Potential Titles: Hand

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measure your pace, keep time with quiet hands - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"

Traced in each callus on his hands - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Keep time with quiet hands - Rasha Abdulhadi "Advice on Love from an Astronaut with a Failing Memory"

Silent stands, with no money in his hands - "Abroad"

And water fills the hollow of our hand - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XCII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

No sound but inside our hands - Samuel Ace "I hear a dog who is always in my death"

The planet's blood is on our hands - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"

An ocean of green legumes joining hands - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"

My weapons in hand, of no contest afraid - Rev. J.G. Adams "The Young Soldier" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]

To touch the moon's slow wonder with her hand - Léonie Adams "Home-Coming"

Holding crushed bird skulls in your hands - Kim Addonizio "Here"

Just like my mother's hands over her wheel - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"

And tortured hands so pale - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

The hand that millions now can grasp - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle

Half-carved by your hands - Daisy Aldan "Your Letter"

Ready to move at the wave of her hand - Ellen Tracy Alden "Queen Mabel"

The silver obol I must drop in the grim ferry-man's hand - Richard Aldington "Hermes-of-the-Dead" [The Little Review, Mar. 1917, v.3, no.9]

Although the spoiler's hand lies heavy - Lewis Alexander "Africa" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Hands afire with a vision of two great towers - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Only the empty hand is free to hold - Julia Alvarez "That Moment"

No ram appears to stop my hand - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"

Laying her hand deliberately against each thorn - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

With its hand closing around my throat - Ally Ang "Masculinity Ode"

Present your hands to the basin of water - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"

A light as subtle as your hands - Maya Angelou "A Zorro Man"

What praise can we give with bound hands - Afua Ansong "what we did while waiting for the rain"

Her hands the fatal cup supplied - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XXI: The Fratricide" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Woe to the gun in a fearsome hand - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Shovels dusty in our hands - William Archila "Bury This Pig"

Clasping us with broken hands - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel of names"

The hands of the air - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "An angel sleeping"

And turn the hand of Cain - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel to its mother"

Money pretending that its hands are tied - Rae Armantrout "Money Talks"

Came tamely to hand - Simon Armitage "Poundland"

My hands stay empty - Fatimah Asghar "When the Orders Came"

The loyal hand of gravity - Cameron Awkward-Rich "The Little Girl Is Not Certain About Ontology"

Cato, true to parchment laws, protests with rigid hands - J.S.B. "Caesar" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXII, v.LXII, Aug. 1847]

Till oldest wisdom rose to shake hands with the new - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]

The terrifying hand which holds you tight - James Baldwin "Christmas carol"

When the end comes, we hold a beginning in our hands - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

The plastic hand of art - Benjamin West Ball "Ionia"

Hecate, a torch in each hand - Mary Jo Bang "& There He Kept Her, Very Well"

A mouse hands back a wolf-totem - Mary Jo Bang "The Cracked Jar Called Can it Be Taught"

To grasp with wet hands - Mary Jo Bang "Gretel"

The chill hand of January - Mary Jo Bang "Let's Go Back"

Looking at the map of her hands - Mary Jo Bang "Let's Say Yes: 5. Opened and Shut"

The meek hand on a banister - Mary Jo Bang "Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be"

To lay your hands upon the sun - William Francis Barnard "To the Enemies of Free Speech"

To catch the empty hand of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "All This, Before"

Its needled hands and thorny feet - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dry Sanctuary"

To catch the hands of night - Elizabeth Bartlett "Final Performance"

With the hands of a spider - Elizabeth Bartlett "Interview"

tender our hands to the dove - Elizabeth Bartlett "journey to jerusalem"

Strength reduced to hands - Elizabeth Bartlett "Notes for the Future"

Clasp hands in confidence - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Path"

Hot hands ablaze with spent matches - Samiya Bashir "Second Law"

The frail hand of a Fay - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited

In his hollow hand the tear of snow - Charles Baudelaire "The Sadness of the Moon" transl. not credited

A warm caress leading me by the hand - Esther Belin "Personal Poem"

Bloody coins from hands cut through - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

A hand knocks inside my heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lunch at a City Club"

Clasps his hands in the wine-chill air - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

Roll your hands in the honey of life - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

A game played with cool hands and slim fingers - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Hatred" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Memory will lay its hands upon your breast - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Hatred" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

If my hands speak with conviction - Joshua Bennett "You Are So Articulate With Your Hands"

The night pouring from my hands - Emily Berry "Arlene and Esme"

My hands glean this earth - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Lineage Anagrams II"

My restless hands hold fast the wheel - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"

To the hollows of clasped hands - Malachi Black "Entering Saint Patrick's Cathedral"

Shakes hands with dust - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Catches hold of what comes next to hand - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Took no favor from the hands of Time - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"

What the hand dare seize the fire? - William Blake "The Tiger"

Like the math of my hands - Tommye Blount "The House"

Dance on seaweed-strings for clapping hands - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"

The trouble of his hands - Maxwell Bodenheim "Country Girl"

With jests that light its troubled hands - Maxwell Bodenheim "Young Poet"

Pain's derisive hand had given me rest - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"

To touch the pieces of glory with our hands - Arna Bontemps "Golgotha Is a Mountain"

That crumbles in these hands - John Philip Bourke "The Leaden Hoof"

Against my hand a little crumbling dust - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"

To capture Beauty's hands - Kay Boyle "Monody to the Sound of Zithers"

In critic's hands beware - Anne Bradstreet "The Author to Her Book"

Bigger miracles at hand - William Brewer "There Is a Gold Light"

I'll unpack my dark heart and Purell my hands - Geoffrey Brock "Trip Hop"

And raised my suppliant hands on high - Anne Bronte "Despondency"

The hands that shut the sun - Emily Bronte "To a Wreath of Snow"

Never a hand on the cottage door - Caris Brooke "[Never a hand on the cottage door]"

Initiating the habit of the raised hand - Deborah Brown "Reprise"

A right to the fire in her hands - Jericho Brown "Heartland"

Let my hands quit their clapping - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

Stone hand encased in an arm of ocean - Paul Cameron Brown "Serenade"

A weaver's hands seized life's silken threads - Evelyn Gage Browne "The Weavers"

Cuts through the hand that wields it - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Polluted hands of mockery - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn to Death"

And a hand fit a fay's wand to wave - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"

Brain and hand unite to give - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XIV. Second Reading. To Vittoria Colonna. The Model and the Statue" transl. by John Addington Symonds

If our hand extend a glimmering torch - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XLIII. The Impeachment of Night" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Their palms like a hundred hands of fate - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"

A rod of fire in her hand - Witter Bynner "The New World V"

From thy reluctant hand the thunderbolt - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"

The whip-poor-will telling that night is at hand - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"

No ruthless hand shall touch thee - Professor Campbell "To the Lily of the Valley" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Turn your hands into time machines - Crys S. Campbell "(How to be a) Fast Girl"

Reins clutched in his titan hands - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

And the sun like your hand - Rafael Campo "California"

Clasped hands and silences - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A Song by the Shore"

When weary hands forget their power - Lewis Carroll "The Valley of the Shadow of Death"

With a blood-red ring on either hand - Alice Cary "Presence" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

Hand pointing the indigo way inward - Adrian Castro "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"

Your hands dripping knives - Victoria Chang "Dear P."

Dwells in Temples never made by hands - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"

In His hands a thousand spheres - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"

Holding a vacant nest in her hands - R.S. Chilton "The Little Peasant"

My hand grasping at the sky - Chiwan Choi "portraitures and erasures"

Mistake your hands for matchsticks - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "Why Is the Forest Lonely?"

Hand your woes to the sky above - Chung-Ch'ang T'ung "Speaking My Mind" transl. by Burton Watson

This grave spiral of hands - Gabrielle Civil "Three of Cups"

At the right hand of whatever spirit guides us - Patricia Clark "Creed"

baggage cold in a stranger's hand - Lucille Clifton "from the cadaver"

Ends in the folding of hands - Lucille Clifton "9th picture returning to the origin back to the source"

Lift up holy hands of prayer - Arthur Hugh Clough "O Thou of Little Faith"

In shaky hands of an old maple - Chris Colderly "For Our Children's Children: Celebrating Chief Dan George"

My hands are stone - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witch"

In the wind of my hand - Billy Collins "Reading Myself to Sleep"

Yearning for your distant hands - Misha Collins "Clasped"

By fairy hands their knell is rung - William Collins "Ode: Written in the Year 1746"

The hands of the trees - Hilda Conkling "Autumn Song"

He never saw the hand that threw them - C. A. Conrad "From FRANK" (Nov. 2003)

A bed of painter's hands - Brendan Constantine "This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball"

That our own hands fashion - Katherine Eleanor Conway "The Heaviest Cross of All"

Clasp and beat wild, desolate hands - Ida Coolbrith "California"

the cracks of imperfection mended by my hands - Karla Cordero "Everything Needs Fixing"

Praying hands in tree and flower - James H. Cousins "Heaven and Earth"

Will bless the hands that sowed the seed - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Garden"

And do our part with willing hand - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"

For hands will slip and feet will slide - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"

Who knows what skill their hands possess - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Kites"

The moving of His hands beneath the eternal Dark - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Story of the Birkenhead"

Drowning the fever of her hands - Hart Crane "Garden Abstract"

Held in his hands the book of wisdom - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Threw wild hands toward the sky - Stephen Crane "War Is Kind"

In the pale hollow of those ghostly hands - Adelaide Crapsey "To Man Who Goes Seeking Immortality"

A boy with hands that tremble - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Had taken root in the floodplain of your hands - Shutta Crum "Things Done Wrong"

And handed me to sorrow - Countee Cullen "Saturday's Child"

Burned my hands upon a star - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

He filled his hands with stars - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

That wither in the hands of light - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"

Floating hands were laid upon me - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"

meteors streaming from playful immortal hands - E. E. Cummings "Amores (IV)"

whose hand my folded soul shall know - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"

My hands keep the gold they took - H.D. "Evadne"

Take the moon in your hands - H.D. "The Moon in Your Hands"

No gift within our hands - H.D. "Prayer"

Before these hands were my hands - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"

A Milky Way on either hand - Danske Dandridge "Bloodroot"

To charge a royal copper from your hands - "Datasonnet for Prince Giolo"

As though escaped from Nature's hand - W.H. Davies "Days Too Short"

The years sift through their hands - Fanny Stearns Davis "Profits"

Under his hand of memory - Fannie Stearns Davis "Wind"

Ask the strange hands of the wind - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"

The song carried in your hands - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Harmony (I)"

The land murmurs in our hands - Tyree Daye "No Ghost Abandoned"

Rage and wild despair their hands supply - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Prevents the danger with a hand unseen - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

No trophy in my hands - Walter de la Mare "The Dreamer"

Released by the hand's reach - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"

The unblemished hands of curious children - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"

With easy rhetoric and ready hand - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"

For the miracle of breaking my hands into breadcrumbs - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"

Whose words burn my hands - Diana Marie Delgado "Tracing the Horse"

Confused their right hands with their left - Carl Dennis "Holy Brethren"

Orchestrate a standing ovation with the memory of my hands - Tory Dent "The Murder of Beauty/The Beauty of Murder"

In the map of my hand - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

What can my hands do now? - Rachel Dillon "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem"

Tie my hands to the wind - Chelsea Dingman "Here, the Sparrows Were, All Along"

Ask the sky to show its hands - Chelsea Dingman "Reconstructing the Saints"

Death was a wind searching the back of his hand - Chris Dombrowski "Naive Melody"

The river held in cupped hands - Chris Dombrowski "Serotonin"

Rul'd by Imperial Oberon's hand - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset "Think Before You Speak; Or, The Three Wishes"

Begins to disintegrate within my hand - Jasmeet Dosanjh "A Spirit Friend"

Shadows that I may not take into my hands again - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

Laying sudden hands on immortality - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

Her strong hand closed on her blunted sword - Arthur Conan Doyle "Victrix"

A stronger hand restrains our wilful powers - Drayton "Will" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]

Sinks beneath the hand of time and fate - "The Druriad" [1798]

The architecture of the poet's hands - Camille T. Dungy "Arthritis is one thing, the hurting another"

The monarch whose reft hand made discord ring - Elizabeth J. Eames "Pedro and Inez" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

A driftwood relic in my hand - Max Eastman "A Dune Sonnet"

The hunted runner dips his hand - Max Eastman "Hours"

Chisel the rude stone with trembling hand - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "My Purest Longings Spring"

Hold forest-fire in one hand - Carolina Ebeld "There Is a Devil Inside Me"

Hold my own hand - Natalie Eilbert "Crescent Moons"

Within her Hand a vacant String - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"

The supplication of a dead man's hand - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"

Fair abodes not made with hands - Charlotte Elliott "Monday Evening"

Unharmed by the touch of human hand - Lucinda Elliott "The Linnaea Borealis" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.418, 3 Jan. 1852]

Grasp the vessel with both hands - JJJJJerome Ellis "Before Stuttering"

One hand against the strand - Fatihah Quadri Eniola "Down-Streaming"

Each name a net in his hands - Louise Erdrich "Birth"

Flames of dust in his hands - Louise Erdrich "Rudy Comes Back"

My hands were forged from gardening - John Olivares Espinoza "These Hands, These Roots"

The only hand on the blurred window - Nava EtShalom "Composition"

In my hands their burden will sustain - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Meantime I in my hands their burden will sustain - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

The ponderous weapon seize with dauntless hands - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull

With steadfast hand ordained to guide the flaming brand - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Dare with impious hand to violate the altars - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

My wrongs would urge me with vindictive hand - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

What priest, what butcher is at hand to slay these - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

And brandish with each dexterous hand a lance - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Dragged to the depths by iron hand and chain - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]

Into each day's dark hands - Tarfia Faizullah "Self-Portrait as Slinky"

The night in his hands like an empty bridle - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"

The myths are in our hands - Joseph Fasano "The Moon"

With a bitter lantern in her hand - Joseph Fasano "Testimony"

If the moon's hands should discover you - Joseph Fasano "Testimony"

To give their magics to thy hand - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

Filled my hands with tarnished gems - Beulah Field "Beggar-Man, Thief"

Cupped in the hollow of your hands - Beulah Field "My Communion"

Extinguished beneath your beating hands - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

Buds unset by mortal hand - "Flora: a Vision"

That first laid hands upon the wings of joy - Robin Flower "Sonnet 3 [Those morning lovers of the times of old]"

Saplings had sprouted from my hand - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen n"

Through the cracks of the clock hands - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"

Beneath shifting hands of fog - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"

Victory comes with a palm in her hand - "For the Hour of Triumph" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]

The hand of darkness hollowed - Joseph Kearney Foran "The Aurora Borealis"

The uncertain hand of a lost spirit - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"

I pray with both hands - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"

Empty hands are clasped in vain - Fanny Forrester "Angel Visitors" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.14-v.I, 5 April 1884]

Balm fresh flung from the hand of God - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]

In each hand a disparate dream - Gina Franco "The Same and the Other"

Fumbling for weedy steps with foot and hand - John Freeman "Waking"

With a robber's hand - "From the Instructions of King Cormac" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Join hands in the dew coming coldly - Robert Frost "Asking for Roses"

A tarnish that goes at the touch of a hand - Robert Frost "Blueberries"

Not forcing her hand with harrow and plow - Robert Frost "Blueberries"

By tying together its hands of gold - Robert Frost "I Will Sing You One-O"

a scrawl of hands weaving witchtricks - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"

Emptied of his hand - Tess Gallagher "Ring"

Wandered with heavy hours on hand - John Gay "Fable XXXIII: Courtier and Proteus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

If hands corrupted harm the nation - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Your own hand the medium, patched in to paradise - Sarah Getty "Presbyopia"

Reach into a pocket and hand you this intact moment - Sarah Getty "That Woman"

Hands it back like prizes from Crackerjack - Sarah Getty "That Woman"

Hands that used their country's ark to bear - "The Ghost of Chatham"

Cancels the verdict with indignant hand - "The Ghost of Chatham"

And your anointed hands inflict the wound - "The Ghost of Chatham"

Filled my hand with mist - Kahlil Gibran "Sand and Foam"

The love language of my grandmother's hands - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"

Whose wreck no hand was stretched to save - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]

Tended by Nature's pitying hand alone - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]

In my hand of passion and thought - Louis Golding "The Quest"

Yes to the cupped hand before fruit - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"

To be crushed by Winter's hand - Dora Read Goodale "Wait" [St. Nicholas v.V no.7, May 1878]

Ghosts greet us with rough hands - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

Clutched in the grip of those vast hands - Edmund Gosse "On Yes Tor"

In the mind of the hand - Rae Gouirand "Quince Suite"

Hands have a way of betraying things - Mona Gould "Hands"

A bitter brew mixed with my own hand - Mona Gould "This Bitter Brew"

Hands forced forward by the mainspring's spiral torsion - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

The brass and gold come to life in her hands - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"

Perching on the sceptred hand - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

That battles with the passions hand to hand - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Comes toward us with both hands - Kimberly Grey "Heroic Sentences"

And I knew you by your hands - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"

Splintered your hands - Laurie Ann Guerrero "Blessing"

Errors of the heart and hand - Edgar A. Guest "The Simple Things"

Graze the cold hands of the moon - Nicolás Guillén "The Aconcagua" transl. by Aaron Coleman

And gives my doomed hands a soft task - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

The one they shape by hand and foot - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"

As if hands were enough to hold an avalanche off - Thom Gunn "The Man with Night Sweats"

The indomitable stirring of folded hands - Hazel Hall "The Circle"

My heart lay still in the hand of pain - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On Ne Badine Pas Avec La Mort"

Embers burning in their hands - Joy Harjo "For Earth's Grandsons"

Complete patterns in her hands - Joy Harjo "Heartbeat"

Takes the hand of the moon - Joy Harjo "Heartbeat"

The soul is a wanderer with many hands and feet - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"

Close not heart nor hand - Frances E.W. Harper "Burial of Sarah"

From whose trusted hands came oracles - Frances E.W. Harper "The Present Age"

When pestilence clasps hands with death - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"

A robber with no hands - francine j. harris "fume"

Kindled by hands of treachery - F.W. Harvey "Kossovo Day"

On His hands a name is graven - Frances Ridley Havergal "The Welcome to the King"

The hand of death was on the frame - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]

The spell is on thine hand - Robert Stephen Hawker "Featherstone's Doom"

Earnest gaze but idle hand - Alfred Hayes "My Study"

A gnarled stick clutched in my hand - Georgia Heard "Room of Ordinary Things"

This globe I cradle in my hand - Georgia Heard "Room of Place"

The wild beating blows of the strong handed winds - Ben Hecht "Moods"

Whose left hand honours with decay and death - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Whose mailed hand keeps the keys - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Like a kind hand in a dream - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Bluestone River, W. Va."

Bring our hands there scented of a river - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"

the second hand a steel jaw I have set in the snow - Jim Heston "In the Time of Lycanthropy"

Coffee cupped between calloused hands - Rage Hezekiah "Lake Sunapee"

Cling to hands bleached clean - Faylita Hicks "The Daughters of Samuel Little"

Handing back the mottled afternoon - Conrad Hilberry "Blood Work"

Holds breath in its hands - Conrad Hilberry "The Day of the First Draft Lottery"

Held gravity in your hand - Conrad Hilberry "Self-Portrait as Waterfall"

Handing you a knot of crimson blooms - Conrad Hilberry "With Esperanza on the Roof"

The night with its head in its hands - Edward Hirsch "Gabriel" [excerpt]

We witnessed with voices and hands - Jane Hirshfield "Let Them Not Say"

A bowl held in both hands - Jane Hirshfield "Mosquito"

His hand extended to grasp the forerunner's - Cynthia Hogue "The Changeling"

With swifter hands and surer feet - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

Could Memory's hand restore - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Departed Days"

Fear and hands, underbelly and blade - Nicole Homer "Underbelly"

A spendthrift hand to woo - Walter Edwards Houghton, Jr. "Recall"

Fasten their hands upon their hearts - A.E. Housman "Last Poems X"

Cast it by with hands all numb - Margaret Houston "Aftermath"

The example that old sage handed down - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Dwelling in the Mountains 5" transl. by David Hinton

Loud laughers in the hands of Fate - Langston Hughes "My People"

Reeking spoil for savage hands - Percy Adams Hutchison "The Swordless Christ"

Reach a hand out the wilderness - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"

Raising a hand to the devil - Carly Inghram "The Detrimental Years of Becoming a Young Woman"

I keep borrowing your hands - Carly Inghram "Praise Poem"

Fate's unrelenting hand - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "When Shall We Meet Again?"

The dark hands of developers and myths of profits - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"

And hand you new windows - Allison Eir Jenks "The Church of St. Sulspicious"

With stars falling through your hands - Allison Eir Jenks "Different Ideas of Honor"

The uncertainty of our hands - Allison Eir Jenks "Forgive Us"

Wait like a predator's hands - Allison Eir Jenks "The Habit"

Clocks break in our hands - Allison Eir Jenks "War Tribes"

the prints of her hands where she walked unconscious - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"

Rising with copper in one hand and cadmium in the other - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

I live in the empty hands discombobulated bastards - Jzl Jmz "Drenched in Reflection"

A stick in my hand and a drop in my eye - "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Duty still demands the sweating brow, the weary hands - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]

Dead husks that rustle through her hands - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Corn Husker"

And the world of the willing hand - Emily Pauline Johnson "Prairie Greyhounds"

Beat with timid hands upon life's leaden door - Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Suppliant" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

To dig my hands wrist deep in pregnant earth - Helene Johnson "Fulfillment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Wring from grasping hands their meed of gold - Helene Johnson "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem"

The sun was on His right hand, and the moon was on His left - James Weldon Johnson "The Creation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Fold their exiled hands in orison - Lionel Johnson "Our Lady of France"

My hand still lingers on the latch - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"

was made from the hands of an ungodly master - Ashley M. Jones "HOLYHEADHARRIET"

An undertow with the strongest hands - Camisha L. Jones "On Having an Autoimmune Disease"

Microbes in the palms of our hands - Patricia Spears Jones "Saturnine"

invisible hands ripping us from ether - Tanque R. Jones "Heaven"

Hands overhead in celebration - Allison Joseph "Soul Train"

Braided lines in the palm of my hand - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

Fail his ruthless hand to stay - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Holding your hand through the static again - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"

In my hands, we are closer than secret - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Like a fist when you open your hand - Courtney Kampa "Ars Balletica"

Only two hands to use in the dance - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

The second hand ticking gently in front of the eyes - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Dancing in the shadow of the long hand - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Twirling in the lee of the short hand - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Eye-patches and clockwork hands - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"

A silken thread of my own hand's weaving - John Keats "I Had a Dove"

With the magic hand of chance - John Keats "When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be"

A miracle of patient hands - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Woos you with hands full of flowers - Fanny Kemble "An Apology"

Sealed by the soft hand of sleep - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

One more strain of hands in friendship twining - Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler "The Parting Pledge" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

A flood of glory hands upon the world - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [I hear a voice low in the sunset woods]"

Clasp my hands over my weary eyes - Fanny Kemble "To the Wissahiccon"

With master hands I despoil all - T.M. Kettle "Sowing (Written in 1899)"

Undo the map his hands made - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"

No praise for the hand that harms me - Emily Khilfeh "Ekphrasis On "The New York Times" Headline "Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom""

As either hand may rightly clutch - Rudyard Kipling "A Charm"

The price of our loss shall be paid to our hands - Rudyard Kipling "The Children"

The world that he weighed in his hands - Rudyard Kipling "A Song of Kabir"

But don't forgive my hands - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

To guide your hand along with special art - Ted Kooser "A Perfect Heart"

Grey hands growing from parched soil - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Monoculture"

My hands lost in my pockets - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"

Knitted back together by unseen hands - Keetje Kuipers "Emesis"

By hands that cherish us - Maxine Kumin "For Stanley, Some Lines at Random"

Searchlights controlled by unseen hands - Stanley Kunitz "The Abduction"

The leaf-red fire warmed no one's hands - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"

Rub grains of the moon in my hands - Stephen Kuusisto "Learning Braille at Thirty-Nine"

When I stretch my hands in greeting - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]

And Time with heaviest hand - Charles Lamb "Lines Written in My Own Album"

Playthings in the hand of Fate - Archibald Lampman "To the Prophetic Soul"

From this world of stormy hands - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"

His careful hands console - Archibald Lampman "Winter"

Wedged by the pressing of Trade's hand - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]

Alike beneath the arias of Fate's hand - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Cynic's Fealty"

Clutched hands across a halo bright - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"

A broken mirror in a trembling hand - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Unperfected"

Handed his life a poisoned draught - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "A Youth's Suicide"

Stands and stretches forth inviting hands - Latienne "'76" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]

Shake hands with the unknown - Dorianne Laux "Blossom"

Wrestled from each other's hands - Dorianne Laux "My Mother's Colander"

The invasive careless hand of change - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

Cast out by the hand that scatters food untowards - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"

With loose hands of abandonment hanging down - D.H. Lawrence "Letter from Town: The Almond Tree"

Quickens the unclasping hands - D.H. Lawrence "Study"

A dream of interlinking hands - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

The hand that would break us is strong - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"

Great hands open towards the west - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Waking up with seeds in my hands - Angel Leal "A Book Is a Map, a Bed Is a Country"

The waves fill my hand with blue memories - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"

By whose hands were sown rank tares - Margaret Leigh "Sonnet: The Journalist"

Staining my hands with snow - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"

A living candle in the hand of earth - Philip Levine "Bitterness"

If filled of evil drink in a wizard's hand - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: V. Irish Nocturne"

I lift my hands, and knock at the stars - Li Po "Mountain-Top Temple" transl. by Sasaki and Maxwell Bodenheim [The Little Review, June 1917, v.4, no.2]

In her hand her gold-threaded slippers - Li Yu "[Blossoms bright, the moon dark]" transl. by Burton Watson

Your outlawed thoughts in your hands - Ada Limon "The Fronntier of Never Leaving"

A dream, caught with both hands - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"

Only when touched by reverent hands - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"

And thaw its music in your hand - Amy Lowell "To Elizabeth Ward Perkins"

Such hands no charmed witch-hazel hold - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"

And gold rings for my hand - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"

Fashioned the light in His lyric hands - Wilson MacDonald "The Miracle Songs of Jesus"

With willing hands and faithful hearts - R.W. MacGowan "Our Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

examining mussel shells, millennia in their hands - David Maduli "alameda point"

The roses of joy that open on every hand - Maurice Maeterlinck "Lassitude" transl. by Bernard Miall

The hands were scouts discovering harms - Markham "Man" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]

Hurries me on with a wizard hand - Edwin Markham "Youth and Time"

Hands dim with loneliness - Jeannette Marks "Ravello"

Their mills and their bloody hands - Don Marquis "The Child and the Mill"

Placing a loyal hand on the star that refused to die - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

An army with uplifted hands - George Martin "In Memory of Joseph Guibord"

That no mortal hand can parry - George Martin "Montreal Carnival Sports"

Make a helix of my hands - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"

Left their exile problem in the hands of fate - Harry Martinson "Aniara 63" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That maintained the whole thing with fireproof hand - Harry Martinson "Aniara 67" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Whose iron hand so ruthlessly kept down the tide - "The Martyrs' Monument" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]

Reaching hands that never met - John Masefield "King Cole"

A stretching of the spirit's hand - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

When you're done you have nothing in your hand - Donna Masini "My Father Teaches Me to Play Solitaire"

Your hands mixed the keys of life - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

Wrought by some magic hand in fairy mills - D.M. Matheson "Petoobok"

Here you come with your open hands - Louise Mathias "The Problem of Hands"

Thinks of the hands that made them - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

Your hands that are sweeter than honey - Theodore Maynard "The Joy of the World"

Holding his destiny within his hands - James Edward McCall "The New Negro" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

With tinted shadows in her hands - James M'Carroll "Dawn"

What have clock hands actually held? - John McCarthy "Gravestone"

With an awkward jig and jazz hands - Ryan Mecum "The Time I Bought Matsuo Basho"

Screw of death in cupped hands - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

In the hands of these serpents and snakes - Meng Chiao "Laments of the Gorges 9" transl. by David Hinton

Running clouds behind hands of willows - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"

Holding reflections in their hands - M.S. Merwin "Commemoratives"

Remnants handed down as patchwork - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

A dead seed in her hand - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"

Under sorrow’s hand - Edna St Vincent Millay "Kin to Sorrow"

Place driftwood in my left hand - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"

How can the eye offend the hand - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Hymn for Humanity"

By a hand that never can tire - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "A Winter Lullaby"

From Charity's dead hands - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"

Our hands have shaped perfect silences - N. Scott Momaday "Nous Avons Vu La Mer"

Let sunlight gather in their hollow hands - N. Scott Momaday "War Chronicle"

Points a stark hand at the sky - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"

Such promiscuous hands - Kamilah Aisha Moon "After Surgery: Invasive"

Coursing through clasped hands - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Initiation"

Each with one hand praying in the air - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 1"

The fingers of a hand burnt bare - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 45"

Shall I pick up the lightning in my hand? - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 55"

With hands full of snow - William Morris "The Blue Closet"

Unto the chisel must he set his hand - William Morris "Pygmalion and the Image"

Air above mountains, buildings in our hands - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"

Ruthless hands to rend the fairy fane - William Mountain "Dies Irae"

My hands have undressed hope - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Your hands with sorrow wring - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"

Harvesting spells with their hands - Erika Murcia "Serpents I"

Filthy hands kneading dough under the cosmos - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

Dark like a dreaming hand - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

The hands of a slow cyclone - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Dropping from your cascading hands - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

The quiet intent of my earth-stained hands - Pablo Neruda "The Forest" transl. by Alastair Reid

That the sea bears in its hands - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh

With a thousand small golden hands - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney

The wild air with its thousand hands - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly

To shake the doors with bruised hands - Pablo Neruda "Insurgent America (1800)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

To the hands of the sister and the widow - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf

Dignity of bees for your hands - Pablo Neruda "Midday XXXIX" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

With wintry hand seeks our hearts - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh

A hand of stone winnowed cobbles - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Burned like a coin between my hands - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems X" translated by W.S. Merwin

Handed over gifts and debts - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Holding flecks of ash rigid in her hands - Mari Ness "Gretel's Bones"

Our hands filled with bread and dates - Mari Ness "Sisters"

The coins tremble in our bloodstained hands - Mari Ness "Sisters"

Your hands lighting the flame - Mari Ness "Tongueless"

A pair of painstakingly clean hands - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

Or crush them in my white-fanged hands - Effie Lee Newsome "O Sea, That Knowest Thy Strength"

Bring full hands to Autumn - Meredith Nicholson "To the Seasons"

Stolen from time's jealous hand - Meredith Nicholson "Viking"

Into the knowing hands of the next person - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

Lay hands upon the wheel of the universe - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

From his right hand a fire that lit the world - Alfred Noyes "An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin"

In whose hand the first fire shone - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"

One hand out against the earth - Naomi Shihab Nye "All I Can Do"

One hand up against the sky - Naomi Shihab Nye "All I Can Do"

Knows how to catch a fly in his hands - Naomi Shihab Nye "Blood"

Raised his hand against the roaring ocean - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop"

Since from the prophet's hand it fell - Cornelius O'Brien "St Cecilia"

Any penny of applauding hands - Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C. "The Dead Musicians"

On the shingle with an oar in your hands - Frank O'Hara "Dolce Colloquio"

your hand on the shoulder of the wild - Sharon Olds "Song to Gabriel Hirsch"

Your hands passing over the world - Mary Oliver "Pipefish"

The passionate hands of the sun - Mary Oliver "That Tall Distance"

Hold us in the great hands of light - Mary Oliver "Why I Wake Early"

With a comb and a glass in her hand - "One Friday Morn"

Gripped by the sinewy hand of Satan - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Descend swift as a murderer's hand - Caitriona O'Reilly "IV. The Curee (from A Quartet for the Falcon)"

Ghastly Famine's bony hand was stretched - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Born with a knife in one hand and a wound in the other - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

Staring into the glass well of my hands - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Three"

The weight of those hands - Brenda Marie Osbey "On Contemplating the Breasts of Pauline Lumumba"

Shake hands with disappointment - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Description of a Portion of the Journey to Trenton Falls"

Offered their sceptres to his hand - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Hymn Written for a Sunday School"

The grasp of alien hands - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

Practice of a dexterous hand - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)

In stony hands that pray for ever - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)

Try the skill of my neglected hand - 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]

Light with folded hands - Marigloria Palma "Twilight" (translated by Carina del Valle Schorske)

I start shouting with my hands - Lesyk Panasiuk "A Wartime Dream" transl. by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky

The vines with woven hands clambered and clung - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

These two hands to bar the wind - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"

Came with hands and hearts o'erflowing - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

His hands duplicated the work of eons - Andre F. Peltier "6: Carbon; C1" [superscript 1]

Blended with the ore refined by the wise hand of Nature - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

The king's instruments burn my hands - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"

His hands were the needle of my compass - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"

Tenderer hands than ours - Carl Phillips "From a Land Called Near-Is-Far"

Put into the hands of nature - Rowan Ricardo Phillips "Who Is Less Than a Vapor?"

To pluck one rose from Proserpine's hand - A. Pickler "At Achensee, Tirol" transl. by T.M. Kettle

The hands that gave them bread - J. Rheyn Piksohn "A Contrasted Picture: from 'Passion Ode,' an Unpublished Poem" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

When war forces our hands - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Femme Futures"

Hand of wind and flame - Frederick Erastus Pierce "God and the Farmer"

Hands pressing pinpointed targets - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"

Blood-colored rust rubbed into my hands - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"

Patterns from heaven to be woven by human hands - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson

Scattering joy on every hand - Josephine Pollard "The Send Off"

Reached my hands in eager quest - Alexander Posey "To My Wife"

Our eager hands would grasp them - Miriam Clark Potter "Bubbles"

And leave you there with the rudder in your hand - Miriam Clark Potter "The Pilot Wind"

The insatiable hands of the rain - Lynn Powell "Tantrum, with Mistletoe"

A mark left by the hand of Night - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Blue Cup"

His heart in the minstrel's hand - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"

Golden shuttles flung by spirit hands - Ita Aniol Prokop "Gold" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.29, Aug. 1873]

No statue made with hands - Alexander Pushkin "A Monument" transl. by John Pollen

Bartered hands to caress time - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The camp -- is it possible?"

The silent hand on my shoulder - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"

Exposed to winter's angry hand - Paige Quinones "Erosion"

Little ripples joining hands - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "By the River"

That Dryad hands have wrought - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "In the Hardt Wald"

And fettered the Pilgrim's hand - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Two Angels"

Borders in the composition of hands - Nat Raha "[subterranean / dreaming grace roots]"

And to the weary be a helping hand - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Comes from hell through saintly hands - Theodore H. Rand "The Old Fisher's Song"

Hope a guest at my right hand - Herbert Randall "The Enigma"

The chilling hand of Time - G.A. Raybold "The Joys of Former Years Have Fled"

Lightning's hand illumes the wall of day - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Hand me my shadow - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

Hover your hand above a flame - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Five American Sentences"

Have torn our hearts and hands asunder - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Her many hands reaching - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Has Walked Into the Wild, Palms Open"

We hand passers-by silk ribboned poems - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"

Hand over your heart - Jason Reynolds "This Has Always Been Our Active Shooter Drill"

Leaning upon sorrow's outstretched hand - "Rhyming Ruminations on Old London Bridge" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20, no.557, 14 July 1832]

Your hands of oak and silk - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Never blamed my hands - James Richardson "Essay on the One Hand and on the Other"

Held my desperate hand from crime - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"

The silence of keys and silvery hands - Lola Ridge "Fuel"

Your lives like dust in your hands - Lola Ridge "Reveille"

As white as the gleam of her beckoning hand - James Whitcombe Riley "The Little Red Ribbon"

With mad, impatient hands - James Whitcombe Riley "My Bride that Is to Be"

The gestures of your warm wise hands - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

By no owner's hand disturbed - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Into a pillow of inherited hands - Joseph Rios "Dear Buffalo, Dear Zeta or To a Few of My Dead or Nearly Dead Tios"

Love's white hand upon my wrist - Charles G.D. Roberts "My Garden"

Where groping hands clutch fear - Charles G.D. Roberts "Night in a Down-town Street"

And stretch vain hands to stars - Charles George Douglas Roberts "An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy"

The hollow hand of sleep - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Origins"

With fate on either hand - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Origins"

The dead hand of Winter is knocking at the door - Lloyd Roberts "The Wind Tongues"

Once more my hand will clasp your hand - D.J. Robertson "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.144-v.III, 2 Oct. 1886]

Handing me back like an invitation - Valencia Robin "Cliche This"

By effort of their mind and hands - Amy Redpath Roddick "The British Lands"

Sceptred hands of starred humility - Isaac Rosenberg "On a Lady Singing"

Three lilies in her hand - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"

Love's light Hand is knocking at the door - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Restrained by pure-eyed Sorrow's hand - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"

By a hand of fire awakened - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"

Working dull shears in one hand - David St. John "Iris"

Rommel was kissing heaven's dainty hands - Tomaž Šalamun "We Build a Barn and Read Reader's Digest"

this acre of hand tilled hibiscus - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"

All broken hearts, empty hands, sleeping soldiers - Carl Sandburg "Fire Dreams"

With their hands on the jaws of death - Carl Sandburg "Jaws"

Subtle hands betray their power - George Santayana "Futility"

In one hand she bore flaming straw - Epes Sargent "The Dream of St. Theresa" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, no.33, Nov. 1877]

With his chain upon her hand - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]

Death shall hold the hand of Life - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]

When the dark hand of destiny failed - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

For the gods will lend no hand - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales Gründen]"

With nothing but the right pair of hands - Ollie Schminkey "The First Rule of Buoyancy"

Red sumac stains on their hands - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #56"

Handed out to feed hungry souls - Fritz Schnack "Evening Gift" transl. by William Saphier

Resounding in my trembling hand - Fritz Schnack "Young Days" transl. by William Saphier

Dominion in your iron hands - Frederick George Scott "In Via Mortis"

And drew them by the left hand in - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Spare me gloved hands - Nicole Sealey "unframed"

One destined for your heart and hand - "The Seaside Sibyl"

To high designs his heart and hands aspire - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]

Clutched in hollow hand of ice - Robert W. Service "The March of the Dead"

Aspirations too vast to be held in the hand - Purvi Shah "You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious--"

Let not winter's ragged hand deface - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VI"

With nature's own hand painted - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XX"

By Time's fell hand defac'd - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIV"

We serve with mind who served with hand - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

And her hands have loosed the tether - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: I. In the North"

And with vain hands beat idly at thy gate - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

The Hand that swept these lives away - Fannie Isabelle Sherrick "Easter"

Such the reward of toiling hands - Taras Shevchenko "Prayer IV" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

The hour hand of a broken clock - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"

My hand holds stems of air - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"

Lays his icy hand on kings - James Shirley "The Same"

With the power we have in hand - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"

Closed my hands upon a moth - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Beware"

Two hands clasped in anguish - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"

Cold within your clenching hand - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"

Hands that meet to part - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Vale"

The welcome weight of hands holding - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"

The one whose hands are full of sky - Joyce Sidman "Illness: A Conversation"

Bring in the coal that dyes our hands black - Jake Skeets "Let There Be Coal"

With my nickel in my hand - Leta V. Meyers Smart "On a Nickel"

With hands just as defiant and eager - Leta V. Meyers Smart "A Young Man's Adventure with Opportunity"

Livid as the stealthy hands of doom - Clark Ashton Smith "The Medusa of the Skies"

Grasped within the hollow hand of Night - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"

All suns are grasped within the hollow hand - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"

Music forced by hands of fire - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"

That hands may not rend - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Darkness"

The poet's slow remembering hands - Patricia Smith "Sacrifice"

Holding a cheap imitation in my hands - Marin Sorescu "Paintings" transl. by Gabriela Dragnea

Gave to the clowns a free hand - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger

As if earthquakes are in your hands - Christopher Soto "Forgiveness"

Their Hands seize on the Summits - John Spateman "War"

Hidden, as are the hands of gods - Leonora Speyer "King's Garden"

Our other earth opens a secret hand - Nathan Spoon "The Genie Speaks"

Torn ticket in my hand - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"

The Hand which wounds can heal - E. Clementine Stedman "Lines: To the Author of the Requiem, 'I See Thee Still'"

The potent sanction of her hand - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"

Hands still faithful to his blood - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Penelope"

A flame of sunlight on his hand - James Stephens "The Apple Tree"

White as the moon's cold hands - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

Twilight in unhesitating hands - George Sterling "Kindred"

Power, with encrimsoned hands - George Sterling "Memorial Day, 1901"

Into the hands whence leap the hurling tempest - Stuart Sterne "Into Thy Hands" [Lippincott's Magazine, Sept. 1885]

A breath upon her hand muted the night - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"

And they cut the naked hand - Robert Louis Stevenson "Christmas at Sea"

Drought that wrings its leather hands above the world - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"

The touch that wakens strings too frail for hands - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"

Cup my hands and drink of you - Marion Strobel "Spring Morning"

These salt hands holding sweetness - Muriel Stuart "Lady Hamilton"

Heart breaking hand upon the lute - Muriel Stuart "Leda"

Leave only remorse in your hands - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 207: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

And cowslips cold in his hands - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Holding all men's future in his hand - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Dirae"

That wed strange hands together - Algernon Swinburne "Discord"

To hand in the ear of thought - Algernon Swinburne "The Roundel"

That hammers nails into your brain and hands - Carmen Sylva "Rest"

This hand of faces you dealt yourself - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"

Scatter the wealth in my hand - Tarafa "Mu'allaqat [Canst thou make me immortal]" transl. by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

A hand chisels letters into the wind - Keith Taylor "Circle in the Wind"

Shall gather as much of joy as my hands can hold - Sara Teasdale "Buried Love"

For the touch of a vanished hand - Tennyson "Break, Break, Break"

By the shadow of my hand - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

The bells are booming on either hand - Henry David Thoreau "Ding Dong"

All the splendid misery their hands have wrought - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

Hands me the moon in the grooved tip of a key - Brian Tierney "Catering"

As the hand of Time healed all his woes - "The Times" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

What hands you become - TC Tolbert "Dear Melissa"

Ever in the hands pulling - TC Tolbert "Dear Melissa [who has never been holy]"

The elephant and his million hands - Edwin Torres "Under Venus's Hair"

Memory of the land and the hands that remade them - Paul Tran "Terroir"

To spite the land and the hands I'd been dealt - Paul Tran "Terroir"

My hands part from the unriveted faith - Iris Tree "[Be perfect--for I love thee more in thought]"

Whose mad hands tear the sky - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"

Ghostly mirth and phantom hands applauding - Iris Tree "[I think myself the fool of tragedy]"

Peace lay folded between our hands - Iris Tree "[Long ago we walked together in a garden]"

Spangling a secret radiance on adoring hands - Iris Tree "[Of all who died in silence far away]"

Which hands profane will scarce invade - Richard Chenevix Trench "Dedicatory Lines"

His hand deep in knowledge - Natasha Trethewey "Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956"

Taking whatever his hands will give - Natasha Trethewey "His Hands"

Once, you handed me half a heart - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

the words dry up in the palm of my hand - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges

Eternity expanding from her hand - John Trudell "Tina Smiled"

Colossal right hand curled around a mystery - Devin S. Turk "Statue of David with Top Surgery Scars"

Hands to feel the forests and the dark nights - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"

Where no wanton hand could reach - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]

Holding thorns in one hand - U Tak "2270" (transl. not credited but assumed, due to poet's dates, not to be the poet)

a soothsayer with sandpaper hands - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

Still am I a slave in the hand of destiny - Rudolph Valentino "Slavery (To E.A.P.)"

Built by his hands of clay - Rudolph Valentino "The Sphinx (To B.H.)"

The ocean sang in my father's hands - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"

Hands outstretched groping through shadows - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The White Buffalo Painting"

Transformers handed lightning - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Pole| |Sport"

And the hours come into my hands - Miriam van Waters "Art Is Born" [The Little Review, Apr. 1917, v.3, no.10]

The hours come into my hands like spears - Miriam van Waters "Art Is Born" [The Little Review, Apr. 1917, v.3, no.10]

As trilobites filled up my hand - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Fossil"

Fire with hands of boiling gold - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Bell-Ringer" transl. by Alma Strettell

Will touch the firmament with frosted hands - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

Let Pallas keep the towers her hand hath built - Virgil "Eclogues II" (transl. not identified)

For all the hands that miss you - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"

Contingency has arms and hands - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"

Hands fluttering between the constellations - Ocean Vuong "Immigrant Haibun"

By hands trained to deftness - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "A Strand of Wampum"

Thy soldier hand and heart at rest - Charles William Wallace "Good-Night: Youth"

With sudden hand ungently laid - D.E.A. Wallace "Sonnet in Contempt of Death"

All brush-bramble hands open through - Wang An-shih "Following thoughts" transl. by David Hinton

Great Agamemnon lifts his hand - J. Wareham "The Trojan War, 1915" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

Spider web woven by fairy hands - G.B. Warren "Paolo's Virginia"

Pledged his soul and heart and hand - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "The First American Alliance"

To have the right tools at hand - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Lake Lessons"

Hands dream as they fashion - John Moncure Wettarau "The Sculptor's Trade"

His hands fall like sun on my hair - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"

This temple is a house not made with hands - Edith Wharton "Segesta"

Clasped hands glimmer through the deepening gray - Edith Wharton "Sonnets: II. Vespers"

Hold up the hollow of your hand - Helen Hay Whitney "Sigh Not for Love"

With a pan of coals on either hand - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

One hand on the mason's trowel - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

And the hands that destroy clasped it close - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Ghosts"

A slow hand lifted a tide - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Hold pink flames in their right hands - William Carlos Williams "The Lonely Street"

Dipped his hand in the black waters of the sky - William Carlos Williams "Pastoral"

For the hand of the artificers a work - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 9" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

Destruction by the works of your hands - "The Wisdom of Solomon 1" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

My heartbeat and the hands of time - Allan Wolf "The Day the Universe Exploded My Head"

Since faith knows its way before hand - Baron Wormser "Anecdotes"

Catch alewives in their hands - Elinor Wylie "Atavism"

Untouched by the Destroyer's hand, remain - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

My hand slipping to the west - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"

Reach out toward the margin's white hand - Wendy Xu "Praxis"

Near no accustomed hand - W.B. Yeats "A Dream of Death"

Holding hands with his loneliness - Josephine Yu "Prayer to Saint Joseph: For the Restless"

A magician closed you in his hand and opened it suddenly empty - Yuan Chen "An Elegy" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]


Handful.


Where sit the ghosts of one-eyed Odin, bloody-handed Thor - Richard F. Searight "Winds" [Fantasy Fan, v.1, no.6, Feb. 1934]


By demon-hands in warning shaken - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"


Arrive empty-handed and alone - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Hunting Party"

Help arriving empty-handed - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"


Prosperity, fat and fullhanded, arrived at our door - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]


In a hands-behind-back colloquy of feints and nods - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"


In the handbook of heartbreak - Wallace Stevens "Madame la Fleurie"


Wild cat with a hand cannon - Andre F. Peltier "At the Grave of Little Sadie"


The handcuff of obligation - Ada Limon "The Lost Glove"


Hand-fast to her twilight appearance - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"


My handhold on the planet is no longer tiny - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan


Wander hand in hand with Thought - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oft let me wander hand in hand with Thought]"

Hand in hand, we stand without talking - Li Yung "Parting in Autumn" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Hand in hand with anguish - Rumi "Sorrow Quenched in the Beloved" transl. by E.H. Whinfield

Hand in hand upon the heights - V. Sackville-West "Song: Let Us Go Back"

Hand in hand with grave experience - Charles Sangster "'Tis Summer Still"


That our imaginings excel your handiwork - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

Of eleven maidens the handiwork - "Valdemar and Tove (A)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier


Their handless work of transmutation - Natalie Diaz "Duned"


Pull a ribbon of honey into handmade mugs - Rage Hezekiah "Lake Sunapee"

Handmade armor of bone - Saeed Jones "Terrible Boy"

With your handmade apocalypse - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"


Handmaid: See Maiden.


That my hand-me-down is out of style - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"


Hand-picked by the late sun's slant light - Yang Wan-li "On a Boat Crossing Hsieh Lake" transl. by David Hinton


Dirty handprints on my skirt - Diannely Antigua "Blessing the Baby"


Hand-sewn and set to memory - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Wall"


A handshake that becomes a squeezing contest - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"

A box of ash, a handshake, and the rest is your problem - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"


Absence held in the handspan - Patrick James Errington "Half Measures"


The glass globe of hand-spun conjurings - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"


Insects of my fateful handwriting - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Testament" transl. by Alastair Reid

Who know my left-handed handwriting - Danni Quintos "Quintos"

Breath-prints on a window, handwriting in snow - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]


A handyman when something breaks down - Mouna Ammar "Ode to Ammou"


Blues played lefthanded - Harryette Mullen "Page 5/sun goes on shining"

Made friends in a left-handed trance - "Nonsense"

Who know my left-handed handwriting - Danni Quintos "Quintos"


a burglar caught red-handed - Valzhyna Mort "crossword"


Infinitely second-hand - Aldous Huxley "On the 'Bus"

Nothing but secondhand details - Randall Mann "September Elegies"

A bughouse peddler of second-hand gospel - Carl Sandburg "Billy Sunday"

Who appreciates secondhand revelations of wolves - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"


Spinning with spider-hands the miser's web - Iris Tree "Smoke"


Lifts up its thousand-handed face - Pablo Neruda "Born in the Woods" translated by Donald D. Walsh


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