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To spurn the baffled clay - Leonie Adams "Midsummer"

Clothing made of cold earthen clay - (Anonymous) Traditional English song collected by Cecil Sharp

The red clay of Macon dusting his bones - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

And its pale tenement of clay - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

That bursts the bonds of clay - James Beattie "Elegy"

This poor kettle, clay to all spears - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"

You can't patch leaky clay - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"

The cry of the bitter clay to the God who devised it carrion - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"

The doors in your house of clay - Arthur Christopher Benson "Δαιμονιζόμενος"

glacial moraine of gravel & clay - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]

While their footsteps press the clay - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

Clay for any clumsy sculptor - Sterling A. Brown "Effie"

My idol that has turned to clay - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Shattered Hopes"

Another form of air or clay - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXVII. No Escape from Love" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Imprisoned in her house of clay - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LIV. Love Lifts to God" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Whose dire energies invest such clay - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalm 12"

Scrambling for pennies in that patch of clay - Will Carleton "Wealth"

Clod of clay with heart of fire - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Spring Song"

Burrowing downward through the clay - Walter Richard Cassels "Gone"

Clay of the kings to come - Willa Cather "The Gaul in the Capital"

And worship calves of brass and clay - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto I"

Between starshine and clay - Lucille Clifton [untitled]

What flesh can do with clay - Andrea Cohen "Pastime"

Moulded the brittle Clay in Jest - Ebenezer Cooke "The Sot-Weed Factor"

From the brittle little throat of a clay bird - Salomón de la Selva "A Song for Wall Street"

To all the lists of clay - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love I: Choice"

No more clay but rapture - Jeanne d'Orge "The Cup"

About a ton of clay to fashion him - Denise Dumars "The Golem"

my bones are one with the red clay - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"

Would change places with sons of clay and human races - John Gay "Fable III: Mother, Nurse, and Fairy" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

But should we change with imps of clay - John Gay "Fable III: Mother, Nurse, and Fairy" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Those eyes, in truth, are only clay - John Gay "Fable LXVI: The Raven, Sexton, and Worm" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Granite to me is potter's clay - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Sea"

To him are fierce stars clay - Louis Golding "Our Jack"

To cherish the battered potters' clay - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes"

The clay dreams are molded from - Nikki Grimes "The Sculptor"

Hot Santa Ana wind mopes across clay courts - Christian Gullette "The Fish"

Send your daughters to the sky for clay - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"

Who were clay and would break - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"

Leaves her bonds of clay - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

From earthliness, and this vile orb of clay - Henry B. Hirst "Sonnets: Gertrude" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Your idols' feet never turned to clay - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Buckets of sand, sequins of clay - Elizabeth Jacobson "Blood Moon"

Kneeled down in the dust toiling over a lump of clay - James Weldon Johnson "The Creation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Of slighted gems and treasured clay - James Weldon Johnson "Ghosts of the Old Year"

My flesh clay and flowers and thorns - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

Shaped twelve sparrows from wet clay - Zilka Joseph "Sparrows and Dust"

With Earth's first Clay - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Could not honey my clay - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

Starry souls untainted of the clay - Richard Le Gallienne "Cor Cordium"

Where the iron, where the clay - J. Patrick Lewis "The Voice of the Voiceless"

Build it up with wood and clay - "London Bridge"

Wood and clay will wash away - "London Bridge"

A lady of clay and two stone men - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"

Judged as stone and judged as clay - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"

That binds him to his couch of clay - Charles Mackay "The Founding of the Bell"

For both are sprung from clay - Fiona MacLeod "The Sorrow of Delight"

Lust and passion and clay - Don Marquis "A Song of Men"

To make acquaintance with the clay - George Martin "Eudora"

Sculpted in local clay - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

Fashioned in another clay - George Meredith "Solon"

Flinging yellow clay on dust - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"

Paint me with salt mud and clay - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"

Your house of clay and breath - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"

The Potter with our clay - Lewis Morris "Clytaemnestra in Paris"

Cuts her own self from the clay - Angel Nafis "King of Kreations"

Surrounded by spacious clay - Pablo Neruda "America" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A fresh sheet of clay and grain - Pablo Neruda "San Martin (1810)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The deep tribes of clay - Pablo Neruda "Tupac Amaru (1781)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Starve our hearts on clay - E. Nesbit "Death"

Blasphemed against their gods of clay - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Kneaded out of the formless clay - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Not with the war-voice of our elder clay - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]

The clays of a cold star - Wilfred Owen "Futility"

The feet of crumbling clay - John Oxenham "Hearts in Exile"

Transformations of this house of clay - John Oxenham "Seeds"

Russet clay to lend the fancy of design - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

Even as a potter shaping Eden clay - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"

Swallow clay and sleeping sense - Walter S. Percy "Dust to Dust"

Thy rewards are painted clay - Francis Quarles "The World's Fallacies"

Who jot our score with Caesar's clay - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Measure for Measure"

Future promise of fruitful clay - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"

Of jade and silver, of amethyst or clay - Lynn Riggs "Endless Legend"

In the house of water and clay - Rumi "I Well Cherish the Soul" transl. by R.A. Nicholson

The loose rivets of the spirit clay - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

Took up her dwelling in that house of clay - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

In thy dark house of clay - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Invocation"

This troubled clay surrendering to sunset - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"

Kindle leaves & clay with rare copal - Ann K. Schwader "Maya Blue (At Chichen Itza)"

Without consummation of clay - "The Sea-God's Address to Bran" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Were created not with light but clay - Tobias Seamon "Halos"

Thundering over ledgers of clay - Richard Solomon "Last Defense"

If we had seen your nest of clay - James Stephens "From Hawk and Kite"

To barren rocks and fields that have no clay - James Stephens "The Gang"

Clasped and clothed in the cloven clay - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Seep out between horizons of gravel and clay - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"

Had a garden of flint and clay - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

The clay first broke my heart - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

Soul forsaken at the call of clay - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: IX"

To hide a heart of common clay - J.A. Tinnon "I'll Blame Thee Not"

Clay and spirit must now part - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut

The ghost that's in his bones dreams in the sodden clay - W.J. Turner "Death"

until our clays together tangle - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"

Built by his hands of clay - Rudolph Valentino "The Sphinx (To B.H.)"

These dim vaults of clay - Thomas Walsh "Coelo et in Terra"

Spin wet clay to shape a cooking-pot - "The Way of Virtue: Non-Being" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

With life's great venture, in an ark of clay - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"

Coating this clay with green of peace - Iolo Aneurin Williams "From a Flemish Graveyard"

And frost bakes clay as fire bakes - Elinor Wylie "Winter Sleep"


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