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When a thousand voices chanted deep - A.M. "The Exile's Song" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)
Rears its dark walls, invincible to time - G.T.M. "The Danish Sailor" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.1, July 1864]
Scale the ramparts of eternity - S.M.M. "Surrender"
To interpret the tablet of laws - Alain Mabanckou "When the Rooster Announces the Dawn of Another Day" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson
Translate the portent of night - Alain Mabanckou "When the Rooster Announces the Dawn of Another Day" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson
But the day erased the grievance of the moon - Alain Mabanckou "When the Rooster Announces the Dawn of Another Day" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson
Crimson was the juice of the vintage that we trod - Thomas Babington Macaulay "The Battle of Naseby"
With his clarions and his drums - Thomas Babington Macaulay "The Battle of Naseby"
Like a whirlwind on the trees - Thomas Babington Macaulay "The Battle of Naseby"
Like a deluge on the dykes - Thomas Babington Macaulay "The Battle of Naseby"
In the ring of dawn - Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "A Northern Love Song"
Those eyes of wandering fire - Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "A Northern Love Song"
At the wheel of the northern star - Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "A Northern Love Song"
Nor have I share in earth or sky - William MacDonald "A Spring Trouble"
Bringing balm for Summer's tears - Frances L. Mace "To the Rainbow" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Nov. 1878]
Arch by arch the blooming pathway grows - Frances L. Mace "To the Rainbow" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Nov. 1878]
Could I but read thy oracle of hope - Frances L. Mace "To the Rainbow" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Nov. 1878]
Words to paint her frantic sorrow - Isabella MacFarlane "The Two Southern Mothers" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
To the just Avenger bow - Isabella MacFarlane "The Two Southern Mothers" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
Cleaves the pathway of the storm - John MacFarlane "A Grave in Samoa"
At the postern held by Night - John MacFarlane "A Midsummer Madrigal"
Crowned Apollo enters in - John MacFarlane "A Midsummer Madrigal"
And eager thousands grasp the sword - R.W. MacGowan "Our Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
With willing hands and faithful hearts - R.W. MacGowan "Our Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Before a further future elsewhere - danilo machado "(telling)"
Working to dissolve its myths - danilo machado "(telling)"
At the portal of unfathomed mysteries - Agnes Maule Machar "Schiller's Dying Vision"
Fret the east with lines of fire - J.W. Mackail "On the Death of Arnold Toynbee"
The pathways of the furthest star - J.W. Mackail "On the Death of Arnold Toynbee"
Slant chasm and infinite abyss - J.W. Mackail "On the Death of Arnold Toynbee"
And owls in the ivy blink - Kate Seymour MacLean "Ballad of the Mad Ladye"
Strange is the silent guest - Kate Seymour MacLean "Ballad of the Mad Ladye"
Hear the wind murmuring loud - Kate Seymour MacLean "Bird Song"
The secret place of thunders - Kate Seymour MacLean "Bird Song"
Dance to your shadow - Kenneth MacLeod "Dance to your Shadow"
Letting Fate to her fiddle - Kenneth MacLeod "Dance to your Shadow"
Isles of blades and laughter - Kenneth MacLeod "The Reiving Ship"
A thousand, thousand tender ties - Norman MacLeod "Farewell to Fiunary"
When medals shine upon my breast - Augusta A.L. Magra "The Roll-Call of Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.731, 29 Dec. 1877]
To bring his mother laurels back - Augusta A.L. Magra "The Roll-Call of Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.731, 29 Dec. 1877]
Moon and stars their aid denying - Augusta A.L. Magra "The Walmer Life-Boat" [Chamber's Journal no. 708, July 1877]
Wearing moonstones for slippers - Mahadeviyakka [Untitled] transl. by A. K. Ramanujan
Hanging branches crowned her head with bays - Charles Mair "Innocence"
Where the stalwart oak grew - Charles Mair "Untamed"
Ere Cheops had builded his pyramid - Charles Mair "The Voice of the Pines"
Breathing a thousand vows - Charles Mair "The Voice of the Pines"
I looked at you at the end of the world - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
Laughed the slow sad sound of broken things - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
With the last good, forgiving, breeze - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
Together, till the end, in silent seas - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
The tender sound of seashells - Ricardo Alberto Maldonado "A Few Things Are Explained To Me"
Before the ignorant lion of exile - Ricardo Alberto Maldonado "A Few Things Are Explained To Me"
Wrote for it an homage and not a lament - Fatima Malik "Critique of My Thighs"
Double eyelids for the desert dust - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"
Lizard skin for moisture harvests - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"
We chose evolution in our own timeline - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"
Opening ourselves sieved throats to breathe new air - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"
Will the poems have tendon and teeth? - Liv Mammone "Fear"
The exact dagger of phrase - Liv Mammone "Fear"
Captive of the coconut glade - Angela Manalang-Gloria "Yellow Moon"
Unidentified sections of abstract art - Jan Mandell "Ode to Aging Bodies"
Rise up to the chatter and creaking - Jan Mandell "Ode to Aging Bodies"
A recital of our uncertainties - Sarah Mangold "The Atom No. 18"
A touch of blue devotion - Sarah Mangold "The Atom No. 18"
Pay their nightly homage to the Owls - William Manning "A Child's Dream of the Zoo"
Whirling high, from the Clock Tower to the sky - William Manning "A Child's Dream of the Zoo"
A cage of wizard wood with perch of ebony - Ruth Manning-Sanders "Come Wary One"
Toward dawn a cold spell - Mao Wen-hsi "[I mustn't ask about him]" transl. by Burton Watson
douse this blackness in viscous castor oil - Neha Maqsood "Things I Do to Remember Home"
making it hard for your homes to welcome me - Neha Maqsood "Things I Do to Remember Home"
As Wisdom trod in Reason's dusty way - A.G. Marius "Wisdom and Fancy" transl. by William Hodgson Ellis
The hands were scouts discovering harms - Markham "Man" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Into the warren of what I hadn't said - Corey Marks "Broken Music"
Eclipsing my silence - Corey Marks "Broken Music"
Unpunctuated by frustration - Corey Marks "Broken Music"
A balloon full of glass - Corey Marks "Broken Music"
For the peace of my years - Leo Marks "Code Poem for the French Resistance"
All dark to mortal eyes - Gwilym Marles aka William Thomas "New Year Thoughts" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Queen of smiles and charms - Gwilym Marles aka William Thomas "Who in this new God's acre?" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Time only can the answer give - Gwilym Marles aka William Thomas "Who in this new God's acre?" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Is over-ruled by fate - Christopher Marlowe "Hero and Leander"
Censured by our eyes - Christopher Marlowe "Hero and Leander"
A belt of straw and ivy buds - Christopher Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
With coral clasps and amber studs - Christopher Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
Hearts that yearn upon my track - Philip Bourke Marston "From Afar" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Oct. 1880]
Be gone where lost things are - Philip Bourke Marston "From Afar" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Oct. 1880]
Did reject my thorns who wore my roses - Philip Bourke Marston "From Afar" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Oct. 1880]
And fettered him with woodbine sweet - Philip Bourke Marston "Love Asleep"
Constellation of Purple Devotion - Jennifer Martelli "Corinthians 13:11"
Consuming fresh landscapes - Daria-Ann Martineau "Carnivorous, with a varied and opportunistic diet"
Without thought to consequence - Daria-Ann Martineau "Carnivorous, with a varied and opportunistic diet"
Prophecy strewn across stones - Daria-Ann Martineau "Carnivorous, with a varied and opportunistic diet"
Turned the key on my existence - Rafael Arevalo Martinez "My Life Is a Memory" transl. by William George Williams
Make a helix of my hands - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"
In a bloodflow motion - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"
An inside-outside alertness - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"
Go berserk with silence - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"
Hung upon the magic numbers - Mrs. S.T. Martyn "To Mrs. E.C.K."
As I imagine threads of starlight - Claudia Masin "Tomboy" (translated by Robin Myers)
When the law is muscled and violent - Claudia Masin "Tomboy" (translated by Robin Myers)
In search of somewhere to hold on - Claudia Masin "Tomboy" (translated by Robin Myers)
Forced to be whatever we resemble - Claudia Masin "Tomboy" (translated by Robin Myers)
Staring into the abyss the world was unfolding - Olga Maslova "The Hunt for the Murderous Monkey Has Ended"
Particular as light - Joseph Massey "Early Fall"
The stories from my bones - Pages Matam "Spoiled Child"
The gold from my blood - Pages Matam "Spoiled Child"
Awake her to the turmoil and the strife - John Frederick Matheus "Requiem" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The dissonance and hates called life - John Frederick Matheus "Requiem" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Where the road is lonely, dark, and still - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"
On the leaning birth beside the mill - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"
In ill marked time to the thrush's song - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"
And listening nature will breathless lie - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"
Turns on his wheel of light - Philip Matthews "The Morning Star"
Confesses to the power of air - Philip Matthews "The Morning Star"
In her magpie memory - Gail Mazur "The Flea"
Which stirs the wave of memory - J.C. McCabe "First Love"
Can yield to melody's sweet spell - J.C. McCabe "First Love"
In the hotel beyond estrangement - Susan McCabe "Tasting the Last of the Ice Age"
Ultraviolet auroras on postcards - Susan McCabe "Tasting the Last of the Ice Age"
A tender chilling bliss - Susan McCabe "Tasting the Last of the Ice Age"
Outrun the wind - Guadalupe Garcia McCall "Ti-ki-ri, ti-ki-ri, ti-ki-ri, tas!"
At every step, new man-made barriers rise - James Edward McCall "The New Negro" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Stands erect, though tempests round him crash - James Edward McCall "The New Negro" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
While lightnings flash along the rocky pathway to his goal - James Edward McCall "The New Negro" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Holding his destiny within his hands - James Edward McCall "The New Negro" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
With tinted shadows in her hands - James M'Carroll "Dawn"
Climbs the crimson-flooded air - James M'Carroll "Dawn"
The Chancellor of the Wheat and Corn - James M'Carroll "A Royal Race"
The Ladies of the New-Mown Hay - James M'Carroll "A Royal Race"
The deer who startle at our footsteps - Sarah McCartt-Jackson "Borrow"
Chews the end of a bone already buried - Charlene McClure "Caretaker"
Raised to a mouth emptied - Charlene McClure "Caretaker"
The shore was shocked with jellyfish - Raymond McDaniel "Assault to Abjury"
We cultivated the debris field - Raymond McDaniel "Assault to Abjury"
Our knife clicked like an edict - Raymond McDaniel "Assault to Abjury"
To be forced into silence - Raymond McDaniel "No, You Shut Up"
Through a Gethsemane of city streets - Bernard M'Evoy "A Photograph in a Shop Window"
Stabbed me with their venomed darts - Bernard M'Evoy "A Photograph in a Shop Window"
Trapped in a sheet of ice - JoAnne McFarland "Jersey"
Whose hearts were hearts of steel - Isabella McFarlane "The Death of Colonel Shaw" [Continental Monthly v.5 no.4 April 1864]
The mandate that in death they should not part - Isabella McFarlane "The Death of Colonel Shaw" [Continental Monthly v.5 no.4 April 1864]
Southward fled the arctic bird - Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee "Our Ladye of the Snow"
Fettered the flowing waters fast - Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee "Our Ladye of the Snow"
Beneath the sky's eclipse - Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee "Our Ladye of the Snow"
Doubt and darkness to evade - Thomas D'Arcy McGee "To Ask Our Lady's Patronage for a Book on Columbus: A Fragment"
Needles knitting the night - Roger McGough "Mrs Moon"
All seeking to unite their fates - James McIntyre "Birth of Canada as a Nation, July First, 1867"
Like frost that had over-slept - Edmond McKenna "Prelude"
In the sudden flame of his breath - Edmond McKenna "Prelude"
Fitted complete to swim the ocean - J.H. McKenzie "The Titanic Disaster"
By the dreadful work was wrought - J.H. McKenzie "The Titanic Disaster"
A charm evil passions to quell - William P. M'Kenzie "Gabrielle"
Until my daughter hails the day - William P. M'Kenzie "The Mother's Song"
Then on a sunbeam fly away - William P. M'Kenzie "The Mother's Song"
In robes of smouldering flame - Alexander M'Lachlan "Indian Summer"
Like passion soothed to rest - Alexander M'Lachlan "Indian Summer"
His faith in figures and in facts - Alexander M'Lachlan "The Man Who Rose from Nothing"
Bereft of our familiar shapes - Irene Rutherford McLeod "So Beautiful You Are Indeed"
That I am troubled when you come - Irene Rutherford McLeod "So Beautiful You Are Indeed"
The same struggle of wishes and losses - Wesley McNair "The Future"
The one lesson hope has to give - Wesley McNair "The Future"
Stay here at the precipice - Brooke McNamara "Listen Back"
As the coffee deepens its creamy sweet acidity - Brooke McNamara "Listen Back"
To listen at the window of the unknown - Brooke McNamara "Listen Back"
In the ancient forest maze - John M'Pherson "In the Woods"
Inside your simmering year - Joyelle McSweeney "Simon the Good"
Derived from Hell - Joyelle McSweeney "Simon the Good"
At the unquittable world - Joyelle McSweeney "Simon the Good"
Because all is possible in dreams - Ryan Mecum "The Time I Bought Matsuo Basho"
Moaning my name through the wind - Ryan Mecum "The Time I Bought Matsuo Basho"
With an awkward jig and jazz hands - Ryan Mecum "The Time I Bought Matsuo Basho"
Immersed in song like grass - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger "Midmorning" transl. by Carlie Hoffman
My fevered face wrapped in grass - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger "Midmorning" transl. by Carlie Hoffman
A trembling tangle of leaves - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger "Midmorning" transl. by Carlie Hoffman
Climb and then fall back to me - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger "Midmorning" transl. by Carlie Hoffman
Densities of opal within sleep's portico - Cecilia Meireles "The Dead Horse" transl. by James Merrill
Blurred as in red mirror moons - Cecilia Meireles "The Dead Horse" transl. by James Merrill
That unravels in the wave of breath - Oriana Méndez "Farewells" transl. by Erin Moure
With screens of mourning in their larynx - Oriana Méndez "Farewells" transl. by Erin Moure
In the light from dust to night - Celeste Guzman Mendoza "Man Praying--Encroachment"
Trust death as a friend - Celeste Guzman Mendoza "Man Praying--Encroachment"
Hear the weight of delirium - Celeste Guzman Mendoza "Man Praying--Encroachment"
The dawn moon struggles to shine - Meng Chiao "On Failing the Examination" transl. by Burton Watson
Little wrens soar on borrowed wings - Meng Chiao "On Failing the Examination" transl. by Burton Watson
The hill-folds gather their deep dark - Mêng Hai jan "Waiting for You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The moon lights up cold in its twisted pine-branch - Mêng Hai jan "Waiting for You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The wheeling birds are settled in their trees - Mêng Hai jan "Waiting for You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The hour is past that you promised - Mêng Hai jan "Waiting for You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
On a throne of clouds - Adah Isaacs Menken "Aspiration"
Though of sturdy breath - Adah Isaacs Menken "Aspiration"
Whose year-devouring glance - Adah Isaacs Menken "Aspiration"
Where the feet of angels are - Adah Isaacs Menken "Aspiration"
When I fed it tin and paper - Eve Merriam "Catch a Little Rhyme"
Stretched into a whale - Eve Merriam "Catch a Little Rhyme"
You be Good, I'll be Night - Eve Merriam "You Be Saucer"
Some tireless Watch to keep - Clara A. Merrill "All Things Speak of God"
Like a hundred beating drums - Clara A. Merrill "All Things Speak of God"
Traverse at will Old Neptune's domain - Clara A. Merrill "The Old State of Maine"
Breathe in its sweet persistence - Helena Mesa "Legend"
Gives up boyhood scars and birthmarks - Lauren Mesa "The Years We Will Know Them" [Poetry, January 1988]
A lark chirps calmly on the river bank - Bianca Rae Messinger "After the Living Dead Girl"
All that can be disputed - Juan Carlos Mestre "The Follower"
Stars clenched between your fists - Makena Metz "Equinox"
An icy message to every wave and rill - Viola Meynell "The Frozen Ocean"
Bound its foaming whirlpools - Viola Meynell "The Frozen Ocean"
Tell you your eyes are mirrors - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"
Tell you your eyes are windows - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"
What is it about you that shatters me? - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"
Who is the boat and who is the sea? - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"
The stars in merry parties - Richard Middleton "The Carol of the Poor Children"
Fruit and flower on the same branch - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"
Dancing storms of leaves in flaming colors - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"
The bittersweet smoke of burning leaves - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"
Many springs for their ripening - Carly Joy Miller "Five Moths"
The language that left us first - E. Ethelbert Miller "The Ear is an Organ Made for Love"
The Great Migration of words - E. Ethelbert Miller "The Ear is an Organ Made for Love"
My ears begged for camouflage - E. Ethelbert Miller "The Ear is an Organ Made for Love"
The last time you mailed a postcard - E. Ethelbert Miller "Postcards"
Slipped past me like a wraith - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"
Down the gold tipped September elms - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"
A breath of days spun through years - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"
A rain that hushes the silence - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"
The elixir of your moods - Jennifer Millitello "Lineage Is Its Own Religion"
Branded onto my heart - Jennifer Millitello "Lineage Is Its Own Religion"
The memory of flesh - Jennifer Millitello "Lineage Is Its Own Religion"
A pebble smoothed over in a sea of feathers - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"
Smoothed sand in the mouth of an oyster - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"
Proves perfection by defining the flaw - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"
Lost among the buttercups - A.A. Milne "Buttercup Days"
Where the wind comes from - A.A. Milne "Wind on the Hill"
And cease to haunt these wooded ways - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"
To hold such gifts in scorn - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"
Before my life's first gleam - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"
The immensity of existing things - Czeslaw Milosz "Esse"
Tell me why you grieve so wild - S. Isadore Miner "Old Scores Repaid, or Tragedy Reversed" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Walking like time - Adrian Mitchell "Elephant Eternity"
And revel on the boundless shore - John Mitchell "Oh! Waft Me to the Fairy Clime"
Rolling sphere's beyond earth's ken - John Mitchell "Oh! Waft Me to the Fairy Clime"
Step forth from the high hall - Miu Hsi "Poem in the Form of a Coffin-Puller's Song" transl. by Burton Watson
Where even the wild geese wither - Kenji Miyazawa from "General Son Ba-yu" (translated by John Bester)
Monday they scattered my salt - Kadia Molodowsky "Song of the Sabbath" transl. by Jean Valentine
My quarrelling with the six kings - Kadia Molodowsky "Song of the Sabbath" transl. by Jean Valentine
The Sabbath queen blessed my candles - Kadia Molodowsky "Song of the Sabbath" transl. by Jean Valentine
A fairy walking in paradise - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Open the door of my feelings - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The bird of fortune will land on you - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The scent of pure winter - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The only advertised long term solution - Anahita Monfared "The Manic Depressive's Alphabet"
Against my unknowing - Lara Mimosa Montes "A Pain That Is Not Private"
cut a vein and stain the pried petals - Elis Montgomery "Inheritance"
And hold a Synod in thy heart - Marquis of Montrose "I'll Never Love Thee More" (Per Wikipedia, the 1st-4th Marquesses of Montrose were all named James Graham. Later, the title attached to the Duke of Montrose as a subsidiary title, but I'm assuming that, if the poet had a ducal title, the editor would have used that instead. I decided not to dig further and just to put this under 'Montrose.')
Shall unseal its honeyed story - Susanna Moodie "The Maple-Tree"
Wrought in God's perilous mood - William Vaughan Moody "I Am the Woman"
The morning star was mute - William Vaughan Moody "I Am the Woman"
Scared at my manifold meaning - William Vaughan Moody "I Am the Woman"
Sleep in pods of darkness - David Mook "Milkweed"
An awakening yawn exhales its feathered breath - David Mook "Milkweed"
A lone dark seed with its own white soul - David Mook "Milkweed"
A shadow that evades pursuit - Duncan Moore "To the Lost One"
This world is one Gethsemane - Duncan Moore "To the Lost One"
Despite our gloomy horoscope - Duncan Moore "To the Lost One"
To crush each spark of memory - Duncan Moore "To the Lost One"
Please list the items you have lost - James Fujinami Moore "Diagnostic Quiz for Human Ghost"
What was your death's taxonomy? - James Fujinami Moore "Diagnostic Quiz for Human Ghost"
The creaking hinges of something only you can see - James Fujinami Moore "Diagnostic Quiz for Human Ghost"
Sometimes they feed me make-believe - Rebecca Deming Moore "The Wooden Horse" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
A white fluffy ball changing semblance - Marjorie Moorhead "Head in the Clouds"
In winds that come from all directions - Marjorie Moorhead "Head in the Clouds"
Letting cloud take what shapes it may - Marjorie Moorhead "Head in the Clouds"
Enveloped by trepidation - Marjorie Moorhead "Head in the Clouds"
Outside our thick windows - Pat Mora "Bilingual Christmas"
Invaded by Brightness - Vicente Luis Mora
As night sky caresses the murmuring sand - Ed Morales "The Talking Coconut"
The long hours spent sweating - Ed Morales "The Talking Coconut"
The centuries of remembering - Ed Morales "The Talking Coconut"
Lessons regarding buoyancy - Edgar Morales "Swim"
When our heartbeat was one shared song - Edgar Morales "Swim"
Without teaching you how to swim - Edgar Morales "Swim"
Without the possibility of drowning - Edgar Morales "Swim"
Wind scraped by steel - Cindy Hunter Morgan "Deckhand: Scent Theory"
Katydids lined-out their hymns in the trees - Robert Morgan "White Autumn"
More charms where twilight clings - Helen Louise Moriarty "Convent Echoes"
Off the forested page - Rachel Moritz "Poem for Rebecca Wight"
A thousand grieving seeds - Rachel Moritz "Poem for Rebecca Wight"
Rinsing my eyes of smoke-tears - Hilda Morley "Song of the Terrible"
Three tipped arrows in a quiver - James Herbert Morse "Love's Hunting"
The thrushes were going berserk - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"
Singing every song that came to them - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"
My sobs echoing through the empty rooms - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"
Branches sliced from the trunk of an old tree - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"
In cool aisles of forests dim - Irene Elder Morton "Browning"
Had crystalized in suns - Irene Elder Morton "In June"
The seeds of life's queen flowers - Irene Elder Morton "My Garden Wall"
Would intertwine if they went on - Lauren Moseley "Song for the Woolly Mammoth"
Do not know that I am gone - Lauren Moseley "Song for the Woolly Mammoth"
Nothing like a storm - Andrew Motion "The Ring"
Devastate the path - Andrew Motion "The Ring"
A pile of sorrow - Glenn Mott "Amaryllis"
On cloistered walls - Glenn Mott "Amaryllis"
A fatal deftness - Glenn Mott "Amaryllis"
A path of gold on stones worn grey - K. Mounsey "To a Little House in Oxford"
From my memory raze one hour - Anna Cora Mowatt "To My Sisters: Written After Their Departure for Europe"
The things she keeps invisible - Ilze Mueller "Invisibility Poem: Lesbian"
Scar over in the colour of sand - Abdushukur Muhammet "My Name" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
Confirmed in their beliefs - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"
Sometimes the bearer becomes the bad news - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"
Can't tell Gethsemane from the Garden of Eden - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"
Forgot to hope, forgot to weep - Rosa Mulholland "The Wild Geese"
Fragrant with the ocean's breath - Rosa Mulholland "The Wild Geese"
Splendid as Rome that was Caesar's - Charles Pelham Mulvaney "Poppoea"
Cruel as Rome that was free - Charles Pelham Mulvaney "Poppoea"
The Queen of the world that is Nero's - Charles Pelham Mulvaney "Poppoea"
As keen for a kiss as a crime - Charles Pelham Mulvaney "Poppoea"
Your hands with sorrow wring - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"
His bent bow and his arrows keen - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"
Now cast on flowers fresh and green - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"
While lurking like a thief - Allan Munier "R. H. -- A Portrait"
A heart beloved of the wiser gods - Allan Munier "R. H. -- A Portrait"
That snatches scraps of gladness - Allan Munier "R. H. -- A Portrait"
That which repetition demands - Luis Munoz "First Hour"
Untimely appointments - Luis Munoz "Habits"
More than necessary - Luis Munoz "Habits"
Mourned by the ocean wave - Neil Munro "Fingal's Weeping"
Where the desert exalts in memory and is forever - David Mura "Vegas Rave Muse"
An apartment building of locked jaws - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"
The silent weeping of rocks - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"
Milk teeth sharpening a father's heart - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"
Stilling the fire that does not cease - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"
While listening to my intuition speak - Erika Murcia "Decoding My Mother's Gifts"
Nightmares with collectives of serpents - Erika Murcia "Serpents I"
Harvesting spells with their hands - Erika Murcia "Serpents I"
Portal doors of all the possible parallel worlds - Erika Murcia "Serpents I"
Searching the dust of days - Henri Murger "Musette" transl. by Andrew Lang
The ancient garden where we met - Henri Murger "Old Loves" transl. by Andrew Lang
With passion fine as flame - Ethel Allen Murphy "The Angel of Thought (Suggested by a Fra Angelico Angel)"
Who miss in our immortal joy - Ethel Allen Murphy "A Botticelli Madonna. I, The Wondering Angel"
Kiss of sorrow's bitter lips - Ethel Allen Murphy "A Botticelli Madonna. I, The Wondering Angel"
The banner of that spectral host - George Murray "The Thistle"
Engulfed within the grave of Time - George Murray "The Thistle"
Even if they keep denying their existence - Najah Hussein Musa "Bethlehem"
One of time's swiftest sprinters - Lutpulla Mutellip "Answer to the Years" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
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Rears its dark walls, invincible to time - G.T.M. "The Danish Sailor" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.1, July 1864]
Scale the ramparts of eternity - S.M.M. "Surrender"
To interpret the tablet of laws - Alain Mabanckou "When the Rooster Announces the Dawn of Another Day" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson
Translate the portent of night - Alain Mabanckou "When the Rooster Announces the Dawn of Another Day" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson
But the day erased the grievance of the moon - Alain Mabanckou "When the Rooster Announces the Dawn of Another Day" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson
Crimson was the juice of the vintage that we trod - Thomas Babington Macaulay "The Battle of Naseby"
With his clarions and his drums - Thomas Babington Macaulay "The Battle of Naseby"
Like a whirlwind on the trees - Thomas Babington Macaulay "The Battle of Naseby"
Like a deluge on the dykes - Thomas Babington Macaulay "The Battle of Naseby"
In the ring of dawn - Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "A Northern Love Song"
Those eyes of wandering fire - Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "A Northern Love Song"
At the wheel of the northern star - Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "A Northern Love Song"
Nor have I share in earth or sky - William MacDonald "A Spring Trouble"
Bringing balm for Summer's tears - Frances L. Mace "To the Rainbow" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Nov. 1878]
Arch by arch the blooming pathway grows - Frances L. Mace "To the Rainbow" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Nov. 1878]
Could I but read thy oracle of hope - Frances L. Mace "To the Rainbow" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Nov. 1878]
Words to paint her frantic sorrow - Isabella MacFarlane "The Two Southern Mothers" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
To the just Avenger bow - Isabella MacFarlane "The Two Southern Mothers" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
Cleaves the pathway of the storm - John MacFarlane "A Grave in Samoa"
At the postern held by Night - John MacFarlane "A Midsummer Madrigal"
Crowned Apollo enters in - John MacFarlane "A Midsummer Madrigal"
And eager thousands grasp the sword - R.W. MacGowan "Our Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
With willing hands and faithful hearts - R.W. MacGowan "Our Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Before a further future elsewhere - danilo machado "(telling)"
Working to dissolve its myths - danilo machado "(telling)"
At the portal of unfathomed mysteries - Agnes Maule Machar "Schiller's Dying Vision"
Fret the east with lines of fire - J.W. Mackail "On the Death of Arnold Toynbee"
The pathways of the furthest star - J.W. Mackail "On the Death of Arnold Toynbee"
Slant chasm and infinite abyss - J.W. Mackail "On the Death of Arnold Toynbee"
And owls in the ivy blink - Kate Seymour MacLean "Ballad of the Mad Ladye"
Strange is the silent guest - Kate Seymour MacLean "Ballad of the Mad Ladye"
Hear the wind murmuring loud - Kate Seymour MacLean "Bird Song"
The secret place of thunders - Kate Seymour MacLean "Bird Song"
Dance to your shadow - Kenneth MacLeod "Dance to your Shadow"
Letting Fate to her fiddle - Kenneth MacLeod "Dance to your Shadow"
Isles of blades and laughter - Kenneth MacLeod "The Reiving Ship"
A thousand, thousand tender ties - Norman MacLeod "Farewell to Fiunary"
When medals shine upon my breast - Augusta A.L. Magra "The Roll-Call of Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.731, 29 Dec. 1877]
To bring his mother laurels back - Augusta A.L. Magra "The Roll-Call of Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.731, 29 Dec. 1877]
Moon and stars their aid denying - Augusta A.L. Magra "The Walmer Life-Boat" [Chamber's Journal no. 708, July 1877]
Wearing moonstones for slippers - Mahadeviyakka [Untitled] transl. by A. K. Ramanujan
Hanging branches crowned her head with bays - Charles Mair "Innocence"
Where the stalwart oak grew - Charles Mair "Untamed"
Ere Cheops had builded his pyramid - Charles Mair "The Voice of the Pines"
Breathing a thousand vows - Charles Mair "The Voice of the Pines"
I looked at you at the end of the world - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
Laughed the slow sad sound of broken things - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
With the last good, forgiving, breeze - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
Together, till the end, in silent seas - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
The tender sound of seashells - Ricardo Alberto Maldonado "A Few Things Are Explained To Me"
Before the ignorant lion of exile - Ricardo Alberto Maldonado "A Few Things Are Explained To Me"
Wrote for it an homage and not a lament - Fatima Malik "Critique of My Thighs"
Double eyelids for the desert dust - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"
Lizard skin for moisture harvests - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"
We chose evolution in our own timeline - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"
Opening ourselves sieved throats to breathe new air - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"
Will the poems have tendon and teeth? - Liv Mammone "Fear"
The exact dagger of phrase - Liv Mammone "Fear"
Captive of the coconut glade - Angela Manalang-Gloria "Yellow Moon"
Unidentified sections of abstract art - Jan Mandell "Ode to Aging Bodies"
Rise up to the chatter and creaking - Jan Mandell "Ode to Aging Bodies"
A recital of our uncertainties - Sarah Mangold "The Atom No. 18"
A touch of blue devotion - Sarah Mangold "The Atom No. 18"
Pay their nightly homage to the Owls - William Manning "A Child's Dream of the Zoo"
Whirling high, from the Clock Tower to the sky - William Manning "A Child's Dream of the Zoo"
A cage of wizard wood with perch of ebony - Ruth Manning-Sanders "Come Wary One"
Toward dawn a cold spell - Mao Wen-hsi "[I mustn't ask about him]" transl. by Burton Watson
douse this blackness in viscous castor oil - Neha Maqsood "Things I Do to Remember Home"
making it hard for your homes to welcome me - Neha Maqsood "Things I Do to Remember Home"
As Wisdom trod in Reason's dusty way - A.G. Marius "Wisdom and Fancy" transl. by William Hodgson Ellis
The hands were scouts discovering harms - Markham "Man" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Into the warren of what I hadn't said - Corey Marks "Broken Music"
Eclipsing my silence - Corey Marks "Broken Music"
Unpunctuated by frustration - Corey Marks "Broken Music"
A balloon full of glass - Corey Marks "Broken Music"
For the peace of my years - Leo Marks "Code Poem for the French Resistance"
All dark to mortal eyes - Gwilym Marles aka William Thomas "New Year Thoughts" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Queen of smiles and charms - Gwilym Marles aka William Thomas "Who in this new God's acre?" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Time only can the answer give - Gwilym Marles aka William Thomas "Who in this new God's acre?" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Is over-ruled by fate - Christopher Marlowe "Hero and Leander"
Censured by our eyes - Christopher Marlowe "Hero and Leander"
A belt of straw and ivy buds - Christopher Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
With coral clasps and amber studs - Christopher Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
Hearts that yearn upon my track - Philip Bourke Marston "From Afar" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Oct. 1880]
Be gone where lost things are - Philip Bourke Marston "From Afar" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Oct. 1880]
Did reject my thorns who wore my roses - Philip Bourke Marston "From Afar" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Oct. 1880]
And fettered him with woodbine sweet - Philip Bourke Marston "Love Asleep"
Constellation of Purple Devotion - Jennifer Martelli "Corinthians 13:11"
Consuming fresh landscapes - Daria-Ann Martineau "Carnivorous, with a varied and opportunistic diet"
Without thought to consequence - Daria-Ann Martineau "Carnivorous, with a varied and opportunistic diet"
Prophecy strewn across stones - Daria-Ann Martineau "Carnivorous, with a varied and opportunistic diet"
Turned the key on my existence - Rafael Arevalo Martinez "My Life Is a Memory" transl. by William George Williams
Make a helix of my hands - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"
In a bloodflow motion - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"
An inside-outside alertness - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"
Go berserk with silence - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"
Hung upon the magic numbers - Mrs. S.T. Martyn "To Mrs. E.C.K."
As I imagine threads of starlight - Claudia Masin "Tomboy" (translated by Robin Myers)
When the law is muscled and violent - Claudia Masin "Tomboy" (translated by Robin Myers)
In search of somewhere to hold on - Claudia Masin "Tomboy" (translated by Robin Myers)
Forced to be whatever we resemble - Claudia Masin "Tomboy" (translated by Robin Myers)
Staring into the abyss the world was unfolding - Olga Maslova "The Hunt for the Murderous Monkey Has Ended"
Particular as light - Joseph Massey "Early Fall"
The stories from my bones - Pages Matam "Spoiled Child"
The gold from my blood - Pages Matam "Spoiled Child"
Awake her to the turmoil and the strife - John Frederick Matheus "Requiem" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The dissonance and hates called life - John Frederick Matheus "Requiem" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Where the road is lonely, dark, and still - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"
On the leaning birth beside the mill - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"
In ill marked time to the thrush's song - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"
And listening nature will breathless lie - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"
Turns on his wheel of light - Philip Matthews "The Morning Star"
Confesses to the power of air - Philip Matthews "The Morning Star"
In her magpie memory - Gail Mazur "The Flea"
Which stirs the wave of memory - J.C. McCabe "First Love"
Can yield to melody's sweet spell - J.C. McCabe "First Love"
In the hotel beyond estrangement - Susan McCabe "Tasting the Last of the Ice Age"
Ultraviolet auroras on postcards - Susan McCabe "Tasting the Last of the Ice Age"
A tender chilling bliss - Susan McCabe "Tasting the Last of the Ice Age"
Outrun the wind - Guadalupe Garcia McCall "Ti-ki-ri, ti-ki-ri, ti-ki-ri, tas!"
At every step, new man-made barriers rise - James Edward McCall "The New Negro" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Stands erect, though tempests round him crash - James Edward McCall "The New Negro" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
While lightnings flash along the rocky pathway to his goal - James Edward McCall "The New Negro" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Holding his destiny within his hands - James Edward McCall "The New Negro" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
With tinted shadows in her hands - James M'Carroll "Dawn"
Climbs the crimson-flooded air - James M'Carroll "Dawn"
The Chancellor of the Wheat and Corn - James M'Carroll "A Royal Race"
The Ladies of the New-Mown Hay - James M'Carroll "A Royal Race"
The deer who startle at our footsteps - Sarah McCartt-Jackson "Borrow"
Chews the end of a bone already buried - Charlene McClure "Caretaker"
Raised to a mouth emptied - Charlene McClure "Caretaker"
The shore was shocked with jellyfish - Raymond McDaniel "Assault to Abjury"
We cultivated the debris field - Raymond McDaniel "Assault to Abjury"
Our knife clicked like an edict - Raymond McDaniel "Assault to Abjury"
To be forced into silence - Raymond McDaniel "No, You Shut Up"
Through a Gethsemane of city streets - Bernard M'Evoy "A Photograph in a Shop Window"
Stabbed me with their venomed darts - Bernard M'Evoy "A Photograph in a Shop Window"
Trapped in a sheet of ice - JoAnne McFarland "Jersey"
Whose hearts were hearts of steel - Isabella McFarlane "The Death of Colonel Shaw" [Continental Monthly v.5 no.4 April 1864]
The mandate that in death they should not part - Isabella McFarlane "The Death of Colonel Shaw" [Continental Monthly v.5 no.4 April 1864]
Southward fled the arctic bird - Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee "Our Ladye of the Snow"
Fettered the flowing waters fast - Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee "Our Ladye of the Snow"
Beneath the sky's eclipse - Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee "Our Ladye of the Snow"
Doubt and darkness to evade - Thomas D'Arcy McGee "To Ask Our Lady's Patronage for a Book on Columbus: A Fragment"
Needles knitting the night - Roger McGough "Mrs Moon"
All seeking to unite their fates - James McIntyre "Birth of Canada as a Nation, July First, 1867"
Like frost that had over-slept - Edmond McKenna "Prelude"
In the sudden flame of his breath - Edmond McKenna "Prelude"
Fitted complete to swim the ocean - J.H. McKenzie "The Titanic Disaster"
By the dreadful work was wrought - J.H. McKenzie "The Titanic Disaster"
A charm evil passions to quell - William P. M'Kenzie "Gabrielle"
Until my daughter hails the day - William P. M'Kenzie "The Mother's Song"
Then on a sunbeam fly away - William P. M'Kenzie "The Mother's Song"
In robes of smouldering flame - Alexander M'Lachlan "Indian Summer"
Like passion soothed to rest - Alexander M'Lachlan "Indian Summer"
His faith in figures and in facts - Alexander M'Lachlan "The Man Who Rose from Nothing"
Bereft of our familiar shapes - Irene Rutherford McLeod "So Beautiful You Are Indeed"
That I am troubled when you come - Irene Rutherford McLeod "So Beautiful You Are Indeed"
The same struggle of wishes and losses - Wesley McNair "The Future"
The one lesson hope has to give - Wesley McNair "The Future"
Stay here at the precipice - Brooke McNamara "Listen Back"
As the coffee deepens its creamy sweet acidity - Brooke McNamara "Listen Back"
To listen at the window of the unknown - Brooke McNamara "Listen Back"
In the ancient forest maze - John M'Pherson "In the Woods"
Inside your simmering year - Joyelle McSweeney "Simon the Good"
Derived from Hell - Joyelle McSweeney "Simon the Good"
At the unquittable world - Joyelle McSweeney "Simon the Good"
Because all is possible in dreams - Ryan Mecum "The Time I Bought Matsuo Basho"
Moaning my name through the wind - Ryan Mecum "The Time I Bought Matsuo Basho"
With an awkward jig and jazz hands - Ryan Mecum "The Time I Bought Matsuo Basho"
Immersed in song like grass - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger "Midmorning" transl. by Carlie Hoffman
My fevered face wrapped in grass - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger "Midmorning" transl. by Carlie Hoffman
A trembling tangle of leaves - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger "Midmorning" transl. by Carlie Hoffman
Climb and then fall back to me - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger "Midmorning" transl. by Carlie Hoffman
Densities of opal within sleep's portico - Cecilia Meireles "The Dead Horse" transl. by James Merrill
Blurred as in red mirror moons - Cecilia Meireles "The Dead Horse" transl. by James Merrill
That unravels in the wave of breath - Oriana Méndez "Farewells" transl. by Erin Moure
With screens of mourning in their larynx - Oriana Méndez "Farewells" transl. by Erin Moure
In the light from dust to night - Celeste Guzman Mendoza "Man Praying--Encroachment"
Trust death as a friend - Celeste Guzman Mendoza "Man Praying--Encroachment"
Hear the weight of delirium - Celeste Guzman Mendoza "Man Praying--Encroachment"
The dawn moon struggles to shine - Meng Chiao "On Failing the Examination" transl. by Burton Watson
Little wrens soar on borrowed wings - Meng Chiao "On Failing the Examination" transl. by Burton Watson
The hill-folds gather their deep dark - Mêng Hai jan "Waiting for You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The moon lights up cold in its twisted pine-branch - Mêng Hai jan "Waiting for You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The wheeling birds are settled in their trees - Mêng Hai jan "Waiting for You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The hour is past that you promised - Mêng Hai jan "Waiting for You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
On a throne of clouds - Adah Isaacs Menken "Aspiration"
Though of sturdy breath - Adah Isaacs Menken "Aspiration"
Whose year-devouring glance - Adah Isaacs Menken "Aspiration"
Where the feet of angels are - Adah Isaacs Menken "Aspiration"
When I fed it tin and paper - Eve Merriam "Catch a Little Rhyme"
Stretched into a whale - Eve Merriam "Catch a Little Rhyme"
You be Good, I'll be Night - Eve Merriam "You Be Saucer"
Some tireless Watch to keep - Clara A. Merrill "All Things Speak of God"
Like a hundred beating drums - Clara A. Merrill "All Things Speak of God"
Traverse at will Old Neptune's domain - Clara A. Merrill "The Old State of Maine"
Breathe in its sweet persistence - Helena Mesa "Legend"
Gives up boyhood scars and birthmarks - Lauren Mesa "The Years We Will Know Them" [Poetry, January 1988]
A lark chirps calmly on the river bank - Bianca Rae Messinger "After the Living Dead Girl"
All that can be disputed - Juan Carlos Mestre "The Follower"
Stars clenched between your fists - Makena Metz "Equinox"
An icy message to every wave and rill - Viola Meynell "The Frozen Ocean"
Bound its foaming whirlpools - Viola Meynell "The Frozen Ocean"
Tell you your eyes are mirrors - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"
Tell you your eyes are windows - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"
What is it about you that shatters me? - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"
Who is the boat and who is the sea? - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"
The stars in merry parties - Richard Middleton "The Carol of the Poor Children"
Fruit and flower on the same branch - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"
Dancing storms of leaves in flaming colors - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"
The bittersweet smoke of burning leaves - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"
Many springs for their ripening - Carly Joy Miller "Five Moths"
The language that left us first - E. Ethelbert Miller "The Ear is an Organ Made for Love"
The Great Migration of words - E. Ethelbert Miller "The Ear is an Organ Made for Love"
My ears begged for camouflage - E. Ethelbert Miller "The Ear is an Organ Made for Love"
The last time you mailed a postcard - E. Ethelbert Miller "Postcards"
Slipped past me like a wraith - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"
Down the gold tipped September elms - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"
A breath of days spun through years - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"
A rain that hushes the silence - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"
The elixir of your moods - Jennifer Millitello "Lineage Is Its Own Religion"
Branded onto my heart - Jennifer Millitello "Lineage Is Its Own Religion"
The memory of flesh - Jennifer Millitello "Lineage Is Its Own Religion"
A pebble smoothed over in a sea of feathers - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"
Smoothed sand in the mouth of an oyster - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"
Proves perfection by defining the flaw - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"
Lost among the buttercups - A.A. Milne "Buttercup Days"
Where the wind comes from - A.A. Milne "Wind on the Hill"
And cease to haunt these wooded ways - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"
To hold such gifts in scorn - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"
Before my life's first gleam - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"
The immensity of existing things - Czeslaw Milosz "Esse"
Tell me why you grieve so wild - S. Isadore Miner "Old Scores Repaid, or Tragedy Reversed" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Walking like time - Adrian Mitchell "Elephant Eternity"
And revel on the boundless shore - John Mitchell "Oh! Waft Me to the Fairy Clime"
Rolling sphere's beyond earth's ken - John Mitchell "Oh! Waft Me to the Fairy Clime"
Step forth from the high hall - Miu Hsi "Poem in the Form of a Coffin-Puller's Song" transl. by Burton Watson
Where even the wild geese wither - Kenji Miyazawa from "General Son Ba-yu" (translated by John Bester)
Monday they scattered my salt - Kadia Molodowsky "Song of the Sabbath" transl. by Jean Valentine
My quarrelling with the six kings - Kadia Molodowsky "Song of the Sabbath" transl. by Jean Valentine
The Sabbath queen blessed my candles - Kadia Molodowsky "Song of the Sabbath" transl. by Jean Valentine
A fairy walking in paradise - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Open the door of my feelings - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The bird of fortune will land on you - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The scent of pure winter - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The only advertised long term solution - Anahita Monfared "The Manic Depressive's Alphabet"
Against my unknowing - Lara Mimosa Montes "A Pain That Is Not Private"
cut a vein and stain the pried petals - Elis Montgomery "Inheritance"
And hold a Synod in thy heart - Marquis of Montrose "I'll Never Love Thee More" (Per Wikipedia, the 1st-4th Marquesses of Montrose were all named James Graham. Later, the title attached to the Duke of Montrose as a subsidiary title, but I'm assuming that, if the poet had a ducal title, the editor would have used that instead. I decided not to dig further and just to put this under 'Montrose.')
Shall unseal its honeyed story - Susanna Moodie "The Maple-Tree"
Wrought in God's perilous mood - William Vaughan Moody "I Am the Woman"
The morning star was mute - William Vaughan Moody "I Am the Woman"
Scared at my manifold meaning - William Vaughan Moody "I Am the Woman"
Sleep in pods of darkness - David Mook "Milkweed"
An awakening yawn exhales its feathered breath - David Mook "Milkweed"
A lone dark seed with its own white soul - David Mook "Milkweed"
A shadow that evades pursuit - Duncan Moore "To the Lost One"
This world is one Gethsemane - Duncan Moore "To the Lost One"
Despite our gloomy horoscope - Duncan Moore "To the Lost One"
To crush each spark of memory - Duncan Moore "To the Lost One"
Please list the items you have lost - James Fujinami Moore "Diagnostic Quiz for Human Ghost"
What was your death's taxonomy? - James Fujinami Moore "Diagnostic Quiz for Human Ghost"
The creaking hinges of something only you can see - James Fujinami Moore "Diagnostic Quiz for Human Ghost"
Sometimes they feed me make-believe - Rebecca Deming Moore "The Wooden Horse" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
A white fluffy ball changing semblance - Marjorie Moorhead "Head in the Clouds"
In winds that come from all directions - Marjorie Moorhead "Head in the Clouds"
Letting cloud take what shapes it may - Marjorie Moorhead "Head in the Clouds"
Enveloped by trepidation - Marjorie Moorhead "Head in the Clouds"
Outside our thick windows - Pat Mora "Bilingual Christmas"
Invaded by Brightness - Vicente Luis Mora
As night sky caresses the murmuring sand - Ed Morales "The Talking Coconut"
The long hours spent sweating - Ed Morales "The Talking Coconut"
The centuries of remembering - Ed Morales "The Talking Coconut"
Lessons regarding buoyancy - Edgar Morales "Swim"
When our heartbeat was one shared song - Edgar Morales "Swim"
Without teaching you how to swim - Edgar Morales "Swim"
Without the possibility of drowning - Edgar Morales "Swim"
Wind scraped by steel - Cindy Hunter Morgan "Deckhand: Scent Theory"
Katydids lined-out their hymns in the trees - Robert Morgan "White Autumn"
More charms where twilight clings - Helen Louise Moriarty "Convent Echoes"
Off the forested page - Rachel Moritz "Poem for Rebecca Wight"
A thousand grieving seeds - Rachel Moritz "Poem for Rebecca Wight"
Rinsing my eyes of smoke-tears - Hilda Morley "Song of the Terrible"
Three tipped arrows in a quiver - James Herbert Morse "Love's Hunting"
The thrushes were going berserk - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"
Singing every song that came to them - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"
My sobs echoing through the empty rooms - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"
Branches sliced from the trunk of an old tree - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"
In cool aisles of forests dim - Irene Elder Morton "Browning"
Had crystalized in suns - Irene Elder Morton "In June"
The seeds of life's queen flowers - Irene Elder Morton "My Garden Wall"
Would intertwine if they went on - Lauren Moseley "Song for the Woolly Mammoth"
Do not know that I am gone - Lauren Moseley "Song for the Woolly Mammoth"
Nothing like a storm - Andrew Motion "The Ring"
Devastate the path - Andrew Motion "The Ring"
A pile of sorrow - Glenn Mott "Amaryllis"
On cloistered walls - Glenn Mott "Amaryllis"
A fatal deftness - Glenn Mott "Amaryllis"
A path of gold on stones worn grey - K. Mounsey "To a Little House in Oxford"
From my memory raze one hour - Anna Cora Mowatt "To My Sisters: Written After Their Departure for Europe"
The things she keeps invisible - Ilze Mueller "Invisibility Poem: Lesbian"
Scar over in the colour of sand - Abdushukur Muhammet "My Name" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
Confirmed in their beliefs - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"
Sometimes the bearer becomes the bad news - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"
Can't tell Gethsemane from the Garden of Eden - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"
Forgot to hope, forgot to weep - Rosa Mulholland "The Wild Geese"
Fragrant with the ocean's breath - Rosa Mulholland "The Wild Geese"
Splendid as Rome that was Caesar's - Charles Pelham Mulvaney "Poppoea"
Cruel as Rome that was free - Charles Pelham Mulvaney "Poppoea"
The Queen of the world that is Nero's - Charles Pelham Mulvaney "Poppoea"
As keen for a kiss as a crime - Charles Pelham Mulvaney "Poppoea"
Your hands with sorrow wring - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"
His bent bow and his arrows keen - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"
Now cast on flowers fresh and green - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"
While lurking like a thief - Allan Munier "R. H. -- A Portrait"
A heart beloved of the wiser gods - Allan Munier "R. H. -- A Portrait"
That snatches scraps of gladness - Allan Munier "R. H. -- A Portrait"
That which repetition demands - Luis Munoz "First Hour"
Untimely appointments - Luis Munoz "Habits"
More than necessary - Luis Munoz "Habits"
Mourned by the ocean wave - Neil Munro "Fingal's Weeping"
Where the desert exalts in memory and is forever - David Mura "Vegas Rave Muse"
An apartment building of locked jaws - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"
The silent weeping of rocks - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"
Milk teeth sharpening a father's heart - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"
Stilling the fire that does not cease - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"
While listening to my intuition speak - Erika Murcia "Decoding My Mother's Gifts"
Nightmares with collectives of serpents - Erika Murcia "Serpents I"
Harvesting spells with their hands - Erika Murcia "Serpents I"
Portal doors of all the possible parallel worlds - Erika Murcia "Serpents I"
Searching the dust of days - Henri Murger "Musette" transl. by Andrew Lang
The ancient garden where we met - Henri Murger "Old Loves" transl. by Andrew Lang
With passion fine as flame - Ethel Allen Murphy "The Angel of Thought (Suggested by a Fra Angelico Angel)"
Who miss in our immortal joy - Ethel Allen Murphy "A Botticelli Madonna. I, The Wondering Angel"
Kiss of sorrow's bitter lips - Ethel Allen Murphy "A Botticelli Madonna. I, The Wondering Angel"
The banner of that spectral host - George Murray "The Thistle"
Engulfed within the grave of Time - George Murray "The Thistle"
Even if they keep denying their existence - Najah Hussein Musa "Bethlehem"
One of time's swiftest sprinters - Lutpulla Mutellip "Answer to the Years" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
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