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When my lids surrender to the limits of this battered body - Keisha-Gaye Anderson "We Dreamed You"

Knight of battered and unblazoned arms - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two at the Crossroads"

His blind face battered with stars - William Stanley Braithwaite "Del Cascar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Black and battered hulk that slumbers on the tide - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

His battered suitcase of the unspoken - Jim Daniels "Souvenir"

And renovate this battered world - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

Battered parapets loom gaunt and black - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"

Battered our door with a hatchet and a telescope - Diana Marie Delgado "Late-Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust"

That batters my bolted door - "Eamonn an Chnuic, or 'Ned of the Hill'" transl. by P.H. Pearse

Pledging a battered name - Donald Evans "Epicede"

Battered wreckage, grey jetsam of the tide - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"

To cherish the battered potters' clay - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes"

Battered elm and thorn-tree - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"

Battered wreck by tempests beat - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"

Batters our elusive homes - Aimee Le "Movies II"

Tameless heart in battered frame - George Meredith "The Last Contention"

A wisp of the battering wind - Lola Ridge "The Destroyer"

Siege of battering days - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 65"

Bruised from battered jetty and sea-wall - Leonora Speyer "This City Wind"

And Sin that batters the door - Iris Tree "[Pity the slain that laid away their lives]"


Jibing the night's storm-battered prow - Cynthia Zarin "Mirror"


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