Potential Titles: Phrase

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A measured phrase of bells - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"

And the grown-up phrases jangle - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

Never phrased what he desired - Robert Bly "My Father at Eighty-Five"

Studying the phrases of the moon - Jim Daniels "Lip Gloss, Belgium"

A phrase stricken from our language - Chris Dombrowski "Weekly Apocalyptic or Poem Written on the Wall in an Ascending Space Capsule"

Lost a phrase of pure physics - Robert Frazier "Imageography"

For elegant and antique phrase - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXVII"

The exact dagger of phrase - Liv Mammone "Fear"

Chosen rhyme and cunning phrase - Theodore Maynard "The Singer to His Lady"

A phrase of notes resembling stars - Alice Meynell "A Thrush Before Dawn"

And Weavers talk in unknown Phrases - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]

One phrase of the secret music - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

A few phrases pieced together around a kitchen table - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Story, around the Corner"

A sea of loving phrases - Hope Anita Smith "Words"


Dissolving score of wild half-phrasings - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]


How ego blossoms in paraphrase - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"


Please consult your phrasebook for the proper response - Richard Jackson "The Italian Phrase Book"


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