Potential Titles: Long
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somethingdarkerAwakes the flowers that long had slept - A.L.O.E. "Song of Joy"
The bubble of breath they had long exhaled - Duane Ackerson "Exiling the Earth"
Lived this long with a heart full of holes - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"
A human is just one long desperation - Kaveh Akbar "My Father's Accent"
While the bright eyed stars their long watch kept - Louisa May Alcott "The Flower's Lesson"
Long shadows under the marble arches - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"
Now, long emerged from his chrysalis state - Horatio Alger Jr "Nothing to Do"
Long years of grief have frozen me cold and lonely - Kazim Ali "The Man in 119"
From the silence so long and so deep - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
Dreamed, long since freed of any limits - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Long before time really got rolling - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Long corridors of views into the heart - Julia Alvarez "Small Portions"
Long wish for some far off sands - Lennox Amott "Drink"
Around our wrists one long, red string - Diannely Antigua "Blessing the Baby"
Long before their ruination - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"
In this long instance - Rae Armantrout "Dilation"
for how long will the ligaments last - Jarid Arraes "Movement"
Which explains the long line of wolves - Julie Babcock "Jonah's Trick"
Long years in damp vaults below - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"
Has hidden long from weeping eyes - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"
A long array of chariots superb - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"
As long as I have sight, I'll see - Mary Jo Bang "How will it feel months from now"
Over a long-night chrysanthemum sun - Mary Jo Bang "Still Life with Glasses"
A repository, a consequence, a long sentence, an ongoing story - Ari Banias "Fountain"
A long line of aerial cartwheels - Catherine Barnett "The Specious Present"
lived with definite so long - Elizabeth Bartlett "dusk I love"
The short, crooked thumb of long experience - Elizabeth Bartlett "On a Rock of Atlantis"
Longs to soar to heaven - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Flower's Prayer for Immortality"
Out from the long alphabet - Clara Doty Bates "Goody Two-Shoes" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]
The long pageant of your shadows - Charles Baudelaire "Mist and Rain" transl. not credited
Long, long departed Beings with familiar glance - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott
Those long nights in which slumber is banished - Charles Baudelaire "Posthumous Remorse" transl. by Keith Waldrop
Embattled legions stretch their long array - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Our world's long spree of Caesars - Erin Belieu "Pity the Doctor, Not the Disease"
The long descent of wasted days - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"
Leading the van of the long parade - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"
Ruffians dicing long beneath blurred candles - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two More Muses"
Their climb up the long ladder of time - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"
Passing by clouds and dreams long lost - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
The long vista of departed years - Laman Blanchard "Ode to the Human Heart"
A long parenthesis of lens - Brian Blanchfield "Eclogue Onto an Idea"
Long past the edge of anything calendrical - Julia Bloch "Valley Oak"
The long, green-white reverie of the horizon - Maxwell Bodenheim "Images of Life and Death: Death"
One long circle of despairing grace - Maxwell Bodenheim "Rattlesnake Mountain Fable I"
Fond memories of moonlight evenings long since vanished - Friederich Bodenstedt "Farewell | Aus dem Nachlasse Mirza-Schaffys" transl. by Auber Forestier [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.100, April. 1876]
A long shadow and a light sound - Louise Bogan "Knowledge"
The long-churned distance to any news of home - Elizabeth Bradfield "In the Polar Regions"
The long winter descending on your soul - William Brewer "Oxy 40"
A long divining for water - Susan Briante "13 Questions for the Next Economy"
Shall long withstand time's rudest shocks - J. Huntington Bright "Nahant" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Stirred it with a long, long pole - "The Brownies' Christmas Pudding" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]
The long train of ages glide away - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"
One half hour of the long twenty-four - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Long enough for discord to set in - Anthony Butts "Song of Starry-Eyed Children"
Jerboa just roused from his long winter nap - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
How long until the world is sea again? - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
For as long as conquest holds - W. Wilfred Campbell "England"
Long damned of earth's consent - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Latest link of Time's long chain - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Where the long shadows of the centuries fall - Bliss Carman "By the Aurelian Wall"
The Way is long so Bread we'll take - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Solicitude"
Rousing the still air with his long, loud cry - Millie W. Carpenter "A Winter Reverie" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
O'er long tracts the mournful siroc sighs - N.H. Carter "[No verdure smiles; no crystal fountains play]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Long in ashes lying - Willa Cather "A Likeness: Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome"
Long prepared and graced with courage - C.P. Cavafy "The God Abandons Antony"
Silences from their long hair - Chen Chen "I am reminded via email to resubmit my preferences for the schedule"
From long debts keep free - John Clare "The Woodman"
By terror long repressed - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto I"
silent in the long approach - Lucille Clifton "down the tram"
the long slide out of paradise - Lucille Clifton "I. at creation"
And all the long results of time - Arthur Colton "Epilogue to a Book of Unimportant Verse"
A rose lasts all night long - Arthur Colton "Phyllis and Corydon"
Hide now so long those crimson shades among - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
The blessed, long-harvested rains - Susan Coolidge "A Thunder Storm"
In long procession down the stream of Time - E. Coungeau "Peace"
The bird's long, lethal strain - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
Long breath of perfect ecstasy - Eleanor Rogers Cox "At Benediction"
As long as darkness hung her pall - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"
The long low sun on the level wall - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Over the Hills and Far Away"
Rejoice in the day's long sugar - Barbara Crooker "This Summer Day"
A chord long impotent in me - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Long enough for me to burn - Geffrey Davis "Hear the Light"
A clock's chime in the long waste of night - Edward L. Davison "In This Dark House"
In each long interim of halting time awake - Edward L. Davison "In This Dark House"
Waited too long to howl against the night - Kwame Dawes "Talk"
Because postponed too long - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
A long corridor of water in the morning - Tyree Daye "Uncle Pac's Blues"
And stare long into the TV's ether - Oliver de la Paz "Chain Migration II: On Negations and Substitutions"
Long with the tense horror of mortality - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
Follow the long scent home - Diane DeCillis "Room Full of Children Staring at Me"
Transformed by their own long burning - Danielle DeTiberus "The Artist Signs Her Masterpiece, Immodestly"
And thorns take long to rot - E.C. Dickinson "A Child's Voice"
With long fright and longer trust - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XL"
My long wound, my bitter sorrow - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
A long muted chain of twisting keys - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Long tendrils of tobacco smoke - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
The long drab days of practicality - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"
And the shadows were not yet long - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Summer"
The scented dew long cupped in lilies - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
A long corridor clanging to the back of a house - Rita Dove "Alfonzo Prepares to Go Over the Top"
Seven long ages doomed to dwell - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
The harvest of long thought - Boris Dralyuk "R. B. Kitaj's 'Los Angeles'"
If you hold them long enough - Cheryl Dumesnil "Notes to Myself on the Morning after His Birth"
In the long catalogue of woe - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"
Took the long broom of Memory - Helen Parry Eden "The Confessional"
The long insulting interval - Helen Parry Eden "A Suburban Night's Entertainment"
Things exist long after - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Things Haunt"
Out of that long river of forgetting - Nava EtShalom "Philtrum"
In their long unbroken lines - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"
After too long an ignorance - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"
The long night must remain - Sir Samuel Ferguson "Molly Asthore"
A vigil long in the stillness - George Blackstone Field "My Sentinels"
The night stretching away thousands long behind - Annie Finch "Samhain"
Or stars their long vigils shall keep - "The Flag of the Brave" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Those long caravans that cross the plain - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
Only see ether's long bankless streams - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"
With long cascades of laughter - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
To traverse the long still streets of evening - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Crooked, crawling tide with long wet fingers - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"
Liberty long since forlorn - "Flora: a Vision"
Long governed by destruction - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 9"
Keep vigils long as flesh can bear - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Has long frozen Hope's warm springs - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Long as her granite hills remain - "Freedom's Beacon" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
And all the long inquietude of breaking seas - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"
Only a dog's long lonely howl - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
My long scythe whispering to the ground - Robert Frost "Mowing"
And long for all the tears it cost - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Where long winds flows - Zona Gale "When Did Spring Die?"
No disguise lasts long - Tess Gallagher "After the Chinese"
There thrilled the echoes all night long - Linda Gardiner "Long Ago" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.52--v.I, 27 Dec. 1884]
Long power to grief denying - Linda Gardiner "Long Ago" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.52--v.I, 27 Dec. 1884]
To win their long sought prize - Alfred C. Gellis "To the Wenem Mame River"
the days are long and clench like migraines - Gloria Gervitz "Migrations" [excerpt] transl. by Mark Schafer
When the long ways have all been trod - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Evening"
And the winds long to play with your hair - Kahlil Gibran "On Clothes"
If you stand at the crossroads long enough - Dana Gioia "At the Crossroads"
Long pain that turns us bitter cold - Howard Glyndon "Seniority" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
The prize long destined - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Dedication" (transl. by Edgar Alfred Bowring)
Containing doubts long since become negations - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
A long memory from my own name - Rae Gouirand "Inheritance"
In the long night when the black wings beat - Mona Gould "Nightmare"
And summer that waited so long - "Grandmamma Spider" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]
Though memory long has own'd decay - Anastasius Grün "The 'Old Player'" transl. by Adam Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
Through long years of toil and darkness - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
How long a ruined thing will burn - Paul Guest "1987"
Frost's long ache afflicting every mortal nation - Thom Gunn "The Antagonism"
Long stems of contrary assertion - Thom Gunn "The Antagonism"
Of Beauty long denied - Ivor Gurney "After Music"
Long purged of all regret - Hermann Hagedorn "The Ghost"
The valleys are long and strewn with stones - Han-Shan "[I climb the road to Cold Mountain]" transl. by Burton Watson
Doomed long to part - Thomas Hardy "The Old Gown"
Paws like a long arctic night - Joy Harjo "White Bear"
One long breath - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
Born in the long shadow - Jim Harrison "Limb Dancers"
Ice in long slow nights - Leslie Harrison "[God speaks]"
As long as orchards bloom again - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXVIII"
That pays the long arrear of pain - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
Long winds of woe that shun the day - Paul H. Hayne "A Comparison" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Oct. 1878]
That long withstood the blast - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"
Do not long for that magic - Tiffany Higgins "Medusa on Sansom and Pine" [Poetry Nov. 2013]
Sorting shadows long in the grass - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"
Long story caught in his throat - Conrad Hilberry "Memory"
The hollow music of a long-held breath - Conrad Hilberry "Oboe"
Stale bread left on the shelf too long - Donna Hilbert "Ribollita"
The nights were long and cold and bittersweet - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"
Sits long inside his last sorrow - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"
How long mistakes last - Tony Hoagland "Happy and Free"
As long as the money retains no memory - Tony Hoagland "Ten Reasons Why We Cannot Seem to Make Progress"
With the suns of the long eons - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
Nor brought too long a day - Thomas Hood "I Remember"
Darkly prisoned and long twined by serpent-sorrow - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Inversnaid"
Touch like a long goodbye - Jennifer Huang "Neighborhood Walk"
The memory of their deeds long since effaced - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
{in the long lineage of spite} - fahima ife "of being nameless"
I have been sky-prancing all night long - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
And stony hearts can't stand up long - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Long after midnight, swaddled in dreams - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Barren architecture of creatures long past - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Long, terraced lines of circling light - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Flame of one long, lone desire - Lionel Johnson "To a Spanish Friend"
Long shadows of the cypress gloom - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "The Island"
Tinder so long unsolicited by flame - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
A long thin flow of hope - A.M. Juster "Triptych: Dream, Convenience Store, Bar"
And I will live long enough to forgive your folly - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"
Dancing in the shadow of the long hand - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
This home of ten long years - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"
So long shall Nature nourish us - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Long in bitterness to reach the goal - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"
With long Oblivion is gone dry - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
How long has that bird been watching you? - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"
Why do you play that long beautiful adagio - Alfred Kreymborg "Improvisation"
A long glad lifelong spree with me myself - Alfred Kreymborg "Those Everlasting Blues"
Remembered a door in the long teeth of the woods - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
The long yard clotted with ivy and vasevine - Edgar Kunz "Missing It"
Lingering with a long delight on the unforgotten glories - Laetitia Elizabeth Landon "Little Red Riding-Hood" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Will Truth's long blade ne'er gleam again? - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Tints of wild-flowers long deceased - Lucy Larcom "November"
Comes with shades of days long fled - Latienne "'76" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
Long marked for desolation - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway VII: Memories"
With a needle of long red flint - D.H. Lawrence "He-Goat"
With its long antennae of rage - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"
Serpents' long obstinancy of horizontal persistence - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"
Have wrestled with the Fiend too long - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"
The long, slow words of its rule - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
The long pedigree of the rivers - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"
Though long distant from my view - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
Long arcs between sets of plunge - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"
The long steady drone of granite holding - Philip Levine "Breath"
The long shadows settle down to rest - Philip Levine "For the Country: The Garden"
Long banished into silence and no time - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
As they gathered the long day's remnants - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
Have knelt too long before you - Amy Levy "Medea"
The long river flowing to the edge of the sky - Li Po "At Yellow Crane Tower Taking Leave of Meng Hao-jan as He Sets off for Kuang-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
Spring chores too long untended - Li Po "Sent to My Two Little Children in the East of Lu" transl. by Burton Watson
Who knows how long that you must weep? - Li Po "Weep Not, Young Women" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
A long road is grief enough - Li Shang-yin "Spring Rain" transl. by Burton Watson
My thoughts must travel the long road to the south - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Down the long corridors of memory - M.L. Liebler "I Want to Be Once"
Long, stiff whips of lightning rattled the wooden shutters - Sandra Lim "Cattiveria"
Feathers for a long study of flight - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Long-wandered in the weather - Ada Limon "To the Busted Among Us"
This mask I've worn too long has become my face - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"
Tonight I long for rest - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Day Is Done"
Taunting the rocks' long shadow - Audre Lorde "Change"
One long sigh piled on another - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson
Nothing she plants has roots long enough to hold - Tariq Luthun "The Summer My Cousin Went Missing"
On what long tides - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Fires of Driftwood"
I, long keyed to silence - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Presence"
In one long dream of sorrow - Arthur Macy "At Twilight Time"
Before the diamond is bright its night of carbon is long - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
That long hard cloud made of a white alloy - Harry Martinson "Aniara 17" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
All that we had long dreamt of receiving - Harry Martinson "Aniara 20" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The sun began a transit through the long night - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
When one has long resided among demons - Harry Martinson "Aniara 71: The Space Hand" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A long brass gun amidships - John Masefield "A Ballad of John Silver"
Bones of long since buried acres - John Masefield "Biography"
When the long trick's over - John Masefield "Sea-Fever"
All my long and weary work - Theodore Maynard "The Mystic"
Long before the day's surrender - Harry McCann "Killed in Action" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
In the long record the sand has kept - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
In a shop long since shuttered - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"
As runes long sung - Louis J. McQuilland "The Country of the Young"
After a long time as water - W.S. Merwin "The Biology of Art"
On the long sky of midsummer - W.S. Merwin "The Duck"
Too long, too deep a stain - Charlotte Mew "The Cenotaph"
When night gives pause to the long watch I keep - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"
With a long embrace of pardon - Alice Meynell "To Any Poet"
The long, the new surprises of his kiss - Alice Meynell "West Wind in Winter"
Too long away from water - Edna St Vincent Millay "Exiled"
How long has your prey eluded you? - Andy Miller "Diana"
Have reigned on earth too long - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "A Christmas Carol"
The long shadow of gravity - Claire Millikin "Escalator"
Long nights and the whisperings of new ones - William Moore "Dusk Song"
The night to be long, the moon blind - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
The long hours spent sweating - Ed Morales "The Talking Coconut"
Long before the lonely night comes on - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
After long struggles of despair - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Sisyphus"
Spiraling out, a long ribbon of salt - Rusty Morrison "Measurement Fable"
Long waves that gather and build - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Which longs to be the sea - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
This one long night where we'd emerged - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"
Of long dark hair and blasphemy - Jaye Nasir "November"
The long bow of my timid soul - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (5)" transl. by Dennis Daly
That has slept long years within the bells - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Returns" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Who waited so long for the wheat - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
A battle as long as time - Pablo Neruda "House" transl. by Gary Soto
A long day the color of honey and blue - Pablo Neruda "Love for this Book" transl. by Dennis Maloney and Clark M. Zlotchew
The long passage through oblivion - Pablo Neruda "Phantom" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Drunk with pines and long kisses - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems IX" translated by W.S. Merwin
With its long whip of lemon blossoms - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The long minutes displayed like flags - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Long cycles of salt - Pablo Neruda "Untilled Zones" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Hope and I are long no longer friends - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
That rocks thy reeds the winter long - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"
The long haul of the siren's music - Grace Nichols "Battle"
The touch of his long stealing shadow - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
In the long lapse of time - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"
The long sorrow of the color red - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Small Vases from Hebron"
Called upon our ancient great aunts and their long slow eyes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Truth Serum"
Did not hold long enough to get me down - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong"
The Clock of the Long Now - Achy Obejas "Slow"
long before the buzzard comes - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"
Travel on the long bright dream - Edward J. O'Brien "Of Moira Up the Glen"
Long rays streaming through the forests - "October Afternoon in the Highlands" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct, 1863 - no.IV]
Who guards me from long ice needles - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Ride the beautiful long spine of grammar - Mary Oliver "Gratitude"
The long black branches of other lives - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"
The long, tangled ornateness of seaweed - Mary Oliver "Morning Walk"
Followed our long shadows back - Mary Oliver "November"
Just long enough for us to be astonished - Mary Oliver "There you were, and it was like spring"
Lays its long scaffolding of shadow - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
A white road only as long as your body - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Six: The Journey"
Laughs the long eternity away - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Three Flowers of Modern Greece II. The Fair Maid and the Sun"
Poisoned blood in a long constellation - Jena Osman "Dissent and the Hydra"
Worn with long journeyings - John Oxenham "Livingstone the Builder"
Though long years drown Earth's sounds - M.P. "The Mountain" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]
All the patience of the long invisible - Linda Pastan "In an Unaddressed Envelope"
How long to bridge the distance - Walter S. Percy "The Snail and Star"
We long slumbering yet evanescent - Mahealani Perez-Wendt "Lei Kukui, Lei Kuahu"
When shadows grew long and slanted - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"
When a long forgetfulness lifts - Carl Phillips "Porcelain"
The broken laughter of the long abandoned - Carl Phillips "The Way One Animal Trusts Another"
While the long funerals blacken - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"
After ill magics and long labours - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"
Of the time that the prophets have long foretold - "Potential Moods" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
By prophets long foretold - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"
Long poles upon which spin six hells - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"
Fronting again those long laid fears - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Long shadows across the untouched snow - Alison Prine "Long Love"
A direct hit as long as it's abstract - Sina Queyras "I Am No Lady, Lazarus"
Sown by long winter women - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"
anger is love divided into long sleeps - m.s. RedCherries "playing america in spring"
The motown long plays for the comeback of Osiris - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Where the long wave breaks in measured time - Robert Reid "Poesie"
A dream corrupts if kept too long - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Vibrant with the momentum of long runs - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
With dust of long oblivions - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Feel the long recoil of earth - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
Breaking the long stride of stars - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"
Long paths where no footfalls ring - Rainer Maria Rilke "Maidens. II" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Whose hair was as long as the river - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"
They walked long as emissaries - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
Did the long miles fret or the red sun beat? - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Forget-Me-Not"
Their bones recall summer leaves long lost - Lloyd Roberts "Dead Days"
Our long grey hosts of rain forever marching by - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
Beyond the alders where the long swamps lie - Lloyd Roberts "The Wind Tongues"
History's long fingers twisting the handle - Valencia Robin "Insomnia"
The long train is lighted that shall burn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
By the short road that mystery makes long - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
My faiths have been dead so long - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
Till the owl's long cry dies down - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"
Those days are long departed - Rennell Rodd "Those Days Are Long Departed"
Lonely dreamer of a dream long flown - Alice Wellington Rollins "Dreamers"
Refuses long to blossom - Alice Wellington Rollins "Purity"
Rising from long forgetfulness I turn - George William Russell "Desire"
The upward path so steep and long - Matthew Russell, S.J. "A Thought from Cardinal Newman"
The long starless night of our past - Abram Joseph Ryan (aka Father Ryan) "Song of the Deathless Voice"
Of resolve sustained too long - Kay Ryan "Weak Forces"
As I walk this long corridor of elms - David St. John "Iris"
A long ride to the deep - Sonia Sanchez "Sonku"
Breaking the long loneliness - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"
Of the long multitudinous rain - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"
The peace of long warm rain - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"
Handle dust going to a long country - Carl Sandburg "To Certain Journeymen"
Curfew for the long departed - George Santayana "Avila"
After the long enduring - May Sarton "After the Long Enduring"
The road is long, and hell is deep - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
The acid of its own long dying - Ann K. Schwader "Aurelia Aurita"
A long story carried out to a soft conclusion - Leslie Contreras Schwartz "A Body's Universe of Big Bangs"
For ten long hours of doubt and dread - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Laughed as long as they had breath - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Faint tints of long delicious light - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems V"
That really walks the long roads with me - Alexandra Seidel "Seven Truths and the In-Between"
Travelers with a long road to go - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Stretched a long periscope toward the multiplying horizons - Alafia Nicole Sessions "Fable with Cyst, Celestial Being & Sacrifice"
The divine longs for human proximity - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"
From my veins the pull of one long pulse - Charif Shanahan "Passing"
Into hearts long empty of the sun - Edward Shanks "The Return"
The gloom of the long polar night - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
For us the long shadows and the end of day - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: V. A Song in August"
The nest that long was full of rain - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A New Year"
With sweet long futures - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Scallop Shell"
Except for my long shadow - Charles Simic "The Tiger"
Avenging heaven will long in wrath pursue - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
To echoing Memory long shall speak - B. Simmons "The Last Walk" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]
Too long I've been in exile - Marge Simon "The Astronaut's Return"
sandstone bones are left long under sage - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"
Lived long in a low solstice - Danez Smith "anti poetica"
Grief's long protest and despair - Effie Smith "A Mountain Graveyard"
As a friend long desired - Effie Waller Smith "At the Grave of the Forgotten"
Wove the long braid down my back - Maggie Smith "Twentieth Century"
Long cool wisps of glimmer - Patricia Smith "Mississippi's Legs"
Memories, long prisoned, find release - Susan M. Spalding "At Friends' Meeting" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Oct. 1878]
The sun that measures heaven all day long - Spenser "Rest" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Nor long delayed to vanish - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"
All night long I walked - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "In the Still, Star-Lit Night"
Long after bitter chills - Alfred B. Street "The Loon: Tupper's Lake"
Another curio to place in her long gallery - Marion Strobel "Collectors"
Long thwarted of their prey - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
Stood a long time in twilight mist - Su Tung-p'o "I Travel Day and Night" transl. by Burton Watson
The frozen creeks, long voiceless - Howard V. Sutherland "December"
After so long in that cage of mine - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson
Brims with memories of our long sisterhood - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"
And long the way from Colchis - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"
Still, light rises all night long - Keith Taylor "After the Holidays"
Flew their long routes back to Caribbean beaches - Keith Taylor "The Road from Galahad"
White shadows descending through long twilight - Keith Taylor "The Roads to Cordoba"
The long trances of the breaking heart - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta: The Epilogue of the Dreaming Women"
Slips past the sun's long kiss - Tess Taylor "Solstice"
And its hate be the tale of time long sped - "Ten to One on It" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Or long-haired page in crimson clad - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"
Long light shakes across the lakes - Tennyson "The Splendour Falls"
This one long look must be the last - James Maurice Thompson "Solace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.12, no.32, Nov. 1873]
Comes floating down in long vibration - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Rise and their long reign begin - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
As long as youth breathes living fire - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIV. The Flags"
As long as scorn is on the liar - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIV. The Flags"
Oppression's long dark night of pain - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Emblem of thy long patience - John Todhunter "The Sunburst"
Footpath creeping through the long grass to the door - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
How long does a blizzard last? - Kristen Tracy "Waiting for Crocuses"
Out of the long lethargic trance of tears - Trevor "Release" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]
Your long, wounded song - Mark Turcotte "Dear New Blood"
Were set to labour hard and long - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]
Do not long for tortured harmonies - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
One long champagne binge - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
The call of a long journey echoing across - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
How long the echoes love to play - Henry van Dyke "The After-Echo"
Floods of colour long concealed - Henry van Dyke "Flood-Tide of Flowers in Holland"
As long as the ozone and the horizontal rain speak - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Beside long crumbled architraves - Sherard Vines "Permission"
The long dream left behind - Ellen Bryant Voigt "Kyrie" (p.17)
In the time of long dominion - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"
Wheat founders in a long river of cloud - Wang An-Shih "Written on a Wall at Balance-Peace Post-Station" transl. by David Hinton
Evening sifts from their long feathers - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
Our long rope of broken treaties - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Holes"
The long light that Beauty leaves up her fallen veils - Edith Wharton "Mistral in the Maquis"
First of a long line of towering ships - Edith Wharton "With the Tide"
Worn with long monotonies of pain - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"
Neither ice nor snow lived long enough - Amie Whittemore "Future History of Earth's Birds"
And he counted the long years coming - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Keeping your hope when the way seems long - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
Long circlets of silver moving - William Carlos Williams "January Morning"
Winter is long in this climate - William Carlos Williams "March"
Wake up from a long night of walking - Elizabeth Willis "The Steam Engine"
That long had slumbered with forgotten things - Miss J. Woodman "Stanzas Suggested by Gliddon's Lectures on the Antiquities of Egypt" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
The bright filled us so deep and long - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
Five summers, with the length of five long winters - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"
Long after it was heard no more - William Wordsworth "The Solitary Reaper"
With long stems dripping crystal - Elinor Wylie "August"
The loadstone beckons to the long needle - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson
Like a lemon too long on the shelf - Jane Yolen "Making Jokes"
After a long night of laughter and wine - Dean Young "The Infirmament"
Long as you're here, you're one of us - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]
Long after the roosters had crowed his name - Kevin Young "The Dry Spell"
Dream each long, blank night - Josephine Yu "The Compulsive Liar Apologizes to Her Therapist for Certain Fabrications and Omissions"
The long needles of latitude and longitude - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"
Not by a long shot sober - Rachel Zucker "Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs"
Longer.
Longest.
Longing/Longed.
walk the longness of autumn - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VIII)"
Its billion-mile-long pocket comb - Chris Dombrowski "February Sidereal with Backyard Doe"
Where daylong the sniper watches - Gilbert Frankau "Headquarters"
Headlong.
Lifelong.
The scene of a livelong night's carouse - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"
Adjust such live-long growth to rules - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
Long Ago.
Pity's long-broken urn - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Long-buried springs in my heart awaken - Robin Flower "The Pipes"
Tokens of history long buried - Natasha Trethewey "Elegy for the Native Guards"
Awaked to war the long-contending foes - George Crabbe "The Library"
The final hour arrives of long-contested Power - B. Simmons "Columbus (A Print after a Picture by Parmeggiano)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]
Long-Dead.
In their long-drawn elliptical orbits - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
This emanation of a long-endured despair - Henry S. Leigh "To a Certain Somebody"
Long-Forgotten.
Those long-frayed endings of every nerve tingling - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
To reanimate the long-inert pendulum - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Long-term resident predator of outer sheds - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"
The only advertised long term solution - Anahita Monfared "The Manic Depressive's Alphabet"
As the long-toiling light fades - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Death of the Laureate"
Inhale the scent of long-unstoppered flasks - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
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The bubble of breath they had long exhaled - Duane Ackerson "Exiling the Earth"
Lived this long with a heart full of holes - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"
A human is just one long desperation - Kaveh Akbar "My Father's Accent"
While the bright eyed stars their long watch kept - Louisa May Alcott "The Flower's Lesson"
Long shadows under the marble arches - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"
Now, long emerged from his chrysalis state - Horatio Alger Jr "Nothing to Do"
Long years of grief have frozen me cold and lonely - Kazim Ali "The Man in 119"
From the silence so long and so deep - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
Dreamed, long since freed of any limits - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Long before time really got rolling - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Long corridors of views into the heart - Julia Alvarez "Small Portions"
Long wish for some far off sands - Lennox Amott "Drink"
Around our wrists one long, red string - Diannely Antigua "Blessing the Baby"
Long before their ruination - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"
In this long instance - Rae Armantrout "Dilation"
for how long will the ligaments last - Jarid Arraes "Movement"
Which explains the long line of wolves - Julie Babcock "Jonah's Trick"
Long years in damp vaults below - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"
Has hidden long from weeping eyes - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"
A long array of chariots superb - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"
As long as I have sight, I'll see - Mary Jo Bang "How will it feel months from now"
Over a long-night chrysanthemum sun - Mary Jo Bang "Still Life with Glasses"
A repository, a consequence, a long sentence, an ongoing story - Ari Banias "Fountain"
A long line of aerial cartwheels - Catherine Barnett "The Specious Present"
lived with definite so long - Elizabeth Bartlett "dusk I love"
The short, crooked thumb of long experience - Elizabeth Bartlett "On a Rock of Atlantis"
Longs to soar to heaven - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Flower's Prayer for Immortality"
Out from the long alphabet - Clara Doty Bates "Goody Two-Shoes" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]
The long pageant of your shadows - Charles Baudelaire "Mist and Rain" transl. not credited
Long, long departed Beings with familiar glance - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott
Those long nights in which slumber is banished - Charles Baudelaire "Posthumous Remorse" transl. by Keith Waldrop
Embattled legions stretch their long array - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Our world's long spree of Caesars - Erin Belieu "Pity the Doctor, Not the Disease"
The long descent of wasted days - Hilaire Belloc "The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening"
Leading the van of the long parade - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"
Ruffians dicing long beneath blurred candles - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two More Muses"
Their climb up the long ladder of time - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"
Passing by clouds and dreams long lost - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
The long vista of departed years - Laman Blanchard "Ode to the Human Heart"
A long parenthesis of lens - Brian Blanchfield "Eclogue Onto an Idea"
Long past the edge of anything calendrical - Julia Bloch "Valley Oak"
The long, green-white reverie of the horizon - Maxwell Bodenheim "Images of Life and Death: Death"
One long circle of despairing grace - Maxwell Bodenheim "Rattlesnake Mountain Fable I"
Fond memories of moonlight evenings long since vanished - Friederich Bodenstedt "Farewell | Aus dem Nachlasse Mirza-Schaffys" transl. by Auber Forestier [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.100, April. 1876]
A long shadow and a light sound - Louise Bogan "Knowledge"
The long-churned distance to any news of home - Elizabeth Bradfield "In the Polar Regions"
The long winter descending on your soul - William Brewer "Oxy 40"
A long divining for water - Susan Briante "13 Questions for the Next Economy"
Shall long withstand time's rudest shocks - J. Huntington Bright "Nahant" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Stirred it with a long, long pole - "The Brownies' Christmas Pudding" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]
The long train of ages glide away - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"
One half hour of the long twenty-four - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Long enough for discord to set in - Anthony Butts "Song of Starry-Eyed Children"
Jerboa just roused from his long winter nap - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
How long until the world is sea again? - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
For as long as conquest holds - W. Wilfred Campbell "England"
Long damned of earth's consent - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Latest link of Time's long chain - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Where the long shadows of the centuries fall - Bliss Carman "By the Aurelian Wall"
The Way is long so Bread we'll take - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Solicitude"
Rousing the still air with his long, loud cry - Millie W. Carpenter "A Winter Reverie" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
O'er long tracts the mournful siroc sighs - N.H. Carter "[No verdure smiles; no crystal fountains play]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Long in ashes lying - Willa Cather "A Likeness: Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome"
Long prepared and graced with courage - C.P. Cavafy "The God Abandons Antony"
Silences from their long hair - Chen Chen "I am reminded via email to resubmit my preferences for the schedule"
From long debts keep free - John Clare "The Woodman"
By terror long repressed - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto I"
silent in the long approach - Lucille Clifton "down the tram"
the long slide out of paradise - Lucille Clifton "I. at creation"
And all the long results of time - Arthur Colton "Epilogue to a Book of Unimportant Verse"
A rose lasts all night long - Arthur Colton "Phyllis and Corydon"
Hide now so long those crimson shades among - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
The blessed, long-harvested rains - Susan Coolidge "A Thunder Storm"
In long procession down the stream of Time - E. Coungeau "Peace"
The bird's long, lethal strain - James H. Cousins "The Legend of St. Mahee of Endrim"
Long breath of perfect ecstasy - Eleanor Rogers Cox "At Benediction"
As long as darkness hung her pall - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"
The long low sun on the level wall - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Over the Hills and Far Away"
Rejoice in the day's long sugar - Barbara Crooker "This Summer Day"
A chord long impotent in me - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Long enough for me to burn - Geffrey Davis "Hear the Light"
A clock's chime in the long waste of night - Edward L. Davison "In This Dark House"
In each long interim of halting time awake - Edward L. Davison "In This Dark House"
Waited too long to howl against the night - Kwame Dawes "Talk"
Because postponed too long - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
A long corridor of water in the morning - Tyree Daye "Uncle Pac's Blues"
And stare long into the TV's ether - Oliver de la Paz "Chain Migration II: On Negations and Substitutions"
Long with the tense horror of mortality - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
Follow the long scent home - Diane DeCillis "Room Full of Children Staring at Me"
Transformed by their own long burning - Danielle DeTiberus "The Artist Signs Her Masterpiece, Immodestly"
And thorns take long to rot - E.C. Dickinson "A Child's Voice"
With long fright and longer trust - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XL"
My long wound, my bitter sorrow - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
A long muted chain of twisting keys - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Long tendrils of tobacco smoke - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
The long drab days of practicality - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"
And the shadows were not yet long - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Summer"
The scented dew long cupped in lilies - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
A long corridor clanging to the back of a house - Rita Dove "Alfonzo Prepares to Go Over the Top"
Seven long ages doomed to dwell - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
The harvest of long thought - Boris Dralyuk "R. B. Kitaj's 'Los Angeles'"
If you hold them long enough - Cheryl Dumesnil "Notes to Myself on the Morning after His Birth"
In the long catalogue of woe - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"
Took the long broom of Memory - Helen Parry Eden "The Confessional"
The long insulting interval - Helen Parry Eden "A Suburban Night's Entertainment"
Things exist long after - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Things Haunt"
Out of that long river of forgetting - Nava EtShalom "Philtrum"
In their long unbroken lines - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"
After too long an ignorance - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"
The long night must remain - Sir Samuel Ferguson "Molly Asthore"
A vigil long in the stillness - George Blackstone Field "My Sentinels"
The night stretching away thousands long behind - Annie Finch "Samhain"
Or stars their long vigils shall keep - "The Flag of the Brave" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Those long caravans that cross the plain - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
Only see ether's long bankless streams - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"
With long cascades of laughter - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
To traverse the long still streets of evening - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Crooked, crawling tide with long wet fingers - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"
Liberty long since forlorn - "Flora: a Vision"
Long governed by destruction - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 9"
Keep vigils long as flesh can bear - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Has long frozen Hope's warm springs - "The Fratricide's Death" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Long as her granite hills remain - "Freedom's Beacon" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
And all the long inquietude of breaking seas - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"
Only a dog's long lonely howl - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
My long scythe whispering to the ground - Robert Frost "Mowing"
And long for all the tears it cost - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Where long winds flows - Zona Gale "When Did Spring Die?"
No disguise lasts long - Tess Gallagher "After the Chinese"
There thrilled the echoes all night long - Linda Gardiner "Long Ago" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.52--v.I, 27 Dec. 1884]
Long power to grief denying - Linda Gardiner "Long Ago" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.52--v.I, 27 Dec. 1884]
To win their long sought prize - Alfred C. Gellis "To the Wenem Mame River"
the days are long and clench like migraines - Gloria Gervitz "Migrations" [excerpt] transl. by Mark Schafer
When the long ways have all been trod - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Evening"
And the winds long to play with your hair - Kahlil Gibran "On Clothes"
If you stand at the crossroads long enough - Dana Gioia "At the Crossroads"
Long pain that turns us bitter cold - Howard Glyndon "Seniority" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
The prize long destined - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Dedication" (transl. by Edgar Alfred Bowring)
Containing doubts long since become negations - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
A long memory from my own name - Rae Gouirand "Inheritance"
In the long night when the black wings beat - Mona Gould "Nightmare"
And summer that waited so long - "Grandmamma Spider" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]
Though memory long has own'd decay - Anastasius Grün "The 'Old Player'" transl. by Adam Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
Through long years of toil and darkness - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
How long a ruined thing will burn - Paul Guest "1987"
Frost's long ache afflicting every mortal nation - Thom Gunn "The Antagonism"
Long stems of contrary assertion - Thom Gunn "The Antagonism"
Of Beauty long denied - Ivor Gurney "After Music"
Long purged of all regret - Hermann Hagedorn "The Ghost"
The valleys are long and strewn with stones - Han-Shan "[I climb the road to Cold Mountain]" transl. by Burton Watson
Doomed long to part - Thomas Hardy "The Old Gown"
Paws like a long arctic night - Joy Harjo "White Bear"
One long breath - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
Born in the long shadow - Jim Harrison "Limb Dancers"
Ice in long slow nights - Leslie Harrison "[God speaks]"
As long as orchards bloom again - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXVIII"
That pays the long arrear of pain - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
Long winds of woe that shun the day - Paul H. Hayne "A Comparison" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Oct. 1878]
That long withstood the blast - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"
Do not long for that magic - Tiffany Higgins "Medusa on Sansom and Pine" [Poetry Nov. 2013]
Sorting shadows long in the grass - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"
Long story caught in his throat - Conrad Hilberry "Memory"
The hollow music of a long-held breath - Conrad Hilberry "Oboe"
Stale bread left on the shelf too long - Donna Hilbert "Ribollita"
The nights were long and cold and bittersweet - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"
Sits long inside his last sorrow - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"
How long mistakes last - Tony Hoagland "Happy and Free"
As long as the money retains no memory - Tony Hoagland "Ten Reasons Why We Cannot Seem to Make Progress"
With the suns of the long eons - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
Nor brought too long a day - Thomas Hood "I Remember"
Darkly prisoned and long twined by serpent-sorrow - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Inversnaid"
Touch like a long goodbye - Jennifer Huang "Neighborhood Walk"
The memory of their deeds long since effaced - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
{in the long lineage of spite} - fahima ife "of being nameless"
I have been sky-prancing all night long - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
And stony hearts can't stand up long - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Long after midnight, swaddled in dreams - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Barren architecture of creatures long past - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Long, terraced lines of circling light - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Flame of one long, lone desire - Lionel Johnson "To a Spanish Friend"
Long shadows of the cypress gloom - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "The Island"
Tinder so long unsolicited by flame - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
A long thin flow of hope - A.M. Juster "Triptych: Dream, Convenience Store, Bar"
And I will live long enough to forgive your folly - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"
Dancing in the shadow of the long hand - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
This home of ten long years - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"
So long shall Nature nourish us - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Long in bitterness to reach the goal - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"
With long Oblivion is gone dry - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
How long has that bird been watching you? - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"
Why do you play that long beautiful adagio - Alfred Kreymborg "Improvisation"
A long glad lifelong spree with me myself - Alfred Kreymborg "Those Everlasting Blues"
Remembered a door in the long teeth of the woods - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
The long yard clotted with ivy and vasevine - Edgar Kunz "Missing It"
Lingering with a long delight on the unforgotten glories - Laetitia Elizabeth Landon "Little Red Riding-Hood" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Will Truth's long blade ne'er gleam again? - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Tints of wild-flowers long deceased - Lucy Larcom "November"
Comes with shades of days long fled - Latienne "'76" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
Long marked for desolation - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway VII: Memories"
With a needle of long red flint - D.H. Lawrence "He-Goat"
With its long antennae of rage - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"
Serpents' long obstinancy of horizontal persistence - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"
Have wrestled with the Fiend too long - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"
The long, slow words of its rule - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
The long pedigree of the rivers - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"
Though long distant from my view - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
Long arcs between sets of plunge - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"
The long steady drone of granite holding - Philip Levine "Breath"
The long shadows settle down to rest - Philip Levine "For the Country: The Garden"
Long banished into silence and no time - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
As they gathered the long day's remnants - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
Have knelt too long before you - Amy Levy "Medea"
The long river flowing to the edge of the sky - Li Po "At Yellow Crane Tower Taking Leave of Meng Hao-jan as He Sets off for Kuang-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
Spring chores too long untended - Li Po "Sent to My Two Little Children in the East of Lu" transl. by Burton Watson
Who knows how long that you must weep? - Li Po "Weep Not, Young Women" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
A long road is grief enough - Li Shang-yin "Spring Rain" transl. by Burton Watson
My thoughts must travel the long road to the south - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Down the long corridors of memory - M.L. Liebler "I Want to Be Once"
Long, stiff whips of lightning rattled the wooden shutters - Sandra Lim "Cattiveria"
Feathers for a long study of flight - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Long-wandered in the weather - Ada Limon "To the Busted Among Us"
This mask I've worn too long has become my face - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"
Tonight I long for rest - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Day Is Done"
Taunting the rocks' long shadow - Audre Lorde "Change"
One long sigh piled on another - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson
Nothing she plants has roots long enough to hold - Tariq Luthun "The Summer My Cousin Went Missing"
On what long tides - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Fires of Driftwood"
I, long keyed to silence - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Presence"
In one long dream of sorrow - Arthur Macy "At Twilight Time"
Before the diamond is bright its night of carbon is long - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
That long hard cloud made of a white alloy - Harry Martinson "Aniara 17" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
All that we had long dreamt of receiving - Harry Martinson "Aniara 20" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The sun began a transit through the long night - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
When one has long resided among demons - Harry Martinson "Aniara 71: The Space Hand" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A long brass gun amidships - John Masefield "A Ballad of John Silver"
Bones of long since buried acres - John Masefield "Biography"
When the long trick's over - John Masefield "Sea-Fever"
All my long and weary work - Theodore Maynard "The Mystic"
Long before the day's surrender - Harry McCann "Killed in Action" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
In the long record the sand has kept - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
In a shop long since shuttered - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"
As runes long sung - Louis J. McQuilland "The Country of the Young"
After a long time as water - W.S. Merwin "The Biology of Art"
On the long sky of midsummer - W.S. Merwin "The Duck"
Too long, too deep a stain - Charlotte Mew "The Cenotaph"
When night gives pause to the long watch I keep - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"
With a long embrace of pardon - Alice Meynell "To Any Poet"
The long, the new surprises of his kiss - Alice Meynell "West Wind in Winter"
Too long away from water - Edna St Vincent Millay "Exiled"
How long has your prey eluded you? - Andy Miller "Diana"
Have reigned on earth too long - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "A Christmas Carol"
The long shadow of gravity - Claire Millikin "Escalator"
Long nights and the whisperings of new ones - William Moore "Dusk Song"
The night to be long, the moon blind - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
The long hours spent sweating - Ed Morales "The Talking Coconut"
Long before the lonely night comes on - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
After long struggles of despair - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Sisyphus"
Spiraling out, a long ribbon of salt - Rusty Morrison "Measurement Fable"
Long waves that gather and build - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Which longs to be the sea - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
This one long night where we'd emerged - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"
Of long dark hair and blasphemy - Jaye Nasir "November"
The long bow of my timid soul - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (5)" transl. by Dennis Daly
That has slept long years within the bells - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Returns" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Who waited so long for the wheat - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
A battle as long as time - Pablo Neruda "House" transl. by Gary Soto
A long day the color of honey and blue - Pablo Neruda "Love for this Book" transl. by Dennis Maloney and Clark M. Zlotchew
The long passage through oblivion - Pablo Neruda "Phantom" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Drunk with pines and long kisses - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems IX" translated by W.S. Merwin
With its long whip of lemon blossoms - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The long minutes displayed like flags - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Long cycles of salt - Pablo Neruda "Untilled Zones" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Hope and I are long no longer friends - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
That rocks thy reeds the winter long - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"
The long haul of the siren's music - Grace Nichols "Battle"
The touch of his long stealing shadow - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
In the long lapse of time - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"
The long sorrow of the color red - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Small Vases from Hebron"
Called upon our ancient great aunts and their long slow eyes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Truth Serum"
Did not hold long enough to get me down - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong"
The Clock of the Long Now - Achy Obejas "Slow"
long before the buzzard comes - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"
Travel on the long bright dream - Edward J. O'Brien "Of Moira Up the Glen"
Long rays streaming through the forests - "October Afternoon in the Highlands" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct, 1863 - no.IV]
Who guards me from long ice needles - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Ride the beautiful long spine of grammar - Mary Oliver "Gratitude"
The long black branches of other lives - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"
The long, tangled ornateness of seaweed - Mary Oliver "Morning Walk"
Followed our long shadows back - Mary Oliver "November"
Just long enough for us to be astonished - Mary Oliver "There you were, and it was like spring"
Lays its long scaffolding of shadow - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
A white road only as long as your body - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Six: The Journey"
Laughs the long eternity away - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Three Flowers of Modern Greece II. The Fair Maid and the Sun"
Poisoned blood in a long constellation - Jena Osman "Dissent and the Hydra"
Worn with long journeyings - John Oxenham "Livingstone the Builder"
Though long years drown Earth's sounds - M.P. "The Mountain" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]
All the patience of the long invisible - Linda Pastan "In an Unaddressed Envelope"
How long to bridge the distance - Walter S. Percy "The Snail and Star"
We long slumbering yet evanescent - Mahealani Perez-Wendt "Lei Kukui, Lei Kuahu"
When shadows grew long and slanted - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"
When a long forgetfulness lifts - Carl Phillips "Porcelain"
The broken laughter of the long abandoned - Carl Phillips "The Way One Animal Trusts Another"
While the long funerals blacken - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"
After ill magics and long labours - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"
Of the time that the prophets have long foretold - "Potential Moods" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
By prophets long foretold - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"
Long poles upon which spin six hells - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"
Fronting again those long laid fears - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Long shadows across the untouched snow - Alison Prine "Long Love"
A direct hit as long as it's abstract - Sina Queyras "I Am No Lady, Lazarus"
Sown by long winter women - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"
anger is love divided into long sleeps - m.s. RedCherries "playing america in spring"
The motown long plays for the comeback of Osiris - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Where the long wave breaks in measured time - Robert Reid "Poesie"
A dream corrupts if kept too long - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Vibrant with the momentum of long runs - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
With dust of long oblivions - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Feel the long recoil of earth - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
Breaking the long stride of stars - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"
Long paths where no footfalls ring - Rainer Maria Rilke "Maidens. II" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Whose hair was as long as the river - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"
They walked long as emissaries - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
Did the long miles fret or the red sun beat? - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Forget-Me-Not"
Their bones recall summer leaves long lost - Lloyd Roberts "Dead Days"
Our long grey hosts of rain forever marching by - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
Beyond the alders where the long swamps lie - Lloyd Roberts "The Wind Tongues"
History's long fingers twisting the handle - Valencia Robin "Insomnia"
The long train is lighted that shall burn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
By the short road that mystery makes long - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
My faiths have been dead so long - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
Till the owl's long cry dies down - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"
Those days are long departed - Rennell Rodd "Those Days Are Long Departed"
Lonely dreamer of a dream long flown - Alice Wellington Rollins "Dreamers"
Refuses long to blossom - Alice Wellington Rollins "Purity"
Rising from long forgetfulness I turn - George William Russell "Desire"
The upward path so steep and long - Matthew Russell, S.J. "A Thought from Cardinal Newman"
The long starless night of our past - Abram Joseph Ryan (aka Father Ryan) "Song of the Deathless Voice"
Of resolve sustained too long - Kay Ryan "Weak Forces"
As I walk this long corridor of elms - David St. John "Iris"
A long ride to the deep - Sonia Sanchez "Sonku"
Breaking the long loneliness - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"
Of the long multitudinous rain - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"
The peace of long warm rain - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"
Handle dust going to a long country - Carl Sandburg "To Certain Journeymen"
Curfew for the long departed - George Santayana "Avila"
After the long enduring - May Sarton "After the Long Enduring"
The road is long, and hell is deep - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
The acid of its own long dying - Ann K. Schwader "Aurelia Aurita"
A long story carried out to a soft conclusion - Leslie Contreras Schwartz "A Body's Universe of Big Bangs"
For ten long hours of doubt and dread - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Laughed as long as they had breath - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Faint tints of long delicious light - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems V"
That really walks the long roads with me - Alexandra Seidel "Seven Truths and the In-Between"
Travelers with a long road to go - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Stretched a long periscope toward the multiplying horizons - Alafia Nicole Sessions "Fable with Cyst, Celestial Being & Sacrifice"
The divine longs for human proximity - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"
From my veins the pull of one long pulse - Charif Shanahan "Passing"
Into hearts long empty of the sun - Edward Shanks "The Return"
The gloom of the long polar night - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
For us the long shadows and the end of day - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: V. A Song in August"
The nest that long was full of rain - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A New Year"
With sweet long futures - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Scallop Shell"
Except for my long shadow - Charles Simic "The Tiger"
Avenging heaven will long in wrath pursue - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
To echoing Memory long shall speak - B. Simmons "The Last Walk" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]
Too long I've been in exile - Marge Simon "The Astronaut's Return"
sandstone bones are left long under sage - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"
Lived long in a low solstice - Danez Smith "anti poetica"
Grief's long protest and despair - Effie Smith "A Mountain Graveyard"
As a friend long desired - Effie Waller Smith "At the Grave of the Forgotten"
Wove the long braid down my back - Maggie Smith "Twentieth Century"
Long cool wisps of glimmer - Patricia Smith "Mississippi's Legs"
Memories, long prisoned, find release - Susan M. Spalding "At Friends' Meeting" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Oct. 1878]
The sun that measures heaven all day long - Spenser "Rest" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Nor long delayed to vanish - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"
All night long I walked - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "In the Still, Star-Lit Night"
Long after bitter chills - Alfred B. Street "The Loon: Tupper's Lake"
Another curio to place in her long gallery - Marion Strobel "Collectors"
Long thwarted of their prey - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
Stood a long time in twilight mist - Su Tung-p'o "I Travel Day and Night" transl. by Burton Watson
The frozen creeks, long voiceless - Howard V. Sutherland "December"
After so long in that cage of mine - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson
Brims with memories of our long sisterhood - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"
And long the way from Colchis - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"
Still, light rises all night long - Keith Taylor "After the Holidays"
Flew their long routes back to Caribbean beaches - Keith Taylor "The Road from Galahad"
White shadows descending through long twilight - Keith Taylor "The Roads to Cordoba"
The long trances of the breaking heart - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta: The Epilogue of the Dreaming Women"
Slips past the sun's long kiss - Tess Taylor "Solstice"
And its hate be the tale of time long sped - "Ten to One on It" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Or long-haired page in crimson clad - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"
Long light shakes across the lakes - Tennyson "The Splendour Falls"
This one long look must be the last - James Maurice Thompson "Solace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.12, no.32, Nov. 1873]
Comes floating down in long vibration - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Rise and their long reign begin - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
As long as youth breathes living fire - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIV. The Flags"
As long as scorn is on the liar - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIV. The Flags"
Oppression's long dark night of pain - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Emblem of thy long patience - John Todhunter "The Sunburst"
Footpath creeping through the long grass to the door - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
How long does a blizzard last? - Kristen Tracy "Waiting for Crocuses"
Out of the long lethargic trance of tears - Trevor "Release" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]
Your long, wounded song - Mark Turcotte "Dear New Blood"
Were set to labour hard and long - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]
Do not long for tortured harmonies - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
One long champagne binge - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
The call of a long journey echoing across - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
How long the echoes love to play - Henry van Dyke "The After-Echo"
Floods of colour long concealed - Henry van Dyke "Flood-Tide of Flowers in Holland"
As long as the ozone and the horizontal rain speak - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Beside long crumbled architraves - Sherard Vines "Permission"
The long dream left behind - Ellen Bryant Voigt "Kyrie" (p.17)
In the time of long dominion - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"
Wheat founders in a long river of cloud - Wang An-Shih "Written on a Wall at Balance-Peace Post-Station" transl. by David Hinton
Evening sifts from their long feathers - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
Our long rope of broken treaties - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Holes"
The long light that Beauty leaves up her fallen veils - Edith Wharton "Mistral in the Maquis"
First of a long line of towering ships - Edith Wharton "With the Tide"
Worn with long monotonies of pain - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"
Neither ice nor snow lived long enough - Amie Whittemore "Future History of Earth's Birds"
And he counted the long years coming - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Keeping your hope when the way seems long - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
Long circlets of silver moving - William Carlos Williams "January Morning"
Winter is long in this climate - William Carlos Williams "March"
Wake up from a long night of walking - Elizabeth Willis "The Steam Engine"
That long had slumbered with forgotten things - Miss J. Woodman "Stanzas Suggested by Gliddon's Lectures on the Antiquities of Egypt" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
The bright filled us so deep and long - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
Five summers, with the length of five long winters - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"
Long after it was heard no more - William Wordsworth "The Solitary Reaper"
With long stems dripping crystal - Elinor Wylie "August"
The loadstone beckons to the long needle - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson
Like a lemon too long on the shelf - Jane Yolen "Making Jokes"
After a long night of laughter and wine - Dean Young "The Infirmament"
Long as you're here, you're one of us - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]
Long after the roosters had crowed his name - Kevin Young "The Dry Spell"
Dream each long, blank night - Josephine Yu "The Compulsive Liar Apologizes to Her Therapist for Certain Fabrications and Omissions"
The long needles of latitude and longitude - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"
Not by a long shot sober - Rachel Zucker "Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs"
Longer.
Longest.
Longing/Longed.
walk the longness of autumn - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VIII)"
Its billion-mile-long pocket comb - Chris Dombrowski "February Sidereal with Backyard Doe"
Where daylong the sniper watches - Gilbert Frankau "Headquarters"
Headlong.
Lifelong.
The scene of a livelong night's carouse - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"
Adjust such live-long growth to rules - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
Long Ago.
Pity's long-broken urn - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Long-buried springs in my heart awaken - Robin Flower "The Pipes"
Tokens of history long buried - Natasha Trethewey "Elegy for the Native Guards"
Awaked to war the long-contending foes - George Crabbe "The Library"
The final hour arrives of long-contested Power - B. Simmons "Columbus (A Print after a Picture by Parmeggiano)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]
Long-Dead.
In their long-drawn elliptical orbits - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
This emanation of a long-endured despair - Henry S. Leigh "To a Certain Somebody"
Long-Forgotten.
Those long-frayed endings of every nerve tingling - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
To reanimate the long-inert pendulum - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Long-term resident predator of outer sheds - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"
The only advertised long term solution - Anahita Monfared "The Manic Depressive's Alphabet"
As the long-toiling light fades - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Death of the Laureate"
Inhale the scent of long-unstoppered flasks - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
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