somethingdarker | Mar. 6th, 2010

Mar. 6th, 2010

( Clover )

Ripe and summer-breathing clover-flower - John Drinkwater "The Midlands"

Where drowsy sprites sip clover-sweets - Walter S. Percy "Chatterbox"

Clover-top and berry-bloom, and haycocks in the sun - Miriam Clark Potter "Summer Weather"

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( Closet )

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( Clutch )

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( Clad )

Snow-clad Cenis' heart of stone might melt - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]

With steel-clad breast, and coward heart - "By Memory Inspired" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

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( Cleanse )

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( Cluster )

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( Clarity )

Clarify.

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( Clouds )

Frolicking dragons in cloud-and-rain dark - Wang An-Shih "River" transl. by David Hinton

A myriad-branching, cloud-aspiring tree - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

A wisteria poked its lank blossoms through the cloudbank - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Wandering through all that history-mist and cloud-blur - Wang An-Shih "Thinking of Golden-Tomb City Long Ago" transl. by David Hinton

Beneath a trillion leaves cloud-braided - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Nature"

This cloud-break that ravels the night - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"

The vast and cloud-embroidered canopy - Fanny Kemble "Lines Written at Night"

The cloud-fleece flushing with the day's defeat - A. Pickler "At Achensee, Tirol" transl. by T.M. Kettle

Cloud-galleons with their sails of rose and snow - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"

Cloud-haunted turrets pointing high - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Amavi"

The cloud-host, vanquished, took to flight - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]

Cloudland's curves and grading colors - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Cloudless/Unclouded.

Flame blue and lambent the cloud-masses glow - Maxim Gorky "The Song of the Storm-Finch" [Mother Earth v.1 no.1, March 1906] transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell

The cloudscape of his mind - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Big cloud-ships with sails spread out - "A Big Playfellow" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

The cloud-woven pillows of the moon - Geoffrey Dearmer "On the Road"

A cotton-cloud nomenclature for crusade - Leslie Contreras Schwartz "A Body's Universe of Big Bangs"

A martyr-cloud with halo dipped in gold - Humbert Wolfe "The Dancers"

As stars with night-clouds striving - B. Simmons "The Last Walk" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]

With rain-cloud and swallow - Willa Cather "Fides, Spes"

Stormcloud.

To mount the tempest-cloud with nerve unfailing - Mary E. Hewitt "I Follow" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

As a thundercloud swings on the moon - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Unclouded.

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( Claim )

Reclaim.

( Unclaimed )

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( Clamor/Clamour )

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( Close )

A voice of closeness to the earth - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"

A closeness like disorientation - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"

Constantly destroyed by the closeness of the sacred - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"

( Closer )

A magical closure of particles - Linda Bierds "The Ghost Trio: 3. Wedgwood: 1790 --Josiah Wedgwood, 1730-1795"

Now your dominion comes to closure - Boris Dralyuk "The Passing of the Bungalows"

Passed from out the close-barred room of time - Violet Jacob "The Little Dragon"

Snaps the close-entwining chord - Quince "Absence" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Traced the wide curve of the close-grappling lines - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"

Followed the close-heard beat of love's wide wings - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"

That web of close-knit darkness - John Presland "The Deluge"

The close-mouthed tantrum of her fevers - Safiya Sinclair "A Bell, Still Unrung"

In vain perused her Baedeker's close-printed sheets - Leonard Bacon "Fame"

Close-seated in one crimson boat - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

Raccoons too ready for their close-ups - Dorsey Craft "Women Tell Me How to Be Safe"

Looking through the lens for a close-up - Elise Paschen "Aperture"

Disclose/Undisclosed.

Enclose.

Someone else's dream foreclosed - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Oak Falls"

Unclose.

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( Clever )

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( Click )

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( Clown )

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( Cliff )

Factories carved into cliff-faces - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"

The cliffside of a starry abyss - Miguel Murphy "Year of the Tiger"

A seaside saint in her clifftop niches - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"

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( Cloth )

As cloth-of-gold the fallen leaves lie - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Spices, fine linen, and cloth of gold - Laurens Maynard "Ave Post Saecula"

( Clothe )

( Clothed )

( Clothes )

( Clothing )

Folded in the bedclothes of night - R.B. Lemberg "In the Third Cycle"

Clothesline.

Sun hanging from clothespin - Lou Barrett "Kore"

Thoughts ugly as clothespins - Leslie Sainz "Sonnet for Ochun"

Clothespinned across a buzzing canvas of vermillion - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Sackcloth.

This universe unclothes me kinder - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"

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A member of the fiasco survivor's club - Mary Jo Bang "A Sonata for Four Hands, II"

Club and shield eternally raised - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"

Blur the club into a blue fantasia - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

Melt from clubs to hearts to doorsteps - Marisca Pichette "Are You A Good Witch"

From clubs to hearts to doorsteps - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

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( Clamber )

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( Clang )

The clangor of billions of vermilion trumpets - Amy Lowell "Red Slippers"

And clangor of ascending chains - George Sterling "A Dream of Fear"

The loud clangour of pretenders - William Carlos Williams "Homage"

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( Clank )

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Clumped grief of an old barrow - Serena Chopra "Garden Variety with Lesbians"

Breathed out a freshness from wild clumps of asphodels - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

Clumps of woodbine taking the soft wind - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

Clumps of reeds where there is no water - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

Sixteen clumps of sticks woven high into the oaks - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"

In the beech-clump on the haunted hill - John Masefield "August, 1914"

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( Clock )

In Pushkin's clock-haunted house - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"

A clockless country of crystal - Robert Hayden "Soledad"

Your chest vacant and clockless - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

Whirling high, from the Clock Tower to the sky - William Manning "A Child's Dream of the Zoo"

Clockwork.

Otherwise and likewise and counterclockwise - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"

Counterclockwise wind in their mouths - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"

Of four o'clocks now and to come - Frank O'Hara "Chez Jane"

Frequently breakfasts at five o'clock tea - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

On the wings of the six o'clock wind - Grace Nichols "Joy-riders"

In the punch-clock of deep space - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

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( Cloak )

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Clothesline holding the doors closed - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"

Too short to reach the clothesline - Sarah Getty "The Wash"

Littered with laundry-frames and clotheslines - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"

Death threats on the clothesline - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

Alights on the cross of the wooden clothesline - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"

Cloth/Clothes/Clothing.

Line.

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( Clash )

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Nothingness clarified - Edward Hirsch "Giacomo Leopardi"

A sheen of ice clarifies a gravel bed - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"

perspective shifts as focus clarifies - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"

Clarifying like butter over flame - Joshua Weiner "Art Pepper"

Electrons blur and clarify their positions - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"

Clarity.

Clear.

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( Clear )

Clarify.

Beauty fine-spun, amber-clear - Edward Dowden "Edgar Allan Poe"

Clear-cut and certain they rise - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"

The fumes of their cleargas hoard - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

Feast on jade by the clear-watered shore - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Around our grave a glass-clear silence cast - Harry Martinson "Aniara 103" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

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( Clench )

My clockwork mouth unclenched to rattle the name lost - R.B. Lemberg "The Ghosts of Me Are in Your Machine" [Strange Horizons 15 Dec. 2025]

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A thought encased in deep, riverine bowels - Paul Cameron Brown "Reading the Tides: Petroglyph Park"

To warm his bowels with strong potations - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull

In the bowels of the concrete monster - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"

Metallic, obdurate with bowels of steel - D.H. Lawrence "Bitterness of Death"

Which troubles the bowels of earth - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"

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( Clay )

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( Clean )

Partaking of the glowing exfoliating cleanup - Dean Young "The New Optimism" [Poetry Oct. 2010]

Woe to gilt on an unclean bed - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Profaning heaven's own air with words unclean - A.B. "Sonnet to Clarkson" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]

A writhing knot of unclean vipers - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited

Unclean under a back-turned sun - Saeed Jones "Terrible Boy"

Become unclean with toxic radiation - Harry Martinson "Aniara 1" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

But sought small solaces unclean - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"

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Loose clutter and human mystery - Jim Daniels "Approaching and Passing an Epiphany"

Clutter of shriveled yesterdays - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"

Cluttered days so sharp they cut - Naomi Shihab Nye "Coming Soon"

To the cluttered house of memory - Natasha Trethewey "Limen"

A clutter of yellow and blue - William Carlos Williams "Blizzard"

To unbox, detox, and de-clutter your blood - Samantha Thornhill "38. Shedding the Old"

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( Cling )

( Clung )

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( Clue )

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( Claw )

The invisible hammerclaw of time - Miller Oberman "Commas"

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( Clap )

Tolling kelp-clappered watches of brash ice - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"

Thunderclap.

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The hail and haste of clarions - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"

Clarions of horizons calling - Rubén Darío "Nightfall in the Tropics" Thomas Walsh

With his clarions and his drums - Thomas Babington Macaulay "The Battle of Naseby"

With clarions blowing three times twice - Algernon Swinburne "A Ninth Birthday. February 4, 1883"

Go where the battle clarions blare - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Bid Hope his thrilling clarion blow - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIV. The Flags"

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( Clatter )

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The classic quality of a star - Gwendolyn Brooks "Gay Chaps at the Bar"

Classic as a book unopened - Brody Parrish Craig "Haircut in the Kitchen Sink"

The grand doctrine of the classic age - B.F.D. Dunn "Our Heritage" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]

The classic duty of breath - Luther Hughes "When Struck by Night"

The classic multitude of feet - Marianne Moore "In the Days of Prismatic Color"

Something classical and repulsive endures - Ari Banias "Curriculum"

The unbroken flow of a classical star - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"

Lit the air around those neoclassic nights - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

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Twigs show again in the quick cleavage of season - Louise Bogan "Elders"

( Cleave )

( Cleft )

The dungeon-clefts of Tartarus - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"

Undress the garlic cloves - Susan Landgraf "What's Left"

Where the sun's dart clove her - Algernon Swinburne "Flower-Pieces: I. Love Lies Bleeding"

( Cloven )

Raw airs uncloven by speech - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"

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That change of climate is not change of soul - H.G.K. "The Wanderer" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXXIV, no.CCCCLVI, Oct. 1853]

Blankets of weather becoming climate - Leslie McIntosh "ANAMNESIS"

Citizen of every climate but customer to nothing - Naomi Shihab Nye "Catalogue Army"

Of climate with no divination - Afaa Michael Weaver "This Morning, This First Poem"

Winter is long in this climate - William Carlos Williams "March"

When the zebra finches felt the first pinch of climate change - Amie Whittemore "Future History of Earth's Birds"

Climes that flames enfold - Charles Baudelaire "The Sky" transl. not credited

In foreign climes condemned to roam - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"

In climes beyond the solar road - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

With breathings from a colder clime - Henry S. Leigh "Clumsy Servant"

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Clod of clay with heart of fire - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Spring Song"

Flints, clods, and javelins hurling - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Into Divinity ever transmuting the clod - Richard Hovey "The Death Song of Taliesin"

A clod of saturated Earth - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

In every clod or clot of human woe - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"

From a wrinkled seed in an earth-bound clod - Henry van Dyke "Salute to the Trees"

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( Cloister )

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The gods in their cloudless periods - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

How cloudless its visions - C.H.W. Esling "The Mother's Pride"

Cloudless jasper sown with stars - David Gray "The Moon II"

Through the cloudless salt-seeped heavens - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

In cloudless sunshine cast - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

To light's unclouded throne - Felicia Hemans "Lines Written in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Smith"

The unclouded glow of sun-steeped skies - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"

Hot, unclouded, copper day of truth - Jeannette Marks "Sun-Path"

Cloud.

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( Clove )

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( Climb )

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( Clockwork )

Clock.

Work.

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( Clog )

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Clip imagination's wing and kill delight - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"

Who clipped the lion's wings - T.S. Eliot "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"

Weave twigs in my hair for clips - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"

Stretching clipped wings - Alfred Noyes "An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin"

Clipping me to the northern tilt - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Clipped to a grass blade's underside - Chase Twichell "Never"

Knew his unclipped wings were free to soar - Clara Doty Bates "Goody Two-Shoes" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]

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A clot of clouds - Natalie Diaz "They Don't Love You Like I Love You"

Ether clotted into worlds - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"

Still fretted with clotted snow at the sand edge - Mona Gould "Colour in the Willows"

her maiden name clotted in a map older than 'america' - DaMaris B. Hill "Come. Pray. Know"

The long yard clotted with ivy and vasevine - Edgar Kunz "Missing It"

Full of iron and clotted cream - Elizabeth Metzger "Control Feast"

In every clod or clot of human woe - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"

Clotted darkness threatening moonlight - Ann K. Schwader "Deconstructing Night"

Unclot and flow in the streets of spring - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"

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( Clasp )

Quickens the unclasping hands - D.H. Lawrence "Study"

Where magian suns unclasp the gaping ground - W.H. Rhodes "Masonry"

Unclasped and left empty in the center - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"

Unclasp a restless froth of light - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"

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Bored by classes on constellations we'll never see - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"

After fame had classed them with the dead - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Away from this year's cubicle to night class - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

To the poorest class of hope - Thomas Lynch "October"

The penance of middle-class digestive systems - Lalini Shanela Ranaraja "Tricona" [Strange Horizons 14 March 2022]

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