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A dewdrop fell in the starry hush - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Story of a Rose"

Fell from an archangel's vineyard - Afua Ansong "what we did while waiting for the rain"

The sky fell and cracked the earth - William Archila "Bury This Pig"

Here fell the daring Icarus in his prime - Maurice Baring "Icarus"

Fell gently on my heart like falling dews - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

where childhood fell asleep - Elizabeth Bartlett "while I live"

A lake which fell in love with a swan - Ilya Bekhtiya "I Searched for You" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

A fast-driving diesel flatbed of felled trees - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"

The nurse of fell mischance - Michelangelo Buonarroti "II. On Dante Alighieri" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Then that time's neat artifice fell in - Scott Cairns "Draw Near"

With fury fell and anger vain - Tommaso Campanella "XLI. A Prophecy of Judgment. No.2. The Doom of the Impious" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Fell round them into dust - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

Fell from her into many a hollow space - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"

Fell onto the ground that wasn't there - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Frontal Lobe]"

When Caesar's sun fell out of the sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

Words of dull negation darkly fell - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

And night fell suddenly and soon - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Story of the Birkenhead"

On the field where the roses fell - Nathalia Crane "The Roll of the Roses"

Peaceless they fell - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)

From haunts of deep obscurity, the fellest Fury rise - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Death's fell daemons through the flashes glare - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Delight that was is grown disaster fell - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Pomegranates fell from the trees - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Eve Revisited"

Fell sideways instead of down - Chris Dombrowski "Wintering"

Whose hopes and young ambitions fell and faded - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Fell over the world in flame - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"

The hills whereon her tear-drops fell - Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux "Love Stronger than Death"

The sun fell away and it rested a while - Daniel Errico "Night Hippos"

Fell before the whip and steel - Martin Espada "How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way"

Till the stars of Heaven fell - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"

Armed with poisons fell - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

The frost of the moon fell over my floor - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"

Felled by my raging blast - George Blackstone Field "The Deserted Coast"

Chestnuts fell in the charred season - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"

The driving sleet fell fast - "The Fisherman's Keen, or the Lamentation of O'Donoghue of Affadown ('Roaring Water'), in the west of Co. Cork, for his three sons and his son-in-law, who were drowned" transl. by Anonymous

Birds that fell asleep in his pockets - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"

When the lordly lion fell in fight - David Gray "The Moon II"

Felled to build my crumbling towers - William Griffith "Litany of Nations: Austria-Hungary"

What they would touch if they fell - Leah Naomi Green "Helping"

He fell as Ajax fell in Homer - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"

Bowed with fell terror at this augury - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Crows"

When dusk fell, a clutch of black birds landed - Michael Hettich "The Angels"

Held this mornings apples as they fell - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"

Climbed a hill as light fell short - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

A dream fell from the sky into the old man's mind - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

Fell grief her throbbing heart enthrals - J.H.I. "Ethelbert and Elfrida" [The Mirror of Literature issue 576 Nov 17 1832]

They fell into a hundred mazes - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

The verbs fell away - Rodger Kamenetz "The Living Hive"

Fell upward into the sky - Holly Karapetkova "Refugees"

Separate as the trees they fell from - Annie Kim "Eros the Contagion"

That fell half unspoken - Galway Kinnell "The Fundamental Project of Technology"

The knot fell open of itself - Steve Kowit "When He Pressed His Lips"

Water fell through all my doors - Maxine Kumin "Morning Swim"

The sweetest song since the demons fell - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

All of the future tyrants fell - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"

The white pavilions rose and fell - Henry W. Longfellow "The Beleaguered City"

As the waters fell slowly around - Alastair MacDonald "On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog" transl. by Alexander Stewart [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.706, 7 July 1877]

He fell as the moon in a storm - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: VII"

A seed that fell from a bird's flight - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

Snow that fell blindly on the heart - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"

But never so fell a scowl - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Fell the the siege of his despair - Michael Mesic "Gaudi"

From what state I fell - John Milton "Paradise Lost"

Tenderness that fell from the new dawn - George Logan Moore "Love's Transfiguration" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.1-v.I, 6 Jan. 1884]

Fell in the depths of the deep, dark sky - William Moore "Dusk Song"

Not a drop of time fell - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Since from the prophet's hand it fell - Cornelius O'Brien "St Cecilia"

Among the thorns some others fell - "Of the Sower" [The Parables of the Saviour, no date, Project Gutenberg]

Felled their rich fruit-bearing orchards - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull

A forest of felled iron - Sharon Olds "Take the I Out"

Fell down the side of the maple tree - Mary Oliver "Spring"

They fell right against the looking-glass - "One Afternoon" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]

As they fell continually upwards - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Who late fell a martyr to malice and spleen - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"

Fell in marble precipice of white - R.M.S. Pasley "The Diver"

Fell unnoticed - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"

The snow fell like hope - Carl Phillips "So the Mind Like a Gate Swings Open"

When night fell on my running keel - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"

The moon fell into my coffee - Marisca Pichette "Waning, Waning"

Rain that fell like rocks - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Fell in a jaundiced humour - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Titania"

A stone wall smothered by what fell - Charles Rafferty "Snowfall After Hearing Hard News"

Fell on my spirit's deeper night - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"

Apples of fire ripened and fell - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

As the vulture fell like a flung stone - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

When purest gold fell softly to the snow - Lloyd Roberts "Flowers of the Sky"

And Time's relentless barriers fell - D.J. Robertson "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.144-v.III, 2 Oct. 1886]

light that fell against the prison floor - C.T. Salazar "River"

The soul of fire fell - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"

Heroes before each fatal sweep fell thick - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

By Time's fell hand defac'd - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIV"

Fell, heavy with sky - Evie Shockley "color bleeding"

That fell to huge and ultimate eclipse - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"

Nor fell Misfortune's friendless sway - T.G. Spear "I Cling to Thee"

The bird came for the grains that fell - James Stephens "The Horse"

Fell into the law's net - Su Tung-p'o "New Year's Eve" transl. by Burton Watson

what century fell at your door? - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"

Fell in the snares of dust - Tao Qian (translated by Stephen Owen) "Returning to Dwell in Gardens and Fields I"

Fell into the Web of the World's dust - T'ao Ch'ien [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)

Rusted nails fell from the knots - Tennyson "Mariana"

Down fell the snow from a pitiless cloud - "Time Enough" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

felled for unbearable reasons - Asiya Wadud "number four"

And fell into that pit of the past - John Wieners "For Huncke"

Fell like a kiss from the sky - Joseph R. Wilson "One Sweet Moment"

When Queen Ashtaroth beat at her lamp and fell - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"

And the night fell on our battle - Francis Brett Young "On a Subaltern Killed in Action"

Where the fell fire of poison smoulders - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


Among the wind-felled bodies of my quince trees - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"


Fall.


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