somethingdarker | Nov. 6th, 2011

Nov. 6th, 2011

( Woe )

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( Woman/Women )

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( Woof )

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For the past tense of 'to wind' see: Wind (verb)/Unwind. The sorting may be a bit wobbly because some usages could be interpreted in more than one way.

( Wound )

A sword-wound to that tender heart - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

Look on me with unwounding eyes - John Danyel "Why Canst Thou not, as Others Do?"

The fissure of the lightning leaves it unwounded - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Where all world-wounds are healed - T.M. Kettle "Parnell"

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( Worse )

( Worst )

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Wear.

( Wore )

( Worn )

And careworn brows forget - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "Songs for the People"

Shadows on the foot-worn threshold fall - Rainer Maria Rilke "Initiation" transl. by Jessie Lemont

With its wild midnight orgies overworn - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

A salt-worn dream-anchor - Terrance Hayes "Anchor Head"

An aficionado of the wilted, the shopworn, and the free - Ted Kooser "In the Alley"

By many a storm-worn stone - E.J. Bronte "The Outcast Mother"

On the timeworn pavement - Alun "Tintern Abbey" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Wild legends hang about these time-worn stones - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

As a time-worn stone - Denis Florence MacCarthy "A Lament"

Among the weather-worn shards - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard V: The Return"

Up the same well-worn path - Angelina Weld Grimke "The Eyes of My Regret"

Wear Out/Worn Out/Outwear.

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Word.

( Wordless )

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( Word )

The graveyard for ambitions, the by-word for hell - Frank J. Cotter "Dedicated to Alaska"

Freedom's sweet keynote and commission-word - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

The satisfaction of crossword puzzles - brian g. gilmore "detroit airport, december 2009 (a sermon)"

Only these hungry miser-words - Muriel Stuart "Sic Transit--"

The password of the leaves upon the cottonwood - Alexander Posey "To Wahilla Enhotulle"

Sister-words of blame - Edward Dowden "From April to October: III. The Dawn"

Unworded songs and musics never heard - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva

Will be a watchword and a battle hymn - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"

The deep watchword of the rushing storm - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

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]

Wordless.

Keep the meddlesome chthonic wordslingers cranky - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"

That improvised word-spun truth - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

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Returning to the barren womb of nothing - Robert Blair "The Grave"

That in the womb of Time yet sleep - Fanny Kemble "The Vision of Life"

In the dark womb where I began - John Masefield "C.L.M."

Brooding upon the womb of absence - Robert Pack "Big Bang" [Poetry, January 1988]

This fairest offspring of the womb of time - W.H. Rhodes "Lost and Found"

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And in its wonted crannies fix my steps - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Nor under burnished roofs your wonted state maintain - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

The banquet, wont to charm both gods above and men below - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes - Henry Vaughan "The World of Light"

That abhorred unwonted name - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

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Two woodbines flourish at my door - Thomas Cowherd "My Garden"

Rotting pillars where the woodbines twine - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]

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

And fettered him with woodbine sweet - Philip Bourke Marston "Love Asleep"

With tendrils of woodbine is bound - William Shenstone "The Shepherd's Home"

The crystal song of the woodbine - "'Tis Sweet to Roam"

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( Workshop )

called you from your idle dream-workshop - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"

Shop.

Work.

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( Worthless )

Worth.

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( Wooden )

Wood/Woods.

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( Woodpecker )

The pileated woodpecker's maniacal laugh - Chris Dombrowski "They Tied the Madmen to Trees Beside the River and All the Shrinks Went Out of Business"

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Where wormholes close and open like anemone - Kendall Evans "Oracle"

Surrounding Eden for a wormhole into paradise - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Stuffed in wormholes and pipes - Janet Kauffman "Before it Took Hold"

The membrane of memory itself wormholed - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"

Wormholing haphazard between those spaces - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"

Hole.

Worm.

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( Worry )

Storm-worried Argo slept - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"

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( Wonder )

And watch with wonder-eyes - Claude McKay "I Shall Return"

Clad in the garb of wonder-fire - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"

( Wonderful )

The implications of our wonderland - Noel Coward "Nothing Is Lost"

A declining wonderland - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Imagine"

There is no room left for my wonderland - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

Hauling their bereaved wonderment - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

Where the wonder-seekers crowd - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"

Everything wild and wonder-touched - Gretchen Tessmer "A Jar of Condensed Milk"

Wondrous.

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( Worthy )

The newsworthy world a nebulous swirl - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Unworthy.

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Every earthworm's bristle & every seraph's six wings - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"

( Worm )

But coral worms combined heave up a reef - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]

Silkworm.

Togas of worm-eaten mud - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid

Wormhole.

Ornate with worm-trail tracery - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

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( Worth )

Worthless.

The small worthwhile pieces - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"

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( Knuckle )

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

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( Woo )

Dutiful but unwooed by chisel and bench - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

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( World )

A sign promised from the afterworld - Julia Alvarez "Signs"

Cheekbones flushed with an afterworld favoritism - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"

Past the corrective of the afterworld - Sandra Lim "Certainty"

Chilly doldrum-world of dead emotion - Harry Martinson "Aniara 8" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Pretending the Doubleworld was acceptable - S*an D. Henry-Smith "remedies I"

Whose root claws at the midworld fire - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"

Old World.

Your otherworldliness preserved in soul - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"

Flecked with otherworldly raindrops - Joseph O. Legaspi "Imagined Love Poem to my Mother from my Father"

That otherworldly moaning glissando - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"

Daft, round-the-world steampunk wagers - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

To guide the star-worlds of eternity - Adam Mickiewicz "Mountains from the Keslov Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Underworld.

World-dust fills my eyes again - Wang An-Shih "Chants" transl. by David Hinton

A lifetime of world-dust in a single dream - Wang An-Shih "Sent to Assistant Magistrate Guide-Bell" transl. by David Hinton

A lifetime of world-dust lamenting all our struggles - Wang An-Shih "Thinking of Golden-Tomb City Long Ago" transl. by David Hinton

The world-edge, pillar for the sky-arch - H.D. "The Cliff Temple"

From out another worldflower lately flown - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]

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

( Worldly )

The god of the secret world-on-fire - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

The dark gates of that world-quelling mind - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Magnificent gifts to a world-renowned king - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Pipping the world-shell to emerge from the crater - M. Frost "Pterosaur" [Strange Horizons 22 Sept. 2025]

That watched with a world-sweeping eye - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "The Wedding at Panama"

A world-tree of balanced stones - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"

World-voices chanting grand arias - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Blown worldward upon the winds' low monotone - Charles L. Hildreth "Mithra" [Lippincott's Magazine, Nov. 1885]

There was a loud quarrel, worldwide - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Disintegrating worldwide stock markets - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"

To try the world-wide cry - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "King Philip (Pometacom)"

Where all world-wounds are healed - T.M. Kettle "Parnell"

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( Worship )

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( Woodland )

Land.

Wood/Woods/Wooden.

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( Work )

Dragons in embossed brickwork marching - William Carlos Williams "March"

A nervous brushwork of grass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"

Clockwork.

The dreamwork of trees - Lisel Mueller "Why I Need the Birds"

Their boots knew the footwork - Vickie Vertiz "Under the Spell of Conjunto"

Bundled guesswork disguised as intention - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "Our Red Road"

By guesswork with a failing torch for light - Gilbert Frankau "Gun-Teams"

Of eleven maidens the handiwork - "Valdemar and Tove (A)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Signposts in sorrow & paperwork - Stephanie Heit "Forecast"

Patchwork.

In this glittering piece-work world - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Ghost House"

Rope-work of wisteria, wands of oleander - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

Graffiti on the stonework - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

A rainbow tapework as a token of goodbye - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"

Ringing of threadwork and carpet - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"

The citrus peels our witch-work requires - Devan Barlow "A Moon Witch at the Party"

Workshop.

The work-song of the early bees - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"

( Worker )

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Shut my bramblewood door - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.2" transl. by Burton Watson

Trampled on brushwood and fern - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Hunting the King 1792"

Over her grief-torn life of brushwood hairpins - Wang An-Shih "Following Apricot-Blossom Rhymes" transl. by David Hinton

Dreamt a grove grown for coffinwood - Chase Berggrun "Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula'"

Traces scars cut deep into the dreamwood - Russell Brakefield "Mackinaw Island"

Driftwood.

Fifty years under the greenwood tree - Andrew Lang "The Brigand's Grave"

The keening of dust on hardwood - Julia Bouwsma "Upon Opening Another Folded Day"

Without a single bounce hitting the hardwood - Edward Hirsch "Fast Break"

Further down pinewoods' blood horizon - Claire Millikin "Cupboard"

Plywood.

( Sandalwood )

Cut from an awkward block of ship-wood - H.D. "Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4"

Down aisles of tangled underwood - Don Marquis "The Rondeau"

Wildwood.

( Wood/Woods )

The reluctant who turn their backs on wooded fires - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 3"

Deep in the wooded muscle of your heart - Vandana Khanna "For Some Girls It's Impossible"

And cease to haunt these wooded ways - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"

Wooden.

While eating wood-grown fruits - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.V--To a Wild Flower"

Woodland.

Before the woodman's fatal stroke - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"

When I go to fight the bear in the woodpile - Miriam Clark Potter "To the Little Girl Next Door"

Woodsmoke rising to the ashy stars - Patrick Phillips "For Paul"

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( Wolf )

When hunger-wolves are slinking near - Ralph Chaplin "The West Is Dead"

A mouse hands back a wolf-totem - Mary Jo Bang "The Cracked Jar Called Can it Be Taught"

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