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If the apples Eve saw were as handsome - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Apple-Gathering"

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

When the world first saw our face - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

The most beautiful seldom I ever saw - Mary Jo Bang "You Were You Are Elegy"

But I saw a glowworm near - William Blake "A Dream"

Saw the rooks depart at morn - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"

Saw her stretch out to the gale - "The Boatman's Hymn" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

Saw a pack of stretching weasels hunt - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

As fair as ever saw the North - William Browne "The Rose"

More treasure than Croesus ever saw - Clarence Butler "We Two" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]

Who saw Lincoln stand up before the faces of a city - Witter Bynner "This Man"

You who saw him facing Manhattan - Witter Bynner "This Man"

Saw black trees on the battle-height - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

He never saw the hand that threw them - C. A. Conrad "From FRANK" (Nov. 2003)

He saw the devil in every room - C. A. Conrad "From FRANK" (Nov. 2003)

Saw the dews of death o'erspread - Hugh Conway "The Mother's Vigil" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.110-v.III, 6 Feb. 1886]

The fiery splendour Moses saw - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"

Are stars that Milton saw - James H. Cousins "On Some Twentieth Century Forecasts"

Once I saw Mountains angry, and ranged in battle-front - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

That never saw the sun fall in the sea - H.D. "Projector"

But Lucifer saw himself, too, fair - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Revelation"

Looked homeward and saw no angel - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

In a naiad's glass I saw - E. Foxton "The New Search After Happiness"

Because your fickleness I saw - Catherine Grant Furley "Quits!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.20-v.I, 17 May 1884]

Saw their shimmering cohorts pass - Rose Fyleman "The Hayfield"

And made a court that freemen never saw - "The Ghost of Chatham"

The sculptor saw the god in marble - Amelia Gorman "Pickling Dog"

Saw the nimbus on each fish - Haesong Kwon "Thank God for Hard Feelings"

Belshazzar raised his eyes and saw - Frances E. Watkins Harper "The Jewish Grandfather's Story"

Saw white Helen on the walls of Troy - F.W. Harvey "The Moon"

Saw the vanquish'd eagles fly - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"

Saw no twilight of decay - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"

From his watchman's height he saw - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender VII"

Raised my eye and saw the stars had not moved - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"

Saw the footprints left by giants - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

Who saw the bright earth beckon - Aldous Huxley "Poem"

Saw my lightning finish from the start - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

No more I see the husk in dreams I saw - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Saw my entire history in an avocado seed - Mary Karr "For My Children"

Saw more than the nights could hide - Rudyard Kipling "The Changelings"

Saw the echoing hours go by - Archibald Lampman "The Frogs"

Never saw god written in neon lights - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

And I saw the world's naked face - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"

Saw my sisters in the sawmills - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong on Silent Films"

Saw truth like a perfect crystal - John Masefield "A Dramatic Poem: Madman"

Saw old melancholy approach - Pablo Neruda "Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas (1949)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Saw everything through a heightened tear - Alice Notley "Poem [Why do I want to tell it]"

In my eyes you saw no relief - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"

Saw the wall of hills on fire - Gregory Orr "Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm"

And saw our collective tomorrows - Andre F. Peltier "Northern Lights"

The owl's child saw her going, and blinked a sober eye - Miriam Clark Potter "Little Sister of the Moon"

You saw my anger as a piece of theirs - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"

Saw the sapphire fields of ocean blaze - George Sterling "Duandon"

Brought to birth what Plato saw - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Saw the red fox asleep - Mary Oliver "Fox"

Who saw the dawn break over Egypt - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Saw beauty in a scrap of its light - Prageeta Sharma "Glacier National Park and the Elegy"

Saw in sleep old palaces and towers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"

Saw wilder sunsets drown - George Sterling "Lost Sunsets"

Saw what none shall see anew - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"

A line saw itself clear to its end - TC Tolbert "What Space Faith Can Occupy"

Saw a T-Rex fight a comet and lose - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

Saw the light of fires along a distant shore - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"

Everybody else saw the you in the mirror - Ursula Vernon "It Was a Day"

On the mist our shadows saw - Edith Wharton "The Mortal Lease. II"

Saw the sombre crow flap by - John Greenleaf Whittier "Red Riding-Hood"


Before they sawed the world in half - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."

Almost sawed the fiddle through - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"

Audibly sawing the ozone - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

Half moons ridged by the saw's tooth - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"

Splints the ice water saws right through - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"


The frame for this chainsaw night - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"

A chain saw gnawing the bruised air - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"

Stealing chainsaw refrains and shutter clicks - Amari Low "Themself"


A hacksaw through the evening's calm core - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "jackdaw"

A violin plucked with a hacksaw - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"


Sawdust.


Saw-edged teeth in my peripheral vision - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"


The sawmills of the night - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

With the whine of saw-mills and whirr of hidden wings - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"


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