somethingdarker | Aug. 4th, 2011

Aug. 4th, 2011

His branches rise in theoretic symmetries - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"

The garden of theoretical significance - Chip Livingston "There Is No San Lenin"

Feeding on theoretical considerations - Frank O'Hara "On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art"

( Theory )

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( 3000 )

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( Thirty )

Roused me from my thirty-year slumber - Anne Carly Abad "Rehearsal for When He Wakes"

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( Thrust )

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( Theme )

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( Threat )

And with his ruby eye out-threatened Mars - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

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( Three )

For a threefold term to choose - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."

Takes the sorrow of the threefold hour - Madeleine Caron Rock "He Is the Lonely Greatness"

A torment thrice three-fold - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXIII"

Upon his brow a threefold crown - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

And the threefold choir of sages - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? - George MacDonald "Baby's Answers" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

A three-day wish and two days to live - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"

Balances uneasily upon its three-pronged roots - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"

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( Through )

Every shot-through winter scene - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"

Throughout.

Thru ancient Gothic arches seen - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"

Forest dreams thru forest moonlight blown - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"

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Theft.

( Thief/Thieves (noun) )

Flaunt the winnings of your thieveries - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"

( Thieve (verb) )

An itch thief-walking the coral of the brain - Rickey Laurentiis "I Saw I Dreamt Two Men"

The hidden moon shed thievish light - Robert Bridges "I Never Shall Love the Snow Again"

Time's thievish progress to eternity - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVII"

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Plaything.

( Thing )

To seed the severed world of object-things - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

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( Thank )

Clean and thankful and mostly imaginary - Franny Choi "Quarantine"

Skin wrapping the thankful bones - Patricia Clark "Creed"

So thankful for illusion - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

To fashion his heart's thanksgiving - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

The red tides of thanksgiving - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Caliph and the Beggar"

Cold hearts and thankless tongues - Matthew Arnold "Mycerinus"

The thankless fretwork of the serpent - Joyce Mansour "Embrace the Blade" transl. by Carol Cosman

To curse their thankless task ahead - Ann K. Schwader "Mardi Gras Postmortem"

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( Thunderstorm )

Storm.

Thunder.

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Think.

( Thought )

Their conversations of afterthoughts - M.S. Merwin "Threshold"

Who do not tax their lives with forethought - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"

Fade at forethought's touch - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Ultra"

Where the sole-thoughted Dante waited him - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"

Thoughtless.

Eros of the unthought, undreamed - Virginia Konchan "Black Hole"

With unthought regret - C. K. Williams "Oh"

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( Thunder )

With names of battle-thunder - George Sterling "Altars of Victory"

Thunder-chorded surf on yellow sands - George Sterling "Duandon"

Thunderclap.

( Thundercloud )

Curled wave and shattering thunder-fit - Elinor Wylie "Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water--on Turning Latin into English"

Thunder-gone waiting - Derek Walcott "Storm Figure"

( Thunderhead )

Announced the thunderous entry of passing souls - Marge Simon "The Holes Through which the Scarabs Come"

The earth shook beneath him with thunderous raps - George Warwick "Schneider Von Groot's Christmas Dream"

Their voices ring through the echoing thunder-regions - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Of your thunder-shattering steed - Louis Golding "Wind of Black Night"

Tremble at the heavy thunder-shocks - Richard Hughes "Storm: to the Theme of Polyphemus"

The thunder-stone flung forth - Edward Dowden "A Day of Defection"

Thunderstorm.

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( Thread )

In her hand her gold-threaded slippers - Li Yu "[Blossoms bright, the moon dark]" transl. by Burton Watson

The tether-thread coiled around her wrist - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Threadbare.

Ringing of threadwork and carpet - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"

Unthreading through the blue eucalyptus - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"

A golden woof-thread of circumstance - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

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( Thousand )

Children in their thousand-acre forests - August Huerta "The Woods"

Waited in the light of our thousand-flower sun - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Shaping the thousandth tendril - Louise Imogen Guiney "Garden Chidings"

Split an inch into thousandths - Lola Ridge "The Legion of Iron"

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That knows no grudging thrifts - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VII--Midsummer"

The altar's weekday thrift of gold - Helen Parry Eden "'Sidera Sunt Testes Et Matutina Pruina'"

The thrift of the borders - Amy Lowell "Patterns"

Speak the body's thrift - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm Under Siege"

Cactus adapted to thrift - Kay Ryan "Desert Reservoirs"

Inside a season of thrift - Jenny Xie "Metamorphosis"

Spendthrift.

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( Thyme )

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( Thrice )

And go, thrice-armored for the fight - John Jerome Rooney "Ave Maria"

Blessed sunshine, and thrice-blessed rain - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Seeks the thrice-curst mandrake - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Sleep will bring a thrice-distilled release - Emily Pauline Johnson "Fasting"

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( Themselves )

Herself.

Himself.

Itself.

Myself.

Ourselves.

Self.

Yourself/Yourselves.

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Sweet sings the missel-thrush amid the crash - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"

( Thrush )

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( Think )

Acknowledgment of their unthinking drums - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XIV: In Shadow"

Disassemble the unthinkable to the unthought - Kay Ryan "Salvage"

Thought.

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Mock with the thoughtlessness of cloud - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Where joy had built his thoughtless bower - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--Brother and Friend"

Prone and void as any thoughtless dash - George Meredith "The State of Age"

To snare the thoughtless rabbit - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Retrospection"

And mingled in the heartless throng as thoughtlessly as they - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

A silver moth on thoughtless wing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Road to Colla"

As in the hour of thoughtless youth - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

Thought.

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Father sings in the threshing ground - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Threshing away time - Nicole Cecilia Delgado "From Barrio Obrero to La Quince" (translated by Urayodan Noel)

The pain which threshes joy - F.W. Harvey "To the Devil on His Appalling Decadence"

Threshes the clover between our lines - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

The threshing floor of the past - Charles Wright "Sentences II"

His fairy threshing-wheel - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love II"

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( Thunderclap )

Clap.

Thunder.

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( Throng )

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( Thrall )

Enthrall.

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( Thunderbolt )

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( Thin )

My soul a thin-slotted door - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"

The kite a thin-stemmed flower - Seamus Heaney "A Kite for Aibhin"

A tissue-thin monotone of blue-grey buds - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"

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( Thursday )

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( Threshold )

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Dethroned by a hue - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Hope"

Enthrone.

( Throne )

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( Thaw )

With your fake summer of half-thawed hives - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess as Jilted Lover"

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( Theater )

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( Thumb )

Thumbprint.

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( Throw )

( Threw )

By the flamethrower's pilot light - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"

Overthrow.

Throwaway cameras to capture your twin ghosts - Nancy Mercado "Going to Work"

Throwing stars and fortune tellers - R.A. Villanueva "This dark is the same dark as when you close"

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( Thimble )

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( Third )

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( Thistledown )

Thistle

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( Threadbare )

Bare/Barely.

Thread.

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( Throb )

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A throttled hour - Lucie Brock-Broido "Of the Finished World"

The future is throttling towards us - Erika Meitner "Jackhammering Limestone"

Throttled on fences - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

Throttle your wheel's grinding power - Morris Rosenfeld "The Nightingale to the Workman" transl. by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank

Whose blown dust throttles the hot air - Francis Brett Young "The
Pavement"

Unthrottle the wolves of war - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The War-Song of Gamelbar"

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( Throughout )

Through.

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( Athwart )

( Thwart )

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Hell's keen fires still for revenge athirst - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

( Thirst )

The first rest of a thirstless journey - Maxwell Bodenheim "To a Woman"

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( Theft )

Thief.

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( Thrive )

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( Thumbprint )

Thumb.

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( Thick )

Only a honey-thick stain - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"

When your dreams ebbed salt-thick - Adrienne Rich "Through Cottalitos Under Rolls of Cloud"

Your name scrapes against thick-edged leaves - Vandana Khanna "Parvati: A Wife's Mantra"

From out the thickleaved oaken shade - Sterling A. Brown "Return"

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( Thistle )

Thistledown.

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( Thorn )

Where thornbushes sprout - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle

( Thornless )

Battered elm and thorn-tree - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"

A twisted thorn-tree still in the evening stands - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"

Give her back her time-thorned flesh - Bruce Boston "The Lesions of Genetic Sin"

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( Throat )

A cave of cut-throat thoughts and villainous dreams - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"

Here's damnation to the cut-throats! - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry"

Quest of the cut-throat sons of Cain - John Masefield "Lyrics from 'The Buccaneer'"

Of all the cutthroat combat sports - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Clinic and Oracle"

Full-throated ecstasy of mirth - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

Who led the iron-throated harmonies of war - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"

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( Thicket )

Where the grey elder-thickets hang - Walter de la Mare "They Told Me"

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