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Swaddled in strange air - Marilyn Hacker "Nearly a Valediction"

Long after midnight, swaddled in dreams - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

To swaddle you in yesterday's headlines - Elizabeth Knapp "Poem in the Manner of the Year in Which I Was Born"

Swaddled wasps in its wood - Aimee Le "Inventory of a Year Before Debt"

Swaddled in old newsprint and hope - Toby MacNutt "When You Read this Debris"

Swaddle of electric pepper compressing - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"


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( Swim/Swam/Swum )


Wearing a swimsuit on Thursday - Aimee Le "That Girl"


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( Swamp )


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( Swing )


( Swung )


Soul marks on unswinging gates - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"


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( Swarm )


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( Swear )


( Swore/Sworn )


Nature forswears antiquity - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature II: May-Flower"

Profiles forsworn to Donatello - Mina Loy "The Black Virginity"


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To the petrel the swooping gale - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips"

Smooth with its swoop of swallows - Terry Blackhawk "Maumee, Maumee"

Swooping over the door to Tartarus - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"

A fall opening to swoop and glide - Anne Haven McDonnell "Owl"

Earthward swoops a vulture sun - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Swoop through the hollow and hover over ridges - Jacie Ragan "The Secret Lives of Fingerprints"


His signature, a perfect birdswoop of wings - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"


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( Sweet )


Bittersweet.


In melancholy drowsy-sweet - Robert Graves "Ghost Music"


Divine accomplice of those perilous-sweet - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"


A syrup, sweet-bitter with smoke - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"


Blown in from sweet-fruited floodplains - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"


The sweetheart of the sun - Thomas Hood "Ruth"

To catch the sweetheart wind - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Having sweethearts, but no wives - "The Rakes of Mallow" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Glance of the eye and sweetheart's sigh - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"


Sweet-smelling melons swelling on the ground - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"


Sweet-sour fruit under the moon's regard - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"


A sweet tooth, a smart mouth, and a wicked thirst - Lauren K. Alleyne "For My Brother(s)"

So many have a sweet tooth for belief - K. Iver "A Medium Performs Your Visit"

Meal planning with a sweet tooth - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"


No sweet-voiced bird will sing - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"


Friendless and all alone on this unsweetened stone - W.H. Davies "The Example"

Drench and immerse my unsweetened ego - Hailey Leithauser "In Praise of Flattery"


A wild-sweet wonder of yesterday - Herbert Randall "Hills o' My Heart"


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Let down the lightning from a sultry sky - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Sultry clouds her blazing eyes bedim - Maurice Baring "Phedre"

Whispers of sultry ages - B. Higgins "Gallipoli: An Epitaph"

The lace the sultry copperhead sheds - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"

Sultry hum of hermit bees - George Martin "Marguerite"

The gray-fly winds her sultry horn - John Milton "Lycidas"


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In passion's suppliant sea - Elizabeth Bridges Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 35

And raised my suppliant hands on high - Anne Bronte "Despondency"


The supplication of a dead man's hand - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"

Blood of old supplications - Pablo Neruda "So that You Will Hear Me" transl. by W.S. Merwin

Unburdened by any supplication - Charles Wright "Little Ending"


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