Potential Titles: Face
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somethingdarkercan feel your face like a crucial lever - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"
And sit there with no face - Rasha Abdulhadi "small sips from big pitchers"
Buried the faces of my sisters - Aria Aber "Ideology"
Looking out from their window that faces the sea - "Abroad"
Facing forward instead of backwards - Duane Ackerson "A Ghost Story"
Someone scattering seeds of light that will blossom into faces - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"
another face has sprouted in my chest - Grisel Y. Acosta "Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic"
Seek scratches over the moon's face - Etel Adnan "Night"
Can remember faces and hold grudges - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"
The lustrous silken veiled faces of the water - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"
Non-dimension pours in with its fugitive faces - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"
New faces rise by every hearth - William Allingham "The Winding Banks of Erne"
Their ghostly faces rushing by - Julia Alvarez "Direct Address"
History wearing the face of family - Julia Alvarez "Museo del Hombre"
When we wash our face in cinders - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Lines to My Love"
Facing the hunger between the stars - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"
The witnesses of your face - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen "The Small Square" (translated by Ruth Fainlight)
Faced with the flower of light - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Angels and birds"
The party face of paranoia - Rae Armantrout "Own"
The flowers have no new faces - Margaret Lee Ashley "In April"
When the world first saw our face - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Float face up in silence - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Filling the New House"
Leopards masking the faces of mountains - Mary Jo Bang "Etched, Tetched, Touched"
Facing a sea full of glowworms - Mary Jo Bang "Poem"
Pinched face mirrored in a latent puddle - Mary Jo Bang "A Portrait of Love"
The oxidized face of a statue of some goddess - Ari Banias "Curriculum"
A thought unfolding across somebody's face - Ari Banias "A Sunset"
The weeping face of love touched in the dark - Natalie Clifford Barney "More Night!"
To melt the frozen face of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "All This, Before"
Faced a bank of gloom - Cora C. Bass "Washington"
Let glory light my face - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"
Fold your great wings about my face - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"
The rocks have evil faces - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"
Like forgetting the face of the sea - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Little Brother"
Unfocused photographs of crooked faces - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"
Closed on the moon's face - Richard Blanco "Time as Art in The Eternal City"
Her unknown face, her untold name - Laurel Blossom "In the Guesthouse"
High above your winter face - Robert Bly "A Dream of the Blacksmith's Room"
A red cloth over your etched face - Maxwell Bodenheim "Pastels"
Facing a sheer sky - Louise Bogan "Medusa"
Every face you ever loved forget - Arna Bontemps "Close Your Eyes!"
His blind face battered with stars - William Stanley Braithwaite "Del Cascar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
His face held the gazer's eye in thrall - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Face the storms that threaten me - Anne Bronte "Stanzas [Oh, weep not, love!]"
Against hungry faces of expendable pawns - Paul Cameron Brown "Pillage"
I would sing in the face of fears - Evelyn Gage Browne "Flight"
Makes tender twilight of her face - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A Portrait"
Without the common face - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh"
The shadow on thy face - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Silhouette on the face of the moon - Richard Bruce "Shadow" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Toward the promise of her face - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"
Their unnumbered and forgotten faces - Witter Bynner "The New World II"
Who saw Lincoln stand up before the faces of a city - Witter Bynner "This Man"
You who saw him facing Manhattan - Witter Bynner "This Man"
And hide face down from the sky - Witter Bynner "The Wild Star"
Breathed in the face of the foe - Lord Byron "The Destruction of Sennacherib"
Each face is troublingly familiar - Scott Cairns "Necropolitan"
Our faces toward the arctic sky - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
With which God veils His face - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Memory, down whose face the tears are streaming - Giosue Carducci "Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto" transl. by Frank Sewall
All faces and fair smiles of time - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
All the hours forsaken of her face - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"
The trees with their secrets and green faces - Paul Carroll "Untitled [I want to write a poem the birds will understand]"
Wear a different face to each atrocity - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"
Today we face the awful test of fire - Ralph Chaplin "The Industrial Heretics"
Could bear no voice, no face - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"
Salt gathered on their faces - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"
Carrying the firelight on your face - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
Sends him forth to face fire and ice - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
Itinerary worn out, facing the surf - Killarney Clary "[Into the land of youth]"
your mother's face turned to water - Lucille Clifton "memory"
With a free forgiveness in his face - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Song of Lamech"
With face averted and unsteady eyes - Coleridge "The Pang More Sharp Than All"
Turns round a stony face - Arthur Colton "When All the Brooks Have Run Away"
Millions fleck the face of Heaven - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cirrus. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Before the sun would show his face - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"
Or why neglect thus shows its face - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"
Still bravely faced both wind and shower - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"
My burning face in the arms of the wind - George Cronyn "The Flower's Way"
I never look at my own face in the mirror - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"
A gleam across the dreamer's face - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
Flaunt a red flower in the face of time - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
the holy city which is your face - E. E. Cummings "Amores (II)"
With a stern dream on his face - Waring Cuney "I Think I See Him There" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A glimpse of your averted face - Olive Custance "Twilight"
Desperate faces at each cell - H.D. "Prisoners"
The ordinary rituals of facing new days - Kwame Dawes "New Year's Eve in Addis"
Seek not the face of Pan to see - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"
The way his face yields to the light - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"
The buried faces finally freed from worry - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
The gray pavement show a sheeted face - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"
The name they dropped upon my face - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XIV: Love's Baptism"
With late, celestial face - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LVI: Melodies Unheard"
The opening beauties of thy face - Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond "To My Granddaughter"
One god in every hidden face - Mary B. Dodge "A Sylvan Search" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.17, no.99, Mar. 1876]
Face and wings of air - John Donne "Air and Angels"
A bride's face of flowers - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"
Its scarred face an old mirror - Carol Ann Duffy "Tall"
Resiliance in the face of despair and mass depredation - Michael Dumanis "Sehnsucht"
A face for noon - Stephen Dunn "At His House"
A face for dusk - Stephen Dunn "At His House"
The face of better luck - Cornelius Eady "Revenge (Running Man)"
Hard faces, pinched by starving years - J. Hal. Elliot "What Then?" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Where he will never hide his face - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Evening"
Faced danger with a heart of trust - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Forbearance"
Searching my face for poetry - Martin Espada "Black Islands"
The restless sea of unknown faces - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Arranging mosaics of god's face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 8"
The night's contorted face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"
Each pixel half reflecting my face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XVI"
In a future with her face - Jennifer Foerster "from 'Shadow Poems'"
Believed in a future with her face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 1"
The shadow of the Enemy had left his heart and face - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Into a mirror with no face - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
The human cyclone's awful faces - Arthur M. Forrester "The Red-Heart Daisy"
Tears and shadows hide thy face - Fanny Forrester "A Last 'Good-Night'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.31-v.I, 2 Aug. 1884]
Your arrogant faces on the ground - Antonio Funches "Coup"
Open to them all with a sober face - Zona Gale "Enchantment"
Faced with joy the lottery of light - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Started just outside our faces - Forrest Gander "Pastoral"
What shadow flits dark'ning the face of the water? - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Our numbed faces are as stunned as Andromache's - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
That the moon shed curses on his face - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Which stares clean into God's face - Louis Golding "Ploughman at the Plough"
In the blank face of certain unknowns - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
We turned and faced you full to land - Alfred Percival Graves "Herring is King"
Unveil her awful face - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
Traced a story on my face - Leah Naomi Green "Engagement"
Every flower faces away - Leah Naomi Green "Week Ten: Plum"
I see her pale face looking down - Viscountess Grey "Echo"
Scorner of the pleading faces - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Caliph and the Beggar"
My quiet angle facing the cobalt contour - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
And have no faces for their frowns to fold - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"
Chant a willing ritual to forgotten faces - Katherine Hale "Northern Graveyards"
The morning disappears clock faces - francine j. harris "intention"
Useless in the face of flood - francine j. harris "Wetland"
In the face of some inevitable advance of doom - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
And face the glare and tumult of the busy world - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "A Shadow"
The sudden scarred face of the moon - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"
Now in the open face of day - Leslie Pickney Hill "So Quietly"
Moments with obscured faces - Zinaida Hippius (Gippius) "L'Imprevisibilite" transl. by Temira Pachmuss
With loners and insomniacs facing the darkness - Edward Hirsch "The Task"
Who face a hopeless hill with sparking and delight - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
In the face of what we remember - Langston Hughes "Puzzled"
I have turned my soul to face the grave - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
A mystery among faces - Ishion Hutchinson "Rocksteady"
Misty fragments down its face - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: Sea-Mews in Winter Time"
Pollinating the white face of the moon - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"
I wear September on my face - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"
The golden sunflowers ranged their faces to the west - Violet Jacob "The Little Dragon"
And strips the face of rocks - Allison Eir Jenks "Underwater Grave"
Laughing in the face of years - James Weldon Johnson "If I Were Paris"
The rejoicing face of summer - Lionel Johnson "Harvest"
Turning round with face unscathed - Ebenezer Jones "When the World is Burning"
My face among the wounded coins - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
The face of the confession far from home - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"
Words live in the spirit of her face - June Jordan "A Song for Soweto"
See the grief etched on my face - Allison Joseph "Incognito Grief: A Blues"
Grow old to face east - Fady Joudah "Canopus"
With a dry face and a cloven heart - Fady Joudah "Dehiscence"
Across a hundred and one faces - Fady Joudah "Domicile, House, Cusp"
some end time we have already faced - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
A layer of light wreaths her face - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]
To shroud the miles across the face of the seas - Janet Kauffman "Reparations"
And in vapour hid my face - John Keats "Hyperion"
The fair and open face of heaven - John Keats "Sonnet X [To one who has been long in city pent]"
Upon the face of this blank earth - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"
Your face hewn into lost history - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Waves madly in the face of night - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
In the face of never lasting - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
Reorganized my face in the mirror - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
To face the cruel looking-glass - Rudyard Kipling "The Looking-Glass"
Seeing the faces of silk - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"
My face a burning bush or wheel - Virginia Konchan "Black Hole"
Facing what I think is the wind - Christopher Kondrich "Caedmon"
Slender face carved by wind - Christopher Kondrich "Degree of Nothing"
Could stand the shadow of your sleeping face - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"
Bleached faces peering in with coals for eyes - Stanley Kunitz "The Abduction"
On the swift longing face of the river - Archibald Lampman "Spring on the River"
Shadows of transfigured faces - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
Who said November's face was grim? - Lucy Larcom "November"
A gleaming face against the night - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"
Some of your several faces I had never seen - D.H. Lawrence "The End"
Let him be faced with another man's need - D.H. Lawrence "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is"
The see like a blade at their face - D.H. Lawrence "Sicilian Cyclamens"
Who had flung their faces on the stones - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"
In the doomed faces of strangers - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"
Turns round to face each post-apocalyptic dawn - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"
Your laughter thrown in the wind's face - Philip Levine "My Fathers, The Baltic"
Blowing its black breath in the face of creation - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"
Furtive, fleeting glimpse of angel faces - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"
Rendered laws of my country played before my face - Robin Coste Lewis "Self-Portrait as the Bootblack in Daguerre's Boulevard du Temple"
Face the flower-formed mirror - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Evening comes with an onslaught]" transl. by Burton Watson
Lay aside my face of shame - Li T'ai-Po "Ch'ang Kan" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
This mask I've worn too long has become my face - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"
Face more pallid than a daylit star - Maria White Lowell "Rouen, Place de la Pucelle"
Always stronger in the face of annihilation - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
And I saw the world's naked face - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"
Unmask the secret face of night - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"
As the blood runs from their faces - Mack W. Mani "Trans Rage 2: The Reckoning"
The moon's fair face is broken - Edwin Markham "A Lyric of the Dawn"
Searched for our faces among strangers - Maya Marshall "Port of Entry"
Defiance in the face of kings - George Martin "The Crisis"
Marks on the face don't melt into the water - Cate Marvin "Two Views of a Discarded Mattress"
Searing the face of Time - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
No need to display a poker face to yourself - Donna Masini "My Father Teaches Me to Play Solitaire"
Blank faces traced in constellations - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
Stare in the mirror of his face - Jamaal May "The Whetting of Teeth"
My past was its own face - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
The face that burned tall Troy - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"
My fevered face wrapped in grass - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger "Midmorning" transl. by Carlie Hoffman
The will to survive in the face of annihilation - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"
Near the face of dawn - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Beneath the mad moon's face - Michael Mesic "Swallows"
The river down both our faces - Jenny Molberg "The Uncommon Mirror"
Upon the glacial face of the sky - N. Scott Momaday "The Great Fillmore Street Buffalo Drive"
Threw soft splendour on a fair familiar face - George Logan Moore "Love's Transfiguration" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.1-v.I, 6 Jan. 1884]
Never seen our own face - Saretta Morgan 'from "Plan Upon Arrival"'
Hurrying with the face of Hell - Lewis Morris "Pictures - II"
cover their faces with wind - Valzhyna Mort "crossword"
We gave the clock a face - Lisel Mueller "Things"
The ingenue faces of pink and white impatiens - Lisel Mueller "When I Am Asked"
Removed the masks from my two faces - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "I Opened My Door" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
When Men are come to mend their Faces - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]
Memory's tears are cold upon thy face - Sarojini Naidu "Imperial Delhi"
But is there soul behind that face - John Napier "Who Knows?"
Blaze the face of my heart's fire - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (4)" transl. by Dennis Daly
My face, as foreign to me - Marilyn Nelson "Thirteen-Year-Old American Negro Girl"
Lifts up its thousand-handed face - Pablo Neruda "Born in the Woods" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Hollow faces of perpetual gunpowder - Pablo Neruda "General Franco in Hell" translated by Richard Schaaf
The wheel of night eclipsed his face - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The shout facing the sea - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems XVII" translated by W.S. Merwin
His words on your face as scars - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"
Whose face would greet me in hell's fiery way - Robert Nichols "To ---"
The sunshine of her face in winter - Meredith Nicholson "My Lady of the Golden Heart"
Silhouette on the face of the moon - Bruce Nugent "Shadow"
The vault of his face closes - Naomi Shihab Nye "His Life"
Carrying my box of faces - Naomi Shihab Nye "One Boy Told Me"
Gemstones of sweat on my face - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Darkness enters the face of the lily - Mary Oliver "The Lily"
The theater of their perfect faces - Mary Oliver "The Snow Cricket"
The faces of dolls melting in a house fire - Kunjana Parashar "In the Zoo" [Strange Horizons 17 February 2025]
The unshapen dust of earth without a face - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"
Dormant tears stream down my face - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"
Conquered Doubt and faced a thousand alarms - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"
Half her face tangled in the trees - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"
Sealed closet of the human face - Kiki Petrosino "Essay in Architecture"
Her face a glass zero - Kiki Petrosino "Maria"
While stars fall on my face - Phan Nhien Hao "Don't Die Another Person's Death" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
Each face wears fear differently - Carl Phillips "As the Rain Comes Down Harder"
The language of age in her face - Jon Pineda "Cinque Terre"
Flowering blue and mystical over the face of the stars - Sylvia Plath "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Of faces and names known - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
Children of the wind, why can't I see your faces? - Miriam Clark Potter "The Children of the Wind"
Their light trembles down on my face - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Ships"
A harlequin's cloth face of fixed hilarity - Tim Pratt "Mask"
A face that shifts like the sky or water - Tim Pratt "Mask"
Have studied your face for ten thousand days - Alison Prine "Long Love"
Where we swapped faces in haste - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"
Bespoke mirrors for our escaping faces - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "With a third eye, I see the catastrophe"
A familiar face in a stranger - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"
And winds make faces at the moon - Herbert Randall "Twin Lights"
A pleasanter face than is worn by the truth - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
Feverish light flung hard upon their faces - Paisley Rekdal "Bats"
The poet's tower facing the western ocean - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
The mask of light that pressed his face - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
Blazoning his face above the mountains - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Can look in the face of the sun - Lola Ridge "Jude"
In the gray stone of your face - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"
To caress the pale mask of your face - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"
The walls rise in a man's face - Rihaku "Four Poems of Departure: Leave-taking Near Shoku" transl. by Ezra Pound
Shadows lay upon the dials' faces - Rainer Maria Rilke "Autumnal Day" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Giving has many faces - Alberto Rios "When Giving Is All We Have"
Then in the face of the torch - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
Foreshadowing April's face - Charles George Douglas Roberts "The Silver Thaw"
That mirrors a friend's face to memory - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
A fist in the face of God - Peggy Robles-Alvarado "When I Became La Promesa"
Fresh tears wet upon the hard cold face - Rennell Rodd "Imperator Augustus"
True portrait of the unforgotten face - Alice Wellington Rollins "No. 33--A Portrait"
The face of foemen unaware - Ronsard "To the Moon" transl. by Andrew Lang
And face the whole gray sky - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"
Extort compassion from each gazing face - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
To protect the true face - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
The face not seen, the voice not heard - Christina Rossetti "Somewhere Or Other"
Clothing the vast with a familiar face - George William Russell "Symbolism"
Dusty photographs of faces like ghosts - Nicky Russell "The World Is a Curio"
And veil'd in folly wisdom's face - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
The wind intermittent in our faces - Marjorie Saiser "Crane Migration, Platte River"
grief looks gorgeous in the face of harm - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"
Out of your many faces flash memories - Carl Sandburg "Passers-by"
Out of the look on a face - Carl Sandburg "Under a Hat Rim"
Carve our sorrows on the face of joy - Charles Sangster "Love's Renewal"
Face the reckoning unafraid - Dorothy L. Sayers "Pygmalion"
When each immortal turned his face away - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
Be known by its face - Jason Schneiderman "Wedding Poem for Ada & Lucas"
Filled with faces divine - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"
Scars across the face of night - Ann K. Schwader "Fatal Constellations"
Faces in the nightmares we'll deny - Ann K. Schwader "Given to the Frost"
Whose face is lit with the flames of cities - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
Washed their faces clean of love - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"
A hurricane of faces - Evelyn Scott "From Brooklyn"
Rolls from the face of the dawn - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
Upon the silent face of a dark dial in a sunless place - "The Sea of Death"
Keep the faces of our enemies well lit - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"
Down the facing mirrors of future and past - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"
With Art's false borrowed face - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXVII"
Then rip off my face for the reveal - Natalie Shapero "Hansel or Gretel"
Doing the scholarly work of facing the empire - Prageeta Sharma "Lateral Violence"
Pansies, that laugh in every face - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Read the message writ across Earth's face - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"
Who kissed the veil from Beauty's face - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
And search across the shadows for my face - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
My face only veil - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"
With beads of pain upon his face - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"
Dark Emperor of hooked face and hungry eye - Joyce Sidman "Dark Emperor"
Familiar faces in those of strangers - Charles Simic "Hide and Seek"
Who faced in death the sea in life he ruled - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Across the upturned faces of the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Facing the looked-for dawn - Effie Smith "Toward Sunrise"
As if I'd forgotten your face - Maggie Smith "Twentieth Century"
Against a city's flat face - Patricia Smith "Siblings"
Two faces behind glass - Richard Solomon "Away"
I write on the face of earthquakes - Marin Sorescu "Creation" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea
Face unfaltering the Wrath - George Sterling "Duty"
In the face of the offended sun - George Sterling "The Thirst of Satan"
And faced the hushed infinity of night - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"
My heart called out for some befriending face - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"
A moth alit on the sun-dial's face - Arthur Stringer "I Sat in the Sunlight"
With his fist in the face of Death - Arthur Stringer "What Shall I Care?"
With faces to the morning - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
On the twilight of older faces - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Woven a veil for the weeping face - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Slams in Folly's face the twice-barred door - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
Deal in straight lines with a god of double faces - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"
This hand of faces you dealt yourself - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"
Generations past in the face of what is yet to be - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
A new face at the door - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Death of the Old Year"
Smoothed earth's furrowed face - Francis Thompson "Daisy"
And not a nightmare with peeling faces - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"
Reaching through the face of every forest - TC Tolbert "This Is What You Are"
The wreckage faced the surface of the flood - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"
Those faces pain has marked - Iris Tree "London"
My face without the conquering light - Iris Tree "[Sometimes I look into the glass]"
The gray faces and their merciless tongues - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"
Bring me only cypress boughs to shroud my face - Tu Fu "The Blue Robe" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The angry face of the sky - Louis Untermeyer "Leaving the Harbor"
Reflecting my own stranger's face in the window - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Lamplight"
A warm still wind upon my face - Mark Van Doren "Possession"
Its blurred face of fury - Mai Der Vang "Out of Research Into Reveries"
Face the bottomless nights - Jeanann Verlee "Helen Considers Leaving Troy"
Blue neon on everyone's face - Vickie Vertiz "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
When Winter's gloomy face appears - D.R.W. "Lines to the Memory of Thomas Tyrie, a Young Edinburgh Poet of Great Promise" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.691, 24 March 1877]
Stony face with bulldog jaws - Diane Wakoski "The Photos"
Through the erasure of her face - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"
Her drowned face glances - Derek Walcott "Storm Figure"
Countless mountains face each other in sorrow - Wang An-Shih "Gazing North" transl. by David Hinton
Among bamboo, facing autumn darkness - Wang An-Shih "Hair white" transl. by David Hinton
Heal all these failures hacking and scarring my face - Wang An-Shih "Old now, tangled" transl. by David Hinton
Majestic as any lone peak I might face - Wang An-Shih "Sent to Abbot Whole-Repose" transl. by David Hinton
Patient, a guest facing west wind - Wang An-Shih "Steady-Shield Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
With their crow faces and their sky-colored suits - Noah Warren "The Standard"
Until my face comes into the light - Dave Whippman "Gothic Romance"
With faces turn'd sideways - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
A blown leaf across the face of Time - Helen Hay Whitney "Ave atque Vale"
Face the day's white monotone - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ribbon"
The painted woods are laughing at the faces sour and sad - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Flinging a prayer at the face of fear - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
Face a startled world - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Neutral"
The terrible faces of our nonentities - William Carlos Williams "Apology"
The set pieces of your faces - William Carlos Williams "Apology"
See the corona of your face - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
Read the compass on their faces - Yolanda Wisher "west of philly"
Contain so many faces - Jenny Xie "Square Cells"
That music in her face - W.B. Yeats "The Countess Cathleen in Paradise"
Crowded with bitter faces - W.B. Yeats "The Travail of Passion"
Hid his face amid a crowd of stars - W.B. Yeats "When You Are Old"
Your changing face - W.B Yeats "When You Are Old"
Across the earless face of the moon - Jane Yolen "Bird Watcher"
Heaving kelp at the sunken city's face - Dean Young "Easy as Falling Down Stairs" [Poetry Nov. 2007]
Faces torn and reglued upside-down - Dean Young "Glider" [Poetry Oct. 2003]
Mirrored a thousand laughing faces - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"
If I touch your volcanic face - Javier Zamora "El Salvador"
Candles shaped like faces - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
On its time-defaced pedestal - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"
Face to Face.
Build a backdrop of the faceless - Mary Jo Bang "O Means the Mouth"
Come from afar and faceless - Carl Phillips "And Swept All Visible Signs Away"
Faceless souls dancing in its ashes - Lillian Tsay "The Resolution of N" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]
The stars will lean down and stare from their faceless spaces - Charles Wright "Nothing Is Written"
Factories carved into cliff-faces - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"
Green-faced violin players guarding vertical streets - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Robber-bands of grim-faced years - Annie Fellows Johnston "Banditti"
Looked Janus-faced to innocence and guilt - William Wetmore Story "A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem"
Idly pluck a thousand meek-faced daisies - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Outfaces now my silver moon - John Keats "To Fanny"
The pale-faced marble tells the softened tale - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]
Their shamefaced grays and reds - Maxwell Bodenheim "North Clark Street, Chicago"
A shame-faced galaxy - James Galvin "My Second Angel"
Who birthed one two-faced desire - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"
Ice of this hard two-faced month - Seamus Heaney "Audenesque"
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And sit there with no face - Rasha Abdulhadi "small sips from big pitchers"
Buried the faces of my sisters - Aria Aber "Ideology"
Looking out from their window that faces the sea - "Abroad"
Facing forward instead of backwards - Duane Ackerson "A Ghost Story"
Someone scattering seeds of light that will blossom into faces - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"
another face has sprouted in my chest - Grisel Y. Acosta "Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic"
Seek scratches over the moon's face - Etel Adnan "Night"
Can remember faces and hold grudges - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"
The lustrous silken veiled faces of the water - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"
Non-dimension pours in with its fugitive faces - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"
New faces rise by every hearth - William Allingham "The Winding Banks of Erne"
Their ghostly faces rushing by - Julia Alvarez "Direct Address"
History wearing the face of family - Julia Alvarez "Museo del Hombre"
When we wash our face in cinders - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Lines to My Love"
Facing the hunger between the stars - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"
The witnesses of your face - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen "The Small Square" (translated by Ruth Fainlight)
Faced with the flower of light - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Angels and birds"
The party face of paranoia - Rae Armantrout "Own"
The flowers have no new faces - Margaret Lee Ashley "In April"
When the world first saw our face - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Float face up in silence - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Filling the New House"
Leopards masking the faces of mountains - Mary Jo Bang "Etched, Tetched, Touched"
Facing a sea full of glowworms - Mary Jo Bang "Poem"
Pinched face mirrored in a latent puddle - Mary Jo Bang "A Portrait of Love"
The oxidized face of a statue of some goddess - Ari Banias "Curriculum"
A thought unfolding across somebody's face - Ari Banias "A Sunset"
The weeping face of love touched in the dark - Natalie Clifford Barney "More Night!"
To melt the frozen face of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "All This, Before"
Faced a bank of gloom - Cora C. Bass "Washington"
Let glory light my face - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"
Fold your great wings about my face - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"
The rocks have evil faces - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"
Like forgetting the face of the sea - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Little Brother"
Unfocused photographs of crooked faces - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"
Closed on the moon's face - Richard Blanco "Time as Art in The Eternal City"
Her unknown face, her untold name - Laurel Blossom "In the Guesthouse"
High above your winter face - Robert Bly "A Dream of the Blacksmith's Room"
A red cloth over your etched face - Maxwell Bodenheim "Pastels"
Facing a sheer sky - Louise Bogan "Medusa"
Every face you ever loved forget - Arna Bontemps "Close Your Eyes!"
His blind face battered with stars - William Stanley Braithwaite "Del Cascar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
His face held the gazer's eye in thrall - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Face the storms that threaten me - Anne Bronte "Stanzas [Oh, weep not, love!]"
Against hungry faces of expendable pawns - Paul Cameron Brown "Pillage"
I would sing in the face of fears - Evelyn Gage Browne "Flight"
Makes tender twilight of her face - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A Portrait"
Without the common face - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh"
The shadow on thy face - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Silhouette on the face of the moon - Richard Bruce "Shadow" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Toward the promise of her face - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"
Their unnumbered and forgotten faces - Witter Bynner "The New World II"
Who saw Lincoln stand up before the faces of a city - Witter Bynner "This Man"
You who saw him facing Manhattan - Witter Bynner "This Man"
And hide face down from the sky - Witter Bynner "The Wild Star"
Breathed in the face of the foe - Lord Byron "The Destruction of Sennacherib"
Each face is troublingly familiar - Scott Cairns "Necropolitan"
Our faces toward the arctic sky - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
With which God veils His face - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Memory, down whose face the tears are streaming - Giosue Carducci "Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto" transl. by Frank Sewall
All faces and fair smiles of time - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
All the hours forsaken of her face - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"
The trees with their secrets and green faces - Paul Carroll "Untitled [I want to write a poem the birds will understand]"
Wear a different face to each atrocity - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"
Today we face the awful test of fire - Ralph Chaplin "The Industrial Heretics"
Could bear no voice, no face - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"
Salt gathered on their faces - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"
Carrying the firelight on your face - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
Sends him forth to face fire and ice - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
Itinerary worn out, facing the surf - Killarney Clary "[Into the land of youth]"
your mother's face turned to water - Lucille Clifton "memory"
With a free forgiveness in his face - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Song of Lamech"
With face averted and unsteady eyes - Coleridge "The Pang More Sharp Than All"
Turns round a stony face - Arthur Colton "When All the Brooks Have Run Away"
Millions fleck the face of Heaven - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cirrus. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Before the sun would show his face - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"
Or why neglect thus shows its face - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"
Still bravely faced both wind and shower - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"
My burning face in the arms of the wind - George Cronyn "The Flower's Way"
I never look at my own face in the mirror - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"
A gleam across the dreamer's face - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
Flaunt a red flower in the face of time - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
the holy city which is your face - E. E. Cummings "Amores (II)"
With a stern dream on his face - Waring Cuney "I Think I See Him There" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A glimpse of your averted face - Olive Custance "Twilight"
Desperate faces at each cell - H.D. "Prisoners"
The ordinary rituals of facing new days - Kwame Dawes "New Year's Eve in Addis"
Seek not the face of Pan to see - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"
The way his face yields to the light - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"
The buried faces finally freed from worry - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
The gray pavement show a sheeted face - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"
The name they dropped upon my face - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XIV: Love's Baptism"
With late, celestial face - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LVI: Melodies Unheard"
The opening beauties of thy face - Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond "To My Granddaughter"
One god in every hidden face - Mary B. Dodge "A Sylvan Search" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.17, no.99, Mar. 1876]
Face and wings of air - John Donne "Air and Angels"
A bride's face of flowers - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"
Its scarred face an old mirror - Carol Ann Duffy "Tall"
Resiliance in the face of despair and mass depredation - Michael Dumanis "Sehnsucht"
A face for noon - Stephen Dunn "At His House"
A face for dusk - Stephen Dunn "At His House"
The face of better luck - Cornelius Eady "Revenge (Running Man)"
Hard faces, pinched by starving years - J. Hal. Elliot "What Then?" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Where he will never hide his face - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Evening"
Faced danger with a heart of trust - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Forbearance"
Searching my face for poetry - Martin Espada "Black Islands"
The restless sea of unknown faces - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Arranging mosaics of god's face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 8"
The night's contorted face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"
Each pixel half reflecting my face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XVI"
In a future with her face - Jennifer Foerster "from 'Shadow Poems'"
Believed in a future with her face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 1"
The shadow of the Enemy had left his heart and face - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Into a mirror with no face - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
The human cyclone's awful faces - Arthur M. Forrester "The Red-Heart Daisy"
Tears and shadows hide thy face - Fanny Forrester "A Last 'Good-Night'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.31-v.I, 2 Aug. 1884]
Your arrogant faces on the ground - Antonio Funches "Coup"
Open to them all with a sober face - Zona Gale "Enchantment"
Faced with joy the lottery of light - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Started just outside our faces - Forrest Gander "Pastoral"
What shadow flits dark'ning the face of the water? - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Our numbed faces are as stunned as Andromache's - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
That the moon shed curses on his face - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Which stares clean into God's face - Louis Golding "Ploughman at the Plough"
In the blank face of certain unknowns - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
We turned and faced you full to land - Alfred Percival Graves "Herring is King"
Unveil her awful face - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
Traced a story on my face - Leah Naomi Green "Engagement"
Every flower faces away - Leah Naomi Green "Week Ten: Plum"
I see her pale face looking down - Viscountess Grey "Echo"
Scorner of the pleading faces - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Caliph and the Beggar"
My quiet angle facing the cobalt contour - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
And have no faces for their frowns to fold - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"
Chant a willing ritual to forgotten faces - Katherine Hale "Northern Graveyards"
The morning disappears clock faces - francine j. harris "intention"
Useless in the face of flood - francine j. harris "Wetland"
In the face of some inevitable advance of doom - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
And face the glare and tumult of the busy world - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "A Shadow"
The sudden scarred face of the moon - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"
Now in the open face of day - Leslie Pickney Hill "So Quietly"
Moments with obscured faces - Zinaida Hippius (Gippius) "L'Imprevisibilite" transl. by Temira Pachmuss
With loners and insomniacs facing the darkness - Edward Hirsch "The Task"
Who face a hopeless hill with sparking and delight - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
In the face of what we remember - Langston Hughes "Puzzled"
I have turned my soul to face the grave - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
A mystery among faces - Ishion Hutchinson "Rocksteady"
Misty fragments down its face - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: Sea-Mews in Winter Time"
Pollinating the white face of the moon - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"
I wear September on my face - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"
The golden sunflowers ranged their faces to the west - Violet Jacob "The Little Dragon"
And strips the face of rocks - Allison Eir Jenks "Underwater Grave"
Laughing in the face of years - James Weldon Johnson "If I Were Paris"
The rejoicing face of summer - Lionel Johnson "Harvest"
Turning round with face unscathed - Ebenezer Jones "When the World is Burning"
My face among the wounded coins - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
The face of the confession far from home - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"
Words live in the spirit of her face - June Jordan "A Song for Soweto"
See the grief etched on my face - Allison Joseph "Incognito Grief: A Blues"
Grow old to face east - Fady Joudah "Canopus"
With a dry face and a cloven heart - Fady Joudah "Dehiscence"
Across a hundred and one faces - Fady Joudah "Domicile, House, Cusp"
some end time we have already faced - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
A layer of light wreaths her face - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]
To shroud the miles across the face of the seas - Janet Kauffman "Reparations"
And in vapour hid my face - John Keats "Hyperion"
The fair and open face of heaven - John Keats "Sonnet X [To one who has been long in city pent]"
Upon the face of this blank earth - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"
Your face hewn into lost history - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Waves madly in the face of night - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
In the face of never lasting - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
Reorganized my face in the mirror - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
To face the cruel looking-glass - Rudyard Kipling "The Looking-Glass"
Seeing the faces of silk - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"
My face a burning bush or wheel - Virginia Konchan "Black Hole"
Facing what I think is the wind - Christopher Kondrich "Caedmon"
Slender face carved by wind - Christopher Kondrich "Degree of Nothing"
Could stand the shadow of your sleeping face - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"
Bleached faces peering in with coals for eyes - Stanley Kunitz "The Abduction"
On the swift longing face of the river - Archibald Lampman "Spring on the River"
Shadows of transfigured faces - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
Who said November's face was grim? - Lucy Larcom "November"
A gleaming face against the night - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"
Some of your several faces I had never seen - D.H. Lawrence "The End"
Let him be faced with another man's need - D.H. Lawrence "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is"
The see like a blade at their face - D.H. Lawrence "Sicilian Cyclamens"
Who had flung their faces on the stones - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"
In the doomed faces of strangers - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"
Turns round to face each post-apocalyptic dawn - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"
Your laughter thrown in the wind's face - Philip Levine "My Fathers, The Baltic"
Blowing its black breath in the face of creation - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"
Furtive, fleeting glimpse of angel faces - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"
Rendered laws of my country played before my face - Robin Coste Lewis "Self-Portrait as the Bootblack in Daguerre's Boulevard du Temple"
Face the flower-formed mirror - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Evening comes with an onslaught]" transl. by Burton Watson
Lay aside my face of shame - Li T'ai-Po "Ch'ang Kan" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
This mask I've worn too long has become my face - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"
Face more pallid than a daylit star - Maria White Lowell "Rouen, Place de la Pucelle"
Always stronger in the face of annihilation - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
And I saw the world's naked face - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"
Unmask the secret face of night - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"
As the blood runs from their faces - Mack W. Mani "Trans Rage 2: The Reckoning"
The moon's fair face is broken - Edwin Markham "A Lyric of the Dawn"
Searched for our faces among strangers - Maya Marshall "Port of Entry"
Defiance in the face of kings - George Martin "The Crisis"
Marks on the face don't melt into the water - Cate Marvin "Two Views of a Discarded Mattress"
Searing the face of Time - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
No need to display a poker face to yourself - Donna Masini "My Father Teaches Me to Play Solitaire"
Blank faces traced in constellations - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
Stare in the mirror of his face - Jamaal May "The Whetting of Teeth"
My past was its own face - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
The face that burned tall Troy - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"
My fevered face wrapped in grass - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger "Midmorning" transl. by Carlie Hoffman
The will to survive in the face of annihilation - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"
Near the face of dawn - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Beneath the mad moon's face - Michael Mesic "Swallows"
The river down both our faces - Jenny Molberg "The Uncommon Mirror"
Upon the glacial face of the sky - N. Scott Momaday "The Great Fillmore Street Buffalo Drive"
Threw soft splendour on a fair familiar face - George Logan Moore "Love's Transfiguration" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.1-v.I, 6 Jan. 1884]
Never seen our own face - Saretta Morgan 'from "Plan Upon Arrival"'
Hurrying with the face of Hell - Lewis Morris "Pictures - II"
cover their faces with wind - Valzhyna Mort "crossword"
We gave the clock a face - Lisel Mueller "Things"
The ingenue faces of pink and white impatiens - Lisel Mueller "When I Am Asked"
Removed the masks from my two faces - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "I Opened My Door" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
When Men are come to mend their Faces - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]
Memory's tears are cold upon thy face - Sarojini Naidu "Imperial Delhi"
But is there soul behind that face - John Napier "Who Knows?"
Blaze the face of my heart's fire - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (4)" transl. by Dennis Daly
My face, as foreign to me - Marilyn Nelson "Thirteen-Year-Old American Negro Girl"
Lifts up its thousand-handed face - Pablo Neruda "Born in the Woods" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Hollow faces of perpetual gunpowder - Pablo Neruda "General Franco in Hell" translated by Richard Schaaf
The wheel of night eclipsed his face - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The shout facing the sea - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems XVII" translated by W.S. Merwin
His words on your face as scars - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"
Whose face would greet me in hell's fiery way - Robert Nichols "To ---"
The sunshine of her face in winter - Meredith Nicholson "My Lady of the Golden Heart"
Silhouette on the face of the moon - Bruce Nugent "Shadow"
The vault of his face closes - Naomi Shihab Nye "His Life"
Carrying my box of faces - Naomi Shihab Nye "One Boy Told Me"
Gemstones of sweat on my face - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Darkness enters the face of the lily - Mary Oliver "The Lily"
The theater of their perfect faces - Mary Oliver "The Snow Cricket"
The faces of dolls melting in a house fire - Kunjana Parashar "In the Zoo" [Strange Horizons 17 February 2025]
The unshapen dust of earth without a face - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"
Dormant tears stream down my face - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"
Conquered Doubt and faced a thousand alarms - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"
Half her face tangled in the trees - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"
Sealed closet of the human face - Kiki Petrosino "Essay in Architecture"
Her face a glass zero - Kiki Petrosino "Maria"
While stars fall on my face - Phan Nhien Hao "Don't Die Another Person's Death" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
Each face wears fear differently - Carl Phillips "As the Rain Comes Down Harder"
The language of age in her face - Jon Pineda "Cinque Terre"
Flowering blue and mystical over the face of the stars - Sylvia Plath "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Of faces and names known - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
Children of the wind, why can't I see your faces? - Miriam Clark Potter "The Children of the Wind"
Their light trembles down on my face - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Ships"
A harlequin's cloth face of fixed hilarity - Tim Pratt "Mask"
A face that shifts like the sky or water - Tim Pratt "Mask"
Have studied your face for ten thousand days - Alison Prine "Long Love"
Where we swapped faces in haste - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"
Bespoke mirrors for our escaping faces - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "With a third eye, I see the catastrophe"
A familiar face in a stranger - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"
And winds make faces at the moon - Herbert Randall "Twin Lights"
A pleasanter face than is worn by the truth - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
Feverish light flung hard upon their faces - Paisley Rekdal "Bats"
The poet's tower facing the western ocean - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
The mask of light that pressed his face - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
Blazoning his face above the mountains - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Can look in the face of the sun - Lola Ridge "Jude"
In the gray stone of your face - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"
To caress the pale mask of your face - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"
The walls rise in a man's face - Rihaku "Four Poems of Departure: Leave-taking Near Shoku" transl. by Ezra Pound
Shadows lay upon the dials' faces - Rainer Maria Rilke "Autumnal Day" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Giving has many faces - Alberto Rios "When Giving Is All We Have"
Then in the face of the torch - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
Foreshadowing April's face - Charles George Douglas Roberts "The Silver Thaw"
That mirrors a friend's face to memory - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
A fist in the face of God - Peggy Robles-Alvarado "When I Became La Promesa"
Fresh tears wet upon the hard cold face - Rennell Rodd "Imperator Augustus"
True portrait of the unforgotten face - Alice Wellington Rollins "No. 33--A Portrait"
The face of foemen unaware - Ronsard "To the Moon" transl. by Andrew Lang
And face the whole gray sky - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"
Extort compassion from each gazing face - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
To protect the true face - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
The face not seen, the voice not heard - Christina Rossetti "Somewhere Or Other"
Clothing the vast with a familiar face - George William Russell "Symbolism"
Dusty photographs of faces like ghosts - Nicky Russell "The World Is a Curio"
And veil'd in folly wisdom's face - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
The wind intermittent in our faces - Marjorie Saiser "Crane Migration, Platte River"
grief looks gorgeous in the face of harm - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"
Out of your many faces flash memories - Carl Sandburg "Passers-by"
Out of the look on a face - Carl Sandburg "Under a Hat Rim"
Carve our sorrows on the face of joy - Charles Sangster "Love's Renewal"
Face the reckoning unafraid - Dorothy L. Sayers "Pygmalion"
When each immortal turned his face away - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
Be known by its face - Jason Schneiderman "Wedding Poem for Ada & Lucas"
Filled with faces divine - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"
Scars across the face of night - Ann K. Schwader "Fatal Constellations"
Faces in the nightmares we'll deny - Ann K. Schwader "Given to the Frost"
Whose face is lit with the flames of cities - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
Washed their faces clean of love - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"
A hurricane of faces - Evelyn Scott "From Brooklyn"
Rolls from the face of the dawn - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
Upon the silent face of a dark dial in a sunless place - "The Sea of Death"
Keep the faces of our enemies well lit - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"
Down the facing mirrors of future and past - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"
With Art's false borrowed face - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXVII"
Then rip off my face for the reveal - Natalie Shapero "Hansel or Gretel"
Doing the scholarly work of facing the empire - Prageeta Sharma "Lateral Violence"
Pansies, that laugh in every face - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Read the message writ across Earth's face - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"
Who kissed the veil from Beauty's face - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
And search across the shadows for my face - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
My face only veil - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"
With beads of pain upon his face - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"
Dark Emperor of hooked face and hungry eye - Joyce Sidman "Dark Emperor"
Familiar faces in those of strangers - Charles Simic "Hide and Seek"
Who faced in death the sea in life he ruled - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Across the upturned faces of the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Facing the looked-for dawn - Effie Smith "Toward Sunrise"
As if I'd forgotten your face - Maggie Smith "Twentieth Century"
Against a city's flat face - Patricia Smith "Siblings"
Two faces behind glass - Richard Solomon "Away"
I write on the face of earthquakes - Marin Sorescu "Creation" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea
Face unfaltering the Wrath - George Sterling "Duty"
In the face of the offended sun - George Sterling "The Thirst of Satan"
And faced the hushed infinity of night - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"
My heart called out for some befriending face - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"
A moth alit on the sun-dial's face - Arthur Stringer "I Sat in the Sunlight"
With his fist in the face of Death - Arthur Stringer "What Shall I Care?"
With faces to the morning - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
On the twilight of older faces - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Woven a veil for the weeping face - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Slams in Folly's face the twice-barred door - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
Deal in straight lines with a god of double faces - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"
This hand of faces you dealt yourself - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"
Generations past in the face of what is yet to be - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
A new face at the door - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Death of the Old Year"
Smoothed earth's furrowed face - Francis Thompson "Daisy"
And not a nightmare with peeling faces - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"
Reaching through the face of every forest - TC Tolbert "This Is What You Are"
The wreckage faced the surface of the flood - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"
Those faces pain has marked - Iris Tree "London"
My face without the conquering light - Iris Tree "[Sometimes I look into the glass]"
The gray faces and their merciless tongues - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"
Bring me only cypress boughs to shroud my face - Tu Fu "The Blue Robe" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The angry face of the sky - Louis Untermeyer "Leaving the Harbor"
Reflecting my own stranger's face in the window - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Lamplight"
A warm still wind upon my face - Mark Van Doren "Possession"
Its blurred face of fury - Mai Der Vang "Out of Research Into Reveries"
Face the bottomless nights - Jeanann Verlee "Helen Considers Leaving Troy"
Blue neon on everyone's face - Vickie Vertiz "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
When Winter's gloomy face appears - D.R.W. "Lines to the Memory of Thomas Tyrie, a Young Edinburgh Poet of Great Promise" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.691, 24 March 1877]
Stony face with bulldog jaws - Diane Wakoski "The Photos"
Through the erasure of her face - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"
Her drowned face glances - Derek Walcott "Storm Figure"
Countless mountains face each other in sorrow - Wang An-Shih "Gazing North" transl. by David Hinton
Among bamboo, facing autumn darkness - Wang An-Shih "Hair white" transl. by David Hinton
Heal all these failures hacking and scarring my face - Wang An-Shih "Old now, tangled" transl. by David Hinton
Majestic as any lone peak I might face - Wang An-Shih "Sent to Abbot Whole-Repose" transl. by David Hinton
Patient, a guest facing west wind - Wang An-Shih "Steady-Shield Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
With their crow faces and their sky-colored suits - Noah Warren "The Standard"
Until my face comes into the light - Dave Whippman "Gothic Romance"
With faces turn'd sideways - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
A blown leaf across the face of Time - Helen Hay Whitney "Ave atque Vale"
Face the day's white monotone - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ribbon"
The painted woods are laughing at the faces sour and sad - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Flinging a prayer at the face of fear - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
Face a startled world - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Neutral"
The terrible faces of our nonentities - William Carlos Williams "Apology"
The set pieces of your faces - William Carlos Williams "Apology"
See the corona of your face - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
Read the compass on their faces - Yolanda Wisher "west of philly"
Contain so many faces - Jenny Xie "Square Cells"
That music in her face - W.B. Yeats "The Countess Cathleen in Paradise"
Crowded with bitter faces - W.B. Yeats "The Travail of Passion"
Hid his face amid a crowd of stars - W.B. Yeats "When You Are Old"
Your changing face - W.B Yeats "When You Are Old"
Across the earless face of the moon - Jane Yolen "Bird Watcher"
Heaving kelp at the sunken city's face - Dean Young "Easy as Falling Down Stairs" [Poetry Nov. 2007]
Faces torn and reglued upside-down - Dean Young "Glider" [Poetry Oct. 2003]
Mirrored a thousand laughing faces - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"
If I touch your volcanic face - Javier Zamora "El Salvador"
Candles shaped like faces - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
On its time-defaced pedestal - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"
Face to Face.
Build a backdrop of the faceless - Mary Jo Bang "O Means the Mouth"
Come from afar and faceless - Carl Phillips "And Swept All Visible Signs Away"
Faceless souls dancing in its ashes - Lillian Tsay "The Resolution of N" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]
The stars will lean down and stare from their faceless spaces - Charles Wright "Nothing Is Written"
Factories carved into cliff-faces - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"
Green-faced violin players guarding vertical streets - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Robber-bands of grim-faced years - Annie Fellows Johnston "Banditti"
Looked Janus-faced to innocence and guilt - William Wetmore Story "A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem"
Idly pluck a thousand meek-faced daisies - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Outfaces now my silver moon - John Keats "To Fanny"
The pale-faced marble tells the softened tale - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]
Their shamefaced grays and reds - Maxwell Bodenheim "North Clark Street, Chicago"
A shame-faced galaxy - James Galvin "My Second Angel"
Who birthed one two-faced desire - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"
Ice of this hard two-faced month - Seamus Heaney "Audenesque"
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