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As if a siphon could drain an ocean - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

And drained it of its phosphorescent juice - Duane Ackerson "Raven Rules"

The drain of disillusionment - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"

Now drain we up the social cup - "Autumn" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

Silt clogging the storm drains - Rachel Barenblat "Chord"

The soul of some old poet haunts the drains - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Nor any thirst can drain - Eloise Briton "The Two Flames"

Drain fate's cup of joy - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)"

When the cup of wrath is drained - Anne Bronte "A Word to the 'Elect'"

That bitter hour drained the life from me - Ethna Carbery "The Love-Talker"

Intent on draining you of every last drop - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"

Holes drilled into window sills so rainy days drain out - Andrea Cohen "Weep Holes"

A well drained bitter by the sky - Countee Cullen "In Memory of Col. Charles Young"

His deepest thoughts were bent on drains - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

The tide of the dark drains from each square - Charles de Kay "Dawn in the City" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Dec. 1878]

Stars draining in their sockets - Chris Dombrowski "Still Life with Starlight"

Lance and drain this ravened sky - Rebecca Dunham "Atavism at Twilight"

Walden Pond has been drained - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Drained floodplains and eucharistic jimson weed - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"

Grow a garden in the storm drain - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"

That drains with one deep draught the wine of life - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Till my heart drains joy's cup - Ivor Gurney "From the Window"

And ever she drains the goblet out - "Havbor and Signelil" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Drained from endless drownings - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "pastoral w/well water kool-aid"

We who drain our cups and live - Michael Lauchlan "Cana Dance"

Drained the galled dregs of the draught she offered - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]

Zion of drainage and damp cement - Hailey Leithauser "Jiminy"

They can drain the stars of light - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

The lees and chokings of the drain - John Masefield "King Cole"

Drained me like a fevered moon - Edgar Lee Masters "Fletcher McGee"

Drains sorrow's chalice dry - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"

These sacred names drained of their blood - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly

Drained her immense tree of blood - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Bid them drain the cup of woes - "The Patriot's Address" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Bees may drain a drop of hone - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Her pockets drained of meaning - Adrienne Rich "Eastern War Time"

The veins of evening had been drained - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Drain their own kisses as they drink - James Whitcombe Riley "The Song I Never Sing"

Drained the iron channel dry - Charles G.D. Roberts "Night in a Down-town Street"

Drained the wild honey of their youth - Isaac Rosenberg "Dead Man's Dump"

Drained earth's pleasures to the lees - Frederick George Scott "Solomon"

The last few drops of light drain silently - Edward Shanks "A Night-Piece"

To drain the cup his heralds bring - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"

Draining the bitter oceans - George Sterling "The Thirst of Satan"

Drained by fevered lips - Sir Thomas N. Talfourd "Sympathy"

A river that drains the abandoned factories - Keith Taylor "Chasing the Ancient Murrelet"

Though fiercer thunder drains my life-springs - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

who would dream to drain a lake? - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]"

To drain time out of speed - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"


Heavy rains choking in the roof-drains - John Freeman "The Chair"


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