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His breath a scarf of moths - Alise Alousi "Pandemic"

Moths upon the wings of chance - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited

A velvety multitude of moths and insects - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"

A bouquet made of moths - Jaswinder Bolina "Municipal Vistas"

Feed the moths and wasting dews - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"

A moth fluttering in a waste of eternity - Gerald Bullett "Alone with these my poems..."

Which moth and rust corrupt - Arthur Hugh Clough "Easter Day. Naples, 1849"

Beyond that merry sound of moths - William H. Davies "Oh, Sweet Content"

Deep in the moth hour - Diana Marie Delgado "Correspondence"

Two moths dust the same screen for remembered light - Jay Deshpande "On Speaking Quietly with My Brother"

Peppered with a million spent moths - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

The tattered hour when moths arrive - Chris Dombrowski "Statesboro Blues"

Holographic moth wings that shine like chalk drawings - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

Paint the small wing of a moth - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

The limited span that to moths is allotted - "The Emperor's Rout"

And unsuspected moth and rust ate deep - Lydia Gibson "Lost Treasure"

Moths that round the taper wheel - S.G. Goodrich "Farewell to a Fashionable Acquaintance"

The beating of moth wings and fairy dust - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"

Will malady your gut with moths and stars - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"

At moth and gnat and cobweb-time - Thomas Hardy "The Rift"

Tarnish of moth and rust - Frances E.W. Harper "Mother's Treasures"

Set the moth's tongue toward tomorrow - francine j. harris "feeder"

Under the wingbeats of moths - Conrad Hilberry "Talk on the Porch"

The song of mountains, moths and men - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Moth and rust so soon - Margaret Houston "Aftermath"

Dusted her computer with sacred moth wings - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

Dwindled like a sweater full of moths - Jenny Johnson "In the Dream"

The common moth that eats on wits and arts - Ben Jonson "To Himself"

Loved of the roving moth - Emily Lawless "From the Burren X: A Garden"

Dazzled moths blind in a searchlight's cone - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

Moths flutter out of her body - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"

Lest moths pillage my velvet capes - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"

Past the reach of moth and rust - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Shelter and Fellowship"

Apologies to the moths - Jamaal May "Ode to the White-Line-Swallowing-Horizon"

Tiny cinders of moth wings - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Divergence"

Like an army of moths - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda"

A silver moth on thoughtless wing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Road to Colla"

Like arrows tipped with moths - Charles Rafferty "Futility"

Moth and blossom, blade and bee - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Recessional"

Closed my hands upon a moth - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Beware"

Moths migrating out of the cane stalks - Cathy Song "Picture Bride"

Suffer the moths to singe their wings - Leonora Speyer "Cantares"

Beauty for a moth's desire - George Sterling "At the Grave of Serra"

Even the road-dirt and moths can't resist - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

A moth alit on the sun-dial's face - Arthur Stringer "I Sat in the Sunlight"

Sketched by moths holding to nearby stones - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"

Moths to fever and regret - Jacqueline Allen Trimble "Walking Beside the Cemetery, Olivia Street, Key West"


A luna moth in a chambered cage - Sharon Olds "Wonder as Wander"

My spirit has turned honey-moth - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"

Amongst the smells of mothballs and cigars - A.E. Stallings "The Doll House"

The night's moth-eaten sleeve - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"

A cloth kept in a moth-filled closet - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"

Moth-winged Cupid painted on the air - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"


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