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Turkey vultures circling in two by two - Douglas S. Jones "Sexy in the Food Chain"


Attendants in crow masks bathed exquisite vultures - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Within the beak of a relentless vulture - Benjamin West Ball "Cymindis"

The Vulture eats between his meals - Hilaire Belloc "The Vulture"

Abandon the eagle for vulture or snake - "Blue Jackets, Fall In!" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

The dizziness of height and breeze and vultures wheeling - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"

By ravens and vultures is speedily finish'd - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"

Your eyes are vultures - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 1 (February 1923)"

Bulls undone and lions dead and vultures flapping overhead - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

Vultures have crimsoned their beaks in thy heart - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

The vultures sweep over all this wasteland - Janet Kauffman "Before it Took Hold"

Melting walls and circling vultures - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

From a vulture's wing - Megan Levad "Foundling"

Vultures hold the flesh of men - Li T'ai-Po "The Battle to the South of the City" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

The one-eyed vulture in the glass - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"

A wheeling vulture's scream - Douglas Malloch "Contrast"

With beaks of vultures eating at his side - John Masefield "Animula"

A plotter coming as the vulture comes - John Masefield "Esther"

Nought attracts except the vulture's wings - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"

Shadows of a vulture's claw - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Earthward swoops a vulture sun - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

No one names the vultures - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Coup in Progress"

Envy's vultures in the branches perk - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

Part vulture, part wolf - E.J. Pratt "The Shark"

Abandon the hunger-suffering vulture - Roger Reeves "The Head of the Cottonmouth"

Became apples for vultures - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 1: Flower of Silver"

As the vulture fell like a flung stone - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

The gliding silence of the vulture - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"

While black vultures scream - Taras Shevchenko "The Night of Taras" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

The vultures shriek impatient - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"

Till the screaming vulture whets his beak - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Ploughing of the Sword"

Choose for your emblem the vulture - Henry van Dyke "Homeward Bound"


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