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Her hands the fatal cup supplied - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XXI: The Fratricide" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Caught in her own fatal snare - Maurice Baring "Phedre"

As fatal victims of perfection - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

Obedient to my fatal mood - Charles Baudelaire "The Little Old Women" transl. not credited

From top to bottom of the fatal stair - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

A fatal blade, unthwarted, subtle as the air - Stella Benson "The Inevitable"

Where no fatal adder hisses - John Philip Bourke "The Pilgrimage"

A fatal sense of blankness - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

Slow plague shall bring the fatal hour - William Cullen Bryant "Sonnet to --"

When FOLLY first assum'd her fatal power - William Combe "The First of April"

The fatal spell of the betrayer's art - Benjamin Copeland "Betrayed"

Too well they act the prophet's fatal part - George Crabbe "The Library"

The fireside boast that sows the fatal seed - Geoffrey Dearmer "On the Road"

To her cruel, fatal prison - Mary Mapes Dodge "Elfin Jack, the Giant Killer"

That fairest states have fatal nights and days - William Drummond "Ah! Would 'Twere So"

Before the woodman's fatal stroke - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"

Watch with care the fatal enemy - Eliza "The Broken Heart" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Down to the fatal shore where sirens smile - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"

Upon the fatal night before the storm - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

She'd never asked it the fatal question - Theodora Goss "Snow White Learns Witchcraft"

The dark king's fatal spear - Ieuan Gwynedd "Go and Dig a Grave for me" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

At last the fatal morning came - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"

Brew us fatal pleasures - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Wilde"

With his fatal scythe and glass - Henry B. Hirst "The Death of the Year"

I'd share your fatal exile as a privilege and pride - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Proving" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Fair and fatal king - Lionel Johnson "By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross"

Prepare the secret of the fatal hours - Lionel Johnson "Mystic and Cavalier"

One dark, fatal, deep eclipse - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

I cannot leave my fatal conquest - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Bent against their fatal gravity - Thomas Lynch "I Felt Myself Turning"

On the blossoms fatal nectar sips - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

To Midas lent the fatal gift of gold - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Few note that fatal bloom - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Some fatal food of fancy - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

A fatal deftness - Glenn Mott "Amaryllis"

The fatal ashes of your mask - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Atom" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Untamed by all its fatal wanderings - J.G. Percival "The Soul"

Her fatal gifts relinquish or resign - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Must win some flaming, fatal climax - Siegfried Sassoon "Dreamers"

The Fairies' fatal green - Sir Walter Scott "Alice Brand"

Heroes before each fatal sweep fell thick - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

Whose eager haste the fatal jar to know - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]

The fatal place itself unmarked - Too-qua-stee "Truth Is Mortal"

The fatal pilots of the spider - Cesar Vallejo "Spider" translated by 'The Friend'

What threads the fatal sisters spun - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Who knew the virtue of the fatal fruit - "The Whore"

Sunk in Avon's fatal wave - Anna Williams "On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philips"

Fatal hours scored by falling timber - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

A good record of that fatal point - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #18" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Fatalists of that most recent stamp - Harry Martinson "Aniara 5" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg


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