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From the blue gift of the sky - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"

A gift so like death - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"

The serpent who gifted her with feathers of every color - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

When did he first discover this gift for equilibrium? - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

A gift I never expected - Mouna Ammar "My All-American Car - A Story"

Galled by the gift of a clock - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"

Taking old gifts and granting new - Park Benjamin "Press On"

A gift of pain disguised - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"

A dwindling gift are you, laughter - Maxwell Bodenheim "Gifts"

No gift nor denial - Louise Bogan "Words for Departure"

Brought me finer gifts than gold - Vera M. Brittain "To Monseigneur"

Grateful for the gift divine - Anne Bronte "A Word to the 'Elect'"

But careless gifts are seldom prized - Emily Bronte "Plead for Me"

A gift someone had to die for him to use - Jericho Brown "Reunion Tour"

In all his gifts forgot - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"

Where waves bring gifts of kelp - Sue Budin "Jigsaw"

A gift through curves lit only by aurorae - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"

Magnificent gifts to a world-renowned king - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Equal gifts of anger, love, and power - Giosue Carducci "In Santa Croce" transl. by Frank Sewall

With my best gifts abounding - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall

Had no gift of abundance - John Ciardi "Abundance"

Put by these unreturning gifts - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Slow to part with her best gifts - Florence Earle Coates "Probation"

In the prison of the gifted - Leonard Cohen "Happens to the Heart"

Gifting the sea's new strange stones - Donte Collins "they need some of us to die"

A gifted black & white postcard - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"

Gifts I ask not of Apollo - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"

No gift within our hands - H.D. "Prayer"

Precious gifts of quietness - Ruben Dario "A Sonnet on Cervantes" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva

The vain gifts and joys which she displays - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]


A costlier gift than gold - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ever blessed be the day]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Not all my weeping might the gift obtain - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In all the world is none so happy here]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

The perished gifts of the past restore - Delta "A Wild-Flower Garland: The Sweet Briar" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

Language is a double edged gift - Dom "A WORD ON WORDS-revised 2002"

A gift from Madagascar - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"

All gifts of earth above - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Wife's Last Gift"

A hoard of never-given gifts - Edward Dowden "First Love"

Your gift of dews and light - Edward Dowden "Flowers from the South of France"

Returning the gift of song - Lord Dunsany "The Return of Song"

Gifts of companionship and solitude - Stephen Dunn "You'd Be Right"

The gift of warning - Katherine Edgren "The Gift of Warning"

Pink seafoam leaves odd gifts - Lupita Eyde-Tucker "Beachcomber Nocturne"

To burn the gifts of all my broken years - Beulah Field "Tokens"

Hollow gifts to cold children - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"

A gift for her perpetual gaze - Annie Finch "Samhain"

The gift of two glass eyes - Sandy Florian "Abacus"

The gift that is my name - Angelo Geter "Praise"

Ambassadors exchanging costly gifts - Dana Gioia "Three Drunk Poets"

Bringing gifts we can't reciprocate - Dana Gioia "Tinsel, Frankincense, and Fir"

The one gift that will not disappear but waits - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Ten years had poured their various gifts on earth - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

All the gifts that spring from ripest age - Herbert H. Gowen "What the Wise Men Saw"

And my wound will acquire the gift of sight - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

We forgot to acknowledge the gift - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"

That Gift of Gold to him denied - Oliver Herford "To My Toy Canary"

The wheel of gifts and grief - Conrad Hilberry "Christmas Night"

When a gift arrives from the sea - Jane Hirshfield "Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World"

Gifts for which I am not prepared - Tony Hoagland "Entangled"

Whose gift you do not yet know - Carlie Hoffman "Driving Through Maspeth, NY, After Teaching an Introduction to Creative Writing Class"

A gift of yearnings and despairs - Aldous Huxley "Villiers de l'Isle-Adam"

Gifted their children scraps of antique rockets - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

Gift my rings as circlets of celestial flowers - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

These sweet and acid gifts - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"

Carryout and unwrapped gifts - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Another Epitaph for Nino"

A night replete with gifts of June - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Gifted this planet with all of its lemon trees - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"

Like the little gifts shame gives us - Courtney Kampa "Confiteor"

The Power that lent such gifts - Fanny Kemble "To Mrs. --- [I never shall forget thee--'tis a word]"

And judge them gifts of kindly chance - T.M. Kettle "Sowing (Written in 1899)"

Take God's gracious gift of night - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

The little gifts of loneliness come wrapped by nervous fingers - Ted Kooser "Pocket Poem"

Of equal gifts and deeds - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"

The sweet gift of light and air - Archibald Lampman "Vivia Perpetua"

Passed the gift of power from palm to palm - Ruth Lechlitner "Only the Years"

Gift dreaming in the laboring mind - Ruth Lechlitner "Only the Years"

To receive the black gifts of a mountain road - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

Seize this intimate gift of silence - Amy Lowell "Dreams"

Hoping for a gift that stays ungiven - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"

My reaching fingers glitter with their gift - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

Gifts hoisted to the vanishing point - J. Michael Martinez "[Untitled]"

Follow some Helen for her gift of grief - John Masefield "Ships"

Strength to endure the gifts of the Muses - Edgar Lee Masters "Inexorable Deities"

Various gifts of flesh and spirit - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

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"

One more gift I squandered to survive - Claire Millikin "Floyd Burroughs' Second Pack of Cigarette"

To hold such gifts in scorn - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"

Gifted with the frequent fate of dusk-lit hope - William Moore "Expectancy"

Handed over gifts and debts - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Refuse the capricious gift of Fate - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

Buried each gift in small boxes along the beach - Caroline Harper New "Searching for Amelia [My grandpa was loyal]"

The gift of colour's mystic form - Grace Nichols "Rivers"

With their gifts of replenishment - Mary Oliver "Of Goodness"

Our bodies small gifts of innocence - Nome Emeka Patrick "Naked"

Gifts we stored the ages through - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

That they might offer gifts acceptable - Sir Thomas Phillipps "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" (transl. by Samuel Weller Singer)

The gift of minted treasure - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"

Her Mother dying of the gift she gave - Samuel Rogers "Ginevra"

Gifts delivered without a sense of etiquette - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"

The bundles of nothing that are our gift - Kay Ryan "The Material"

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

At the gates of tombs silence is a gift - Carl Sandburg "At the Gates of Tombs"

Gifted nature with divinity to lift and link - Friedrich Schiller "The Gods of Greece" transl. not credited

Who has the fairest gifts of all the earth to give - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"

Not one awakes to ask what gift she brings - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

Such the gifts our planet proffers - "The Sleeping Peri: Lines Suggested by Palmer's Statue" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

And the gift of the periphery - Karen Solie "The Trees in Riverdale Park"

Hath the Edens in her gift - George Sterling "White Magic"

Soaking in the final gift of sun - Jacqueline Suskin "Sunrise, Sunset"

Time, with a gift of tears - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Creation of Man"

The gifts of his grace recover - Algernon Swinburne "Sleep"

Hexes, unwanted gifts, and othersuch hexes - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart" [sic]

Among our fragile, vanishing gifts - Keith Taylor "Acolytes in the Bird-While"

All thy gifts were made more rich, more rare - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: V"

A gift of quicksand kisses, a ruin of howling - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

A garnet stone to match my gift - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

An order of allowance and gift and a decree of density - Leah Umansky "Unleashed" [Poetry Nov. 2020]

Gifted keepsakes by their kings - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

The bright awe of his gift - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954

A gift for our unboxing - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Pole| |Sport"

When Autumn lavished her gifts untold - W.P.W. "Love's Seasons" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.149--v.III, 6 Nov. 1886]

Left inwardly such grand and gracious gifts - Edith Wharton "Sonnets: III. Bettine to Goethe"

A charge transmitted and gift occult - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"

And leave no gifts but bitterness - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"

Gifts well used and duty done - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Name"

To them I may have owed another gift - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"

The innocent gift of strangers - Jay Wright "Boli"

A gift of faithful forgetting - Jay Wright "Boli"

Tenaciously counting its gifts - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"

Small gifts laden with love's intentions - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Useless for gift wrapping and relay races - Dean Young "I Said Yes but I Meant No" [Poetry Oct. 2003]

Gift of a forgotten godmother - Josephine Yu "An Unfinished Fairytale from the Palm-Leaf Manuscript"

Do not disdain its brimming gift - Yu Wu-ling "Offering Wine" transl. by Burton Watson


In whose memory the women bring us this huge gift horse - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"


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