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At my feet lay a sulphurous dragon - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Should a dragon linger at your hummingbird feeder - Devan Barlow "Your Visiting Dragon"

Trust your dragon knows its business best - Devan Barlow "Your Visiting Dragon"

Who will deny there are worse dragons? - Elizabeth Bartlett "When Yesterday Comes"

Gave poppies to the dragon - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"

Has conquered dragons of old pain - Louise Morey Bowman "A Portrait"

And fly away from me like dragons - Shannon Bramer "My Cars Never Sleep"

Fled the dragons of the dark - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

When we went under a dragon moon - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

Whistled like dragons and sobbed with pain - Ch'iu Chin "To the Tune 'The River Is Red'" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

Paint, wax, fat dragon tears - May Chong "Kamcia"

Yoking four jade dragons to a phoenix - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Horned dragons to bridge the ford - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Riding his dragon chariot - "The Ch'u Tz'u: The Lord Among the Clouds" transl. by Burton Watson

Two dragons between a pair of river serpents - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Lord of the River" transl. by Burton Watson

By the claw of dragon - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LVI"

A document in calligraphy so dragonish - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"

Born to tame dragons - Nikita Gill "Dragon's Breath"

Dragons breathing white-hot magnesium across humid skies - Ian Goh "Firework"

Gathers milk from the dragon's nest - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"

Breathing dragons' magic fire - Patricia Spears Jones "Jim"

Piercing the flesh of cumulous dragons - Zilka Joseph "Three Notes to Blue Jays"

A dragon brood clutches with brutal claws - Gertrud Kolmar "Paris" transl. by David Kipp

The roaring of bears and the singing of dragons - Li Po "A Dream of T'ien-Mu Mountain" transl. by Arthur Waley

Stable your six dragon-steeds - Li Po "The Sun" transl. by Arthur Waley

Who drove the coiling dragons like doves before her - Vachel Lindsay "Dancing for a Prize"

Nor devils nor dragons may ever forget - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Called up the dragons by name - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

A carp piercing through the dragon's gate - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

The cave of the dragon's seed - W.S. Merwin "Suite in the Key of Forgetting"

Vast dragon-gulps of steam - Harriet Monroe "In the Yellowstone"

The myriad throated dragon of desire - William Mountain "Dies Irae"

As though drawn by six dragons - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Tears water the curry-leaf dragon - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

The dragon singing or just after - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"

Dragons flying in a red light - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"

Love always wakes the dragon - Richard Siken "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"

Bandy high words with an insolent dragon - Frank E. Smedley "Ye Right Ancient Ballad of ye Combat of King Tidrich with ye Dragon"

Some vast cacophony of dragons - Clark Ashton Smith "Satan Unrepentant"

Poison dagger, dragon flower - Richard Solomon "Galatea of the Spheres"

Under a cold gray dragon of a sky - Richard Solomon "Report to the Bodhisattvas on the Heart Sutra After Dying in the Up on the Sturgeon River"

Ran like dragons driven by gods - George Sterling "Beyond the Breakers"

Ablink like dragon-eyes - George Sterling "Night-Sentries"

A dragon's gotta get zen with emphemerality - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

The dragons of the air, the hell-hounds of the deep - Henry van Dyke "Lights Out"

The breath of the opium dragon - Derek Walcott "Roseau Valley"

Dragons in embossed brickwork marching - William Carlos Williams "March"

Dragons and the noble songs of sirens - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"

In the kitchen of the dragon king - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Climbed from the shallows to don your dragon-colors - Joyce Sidman "Fly, Dragonfly!"


The dragonseed breeding of current and bone - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"


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