Potential Titles: Face

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can 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"

Seek scratches over the moon's face - Etel Adnan "Night"

The lustrous silken veiled faces of the water - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

Non-dimension pours in with its fugitive faces - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"

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"

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!"

Face the storms that threaten me - Anne Bronte "Stanzas [Oh, weep not, love!]"

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"

Toward the promise of her face - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"

Their unnumbered and forgotten faces - Witter Bynner "The New World II"

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"

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]

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)"

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 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"

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"

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]

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"

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]

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

The morning disappears clock faces - francine j. harris "intention"

Useless in the face of flood - francine j. harris "Wetland"

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

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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

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"

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"

Of faces and names known - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"

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 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"

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)"

To protect the true face - Margaret Ross "Evolution"

The face not seen, the voice not heard - Christina Rossetti "Somewhere Or Other"

Dusty photographs of faces like ghosts - Nicky Russell "The World Is a Curio"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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]

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"

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"

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"


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"


Their shamefaced grays and reds - Maxwell Bodenheim "North Clark Street, Chicago"

A shame-faced galaxy - James Galvin "My Second Angel"


Ice of this hard two-faced month - Seamus Heaney "Audenesque"


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