Feb. 1st, 2011

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When my sleeve caught fire - Idra Novey "Nearly"

Beyond the turn to the forest - Idra Novey "Nearly"

After the forest turned to ashes - Idra Novey "Nearly"

As the dolphin swam the derelict canal - Idra Novey "Nearly"

What another mind may scrape against - Idra Novey "Translator's Confession, 3 a.m."

Knotting lengths of licorice - Idra Novey "Value City"

Traveling the planet under racks of final sales - Idra Novey "Value City"

Our travels to nowhere - Idra Novey "Value City"

My failure to recall these conjured trips - Idra Novey "Value City"

What keeps the temple of imagination burning - Idra Novey "Value City"

Bowling by chance in adjacent lanes - Idra Novey "Value City"

Into the open jaws of our separate lanes - Idra Novey "Value City"

Continued through forty years of deer season - Idra Novey "Value City"

For all that goes blank in a lifetime - Idra Novey "Value City"


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A dream full of swallows' wings - Sarah Noble-Ives "Barn-Door Inn"

Full of voices strange and sweet - Sarah Noble-Ives "Beginnings"

Mad out of rainbows and gold - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Butterfly"

The bars at the entrance to Fairy Land - Sarah Noble-Ives "By Coach"

Showed a sun within its heart - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Dragon-fly"

Lives on the sweet the iris gives - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Dragon-fly"

Crawling worm and robber bee - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Dragon-fly"

Dark had not unwrapped the skies - Sarah Noble-Ives "An Early Start"

And silver mist before me lay - Sarah Noble-Ives "An Early Start"

The Sun was sleeping in the grass - Sarah Noble-Ives "An Early Start"

The blossoms laughed and spoke to me - Sarah Noble-Ives "An Early Start"

Never veered from the path where he meant to go - Sarah Noble-Ives "Horse-Back"

When she has travelled too far for me - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Merchant Ship"

Across the sea on your silver wake - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Moon"

The breeze that blows from the Milky Way - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Moon"

An ocean wide we must cross to-day - Sarah Noble-Ives "An Ocean Voyage"

Fresh from the dawn of life - Sarah Noble-Ives "On the Shining Way"

Where the sunrise stores its beams - Sarah Noble-Ives "On the Shining Way"

From the shore of the Sea of Dreams - Sarah Noble-Ives "On the Shining Way"

That nothing but dreams comes true - Sarah Noble-Ives "On the Shining Way"

And only once is the journey made - Sarah Noble-Ives "On the Shining Way"

Storm-clouds and thunder and dark rainy weather - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Rainbow"

Over our heads there were millions of stars - Sarah Noble-Ives "Thro' Fairyland"

Each one was a lamp for a fairy to hold - Sarah Noble-Ives "Thro' Fairyland"


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When the moon-led waters flow - Henry Newbolt "Cities Drowned"

If one may settle the score for five - Henry Newbolt "He Fell Among Thieves"

Where the Trades and the tides roll over him - Henry Newbolt "Messmates"

Alone with green seas rocking him - Henry Newbolt "Messmates"

While the months and the years roll over him - Henry Newbolt "Messmates"

The softly swirling undersong - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"

That rocks thy reeds the winter long - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"

Through the green deeps of leafy spring - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"

That matched the song of stream and bird - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"

In the world that is my soul - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"

Old love shall dwell with old delight - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"

For the sake of a ribboned coat - Henry Newbolt "Vitai Lampada"


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Cutting every gold thing I find - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"

Dead things left by living things - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"

At once Baroque and Paleolithic - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"

Fractured into maps and spells - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"

Circles the swells until subsumed by salt - Caroline Harper New "The Bathtub"

I have nightmares every time I fall in love - Caroline Harper New "The Bioluminescent Bays of Vieques"

Safe enough to confront the darkness - Caroline Harper New "The Bioluminescent Bays of Vieques"

Hard to regret beauty and easy to lie - Caroline Harper New "The Bioluminescent Bays of Vieques"

That would otherwise be timeless - Caroline Harper New "Driving Through Dunedin"

Requires turpentine stillness - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

The forest falling in ribbons through the windows - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

Knowing it didn't deserve an afterlife - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

Its rusted ribs were stolen from the junkyard - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

Fluorescent heads aimed inward - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

Every inch of what could burn - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

As the night mutes every color - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

No turpentine to cleanse or burn - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

As my blue love reaches for what's left - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

Flashlight prying through the night swamps - Caroline Harper New "The Elephant Mother"

Nettles seizing at her calves - Caroline Harper New "The Elephant Mother"

Only wanted to set something free - Caroline Harper New "The Elephant Mother"

Circling the fence in the overgrown dark - Caroline Harper New "The Elephant Mother"

I speak too much of apocalypse - Caroline Harper New "Elk Lake"

Sharpest dangled by the roots - Caroline Harper New "Etymology of Chlorophyll"

Without returning any kind of sun - Caroline Harper New "Etymology of Chlorophyll"

In the language of philodendrons - Caroline Harper New "Etymology of Chlorophyll"

Intimately designed for a future - Caroline Harper New "Etymology of Chlorophyll"

How to make a house of our ruin - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Cape San Blas"

A hurricane, too, can make a house - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Cape San Blas"

Control is a delicate science - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Hydrangeas"

Required a fantastic collision of moons - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Hypothetical Moons"

Our fingertips shone orange from grasping - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Hypothetical Moons"

That once cupped an ocean in its peak - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Juniper"

Pushing octopus and urchin toward the sun - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Juniper"

Who felt the moon lose her grip on the tides - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Juniper"

Whose own gravity consumes them - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Juniper"

When Adam pointed at the storms - Caroline Harper New "Garden of Eve"

And go back to the time before blame - Caroline Harper New "Garden of Eve"

And the hyacinth sips the sun black - Caroline Harper New "If We Move Back In Together"

Languished by a lack of oxygen - Caroline Harper New "If We Move Back In Together"

And the sea crows sunk with oil - Caroline Harper New "If We Stage The Wizard of Oz with Alligators"

Our own small sins grown in the dark - Caroline Harper New "Interview with a Cervidologist"

Homocide begins with the heartbeat - Caroline Harper New "Interview with a Cervidologist"

Believed in the gods I am searching for - Caroline Harper New "The Loon's Solid Bones Help Her Sink"

What dissolves time more absolutely than love? - Caroline Harper New "The Loon's Solid Bones Help Her Sink"

Will outlive the rings of Saturn - Caroline Harper New "The Loon's Solid Bones Help Her Sink"

Already more ancient than the moons - Caroline Harper New "The Loon's Solid Bones Help Her Sink"

The moons that shattered in its orbit - Caroline Harper New "The Loon's Solid Bones Help Her Sink"

The pink ancestors of our oleanders - Caroline Harper New "Management of the Living"

Aimed litanies at an empty sky - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"

Until their hearts were locked in place - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"

The gods sculpted from that accident - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"

And skin the feathers from that wound - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"

Each body could contain hundreds - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

Beneath all its soft battles and sinews - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

Praised for the silence between his notes - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

Could break their ceramic silence - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

I don't know who to blame for the silence - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

Mozart is the only one who understands - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

When his quill strikes the words - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

A name you can only give too late - Caroline Harper New "The Sargassum Fish"

Far beyond the breakpoint - Caroline Harper New "The Sargassum Fish"

Life pulled from impossible hollows - Caroline Harper New "Searching for Amelia [In adapting to her watery home]"

Devoted to melding the scraps into toys - Caroline Harper New "Searching for Amelia [My grandpa was loyal]"

In the arms of her favorite fig tree - Caroline Harper New "Searching for Amelia [My grandpa was loyal]"

Buried each gift in small boxes along the beach - Caroline Harper New "Searching for Amelia [My grandpa was loyal]"

Discover our common love of bones - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"

No reason to wish ourselves extinct - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"

Chased shadows in frantic, endless circles - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"

Defined as beyond scientific understanding - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"

No reason to doubt witchcraft - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"

Practiced to resist the jerk of drowning - Caroline Harper New "The Women of Weeki Wachee"


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Undergoing her own kind of catharsis - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"

Festered bones under the yet unexploded sun - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"

Had almost lost my faith in the ground - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"

Listened for the early arrival of blackbirds - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"

The frogs came in their tide in late July - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"

Who'd know what would emerge from the unintended? - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"


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And false the fairest fair may be - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

Again the wondrous power to snare - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

From fickle fair to bid adieu - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

Charms the heart may ever rue - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

May drift a wreck ere dawn of day - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

Beware that luring beacon's ray - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

With faithful heart all faithless play - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

More to be prized than wealth untold - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]

But is there soul behind that face - John Napier "Who Knows?"

And should life's sky be overcast - John Napier "Who Knows?"

Should fortune frown and false friends flee - John Napier "Who Knows?"

As fickle as the wind that blows, and veers - John Napier "Who Knows?"

Trifling with all who own her sway - John Napier "Who Knows?"

But why a prey to doubt remain? - John Napier "Who Knows?"

Why halt 'twixt hope and fear? - John Napier "Who Knows?"


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What water says as it plummets - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"

The nine lives of pathological compulsion - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"

An oath against the roman calendar - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"

To step on what wants me drowned - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"

The hinges of the doors of the sea - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"


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In the absence of those eyes - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Weave a dream of self - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Now alien beyond my borderland - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Brimmed with salt-spiked tears - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Into the channels of your eyes - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Solidifies what once was vapor - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Songs of dark, infinite eyes - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Lost in my love's absence - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Touch the pulse of my lonely heart - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Search in vain for love's lost tokens - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Death's secrets in one heart - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Blaze the face of my heart's fire - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (4)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Touch the air with fire - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (4)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Envelop in fire the tapering cypress - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (4)" transl. by Dennis Daly

The long bow of my timid soul - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (5)" transl. by Dennis Daly

From heartless empty fate - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (7)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Ruin and fallen parapets predict my fate - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (7)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Her promises rule this night - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (8)" transl. by Dennis Daly

The onward etch of road - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (8)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Don a flower crown for the sacrifice - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (11)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Planted in it the seeds of heaven - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (11)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Taught me beauty's lessons - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (11)" transl. by Dennis Daly

From passion's impregnable pearl - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (12)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Venus' soft voice imparting its joy - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (13)" transl. by Dennis Daly


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Mist from clouded brows I'll clear - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "Dream" transl. by John Pollen

And dreary dreams from heavy eyes - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "Dream" transl. by John Pollen

Bitter, unreasoning, sarcastic jeers - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "A Sick Man's Jealousy" transl. by John Pollen

Distracted by my jealousy - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "A Sick Man's Jealousy" transl. by John Pollen

Fresher than spring's blossoms be - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "A Sick Man's Jealousy" transl. by John Pollen

The embraces of another flame - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "A Sick Man's Jealousy" transl. by John Pollen

That which Fate in me began - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "A Sick Man's Jealousy" transl. by John Pollen


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Riding her horses of need - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

Breaking them, one by one - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

The horse of loneliness, the horse of panic - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

The horse of the wallpaper powdered with roses - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

The horse of weeping in the charming vestibule - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

The horse of the park's green geometry - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

The mushroom's black underpleats - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

The horse of the prickly thin storm - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

The horse of her will like a planet - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

Distantly tethered to the bestial earth - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

As my grandfather misrepresented it to me - Amy Newman "Untitled [20 November]"

The evening's disappointments by increments - Amy Newman "Untitled [20 November]"


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The cold surge beneath the gull - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath II. Alone"

Flung toward heaven's toppling rage - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath III. Thanksgiving"

No trust in borrowed spars - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath III. Thanksgiving"

Whose night brings no guiding star - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath V. Shut of Night"

Ended this bitter journey - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VI. The Full Heart"

Emerald with their presences - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VII. Sonnet: Our Dead"

The flaw and turmoil of the lower deep - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VII. Sonnet: Our Dead"

In every rainbow's glittering drop - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VII. Sonnet: Our Dead"

I accept the smoke because I accept the flame - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VIII. Deliverance"

Plunge suddenly into Vortex - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Approach I. In the Grass: Halt by Roadside"

The quiet shakes at the vengeful voice - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Approach I. In the Grass: Halt by Roadside"

A fly traversing a cliff of stone - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: Battle III. Comrades: An Episode"

The linked and flickering constellations - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: Battle IV. Behind the Lines: Night, France"

Dazzles the overflowing cup - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: Battle VII. Battery Moving up to a New Position from Rest Camp: Dawn"

While joy and awe are breath - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: Battle X. The Last Morning"

The soldier's cup of anguish, blood, and gall - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Dead II. Boy"

Strength of unrusted will - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Dead III. Plaint of Friendship by Death Broken"

Soothed by the charity of the deep sea rain - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: Farewell to Place of Comfort"

In tossing leagues of light - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons I. To--"

That drank its age's fuel in an hour - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons II. The Past"

Spirit spent by sterile tears - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons III. The Reckoning"

Her ghost to wed and to be paid - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons III. The Reckoning"

Plays his role to the last whispered word - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"

As one who goes to try a Mystery - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"

Out of my stony heart has struck a tear - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"

Soothed by the charity of the deep sea rain - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"

Upward swept by tongues of fire - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

The mist beyond the precipice - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Dionysos in headlong mood - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Under the dazed and distant sky - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Eddying up over the precipice - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Till even flushed Silenus wakes - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Where Pan reclining plays - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

The swift uproar of avalanche - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Dryads from the leafless oak or budded elder - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

To drink in all thy bold descant - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Whom Fates deny answer - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

From such tall eyries to the sea - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

The thunder of the Centaur's hooves - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Places his lonely altars on them - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Never sped the midnight deer - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Cowslips prank its holy mound - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Honey that the brown bees brew - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Flutter all in throngs and mazes - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

By their sudden echoes flying - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

The first flux of tidal sleep - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

A comet's loveliness shaken across the midnight sky - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Whose walls are glass, whose gates are gold - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Dazzle between the sun and shower - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Kings six cubits high with gryphon's wings - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

The silver fumes of sacrifice - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Though a new Helen bring new scars - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

So dares affront the great god Pan - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Such as my shrouded soul affords - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

The green silence of the branching limes - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Distil their soundless syrup - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

The starry bracket of their lips - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Dust cries to the unregarding dust - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

To climb the curve of arid sky - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

And quench thy salty thirst anew - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Mirth and maenad Folly - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

A flame chafes in our blood - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Hear the Oread's laughter pealing - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Shiver as the poplar's leaves - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

A multitude of restless Fears - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Under the first urge of the wind - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Proud-eyed Apollo's bow is broken - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

And throned Zeus nods - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

All Gods are haunted - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

As a hound behind fled sheep - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Shall outlive the funeral - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

From the Sibyl of the End - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Of Destiny walking in disguise - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

And all the echoes answer her - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

On an alien ocean's verge - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Sweeter than Euphrosyne's tongue - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

The sweet siren of the woods - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Venus in the pomegranate grove - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Bodies enraptured by the abounding earth - Robert Nichols "Fulfilment"

Many another whose heart holds no light - Robert Nichols "The Full Heart"

Joy in storms and flying suns - Robert Nichols "The Man of Honour"

Quicker ruin's instrument - Robert Nichols "The Man of Honour"

Fall's white glare and drumming zest - Robert Nichols "The Man of Honour"

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

With the beauty born of desolation - Robert Nichols "Polyphemus His Passion: A Pastoral"

His heart is shipwrecked now - Robert Nichols "Polyphemus His Passion: A Pastoral"

Muffled wind among the crags - Robert Nichols "Polyphemus His Passion: A Pastoral"

New gathered at the price of pain - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"

So the lime incense blew into her life - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"

With what ageless charge of sorrow and deep joy - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"

The uproar of whose toil filled your green vaults - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"

Supremely happy in her ignorance of Time - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"

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

In the serene trance of a summer night - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"

Asleep within the deadest hour of night - Robert Nichols "To ---"

When the sun arises from his lair - Robert Nichols "To ---"

Whose voice would mock me in the mourning bell - Robert Nichols "To ---"

Whose face would greet me in hell's fiery way - Robert Nichols "To ---"

A fountain in an ocean of tears - Robert Nichols "The Tower"


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Ghost in sheet risen at midnight bell - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

All foes without the line - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

To solve the doubt, watchword and countersign - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

Memory lies dreaming there - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

In a fiendish rout demons at revelry - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

Old visions unheeded dance - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

Fools, into Satan's clutch leaping - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]


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And I a butterfly with gaudy wings - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]

Careless of aught save that which pleasure brings - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]

Flying through whirling foam beneath the gale - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]

Chartless in all that wild immensity - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]

Through howling storm or crashing thunder-roll - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]

Unwitting of celestial worlds afar - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]

Knowing naught of all the shining train - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]

Though blazing suns and planets rolled between - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]

My streamlet of sweet thoughts in endless store - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]

To guide my steps to perfect day - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]

My hope in earth's dark dungeon - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]


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That might the future have revealed - Florence Nixon "An Old, Old Story" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.12-v.I, 22 March 1884]

What fate was shaping out betwixt us - Florence Nixon "An Old, Old Story" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.12-v.I, 22 March 1884]

Which my pride would fain conceal - Florence Nixon "An Old, Old Story" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.12-v.I, 22 March 1884]

Sudden thoughts across my mind were cast - Florence Nixon "An Old, Old Story" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.12-v.I, 22 March 1884]

Burning blushes that unbidden rise - Florence Nixon "An Old, Old Story" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.12-v.I, 22 March 1884]


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I make a ghost of everything - Angel Nafis "Angel's Heart Clowns the Ocean"

I'm all archive and pulse - Angel Nafis "Angel's Heart Clowns the Ocean"

Every morsel with nerve enough to be - Angel Nafis "Angel's Heart Clowns the Ocean"

Death and prism in my open fist - Angel Nafis "Directions to Finding You, or Maybe Just an Inferior Prayer"

Even the wind wondered - Angel Nafis "How Each Sister Handles the Apocalypse"

Spinned from night and knuckle - Angel Nafis "I Know I'm Pretty Cuz the Boys Tell Me So"

Trace the cadence of that blue smudge - Angel Nafis "I Know I'm Pretty Cuz the Boys Tell Me So"

Hide in my jaw disguised as a song - Angel Nafis "I Know I'm Pretty Cuz the Boys Tell Me So"

Cuts her own self from the clay - Angel Nafis "King of Kreations"

Slide the lipstick on slow - Angel Nafis "King of Kreations"

Whatever road the gravel makes - Angel Nafis "TarBaby Fly!"

Whatever kite begs the sky - Angel Nafis "TarBaby Fly!"

A ship with sails as big as a lie - Angel Nafis "TarBaby Fly!"

Two-step with beloved ghosts - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"

Praise the purposeful silver needle - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"

For the house craves each brick - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"


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Trodden oceanic sorrow - Hoa Nguyen "Ask About Language as if it Forgets"

Wistful fated future tense - Hoa Nguyen "Ask About Language as if it Forgets"

not wanting to work with ashes - Hoa Nguyen "Autumn Poem 2012"

woke up in the overlooked dark - Hoa Nguyen "Autumn Poem 2012"

Clear the eyes with chrysanthemum - Hoa Nguyen "Can't Write White and Asian"

Beat the drums of spring - Hoa Nguyen "Crow Pheasant"

Into a graffiti of surrender - Hoa Nguyen "Crow Pheasant"

Grow old bones to eat pain - Hoa Nguyen "Crow Pheasant"

The past tense of sing is not singed - Hoa Nguyen "Diep Before Completion"

Homeless ancestors - Hoa Nguyen "Ficus Carica Sonnet"

A thirst that wanders - Hoa Nguyen "Ficus Carica Sonnet"

Spirits in the belly suddenly enlarged - Hoa Nguyen "The Flying Motorist Artist"

Riding shadows on the wall of death - Hoa Nguyen "The Flying Motorist Artist"

And find when you lose your shadow - Hoa Nguyen "Haunted Sonnet"

The morning dream with ghosts - Hoa Nguyen "Haunted Sonnet"

Violet energy ingots - Hoa Nguyen "Haunted Sonnet"

Yarrow in the dream - Hoa Nguyen "Heartlessness"

Wake with haunted features - Hoa Nguyen "Heartlessness"

Barren thorns to plunge - Hoa Nguyen "'Language Points'"

A frenzy of magenta flowers - Hoa Nguyen "'Language Points'"

Plucked entirely in harmonics - Hoa Nguyen "Learning the Dan Bau"

With umbrellas and dark pink feathers - Hoa Nguyen "Naming Assembles You"

Yellow amber gems to line it - Hoa Nguyen "Netting (Language Ghost)"

Crossed and looped a net to the wind - Hoa Nguyen "Netting (Language Ghost)"

The cartoon version of movement - Hoa Nguyen "Overseas Vietnamese"

Unanswered red garnet - Hoa Nguyen "Overseas Vietnamese"

A curse inside nautilus - Hoa Nguyen "Oxbow Lake"

When the meandering became too strong - Hoa Nguyen "Oxbow Lake"

Rooster who oracles the day - Hoa Nguyen "Red She Broke the Cup"

Drunk from the stars - Hoa Nguyen "Red She Broke the Cup"

Wanting the oracle to tell me first - Hoa Nguyen "Revenge Poem"

To expect the drowning see - Hoa Nguyen "Revenge Poem"

Build the nest on the sea - Hoa Nguyen "Revenge Poem"

The sea widens for you tonight - Hoa Nguyen "Sacred Ficus Sonnet"

Angle looks too much like angel - Hoa Nguyen "Seeds and Crumbs"

Multiple ghosts jab your throat - Hoa Nguyen "She Leads with Flower Wands"

Dashing the red gourd of light - Hoa Nguyen "She Leads with Flower Wands"

Sing her story beyond time - Hoa Nguyen "Sings the Wishing Well (the Ghost Well Cared For)"

Eyes closed in the glancing - Hoa Nguyen "Swell"

Insects nudge me in my dreams - Hoa Nguyen "Swell"

The fake lights confuse us - Hoa Nguyen "Swell"

Just open the door to the sun - Hoa Nguyen "Swell"

Frayed rage and mint - Hoa Nguyen "Viewed from 2020"

The running blue shock of her - Hoa Nguyen "We Run on Trash Grass"


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The token of this faltering breath - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Dire summons at my door - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

The storm of that bewilderment - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Masterful negation and collapse - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Silence pours a solitariness - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

By mutual pressure witness - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Rushing on the wings of light - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Those cycles all but infinite - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

The thrones which angels lost - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Flower running to poisonous seed - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

The Seraph in his height of place - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

No temptation can intoxicate - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Standard of his own chronology - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

At this balance of my destiny - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

To cast his jibes and scoffs - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

A traitor nestling close at home - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Of thy senses kept the keys - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Meets the demons on their raid - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

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

And swathed around in dreams - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

And of refreshment after fire - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Fire without its light - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

For them no twilight or eclipse - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

By blandishment of Eve - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

In the truth of everlasting day - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Revolves upon its ready hinge - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Since haughty Babel's prime - John Henry Newman "England"

Mad counsels in its hour - John Henry Newman "England"

Tongues and weapons of His power - John Henry Newman "The Greek Fathers"

Soul of zeal and lips of flame - John Henry Newman "The Greek Fathers"

First prey of Satan's rage - John Henry Newman "James and John"

Amid the encircling gloom - John Henry (Cardinal) Newman "Lead Kindly Light"

Pride ruled my will - John Henry (Cardinal) Newman "Lead Kindly Light"

Remember not past years - John Henry (Cardinal) Newman "Lead Kindly Light"

The Fathers are in dust - John Henry Newman "Relics of Saints"

With reverence to esteem - John Henry Newman "Relics of Saints"

For their brief hour unbound - John Henry Newman "The Sign of the Cross"


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Journeying to the root of her tears - Grace Nichols "At Stockwell Tube"

Raising a carnival of butterflying kites - Grace Nichols "Atlantic"

Churning up an army of wild horses - Grace Nichols "Atlantic"

The ships that bruised your memory - Grace Nichols "Atlantic"

Primed with promises of sweet rewards - Grace Nichols "Battle"

The long haul of the siren's music - Grace Nichols "Battle"

Pushed death back into the cupboard - Grace Nichols "Battle"

Where the blackberries belong to no one - Grace Nichols "Blackberrying Black Woman"

Gathering in avid compulsion - Grace Nichols "Blackberrying Black Woman"

On the branches of my memory - Grace Nichols "Bourda"

The grail of your footsteps - Grace Nichols "A Chant for Mater"

Transform the breathing alchemy of myth - Grace Nichols "Eldorado"

The twin seasons of rioting sun and rain - Grace Nichols "From the Balcony of Eldorado"

In the silent blooming of memory - Grace Nichols "Georgetown"

Hibiscuses ringing me through - Grace Nichols "Georgetown"

Pointing toward some distant Troy - Grace Nichols "Helen of the Gables"

To meet the ghost of my childhood - Grace Nichols "If I Were to Meet"

The silent scales of their music - Grace Nichols "If I Were to Meet"

Umbrellas against the searing glory - Grace Nichols "In the Fleeting Now"

Breaking the bread of our deepest words - Grace Nichols "In the Fleeting Now"

Your hybrid heart at home - Grace Nichols "In the Shade of a London Plane Tree"

In their green and breathing tolerance - Grace Nichols "In the Shade of a London Plane Tree"

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

A smile to console the snow - Grace Nichols "Kittitian Girl"

As you scaled duty's rungs - Grace Nichols "Kittitian Girl"

Pitching their absence across the sky - Grace Nichols "Lewes Night Out"

The town where history sleeps - Grace Nichols "Lewes Night Out"

Under the sun's burning treasury - Grace Nichols "Like an Heiress"

A litany that still haunts the tongue - Grace Nichols "Litany"

My muddy muse in Atlantic gown - Grace Nichols "Litany"

A hammock of memories swinging - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"

The flowing symphony of sun and rain - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"

The bribery of coffee poured from flasks - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"

My own bouts of pan-pipe sickness - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"

Hypnosis of flute and drum - Grace Nichols "Masquerade"

The steps of an ancient ritual - Grace Nichols "Masquerade"

The hot coins of my mother's silver - Grace Nichols "Masquerade"

Descend over the flaking balustrades - Grace Nichols "Nuptial on Brighton Beach"

A marriage of balance and taste - Grace Nichols "O Tea"

A small chandelier fostering a golden air - Grace Nichols "Ode to a Daffodil"

An ambassador of the sun - Grace Nichols "Ode to a Daffodil"

A fiery phoenix conjured by us - Grace Nichols "Ole Higue"

That calabash is pledged to silence - Grace Nichols "Ole Higue"

The crystal memory shared with a river - Grace Nichols "Picture My Father"

Kerosene invades the air - Grace Nichols "Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November"

In their arms of gravity - Grace Nichols "Reunion"

Your paintings carry the genes of rivers - Grace Nichols "Rivers"

The gift of colour's mystic form - Grace Nichols "Rivers"

Warm me with the flame of his breast - Grace Nichols "Robin Redbreast"

Against the stars and scars of a city - Grace Nichols "A Sacrament of Words"

The shining governments of the damned - Grace Nichols "A Sacrament of Words"

Drinking from an anguished chalice - Grace Nichols "A Sacrament of Words"

Her mantling spell of silver - Grace Nichols "The Shilling and the Princess"

Just a teaspoon of you - Grace Nichols "Tea with Demerara Sugar"

Whose shadow still haunts the sun - Grace Nichols "Tea with Demerara Sugar"

Whispers fermenting the night air - Grace Nichols "Tea with Demerara Sugar"

The stored magic in a seed - Grace Nichols "This Destiny"

A metaphor for endurance - Grace Nichols "This Destiny"

Out of the chrysalis of history - Grace Nichols "This Destiny"

The treasured cargo of our inheritance - Grace Nichols "To Mark Your Passing"

Trafficking vision of a phantom ship - Grace Nichols "Viewing the Thames"


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because the tree grew into a road - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

roads must constantly be fed - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

and the landlady did not wake - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

because their heritage became carbon - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

because carbon can never be innocent - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

because the birds were fed with nothingness - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

the curses cannot be washed off - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

because I called down blood rains - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

because the waters drowned our history - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

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

the spirits have refused to die by fire - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

must uproot the tree with fingernails - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"


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Sleep in threadbare night - Jaye Nasir "November"

Dreaming as gray recursion - Jaye Nasir "November"

Of dead souls hanging in the air - Jaye Nasir "November"

Of long dark hair and blasphemy - Jaye Nasir "November"

Forcing the sword back into the stone - Jaye Nasir "November"

Until it bleeds dense lunar silence - Jaye Nasir "November"

Yellow birch trees weeping leaves - Jaye Nasir "November"

Falls to earth from a storm cloud - Jaye Nasir "November"


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Tears water the curry-leaf dragon - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

Locked away from the jewels of the city - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

Coated in sauces I've never tasted - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

Filthy hands kneading dough under the cosmos - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

Bright as the sun's delicious radiance - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

Poison tended by poison that births poison - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

Perhaps our dreams have not drowned - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"


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Guided by quantum pilotage - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"

But we're nowhere near done - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"

Before it all goes up in flames - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"

Toward the greenroom of John Wilkes Booth - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"

On the condition that you never attempt revisions - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"


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A pair of painstakingly clean hands - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

Yet plans to order it done - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

His words on your face as scars - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

A gem from the deep mines of savagery - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

Whose wives all came to unhappy ends - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

A Medici through to my soul - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

A heart too soon made discontented - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

All the world kissing his glove - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

With bleaker thoughts inside - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

This curtained memorial hidden from view - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

The maw of oblivion consumes all - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

Too much wine and flattery - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"


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List the responsibilities of a needle - Susan Nguyen "The Body as a Series of Questions"

The small fire of pennies - Susan Nguyen "The Body as a Series of Questions"

At the center of your calamity - Susan Nguyen "The Body as a Series of Questions"

And showed me rivers of light - Susan Nguyen "The Body as a Series of Questions"

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

A knife dissecting the stratosphere - Susan Nguyen "The First Language"

Does memory eat the body? - Susan Nguyen "Letter to the Diaspora" p.14

Memory is the light you swallow - Susan Nguyen "Letter to the Diaspora" p.14

Taste buds adjusting to the taste of hunger - Susan Nguyen "Letter to the Diaspora" p.56

Worse than dying is disappearing - Susan Nguyen "What Suzi Believes"


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Breeze lifts voices from the night - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

The city burns to the short - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

Two dark moons or their eclipse - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

Night reaches out to night - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

Floated in a silence that whirred and pinged - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

A greeting from this other land - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

Too small for the weight of his gaze - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

A doorway between our nights - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

This one long night where we'd emerged - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"


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Those who inhabited my distant town - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"

Pulses of life that explode in an instant - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"

Fade away twinkling, flickering in the air of the times - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"

And sometimes a shadow passing by - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"

They left a trace in my days - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"

Ineffable testimonies of the love that permeates existence - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"


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My father's least favorite prophecy - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

Reviewed by five generations of scholars - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

Frowning at their crumpled scrolls - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

Who sought them out to be reassured - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

Prophecy is deceit designed to instill fear - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

To depose us by implication - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

My father takes a different angle - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

My sheer existence heralds the beginning of the end - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

Will realize that I foretell their doom - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"


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All my life I was a hammer - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"

Commit a few Thursdays to trees - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"

I am not gentle but I could be - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"

And learn the same lesson again and again - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"

All my life I swung the wrong things - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"

Circle the tree's girdling roots - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"


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The mind can draw exquisite prints - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"

The heart with its deep bright colors - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"

You will never go outside the lines - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"

We must be a student of both - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"

The mind can build itself a home - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"

But only the heart can live in it - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"

Had climbed beyond what I knew - Mark Nepo "The Clearing"

A candle lit from the great unending fire - Mark Nepo "The Clearing"

When exhausted of my thoughts - Mark Nepo "The Clearing"

The song that parts everyone's trouble - Mark Nepo "The Clearing"

Cut the engine and hoist the sails - Mark Nepo "Stopped Again by the Sea"

This unseen force that some called wind - Mark Nepo "Stopped Again by the Sea"

Left home to drift near a deeper home - Mark Nepo "Stopped Again by the Sea"

Carries us away from all that is hidden - Mark Nepo "Stopped Again by the Sea"

On pillars that nameless workers placed - Mark Nepo "Under the Temple"

The dirt that packs the plant is the beginning - Mark Nepo "Under the Temple"

The ancestors of our wings - Mark Nepo "Under the Temple"


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The old chest which crouches over secrets - Mari Ness "Gretel's Bones"

Holding flecks of ash rigid in her hands - Mari Ness "Gretel's Bones"

We know the sweetness held in lies - Mari Ness "Gretel's Bones"

Cold as the north wind's heart - Mari Ness "ICE"

The silver chill caught in our wind-woven walls - Mari Ness "ICE"

Filling a cauldron with verdant herbs - Mari Ness "The Restoration of Youth"

A young ram leapt from the copper depths - Mari Ness "The Restoration of Youth"

At a wedding overflowing with sweet wine - Mari Ness "Sisters"

Our hands filled with bread and dates - Mari Ness "Sisters"

Carrying water in containers filled with holes - Mari Ness "Sisters"

The images tremble in our shadowed minds - Mari Ness "Sisters"

The coins tremble in our bloodstained hands - Mari Ness "Sisters"

Swarming like thin crows - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Never quite willing to remain confined - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

A delicate heart beats upon the snow - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

The mirror croons an unending song - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Crows sing sadder songs in this haunted land - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

You never knew her name - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

The water you sipped seemed dry - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

The taste of thin gold shielding cold brass - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Your cold secrets wrapped in a storied veil - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Poison kept in crystal flagons - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

A bubbling witches brew of poison - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Secret places tangled in roots - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Cling to our falsehoods of warmth - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

So lovingly made with iron fire - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

The mirror crooning to a lonely crow - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

A small part of the calamity - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"

The beauty of clashing troubadours - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"

The beauty of weeping minstrels - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"

The dragon singing or just after - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"

The mood fetched by the shadow - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"

Dragons flying in a red light - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"

By the time we became birds - Mari Ness "Tongueless"

Your hands lighting the flame - Mari Ness "Tongueless"

A honeyed image is still sweet - Mari Ness "Tongueless"

Holding our wings against the wind - Mari Ness "Tongueless"

I see the shadow of his flight - Mari Ness "Tongueless"

Your song quivers in the rain - Mari Ness "Tongueless"


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Full of leftovers and moldy lemons - Robbi Nester "Rot"

Reluctant to engage with the decay - Robbi Nester "Rot"

The vivid shades of dissolution rival the desert - Robbi Nester "Rot"

Feeds on what went before - Robbi Nester "Rot"

Ancient cities stacked one atop another - Robbi Nester "Rot"

Fertile ground for everything to come - Robbi Nester "Rot"


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A sabled evening with no stars - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Chess"

White crickets and bouquets of wild carrot - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Chess"

In the endgame of her days - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Chess"

Moons of a faraway planet - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You"

Three alley cats remember - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"

A pair of empty swing sets - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"

Little ginko fans confettied on the sidewalk - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"

Showed up too late to a parade - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"

Rhubarb sings in dark gardens - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

Counts the hours until it can turn toward the sun - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

Whatever small light bees bestow on fallen leaves - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

Just before they crawl into a honey-hungry sleep - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

With throats like nipped roses - Aimee Nezhukumatahil "Hummingbird Abecedarian"

The ground speaks green - Aimee Nezhukumatahil "Hummingbird Abecedarian"

Silent in my lungs - Aimee Nezhukumatahil "Hummingbird Abecedarian"

Buoyed by salt and rind of kelp - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "I Could Be a Whale Shark"

The evening's first radiance of planets - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Naming the Heartbeats"

Shadows of moons we don't yet know - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Naming the Heartbeats"

A river we've only visited in our dreams - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Naming the Heartbeats"

Drop straight into a very electric flight - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Ode to Sitting in a Booth"

Even in a letter of wind - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "One Vote"

Salamanders use the stars to find their way - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"

Born on a day of peaches - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"

To clutch a fistful of thistle - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"

Jam jars to can this summer sky - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"

A hush of paprika and burnt honey - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Wrap"


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Had stirred oblivion's darkest springs - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "A Forest Scene"

Idle words breathed of the dead - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "[I know that thou wilt sorrow]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

When gleam the ever-sleepless stars - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "[I know that thou wilt sorrow]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

Will seek to claim the tempest of thy soul - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "[I know that thou wilt sorrow]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

A wreath of cold December's snow - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"

Flung out upon the freezing storm - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"

Woe unto that gentle heart - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"

Cold and deadly drops of fear - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"

While still this truth seemed strange - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"


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Into the knowing hands of the next person - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

As if handling a newborn sparrow - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

Close our eyes and savor the precious air - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

That exhale would be a prayer - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

If peace was something we could taste - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

If peace was something we could walk to - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

A sacred labyrinth of circles - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

Greet each other on the meditative path - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

Rejoicing in what we could not see - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

We become lost in the forgetting - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"


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The poet wrote and published under half a dozen different names per Wikipedia.


That blend in one low chorus - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

As slowly fades the day - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

At twilight hour to commune - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

All wilder thoughts at rest - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

A shadow rests on earth and sky - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

Drank so deeply at the fount of tears - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

Fevered fancies round me throng - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"


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The keeper of your anger - Maggie Nelson "After a Fight"

On this day of shattering rain - Maggie Nelson "After Talking Late with Friends and a Line by T'ao Ch'ien"

Making music for my homecoming - Maggie Nelson "After the Holidays"

The flutter of your creaseless heart - Maggie Nelson "The Beginner"

Clovers of amber and onyx - Maggie Nelson "Carnegie Hall"

Out of dashing sudden night - Maggie Nelson "Carnegie Hall"

Let weeping root me - Maggie Nelson "The Deep Blue Sea"

One darling fantasy shattered - Maggie Nelson "Eighteen Days Until Christmas"

And smells like the moon - Maggie Nelson "Eighteen Days Until Christmas"

A walking stick of silk - Maggie Nelson "For Lily on Her 25th Birthday"

Led by invisible chariots - Maggie Nelson "For Lily on Her 25th Birthday"

A collage of lost evenings - Maggie Nelson "For Lily on Her 25th Birthday"

This is memory weather - Maggie Nelson "Harbor"

The miracle the sea makes with shards of glass - Maggie Nelson "A History"

A regular murder of dirt - Maggie Nelson "Losing Heart"

Folded up like griffons - Maggie Nelson "Nap"

The drama of the included - Maggie Nelson "On Turning 27"

Reason swallowed by dolphins - Maggie Nelson "Proposal"

Dreams and demons broken with sugars - Maggie Nelson "Proposal"

Awash in a fog of deities - Maggie Nelson "Proposal"

Straight up a cliff of corn - Maggie Nelson "September 2"

Growling apples and dirt - Maggie Nelson "Shiner"

Violets trail off in an innocent wind - Maggie Nelson "Sleepy Demise of the Season"

While our toes perch in this century - Maggie Nelson "Sleepy Demise of the Season"

A crooked smile of luminous jest - Maggie Nelson "Sunday Night"

Flickering like a wolf in and out of view - Maggie Nelson "Today's Snow"

Barnacles of sunshine and vermouth - Maggie Nelson "Vallejo"

In gold whiskey and soap - Maggie Nelson "Vallejo"

Pass out on scaffolds of cotton - Maggie Nelson "Vespers"

As many hats as hearts - Maggie Nelson "Vespers"

Streets greased with whiskey - Maggie Nelson "Wish Fulfillment"

Molten and made up of moods - Maggie Nelson "The World"

Love and anger and white-gold milk - Maggie Nelson "The World"

Into the night of a thousand fates - Maggie Nelson "Zero"


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Because I dream of your future - Nancy Nishihira "The Endless Sky (Mothering)"

You reveal the stars to me - Nancy Nishihira "The Endless Sky (Mothering)"

Ignoring the truth of our fate - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"

The spark to advance our cause - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"

We live with our battle scars - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"

Your last glimpse of the setting sun - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"

Our existence crafted from the stars - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"

As I stumble on this earth - Nancy Nishihara "The Weight"

The warmth of the missing ocean - Nancy Nishihara "The Weight"


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Winter in their Heart - Vi Khi Nao "Bird Poem"

Burst into ravenous flight - Vi Khi Nao "Bird Poem"

the sun drops his knee on fog - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"

of clarity in the prayer's thought - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"

using the fog's opaque cushion - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"

his holy make-believe childhood - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"

The heart is a quiet mountain - Vi Khi Nao "How Can Something So Unmoving Move Everything Around It"

But the heart lies still - Vi Khi Nao "How Can Something So Unmoving Move Everything Around It"


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Feeding in a freezing drizzle - Howard Nemerov "Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry"

Riding a gradient invisible - Howard Nemerov "Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry"

The things sequestered from the world - Howard Nemerov "Pockets"

Keeping a kind of thieves' kitchen - Howard Nemerov "Pockets"

Sad and vagrant little coins - Howard Nemerov "Pockets"

No pocket ever sees another - Howard Nemerov "Pockets"

The square root of Everest - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"

The mean annual rainfall on Plato's Republic - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"

The calorie content of the Diet of Worms - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"


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Ashes of infinite radiance - Urayoan Noel "cinquains written during a tropical storm"

The wisdom of a planet as it burns - Urayoan Noel "cinquains written during a tropical storm"

Song of fluorocarbons and roosters - Urayoan Noel "cinquains written during a tropical storm"

The stone sternum of night - Urayoan Noel "cinquains written during a tropical storm"

That survive in the warble of birds - Urayoan Noel "cinquains written during a tropical storm"

Dinosaurs nest in digital gardens - Urayoan Noel "cinquains written during a tropical storm"

The coastline's broken voice - Urayoan Noel "No Longer Ode"

The bad seed of an idea - Urayoan Noel "No Longer Ode"

Dreams of honeycomb - Urayoan Noel "No Longer Ode"


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Rush frightened through the air - Effie Lee Newsome "At the Pool"

Builds His strength in bronze - Effie Lee Newsome "The Bronze Legacy"

Brown like thrush and lark - Effie Lee Newsome "The Bronze Legacy"

Brown has mighty things to do - Effie Lee Newsome "The Bronze Legacy"

Rank fennel and broom - Effie Lee Newsome "Exodus"

Sold for the snows - Effie Lee Newsome "Exodus"

In those weird wastes of Dixie - Effie Lee Newsome "Exodus"

Brother to the firefly - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"

As the firefly lights the night - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"

Through heavy menace and mystery - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"

Making a morning path to the light - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"

Treading toward a new morning - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"

To smile for a light to come - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"

Fresh dawning after the dews of blood - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"

Pensive light and wistful sound - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"

Deserted realms of butterfly - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"

Robins band themselves together - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"

The sound of sun-steeped weather - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"

Lands of olive and the rose - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"

O Sea, that knowest thy strength - Effie Lee Newsome "O Sea, That Knowest Thy Strength"

Kiss the sand in wanton mockery - Effie Lee Newsome "O Sea, That Knowest Thy Strength"

Or crush them in my white-fanged hands - Effie Lee Newsome "O Sea, That Knowest Thy Strength"

The tiger lily's orange fires - Effie Lee Newsome "Pansy"

Minted dust of stars - Effie Lee Newsome "Peacock Feather"

And kiss the earth farewell - Effie Lee Newsome "Sunset"


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Tiny cinders of moth wings - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Divergence"

His absence interrupted them indiscriminately - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"

Like a cage shaped exactly like his body - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"

Onto lake ice where fate met each - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"

The wind becomes a palimpsest - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"

Emerging from nowhere, on its way to nowhere - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"

The textures of the earth absorb it entirely - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"


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That echo the rasp of our lives - Margaret Noodin "Babejianjisemigad/Gradual Transformation"

Between the good earth and the great sea - Margaret Noodin "Cream City/Doodooshabo'enaande Oodena " transl. by the author

Foxes, feathers and fireflies - Margaret Noodin "Cream City/Doodooshabo'enaande Oodena " transl. by the author

Different echoes whispered - Margaret Noodin "Cream City/Doodooshabo'enaande Oodena " transl. by the author

Forging dreams big as melting stars - Margaret Noodin "Cream City/Doodooshabo'enaande Oodena " transl. by the author

Listen to the herons and the cranes - Margaret Noodin "Gidiskinaadaa Mitigwaakiing/Woodland Liberty"

The complexity of wild paths and webs woven - Margaret Noodin "Gidiskinaadaa Mitigwaakiing/Woodland Liberty"

When the dawn hides the three hunters - Margaret Noodin "Gidiskinaadaa Mitigwaakiing/Woodland Liberty"

Seven sisters of the night sky - Margaret Noodin "Gidiskinaadaa Mitigwaakiing/Woodland Liberty"

Of ones who remember - Margaret Noodin "Nimbawaadaan Akiing/I Dream a World"

Where the ashes were poured - Margaret Noodin "Ozaagi'aan One Open to an Other"


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Have no dreams of wakefulness - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

My initial continuing contradiction - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

The oldest dust of it is sweetest - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

At the end of this claustrophobic the dance - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

Who loses these names - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

In the stars of the automatic weapons - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

I am not sad for you though I could be - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

In particular sheets of thoughts - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

Eyes stony smooth shut in moonlight - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

The difference between chaos and star - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

Metaphysical betrayal - Alice Notley "Betrayal"

Turning to defiant metal - Alice Notley "Individual Time"

Cracked gold on fire - Alice Notley "Individual Time"

The ancient altar of the moment - Alice Notley "Individual Time"

The tablets of exponential seeing - Alice Notley "Individual Time"

Consciousness travels from Neptune - Alice Notley "The New Brain"

Your decibels and vehement budget - Alice Notley "The New Brain"

The goddess of the smooth doorway - Alice Notley "The New Brain"

In portrayal of carefulness - Alice Notley "No world is intact"

Answering something you couldn't say - Alice Notley "No world is intact"

As it gets dark remember - Alice Notley "The Poem"

Humans being empathic predators - Alice Notley "The Poem"

When they asked me to partake of rules - Alice Notley "The Poem"

In a commune of pretensions - Alice Notley "The Poem"

Lonely from the beginning of time - Alice Notley "Poem [St. Mark's Place caught at night...]"

As if the bricks and concrete were enough - Alice Notley "Poem [St. Mark's Place caught at night...]"

This donkey with a charmed voice - Alice Notley "Poem [You hear that heroic big land music?]"

Saw everything through a heightened tear - Alice Notley "Poem [Why do I want to tell it]"

The wind calculating your lesson - Alice Notley "The Wind"

A litter of chewed knucklebones - Alice Notley "Woman in Front of Poster of Herself"

Is it all alphabet and abacus - Alice Notley "Woman in Front of Poster of Herself"

Had to grow the dice of accounting - Alice Notley "Woman in Front of Poster of Herself"

Being fragile I hallucinate you best - Alice Notley "Woman in Front of Poster of Herself"

Be released from a silver skeleton - Alice Notley "World's Bliss"

Primroses grown crazy with sorrow - Alice Notley "World's Bliss"


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Pluck clean the vine - Bruce Nugent "Cavalier"

Prepare the feast and pearl the wine - Bruce Nugent "Cavalier"

But midnight fades to dawn - Bruce Nugent "My Love"

Silhouette on the face of the moon - Bruce Nugent "Shadow"

A shadow in the light - Bruce Nugent "Shadow"


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Jasmine garlands to adorn her bed - Sarojini Naidu "Dirge"

Put by the mirror of her bridal days - Sarojini Naidu "Dirge"

The moonless vigils of her lonely night - Sarojini Naidu "Dirge"

Memory's tears are cold upon thy face - Sarojini Naidu "Imperial Delhi"

Unbroken symbol of proud histories - Sarojini Naidu "Imperial Delhi"

Unageing priestess of old mysteries - Sarojini Naidu "Imperial Delhi"

Before whose shrine the spells of Death are vain - Sarojini Naidu "Imperial Delhi"

Grind them in mortars of amber and gold - Sarojini Naidu "In Praise of Henna"

Under a sunset sky of dreams diaphanous - Sarojini Naidu "June Sunset"

Fragrant and fresh delights unfold - Sarojini Naidu "June Sunset"

Under a sunset sky of dreams - Sarojini Naidu "June Sunset"

The glint and whirl of swift wild wings - Sarojini Naidu "June Sunset"

Hide from the magic of my flute-call - Sarojini Naidu "The Snake-Charmer"

Moonlight-tangled meshes of perfume - Sarojini Naidu "The Snake-Charmer"

Guard the squirrel's slumber - Sarojini Naidu "The Snake-Charmer"

The honey-birds pipe to the budding figs - Sarojini Naidu "Spring"

Kingfishers ruffle the feathery sedge - Sarojini Naidu "Spring"


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The forsaken outback of the world - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

The dead who teach us how to count - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

Funneled through algorithms - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

Where numbers cancel out names - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

When spaces hold secrets - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

Sentinels of forgotten hope - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

Play cards at the devil's table - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

Renounce the silence and reclaim a voice - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

A life measured by sighs - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

The broken halves of a milky sun - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

Space between shelter and rejection - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

The decaying roots of a fallen empire - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"


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Taste the bitter juice of roses - tiana nobile "Harlow's Monkey"

The fresh liquor of unchained thought - tiana nobile "Harlow's Monkey"

In circles around this reversal - tiana nobile "Moon Yeong Shin"

When your veins are full of haunting - tiana nobile "Moon Yeong Shin"

Forests of wind storms newly risen - tiana nobile "Moon Yeong Shin"

A fist of grindstone petals - tiana nobile "Petals"


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In the cold and the outer night - E. Nesbit "Accession"

To guard the hidden heart of prayer - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"

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

On silver feet to climb the starry stairs - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"

Of heavenly bread the accepted leaven - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"

Purged of the vain alloys of idleness - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"

Its hidden thorns discover - E. Nesbit "Chagrin d'Amour"

A flower your winter gardens hold - E. Nesbit "Death"

She worked the bitter charm - E. Nesbit "Death"

Starve our hearts on clay - E. Nesbit "Death"

Full false has played - E. Nesbit "La Derniere Robe de Soi"

To be the stars of Paradise - E. Nesbit "En Tout Cas"

Your lips to be the seal of all - E. Nesbit "En Tout Cas"

To mock the evil years - E. Nesbit "En Tout Cas"

And barb their stings with memory - E. Nesbit "In Memory of Saretta Deakin"

And bid them rest safe-anchored - E. Nesbit "The Island"

Swim again in a sea of doubt - E. Nesbit "The Island"

Last bright relic of the moon's full gold - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"

Burns on the swiftly flowing river's breast - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"

In the twilight's arms the day lies dead - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"

If such an hour goes by with all the rest - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"

Goddess of the shining shrine - E. Nesbit "The Least Possible"

Love has to earn his bread - E. Nesbit "Love and Life"

Lifelong stress and toil of tears - E. Nesbit "Love and Life"

Light the tulip lanterns - E. Nesbit "The Maiden's Prayer"

The keen wind robs the flowers - E. Nesbit "March Violets"

Our hearts would break to prove - E. Nesbit "March Violets"

Right to the heart of violets goes - E. Nesbit "March Violets"

Wooed by the wind's soft word - E. Nesbit "Mummy Wheat"

All the centuries of hope deferred - E. Nesbit "Mummy Wheat"

Blasted with ice and fire - E. Nesbit "The Old Dispensation"

Where caged winds slumber - E. Nesbit "Out of the Fulness of the Heart the Mouth Speaketh"

To lure them to the snare - E. Nesbit "The Poet to His Love"

The wide sky guards their flight - E. Nesbit "The Poet to His Love"

When sorrow gathers memories in a sheaf - E. Nesbit "A Prayer for the King's Majesty"

All after hastens to the noon - E. Nesbit "Resurgam"

Candles may serve, if there should be no day - E. Nesbit "Retro Sathanas"

And only dust lay in the cup - E. Nesbit "Second Nature"

Bids the leaves of silence part - E. Nesbit "Song"

On the still garden of my heart - E. Nesbit "Song"

The moonlight of your memory - E. Nesbit "Song"

A jewel for sky and sea - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"

Rose-crown for the dancing hours - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"

Like lamps between sky and sea - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"

White palaces wrought for love - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"

Unfettered and yet side by side - E. Nesbit "[The swans along the water glide]"

Swans who wear and break a chain - E. Nesbit "[The swans along the water glide]"

By field and fold and sweet wet wood - E. Nesbit "[The swans along the water glide]"

Spent my love on worthless toys - E. Nesbit "The Temptation"

My heart has made me orphan - E. Nesbit "The Temptation"

To keep your roots from frost - E. Nesbit "The Things that Matter"

Laughing where the sad rain wept - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

The golden steep straight sunbeam-stair - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

Lit the torch of hollyhock - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

Dressed the honeysuckle in fringe of gold - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

Set the yarrow by the river side - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

Silver stars upon the jasmine's hair - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

And even the vile petunia smiled - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

Time with his axe has marked our wood - E. Nesbit "To One Who Pleaded for Candour in Love"

This maze of blossom and sweet air - E. Nesbit "To Rosamund"

This royal promise of the rose - E. Nesbit "To Rosamund"

To speed your ship of dreams - E. Nesbit "To Rosamund"

How jealously you guard the root - E. Nesbit "The Tree of Knowledge"

To the gate by the twisted thorn - E. Nesbit "True Love and New Love"

Before the old rose grew pale - E. Nesbit "True Love and New Love"

To make a third at your tryst - E. Nesbit "True Love and New Love"

A fading dream of veil and star - E. Nesbit "The Veil of Maya"

For life makes no amends - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

Hope and I are long no longer friends - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

A ghost out of another Spring - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

Refuse the capricious gift of Fate - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

The splendid spoils of wasted years - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

Lighted with lamps of hope - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

The snare of vain imaginings - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

The swing of the sickle, restless and slow - E. Nesbit "[What o'clock is it, children dear]"

A veil that has nothing behind it - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

And Hope wanders lost - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

Since Love is a mirror we break - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

When you gaze on the blossom - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live

When you gaze on the bud - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

The rebels that shout in your blood - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

The dreams of Life's treacherous night - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

The buds of the poplars are falling - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

A hard road and thorny - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"


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Pity the stately cypress trees - Nadson "[Pity the stately cypress trees]" transl. by John Pollen

Break not a single fragrant bough - Nadson "[Pity the stately cypress trees]" transl. by John Pollen

To heights where thick acacias bloom - Nadson "[Pity the stately cypress trees]" transl. by John Pollen

You cannot rescue history from dust - Andre Naffis-Sahely "The Other Side of Nowhere"

The untimely symmetry of prayer - Hera Naguib "Prologue to a Womanhood"

Under the lightning's muzzle fire - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff

The last assault of an army of flags - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff

From a seaborn eternity to a pistol crack - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff

My tree beneath all sound - Shweta Narayan "Triumph XV: Vetala"

My scattered parts of seemings, stories, splinters - Shweta Narayan "Triumph XV: Vetala"

Knowing only shifter's arts - Shweta Narayan "Triumph XV: Vetala"

Lonely perfect tassels to the wind - Isabel Neal "Drought Essay"

Wrought in the chambers of the earth - John Neal "Unheeded Growth" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]

The median and mode of your days - Chris Nealon "All About You"

Impassive sky against your forehead - Chris Nealon "All About You"

Blocking any chance of feeling eager - Chris Nealon "All About You"

Written in letters of living light - Mary E. Nealy "The Captain of '63 to His Men" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

That glory would check the tears of woe - Mary E. Nealy "Dying in the Hospital" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

O'er hearts whose griefs were deepest - Mary E. Nealy "Dying in the Hospital" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Sheath of thunderbolts and flowers - Ada Negri "Make Way!" transl. by Lynn Lawner

Who halts the flight of the lark - Ada Negri "Make Way!" transl. by Lynn Lawner

Woods filled with nests and whispers - Ada Negri "Make Way!" transl. by Lynn Lawner

Myrtle bushes and fresh hiding-places - Ada Negri "Make Way!" transl. by Lynn Lawner

Distant as a dream's flight - John G. Neihardt "Morning Glories"

A picture of a symbol of something else - J. Alan Nelson "Flags and Maps"

Put flags where my life ventured once - J. Alan Nelson "Flags and Maps"

Sphinxes asleep in shadow in the South - Amado Nervo "To Leonora" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell

Two beautiful enigmas, wondrous fair - Amado Nervo "To Leonora" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell

From each pole a dream-wreath drops - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "Hop Picking"

When earth is grieving for the vanished - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "[Not Summer's crown of scent]"

Trod dead leaves in chill and wintry ways - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "[Not Summer's crown of scent]"

The firelit glow of a great hearth's gleam and glare - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "[Where do we fly, under deep dark sky?]"

Basked at the feet of June - M.H. Nickerson "A Recollection"

Who plays the gelatin piano - Carsten Rene Nielsen "Night"

Who packs his pipe with snow - Carsten Rene Nielsen "Night"

Screws turn a quarter of a rotation - Carsten Rene Nielsen "Night"

doing the magic of measuring - Anton Nimblett "Balance"

Left in the room of our memory - Nkosi Nkululeko "Continental Breakfast"

eating up the neighborhood like a june bug - Emory Noakes "In Which My Grandma Kicks Ass and Takes Names During the Zombie Apocalypse"

sinking his teeth into anything with a pulse - Emory Noakes "In Which My Grandma Kicks Ass and Takes Names During the Zombie Apocalypse"

blood dripping on my begonias - Emory Noakes "In Which My Grandma Kicks Ass and Takes Names During the Zombie Apocalypse"

And the weary may go home - Roden Noel "The Old"

Seed that promised blossom - Roden Noel "The Pity of it"

Feel the shadow closing cold - Roden Noel "The Pity of it"

Fame's dazzling dream - Hon. Mrs. Norton "Song"

Lay down in the deepest shadow - Grace Fallow Norton "Love Is a Terrible Thing"

A flame that has blown too near - Grace Fallow Norton "Love Is a Terrible Thing"

The burden of love ungiven - Grace Fallow Norton "Oh, the Burden, the Burden of Love Ungiven"

The right kind of rain - William Notter "High Plains Farming"

Important enough to be named - Dante Novario "The Great Missouri Tornado of 1882"

Then we were breathing cloud fumes - Dante Novario "The Great Missouri Tornado of 1882"

Rose higher than a prayer ignored - Dante Novario "The Great Missouri Tornado of 1882"

Walked toward the zenith - Mark Nowak "...Again"

Maybe there will be more zebras - Mark Nowak "...Again"

The music of rum and a sad clarinet - Alden Nowlen "The Last Waltz"

A force of secret poetry - Lolita Nunn "A Mother's Reflection"


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Sand falling from a cracked fist - Daniel J. Nadler "Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems"

Along the stem of its thought - Daniel J. Nadler "Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems"

A house that was never built - Daniel J. Nadler "Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems"

In the soil of your dreams - Daniel J. Nadler "Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems"

Gravity made visible - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

The sea's final strength - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Laughter like a rope - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

And our skin with shadows - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

To the imagination of water - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Impatient for heat - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Covered in sweat and ash - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Let the sun's rays speak - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Like a sailing ship made of stone - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Shadows from his mouth - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

The moon to reflect certainty - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Cut my destiny in two - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

The seed I planted in my mouth - Daniel Nadler [untitled]


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Anguish like the mourning heart - Francis Neilson "Absence"

From their rosy dreams awake - Francis Neilson "The Boon"

On which ambitions feed - Francis Neilson "The Boon"

How fair the tempting journey - Francis Neilson "Far Horizons"

Fear blurs the vision of our dream - Francis Neilson "Far Horizons"

The charms of fairy's art - Francis Neilson "The Fay"

A bloom when woods are grey - Francis Neilson "A Flower"

Fame cannot appease me - Francis Neilson "Fortune, You Have Naught I Need"

Let the golden rivers flow - Francis Neilson "Fortune, You Have Naught I Need"

Wakeful night in its slow flight - Francis Neilson "Fortune, You Have Naught I Need"

All the glow of fragrant hours - Francis Neilson "The Garden Made for Me"

Make each tear a pearl - Francis Neilson "Hebe"

Bade all sorrow's wounds be healed - Francis Neilson "In Blue and Purple Clad"

Come burn for me - Francis Neilson "Jack O'Lantern"

In recollection's refuge - Francis Neilson "Jack O'Lantern"

Fearful of the clouds - Francis Neilson "Jack O'Lantern"

A firefly desolate, bereft of home - Francis Neilson "Jack O'Lantern"

The burning stars, the fainting hours - Francis Neilson "The Keeper of the Kisses"

The joys of your beguiling - Francis Neilson "The Keeper of the Kisses"

The bee that every honey sips - Francis Neilson "The Keeper of the Kisses"

The draughts of winter's pain - Francis Neilson "Let Us Make a Garden"

Now the stubborn frost is yielding - Francis Neilson "Let Us Make a Garden"

Gone to their white lairs - Francis Neilson "Let Us Make a Garden"

Eurydice's own choice - Francis Neilson "Music in Hades"

A strain Titania wove - Francis Neilson "The Music of My Heart"

The night hears not - Francis Neilson "The Music of My Heart"

I can no more rejoice - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"

Your soulful, ardent fires - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"

Every breeze sings lamentation - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"

Whirled a joyous tempest down - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"

Shine as your beloved crown - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"

To break the chill of patience - Francis Neilson "Oh, Tranquil Night"

Endurance break for aching need - Francis Neilson "Oh, Tranquil Night"

Rise from dreary hours - Francis Neilson "Rejuvenation"

To rob the grey shade of its spoil - Francis Neilson "Resurrection"

No harbor for my soul - Francis Neilson "Roaming"

The myriad tones of cloud - Francis Neilson "Sanctuary"

And fade in their retreat - Francis Neilson "Sanctuary"

The magic breath of springtime - Francis Neilson "Spring"

Shaking the citadel of hope - Francis Neilson "Storm"

Mirrored in the pearly dew - Francis Neilson "Sweet Face, I See Thee Shine"

Flowers to kiss her - Francis Neilson "The Tryst"

Whisper runes of bliss - Francis Neilson "The Tryst"

Delight is in her ears - Francis Neilson "The Tryst"

Vanish like a gamester's vow - Francis Neilson "The Void"

A dancing star in revel flashed - Francis Neilson "When You Were Born"

Showered a million joys - Francis Neilson "When You Were Born"

Golden fires consumed dawn's keep - Francis Neilson "When You Were Born"

Whose syllables are wings - Francis Neilson "You"


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So circuitous it carves new dimensions - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

With all their fractured mirrors - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

The twin ghosts of hollowness and want - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

Death threats on the clothesline - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

Tyranny wears orange trappings - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

This new century of cosmic meltdown - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

An orange sun fatter than the sky - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"


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Sputter sparked into a miracle - Marilyn Nelson "Aooga"

Generations intertwined - Marilyn Nelson "Aooga"

Not a bed of thornless roses - Marilyn Nelson "The Baby Picture Guessing Game"

Taste the bitter apple - Marilyn Nelson "Bitter Apple"

As clouds unfold - Marilyn Nelson "Cloud-Gathering"

Ghosts almost visible on the horizons - Marilyn Nelson "The History of Tribal Suppression"

Enter my eyes and disappear - Marilyn Nelson "Just Pick a Name"

Felt its suffocating rejected buoyancy - Marilyn Nelson "Octopus Empire"

The flames rose in me - Marilyn Nelson "Paper Dolls"

Let's just say I hope - Marilyn Nelson "Safe Path Through Quicksand"

A hammer on an iron curtain - Marilyn Nelson "Sonic Boom"

How a story can emerge from colors - Marilyn Nelson "Studio"

Reaches toward undying truths - Marilyn Nelson "Studio"

Before I woke up wanting - Marilyn Nelson "Texas Protection"

My face, as foreign to me - Marilyn Nelson "Thirteen-Year-Old American Negro Girl"

Isolated by temporariness - Marilyn Nelson "To Miss Jackson"

Unable to wholly comprehend - Marilyn Nelson "To Miss Jackson"


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To an infinite field of ocean - Tim Newcomb "Bear Valley Trail, Point Reyes"

A flow of sunlight - Tim Newcomb "Dawn from Sentinel Dome, Yosemite Park"

With the scarce, reflected light - Tim Newcomb "Dawn from Sentinel Dome, Yosemite Park"

The ridges of combed daylight - Tim Newcomb "Dawn from Sentinel Dome, Yosemite Park"

Unmelted by the powerless sun - Tim Newcomb "December 2013"

With a blessing of sunlight - Tim Newcomb "Everything Happens in the Columbia Gorge"

Who ride the West winds - Tim Newcomb "Everything Happens in the Columbia Gorge"

Offers all the unexpected chances - Tim Newcomb "Evocative Montana"

Across place and the hereafter - Tim Newcomb "Evocative Montana"

Every obligation of home - Tim Newcomb "Family"

Artists of survival - Tim Newcomb "From Beauty to Us, By Way of Art"

The railroad line to invisibility - Tim Newcomb "From Beauty to Us, By Way of Art"

But the memories will seduce - Tim Newcomb "Grandfathered In"

Nor are glaciers eternal - Tim Newcomb "Nisqually River Delta Refuge"

In the freedom of contemplation - Tim Newcomb "The Smoke Within the Fire's Ring"

The silence of the shadows' makers - Tim Newcomb "The Smoke Within the Fire's Ring"

Half possessed by delight - Tim Newcomb "The Smoke Within the Fire's Ring"

Across moist distance - Tim Newcomb "Summer Storm"

Displaced the storm's threat - Tim Newcomb "Summer Storm"

The metabolism of the hidden springs - Tim Newcomb "Ten Minutes South of the Port of Tacoma"

Dark reclaims the night - Tim Newcomb "Unlight"

Outside the reach of light - Tim Newcomb "Unlight"

Mimicking the river's bends - Tim Newcomb "Upper Sacramento River Valley"

A path of safe falling - Tim Newcomb "Upper Sacramento River Valley"

Dark corners of the possible - Tim Newcomb "Waiting for Us"


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An orchard of white lies - Hieu Minh Nguyen "A/S/L"

Of blood, of mud, of wise men - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Confessional"

Each bone of my mother's regret - Hieu Minh Nguyen "I Want Nothing"

Nostalgia forgets to visit - Hieu Minh Nguyen "It Was the Winter We Learned How to Properly Smoke a Cigarette, or it Was the Spring We Finally Found Brooke Parker's Dog, Mango, After All the Snow Had Melted"

The opposite of touch - Hieu Minh Nguyen "My First"

When met with salt - Hieu Minh Nguyen "My First"

Darkness being watered thin - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Halloween, 14"

An echo that loses her name - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Teacher's Pet"

Require touch to get through the winter - Hieu Minh Nguyen "The Understudy"

A heart that locked its doors and left - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Visiting Hours"


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Keep tryst with Memory - Meredith Nicholson "The Battles Grandsire Missed"

Told on rosaries of drops of snow - Meredith Nicholson "Before the Fire"

The force that gave it birth - Meredith Nicholson "Cardinal Newman"

Sees through tears of spray - Meredith Nicholson "Disappointment"

Soft prayers to heaven stealing - Meredith Nicholson "Down the Aisles"

In the gloom of Death's eclipse - Meredith Nicholson "Estranged"

But not like faithful stars - Meredith Nicholson "Faithless"

Whilst Memory's camp-fires blaze - Meredith Nicholson "A Fancy"

Lead you now by distant shores - Meredith Nicholson "Good Night and Pleasant Dreams"

The night world scorning - Meredith Nicholson "Good Night and Pleasant Dreams"

And have new life in autumn's wine - Meredith Nicholson "Grape Bloom"

Walks in paths of peace - Meredith Nicholson "The Greek Girl's Song"

We tired of flowers - Meredith Nicholson "'Heartache'"

The lessons of our heartache - Meredith Nicholson "'Heartache'"

The speech of prophets writ - Meredith Nicholson "In Ether Spaces"

Amid war's furnace flame - Meredith Nicholson "In Ether Spaces"

Since night's robes trailed Eden's sky - Meredith Nicholson "In Ether Spaces"

Makes bright the gateway - Meredith Nicholson "My Lady of the Golden Heart"

The sunshine of her face in winter - Meredith Nicholson "My Lady of the Golden Heart"

The gates of my poor heart - Meredith Nicholson "My Lady of the Golden Heart"

Joy's full measure knew - Meredith Nicholson "My Paddle Gleamed"

Heard a fierce wind riding by - Meredith Nicholson "October"

The wind and its mad, warring tone - Meredith Nicholson "October"

Like followers in the summer's slow retreat - Meredith Nicholson "October"

Through lessons of the spring-time flowers - Meredith Nicholson "A Prince's Treasure"

And never lead to summer's dust - Meredith Nicholson "A Prince's Treasure"

Now unresisted steals the changeless sun - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"

Where Silence holds her sway - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"

Enfolding but the cold, unspeaking dust - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"

To crumble and form sepulchres for woes - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"

Unto the ever hopeful future tell - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"

Tell it to the wondering flowers - Meredith Nicholson "A Secret"

Where loiter all the coming hours - Meredith Nicholson "A Secret"

As sweet as the breath of night - Meredith Nicholson "The Shepherd's Song"

That the thorn and rose are wed - Meredith Nicholson "Song"

Holds in store the dawn - Meredith Nicholson "Song"

The yielding gateway of your lips - Meredith Nicholson "Songs and Words"

The lines they draw seem never true - Meredith Nicholson "Striving"

Labor on a false design - Meredith Nicholson "Striving"

Who never knew a victory - Meredith Nicholson "Striving"

A path that weeds could not efface - Meredith Nicholson "Striving"

A time before the rose - Meredith Nicholson "Sweetheart Time"

A bud before the flower - Meredith Nicholson "Sweetheart Time"

Gave their secrets to his own heart's keeping - Meredith Nicholson "Three Friends"

Bright noons and starry nights - Meredith Nicholson "Three Friends"

Make flower and fruit in me - Meredith Nicholson "To the Seasons"

Bring full hands to Autumn - Meredith Nicholson "To the Seasons"

Within the garden lands of love - Meredith Nicholson "Twas Never Night in Love's Domain"

Stolen from time's jealous hand - Meredith Nicholson "Viking"

Scorning the wood and field - Meredith Nicholson "Watching the World Go By"

Depends not on a proof by vision - Meredith Nicholson "When Friends Are Parted"

By bitter winds o'erblown - Meredith Nicholson "Where Love Was Not"

But a mocking echo there - Meredith Nicholson "Where Love Was Not"

Do not hasten but pause to tell - Meredith Nicholson "Whereaway"


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Not built by brute force - Lorine Niedecker "Darwin"

As the drying of the moon - Lorine Niedecker "His Carpets Flowered"

Ecstasy can't be constant - Lorine Niedecker "Laundromat"

To wild green arts and letters - Lorine Niedecker "My Life by Water"

Pointed toward my shore - Lorine Niedecker "My Life by Water"

A proper balance of water, air and poetry - Lorine Niedecker "Nursery Rhyme"

My moonlight memory - Lorine Niedecker "Paean to Place"

The sloughs and sluices of my mind - Lorine Niedecker "Paean to Place"

Clothed in wind and cold - Lorine Niedecker "Poems at the Porthole"

All the years no day - Lorine Niedecker "Poems at the Porthole"

What the seas have made us - Lorine Niedecker "Traces of Living Things"

Our relative the air - Lorine Niedecker [untitled]

Got nothing but leaky boats - Lorine Niedecker [untitled]

Spent my life on nothing - Lorine Niedecker [untitled]

The sun does not love - Lorine Niedecker [untitled]

The torrent to raise the river - Lorine Niedecker "Wilderness"

In the evolution of matter - Lorine Niedecker "Wintergreen Ridge"

Quicker than rock - Lorine Niedecker "Wintergreen Ridge"


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Drying up all tears of my soul - Yone Noguchi "How Near to Fairyland"

A flight into the vastness - Yone Noguchi "How Near to Fairyland"

Through the waveless mirror-seas - Yone Noguchi "How Near to Fairyland"

Lying on Love's ruin - Yone Noguchi "I Am Like a Leaf"

The world's imagination and ghost - Yone Noguchi "I Am Like a Leaf"

And victor of life and silence - Yone Noguchi “Upon the Heights”

Of golden melody and lofty grace - Yone Noguchi “Upon the Heights”

Scorning the swords - Yone Noguchi “Upon the Heights”

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

Inky-garmented, truth-dead - Yone Noguchi "Where Is the Poet"

No mouth to interpret these tidings - Yone Noguchi "Where Is the Poet"


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Whose quiet stars may see - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"

Which breaks the lingering echo - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"

Deep, bright and most expressive blue - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"

Between me and the midnight heaven - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"

Will scarcely trust my candid heart - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"

That are made to fade and fall away - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "Love Not"

The kindly-beaming eye grow cold and strange - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "Love Not"

In present hours as in the years gone by - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "Love Not"

On the mountain's frowning brow - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Ringing like welcome music through the air - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

At which the untroubled heart rejoices - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

That withering care sleeps not beneath - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

And turns their brightness to dark despair - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Look we still for joys to come - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Bent her gentle knee to earth - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Would read the book of chance - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

And fix the future hours, dark or bright - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

The storms of deep contending passions - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

The wild sorrow of those dark bright eyes - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Then what avail the scornful words - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Their words of scorn and malice proved - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"


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Clustering irised bubbles - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

After twice a thousand years - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Was young as truth is - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Poured intent upon a sea-anemone - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

The loftiest flights of their philosophy - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

The clear sharp fact beneath your feet - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

His last disciple's wandering son - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Honey-stained by time - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

A wand of whispering magic - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

The peering gulls wheeled closer - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Breathed like a returning music - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

For one time-conquering soul - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Clamour at Falsehood's gate - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Write not thy thoughts on snow - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

To front the thundering sky - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

The lie may steal an hour - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Time dwindled to a shadow - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

A god's bones upon the naked hills - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Smiled at the thought of Time - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

The touch of his long stealing shadow - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

The uncrowned king of thought - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Brought to birth what Plato saw - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

His the voice in the night-watches - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

The dark gates of that world-quelling mind - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Rose before the silent conqueror - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

The secret harmony of law - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Flashed light upon the cosmos - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

In the purple of Babylon - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Walked like a ghost in Athens - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Blasphemed against their gods of clay - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

A colder cup of hemlock - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Melting into the flood of night - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Opal of the drifting desert sand - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"

A bitter wind that scourges us - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"

Where these nettles grew nettles have always grown - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"

Old images of forgotten kings - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"

Reveals the miracle of the eternal paradox - Alfred Noyes "The Book of Earth X: Epilogue"

Beyond the last horizon of your pain - Alfred Noyes "The Book of Earth X: Epilogue"

Shared the silence of the sky - Alfred Noyes "The Book of Earth X: Epilogue"

A hedge where ragged robins grew - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"

A grain of dust among the stars - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"

Their broken edges joined - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"

What mind could so unravel - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"

Leap beyond the mind of Newton - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"

Up the mountain-sides of thought - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"

Searching the dark scripture of the rocks - Alfred Noyes "Darwin II: The Voyage"

Gave so large a sanctuary - Alfred Noyes "Darwin II: The Voyage"

A dark point of travelling thought - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Spellbound, listening to the voice of Time - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

A prophecy of continents unborn - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Gathering everywhere armies of fact - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

The unresting loom of infinite time - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Weave this wild miracle - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

The chattering jackdaw builds - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

The violet wakes in March - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Ere the mastodon was born - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

The youngest child of time - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

After so many aeons of ordered law - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Kneaded out of the formless clay - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

One phrase of the secret music - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Governed by a law unknown - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Which poet and sculptor count as unforeseen - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

All implied and folded in the first - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Grim roots like monstrous talons - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

To trace the way by inches - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

An Angel's finger in the dark - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Rocks where no mollusc clung - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Nature had no miracles in her heart - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Though the part obscured the whole - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

A coiling glitter of willowy streams - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"

Dragged a net of Latin through the fields - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"

Were tasted by the prophets - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"

His creed a wreck of hollow towers - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"

As befits a pilgrim of the cosmos - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"

Had proclaimed a fragment of a truth - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

The spiritual steel of Saint Augustine - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

A ladder of life to heaven - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

Lucid harmonies on our night bestow - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

Along the dark diminishing road - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

With intricate harmonies of design - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

In every cloud of wind-blown dust - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

An infinite host of infinitesimal systems - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

Myriads of atoms like concentrated suns - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

All heights and depths of the universe - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

And renounce all easy hope - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

The dark key to Creation - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

Triumphing over her clashing chords - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

Lay hands upon the wheel of the universe - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

Moving on the same dark quest - Alfred Noyes "An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin"

From his right hand a fire that lit the world - Alfred Noyes "An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin"

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

Ascending from one living spiral thread - Alfred Noyes "An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin"

Bewildered warfare in the gloom - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"

In whose hand the first fire shone - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"

Making their radiant versions - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"

Shadowy towers crimsoned with sunset - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"

Through the dark gates of prayer - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"

The warbling joy of hidden brooks - Alfred Noyes "Goethe I: The Discoverer"

Heard the music of one law - Alfred Noyes "Goethe I: The Discoverer"

Naked agony that first woke the soul - Alfred Noyes "Goethe I: The Discoverer"

Washed by a water greater than the world - Alfred Noyes "Goethe I: The Discoverer"

The first wild matins of the thrush - Alfred Noyes "Goethe II: The Prophet"

Only the secret music of his mind - Alfred Noyes "Goethe II: The Prophet"

By the axe of an angry god - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"

That reeling gulf of amethyst shadows - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"

Nine miles of mist and fire - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"

The foundered spans of lost Atlantis - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"

Winding between the huge Plutonian walls - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"

In that vast hollow of violet air - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"

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

Held the lilac last of night - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"

Resume its far-flung harvests - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"

A twisted dream where everything came true - Alfred Noyes "Invitation to the Voyage"

The curious realm he chose to build - Alfred Noyes "Invitation to the Voyage"

Where odds and ends of memory smile - Alfred Noyes "Invitation to the Voyage"

Wrestled with oblivion all night - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard I: The Rock of the Good Virgin"

The dying rainbow of those tears - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard I: The Rock of the Good Virgin"

Where healing dittany grows - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard I: The Rock of the Good Virgin"

By dark predetermined laws - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard I: The Rock of the Good Virgin"

A little fragment of the eternal order - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard I: The Rock of the Good Virgin"

Lined with tall sentinel poplars - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard II: Malesherbes and the Black Milestones"

Two travel stained wanderers - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard II: Malesherbes and the Black Milestones"

Breathing sawdust and fresh blood - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard II: Malesherbes and the Black Milestones"

As the fiery waves congealed - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"

Wild honey in the thyme - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"

Slag of the seething furnaces - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"

His tubes of soft quicksilver - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"

Thought grown firm as granite - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"

Those curious beautiful tinted maps - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"

And track the vanished ages - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"

The first to find a dead volcano - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"

Without these rock-ribbed facts - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"

A sea-shell turned to stone - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"

At whose touch time opened - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"

Ten enemies for every truth - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"

In one small grain of this immortal wheat - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"

Lost to sight among the eternal ages - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard V: The Return"

The sharp chisels of frost - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard V: The Return"

Among the weather-worn shards - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard V: The Return"

Through fields of poppied wheat - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

Death placed him in command - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

Frowned upon his aeons - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

Every crooked flash of irony - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

In a sea of wilder contradictions - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

The scripture of the rocks - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

In the long lapse of time - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

Confirmed the morning glory's crown - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

Out of the wild briar evoked the rose - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

Teach the hunted deer to escape - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Cuvier: The Vera Causa"

Leads the tiger to pursue - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Cuvier: The Vera Causa"

Like a vast chameleon changed - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Cuvier: The Vera Causa"

Withheld his judgment for an hour - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Cuvier: The Vera Causa"

As Jove might aid his son - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"

Rocked to their dark foundations - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"

Into the Terror's hot red tiger-mouth - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"

Still echoing its old wrath - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"

Colder than the cynical snarl of Nero - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"

Bridge-builders of the universe - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"

A deep river answering a brook - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"

Who tread the dusty road to Nowhere - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"

The bones and structure of the world - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"

The great rhythm of law - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"

The centuries in their masquerade - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci II: At Florence"

To breathe against those ancient rocks - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci II: At Florence"

Garden for a changeling child - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

The delicate aristocracies of bloom - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

Hedgerow waifs and ragamuffin strays - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

Shaken to silvery trills of elfin song - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

With gleams of new delight - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

Filled the woods with rapture - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

Dew that burns like wine - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

Gnomes in rusty red and gold - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

The wheel of stars that Egypt turned - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

Through every act and atom - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

Mad nightingales of joy - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

Too infinitesimal to be scanned - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

Enlarges the grim coasts of utter darkness - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

Build his own stairs to heaven - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

As at the gaze of his own cold Medusa - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

The rumor of a phantom ocean - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

The creatures of a thousand aeons - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

A murmuring forest of ferns - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

An infinite sphere enfolding Space and Time - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

The wild fantastic hosts of life - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

Hid in the heart of a rose - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"

It takes the world's eternal wars - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"

It takes the moon and all the stars - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"

It takes the might of heaven and hell - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"

Kissed him with ripples of laughter - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"

Paid for his dreams with gold - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"

None but Love will understand - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"

As the wave on the moon's path - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"

Though my love forget my name - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"

Down to their dreams of sunset - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"

Up the immeasurable abyss - Alfred Noyes "The Wings"

A blacker night than ocean knew - Alfred Noyes "The Wings"

Wild ferns and grass breathed it - Alfred Noyes "The Wings"


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Unless desire can lure us deeper - D. Nurkse "The Assassination"

Found a pattern to obey - D. Nurkse "Dominant Harmony"

Memorized in every key - D. Nurkse "Dominant Harmony"

Giving the distance to each other - D. Nurkse "Interior Highway"

Choose another grief - D. Nurkse "Letters from the Capital"

Practicing little gestures of rapture - D. Nurkse "Letters from the Capital"

In some suburb of the infinite city - D. Nurkse "Looking and Finding"

Even the mirror's dazzling emptiness - D. Nurkse "Looking and Finding"

In a book too heavy to close - D. Nurkse "Overseas Accounts"

Jealous of our want - D. Nurkse "Rooms by the Night or Hour"


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Has mailed them dust - Naomi Shihab Nye "Abandoned Post Office, Big Bend"

Two bites of the same dessert - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Address Book of a Lonely Man"

Songs of the absent ones - Naomi Shihab Nye "Alien Rescue"

The echo right before dawn - Naomi Shihab Nye "Alien Rescue"

Her voice a library of kindness - Naomi Shihab Nye "Alien Rescue"

Hungry fingers moving through stories - Naomi Shihab Nye "Alien Rescue"

One hand out against the earth - Naomi Shihab Nye "All I Can Do"

One hand up against the sky - Naomi Shihab Nye "All I Can Do"

Into the sky's wide ear - Naomi Shihab Nye "Almost, Never"

Of wind knotted with cries - Naomi Shihab Nye "Almost, Never"

Smooth ripple of the wind's second name - Naomi Shihab Nye "Always Bring a Pencil"

Refusing to forget laughter - Naomi Shihab Nye "Arab Festival T-shirt"

Thought pain had no tongue - Naomi Shihab Nye "Arabic"

Tumbleweeds coming to their doors in the night - Naomi Shihab Nye "At Portales, New Mexico"

Flat tables spread with wind - Naomi Shihab Nye "At Portales, New Mexico"

A wilderness of new solutions - Naomi Shihab Nye "Because of Libraries We Can Say These Things"

Give me the whole horizon - Naomi Shihab Nye "Better Vision"

Chattering ducks who never lose hope - Naomi Shihab Nye "Big Songs"

Where voices become bones - Naomi Shihab Nye "Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl"

Uncovering the same sweet dust - Naomi Shihab Nye "Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl"

The days had doors in them - Naomi Shihab Nye "Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl"

Knows how to catch a fly in his hands - Naomi Shihab Nye "Blood"

This tragedy with a terrible root - Naomi Shihab Nye "Blood"

Wave the flag of stone and seed - Naomi Shihab Nye "Blood"

Puts a stone inside your heart - Naomi Shihab Nye "Breaking the Fast"

Remember your deepest name - Naomi Shihab Nye "Breaking the Fast"

Tucked under the wing of the day - Naomi Shihab Nye "Come with Me"

Placed one toe in the river of gloom - Naomi Shihab Nye "Coming Soon"

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

For the ghost of bread in Lebanon - Naomi Shihab Nye "Darling"

Our tea has trouble being sweet - Naomi Shihab Nye "Darling"

As if those addresses were a definite shore - Naomi Shihab Nye "A Definite Shore"

Being reduced to a single wish - Naomi Shihab Nye "A Definite Shore"

Our hearts will open like sieves - Naomi Shihab Nye "A Definite Shore"

The deliberate stones crossing this season - Naomi Shihab Nye "A Definite Shore"

Small calcium words uttered in sequence - Naomi Shihab Nye "Different Ways to Pray"

In fragrant buckets of vinegar and thyme - Naomi Shihab Nye "Different Ways to Pray"

Worried over the difficult relations of triangles - Naomi Shihab Nye "Ducks"

A break from sun's sharp gaze - Naomi Shihab Nye "Each Day We Are Given So Many Gifts"

Such a brief slip of minutes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Each Day We Are Given So Many Gifts"

Dreaming of light arriving - Naomi Shihab Nye "Elementary"

A vessel of golden hope - Naomi Shihab Nye "Elementary"

Aligned in a place of wisdom - Naomi Shihab Nye "Elementary"

Live inside his old words - Naomi Shihab Nye "Ellipse"

Made complete by single things - Naomi Shihab Nye "Even at War"

A giant cap to hold the dreams in - Naomi Shihab Nye "Even at War"

Lift out the gleaming hours - Naomi Shihab Nye "Every Day"

Our armor is invisible - Naomi Shihab Nye "Exotic Animals, Book for Children"

Folded document of hope - Naomi Shihab Nye "Facebook Notes"

The spine of a summer - Naomi Shihab Nye "Family Land"

In the slim envelope of light - Naomi Shihab Nye "Feather"

Tie knots around the heads of weeds - Naomi Shihab Nye "Feather"

Only night's smooth stare - Naomi Shihab Nye "Fireflies"

Explosions of minor joy - Naomi Shihab Nye "Fold"

With the patience for origami - Naomi Shihab Nye "Fold"

A strip of land where nobody walks - Naomi Shihab Nye "Footfall"

Steps of the forgotten trudging through - Naomi Shihab Nye "Footfall"

A lack of oxygen in the news - Naomi Shihab Nye "Footfall"

The earth rattling beneath them - Naomi Shihab Nye "Footfall"

Pollen on October's breath - Naomi Shihab Nye "For Mohammed Zeid 0f Gaza, Age 15"

Owning all their vastness - Naomi Shihab Nye "For the 500th Dead Palestinian, Ibtisam Bozieh"

Old roots twisted beyond our worry - Naomi Shihab Nye "Grandfathers Say"

Savory smoke from ancient fires - Naomi Shihab Nye "Grandfathers Say"

How loud the loneliness - Naomi Shihab Nye "Gray Road North from Shenzhen"

With their little fragrant faith - Naomi Shihab Nye "Grocery Store"

Prays in no language but his own - Naomi Shihab Nye "Half-and-Half"

The shriveled garlic and the bent bean - Naomi Shihab Nye "Half-and-Half"

No one sees the fuel that feeds you - Naomi Shihab Nye "Hidden"

Hiding everywhere beneath your words - Naomi Shihab Nye "Hidden"

The vault of his face closes - Naomi Shihab Nye "His Life"

Tying the shoelace to the stone - Naomi Shihab Nye "His Secret"

Held the power of three days - Naomi Shihab Nye "His Secret"

While it dreamed of fruit - Naomi Shihab Nye "Holy Land"

Lines between our pain and earth - Naomi Shihab Nye "Holy Land"

A fire inside your mouth - Naomi Shihab Nye "How Palestinians Keep Warm"

The dark wind of our breath - Naomi Shihab Nye "How Palestinians Keep Warm"

A mouse in the moss - Naomi Shihab Nye "Hummingbird"

The toothache of tragedy - Naomi Shihab Nye "In Northern Ireland They Called It 'The Troubles'"

How empty the cup of hope can feel - Naomi Shihab Nye "In Northern Ireland They Called It 'The Troubles'"

Imagine the luxury of open roads - Naomi Shihab Nye "In Some Countries"

Sweeping water past the window - Naomi Shihab Nye "In That Time"

Read the slow text of grasses - Naomi Shihab Nye "In That Time"

To pour you full of rivers - Naomi Shihab Nye "In the Public Schools"

Rivers of dust through a window - Naomi Shihab Nye "In the Public Schools"

With such a straight faith - Naomi Shihab Nye "Inside the Riddle"

Not so green elsewhere - Naomi Shihab Nye "Isle of Mull, Scotland"

Our water isn't free either - Naomi Shihab Nye "It Was or It Wasn't"

Made of bone and flesh and story - Naomi Shihab Nye "Janna"

Something our lives forgot to give us - Naomi Shihab Nye "Jerusalem"

But everything comes next - Naomi Shihab Nye "Jerusalem"

Pretending power over my stones - Naomi Shihab Nye "Jerusalem's Smile"

Layers of giant time - Naomi Shihab Nye "Jerusalem's Smile"

Between the regions of kindness - Naomi Shihab Nye "Kindness"

The tender gravity of kindness - Naomi Shihab Nye "Kindness"

Catches the thread of all sorrows - Naomi Shihab Nye "Kindness"

Spun silk of mercy - Naomi Shihab Nye "Last August Hours Before the Year 2000"

Roof and walls of vine - Naomi Shihab Nye "Last August Hours Before the Year 2000"

Could live inside this rose - Naomi Shihab Nye "Last August Hours Before the Year 2000"

Bathe in a river of lost shoes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Last Song for the Mend-It Shop"

Years flying out of your skin - Naomi Shihab Nye "Late"

Deep evening echoes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Learning to Talk"

Square-dance with boulders - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Blanco River"

Rolled home with brown sacks in our laps - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

Their okra bore an essence of perfection - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

Ripe corn whispered inside its perfect sheaves - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

Lost love and lonely stars - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

I wish I could harvest his patience - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

The path of sunlight through leaves - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

How dirt has always befriended me - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

Can find you amidst this atlas of tears - Naomi Shihab Nye "Lunch in Nablus City Park"

Linking one town to its memory of mortar - Naomi Shihab Nye "Lunch in Nablus City Park"

A streak of patience in the air - Naomi Shihab Nye "Margaret"

Each mind a universe swirling - Naomi Shihab Nye "Mediterranean Blue"

Swam through sorrow - Naomi Shihab Nye "Mediterranean Blue"

Who share the air and the clouds - Naomi Shihab Nye "Messages from Everywhere"

Holding their places between - Naomi Shihab Nye "Meteor Watch"

But we drink midnight too - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Mind of Squash"

Blue locust lullaby - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Mind of Squash"

Said my name like a prayer - Naomi Shihab Nye "Moon over Gaza"

Each leaf expands its view - Naomi Shihab Nye "Morning Song"

Action on far away roads - Naomi Shihab Nye "Morning Song"

Barricades of words and wire - Naomi Shihab Nye "Morning Song"

Three secret hours before dawn - Naomi Shihab Nye "Muchas Gracias por Todo"

To hold the time that kept leaving - Naomi Shihab Nye "Music"

That last tone emptying into air - Naomi Shihab Nye "Music"

A magical geography of skin - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Body Is a Mystery"

Only the sky tying the universe together - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Grandmother in the Stars"

And only memory making us rich - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Grandmother in the Stars"

Raised his hand against the roaring ocean - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop"

Double and nothing all at once - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop"

Driving his parched streets - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop"

Stars spilling over our huge night - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Wisdom"

Imagine silence more powerful - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Wisdom"

Thread space with our irregular journeys - Naomi Shihab Nye "Necessity Is Only 8 Miles Away"

A deep quiet plucked by firecrackers - Naomi Shihab Nye "New Year"

Like a catalogue of omissions - Naomi Shihab Nye "No One Thinks of Tegucigalpa"

Weaves a crib for my heart - Naomi Shihab Nye "No One Thinks of Tegucigalpa"

You reside in every dream - Naomi Shihab Nye "On the Old Black Canal Road by the International Hotel, Guangzhou"

Music lives inside my legs - Naomi Shihab Nye "One Boy Told Me"

Carrying my box of faces - Naomi Shihab Nye "One Boy Told Me"

Found your shoe full of honey - Naomi Shihab Nye "One Boy Told Me"

Climb their rich ladder of choruses - Naomi Shihab Nye "Open House"

The silence of frozen trees - Naomi Shihab Nye "Our Time"

Jingling its pocket of thin coins - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Palestinians Have Given Up Parties"

Our worlds echoing back and forth - Naomi Shihab Nye "Patience Conversations"

Memories in iron lock boxes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Patience Conversations"

Water of light poured freely - Naomi Shihab Nye "Peace"

The steady gaze of constellations - Naomi Shihab Nye "Pictures from the Occupied Territories"

The thousand small birds of January - Naomi Shihab Nye "Postscript"

Our tracks which disappear the moment we leave - Naomi Shihab Nye "Prayer in My Boot"

Knotted in the throat of a finch - Naomi Shihab Nye "Problems with the Story"

Twelve others might open - Naomi Shihab Nye "Problems with the Story"

Into a cloud of sudden azaleas - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Rider"

Stretches out the thread between days - Naomi Shihab Nye "San Antonio Mi Sangre: From the Hard Season"

Twice as alive as yesterday - Naomi Shihab Nye "Secret"

Make bets with destiny - Naomi Shihab Nye "Shadow"

Already missing what already left - Naomi Shihab Nye "Small People"

The long sorrow of the color red - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Small Vases from Hebron"

Combing your hair with my eyes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Smoke"

Air answers breath remembers - Naomi Shihab Nye "Some Days"

To gather what we lose - Naomi Shihab Nye "Someone Is Standing on the Roof of the World"

Casting ourselves toward ancient altars - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"

Absorbs this pliable light - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"

Do not crave our company - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"

Time holds us in its pocket - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"

No olive trees or mint leaves in their forest - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay Afloat"

Can't remember a single right thing - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay Afloat"

Because every life needs a hidden place - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stone House"

Connected us in the dark - Naomi Shihab Nye "Supple Cord"

Leaning on what came before - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"

Whole acres in their eyes - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"

Memory, stitched. History, soothed - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"

Wearing the sky - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"

Without a line of language - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"

Inside the steady gaze of stones - Naomi Shihab Nye "Those Whom We Do Not Know"

And the desert soaking up echoes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Those Whom We Do Not Know"

Hide inside a pocket of days - Naomi Shihab Nye "Thoughts That Came in Floating"

Nothing big enough but freedom - Naomi Shihab Nye "Tiny Journalist Blues"

Lifts the air in its path - Naomi Shihab Nye "Travel Alarm"

Praise all small forgotten miracles - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Traveling Onion"

Even on a sorrowing day - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tray"

The hundred corridors of cinnamon and rope - Naomi Shihab Nye "Two Countries"

A poem unwritten by grass - Naomi Shihab Nye "Unforgettable"

A poem unwritten by water - Naomi Shihab Nye "Unforgettable"

A place that let us all sorrow - Naomi Shihab Nye "Unforgettable"

Believe speaking is for others - Naomi Shihab Nye "Voices"

Shocking radiance of green - Naomi Shihab Nye "Wales"

The ten thousand travelers eating breakfast - Naomi Shihab Nye "What's Here"

In your memory trust me - Naomi Shihab Nye "Where Are You?"

As wind claims the whole sky - Naomi Shihab Nye "Wind and the Sleeping Breath of Men"

In the thousand streets beyond reach - Naomi Shihab Nye "Wind and the Sleeping Breath of Men"

The scent of its own full shape - Naomi Shihab Nye "Words When We Need Them"

A legacy of secret tears - Naomi Shihab Nye "Working on his Sermon"

The coarse sleeve of sympathy - Naomi Shihab Nye "Working on his Sermon"

Mint leaves floating in a cup - Naomi Shihab Nye "You Are Your Own State Department"

Some are born to wonder - Naomi Shihab Nye "Your Weight, at Birth"


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Gather the loveliest of the dream-rushes - Jenny Boully "The more Alice reaches out, the more her dream-rushes"

A machine projecting fake moonbeams - Jenny Boully "The more Alice reaches out, the more her dream-rushes"

This small bit of apricot to remember - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]"

May fit inside a thimble - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"

Know the weight of my heart - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"

The color of vague memories - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"

The color of brittle-mindedness - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"


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