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Or lute in land of dreams - E.A.L. "To Adhemar" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]
Until my pulses leap like rills unbound - E.A.L. "To Adhemar" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]
Softly o'er my weary, thirsting soul - E.A.L. "To Adhemar" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]
The wind will keep its ancient lullaby - L.L. "The Graves of Gallipoli" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
And comfort them with whispers of their home - L.L. "The Graves of Gallipoli" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
That makes the past a dream to me - M.E.L. "A Farewell" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Seek to quell its secret burning - M.E.L. "A Farewell" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Nor would one memory awaken - M.E.L. "A Farewell" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Awful love took flame - Louise Labe sonnet IV
Each thought looming - Louise Labe sonnet IV
Singing pain - Louise Labe sonnet XXI
Hard as my black dawn - Louise Labe sonnet XXIII
The islands of memory - Monique Laederach "Penelope"
Without dust - Monique Laederach "Penelope"
Baring my bones to the whims of demolition - Lam Lai "I, New York"
Filling the night with whispers - Lam Lai "I, New York"
Afraid to blink under oath - Lam Lai "I, New York"
The dawn of day that lifts me out of night - Oscar Laighton "Song [Sweet wind that blows o'er sunny isles]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, no.33, Nov. 1877]
All of life compresses into a single molecule - Kien Lam "Big Bang Theory"
Make a new system for breathing - Kien Lam "Big Bang Theory"
Set against an infinite backdrop of space - Kien Lam "Big Bang Theory"
Tied to everyone before and after me - Alexis LaMantia "Waiting"
My last refuge from humanity - Alexis LaMantia "Waiting"
Never hitting the destined mark - Frances Lamartine "Thistle-Down" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Telling of joys that come no more - Frances Lamartine "Thistle-Down" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Encompassed all with gentians blue - Alexander Lamont "In a Bernese Valley"
With Edelweiss upon her breast - Alexander Lamont "In a Bernese Valley"
By her head wild thyme and rue - Alexander Lamont "In a Bernese Valley"
Be soft with the light inside you - Alfred K. LaMotte "Gentle"
Where the sun comes up in your chest - Alfred K. LaMotte "Gentle"
Golden honey daubed on the bread of the ordinary - Alfred K. LaMotte "Gentle"
Build a home on the moon - Sade LaNay "Entry 003 from I love you and I'm not dead"
Temptation overcomes the star - Sade LaNay "Entry 003 from I love you and I'm not dead"
New moon in midheaven - Sade LaNay "Entry 003 from I love you and I'm not dead"
Four beets in a bag - Susan Landers "Holly Says Sobriety Is Paying Attention"
A net full of mulberries - Susan Landers "Holly Says Sobriety Is Paying Attention"
The poppy's blocky skeleton - Susan Landers "Holly Says Sobriety Is Paying Attention"
A fall all consuming - Susan Landers "I Don't Know What You're Called, I'll Call You by Your Sounds"
Vast halls and flowing wells - Walter Savage Landor "Gebir"
The evening sun poured a fresh splendour - Walter Savage Landor "Gebir"
A night of memories and of sighs - Walter Savage Landor "Rose Aylmer"
Whom these wakeful eyes may weep - Walter Savage Landor "Rose Aylmer"
Amid the dwellings where dreams go - John Langdon-Davies "Quits!"
With yew-trees bound - John Langdon-Davies "Quits!"
Once again with everything - Dorothea Lasky "The Miscarriage"
Asking me for favors all along - Dorothea Lasky "The Miscarriage"
A forgotten world with rainbow sunrises - Dorothea Lasky "This Beautiful Planet"
We are burning here with no escape - Dorothea Lasky "This Beautiful Planet"
Stampede when we must - Irene Latham "Dear Wandering Wildebeest"
The hour when the sun dreams - Irene Latham "This Is the Hour"
Knows to wait for starshine - Irene Latham "What Rhino Knows"
The soft June days forever done - George Parsons Lathrop "The Child's Wish Granted"
Dull coatings of a time now ambered - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"
Search for a former light - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"
Sent regrets by smoke - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"
At the cost of systems still breaking - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"
But mark the wandering glances of his eye - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
The simplest thing that memory endears - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Questi0ns not the justice of his fate - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Wounded pride first taught her how to hate - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Made our calculations pay - Jack LaZebnik "The Day the Tree Fell Down"
Such problems as perplex the day - John Lea "The Simple Way"
Sitting on a heap of barley - Edward Lear "Incidents in the Live of My Uncle Arly"
Went to sea in a sieve - Edward Lear "The Jumblies"
The echoing song of a coppery gong - Edward Lear "The Jumblies"
To sail my paper boats - Albert Lee "My Realm"
Where I was king of all the shore - Albert Lee "My Realm"
Called upon the tide to come - Albert Lee "My Realm"
With the moon in her head - Dennis Lee "Silverly"
When the clouds bent over - Lee Young-ju "Pillow" transl. by Jae Kim
Escaped through the chimney - Lee Young-ju "Pillow" transl. by Jae Kim
Where innumerable sleeps flow - Lee Young-ju "Pillow" transl. by Jae Kim
Smeared in crimson light - Lee Young-ju "Roommate, Woman" transl. by Jae Kim
The urge to reach for your sorrow - Gerri Leen "Final Resting Place"
Terracotta for a lifelong love - Gerri Leen "Final Resting Place"
No chance against the knife - David Lehman "Wedding Song"
The soul of a stranger - David Lehman "Who She Was"
Had moved his table of mirrors - Gary Lehmann "The Heat of the Moon"
The weapons littering his lineage - Eugenia Leigh "Glossolalia"
Absorb the torments buried there - Eugenia Leigh "Glossolalia"
Who marvels at the sky - Eugenia Leigh "Glossolalia"
The enemy stalking at noontide - Margaret Leigh "Sonnet: The Journalist"
By whose hands were sown rank tares - Margaret Leigh "Sonnet: The Journalist"
That gambled with the souls of men - Margaret Leigh "Two Epitaphs: I. On a Diplomat"
Hope never wore a brighter brow - Leila "Stanzas" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
And weep while I'm confiding - Leila "Stanzas" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
While counting years by sorrow - Leila "Stanzas" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
With the tornado of battle stunning - Henry P. Leland "Wounded" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
Coming as no king of terrors - Henry P. Leland "Wounded" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
Under the leafy shadow of lindens - Henry P. Leland "Wounded" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
Possessed a mind of sturdy fabric - Anna Maria Lenngren "Other Fabrics, Other Mores!" transl. by Nadia Christensen and Mariann Tiblin
Strange things to my spirit-eyes lie bare - H.L. Leonard "My Treasure" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
In the azure depths of the summer air - H.L. Leonard "My Treasure" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
While the winds and the waves their sighs combine - H.L. Leonard "My Treasure" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
Open myself to wonder - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"
Wonder just won't be found - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"
Grass completely enrobed in ice - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"
Singing faint little bell-notes of joy - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"
Vivid rays tinged sacred Jordan's breast - Mrs. Leprohon (nee Rosanna Eleanor Mullins) "Abraham's Sacrifice"
And never feared the rain - Winifred M. Letts "Hallows'e'en"
Each time your roughness danced with me - Jessica Lévai "Rochambeau"
With vows that bound the leaf and stone - Jessica Lévai "Rochambeau"
She should have feared my edge - Jessica Lévai "Rochambeau"
Dense violent dreams - Primo Levi "Reveille"
About the structure of rocks - Rachel Levitsky "Audience"
A habit backed in desire - Rachel Levitsky "Audience"
When the storm of misfortune around them did press - E. Anna Lewis "The Orphan's Hymn"
Better to rest in the halls of the dead - E. Anna Lewis "The Orphan's Hymn"
Torn sigils tangled in bones on the lawn - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"
The ice cream truck's jingle warped and blaring - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"
Who taught Death romantic gestures - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"
The future refuses to happen - Paige Lewis "I'm Not Faking My Astonishment, Honest"
Exists to keep audiences unsatisfied - Paige Lewis "Logically, I know the Circus"
Retained its vivid crimson hue - Dr. John Leyden "The Mermaid"
Ruler of the shoreless sea of death - Li Hung-chang "Dragon of the Shoreless Sea" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Carry her away in your ship of ghosts - Li Hung-chang "Dragon of the Shoreless Sea" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
That we may float forever together on that sea - Li Hung-chang "Dragon of the Shoreless Sea" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Without bearing away my sorrow - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
Fling these bitter drops to the wild swans - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
The river that flows past me forever - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
Stir the fire with my hairpin of jade - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
Let the dust settle on my dressing-table - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Its rising will cast bitter shadows of sorrow - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
From my throat I crush back my cries - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
My thoughts must travel the long road to the south - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
the only pattern throughout our photographs - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"
whenever I was worth your time - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"
will make it feel small enough to fit - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"
You only get to savor it once - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"
Every verb desires to be a noun - Kate Light "There Comes the Strangest Moment"
Your heart's in retrograde - Kate Light "There Comes the Strangest Moment"
Take my nice new wheelbarrow and fill it to the brim - F. Liley-Young "Haying Time" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
That and my new wheelbarrow soon get the haying done - F. Liley-Young "Haying Time" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Hate, a hungry animal that only takes - Ann-Margaret Lim "One Summer"
Against the day's blunt silence - Ann-Margaret Lim "One Summer"
Meeting in a flooded rice field - Lin Ling "Footpaths Cross in the Rice Field" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
An egret descends on still wings - Lin Ling "Footpaths Cross in the Rice Field" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
Take a dip inside your gene pool - Susan L. Lin "Rap(tors) EP"
I've been treading the sea surface - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
Measure time using my growing hurt of loneliness - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
Others approached me from the horizon - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
Crooked from growing old within a shell - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
Scenting the air with protective promises - C.H. Lindsay "The Legacy of Granny van Helsing"
Continually brews garlic-flavored moonshine - C.H. Lindsay "The Legacy of Granny van Helsing"
Nor swerves for pain or rue - Ruth Temple Lindsay "The Hunters"
Where the debts of Hell accrue - Ruth Temple Lindsay "The Hunters"
His fairy chain of blooming amaranthine flow'rs - Kirton Lindsey "Fanny" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.17 no.481, March 19, 1831]
That distant lands his steps might trace - Kirton Lindsey "Fanny" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.17 no.481, March 19, 1831]
The incompleteness of translation - Tanya Lukin Linklater "Ewako"
Our radical love of breath in motion - Tanya Lukin Linklater "Ewako"
Faithful as a cricket's tune - R. Zamora Linmark "On Silence"
Fishing in a pool of rainwater - R. Zamora Linmark "On Silence"
In a universe of crooked orbits - Rachel Linton "Letter to an Android Ex-Lover"
Stand at the portal and knock - John Gunter Lipe "To Miss Vic"
And open the beautiful gate - John Gunter Lipe "To Miss Vic"
The endless innovations of grief - Anni Liu "Lake of Isles"
Against the grain of the earth - Anni Liu "Lake of Isles"
Whatever of ourselves we leave bare - Anni Liu "Lake of Isles"
Wild geese go south again - Liu Ch'e, Emperor Wu of the Han (157-87 B.C.E.) "Song of the Autumn Wind" transl. by Burton Watson
A crosshatch of deletions and smears - Liu Cheng "Poem without a Category" transl. by Burton Watson
Racing the writing brush - Liu Cheng "Poem without a Category" transl. by Burton Watson
Wild ducks and geese at rest - Liu Cheng "Poem without a Category" transl. by Burton Watson
The yellow crane winging home - attributed to Liu Hsi-chun "Song of Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Spilled you on the ancient sea bed - Kenji C. Liu "Gaman: Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah"
Blow their alien breath in you - Kenji C. Liu "Gaman: Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah"
The rich, rich song of my hunger - Kenji C. Liu "Gaman: Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah"
From the trellis of flowering thorn - Liu K'o-chuang "Leaving the City" transl. by Burton Watson
With a wand of living light - Mrs. M.A. Livermore "The Snow-Drop" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]
Come forth upon the breast of June - Rev. William Livingston "In Cherry Lane"
Walking with radiant ministries - Arthur John Lockhart "The Lonely Pine"
A prophet of sweet oracles - Arthur John Lockhart "The Lonely Pine"
Every bone in the snake is the hipbone - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
The first word I say is listen - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
Lookout soldiers who watch the sea - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
No wanton cares to win with words - D. Lodge "Solitariness" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Nor lurking toys which silly life affords - D. Lodge "Solitariness" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
First of all my trust deceived - Thomas Lodge "Cupid Plague Thee for Thy Treason"
Pleasant foe to reason - Thomas Lodge "Cupid Plague Thee for Thy Treason"
The lilac's dim explosion fills the air - Katinka Loeser "Spring Is the Time for Flowers"
Will amaze the earthbound, steady tulip - Katinka Loeser "Spring Is the Time for Flowers"
Their hours are clocked by impulse - Katinka Loeser "Spring Is the Time for Flowers"
An annual guest in other lands - John Logan "Ode to the Cuckoo"
No winter in thy year - John Logan "Ode to the Cuckoo"
Companions of the spring - John Logan "Ode to the Cuckoo"
Inner darkness before ceremony - Manny Loley "Let There Be"
Mountains singing in all directions - Manny Loley "Let There Be"
A border of mist and doubt - Lily A. Long "The Singing Place"
The Dancing Stars grow still - Lily A. Long "The Singing Place"
As the seaweed waits for the lifting tide - Lily A. Long "The Singing Place"
Existing in the middle - James Longe "Thursday"
Continuous as the stars - William Wordsworth Longfellow "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
Stretched in never-ending line - William Wordsworth Longfellow "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
The pulsing wings of Armageddon's host - Charles Battell Loomis "A Classic Ode"
Like nascent diamonds - Charles Battell Loomis "A Classic Ode"
Sweet as the songs of Sappho - Charles Battell Loomis "A Classic Ode"
Without fear of our tampering - J. Estanislao Lopez "The Systemic"
Everyone wants to own the birds - Leonel Sánchez Lopez "What the Birds Do"
Strong enough to roost in for the night - Leonel Sánchez Lopez "What the Birds Do"
I'm malnourished in my dreams - Leonel Sánchez Lopez "What the Birds Do"
Just birds in nonstop flight and song - Leonel Sánchez Lopez "What the Birds Do"
The weight of being infinite in a world that isn't - Theo Nicole Lorenz "Steve Irwin and the Unicorn"
Harpoon barbs and arrow points - Theo Nicole Lorenz "Steve Irwin and the Unicorn"
Flew away to line the nests of birds - Lois Lorimer "Rescue Dog"
Hope snapped in the air - Lois Lorimer "Rescue Dog"
Blackboard we scrawled our wishes on - Lois Lorimer "Rescue Dog"
Interrogated by floods - Bojan Louis "Ghazal IV"
Mostly disjointed pieces of my soul - Amanda Lovelace "the princess saves herself in this one"
But still hoping for sugar - Amanda Lovelace "the princess saves herself in this one"
Crafted from ocean waves & starlight - Amanda Lovelace "the princess saves herself in this one"
Pounds her fists on the walls of my dreams - Amanda Lovelace "the princess saves herself in this one"
Clouds of gray engulf the day - Robert Loveman "It's Raining Violet"
A fig for him who frets - Robert Loveman "It's Raining Violet"
The birthplace of jewels and gold - Samuel Lover "The Fairy Tempter"
His promise of gold and of pearl - Samuel Lover "The Fairy Tempter"
Betrayed by the fruit of the garden - Goran Lowie "Skywoman and Eve"
Shrill thunder blares at midnight - Lu Chi "Two Poems Presented to the Gentleman in the Office of Palace Writers Ku Yen-hsien" transl. by Burton Watson
Black clouds oppress the vermilion towers - Lu Chi "Two Poems Presented to the Gentleman in the Office of Palace Writers Ku Yen-hsien" transl. by Burton Watson
Mountains and seas vast between us - Lu Yun "For Ku Yen-hsien, a Poem for Him to Give to His Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
Farther apart than bird and fish - Lu Yun "For Ku Yen-hsien, a Poem for Him to Give to His Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
Silently enjoying isolation - Lu Yun "The Valley Wind" (translated by Arthur Waley)
And stuff my window with roots - Lu Yun "The Valley Wind" (translated by Arthur Waley)
To cry more than the sky - Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta "[Untitled]"
The trappings of desires disguised as needs - Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta "[Untitled]"
Up to the cloud's mouth - Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta "[Untitled]"
Cupid's keenest arrow - Charles Henry Luders "A Kiss"
In three thousand leagues of my spirit - Leopoldo Lugones "Journey" (translated by Muna Lee)
A tree that genuflected before the wind - Leopoldo Lugones "Journey" (translated by Muna Lee)
A city wrought of shadows - William Lumley "Shadows" [Fantasy Fan v.1 no.9, May 1934]
Filled with phantoms flitting furtively from sight - William Lumley "Shadows" [Fantasy Fan v.1 no.9, May 1934]
Tell me of your wrath-built Babel - William Lumley "Shadows" [Fantasy Fan v.1 no.9, May 1934]
A fly stammering against the glass - Emilie Lygren "Meditation"
Break free and transcend the transparent boundary - Emilie Lygren "Meditation"
Offer an opening I am too small to see - Emilie Lygren "Meditation"
Still her woes at midnight rise - John Lyly "The Spring"
None but the lark so shrill and clear - John Lyly "The Spring"
At heaven's gate she claps her wings - John Lyly "The Spring"
The morn not waking till she sings - John Lyly "The Spring"
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Until my pulses leap like rills unbound - E.A.L. "To Adhemar" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]
Softly o'er my weary, thirsting soul - E.A.L. "To Adhemar" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]
The wind will keep its ancient lullaby - L.L. "The Graves of Gallipoli" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
And comfort them with whispers of their home - L.L. "The Graves of Gallipoli" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
That makes the past a dream to me - M.E.L. "A Farewell" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Seek to quell its secret burning - M.E.L. "A Farewell" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Nor would one memory awaken - M.E.L. "A Farewell" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Awful love took flame - Louise Labe sonnet IV
Each thought looming - Louise Labe sonnet IV
Singing pain - Louise Labe sonnet XXI
Hard as my black dawn - Louise Labe sonnet XXIII
The islands of memory - Monique Laederach "Penelope"
Without dust - Monique Laederach "Penelope"
Baring my bones to the whims of demolition - Lam Lai "I, New York"
Filling the night with whispers - Lam Lai "I, New York"
Afraid to blink under oath - Lam Lai "I, New York"
The dawn of day that lifts me out of night - Oscar Laighton "Song [Sweet wind that blows o'er sunny isles]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, no.33, Nov. 1877]
All of life compresses into a single molecule - Kien Lam "Big Bang Theory"
Make a new system for breathing - Kien Lam "Big Bang Theory"
Set against an infinite backdrop of space - Kien Lam "Big Bang Theory"
Tied to everyone before and after me - Alexis LaMantia "Waiting"
My last refuge from humanity - Alexis LaMantia "Waiting"
Never hitting the destined mark - Frances Lamartine "Thistle-Down" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Telling of joys that come no more - Frances Lamartine "Thistle-Down" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Encompassed all with gentians blue - Alexander Lamont "In a Bernese Valley"
With Edelweiss upon her breast - Alexander Lamont "In a Bernese Valley"
By her head wild thyme and rue - Alexander Lamont "In a Bernese Valley"
Be soft with the light inside you - Alfred K. LaMotte "Gentle"
Where the sun comes up in your chest - Alfred K. LaMotte "Gentle"
Golden honey daubed on the bread of the ordinary - Alfred K. LaMotte "Gentle"
Build a home on the moon - Sade LaNay "Entry 003 from I love you and I'm not dead"
Temptation overcomes the star - Sade LaNay "Entry 003 from I love you and I'm not dead"
New moon in midheaven - Sade LaNay "Entry 003 from I love you and I'm not dead"
Four beets in a bag - Susan Landers "Holly Says Sobriety Is Paying Attention"
A net full of mulberries - Susan Landers "Holly Says Sobriety Is Paying Attention"
The poppy's blocky skeleton - Susan Landers "Holly Says Sobriety Is Paying Attention"
A fall all consuming - Susan Landers "I Don't Know What You're Called, I'll Call You by Your Sounds"
Vast halls and flowing wells - Walter Savage Landor "Gebir"
The evening sun poured a fresh splendour - Walter Savage Landor "Gebir"
A night of memories and of sighs - Walter Savage Landor "Rose Aylmer"
Whom these wakeful eyes may weep - Walter Savage Landor "Rose Aylmer"
Amid the dwellings where dreams go - John Langdon-Davies "Quits!"
With yew-trees bound - John Langdon-Davies "Quits!"
Once again with everything - Dorothea Lasky "The Miscarriage"
Asking me for favors all along - Dorothea Lasky "The Miscarriage"
A forgotten world with rainbow sunrises - Dorothea Lasky "This Beautiful Planet"
We are burning here with no escape - Dorothea Lasky "This Beautiful Planet"
Stampede when we must - Irene Latham "Dear Wandering Wildebeest"
The hour when the sun dreams - Irene Latham "This Is the Hour"
Knows to wait for starshine - Irene Latham "What Rhino Knows"
The soft June days forever done - George Parsons Lathrop "The Child's Wish Granted"
Dull coatings of a time now ambered - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"
Search for a former light - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"
Sent regrets by smoke - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"
At the cost of systems still breaking - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"
But mark the wandering glances of his eye - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
The simplest thing that memory endears - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Questi0ns not the justice of his fate - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Wounded pride first taught her how to hate - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Made our calculations pay - Jack LaZebnik "The Day the Tree Fell Down"
Such problems as perplex the day - John Lea "The Simple Way"
Sitting on a heap of barley - Edward Lear "Incidents in the Live of My Uncle Arly"
Went to sea in a sieve - Edward Lear "The Jumblies"
The echoing song of a coppery gong - Edward Lear "The Jumblies"
To sail my paper boats - Albert Lee "My Realm"
Where I was king of all the shore - Albert Lee "My Realm"
Called upon the tide to come - Albert Lee "My Realm"
With the moon in her head - Dennis Lee "Silverly"
When the clouds bent over - Lee Young-ju "Pillow" transl. by Jae Kim
Escaped through the chimney - Lee Young-ju "Pillow" transl. by Jae Kim
Where innumerable sleeps flow - Lee Young-ju "Pillow" transl. by Jae Kim
Smeared in crimson light - Lee Young-ju "Roommate, Woman" transl. by Jae Kim
The urge to reach for your sorrow - Gerri Leen "Final Resting Place"
Terracotta for a lifelong love - Gerri Leen "Final Resting Place"
No chance against the knife - David Lehman "Wedding Song"
The soul of a stranger - David Lehman "Who She Was"
Had moved his table of mirrors - Gary Lehmann "The Heat of the Moon"
The weapons littering his lineage - Eugenia Leigh "Glossolalia"
Absorb the torments buried there - Eugenia Leigh "Glossolalia"
Who marvels at the sky - Eugenia Leigh "Glossolalia"
The enemy stalking at noontide - Margaret Leigh "Sonnet: The Journalist"
By whose hands were sown rank tares - Margaret Leigh "Sonnet: The Journalist"
That gambled with the souls of men - Margaret Leigh "Two Epitaphs: I. On a Diplomat"
Hope never wore a brighter brow - Leila "Stanzas" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
And weep while I'm confiding - Leila "Stanzas" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
While counting years by sorrow - Leila "Stanzas" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
With the tornado of battle stunning - Henry P. Leland "Wounded" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
Coming as no king of terrors - Henry P. Leland "Wounded" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
Under the leafy shadow of lindens - Henry P. Leland "Wounded" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
Possessed a mind of sturdy fabric - Anna Maria Lenngren "Other Fabrics, Other Mores!" transl. by Nadia Christensen and Mariann Tiblin
Strange things to my spirit-eyes lie bare - H.L. Leonard "My Treasure" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
In the azure depths of the summer air - H.L. Leonard "My Treasure" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
While the winds and the waves their sighs combine - H.L. Leonard "My Treasure" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
Open myself to wonder - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"
Wonder just won't be found - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"
Grass completely enrobed in ice - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"
Singing faint little bell-notes of joy - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"
Vivid rays tinged sacred Jordan's breast - Mrs. Leprohon (nee Rosanna Eleanor Mullins) "Abraham's Sacrifice"
And never feared the rain - Winifred M. Letts "Hallows'e'en"
Each time your roughness danced with me - Jessica Lévai "Rochambeau"
With vows that bound the leaf and stone - Jessica Lévai "Rochambeau"
She should have feared my edge - Jessica Lévai "Rochambeau"
Dense violent dreams - Primo Levi "Reveille"
About the structure of rocks - Rachel Levitsky "Audience"
A habit backed in desire - Rachel Levitsky "Audience"
When the storm of misfortune around them did press - E. Anna Lewis "The Orphan's Hymn"
Better to rest in the halls of the dead - E. Anna Lewis "The Orphan's Hymn"
Torn sigils tangled in bones on the lawn - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"
The ice cream truck's jingle warped and blaring - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"
Who taught Death romantic gestures - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"
The future refuses to happen - Paige Lewis "I'm Not Faking My Astonishment, Honest"
Exists to keep audiences unsatisfied - Paige Lewis "Logically, I know the Circus"
Retained its vivid crimson hue - Dr. John Leyden "The Mermaid"
Ruler of the shoreless sea of death - Li Hung-chang "Dragon of the Shoreless Sea" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Carry her away in your ship of ghosts - Li Hung-chang "Dragon of the Shoreless Sea" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
That we may float forever together on that sea - Li Hung-chang "Dragon of the Shoreless Sea" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Without bearing away my sorrow - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
Fling these bitter drops to the wild swans - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
The river that flows past me forever - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
Stir the fire with my hairpin of jade - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
Let the dust settle on my dressing-table - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Its rising will cast bitter shadows of sorrow - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
From my throat I crush back my cries - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
My thoughts must travel the long road to the south - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
the only pattern throughout our photographs - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"
whenever I was worth your time - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"
will make it feel small enough to fit - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"
You only get to savor it once - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"
Every verb desires to be a noun - Kate Light "There Comes the Strangest Moment"
Your heart's in retrograde - Kate Light "There Comes the Strangest Moment"
Take my nice new wheelbarrow and fill it to the brim - F. Liley-Young "Haying Time" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
That and my new wheelbarrow soon get the haying done - F. Liley-Young "Haying Time" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Hate, a hungry animal that only takes - Ann-Margaret Lim "One Summer"
Against the day's blunt silence - Ann-Margaret Lim "One Summer"
Meeting in a flooded rice field - Lin Ling "Footpaths Cross in the Rice Field" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
An egret descends on still wings - Lin Ling "Footpaths Cross in the Rice Field" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
Take a dip inside your gene pool - Susan L. Lin "Rap(tors) EP"
I've been treading the sea surface - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
Measure time using my growing hurt of loneliness - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
Others approached me from the horizon - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
Crooked from growing old within a shell - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
Scenting the air with protective promises - C.H. Lindsay "The Legacy of Granny van Helsing"
Continually brews garlic-flavored moonshine - C.H. Lindsay "The Legacy of Granny van Helsing"
Nor swerves for pain or rue - Ruth Temple Lindsay "The Hunters"
Where the debts of Hell accrue - Ruth Temple Lindsay "The Hunters"
His fairy chain of blooming amaranthine flow'rs - Kirton Lindsey "Fanny" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.17 no.481, March 19, 1831]
That distant lands his steps might trace - Kirton Lindsey "Fanny" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.17 no.481, March 19, 1831]
The incompleteness of translation - Tanya Lukin Linklater "Ewako"
Our radical love of breath in motion - Tanya Lukin Linklater "Ewako"
Faithful as a cricket's tune - R. Zamora Linmark "On Silence"
Fishing in a pool of rainwater - R. Zamora Linmark "On Silence"
In a universe of crooked orbits - Rachel Linton "Letter to an Android Ex-Lover"
Stand at the portal and knock - John Gunter Lipe "To Miss Vic"
And open the beautiful gate - John Gunter Lipe "To Miss Vic"
The endless innovations of grief - Anni Liu "Lake of Isles"
Against the grain of the earth - Anni Liu "Lake of Isles"
Whatever of ourselves we leave bare - Anni Liu "Lake of Isles"
Wild geese go south again - Liu Ch'e, Emperor Wu of the Han (157-87 B.C.E.) "Song of the Autumn Wind" transl. by Burton Watson
A crosshatch of deletions and smears - Liu Cheng "Poem without a Category" transl. by Burton Watson
Racing the writing brush - Liu Cheng "Poem without a Category" transl. by Burton Watson
Wild ducks and geese at rest - Liu Cheng "Poem without a Category" transl. by Burton Watson
The yellow crane winging home - attributed to Liu Hsi-chun "Song of Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Spilled you on the ancient sea bed - Kenji C. Liu "Gaman: Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah"
Blow their alien breath in you - Kenji C. Liu "Gaman: Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah"
The rich, rich song of my hunger - Kenji C. Liu "Gaman: Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah"
From the trellis of flowering thorn - Liu K'o-chuang "Leaving the City" transl. by Burton Watson
With a wand of living light - Mrs. M.A. Livermore "The Snow-Drop" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]
Come forth upon the breast of June - Rev. William Livingston "In Cherry Lane"
Walking with radiant ministries - Arthur John Lockhart "The Lonely Pine"
A prophet of sweet oracles - Arthur John Lockhart "The Lonely Pine"
Every bone in the snake is the hipbone - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
The first word I say is listen - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
Lookout soldiers who watch the sea - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
No wanton cares to win with words - D. Lodge "Solitariness" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Nor lurking toys which silly life affords - D. Lodge "Solitariness" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
First of all my trust deceived - Thomas Lodge "Cupid Plague Thee for Thy Treason"
Pleasant foe to reason - Thomas Lodge "Cupid Plague Thee for Thy Treason"
The lilac's dim explosion fills the air - Katinka Loeser "Spring Is the Time for Flowers"
Will amaze the earthbound, steady tulip - Katinka Loeser "Spring Is the Time for Flowers"
Their hours are clocked by impulse - Katinka Loeser "Spring Is the Time for Flowers"
An annual guest in other lands - John Logan "Ode to the Cuckoo"
No winter in thy year - John Logan "Ode to the Cuckoo"
Companions of the spring - John Logan "Ode to the Cuckoo"
Inner darkness before ceremony - Manny Loley "Let There Be"
Mountains singing in all directions - Manny Loley "Let There Be"
A border of mist and doubt - Lily A. Long "The Singing Place"
The Dancing Stars grow still - Lily A. Long "The Singing Place"
As the seaweed waits for the lifting tide - Lily A. Long "The Singing Place"
Existing in the middle - James Longe "Thursday"
Continuous as the stars - William Wordsworth Longfellow "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
Stretched in never-ending line - William Wordsworth Longfellow "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
The pulsing wings of Armageddon's host - Charles Battell Loomis "A Classic Ode"
Like nascent diamonds - Charles Battell Loomis "A Classic Ode"
Sweet as the songs of Sappho - Charles Battell Loomis "A Classic Ode"
Without fear of our tampering - J. Estanislao Lopez "The Systemic"
Everyone wants to own the birds - Leonel Sánchez Lopez "What the Birds Do"
Strong enough to roost in for the night - Leonel Sánchez Lopez "What the Birds Do"
I'm malnourished in my dreams - Leonel Sánchez Lopez "What the Birds Do"
Just birds in nonstop flight and song - Leonel Sánchez Lopez "What the Birds Do"
The weight of being infinite in a world that isn't - Theo Nicole Lorenz "Steve Irwin and the Unicorn"
Harpoon barbs and arrow points - Theo Nicole Lorenz "Steve Irwin and the Unicorn"
Flew away to line the nests of birds - Lois Lorimer "Rescue Dog"
Hope snapped in the air - Lois Lorimer "Rescue Dog"
Blackboard we scrawled our wishes on - Lois Lorimer "Rescue Dog"
Interrogated by floods - Bojan Louis "Ghazal IV"
Mostly disjointed pieces of my soul - Amanda Lovelace "the princess saves herself in this one"
But still hoping for sugar - Amanda Lovelace "the princess saves herself in this one"
Crafted from ocean waves & starlight - Amanda Lovelace "the princess saves herself in this one"
Pounds her fists on the walls of my dreams - Amanda Lovelace "the princess saves herself in this one"
Clouds of gray engulf the day - Robert Loveman "It's Raining Violet"
A fig for him who frets - Robert Loveman "It's Raining Violet"
The birthplace of jewels and gold - Samuel Lover "The Fairy Tempter"
His promise of gold and of pearl - Samuel Lover "The Fairy Tempter"
Betrayed by the fruit of the garden - Goran Lowie "Skywoman and Eve"
Shrill thunder blares at midnight - Lu Chi "Two Poems Presented to the Gentleman in the Office of Palace Writers Ku Yen-hsien" transl. by Burton Watson
Black clouds oppress the vermilion towers - Lu Chi "Two Poems Presented to the Gentleman in the Office of Palace Writers Ku Yen-hsien" transl. by Burton Watson
Mountains and seas vast between us - Lu Yun "For Ku Yen-hsien, a Poem for Him to Give to His Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
Farther apart than bird and fish - Lu Yun "For Ku Yen-hsien, a Poem for Him to Give to His Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
Silently enjoying isolation - Lu Yun "The Valley Wind" (translated by Arthur Waley)
And stuff my window with roots - Lu Yun "The Valley Wind" (translated by Arthur Waley)
To cry more than the sky - Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta "[Untitled]"
The trappings of desires disguised as needs - Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta "[Untitled]"
Up to the cloud's mouth - Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta "[Untitled]"
Cupid's keenest arrow - Charles Henry Luders "A Kiss"
In three thousand leagues of my spirit - Leopoldo Lugones "Journey" (translated by Muna Lee)
A tree that genuflected before the wind - Leopoldo Lugones "Journey" (translated by Muna Lee)
A city wrought of shadows - William Lumley "Shadows" [Fantasy Fan v.1 no.9, May 1934]
Filled with phantoms flitting furtively from sight - William Lumley "Shadows" [Fantasy Fan v.1 no.9, May 1934]
Tell me of your wrath-built Babel - William Lumley "Shadows" [Fantasy Fan v.1 no.9, May 1934]
A fly stammering against the glass - Emilie Lygren "Meditation"
Break free and transcend the transparent boundary - Emilie Lygren "Meditation"
Offer an opening I am too small to see - Emilie Lygren "Meditation"
Still her woes at midnight rise - John Lyly "The Spring"
None but the lark so shrill and clear - John Lyly "The Spring"
At heaven's gate she claps her wings - John Lyly "The Spring"
The morn not waking till she sings - John Lyly "The Spring"
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