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Ensnare.


From a digitally tagged snare - J.M. Allen "One Mistake"

Set to snare the voyagers that stray - Amir "[This Life is less than shadows]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook

Passion a snare to hope - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"

Caught in her own fatal snare - Maurice Baring "Phedre"

The eyes to blind and feet to snare - Jane Barlow "The End of Elfintown: II. The Council"

Snare the dream of a violet - Clive Bell "March"

Snared in tiny toils both frail and idle - William Rose Benét "The City"

Cruelty knits a snare - William Blake "The Human Abstract"

The sea, where waves act as snares - Paul Cameron Brown "Voyage"

Mid snares and pitfalls scattered - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Entwined with lies and snares - Tommaso Campanella "VI. An Exhortation to Mankind" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Having fashioned so devout a snare - Tommaso Campanella "XXXIV. Hypocrites" transl. by John Addington Symonds

snared in blasphemous flames on front lawns - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"

Many a dangerous snare unknown - Jamie Harris Coleman "Days of Youth"

Caught in every wanton snare - Charles Cotton "Contentation"

A receptive smile wherein new purities are snared - Hart Crane "The Wine Menagerie"

My soul escape your snares - Olive Custance "The Kingdom of Heaven"

When an electric snare corrals the brain - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"

Should some escape the secret snare - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Snared young foxes in the dells - Walter de la Mare "The Isle of Lone"

Snared is my heart in a nightmare's gin - Walter de la Mare "The Little Creature"

To elude the snares around my feet - Delta "The Tombless Man: A Dream" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]

Chill the heart and snare the feet - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

Had gone snared in a purpose not his own - John Drinkwater "David and Jonathan"

Snares he set on every path - "The Enchanted Maiden" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Let no bird escape her snare - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

The fraud of Greece, that latent snare - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull

These heavenward birds to snare - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

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

Dark plotting, spreading net and snare - "The Ghost of Chatham"

To keep us from each snare - "The Good Shepherd" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Warm as snared sunlight - Mona Gould "Sherry"

Break from the snares of the world - Han-Shan "[I climb the road to Cold Mountain]" transl. by Burton Watson

Every street with snares is spread - Frances E.W. Harper "Save the Boys"

Think each smile a snare - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"

A dry scatter and sound of snares - Janet Kauffman "Reparations"

The ghost snare of a gray whale's call - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"

With all its gilded snares - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

The Rainbow taken and the magical White Bird snared - Joyce Kilmer "Apology"

Tangled in the snares of night - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"

Whose unseen snare besets our path - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

Large estates of doubts and snares - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

My fancied safeguard made my snare - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

What song shall snare the feet of white dawn - Frederic Manning "Ganhardine's Song"

Snare the bright wings of delight - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"

Who set snares with roses - Don Marquis "The Struggle"

That chills and breaks the warm heart snared - Justin H. McCarthy "Vanity"

Your lips shall snare the sea - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"

Fretted with pitfalls and snares - Beverly Moore "Vacation" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

A palimpsest of snares - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"

Prepares on treacherous twigs his viscous snares - Francis Noel Clarke Mundy "Needwood Forest: Part, I"

Again the wondrous power to snare - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

To lure them to the snare - E. Nesbit "The Poet to His Love"

The snare of vain imaginings - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

Mark the monstrous snare of subtle foes - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

Golden snares on the tide - James Oppenheim "Self"

Hold everything with snares and claws and stones and knives - Kostes Palamas "The Madman" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

Where many snares beset the path - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"

To snare the thoughtless rabbit - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Retrospection"

The quetzal I've snared - Paige Quinones "Wings Covert"

With despot snares behind them - "Remember Traitors" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Only where a snare is lying low - A.J. Requier "Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Snare you on my sharper edges - Lola Ridge "Secrets"

Who barters the souls in his snares - Lola Ridge "A Toast"

Do not weep in the devil's snare - Rumi "Life in Death" transl. by R.A. Nicholson

May be beguiled by that snare - Rumi "Saint and Hypocrite" transl. by E.H. Whinfield

For there are snares in sleep - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"

Murderous snares around his path - Frederick George Scott "Dion"

Each one in heart is setting snares - Taras Shevchenko "On the Eleventh Psalm" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

In silver webs had snared the sea - George Sterling "Duandon"

Bound as I was in the snare of Time - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 209: The Poet's Petition and Praise 209" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

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

Caught in that dusty snare - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

Decided to snare and imprison the sun - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"

From the snares of sin - Phillis Wheatley "An Hymn to the Evening"

Escaped as a gazelle out of the snare - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 27" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

The snare of need - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season"

Many a snare and temptation - "Youthful Temptations" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]


Brought him unsnared through the castle's deep shadows - Anne E.G. Nydam "Jorinde Remembers" [Strange Horizons 29 Sept. 2025]


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