Potential Titles: Flock

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Attacked by particularly territorial and predatory flocks of clouds - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"

A flock of blackbirds that only comes back later - Duane Ackerson "What If"

All five senses, in a flock, go south to weather winter - Geoffrey Brock "Goodbye"

Numberless flocks in the field and the fold - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

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

Searched for her stolen flock of stars - W.H. Davies "In May"

A waft of flocking linnets - Walter de la Mare "The Unfinished Dream"

The thrilling flute that marks the curlew flock - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

A flock buried in the blindness of winter - Joseph Fasano "Mahler in New York"

The unbroken flock of starling dark between them - Katie Ford "Koi"

A loose flock of blackbirds sweeping over - Vievee Francis "Clarity"

The hen her tiny flock enfolds - Paul Gerhardt "Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud" transl. by James W. Alexander

And scored a flock of zeroes on my tally-board - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Bluff a flock of dragons with a safety pin - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

The wrangling sea-gull flock - Lionel Johnson "In England"

The flocks which feed on a thousand hills - Edward Smyth Jones "A Song of Thanks"

To guard a thousand flocks - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Where never Shepherd fed his Flock - Anne Killigrew "The Complaint of a Lover"

A flock of birds that can make no song - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"

High and clear as a flock of blackbirds - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"

Grew with the flocking stars - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"

And the quaint crows flock thicker - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"

Blowing little flocks of birds like spray - D.H. Lawrence "Patience"

A flock of leaves came sobbing - Agnes Lee "The Silent House"

Hovers with a flock of gulls - Joanie Mackowski "View from a Temporary Window"

Little shepherd moon and flock of stars - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"

A carrion flock of homing-birds - John Masefield "A Creed"

Already eye level to the flocking blackbirds - Adrian Matejka "I Say the Thing for the First Time"

A flock of bells take flight - Alice Meynell "Chimes"

Flocks of fancies, wild of whim - Alice Meynell "The Fold"

A flock of winds came winging - Alice Meynell "The Roaring Frost"

Her flocks are thoughts - Alice Meynell "The Shepherdess"

Together flocking from celestial haunts - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Heaven" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

A flock of nightjars watching over me - John Murillo "Dolores, Maybe"

A flock of braying gestures - Xan Forest Phillips "Sometimes Boyhood"

My flock of dreams come home to me - Miriam Clark Potter "The Flock of Dreams"

Flocks follow buffeting us with their wind - Shantell Powell "Nuliajuk and the Birds" [Strange Horizons 3 March 2025]

A flock of wild parakeets comes to roost - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Mano"

And the flocks to the valley return - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"

Ghosts in flocks and shoals - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"

A flock of sparrows safe from hawks - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"

Dawdling flocks of brilliant things - Jean M. Snyder "Guests"

Casual flocks of pigeons - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

Her silver flock of wandering souls - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"

With all her silver flock of wandering souls - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"

Feeds her golden flocks with light - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"

Across these frost-flocked rows - Jordan Zandi "Solarium"


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