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Potential Titles: Lip
Lips touched with living flame - A.L.O.E. "Soldier's Hymn"
My lips against the nebula of you - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"
Heard the lips of silence utter some apocalypse - Harold Acton "Ventilation"
Then heart would join with lips at shadow-fall - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. They are not wisest who are conscious most] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
Vaguely caught through whispers fallen from tradition's lip - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
By careless lips profaned to be - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XXXV: The Young Shepherds" transl. by Sir John Bowring
No toast to beauty shall my lips repeat - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"
Words tumbling from absent-minded lips - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
A demon has sewn your lips shut - Mary Jo Bang "The Dead of Winter"
makes true poetry of lips - Elizabeth Bartlett "art"
The clouds will shower our lips with wine - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
That skims the lips of many adjectives - Maxwell Bodenheim "Portraits. II: Waitress"
That burns my lips and sears my heart - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee"
Upon the threshold of my lips - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Revealed--Not Spoken"
And left your lips praying - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Upon their burning lips a thought - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Sweeter thy honey lips - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"
Kiss the lips of Silence - Willa Cather "L’Envoi"
Out of the lips of silence - Willa Cather "Prairie Spring"
Boys with candlewick lips to be lit - Marianne Chan "With"
Till secrecy's seal from their lips be removed - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
The mad laughter of evolution issues from our lips - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"
the lip of our understanding - Lucille Clifton "blessing the boats"
With these lips instruct my heart - Leonard Cohen "All My Life"
Only to thunder's lips is known - Susan Coolidge "A Thunder Storm"
The cold at the corners of lips - Andrea Cote-Botero "Dear Beth" (translated by Sasha Pimentel)
To vindicate these lips - James H. Cousins "Ireland"
My lips would wed to song - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
How caution watches at the lips of fraud - George Crabbe "The Library"
Pride kept his twisted lips apart in jest - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
the breaking of your soul upon my lips - E. E. Cummings "Amores (V)"
his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VII)"
First tasted under Apollo's lips - H.D. "Evadne"
Lifts his head from the lip of the sea - Charles Dalmon "O What if the Fowler"
And smack their lips on storied sin - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"
Which curls the lip, which lights the eye - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Your lips are danger signals - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Revelation"
Held low to freezing lips - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXVI"
All my lips' empty crying - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"
A kiss on the lip of the wind - Carol Ann Duffy "North-West"
Brushes dust from his lips - Cheryl Dumesnil "Good Morning Heartache"
Encrimsoning the lips of our surprise - Max Eastman "A Visit"
Press their lips to the dust beneath you - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
A dim chord of flame between his lips - Joseph Fasano "October"
Her never-singing lips shut fast - John Freeman "The Chair"
song morphing out each new generation's lips - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"
As it leaves his lips, the sigh becomes a song - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]
Muted lips and wistful eyes - Zona Gale "There Are Within Us Lives We Never Live"
From the lips of dying moments - Zona Gale "Wonder"
When asking curses with my lips - Fanny L. Glenfield "Ye Know Not What Ye Ask" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Presses his cup to lips of human wo [sic] - Edmund Brewster Green "The Season of Death" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Nor any words that lips can teach - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
For a word from the lips of Truth - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Your fire scorched my lips - Joy Harjo "Deer Ghost"
Pressed to my lips a stone - Frances E.W. Harper "A Double Standard"
Through purple lips of wrath - Frances E.W. Harper "Vashti"
To waste the soul on blood-red lips - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XI"
Or thy lips in mutiny - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Chastening"
To stand on the lip of a question - Jane Hirshfield "A Well Runs Out of Thirst"
With a berry half-way to her lips - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"
Our lips sent up so sweet a chime - Elizabeth Curtis Holman "We Pulled a Rose in Summer Time"
Lips where Sorrow lays her spell - Lucy H. Hooper "Farewell" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]
Set my lips to your full cup - Victor Hugo "More Strong Than Time" transl. by Andrew Lang
perfect for lipstick to paint on my lips - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"
Lips whose lightest word is dear - G.C.J. "En Passant" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.35-v.I, 30 Aug. 1884]
take what wilts from my lips - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
And meets with sun-lost lip - Emily Pauline Johnson "Marshlands"
From thy lips the honeyed wine - James Weldon Johnson "The Passionate Lover"
Or force my lips to gratify your longing - "Jonathan to John Bull" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Little poisons gripping tight my lips - Ashley M. Jones "Love Note: Surely"
And seal cracked lips of distrust - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
With lullabies on her lips - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
My lips' chapped mantra of mud - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"
Rely on chewing your lip and symmetry - Ted Kooser "A Perfect Heart"
The words are trapped behind her lips - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"
Lips admit their ownership - Maxine Kumin "After Love"
Purchased lips that kiss with pain - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
In this rare ether slake my reverential lips - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Roads that Meet"
From the lips of your iron men - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
Though all earth's lips be mute - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory fo the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"
At my lips before darkness - Denise Levertov "Midnight Gladness"
Flame on our lips - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"
Spilled on promiscuous lips - Mina Loy "Love Songs to Joannes"
Clasped my name between her lips - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
Where autumn foams at the lips of heretics - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
To which the lip alone gave birth - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things I" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Curling lips which Earth has kissed - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Crocus Bed"
Running laps on the lip of a funnel - Anthony Madrid "Brake Light Out"
With gold dashed on their lips - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"
Music at our lips and sleep - Jeannette Marks "Lost Love"
Old blood dripping from their lips - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
The pressure of our thirsty lips - George Martin "Marguerite"
Pluck live rabbits from between their lips - John Masefield "King Cole"
With my soul upon my lips - Edgar Lee Masters "Francis Turner"
A million jeering lips and eyes - Theodore Maynard "The Fool"
On lovers' lips the splendour of apocalypse - Theodore Maynard "To My Wife"
Breathing deadly poison at the lips - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Your lips shall snare the sea - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"
From the cursed lips of weak men - Tony Medina "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"
Kissing resolution on the lips - Risalet Merdan "Today Is a Day to Write Poems" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
Slipping lyrics over lips - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"
Salt-blue eyes and rust lips - Claire Millikin "Dolls of Tifton, Georgia"
A silence pulses at her lips - N. Scott Momaday "Spectre"
Unable to outrun blue-lipped destiny - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Song of Solomon Remix"
On whose lips the altar coal of inspiration burned - George L. Moore "Keats"
The weakest murmur of his lips you prize - George L. Moore "Keats"
Golden beads on lips of wisdom hung - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Kiss of sorrow's bitter lips - Ethel Allen Murphy "A Botticelli Madonna. I, The Wondering Angel"
With lips invaded by thirst - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A thousand answers on contemptuous lips - Pablo Neruda "Men XIV" transl. by William O'Daly
And lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips - Pablo Neruda "Morning VI" transl. by Mark Eisner
The lips that kissed fire - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Your lips to be the seal of all - E. Nesbit "En Tout Cas"
Soul of zeal and lips of flame - John Henry Newman "The Greek Fathers"
The starry bracket of their lips - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
The yielding gateway of your lips - Meredith Nicholson "Songs and Words"
Honey from the lips of David - James Oppenheim "A Handful of Dust"
Has a kiss of desire on the lips - John Boyle O'Reilly "The White Rose"
Bloom on my lips - Maria Antonia Ortega
And drink your rushing words with eager lips - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"
Now have thy lips no purpose - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"
Parch the lips of tempest - Xan Forest Phillips "Nature Poem with Compulsive Attraction to the Shark"
Perched on the lip of a bubbling cauldron - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Shells with ruby lips - Alexander Posey "Seashells"
Fingers to their lips they lift - Miriam Clark Potter "Twilight Town"
From the sands of your closed lips - Marie-Francoise Prager
Then I closed my lips on a curse - Margaret J. Preston "Saint Martin's Temptation" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.12, no.33, Dec. 1873]
Who was forgotten by your lips - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Forsake me at the lip of the mirror - Sina Queyras "Mummy"
Her lips unlocked your sarcenet line - Noel Quiñones "Orange"
Trembling lips pour the sad dirge of sighing - Edward S. Rand "Fallen" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
Feeds his soul at Wisdom's lip - Theodore H. Rand "In the Cool of the Day"
Breaks from these leafen lips - Theodore H. Rand "Under the Beeches"
The blue crystal at your lip - T. Buchanan Read "Drifting"
The sea's lips scold me - Spencer Reece "Siesta"
instead hook into the valley of my lips - jo reyes-boitel "fish bones"
With lips of coral and silver sand - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"
Useless for lips to deny - Alice Wellington Rollins "Because"
When we kiss my lips shatter like bleeding glass - Hester J. Rook "Under Silver Waves"
No gold to repair cracked pottery lips - R.S. Saha "Kin"
Water from the lips of Orpheus - David St. John "Overlooking the Cortile"
Has taken your lips for its wisdom - Reg Saner "What Wilderness Tells You"
The dust of dynasties upon my lips - Ann K. Schwader "Eating Mummy"
A whisper lost on the ferryman's lips - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
Unzipped myself from lip to heel - Alafia Nicole Sessions "Fable with Cyst, Celestial Being & Sacrifice"
Bring the mountain into your lips - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"
Made the moving lip a harp-string for the thought - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Laura Bridgman"
a question toward blood sweetened lips - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"
Ancient lips to silence vowed - Clark Ashton Smith "Twilight on the Snow"
The fond heart faint, the red lip falter - L.B. Smith "Sadness" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
The hushed lips of Evening - George Sterling "The Killdee"
Then song turns sour on my lips - Arthur Stringer "The Question"
I drink at dead men's lips - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Nor turn your lips away from Phryne's silver limbs - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"
And love was sold upon your lips - Muriel Stuart "To-- [Between two common days this day was hung]"
When the cold North-wind kissed her pallid lips - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Both lips grew dry with dreams - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"
The word on the lips of the rose - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Whose lips have drunken the wine of tears - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Drained by fevered lips - Sir Thomas N. Talfourd "Sympathy"
Whispers no lips can repeat - James Maurice Thompson "The Song-Wind" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.89, May 1875]
While prayers of terror freeze upon his lips - Aleksey Konstantovich Tolstoy "The Wolves" transl. by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
Shutting our lips upon a jest - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: Midnight"
That bind the mystery of Circe's lips - Morris Tyler "Lament"
You dare to say with perjured lips - Henry van Dyke "Mare Liberum"
Shall speak to us with lips the darkness closes - Edith Wharton "Elegy"
Would have rent my hesitant lips - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
The crimson evil of a satyr's lips - Helen Hay Whitney "The Flowers of Proserpine"
The wind lays ghostly kisses on my lips - Helen Hay Whitney "In the Mist"
Set a lock upon his lips - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Lips of flame and heart of stone - Oscar Wilde "Impression du Matin"
From the sea's sad lips - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Powdered arsenic upon his lips - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Bidding my lips to sing - Francis Brett Young "February"
A finer fire touched my lips - Francis Brett Young "Lament"
That bright line of flame-lipped masters - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
Mouths closed so tight they're lipless - Margaret Atwood "Half Hanged Mary"
Lip-read the heavens talking on in light, syllabic stars - Carol Ann Duffy "New Year"
Lipstick.
Drawn outward by the vampire-lips of Sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"
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My lips against the nebula of you - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"
Heard the lips of silence utter some apocalypse - Harold Acton "Ventilation"
Then heart would join with lips at shadow-fall - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. They are not wisest who are conscious most] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
Vaguely caught through whispers fallen from tradition's lip - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
By careless lips profaned to be - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XXXV: The Young Shepherds" transl. by Sir John Bowring
No toast to beauty shall my lips repeat - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"
Words tumbling from absent-minded lips - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
A demon has sewn your lips shut - Mary Jo Bang "The Dead of Winter"
makes true poetry of lips - Elizabeth Bartlett "art"
The clouds will shower our lips with wine - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
That skims the lips of many adjectives - Maxwell Bodenheim "Portraits. II: Waitress"
That burns my lips and sears my heart - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee"
Upon the threshold of my lips - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Revealed--Not Spoken"
And left your lips praying - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Upon their burning lips a thought - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Sweeter thy honey lips - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"
Kiss the lips of Silence - Willa Cather "L’Envoi"
Out of the lips of silence - Willa Cather "Prairie Spring"
Boys with candlewick lips to be lit - Marianne Chan "With"
Till secrecy's seal from their lips be removed - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
The mad laughter of evolution issues from our lips - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"
the lip of our understanding - Lucille Clifton "blessing the boats"
With these lips instruct my heart - Leonard Cohen "All My Life"
Only to thunder's lips is known - Susan Coolidge "A Thunder Storm"
The cold at the corners of lips - Andrea Cote-Botero "Dear Beth" (translated by Sasha Pimentel)
To vindicate these lips - James H. Cousins "Ireland"
My lips would wed to song - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
How caution watches at the lips of fraud - George Crabbe "The Library"
Pride kept his twisted lips apart in jest - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
the breaking of your soul upon my lips - E. E. Cummings "Amores (V)"
his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VII)"
First tasted under Apollo's lips - H.D. "Evadne"
Lifts his head from the lip of the sea - Charles Dalmon "O What if the Fowler"
And smack their lips on storied sin - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"
Which curls the lip, which lights the eye - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Your lips are danger signals - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Revelation"
Held low to freezing lips - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXVI"
All my lips' empty crying - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"
A kiss on the lip of the wind - Carol Ann Duffy "North-West"
Brushes dust from his lips - Cheryl Dumesnil "Good Morning Heartache"
Encrimsoning the lips of our surprise - Max Eastman "A Visit"
Press their lips to the dust beneath you - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
A dim chord of flame between his lips - Joseph Fasano "October"
Her never-singing lips shut fast - John Freeman "The Chair"
song morphing out each new generation's lips - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"
As it leaves his lips, the sigh becomes a song - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]
Muted lips and wistful eyes - Zona Gale "There Are Within Us Lives We Never Live"
From the lips of dying moments - Zona Gale "Wonder"
When asking curses with my lips - Fanny L. Glenfield "Ye Know Not What Ye Ask" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Presses his cup to lips of human wo [sic] - Edmund Brewster Green "The Season of Death" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Nor any words that lips can teach - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
For a word from the lips of Truth - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Your fire scorched my lips - Joy Harjo "Deer Ghost"
Pressed to my lips a stone - Frances E.W. Harper "A Double Standard"
Through purple lips of wrath - Frances E.W. Harper "Vashti"
To waste the soul on blood-red lips - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XI"
Or thy lips in mutiny - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Chastening"
To stand on the lip of a question - Jane Hirshfield "A Well Runs Out of Thirst"
With a berry half-way to her lips - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"
Our lips sent up so sweet a chime - Elizabeth Curtis Holman "We Pulled a Rose in Summer Time"
Lips where Sorrow lays her spell - Lucy H. Hooper "Farewell" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]
Set my lips to your full cup - Victor Hugo "More Strong Than Time" transl. by Andrew Lang
perfect for lipstick to paint on my lips - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"
Lips whose lightest word is dear - G.C.J. "En Passant" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.35-v.I, 30 Aug. 1884]
take what wilts from my lips - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
And meets with sun-lost lip - Emily Pauline Johnson "Marshlands"
From thy lips the honeyed wine - James Weldon Johnson "The Passionate Lover"
Or force my lips to gratify your longing - "Jonathan to John Bull" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Little poisons gripping tight my lips - Ashley M. Jones "Love Note: Surely"
And seal cracked lips of distrust - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
With lullabies on her lips - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
My lips' chapped mantra of mud - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"
Rely on chewing your lip and symmetry - Ted Kooser "A Perfect Heart"
The words are trapped behind her lips - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"
Lips admit their ownership - Maxine Kumin "After Love"
Purchased lips that kiss with pain - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
In this rare ether slake my reverential lips - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Roads that Meet"
From the lips of your iron men - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
Though all earth's lips be mute - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory fo the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"
At my lips before darkness - Denise Levertov "Midnight Gladness"
Flame on our lips - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"
Spilled on promiscuous lips - Mina Loy "Love Songs to Joannes"
Clasped my name between her lips - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
Where autumn foams at the lips of heretics - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
To which the lip alone gave birth - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things I" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Curling lips which Earth has kissed - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Crocus Bed"
Running laps on the lip of a funnel - Anthony Madrid "Brake Light Out"
With gold dashed on their lips - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"
Music at our lips and sleep - Jeannette Marks "Lost Love"
Old blood dripping from their lips - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
The pressure of our thirsty lips - George Martin "Marguerite"
Pluck live rabbits from between their lips - John Masefield "King Cole"
With my soul upon my lips - Edgar Lee Masters "Francis Turner"
A million jeering lips and eyes - Theodore Maynard "The Fool"
On lovers' lips the splendour of apocalypse - Theodore Maynard "To My Wife"
Breathing deadly poison at the lips - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Your lips shall snare the sea - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"
From the cursed lips of weak men - Tony Medina "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"
Kissing resolution on the lips - Risalet Merdan "Today Is a Day to Write Poems" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
Slipping lyrics over lips - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"
Salt-blue eyes and rust lips - Claire Millikin "Dolls of Tifton, Georgia"
A silence pulses at her lips - N. Scott Momaday "Spectre"
Unable to outrun blue-lipped destiny - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Song of Solomon Remix"
On whose lips the altar coal of inspiration burned - George L. Moore "Keats"
The weakest murmur of his lips you prize - George L. Moore "Keats"
Golden beads on lips of wisdom hung - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Kiss of sorrow's bitter lips - Ethel Allen Murphy "A Botticelli Madonna. I, The Wondering Angel"
With lips invaded by thirst - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A thousand answers on contemptuous lips - Pablo Neruda "Men XIV" transl. by William O'Daly
And lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips - Pablo Neruda "Morning VI" transl. by Mark Eisner
The lips that kissed fire - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Your lips to be the seal of all - E. Nesbit "En Tout Cas"
Soul of zeal and lips of flame - John Henry Newman "The Greek Fathers"
The starry bracket of their lips - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
The yielding gateway of your lips - Meredith Nicholson "Songs and Words"
Honey from the lips of David - James Oppenheim "A Handful of Dust"
Has a kiss of desire on the lips - John Boyle O'Reilly "The White Rose"
Bloom on my lips - Maria Antonia Ortega
And drink your rushing words with eager lips - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"
Now have thy lips no purpose - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"
Parch the lips of tempest - Xan Forest Phillips "Nature Poem with Compulsive Attraction to the Shark"
Perched on the lip of a bubbling cauldron - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Shells with ruby lips - Alexander Posey "Seashells"
Fingers to their lips they lift - Miriam Clark Potter "Twilight Town"
From the sands of your closed lips - Marie-Francoise Prager
Then I closed my lips on a curse - Margaret J. Preston "Saint Martin's Temptation" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.12, no.33, Dec. 1873]
Who was forgotten by your lips - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Forsake me at the lip of the mirror - Sina Queyras "Mummy"
Her lips unlocked your sarcenet line - Noel Quiñones "Orange"
Trembling lips pour the sad dirge of sighing - Edward S. Rand "Fallen" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
Feeds his soul at Wisdom's lip - Theodore H. Rand "In the Cool of the Day"
Breaks from these leafen lips - Theodore H. Rand "Under the Beeches"
The blue crystal at your lip - T. Buchanan Read "Drifting"
The sea's lips scold me - Spencer Reece "Siesta"
instead hook into the valley of my lips - jo reyes-boitel "fish bones"
With lips of coral and silver sand - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"
Useless for lips to deny - Alice Wellington Rollins "Because"
When we kiss my lips shatter like bleeding glass - Hester J. Rook "Under Silver Waves"
No gold to repair cracked pottery lips - R.S. Saha "Kin"
Water from the lips of Orpheus - David St. John "Overlooking the Cortile"
Has taken your lips for its wisdom - Reg Saner "What Wilderness Tells You"
The dust of dynasties upon my lips - Ann K. Schwader "Eating Mummy"
A whisper lost on the ferryman's lips - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
Unzipped myself from lip to heel - Alafia Nicole Sessions "Fable with Cyst, Celestial Being & Sacrifice"
Bring the mountain into your lips - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"
Made the moving lip a harp-string for the thought - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Laura Bridgman"
a question toward blood sweetened lips - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"
Ancient lips to silence vowed - Clark Ashton Smith "Twilight on the Snow"
The fond heart faint, the red lip falter - L.B. Smith "Sadness" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
The hushed lips of Evening - George Sterling "The Killdee"
Then song turns sour on my lips - Arthur Stringer "The Question"
I drink at dead men's lips - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Nor turn your lips away from Phryne's silver limbs - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"
And love was sold upon your lips - Muriel Stuart "To-- [Between two common days this day was hung]"
When the cold North-wind kissed her pallid lips - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Both lips grew dry with dreams - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"
The word on the lips of the rose - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Whose lips have drunken the wine of tears - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Drained by fevered lips - Sir Thomas N. Talfourd "Sympathy"
Whispers no lips can repeat - James Maurice Thompson "The Song-Wind" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.89, May 1875]
While prayers of terror freeze upon his lips - Aleksey Konstantovich Tolstoy "The Wolves" transl. by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
Shutting our lips upon a jest - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: Midnight"
That bind the mystery of Circe's lips - Morris Tyler "Lament"
You dare to say with perjured lips - Henry van Dyke "Mare Liberum"
Shall speak to us with lips the darkness closes - Edith Wharton "Elegy"
Would have rent my hesitant lips - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
The crimson evil of a satyr's lips - Helen Hay Whitney "The Flowers of Proserpine"
The wind lays ghostly kisses on my lips - Helen Hay Whitney "In the Mist"
Set a lock upon his lips - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Lips of flame and heart of stone - Oscar Wilde "Impression du Matin"
From the sea's sad lips - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Powdered arsenic upon his lips - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Bidding my lips to sing - Francis Brett Young "February"
A finer fire touched my lips - Francis Brett Young "Lament"
That bright line of flame-lipped masters - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
Mouths closed so tight they're lipless - Margaret Atwood "Half Hanged Mary"
Lip-read the heavens talking on in light, syllabic stars - Carol Ann Duffy "New Year"
Lipstick.
Drawn outward by the vampire-lips of Sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"
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