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Bears 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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