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Make our moons birds of prey - Ennis Rook Bashe "We Have Slain the Savage Martians, but Their Princess Escaped"

My heart an easy prey - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"

Other prey too shudders with the light - Russell Brakefield "Pardon, Trout Farm"

A prey to quenchless flame - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"

Given a prey for burning beauty to devour - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds

That pray to the Dragon that preys on the light of the Sun - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"

The eagle's memory and its prey - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Ambition]"

Content with meaner prey - John Clare "The Woodman"

That Time has made his prey - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Prey to pain and sorrow's sword - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ah, Death, Death, Death, to thee I make my prayer]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Easy prey for the dockside phantoms - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"

Their prey hidden in land folded and patched - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"

A fierce raven screaming o'er its prey - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"

Making our hearts their prey - Vachel Lindsay "We Start West for the Waterfalls"

Are not the prey of setting suns - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Scorn loses sight of its prey - Tariq Luthun "Harb"

The prey of dusty years - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Lost Name"

How long has your prey eluded you? - Andy Miller "Diana"

Wrapped safe as a spider wraps its prey - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

That takes its prey to privacy - Marianne Moore "Silence"

But why a prey to doubt remain? - John Napier "Who Knows?"

First prey of Satan's rage - John Henry Newman "James and John"

The crocodile full of the flesh of his prey - Robert Pollok "The African Maid"

Corners and spirals and prey - Tim Pratt "Mask"

Will become the prey of years - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"

The prey of dizziness - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell [Delirium I]" transl. by James Sibley Watson

The subtle storm-fiend watches for his prey - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

And left a prey to hazard wild - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

The prey of every vulgar thief - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVIII"

In darkness seize their prey - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

Suns and worlds have been thy prey - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"

Panting hounds beguiled of their prey - Edmund Spenser "Sonnet"

Preying on tiny imaginations - Elizabeth Spires "Bloated Haiku"

I am the prey of night - Frank Stanford "The Mind Reader"

And the black cat seeks prey - Alfred B. Street "The Bell Owl"

The hunter who makes the world his prey - Arthur Stringer "Hunter and Hunted"

Long thwarted of their prey - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"

A prey to the dull knell's sound - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell

Wolves and tigers poised to prey on it - Wang Ts'an "Seven Sorrows" transl. by Burton Watson

Prey to the slow vengeance of the wizard Time - Thomas Warton Jr. "On King Arthur's Round Table at Winchester"

Rob the prison of its prey - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Beasts that prey with bloody claw - Francis Brett Young "Bete Humaine"


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