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One specter rises from the campfire - Duane Ackerson "Little Ghosts"

Spectres trooping to the wisard's call - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

A specter's gem in the shadow-playtime - Stephen Vincent Benet "Boarding-House Hall"

Dock and harbor clap with specters - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Poor spectres of the perished spring - Emily Bronte "A Day Dream"

Spectre cannot harm, serpent cannot charm - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XL"

To go without the spectre's aid - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXVI"

An illumined spectre of a star - Irving Sidney Dix "The Comet"

While gliding Spectres scream'd - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"

Achilles' spectre stalked upon the summit of his tomb - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

The spectre borne on sable pinions - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Spectres of the foam riding the summer gales - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"

Go to the factory to flirt with the specters of labor - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

Dim spectres tread that haunted verge - Jennie Earngey Hill "Alone"

Branded spectre of the night - Jennie Earngey Hill "Death's Spectre"

Spectres and fears, the nightmare and her foal - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXVI: Revolution"

{the rage inside the specter} - fahima ife "of being nameless"

Spectres feared and then forgot - Elinor Jenkins "Dreams Trespassing"

A spectre men call Duty - James Weldon Johnson "Helene"

In political games of specters' peek-a-boo - Harry Martinson "Aniara 14" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That haunting spectre of success - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Spectres came dancing up the wind - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 41"

Spectred horrors from the graves of vengeance raised - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

The monster brood that cloudy spectre bore to rash Ixion - "The Poetical Character" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

Every specter laid by tattered saffron - Ann K. Schwader "At the Last of Carcosa"

Spectres chasing joy and brightness - Thomas Hall Shastid "The Spectres"

The specter who returns unto some desolate world - Clark Ashton Smith "Revenant" [Fantasy Fan, v.1, no.7, Mar. 1934]

Those specters thawing out of the Northwest Passage - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"

Why evoke the spectres of black night - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Playing a pantomime to spectres in the stalls - Iris Tree "[I think myself the fool of tragedy]"

Thin spectres sucked forth by the moon - W.J. Turner "Death"

Two spectres conjured up the buried past - Paul Verlaine "Colloque Sentimental" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Strange spectres in the moonlight - Joseph R. Wilson "The Santa Fe Trail"


The spectral and eternal aspect of the moment - Mary Jo Bang "September 18"

Concealed like spectral stars - Elizabeth Bartlett "In His Image"

Spectral as men once met or crucified - John Berryman "The Possessed"

Spectral birches, slim and white - Arthur Colton "Without the Gate"

The spectral forms of anaconda - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

When by spectral ancestries I pass again to Eden - John Drinkwater "Burning Bush"

imitations of the fruit's spectral physics - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"

Each spectral hound from memory's windy zones - Robert Graves "The Sibyl"

Who sits before a shadowed hearth and warms to a spectral fire - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Inscription" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Furls hints of blue in a spectral geometry - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"

Spectral gnomes of giant size - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

The glare of many a spectral Truth might haunt me - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VI" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]

The spectral traces of lightning bugs - Joseph O. Legaspi "Childhood Elegy"

The spectral lances of the moon - E.M. "Part IV. The Vision Glorious"

Cheated with a spectral smoke - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

Strange traditions drag their spectral robes - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"

Spectral and unwanted as I am - Farid Matuk "When I Look at Pictures"

Their spectral feet are heard to echo - Christopher Morley "Ballad of New Amsterdam"

The banner of that spectral host - George Murray "The Thistle"

Till all that spectral host appear - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"

Driven by spectral bears and lions - Walter S. Percy "When I Survey"

Never fading, ever bright, with a weird and spectral light - E.T. Pine "Asphodel" [Futuria Fantasia, winter 1940]

Spectral words that haunt the air - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Roses"

From a spectral pillow - Adrienne Rich "Rauschenberg's Bed"

Spectral and uncertain under the fog - Tobias Seamon "Halos"

Something spectral possesses the stalactites - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"

A spectral streak of day - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"

The spectral march of some approaching Doom - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Spectral Joy once murdered in a rage - Iris Tree "[I could explain]"

Walks delicately as a stray spectral cat - Iris Tree "Streets"

Some spectral satellite cast glamor on the earth - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"


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