Potential Titles: Blood
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somethingdarkerSown in blood and tears - A.L.O.E. "New Year's Hymn: Written at the Time of the Indian Mutiny, 1857"
And drive its blood in dream - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
A shadow on a map of blood - Elmaz Abinader "After Breakfast"
Siphon the blood that rushes upward - Elmaz Abinader "In the Throat III: Mind to Gut"
The blood a trickling fire - George Abraham "Essay on Submission"
Spill blood transported from across the world - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
The planet's blood is on our hands - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
When blood is black roses - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"
Let the blue light wash away the blood - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Whose blood mixed with the white sands - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Trophies brought from the bloody field - Ellen Tracy Alden "Princess Gerda"
Drew blood to fill our cups of dream-dark wine - Mike Allen "Ascending"
A little blood left dripping on the holly - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"
Fields of mud and blood and blue - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Have traded in gold and blood - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
In dirt damp with blood and tears - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees | ورثنا أشجار"
Like words, like truth, like blood - Leslie J. Anderson "In the Valley of Midas"
Earth's reddest vintage of blood - "The Angels of War" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
In my glass is blood of kings - T.H.W. Armstrong "Heritage"
Rain of blood and wreath of flame - Sir Edwin Arnold "The First Distribution of the Victoria Cross (June 26, 1857)"
A memory lurking in our blood - Fatimah Asghar "For Peshawar"
A dance of strangers in my blood - Fatimah Asghar "If They Come for Us"
If drops of blood are made from pearls - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The blood of its victims dying and dead - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"
Distracted by my blood - James Baldwin "Inventory/On Being 52"
Just experience, mixed with blood - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
My mother's blood and my father's name - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Blood, too, can change - Rita Banerjee "Sleep"
From blood you come to blood you go - Mary Jo Bang "Catastrophe Theory II"
Granite with blood in its veins - Mary Jo Bang "The Mirror"
For the blood that is their bread - Maurice Baring "August, 1918"
Blood can have the last word - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
be the blood within my bone - Elizabeth Bartlett "guadalajara"
The blood written record of deeds - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Poem"
The guilty land is washed in innocent blood - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
Like this my blood measures its flowing - Charles Baudelaire "The Fountain of Blood" transl. by Rachel Hadas
Through which no blood but brackish Lethe seeps - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Blood with the same taste as mine - Jan Beatty "Report from the Skinhouse"
Freedom's drums in the blood of the world - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"
Bloody coins from hands cut through - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Down in a mud of blood and dirt and wine - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Of blood & saltwater prayer - Joshua Bennett "Praise House"
I arrived through my mother's mingling blood - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Black Pastoral"
Who swam to sovereign rule through seas of blood - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Runs in blood down palace walls - William Blake "London"
Midnight darkness, crimes, and blood - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
The shadow blood leaves - Tommye Blount "Then Practice Losing Farther; Losing Faster"
The bruised & bloodied vocabularies of the urban night - Bruce Boston "The Lesions of Genetic Sin"
Lands on a trail of blood kisses - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "A Tale of Collaboration"
The whispered secret of a deed of blood - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
Till the blood leaked out in code - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"
Squandered blood on beaches - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
These cactus spines smeared with blood - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
The doors of my heart leak blood - William Brewer "We Burn the Bull"
A cold conspiracy of blood and springwater - Geoffrey Brock "The Rat Snake Gospel"
Before whom our blood traveled uncharted paths - Deborah Brown "Reprise"
A single anthem of blood - Jericho Brown "Good White People"
Drinking from the bloody river - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"
And taste a stain like blood - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"
Dear singing river full of my blood - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"
Running from the freedom of my own blood - Mahogany L. Browne "Goodnight, Moon"
Tormented by the quickened blood - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh"
With all his blood turned lead - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"
The two sides of her heart exchanging blood - Sue Budin "Spacecraft"
My blood between them and their enemies - Francis Burrows "The Unforgotten"
They pay not toll of their gold or blood - Frank Oliver Call "The Indifferent Ones"
How blood faithfully takes - Kayleb Rae Candrilli "One Geography of Belonging"
Teeth tearing bloodily at the sky's throat - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"
No more stern deeds of blood - Robert Chambers "The Ladye that I Love" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Who saved a bloody heritage for us in times departed - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
The deed must be in tears of blood repented - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
indissoluble as blood impassioned - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"
Where blood must spill and bones break - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"
With skin and ink, blood and smoke - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
Over the thrones of doom and blood - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"
Some moment when the moon was blood - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"
With a DNA sequence of bullets & blood - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"
A commotion in the air and in the blood - John Ciardi "Abundance"
Who will replace the blood of my mother in me - Lisa Ciccarello "A Water Woman Has No Body"
have learned the taste of blood - Lucille Clifton "enemies"
the black blood under the earth - Lucille Clifton "shadows"
The restorative pulsing of the blood - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XII"
Have wasted my blood in aimless love - Leonard Cohen "The Way Back"
As ancient as my blood - Donte Collins "Prayer Severing the Cycle"
The blight of dead leaves in the blood - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
Summon gold and crimson, bright as dyed in blood - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Forcing the blood into forgetfulness - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan
In a mist of saccharine blood - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Consults the GPS"
Bastard mushrooms sprung from a pollution of blood - Stephen Crane "War Is Kind"
Dear companion of my heart's shed blood - Adelaide Crapsey "White Rose"
tongue stained in mulberry blood - jason b crawford "Untitled 1975-86"
In a courtyard slicked by rain and blood - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"
That burning heart of blood to spend - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"
No blood drip from a wounded moon - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The sharp and thirsty blood of Paris - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
Adroit blood's mysterious skein - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
Dust, through which proud blood once flowed - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
With daring eyes of flesh and blood - T.A. Daly "To a Plain Sweetheart"
Blood, wine, and glee - "The Dance of the Sword" (Translated by Tom Taylor)
A bloody kiss at thirty paces - Jim Daniels "Slaughter Ball"
Blood supplemented with Edison and Tesla's currents - Kyle Dargan "Dear Echo" [Poetry Feb. 2016]
From all the aeons' blood and fire - Fanny Stearns Davis "Profits"
The privacy of blood - Geffrey Davis "Hear the Light"
The blood of survivors coursing through my veins - Kwame Dawes "Land Ho"
A tenure of chaos and blood - Ajanae Dawkins "How to Witness a Miracle Without Converting"
When Rome's ambition dyed the world with blood - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Buy it with blood, and fire, and ruin wide - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
And circle in the dark of his blood - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"
Blood running its wires of flame - Toi Derricotte "Elegy for my husband"
Tastes blood from imaginary wounds - Mark Dimaisip "Housekeeping Duties"
Blood rush of the creek - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"
A newer moon will mesh the blood - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"
North is greed and South is blood - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Stuck to the blood and the pulse - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"
Pumping diluted blood - Marilyn Dumont "Leather and Naughahyde"
Since her fear is my blood - Cornelius Eady "My Heart"
Skin walls and blood rivers - Peg Edera "Harbors of Miracle"
In the story of my blood - Elaine Equi "Autobiographical Poem"
Blood river once between you - Heid E. Erdich "Microchimerism"
Red blood of hunger - Heid E. Erdich "Vial"
With blood by guilty angels shed - The Ettrick Shepherd "A Witch's Chant"
Then blood gurgled down the corners, the streets and the rivers - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "In One Sentence"
Fire in my blood and breath - Eleanor Farjeon "The Moral"
remember a forever summer in my blood - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"
And my shadow grows deeper than blood - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"
Left a heap behind, of ashes slaked in blood - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
To be built in our blood - Nick Flynn "Homily"
The museum of my blood - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 14"
Through the blood trees within us - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"
A brother's blood cries for vengeance - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Wolf blood and Fenrir lines that chill the bone - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"
Write his name nine times in blood ink - Robert Frazier "Primer to Impractical Magic"
All the blood is musical - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"
Those little economies of the blood - Tess Gallagher "Sad Moments"
Our hearts' blood had bought her - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Forever etched in their blood - Nikita Gill "Ares, After"
Blood of the witches you thought were dead - Nikita Gill "Witch"
A throne cast in blood and terror - Nikita Gill "Young Zeus: The Crossroads"
From the blood of incalculable planets - Nikita Gill "Your Heart Is Not a Hospital"
Sweetness and tears so blended in our blood - Howard Glyndon "Seniority" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
The fierce extremes of dalliance and of blood - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
The day that ends its reign of blood and fear - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [In the wet rice-swamps]"
Blood shines on the breast of a cloud - Nicolás Guillén "Exile" transl. by Roberto Marquez and David Arthur McMurray
Languid jungles chained by bloody roots - Nicolás Guillén "Rivers" transl. by Roberto Marquez and David Arthur McMurray
With blood of some high-making passion - Ivor Gurney "The Day of Victory"
Of the blood where the pulses are - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On Ne Badine Pas Avec La Mort"
Promises glued together with blood - Joy Harjo "The Bloodletting"
The bloodied, the self-righteous, and the forsaken - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Lights the map printed with the blood of history - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Who were maps drawn of blood - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
The ways the stars entered your blood - Joy Harjo "What Music"
A promise not to draw blood - francine j. harris "the road to jackson has orchids"
Whose book of life reads blood and gold - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LV"
A cell of brown and bloody earth - F.W. Harvey "The Sleepers"
Lamp swollen with wine and blood - Anne Hebert "The Tomb of Kings" transl. by Kathleen Weaver
Wipe away the blood and the betadine - Mary Hickman "If the Heart Does Not Restart"
Seven years' worth of blood moons - Faylita Hicks "Photo of X, 2010: A Box of Wine"
Blood brother to the snow angels - Bob Hicok "Grooming"
Blinds the eyes with blood and vengeance - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
Leaving her blood a river of fire - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Screams for blood but not for yours - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXIX"
Hungering in the blood garden - Andrew Hudgins "The Snake"
Older than the flow of human blood - Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Once drunk with blood - Percy Adams Hutchison "The Swordless Christ"
Stamina in anger and blood - Carly Inghram "The Detrimental Years of Becoming a Young Woman"
The partridge red with blood of the hawk - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
Mixes with the blood of the flea - Lucy Ives "First Husband"
my costumes made of blood - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"
His eyelashes wept blood - Jami "Salaman and Absal: The Burning of Absal" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald
Salt stirs up blood - Allison Eir Jenks "Underwater Grave"
Distanced itself and sang of its guilty blood - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"
Lurks mercurial in the blood - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "As in ... Afro-Pessimism?"
His quarter of spoiled blood - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83"
So many garlands of blood - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Line of Reason"
The Gorgons weep blood - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Tar Baby"
The best that blood contains - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Riders of the Plain"
With the crying blood of millions - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"
Red Wind of blight and blood - Lionel Johnson "The Red Wind"
the eye of God was made with blood - Ashley M. Jones "HOLYHEADHARRIET"
Blossom bloody on an afternoon - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"
Blood rising under the Andes - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"
The moment I bound with your blood - Fady Joudah "Oxygen"
Dip me whole into the sweet blood - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"
Sleepy creatures of blood & fog - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"
Orderly cupboards filled with blood - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"
Whatever unannounced whiteout blizzard hits our blood - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"
Your blood in my veins - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
From the same aching blood - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
The ore in my blood - Donika Kelly "Archaeology"
Comes through the blood of the vanguards who dreamed - Rudyard Kipling "Untimely"
The road before this of blood - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"
Searching for property lines drawn in blood - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Paint a dark, salty blood of surreal skies & wet soil - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
Ghost organs blush without blood - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"
Thin flesh, narrow bones, slow blood - Alfred Kreymborg "Initials"
The swan of samite blood - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"
Of kings, fools, blood, and broken cities - Michael Lauchlan "Reading Herodotus"
A communion of that sprung blood - Rickey Laurentiis "Epithalamion"
But the blood has suspended its timbre - D.H. Lawrence "Evolutions of Soldiers"
They anoint their brows with your blood - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
Blossoms of gold and blossoms of blood - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Color and blood and life and truth - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
A jug of bloody milk, poured - Aimee Le "My Winter of Acid"
Bridges and blood boiled white - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"
Thimbles of blood and bite - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"
Toward a horizon of pure blood - Philip Levine "Library Days"
The cloud that formed above the rivers of our blood - Philip Levine "Picture Postcard from the Other World"
Colder than the blood in my heart - M.L. Liebler "Winter Meditation"
None of your blood will bring a flower - Gary Copeland Lilley "Unmarked Grave"
Barracuda in the blood - Ada Limon "Fin"
Our bodies of bronze and blood - Ada Limon "Not Enough"
Tortured lungs adapting to breathe blood - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"
Seek no favor untouched by blood - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"
Veiling with garlands Moloch's bloody stone - James Russell Lowell "Bankside"
News printed in blood - Mina Loy "Love Songs (section III)"
Blood stains on the bushes and thorns - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson
Vain is the blood of rare and spotless herds - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
To match our blood against the cold - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
As she culls the blood red rose - E.M. "Part II. The Garden of Sleep"
Holds the memory of blood - Alice MacDonell "Culloden Moor"
Red lightning through my blood - James Clarence Mangan "Dark Rosaleen"
As the blood runs from their faces - Mack W. Mani "Trans Rage 2: The Reckoning"
Their mills and their bloody hands - Don Marquis "The Child and the Mill"
Who stained the slopes with bloody feet - Don Marquis "The Comrade"
Put blood of roses in his veins - Don Marquis "A Dream Child"
Mock our own blood on the thorns - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"
Old blood dripping from their lips - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
Swollen mouths sucked blood from their divinity - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
My blood burns on the stones - John Masefield "A Dramatic Poem: Madman"
A tune for the blood to jig to - John Masefield "Tewkesbury Road"
Dyed in blood, tangled in dreams - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"
The gold from my blood - Pages Matam "Spoiled Child"
A whim that ordains blood - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
Imperial in purple, gold and blood - Theodore Maynard "The Return"
Blood of winter, color of rye - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"
The threading of breath and blood - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Kings and jeweled blood - Michael McGriff "Inversion"
Hidden chambers in the blood - Leslie McIntosh "ANAMNESIS"
To stir my fluent blood - Claude McKay "Absence"
Like tides into my blood - Claude McKay "America"
Into a heaven of blood waltzes - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"
Homeward borne upon a bloody shield - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
The mystery of breath and blood - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"
Risen from conflict of blood - Louis J. McQuilland "The Song of the Flag"
Not a sign of the torch in the blood - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Speaks from failing blood - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"
Rose in brain from rose in blood - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
That through blood run sane - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
A blood kinship with rain - W.S. Merwin "Coming to the Morning"
Youth of abounding blood - Alice Meynell "The Unexpected Peril"
Further down pinewoods' blood horizon - Claire Millikin "Cupboard"
Unstained with hostile blood - John Milton "Hymn: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"
Through Bermuda triangles of blood - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fibroids"
How does blood forget - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Transfusions"
Its blood dried up with treason's fever-taint - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
And the summer fire my blood - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"
Red with redundance of blood - "My Dark Rosaleen" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
because I called down blood rains - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
In the condors' bloody talons - Pablo Neruda "America" transl. by Jack Schmitt
In the bloody silk of the poppy - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: XXXIX" transl. by William O'Daly
Written in fox blood - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Tomorrow will rain blood - Pablo Neruda "Cortes" transl. by John Felstiner
Joined the threads of my blood - Pablo Neruda "Epithalamium" transl. by Donald D. Walsh
Lashed my blood with her tail of fire - Pablo Neruda "The Fickle One" transl. by Donald D. Walsh
Your bloody firefly eyes - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
These sacred names drained of their blood - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly
Of ancient blood devoured by the jaguars' snouts - Pablo Neruda "Guatemala" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Changed forever by the light of blood - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1936)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Dying at the contact of your electric blood - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Made fire of blood and flint - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Splattered with blood & misfortune - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Walt Whitman" transl. by Greg Simon
Bloody roses and goblets of ashes - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Divided up the blood and tears - Pablo Neruda "The Red Line" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The valiant ship of snow and blood - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Blood of old supplications - Pablo Neruda "So that You Will Hear Me" transl. by W.S. Merwin
Blood from the fountain of your soul - Pablo Neruda "Song on the Death and Resurrection of Luis Companys" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Drained her immense tree of blood - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
An immense tear of blood and lead - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Distilled blood from its crown - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Pervaded by blood and metal - Pablo Neruda "What Spain Was Like" translated by John Felstiner
The rebels that shout in your blood - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"
Fresh dawning after the dews of blood - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"
Of blood, of mud, of wise men - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Confessional"
The soldier's cup of anguish, blood, and gall - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Dead II. Boy"
A flame chafes in our blood - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
blood dripping on my begonias - Emory Noakes "In Which My Grandma Kicks Ass and Takes Names During the Zombie Apocalypse"
Breathing sawdust and fresh blood - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard II: Malesherbes and the Black Milestones"
Many-jointed fingers with the blood at the corners - Maura O'Dea "Dad Explains Dimensions at Outback Steakhouse"
Birth & blood is the rose - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
Blood thins to Gods' ichor - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
A tempest of the blood pulsing - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"
Wearing a little necklace of blood pearls - Gregory Orr "The Teeth of Sleep"
Your blood commanded soldiers - Ekhmetjan Osman "My Love" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
Poisoned blood in a long constellation - Jena Osman "Dissent and the Hydra"
Blood on the hearth, and blood in the well - John Oxenham "Macedonia, 1903"
To dress all in red and blood - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"
Blood brother to silence - Linda Pastan "The moon"
With an impulse of the blood - Walter S. Percy "Paupack"
My blood is a zone of dispute - Kiki Petrosino "N/Ought"
White blood appearing from warm air - Kiki Petrosini "Terrorem"
To steal blood from stone - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
I see His blood upon the rose - Joseph Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"
Even if blood must sign your name - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"
Floating on a wave of blood - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Of a chase ending in blood - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"
Beat its blood through thin chambers - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"
Write in blood or don't bother - Sina Queyras "The Applicant"
Write these pages with heart's blood - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"
Who forged the rivers in my blood - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Passe Blanc"
Blood of earth's wild pulsing veins - Theodore H. Rand "Sea Music"
The frost of selfish blood - Theodore H. Rand "Song-Waves"
The shores became the color of clear crystals and blood - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"
A fey thin singing in his blood - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
A bitter wine out of the bloody stills of the world - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Like the blood of elderberries - Lola Ridge "Iron Wine"
With your eyes bloody as the sunset - Lola Ridge "To Larkin"
sacrifice to some stoned possession for blood spent - Ed Roberson "once the magnolia has blossomed"
Washed out of the world with fire and blood - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
As with spilt blood of kings - Alice Wellington Rollins "October"
Dances with my blood - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"
All values extended into the blood - Muriel Rukeyser "Reading Time: 1 Minute 26 Seconds"
what this city of smoke & blood has to tell - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"
Coursing blood instead of light - R.S. Saha "Kin"
that praise what blood buys - C.T. Salazar "River"
Could answer the metronomes of blood - Carl Sandburg "They Met Young"
The blood of nature's spilling - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"
Boiled down all his blood to brine - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Who fills the future with your own blood - Ollie Schminkey "The First Rule of Buoyancy"
Autumn enters my blood early - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #84"
Not bound here by blood or bone - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #93"
Entropy incarnate in the blood - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"
With tongues of blood & faith & prophecy - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
Why the iron that marks our blood is restless - Ann K. Schwader "To Theia"
Though Homer knew the power of dark blood - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"
A group of silver birches, bursting into blood - Duncan Campbell Scott "The Fifteenth of April"
Topple and reel upon my burning blood - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"
Bring their prize assassins to the bloody work - Robert W. Service "The Dreamer"
The bloody spur cannot provoke him - William Shakespeare "Sonnet L"
The vascular trauma of hurt in my blood - Prageeta Sharma "Lateral Violence"
Wearing a jacket of blood - Brenda Shaughnessy "Nachtraglichkeit"
Blaze a trail in blood - Virna Sheard "The Shells"
Brazen chariots stained with blood - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Charged with bloody coin - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Blind in blood - Percy Bysshe Shelley "England in 1819"
Our blood and state are shadows - James Shirley "The Same"
we seed the world with blood - Evie Shockley "du bois in ghana"
blood turned against itself - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
blood spilt on the ground does not know how to be silent - ire'ne lara silva "what the ghosts of las adelitas say in the afterlife part 1"
a question toward blood sweetened lips - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"
Blood on leather, a rain of shadows - Marge Simon "Spacers' Prison"
A bloody lance of heaven's displeasure - Emily Smith "Such Monstrous Births"
Numb to our bloodied histories - Patricia Smith "Building Nicole's Mama"
Swim backwards in circles of blood - Frank Stanford "Cotton You Lose in the Field"
Hands still faithful to his blood - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Penelope"
Whose ancient salt is in our blood - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
With what blood of wars divine - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
And scarlet trumpets pealing in the blood - George Sterling "That Walk in Darkness"
Once sighted over seas of blood - George Sterling "To the Goddess Liberty"
Whose is the blood in thy broken chalice? - George Sterling "You Never Can Tell"
Even as the blood of an empire - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
And mingled with blood of the vine - Charles Warren Stoddard "The Bells of San Gabriel"
The blood of my father the oak - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
A ghost of blood and granite - Arthur Stringer "Dreamers"
Of your own nervous blood - Dao Strom "Instrument"
Night runs in my blood - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
My Grail is blood at midnight - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
First rapture of our wild, estranging blood - Muriel Stuart "The Father"
Twilight is in my blood - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"
Through the torture of water and blood - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 214: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Gave their last blood to birds - Alison Swan "After Reading The Late, Great Lakes"
Washed in tears, in blood, in rivers of despair - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
Could wear blood like apples do - Mary Szybist "Withdrawal"
A bloodied clutch of crowns - Sonya Taaffe "Radio Banquo"
With the heart's blood of the three worlds - Rabindranath Tagore "Urvasi"
Scattering salt on our blood - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini
Brought me blood from the sliced streets - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini
if hunger abides in your blood - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
painted with blood & constant fear - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
The vine's bright blood shall crown the bowl - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Carrying a stolen spot of my blood - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"
Cast her own spell of bloom and blood - Shveta Thakrar "Shadowskin"
Poppied epics, flushed with blood and wrong - Maurice Thompson "Sonnet [I saw a garden-bed on which there grew]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.100, April. 1876]
Knuckles bared for blood and bone - Russell Thorburn "Tracking the Wolf"
To unbox, detox, and de-clutter your blood - Samantha Thornhill "38. Shedding the Old"
Serving the strong suggestions of my blood - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: IX"
Dyed with blood and dreams - Iris Tree "[The adored, wild, strange, irresistible]"
And queens have bought with blood and beauty - Iris Tree "[I can but give thee unsubstantial things]"
Blood of the rose and hyacinth - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"
The trace of blood on the thorn - Perhat Tursun "The Heart" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Cradle the cry of my blood - Malka Heifetz Tussman "Mount Gilboa" transl. by Marcia Falk
Scrawled out in blood and carousel - Morris Tyler "The Bells of Antwerp"
Heard her heart's blood drip - Katherine Tynan "The Little Ghost"
Has left my braggart blood - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"
Like a conquering army through my blood - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
The bloody words of ruffian war - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
Monsters basking in our blood - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Blood the skies like a storm of Gods - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Proof of where the hot blood sang - Emily van Kley "Rules of the Game"
Pulled blood to salt - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Who Waits at the Lake"
Blood thin as a widow's tears - Ocean Vuong "Thanksgiving 2006"
The blood in his veins was flowing cold - Wa Wa Chaw "The Trial of the Mission Indian"
Here stands alone the grail of Adam's blood - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"
New peoples write--in blood--their name - J. Wareham "The Trojan War, 1915" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
A bloodied mosquito on your brow - Rosanna Warren "Man in Stream"
This tempest of my boiling blood - Thomas Warton Jr. "Ode to Sleep"
That redder rain on bloody Marston Moor - "The Watchword" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
And turn our thoughts on deeds of blood - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Every atom of my blood - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
What wild-fire's this which rages in your blood - "The Whore"
Licked a bloodied paw with a nettle tongue - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: High"
For blood and wine are red - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
By the god of blood - William Carlos Williams "Con Brio"
Land of wind-swept plains and blood - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"
Their blood full of ashes - Charles Wright "The Children of the Plain"
In a werewolf's cry to the moon and the blood - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"
Ignorance limited to the demons flowing in their blood - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"
Blowing through my blood - W.B. Yeats "Maid Quiet"
the body a dichotomy of flesh and blood - Monica Youn "Self-Portrait in a Wire Jacket"
A tracing of lightning, fire or blood in the body - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]
Half libidinous ether, half dirt full of soldiers' blood - Dean Young "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green"
In the reek of iodine and blood - Francis Brett Young "After Action"
Beasts that prey with bloody claw - Francis Brett Young "Bete Humaine"
Live in the hollows of my blood - Matthew Zapruder "Brooklyn with a New Beginning"
To turn my blood into thread - Matthew Zapruder "Little Voice"
Black-blooded as the oil plumes - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Sung in Dirt"
Pouring bubbles into your own bloodbath - Andrea Gibson "Your Life"
Each barefoot trip through your bloodbath house - Bettina Judd "on empathy"
Know the bloodbath we inhabit - R.T. Smith "Still Life: From the Notebook of Ambrose Bierce, 1862"
Bureaucracy and blood-borne grudge - Linda Gregerson "Cranes on the Seashore"
Trembling for a blood-bought crown - Francis Blake Crofton "The Battle-Call of Anti-Christ"
Blood cells glinting into oblivion - Arianna Monet "I'm rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time"
Blood-colored rust rubbed into my hands - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"
Broken chains, lying cankered with old blood-drops - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
In a bloodflow motion - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"
They bloom blood-flowers in the tearful dew - "Adonium" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]
And blood-frosted cake - Patricia Smith "Speak Now, Or Forever, Hold Your Peace"
The blood-grapes drip for you drinking - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
Bloodless.
A woman with a mindful of fog and bloodletting claws - Adrienne Rich "Apology"
Where bloodlines and rivers are woven together - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
Blood-lit veins on leaves left quivering - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"
Carry a bloodmap for a lost country - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"
Through which aspires the blood-metal of stars - Toi Derricotte "The Blessed Angels"
Faded computations erased by the light of blood moons - River "The Egg" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]
Blood-Red.
Bloodrust fire, fleshtorn ground - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
The blood-script of tall grass - Janet Kauffman "By the Time You Think Weaponry"
Thought all bloodshed would be pastel - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"
Bent on bullets and bloodshed - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Cattle Thief"
Hundreds will tour the bloodshot house - Ama Codjoe "If They Come in the Morning"
Their bloodshot octaves of consequence - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"
Look through history's bloodshot eyes - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
A blood-shot eye in the black mask of night - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"
The oil and the blood-smeared cobalt - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
The demons climbed from the blood-soaked soil - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
A blood-spot on the page of time - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"
Bloodstain.
Bloodstream
Give me back my dirty claws and blood-warm horns - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
Cold-blooded, faint-hearted changeling - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "Bruce's Address"
Eloquence, pathos, or wit in cold blood - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"
Life-blood in the trench Ulysses made - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Shadow"
Whose pulses play with fullest life-blood - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"
Wanting a transfusion of the reader's life blood - Diane Seuss "Toad"
A call that made the life-blood leap - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "The First American Alliance"
Nothing in nature now remains unblooded - Charles Baudelaire "The Fountain of Blood" transl. by Rachel Hadas
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And drive its blood in dream - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
A shadow on a map of blood - Elmaz Abinader "After Breakfast"
Siphon the blood that rushes upward - Elmaz Abinader "In the Throat III: Mind to Gut"
The blood a trickling fire - George Abraham "Essay on Submission"
Spill blood transported from across the world - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
The planet's blood is on our hands - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
When blood is black roses - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"
Let the blue light wash away the blood - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Whose blood mixed with the white sands - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Trophies brought from the bloody field - Ellen Tracy Alden "Princess Gerda"
Drew blood to fill our cups of dream-dark wine - Mike Allen "Ascending"
A little blood left dripping on the holly - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"
Fields of mud and blood and blue - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Have traded in gold and blood - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
In dirt damp with blood and tears - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees | ورثنا أشجار"
Like words, like truth, like blood - Leslie J. Anderson "In the Valley of Midas"
Earth's reddest vintage of blood - "The Angels of War" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
In my glass is blood of kings - T.H.W. Armstrong "Heritage"
Rain of blood and wreath of flame - Sir Edwin Arnold "The First Distribution of the Victoria Cross (June 26, 1857)"
A memory lurking in our blood - Fatimah Asghar "For Peshawar"
A dance of strangers in my blood - Fatimah Asghar "If They Come for Us"
If drops of blood are made from pearls - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The blood of its victims dying and dead - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"
Distracted by my blood - James Baldwin "Inventory/On Being 52"
Just experience, mixed with blood - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
My mother's blood and my father's name - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Blood, too, can change - Rita Banerjee "Sleep"
From blood you come to blood you go - Mary Jo Bang "Catastrophe Theory II"
Granite with blood in its veins - Mary Jo Bang "The Mirror"
For the blood that is their bread - Maurice Baring "August, 1918"
Blood can have the last word - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
be the blood within my bone - Elizabeth Bartlett "guadalajara"
The blood written record of deeds - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Poem"
The guilty land is washed in innocent blood - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
Like this my blood measures its flowing - Charles Baudelaire "The Fountain of Blood" transl. by Rachel Hadas
Through which no blood but brackish Lethe seeps - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Blood with the same taste as mine - Jan Beatty "Report from the Skinhouse"
Freedom's drums in the blood of the world - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"
Bloody coins from hands cut through - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Down in a mud of blood and dirt and wine - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Of blood & saltwater prayer - Joshua Bennett "Praise House"
I arrived through my mother's mingling blood - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Black Pastoral"
Who swam to sovereign rule through seas of blood - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Runs in blood down palace walls - William Blake "London"
Midnight darkness, crimes, and blood - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
The shadow blood leaves - Tommye Blount "Then Practice Losing Farther; Losing Faster"
The bruised & bloodied vocabularies of the urban night - Bruce Boston "The Lesions of Genetic Sin"
Lands on a trail of blood kisses - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "A Tale of Collaboration"
The whispered secret of a deed of blood - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
Till the blood leaked out in code - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"
Squandered blood on beaches - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
These cactus spines smeared with blood - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
The doors of my heart leak blood - William Brewer "We Burn the Bull"
A cold conspiracy of blood and springwater - Geoffrey Brock "The Rat Snake Gospel"
Before whom our blood traveled uncharted paths - Deborah Brown "Reprise"
A single anthem of blood - Jericho Brown "Good White People"
Drinking from the bloody river - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"
And taste a stain like blood - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"
Dear singing river full of my blood - Jericho Brown "Langston Blue"
Running from the freedom of my own blood - Mahogany L. Browne "Goodnight, Moon"
Tormented by the quickened blood - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh"
With all his blood turned lead - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"
The two sides of her heart exchanging blood - Sue Budin "Spacecraft"
My blood between them and their enemies - Francis Burrows "The Unforgotten"
They pay not toll of their gold or blood - Frank Oliver Call "The Indifferent Ones"
How blood faithfully takes - Kayleb Rae Candrilli "One Geography of Belonging"
Teeth tearing bloodily at the sky's throat - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"
No more stern deeds of blood - Robert Chambers "The Ladye that I Love" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Who saved a bloody heritage for us in times departed - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
The deed must be in tears of blood repented - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
indissoluble as blood impassioned - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"
Where blood must spill and bones break - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"
With skin and ink, blood and smoke - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
Over the thrones of doom and blood - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"
Some moment when the moon was blood - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"
With a DNA sequence of bullets & blood - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"
A commotion in the air and in the blood - John Ciardi "Abundance"
Who will replace the blood of my mother in me - Lisa Ciccarello "A Water Woman Has No Body"
have learned the taste of blood - Lucille Clifton "enemies"
the black blood under the earth - Lucille Clifton "shadows"
The restorative pulsing of the blood - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XII"
Have wasted my blood in aimless love - Leonard Cohen "The Way Back"
As ancient as my blood - Donte Collins "Prayer Severing the Cycle"
The blight of dead leaves in the blood - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
Summon gold and crimson, bright as dyed in blood - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Forcing the blood into forgetfulness - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan
In a mist of saccharine blood - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Consults the GPS"
Bastard mushrooms sprung from a pollution of blood - Stephen Crane "War Is Kind"
Dear companion of my heart's shed blood - Adelaide Crapsey "White Rose"
tongue stained in mulberry blood - jason b crawford "Untitled 1975-86"
In a courtyard slicked by rain and blood - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"
That burning heart of blood to spend - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"
No blood drip from a wounded moon - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The sharp and thirsty blood of Paris - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
Adroit blood's mysterious skein - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
Dust, through which proud blood once flowed - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
With daring eyes of flesh and blood - T.A. Daly "To a Plain Sweetheart"
Blood, wine, and glee - "The Dance of the Sword" (Translated by Tom Taylor)
A bloody kiss at thirty paces - Jim Daniels "Slaughter Ball"
Blood supplemented with Edison and Tesla's currents - Kyle Dargan "Dear Echo" [Poetry Feb. 2016]
From all the aeons' blood and fire - Fanny Stearns Davis "Profits"
The privacy of blood - Geffrey Davis "Hear the Light"
The blood of survivors coursing through my veins - Kwame Dawes "Land Ho"
A tenure of chaos and blood - Ajanae Dawkins "How to Witness a Miracle Without Converting"
When Rome's ambition dyed the world with blood - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Buy it with blood, and fire, and ruin wide - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
And circle in the dark of his blood - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"
Blood running its wires of flame - Toi Derricotte "Elegy for my husband"
Tastes blood from imaginary wounds - Mark Dimaisip "Housekeeping Duties"
Blood rush of the creek - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"
A newer moon will mesh the blood - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"
North is greed and South is blood - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Stuck to the blood and the pulse - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"
Pumping diluted blood - Marilyn Dumont "Leather and Naughahyde"
Since her fear is my blood - Cornelius Eady "My Heart"
Skin walls and blood rivers - Peg Edera "Harbors of Miracle"
In the story of my blood - Elaine Equi "Autobiographical Poem"
Blood river once between you - Heid E. Erdich "Microchimerism"
Red blood of hunger - Heid E. Erdich "Vial"
With blood by guilty angels shed - The Ettrick Shepherd "A Witch's Chant"
Then blood gurgled down the corners, the streets and the rivers - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "In One Sentence"
Fire in my blood and breath - Eleanor Farjeon "The Moral"
remember a forever summer in my blood - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"
And my shadow grows deeper than blood - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"
Left a heap behind, of ashes slaked in blood - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
To be built in our blood - Nick Flynn "Homily"
The museum of my blood - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 14"
Through the blood trees within us - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"
A brother's blood cries for vengeance - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Wolf blood and Fenrir lines that chill the bone - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"
Write his name nine times in blood ink - Robert Frazier "Primer to Impractical Magic"
All the blood is musical - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"
Those little economies of the blood - Tess Gallagher "Sad Moments"
Our hearts' blood had bought her - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Forever etched in their blood - Nikita Gill "Ares, After"
Blood of the witches you thought were dead - Nikita Gill "Witch"
A throne cast in blood and terror - Nikita Gill "Young Zeus: The Crossroads"
From the blood of incalculable planets - Nikita Gill "Your Heart Is Not a Hospital"
Sweetness and tears so blended in our blood - Howard Glyndon "Seniority" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
The fierce extremes of dalliance and of blood - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
The day that ends its reign of blood and fear - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [In the wet rice-swamps]"
Blood shines on the breast of a cloud - Nicolás Guillén "Exile" transl. by Roberto Marquez and David Arthur McMurray
Languid jungles chained by bloody roots - Nicolás Guillén "Rivers" transl. by Roberto Marquez and David Arthur McMurray
With blood of some high-making passion - Ivor Gurney "The Day of Victory"
Of the blood where the pulses are - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On Ne Badine Pas Avec La Mort"
Promises glued together with blood - Joy Harjo "The Bloodletting"
The bloodied, the self-righteous, and the forsaken - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Lights the map printed with the blood of history - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Who were maps drawn of blood - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
The ways the stars entered your blood - Joy Harjo "What Music"
A promise not to draw blood - francine j. harris "the road to jackson has orchids"
Whose book of life reads blood and gold - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LV"
A cell of brown and bloody earth - F.W. Harvey "The Sleepers"
Lamp swollen with wine and blood - Anne Hebert "The Tomb of Kings" transl. by Kathleen Weaver
Wipe away the blood and the betadine - Mary Hickman "If the Heart Does Not Restart"
Seven years' worth of blood moons - Faylita Hicks "Photo of X, 2010: A Box of Wine"
Blood brother to the snow angels - Bob Hicok "Grooming"
Blinds the eyes with blood and vengeance - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
Leaving her blood a river of fire - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Screams for blood but not for yours - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXIX"
Hungering in the blood garden - Andrew Hudgins "The Snake"
Older than the flow of human blood - Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Once drunk with blood - Percy Adams Hutchison "The Swordless Christ"
Stamina in anger and blood - Carly Inghram "The Detrimental Years of Becoming a Young Woman"
The partridge red with blood of the hawk - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
Mixes with the blood of the flea - Lucy Ives "First Husband"
my costumes made of blood - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"
His eyelashes wept blood - Jami "Salaman and Absal: The Burning of Absal" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald
Salt stirs up blood - Allison Eir Jenks "Underwater Grave"
Distanced itself and sang of its guilty blood - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"
Lurks mercurial in the blood - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "As in ... Afro-Pessimism?"
His quarter of spoiled blood - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83"
So many garlands of blood - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Line of Reason"
The Gorgons weep blood - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Tar Baby"
The best that blood contains - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Riders of the Plain"
With the crying blood of millions - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"
Red Wind of blight and blood - Lionel Johnson "The Red Wind"
the eye of God was made with blood - Ashley M. Jones "HOLYHEADHARRIET"
Blossom bloody on an afternoon - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"
Blood rising under the Andes - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"
The moment I bound with your blood - Fady Joudah "Oxygen"
Dip me whole into the sweet blood - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"
Sleepy creatures of blood & fog - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"
Orderly cupboards filled with blood - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"
Whatever unannounced whiteout blizzard hits our blood - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"
Your blood in my veins - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
From the same aching blood - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
The ore in my blood - Donika Kelly "Archaeology"
Comes through the blood of the vanguards who dreamed - Rudyard Kipling "Untimely"
The road before this of blood - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"
Searching for property lines drawn in blood - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Paint a dark, salty blood of surreal skies & wet soil - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
Ghost organs blush without blood - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"
Thin flesh, narrow bones, slow blood - Alfred Kreymborg "Initials"
The swan of samite blood - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"
Of kings, fools, blood, and broken cities - Michael Lauchlan "Reading Herodotus"
A communion of that sprung blood - Rickey Laurentiis "Epithalamion"
But the blood has suspended its timbre - D.H. Lawrence "Evolutions of Soldiers"
They anoint their brows with your blood - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
Blossoms of gold and blossoms of blood - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Color and blood and life and truth - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
A jug of bloody milk, poured - Aimee Le "My Winter of Acid"
Bridges and blood boiled white - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"
Thimbles of blood and bite - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"
Toward a horizon of pure blood - Philip Levine "Library Days"
The cloud that formed above the rivers of our blood - Philip Levine "Picture Postcard from the Other World"
Colder than the blood in my heart - M.L. Liebler "Winter Meditation"
None of your blood will bring a flower - Gary Copeland Lilley "Unmarked Grave"
Barracuda in the blood - Ada Limon "Fin"
Our bodies of bronze and blood - Ada Limon "Not Enough"
Tortured lungs adapting to breathe blood - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"
Seek no favor untouched by blood - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"
Veiling with garlands Moloch's bloody stone - James Russell Lowell "Bankside"
News printed in blood - Mina Loy "Love Songs (section III)"
Blood stains on the bushes and thorns - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson
Vain is the blood of rare and spotless herds - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
To match our blood against the cold - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
As she culls the blood red rose - E.M. "Part II. The Garden of Sleep"
Holds the memory of blood - Alice MacDonell "Culloden Moor"
Red lightning through my blood - James Clarence Mangan "Dark Rosaleen"
As the blood runs from their faces - Mack W. Mani "Trans Rage 2: The Reckoning"
Their mills and their bloody hands - Don Marquis "The Child and the Mill"
Who stained the slopes with bloody feet - Don Marquis "The Comrade"
Put blood of roses in his veins - Don Marquis "A Dream Child"
Mock our own blood on the thorns - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"
Old blood dripping from their lips - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
Swollen mouths sucked blood from their divinity - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
My blood burns on the stones - John Masefield "A Dramatic Poem: Madman"
A tune for the blood to jig to - John Masefield "Tewkesbury Road"
Dyed in blood, tangled in dreams - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"
The gold from my blood - Pages Matam "Spoiled Child"
A whim that ordains blood - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
Imperial in purple, gold and blood - Theodore Maynard "The Return"
Blood of winter, color of rye - E.L. Mayo "Spring Is Coming"
The threading of breath and blood - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Kings and jeweled blood - Michael McGriff "Inversion"
Hidden chambers in the blood - Leslie McIntosh "ANAMNESIS"
To stir my fluent blood - Claude McKay "Absence"
Like tides into my blood - Claude McKay "America"
Into a heaven of blood waltzes - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"
Homeward borne upon a bloody shield - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
The mystery of breath and blood - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"
Risen from conflict of blood - Louis J. McQuilland "The Song of the Flag"
Not a sign of the torch in the blood - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Speaks from failing blood - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"
Rose in brain from rose in blood - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
That through blood run sane - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
A blood kinship with rain - W.S. Merwin "Coming to the Morning"
Youth of abounding blood - Alice Meynell "The Unexpected Peril"
Further down pinewoods' blood horizon - Claire Millikin "Cupboard"
Unstained with hostile blood - John Milton "Hymn: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"
Through Bermuda triangles of blood - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fibroids"
How does blood forget - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Transfusions"
Its blood dried up with treason's fever-taint - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
And the summer fire my blood - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"
Red with redundance of blood - "My Dark Rosaleen" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
because I called down blood rains - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
In the condors' bloody talons - Pablo Neruda "America" transl. by Jack Schmitt
In the bloody silk of the poppy - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: XXXIX" transl. by William O'Daly
Written in fox blood - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Tomorrow will rain blood - Pablo Neruda "Cortes" transl. by John Felstiner
Joined the threads of my blood - Pablo Neruda "Epithalamium" transl. by Donald D. Walsh
Lashed my blood with her tail of fire - Pablo Neruda "The Fickle One" transl. by Donald D. Walsh
Your bloody firefly eyes - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
These sacred names drained of their blood - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly
Of ancient blood devoured by the jaguars' snouts - Pablo Neruda "Guatemala" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Changed forever by the light of blood - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1936)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Dying at the contact of your electric blood - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Made fire of blood and flint - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Splattered with blood & misfortune - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Walt Whitman" transl. by Greg Simon
Bloody roses and goblets of ashes - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Divided up the blood and tears - Pablo Neruda "The Red Line" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The valiant ship of snow and blood - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Blood of old supplications - Pablo Neruda "So that You Will Hear Me" transl. by W.S. Merwin
Blood from the fountain of your soul - Pablo Neruda "Song on the Death and Resurrection of Luis Companys" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Drained her immense tree of blood - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
An immense tear of blood and lead - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Distilled blood from its crown - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Pervaded by blood and metal - Pablo Neruda "What Spain Was Like" translated by John Felstiner
The rebels that shout in your blood - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"
Fresh dawning after the dews of blood - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"
Of blood, of mud, of wise men - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Confessional"
The soldier's cup of anguish, blood, and gall - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Dead II. Boy"
A flame chafes in our blood - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
blood dripping on my begonias - Emory Noakes "In Which My Grandma Kicks Ass and Takes Names During the Zombie Apocalypse"
Breathing sawdust and fresh blood - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard II: Malesherbes and the Black Milestones"
Many-jointed fingers with the blood at the corners - Maura O'Dea "Dad Explains Dimensions at Outback Steakhouse"
Birth & blood is the rose - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
Blood thins to Gods' ichor - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
A tempest of the blood pulsing - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"
Wearing a little necklace of blood pearls - Gregory Orr "The Teeth of Sleep"
Your blood commanded soldiers - Ekhmetjan Osman "My Love" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
Poisoned blood in a long constellation - Jena Osman "Dissent and the Hydra"
Blood on the hearth, and blood in the well - John Oxenham "Macedonia, 1903"
To dress all in red and blood - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"
Blood brother to silence - Linda Pastan "The moon"
With an impulse of the blood - Walter S. Percy "Paupack"
My blood is a zone of dispute - Kiki Petrosino "N/Ought"
White blood appearing from warm air - Kiki Petrosini "Terrorem"
To steal blood from stone - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
I see His blood upon the rose - Joseph Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"
Even if blood must sign your name - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"
Floating on a wave of blood - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Of a chase ending in blood - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"
Beat its blood through thin chambers - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"
Write in blood or don't bother - Sina Queyras "The Applicant"
Write these pages with heart's blood - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"
Who forged the rivers in my blood - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Passe Blanc"
Blood of earth's wild pulsing veins - Theodore H. Rand "Sea Music"
The frost of selfish blood - Theodore H. Rand "Song-Waves"
The shores became the color of clear crystals and blood - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"
A fey thin singing in his blood - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
A bitter wine out of the bloody stills of the world - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Like the blood of elderberries - Lola Ridge "Iron Wine"
With your eyes bloody as the sunset - Lola Ridge "To Larkin"
sacrifice to some stoned possession for blood spent - Ed Roberson "once the magnolia has blossomed"
Washed out of the world with fire and blood - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
As with spilt blood of kings - Alice Wellington Rollins "October"
Dances with my blood - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"
All values extended into the blood - Muriel Rukeyser "Reading Time: 1 Minute 26 Seconds"
what this city of smoke & blood has to tell - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"
Coursing blood instead of light - R.S. Saha "Kin"
that praise what blood buys - C.T. Salazar "River"
Could answer the metronomes of blood - Carl Sandburg "They Met Young"
The blood of nature's spilling - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"
Boiled down all his blood to brine - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Who fills the future with your own blood - Ollie Schminkey "The First Rule of Buoyancy"
Autumn enters my blood early - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #84"
Not bound here by blood or bone - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #93"
Entropy incarnate in the blood - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"
With tongues of blood & faith & prophecy - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
Why the iron that marks our blood is restless - Ann K. Schwader "To Theia"
Though Homer knew the power of dark blood - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"
A group of silver birches, bursting into blood - Duncan Campbell Scott "The Fifteenth of April"
Topple and reel upon my burning blood - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"
Bring their prize assassins to the bloody work - Robert W. Service "The Dreamer"
The bloody spur cannot provoke him - William Shakespeare "Sonnet L"
The vascular trauma of hurt in my blood - Prageeta Sharma "Lateral Violence"
Wearing a jacket of blood - Brenda Shaughnessy "Nachtraglichkeit"
Blaze a trail in blood - Virna Sheard "The Shells"
Brazen chariots stained with blood - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Charged with bloody coin - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Blind in blood - Percy Bysshe Shelley "England in 1819"
Our blood and state are shadows - James Shirley "The Same"
we seed the world with blood - Evie Shockley "du bois in ghana"
blood turned against itself - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
blood spilt on the ground does not know how to be silent - ire'ne lara silva "what the ghosts of las adelitas say in the afterlife part 1"
a question toward blood sweetened lips - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"
Blood on leather, a rain of shadows - Marge Simon "Spacers' Prison"
A bloody lance of heaven's displeasure - Emily Smith "Such Monstrous Births"
Numb to our bloodied histories - Patricia Smith "Building Nicole's Mama"
Swim backwards in circles of blood - Frank Stanford "Cotton You Lose in the Field"
Hands still faithful to his blood - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Penelope"
Whose ancient salt is in our blood - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
With what blood of wars divine - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
And scarlet trumpets pealing in the blood - George Sterling "That Walk in Darkness"
Once sighted over seas of blood - George Sterling "To the Goddess Liberty"
Whose is the blood in thy broken chalice? - George Sterling "You Never Can Tell"
Even as the blood of an empire - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
And mingled with blood of the vine - Charles Warren Stoddard "The Bells of San Gabriel"
The blood of my father the oak - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
A ghost of blood and granite - Arthur Stringer "Dreamers"
Of your own nervous blood - Dao Strom "Instrument"
Night runs in my blood - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
My Grail is blood at midnight - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
First rapture of our wild, estranging blood - Muriel Stuart "The Father"
Twilight is in my blood - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"
Through the torture of water and blood - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 214: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Gave their last blood to birds - Alison Swan "After Reading The Late, Great Lakes"
Washed in tears, in blood, in rivers of despair - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
Could wear blood like apples do - Mary Szybist "Withdrawal"
A bloodied clutch of crowns - Sonya Taaffe "Radio Banquo"
With the heart's blood of the three worlds - Rabindranath Tagore "Urvasi"
Scattering salt on our blood - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini
Brought me blood from the sliced streets - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini
if hunger abides in your blood - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
painted with blood & constant fear - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
The vine's bright blood shall crown the bowl - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Carrying a stolen spot of my blood - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"
Cast her own spell of bloom and blood - Shveta Thakrar "Shadowskin"
Poppied epics, flushed with blood and wrong - Maurice Thompson "Sonnet [I saw a garden-bed on which there grew]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.100, April. 1876]
Knuckles bared for blood and bone - Russell Thorburn "Tracking the Wolf"
To unbox, detox, and de-clutter your blood - Samantha Thornhill "38. Shedding the Old"
Serving the strong suggestions of my blood - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: IX"
Dyed with blood and dreams - Iris Tree "[The adored, wild, strange, irresistible]"
And queens have bought with blood and beauty - Iris Tree "[I can but give thee unsubstantial things]"
Blood of the rose and hyacinth - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"
The trace of blood on the thorn - Perhat Tursun "The Heart" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Cradle the cry of my blood - Malka Heifetz Tussman "Mount Gilboa" transl. by Marcia Falk
Scrawled out in blood and carousel - Morris Tyler "The Bells of Antwerp"
Heard her heart's blood drip - Katherine Tynan "The Little Ghost"
Has left my braggart blood - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"
Like a conquering army through my blood - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
The bloody words of ruffian war - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
Monsters basking in our blood - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Blood the skies like a storm of Gods - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Proof of where the hot blood sang - Emily van Kley "Rules of the Game"
Pulled blood to salt - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Who Waits at the Lake"
Blood thin as a widow's tears - Ocean Vuong "Thanksgiving 2006"
The blood in his veins was flowing cold - Wa Wa Chaw "The Trial of the Mission Indian"
Here stands alone the grail of Adam's blood - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"
New peoples write--in blood--their name - J. Wareham "The Trojan War, 1915" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
A bloodied mosquito on your brow - Rosanna Warren "Man in Stream"
This tempest of my boiling blood - Thomas Warton Jr. "Ode to Sleep"
That redder rain on bloody Marston Moor - "The Watchword" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
And turn our thoughts on deeds of blood - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Every atom of my blood - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
What wild-fire's this which rages in your blood - "The Whore"
Licked a bloodied paw with a nettle tongue - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: High"
For blood and wine are red - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
By the god of blood - William Carlos Williams "Con Brio"
Land of wind-swept plains and blood - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"
Their blood full of ashes - Charles Wright "The Children of the Plain"
In a werewolf's cry to the moon and the blood - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"
Ignorance limited to the demons flowing in their blood - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"
Blowing through my blood - W.B. Yeats "Maid Quiet"
the body a dichotomy of flesh and blood - Monica Youn "Self-Portrait in a Wire Jacket"
A tracing of lightning, fire or blood in the body - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]
Half libidinous ether, half dirt full of soldiers' blood - Dean Young "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green"
In the reek of iodine and blood - Francis Brett Young "After Action"
Beasts that prey with bloody claw - Francis Brett Young "Bete Humaine"
Live in the hollows of my blood - Matthew Zapruder "Brooklyn with a New Beginning"
To turn my blood into thread - Matthew Zapruder "Little Voice"
Black-blooded as the oil plumes - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Sung in Dirt"
Pouring bubbles into your own bloodbath - Andrea Gibson "Your Life"
Each barefoot trip through your bloodbath house - Bettina Judd "on empathy"
Know the bloodbath we inhabit - R.T. Smith "Still Life: From the Notebook of Ambrose Bierce, 1862"
Bureaucracy and blood-borne grudge - Linda Gregerson "Cranes on the Seashore"
Trembling for a blood-bought crown - Francis Blake Crofton "The Battle-Call of Anti-Christ"
Blood cells glinting into oblivion - Arianna Monet "I'm rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time"
Blood-colored rust rubbed into my hands - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"
Broken chains, lying cankered with old blood-drops - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
In a bloodflow motion - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"
They bloom blood-flowers in the tearful dew - "Adonium" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]
And blood-frosted cake - Patricia Smith "Speak Now, Or Forever, Hold Your Peace"
The blood-grapes drip for you drinking - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
Bloodless.
A woman with a mindful of fog and bloodletting claws - Adrienne Rich "Apology"
Where bloodlines and rivers are woven together - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
Blood-lit veins on leaves left quivering - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"
Carry a bloodmap for a lost country - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"
Through which aspires the blood-metal of stars - Toi Derricotte "The Blessed Angels"
Faded computations erased by the light of blood moons - River "The Egg" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]
Blood-Red.
Bloodrust fire, fleshtorn ground - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
The blood-script of tall grass - Janet Kauffman "By the Time You Think Weaponry"
Thought all bloodshed would be pastel - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"
Bent on bullets and bloodshed - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Cattle Thief"
Hundreds will tour the bloodshot house - Ama Codjoe "If They Come in the Morning"
Their bloodshot octaves of consequence - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"
Look through history's bloodshot eyes - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
A blood-shot eye in the black mask of night - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"
The oil and the blood-smeared cobalt - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
The demons climbed from the blood-soaked soil - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
A blood-spot on the page of time - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"
Bloodstain.
Bloodstream
Give me back my dirty claws and blood-warm horns - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
Cold-blooded, faint-hearted changeling - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "Bruce's Address"
Eloquence, pathos, or wit in cold blood - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"
Life-blood in the trench Ulysses made - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Shadow"
Whose pulses play with fullest life-blood - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"
Wanting a transfusion of the reader's life blood - Diane Seuss "Toad"
A call that made the life-blood leap - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "The First American Alliance"
Nothing in nature now remains unblooded - Charles Baudelaire "The Fountain of Blood" transl. by Rachel Hadas
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