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Like fiery coals of martyrdom - Benjamin West Ball "The Autumnal Ride"

Through the sear of smoky coal and burnt hair - Leah Bobet "Hold Fast"

The drowsy coals a livelier sparkle take - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall

That gold watch you dropped into hot coals - CAConrad "Home.3"

Quench with fire the living coal - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets IV"

Words spoken by the coals - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"

Guards the glowing coal of song - Edmund Gosse "Alere Flammam"

A coal in the throat of the furnace - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"

Who swallows such a coal would burst into flames - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"

Apples set on coals to back - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"

Pressed in a rock of mined coal - John James "End"

Hot coals in their desert mouths - Camisha L. Jones "My Anxieties Learn to Pray"

The coal burning his family's hatred - Susan Landgraf "Flower"

The live coal wherewith the Seraphim brand the Prophets - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

On whose lips the altar coal of inspiration burned - George L. Moore "Keats"

And whirlwinds of silent coal - Pablo Neruda "The Disinterred One" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Defend the live coal of life - Pablo Neruda "Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas (1949)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Brothers of coal and stone - Pablo Neruda "Solar Ode to the Army of the People" translated by Richard Schaaf

Radiant coal and water - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Coal gouged out to fuel the light in other places - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"

Swimming in midnights of coal mines - Carl Sandburg "River Roads"

Bring in the coal that dyes our hands black - Jake Skeets "Let There Be Coal"

Broken constellations strewn like coals - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"

The coal fire cherished by the bellows - A.E. Stallings "The Rosehead Nail"

Coal fumes and the rawness of locusts - Gerald Stern "You"

With a pan of coals on either hand - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]


What wine of coal-damp He will pour - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"


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