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Find some flint in the heart left to light - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

A flint to bliss - Lucie Brock-Broido "How Can It Be I Am No Longer I"

Unshod to meet the flints - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Cheerfulness Taught by Reason"

A whiff of flint in the dark - Ina Cariño "Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before"

SA crown of flinty spines about the rose - W.R. Childe "The Gothic Rose"

Made of flint and roses - John Davidson "Thirty Bob a Week"

Flints, clods, and javelins hurling - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

oil of flint if steadfast tilled - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XXVII"

Whose scornings are flint on dry rock - Camille T. Dungy "Where bushes periodically burn, children fear other children: girls"

And set the flints with flowers - Helen Parry Eden "Lines Written for D.E."

Growth rings of iron, flint and bronze - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"

Flints in the shade of tall nettles - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"

Upon Time's flinty road - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

Blade of sharp-projecting flint - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

With a needle of long red flint - D.H. Lawrence "He-Goat"

His eyes are flint to the candles - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: Third Movement"

By a destiny harder than flint - Arthur Macy "The Book Hunter"

Flints of sunlight strike against your skin - Naomi Long Madgett "Signature"

Tradition full of flint and flaw - Edwin Markham "The Desire of Nation"

A roof of flint and a floor of chalk - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"

A fistful of empty flint - Pablo Neruda "Amor America (1400)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Old flints to kindle ancient lamps - Pablo Neruda "Arise to Birth" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

Made fire of blood and flint - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Made of flint and backbone - Linda Pastan "Elizabethan"

Where flint first met steel - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"

Struck them like a steel to flint - Kay Ryan "He Lit a Fire with Icicles"

Flaked a flint to a cutting edge - Langdon Smith "Evolution"

A patient art, knapped from a core of flint - A.E. Stallings "Arrowhead Hunting"

The sons of flint and pitch - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

Had a garden of flint and clay - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

The hard flint flaked to form - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "Arrow-Heads"

Flinty fragments clad in moss - Thomas Warton Jr. "On King Arthur's Round Table at Winchester"

The shard, the pebble, and the flint - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"


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