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That withers quickly back into dark water - Duane Ackerson "A Ghost Story"

The quick explosions in his soul - Harold Acton "The Prodigal Son"

The needle of quick joy point truly - A.C. Ainsworth "The Meeting at Sea"

Plucked quick in June's surrender - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "I Wonder"

The changeling cursed with a quickness too sharp - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

And run quickly into their tomorrows - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"

The quick lens shifts to a fragmenting figure - Mary Jo Bang "Nothing Compares to Daphne in Green"

How quickly oil moves to aluminum - Mary Jo Bang "S Is for Strategies for Making Sense of Spectacles"

Quick and painlessly employed - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"

Quicker and more furtive than time - Maxwell Bodenheim "North Clark Street, Chicago"

Twigs show again in the quick cleavage of season - Louise Bogan "Elders"

Move to the quick measure of the hours - Walter Richard Cassels "Spring"

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

Blend with the war drum's quick and angry beat - Ralph Chaplin "To France"

The quick robin with his range of silver notes - Clarence Cook "The Maple Tree"

My heart is quick to bleed - Countee Cullen "Wisdom Cometh with the Years"

Called Satan to a quick account - T.D. Curtis "The Cross and Crown: The Cross"

A blackbird flying so quickly west - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

All April's quick desire - Edward Dowden "An Autumn Song"

As sharp and quick as regret - Andrew Feld "Great Hill Lyric"

With quivering, quick blades of steel - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

My heart skipped quicker than a swallow's - Vievee Francis "Sugar and Brine: Ella's Understanding"

His quick coin of breath - Leah Naomi Green "To the Cardinal, Attacking His Reflection in the Window"

Although the gate slammed quickly to - Oliver Herford "The Satyr"

Too quick and too far West - Faylita Hicks "Self-Care"

The inward seeds of quick decay - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

Shy rabbits with quick fears - Lionel Johnson "In England"

A quick replay of all my dawns - Mary Karr "For My Children"

To light me quick as a fickle flame - Vandana Khanna "Name Calling"

The wet silver of quick wings open against eternity - Yusef Komunyakaa "Nighthawks"

Where the quick winds shiver - Archibald Lampman "Freedom"

An aperture's quick snap - Keith Leonard "Museum"

And quick with rot - J. Patrick Lewis "The Voice of the Voiceless"

Come quick to the breaking - Ada Limon "Evolution"

One quick breath of peach-bloom fantasy - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Quick pardon for the selfish years - Don Marquis "The Land of Yesterday"

Just a quick inhale before I tiptoed out - Adrian Matejka "17 Kinds of Hungry"

Who in a quick obedience move - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"

Quick as blushes start - George Marion McClellan "In the Heart of a Rose"

The quick shadows of the sparrows fall - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"

A quick line taut in the mind - N. Scott Momaday "The Mythic Harpoon"

A fugitive's note slipped quick to the future - John Murillo "On Metaphor"

Quicker ruin's instrument - Robert Nichols "The Man of Honour"

Quicker than rock - Lorine Niedecker "Wintergreen Ridge"

The quick wrist of early summer - Mary Oliver "Black Snake This Time"

The quick white summer rain - Mary Oliver "Maples"

Quick as thistles - Mary Oliver "West Wind 3"

How quickly one carves out a corner of the cosmos - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"

The best dreams vanish most quickly - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: Eve"

Lacking the quickness of youth - Ron Padgett "Sideways Guy"

Around and around that quickly setting sun - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"

From the regions of air, quick descending - "The Peacock and Parrot, on their Tour to Discover the Author of 'The Peacock at Home'"

The quick unerring aim of volley'd thunder winged with flame - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]

Wild and quick as tinder - James Whitcombe Riley "Natural Perversities"

Quick visions of celestial grace - James Jeffrey Roche "Three Doves"

Quickness is not the order of time - Varsha Saraiya-Shah "Anthem for America"

When these quicker elements are gone - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"

quick light flowing down the back of my throat - Evie Shockley "black love"

More quick to cry its agony - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"

Mount your chariot quickly - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 181: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Among things quick and shimmering in the light - Keith Taylor "The Biblical Allotment"

Catching quick moments of sunlight - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

Quickly shifting puddles of purpler half-light - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

A quick recognition of my moment in their lives - Keith Taylor "Twenty-Three Nuns on Warren Road"

Both quick with rhapsodies - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXII: Soul and Body II"

Sky would quick forget - Pamela Uschuk "Green Flame"

Piercing the dead with the quick - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XVII"

Within a single pulsing of the quick heart - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"

Fractured, divided to the quick - C. Dale Young "Portrait in Graphite and Ornamental Hagiography"


Quickened the wraith with fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Tormented by the quickened blood - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh"

And silence quickened into sound - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"

Quickener of earth's joy - Edward Dowden "Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl's Version of Vigny's 'Chatterton'"

Quicken me to trembling silence - Mona Gould "Immortal"

Withhold the quickening radiance - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"

Quickens the unclasping hands - D.H. Lawrence "Study"

Quickened remembrance of departed days - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The space of a quickened heartbeat - Walter Dean Myers "Dana Greene, 18, Education Major, City College"

Peals along the quickening ear - O. "Good-Night" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.446, 17 July 1852]

Letting hunger quicken the hunter in me - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

In your quickening dust - Charles G.D. Roberts "O Earth, Sufficing All Our Needs"

When thought's abdication quickens - Delmore Schwartz "The First Morning of the Second World"

Glowing forth to young imagination's quickened sight - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

With what deep thirst we quicken - William Carlos Williams "Smell!"


This revel of quick-cued mumming - Thomas Hardy "According to the Mighty Working"


With each quick-passing impulse - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Trust in God"


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