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Begin to translate the butterflies and arrows - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Splintered the silver arrows of the moon - Matthew Arnold "Mycerinus"

Arrow drawn from Phoebus' quiver - Benjamin West Ball "To W.P.R."

An arrow in the heart of forever - Mary Jo Bang "What If"

Their arrows in the shallow air - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"

Her trajectory pretty as any arrow's - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"

I am Death's bright arrow! Forgive me not! - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Storming, thrashing arrows of the rain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Rain after a Vaudeville Show"

Stretched on a heap of poisoned arrows - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

I needed to fire an arrow of my damn own - Nickole Brown "Self-Portrait as Land Snail"

The sky's arrow - Rosario Castellanos "Three Poems"

Soundless as an arrow of snow - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

Like arrows with no target - Leonard Cohen "True Love Leaves No Traces"

The dread arrows of the clouds - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

For the arrow was laden with gold - Eliza Cook "Cupid's Arrow"

Love's arrows falling in the grass - Walter Crane "Love's Arrows"

The famished arrow sang before - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

And arrows of despair spare not to pierce - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In this sad world have pity, my lady dear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

An arrow blest with pollen - Max Early "Deer's Breath of Every Color"

Silver arrows of a wintry noon - Maurice Francis Egan "Vigil of the Immaculate Conception"

An arrow aimed at a wall - Blas Falconer "My Son Wants to Know Who His Biological Father Is"

My arrow through the heart of Wrong - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"

His arrows are shattered and lost - Ralph W.W. Fox "Love Weeping Among the Crosses"

In a sweet flash of arrowy sun - Zona Gale "Why Am I Silent?"

All its arrowy hissing atoms - Louise Imogen Guiney "Late Peace"

A feather's weight that shapes the arrow's flight - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

Launching his thoughts like arrows - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"

Their knell on the wing of each arrow - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "Bruce's Address"

Arrows dipped in honey, thrice distilled - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Archers"

Burn like opal arrows - Zilka Joseph "Three Notes to Blue Jays"

Venomed arrows from a mighty bow - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fourth: Rati's Lament" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Sailed a soul like a lit arrow to inhabit me - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

When the arrows of the age target them - Mahmud Kashgari "Alp Er Tunga" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken

Pinned the sky with arrows of fire - Vandana Khanna "Hindu Mythology in Shorthand"

with the arrows of slavery and white phosphorus - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

The arrows of his fury - Aimee Le "Theft"

A lad who bore a bow and arrow - Henry S. Leigh "My Ultimatum"

Follow their trail of burnished arrows - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

Harpoon barbs and arrow points - Theo Nicole Lorenz "Steve Irwin and the Unicorn"

Cupid's keenest arrow - Charles Henry Luders "A Kiss"

Breathing dusk and arrowy moonlight - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

Humor that warded the arrows off - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

Falling a sudden arrow of dismay - Theodore Maynard "Sunset"

Trees arrowed through one another - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

Just another arrow poisoned with words - Andy Miller "Diana"

His word was our arrow - Thomas Moore "Sound the Loud Timbrel"

Three tipped arrows in a quiver - James Herbert Morse "Love's Hunting"

His bent bow and his arrows keen - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"

With arrows like an icy ghost - Pablo Neruda "Rider in the Rain" transl. by John Felstiner

One of fate's best arrows - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Prophecy and Fulfilment" [sic]

Swift arrows like gadflies in flight - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson

The bright arrows of beauty - Linda Pastan "Renunciation"

To have timed your arrow perfectly - Carl Phillips "Archery"

Like arrows tipped with moths - Charles Rafferty "Futility"

The silver arrows of song - Theodore H. Rand "The Whitethroat"

Neglect is a poisoned arrow - Mrs. Kāminī Roy "Call and Bring Her" transl. Miss Whitehouse

An arrow without a target - Diane Seuss "Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote"

The arrows of that silver sphere - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"

Arrows of fire across the shadows hurled - Frank Dempster Sherman "Song at Daybreak"

When the poison arrow photons have drowned - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"

A thousand arrows pointing in unison - Maggie Smith "Starling"

These are arrows that murder sleep - "The Song of Crede, Daughter of Guare" transl. by Kuno Meyer

The arrows of the early frost - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

Pierced by the arrows of separation - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 144: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Against the arrows of the coming sun - Henry David Thoreau "Winter Memories"

The arrows of pestilence flying - Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde "Foreshadowings"

Arrows to shoot the stars - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"

Sagittarius has an arrow drawn at the very heart of Scorpio - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

His many-splintered arrows of light - Francis Brett Young "Phthonos"

An arrow made of smoke - Matthew Zapruder "Poem (for Grace Paley)"

Orion's arrows pinning fallen stars - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History:IV. At Home"

The hour's arrow never misses - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"


Will save you from the arrow-flight - H.D. "The bird-choros of Ion"


The golden arrowheads of wit - T.W. Earp "Our Lady of Light"

Two mirrors looking for arrowheads - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #56"


The arrow-screams of frightened gulls - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"


His horses keep the arrow-track - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"


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