell with haste the perjured sails - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Erect"

Thee and thy perjured crew will I demolish - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull

The only truth in all our perjured composition - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The False Gods"

You dare to say with perjured lips - Henry van Dyke "Mare Liberum"

Join new vows to old perjuries - Elizabeth Barrett Barrett [Browing] "A Woman's Shortcomings" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXII, v.LX, Oct. 1846]

Perjury and threats drove them on - "By Memory Inspired" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

And retrieve what perjuries had galvanized the eyes - Hart Crane "Lachrymae Christi"

The perjury stalked like murder in the sun - Friederich Schiller "Infanticide" transl. not credited

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Pelting the window with ice beads - Paul Cameron Brown "Bedroom Glass"

Pelted with roses and rinsed with the rain - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Brother O' Mine"

The selkie who slips her wet pelt - Caitriona O'Reilly "II. The Mermaid (from The Sea Cabinet)"

Strands of willow in my pelt - Kiki Petrosino "Little Gals"

Pelting our consciousness into the graves of time - Terese Mason Pierre "A New Face"

At home in his pelt and subtle paws - Tom Sleigh "The Fox"

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If I still am perversely inclined - "Improvement" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]

Some perverse shadow puppet flailing - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

Treasonable heart and perverse words - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta X: The Mirror-Cases II"

Our perverse condition here below - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]

Perversities of flower and fruit - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

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Petition the future for more days without rain - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"

Fall on one knee petitioning - Sarah Getty "Deer, 6:00 AM"

Red-glazed candles of petition - Audre Lorde "The Night-Blooming Jasmine"

Answered earth's myriad-voiced petition - W.P.W. "Love's Seasons" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.149--v.III, 6 Nov. 1886]

Whose petitions wreak more havoc - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks IX: Months Later"

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( Peacock )

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( Peach )

Peach blossoms blown across the wind - Donald Evans "Buveuse d'Absinthe"

The peach-blossom watches the river running - Li Po "Contentment [When you ask why I dwell here]" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Peach blossoms thought only of fruit to come - Wang Chien "Palace Song" transl. by Burton Watson

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With imperceptive blankness - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Necessary and imperceptible as air - Camille T. Dungy "There are these moments of permission"

( Perceive )

( Perception )

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Stood outside the gates of permissible sound - Brenda Hillman "Angrily Standing Outside in the Wind"

( Permission )

Permit.

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For pence doled out by kings - Tommaso Campanella "XXV. The People" transl. by John Addington Symonds

The scornful earth-flung pence - W. Wilfred Campbell "Pan the Fallen"

Give twopence for the chance - John Clare "The Woodman"

Mingle our pence for some bread - "Jack Jingle and Sucky Shingle"

Who made their pence of gold - John Masefield "Esther"

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( Pendulum )

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( Perform )

With each daily repetition of this grotesque performance - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

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( Pervade )

Impervious.

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Perpetrate some deed of horror - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Hast dared to perpetrate the crime, endure the consequence - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Dared to perpetrate an action thus audacious - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

These deeds of horror that single arm did perpetrate - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

This impious murder he dared to perpetrate - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

And constrain him to perpetrate this murder - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull 67

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Through perturbing touch of doubt - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

What dreadful perturbation of the soul - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Driven by blind perturbations - Henry van Dyke "The Great Cities"

Imperturable and silent years - James H. Cousins "On Some Twentieth Century Forecasts"

Take imperturbable possession of his last tenement - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]

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