somethingdarker | Dec. 2nd, 2010

Dec. 2nd, 2010

( Lantern )

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( Lavender )

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Laugh.

( Laughter )

River sends her laughter-lights - Miriam Clark Potter "Bubbles"

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( Lava )

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( Layer )

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( Language )

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( Lair )

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( Laurel )

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( Lament )

( Lamentation )

Thus unlamented pass - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

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( Land )

Borderland.

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

Dreamland.

Who hear the sprites from Elf-land call - Elizabeth Anderson "To EARL and GEORGIA"

The horns of Elfland faintly blowing - Alfred Tennyson "The Splendor Falls"

Fairyland.

Grasslands extending as if without limit - Mary Soon Lee "The Sign of the King"

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

Through the hinterlands of justice - Mary Oliver "The Oak Tree at the Entrance to Blackwater Pond"

Exiles in their own homeland - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"

We fled inland with our flocks - H.D. "The Helmsman"

All that spun and landed here - Christopher Buckley "Desire"

Landed at the mouth of neon waters - Tina Chang "Sugar"

Landed on a tar pit's surface - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

When dusk fell, a clutch of black birds landed - Michael Hettich "The Angels"

Your chariot landed upon rough rock - Zilka Joseph "Prophet of the Rock"

( Landfall )

( Landing )

Landlocked behind the barbed wire - Sheila Maldonado "herederos de cero"

Who with his landlord stands deuce high - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

( Landmark )

Landscape.

No voice from these on any landward wind - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"

( Marshland )

( Moorland )

Queen of the fleets of No-Man's-Land - Vachel Lindsay "Dancing for a Prize"

The outland peace of the trail that never turns back - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"

Promised Land.

( Shadowland )

northward fire twists around the shrublands - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"

Our myriads swarm in the southlands warm - William Francis Barnard "The Tongues of Toil"

In the summer-land of dreams - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Upland.

Wasteland.

( Wetland )

( Wonderland )

Woodland.

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( Last )

( Lasting )

Swap you last-minute with a dream - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"

Outlast.

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( Lamp )

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

To lampless glooms descend - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

Lamplight.

Down the avenue of lamp-posts - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Lampposts and cracked teeth - francine j. harris "to the man on the bus"

A lamp-post race could beat me round the block - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

A lampshade exhausted by light - John James "Catalogue Beginning with a Line by Plato"

You were every streetlamp that winter - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"

The thin cycle of streetlamps on pavement - Russell Brakefield "This Is America and We Are Boys"

The drifts covered the streetlamps - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "A Story for Winter"

Every one of the unconcerned streetlamps - Adrian Matejka "Mural with HUD Housing & School Bus (1980)"

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( Labor/Labour )

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( Landscape )

Made of illicit skyscapes - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"

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( Labyrinth )

Tangled beneath the labyrinthine boughs - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"

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( Lapse )

A worse relapse and heavier fall - John Milton "Paradise Lost"

The sudden rise and slow relapse - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"

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( Lace )

Beaches foam-laced with rainbowing suntan oil - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

That optimum interlace of energy - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

Where agony's bows interlace - Don Marquis "This Earth, It Is Also a Star"

Lace-cut flame green filament - Dorothea Tanning "Sequestrienne"

Through shoelace and nuclear waste - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"

The gold, unlaced, dew-drunken daffodils - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"

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( Ladder )

Like the Dream-ladder Jacob slept by - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

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( Laden )

Only to return moondrunk, bramble-laden - Taylor Johnson "Nocturne"

Beauty's comfort-laden breath - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 12"

The alms of our deep-laden bough - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"

In her diamond-laden bridal veil - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Sleigh-Ride"

From the dream-laden moon - Joyce Kilmer "Prayer to Bragi"

Soothing her love-laden soul - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"

Overladen with the honey of summer - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"

Grapes of the heaven's star-loaden vine - Francis Thompson "The Dread of Height"

You unlade your riches unto death - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"

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( Lance )

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( Lattice )

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( Laugh )

Laughter.

The riot-laugh of victor kings and trickster princes - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"

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( Latitude )

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( Lark )

Skylark.

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( Lamb )

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( Law )

All law-born years - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"

Imagination's lawless rage - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book II"

In the lawlessness of sleep - Stephen Dunn "I Caught Myself Thinking the Horizon"

The rivers wend a lawless course - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Crow's Nest Pass"

The law gone intense with lawlessness - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"

By the daydream of lawless rush hour - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"

Outlaw.

Computations astronomical, algorithm and star-law - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"

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( Lane )

( Languish )

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Sealed by terminology's lacquer - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"

Teetering on red-lacquered stems - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Peach and plum in lacquered dyes - Edmund Gosse "A Dream of November"

Springing bridges of crimson lacquer - Amy Lowell "Red Slippers"

Crosshatched with a lacquer frieze of ink - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"

Along the ledges of sun-lacquered hours - Leonora Speyer "King's Garden"

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( Lamplight )

A lamplit bridge touching the troubled sky - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"

Lamp.

Light.

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( Lay )

( Laid )

Like sapphires that have lain in hell - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

Broken images of patterns laid-up in heaven - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"

Mislaid all the best of you into us - Oliver de la Paz "Diaspora Sonnet Imagining My Father's Uncertainty and Nothing Else"

An unbroken overlay of dust motes - Mary Jo Bang "A Man Mentioned in an Essay"

Walled and overlaid with dazzling crystal - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

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( Late )

( Later )

( Latest )

Our language in the lateness - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

Unholy trinity of suburban late-night salvation - Aaron Tyler Hand "Self-Portrait as Combinations Taco Bell/Pizza Hut/KFC"

Last year's late-ripening persimmons - Jane Hirshfield "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me"

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( Lady )

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Accomplices that come befriending languid hours - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"

Languid as the yellow mist - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"

No movement save the languid beckoning of the trees - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Follow Up"

A languid crown of the sea's flowers - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Languid petals shimmering - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Roses"

To charm the languid evening hours - Bayard Taylor "The Odalisque" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

The bay in its ruined languor - Adrienne Rich "For an Anniversary"

The languor of a thousand springs - Lola Ridge "Ward X"

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Souvenirs from jet lag and weeping - Marianne Chan "Viewing Service"

The toll that follows from the lagging bell - Thomas Hardy "Drawing Details in an Old Church"

The bees lag at the summoning brass - Leigh Hunt "The Grasshopper and the Cricket"

So through the lagging centuries - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

Until my lagging heart is dust - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "When as a Lad"

A lagging line of babbling curs - William Somerville "The Chase"

The trailing hem of laggard Spring - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"

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Burn the black water of night's lagoons - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

Otters swam in the lagoon - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

Sharks patrolling the lagoons - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"

In the reeds of a steel lagoon - John Masefield "The Wild Duck"

Big lagoons where wildfowl play - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Travelling Post Office"

Sad lagoons to bathe the icy stars - Magda Portal "Film Vermouth: Six O'Clock Show" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver

Our dank lagoon-cradle of all art - David St. John "Venetian Farewells"

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Imagination caught in the door latch - Mary Jo Bang "Heartbreaking"

Until the latch at the end of the day - Mary Jo Bang "A Man Mentioned in an Essay"

The tombs time left unlatched - Nathalia Crane "The Dinosaur's Eggs"

Latched in the sear of a hurricane - Yona Harvey "Hurricane"

My hand still lingers on the latch - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"

Unlocked all brass latches to the night - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

By garden gate and unlatched door - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]

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Iron pin and emerald larch - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

A gathering of larch trees - Chris Dombrowski "The Turn"

The larch-tree gives them needles - Rose Fyleman "Trees and Fairies"

Juice that from the larch-tree comes - Ben Jonson "The Witches Song"

The holy patience of the larch - Pablo Neruda "The Human Condition" transl. by Alastair Reid

Within the larches trembling glade - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Brother Filippo"

Flitted between larches in the lean twilights - Lola Ridge "Adelaide Crapsey"

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Be less lavish with her kisses rare - Ellen Tracy Alden "Neighbor Edith"

Through the lavish tangerine of dawn - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"

Most lavish and most coy - George Crabbe "Parish Register: Part I. Baptisms"

On a couch of lavish roses - Thomas Hood "To Goldenhair"

Full lavish of its lustre unrepressed - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Idlers"

Male poets of the lavishly grotesque - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

In silent prophecy of lavish yield - Robert J.C. Stead "The Plow"

Lavishes money as water - Robert J.C. Stead "The Prairie"

The lavish miracles of earth - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

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Canonic laser algebra - Atom Atkinson "closet with the letter 'd' on either end"

laser dots through another chalk outline - Samiya Bashir "Field Theories"

Birch crisscrossed by laser blasts - Dan Chiasson "Bloom (II)"

As a laser reads his tone - Joshua Weiner "Art Pepper"

With the laser knife of time - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #18" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

Replaced by lasercut urns and polished stones - Sandra J. Lindow "Tombstone Tapestries"

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( Lawn )

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( Launch )

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Lazy paws of light claw idly up and down - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"

The dip of a lazy oar - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Down the Songo"

Beyond that length of lazy street - Salomon de la Selva "Tropical Town"

The current of a lazy-flowing dream - James Whitcomb Riley "Das Krist Kindel"

Lazy yellow ardours - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"

The lazy bear of wild thought - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #10" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

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( Large )

Enlarge.

The chestnut tree admires her large-leaved shadow - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"

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( Lack )

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( Lake )

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( Lash )

Unlash your evening eyes of pious grey - James Stephens "The Cherry Tree"

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