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Tendered to me for shelter - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Rage roasting me tender - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

With tender anise overweighed - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

Delicate hold and tender rearrangement - Carl Adamshick "The solitude of an apricot"

Tender rearrangement of what is missing - Carl Adamshick "The solitude of an apricot"

Tender breath of mountains - Francisco X. Alarcon "Mountain Mist"

And whisper tenderly of generous love - Louisa May Alcott "The Frost-King: or, The Power of Love"

Tenderness under the blown red wing - Meena Alexander "Darling Coffee"

Tender rain for aching hills - Charles Ashleigh "Beyond Good and Evil" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

tender our hands to the dove - Elizabeth Bartlett "journey to jerusalem"

'neath a tender southern sky - Cora C. Bass "Dead on the Field of Battle"

Ebb and flow within my tender heart - Charles Best "A Sonnet of the Moon"

The tenderness you wanted here - Robert Bly "Prayer for My Father"

Tender grass will hide the rugged stone - Arna Bontemps "My Heart Has Known Its Winter"

Makes tender twilight of her face - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A Portrait"

Melt in tender light - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

A red and tender radiance - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

The rudest boughs were tender - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"

A question of tender regard - Jennifer Chang "The Winter's Wife"

Blooming like rust under oil and tender iron - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"

With tenderness falling inside - Tiana Clark "800 Days: Libation"

For want of tenderness - Lucille Clifton [untitled]

Shall be sheriff of my tender zoo - CAConrad "Sharking of the Birdcage"

Feel the willow's tender kiss - Benjamin Copeland "The Meadow Air Is Sweet"

Where only tenderness would think to look - Geffrey Davis "For the Child's Mole"

Loving with such a tender fear - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Crescendo"

To veil command in tender invitation - Edward Dowden "Europa"

Tenderer than the glaring day - Edward Dowden "Sea Voices"

The tender Sorrows of the twilight - Edward Dowden "A Song of the New Day"

gunpowder scorching the tender from your fingers - Elliott Dunstan "Inherited Battlefield"

The flame of its tenderest breath - A.E. "Love"

And minister to them with tender care - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"

Roses white and lilies tender - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Guarded by a tender choir - Edmund Gosse "Alere Flammam"

By some more tender breeze - Rae Gouirand "At the Rough Table"

To the wind's violent tenderness - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

Through dawns of tenderness I see - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

The tender dread of parting - Alfred Hayes "My Study"

Though of tenderness they bring no token - Walter Herries [found in his papers after his death, attribution uncertain] "Good-Night" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Winners yet in its tender shine - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

As the tender love the strong - Jean Ingelow "The Four Bridges"

Hope with her tender colors - Jean Ingelow "Laurance"

A kevlar of tenderness enveloping me - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "jersey fems in the philly zoo"

The pattern night pens on tender skin - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Tender soul with anguish torn - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The tender message Hope might send - Henry Kendall "At Dusk"

Spring's thousand tender greens - Jane Kenyon "The Clearing"

A sweet elixir tendering me to sleep - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

The tender scarf of warm mercies - Joseph O. Legaspi "Vows (for a gay wedding)"

And stood out blackly from a tender sky - Amy Levy "Xantippe"

Tenderness troubles each of us differently - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

A thousand, thousand tender ties - Norman MacLeod "Farewell to Fiunary"

The tender sound of seashells - Ricardo Alberto Maldonado "A Few Things Are Explained To Me"

still tender with her calculated allocated affection - Caroline Mao "When My Father Reprograms My Mother {"

The dangerous, tender regard of the gods - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"

As if the will is tender - Dawn Lundy Martin "The Laceration"

A tender chilling bliss - Susan McCabe "Tasting the Last of the Ice Age"

Such tenderness this early morning - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

Baptized in tender rain - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"

Too tender for all the passions - Claude McKay "O Word I Love to Sing"

Into a symbol of the tender moon - Claude McKay "On a Primitive Canoe"

Worthy of our tenderness - Mark McMorris "The Thought of the World"

Nor the tender bloom of promise - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

Spoke so tenderly of peace - Phillip Metres "My Heart like a Nation"

The tender stops of various quills - John Milton "Lycidas"

Grace forged in tender bones - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Mercy Beach"

Tender with my terrors - Kamilah Aisha Moon "The Spider's Lesson"

Burn clear against a sky of tender blue - William Moore "Here in the Time of the Winter Morn"

The last word still tender - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

The tender gravity of kindness - Naomi Shihab Nye "Kindness"

A sword-wound to that tender heart - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

May pass for a tender word spoken - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"

Veil away your tender eyes - Dorothy Parker "For an Unknown Lady"

My affections refused to become tender - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"

Tenderer hands than ours - Carl Phillips "From a Land Called Near-Is-Far"

Keep a space for tenderness - Carl Phillips "Stamina"

In the tender compassion that sweetly consoles - "Potential Moods" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]

Enchain dew-soft darks in silence tender - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Tenderness as reciprocity - Sina Queyras "The Couriers"

Stirred in tender dreams - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Moon's Message"

Into the tenderest hint of jade - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Nothing hurts like tenderness - James Whitcombe Riley "What Redress"

My tenderness paints it large - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

More tender than downpour's tremor - Raquel Salas Rivera "the independence (of puerto rico)"

The moonlight's tender mystery - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Chance Acquaintance"

Words of sorrowing tenderness - Alice Wellington Rollins "The Difference"

Among the lilies lapped in the tender light - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

Press a point in the tender arch - Kay Ryan "Chinese Foot Chart"

Even my dreams of tenderness - Omar Sakr "Where I am Not"

Spoke such a tender word - May Sarton "Small Joys: New Year 1990"

Wind which tenders astonishment - Purvi Shah "You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious--"

In tender embassy of love - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"

Tender as sleep to old regret - George Sterling "The Strange Bird"

On the tender tongue of the little snakes - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The tender grace of a day that is dead - Tennyson "Break, Break, Break"

In offices of tenderness - Alfred Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"

tender shoots and root vegetables - Laura Theis "Some Pointers on Dating a Were-Hare"

That vision tender, over all my loss and pain - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

A note in a tender sequence - Chase Twichell "Inland"

This landscape's clear and tender sky - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires I" transl. by Alma Strettell

Our tender impossible longing - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"

Infinite tenderness on every side - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"

This softly tendered now - Sam Witt "The First Law of Entanglement: From the Swimming Pool Where You Drowned, to an Underworld Hospital, to Your .357 Magnum Sinking Down Forever to the Harbor Bed"

Too tender to be given or be lent - Humbert Wolfe "Heine's Last Song"

Not tenderness in the eye - C. Dale Young "The Second Fallacy"

Tossing the elm-tree's tender tassels - Francis Brett Young "England--April, 1918"

Whose heart most tender stars illume - Francis Brett Young "The Rain-Bird"

With wings of such tender filigrees - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 13" transl. by Katherine Silver

Tender marriage without terror - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"


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