Potential Titles: Feet/Foot
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somethingdarkerGold glitters at his feet - A.L.O.E. "The Wise Men from the East"
Are as the silent shadows at our feet - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XXI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
Tragic thorn-pierced feet - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"
All life's purpose at her feet - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
They who with ordered feet go forth - Thomas Aird "An Evening Walk" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXVII, May 1851, v.LXIX]
At my feet lay a sulphurous dragon - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Marks the reddened feet of the Followers of Lot - Nada Almosa "Queer Arab Dictionary"
Position fear between our eyes and feet - Mouna Ammar "Fog's Invitation"
Dazzling feet pursue their silent way - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"
I surrender my wants at your feet - Ameen Animashaun "The Dance of the Lambs and the Birds"
With devious feet, and void of fixed intent - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"
The vagrant spirit fretted in your feet - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"
Glass slicing open the soles of my feet - Devan Barlow "Dear Charles Perrault"
Whirr of wheels, and hurry of feet - Jane Barlow "The End of Elfintown: I. The Building"
The eyes to blind and feet to snare - Jane Barlow "The End of Elfintown: II. The Council"
The dreary ways your faltering feet must go - Charles H. Barstow "Spring's Advent" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.116-v.III, 20 March 1886]
Its needled hands and thorny feet - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dry Sanctuary"
your feet are on my heart - Elizabeth Bartlett "step softly"
Clean and sweet from head to feet - "A Bath-Tub Joke" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Whose feet shall dare tread that illuminated stair - Henry A. Beers "Between the Flowers"
On feet that outstripped the Hours - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
An angry dream before the Sphinx's feet - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Climbed to the feet of God - Robert Hugh Benson "After a Retreat"
Lightly threaded with nimble feet - Laurence Binyon "The Little Dancers"
Pass home with stealthy feet - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"
Giant feet grounded deep in bedrock - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"
With broken shields piled at her feet - Maxwell Bodenheim "Boarding-House Episode"
Upon my feet the kisses of Death - Maxwell Bodenheim "Myself: Death [I shall walk down the road]"
Gray and threadbare from the passage of many feet - Bruce Boston "Gray People"
A net was woven round my feet - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert II: The Parlour"
Round his feet three rivers ran - Emily Bronte "The Philosopher"
Until the floor stung my feet awake with cold - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"
Whose feet are coming behind - Robert Buchanan "The Strange Country"
So the shadows of your feet camouflage the floor - CM Burroughs "One Way to Resurrect an Ancestor"
Once a brier loved a rose, at her feet adoring - B.C. "Love Lights" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.10-v.I, 8 March 1884]
Silence held my feet - F. O. Call "Visions"
With feet clinging to the earth - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: The Dance"
Dares to climb with wounded feet - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
The feet of straying winds came by - Bliss Carman "A Windflower"
And feet with courage shod - Alice Cary [untitled]
Hurling the clouds together at his feet - Walter Richard Cassels "The Eagle"
At your feet the world is waiting - Ralph Chaplin "Up from Your Knees"
Why the roses no longer grow at your feet - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
Bring your feet to the precipice - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"
Eyes of owl and feet of fox - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
That follows the way of unforgotten feet - G.K. Chesterton "To F.C. In Memoriam Palestine, '19"
Their nimble feet in mazy trances wind - William Chiddon "Idyll: In Imitation of Theocritus"
For hands will slip and feet will slide - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"
Spills at my stunned feet - Robert Creeley "Chain"
The feet of the sweet winds - George Cronyn "Night-Flowers"
And spring came in with silver feet - George Cronyn "A Voice"
The old gods shaking existence beneath my feet - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
With April feet like sudden flowers - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
Delirious feet of the Princess Salome - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
Our feet tread sleepless meadows sweet with fear - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VII)"
A diadem of stars at feet and head - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"
With dancing feet and dreaming eyes - Olive Custance "In Praise of Youth"
If the sun could blister my feet - H.D. "The Look-out"
Your feet cut steel on the paths - H.D. "Loss"
Have flung my worship before your feet - H.D. "Toward the Piraeus"
In the footsteps of the great feet of Bacchus - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org
And find his feet growing roots - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"
With the moon at our feet - Meg Day "The Permanent Way"
Cast in ashes at the trampling feet of mortal gods - Geoffrey Dearmer "On the Road"
To elude the snares around my feet - Delta "The Tombless Man: A Dream" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
New feet within my garden - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature I"
Between our feet and day - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XXIX; Resurgam"
Homesick feet upon a foreign shore - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LII"
Of your echoless feet - Mary Mapes Dodge "A Birthday"
Shakes rare incense at your feet - Julia C.R. Dorr "Over the Wall"
The mosses creep to her dancing feet - Julia C.R. Dorr "Over the Wall"
Lightnings played beneath his feet - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"
And firm feet making conquest - Edward Dowden "A Day of Defection"
Haunted by the feet of thoughts - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
Chill the heart and snare the feet - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
Fields where some day my own feet should go - John Drinkwater "Burning Bush"
Kissed the shining feet of Twilight - Helen Dudley "To One Unknown"
Knowing beneath my feet a star - George William Russell aka A.E. "Creation"
Fiery dust of evening, shaken from the feet of light - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Dawn of Darkness"
Tread with sleep filled hearts on drowsy feet - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"
Your urgency infects his feet - Helen Parry Eden "Simkin"
The courier's feet delayed - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Snow Storm"
Bullet holes in the soles of his feet - Martin Espada "How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way"
Detain in strictest bondage thy reluctant feet - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
From the waves emerging with dry feet - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
On ambushed swords his feet will stumble - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Those tardy feet raise from the ground - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
And where will they plant their feet? - Eleanor Farjeon "Light the Lamps Up, Lamplighter!"
Your feet are closest to spring - Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi "Letter from a Hot Air Balloon"
Pathways asking for feet and their memory - Monica Ferrell "The Irresolubleness of Diamonds"
And the feet give up the gray walk - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"
Augustine with his feet of snow - James Elroy Flecker "The Dying Patriot"
With dauntless feet and sound of silver bells - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
A stranger came with feet of flame - James Elroy Flecker "Joseph and Mary" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
Let the timid feet of dawn fly - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Their immutable silence is in her feet - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Bow to the feet of the lazy hours - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Time has trampled with his flying feet - Robin Flower "Hymenaea"
A soundless vision borne on glancing feet - Robin Flower "Sonnet 8 [They say the gods are to the woodlands fled]"
Around the boundary of my feet - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Lost Coast"
The boundary of my feet - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Lost Coast"
Cypress is clinging about her feet - "For the Hour of Triumph" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]
While it tempted our feet - Arthur M. Forrester "An Old Irish Tune"
Kiss the dust from my weary feet - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]
With the gold of roses caught round his feet - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The True and Last Story of Little Boy Blue"
With all the wild sap stirring at my feet - Nora May French "Growth"
Bruised the leaves with hurrying feet - Nora May French "One Day"
The rhythmic fall of speeding feet - Zona Gale "Return"
My feet mashing grapes for wine - Roberto Carlos Garcia "This Moment/Right Now"
Sits a little while at Sorrow's feet - Theodosia Garrison "The Gifts of Gold"
Opened the trap-door at his feet - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Her feet stone still on the path - Sarah Getty "Deer, 6:00 AM"
Time orbs so silently beneath our feet - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Tip my feet with points of fire - Louis Golding "Prophet and Fool"
That scattered glass fruit around your feet - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Music Man"
Can but touch the sands about its feet - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Poetry [I had rather write one word upon the rock]"
Girt round the feet with gorse - Edmund Gosse "On Yes Tor"
The eager feet of the returning dreamers - Mona Gould "Answer Me!"
My booted feet mar the mulch with trails - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"
To hold the feet of shadows - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"
The brown feet of tropical rain - Joy Harjo "Bless this Land"
The soul is a wanderer with many hands and feet - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
What an anchor his feet provide - Joy Harjo "My Man's Feet"
Under the cold feet of the night - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
Their feet are lost in the shadows - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender: Envoy"
And graves at our very feet - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Brother O' Mine"
Weary years my feet had wandered - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "Homeward Bound" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
The feet of the new sufferings followed - Jane Hirshfield "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me"
My soaring spirit conquered at thy feet - Henry B. Hirst "Sonnets: Ianthe" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
With swifter hands and surer feet - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Your idols' feet never turned to clay - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
And unchain the silvery feet of waves - William H.C. Hosmer "Requiem" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
My feet upon the moonlit dust pursue the ceaseless way - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXXVI"
Waters tumbling a thousand feet in flight - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Dwelling in the Mountains 7" transl. by David Hinton
When feet cleave to boots - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"
Drag my feet over endless graves - Jay Hulme "Seeking Trans Ancestors in Provincial Graveyards"
Orion lifts his tangled feet - Aldous Huxley "Anniversaries"
How many square feet in disaster? - Mark Irwin "Elegy with Forest and TVs"
Ten square feet of haunting perfume - Sade Iverson "Ten Square Feet of Garden"
Ten square feet of tossing blossoms - Sade Iverson "Ten Square Feet of Garden"
The pitter-patter of feet landing on rhymes - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"
The sounds of two feet punctuating the moonlight - Geoffrey Jacques "The Echo's Nadir"
Walking with numbed and cut feet - Robinson Jeffers "The Loving Shepherdess" [excerpt]
Under the feet of the ocean cavalry - Robinson Jeffers "To the House"
Worlds at the feet of others - Emily Pauline Johnson "In Grey Days"
rock against my searching feet - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"
Embroidered sea at my feet - Saeed Jones "Hour Between Dog & Wolf"
Mapping out hell with my feet - Saeed Jones "In Nashville"
Pigeons for hair, wind for feet - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
Settle my feet against limitless earth - Tanque R. Jones "Metamorphosis"
Glory and stars beneath his feet - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XII"
Under the bare feet of their thoughts - Ilya Kaminsky "Search Patrols"
At the feet of those who broke you - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
Sounded out by ant feet - Leora Kava "pronunciation"
three feet behind my grin - Douglas Kearney "There's no 'sass' in 'dissociation'"
Silken mat for Saturn's feet - John Keats "Hyperion"
The rocks that lock with loitering feet - Fanny Kemble "Written After Leaving West Point"
The wild torrent's snowy, leaping feet - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"
With famishing hands and frost in the feet - Henry Kendall "Cui Bono?"
Sheathe my feet in slippers of dried mud - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"
Till our bleeding feet spurt compassion - Kevin Killian "Free"
Give welcome to my silent feet - Joyce Kilmer "Madness"
When wanderlust should seize upon my feet - Joyce Kilmer "Roofs"
And quiet holds the weary feet - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
Troubles the Still that has neither voice nor feet - Rudyard Kipling "The Deep-Sea Cables"
Feet in the jungle that leave no mark - Rudyard Kipling "Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack"
Feet bare and untouched against coarse stone - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
Under corrugated blowpipes fifty feet high - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
The sunlit waters gleaming golden at their feet - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
Light a fire to the feet of my son's spirit - "Lament of a Man for His Son" [collected from the Paiute by Nellie Barnes] https://poets.org/poem/lament-man-his-son
From my feet to the heart of the hills - Archibald Lampman "Cloud-Break"
By the feet of the mother immortal - Archibald Lampman "Inter Vias"
The cry and drift of feet - Archibald Lampman "Unrest"
dionysus prances on wandering goat feet - Jessica Langer "Chaos"
Pavements fit for ghostly feet - Emily Lawless "From the Burren"
Still by the rotten row of shattered feet - D.H. Lawrence "Embankment at Night, Before the War"
Thousands of feet below the olive-roots - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"
Thousands of feet below the lava fire - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"
About your feet spontaneous aconite - D.H. Lawrence "Purple Anemones"
The scrape of restless feet - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"
Feet tireless to spin the unseen - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
Floors where reverent feet once trod - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"
Who ran to a wild death with laughing feet - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"
Never hears their slow grey feet - Francis Ledwidge "The Shadow People"
The leaden demon in my feet - Amy Levy "A Wall Flower"
A rose beneath your feet - Amy Levy "A Waltz Song"
Headwaters plummeting three thousand feet in flight - Li Po "Gazing at the Thatch-Hut Mountain Waterfall" transl. by David Hinton
Can urge the feet of Time - Li Po "The Sun" transl. by Arthur Waley
The feet of many bees - Rebecca Lindenberg "The Splendid Body"
Your feet will be white lightning - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"
Throws forty keys at Arthur's feet - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
Marching still with bleeding feet - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"
His feet on a ladder of light - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Sandalphon"
Silence deepened by our echoing feet - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
The sound of your coming feet - Fiona MacLeod "The Closing Doors"
What song shall snare the feet of white dawn - Frederic Manning "Ganhardine's Song"
Breathless at the feet of God - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
Whose feet upon good errands run - Edwin Markham [Untitled]
Paves for the feet of God - Edwin Markham [Untitled]
Lifting the dawn with rosy feet - Jeannette Marks "Sea Gulls"
The blurred horizon with its dust of other feet - Jeannette Marks "Too Late"
Who stained the slopes with bloody feet - Don Marquis "The Comrade"
Honey buried underneath my feet - John Masefield "Biography" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
Cast in chains beneath my feet - Theodore Maynard "Aladdin"
My songs a carpet at your feet - Theodore Maynard "Silence"
Feet callused from paspalum and rye - John McCarthy "Silence Rising, Dust Rising"
The cockleburs tore our feet open - John McCarthy "Toughness"
That come and go with silent feet - John McCrae "Slumber Songs"
To spread these lilies at thy feet - James E. McGirt "Victoria the Queen"
With scarlet roses staining her fair feet - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"
And nettles pierce the mould beneath your feet - Kate Slaughter McKinney aka Katydid "Some Day You'll Wish for Me"
With thunder of flying feet - Louis J. McQuilland "The Horseman"
Where the feet of angels are - Adah Isaacs Menken "Aspiration"
The wandering passion of our feet - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
a ghost with trees for feet - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"
The classic multitude of feet - Marianne Moore "In the Days of Prismatic Color"
With sun-red light your feet were shod - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 41"
Hugging the feet of our failure - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
Their spectral feet are heard to echo - Christopher Morley "Ballad of New Amsterdam"
With faith that sinks and feet that tire - Sarojini Naidu "To a Buddha Seated on a Lotus"
Where the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet - Sarojini Naidu "Wandering Singers"
The calcium's sleeping feet - Pablo Neruda "Atacama" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Great idols with phosphoric feet - Pablo Neruda "Far from Here" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The lamp of my soul dyes your feet - Pablo Neruda "In My Sky at Twilight" transl. by W.S. Merwin
Rolled at your feet of stone - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Solitary beings with transparent feet - Pablo Neruda "A Rose" transl. by Jack Schmitt
On silver feet to climb the starry stairs - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"
night holds onto the traveler's feet - Huy Tưởng aka Đức Hiệp Nguyễn "final final night" transl. by Phương Anh
Basked at the feet of June - M.H. Nickerson "A Recollection"
The clear sharp fact beneath your feet - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Small as the hope of stumbling feet - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong"
Their feet never leaving the ground - Achy Obejas "The Land of Regal Elephants"
To the white feet of the trees - Mary Oliver "Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End?"
Until it fit comfortably on the feet of the divine - Matthew Olzmann "Olympus"
The path at my feet disappears - Gregory Orr "A House in the Country"
The feet of crumbling clay - John Oxenham "Hearts in Exile"
Little knowledge by much toil of feet - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Swiftness on the gray feet of the wind - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
All a crumbled dust beneath the feet - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"
In your feet the fairies dance - Walter S. Percy "Chatterbox"
The king's stairs burn my feet - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
The grasses unload their griefs on my feet - Sylvia Plath "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
All pathways by His feet are worn - Joseph Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"
My naked feet I've torn - "The Poor Clerk (Ar C'Hloarek Paour)" (Translated by Tom Taylor)
Feet that understand no path - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"
Trying to fly with hard little feet for wings - Miriam Clark Potter "The Two Little Flocks"
Sun sparkles under her feet - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"
A journey of feet made of water - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Is it distance or is it a far god?"
To baptise the feet of the descending crowds - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Threshold"
See beyond our feet and their shadow - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"
Feet that run for fearful price - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Doom of the Esquire Bedell"
I dipped my feet into its emptiness - Yaxkin Melchy Ramos "Capybara Hot Springs" transl. by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Sets a mirror at our feet - Theodore H. Rand "The Old Fisher's Song"
At whose feet should I lay disappointment? - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
Beating the water with golden feet - Charles Reznikoff "XX [A white curtain turning in an open window]"
Upon the silken silence of his feet - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Heard now the feet of centuries - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
And lizards moved with noiseless feet - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
The infinite procession of those feet - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Feet that dance on slipping earth - Lola Ridge "Incompatibility"
Your tired feet will wander bare - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Sand at the bottom that bites at your feet - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "The Branch"
His feet upon the mountain and his shadow on the pass - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"
And heaped their glories at your feet - D.J. Robertson "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.144-v.III, 2 Oct. 1886]
From the ways that our feet have chosen - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
And lay a daisy at the feet of God - Rennell Rodd "From the Hills of Gardens"
Feet of fire on banks of ice - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"
Red russet shoes that poison the feet - Lauren Russell "Descent" [selection]
Memories on noiseless feet - Margaret E. Sangster "'Be of Good Cheer!'"
We timed our vagrant feet - Margaret E. Sangster "Wood Magic"
Bright dust of a hundred worlds on your feet - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
As soft as the feet of sleep - Clinton Scollard "A Song for Joyce's Country"
A spirit in my feet - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Indian Serenade"
The distant beat of Spring's irrevocable feet - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: II. A Road Song in May"
Our feet should know fair ways to travel - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
With the dawn my tireless feet were led - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Regret"
Still our feet trod the warm, even places - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
With wounded feet we cease from wandering - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Crushing hoofs and tearing feet - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Cean Duv Deelish"
On the path her feet have made - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Old Maid"
Shatter and scurry with the pounding of feet - Joyce Sidman "Time Spells: I. (To Speed Up)"
Echoes to the watchman's feet - E.M. Smith-Dampier "Ballad of the Traitor's Head"
A hundred feet down a filigree of ice - Richard Solomon "Writing Itself"
Cloth of gold were fair enough to touch her feet - Anne Spencer "Lines to a Nasturtium (a lover muses)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Then strap my wings to your feet - Leonora Speyer "Cantares"
A scarlet shell before his feet - George Sterling "Duandon"
Shall find the feet of Change are fast - George Sterling "The Gleaner"
Where the feet of Time are slow - George Sterling "Yosemite"
Stilled for the passing of her dreaming feet - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
Below my feet the thunders break - Richard H. Stoddard "Shakespeare" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
From the knotted feet of the pine-trees - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Whose feet seemed shod with wind - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
The shackled feet of centuries - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Sliding sand from under the feet of the years - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Creation of Man"
Tired feet on this rough earth yet walking - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]
Rabbits' feet shod with racing rhyme - John B. Tabb "Hare-Bells"
Noiseless waves breaking against her feet - Keith Taylor "Reading Late"
Gaudy with light, yet tired with many feet - Sara Teasdale "Lights"
His feet ill-starred in ways erroneous wandered - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
In wells a hundred feet below the ground - Jean Toomer "November Cotton Flower" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Where your despot feet have led - Iris Tree "Flame"
Throw my gauntlet at the feet of pride - Iris Tree "[Give me, O God, the power of laughter still]"
Underneath the feet forever dancing - Iris Tree "London"
The stars beneath our feet - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"
With dragging Sunday feet - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Forget-Me-Nots"
The shadows of her flashing feet - Louis Untermeyer "Dorothy Dances"
Before the wind's majestic feet - Louis Untermeyer "Midnight--By the Open Window"
toiling at the feet of empire - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"
Bare feet dancing the rhythm of her dream - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Red Shawl"
Fences draw their feet up out of the sod - Mark Van Doren "High Meadows"
Thread the labyrinth with flying feet - Henry van Dyke "Vera"
Pulling history towards these feet - Divya Victor "Threshold"
Beneath his feet the countless aeons roll - George Sylvester Viereck "The Three Sphinxes"
Drag my feet in the mud inside my head - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"
From the harp at Infinity's feet - Charles William Wallace "Woodland Lay"
Haunted of feet that used to walk beside us - Kathleen Montgomery Wallace "New Roads"
The echoless feet of the Hours - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
The dust of Hell lies round our feet - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
Floodwater cascades ten thousand feet - Wang An-Shih "Listening to Floodwater Past Midnight" transl. by David Hinton
Isolate and towering thousands of feet high - Wang An-Shih "A Lone Kindred-Tree" transl. by David Hinton
My mind has never walked much further than my feet - Wang-Wei "Best Happiness of All" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Bows beneath the weight of the blackbird's feet - Noah Warren "Cattail History"
In the wavering amber at her feet - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
Walk beside us with unsounding feet - Edith Wharton "Opportunities"
Move with delighted feet - John Hall Wheelock "The Sorrowful Masquerade"
Beneath their feet a living stepping-stone - Margaret Widdemer "The Old Suffragist"
Walking with feet faith-shod - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"
My sense of humor is the webbed feet - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"
Spray dashed thirty feet high - William Carlos Williams "A Goodnight"
With air that closes underneath my feet - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"
Spread my dreams under your feet - W.B. Yeats "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
With white feet of angels seven - W.B. Yeats "A Dream of a Blessed Spirit"
Whenever you put your feet on the floor - Dean Young "Scarecrow on Fire"
Burdens the air with feet of lead - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver
Hears no foot abroad in all the night - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Foot drag and dream - Mary Jo Bang "This Supposed Alchemy"
To tempt the stony foot of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "All This, Before"
Of foot going faster than thought - Elizabeth Bartlett "O To Be an Ostrich"
Remember no man's foot can pass - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
The partridge dreamed not of the falcon's foot - Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst "Midnight"
With his foot on a waste of cities - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"
a world that has its foot on our necks - Gerald L. Coleman "Age of Villains" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]
Your scarlet foot so deftly placed - H.D. "The bird-choros of Ion"
Still holds the print of your foot - H.D. "Pursuit"
The wave yearns at the cliff foot - Dulcie Deamer "The Dreamer"
At the foot of the rowan-tree - "Do You Remember that Night?" transl. by Eleanor Hull [Written down by O'Curry for Dr. George Petrie.]
This is how one foot sinks into the ground - Rita Dove "Persephone, Falling"
Before I set foot in life's forest - Hemantabālā Dutt "Open Thou Thy Door of Mercy" transl. by Miss Whitehouse
If any impious foot have marked the path - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Fumbling for weedy steps with foot and hand - John Freeman "Waking"
Beneath your inadvertent foot - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Introduction to Time Travel Theory"
You cannot set a foot upon the ground - Howard Glyndon "The Home of the Gentians" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Sept. 1880]
With fearless foot and heaven-turned eye - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
The one they shape by hand and foot - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"
One foot on the battlements - James Weldon Johnson "The Judgment Day"
Hears the careless foot of man - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"
At the foot of Babel - Yusef Komunyakaa 'from "The Last Bohemian of Avenue A"'
Telling me which foot to put down first - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"
Buy our brimstone by the foot - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
And the branches bowed beneath my foot - "The Maiden's Morning Dream" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
At the fountain's sliding foot - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
To make peace at the foot of heaven - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Catskills Retreat"
Vengeance in ambush at his foot - Francis Noel Clarke Mundy "The Fall of Needwood"
Journey from foot to fossil print - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
To lie beneath your foot in hell - John Presland "A Villa on the Bay of Naples"
Thy rainbow's footed on the earth - Theodore H. Rand "Beauty"
When your foot treads with tender fear - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe "A February Day"
These lines force one foot in front of the other - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Relinquenda"
The pale flame of your foot - Edgell Rickword "Intimacy"
Where millions shall kneel at the foot of thy throne - W.H. Rhodes "The Enrobing of Liberty"
Who wove their threnody with foot & flute - Ann K. Schwader "The Winds of Sesqua Valley"
Owning every foot on which we stand - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"
Formed kingdoms at the foot of a vanishing stone - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"
Set shining foot on temple roof - Robert Louis Stevenson "To Will. H. Low"
With one foot in the current - Su Tong po "Like a Cormorant" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Shall have stars at elbow and foot - Dylan Thomas "And death shall have no dominion"
In riven valleys where no foot may tread - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"
One foot in each world - Katie Willingham "Dear Charlie"
A perilous foot that treads the reeds - Humbert Wolfe "Sometimes When I Think of Love"
Barefoot
Here's the crow's-foot for a sign - Don Marquis "'King Pandion, He Is Dead'"
Footbridge.
Footfall.
Foothold.
When pain has forced a footing there - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Over lightless pane and footless road - Edward Thomas "Aspens"
spilled past the footlights - Leah Bobet "Notable Escapes"
The harsh glare of the footlights - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Left no footmark on the floor - Anna Bunston de Bary "Under a Wiltshire Apple Tree"
We were footnotes on a charred parchment - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
A footnote to someone else's grandeur - Charles Rafferty "Forecast"
To footnote lesser evils - Adrienne Rich "Camino Real"
The beer and barbecue footnote - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"
Footpath.
Footprint.
Whisper in a foot-shuffle vortex - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"
Footstep.
The foot-tracked mud of my heart - Witter Bynner "The South" [The Little Review, Apr. 1917, v.3, no.10]
Their boots knew the footwork - Vickie Vertiz "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
Shadows on the foot-worn threshold fall - Rainer Maria Rilke "Initiation" transl. by Jessie Lemont
The flight of the fox-foot hours - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Vagabondia"
Light-Footed.
Through their million-footed dirge of unconcern - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"
Stark hours of panther-footed dark - Coningsby Dawson "Unanswerable Questions"
A seven-foot cyborg on a quest - Adam Ford "Arrival!"
Guarded by silver-footed antelope - John Presland "To a Robin in December"
On a six-foot stage of dust - Carl Sandburg "Old Osawatomie"
To teach our sober-footed hours to fly - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
Stirred by some soft-footed breeze - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
Following with sorefooted pain - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"
Letting your hunger ride a ten-foot span - Conrad Hilberry "Pelican"
Underfoot.
Gallop through the unfooted asphodel - Maurice Baring "Julian Grenfell"
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Are as the silent shadows at our feet - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XXI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
Tragic thorn-pierced feet - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"
All life's purpose at her feet - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
They who with ordered feet go forth - Thomas Aird "An Evening Walk" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXVII, May 1851, v.LXIX]
At my feet lay a sulphurous dragon - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Marks the reddened feet of the Followers of Lot - Nada Almosa "Queer Arab Dictionary"
Position fear between our eyes and feet - Mouna Ammar "Fog's Invitation"
Dazzling feet pursue their silent way - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"
I surrender my wants at your feet - Ameen Animashaun "The Dance of the Lambs and the Birds"
With devious feet, and void of fixed intent - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"
The vagrant spirit fretted in your feet - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"
Glass slicing open the soles of my feet - Devan Barlow "Dear Charles Perrault"
Whirr of wheels, and hurry of feet - Jane Barlow "The End of Elfintown: I. The Building"
The eyes to blind and feet to snare - Jane Barlow "The End of Elfintown: II. The Council"
The dreary ways your faltering feet must go - Charles H. Barstow "Spring's Advent" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.116-v.III, 20 March 1886]
Its needled hands and thorny feet - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dry Sanctuary"
your feet are on my heart - Elizabeth Bartlett "step softly"
Clean and sweet from head to feet - "A Bath-Tub Joke" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Whose feet shall dare tread that illuminated stair - Henry A. Beers "Between the Flowers"
On feet that outstripped the Hours - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
An angry dream before the Sphinx's feet - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Climbed to the feet of God - Robert Hugh Benson "After a Retreat"
Lightly threaded with nimble feet - Laurence Binyon "The Little Dancers"
Pass home with stealthy feet - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"
Giant feet grounded deep in bedrock - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"
With broken shields piled at her feet - Maxwell Bodenheim "Boarding-House Episode"
Upon my feet the kisses of Death - Maxwell Bodenheim "Myself: Death [I shall walk down the road]"
Gray and threadbare from the passage of many feet - Bruce Boston "Gray People"
A net was woven round my feet - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert II: The Parlour"
Round his feet three rivers ran - Emily Bronte "The Philosopher"
Until the floor stung my feet awake with cold - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"
Whose feet are coming behind - Robert Buchanan "The Strange Country"
So the shadows of your feet camouflage the floor - CM Burroughs "One Way to Resurrect an Ancestor"
Once a brier loved a rose, at her feet adoring - B.C. "Love Lights" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.10-v.I, 8 March 1884]
Silence held my feet - F. O. Call "Visions"
With feet clinging to the earth - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: The Dance"
Dares to climb with wounded feet - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
The feet of straying winds came by - Bliss Carman "A Windflower"
And feet with courage shod - Alice Cary [untitled]
Hurling the clouds together at his feet - Walter Richard Cassels "The Eagle"
At your feet the world is waiting - Ralph Chaplin "Up from Your Knees"
Why the roses no longer grow at your feet - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
Bring your feet to the precipice - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"
Eyes of owl and feet of fox - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
That follows the way of unforgotten feet - G.K. Chesterton "To F.C. In Memoriam Palestine, '19"
Their nimble feet in mazy trances wind - William Chiddon "Idyll: In Imitation of Theocritus"
For hands will slip and feet will slide - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"
Spills at my stunned feet - Robert Creeley "Chain"
The feet of the sweet winds - George Cronyn "Night-Flowers"
And spring came in with silver feet - George Cronyn "A Voice"
The old gods shaking existence beneath my feet - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
With April feet like sudden flowers - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
Delirious feet of the Princess Salome - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
Our feet tread sleepless meadows sweet with fear - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VII)"
A diadem of stars at feet and head - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"
With dancing feet and dreaming eyes - Olive Custance "In Praise of Youth"
If the sun could blister my feet - H.D. "The Look-out"
Your feet cut steel on the paths - H.D. "Loss"
Have flung my worship before your feet - H.D. "Toward the Piraeus"
In the footsteps of the great feet of Bacchus - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org
And find his feet growing roots - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"
With the moon at our feet - Meg Day "The Permanent Way"
Cast in ashes at the trampling feet of mortal gods - Geoffrey Dearmer "On the Road"
To elude the snares around my feet - Delta "The Tombless Man: A Dream" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
New feet within my garden - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature I"
Between our feet and day - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XXIX; Resurgam"
Homesick feet upon a foreign shore - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LII"
Of your echoless feet - Mary Mapes Dodge "A Birthday"
Shakes rare incense at your feet - Julia C.R. Dorr "Over the Wall"
The mosses creep to her dancing feet - Julia C.R. Dorr "Over the Wall"
Lightnings played beneath his feet - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"
And firm feet making conquest - Edward Dowden "A Day of Defection"
Haunted by the feet of thoughts - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
Chill the heart and snare the feet - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
Fields where some day my own feet should go - John Drinkwater "Burning Bush"
Kissed the shining feet of Twilight - Helen Dudley "To One Unknown"
Knowing beneath my feet a star - George William Russell aka A.E. "Creation"
Fiery dust of evening, shaken from the feet of light - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Dawn of Darkness"
Tread with sleep filled hearts on drowsy feet - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"
Your urgency infects his feet - Helen Parry Eden "Simkin"
The courier's feet delayed - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Snow Storm"
Bullet holes in the soles of his feet - Martin Espada "How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way"
Detain in strictest bondage thy reluctant feet - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
From the waves emerging with dry feet - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
On ambushed swords his feet will stumble - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Those tardy feet raise from the ground - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
And where will they plant their feet? - Eleanor Farjeon "Light the Lamps Up, Lamplighter!"
Your feet are closest to spring - Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi "Letter from a Hot Air Balloon"
Pathways asking for feet and their memory - Monica Ferrell "The Irresolubleness of Diamonds"
And the feet give up the gray walk - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"
Augustine with his feet of snow - James Elroy Flecker "The Dying Patriot"
With dauntless feet and sound of silver bells - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
A stranger came with feet of flame - James Elroy Flecker "Joseph and Mary" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
Let the timid feet of dawn fly - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Their immutable silence is in her feet - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Bow to the feet of the lazy hours - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Time has trampled with his flying feet - Robin Flower "Hymenaea"
A soundless vision borne on glancing feet - Robin Flower "Sonnet 8 [They say the gods are to the woodlands fled]"
Around the boundary of my feet - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Lost Coast"
The boundary of my feet - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Lost Coast"
Cypress is clinging about her feet - "For the Hour of Triumph" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]
While it tempted our feet - Arthur M. Forrester "An Old Irish Tune"
Kiss the dust from my weary feet - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]
With the gold of roses caught round his feet - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The True and Last Story of Little Boy Blue"
With all the wild sap stirring at my feet - Nora May French "Growth"
Bruised the leaves with hurrying feet - Nora May French "One Day"
The rhythmic fall of speeding feet - Zona Gale "Return"
My feet mashing grapes for wine - Roberto Carlos Garcia "This Moment/Right Now"
Sits a little while at Sorrow's feet - Theodosia Garrison "The Gifts of Gold"
Opened the trap-door at his feet - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Her feet stone still on the path - Sarah Getty "Deer, 6:00 AM"
Time orbs so silently beneath our feet - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Tip my feet with points of fire - Louis Golding "Prophet and Fool"
That scattered glass fruit around your feet - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Music Man"
Can but touch the sands about its feet - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Poetry [I had rather write one word upon the rock]"
Girt round the feet with gorse - Edmund Gosse "On Yes Tor"
The eager feet of the returning dreamers - Mona Gould "Answer Me!"
My booted feet mar the mulch with trails - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"
To hold the feet of shadows - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"
The brown feet of tropical rain - Joy Harjo "Bless this Land"
The soul is a wanderer with many hands and feet - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
What an anchor his feet provide - Joy Harjo "My Man's Feet"
Under the cold feet of the night - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
Their feet are lost in the shadows - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender: Envoy"
And graves at our very feet - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Brother O' Mine"
Weary years my feet had wandered - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "Homeward Bound" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
The feet of the new sufferings followed - Jane Hirshfield "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me"
My soaring spirit conquered at thy feet - Henry B. Hirst "Sonnets: Ianthe" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
With swifter hands and surer feet - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Your idols' feet never turned to clay - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
And unchain the silvery feet of waves - William H.C. Hosmer "Requiem" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
My feet upon the moonlit dust pursue the ceaseless way - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXXVI"
Waters tumbling a thousand feet in flight - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Dwelling in the Mountains 7" transl. by David Hinton
When feet cleave to boots - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"
Drag my feet over endless graves - Jay Hulme "Seeking Trans Ancestors in Provincial Graveyards"
Orion lifts his tangled feet - Aldous Huxley "Anniversaries"
How many square feet in disaster? - Mark Irwin "Elegy with Forest and TVs"
Ten square feet of haunting perfume - Sade Iverson "Ten Square Feet of Garden"
Ten square feet of tossing blossoms - Sade Iverson "Ten Square Feet of Garden"
The pitter-patter of feet landing on rhymes - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"
The sounds of two feet punctuating the moonlight - Geoffrey Jacques "The Echo's Nadir"
Walking with numbed and cut feet - Robinson Jeffers "The Loving Shepherdess" [excerpt]
Under the feet of the ocean cavalry - Robinson Jeffers "To the House"
Worlds at the feet of others - Emily Pauline Johnson "In Grey Days"
rock against my searching feet - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"
Embroidered sea at my feet - Saeed Jones "Hour Between Dog & Wolf"
Mapping out hell with my feet - Saeed Jones "In Nashville"
Pigeons for hair, wind for feet - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
Settle my feet against limitless earth - Tanque R. Jones "Metamorphosis"
Glory and stars beneath his feet - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XII"
Under the bare feet of their thoughts - Ilya Kaminsky "Search Patrols"
At the feet of those who broke you - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
Sounded out by ant feet - Leora Kava "pronunciation"
three feet behind my grin - Douglas Kearney "There's no 'sass' in 'dissociation'"
Silken mat for Saturn's feet - John Keats "Hyperion"
The rocks that lock with loitering feet - Fanny Kemble "Written After Leaving West Point"
The wild torrent's snowy, leaping feet - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"
With famishing hands and frost in the feet - Henry Kendall "Cui Bono?"
Sheathe my feet in slippers of dried mud - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"
Till our bleeding feet spurt compassion - Kevin Killian "Free"
Give welcome to my silent feet - Joyce Kilmer "Madness"
When wanderlust should seize upon my feet - Joyce Kilmer "Roofs"
And quiet holds the weary feet - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
Troubles the Still that has neither voice nor feet - Rudyard Kipling "The Deep-Sea Cables"
Feet in the jungle that leave no mark - Rudyard Kipling "Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack"
Feet bare and untouched against coarse stone - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
Under corrugated blowpipes fifty feet high - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
The sunlit waters gleaming golden at their feet - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
Light a fire to the feet of my son's spirit - "Lament of a Man for His Son" [collected from the Paiute by Nellie Barnes] https://poets.org/poem/lament-man-his-son
From my feet to the heart of the hills - Archibald Lampman "Cloud-Break"
By the feet of the mother immortal - Archibald Lampman "Inter Vias"
The cry and drift of feet - Archibald Lampman "Unrest"
dionysus prances on wandering goat feet - Jessica Langer "Chaos"
Pavements fit for ghostly feet - Emily Lawless "From the Burren"
Still by the rotten row of shattered feet - D.H. Lawrence "Embankment at Night, Before the War"
Thousands of feet below the olive-roots - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"
Thousands of feet below the lava fire - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"
About your feet spontaneous aconite - D.H. Lawrence "Purple Anemones"
The scrape of restless feet - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"
Feet tireless to spin the unseen - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
Floors where reverent feet once trod - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"
Who ran to a wild death with laughing feet - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"
Never hears their slow grey feet - Francis Ledwidge "The Shadow People"
The leaden demon in my feet - Amy Levy "A Wall Flower"
A rose beneath your feet - Amy Levy "A Waltz Song"
Headwaters plummeting three thousand feet in flight - Li Po "Gazing at the Thatch-Hut Mountain Waterfall" transl. by David Hinton
Can urge the feet of Time - Li Po "The Sun" transl. by Arthur Waley
The feet of many bees - Rebecca Lindenberg "The Splendid Body"
Your feet will be white lightning - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"
Throws forty keys at Arthur's feet - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
Marching still with bleeding feet - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"
His feet on a ladder of light - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Sandalphon"
Silence deepened by our echoing feet - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
The sound of your coming feet - Fiona MacLeod "The Closing Doors"
What song shall snare the feet of white dawn - Frederic Manning "Ganhardine's Song"
Breathless at the feet of God - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
Whose feet upon good errands run - Edwin Markham [Untitled]
Paves for the feet of God - Edwin Markham [Untitled]
Lifting the dawn with rosy feet - Jeannette Marks "Sea Gulls"
The blurred horizon with its dust of other feet - Jeannette Marks "Too Late"
Who stained the slopes with bloody feet - Don Marquis "The Comrade"
Honey buried underneath my feet - John Masefield "Biography" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
Cast in chains beneath my feet - Theodore Maynard "Aladdin"
My songs a carpet at your feet - Theodore Maynard "Silence"
Feet callused from paspalum and rye - John McCarthy "Silence Rising, Dust Rising"
The cockleburs tore our feet open - John McCarthy "Toughness"
That come and go with silent feet - John McCrae "Slumber Songs"
To spread these lilies at thy feet - James E. McGirt "Victoria the Queen"
With scarlet roses staining her fair feet - Claude McKay "A Memory of June"
And nettles pierce the mould beneath your feet - Kate Slaughter McKinney aka Katydid "Some Day You'll Wish for Me"
With thunder of flying feet - Louis J. McQuilland "The Horseman"
Where the feet of angels are - Adah Isaacs Menken "Aspiration"
The wandering passion of our feet - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
a ghost with trees for feet - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"
The classic multitude of feet - Marianne Moore "In the Days of Prismatic Color"
With sun-red light your feet were shod - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 41"
Hugging the feet of our failure - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
Their spectral feet are heard to echo - Christopher Morley "Ballad of New Amsterdam"
With faith that sinks and feet that tire - Sarojini Naidu "To a Buddha Seated on a Lotus"
Where the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet - Sarojini Naidu "Wandering Singers"
The calcium's sleeping feet - Pablo Neruda "Atacama" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Great idols with phosphoric feet - Pablo Neruda "Far from Here" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The lamp of my soul dyes your feet - Pablo Neruda "In My Sky at Twilight" transl. by W.S. Merwin
Rolled at your feet of stone - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Solitary beings with transparent feet - Pablo Neruda "A Rose" transl. by Jack Schmitt
On silver feet to climb the starry stairs - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"
night holds onto the traveler's feet - Huy Tưởng aka Đức Hiệp Nguyễn "final final night" transl. by Phương Anh
Basked at the feet of June - M.H. Nickerson "A Recollection"
The clear sharp fact beneath your feet - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Small as the hope of stumbling feet - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong"
Their feet never leaving the ground - Achy Obejas "The Land of Regal Elephants"
To the white feet of the trees - Mary Oliver "Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End?"
Until it fit comfortably on the feet of the divine - Matthew Olzmann "Olympus"
The path at my feet disappears - Gregory Orr "A House in the Country"
The feet of crumbling clay - John Oxenham "Hearts in Exile"
Little knowledge by much toil of feet - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Swiftness on the gray feet of the wind - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
All a crumbled dust beneath the feet - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"
In your feet the fairies dance - Walter S. Percy "Chatterbox"
The king's stairs burn my feet - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
The grasses unload their griefs on my feet - Sylvia Plath "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
All pathways by His feet are worn - Joseph Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"
My naked feet I've torn - "The Poor Clerk (Ar C'Hloarek Paour)" (Translated by Tom Taylor)
Feet that understand no path - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"
Trying to fly with hard little feet for wings - Miriam Clark Potter "The Two Little Flocks"
Sun sparkles under her feet - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"
A journey of feet made of water - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Is it distance or is it a far god?"
To baptise the feet of the descending crowds - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Threshold"
See beyond our feet and their shadow - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"
Feet that run for fearful price - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Doom of the Esquire Bedell"
I dipped my feet into its emptiness - Yaxkin Melchy Ramos "Capybara Hot Springs" transl. by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Sets a mirror at our feet - Theodore H. Rand "The Old Fisher's Song"
At whose feet should I lay disappointment? - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
Beating the water with golden feet - Charles Reznikoff "XX [A white curtain turning in an open window]"
Upon the silken silence of his feet - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Heard now the feet of centuries - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
And lizards moved with noiseless feet - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
The infinite procession of those feet - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Feet that dance on slipping earth - Lola Ridge "Incompatibility"
Your tired feet will wander bare - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Sand at the bottom that bites at your feet - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "The Branch"
His feet upon the mountain and his shadow on the pass - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"
And heaped their glories at your feet - D.J. Robertson "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.144-v.III, 2 Oct. 1886]
From the ways that our feet have chosen - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
And lay a daisy at the feet of God - Rennell Rodd "From the Hills of Gardens"
Feet of fire on banks of ice - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"
Red russet shoes that poison the feet - Lauren Russell "Descent" [selection]
Memories on noiseless feet - Margaret E. Sangster "'Be of Good Cheer!'"
We timed our vagrant feet - Margaret E. Sangster "Wood Magic"
Bright dust of a hundred worlds on your feet - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
As soft as the feet of sleep - Clinton Scollard "A Song for Joyce's Country"
A spirit in my feet - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Indian Serenade"
The distant beat of Spring's irrevocable feet - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: II. A Road Song in May"
Our feet should know fair ways to travel - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
With the dawn my tireless feet were led - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Regret"
Still our feet trod the warm, even places - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
With wounded feet we cease from wandering - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Crushing hoofs and tearing feet - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Cean Duv Deelish"
On the path her feet have made - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Old Maid"
Shatter and scurry with the pounding of feet - Joyce Sidman "Time Spells: I. (To Speed Up)"
Echoes to the watchman's feet - E.M. Smith-Dampier "Ballad of the Traitor's Head"
A hundred feet down a filigree of ice - Richard Solomon "Writing Itself"
Cloth of gold were fair enough to touch her feet - Anne Spencer "Lines to a Nasturtium (a lover muses)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Then strap my wings to your feet - Leonora Speyer "Cantares"
A scarlet shell before his feet - George Sterling "Duandon"
Shall find the feet of Change are fast - George Sterling "The Gleaner"
Where the feet of Time are slow - George Sterling "Yosemite"
Stilled for the passing of her dreaming feet - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
Below my feet the thunders break - Richard H. Stoddard "Shakespeare" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
From the knotted feet of the pine-trees - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Whose feet seemed shod with wind - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
The shackled feet of centuries - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Sliding sand from under the feet of the years - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Creation of Man"
Tired feet on this rough earth yet walking - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]
Rabbits' feet shod with racing rhyme - John B. Tabb "Hare-Bells"
Noiseless waves breaking against her feet - Keith Taylor "Reading Late"
Gaudy with light, yet tired with many feet - Sara Teasdale "Lights"
His feet ill-starred in ways erroneous wandered - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
In wells a hundred feet below the ground - Jean Toomer "November Cotton Flower" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Where your despot feet have led - Iris Tree "Flame"
Throw my gauntlet at the feet of pride - Iris Tree "[Give me, O God, the power of laughter still]"
Underneath the feet forever dancing - Iris Tree "London"
The stars beneath our feet - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"
With dragging Sunday feet - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Forget-Me-Nots"
The shadows of her flashing feet - Louis Untermeyer "Dorothy Dances"
Before the wind's majestic feet - Louis Untermeyer "Midnight--By the Open Window"
toiling at the feet of empire - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"
Bare feet dancing the rhythm of her dream - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Red Shawl"
Fences draw their feet up out of the sod - Mark Van Doren "High Meadows"
Thread the labyrinth with flying feet - Henry van Dyke "Vera"
Pulling history towards these feet - Divya Victor "Threshold"
Beneath his feet the countless aeons roll - George Sylvester Viereck "The Three Sphinxes"
Drag my feet in the mud inside my head - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"
From the harp at Infinity's feet - Charles William Wallace "Woodland Lay"
Haunted of feet that used to walk beside us - Kathleen Montgomery Wallace "New Roads"
The echoless feet of the Hours - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
The dust of Hell lies round our feet - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
Floodwater cascades ten thousand feet - Wang An-Shih "Listening to Floodwater Past Midnight" transl. by David Hinton
Isolate and towering thousands of feet high - Wang An-Shih "A Lone Kindred-Tree" transl. by David Hinton
My mind has never walked much further than my feet - Wang-Wei "Best Happiness of All" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Bows beneath the weight of the blackbird's feet - Noah Warren "Cattail History"
In the wavering amber at her feet - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
Walk beside us with unsounding feet - Edith Wharton "Opportunities"
Move with delighted feet - John Hall Wheelock "The Sorrowful Masquerade"
Beneath their feet a living stepping-stone - Margaret Widdemer "The Old Suffragist"
Walking with feet faith-shod - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"
My sense of humor is the webbed feet - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"
Spray dashed thirty feet high - William Carlos Williams "A Goodnight"
With air that closes underneath my feet - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"
Spread my dreams under your feet - W.B. Yeats "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
With white feet of angels seven - W.B. Yeats "A Dream of a Blessed Spirit"
Whenever you put your feet on the floor - Dean Young "Scarecrow on Fire"
Burdens the air with feet of lead - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver
Hears no foot abroad in all the night - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Foot drag and dream - Mary Jo Bang "This Supposed Alchemy"
To tempt the stony foot of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "All This, Before"
Of foot going faster than thought - Elizabeth Bartlett "O To Be an Ostrich"
Remember no man's foot can pass - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
The partridge dreamed not of the falcon's foot - Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst "Midnight"
With his foot on a waste of cities - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"
a world that has its foot on our necks - Gerald L. Coleman "Age of Villains" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]
Your scarlet foot so deftly placed - H.D. "The bird-choros of Ion"
Still holds the print of your foot - H.D. "Pursuit"
The wave yearns at the cliff foot - Dulcie Deamer "The Dreamer"
At the foot of the rowan-tree - "Do You Remember that Night?" transl. by Eleanor Hull [Written down by O'Curry for Dr. George Petrie.]
This is how one foot sinks into the ground - Rita Dove "Persephone, Falling"
Before I set foot in life's forest - Hemantabālā Dutt "Open Thou Thy Door of Mercy" transl. by Miss Whitehouse
If any impious foot have marked the path - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Fumbling for weedy steps with foot and hand - John Freeman "Waking"
Beneath your inadvertent foot - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Introduction to Time Travel Theory"
You cannot set a foot upon the ground - Howard Glyndon "The Home of the Gentians" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Sept. 1880]
With fearless foot and heaven-turned eye - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
The one they shape by hand and foot - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"
One foot on the battlements - James Weldon Johnson "The Judgment Day"
Hears the careless foot of man - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"
At the foot of Babel - Yusef Komunyakaa 'from "The Last Bohemian of Avenue A"'
Telling me which foot to put down first - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"
Buy our brimstone by the foot - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
And the branches bowed beneath my foot - "The Maiden's Morning Dream" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
At the fountain's sliding foot - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
To make peace at the foot of heaven - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Catskills Retreat"
Vengeance in ambush at his foot - Francis Noel Clarke Mundy "The Fall of Needwood"
Journey from foot to fossil print - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
To lie beneath your foot in hell - John Presland "A Villa on the Bay of Naples"
Thy rainbow's footed on the earth - Theodore H. Rand "Beauty"
When your foot treads with tender fear - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe "A February Day"
These lines force one foot in front of the other - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Relinquenda"
The pale flame of your foot - Edgell Rickword "Intimacy"
Where millions shall kneel at the foot of thy throne - W.H. Rhodes "The Enrobing of Liberty"
Who wove their threnody with foot & flute - Ann K. Schwader "The Winds of Sesqua Valley"
Owning every foot on which we stand - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"
Formed kingdoms at the foot of a vanishing stone - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"
Set shining foot on temple roof - Robert Louis Stevenson "To Will. H. Low"
With one foot in the current - Su Tong po "Like a Cormorant" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Shall have stars at elbow and foot - Dylan Thomas "And death shall have no dominion"
In riven valleys where no foot may tread - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"
One foot in each world - Katie Willingham "Dear Charlie"
A perilous foot that treads the reeds - Humbert Wolfe "Sometimes When I Think of Love"
Barefoot
Here's the crow's-foot for a sign - Don Marquis "'King Pandion, He Is Dead'"
Footbridge.
Footfall.
Foothold.
When pain has forced a footing there - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Over lightless pane and footless road - Edward Thomas "Aspens"
spilled past the footlights - Leah Bobet "Notable Escapes"
The harsh glare of the footlights - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Left no footmark on the floor - Anna Bunston de Bary "Under a Wiltshire Apple Tree"
We were footnotes on a charred parchment - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
A footnote to someone else's grandeur - Charles Rafferty "Forecast"
To footnote lesser evils - Adrienne Rich "Camino Real"
The beer and barbecue footnote - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"
Footpath.
Footprint.
Whisper in a foot-shuffle vortex - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"
Footstep.
The foot-tracked mud of my heart - Witter Bynner "The South" [The Little Review, Apr. 1917, v.3, no.10]
Their boots knew the footwork - Vickie Vertiz "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
Shadows on the foot-worn threshold fall - Rainer Maria Rilke "Initiation" transl. by Jessie Lemont
The flight of the fox-foot hours - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Vagabondia"
Light-Footed.
Through their million-footed dirge of unconcern - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"
Stark hours of panther-footed dark - Coningsby Dawson "Unanswerable Questions"
A seven-foot cyborg on a quest - Adam Ford "Arrival!"
Guarded by silver-footed antelope - John Presland "To a Robin in December"
On a six-foot stage of dust - Carl Sandburg "Old Osawatomie"
To teach our sober-footed hours to fly - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
Stirred by some soft-footed breeze - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
Following with sorefooted pain - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"
Letting your hunger ride a ten-foot span - Conrad Hilberry "Pelican"
Underfoot.
Gallop through the unfooted asphodel - Maurice Baring "Julian Grenfell"
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