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Delightful omen of her life's employ - J.R.R. "Lines Written on a Lady's Weeping at Her Marriage"[The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]

Who sow in tears shall reap in joy - J.R.R. "Lines Written on a Lady's Weeping at Her Marriage"[The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]

By the ransomed spirit cast away - K.R. (H.I.H. Grand Prince Constantine Constantinovich) "[No! I can ne'er believe, no recollection]" transl. by John Pollen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Konstantin_Konstantinovich_of_Russia

Equal in time though not in distance - Jim Racobs "A Measured Light"

Through the burning day in hope prevail - Dollie Radford "Song"

The great sorrow of brightness - Jeremy Radin "Evening"

Everything dances with its strict negation - Jeremy Radin "Evening"

Kneel before a new & ruthless circumstance - Jeremy Radin "Evening"

Surrendering with grace to the evening - Jeremy Radin "Evening"

On history's tide receding - Nat Raha "[subterranean / dreaming grace roots]"

Borders in the composition of hands - Nat Raha "[subterranean / dreaming grace roots]"

For a kinetics of otherwise - Nat Raha "[subterranean / dreaming grace roots]"

Plant a tree on Jordan's quiet banks - Rahel "To My Country" transl. by Diane Mintz

Secret weeping over your barrenness - Rahel "To My Country" transl. by Diane Mintz

Better than soot or algae's wet sigh - Gaia Rajan "Dent"

Drank brine and left the olives - Gaia Rajan "Dent"

Sparred the light for windows and won - Gaia Rajan "Dent"

Allow what can survive you - Gaia Rajan "Dent"

Over the Silver Mountains - Sir Walter Raleigh "Pilgrimage"

Affection follows Fortune's wheels - Sir Walter Raleigh "A Poesy to Prove Affection Is Not Love"

Stares at me through cobwebbed eyes - Nen G. Ramirez "Love poem with a dying cat"

A shadowy hallway of locked doors - Nen G. Ramirez "Love poem with a dying cat"

When I hid in the hollows of myself - Nen G. Ramirez "Love poem with a dying cat"

Phantom fists against the plexiglass of the living world - Nen G. Ramirez "Love poem with a dying cat"

Of thanes and thieves and kin - Shivanee Ramlochan "Witch Hindu"

Under the cutlass of her tongue - Shivanee Ramlochan "Witch Hindu"

The same as made blossoms in Eden - Andrew Ramsay "Atkinson's Mill"

Where ducks study the revolutionary texts - essa may ranapiri "Hinemoana"

Out of the ashes of coral - essa may ranapiri "Hinemoana"

And frogs obeyed a wooden king - George W. Ranck "The War of the Rats and Mice"

As brave as any sparrow - George W. Ranck "The War of the Rats and Mice"

Hark to an exiled son's appeal - James Ryder Randall "My Maryland"

Burst the tyrant's chain - James Ryder Randall "My Maryland"

Stalking with Liberty along - James Ryder Randall "My Maryland"

Mirth with all her freedom - Thomas Randolph "To Master Anthony Stafford"

To taste of Bacchus' blessings - Thomas Randolph "To Master Anthony Stafford"

Bony relic of forgotten days - Elizabeth Virginia Raplee "To a Skull on My Bookshelf" [Weird Tales Oct. 1937]

That dark realm to which we're all addressed - Elizabeth Virginia Raplee "To a Skull on My Bookshelf" [Weird Tales Oct. 1937]

All roads narrow at the border - Barbara Ras "You Can't Have It All"

Half spice, half amnesia - Barbara Ras "You Can't Have It All"

Racing one another towards joy - Barbara Ras "You Can't Have It All"

Where the starry armies dwell - Bernard Rascas "The Love of God" transl. by William Cullen Bryant

When the sky rains jewels - Muhemmetjan Rashidin "Long Live" transl. by Nicholas Kontovas and edited by Gulnisa Nazarova

Who pay their father's debts - Muhemmetjan Rashidin "Long Live" transl. by Nicholas Kontovas and edited by Gulnisa Nazarova

When sometimes demons far outnumber angels - Muhemmetjan Rashidin "Long Live" transl. by Nicholas Kontovas and edited by Gulnisa Nazarova

A swallow came but you did not - Muhemmetjan Rashidin "Longing" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

Line up and wait to fall - Matt Rasmussen "Ekphrastifilia"

Our drawn over selves - Matt Rasmussen "Ekphrastifilia"

Then cut yourself out - Matt Rasmussen "Ekphrastifilia"

With the night begins our day - Thomas Ravenscroft "By the Moon"

A field with a stone on its heart - Dahlia Ravikovich "The Blue West" transl. by Chana Bloch

Climb up to the borders of the sun - Dahlia Ravikovich "The Blue West" transl. by Chana Bloch

Maintaining their several identities - Man Ray "Three Dimensions"

Enclosing and excluding like shawls - Man Ray "Three Dimensions"

What curiosity lurks without - Man Ray "Three Dimensions"

And I regret not counting - Laura Read "Love Poem with Staples"

Time was always something you could make more of - Laura Read "Love Poem with Staples"

There are many ways to be broken - Laura Read "Love Poem with Staples"

Unsettled pacer of storms - Victoria Redel "The Pact"

Companions of dawn, partners of rain - Victoria Redel "The Pact"

Through the high grass of dream - Victoria Redel "The Pact"

The sea's lips scold me - Spencer Reece "Siesta"

Facets of cruel splendor - John Reed "Sangar: To Lincoln Steffens"

The maple's autumn conflagration - Laura Ann Reed "Fortitude"

The warp and weave of next spring's flags - Laura Ann Reed "Fortitude"

Climb the twisted chamber stair - Lizette Woodworth Reese "Lydia Is Gone This Many a Year"

Until they run out of nights - William Reichard "In the Evening"

Stains all its light touches - William Reichard "In the Evening"

Standing on the cold, grey moon - William Reichard "In the Evening"

Let silence speak in my stead - William Reichard "In the Evening"

Fawns with liquid eyes a-flame - Hilda Reid "The Magnanimity of Beasts"

Wolves shiver as the rabbit roars - Hilda Reid "The Magnanimity of Beasts"

Chased by angry butterflies - Hilda Reid "The Magnanimity of Beasts"

A certificate of a bright somewhere - Jasmine Reid "Certificate of Live Birth"

Reckless of ocean's rise - Robert Reid "Poesie"

Where the long wave breaks in measured time - Robert Reid "Poesie"

Till the snow-caps catch the chorus - Robert Reid "A Song of Canada"

Each twinkle reads the horoscope - Sam C. Reid, Jr. "Summer's Night"

Leads her to her own blue sphere - Sam C. Reid, Jr. "Summer's Night"

Then calls forth her sentinel band - Sam C. Reid, Jr. "Summer's Night"

Bright balloons of mirth - E. Rendall "Epitaph"

Apples of jest - E. Rendall "Epitaph"

All their changing shadows died - William Renton "Mountain Twilight"

nightmare in the morning - Ariel Resnikoff "ghost canto"

a poet among ghosts - Ariel Resnikoff "ghost canto"

the translations of her life - Ariel Resnikoff "ghost canto"

Networks of outrage and hope - Joan Retallack "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"

A history of silence - Joan Retallack "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"

Building my next in the old apple-tree - Ruth Revere "A Bluebird's Song"

Miles of violence in their eyes - No'u Revilla "Welcome to the Gut House"

Crowded with whippoorwills and frogs - Kenneth Rexroth "A Singing Voice"

Through the half drowned stars - Kenneth Rexroth "A Singing Voice"

To swallow whole every holy thing - Jason Reynolds "Match"

Hand over your heart - Jason Reynolds "This Has Always Been Our Active Shooter Drill"

dark lipstick on the rim of the glass - Seema Reza "The neurologist gives us permission"

to keep the sweetness in our mouths - Seema Reza "The neurologist gives us permission"

Crooked growth means it can be a loophole - Margaret Rhee "Crooked"

And a loophole can be a means to freedom - Margaret Rhee "Crooked"

In the disappearing us - Margaret Rhee "The Year Before I Left For Mars"

Sometimes that unfamiliar place is closer - Kurt Rhode in a letter to Diane Seuss (quoted as part of her poem, "What Is It You Feel I Asked Kurt")

The heart’s a dollar music box - Jordan Rice "Vanishment"

Grateful for the light - Jordan Rice "Vanishment"

Relic from the wreck of death - L. Rice-Oxley "The Opening of the Grave of Arthur and Guinevere at Glastonbury"

Breath of mystic times and Merlin sage - L. Rice-Oxley "The Opening of the Grave of Arthur and Guinevere at Glastonbury"

Never blamed my hands - James Richardson "Essay on the One Hand and on the Other"

So briefly come together - James Richardson "Essay on the One Hand and on the Other"

Hungry for the hum of mosquitos - Monica Rico "A Lesson from My Father about Electricity"

The breathlessness of asphalt - Monica Rico "A Lesson from My Father about Electricity"

Gone with the autumn - Ameen Rihani "Gone with the Swallows"

Gone with the swallows - Ameen Rihani "Gone with the Swallows"

Grope in the shadows of the slain - Ameen Rihani "Gone with the Swallows"

That reared for him their towers - Ameen Rihani "Gone with the Swallows"

Walked as far as the sky is blue - Jade Riordan "We Others"

As far as the mercy of the deer - Jade Riordan "We Others"

Wished for a moment of laughter - Jade Riordan "We Others"

Slips from the box of upside-down buildings - River "The Egg" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]

Faded computations erased by the light of blood moons - River "The Egg" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]

A grid of interconnected variables - Mg Roberts "Cylanders II"

One edge away from disappearing - Mg Roberts "Cylanders II"

The russet hickories confer - Theodore Roberts "The Chase"

Our spears have a vision of red - Theodore Roberts "The Spears of Kan-Mar"

Scenting the heels of war - Theodore Roberts "The Spears of Kan-Mar"

With the spell of broken dreams - William Carman Roberts "An Easter Memory"

Weigh anchor to the sound of psalms - John Robertson "The Prince of Orange in 1672"

The shores of tyranny on the left - John Robertson "The Prince of Orange in 1672"

The pale cliffs of falsehood on the right - John Robertson "The Prince of Orange in 1672"

Under more deep ambrosial domes - John Robertson "The Prince of Orange in 1672"

Caked with residue of a barefoot summer - Amy H. Robinson "Follow You"

The red glowing heat of their footsteps - Amy H. Robinson "Follow You"

Forget the night in dawning day - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson "From a Motor in May"

No Spring that Autumn has not known - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson "From a Motor in May"

Dead flowers on the wind - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson "From a Motor in May"

The leaves of Autumn guard the buds of Spring - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson "From a Motor in May"

The burdens of distress weigh on us - Fayette Robinson "Supplication.--Two Sonnets" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Change is earth's inevitable dower - Fayette Robinson "Supplication.--Two Sonnets" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

When heaven's great scroll is spread before us - Fayette Robinson "Supplication.--Two Sonnets" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Tyrant monsters of the deep - Fayette Robinson "The Zopilotes"

Sadness comes in generations - Kristina Kay Robinson "Contemplating Extinction as Theme in Basquiat's 'Pez Dispenser 1984'"

A kind of fire persisting unafraid - Kristina Kay Robinson "Contemplating Extinction as Theme in Basquiat's 'Pez Dispenser 1984'"

A fist in the face of God - Peggy Robles-Alvarado "When I Became La Promesa"

Only the breath of angels on it - F. Rochat "My Baby" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.710, 4 Aug. 1877]

Tinged her eyes with love-light's dawning - F. Rochat "My Baby" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.710, 4 Aug. 1877]

Something strange and wild struck my heart - F. Rochat "My Baby" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.710, 4 Aug. 1877]

The python's murderous embrace - James Jeffrey Roche "Nature the False Goddess"

No demon to propitiate - James Jeffrey Roche "Nature the False Goddess"

Quick visions of celestial grace - James Jeffrey Roche "Three Doves"

My heart they choose for home - James Jeffrey Roche "Three Doves"

Takes the sorrow of the threefold hour - Madeleine Caron Rock "He Is the Lonely Greatness"

Shattered by the light from out those darkened eyes - Madeleine Caron Rock "He Is the Lonely Greatness"

Warm instruments for the cold news of loss - Catherine Rockwood "In Memoriam Maureen K. Speller"

Some alteration of in the landscape of one mind - Catherine Rockwood "In Memoriam Maureen K. Speller"

How much could be gathered out of air - Catherine Rockwood "In Memoriam Maureen K. Speller"

What falls away is always - Theodore Roethke "The Waking"

Though we all huddle like crows - Brittany Rogers "Dressing the Body"

A right way to send someone back to the lap of God - Brittany Rogers "Dressing the Body"

So fancy they can be mistaken for a bride - Brittany Rogers "Dressing the Body"

Rising and falling on a machine's time - Elizabeth Kestrel Rogers "Spare Parts"

The fantasy of cyborgs and androids - Elizabeth Kestrel Rogers "Spare Parts"

How empty an absence is - Kenyatta Rogers "Labyrinth"

And only found pennies - Kenyatta Rogers "Labyrinth"

The many questions tightening - Henriette Roland-Holst [Untitled] transl. by Manfred Wolf

Like us restless underneath - Martha Ronk "Greek phrenitikos, frantic"

The itch of canyons - Martha Ronk "Greek phrenitikos, frantic"

Allergic to what I'm thinking - Martha Ronk "Greek phrenitikos, frantic"

A phantom in the myrtle shade - Ronsard "Of His Lady's Old Age" transl. by Andrew Lang

So shall Endymion faithful prove - Ronsard "To the Moon" transl. by Andrew Lang

The face of foemen unaware - Ronsard "To the Moon" transl. by Andrew Lang

Hostile spies in the bright noon - Ronsard "To the Moon" transl. by Andrew Lang

Kisses and hatred, chocolate and vengeance - Benjamin Rosenbaum "A Gardener Betrayed by Roses"

Instead of having to be beautiful tomorrow - Benjamin Rosenbaum "A Gardener Betrayed by Roses"

The cost of a moment overlooked - Morris Rosenfeld "The Nightingale to the Workman" transl. by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank

Throttle your wheel's grinding power - Morris Rosenfeld "The Nightingale to the Workman" transl. by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank

Open a door onto a sea - Alireza Roshan "The Book of Absence" (translated by Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach)

Open a door onto you - Alireza Roshan "The Book of Absence" (translated by Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach)

You who are the sea & the night - Alireza Roshan "The Book of Absence" (translated by Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach)

Wanted to be the wind - Alireza Roshan "The Book of Absence" (translated by Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach)

Drinks in and casts back the sun - Rosoriu "Old Idea of Choan" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)

The hundred cords of mist - Rosoriu "Old Idea of Choan" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)

Crowd over the thousand gates - Rosoriu "Old Idea of Choan" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)

They know when the hawk looms - Ciona Rouse "Red-Shouldered Hawk"

Meantime his love maintains my life - Richard Rowlands "Lullaby"

And gives my sense her rest - Richard Rowlands "Lullaby"

Work all that my wishing would - Richard Rowlands "Lullaby"

Salt at the back of my throat - Anjoli Roy "Last"

On the glass of a dream - Gabrielle Octavia Rucker "I Don't Say Goodbye, I Only Say Ciao"

My many plankton realities - Gabrielle Octavia Rucker "I Don't Say Goodbye, I Only Say Ciao"

That same tricky knot begging - Gabrielle Octavia Rucker "I Don't Say Goodbye, I Only Say Ciao"

Oak leaves sitting on elm branches - Alison Rumfitt "Romance of Possible Contrasts"

Wearing wild red roses on her tongue - Alison Rumfitt "Romance of Possible Contrasts"

Let not a devil pass the bridge - Johan Ludvig Runeberg "Sven Duva" transl. by C. Rosell [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, no.33, Nov. 1877]

Reaching daylight less alive - Sam Rush "Sonnet for what ages and does not"

In this poor mousetrap of a hold - John Russell "The Old Viking" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.115-v.III, 13 March 1886]

Like an old wolf in his lair - John Russell "The Old Viking" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.115-v.III, 13 March 1886]

The upward path so steep and long - Matthew Russell, S.J. "A Thought from Cardinal Newman"

Throwin' horseshoes at the moon - Tom Russell "Throwin' Horseshoes at the Moon"

To follow the path of the sun - Carroll Ryan "Malta"

Deserted streets of marble halls - Carroll Ryan "Malta"

Where startled Echo rarely calls - Carroll Ryan "Malta"


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