Potential Titles: Wing
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somethingdarkerBears upon its rapid wing - A.L.O.E. "Never Forsaken"
Knows nothing of the bat’s wings - Rasha Abdulhadi "little bat"
Some stray angel with pink sugar wings - Harold Acton "As Dmitri Karamazoff sang on the way to Chaos"
Winged abandoned musics - Harold Acton "Capriccio Espagnol"
On the wild wing of thought - "Addressed to a Friend"
Winged with wind - Adonis "Thunderbolt" (translated by Samuel Hazo)
Ride winged steeds to distant lands - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"
The wings of her dreams - Francisco X. Alarcon "Libres por Fin/Free at Last"
My wings tracing infinity - Jose A. Alcantara "Archilocus Colubris"
Armed with wings of Mercury - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
The spread wings of Uriel uplifted - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Snowbirds spread their crystallized wings - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"
Time with a million beating wings - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Clip imagination's wing and kill delight - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"
Tenderness under the blown red wing - Meena Alexander "Darling Coffee"
Fate with the mangled wings - Grant Allen "Only An Insect"
Your demon words borne high on wings of song - Mike Allen "Ascending"
Shade the countryside with outstretched wings - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Winged jugglers with hummingbird heads - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Winged hopes that no longer stay - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"
Find myself on the wings of unknown winds - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"
Cast shadows downward from their wing - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]
Where eaglets rest their wings - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"
His wings ache from so much wax - William Archila "Beyond Bruegel's Shore"
A girl with glass wings - Cameron Awkward-Rich "The Little Girl Will Never Tire of Confession"
Backstage ducks preening in the wings - Julie Babcock "Jonah's Trick"
Winged symbol of the quiet mind - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"
Thy winged yoke in triumph - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
Waving forests swept by wings of doom - Maurice Baring "Wagner"
Winged messengers from eyries dim - Maurice Baring "Wagner"
Where Hammurabi made firm wings of law - Lou Barrett "Fertile Crescent"
painting wings onto a dryad - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"
On folded wings secret and silent - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"
daedalus fly your wings - Elizabeth Bartlett "ekstasis"
till dust can rise on flaming wings - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"
forget their wings and drown - Elizabeth Bartlett "I would remember"
the wings they had prepared - Elizabeth Bartlett "odyssey"
With wings against the wind - Elizabeth Bartlett "Self-Evident"
Windless without wings - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
Our soul wings have been bound - Ardelia Maria Barton "All Life Hath Soul"
Of fairy frame and willing wings - Cora C. Bass "Another Day"
To rest his raptured wings - Cora C. Bass "The Lord Will Provide"
As on zephyr wing the summons came - Cora C. Bass "May"
Winter's sleep on gauzy wing - Cora C. Bass "Spring"
Knew his unclipped wings were free to soar - Clara Doty Bates "Goody Two-Shoes" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]
Moths upon the wings of chance - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited
The Fay with wings of fire - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited
On the wing of the wild whirlwind - Charles Baudelaire "The Wine of Lovers"
Waxen wings by Daedalus designed - James Beattie "Epistle to the Honourable C. B."
Ecstasies on paper wings - Clive Bell "Letter to a Lady II"
Fold your great wings about my face - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"
Straddled the wings of Boreas - Stephen Vincent Benet "Wisdom-Teeth"
Bearing up the balm upon their beating wings - "The Birth of the Lily" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.2, Sept. 1863]
Midnight visits and a wing's caress - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
Raising myriads of chained wings - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Grass-Blade"
Stony wings and bleak glory - Louise Bogan "Late"
For the sunset wings - William Stanley Braithwaite "Rhapsody"
Stitching the wings of your ghost - William Brewer "In the Room of the Overdosed, an Ember"
If only the hours had wings - Sarah Jeannette Lathbury Brigham "Study-Hour"
And flap those useless wings - Anne Bronte "The Captive Dove"
On the wings of the breeze - Anne Bronte "Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day"
Shall hear our mystic wings - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
To load the May wind's restless wings - William Cullen Bryant "The Planting of the Apple Tree"
Love fits the soul with wings - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LIII. Celestial and Earthly Love" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Golden hours on angel wings - Robert Burns "Highland Mary"
Sobbing under the wings of time - Francis Burrows "The Well"
The butterfly spread his wings to the sky - "Butterfly Wisdom" [Pages for Laughing Eyes, no date. Project Gutenberg]
Ask a hawk about his wings - Witter Bynner "Romance"
Enough to make the pinecone grow wings - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"
When hope's wings fanned the air - W. Wilfred Campbell "Love"
Velvet-winged spirits of sleep - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
Keep me under the shadow of your wings - Anthony Vahni Capildeo "Niche"
To fan the stars with flaming wings - George Spencer Cautley "The Girandola at Rome"
Its remaining wing is grief - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Ambition]"
Wings pushing down metaphor - Victoria Chang "The Trees Witness Everything"
Weaving death's black wing - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
Nor winged spells incite the soul again - William Chiddon "Idyll: In Imitation of Theocritus"
On wings of wavy sound - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Music of the World and of the Soul"
To summon owls and bats upon the wing - Mary Coleridge "In Dispraise of the Moon"
A blackbird stretching orchid wings - Michael Collier "Birds Appearing in a Dream"
With hundreds of thin paper wings - Billy Collins "Cliche"
No wings to moonlight - Hilda Conkling "The Champlain Sandman"
Trees with folded wings - Hilda Conkling "Land of Nod"
Wings for darkness - Hilda Conkling "The Lonesome Green Apple"
Death may be riding the wings of the wind - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
On rapid wings before the snow - Susan Coolidge "Easter Lilies"
And only souls with wings - Susan Coolidge "Prelude"
The unrest of winged dreams - James D. Corrothers "Dream and the Song"
Some waft of phantom wings - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Hoarse caws and dark wings - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
The barrier between our mirrored wings - Brody Parrish Craig "Overpass"
As if old Time had lent him scythe and wings - Rev. William Crowe "Written When Buonaparte Was Altering the Governments of Germany"
My winged shadow pressed against their windows - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"
A wave of thunder shook my wing - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
That dreams of rainbow wings - Olive Custance "Primrose Hill"
When love stands with such radiant wings - H.D. "Fragment Forty"
Permit myself the luxury of wings - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets V"
While soft imagination lends her wings - Catharine Davidson "Dreamland--a Sonnet" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 18 May 1878]
That guard the growth of winged lives - Emily Davis "A Song of Winter (Mrs Pfeiffer)"
Thoughts spilling winged like a butterfly - Hayes Davis "Thhhat was great"
And down the wings of Pegasus would fold - Tomas de Iriarte "Epistle to Don Domingo de Iriarte, on His Travelling to Various Foreign Courts" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Realms no wing of bird has found - Charles de Kay "Dawn in the City" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Dec. 1878]
While the sweet swallow bends her wings - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"
The wind's wings waken - Leconte de Lisle "The Black Panther" (translated by W.J. Robertson)
The echo of wings in my belly - Chelsea B. DesAutels "A Dangerous Place"
The fury of wings in my lungs - Chelsea B. DesAutels "A Dangerous Place"
Dusk buds their breathing wings - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
My tired wings might crave a wall - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"
Time's uncertain wing - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love VI"
Too fragile for winter winds - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XI"
If the flowers had wings - Mary Mapes Dodge "Oh, No!"
Face and wings of air - John Donne "Air and Angels"
Turning the light from their wings - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"
Wandering the wings of a ghost-run factory - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Holographic moth wings that shine like chalk drawings - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
Paint the small wing of a moth - Edward Dowden "By the Window"
On dimmest wing in Twilight's train - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VII. The Pause of Evening"
Under the flaming wings of cherubim - Edward Dowden "The Initiation"
Curve fragrant wings of quiet - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"
In your wings the central winds of heaven - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"
Touched the wings of immortality - John Drinkwater "On Reading the Ms. of Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals"
A hundred winged whispers - Anna Harriet Drury "The First of May"
The Bird of Time flies with a steadier wing - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"
From the passing wings of night - B. Edwards "The Man Who Has Forgotten Time"
Who clipped the lion's wings - T.S. Eliot "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"
Numberless wings in the moon's silver ray - "The Emperor's Rout"
Blue wings mean hope - Heid E. Erdich "Offering: The Child"
To raise you like wings - Heid E. Erdich "The Visible Woman"
A cradle with sails like angel's wings - Eleanor Farjeon "Dream-Ships"
When the burning wings ascended - Joseph Fasano "Hermitage"
Stranded with spent wing - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: V. Portrait of the Incomparable John Cowper Powys, Esq."
With sunlight on our wings - Effie Fitzgerald "The Babes of Exile"
A chorus of winged mouths - T'ai Freedom Ford "light"
The shadow of a winged figure - Chad Frame "A Union Victory"
And with the north wind's saving wings - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
Thought has a pair of dauntless wings - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"
From the angel's wings of amber - Alice Furlong "Yuletide"
The sycamore gives them wings - Rose Fyleman "Trees and Fairies"
On quiet wing away - Zona Gale "Ballade of Listening"
A wing like a petal - Zona Gale "Umbra"
To trust his weight upon poetic wings - Thomas Gent "Poems"
Dusty wings that crumble as they pass - Lydia Gibson "Lost Treasure"
Feathered from its own wing - Michelle Gil-Montero "First Forty Days"
Wing-backed and vengeance born - Nikita Gill "The Erinyes: Vengeance-skinned Fury"
The wings for the kiss - Louise Gluck "An Endless Story"
Late birds on impatient wing - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
Fade in silence on a drowsy wing - Louis Golding "Derwentwater"
Such purposeless and iron wings - Louis Golding "Having Finished 'Jude the Obscure'"
Winds are leashed around thy wings - Louis Golding "To the Swift"
Bruised by the brush of a swallow's wing - Theodora Goss "The Sensitive Woman"
Beneath her wings of lilac dim - Edmund Gosse "A Dream of November"
In the long night when the black wings beat - Mona Gould "Nightmare"
Great rats on leather wings - Robert Graves "In the Wilderness"
The beating of moth wings and fairy dust - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"
Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
Wings taking after the sky - Leah Naomi Green "River and Fugue"
That plucks its joy in the shadow of death's wing - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Riding upon the Lightning's wing - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Beat their wings of aspiration - Louise Imogen Guiney "Brook Farm"
Sweeping by on invisible wings - H. "June" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
The swallow is dipping his wings in the tide - H. "June" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
The phoenix's wings make the windows rattle - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"
An explosion of sugar wings - Joy Harjo "Desire"
Their wings of fragile promises - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
Wings of pain that fly - Abiola Haroun "Identity Voodoo"
Thundering on the wings of Time - Geo. W.H. Harrison "A Prison Vision"
Varying as flying hornet's sunshine-smitten wing - F.W. Harvey "A Philosophy"
That slow, rhythmic flickering of wings - Robert Hass "Exit, Pursued by a Sierra Meadow"
With candles between their wings - Robert Hayden "Kodachromes of the Island"
Varied as a zephyr's wing - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
On cherub wing aspire - Felicia Hemans "Christmas Carol"
The wing of towering thought - Felicia Hemans "Lines Written in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Smith"
Some bright hour on rapture's wing - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Take off thy wings of speed - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "A Day in Spring"
Souls have such restless wings - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Soul"
On the wings of the heavy gales - José María Heredia "The Hurricane" transl. by William Cullen Bryant
Umbrellas fold their wings and sleep - Oliver Herford "In Darkest Africa"
Winged with the memories of Summer days - Oliver Herford and John Cecil Clay "Cupid's Fair-Weather Booke: November, Sagittarius: The Archer"
Wings from the wind to please her - Thomas Heywood "Good-Morrow"
Of bees and beetles practicing some slight of wing - Conrad Hilberry "Radiation"
Watching for a six-winged thought - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"
Inviting anything with wings - Conrad Hilberry "Vows"
Where the still wing of silence ever broods - Kate Hillard "Love's Sepulchre" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.17, no.99, Mar. 1876]
My Psyche with the rainbowed wings - Sarah D. Hobart "Elusive" [Lippincott's Magazine, Oct. 1885]
Go winging through the black doors of eternity - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Yet sings, knowing he hath wings - Victor Hugo "Be Like the Bird"
Of colour and pure wings - Aldous Huxley "The Reef"
Cherub with protecting wings - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Dazed by the flaming splendor of his wings - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Brushed her mortal weeds against their wings - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"
In a rainbow from her wings - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Poet in His Youth, and the Cuckoo-Bird"
Spread out thy fateful wings - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Raven in a White Chine"
Stepping on wings of diamonds - Carly Inghram "Disappearing into a Fiction"
Their knell on the wing of each arrow - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "Bruce's Address"
The mighty shadow of his wing between them and the stoned past - Ione "The Songs of Our Fathers" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
Can a bird ever tire of having wings? - Robinson Jeffers "Wonder and Joy"
Dusted her computer with sacred moth wings - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
The music of a thousand wings - E. Pauline Johnson "Shadow River"
On sleep's faint-beating wings - James Weldon Johnson "Blessed Sleep"
Shadowed by Sorrow's somber wing - James Weldon Johnson "The Gift to Sing"
Wings to waft me higher - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
A snowstorm of white wings - Lionel Johnson "In England"
Had no wings for the journey back - Fady Joudah "Venus Cycle"
Here my spirit folds her wings - 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]
Guard your magic beyond the wing of melody - Fredoon Kabraji "Tulip"
On eager wing of Hope we soar - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"
Light-winged Dryad of the trees - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
Visions Time's dark wing effaces - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet ['Twas but a dream! and oh! what are they all]"
Hope's bright wings in the dark earth - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"
Whose guardian wings hung o'er me - Fanny Kemble "To My Guardian Angel"
Wherein a thousand winged minstrels meet - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
The wings of fire are furled - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"
Morning breaks from sparrow's wings - Adele Kenny "Survivor"
His wing on the wind, and his eye on the sun - "The King of the Mountain" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
Azrael's eyes upon her, Raphael's wings above - Rudyard Kipling "Jane's Marriage"
Beheld a phantom on unbalanced wings - Rudyard Kipling "A Legend of Truth"
Must wear a wing instead of an arm - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
The wet silver of quick wings open against eternity - Yusef Komunyakaa "Nighthawks"
Over which scavenger angels wheel on heavy wings - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"
The drowsy beat of partridge wings - Archibald Lampman "April"
On whose wings the dawn hath smiled - Archibald Lampman "An Ode to the Hills"
Winged with white mirth - Archibald Lampman "Winter"
The limitless wings of the tempest - Archibald Lampman "The Woodcutter's Hut"
The winged skeleton of your bleached ideal - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
Leave off my wings of the spirit - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
God's wrath upon the wing - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"
From a vulture's wing - Megan Levad "Foundling"
No nearness of phoenixes winging - Li Shang-yin "[Last night's planets and stars]" transl. by Burton Watson
A brave hawk on high wings soaring - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson
On soft-winged sails of meditation - Vachel Lindsay "The Boat with the Kite String and the Celestial Eyes"
With her crystal wings, and her honey heart - Vachel Lindsay "Kalamazoo"
An egret descends on still wings - Lin Ling "Footpaths Cross in the Rice Field" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
The yellow crane winging home - attributed to Liu Hsi-chun "Song of Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
The pulsing wings of Armageddon's host - Charles Battell Loomis "A Classic Ode"
Swift Destiny shook out her purple wings - Amy Lowell "Francis II, King of Naples Written"
Illusions beating with their baffled wings - Amy Lowell "Frankincense and Myrrh"
To buckle the winged sandals on - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
The impatience of their wings - James Russell Lowell "Auspex"
Not all creatures with wings know flight - Tariq Luthun "I Sing This Elegy for the Nameless"
At heaven's gate she claps her wings - John Lyly "The Spring"
Rushing wings of phantom hosts - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Your arrival in a thunder of wings - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
Sailing cloud and soaring wing - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Gold"
For beauty has butterfly wings - Dorothea Mackellar "An Afterglow on the Nile"
The only soul left without wings - Dorothea Mackellar "Sea-Fog"
With radiant wings from mist of reveries - Archibald MacLeish "The Altar"
Come on the wings of the gale - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: II"
The wing of time is laden with care - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: IX"
When the sun spreads wings of gold - Trebor Mai "The Shepherd's Love" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Heard the thunder of your wings - Douglas Malloch "The Passenger Pigeons"
Justice spread her gilded wing - George Reginald Margetson "The Call to Duty"
The dove wings gray she wore - Jeannette Marks "Blind Sleep"
All my thoughts go fluttering gray-winged - Jeannette Marks "Proem"
Sweet-peas with wings for flight - Jeannette Marks "To Some Flowers"
Mist and myriad broken wings - Jeannette Marks "To Some Flowers"
Snare the bright wings of delight - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"
Soar with broken wings - Don Marquis "The Singer"
That gave the gods their wings - Don Marquis "Unrest"
Without wings to block out the light - Dawn Lundy Martin "Nothingness"
Gave wildest wings to desperate prayer - George Martin "Marguerite"
Heavenward on hopeful wings - George Martin "Marguerite"
A jungle of wild winged things - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Time for Bees"
A law pinned to a quail's wing - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"
The beating wings of the sun - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"
Beyond the tireless wings of mind - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"
On fame's triumphant wings - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
A fog heavy with wings - Khaled Mattawa "Constance Song"
Has no wings to flee - Airea D. Matthews "etymology"
Every earthworm's bristle & every seraph's six wings - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"
Hideous wings about the arch and ruined roof - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
My song fails on the wing - Theodore Maynard "Birthday Sonnet"
A butterfly's immortal wings - Theodore Maynard "Cecidit, Cecidit Babylon Magna!"
Speed away westward on swift wide wings - Theodore Maynard "Dawn"
Sparrows' fierce, avenging wings - Theodore Maynard "Fear"
To praise each beetle's burnished wing - Theodore Maynard "Vocation"
Windows carrying a black bird's wing - Shane McCrae "From the Ground It Must Have Looked Like Its Wings Were Not a Part of It"
Sinister wings flitting through - Louis J. McQuilland "Les Papillons"
Nought attracts except the vulture's wings - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"
Little wrens soar on borrowed wings - Meng Chiao "On Failing the Examination" transl. by Burton Watson
The bright wing, the black hoof - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
Wings like iced hope on her back - Joanne Merriam "Werepenguin"
They can sing with wings - W.S. Merwin "After the Alphabets"
Fold them like the wings of frightened birds - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
A verse of bells takes wing - Alice Meynell "Chimes"
Desires with hampered wings - Alice Meynell "Free Will"
A flock of winds came winging - Alice Meynell "The Roaring Frost"
The glittering bee among them blithely winging - Nicholas Michell "The Oases of Libya" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.431, 3 April 1852]
On sharp-edged, malachite wings - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"
With purple beams and azure wings - John Milton "On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, My Christian Friend"
Each one furnished with sixty wings - "Minutes" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
The grey goose winge that was there-on - "The More Modern Ballad of Chevy-Chase"
While Hope still soars on tireless wing - Morna "Ianthe"
Time on its wings no healing brought - "The Mother and Her Dead Child" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
The winging fire of days - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
The glint and whirl of swift wild wings - Sarojini Naidu "June Sunset"
Whose syllables are wings - Francis Neilson "You"
The ancestors of our wings - Mark Nepo "Under the Temple"
Between the wings of the earth - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
The secret wing's of bereavement's ship - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
On the vast wings of the albatross - Pablo Neruda "Not Only the Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The debate of wings and song - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
A word is one wing of silence - Pablo Neruda "One Hundred Love Sonnets: XLIV" transl. by Rafael Campo
Fever or forgotten wings - Pablo Neruda "Poetry" transl. by Alastair Reid
A word is one wing of the silence - Pablo Neruda "XLIV: You must know that I do not love and that I love you"
Holding our wings against the wind - Mari Ness "Tongueless"
Rushing on the wings of light - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Tiny cinders of moth wings - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Divergence"
And I a butterfly with gaudy wings - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]
On the wings of the six o'clock wind - Grace Nichols "Joy-riders"
Kings six cubits high with gryphon's wings - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Without the falcon's wings to carry me - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)
A dream full of swallows' wings - Sarah Noble-Ives "Barn-Door Inn"
Thirty-three beads strung between an absence of wings - Margaret Noodin "Bones" transl. by the author
Stretching clipped wings - Alfred Noyes "An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin"
Bees had radar in their wings and brains - Naomi Shihab Nye "Bees Were Better"
Tucked under the wing of the day - Naomi Shihab Nye "Come with Me"
Borne on the wind's wings, flashing fire - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
The wind-winged clouds following - Mary Oliver "I don't want to live a small life"
Two fleas under the wing of a gull - Mary Oliver "West Wind 1"
Stole on fairy wings into my waiting soul - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
cradling its surreptitious wings - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"
Fold my weary wings in peace - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Description of a Portion of the Journey to Trenton Falls"
From crowds that scorn the mounting wings - "Out of Prison" [Continental Monthly v.5 no.4 April 1864]
Beat down my buoyant wings outspread - "Out of Prison" [Continental Monthly v.5 no.4 April 1864]
Golden with the dust of wings - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"
Soar on wings of lightning - J.G. Percival "The Soul"
Lying with imprisoned wings - Walter S. Percy "The Chrysalis"
The invisible arpeggio of a hummingbird's wing - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"
Praying for distant wings - Phan Nhien Hao "May" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
All the ceremony of many wings - Carl Phillips "Storm"
And add my feather to the Eagle's wing - Philo "The Tribute"
Waiting, winged with fire - Frederick Erastus Pierce "God and the Farmer"
The winged seraphs of heaven coveted her and me - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
Birds of air dip bright wings in my tide - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"
When the little night wing finds her sleeping - Miriam Clark Potter "The Moon in the Pool"
Trying to fly with hard little feet for wings - Miriam Clark Potter "The Two Little Flocks"
Wings beat together and create rough waves - Shantell Powell "Nuliajuk and the Birds" [Strange Horizons 3 March 2025]
Time on kindlier wings - E.J. Pratt "Ode to December, 1917"
White-winged mother of crags - E.J. Pratt "Re-Born"
Crow whose one wing rests on the evening - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"
The wings of an iron angel - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Walking Back Up Depot Street"
Truth approaches us on flaming wings - John Presland "The Deluge"
Meditation smoothed the wing of thought - Margaret J. Preston "Francesca's Worship" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]
On the Music's outspread wings - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Sent to Heaven"
A silver moth on thoughtless wing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Road to Colla"
A great white bird on sunlit wing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Sunday in Liguria"
Winged wonder of motion - Theodore H. Rand "The Dragonfly"
On the desolate water's wings - Herbert Randall "Romp of the Sea"
On wings of flowing opal - Herbert Randall "The Winnetuxet"
His signature, a perfect birdswoop of wings - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
The hurl and flutter of the gulls' wings - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"
Warbling birds of melancholy wing - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"
Falls off the wings of the silence - Lola Ridge "Betty"
The locked shadow of their wings - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
The wings drip coral flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
Wings great enough to sustain our victories - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
Carrying light like sunsets upon wings - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Wings of thunder at the sun - Lynn Riggs "Santo Domingo Corn Dance"
Under her big black wing - James Whitcombe Riley "The Frog"
My feelings have found wings - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
The caressing wing of a radiant hour - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Winged with a flake of sky - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Place of His Rest"
A murmur of dreams in his wings - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Sleepy Man"
Whose wings roofed Babylon - Isaac Rosenberg "The Destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian Hordes"
A million torches and spears of flaming wings - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"
Lessons learned and broken wings - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"
The soul unto the vast has wings - George William Russell "Symbolism"
A hundred melodies for every wing - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Bless these burnt wings - Erika L. Sanchez "Departure"
Beelzebub flaps his frozen wings - Erika L. Sanchez "The Loop"
Shiver to the blur of many wings - Carl Sandburg "River Roads"
Soaring and quivering in the wings of sleep - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"
Exulting on fetterless wing - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"
Had I wings to lift me upward - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales Gründen]"
The wings of the soul emerge - Clinton Scollard "The Mist and the Sea"
The wild geese in a winged wedge - Clinton Scollard "Wild Geese"
And fight under the vampire wing - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"
The wings and hollow bones of a damp bird - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"
Little gods and devils trying out their wings - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"
Added feathers to the learned's wing - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVIII"
The tissue of all wings is woven - Virna Sheard "Dreams"
And fold their wings of braided air - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Shadows with swift wings - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
These heavy-winged thieves - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
With the whine of saw-mills and whirr of hidden wings - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
Followed the close-heard beat of love's wide wings - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
Should misfortune bind your wings - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Downtrodden"
Open my armored wings - Joyce Sidman "Diving Beetle's Food-Sharing Rules"
Dry your wings in moonlight - Joyce Sidman "Fly, Dragonfly!"
Our wings knew - Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen "Dream of the Tundra Swan"
Masquerading as sparrow wings - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Is Reborn as a Mummy"
When every bird was on his wing - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"
When one's mind unfurls its wings - H. Simpson "'There Are Quantities of Things...'"
Carried on the equations of wings - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
On fiery wings to worlds unknown - Clark Ashton Smith "Beyond the Great Wall"
On wings of lyric fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"
Beneath a greater shadow's wings - Clark Ashton Smith "The Eldritch Dark"
The outwearied wings of time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Impended for a breath on wings of doom - Clark Ashton Smith "The Last Night"
Blossoms stirred by wings of eidolons - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
As eagles' wings in the quest of Truth - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Darkness"
On the wings of the hastening wind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Wind and the Moon"
And furnished them wings to fly - Langdon Smith "Evolution"
Like giants flushed with wing - "Song" from Poems on Golf by the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society
Before we severed our own wings - Lyz Soto "Today I Am Full of Birds"
Then strap my wings to your feet - Leonora Speyer "Cantares"
Suffer the moths to singe their wings - Leonora Speyer "Cantares"
They dip their wings in the sunset - Leonora Speyer "Swallows"
Its wings a flight of lullabies - Eileen Spinelli "Nighty-Night"
Ripen, grow wings, and build songs - Kim Stafford "Wren's Nest in a Shed Near Aurora"
Here and there on the wings of night - James Stephens "Mount Street"
On wings that feared no wind - George Sterling "The Aeroplane"
The purple wings of Night - George Sterling "Aldebaran at Dusk"
Go winged with crystal fire - George Sterling "The Common Cult"
With radiance of wings immortal - George Sterling "The Morning Star"
The grey wings of fleeting Twilight - George Sterling "The Spirit of Dusk"
The shadow of the wings of Time - George Sterling "Strange Waters"
Choirs of wind and wet and wing - Wallace Stevens "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle"
The blown banners change to wings - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
A bird-wing desire - Dao Strom "Instrument"
Have given the jackal wings - Muriel Stuart "Words"
A birdcage with wings - Melissa Studdard "Everyone in Me Is a Bird"
Filled with the eyes of their wings - Milo K. Szyszka "A Tale of Moths and Home (of Bones and Breathing) (of Extrinsic Restrictive Lung Disease)"
Beneath the canopy of his suffocating wings - Sonya Taaffe "He Should Marry the Daughter of the Angel of Death"
Weigh down the wings of airborn birds - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"
On wings of time stealing - Te-con-ees-kee "Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation"
In taxicabs with wings - "[This is the way the fairies ride]" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]
And fear with restless wing - Edward Thomas "The Ash Grove"
A wing too weak to soar - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
Singers in the wings of water - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Summer Song of Lake Michigan"
Plucking the feathers from the wings of peace - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"
To mount upon these waxen wings - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Same, Continued"
Nimbler than a winging duck - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Wings of sparks and spangles - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Bell-Ringer" transl. by Alma Strettell
Golden light and glancing wings - B.T.W. "The Coming of Winter" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Lift so his wings can pass - Derek Walcott "The Three Musicians"
Drip from the wing of the hours - Charles William Wallace "Useless?"
Abandoned like torn butterfly wings - Michael Wasson "Countdown as Slow Kisses"
Whose wings shed terror and a plague - William Watson "The Russ at Kara"
An untried wanderer on the wing - Mrs. Alaric Watts "The Ship's First Voyage" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.452, 28 Aug. 1852]
Those winged words my thoughts had sent - Mrs. Alaric Watts "The Ship's First Voyage" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.452, 28 Aug. 1852]
Peace with balmy wings - Phillis Wheatley "To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works"
My wings of longing fail me - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"
Our wings of pride were broken - John Hall Wheelock "Of Day Came Night"
Winged things may stoop to any door - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"
And Hope that singes her wings - Helen Hay Whitney "The Grave of Hope"
And watch the far wings fly - Margaret Widdemer "The Factories"
We curse it then and sigh for wings - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"
To fly like those two wild geese, rising with beating wings - "Wild Geese" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Sets spinning on waxen wings - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
The sun that melted the wings' wax - William Carlos Williams "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
Smitten by the wing of many a furious whirlblast - William Wordsworth "On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm"
Wings of your youth - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
On whose ancient wings - W.B. Yeats "Fergus and the Druid"
Unfold your flaming wings - W.B. Yeats "The Poet pleads with the Elemental Powers"
With brittle wings aquiver - Francis Brett Young "Bete Humaine"
When midges' wings make a thin music - Francis Brett Young "On a Subaltern Killed in Action"
Thin wings of fever singing - Francis Brett Young "104 Fahrenheit"
Give wings to the children of earth below - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa
How the raven embodies wings - Felicia Zamora "Any Stretch of Imagination"
The questions with wings - Matthew Zapruder "Water Street"
Fall is summer's bronze wing - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
A new instance of demented wing - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver
With wings of such tender filigrees - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 13" transl. by Katherine Silver
Pity a broken-winged wanderer - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson
Butterfly-winged sphinxes guarded their eggs - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Where chill-winged curlews dip and call - Adam Mickiewicz "Tschatir Dagh (The Pilgrim)" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
By this dark-winged planet - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
A thousand death-winged messengers - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Like the dusk-winged albatross - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Tempests of solar melody, vibrant and far-winged - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Fire-winged cats that light the nights - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
Golden-winged through the glory swim - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
A buzzing bouquet of moon-winged butterflies - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
Moth-winged Cupid painted on the air - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"
When winds are noisy-winged and high - Elizabeth Thornton Turner "The Pinewood People" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
The holy six-winged seraphim - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen
Stars that shower swift-winged light - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"
And watched Magellan's white-winged ships - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
Shrill the wind-winged heralds blew - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
Wingbeat.
Into a bat's wing-brush of air - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"
Wingless.
The ballet of wingspan - Michael Dumanis "Joseph Cornell, with Box"
The wingspan of an idea taking off - Carolina Ebeld "There Is a Devil Inside Me"
False eyes on the grayling's wingtips - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
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Knows nothing of the bat’s wings - Rasha Abdulhadi "little bat"
Some stray angel with pink sugar wings - Harold Acton "As Dmitri Karamazoff sang on the way to Chaos"
Winged abandoned musics - Harold Acton "Capriccio Espagnol"
On the wild wing of thought - "Addressed to a Friend"
Winged with wind - Adonis "Thunderbolt" (translated by Samuel Hazo)
Ride winged steeds to distant lands - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"
The wings of her dreams - Francisco X. Alarcon "Libres por Fin/Free at Last"
My wings tracing infinity - Jose A. Alcantara "Archilocus Colubris"
Armed with wings of Mercury - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
The spread wings of Uriel uplifted - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Snowbirds spread their crystallized wings - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"
Time with a million beating wings - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Clip imagination's wing and kill delight - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"
Tenderness under the blown red wing - Meena Alexander "Darling Coffee"
Fate with the mangled wings - Grant Allen "Only An Insect"
Your demon words borne high on wings of song - Mike Allen "Ascending"
Shade the countryside with outstretched wings - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Winged jugglers with hummingbird heads - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Winged hopes that no longer stay - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"
Find myself on the wings of unknown winds - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"
Cast shadows downward from their wing - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]
Where eaglets rest their wings - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"
His wings ache from so much wax - William Archila "Beyond Bruegel's Shore"
A girl with glass wings - Cameron Awkward-Rich "The Little Girl Will Never Tire of Confession"
Backstage ducks preening in the wings - Julie Babcock "Jonah's Trick"
Winged symbol of the quiet mind - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"
Thy winged yoke in triumph - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
Waving forests swept by wings of doom - Maurice Baring "Wagner"
Winged messengers from eyries dim - Maurice Baring "Wagner"
Where Hammurabi made firm wings of law - Lou Barrett "Fertile Crescent"
painting wings onto a dryad - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"
On folded wings secret and silent - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"
daedalus fly your wings - Elizabeth Bartlett "ekstasis"
till dust can rise on flaming wings - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"
forget their wings and drown - Elizabeth Bartlett "I would remember"
the wings they had prepared - Elizabeth Bartlett "odyssey"
With wings against the wind - Elizabeth Bartlett "Self-Evident"
Windless without wings - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
Our soul wings have been bound - Ardelia Maria Barton "All Life Hath Soul"
Of fairy frame and willing wings - Cora C. Bass "Another Day"
To rest his raptured wings - Cora C. Bass "The Lord Will Provide"
As on zephyr wing the summons came - Cora C. Bass "May"
Winter's sleep on gauzy wing - Cora C. Bass "Spring"
Knew his unclipped wings were free to soar - Clara Doty Bates "Goody Two-Shoes" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]
Moths upon the wings of chance - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited
The Fay with wings of fire - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited
On the wing of the wild whirlwind - Charles Baudelaire "The Wine of Lovers"
Waxen wings by Daedalus designed - James Beattie "Epistle to the Honourable C. B."
Ecstasies on paper wings - Clive Bell "Letter to a Lady II"
Fold your great wings about my face - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"
Straddled the wings of Boreas - Stephen Vincent Benet "Wisdom-Teeth"
Bearing up the balm upon their beating wings - "The Birth of the Lily" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.2, Sept. 1863]
Midnight visits and a wing's caress - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
Raising myriads of chained wings - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Grass-Blade"
Stony wings and bleak glory - Louise Bogan "Late"
For the sunset wings - William Stanley Braithwaite "Rhapsody"
Stitching the wings of your ghost - William Brewer "In the Room of the Overdosed, an Ember"
If only the hours had wings - Sarah Jeannette Lathbury Brigham "Study-Hour"
And flap those useless wings - Anne Bronte "The Captive Dove"
On the wings of the breeze - Anne Bronte "Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day"
Shall hear our mystic wings - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
To load the May wind's restless wings - William Cullen Bryant "The Planting of the Apple Tree"
Love fits the soul with wings - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LIII. Celestial and Earthly Love" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Golden hours on angel wings - Robert Burns "Highland Mary"
Sobbing under the wings of time - Francis Burrows "The Well"
The butterfly spread his wings to the sky - "Butterfly Wisdom" [Pages for Laughing Eyes, no date. Project Gutenberg]
Ask a hawk about his wings - Witter Bynner "Romance"
Enough to make the pinecone grow wings - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"
When hope's wings fanned the air - W. Wilfred Campbell "Love"
Velvet-winged spirits of sleep - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
Keep me under the shadow of your wings - Anthony Vahni Capildeo "Niche"
To fan the stars with flaming wings - George Spencer Cautley "The Girandola at Rome"
Its remaining wing is grief - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Ambition]"
Wings pushing down metaphor - Victoria Chang "The Trees Witness Everything"
Weaving death's black wing - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
Nor winged spells incite the soul again - William Chiddon "Idyll: In Imitation of Theocritus"
On wings of wavy sound - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Music of the World and of the Soul"
To summon owls and bats upon the wing - Mary Coleridge "In Dispraise of the Moon"
A blackbird stretching orchid wings - Michael Collier "Birds Appearing in a Dream"
With hundreds of thin paper wings - Billy Collins "Cliche"
No wings to moonlight - Hilda Conkling "The Champlain Sandman"
Trees with folded wings - Hilda Conkling "Land of Nod"
Wings for darkness - Hilda Conkling "The Lonesome Green Apple"
Death may be riding the wings of the wind - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
On rapid wings before the snow - Susan Coolidge "Easter Lilies"
And only souls with wings - Susan Coolidge "Prelude"
The unrest of winged dreams - James D. Corrothers "Dream and the Song"
Some waft of phantom wings - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Hoarse caws and dark wings - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
The barrier between our mirrored wings - Brody Parrish Craig "Overpass"
As if old Time had lent him scythe and wings - Rev. William Crowe "Written When Buonaparte Was Altering the Governments of Germany"
My winged shadow pressed against their windows - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"
A wave of thunder shook my wing - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
That dreams of rainbow wings - Olive Custance "Primrose Hill"
When love stands with such radiant wings - H.D. "Fragment Forty"
Permit myself the luxury of wings - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets V"
While soft imagination lends her wings - Catharine Davidson "Dreamland--a Sonnet" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 18 May 1878]
That guard the growth of winged lives - Emily Davis "A Song of Winter (Mrs Pfeiffer)"
Thoughts spilling winged like a butterfly - Hayes Davis "Thhhat was great"
And down the wings of Pegasus would fold - Tomas de Iriarte "Epistle to Don Domingo de Iriarte, on His Travelling to Various Foreign Courts" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Realms no wing of bird has found - Charles de Kay "Dawn in the City" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Dec. 1878]
While the sweet swallow bends her wings - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"
The wind's wings waken - Leconte de Lisle "The Black Panther" (translated by W.J. Robertson)
The echo of wings in my belly - Chelsea B. DesAutels "A Dangerous Place"
The fury of wings in my lungs - Chelsea B. DesAutels "A Dangerous Place"
Dusk buds their breathing wings - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
My tired wings might crave a wall - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"
Time's uncertain wing - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love VI"
Too fragile for winter winds - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XI"
If the flowers had wings - Mary Mapes Dodge "Oh, No!"
Face and wings of air - John Donne "Air and Angels"
Turning the light from their wings - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"
Wandering the wings of a ghost-run factory - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Holographic moth wings that shine like chalk drawings - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
Paint the small wing of a moth - Edward Dowden "By the Window"
On dimmest wing in Twilight's train - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VII. The Pause of Evening"
Under the flaming wings of cherubim - Edward Dowden "The Initiation"
Curve fragrant wings of quiet - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"
In your wings the central winds of heaven - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"
Touched the wings of immortality - John Drinkwater "On Reading the Ms. of Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals"
A hundred winged whispers - Anna Harriet Drury "The First of May"
The Bird of Time flies with a steadier wing - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"
From the passing wings of night - B. Edwards "The Man Who Has Forgotten Time"
Who clipped the lion's wings - T.S. Eliot "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"
Numberless wings in the moon's silver ray - "The Emperor's Rout"
Blue wings mean hope - Heid E. Erdich "Offering: The Child"
To raise you like wings - Heid E. Erdich "The Visible Woman"
A cradle with sails like angel's wings - Eleanor Farjeon "Dream-Ships"
When the burning wings ascended - Joseph Fasano "Hermitage"
Stranded with spent wing - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: V. Portrait of the Incomparable John Cowper Powys, Esq."
With sunlight on our wings - Effie Fitzgerald "The Babes of Exile"
A chorus of winged mouths - T'ai Freedom Ford "light"
The shadow of a winged figure - Chad Frame "A Union Victory"
And with the north wind's saving wings - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
Thought has a pair of dauntless wings - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"
From the angel's wings of amber - Alice Furlong "Yuletide"
The sycamore gives them wings - Rose Fyleman "Trees and Fairies"
On quiet wing away - Zona Gale "Ballade of Listening"
A wing like a petal - Zona Gale "Umbra"
To trust his weight upon poetic wings - Thomas Gent "Poems"
Dusty wings that crumble as they pass - Lydia Gibson "Lost Treasure"
Feathered from its own wing - Michelle Gil-Montero "First Forty Days"
Wing-backed and vengeance born - Nikita Gill "The Erinyes: Vengeance-skinned Fury"
The wings for the kiss - Louise Gluck "An Endless Story"
Late birds on impatient wing - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
Fade in silence on a drowsy wing - Louis Golding "Derwentwater"
Such purposeless and iron wings - Louis Golding "Having Finished 'Jude the Obscure'"
Winds are leashed around thy wings - Louis Golding "To the Swift"
Bruised by the brush of a swallow's wing - Theodora Goss "The Sensitive Woman"
Beneath her wings of lilac dim - Edmund Gosse "A Dream of November"
In the long night when the black wings beat - Mona Gould "Nightmare"
Great rats on leather wings - Robert Graves "In the Wilderness"
The beating of moth wings and fairy dust - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"
Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
Wings taking after the sky - Leah Naomi Green "River and Fugue"
That plucks its joy in the shadow of death's wing - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Riding upon the Lightning's wing - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Beat their wings of aspiration - Louise Imogen Guiney "Brook Farm"
Sweeping by on invisible wings - H. "June" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
The swallow is dipping his wings in the tide - H. "June" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
The phoenix's wings make the windows rattle - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"
An explosion of sugar wings - Joy Harjo "Desire"
Their wings of fragile promises - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
Wings of pain that fly - Abiola Haroun "Identity Voodoo"
Thundering on the wings of Time - Geo. W.H. Harrison "A Prison Vision"
Varying as flying hornet's sunshine-smitten wing - F.W. Harvey "A Philosophy"
That slow, rhythmic flickering of wings - Robert Hass "Exit, Pursued by a Sierra Meadow"
With candles between their wings - Robert Hayden "Kodachromes of the Island"
Varied as a zephyr's wing - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
On cherub wing aspire - Felicia Hemans "Christmas Carol"
The wing of towering thought - Felicia Hemans "Lines Written in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Smith"
Some bright hour on rapture's wing - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Take off thy wings of speed - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "A Day in Spring"
Souls have such restless wings - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Soul"
On the wings of the heavy gales - José María Heredia "The Hurricane" transl. by William Cullen Bryant
Umbrellas fold their wings and sleep - Oliver Herford "In Darkest Africa"
Winged with the memories of Summer days - Oliver Herford and John Cecil Clay "Cupid's Fair-Weather Booke: November, Sagittarius: The Archer"
Wings from the wind to please her - Thomas Heywood "Good-Morrow"
Of bees and beetles practicing some slight of wing - Conrad Hilberry "Radiation"
Watching for a six-winged thought - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"
Inviting anything with wings - Conrad Hilberry "Vows"
Where the still wing of silence ever broods - Kate Hillard "Love's Sepulchre" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.17, no.99, Mar. 1876]
My Psyche with the rainbowed wings - Sarah D. Hobart "Elusive" [Lippincott's Magazine, Oct. 1885]
Go winging through the black doors of eternity - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Yet sings, knowing he hath wings - Victor Hugo "Be Like the Bird"
Of colour and pure wings - Aldous Huxley "The Reef"
Cherub with protecting wings - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Dazed by the flaming splendor of his wings - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Brushed her mortal weeds against their wings - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"
In a rainbow from her wings - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Poet in His Youth, and the Cuckoo-Bird"
Spread out thy fateful wings - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Raven in a White Chine"
Stepping on wings of diamonds - Carly Inghram "Disappearing into a Fiction"
Their knell on the wing of each arrow - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "Bruce's Address"
The mighty shadow of his wing between them and the stoned past - Ione "The Songs of Our Fathers" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
Can a bird ever tire of having wings? - Robinson Jeffers "Wonder and Joy"
Dusted her computer with sacred moth wings - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
The music of a thousand wings - E. Pauline Johnson "Shadow River"
On sleep's faint-beating wings - James Weldon Johnson "Blessed Sleep"
Shadowed by Sorrow's somber wing - James Weldon Johnson "The Gift to Sing"
Wings to waft me higher - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
A snowstorm of white wings - Lionel Johnson "In England"
Had no wings for the journey back - Fady Joudah "Venus Cycle"
Here my spirit folds her wings - 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]
Guard your magic beyond the wing of melody - Fredoon Kabraji "Tulip"
On eager wing of Hope we soar - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"
Light-winged Dryad of the trees - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
Visions Time's dark wing effaces - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet ['Twas but a dream! and oh! what are they all]"
Hope's bright wings in the dark earth - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"
Whose guardian wings hung o'er me - Fanny Kemble "To My Guardian Angel"
Wherein a thousand winged minstrels meet - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
The wings of fire are furled - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"
Morning breaks from sparrow's wings - Adele Kenny "Survivor"
His wing on the wind, and his eye on the sun - "The King of the Mountain" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
Azrael's eyes upon her, Raphael's wings above - Rudyard Kipling "Jane's Marriage"
Beheld a phantom on unbalanced wings - Rudyard Kipling "A Legend of Truth"
Must wear a wing instead of an arm - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
The wet silver of quick wings open against eternity - Yusef Komunyakaa "Nighthawks"
Over which scavenger angels wheel on heavy wings - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"
The drowsy beat of partridge wings - Archibald Lampman "April"
On whose wings the dawn hath smiled - Archibald Lampman "An Ode to the Hills"
Winged with white mirth - Archibald Lampman "Winter"
The limitless wings of the tempest - Archibald Lampman "The Woodcutter's Hut"
The winged skeleton of your bleached ideal - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
Leave off my wings of the spirit - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
God's wrath upon the wing - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"
From a vulture's wing - Megan Levad "Foundling"
No nearness of phoenixes winging - Li Shang-yin "[Last night's planets and stars]" transl. by Burton Watson
A brave hawk on high wings soaring - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson
On soft-winged sails of meditation - Vachel Lindsay "The Boat with the Kite String and the Celestial Eyes"
With her crystal wings, and her honey heart - Vachel Lindsay "Kalamazoo"
An egret descends on still wings - Lin Ling "Footpaths Cross in the Rice Field" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
The yellow crane winging home - attributed to Liu Hsi-chun "Song of Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
The pulsing wings of Armageddon's host - Charles Battell Loomis "A Classic Ode"
Swift Destiny shook out her purple wings - Amy Lowell "Francis II, King of Naples Written"
Illusions beating with their baffled wings - Amy Lowell "Frankincense and Myrrh"
To buckle the winged sandals on - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
The impatience of their wings - James Russell Lowell "Auspex"
Not all creatures with wings know flight - Tariq Luthun "I Sing This Elegy for the Nameless"
At heaven's gate she claps her wings - John Lyly "The Spring"
Rushing wings of phantom hosts - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Your arrival in a thunder of wings - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
Sailing cloud and soaring wing - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Gold"
For beauty has butterfly wings - Dorothea Mackellar "An Afterglow on the Nile"
The only soul left without wings - Dorothea Mackellar "Sea-Fog"
With radiant wings from mist of reveries - Archibald MacLeish "The Altar"
Come on the wings of the gale - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: II"
The wing of time is laden with care - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: IX"
When the sun spreads wings of gold - Trebor Mai "The Shepherd's Love" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Heard the thunder of your wings - Douglas Malloch "The Passenger Pigeons"
Justice spread her gilded wing - George Reginald Margetson "The Call to Duty"
The dove wings gray she wore - Jeannette Marks "Blind Sleep"
All my thoughts go fluttering gray-winged - Jeannette Marks "Proem"
Sweet-peas with wings for flight - Jeannette Marks "To Some Flowers"
Mist and myriad broken wings - Jeannette Marks "To Some Flowers"
Snare the bright wings of delight - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"
Soar with broken wings - Don Marquis "The Singer"
That gave the gods their wings - Don Marquis "Unrest"
Without wings to block out the light - Dawn Lundy Martin "Nothingness"
Gave wildest wings to desperate prayer - George Martin "Marguerite"
Heavenward on hopeful wings - George Martin "Marguerite"
A jungle of wild winged things - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Time for Bees"
A law pinned to a quail's wing - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"
The beating wings of the sun - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"
Beyond the tireless wings of mind - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"
On fame's triumphant wings - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
A fog heavy with wings - Khaled Mattawa "Constance Song"
Has no wings to flee - Airea D. Matthews "etymology"
Every earthworm's bristle & every seraph's six wings - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"
Hideous wings about the arch and ruined roof - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
My song fails on the wing - Theodore Maynard "Birthday Sonnet"
A butterfly's immortal wings - Theodore Maynard "Cecidit, Cecidit Babylon Magna!"
Speed away westward on swift wide wings - Theodore Maynard "Dawn"
Sparrows' fierce, avenging wings - Theodore Maynard "Fear"
To praise each beetle's burnished wing - Theodore Maynard "Vocation"
Windows carrying a black bird's wing - Shane McCrae "From the Ground It Must Have Looked Like Its Wings Were Not a Part of It"
Sinister wings flitting through - Louis J. McQuilland "Les Papillons"
Nought attracts except the vulture's wings - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"
Little wrens soar on borrowed wings - Meng Chiao "On Failing the Examination" transl. by Burton Watson
The bright wing, the black hoof - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
Wings like iced hope on her back - Joanne Merriam "Werepenguin"
They can sing with wings - W.S. Merwin "After the Alphabets"
Fold them like the wings of frightened birds - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
A verse of bells takes wing - Alice Meynell "Chimes"
Desires with hampered wings - Alice Meynell "Free Will"
A flock of winds came winging - Alice Meynell "The Roaring Frost"
The glittering bee among them blithely winging - Nicholas Michell "The Oases of Libya" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.431, 3 April 1852]
On sharp-edged, malachite wings - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"
With purple beams and azure wings - John Milton "On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, My Christian Friend"
Each one furnished with sixty wings - "Minutes" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
The grey goose winge that was there-on - "The More Modern Ballad of Chevy-Chase"
While Hope still soars on tireless wing - Morna "Ianthe"
Time on its wings no healing brought - "The Mother and Her Dead Child" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
The winging fire of days - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
The glint and whirl of swift wild wings - Sarojini Naidu "June Sunset"
Whose syllables are wings - Francis Neilson "You"
The ancestors of our wings - Mark Nepo "Under the Temple"
Between the wings of the earth - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
The secret wing's of bereavement's ship - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
On the vast wings of the albatross - Pablo Neruda "Not Only the Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The debate of wings and song - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
A word is one wing of silence - Pablo Neruda "One Hundred Love Sonnets: XLIV" transl. by Rafael Campo
Fever or forgotten wings - Pablo Neruda "Poetry" transl. by Alastair Reid
A word is one wing of the silence - Pablo Neruda "XLIV: You must know that I do not love and that I love you"
Holding our wings against the wind - Mari Ness "Tongueless"
Rushing on the wings of light - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Tiny cinders of moth wings - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Divergence"
And I a butterfly with gaudy wings - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]
On the wings of the six o'clock wind - Grace Nichols "Joy-riders"
Kings six cubits high with gryphon's wings - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Without the falcon's wings to carry me - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)
A dream full of swallows' wings - Sarah Noble-Ives "Barn-Door Inn"
Thirty-three beads strung between an absence of wings - Margaret Noodin "Bones" transl. by the author
Stretching clipped wings - Alfred Noyes "An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin"
Bees had radar in their wings and brains - Naomi Shihab Nye "Bees Were Better"
Tucked under the wing of the day - Naomi Shihab Nye "Come with Me"
Borne on the wind's wings, flashing fire - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
The wind-winged clouds following - Mary Oliver "I don't want to live a small life"
Two fleas under the wing of a gull - Mary Oliver "West Wind 1"
Stole on fairy wings into my waiting soul - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
cradling its surreptitious wings - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"
Fold my weary wings in peace - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Description of a Portion of the Journey to Trenton Falls"
From crowds that scorn the mounting wings - "Out of Prison" [Continental Monthly v.5 no.4 April 1864]
Beat down my buoyant wings outspread - "Out of Prison" [Continental Monthly v.5 no.4 April 1864]
Golden with the dust of wings - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"
Soar on wings of lightning - J.G. Percival "The Soul"
Lying with imprisoned wings - Walter S. Percy "The Chrysalis"
The invisible arpeggio of a hummingbird's wing - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"
Praying for distant wings - Phan Nhien Hao "May" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
All the ceremony of many wings - Carl Phillips "Storm"
And add my feather to the Eagle's wing - Philo "The Tribute"
Waiting, winged with fire - Frederick Erastus Pierce "God and the Farmer"
The winged seraphs of heaven coveted her and me - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
Birds of air dip bright wings in my tide - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"
When the little night wing finds her sleeping - Miriam Clark Potter "The Moon in the Pool"
Trying to fly with hard little feet for wings - Miriam Clark Potter "The Two Little Flocks"
Wings beat together and create rough waves - Shantell Powell "Nuliajuk and the Birds" [Strange Horizons 3 March 2025]
Time on kindlier wings - E.J. Pratt "Ode to December, 1917"
White-winged mother of crags - E.J. Pratt "Re-Born"
Crow whose one wing rests on the evening - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"
The wings of an iron angel - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Walking Back Up Depot Street"
Truth approaches us on flaming wings - John Presland "The Deluge"
Meditation smoothed the wing of thought - Margaret J. Preston "Francesca's Worship" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]
On the Music's outspread wings - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Sent to Heaven"
A silver moth on thoughtless wing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Road to Colla"
A great white bird on sunlit wing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Sunday in Liguria"
Winged wonder of motion - Theodore H. Rand "The Dragonfly"
On the desolate water's wings - Herbert Randall "Romp of the Sea"
On wings of flowing opal - Herbert Randall "The Winnetuxet"
His signature, a perfect birdswoop of wings - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
The hurl and flutter of the gulls' wings - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"
Warbling birds of melancholy wing - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"
Falls off the wings of the silence - Lola Ridge "Betty"
The locked shadow of their wings - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
The wings drip coral flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
Wings great enough to sustain our victories - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
Carrying light like sunsets upon wings - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Wings of thunder at the sun - Lynn Riggs "Santo Domingo Corn Dance"
Under her big black wing - James Whitcombe Riley "The Frog"
My feelings have found wings - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
The caressing wing of a radiant hour - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Winged with a flake of sky - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Place of His Rest"
A murmur of dreams in his wings - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Sleepy Man"
Whose wings roofed Babylon - Isaac Rosenberg "The Destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian Hordes"
A million torches and spears of flaming wings - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"
Lessons learned and broken wings - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"
The soul unto the vast has wings - George William Russell "Symbolism"
A hundred melodies for every wing - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Bless these burnt wings - Erika L. Sanchez "Departure"
Beelzebub flaps his frozen wings - Erika L. Sanchez "The Loop"
Shiver to the blur of many wings - Carl Sandburg "River Roads"
Soaring and quivering in the wings of sleep - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"
Exulting on fetterless wing - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"
Had I wings to lift me upward - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales Gründen]"
The wings of the soul emerge - Clinton Scollard "The Mist and the Sea"
The wild geese in a winged wedge - Clinton Scollard "Wild Geese"
And fight under the vampire wing - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"
The wings and hollow bones of a damp bird - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"
Little gods and devils trying out their wings - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"
Added feathers to the learned's wing - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVIII"
The tissue of all wings is woven - Virna Sheard "Dreams"
And fold their wings of braided air - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Shadows with swift wings - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
These heavy-winged thieves - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
With the whine of saw-mills and whirr of hidden wings - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
Followed the close-heard beat of love's wide wings - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
Should misfortune bind your wings - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Downtrodden"
Open my armored wings - Joyce Sidman "Diving Beetle's Food-Sharing Rules"
Dry your wings in moonlight - Joyce Sidman "Fly, Dragonfly!"
Our wings knew - Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen "Dream of the Tundra Swan"
Masquerading as sparrow wings - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Is Reborn as a Mummy"
When every bird was on his wing - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"
When one's mind unfurls its wings - H. Simpson "'There Are Quantities of Things...'"
Carried on the equations of wings - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
On fiery wings to worlds unknown - Clark Ashton Smith "Beyond the Great Wall"
On wings of lyric fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"
Beneath a greater shadow's wings - Clark Ashton Smith "The Eldritch Dark"
The outwearied wings of time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Impended for a breath on wings of doom - Clark Ashton Smith "The Last Night"
Blossoms stirred by wings of eidolons - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
As eagles' wings in the quest of Truth - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Darkness"
On the wings of the hastening wind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Wind and the Moon"
And furnished them wings to fly - Langdon Smith "Evolution"
Like giants flushed with wing - "Song" from Poems on Golf by the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society
Before we severed our own wings - Lyz Soto "Today I Am Full of Birds"
Then strap my wings to your feet - Leonora Speyer "Cantares"
Suffer the moths to singe their wings - Leonora Speyer "Cantares"
They dip their wings in the sunset - Leonora Speyer "Swallows"
Its wings a flight of lullabies - Eileen Spinelli "Nighty-Night"
Ripen, grow wings, and build songs - Kim Stafford "Wren's Nest in a Shed Near Aurora"
Here and there on the wings of night - James Stephens "Mount Street"
On wings that feared no wind - George Sterling "The Aeroplane"
The purple wings of Night - George Sterling "Aldebaran at Dusk"
Go winged with crystal fire - George Sterling "The Common Cult"
With radiance of wings immortal - George Sterling "The Morning Star"
The grey wings of fleeting Twilight - George Sterling "The Spirit of Dusk"
The shadow of the wings of Time - George Sterling "Strange Waters"
Choirs of wind and wet and wing - Wallace Stevens "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle"
The blown banners change to wings - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
A bird-wing desire - Dao Strom "Instrument"
Have given the jackal wings - Muriel Stuart "Words"
A birdcage with wings - Melissa Studdard "Everyone in Me Is a Bird"
Filled with the eyes of their wings - Milo K. Szyszka "A Tale of Moths and Home (of Bones and Breathing) (of Extrinsic Restrictive Lung Disease)"
Beneath the canopy of his suffocating wings - Sonya Taaffe "He Should Marry the Daughter of the Angel of Death"
Weigh down the wings of airborn birds - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"
On wings of time stealing - Te-con-ees-kee "Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation"
In taxicabs with wings - "[This is the way the fairies ride]" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]
And fear with restless wing - Edward Thomas "The Ash Grove"
A wing too weak to soar - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
Singers in the wings of water - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Summer Song of Lake Michigan"
Plucking the feathers from the wings of peace - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"
To mount upon these waxen wings - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Same, Continued"
Nimbler than a winging duck - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Wings of sparks and spangles - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Bell-Ringer" transl. by Alma Strettell
Golden light and glancing wings - B.T.W. "The Coming of Winter" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Lift so his wings can pass - Derek Walcott "The Three Musicians"
Drip from the wing of the hours - Charles William Wallace "Useless?"
Abandoned like torn butterfly wings - Michael Wasson "Countdown as Slow Kisses"
Whose wings shed terror and a plague - William Watson "The Russ at Kara"
An untried wanderer on the wing - Mrs. Alaric Watts "The Ship's First Voyage" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.452, 28 Aug. 1852]
Those winged words my thoughts had sent - Mrs. Alaric Watts "The Ship's First Voyage" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.452, 28 Aug. 1852]
Peace with balmy wings - Phillis Wheatley "To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works"
My wings of longing fail me - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"
Our wings of pride were broken - John Hall Wheelock "Of Day Came Night"
Winged things may stoop to any door - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"
And Hope that singes her wings - Helen Hay Whitney "The Grave of Hope"
And watch the far wings fly - Margaret Widdemer "The Factories"
We curse it then and sigh for wings - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"
To fly like those two wild geese, rising with beating wings - "Wild Geese" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Sets spinning on waxen wings - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
The sun that melted the wings' wax - William Carlos Williams "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
Smitten by the wing of many a furious whirlblast - William Wordsworth "On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm"
Wings of your youth - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
On whose ancient wings - W.B. Yeats "Fergus and the Druid"
Unfold your flaming wings - W.B. Yeats "The Poet pleads with the Elemental Powers"
With brittle wings aquiver - Francis Brett Young "Bete Humaine"
When midges' wings make a thin music - Francis Brett Young "On a Subaltern Killed in Action"
Thin wings of fever singing - Francis Brett Young "104 Fahrenheit"
Give wings to the children of earth below - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa
How the raven embodies wings - Felicia Zamora "Any Stretch of Imagination"
The questions with wings - Matthew Zapruder "Water Street"
Fall is summer's bronze wing - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
A new instance of demented wing - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver
With wings of such tender filigrees - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 13" transl. by Katherine Silver
Pity a broken-winged wanderer - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson
Butterfly-winged sphinxes guarded their eggs - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Where chill-winged curlews dip and call - Adam Mickiewicz "Tschatir Dagh (The Pilgrim)" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
By this dark-winged planet - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
A thousand death-winged messengers - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Like the dusk-winged albatross - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Tempests of solar melody, vibrant and far-winged - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Fire-winged cats that light the nights - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
Golden-winged through the glory swim - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
A buzzing bouquet of moon-winged butterflies - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
Moth-winged Cupid painted on the air - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"
When winds are noisy-winged and high - Elizabeth Thornton Turner "The Pinewood People" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
The holy six-winged seraphim - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen
Stars that shower swift-winged light - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"
And watched Magellan's white-winged ships - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
Shrill the wind-winged heralds blew - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
Wingbeat.
Into a bat's wing-brush of air - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"
Wingless.
The ballet of wingspan - Michael Dumanis "Joseph Cornell, with Box"
The wingspan of an idea taking off - Carolina Ebeld "There Is a Devil Inside Me"
False eyes on the grayling's wingtips - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
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