Potential Titles: Breath/Breathe

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Under the sweet breath of branches - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Breathing against the tide of your breath - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

Built from half a breath - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"

Steal your breath when you wake parched - Jessica Abughattas "Failed Poems"

The bubble of breath they had long exhaled - Duane Ackerson "Exiling the Earth"

Rooms I could never breathe in - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"

The city held its breath - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"

This desire for her staggering breath - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"

In the dark purse of my breathing - Carl Adamshick "Colorado"

The children of my breath sing and sing - Mary Alexandra Agner "Children of Breath"

With strange and mystic breath - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

On the breath of moving water - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"

A breathing neon propaganda sign - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

if breath is a leash to hold the mind - Kaveh Akbar "Against Dying"

Tender breath of mountains - Francisco X. Alarcon "Mountain Mist"

His breathing is that of planets - Daisy Aldan "He Has Entered Midnight"

Awake into the breathing breast of memory - Daisy Aldan "I Awake in These Hills"

Time-stained and crusted with the sea's salt breath - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Moulded the court's high atmosphere to breath - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Our breath has yet to collide - Aygul Alim (Tamche) "We Have Not Met" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Breaths of fresh air injected in the frantic - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

Wish for breath to warm our palms - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"

Unafflicted by a need to breathe - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"

From invisible portals breathing comfort and ghastly fear - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"

His breath a scarf of moths - Alise Alousi "Pandemic"

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

That snatched up every breath I could spare - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

Your unchanged breath rising - Aldo Amparan "Aubade at the City of Change"

While their humble orisons they breathe - William Anderson "The Alpine Horn"

The wind's breath is full of salt from the sea - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

Better to keep your breath cold - Attar "Looking for Your Own Face" transl. by Coleman Barks

In the breath of a universe - Atticus "Magic in Stars"

The water breathing steadily - Joseph Auslander "I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come"

A far-blown breath of snows - Albion Fellows Bacon "Lost"

Breathes upon a seraph's lyre - William Thompson Bacon "Pen and Ink"

A round breath of hope keeping cover - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Softer breathe the gentle zephyrs - Benjamin West Ball "The Indian Summer"

Measured by his steady midnight breathing - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Me breathing in the translation - Mary Jo Bang "I Am Already This Far"

And Odin's daughters breath distilled perfumes - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Still as a spirit's breath - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"

The coins that are paid for human breath - William Francis Barnard "The Hangman"

Beyond the frost of breathing - Lou Barrett "Retrieving a Frozen Newspaper"

A breath from the yawning sky - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

as the sky measures breath - Elizabeth Bartlett "the lovers"

Where the waves still breathe of sleep - Elizabeth Bartlett "On a Rock of Atlantis"

breath is fearless - Elizabeth Bartlett "this much I know about time"

Where breath is radar to itself - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"

stabbing the breath with a wild commotion - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

Though breath was all I owned - Elizabeth Bartlett "Time Will Tell"

Breathed ardent from the heart - James Beattie "Ode on Lord Hay's Birth-Day. 13th May, 1767"

That blasts like the breath of fulfilled Desire - Stephen Vincent Benet "After Pharsalla"

I hold my breath, daylong, yearlong - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

A pulse like breathing - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Loom"

Played in one breath - Jen Bervin "shakuhachi repertoire, handwritten from liner notes"

In the precision of my breath - Tamiko Beyer "February"

Yielded on the field their breath - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

While soaring high on heaven's breath - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"

Dense with the spent breath - Malachi Black "Entering Saint Patrick's Cathedral"

On the verge of taking your last breath - Terry Blackhawk "Of Course"

Your breath the only constant - Terry Blackhawk "Sonny Rollins and the redemptive handrail"

Lifts the cup and breathes the prayer - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"

I am their breaths singing - Richard Blanco "My Campo Santo"

Bound by our breathing - Robert Bly "To My Mother"

Your little breath of contemplation - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Butter-Cup"

Need the scorching of my breath - Max Bodenheim "Rhymed Conversation with Money"

The absent body in your breath - Daniel Borzutzky "Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018"

A deep breath from the eucalyptus breeze - Laure-Anne Bosselaar "Late Afternoon Stroll on the Cliffs"

Until there is no room for breath - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, when I said all I ever wanted was land"

The breath of spring is everywhere - "The Breath of Spring" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Beauty's comfort-laden breath - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 12"

With his two-edged breath - Howard Futhey Brinton "The Man About Town"

One sweet breath of memory - Anne Bronte "Memory"

Inhaling Nature's purest breath - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

Let them fight for honour's breath - Emily Bronte "Song [The linnet in the rocky dells]"

I want to breathe in the Tide of cleanliness - Andrea Carter Brown "On Reading Allen Ginsberg's 'Homework'"

The breath of summer eclipsed - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"

A shallow breathe of scaly skin - Mahogany L. Browne "If Love is For the Fishes"

Breathed among the stars - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Falter like a human breath - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

The Mayan night breathing deep - Joseph Bruchac "Neh Tsoi"

Your only script is the indrawn breath - Joseph Bruchac "Speaking"

Thy breath in the burning sky - William Cullen Bryant "The Hurricane"

Breathed no scent of herb - William Cullen Bryant "A Winter Piece"

An emptiness to be breathed into - Sue Budin "Healing with Shadows"

Jubilant flowers and nectar-breathing fruits - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"

Run from stars till you are out of breath - Witter Bynner "The Wild Star"

Your eyes are breathing - Julie Byrne "Follow My Voice"

Short as a breath half taken - Julie Byrne "The Singing of the Bread"

Breathed in the face of the foe - Lord Byron "The Destruction of Sennacherib"

And the heart must pause to breathe - Byron "We'll Go No More a-Roving"

A poisonous scarlet breath - F. O. Call "The Foundry"

Flowers that yield their breath - Tommaso Campanella "LV. To Annibale Caraccioli, a Writer of Eclogues" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Breathing flame of pride and power - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

Breathed only anger and destruction - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

To race propriety and prudence out of breath - Edward Carpenter "The Great Peepshow"

Where people breathed out white birds - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"

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

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

Marveled at my room to breathe - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"

At the first sign of breath - Ching-In Chen "South in Hundreds"

Where the wild wood ceaseless breathes - William Chiddon "Idyll: In Imitation of Theocritus"

A spiteful breath of slander - Rosie Churchill "This Is All..." [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, No.151--v.III, 20 November, 1886]

Waiting for breath - Gabrielle Civil "19th Birthday in Paris"

My least breathed on thought - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Hidden Love"

Imbreathed draughts of wine - Arthur Hugh Clough "Χρυσέα κλῄς ἐπὶ γλώσσᾳ."

To gamble on their scales and the wealth of their breath - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"

Steal my breath tonight and every night - Aaron Coleman "Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)"

And hold your breath between - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "A Moment"

Walked right by your shallow breath - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "Our Red Road"

Cut short her foeman's breath - "Columcille's Farewell to Aran of the Saints" transl. by Douglas Hyde

A snorkel breathing another dimension - C. A. Conrad "Frank"

On breath of dreaming tyrants - CAConrad "Neptune.4"

Set my periscope on breath of dreaming - CAConrad "Neptune.4"

Breathed from unseen distances - Susan Coolidge "From East to West"

A faint, dim breath of bitter lies - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"

Like breath of early blooms - Susan Coolidge "A Portrait"

Vain the roses' rapturous breath - Susan Coolidge "Solstice"

Rejoicing over their continued breath - Rasheed Copeland "to be considered before inviting everyone to The Cookout TM"

No one has trouble breathing in the movies - Liam Corley "Frame of Reference"

A breath sundrawn from half a world - James H. Cousins "Ireland"

Waiting for the mystic breath - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"

Long breath of perfect ecstasy - Eleanor Rogers Cox "At Benediction"

And the wind's blighting breath howls round - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Birds in the Snow"

Breath sealed by the ghost I do not know - Hart Crane "Voyages V"

The breath of the world that stops - Adelaide Crapsey "The Fiddling Lad"

The broken breath of liberty enchained - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

The riddle of being and breath - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For a Philosopher"

where dwells the breath of all persisting stars - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"

rendering death and forever with each breathing - E. E. Cummings "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"

Waiting spring's warm and wooing breath - Mrs E.L. Cushing "April" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Algebra and geometry breathing seducing words - Michelle Dang "Calculating U"

Pillows made from breath captured in milk cartons - Kyle Dargan "Olympic Drive" [Poetry Feb. 2016]

To drink the breath of life - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"

Fiercer than our cleaved breathing - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"

The same perpetual breath - Marissa Davis "Singularity"

With ritual pauses for breath and pity - Kwame Dawes "Shook Foil"

Kissed me with the breath of hate - Coningsby Dawson "Love at Last"

Without stopping our breath of song - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"

The hurt of having to breathe - Toi Derricotte "For Telly the Fish"

As the stars breathe destiny down on us - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #2"

Learn to keep warm with breathing - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #3"

Dusk buds their breathing wings - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

A lash of breath - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"

Shadows hold their breath - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXXI"

Could not breathe without a key - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXV"

The exponent of breath - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love III: Love"

Simulate the breath so well - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XLI"

Has ever breath of years - Eric Dickinson "Three Sonnets III"

You drawn your own breath - Tim Dlugos "Great Art"

The trees exhale their one green breath - Chris Dombrowski "Heron Rookery Aubade"

Skipping across waves made of breath - Chris Dombrowski "Like a pearl in a sea of liquid jade"

The shadow of a sigh breathes on the leaves - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

And words of delicate breath - Edward Dowden "Brother Death"

Breathed low mystery of song - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

The chill breathing of the waterfall - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VII: Relics"

And draw this tranquil breath - Edward Dowden "Watershed"

A twilight hour of breath - Ernest Dowson "Extreme Unction"

The ghosts of my wordless breath - Carol Ann Duffy "Death and the Moon"

Try and figure out how to breathe - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"

Learned to imitate each other's breath - Michael Dumanis "The Forecast"

Breath hot with awe as I sidestepped each stone - Michael Dumanis "Sehnsucht"

Always equated you with breath - Cheryl Dumesnil "Fever Dream"

Must not waste her breath to sing - Camille T. Dungy "Ars Poetica: After the Dam"

Of breath exhaled from wooden ribs - Iris Jamahl Dunkle "House Empty Speaks a Loud Truth, 2018"

Everywhere the breath of Beauty blows - A.E. "The Great Breath"

The flame of its tenderest breath - A.E. "Love"

When the breath of twilight blows - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

With dreams of rare and breathing grace - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

On his breath of every color - Max Early "Deer's Breath of Every Color"

Collective breath of all colors - Max Early "Delayza's Necklace"

On whose dread Altar breath'd - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"

Seared by the breath of hope - Aziz Isa Elkun "Blocked Emotions" transl. by author

Breathed deep breath in heroes dead - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Breathe them both with every fevered breath - J. Hal. Elliot "What Then?" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

By one who breathes with love - George Allan England "My Garden"

The sky holds its breath - Heid E. Erdich "Again, Today"

A tropical fog of breath - Heid E. Erdich "Another Touch"

Strong with the breath of Pan - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"

Breathing the plague on them - Martin Espada "Wake Up, Mario"

And with a scarlet breath - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"

The trumpet's breath bids ruin smile - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"

Fire in my blood and breath - Eleanor Farjeon "The Moral"

And breath brushes across the hollow - Kevin J. Fellows "Bone Song"

Breathe the incense of the heart - Effie Fitzgerald "The Babes of Exile"

Like the wind's deep-muttering breath - John Gould Fletcher "Impromptu"

Athens and Babylon I breathe upon the night - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

Multitudes blossom and waver and breathe - Robin Flower "The Pipes"

Left breathing its thought - Nick Flynn "Homily"

Snapped trees breathe with ghost food - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"

Became our difficult breath - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"

Breathing with indiscernible sadnesses - Katie Ford "Colosseum"

my methodology is breath - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"

Flame in their beaks for breath - Gilbert Frankau "Eyes in the Air"

Our scorching breath shall kiss - Gilbert Frankau "Eyes in the Air"

Fearing to wake me by a careless breath - John Freeman "The Chair"

The blue's but a mist from the breath of the wind - Robert Frost "Blueberries"

With the breath of many flowers - Robert Frost "Rose Pogonias"

Breathed as light as a lady's fan - Robert Frost "Unharvested"

The first breath of dusk - Zona Gale "Alias"

That are no voice but breath - Zona Gale "Beloved, It Is Daybreak on the Hills"

The foam-born breaths of salt - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

May be breath to you - Zona Gale "Half Thought"

Breathed her breath for mine - Zona Gale "Inmost One"

Breathe for our breath his light - Zona Gale "Light"

The clear glory of the torrent's breath - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"

To drink the breath of your beloved - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"

Turn it into oxygen for easy breathing - Nikita Gill "The Forest"

Each breath patiently destroying me - Louise Gluck "A Work of Fiction"

Dragons breathing white-hot magnesium across humid skies - Ian Goh "Firework"

Every breath was a soldier word - Rigoberto Gonzalez "The Soldier of Mictlan"

Breathing songs from her heart - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Our very breath is fuel to the fire - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

Forged in the breath of stars - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

When we almost breathe those dreams - Rae Gouirand "At the Rough Table"

The breathe full of edge - Rae Gouirand "Quince Suite"

A breath of shaken longing - Mona Gould "Immortal"

The doctrine of our own breath - Peter Grandbois "When your son abandons the lawnmower for the second time in as many days"

With his last breath cursed them all - John Woodcock Graves "John Peel"

Must sit and stake with quiet breath - Robert Graves "To Lucasta on Going to the Wars--for the Fourth Time"

Parent of sweet and solemn-breathing - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Till I breathe corruption - David Gray "Sonnet"

His quick coin of breath - Leah Naomi Green "To the Cardinal, Attacking His Reflection in the Window"

My breath measuring length - Leah Naomi Green "Week Five: Measure"

Anger that burns my breath - Nikki Grimes "Crucible of Champions"

Chased by a whisper, a sigh, a breath - Angelina Weld Grimke "A Winter Twilight"

Evidence of soil and not of breath - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"

I must get back inside the cage of breath - Thom Gunn "Legal Reform"

Dusk-airs and breaths of half-light - Ivor Gurney "De Profundis"

Breath and dreams and daily bread - Ivor Gurney "Toussaints"

And breathe its vows again to idols - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Fierce Ambition breathes his burning vow - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Whose sweet breath is kissed by windflowers - J.C.H. "A Day in Early Summer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.44-v.I, 1 Nov. 1884]

The air breathed rapture, and love, and youth - J.C.H. "Long Ago" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.736, 2 Feb. 1878]

Breathes a gale divine - Hafiz "The Divan VIII" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Monsters of such an alien breath - Katherine Hale "Ballad of Jasper Road"

Deep reflections of a fiery breath - Katherine Hale "Crimson Pool"

The meteor-bearer of our parting breath - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Twilight"

Deliver a collision of breaths - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"

Here in breath and bone - Thomas Hardy "The Casual Acquaintance"

Under the breath of the winnowing-fan - Thomas Hardy "Without, Not Within Her"

Till you learn again to breathe underwater - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

Shadows breathed in cool wind - Joy Harjo "The Black Room"

When the cyclone breathes terror - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"

Breathe vigor through each nerve - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"

With bated breath and useless oar - Frances E.W. Harper "A Story of the Rebellion"

How a pride's breath can move blossom to shiver - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Deciding to breathe the water - Jim Harrison "Spring"

One long breath - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"

Blend with the breath that thrills - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

Breathe there an ampler air - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXIX"

The passing breath of flowers bright - F.W. Harvey "The Wind's Grief"

Breathe the thrilling reeds for wine - Robert Stephen Hawker "King Arthur's Waes-Hael"

Playing roulette with my breath - Stephanie Heit "Dear Murderer"

Which passion's breath could blight - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

Vengeance alone may breathe - Felicia Hemans "Dirge of the Highland Chief in 'Waverley'"

And breathe the soul of rapture - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

Like the poison-wind's breath - Felicia Hemans "Guerilla Song"

His path a whirlwind and his breath a flame - Felicia Hemans "Heliodorus in the Temple"

To breathe some spell of holiness - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"

Breathe that name in Memory's ear - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of General Sir E--d P--k--m."

Breath of roses and a prayer - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Lines to Death"

The scorched air breathes its opiate - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Noon"

Within the circle of his breath - George Herbert "Mortification"

Fresh almonds on her breath - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

Holds breath in its hands - Conrad Hilberry "The Day of the First Draft Lottery"

Fabric stitched to breath and words - Conrad Hilberry "Julia Elsas, 'untitled 2009,' fabric, thread"

The hollow music of a long-held breath - Conrad Hilberry "Oboe"

Motors that breathe oxygen and oil - Conrad Hilberry "Quatrain"

The beech breathes twigs of vapor - Conrad Hilberry "Script for a Cold Christmas"

Watery epochs, breathing salt - Conrad Hilberry "The Surge"

Trailed its bitter breath over the desert - Conrad Hilberry "Wise Man"

Pervades the air my spirit breathes - Jennie Earngey Hill "My Tribute"

The Breath of pulsing Life - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"

By each breath changed - Jane Hirshfield "Zero Plus Anything Is a World"

Breathe the smoke of our distraction - Tony Hoagland "No Thank You"

Snow-sharp breath - William D. Hodjkiss "Song of the Storm Swept-Plain"

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

To the ocean of your breath - J.G. Holland "Kathrina: Complaint"

Leaves in the breath of the whirlwind - William Dean Howells "Louis Lebeau's Conversion"

Fire hitched to the air we breathe - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"

The classic duty of breath - Luther Hughes "When Struck by Night"

Breathed out a freshness from wild clumps of asphodels - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

That smiled away their loving breath - Leigh Hunt "Death" [International Weekly Miscellany v. 1 no.2, July 1850]

Nor earth nor sky has breath - Alex A. Irvine "The Gleaners"

With one breath of impatience - Sade Iverson "Voices"

Breath bursting to explosive fog - Major Jackson "Selling Out"

This breath of fire - Tsitsi Ella Jaji "Ritual Object"

Breath like a wave of cicadas - John James "Heirloom (Wreck)"

A disposition fragile as his breathing - John James "Klee's Painting"

Scarlet flowers breathing in the darkness - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"

Vocal with the seawind's breath - Robinson Jeffers "To an Old Square Piano"

A jump of the breath at that silence - Robinson Jeffers "The Treasure"

Stained with the breath of ghosts - Allison Eir Jenks "A Place We Briefly Lived"

Any breath works as thread - Joe Jimenez "Broken Retablo for Being on My Back, My Feet Bare & in the Air"

A rustle of names flooding my breath - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Delfonic"

What parts them but a fleeting breath? - Edwin R. Johnson "Who Knows?" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

All his art breathes melody - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Art of Alma-Tadema"

Quenched the fires lit by their breath - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"

In the ardent breath of noon - James Weldon Johnson "Morning, Noon and Night"

Breathe words from the wave - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

Breathe words from the field - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

Within the breath of autumn woods - Lionel Johnson "The Dark Angel"

Which is sorrow's perfect breath - Lionel Johnson "Hawthorne"

Whose breath is fierce and rare - Lionel Johnson "Hill and Vale"

Thin threads of breath beginning to fray - Douglas S. Jones "A Tuesday Night"

Breathing dragons' magic fire - Patricia Spears Jones "Jim"

Even the memory of your breath - Saeed Jones "Dirge"

If the moon decided to hold its breath - Saeed Jones "Mercy"

Winners of the wars against breathing - June Jordan "Roman Poem Number Thirteen"

My bones breathe only air - Zilka Joseph "For the Birds"

Rise like breath from the river mud - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

Who drowned in salt who breathed the sand - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

With scathing breath the deluge-fire of a descending hell - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

A memory holding its own breath - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

The four dimensions of breathing - Ilya Kaminsky "Galya's Toast"

A bus breathing heavily at the station - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

Expressed by an emission of the breath - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"

Waited patient through each halting breath - Roz Kaveney "The Ballad of the Death and the Maid"

Sated with a faint breath of music - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

The healthy breath of morn - John Keats "Hyperion"

Fierce breath against the sleepy portals - John Keats "Hyperion"

Nothing between us but salt and breath - Donika Kelly "Love Poem: Mermaid"

Breath like the Indian clove - Fanny Kemble "Lines for Music [Oh, sunny love!"

That now breathe the universal air - Fanny Kemble "The Vision of Life"

Perished with the breath of drought - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"

All the blossom-breathing South - Joyce Kilmer "The Sorrows of King Midas"

Nothing to breathe but air - Ben King "The Pessimist"

Dispersed by the breath of other people - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"

The ore under their breath weighed down the gray sky - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"

A blizzard of petals that will take your breath - Ted Kooser "In Early April"

And breathe the drifting smoke of memory - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"

If I hold my breath till it aches - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"

A breath or two against all time - Alfred Kreymborg "Dirge"

Make a new system for breathing - Kien Lam "Big Bang Theory"

The earth's gold breath falling softly - Danusha Lameris "Dust"

Pungent with the breath of pines - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"

A breath about the rocky stair - Archibald Lampman "Chione"

The voices of the breathing grass - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"

November breathes no flattering tales - Lucy Larcom "November"

Endurance only breathes immortal air - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Closing Chords"

A trifle of breathing space - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes IV: Gone!"

Cursed too by no mere vacant breath - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

A breath in a bubble spinning brushing the stars - D.H. Lawrence "Elegy"

Fishes in the breathing waters - D.H. Lawrence "Fish"

Breathing the frozen memory of his heart - D.H. Lawrence "Meeting Among the Mountains"

Sword that severs the question from us who breathe - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"

The brown breath of Autumn chills - Frances Ledwidge "The Lost Ones"

Water moves in trajectories guided by breath - Yoon Ha Lee "When Soft the Water Fell"

Bridged by clouds of breath - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"

With breathings from a colder clime - Henry S. Leigh "Clumsy Servant"

Where thousands must yield up their breath - Chas. G. Leland "The Wolf Hunt" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]

Breath by breath to lead me out - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

A breath as ancient as the world - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Stone"

Wrought it out of breath and dust - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"

Whose breath whets the edge of the guillotine - Dana Levin "According to the Gospel of Yes"

And pry your breath out - Dana Levin "Instructions for Stopping"

To breathe the frozen sky - Philip Levine "Blood"

Scared by my own breath - Philip Levine "Breath"

Reborn on my breath - Philip Levine "The Communist Party"

Gave back the last hard breath - Philip Levine "Joe Gould's Pen"

Goes ahead burning the little candle of his breath - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"

Smelling the exhaustion on his own breath - Philip Levine "The Two"

The breathy, unknowable voice of silence - Philip Levine "The Unknowable"

As the whole world holds its breath - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

Blowing its black breath in the face of creation - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

The sea and the wind's wild breath - Amy Levy "Felo de Se"

The half-forgotten breath of breezes - Amy Levy "London Poets"

Each breath was a swirl of wind - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"

One quick breath of peach-bloom fantasy - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Drunk on honey-dew and violet's breath - Vachel Lindsay "The Tiger on Parade"

Our radical love of breath in motion - Tanya Lukin Linklater "Ewako"

Blow their alien breath in you - Kenji C. Liu "Gaman: Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah"

The lurid skies are hot with his fiery breath - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Enceladus" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]

Tortured lungs adapting to breathe blood - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"

Borne on the vaporous breath of poisoning lies - Francis J. Lys "Justitia Excedens Terris"

The gap that opened up between her breaths - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swallow"

Mist and the breath of sighs - Ronald Campbell MacFie "Song"

Breathes like a startled spirit - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "In an Autumn Garden"

The ageless breath of cosmic whirlwinds - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Materialist"

His breath was sweet as dusk to me - Fiona MacLeod "The Songs of Ethlenn Stuart"

Into my atmosphere of breath and frozen dust - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

Breathing a thousand vows - Charles Mair "The Voice of the Pines"

Opening ourselves sieved throats to breathe new air - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"

Dreams harden into frosted breath - Jeannette Marks "A Thousand Years"

Breathing dusk and arrowy moonlight - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

Love in the bonds of breath - Don Marquis "News from Babylon"

Wastes only idle breath - George Martin "The Lover's Dream"

By any breath of adverse fate - George Martin "Marguerite"

A breath of his intensest dream - John Masefield "King Cole"

Silvers and purples breathing - Edgar Lee Masters "The Grand River Marshes"

A mood which must have breath - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"

At the breath of darkness - Florence Ripley Mastin "Dust"

We, who pull breath, confuse death's irony - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"

To bridge the farness of your breathing - Wes Matthews "Immortality"

The way a hurricane breathes - Jamaal May "Megalophobia"

Whispers ripening in the same breath as ruin - Shara McCallum "Dear Hours"

The breath of those gone before - Shara McCallum "Fury"

Priming our breaths for heat - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Count with lifeless breath - John McCrae "Penance"

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

Shadows deeper with the breath of owls - Anne Haven McDonnell "Owl"

In the sudden flame of his breath - Edmond McKenna "Prelude"

Though breath is forbidden to me - Arch Alfred McKillen "The Ballad of the Dead Sailor"

Fired with frost and heaving breath - D'Arcy McNickle "The Mountains"

The mystery of breath and blood - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"

The threading of breath and blood - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Holding the violent breath of my need - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"

Things that breathe air or fire - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"

That unravels in the wave of breath - Oriana Méndez "Farewells" transl. by Erin Moure

Singular in every breath - Orlando Ricardo Menes "El Rastro"

Though of sturdy breath - Adah Isaacs Menken "Aspiration"

A breathing map to display the curvature of our world - Nancy Mercado "Going to Work"

Digging his own grave with every breath - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"

Breathed as if breath had failed - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

His breath of instant thirst - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

Draw the breath of finer air - George Meredith "Internal Harmony"

We pass the breath of thought - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

Breath of thought beyond our bounds - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

My breathing wave - W.S. Merwin "At the Bend"

Breathe in its sweet persistence - Helena Mesa "Legend"

Iron & salt & the reverberation of your breaths - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"

Host of breath rehoused - Philip Metres "We Are All God's Poems"

The wavering flame subdue its breath - Charlotte Mew "Beside the Bed"

Plunge within the silence, sans thought, breath - Adam Mickiewicz "Baydary" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

And the breath gone out of beauty - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: IV"

Has strangled that habitual breath - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Interim"

A breath of days spun through years - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"

I lend her my breath - Gabriela Mistral "The Teller of Tales" (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)

Your house of clay and breath - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"

To breathe in the song of a curious sun god going dark - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"

Quaffs years of bitter breath - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"

Haste on to breathe the intoxicating air - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"

Leaping fountains breathe like melted gems - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Heaven" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

An awakening yawn exhales its feathered breath - David Mook "Milkweed"

The breath of intervention - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Coup in Progress"

My breathing is an affront - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fannie Lou Hamer"

Until your breath becomes holy smoke - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"

No breath between thoughts - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"

Stealing first one breath and then the next - Jim Moore "The Need Is So Great"

His breath was our sword - Thomas Moore "Sound the Loud Timbrel"

In an exaggerated exorcism of breath - Rusty Morrison "please advise stop [the rustle of a Sunday bundle of newspapers tucked under my father's arm stop]"

Breathes forth clouds and rainbows - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

memories tromboned in a confluence of breaths - Tajudeen Muadh "In a Goverment Class, I Discuss My Home"

No raiment, bread, nor breath of air - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"

Fragrant with the ocean's breath - Rosa Mulholland "The Wild Geese"

An idea of breathing married to an idea of space - Jesse Nathan "Panhandle"

The magic breath of springtime - Francis Neilson "Spring"

The blue and bitter rhythm of breathing - Pablo Neruda "Tides" transl. by Alastair Reid

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

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

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

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

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

As sweet as the breath of night - Meredith Nicholson "The Shepherd's Song"

Do they leave together the language and the last breath? - Margaret Noodin "Children of the Waters" transl. by the author

Each knowing half between breaths - Margaret Noodin "Into a Heart" transl. by the author

Then we were breathing cloud fumes - Dante Novario "The Great Missouri Tornado of 1882"

Breathed like a returning music - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Breathing sawdust and fresh blood - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard II: Malesherbes and the Black Milestones"

To breathe against those ancient rocks - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci II: At Florence"

Wild ferns and grass breathed it - Alfred Noyes "The Wings"

Pollen on October's breath - Naomi Shihab Nye "For Mohammed Zeid 0f Gaza, Age 15"

The dark wind of our breath - Naomi Shihab Nye "How Palestinians Keep Warm"

Air answers breath remembers - Naomi Shihab Nye "Some Days"

Breath of the bee-swarmed murmuring lime - John Francis O'Donnell [per The Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry site] "Sunset" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 4th series, no.716, 15 Sept. 1877]

A tree breathing through its spectacles - Frank O'Hara "Having a Coke with You"

In every trying terminal breath - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"

shortage of breath, with great accumulation of suffering - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh "Hypercapnia" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]

Draw breath from brick - January Gill O'Neil "Old South Meeting House"

Full breath of joy and absence - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Full Breath of Joy and Absence"

Porch made of breath - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

release your metal breath into the air - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

return your breath as liquid silver - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

Of the rapt seraph breathing - Conde Benoist Pallen "Maria Immaculata"

Breathes the virtue of the Seraphim - Conde Benoist Pallen "Maria Immaculata"

Hold your breath when you land - Lauren Parker "Miranda"

Like the breath of morning to half-withered flowers - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Breathe new souls into their names - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Must breathe another atmosphere - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

Romantic memories breathing - Walter S. Percy "Chambered Roses"

Your small breath troubles the flour - Kiki Petrosino "Confession"

Smooth as gently breathing gales - Ambrose Philips "To Miss Georgiana Carteret"

To catch a wind god breathing - Carl Phillips "Vikings"

This pain breathing into any place that doesn't hurt - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"

Shaped by breath or pressure - Robert Pinsky "First Things to Hand: 3. Glass"

Plague poison their breath - Robert Pollok "The African Maid"

The very breath of my existence - C.G. Poore "The Dying Thespian"

A breath of unnamed pestilence - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"

Violets' breath and primrose rays - C.I. Pringle "The Last Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.121-v.III, 24 April 1886]

A rose whose crimson breath revealed - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Three Roses"

Holding our breath across generations - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"

How you breathe your discontent - Sina Queyras "Mummy"

When the earth is calmly breathing - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Retrospection"

Already are dark threats breathed forth - A. R. "The Count of Paris" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Sweet with breath of musk - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Night in Italy"

The discordant breath of the risen - Charles Rafferty "The Untuned Piano"

Full-breathed symphony of spacious dream - Theodore H. Rand "An Inland Spruce"

With heart-strings aching to breathe - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

her breath moves all the winds of time - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Intermingled in being and blended in breath - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Breath of mystic times and Merlin sage - L. Rice-Oxley "The Opening of the Grave of Arthur and Guinevere at Glastonbury"

Whose breath was fog to your mist - Adrienne Rich "Through Cottalitos Under Rolls of Cloud"

Trying to breathe that word into the well's ear - Adrienne Rich "Well in Ruined Courtyard"

Hold the breath still and heart pale - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

And dreams disintegrate like breath - Lola Ridge "Secrets"

Vibrant with the breath of spring - Rainer Maria Rilke "Early Apollo" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Breathes warmth into the night - Arthur Rimbaud "Waifs and Strays" transl. not credited

The breath of the lilacs - Charles G.D. Roberts "Going Over"

Why the tangled roses breathe so softly to the moon - Lloyd Roberts "England's Fields"

Drew the breath of battle - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Field of Glory"

Only the breath of angels on it - F. Rochat "My Baby" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.710, 4 Aug. 1877]

With the tremulous breath of roses - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Song of Summer"

No struggle for restless breath - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"

Tribute of fragrant breath - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"

Even your breath is breeze enough to scatter them - Margaret Ross "Evolution"

Even your breath is breeze enough - Margaret Ross "Evolution"

So lost and so found in the same visible breath - Ellen Rowland "What Branches Hold"

The breath of a first kiss - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"

When the breath of twilight blows to flame - George William Russell "By the Margin of the Great Deep"

the other side breathes quiet - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"

Take off their caps and breathe their tears into them - Tomaž Šalamun "Young Cops"

Measure your pulse by their dying breaths - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"

The heaving of our doubtful breath - George Santayana "Athletic Ode"

What breath's left to shriek into the empty - Jennifer Scappettone "Syrinx Spring"

The dead are breathing inside me - Maxine Scates "Look"

Plague's contagious murderous breath - Friedrich Schiller "The Plague"

The cave mouth's event horizon breath - Ann K. Schwader "Alien Machines"

Sublime & hot as seraph breath - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"

The breath of chaos howled there - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"

As the breath before ashes - Teresa J. Scollon "Death and the Photocopier"

In my own custom of gathering breath - Teresa J. Scollon "Summer Solstice in Black River Falls"

Laughed as long as they had breath - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Beats out the breath from doom-gripped body - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

With God's breath at their backs - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

Breathe the balm of Nature's stillness - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"

Out of the distance a faint, keen breath - Edward Shanks "The Halt"

Holding all my breath inside - Prageeta Sharma "The Imperishable and Perishable Family"

Some small folded breath of otherlife - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"

And breathed upon the frozen mountains - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"

Soothed by every azure breath - Shelley "The Recollections"

The word a rose breathes to a bird - Frank Dempster Sherman "At Her Window"

Breathing to one's individuality - Brandon Shimoda "The Desert"

A breath of Heaven's faithfulness - Dora Sigerson Shorter "For Ever"

Who, breathing on the stars, blows out the sun - Dora Sigerson Shorter "I Am the World"

My breath held captive - Terisa Siagatonu "Deserving"

Suck the breath from your fire - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"

His fur hold the wind's breath - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Smell of Dog"

Fill us with your splendid breath - Joyce Sidman "Come, Happiness"

The vast, breathing darkness of your realm - Joyce Sidman "Dark Emperor"

Last breath, last sight of light - Joyce Sidman "Into the Mud"

Still in hiding, holding their breaths - Charles Simic "Hide and Seek"

From reeds that breathe in pain - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets II: Shakspeare" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

With every breath of underground - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"

Impended for a breath on wings of doom - Clark Ashton Smith "The Last Night"

Of breath after breath - Danez Smith "say it with your whole black mouth"

Sorrow's storm with bitter breath - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"

Keep breathing as best we can - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"

Race with the brook till my breath is gone - "A Spring Song" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

From the chilling blast of Misfortune's breath - Mrs. E.C. Stedman "Flight of the Birds" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

With grey, demoniac breath - George Sterling "The Death of Circe"

A breath upon her hand muted the night - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"

Their meek breath scenting the cowl of winter - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"

My balm-charmed breath to stoke the blaze - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

Not sure the breath I hold is mine - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"

Breathed by the snake of time - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 206: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The breath that makes it glow and die - Howard V. Sutherland "The Northern Light"

The breath of unborn blossoms in the air - Howard V. Sutherland "The Unassuageable"

Possessed of tearing breath - May Swenson "Hearing the Wind at Night"

With cloud and tempest's blackening breath - Algernon Swinburne "Aperotos Eros"

That draws breath so sad - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Moving vision without form or breath - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

That joy and stillness breathed into her heart - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

The unrepeatable contour of this breath - Arthur Sze "Transfigurations"

Breathe high western air at sunset - Tao Yuan-Ming "Chrysanthemums" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

When soul and breath scatter - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Poem in the Form of a Coffin-Puller's Song, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

Not a breath from out the West - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

To learn the advanced methods for counting breath - Keith Taylor "Class Jumping at Chateau Lake Louise"

For a breath of ecstacy - Sara Teasdale "Barter"

When we relinquish breath - Clara Ann Thompson "Life and Death"

Where no star its breath can draw - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

The lucid morning's fragrant breath - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

The very spring breathes bitter breath - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: IV. The Journey"

As long as youth breathes living fire - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIV. The Flags"

A hypnosis of breath and water - Edwin Torres "Water"

A ship of travel we must board upon our first breath - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"

In the air a breath of newness - Tu Fu "Song of the Beautiful Ladies" transl. by Burton Watson

Her breath of honey and spice - Katherine Tynan "Shamrock Song"

A canvas of body and beauty of breath - Leah Umansky "Unleashed" [Poetry Nov. 2020]

The channel was forged in breath and image - Leah Umansky "Unleashed" [Poetry Nov. 2020]

By the breath of of a bird - Louis Untermeyer "Revelation"

While the storm's breath sweeps o'er the snow - Nora C. Usher "Mistletoe" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.49--v.I, 6 Dec. 1884]

That holds the breath to play all songs to life - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"

Deep in the earth with a reed to breathe through - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "From the Front of the Fourth World"

As the sunset breathes the sky - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"

And timid breaths of vernal air go wandering - Henry van Dyke "When Tulips Bloom"

The frozen lake's perilous breath - Emily van Kley "Lacustrine"

Forest breathes a spicy breeze - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Farewell"

So the hidden anguish of breaths grows here - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

The breath of the opium dragon - Derek Walcott "Roseau Valley"

The cleansing breath of many molten truths - Margaret Walker "We Have Been Believers"

The trees and the breath of divine - Jo Walton "Nemi"

with a clock for my breath - M. Darusha Wehm "The Chrononaut"

Dies between breath and breath - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"

Faintest breath of flowers stirred - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"

The breath of vineyards, of apples and nuts and wine - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Faster than the breath's steady luggage - Keith S. Wilson "Book of Horses"

Live to breath April's musk another day - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"

Your small breath of life - Nancy Wood "Birth Ritual"

That every flower enjoys the air it breathes - William Wordsworth "Lines Written in Early Spring"

Public fame or private breath - Sir N. Wotton "Character of a Happy Life"

Cool and chaste as clover's breath - Elinor Wylie "Valentine"

Briefer than apple-blossom's breath - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"

With a spirit-tainted breath - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"

Track their breaths in the freeze - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"

Last breaths of the disappeared - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

The sea that breathed two times a day - Dean Young "Dear Friend" [Poetry Feb. 2006]

In this greeny entanglement of breaths - Dean Young "Romanticism 101" [Poetry July/August 2014]

Nor had I further need of breath - Francis Brett Young "104 Fahrenheit"

Dark carnation's breath of clove - Francis Brett Young "Prothalamion"

Meeting the breath of hay - Francis Brett Young "Testament"

Blow breath into your open mouth - Kevin Young "Nightstick [A Mural for Michael Brown]"

Takes breath in pairs - Josephine Yu "Passages from the Travel Diary of Noah's Wife"

Every breath disturbs the dreaming portraits - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

A murmur of some long-ago breath - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Breathe its atoms to clouds - Art Zilleruelo "Ghost Story"

A mystery of crackling breath - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver

Who breathe under the red ash - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


Breathless.


Dream-figments then are gone like breath-prints - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]

Breath-prints on a window, handwriting in snow - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]


Breathtaking presumption - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Breathtaking vistas of bodily hell - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"


Low-breathed music's echoed measure - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Low-breathed air and inwoven melody - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"


Ripe and summer-breathing clover-flower - John Drinkwater "The Midlands"


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