Potential Titles: Familiar

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Each epiphany dull and familiar - Kaveh Akbar "What Seems Like Joy"

At the first familiar flaming revelation - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"

The wearied ox at eve familiarly reclines - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XI--Sunset"

Long, long departed Beings with familiar glance - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

The familiar pitch of olive harvest - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"

From this familiar shore now banished - Friederich Bodenstedt "Farewell | Aus dem Nachlasse Mirza-Schaffys" transl. by Auber Forestier [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.100, April. 1876]

Come back to seek the girl she was in these familiar stones - Arna Bontemps "To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country"

The familiar scent of bonfires - William Brewer "Housesitting"

Grown familiar with the paths of sin - J. Huntington Bright "The Dying Boy" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

And sorrow grows familiar - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

Each face is troublingly familiar - Scott Cairns "Necropolitan"

Once so familiar with glory - Leonard Cohen "The Flowers that I Left in the Ground"

Familiar as all dawns - Kwame Dawes "At Anchor: The Real Situation"

An alien familiar with dodging horizons - Diane DeCillis "The Myth of Father"

In the familiar lost-future tense - Tess Gallagher "Souvenir"

Familiar with tongues I sought - Rae Gouirand "Terminus"

Arrives again no less familiar - S*an D. Henry-Smith "us girls"

A familiar sweater in a garbage can - Laura Kasischke "Recall the Carousel"

So silvered by the familiar moon - Archibald Lampman "Personality"

Relearning familiar sin - Michael Lauchlan "Interferometry in Hell"

Find patience in familiar paths - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Familiar as his cheese and ale - Theodore Maynard "Sight and Insight"

Bereft of our familiar shapes - Irene Rutherford McLeod "So Beautiful You Are Indeed"

Among familiar things grown strange - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]

Threw soft splendour on a fair familiar face - George Logan Moore "Love's Transfiguration" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.1-v.I, 6 Jan. 1884]

Noisy, familiar, and safe by day - Marianne Moore "My Lantern"

That old familiar sense of going nowhere - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"

In the familiar fabric of dawn - Mary Oliver "Sunrise"

How to turn away from what's familiar - Carl Phillips "That It Might Save, or Drown Them"

Of forms familiar - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"

A familiar face in a stranger - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"

And nods assent to each familiar line - Rennell Rodd "In a Church"

Clothing the vast with a familiar face - George William Russell "Symbolism"

Familiar as the ghosts of our bad nights - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"

Familiar faces in those of strangers - Charles Simic "Hide and Seek"

With a familiar twilight echoing - Edward Thomas "Good-Night"

The familiar because it feels soft and always - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

The heart of wonder in familiar things - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"


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