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Sharp and melancholy discords - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

Making sharp their arms of terror - "Alain the Fox" (translated by F.G. Fleay)

Whose sharp incisors have gnawed many a keel - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Sharpened the vision that saw from all sides at once - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

Sharp singing aromas from scarred woks - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

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

Need a wind to strike sharply - Maya Angelou "A Georgia Song"

Became sharp flame to Shelley listening - Joseph Auslander "Is This the Lark!"

And sharper shot the rain - William Edmondstoune Aytoun "The Heart of Bruce"

The sharp bite of the bad apple - Mary Jo Bang "Given to Believe"

Mint which rewards me with its sharp identity - Ellen Bass "After Long Illness"

That sharp poison which is sin - Charles Baudelaire "An Allegory" transl. not credited

Sharp enough to cut bone & soul - Joshua Bennett "Invocation"

However bright his tools or sharp his skills - Jenny Blackford "Beneath the Wheeler Centre"

A shard of absence sharpens itself - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, you say all our bones are made of paper"

Sharp tang of other waters known - Elizabeth Bradfield "Learning to Swim"

Sharp explosions of the cracking ice - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall

If I can concentrate I might turn sharp - Dan Chiasson "Thread"

When Allen's rebel howl bares sharp canines - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [Allen Ginsburg ]

Turn with sharp stings upon itself - Arthur Hugh Clough "τὸ καλόν."

Sharp strokes fall piercing, unceasing, and true - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

The sharp points of envious wit - Abraham Cowley "To the Royal Society"

And hides from sharp knives in the night - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

When the sharp wedge cracks my arid heart - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"

The sharp and thirsty blood of Paris - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"

Her children's sharp swords out - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

From the sharp edges of the earth - H.D. "Circe"

Sharp-tongued flame of death - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"

Adds the sharp thunder of his cry - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"

Swapped prayer for sharp screams - Ajanae Dawkins "How to Witness a Miracle Without Converting"

Pinned up sharp in the ghost of a shawl - Walter de la Mare "The Little Creature"

Sharp pittances of years - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XI: Compensation"

When frosts too sharp became - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LIV: Charlotte Bronte's Grave"

Two better hemispheres without sharp north - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"

For winter's sharp profile - Elaine Equi "The Sensuous Reader"

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

All of sharp and new - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"

To the time's sharpest rim - Michael Field "Purgatory"

Tornado's sharp-toed steeds - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Resurrection"

But they the sharpest thorns who bear - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

My genes in the sharp light of the celestial - Suzi F. Garcia "A Modified Villanelle for My Childhood (with some help from Ahmad)"

Her sharply worded silences - Louise Gluck "Faithful and Virtuous Night"

Will sharper be than mine - John Goldie "And Can Thy Bosom?"

The sharp stars of the winter night - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"

The pitiless scar of Time's sharp claw - Mona Gould "Mirror"

The sharp thorn grows on the budding rose - Angelina Weld Grimké "When the Green Lies Over the Earth"

Sharp unrest of the young year - Louise Imogen Guiney "April Desire"

Sharpen wood's warp to a rust - francine j. harris "senses"

The sharp blade of autonomy - Yona Harvey "You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love"

Razor sharp petals as armor - fei hernandez "Singing Funeral"

Snow-sharp breath - William D. Hodjkiss "Song of the Storm Swept-Plain"

While Perfidy sharpened the dart - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

A love-fire sharp like pain - Langston Hughes "When Sue Wears Red"

The sharpest in the slaughter - John Imlah "Katherine and Donald"

For whom Death grew sharp - Lionel Johnson "A Song of Israel"

Where the sharpest knives are kept - Camisha L. Jones "Ode to the Chronically Ill Body"

Shrieks sharp as broken champagne flutes - Saeed Jones "Grief #213"

In the language of sharp turns - Saeed Jones "Jasper, 1998"

Ginger warm, garlic sharp, coriander mellow - Zilka Joseph "Kaulee Haddi"

Shameless spillage or sharp portrayal - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

Sharp focus that blurs and flattens - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

The sharp biting file of action - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [But to be still! oh, but to cease awhile]"

Have found my sin's sharp scourge - Fanny Kemble "To --- [What recks the sun, how weep the heavy flowers]"

The sharp silver of a mended heart - Vandana Khanna "Parvati: A Wife's Mantra"

Someone to smooth the sharp thorn of my head - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"

The sharpened fang of frost - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Weeding out sharp thorns and nettles - Jan Kochanowski "Laments V" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

The devil was sharpening his blade - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Her soprano spare and sharp in the night air - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"

A load sharper to bear - Archibald Lampman "Vivia Perpetua"

Silence and the sharp unpitying stars - Archibald Lampman "Winter Evening"

With a pencil sharpened on a chisel - Michael Lauchlan "Stairs"

Sharpening his teeth on the wolves - D.H. Lawrence "St Mark"

The fox's short sharp bark - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Who survived the sharpest edge of a knife - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: The Old Craft"

Her angles learned to grow some kind of sharpness - Ada Limon "The Angles Made at the Factory"

Spices like sharp sweet swords - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

A screeching thread, sharp and cutting - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"

The sharp edges of the night - Amy Lowell "The Taxi"

Rounds the sharp knobs of character - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"

Fields of lilies sharper than razors - Sally Wen Mao "The Belladonna of Sadness"

Sharpened life commands its course - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

Milk teeth sharpening a father's heart - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"

Where violence sharpens its eyes - Walter Dean Myers "Earl Prentiss, 39, Motorman"

Sharpened the edge of his soul - Pablo Neruda "Appointment with Winter" transl. by Alastair Reid

The odor of sharp solitude - Pablo Neruda "The Egoist" transl. by William O'Daly

Sharp right angles passed heading northward - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Sharpest dangled by the roots - Caroline Harper New "Etymology of Chlorophyll"

The clear sharp fact beneath your feet - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

The sharp chisels of frost - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard V: The Return"

Cluttered days so sharp they cut - Naomi Shihab Nye "Coming Soon"

A break from sun's sharp gaze - Naomi Shihab Nye "Each Day We Are Given So Many Gifts"

rage does sharpen my back teeth - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"

Sharp stones beneath the wayward lemongrass - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

Slate makes knives for sharpening fingers - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

What to call this sharpest desire - Mary Oliver "Something"

What to call this sharpest desire - Mary Oliver "Something"

And walked barefoot on the sharp stones - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"

Flowers with knife-sharp petals - Linda Pastan "Renunciation"

Sharpens over a dominion of seeds - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"

Coiling into thickets of sharp weeds - Kiki Petrosino "In Louisa"

The dead thorns sharper than the green - Robert Pinsky "The Thicket"

The gleaming edges of Fate's sharpest knife - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Scar"

hope on ice sharpened days and nights - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Stings the air like a sharp herb - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

Snare you on my sharper edges - Lola Ridge "Secrets"

Fate's sharpest stroke is kind - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"

Sharpened by crawling over diamonds - Kay Ryan "Diamonds"

Each word sharpening a knife - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"

Bearing fire & sharp obsidian - Ann K. Schwader "Fiesta of Our Lady"

Before the sovereignity of sharper gales - Ann K. Schwader "Lavinia in Autumn"

Their sharp ends meeting at the center - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

The barn swallows' sharp flight and cry - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

The sharpest knife in the drawer - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"

For thee my sword was sharpened and my spear - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"

Sharp and rainbow splinters - Edith Sitwell "Fireworks"

Sharp levin leaping in the north - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

Instead of something sharper - Danez Smith "say it with your whole black mouth"

Where our sharp, sworded lightning cut sudden - Alfred B. Street "Averill's Raid" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

The sharp finger-tips of frost - Muriel Stuart "Forgotten Dead, I Salute You"

That knife of sharp separation - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 124: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

With the sharpness of a paper's edge - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini

With sharp machete eyes - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"

Hunger is sharper nor a thorn - "There Was a Knight"

Mellow the blackbird sang and sharp the thrush - Edward Thomas "The Brook"

This clown's sharp teeth and jeering bite - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"

Blade made sharp by a throat - Paul Tran "Terroir"

The surtures of the moon drift into sharpness - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"

A sharp and kindling mirth - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

A blade that sharpens by cutting - Ocean Vuong "Headfirst"

A razor sharpened with silence - Ocean Vuong "Thanksgiving 2006"

A blur behind the sharpness of irises, waiting - T.D. Walker "Iris"

Hatred more sharp than a sword - William Watson "England to Ireland"

Sharp spines worn smooth by wind - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Seashell"

Sharp and shrill as swords at strife - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"

Quarreling with sharp voices - William Carlos Williams "Pastoral [The little sparrows]"

Thin blades you sharpen in the gloaming - G.E. Woods "How to Skin Your Wolf"

The sharpest edges of this life's perimeter - Jenny Xie "Postmemory"


Whispered queries marlin-sharp - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Those razor-sharp moments you catch - Lore Graham "Absence"

On sharp-edged, malachite wings - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

Down on the sharp-horned ledges - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Sharp-pointed skeletons of ancient geometric trolls - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"

Sheltered by sharp-speared gorse and the berried junipers - Edward Shanks "The Glow-Worm"


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