somethingdarker | Aug. 3rd, 2010

Aug. 3rd, 2010

( Heath )

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Two better hemispheres without sharp north - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"

Folded within my hemisphere - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

A cyclone of broken hemispheres - Pablo Neruda "Leviathan" transl. by Jack Schmitt

rotting in the wrong hemisphere - Xan Forest Phillips "No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits"

The cleanse and shake a wounded hemisphere - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

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Go hence bearing a talisman - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"

A century hence will envenom a lover - Edward Dowden "Unuttered"

Nor any giant drive him hence - Theodore Maynard "Don Quixote"

Go hence with flowers and weeds - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"

Go hence together without fear - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"

Unfasten your mind, and follow it hence - Mark Van Doren "Wind in the Grass"

With misery laden henceforward to roam - Albert E. Stembridge "Serenade" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.18-v.I, 3 May 1884]

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Against such old-world heresy and schism - H.B.C. "The Kaiser to his Secretary" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

Indigo of wizard Heresy - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

to work its internalized heresies - Kaie Kellough "if who"

Taught them such gross heresy - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"

That well-known foolish heresy - Marina Tsvetayeva "Poem of the End" transl. by Elaine Feinstein and Angela Livingstone

Meaning making music like a heretic - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

Heretics believe there is a forest - Mary Jo Bang "Pilgrimage"

The heretic has come at last to heel - Seamus Heaney "Whatever You Say Say Nothing"

Where autumn foams at the lips of heretics - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

Two metric heretics dressed like crows - Adrian Matejka "16 Bars Poetica"

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( Heartbeat )

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( Hermit )

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( Heap )

From dust-heaps garnered - Zinaida Gippius "[I seek for rhythmic whisperings]" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

Heaped-up sods upon the fire - Padraic Colum "An Old Woman of the Roads"

A mighty junk-heap rising high - Adolf Wolff "The Great Discard"

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( Hedge )

With the smile of the hawthorn-hedge - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Old Love and the New"

Drag her silent from the hedgerow maze - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Between the hedgerow thorns - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Dead Rose"

Hedgerow waifs and ragamuffin strays - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

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( Hearth )

In ashes our hearth fire is hidden - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles

The loveless, hearthless arctic night - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

By the embers in hearthside ease - Thomas Hardy "The Oxen"

Hearthstone.

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( Herald )

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( Heron )

Rested in the dignity of the Great Blue Heron - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"

And ride to the heron-marsh - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

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( Heart )

Barren-hearted and untrue - Walter S. Percy "Hearted Good"

The dance of the big-hearted dog - Alberto Rios "We Dogs of a Thursday Off"

Broken Heart.

Cold-blooded, faint-hearted changeling - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "Bruce's Address"

The century's fiery-hearted bloom - Edward Dowden "Helena"

In the flame-heart's shade - Claude McKay "Flame-Heart"

Bade adieu to each golden-hearted queen - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]

No purple vein from the mellow grape-heart bursting - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Half-hearted in nothing - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Triumph Hard-Won"

Heartache.

A heart attack on the bottom line - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Heartbeat.

Our hearts' blood had bought her - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Write these pages with heart's blood - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"

Heard her heart's blood drip - Katherine Tynan "The Little Ghost"

Heartbreak.

That cheerful string of heartburn - Aimee Le "Poem Written by Aimee's Imaginary Roommate, Charles"

Murmuring laughter and heart-easing tears - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Bunkim Chandra Chatterji"

That has no song at all to hearten it - James Stephens "The Bare Trees"

Hangs in the air like the start of heartfelt applause - Adrian Matejka "Soave Sia Il Vento"

And all my heart-flowers withered - G.G. Foster "To an Old Rock"

The heart-haunted home of the ever-faithful - Donnchad Ruadh MacNamara, c.1730 "The Fair Hills of Eire" transl. by George Sigerson

Heartless.

Stargrit. Heartlocked. Vowstrung - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"

A sunny silence makes heart-music - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"

Replaced his compass with a heart-shaped clock - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Some heartsick caustic titan - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Raising Hell"

Heart-Strings.

heart-thawed for a new round of reckonings - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"

Heart-tossed shadows in them lie - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

In the Kingdom of the Hollow-at-Heart - Charles Wright "No Angel"

The fruits of hollow-heartedness - Alexander Pushkin "[I've overlived aspirings]" transl. by John Pollen

Ever tearless, iron-hearted - Yone Noguchi "Where Is the Poet"

Radiance showers from the jewel-heart of sleep - George William Russell "Alter Ego"

An opal-hearted country - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"

Visions leave us silent-hearted - Lennox Amott "Bright Scenes Must All Depart"

Orange is the single-hearted color - Sandra McPherson "Poppies"

Ev'ry soft-hearted sinner contributes and cries - Henry S. Leigh "The Gift of the Gab"

Guardian spirits grown weary-hearted - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"

To wake the weary-hearted - Willa Cather "Going Home"

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( Helen )

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( Headlong )

Head.

Long.

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( Helm )

( Helmet )

With lance, with corslet, casque and sword - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

Black as a plume on a casque - Marianne Moore "My Lantern"

A casque of scorching steel - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

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( Herd )

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( Hesitate/Hesitation )

Twilight in unhesitating hands - George Sterling "Kindred"

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( Heart-Strings )

Heart.

String.

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( Hem )

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( Heel )

The bright-heeled constellations - Walter de la Mare "Voices"

Skipping high-heeled flames courtesied before my eyes - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"

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( Heal )

Unhealed wounds and home fallen to ruins - Zilka Joseph "A Chirota for My Thoughts"

Words of the unhealed wounds - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Underground"

Wailing aloud from a heart unhealed - Algernon Swinburne "On an Old Roundel"

This unhealable self - C. K. Williams "Dissections"

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( Heed )

Heedless.

Unheeded/Unheeding.

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( Herself )

Himself.

Itself.

Myself.

Ourselves.

Self.

Themself/Themselves.

Yourself/Yourselves.

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( Help )

Helpless.

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( Heartache )

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Help.

( Helpless )

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Headlights falling on a new city - Jazno Francoeur "Home"

Jeweled deer in headlights - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 3"

With the headlights of trucks aimed at their backs - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

The headlight feeling of leaving - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

How bright my headlights shine - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Blurry headlights athwart wet asphalt - K. Ceres Wright "Mission: Accomplished"

Head.

Light.

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( Hen )

Of raids on the pantry and hen-coop - Lucy Larcom "The Cat's Questions" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

His kingdom of hen-scratched earth - Simon Armitage "Miniatures"

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( Hemlock )

The hemlock-bowl for Athen's pride - Mrs J. Webb "Lines to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:2, Feb. 1844)

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( Hearthstone )

Hearth.

Stone.

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( Heedless )

Heed.

Unheeded/Unheeding.

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( Hear )

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

Half-heard like rain on pools - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

A foreign laugh overheard - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"

An echo overheard - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

Overheard the curlews cry - Oscar Wilde "Impressions"

Unheard.

Wake not for the world-heard thunder - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXIX"

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Your face hewn into lost history - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Hewing through mammoth barriers of deceit and loathing - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

Chafing sighs hew my heart round - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

Hew a road of woe - Virna Sheard "The Shells"

Hewn in midnight's deepest sapphire - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"

Rough-hewn hours of practice and malcontent - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"

Massy walls of unhewn agate towered - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Deeps of unhewn woods alone can cherish - Amy Lowell "Leisure"

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( Heat )

The heat-death of prime time television - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Against a heat-storm of cicadas - Ana Bozicevic "About a Fish"

In the overheating metabolism of destiny - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

An overheated moon pulling at the waters - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Tropical Depression"

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( Heaven )

With fearless foot and heaven-turned eye - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

That heavenward flashed its ray - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"

These heavenward birds to snare - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Heavenward on hopeful wings - George Martin "Marguerite"

Take the palace escalator heavenward - Jackie Wang "Life is a Place Where it's Forbidden to Live"

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( Heavy )

Such heavily-haunted harmony - Thomas Hardy "A Duettist to Her Pianoforte: Song of Silence"

Silent as her heavy-petalled rose - George Sterling "To Ruth Chatterton"

These heavy-winged thieves - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"

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( Hell )

Hell bent on spawning a moon - Hailey Leithauser "Romance"

Hellbent on election - John Updike "To Two of My Characters"

Through tempests of hell-fire - Ivor Gurney "Serenity"

Of hell-fire, of the venomous flame - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

And the light of hell-fire flows - Robert W. Service "The Heart of the Sourdough"

Until the Hell-flower dies down - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"

Hell-hounds on her heels - D.H. Lawrence "Purple Anemones"

The dragons of the air, the hell-hounds of the deep - Henry van Dyke "Lights Out"

Into hot battles' hell-lit fires - Edward Smyth Jones "Flag of the Free"

Cut down a tree on top of a hellmouth - Carrie Grigorian "Baking in Different Conditions"

And drive away the hell-set dreams - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

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( Broken Heart )

( Heartbreak )

Heart-broken shapes that stand in field and sky - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Structures"

Break/Broke.

Heart.

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( Herb )

By herbless sand and bitter pool - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Phaedra"

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( Heartless )

Heart.

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( Hero/Heroic/Heroism )

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Sits on the other side of health from me - Carolina Ebeid "Relapsing/Remitting"

No appetite, health or grudges - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"

Keen with health, and strong for struggling - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Whose peace and health are fled - "The Life and Death of Tom Careless"

The filigree of finite health - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"

Pining sore for change to healthful ground - Calder Campbell "By the Sea" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.425, 21 Feb. 1852]

Where the healthy crows hover - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"

Cement burst jugs and make them healthy - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"

The healthy breath of morn - John Keats "Hyperion"

With the dim light of full, healthy life - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"

We will drink unhealth together - Helen Gray Cone "The House of Hate"

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( Heave )

The heft and shimmer of sorrow - Tarfia Faizullah "You Ask Why Write About It Again"

A heft of air - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"

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( Height )

Saw black trees on the battle-height - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

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( Heir/Heiress )

Nor trust the tenure of an heirless throne - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"

Some inoperative heirloom clock - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

These rough burrs my heirlooms - Henry David Thoreau "The Fall of the Leaf"

Hellebore, trumpet vines and heirloom tomatoes - Diane Wakoski "Snowy Owl Goddess"

Prove title to your heirship - James Russell Lowell "The Heritage"

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( Heather )

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( Heritage )

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The leaves of the sun-mellowed hickories - Clinton Dangerfield "Autumn"

Hickory ashes in my hair - Winnie Lewis Gravitt "Sippokni Sia"

Wildest bird in our hickory swamp - Conrad Hilberry "Vein and Muscle"

Through labyrinths of poplar and hickory - Susan Nguyen "The First Language"

The russet hickories confer - Theodore Roberts "The Chase"

Canopied with dying hickories - Richard Solomon "Daddy Long Legs of the Evening ... Hope!"

Crows in the volunteer hickory sapling - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

Where the hickory trees start themselves - Bradley Trumpfheller "Loom"

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Behead.

( Head )

Deadheading flowers after their first blooming - Keith Taylor "The Gleaners"

Don't take faucets for fountainheads - Dorothea Tanning "All Hallow's Eve"

When Gorgon-headed Night was gone - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"

Twin gods hawk-headed and immense - Robert Nichols "Polyphemus His Passion: A Pastoral"

Light glinting in a headdress of water - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"

Headfirst dive into stillness - Achy Obejas "Slow"

Go down to the grotto with your headlamp and crowbar - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"

From headlands of celestial gold - George Sterling "The City of Music"

where the headless ghost dogs run - Joseph Lease "Falling"

A headless tyrant built of wealth - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Headlight.

The headlines wrote themselves - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"

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

Headlong.

His elaborate head-piece of smoke - Dana Levin "The Gods Are in the Valley"

Where headstones claw up through the clouds - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

The milestones into headstones change - James Russell Lowell "Sixty-Eighth Birthday"

Do not avoid your headwinds - Mouna Ammar "Permission"

A steady cold channel of headwind - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"

( Heady )

Go to meet the hydra-headed day - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"

must fight multi-headed ghosts alone - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

A golden nailhead, burning in your palm - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

Overhead.

Whetting a spearhead on an asteroid - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"

Thunderheads cracking their knuckles - William Brewer "Against Enabling"

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