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The dreadful diagrams of his nerves - William Archila "Beyond Bruegel's Shore"

Ten times the nerve, which is stitching darkness - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

His blighted sinews nerved and strung - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

A torture in each nerve - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"

Between nerve and the crime it loves - Tommye Blount "Lycanthropy"

Weird, tiny knives of nerves and wits - Louise Morey Bowman "The Birth-Night"

Those long-frayed endings of every nerve tingling - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Till nerve and force are spent - Lewis Carroll "Phantasmagoria: Canto VI. Dyscomfyture"

Nerves of lightning - Rosario Castellanos "Three Poems"

Every nerve and sinew tell on ages - Arthur Cleveland Coxe "Onward"

Wrought every nerve to ecstasy - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

Raised to the power of all the nerves in the human brain - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"

Setting a nation's nerves on edge - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

Of sensation and nerve - Stephen Dunn "Split:1962"

All her roads are nerves of noble thought - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

There is no empire in nerve - Tracy Fuad "Eclipse Season"

A net of empire sewn with nerve - Tracy Fuad "Eclipse Season"

A twist of nerves and brittle gears - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"

Nerved with the strength of wild despair - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

The nerve at the center of the bone - Joy Harjo "The Black Room"

Breathe vigor through each nerve - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"

To mount the tempest-cloud with nerve unfailing - Mary E. Hewitt "I Follow" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

That once grew into our nerves and veins - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

And the nerve of the hunter is steady - Chas. G. Leland "The Wolf Hunt" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]

Rude-nerved as bears - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Stretched his nerves of subtile wire - James Russell Lowell "Science and Poetry"

Our heirlooms of shot nerves - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

An arm all nerve and a heart all fire - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Made of nerves and steel springs - John Masefield "Right Royal"

The nerve I had to fold time - Farid Matuk "When I Look at Pictures"

Stitch together bone and sinew, muscle and nerve - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"

Your hungers from their nerve - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

My last nerve's lucid music - Harryette Mullen "Page 1/Sapphire's lyre styles"

Every morsel with nerve enough to be - Angel Nafis "Angel's Heart Clowns the Ocean"

No more than a filigree of nerves - Pablo Neruda "The South" transl. by Alastair Reid

Shining in our net of nerves - Kiki Petrosino "This Is How We Feed the Animals"

Gnawing at the endings of your nerves - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Nidhigg"

Where the deadened nerves so soon forget - Edward Shanks "The Return"

Loss which bared the utmost shivering nerve - Edward Shanks "The Return"

Had numbered all the nerves of pain - George Sterling "The Swoon"

A needle on the nerves of sight - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"

A nerve of the cosmos - Jean Toomer "As the Eagle Soars"

Nerves quelled by a dry wind - Jenny Xie "Present Continuous"

Offering the nerves of a future - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

Deep in the nerve - Rachel Zucker "Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs"


The nerve endings of tendons are fueled by the sun - Rodrigo Toscano "Habilitas"


Inviting the nerveless to feel - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"


Nervous.


Neural/Neuron.


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