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The nimble words have fled - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"

Fled into the air like frightened birds - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"

Fled from the cloister - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 31"

When joy's ephemeral beams had fled - W.G.C. "Yesterday" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Three days we've fled together - Thomas Campbell "Lord Ullin's Daughter"

With sombre hauntings fled - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

Knowing his soul was fled - C.P. Cavafy "The Horses of Achilles" (translated by John Marvrogordato)

Fled the dragons of the dark - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Fled from the red destroyer - James H. Cousins "Schakhe"

The blackbird has fled to another retreat - William Cowper "The Poplar Field"

We fled inland with our flocks - H.D. "The Helmsman"

Flee into some forgotten night - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"

Loves quench'd, hopes past, friends lost, and pleasures fled - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]

The prowling gnat fled fast away - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Who never from Apollo fled - Michael Field "[It was deep April, and the morn]"

Every ghost you thought had fled - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Making Home"

Beacon-lights of ages fled - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Fled to electrical dark water - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"

Forever fled from time's bleak desert shore - E. Curtiss Hine "Christine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

The low night-wind had fled - Mary Gardiner Horsford "The Pilgrims' Fast"

That fled with the monarch of light - Mary Gardiner Horsford "Pleurs"

That fled that hellish furnace - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"

Where has fled the happy dream - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"

The kingbird and the pensive thrush are fled - Archibald Lampman "September"

Fled me like a hunted fawn - Richard Le Gallienne "To My Wife, Mildred"

But fled in baffled rage away - George Martin "Marguerite"

That flee before a blowing wind - Theodore Maynard "To a Bad Atheist"

Southward fled the arctic bird - Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee "Our Ladye of the Snow"

When faith is fled and hope is dead - Harriet Monroe "Hope"

As a hound behind fled sheep - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

One serpent thought that fled not - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "My Seal-Ring"

When every other source of joy has fled - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"

When time's night has fled - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

He would have fled from Paradise - Joshua Ross "On a Lady's Eyes"

When tyrants fled our rescued land - "Rule, Columbia" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

A thousand times that mirrored glory fled - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"

Fled with a roar through the rock - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"

Until their memory be fled - George Sterling "The Nile"

One moment fled out of immortal lands - W.J. Turner "Death"

He even fled a cloud - Joshua Weiner "Art Pepper"

The sound of dreams is fled - John Hall Wheelock "Mirror"

To cut across the reflex of a star that fled - William Wordsworth "Skating"

As the procession before me fled - Lynn Xu "[And as the procession]"


To mercy's door I flee - A.L.O.E. "Hymn for the Penitent Convict"

All the friends of daylight flee - Alun "The Nightingale" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Grown quiet from fleeing - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"

Flee upon the pinions of a song - Cora C. Bass "Old Year, Adieu"

Drinking the winds that flee - Charles Baudelaire "Music" transl. not credited

Flee from the tyrant Circe's witcheries - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Seeker after lands that flee - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

To flee the hypnotic force of such coercions - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"

Where Macha's flame-tongued horses flee - Thomas Boyd "The King's Son"

Flee on hoofs of thunder - Thomas Boyd "The King's Son"

Flee such faithlessness - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 12"

How to flee from such a flamboyant backdraft - Mahogany L. Browne "litany"

Flee the eye of Truth - Lyman Bryson "The Prophet"

Force me to flee their fists and their fights - Stephanie Burt "Hank McCoy's Complaint Against the Danger Room"

Flee the whirling hum of London - Roger Casement "Verses (Sent from the Congo Free State in response to Mr. Harrison's appeal for the Restoration of the Elgin Marbles to Greece)"

Nights so quick to flee - Willa Cather "Evening Song"

Neither flee nor be kept - Jennifer Chang "A Horse Named Never"

Ganymede fleeing on a temple frieze - Dan Chiasson "Tackle Football"

To flee because home wouldn't let us stay - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

And fleeing fast from hell - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "That Hill"

Fleeing sandstorms, terror, and splendor - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Flees the passion of our eyes - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"

Fleeing in fear from their own shadows - Charles Gibson "Sonnets IX"

and flight is an act of fleeing - Kara Jackson "fleeing"

Shadowy forms that mock and flee - Sir Nizamat Jung "Prologue"

Even if we flee there is no escape - Mahmud Kashgari "Alp Er Tunga" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken

Afar from earthly haunts I'd flee - L.E.L. "The Skylark"

Fleeing hosts by flaming angels led - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"

entrenched in their desire to flee - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"

Boys fleeing from the day's end - Tariq Luthun "The Summer My Cousin Went Missing"

Has no wings to flee - Airea D. Matthews "etymology"

Across the fleeing squadron's way - John McCrae "The Captain"

Should fortune frown and false friends flee - John Napier "Who Knows?"

Fleeing from unexpected flame - Pablo Neruda "Alliance (Sonata)" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Of shadow recently fleeing - Pablo Neruda "One Day Stands Out" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Flee for refuge from our doubt - Walter S. Percy "What Is Faith?"

Fleeing women nearing the abyss - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"

His exile doom to flee - John Rollin Ridge "The Harp of Broken Strings"

The crabs flee deep into the dunes - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"

The rose flees from autumn - Rumi "The World Gave Thee False Clues" transl. by R.A. Nicholson

Like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"

Like falcon swift did flee - Taras Shevchenko "The Night of Taras" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Fleeing moons a traveller sees - Clark Ashton Smith "Strangeness"

And all the ganders flee - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 35: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Desperately fleeing this frame - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 195: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Fleeing night creatures undoing themselves above the streetlights - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"

Fleeing again to the stars - Sara Teasdale "New Year's Dawn-- Broadway"

In and out the enchanted shadows flee - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"

Who cannot from their shadow flee - William Watson "Nay, Bid Me Not My Cares to Leave"

That flees the void of emptiness - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 16" transl. by Katherine Silver


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