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Such fleeting fancies Dreamland lends - "Abroad"

Reclaims their fleeting footsteps - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Fleeting baits that have no hooks - William Alexander, Earl of Stirling "Sonnet" (Poem attributed only to 'Lord Stirling' in source text, but this poet seems probable as he was known for sonnets. None of the later Earls have Wikipedia articles, however, so I couldn't easily crosscheck.)

Formed of sunset light, of fleeting umbral fire - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

As the fleeting days that numbered them - Lennox Amott "Stanzas Addressed to a Lady Coming of Age"

The unrestrained fleet of bone - Joshua Bennett "Clench"

A little fleet of anchored ships - Paul Bewsher "The Dawn Patrol"

Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)

Measured out the fleeting sands of life - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Fleeter be they than dappled dreams - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

Four fleet does at a gold valley - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

Was not more fleet than I - H.D. "Orchard"

The fleeting currents, the hungry waves - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

Where the fleet of stars is anchored - James Elroy Flecker "The Dying Patriot"

The prime and crown of their fleeting years - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

Like morning's fleeting shadow - "Hours of Childhood"

Where fleeting shadows twisted in the depths - Dana Gioia "Haunted"

How the fleet, lithe poppies ran - Helen Hunt Jackson "Poppies on the Wheat"

Distorted image in the stream of fleeting Matter - Jami "Salaman and Absal: The Burning of Absal" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald

The outbound keels of all my fleet - Charles Bertram Johnson "Serenity"

What parts them but a fleeting breath? - Edwin R. Johnson "Who Knows?" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

A voice to chart the course of fleets - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"

Fleeter in quest of the foe - Henry S. Leigh "Chivalry for the Cradle No. 2--A Legend of Banbury-Cross"

Furtive, fleeting glimpse of angel faces - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"

Queen of the fleets of No-Man's-Land - Vachel Lindsay "Dancing for a Prize"

With fleeting grace of shade - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Chance decides the fate of fleets - John Masefield "Philip the King"

A fleet of bells set sail - Alice Meynell "Chimes"

The goblet of summer was a fleeting sky - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly

And fleeter than the falling star - John Francis O'Donnell "A Spinning Song"

Beyond the marvels of the fleeting day - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Visions that fleet through aerial dreams - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Mind of the Mystic"

Fleeting shadows of beautiful days - Thomas Runciman "Songs V"

Many fleet horses perish on the road - Saadi "A Certain Man" transl. by Coleman Barks

More fleet than those begot by winds - William Somerville "The Chase"

The grey wings of fleeting Twilight - George Sterling "The Spirit of Dusk"

The fleeting music scattered - George Sterling "To One Self-Slain"

Launched forth their fleet legions to capture and kill - Alfred B. Street "Averill's Raid" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Passed like fleeting dreams - Walter J. Turner "Romance"

Though her searching steps be light and fleet - Helen Hay Whitney "Spring and Autumn"

Fleeting as wind and the dews - John Wright "The Old Blighted Thorn"


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