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The hills won't fall to their knees - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

They wait for centuries on their knees - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"

The pines would bend the knee - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Laughter that slaps both our knees - Lauren K. Alleyne "Gift"

While even seraphs bend the knee - Cora C. Bass "Old Year, Adieu"

The judgment of your scraped knees - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"

Bending her knees at requisite intervals - Michael Dumanis "Sehnsucht"

Down on humbled, human knees - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"

Down on bruised knees - T'ai Freedom Ford "ode to an African urn"

So generous as to kick the steel from my knees - Ross Gay "Sorrow Is Not My Name"

Fall on one knee petitioning - Sarah Getty "Deer, 6:00 AM"

All bow the knee to him whom Fortune serves - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Before the knees of time - Louis Golding "Derwentwater"

The heiress of scraped knees - Marilyn Hacker "Iva's Pantoum"

Clasping my knees in the whispering cold - Han-Shan "[I think of all the places I've been]" transl. by Burton Watson

On one sore knee before beauty - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"

Lays her head on the knees of Night - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

Horses plunging, foam about their knees - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"

In the stiff knees of a cypress - Rickey Laurentiis "Black Gentleman"

As if the revolution only walks at knee level - Marisa Lin "Tiananmen Square, 1989"

With the sky's knees in my back - Tariq Luthun "Sermon (For Those Who Survive)"

The flooding dark about their knees - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"

A rambling bramble binds his knees - John Masefield "The Dead Knight"

The sweet knees of oxen have pressed a path - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"

whose knee is a threshold of dust - Tajudeen Muadh "In a Goverment Class, I Discuss My Home"

the sun drops his knee on fog - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"

Like cobblestones on the knees - Pablo Neruda "October Fullness" transl. by Alastair Reid

Bent her gentle knee to earth - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

A forest razed down to its knees - Omodero David Oghenekaro "Questions for the Fallen"

Lay down your head upon my knee - "The Queen of Elfland"

On the drawn knees of the mountain - Lola Ridge "The Edge"

Up to her knees in scarlet foam - George Sterling "Ballad of the Grapes"

When the waters go down on their knees - Charles Wright "Time and the Centipedes of Night"

Our knees tell truths - Javier Zamora "On a Dirt Road outside Oaxaca"



Gravity breaking our kneecaps - Ocean Vuong "Eurydice"


Knee-Deep.


They've got a blade in their knee highs - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"


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