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Below its gossamer arches frail - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"

Seeing how frail is the candle - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

The frail hand of a Fay - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited

Snared in tiny toils both frail and idle - William Rose Benét "The City"

The frail geometry of currents - William Brewer "Playing Along"

Paid by work so frail as mine - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XIII. To Vittoria Colonna. Brazen Gifts for the Golden" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Through the tangle of frail purposes - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"

Flings frail palaces at the sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

Were our frail hopes shields - Annie Rothwell Christie "The Woman's Part"

Too fair and frail to keep - Benjamin Copeland "Among the Lilies"

From wild thorn frail their order grew - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

The frail, pale music of my memory - Russell W. Davenport "Poems V"

My branch of thoughts is frail tonight - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"

Frail wrestler with the breeze - William Falconer "To a Swallow that Dropped on Deck During a Storm at Sea"

Each frail pilgrim of the thorny land - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"

Frail as the shadow of an emerald - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"

Frail children of sorrow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Hope"

The frailest iteration of change - Christopher Kondrich "Placeholder"

Frail as a snow-white feather - Archibald Lampman "Sleep"

To lift this frail, inconsequent flower - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"

Frail promise to longing desire - Amy Lowell "The Way"

Quiver in the frailest bone - Claude McKay "Baptism"

This frail world our only rest - James Montgomery "Friends"

A frail and dusty heap of regret - John Murillo "Dolores, Maybe"

This thing, so frail and alien - Gregory Orr "A House in the Country"

Form trenches for the frailer flowers - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "In the Hardt Wald"

A wind frail as a kitten's paw - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

The frail moon worn to a silvery tissue - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Frail echo of some ancient sacred joy - George Santayana "In Grantchester Meadows"

Obscuring time's frail fabric as it rips - Ann K. Schwader "In This Brief Interval"

Frail decoy to merit myriad-hued - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems I"

A frail invisible net - Sara Teasdale "A Winter Bluejay"

Frail light still burning - Matthew Thorburn "These Days"

Frail bridges to infinity - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Old Man"

Frail plumes of sun and silver - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires XVII" transl. by Alma Strettell

Presence yet more fugitive and frail - William Watson "Autumn"

The frail butterfly's embroidered cloak - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

A filigree frost of frail notes lost - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"

Frail cities of lath and reed - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


Vaguely outlined and bubble-frail - Dorothea Mackellar "An Afterglow on the Nile"


With the bright frailty of foam - Sara Teasdale "A Little While"


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