Potential Titles: Come/Came

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Light comes not but shadow comes - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

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

Come into focus in his daydreams - Duane Ackerson "The Vampire's Reflection"

A flock of blackbirds that only comes back later - Duane Ackerson "What If"

And come to this chaos again - Conrad Aiken "1915: The Trenches"

Its birthday had come with a black veil - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"

Who come to her with manna - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

Come creeping trustfully your own between - Ellen Tracy Alden "Neighbor Edith"

Where people can come and go so free - Ellen Tracy Alden "Puss in a Quandary"

Come back from the echoless shore - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"

Comes floating by on the fragrant air - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"

Grief bundled or coming loose - Alise Alousi "Back to School"

Come inside my blue cocoon - Zaina Alsous "Being-Nothingness"

Out comes the broken lantern - Zaina Alsous "the subject of much debate"

Snows come and all my Isaacs die - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"

Who come to your arms for a daydream to breathe in - Mouna Ammar "Being Right Where You Are"

Dreams of a certain coming bliss - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]

And come to where all sounds are strange - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]

All the years and come and pass like human fears - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]

Come echoed on the gale to greet - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.X--Autumn, in its Second Aspect"

Come to cast my vote against your future - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

No choice but to curse the coming waters - William Archila "Beyond Bruegel's Shore"

Come back unbidden - Rae Armantrout "Unbidden"

Where great whales come sailing by - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"

Hosts of leaves come down to die - A.B. "Autumn in the Woods" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.717, 22 Sept. 1877]

Coming to the mercy seat - Julia A. Baker "Mizpah"

Night coming like wet - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"

When the end comes, we hold a beginning in our hands - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

The chilly rye and the coming hawthorn spray - Djuna Barnes "I'd Have You Think of Me"

the lonely dark comes again - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"

and questions when they come by night - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"

should my winter come at last - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"

Equipped to meet the coming gale - Ardelia Maria Barton "Tide Waits for No Man"

What comes will run us through from the front - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"

Storms sometimes never come - Kyce Bello "Far Country"

Come alive at the nod of a god grown mute - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

Coming in with thunderings and strife - Stephen Vincent Benet "Rain after a Vaudeville Show"

Gathered for processions yet to come - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"

Come into the presence of still water - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"

The void comes into form - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"

Must have come direct from Fairyland - "The Birthday Party" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]

To look past the coming night - Sherwin Bitsui "Knives Whistle"

Catches hold of what comes next to hand - Robert Blair "The Grave"

But cheat each other on the coming day - Frank Chapman Bliss writing as Octavius "The Naughty Man; or, Sir Thomas Brown"

How early darkness comes to dreams - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

A day wherein remembered sun alone comes through - Arna Bontemps "To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country"

Come back to seek the girl she was in these familiar stones - Arna Bontemps "To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country"

The sky was come upon the earth at last - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"

Sung sweet beneath the coming dawn - Jari Bradley "Boihood"

This red sound of wolves coming - William Brewer "Relapse Psalm"

Who come round our hearthstone - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"

Out of the unknown they have come - Ruth Margaret Muskrat [Bronson] "Sentenced"

Outside flick of life at the mercy of these coming winds - Nickole Brown "Mercy"

And know the exact flavor of what's to come - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Hunger comes arrayed in red plumes - Paul Cameron Brown "Desire"

Which cometh unaware - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"

Whose feet are coming behind - Robert Buchanan "The Strange Country"

Comes not the faintest whisper of dissent - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Against the coming of the wasteful flood - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

I can come without your leave - Witter Bynner "Romance"

Come to comfort when you grieve - Witter Bynner "Romance"

And come to Lethe's bank - K.A. Campbell, Jr. "About It and About"

To whom sighing comes sooner than bread - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"

Untroubled by visions of coming sorrow - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"

Clay of the kings to come - Willa Cather "The Gaul in the Capital"

But summer comes despoiled of her delight - Willa Cather "Sonnet [Alas, that June should come when thou didst go]"

Darker woe come o'er calm self-enjoying thought - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

Our breath comes out elsewhere - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"

Orioles come for the oranges - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"

Repair comes with sweetness - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"

The flood didn't come to flaw the ship - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"

When the rocks come through the holes - W.E. Christian "Hiking in the Philippines"

The bombs have come in the same temper - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"

Long dead before Hollywood dividends could ever come - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

Over still waters mildly come - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

On the throne a queen may come to claim - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Knew the transformations to come - Kai Coggin "Essence"

Where death comes to cry - Leonard Cohen "Take this Waltz"

Who comes to wash himself in death - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

Before biting winter comes - Hilda Conkling "Bluebird"

I locked out the wasteland, but they'll come - Marlane Quade Cook "Breaking"

Joy comes with the morrow - Ina Coolbrith "After the Winter Rain"

Come back half comforted - Susan Coolidge "Commissioned"

The clouds that hang above our coming years - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Golden ladies come to dance - Frances Cornford "In France"

Till morning tide comes full and free - Palmer Cox "The Brownies and the Whale"

Come along for the work is ready - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Going to Work"

Comes to a winter of sure defeat - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"

and were you very sorry to come away? - E. E. Cummings "[little tree]"

Which comes carefully out of Nowhere - E. E. Cummings "Spring is like a perhaps hand"

The angels to their harvest come - Sir William Davenant "The Christian's Reply to the Philosopher"

A rainbow and a cuckoo's song may never come together again - W.H. Davies "A Great Time"

Where scent comes forth in every breeze - W.H. Davies "Sweet Stay-at-Home"

Be present with us in the coming storms - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"

Not a whisper comes again - Walter de la Mare "The Stranger"

See all our old stitching come undone - Oliver de la Paz "Diaspora Sonnet Imagining My Father's Uncertainty and Nothing Else"

Some seasons come close to monotonous - Monica de la Torre "No mode of excitement is absolutely colorless"

I shall miss him when the flowers come - "The Dead Brother"

Come back with me to the ruins - Diana Marie Delgado "Never Mind I'm Dead"

Victory comes late - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXVI"

Come hurricane, come rip current, come toxic algal bloom - Rachel Dillon "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem"

Till rust will come upon the screw - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Come strike and feed first spark - Dom "Number Cruncher: Be the Spark"

It won't come till yesterday - Chris Dombrowski "They Knew Each Leaf Contained the Rain and Sun"

What never will come true - Marian Douglas "King and Queens"

Now your dominion comes to closure - Boris Dralyuk "The Passing of the Bungalows"

Comes upon a bleak oblivion - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

A hundred hindrances there were to my coming - Hemantabālā Dutt "Open Thou Thy Door of Mercy" transl. by Miss Whitehouse

The tyrant's smile may come again - Eliza "October" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Nor trembles for the coming shower - William Hodgson Ellis "Consider the Lilies of the Field"

Come see the north wind's masonry - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Snow Storm"

His couriers come by squadrons - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"

Come speaking into our dreams - Heid E. Erdich "Poem for Our Ojibwe Names"

Who come and go with fertile stardust - Charlie Espinosa "Sunflower Astronaut"

From three days' woe she came - Michael Field "Another Leadeth Thee"

Each time your traces come past the shadows - Annie Finch "Final Autumn"

All cast shadows come home - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"

My trifles come as treasures from my mind - "Fine Knacks for Ladies"

Wheeling and whispering come - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"

They who come faster than fate - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"

If this house should come to ruin - Sandy Florian "House"

When need and grim hunger come by - "The Flower of Nut-Brown Maids" transl. by Eleanor Hull

A raft for the coming storm - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Canyon"

Have come back to recover the dust - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 6"

Victory comes with a palm in her hand - "For the Hour of Triumph" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]

As the great abstractions come to take you away - Carrie Fountain "[You Belong to the World]"

The pinks had come with their spices sweet - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Tithing-Man"

Join hands in the dew coming coldly - Robert Frost "Asking for Roses"

Come over the hills and far with me - Robert Frost "A Line-storm Song"

Fair Yellow had come there - Zona Gale "Half Thought"

What victim comes those frowns to dare? - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

When the rain comes to erase the streets - Suzanne Gardinier "Stammering translated sonnet in which the poet sends the rains of Havana to her love in New York"

Sleep comes dreamless, undefiled - Crosbie Garstin "Nocturne"

Must always come around by Dreamland way - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "The Fairies' Ball"

I come to where everything starts - Gloria Gervitz "Migrations" [excerpt] transl. by Mark Schafer

A charm of coming eloquence - "The Ghost of Chatham"

Come wiser than the past - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"

Come with all your ghosts - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"

In sign of coming give a shout - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"

Silence coming from the sky - Louise Gluck "A Warm Day"

When you come to the listening bridge - Ingrid Goff-Maidoff "The Listening Bridge"

All warning before rupture comes - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

One set of bootprints back where two had come - Lore Graham "Absence"

And comes again like the breaking day - "Grandmother's Chair" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

Night's shades are coming - Joseph Grant "The Blackbird's Hymn Is Sweet"

The brass and gold come to life in her hands - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"

Come down from the light that blinds - Scott E. Green "Killers from the Light, Killers from the Heat"

For they come no more together - Dora Greenwell "Haymaking" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Comes with the sound of breaking chains - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [In the wet rice-swamps]"

Sixteen times had known them come - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Comes toward us with both hands - Kimberly Grey "Heroic Sentences"

Comes the faint Persephone trailing through the dew - Katherine Hale "Sign to Trespassers"

Dreams of prouder hours to come - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"

Come with offerings of wine and fruit - Han-Shan "[Have I a body or have I none?]" transl. by Burton Watson

Till a harsh change comes edging in - Thomas Hardy "The Dream Is--Which?"

Lizards coming out of rivers of lava - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: V. Explosion"

To plant the roots of coming years - Frances E.W. Harper "The Present Age"

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

When the Opportune Moment shall come - Oliver Herford "A Little Book of Bores"

We come like Kittens, and like Cats we go - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"

Must to the giver come again - Oliver Herford "William Dean Howells"

Come close to the Mojave's affection - Faylita Hicks "Self-Care"

A dragonfly keeps coming back to the same dead twig - Conrad Hilberry "Angles"

While artful shadows come and go - Jennie Earngey Hill "Distance"

Coming through the panel of death - Brenda Hillman "Reverse Seeing"

Others come from deeper hues - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"

Keeps coming back in the dream - Jane Hirshfield "Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt"

How shall I flee from wrath to come - "The History of Will Worthy and Nancy Wilmot"

To meet its golden coming - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

Of coming power and new possessions - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

Where dreams come to surface - Ismael Angaluuk Hope "Dance Practice"

Where all surrenders come - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Habit of Perfection"

What were his chances of coming through? - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Come you home a hero, or come not home at all - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad III: The Recruit"

But men may come to worse than dust - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIV"

With a thousand minstrels comes the light - William D. Howells "The Long Days"

Come with a blast of trumpets - Langston Hughes "When Sue Wears Red"

Robed in her pride she comes - ascribed to St Cellach of Killala "Hymn to the Dawn" transl. by Eleanor Hull

And weeping shades come after - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus

Death comes by way of fragments - fahima ife "spirit of the times, the spirit of death"

Than any night that day comes after - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"

Bright lipstick comes off with grease - K. Iver "1987"

don't ask me when freedom is coming - Kara Jackson "fleeing"

Such have I come to gauge my own screaming - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"

Have come home laughing from the feast for Robert Burns - Mark Jarman "My Parents Have Come Home Laughing"

Roland's song comes down from the Pyrenees - Mark Jarman "Song of Roland"

I've come so very far from nothingness - Amanda Jernigan "Years, Months, and Days"

Music coming undone - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Black Dragons"

Come you here on haunting quest - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Trail to Lillooet"

Like incense comes to me - Georgia Douglas Johnson "When I Rise Up"

Or you'll come in for blame - James Johnson "Sugar and Spice"

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

Weather invariably comes with maps - Fady Joudah "Isomers & Isotopes"

Gave forth no presage of the coming wrath - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

When we knew that no more ships would come - Raimo Kangasniemi "October 2026: The End of the Picnic"

Who had come from nowhere - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"

If the dead would come or be left a forwarding address - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

But here is the axe coming down - Janet Kauffman "Oh, Corporeal"

Don't come here with expectations - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

Some ghostly queen of spades had come to mock - John Keats "The Eve of Saint Mark"

Let them come for what's left - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"

An hundred centaurs come - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"

To come up on the future - Galway Kinnell "First Day of the Future"

Comes through the blood of the vanguards who dreamed - Rudyard Kipling "Untimely"

Misfortunes will never come single - "Kitty of Coleraine" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

You come forth like falling leaves - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blind Fish"

To turn a midnight corner & never come back - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

The little gifts of loneliness come wrapped by nervous fingers - Ted Kooser "Pocket Poem"

Promise intimate revelations to come - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Laurentia Burning"

Having come from Mithraic light - Stephen Kuusisto "Dark Joys 18"

Telling of joys that come no more - Frances Lamartine "Thistle-Down" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Then why should the dread spoiler come - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Because we can't know what comes next - Danusha Laméris "Omens"

Where the sun comes up in your chest - Alfred K. LaMotte "Gentle"

Comes the small busy sparrow - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"

By all that comes at last from fire - Michael Lauchlan "Smoke"

Only the old ghosts know I have come - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"

Lost loves come shaking ghostly heads - Ruth Lechlitner "Afterward"

I come to confiscate your love - Katy Lederer "Love"

Called upon the tide to come - Albert Lee "My Realm"

Coming as no king of terrors - Henry P. Leland "Wounded" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

Shed brightness on each coming year - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"

A few stars come out to share the witness - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

Clear comes each note and true - Amy Levy "To Sylvia"

Sometimes the paintings come to life - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

Come back made new and barking - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"

The seed that comes up outside the garden - Ada Limon "The Echo Sounder"

Come quick to the breaking - Ada Limon "Evolution"

A tribe of wonders coming - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

The wounds that come with wanderings - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Come forth upon the breast of June - Rev. William Livingston "In Cherry Lane"

How a diamond comes into a knot of flame - Audre Lorde "Coal"

Only pray laughter comes often - Audre Lorde "Today Is Not the Day"

Grapes do not come of thorns nor figs of thistles - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"

What might come of flinging oneself into thirst - Tariq Luthun "Finding Myself in the Direct Messages of Someone I Do Not Know Is in Kuwait"

To join in the shock of the coming fray - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Come down the heavenly stair - George MacDonald "The Christmas Child"

To come to me from out the past - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]

And sooner comes the dark - Dorothea Mackellar "September"

To feel the always coming on - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"

The sound of your coming feet - Fiona MacLeod "The Closing Doors"

The breeze comes odorous and bright - Donnchad Ruadh MacNamara, c.1730 "The Fair Hills of Eire" transl. by George Sigerson

Come on the wings of the gale - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: II"

On the blast of the mountain, come - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: II"

Comes down to the repulsion of electrons - Ruth Madievsky "Electrons"

Come forth at the vesper chime - E.G. Mallery "The Invitation"

A guest unwelcome come unwillingly - Douglas Malloch "Life"

To meet the coming centuries - Edwin Markham "These Songs Will Perish"

Sport for the winds that come after - Edwin Markham "The Toilers"

A plotter coming as the vulture comes - John Masefield "Esther"

Till I come to quiet moorings - John Masefield "The Golden City of St. Mary"

The full moon comes swimming from her cave - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

The wild duck come to glean - John Masefield "The Wild Duck"

Of that eternity which comes in sleep - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"

The bleating saxophones that come after - Adrian Matejka "Strange Celestial Roads"

Here you come with your open hands - Louise Mathias "The Problem of Hands"

No one ever sees a spider web coming - John McCarthy "How to Disappear"

The mystery stopped coming through - John McCarthy "On and Off Route 130, Collinsville, Illinois"

the salt dark comes late - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"

Come and grip the heart - George Marion McClellan "To Theodore"

That come and go with silent feet - John McCrae "Slumber Songs"

The breath of coming rain - John McCrae "Then and Now"

When the turn of the violet comes - Medbh McGuckian "Painting by Moonlight"

Before the sun comes warm - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."

That I am troubled when you come - Irene Rutherford McLeod "So Beautiful You Are Indeed"

When the monster disappointment comes - Frank J. Medina "Life's Reality"

The energy must come from somewhere - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"

Pleasures which can come no more - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

The coming of wrathful rain - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

What words from Wisdom come - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Deep snow from which the light comes - W.S. Merwin "Paper"

When sleep comes to close each difficult day - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"

Comes with tidings and a song - Alice Meynell "Unto Us a Son Is Given"

Come to our ignorant hearts - Alice Meynell "Veni Creator"

Where's the money to come from - "Milking Pails"

I know a winter when it comes - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Alms"

And if the seven plagues should come - Joaquin Miller "Mother Egypt"

Come back to the house of limits - Claire Millikin "City of Disappeared Girls"

Where the wind comes from - A.A. Milne "Wind on the Hill"

Comes dancing from the East - John Milton "Song on May Morning"

Who comes in beautiful decay - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

To bear the hardness coming - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Mercy Beach"

And watch the darkness come - Jim Moore "The Need Is So Great"

Life and death alike come out of the East - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"

In winds that come from all directions - Marjorie Moorhead "Head in the Clouds"

Long before the lonely night comes on - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

Nor ever scythe has come - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Phaedra"

Violent winds come to work mischief - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

When Men are come to mend their Faces - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]

Come burn for me - Francis Neilson "Jack O'Lantern"

The time for weeping will come - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

How did you come to this vinegar wind - Pablo Neruda "Elegy" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Spreading the star for those who come - Pablo Neruda "Oblivion" transl. by Donald D. Walsh

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

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

Where loiter all the coming hours - Meredith Nicholson "A Secret"

From within come tones of fear - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: V. The Hell Hole"

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

Look we still for joys to come - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Tumbleweeds coming to their doors in the night - Naomi Shihab Nye "At Portales, New Mexico"

But everything comes next - Naomi Shihab Nye "Jerusalem"

long before the buzzard comes - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"

In intuition of every day to come - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May"

Grave plans for the time to come - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Dolly" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, no.113, v.III, Feb. 27, 1886]

Know where candy bars come from - Frank O'Hara "Ave Maria"

Of four o'clocks now and to come - Frank O'Hara "Chez Jane"

Time melts when white hawks come - dg nanouk okpik "When White Hawks Come"

Come to collect utilitarian debts - Akilah Oliver "In Aporia"

Hushes the hasty footfall of coming spring - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Leaving to coming generations a record - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Coming with wolves on leashes - Gregory Orr "Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm"

Through the changing, coming years - T.S.P. "To a Little Child," [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.745, 6 April 1878]

A storm come churning through the endless sky - Lauren Parker "Miranda"

Morning comes with small reprieves - Linda Pastan "I Am Learning to Abandon the World: for M"

Some grim comfort has come my way - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"

The jezebels are coming for us - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"

Come from afar and faceless - Carl Phillips "And Swept All Visible Signs Away"

What the day must come to - Carl Phillips "Archery"

Come intending to do - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"

Sorrow cloud thy coming years - Ann Plato "Forget Me Not"

Come disguised as life - Maya C. Popa "One Way or Another"

The shapes that come in dreams - Alexander Posey "To My Wife"

And the Prince of the Wind comes out to ride - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"

My flock of dreams come home to me - Miriam Clark Potter "The Flock of Dreams"

From drowsy lands of purpleness the winds come - Miriam Clark Potter "The Twilight Man"

Come up with us in the pasture sky - Miriam Clark Potter "The Two Little Flocks"

Reach to meet the coming breeze - Miriam Clark Potter "The Windmill Country"

How many will come after me - Ezra Pound "Dum Capitolium Scandet"

Come back to the primroses again - John Presland "To J.F.W."

Of days that will come no more - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: In the Wood"

To mark the occasion of coming back - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Non-arrival"

That no rude voice from coming years may break - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

No cloud of doubt come o'er your sky - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Across my mind comes creeping - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Rustic Courting XVII: Casend Hill"

The sun comes back to wake you - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Rustic Courting XVII: Casend Hill"

Spending faster than it comes - "The Rakes of Mallow" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Whose fair mirages coming hours dispel - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Comes from hell through saintly hands - Theodore H. Rand "The Old Fisher's Song"

What harvest comes from love - Molly Raynor "Labor"

A flock of wild parakeets comes to roost - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Mano"

Fate is coming to power tomorrow - Ariana Reines "Beauty"

Come fate with her darkest, her gloomiest band - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The happiest ending that can come out of a storybook - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"

To which our tired hearts are come - Ernest Rhys "Ballad of the Buried Sword"

Some ghosts come everywhere with you - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

So briefly come together - James Richardson "Essay on the One Hand and on the Other"

As it comes in empty places - Lola Ridge "Celia"

The chill morning coming over Egypt - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Come into my tossing dust - Lola Ridge "Wind Rising in the Alleys"

Come forth from distant myths - Rainer Maria Rilke "Maidens at Confirmation" transl. by Jessie Lemont

The coming edge of the winter world - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"

All these dead coming after - Alberto Rios "November 2: Dia de los muertos"

Plans for Saturdays yet to come - Alberto Rios "To Mars from Arizona"

the golden caskets of days coming up false - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"

Happy Heart coming home from the hills - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Primrose"

Is it only the wind that comes down from the hills? - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "The Hill People"

Sadness comes in generations - Kristina Kay Robinson "Contemplating Extinction as Theme in Basquiat's 'Pez Dispenser 1984'"

Mysteries come creeping into our garden - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Good Old Days"

Comes gladly from the sea - Alice Wellington Rollins "The Eager Sun Comes Gladly from the Sea"

What comes between the dancing - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"

When hungry giants come as guests - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"

With a saving drink of iced Nepenthe comes - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Go by and come back - Carl Sandburg "Clouds"

Listen for what comes - Carl Sandburg "Ears"

Comes and touches you with a thousand memories - Carl Sandburg "Under the Harvest Moon"

Come along on the tearing blizzard tails - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

Where all they of Prometheus' stem must come - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"

Comes fraught with strange illusions - Ann K. Schwader "Frost Ghosts"

The port of dreams-come-true - Clinton Scollard "The Spectral Rowers"

When ruin comes in increments - Teresa J. Scollon "Drought Year"

Comes down as a bride to the sea - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"

Comes like a swallow veering home - Duncan Campbell Scott "Memory"

Away and toward the shore of knowing what is to come - Chet'la Sebree "An End"

If I should perish my ghost will come back - Robert W. Service "Good-Bye, Little Cabin"

Against this coming end you should prepare - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIII"

Dreaming on things to come - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVII"

Within his bending sickle's compass come - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"

Comes triumphant in his pomp and power - Edward Shanks "The Return"

Comes not back again - Taras Shevchenko "The Night of Taras" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Create trail markers for those coming behind us - Evie Shockley "job prescription"

Will come for the weak lambs' cry - Dora Sigerson Shorter "You Will Not Come Again"

Called for the evening to come - Charles Simic "The Book of Magic"

Comes slippery on ordinary days - Safiya Sinclair "Sophia the Robot Contemplates Beauty"

Through worlds they will explore over the coming years - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

The levin's blighting fire comes - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"

Benisons that come from the tempest - Clarence Victor Stahl "Blessings in Disguise"

Coming to terms with the night - A.E. Stallings "Another Bedtime Story"

A hymn should greet our coming - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

Wild winds whistle and snow is come - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Wild Wind Whistle"

The winter comes with silver sword - James Stephens "Honoro Butler and Lord Kenmare (1720)"

Justice comes all trouble to repair - James Stephens "Honoro Butler and Lord Kenmare (1720)"

Silence of a rat come out to see - Wallace Stevens "The Plain Sense of Things"

Kind folks of old, you come again no more - Robert Louis Stevenson "Home No More Home to Me"

For the shadow of coming ills - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Song of Rahero: I. The Slaying of Tamatea"

In comes the playmate that never was seen - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Unseen Playmate" [Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories (ed. by Hamilton Wright Mabie, William Byron Forbush, and Edward Everett Hale). 1927]

Even in memory come they here - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"

So come when the moon is enthroned in the sky - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"

Comes with herald clouds of dust - "Superior Nonsense Verses"

Come to bind us with a tourniquet - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 175: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Touch comes before sight - Arthur Sze "Sleepers"

Who would come out of my cocoons - Wislawa Szymborska [Untitled] transl. by Czeslaw Milosz

A night when dusk never comes - Milo K. Szyszka "A Tale of Moths and Home (of Bones and Breathing) (of Extrinsic Restrictive Lung Disease)"

Come to revel in our bowers - P.D.T. "Lost Treasures"

South winds come in season - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Matching a Poem by Secretary Kuo, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

Come with the true heart of the faithful Night - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

This is the hour when the thief will come - Keith Taylor "Statue of the Blind Girl"

Waiting for a bus that would never come - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"

a sketch of a coming dream - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

Come from the dying moon - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Sweet and Low"

I have come to the borders of sleep - Edward Thomas "Lights Out"

Sober gray to usher in the coming day - James Thomson "To My Robin Redbreast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.726, 24 Nov. 1877]

Against the arrows of the coming sun - Henry David Thoreau "Winter Memories"

Comes floating down in long vibration - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

Sweet voices come to me like light - Eunice Tietjens "To S"

The sun coming to an end - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Dead Deer"

To inherit the coming glow - Edwin Torres "One Wave Walking to Four Phase of the Moon"

And the flamingo messengers will come - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 3 A. M."

Shall softer than the dawn come stealing - Herbert Trench "I Heard a Soldier"

When the mermaid bids him come - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"

Room for all comers and plenty to spare - Nancy Byrd Turner "Apple-Tree Inn" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

beat back whatever hordes come haunting - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"

I did not come to solitude - Xavier Valcarcel "Doppelganger" transl. by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera

Their song comes backward and upside down - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Not know what house we shall come back to - Mark Van Doren "High Meadows"

Come under the trembling hedge - Mark Van Doren "Spring Thunder"

And wonder when a rain will come that way - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"

Comes one day to the minds of waiting men - Mark Van Doren "Waterfall Sound"

Unconscious of her coming dreams - Henry van Dyke "Undine"

Of coral come to life in the night - R.A. Villanueva "Archipelagic"

A fragrant dusk of coming thunder - Maximilian Voloshin "The Birth of a Poem" transl. by A. S. K. [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

That you'd come cloaked in light - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"

Peach blossoms thought only of fruit to come - Wang Chien "Palace Song" transl. by Burton Watson

Coming home to cook white stones - Wei Ying-wu "Sent to the Taoist Holy Man of Ch'uan-chiao" transl. by Burton Watson

And the past that comes no more - Edith Wharton "October"

Come not trumpet-tongued from Heaven - Edith Wharton "Opportunities"

Until my face comes into the light - Dave Whippman "Gothic Romance"

Answers never come late - Roberta Hill Whiteman "Lines for Marking Time"

Some come to us in the perfection of their frailty - Amie Whittemore "Ghosting Aubade"

I've come to a different power tonight - Amie Whittemore "Lunar Eclipse"

And he counted the long years coming - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Dawn comes with empty arms - John Wieners "For Huncke"

Comes suddenly where pain and beauty meet - Marguerite O.B. Wilkinson "To William Butler Yeats" [The Little Review v.1 no. 4, June 1914]

Their energy comes from bread - William Carlos Williams "11/1"

The wind coming that stills birds - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

I still dream of coming back to you - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"

Comes like the swallow and flies as soon - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"

Slipping in between the beauty coming and the beauty gone - William Wordsworth "Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes"

Winds come to me from the fields of sleep - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"

But trailing clouds of glory do we come - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"

Coming one knows not how or whence, nor whither going - William Wordsworth "To a Daisy"

Comes in a box with grievous dimensions - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"

Come out from the weight of the unbearable - Charles Wright "The Last Word"

Come to banish wracking pain - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]

The book of their souls has come to an end - "XX" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Nor a second time will he come - "XXIII: Ycuic Nezahualcoyotzin | Songs of the Prince Nezahualcoyotl" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Come clear of the nets - W.B. Yeats "Into the Twilight"

Peace comes dropping slow - W.B. Yeats "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

When the raven's cry comes on the night wind - Yin Shih "Parting from the Courtier Sung" transl. by Burton Watson

Until the next singularity comes along - James F. Yockey "What If"

Come dancing bitter city - Matthew Zapruder "Thank You for Being You"

If Chronos comes to Hecate's door - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

A soap doll coming to life - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Fragment"

Past view come here often - Zheng Min "A Small Room" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Creatures came coated with yolks of myth - Sheikha A. "Nesters"

Here's the exit for those who came in by mistake - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"

Fairies that came all unbidden - Ellen Tracy Alden "Lena Laughed"

And first there came a bitter laughter - William Allingham "A Dream"

Joy came as a lark - Sophie M. Almon-Hensley "Song"

some say we came from nowhere - Alise Alousi "Burnished in Future Time"

The things I came here to find - Simon Armitage "The Present"

When time came in the window - John Ashbery "The New Higher"

Who came to walk this sacred aisle - Grant Balfour "Where Union Dwelt"

After the hurricane came through - Mary Jo Bang "In This One World"

Of danger that came from caution - Mary Jo Bang "Q Is for the Quick"

Unto my dreams came stealing - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

As on zephyr wing the summons came - Cora C. Bass "May"

Came to gates of crystal - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"

A fog that came like bitter smoke - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

The answers soon came pouring in - "The Birthday Party" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]

Forth came the conquering sun - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

The timid deer in squadrons came - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"

Came a roar ten-thousand-fold - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

When our omens came to pass - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

Came back to dream on the river - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"

Came up with nothing but keepsakes of dust - Christopher Buckley "Desire"

The dream that came of the dark - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "The Dark"

To battle fierce came forth - Thomas Campbell "The Battle of the Baltic"

Never an echo came - C.P. Cavafy "Walls" transl. from modern Greek by John Cavafy

But sorrow came not - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

That old early time, when came the victor Roman - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

Came to me in a feverish vodka dream - Michael Chang "Plump Rat"

But her words never came - Victoria Chang "OBIT"

What country my breath came out in - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"

There came green devils out of the sea - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

Came ruin and the rain that burns - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

Before the Roman came to Rye - G.K. Chesterton "The Rolling English Road"

The seven heavens came roaring down - G.K. Chesterton "Wine and Water"

An owl came to my lodge - Chia Yi "Rhyme-Prose on the Owl" transl. by Burton Watson

Came to clutch my dreams at night - Lucille Clifton "david has slain his ten thousands"

the fox came every evening - Lucille Clifton "telling our stories"

I came so far for beauty - Leonard Cohen "Came so Far for Beauty"

The memories came back empty - Leonard Cohen "Never Got to Love You"

Age came upon us, grey and sad - Arthur Colton "The Roman Way"

The grieved god came not again - Susan Coolidge "The Legend of Kintu"

When broad Niagara came in sight - Palmer Cox "The Brownies at Niagara Falls"

The startled birds of night came out - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"

Morning light soon came to chase - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"

If trouble came in shape of squall - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Yacht-Race"

Shaken pears came tumbling in showers upon the ground - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"

And spring came in with silver feet - George Cronyn "A Voice"

For us, the ancestors came too early - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"

Dishonour that from slanderers came - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Most noble ladies, cherish your fair fame]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Came to continents of summer - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love X: Transplanted"

Came with less of fear - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XV: The Inevitable"

Punishment came without stint or delay - "Disobeying Mother" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Came forward like a song - Duy Doan "Duet"

And the pale moon came up silently - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Summer"

Till he came unasked by night - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

Into the night old hearts came - Louise Driscoll "Fireflies"

And grief came along for the cake - Camille T. Dungy "Notes on what is always with us"

Came as chainless as the wind - Toru Dutt "Savitri"

And as the falt'ring numbers came - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]

Came warm and burning to your dream - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"

Came unnumbered to the shore - George Allan England "One Summer Night"

Came from a land of hunger - Heid E. Erdich "One Girl"

The sunset's parting gleam came down - Marie J. Ewen "The Two Prayers" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.457, 2 Oct. 1852]

a blessed light came disrupting the blindfold - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"

Came from the mist of a future dawn - George Blackstone Field "The Mustering of the Legion"

Came to him in straits and travail sore - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Then tears came fast instead of words - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

He who came across the Atlantic flood - "Freedom's Beacon" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

From all the wood came but the owl's hoot - John Freeman "Stone Trees"

Came singly unto her place - Robert Frost "In a Vale"

Came in some laughing tongue - Zona Gale "Last Night I Dreamed I Saw My Mother Young"

From which came the smell of oblivion - Louise Gluck "The Sword in the Stone"

Since the dawn came dancing - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"

Such a number of rooks came over her head - "Good-Night and Good-Morning" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]

There came no tidings of the lost - Mrs. L.S. Goodwin "The Unsepulchred Relics"

When that call came down the wind - Mona Gould "So Fair a Season"

Where no emotion came to dance - Mona Gould "Traitor"

When smiles came oftener far than tears - J.H. "The Churchyard by the Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.8-v.I, 23 Feb. 1884]

Came shouting down the world to meet the dawn - Katherine Hale "Cun-ne-wa-bum"

From whose trusted hands came oracles - Frances E.W. Harper "The Present Age"

At last the fatal morning came - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"

The tide that came for you - Faylita Hicks "A Note to My Daughter about Water"

Rooks came home in scramble sort - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

A chill breath from heaven came - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"

To him in his old age came greatness - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

When it came to rolling nickels by - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

Came slowly down the dismal shore - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]

The truant hour came back at dawn - Emily Pauline Johnson "The King's Consort"

Your reward came from the skies - Zilka Joseph "Prophet of the Rock"

The heavy clouds came gathering - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"

Sorrowing from Eden's threshold came - Joyce Kilmer "Matin"

Came to us infinitely far - Suji Kwock Kim "Fugue"

Came not before an apple tree - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"

A flock of leaves came sobbing - Agnes Lee "The Silent House"

In case the wild horses came - Mary Soon Lee "The Sign of the King"

Shouts of acclaim from the multitude came - Henry S. Leigh "Chivalry for the Cradle No. 2--A Legend of Banbury-Cross"

But neither sleep nor vision came - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"

And the dark came out of my eyes flooding everything - Philip Levine "Breath"

But Love came not - Amy Levy "A Cross-Road Epitaph"

Came back from the broken land - Li Po "In Yuch Viewing the Past" transl. by Burton Watson

A flock of winds came winging - Alice Meynell "The Roaring Frost"

Infinity came down - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Renascence"

Ten million people came out to see - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

Singing every song that came to them - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"

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

Who with ax and serpent came - Pablo Neruda "Bombardment/Curse" translated by Richard Schaaf

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

Came down from the sky in the night - "The New Baby" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]

A twisted dream where everything came true - Alfred Noyes "Invitation to the Voyage"

Leaning on what came before - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"

Came with hands and hearts o'erflowing - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Came ashore crowned with salt and sea glass - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"

From the under-world forever came a wind - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"

The wind came out of the cloud by night - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"

Over a meadow of flowers came he - Miriam Clark Potter "Blundering Benjamin Bumble Bee"

We came to deny the surface - Khadijah Queen "Sestina for Persona"

A swallow came but you did not - Muhemmetjan Rashidin "Longing" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

Then the dark came down again between us - Paisley Rekdal "Driving to Santa Fe"

Came out with the privy stars at dusk - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"

The morning came like primroses - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Where the wolves came to drink - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"

Came with strawberry leaves in her bill - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Babes in the Woods"

Their gilded galleys came home from a hundred seas - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

And he came from a hundred battles - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"

To the stars from which he came - George William Russell "Reconciliation"

Inscribed by those who came before - Erika L. Sanchez "All of Us"

Temptation came to me today - Margaret E. Sangster "'Be of Good Cheer!'"

The colors came with the smell of burning - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"

The cold came creeping - Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen "Dream of the Tundra Swan"

When he came from unknown skies - Dora Sigerson "All-Souls' Night"

Came on my dream in thunder - Clark Ashton Smith "The Retribution"

Where the Mammoth came to drink - Langdon Smith "Evolution"

To our door came the thrushes - Jean M. Snyder "Guests"

Came back clanging about my ears - George Soule "Solitude"

Came to clear out my dreams - Juliana Spahr "Ode to Goby"

Came with the tokens of wrath - E. Clementine Stedman "A Winter Scene"

The bird came for the grains that fell - James Stephens "The Horse"

How like an Angel came I down - Thomas Traherne "Wonder"

Came to us from the edge of a spear - "The Tryst After Death" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Came out of the void beyond Jupiter - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Paradise until the freeze came killing - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Cahuilla Bird Songs"

Knew not whence the magic came - Mrs. Alaric Watts "The Ship's First Voyage" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.452, 28 Aug. 1852]

With the host of heaven came - Blanco White "Night and Death"

To me alone there came a thought of grief - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"

That came centuries after the hour - Jenny Xie "Present Continuous"

Came and were gone - William Butler Yeats "Cuchulain Comforted"

Into my circled light they came - Francis Brett Young "Moths"


To live in the come-and-go of things - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie II"

The motown long plays for the comeback of Osiris - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

Like home-coming swallows that seek the old eaves - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "In an Album"


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