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

Snapping their beaks against the fairyglass - Ashley Bao "Secrets from a Telepath"

Purpled the beaks of our ravens - Thomas Campbell "Song of the Greeks"

Claws to cling and beak to kill - Roger Casement "Hamilcar Barca"

The lightning showed a yellow beak - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXXVII: A Thunder-storm"

The pheasant's beak full of nightshade - Chris Dombrowski "Hunting All Day beneath the Long Night Moon"

Clinging to clouds by their beaks - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"

Flame in their beaks for breath - Gilbert Frankau "Eyes in the Air"

Phone the finch with the crowded beak - Brenda Hillman "Girl Sleuth"

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

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

A bird with stones in its beak - Shara McCallum "The News"

The eagle's bent beak at the throat - Joaquin Miller "At the Calend's Close"

Hungry falcons whet their beaks - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

Brandishing verbs like twigs in your beak - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

He types poems with his beak - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Woodpecker"

That is a star she's got in her beak - "Wildlife Encounter"

Plums lie open to the blackbird's beak - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"


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