somethingdarker | Mar. 23rd, 2011

Mar. 23rd, 2011

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

Lest one of our new rulers overhear - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull

And Night alone o'erheard - Paul Verlaine "Colloque Sentimental" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

An echo overheard - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

Overheard the curlews cry - Oscar Wilde "Impressions"

Hear.

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( Overcome )

Come.

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O'ershadowed by new wings of greater fear - Ralph Chaplin "Escaped!"

Overshadowed by cypress and pine - "The Ch'u Tz'u: The Mountain Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson

And overshadowed it with gloomy clouds - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

The dim phantoms of o'er shadowed pleasures - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Whose conquering sails o'ershadow every sea - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]

Shifting light and overshadowing cloud - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"

Shadow.

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( Overgrown )

Grow.

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An ocean of grief pressed into ovals - Mary Jo Bang "This Morning"

To lift the oval of my soul - Maxwell Bodenheim "While Hearing a Little Song (Solveigs Lied)"

An oval that's a metaphor for life - Bob Hicok "Calling him back from layoff"

rendered as a grouping of ovals - Monica Youn "Study of Two Figures (Ignatz/Krazy)"

The last of the maroon crabapple ovates - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

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( Overthrow )

Throw.

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( Overhead )

Head.

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The oven of the body - Meena Alexander "Stone Oven"

Until the oven claimed the pie - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"

His eyes two open ovens - Tina Chang "Celestial"

By the oven with a loaf for a pillow - Carrie Grigorian "Baking in Different Conditions"

The oven as it opens every afternoon - Ava Leavell Haymon "The Witch Has Told You a Story"

The cold oven at the lush forest's heart - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

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( Overflow )

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With gorgon-figured veil o'erspread - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

Saw the dews of death o'erspread - Hugh Conway "The Mother's Vigil" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.110-v.III, 6 Feb. 1886]

Palaces o'erspread with smoke lie waste - Euripides "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Overspread the metamorphosed island - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"

A sanguine stain the silver moon o'erspread - Edward Young "The Last Day Book I"

Spread.

Outspread.

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Watch to o'erturn the barrier of the laws - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination Book. A Poem, in Three Books. III"

Changing every path, o'erturning every purpose - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination Book. A Poem, in Three Books. III"

Altars unfed and temples overturned - Matthew Arnold "Mycerinus"

Such frenzy as shall o'erturn his reason - Euripides "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

And overturn the house of that new king - Euripides "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

To overturn the doctrines that Martin Luther taught - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Song of Jacob Boehme"

Turn.

Upturn.

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( Overcast )

Cast.

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To overlook what he had arranged to surpass - Brian Blanchfield "According to Herodotus"

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

Overlooking the broken cliffs of the moon - Wendy Rathbone "Grief"

The cost of a moment overlooked - Morris Rosenfeld "The Nightingale to the Workman" transl. by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank

A wraparound window overlooking the universe - Marge Simon "Sturgeon Crosses Over"

A glass palace overlooking an airport - Jackie Wang "Life is a Place Where it's Forbidden to Live"

Look.

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Overtaken too far from its nest - Robert Frost "Acceptance"

Set forth upon my track to overtake me - Robert Frost "Into My Own"

When Time overtook them in his walk - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

O'ertaken as by some spell divine - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

His want overtook his will - Maxine Kumin "The Burners, the Buriers"

It was not fate which overtook me - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"

When memory escapes, overtake it - Achy Obejas "Conceits"

Freedom has overtaken me - Grace Paley [untitled]

Take/Took.

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( Overwhelm )

In black Oblivion's waves should whelm his name - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

And whelmed with its endless rue - Jessie Fauset "Rencontre" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

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