Potential Titles: Arm/Armed
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somethingdarkerMaking sharp their arms of terror - "Alain the Fox" (translated by F.G. Fleay)
Arms curve over a touchless embrace - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"
In the arms of a stone stairway - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"
A thousand monsters of the deep with formless arms - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
With arms reversed and muffled drum - Cecil Frances Alexander "The Burial of Moses"
Filled his arms with hues and shadows - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
On the railroad tracks of men's arms - Julia Alvarez "Hairbands"
Who come to your arms for a daydream to breathe in - Mouna Ammar "Being Right Where You Are"
Reach out hungered arms to flowing change - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Put my arms around a tall oak - Zeina Azzam "Hugging the Tree"
whose night strong arms had banished - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"
The waters lift impulsive arms - Cora C. Bass "Our River"
Gloved your arms with Common-Sense - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"
Knight of battered and unblazoned arms - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two at the Crossroads"
Their hundred twined and dancing arms - Margo Berdeshevsky "Somewhere Everywhere"
The drowsy arm of stillness - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Butterfly"
A dulled archipelago of air stretching past my arms - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
Drawn with both your arms - Sue Budin "Forgiveness Comes in Two Colors"
Two fragile arms enchain me - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXV. Love's Paradoxes" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Fiberglass arms bare in tank tops - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"
Arms hosts your gates surrounding - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall
Float at peace in her salty arms - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
The arms of Darkness - Willa Cather "L'Envoi"
Hold the past with both arms - Marianne Chan "Some Words of the Aforesaid Heathen Peoples"
Well versed in use of arms - Joseph Horatio Chant "Bag Your Game"
In whose chill arms I shiver faint and lost - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Bask in Fortune's arms - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"
Whose fantasies chase her into the arms of a tree - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"
Build nests in my arms - Hilda Conkling "Cherries Are Ripe"
And in her arms a dove - Ida Coolbrith "California"
Out of our arms escaped - Susan Coolidge "Eighteen"
That break the arm of Toil - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"
My burning face in the arms of the wind - George Cronyn "The Flower's Way"
Whom Justice arms for vengeance - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Intended to Have Been Spoken in the Theatre to the Duke of Portland, at His Installation as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in the Year 1793"
Arm not thy graces - John Danyel "Why Canst Thou not, as Others Do?"
My body weightless in your arms - Armen Davoudian "Hot Springs"
Caught by the arm of a strong wind - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Termaggio"
Reached arms to pluck the moon - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"
Soft captivity of circling arms - Edward Dowden "Helena"
In the crook of midnight's arm - Carol Ann Duffy "A Dreaming Week"
A ghost, at arm's length - Cornelius Eady "Diabolic"
Each holding a mirror in her arms - Safia Elhillo "Sudanese-American"
The star map of my arms - Heid E. Erdich "Tick Check"
The quiet of his arms saying goodbye - Nava EtShalom "Composition"
Arms that carry answers for me - Annie Finch "Samhain"
Invisible in my arms - Carolyn Forche "Refuge"
In her arms and in each finger flame - John Freeman "The Body"
From the arms of all my lovers - Nikita Gill "The Moon Writes a Love Letter to Artemis"
Hurt my arms with their golden weight - Theodora Goss "The Princess and the Frog"
A baby in the crook of the dark's arms - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"
A soldier bearing alien arms - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, May 1917"
Wrap you in its thousand arms - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"
In the arms of another sky - Joy Harjo "Moonlight"
The arms of night in the arms of day - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
Springing from the arms of night - Frances E.W. Harper "Truth"
Osiris' arms open and wait seventy days and nights - Maryann Hazen-Stearns "Embalmer"
Joy at arm's length - Anne Hebert "Crown of Happiness"
A silver jewel in the ebony arms of shadows - Ben Hecht "My Island"
Let never Sloth unnerve the arm - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]
No tough arm bends the springing yew - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
The arms you bear are brittle - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLVIII"
To fling my arms wide in some place of the sun - Langston Hughes "Dream Variation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
In the arms of your pity - Langston Hughes "Litany"
Turns my arms and legs into branches of oak - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"
Empty arms stretching to embrace - Amanda Johnston "We Named You Mercy"
The scarred geography of my left arm - Camisha L. Jones "Scars"
His arms a gate in ruin - Courtney Kampa "Bella Figura"
Before they are carried in your arms into hell - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]
Into the arms of a tidy, anticipated future - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Arms filled with sickles and swords - Vandana Khanna "Hindu Mythology in Shorthand"
A Troop in Silver Arms - Anne Killigrew "Alexandreis"
Must wear a wing instead of an arm - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
Lost his right arm inside the stone - Yusef Komunyakaa "Facing It"
A statue with its arms broken off - Christopher Kondrich "Common Things"
And hold back the arms of the clock - Ted Kooser "For You, Friend,"
One invasive asleep in the arms of another - Keetje Kuipers "10,000 Acres Burned"
A welcome cure for broken arms - Jennifer G. Lai "In My Mind's Coral, Mother Still Calls Us from Inside"
Stretch our ghostly arms - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Acheron"
Leave your arms loose in the hour - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"
The arms of the hottest June - Casandra Lopez "The Hottest June"
To fill my arms with the sun - Tariq Luthun "People, Drunk at Parties, Tell Me They Love Me"
An arm all nerve and a heart all fire - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
With steady heart and ready arm - A.A. Macnichol "The Sea-Rover" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Give me those arms of light - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: IV: Connal, Crimora"
Forge a desert with my own arms - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"
And Desire, on Fever's arm - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
To dance on the arms of the sun - Herbert Woodward Martin "On Reading Lucille Clifton's 'Homage to My Hips'"
Suppose that in our arms cold died - Harry Martinson "Aniara 42: Libidel's Song at the Mirror" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Brace the arms that help the winches round - John Masefield "Spunyarn"
Arms outstretched and casting no shadow - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"
And Antony with Egypt in his arms - Theodore Maynard "Sunset on the Desert"
Under the trees whose arms spread wide - Annie Willis McCullough "The Journey" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Sixteen arms electric to carry you - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"
His arms are full of broken things - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
And robbers arm them for the nightly raid - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ruins of Balaclava" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
And drop into the frosty arms of Winter - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Lean into arms that aren't there - Kamilah Aisha Moon "A Golden Shovel"
A god toiled that Achilles' arms might shine - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."
Tore off the arms of the fire - Pablo Neruda "The Strike [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
In the twilight's arms the day lies dead - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"
In the arms of her favorite fig tree - Caroline Harper New "Searching for Amelia [My grandpa was loyal]"
When she raised her arm undaunted - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
In their arms of gravity - Grace Nichols "Reunion"
In the arms of the harvest - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Beauty smiled in the arms of Terror - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
Arms held out to darkness - Dorothy Parker "Threnody"
Two arms outstretched to fold the world - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Trees"
Crumble to dust in its arms - Patrick Phillips "The Guitar"
Arms rooting to earth - Janel Pineda "Mujer Malvada"
To see the windmills drop their arms - Miriam Clark Potter "The Windmill Country"
A thing of smoking arms and ember eyes - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Each arm a branch raised in offering - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Throwing a Dinner Party While the City Burns"
Nature wooeth back no wanderer to her arms - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
And my arms to make my enemies fall - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"
Clouds an arm's reach away - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
And reach his arms out to the night - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Sung to her beneath the arms of the beeches - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"
mine are the rainbow arms of the horizon - Ed Roberson "Black Earth Song"
The folding arms of peace - Rennell Rodd "In Chartres Cathedral"
An arm of sand in the span of salt - Carl Sandburg "Sketch"
Her four elements are locked in the arms of decay - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Loved me at arms' length - Laura Redden Searing "Corinna Confesses"
An arm of steel and a heart of gold - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Weeping Cupid"
As darkness wraps me in its arms - Joyce Sidman "Heartless"
In the flashing arms of a crowd - Joyce Sidman "I Find Peace"
Arm sleeved in recklessness - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Stalks the Man"
Spreading its arms like a scarecrow - Charles Simic "The Scarecrow"
Stretching its spiral arms up the curve of my backbone - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"
The sky places an arm on the near hills - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"
Legs and arms wracked with danger - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"
A foam-white arm that beckoned once - George Sterling "Duandon"
The strong arm of the oak - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
The arms of the Far-away have drawn us close - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"
My arm could fling Time from His throne - Arthur Stringer "Life-Drunk"
A moment in the rude arms of the blast - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Stretches its arms towards perfection - Rabindranath Tagore "Gitanjali 35"
each new days i show my garnet arms - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
With all their griefs in their arms - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"
Starving arms and strangling fingers - Iris Tree "London"
Sterile as the arms of my desire - Iris Tree "[Lulled are the dazzling colours of the day]"
Took the final arms of fate - Henry van Dyke "From Glory Unto Glory"
In the quiet arms of grief - Henry van Dyke "If All the Skies"
Raised my arms to the clouds - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"
An arm hanging from the branch of the Tree of Knowledge - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Who carved a scorpion on his arm - Ellen Bryant Voigt "The Field Trip"
Contingency has arms and hands - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
Peer past the stripped arms of the rose - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"
Had drawn that anguish to my arms - John Hall Wheelock "Starless Morning"
Dawn comes with empty arms - John Wieners "For Huncke"
The sea of many arms - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"
Two wounds in my upper arm and in my heart - Charles Wright "My Old Clinch Mountain Home"
Grasping arms out of elsewhere - Timothy Yu "Chinese Dream 61"
Strong arms of imagination - Matthew Zapruder "Cat Radio"
Only broke the arms of willows - Zheng Min "The Gift of Life #1" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Armed with wings of Mercury - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
The ceaseless strife of armed ambitions - Sophie M. Almon-Hensley "Content"
Armed like an angel, blazoned like a king - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"
Always be armed to abhor you - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz "A Satirical Romance" transl. by Judith Thurman
Armed with poisons fell - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Armed with the weapons of terror - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
No fear of hunters armed with salt - W.A. Frisbie "The Peanut Bird"
Armed to split a mountain - George Meredith "King Harald's Trance"
Armed the ash to govern - Pablo Neruda "Death in the World" transl. by Jack Schmitt
A poet armed with a terrorist's sonnet - Pablo Neruda "I Begin by Invoking Walt Whitman" transl. by Teresa Anderson
Bright cradle armed with lightning - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Armed itself with thunder - Pablo Neruda "Ox" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Swordfish armed with hard arguments - Pablo Neruda "To Those at Odds" transl. by Alastair Reid
Armed like scorpions - Pablo Neruda "The Traveler (1927)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Armed in adamantine chains - Alexander Pope "Lines by a Person of Quality"
Armed myself against justice - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Armed with irresistible secrets - Kristen Tracy "Half-Hatched"
Armed Orion's belted pride - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"
Armfuls of spices to set at the banquet - Henry Kendall "Achan"
An armload of August wildflowers - Miguel Murphy "August"
Memory to disarm the most resilient - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"
To disarm the most resilient bully - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"
Await the corruption's disarmingly hot embrace - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"
Disarm the heart's rebellion - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
You drew your visions on my forearm - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
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Arms curve over a touchless embrace - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"
In the arms of a stone stairway - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"
A thousand monsters of the deep with formless arms - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
With arms reversed and muffled drum - Cecil Frances Alexander "The Burial of Moses"
Filled his arms with hues and shadows - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
On the railroad tracks of men's arms - Julia Alvarez "Hairbands"
Who come to your arms for a daydream to breathe in - Mouna Ammar "Being Right Where You Are"
Reach out hungered arms to flowing change - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Put my arms around a tall oak - Zeina Azzam "Hugging the Tree"
whose night strong arms had banished - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"
The waters lift impulsive arms - Cora C. Bass "Our River"
Gloved your arms with Common-Sense - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"
Knight of battered and unblazoned arms - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two at the Crossroads"
Their hundred twined and dancing arms - Margo Berdeshevsky "Somewhere Everywhere"
The drowsy arm of stillness - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Butterfly"
A dulled archipelago of air stretching past my arms - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
Drawn with both your arms - Sue Budin "Forgiveness Comes in Two Colors"
Two fragile arms enchain me - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXV. Love's Paradoxes" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Fiberglass arms bare in tank tops - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"
Arms hosts your gates surrounding - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall
Float at peace in her salty arms - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
The arms of Darkness - Willa Cather "L'Envoi"
Hold the past with both arms - Marianne Chan "Some Words of the Aforesaid Heathen Peoples"
Well versed in use of arms - Joseph Horatio Chant "Bag Your Game"
In whose chill arms I shiver faint and lost - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Bask in Fortune's arms - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"
Whose fantasies chase her into the arms of a tree - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"
Build nests in my arms - Hilda Conkling "Cherries Are Ripe"
And in her arms a dove - Ida Coolbrith "California"
Out of our arms escaped - Susan Coolidge "Eighteen"
That break the arm of Toil - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"
My burning face in the arms of the wind - George Cronyn "The Flower's Way"
Whom Justice arms for vengeance - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Intended to Have Been Spoken in the Theatre to the Duke of Portland, at His Installation as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in the Year 1793"
Arm not thy graces - John Danyel "Why Canst Thou not, as Others Do?"
My body weightless in your arms - Armen Davoudian "Hot Springs"
Caught by the arm of a strong wind - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Termaggio"
Reached arms to pluck the moon - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"
Soft captivity of circling arms - Edward Dowden "Helena"
In the crook of midnight's arm - Carol Ann Duffy "A Dreaming Week"
A ghost, at arm's length - Cornelius Eady "Diabolic"
Each holding a mirror in her arms - Safia Elhillo "Sudanese-American"
The star map of my arms - Heid E. Erdich "Tick Check"
The quiet of his arms saying goodbye - Nava EtShalom "Composition"
Arms that carry answers for me - Annie Finch "Samhain"
Invisible in my arms - Carolyn Forche "Refuge"
In her arms and in each finger flame - John Freeman "The Body"
From the arms of all my lovers - Nikita Gill "The Moon Writes a Love Letter to Artemis"
Hurt my arms with their golden weight - Theodora Goss "The Princess and the Frog"
A baby in the crook of the dark's arms - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"
A soldier bearing alien arms - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, May 1917"
Wrap you in its thousand arms - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"
In the arms of another sky - Joy Harjo "Moonlight"
The arms of night in the arms of day - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
Springing from the arms of night - Frances E.W. Harper "Truth"
Osiris' arms open and wait seventy days and nights - Maryann Hazen-Stearns "Embalmer"
Joy at arm's length - Anne Hebert "Crown of Happiness"
A silver jewel in the ebony arms of shadows - Ben Hecht "My Island"
Let never Sloth unnerve the arm - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]
No tough arm bends the springing yew - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
The arms you bear are brittle - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLVIII"
To fling my arms wide in some place of the sun - Langston Hughes "Dream Variation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
In the arms of your pity - Langston Hughes "Litany"
Turns my arms and legs into branches of oak - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"
Empty arms stretching to embrace - Amanda Johnston "We Named You Mercy"
The scarred geography of my left arm - Camisha L. Jones "Scars"
His arms a gate in ruin - Courtney Kampa "Bella Figura"
Before they are carried in your arms into hell - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]
Into the arms of a tidy, anticipated future - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Arms filled with sickles and swords - Vandana Khanna "Hindu Mythology in Shorthand"
A Troop in Silver Arms - Anne Killigrew "Alexandreis"
Must wear a wing instead of an arm - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
Lost his right arm inside the stone - Yusef Komunyakaa "Facing It"
A statue with its arms broken off - Christopher Kondrich "Common Things"
And hold back the arms of the clock - Ted Kooser "For You, Friend,"
One invasive asleep in the arms of another - Keetje Kuipers "10,000 Acres Burned"
A welcome cure for broken arms - Jennifer G. Lai "In My Mind's Coral, Mother Still Calls Us from Inside"
Stretch our ghostly arms - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Acheron"
Leave your arms loose in the hour - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"
The arms of the hottest June - Casandra Lopez "The Hottest June"
To fill my arms with the sun - Tariq Luthun "People, Drunk at Parties, Tell Me They Love Me"
An arm all nerve and a heart all fire - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
With steady heart and ready arm - A.A. Macnichol "The Sea-Rover" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Give me those arms of light - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: IV: Connal, Crimora"
Forge a desert with my own arms - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"
And Desire, on Fever's arm - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
To dance on the arms of the sun - Herbert Woodward Martin "On Reading Lucille Clifton's 'Homage to My Hips'"
Suppose that in our arms cold died - Harry Martinson "Aniara 42: Libidel's Song at the Mirror" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Brace the arms that help the winches round - John Masefield "Spunyarn"
Arms outstretched and casting no shadow - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"
And Antony with Egypt in his arms - Theodore Maynard "Sunset on the Desert"
Under the trees whose arms spread wide - Annie Willis McCullough "The Journey" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Sixteen arms electric to carry you - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"
His arms are full of broken things - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
And robbers arm them for the nightly raid - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ruins of Balaclava" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
And drop into the frosty arms of Winter - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Lean into arms that aren't there - Kamilah Aisha Moon "A Golden Shovel"
A god toiled that Achilles' arms might shine - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."
Tore off the arms of the fire - Pablo Neruda "The Strike [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
In the twilight's arms the day lies dead - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"
In the arms of her favorite fig tree - Caroline Harper New "Searching for Amelia [My grandpa was loyal]"
When she raised her arm undaunted - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
In their arms of gravity - Grace Nichols "Reunion"
In the arms of the harvest - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Beauty smiled in the arms of Terror - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
Arms held out to darkness - Dorothy Parker "Threnody"
Two arms outstretched to fold the world - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Trees"
Crumble to dust in its arms - Patrick Phillips "The Guitar"
Arms rooting to earth - Janel Pineda "Mujer Malvada"
To see the windmills drop their arms - Miriam Clark Potter "The Windmill Country"
A thing of smoking arms and ember eyes - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Each arm a branch raised in offering - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Throwing a Dinner Party While the City Burns"
Nature wooeth back no wanderer to her arms - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
And my arms to make my enemies fall - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"
Clouds an arm's reach away - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
And reach his arms out to the night - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Sung to her beneath the arms of the beeches - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"
mine are the rainbow arms of the horizon - Ed Roberson "Black Earth Song"
The folding arms of peace - Rennell Rodd "In Chartres Cathedral"
An arm of sand in the span of salt - Carl Sandburg "Sketch"
Her four elements are locked in the arms of decay - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Loved me at arms' length - Laura Redden Searing "Corinna Confesses"
An arm of steel and a heart of gold - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Weeping Cupid"
As darkness wraps me in its arms - Joyce Sidman "Heartless"
In the flashing arms of a crowd - Joyce Sidman "I Find Peace"
Arm sleeved in recklessness - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Stalks the Man"
Spreading its arms like a scarecrow - Charles Simic "The Scarecrow"
Stretching its spiral arms up the curve of my backbone - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"
The sky places an arm on the near hills - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"
Legs and arms wracked with danger - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"
A foam-white arm that beckoned once - George Sterling "Duandon"
The strong arm of the oak - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
The arms of the Far-away have drawn us close - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"
My arm could fling Time from His throne - Arthur Stringer "Life-Drunk"
A moment in the rude arms of the blast - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Stretches its arms towards perfection - Rabindranath Tagore "Gitanjali 35"
each new days i show my garnet arms - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
With all their griefs in their arms - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"
Starving arms and strangling fingers - Iris Tree "London"
Sterile as the arms of my desire - Iris Tree "[Lulled are the dazzling colours of the day]"
Took the final arms of fate - Henry van Dyke "From Glory Unto Glory"
In the quiet arms of grief - Henry van Dyke "If All the Skies"
Raised my arms to the clouds - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"
An arm hanging from the branch of the Tree of Knowledge - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Who carved a scorpion on his arm - Ellen Bryant Voigt "The Field Trip"
Contingency has arms and hands - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
Peer past the stripped arms of the rose - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"
Had drawn that anguish to my arms - John Hall Wheelock "Starless Morning"
Dawn comes with empty arms - John Wieners "For Huncke"
The sea of many arms - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"
Two wounds in my upper arm and in my heart - Charles Wright "My Old Clinch Mountain Home"
Grasping arms out of elsewhere - Timothy Yu "Chinese Dream 61"
Strong arms of imagination - Matthew Zapruder "Cat Radio"
Only broke the arms of willows - Zheng Min "The Gift of Life #1" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Armed with wings of Mercury - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
The ceaseless strife of armed ambitions - Sophie M. Almon-Hensley "Content"
Armed like an angel, blazoned like a king - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"
Always be armed to abhor you - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz "A Satirical Romance" transl. by Judith Thurman
Armed with poisons fell - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Armed with the weapons of terror - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
No fear of hunters armed with salt - W.A. Frisbie "The Peanut Bird"
Armed to split a mountain - George Meredith "King Harald's Trance"
Armed the ash to govern - Pablo Neruda "Death in the World" transl. by Jack Schmitt
A poet armed with a terrorist's sonnet - Pablo Neruda "I Begin by Invoking Walt Whitman" transl. by Teresa Anderson
Bright cradle armed with lightning - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Armed itself with thunder - Pablo Neruda "Ox" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Swordfish armed with hard arguments - Pablo Neruda "To Those at Odds" transl. by Alastair Reid
Armed like scorpions - Pablo Neruda "The Traveler (1927)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Armed in adamantine chains - Alexander Pope "Lines by a Person of Quality"
Armed myself against justice - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Armed with irresistible secrets - Kristen Tracy "Half-Hatched"
Armed Orion's belted pride - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"
Armfuls of spices to set at the banquet - Henry Kendall "Achan"
An armload of August wildflowers - Miguel Murphy "August"
Memory to disarm the most resilient - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"
To disarm the most resilient bully - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"
Await the corruption's disarmingly hot embrace - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"
Disarm the heart's rebellion - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
You drew your visions on my forearm - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
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