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The world said die & you refused its refusal - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"

Your refusal a kind of gratitude - Jon Davis "Gratitude"

Till the refusal propagates a fear - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"

Inclined to refusal - James Galvin "Alpenrose Growing by the Door"

Your sustenance is refusal - James Galvin "Alpenrose Growing by the Door"

Savor the blessings of my refusal - Dana Gioia "Seaward"

We fed refusal to the storm - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"

Resist without refusal - Jen Hofer "future somatics to-do list"

Best known by their refusals - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Your kindness in refusal of speech - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

This refusal that could bring everything - Marisa Lin "Tiananmen Square, 1989"

Water's refusal to freeze - Joanne Merriam "Settler's Song"

Eyes hooded in refusal - Adrienne Rich "Veteran's Day"


Loses by refusing to play - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

Refuse them victory on this field - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

The ocean metaphor refused - George Abraham "Essay on Submission"

Refused to be whittled to a fine point - Elizabeth Acevedo "Self-Portrait as Lilith"

Yet I refuse to choose destruction - Mary Alexandra Agner "Be True"

My sisters refuse to know me - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"

He refused the most sure sanctuary - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Forms refused the restrictions he imposed - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

And refused to back away from the boundaries - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

Some whispers refuse to translate - Zaina Alsous "Window Strike"

Refuse to sing because the song is stuffed - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

The world said die & you refused its refusal - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"

Afraid of what they refuse to see - Tommye Blount "Bareback Aubade with the Dog"

While birds refused to sing - Anne Bronte "Views of Life"

Already dead but refusing to fall - Nickole Brown "Mercy"

Images of what we refuse to follow - Paul Cameron Brown "Seagulls"

These tarnished clouds have refused to accept our suffering - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"

A cavern that refuses to be filled - Marianne Chan "The Lives of Saints"

Whose sympathies refuse to mix - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene III"

To these refuse my heart - Arthur Hugh Clough "τὸ καλόν."

Refused to call the darkness poetry - Leonard Cohen "Welcome to These Lines"

Refuse the universal alibi - Leonard Cohen "What I'm Doing Here"

Who never refused combat - "Deirdre's Lament" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Each forgotten that we refuse to remember - Tory Dent "The Murder of Beauty/The Beauty of Murder"

Some darknesses refuse to fade - Danielle DeTiberus "The Artist Signs Her Masterpiece, Immodestly"

A band of debtors who refused to pay - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

And the concrete refused to apologize - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"

Where promised snow always refuses to fall - Cheryl Dumesnil "Breaking the Broken Things"

All memory refused - Mari Evans "Modern American Suite in Four Movements"

Refuse to ask or answer - Tarfia Faizullah "Diary"

However quiet you refuse to be - John Gallaher "Advice to Passengers"

Both contains and refuses the stain - Leslie Harrison "[I keep throwing words at the problem because words]"

Who tore Orpheus when he refused to sing - Terrance Hayes "At Pegasus"

Your atoms scrambled and refused - Millie Ho "3D-Printed Brother"

Refuse to barter frozen time - Geoffrey Jacques "Some Parts of It"

closed doors that refuse to open - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"

But refuses to believe it is haunted - Camisha L. Jones "Praise Song for the Body"

Refuse me morning and mourning - Saeed Jones "After the First Shot"

Light isn't refused - Fady Joudah "Unacknowledged Pollinators"

Even the peacocks refuse to stay - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"

Refusing to give up the sky - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

That refused the proffer'd joy - Henry S. Leigh "To a Timid Leech"

Who refused to be bought - Denise Levertov "El Salvador: Requiem and Invocation"

The future refuses to happen - Paige Lewis "I'm Not Faking My Astonishment, Honest"

The grass did not refuse - Li Po "The Sun" transl. by Arthur Waley

The refuse of your unborn centuries - Mina Loy "The Dead"

The desert refused to swallow - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Eugenia Harvest Tower"

Refusing to abandon its captured mate - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

Placing a loyal hand on the star that refused to die - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

Emptiness refused by starlight - Miguel Murphy "Hot Tub"

the spirits have refused to die by fire - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

Refuse the capricious gift of Fate - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

Refusing to forget laughter - Naomi Shihab Nye "Arab Festival T-shirt"

But fire to refuse - Walter S. Percy "Friendship"

My affections refused to become tender - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"

That at random carries them then refuses them - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"

All reasons to refuse him - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Eros Turannos"

Refuse to abandon their beauty - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"

Lilies that refuse to bloom - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Face"

Refuses long to blossom - Alice Wellington Rollins "Purity"

Violets have not refused to bloom - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Remembered Critic"

Who could refuse this softness? - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #24"

Dreadful prophecy refusing to be contained - Nicole Sealey "cento for the night i said, 'i love you'"

Unavoidable assertion of a self she refused - Charif Shanahan "If I Am Alive To"

Whose light is not in the refusing dawn - George Sterling "Thy Laughing Loveliness"

Refuse to accept constraint - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 45: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

An owl refuses to believe in the sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 223: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Sun and moon refuse to slow - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Poem without a Category, No.7" transl. by Burton Watson

Stubborn as a stolen lock refusing the key - Yvanna Vien Tica "Rites of Becoming a White Lady"

Refused to translate yourselves - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"

Whate'er the sense take or may refuse - William Wordsworth "Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes"

That refused the ingenuity of clocks - Jay Wright "Imule"

Refusing the heed of a metronome - Jenny Xie "Distance Sickness"

Memory refuses to yield - C. Dale Young "The Second Fallacy"

And refuse to touch their gloves - Paul Zimmer "Suck It Up"


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