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No common stretch of sight - "Another Peep at the Links"

And bring you back to the common earth - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"

Elements in common with cameras - Mary Jo Bang "Explain the Brain"

Mixed by impure stars to common metal - Elizabeth Bartlett "Reflected in Brass"

Music eliciting common space - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"

A common fritillary avoiding the wind in the yucca - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"

Without the common face - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh"

With wonder at common things - James Alpheus Butler, Jr. "Common Things"

Shared token of our common deep desire - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"

The most common of strangers - Mary Jean Chan "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter"

Of common share in grief - Susan Coolidge "The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey"

To grieve with our common friends - Jim Daniels "Making a Case for the Letter"

Shipped silver for common ballast - William H. Davies "The Child and the Mariner"

The common air absorbs my mind - William H. Davies "The Hawk"

To hide proud kings from common eyes - William H. Davies "Sweet Stay-at-Home"

Nothing left, no ground in common - Elaine Equi "In an Unrelated" [Poetry May 2019]

Winning worship from the common eye - "False Estimations" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

The common things he had forgotten - Joseph Fasano "Odysseus"

Out of our common reach - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 4 (February 1923)"

Travelled among common thoughts again - John Freeman "Waking"

We have these accidents in common - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: IV"

The translation of some common god - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

Summer's echo purging the common gray - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

Desert the hills to walk on common plains - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"

Belonging to the common ground above - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"

Equal by their common woe - Hafiz "The Divan II" (translated by H. Bicknell)

A common miracle of salt roses - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"

Fastened us to one common frame of mind - Michael Heffernan "The Empress"

Never lit upon common earth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

The common moth that eats on wits and arts - Ben Jonson "To Himself"

Too common to deserve a tear - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

Freedom to dig the common earth - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"

To draw mine inspirations from the common air - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

Of common cares and vulgar trials - Henry S. Leigh "Cupid's Mamma"

A common thing to turn to gold when one is able - Henry S. Leigh "Midas"

The common strokes of fortune shower - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

The wax seal dried on this common twilight - Michael Meyerhofer "I Christen Thee, My Higgs Boson"

The light from common water - Edna St Vincent Millay "Elegy Before Death"

Bear dim relations to our common doom - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Discover our common love of bones - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"

If the half in common is a stranger - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"

To escape the common fate - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Together in a common bed must sleep - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Until it ceased to be a wild and common thing - F.E.S. "The Stray Blossom" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.36-v.I, 6 Sept. 1884]

A common roof, with knots and laces - Eileen Spinelli "Those Sociable Weavers"

Where common justice rules the mind - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"

Between two common days - Muriel Stuart "To-- [Between two common days this day was hung]"

Couldn't sing to the common tune - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

The common wages of their most secret heart - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"

To hide a heart of common clay - J.A. Tinnon "I'll Blame Thee Not"

A miracle common and wild - Louis Untermeyer "Healed"

Who know no void nor common sense - John Updike "Song of Myself"

Anything that common will become invisible - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

A common language of alarm - Amie Whittemore "Future History of Earth's Birds"

For blessings common in our sight - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Thanksgiving"

And fade into the light of common day - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"

Homely sympathy that heeds the common life - William Wordsworth "To a Daisy"


Commonplace.


Gloved your arms with Common-Sense - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

less savior than common sense calling - Ed Roberson "Come On in the Song of the Changes"


Uncommon.


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