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Go down in mortal conflict - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"

Beyond the reach of mortal footstep - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

As old as the first drop of mortal tears - Maurice Baring "Harvest in Russia"

The mortal fruit upon the bough - Djuna Barnes "First Communion"

As mortal children of ambition - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

With every mortal token of our trust - Witter Bynner "Surety"

into the winter of a cold and mortal body - Lucille Clifton "1994"

So in love with mortals - Lucille Clifton "sorrows"

As something less or more than mortal - Jan Cronos "She Remains"

And turn these mortals into trees - William H. Davies "The Mind's Liberty"

Love opened a mortal wound - Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz "Love Opened a Mortal Wound" (translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique)

No wave of mortal tumult - Aubrey de Vere "Sorrow"

Behind this mortal bone - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XXXV: Emancipation"

Elude all mortal touch - Edward Dowden "Poesia"

The fairest flower of mortal frame- The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"

Seared with slavery's mortal scars - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oriflamme"

Buds unset by mortal hand - "Flora: a Vision"

In this wild dream-like snare of mortal shocks - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

Fall from any mortal flower - Zona Gale "Troth"

Crouches and cowers from mortal view - Harry Graham "The Triumph of Jam"

Lodged among mortal deer - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"

Once freed to mortal ears - Louise Imogen Guiney "For a Child"

Tiny spark of mortal fire - F.W. Harvey "Gloucestershire Men"

Strange voices of no mortal tone - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"

Conflicts by mortal eye unseen - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

Stars befriend no mortal - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "Night on a Mountain"

Who fills oft the Cup of mortal fire - Umar Ibn al-Farid "Khamriyyah" [selections] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

Reach every state mortals desire - John James Ingalls "Opportunity"

Brushed her mortal weeds against their wings - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"

My voice unheard to mortal throng - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Too huge for mortal tongue or pen - John Keats "Hyperion"

Filling the brief space of one mortal hour - Fanny Kemble "To --- [I would I might be with thee, when the year]"

Unequal Paths fond Mortals tread - Anne Killigrew "The Discontent"

Hurt with mortal thought - Galway Kinnell "The Road Between Here and There"

For mortal eyes too proudly coy - Archibald Lampman "June"

Despite these mortal scars - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"

Love seeks no mortal approbation - Henry S. Leigh "Cupid's Mamma"

Go on with this mortal vision - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"

Across the waste of mortal things - Edwin Markham "The Poets"

All dark to mortal eyes - Gwilym Marles aka William Thomas "New Year Thoughts" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

That no mortal hand can parry - George Martin "Montreal Carnival Sports"

To mortal man the door is sealed - James E. McGirt "Love"

Unmoved by mortal contemplation - Louis J. McQuilland "In a Library"

Rushes on my mortal guess with immortal things- Alice Meynell "West Wind in Winter"

My seven brief hours of mortal life - "Midges in the Sunshine"

That grows on mortal soil - John Milton "Lycidas"

Passengers of the mortal train - Pablo Neruda "The Bordellos" transl. by Jack Schmitt

On a morning mortal with light - Pablo Neruda "Standard Oil Co." transl. by Jack Schmitt

Wraps you in its mortal flame - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems II" translated by W.S. Merwin

Joy hid from mortal quest - Mary C. Peckham "The Wood-Thrush at Sunset"

Mortal in its cornered sphere - Robert Pinsky "Rhyme"

The jealousy knifed inside the mortal talent - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"

Mortal gray becomes the indigo of tides - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"

Eternal slave to mortal rage - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIV"

Among the stars of mortal night - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

The mortal chain of Custom - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

To no mortal eye revealed - Effie Smith "If Christ Should Come"

Four fateful years of mortal strife - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

Out of the fury and the fires of mortal passion - Arthur Stringer "The Steel Workers"

Great as mortal eye and brain encompass - Carmen Sylva "A Dream"

The old oaks tossing in their mortal glory - Keith Taylor "Under Their Mortal Glory"

With emerald from our mortal mornings grey - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

When the mortal spirit weds a half-veiled immortality - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"

Voices too fine for any mortal mind - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"

Should signs of mortal feud be found - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

On the cross of mortal destiny - John Hall Wheelock "Proud Doom"

With mortal fear you reward me - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"

In the anguish of the mortal hour - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]


When time redeems mortality - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"

Doling out mortality to Moloch and his bride - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"

But lifted far above mortality - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"

Complaints against mortality - Grace Paley [untitled]

Greet mortality a footfall from their door - Jacqueline Allen Trimble "Walking Beside the Cemetery, Olivia Street, Key West"

Innocent surprise at mortality's panache - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"

As one does when experiencing mortality - Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca "Had Been There"


Immortal.

Immortality.

Mortality.


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