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A toy dog left on a rowboat adrift - Mary Jo Bang "Today You're the Still Photographer"

Alien to the toys that dazzle - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 III"

Tools and toys of tyranny - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book II"

Angels brought Him toys of gold - Hilaire Belloc "The Birds"

Because he played with Beauty for a toy - William Stanley Braithwaite "October XXIX, 1795 (Keats' Birthday)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The delicate toy of too pliant a will - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

Leave toys and playthings to the crowd - Tommaso Campanella "LVII. To Ridolfo di Bina" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Past the toy town of the postgraduates - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"

With our uncomprehended toys - Russell W. Davenport "Poem"

The toy-boxes time plays with - John Gould Fletcher "Toy-Boxes"

Toys from a celestial nursery - Nikita Gill "Scylla"

Hearts aren't toys for juggling - Ashley M. Jones "Love Note: Surely"

But a shop of toys and trifles - Ben Jonson "To the World. A Farewell for a Gentlewoman, Virtuous and Noble"

Mourn not the perishing of each fair toy - Fanny Kemble "Lines, Addressed to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Academy at Lenox, Massachusetts"

Breezes toy with opening lotus blossoms - Li Po "Li-Si Dancing" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Nor lurking toys which silly life affords - D. Lodge "Solitariness" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]

Toys broken in dreams - Pablo Neruda "The Seeker" transl. by Ilan Stavans

Spent my love on worthless toys - E. Nesbit "The Temptation"

Devoted to melding the scraps into toys - Caroline Harper New "Searching for Amelia [My grandpa was loyal]"

Toying with the world's diamonds - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

Who toyed with Sisyphus - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"

The toy withheld is the token of all who refrain from play - Adrienne Rich "A Ball Is for Throwing"

Dismembering every fraction like a toy - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"

Sad that his toy was broken - Tomaž Šalamun "Young Cops"

And grope for dangerous toys - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"

Toys of tortoise-shell and jasper - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"

With their tinsel and their toys - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours VII" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Truth is now her painted toy - William Butler Yeats "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"


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