Potential Titles: Ghost
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somethingdarkerGhosts stepped from dark corners - Rasha Abdulhadi "Lanternseed"
On the Masjid's cobalt globe a ghost - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"
First the ghost boats - Samuel Ace "I hear a dog who is always in my death"
The size of ghosts is not proportional - Duane Ackerson "Little Ghosts"
In front of silent ghosts - Kelli Russell Agodon "Snapshot of a Lump"
While real ghosts walk around me - Elizabeth Alexander "Haircut"
Playful ghosts snagged in the trees - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Who wore the ghosts of his beloved - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
A gateway to emptiness policed by ghosts - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
A ghost ride down the corridor of the city - Alise Alousi "Skip"
Their ghostly faces rushing by - Julia Alvarez "Direct Address"
The coffin lid of a ghost - Julia Alvarez "Famous Poet, Years Afterward"
Drops each ghost into a water hole - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"
Seven stout ghosts so hearty and hale - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXVI: Hard to Believe" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Throw a dinner party for the ghosts - Diannely Antigua "We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers"
Ghosting a geography of fog - Raymond Antrobus "After Reading 'Deaf School' by the Mississippi River"
Highway between ghost-towns - Rae Armantrout "Wannabe"
Evade an angry ghost - Rae Armantrout "Worth While"
Inhaling his ghost - Simon Armitage "Emergency"
Deep into the ghostly night - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Wrapped up safe in all my ghosts - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Ghost of silver on the sea - Joseph Auslander "I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come"
A technology of ghosts - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Essay on the Appearance of Ghosts"
Growing up to be a ghost - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Essay on the Appearance of Ghosts"
woven with footprints of all the ghosts - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
of all the ghosts sieved into the earth - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
Like ghosts of flowers returned - Albion Fellows Bacon "Winter Beauty"
What's ghostlier than gray morning winter light? - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"
Even their ghosts have baggage - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
The ghosts of my platoon - Lou Barrett "Two Poets and a Physician: 1918"
A lost ghost on a mission - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
My ghosts are growing restless - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
See frightened ghosts on the streets - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Who Is God? So Asked Our Dog"
the ghosts of years file past - Elizabeth Bartlett "black sun"
Airless corridors staffed by ghosts - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
The ghosts of fish shall wake - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"
Ghosts of other years - Ardelia Maria Barton "Ghosts of the Attic"
Away at the top of his ghostly box - Clara Doty Bates "Saarchinkold!" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]
The ghosts of long-dead odours creep - Charles Baudelaire "The Flask" transl. not credited
Ghost of an old passion - Charles Baudelaire "The Flask" transl. not credited
And howls as if a ghost could hate the cold - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Homeless ghosts with no one left to haunt - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
The sky is full of stumbling ghosts - Jan Beatty "I'll Write the Girl"
Sails in the bubbles ghostily - Thomas Lovell Beddoes "A Song on the Water"
The ghost who rents your eyes - Erin Belieu "Dum Spiro Spero"
Tall as the ghosts of Heaven's battlements - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Stone and ghost and dream - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
A posse of ghosts chasing down life - Paul Bernstein "Night Mares: a Cinquain"
One part of me would become a ghost - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"
Ghost forests raked by bears - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"
A ghosted threshold of being - Kimberly Blaeser "The Way We Love Something Small"
Heavy with his reckless ghost - Maxwell Bodenheim "Country Girl"
Pressed upon a slippery, dodging ghost - Max Bodenheim "Definitions"
Have spilled their troubled ghosts - Maxwell Bodenheim "East-Side: New York"
Crash into night like ghostly curses - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"
The jerking, smoldering ghost of a thought - Maxwell Bodenheim "To the Violinist"
With cunning magic called your ghost - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
The friendly ghost that was your love and mind - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
Ghosts of dead men meet their ladies walking - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"
Drink peppermint tea with the ghost of morning - Bruce Boston "A Life in the Day Of"
I'm no more minstrel than ghost - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Ghost hounds back for the scraps - Russell Brakefield "This Is America and We Are Boys"
Stitching the wings of your ghost - William Brewer "In the Room of the Overdosed, an Ember"
Ghosts that leave smudges on the walls - Sue Budin "Totality"
Across oceans' roads past rows of ghosts - Richard Ford Burley "I Fight Monsters"
That nighttime brigade of ghosts now laid to rest - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"
An infinite shore with gaping ghosts - W. Wilfred Campbell "Lazarus"
Where walk dim ghosts of thoughts - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Where ghostly centuries complain - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"
Nor vex the ghosts of other days - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"
Soundless as ghost's intended tread - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Third Voice"
Only the sweet ghost of his melody - Willa Cather "Eurydice"
Make ghosts of such dead aromas - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
His ghost wears our raincoats - Marianne Chan "Cebu City"
Waved to a country of ghosts - Tina Chang "Revolutionary Kiss"
Great ghosts shall rise to vindicate the right of cats - G.K. Chesterton "To Enid who acted the Cat in private Pantomime"
My island is full of maiden ghosts - Su Cho "The Old Man in White Has Given My Mother a Ripe Persimmon Again"
With the ghosts patrolling my shores - Su Cho "The Old Man in White Has Given My Mother a Ripe Persimmon Again"
Banana ghosts and handsome monkey kings - May Chong "Kamcia"
Heroes in the realm of ghosts - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Those Who Died for Their Country" transl. by Burton Watson
Captains among the ghosts - "Battle" Ch'u Yuan (translated by Arthur Waley)
Your ghost becomes a thumbprint for history - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
My pockets turned out to tiny ghosts - Gabrielle Civil "Three of Cups"
Bring torches to dream ghosts - Elena Clementelli "Etruscan Notebook" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
will become her own ghost - Lucille Clifton "incantation"
Like the ghost of all my desires - Lucille Clifton "6/27/06"
Safe from ghosts like you - Leonard Cohen "Never Mind"
Took a ghost to bed - Leonard Cohen "The Rebellion"
For the ghost I made you be - Leonard Cohen "Treaty"
Tangle of matter and ghosts - Leonard Cohen "The Window"
And watch the ghosts dance - Chris Colderly "Tambourine Things: Celebrating Judith Wright"
Herself the sun of ghosts - Mary Coleridge "In Dispraise of the Moon"
Grey and ghostly in the night - Arthur Colton "By the Sea"
Gazes on each tranquil ghost - Arthur Colton "Faustine"
Benjamin Franklin's Ghost House - Nicole Connolly "Dream Job"
The ghosts of all the years - James H. Cousins "The Railway Arch"
The ghost of every former danger - George Crabbe "The Library"
Breath sealed by the ghost I do not know - Hart Crane "Voyages V"
Like the steps of passing ghosts - Adelaide Crapsey "November Night"
In the pale hollow of those ghostly hands - Adelaide Crapsey "To Man Who Goes Seeking Immortality"
Ghost of the crimson tree - Arthur Shearly Cripps "A Lyke-Wake Carol"
Pass, frost-white ghost - Arthur Shearly Cripps "A Lyke-Wake Carol"
Those Autumn ghosts go free - Arthur Shearly Cripps "A Lyke-Wake Carol"
He wonders if their ghosts remember him - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"
Poor, troubled, lyric ghost - Countee Cullen "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time"
Even my smile will be a ghost - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
Their ghostly roots - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"
The house if full of whispering ghosts - Olive Custance "The Storm"
My share of the people is the transit of their ghosts - Najwan Darwish "A Violet Darkness" transl. by Kareem James Abu-Zeid
My ghost defies them yet - "Datasonnet for Prince Giolo"
Communions with the scattered ghosts - Russell W. Davenport "Poems VI"
Lest the ghostly perfume smell too sweet - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"
In darkness buried deep for ever be my ghost - Edward L. Davison "Nocturne"
The live man meeting his own ghost - Coningsby Dawson "The Hill-Tower"
When ghosts and warlocks haunt the troubled earth - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
Our devotion a ghost - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"
While the ghosts keep tryst - Walter de la Mare "The Disguise"
Pinned up sharp in the ghost of a shawl - Walter de la Mare "The Little Creature"
Ghostly ciphers of fear - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"
Maps are ghosts - Natalie Diaz "They Don't Love You Like I Love You"
As from emerald ghost - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXVI: The Storm"
As they serenade the ghosts of our adversaries - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"
Melting the ghosts of Winter - Irving Sidney Dix "An Idyll of the Hills part 1: March"
Pointed the ghost of a partridge - Chris Dombrowski "The Hunt"
Of ghosts inhabiting timepieces - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Drifting like gilded ghosts before my eyes - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
Little ghostly syllables of speech - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
The ghosts of my wordless breath - Carol Ann Duffy "Death and the Moon"
To harbor each disarray and ghost - Michael Dumanis "Joseph Cornell, with Box"
The ghost voice of a beloved long dead - Cheryl Dumesnil "Ode to Pink Floyd"
A ghost, at arm's length - Cornelius Eady "Diabolic"
Ghosts of sleeping battle-cruisers - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"
Ghostly globes of intense aether - Max Eastman "X Rays"
In the house there are twelve ghosts - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"
The ghost of Hamlet's father wandering through - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"
And their ghostly, gray battalions - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"
Ghosts that once were firs and pines - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"
Where all the ghost-trees are - Anthony Euwer "The Long Bet"
Listens for the ghost years as they speak - Donald Evans "Epicede"
Ghost stories for the rowdy children - Hazem Fahmy "Interrogation of an Alternate Timeline"
Speech with Ceres' ghostly daughter - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
That grope at ghostly doors - Mahlon Leonard Fisher "November"
Whispers in a ghostly tavern - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
Kingfishers ghosting in cornstalks - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"
Snapped trees breathe with ghost food - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"
Ghosts in my mouth - Carolyn Forche "Early Night"
Language from a ghost - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"
The ghosts that inhabit us - t'ai freedom ford "Answers"
Gaunt ghosts in the valley - Arthur M. Forrester "The Lord of Kenmare"
Ghost of sleigh-bells in a ghost of snow - Robert Frost "Hyla Brook"
The ghosts of songs heard long ago - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]
Wind becomes spirit becomes ghost - John Gallaher "My Life in Brutalist Architecture #1"
The ghost moon lifts above the bush - Crosbie Garstin "Nocturne"
The smells a ghost leaves behind - Hafizah Augustus Geter "Praise Song"
Until every ghost is hunted out - Andrea Gibson "Fight for Love"
Come with all your ghosts - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"
A ghost desperate for absolution - Carmen Gimenez "Self as Deep as Coma"
Only ghosts at the bar - Dana Gioia "Meet Me at the Lighthouse"
No holiday is holy without ghosts - Dana Gioia "Tinsel, Frankincense, and Fir"
He remembers the name of every ghost - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"
Three thousand ghosts beside him - Richard Glover "Admiral Hosier's Ghost"
Sheep like ghosts and ghosts like sheep - Louis Golding "The Midmost Field in Kent"
Furnishing the air like ghosts - Stefania Gomez "At the New York City AIDS Memorial"
A ghost with the smell of Sunday - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
Beneath the canopy of ghost-trees - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
Ghosts greet us with rough hands - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
Read the air for ghost-tongues - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
When we shared our dreams of ghosts - Lore Graham "Absence"
Ghosts of long-dead melodies - Robert Graves "Ghost Music"
Gathered ghosts, wise and foolish - "The Graveyard" transl. by Burton Watson
The ghostly wand of tears - Louise Imogen Guiney "For a Child"
Reduce you to a lonely ghost - Jin Ha "The Long-Distance Traveler"
The ghost of a perished day - Thomas Hardy "A Procession of Dead Days"
Through fields of ghosts - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Skated through fields of ghosts - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Ghostly shapes of light years reversed - Joy Harjo "Javelina"
Enemies and the ghosts of memories - Joy Harjo "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
Knives to protect themselves from ghosts - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Only the magnetism of ghosts driving us - Joy Harjo "A Winning Hand"
Myself a ghost from a farther sea - Bret Harte "A Newport Romance"
Every ghost you thought had fled - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Making Home"
One ghostly fragrance lingering - Mercy Harvey "Song"
Ghost of a former tea-cup - Yona Harvey "Posting Bail"
Feeds the hungriest ghosts - Yona Harvey "Sonnet for a Tall Flower Blooming at Dinnertime"
Waylaid by a merry ghost at every lamp - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
The ghost of a summer that lived for us - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
All they care for is ghosts - Noor Hindi "Breaking [News]"
Paintings hanging yet in memory's ghostly halls - E. Curtiss Hine "Christine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The ghostly hour of lamentation - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
Out of the seamstress and the ghost - Carlie Hoffman "The Year Made Out of a Cut in Your Civilization"
The welcome parade put on by ghosts - Darrel Alejandro Holnes "Black Parade"
Through ghosts in a constant march - Darrel Alejandro Holnes "Black Parade"
Haunted with the ghost of home - William Dean Howells "The Empty House"
Under the ghostly sycamores - William Dean Howells "The Mulberries"
And haunted with the ghost of home - William D. Howells (uncredited) "The Old Homestead" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Grey ghost in the mountain - Aldous Huxley "By the Fire"
Ghost of some moon departed - Jean Ingelow "Requiescat In Pace!"
Storm the ghosts in ambuscade - Jean Ingelow "Scholar and Carpenter"
Gasping and giving up a ghost of spray - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Strange shapes and grieves ghosts - Elinor Jenkins "The Last Evening"
Filling our mouths with ghosts - Allison Eir Jenks "The Church of St. Sulspicious"
Steal the ghosts from the river - Allison Eir Jenks "Lament"
Stained with the breath of ghosts - Allison Eir Jenks "A Place We Briefly Lived"
Foucault lectures to the ghosts of crows - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"
Those hours outrunning ghosts - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Pacman"
A ghost upon the shore - Emily Pauline Johnson "Dawendine"
My ghost is my plus-one tonight - Saeed Jones "Grief #213"
Chains of absolute ghosts - Fady Joudah "Sandra Bland, Texas"
Never ghostless as it glows - A.M. Juster "The impossible in which I believe"
Ghosts of old letters, old laws - Rodger Kamenetz "The Broken Tablets"
Ghosts of melodious prophecyings - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Some ghostly queen of spades had come to mock - John Keats "The Eve of Saint Mark"
The ghost snare of a gray whale's call - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"
Ghost of a land by the ghost of a sea - Henry Kendall "Beyond Kerguelen"
Scatter these murderous ghosts - Joyce Kilmer "Absinthe"
A ghost from tomorrow - Suji Kwock Kim "Fugue"
A ghost in born-again tatters - Amy King "The Marble Faun"
I know something about talking with ghosts - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"
In a ghost schooner's nocturnal calm - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Sit in the ghostly chair in a big room of unnatural things - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
A few more years, a few more ghosts to embrace - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"
Embossed letters to ghosts - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Towers"
Ghost organs blush without blood - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"
Ghost wood splinters into your fingertips - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"
Lurks no ghost behind the arras - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
The ghosts of the dead flowers - Archibald Lampman "Ballade of Summer's Sleep"
Like homeless ghosts are calling - Archibald Lampman "Storm"
Pavements fit for ghostly feet - Emily Lawless "From the Burren"
Ghosts of the sea and shore - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IV: Night Sounds"
Transubstantiation of the Luminous Ghost - D.H. Lawrence "The Attack"
Only the old ghosts know I have come - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"
Owl and gibbering ghost - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
where the headless ghost dogs run - Joseph Lease "Falling"
Remember the ghost of that voice - Joseph Lease "True Faith"
Lost loves come shaking ghostly heads - Ruth Lechlitner "Afterward"
Stretch our ghostly arms - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Acheron"
Faint as sunshine-faded ghosts - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
The ghost of dwindled power - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode of the Tuscan Shore"
Ghost fragrances of wisteria and gardenia - Joseph O. Legaspi "On an Island (New York City)"
With the moan of an injured ghost - Henry S. Leigh "The Seasons"
The ghost of you startling and tattered - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
Those lost trailed us as ghosts - R.B. Lemberg "Ranra's Unbalancing"
The moon ghosting a hole through a rainbow - Dana Levin "Ghosts That Need Reminding"
And ghosts dissolved in shame - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"
The ghostly cofferdam of my own mind - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Without all those ghosts on the edge - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"
Haunted by the ghosts I used to be - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"
The drumbeat of a ghost - Vachel Lindsay "The Song of the Sturdy Snails"
Distinguish between the ghosts and the guests - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Meeting"
Ghosts emerging suddenly from stone - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Modern Fiction"
Summer ghosts betrayed by vision - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"
Arrest your very ghost for debt - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
Lightning flashes old ghost on my blade - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
With her one ghost eye - George MacDonald "The Wind and the Moon"
And ghosts of hyacinths - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "In an Autumn Garden"
These garden ghosts of memory - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Time's Garden"
Ghosts of long-dead hours - Dorothea Mackellar "The Closed Door"
My ghost shall stand in the wind - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: X"
Silent ghosts in a bewildered dream - Naomi Long Madgett "Where Do We Go?"
Ambition was the ghost unseen - Randall Mann "End Words"
All its ghosts still shudder through us - Sally Wen Mao "Occidentalism"
A belt of ghosts trailing after - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
So ghosts can't dial me at midnight - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
On a field of ghostly wildflowers - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"
Only ghosts of gods and wraiths - Don Marquis "At Last"
Sows the night with troops of stealthy ghosts - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"
The Ghost of a Gargoyle riding his night colored mare - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
Abandon the ghost in the house - Maya Marshall "The Field of Blood"
The ghost of his inhuman curse - George Martin "Marguerite"
That lodestar of the ghost - John Masefield "King Cole"
Bearers of ghost that burns - John Masefield "King Cole"
What his ghost finger traced - Louise Mathias "What If the Invader Is Beautiful"
Invisible webs that trapped ghosts - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"
Conjuring that ghost I honor - Airea D. Matthews "etymology"
May every ghost find you - Jamaal May "To Detroiters I Too May Have Called by the Wrong Names"
Can't help but be the loudest ghost - Jamaal May "Unsigned Letter to a Human in the 21st Century"
Ghosts of tragic kings - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
Clad in ghostly mysteries - Theodore Maynard "The Ensign"
The ghosts that garish daylight hid - Theodore Maynard "Sunset on the Desert"
To digest the color of ghosts - John McCarthy "How to Disappear"
The first half of the ghost - Shane McCrae "In the Event Of"
Only smoke from flailing ghosts - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Tehura"
The ghosts we shall harvest - Arch Alfred McKillen "Apocalypse"
Throwaway cameras to capture your twin ghosts - Nancy Mercado "Going to Work"
In ghost across a ground - George Meredith "King Harald's Trance"
He is Death that weds a ghost - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
The moment when the ghosts go home - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"
Ghostly drums that only seem to beat - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
A ghost behind my chair - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
The ghosts of reddened swords - Charlotte Mew "The Quiet House"
But the rain is full of ghosts tonight - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: V"
Ghosts in relict summer light - Claire Millikin "Coke-bottle Barbie-doll"
Painted water blue to keep out ghosts - Claire Millikin "Coke-bottle Barbie-doll"
The town square is filled with ghosts - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
And ghosts never left behind - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
a ghost with trees for feet - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"
Lost, their ghosts suspended in trees - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"
Asking all my ghosts to join me - Anis Mojgani "Sock Hop"
An omnipotent ghost - Jenny Molberg "Bathsheba as Poet"
The faint laughter of ghosts - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
His ghost leads holy armies - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Angel"
The wrong ghost beckons - Kamilah Aisha Moon "A Golden Shovel"
Paper muslin ghost - Marianne Moore "Pedantic Literalist"
I make a ghost of everything - Angel Nafis "Angel's Heart Clowns the Ocean"
Two-step with beloved ghosts - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"
must fight multi-headed ghosts alone - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
The twin ghosts of hollowness and want - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"
Ghosts almost visible on the horizons - Marilyn Nelson "The History of Tribal Suppression"
Of ghosts with grief and tail - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger
The day waking from sleep like a ghost - Pablo Neruda "The Egoist" transl. by William O'Daly
With arrows like an icy ghost - Pablo Neruda "Rider in the Rain" transl. by John Felstiner
A ghost out of another Spring - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
The morning dream with ghosts - Hoa Nguyen "Haunted Sonnet"
Multiple ghosts jab your throat - Hoa Nguyen "She Leads with Flower Wands"
To meet the ghost of my childhood - Grace Nichols "If I Were to Meet"
Her ghost to wed and to be paid - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons III. The Reckoning"
Ghost in sheet risen at midnight bell - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
The world's imagination and ghost - Yone Noguchi "I Am Like a Leaf"
Walked like a ghost in Athens - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
For the ghost of bread in Lebanon - Naomi Shihab Nye "Darling"
The ghost of a star's past life - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
To aid us in our grim and ghostly quest - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Missing" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.136-v.III, 7 Aug. 1886]
A fraternity ghost waiting to stay home - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"
Upon which these future ghosts will cut astonished rivers - Christina Olivares "Portrait"
What ghosts urge these riots? - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Corridors only ghosts patrol - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
But no ghost woke - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"
I ghost wrote a letter - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Study Guide Toward Naturalization of the Mouth"
Ghosts of friends follow us here - Paul Park "Ragnarok"
Ghosts of all my lovely sins - Dorothy Parker "Rainy night"
Ghosts of pictures never painted - Linda Pastan "Late in October"
Ghosts of buried centuries - Sir Noel Paton "In Shadowland"
Mingle in that ghostly tread - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"
Not queens, but ghosts - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"
Some ghosts are my mothers - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"
Some of my ghosts are planets - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"
Do not weep in your way of ghosts - Kiki Petrosino "Let Me Tell You People Something"
The ghosts in the walls - Carl Phillips "Interior: All the Leaves Shake Off Their Light"
The ghosts of leaves - Carl Phillips "Snow Globe"
With the ghost I call failure - Carl Phillips "Snow Globe"
Wrought its ghost upon the floor - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
The anxious ghosts of all the drowned - Alexander Posey "The Arkansas River"
With the ghosts of the before and the after - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Function of inhabiting"
Burning despite the ghostly winds - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
A ghost running crowded - Khadijah Queen "Synesthesia"
To wrestle down family ghosts - Sina Queyras "Years"
Ghosts of passions burnt out - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Ghosts of burnt-out kisses - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Roses"
All the ghosts rattling my ribs - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"
Flicker blue with bright desire after such ghosting - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"
Their ghosts gossiping above me - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"
In the beheading of your ghost - Roger Reeves "For Black Children at the End of the World--and the Beginning"
a poet among ghosts - Ariel Resnikoff "ghost canto"
Some ghosts come everywhere with you - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
Flower by dream-ghosts planted - Edgell Rickword "Grave Joys"
Where the ghost of the moon looks blue - James Whitcombe Riley "The Frog"
A ghost of sorrows gone - Charles G.D. Roberts "In a City Room"
Could he but have what a ghost had stolen - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"
The ghost of someone you had poisoned - Edwin Arlington Robinson "London Bridge"
Roland's ghost winding a silent horn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"
This is the hour of ghosts that rise - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"
The ghostly galleys ride out - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"
A July ghost standing - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"
Ghosts in flocks and shoals - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"
Dusty photographs of faces like ghosts - Nicky Russell "The World Is a Curio"
As though ghost ribs had been added - Kay Ryan "Post-Construction"
Searched among ghosts - Assotto Saint "The Geography of Poetry: For Ntozake Shange"
To say the forest is the sanctuary of ghosts - David St. John "Beeches"
Ghost songs and love to the harvest moon - Carl Sandburg "Theme in Yellow"
Not ghosts, perhaps, but dreams - Margaret E. Sangster "To an Old Schoolhouse"
a ghost haunting my wallet - Sam Sax "Politics of Elegy"
Ghosts on the midnight skies - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"
Familiar as the ghosts of our bad nights - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"
Till their ghosts are unmasked - Frederick George Scott "Te Judice"
The curiosity of ghosts relating boneyard tales - Tobias Seamon "Near Life Experience"
New notes of ghostly beauty - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
If I should perish my ghost will come back - Robert W. Service "Good-Bye, Little Cabin"
In ghostly solitude before a flame - P. Seshadri "Thoughts"
Call the ghost to my fragile table - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"
By forcing some lone ghost - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
Loud as the ghosts of prisoners long-forgotten - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
Reminders, a company of ghosts, prisoners in kind - Marge Simon "Spacers' Prison"
Cries like a prophet's ghost - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"
Let us praise the ghost gardens - Maggie Smith "Perennials"
Some ghostly laughter in the shrubbery - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
A fire-white ghost - Tracy K. Smith "Einstein's Mother"
Without even kissing their ghosts in my dreams - Cynthia So "The Unicorn's Question"
Like ghosts that never slept - Riccardo Stephens "A Ballad"
Our ghosts can feel no wrong - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
Ghosts hovering like hawks - Alison Swan "The Language of Field Guides"
Dissolving in ghost water - Chad Sweeney "Prophecy of a Monday"
A timeless vision and a ghostly fire - George Sterling "Afterward (BtB)"
The ghost of something futile and forgot - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
The ghost of dawns forgotten - George Sterling "The Tides of Change"
And bind with ghostly light - George Sterling "White Magic"
A ghost of blood and granite - Arthur Stringer "Dreamers"
The call of the ages whispers and the countless ghosts awaken - Arthur Stringer "If I Love You"
Querulous ghosts that sigh and awaken and move - Arthur Stringer "March Twilight"
The twilight is thronged with her ghosts - Arthur Stringer "Ultimata"
A soundless word, a ghostly whisper - Carmen Sylva "Sadness"
Every suitcase in the ghost stations - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"
Only the ghost of children through my dreams - Sonya Taaffe "Night Boat"
The ghosts of sense and sound and sight - Genevieve Taggard "The Vast Hour"
Beckoning ghosts of crime and dreams of maddening beauty - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Over the ghost who wonders why - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"
With a Knight of ghosts and shadows - "Tom o' Bedlam"
And all the train of bitter ghosts adore - Iris Tree "Holy Russia"
My own host and guest and ghost - Iris Tree "[I feel so much alone]"
Sweeter than ghostly music - Iris Tree "[I laid my heart on a stone]"
Ghostly mirth and phantom hands applauding - Iris Tree "[I think myself the fool of tragedy]"
Where the ghosts blow by - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
Holding the ghosts of generations - Natasha Trethewey "South"
languishing as ghost of her famous self - David Trinidad "The afterlife of fame"
The ghost of love conjured as fruit - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
The ghost that's in his bones dreams in the sodden clay - W.J. Turner "Death"
Fading now like ghosts at morn - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]
The playground of youth and of ghostly tradition - Morris Tyler "Under the Arch I Passed"
Ghosts of vanished joy and pain - Henry van Dyke "Indian Summer"
Unnumbered ghosts that haunt the wave - Henry van Dyke "Mare Liberum"
Legions of ghosts above - Angela C. Truddell Vasquez "In the Discount Lot"
Their ghost a homing signal - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal [cross symbol]
All the ghosts within your breast - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin
Forgive our ghosts - Derek Walcott "Steam"
Ghosts from hungry graves - Charles William Wallace "Life's Lost Skiff"
Moved like gray ghosts into the port - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Lake Lessons"
Wane to an underworld of ghosts - Edith Wharton "Les Salettes"
The kisses were ghostly with jasmine - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ghost"
The wind lays ghostly kisses on my lips - Helen Hay Whitney "In the Mist"
Pale as the ghost of a flower - Helen Hay Whitney "Music"
A little mist by ghosts made magical - Helen Hay Whitney "The Pattern of the Earth"
Ghostly finger-tips of sleet - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Imperfections filed into ghost - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"
The House of Ghosts was bright within - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"
Stayed to keep the ghost watch - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Slack"
Hung his ghost like a sheet from a mast - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Bone"
This ghostly incandescence and unearthly afterglow - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"
Also called ghosts - Katie Willingham "Artifact (Disambiguation)"
A ghost, not quite destroyed - Katie Willingham "A Partial List of Overwriting Errors"
Ghosts upon the trail - Joseph R. Wilson "The Santa Fe Trail"
Helped us no longer be afraid of ghosts - Tanaya Winder "For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It's the Quickest Way Through"
And ghosts of rapture in a ghost of heaven - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"
Afraid of some forgotten ghost awakening - Humbert Wolfe "The Crowder's Tune"
Kept a scrapbook of ghost stories - Jennifer Wong "Calling the dead"
Immediate burn upon discovery of ghosts - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
Where everything is or becomes a ghost - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
Do not assume ghosts were birthed by other ghosts - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
Bitten and erratic ghosts - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
Hear seabirds cackle like ghosts - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
All round the garden are ghosts - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
A ghost beyond her own reach - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Sleep echoed my ghostly tread - Francis Brett Young "Invocation"
In ghostly gardens a hundred miles away - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"
Ghostly zone of thwarted destinies - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Entrusted to a ghost - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
Do what the ghosts cannot - Matthew Zapruder "Water Street"
Learn to move as ghosts do - Jenny Zhang "under the chiming bell"
Ghost of a cocooned spring - Zheng Min "The Ghost of a Spring Cocoon" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
The ghost of a dead oak - Art Zilleruelo "Ghost Story"
From the ghost-hills of your fathers - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "A Mojave Lullaby"
Wandering the wings of a ghost-run factory - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
From your ghost-wrapped throat - Gala Mukomolova "Vasya, in Bed"
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On the Masjid's cobalt globe a ghost - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"
First the ghost boats - Samuel Ace "I hear a dog who is always in my death"
The size of ghosts is not proportional - Duane Ackerson "Little Ghosts"
In front of silent ghosts - Kelli Russell Agodon "Snapshot of a Lump"
While real ghosts walk around me - Elizabeth Alexander "Haircut"
Playful ghosts snagged in the trees - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Who wore the ghosts of his beloved - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
A gateway to emptiness policed by ghosts - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
A ghost ride down the corridor of the city - Alise Alousi "Skip"
Their ghostly faces rushing by - Julia Alvarez "Direct Address"
The coffin lid of a ghost - Julia Alvarez "Famous Poet, Years Afterward"
Drops each ghost into a water hole - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"
Seven stout ghosts so hearty and hale - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXVI: Hard to Believe" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Throw a dinner party for the ghosts - Diannely Antigua "We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers"
Ghosting a geography of fog - Raymond Antrobus "After Reading 'Deaf School' by the Mississippi River"
Highway between ghost-towns - Rae Armantrout "Wannabe"
Evade an angry ghost - Rae Armantrout "Worth While"
Inhaling his ghost - Simon Armitage "Emergency"
Deep into the ghostly night - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Wrapped up safe in all my ghosts - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Ghost of silver on the sea - Joseph Auslander "I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come"
A technology of ghosts - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Essay on the Appearance of Ghosts"
Growing up to be a ghost - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Essay on the Appearance of Ghosts"
woven with footprints of all the ghosts - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
of all the ghosts sieved into the earth - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
Like ghosts of flowers returned - Albion Fellows Bacon "Winter Beauty"
What's ghostlier than gray morning winter light? - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"
Even their ghosts have baggage - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
The ghosts of my platoon - Lou Barrett "Two Poets and a Physician: 1918"
A lost ghost on a mission - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
My ghosts are growing restless - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
See frightened ghosts on the streets - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Who Is God? So Asked Our Dog"
the ghosts of years file past - Elizabeth Bartlett "black sun"
Airless corridors staffed by ghosts - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
The ghosts of fish shall wake - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"
Ghosts of other years - Ardelia Maria Barton "Ghosts of the Attic"
Away at the top of his ghostly box - Clara Doty Bates "Saarchinkold!" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]
The ghosts of long-dead odours creep - Charles Baudelaire "The Flask" transl. not credited
Ghost of an old passion - Charles Baudelaire "The Flask" transl. not credited
And howls as if a ghost could hate the cold - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Homeless ghosts with no one left to haunt - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
The sky is full of stumbling ghosts - Jan Beatty "I'll Write the Girl"
Sails in the bubbles ghostily - Thomas Lovell Beddoes "A Song on the Water"
The ghost who rents your eyes - Erin Belieu "Dum Spiro Spero"
Tall as the ghosts of Heaven's battlements - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Stone and ghost and dream - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
A posse of ghosts chasing down life - Paul Bernstein "Night Mares: a Cinquain"
One part of me would become a ghost - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"
Ghost forests raked by bears - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"
A ghosted threshold of being - Kimberly Blaeser "The Way We Love Something Small"
Heavy with his reckless ghost - Maxwell Bodenheim "Country Girl"
Pressed upon a slippery, dodging ghost - Max Bodenheim "Definitions"
Have spilled their troubled ghosts - Maxwell Bodenheim "East-Side: New York"
Crash into night like ghostly curses - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"
The jerking, smoldering ghost of a thought - Maxwell Bodenheim "To the Violinist"
With cunning magic called your ghost - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
The friendly ghost that was your love and mind - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
Ghosts of dead men meet their ladies walking - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"
Drink peppermint tea with the ghost of morning - Bruce Boston "A Life in the Day Of"
I'm no more minstrel than ghost - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Ghost hounds back for the scraps - Russell Brakefield "This Is America and We Are Boys"
Stitching the wings of your ghost - William Brewer "In the Room of the Overdosed, an Ember"
Ghosts that leave smudges on the walls - Sue Budin "Totality"
Across oceans' roads past rows of ghosts - Richard Ford Burley "I Fight Monsters"
That nighttime brigade of ghosts now laid to rest - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"
An infinite shore with gaping ghosts - W. Wilfred Campbell "Lazarus"
Where walk dim ghosts of thoughts - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Where ghostly centuries complain - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"
Nor vex the ghosts of other days - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"
Soundless as ghost's intended tread - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Third Voice"
Only the sweet ghost of his melody - Willa Cather "Eurydice"
Make ghosts of such dead aromas - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
His ghost wears our raincoats - Marianne Chan "Cebu City"
Waved to a country of ghosts - Tina Chang "Revolutionary Kiss"
Great ghosts shall rise to vindicate the right of cats - G.K. Chesterton "To Enid who acted the Cat in private Pantomime"
My island is full of maiden ghosts - Su Cho "The Old Man in White Has Given My Mother a Ripe Persimmon Again"
With the ghosts patrolling my shores - Su Cho "The Old Man in White Has Given My Mother a Ripe Persimmon Again"
Banana ghosts and handsome monkey kings - May Chong "Kamcia"
Heroes in the realm of ghosts - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Those Who Died for Their Country" transl. by Burton Watson
Captains among the ghosts - "Battle" Ch'u Yuan (translated by Arthur Waley)
Your ghost becomes a thumbprint for history - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
My pockets turned out to tiny ghosts - Gabrielle Civil "Three of Cups"
Bring torches to dream ghosts - Elena Clementelli "Etruscan Notebook" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
will become her own ghost - Lucille Clifton "incantation"
Like the ghost of all my desires - Lucille Clifton "6/27/06"
Safe from ghosts like you - Leonard Cohen "Never Mind"
Took a ghost to bed - Leonard Cohen "The Rebellion"
For the ghost I made you be - Leonard Cohen "Treaty"
Tangle of matter and ghosts - Leonard Cohen "The Window"
And watch the ghosts dance - Chris Colderly "Tambourine Things: Celebrating Judith Wright"
Herself the sun of ghosts - Mary Coleridge "In Dispraise of the Moon"
Grey and ghostly in the night - Arthur Colton "By the Sea"
Gazes on each tranquil ghost - Arthur Colton "Faustine"
Benjamin Franklin's Ghost House - Nicole Connolly "Dream Job"
The ghosts of all the years - James H. Cousins "The Railway Arch"
The ghost of every former danger - George Crabbe "The Library"
Breath sealed by the ghost I do not know - Hart Crane "Voyages V"
Like the steps of passing ghosts - Adelaide Crapsey "November Night"
In the pale hollow of those ghostly hands - Adelaide Crapsey "To Man Who Goes Seeking Immortality"
Ghost of the crimson tree - Arthur Shearly Cripps "A Lyke-Wake Carol"
Pass, frost-white ghost - Arthur Shearly Cripps "A Lyke-Wake Carol"
Those Autumn ghosts go free - Arthur Shearly Cripps "A Lyke-Wake Carol"
He wonders if their ghosts remember him - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"
Poor, troubled, lyric ghost - Countee Cullen "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time"
Even my smile will be a ghost - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
Their ghostly roots - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"
The house if full of whispering ghosts - Olive Custance "The Storm"
My share of the people is the transit of their ghosts - Najwan Darwish "A Violet Darkness" transl. by Kareem James Abu-Zeid
My ghost defies them yet - "Datasonnet for Prince Giolo"
Communions with the scattered ghosts - Russell W. Davenport "Poems VI"
Lest the ghostly perfume smell too sweet - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"
In darkness buried deep for ever be my ghost - Edward L. Davison "Nocturne"
The live man meeting his own ghost - Coningsby Dawson "The Hill-Tower"
When ghosts and warlocks haunt the troubled earth - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
Our devotion a ghost - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"
While the ghosts keep tryst - Walter de la Mare "The Disguise"
Pinned up sharp in the ghost of a shawl - Walter de la Mare "The Little Creature"
Ghostly ciphers of fear - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"
Maps are ghosts - Natalie Diaz "They Don't Love You Like I Love You"
As from emerald ghost - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXVI: The Storm"
As they serenade the ghosts of our adversaries - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"
Melting the ghosts of Winter - Irving Sidney Dix "An Idyll of the Hills part 1: March"
Pointed the ghost of a partridge - Chris Dombrowski "The Hunt"
Of ghosts inhabiting timepieces - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Drifting like gilded ghosts before my eyes - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
Little ghostly syllables of speech - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
The ghosts of my wordless breath - Carol Ann Duffy "Death and the Moon"
To harbor each disarray and ghost - Michael Dumanis "Joseph Cornell, with Box"
The ghost voice of a beloved long dead - Cheryl Dumesnil "Ode to Pink Floyd"
A ghost, at arm's length - Cornelius Eady "Diabolic"
Ghosts of sleeping battle-cruisers - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"
Ghostly globes of intense aether - Max Eastman "X Rays"
In the house there are twelve ghosts - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"
The ghost of Hamlet's father wandering through - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"
And their ghostly, gray battalions - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"
Ghosts that once were firs and pines - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"
Where all the ghost-trees are - Anthony Euwer "The Long Bet"
Listens for the ghost years as they speak - Donald Evans "Epicede"
Ghost stories for the rowdy children - Hazem Fahmy "Interrogation of an Alternate Timeline"
Speech with Ceres' ghostly daughter - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
That grope at ghostly doors - Mahlon Leonard Fisher "November"
Whispers in a ghostly tavern - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
Kingfishers ghosting in cornstalks - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"
Snapped trees breathe with ghost food - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"
Ghosts in my mouth - Carolyn Forche "Early Night"
Language from a ghost - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"
The ghosts that inhabit us - t'ai freedom ford "Answers"
Gaunt ghosts in the valley - Arthur M. Forrester "The Lord of Kenmare"
Ghost of sleigh-bells in a ghost of snow - Robert Frost "Hyla Brook"
The ghosts of songs heard long ago - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]
Wind becomes spirit becomes ghost - John Gallaher "My Life in Brutalist Architecture #1"
The ghost moon lifts above the bush - Crosbie Garstin "Nocturne"
The smells a ghost leaves behind - Hafizah Augustus Geter "Praise Song"
Until every ghost is hunted out - Andrea Gibson "Fight for Love"
Come with all your ghosts - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"
A ghost desperate for absolution - Carmen Gimenez "Self as Deep as Coma"
Only ghosts at the bar - Dana Gioia "Meet Me at the Lighthouse"
No holiday is holy without ghosts - Dana Gioia "Tinsel, Frankincense, and Fir"
He remembers the name of every ghost - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"
Three thousand ghosts beside him - Richard Glover "Admiral Hosier's Ghost"
Sheep like ghosts and ghosts like sheep - Louis Golding "The Midmost Field in Kent"
Furnishing the air like ghosts - Stefania Gomez "At the New York City AIDS Memorial"
A ghost with the smell of Sunday - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
Beneath the canopy of ghost-trees - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
Ghosts greet us with rough hands - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
Read the air for ghost-tongues - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
When we shared our dreams of ghosts - Lore Graham "Absence"
Ghosts of long-dead melodies - Robert Graves "Ghost Music"
Gathered ghosts, wise and foolish - "The Graveyard" transl. by Burton Watson
The ghostly wand of tears - Louise Imogen Guiney "For a Child"
Reduce you to a lonely ghost - Jin Ha "The Long-Distance Traveler"
The ghost of a perished day - Thomas Hardy "A Procession of Dead Days"
Through fields of ghosts - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Skated through fields of ghosts - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Ghostly shapes of light years reversed - Joy Harjo "Javelina"
Enemies and the ghosts of memories - Joy Harjo "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
Knives to protect themselves from ghosts - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Only the magnetism of ghosts driving us - Joy Harjo "A Winning Hand"
Myself a ghost from a farther sea - Bret Harte "A Newport Romance"
Every ghost you thought had fled - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Making Home"
One ghostly fragrance lingering - Mercy Harvey "Song"
Ghost of a former tea-cup - Yona Harvey "Posting Bail"
Feeds the hungriest ghosts - Yona Harvey "Sonnet for a Tall Flower Blooming at Dinnertime"
Waylaid by a merry ghost at every lamp - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
The ghost of a summer that lived for us - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
All they care for is ghosts - Noor Hindi "Breaking [News]"
Paintings hanging yet in memory's ghostly halls - E. Curtiss Hine "Christine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The ghostly hour of lamentation - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
Out of the seamstress and the ghost - Carlie Hoffman "The Year Made Out of a Cut in Your Civilization"
The welcome parade put on by ghosts - Darrel Alejandro Holnes "Black Parade"
Through ghosts in a constant march - Darrel Alejandro Holnes "Black Parade"
Haunted with the ghost of home - William Dean Howells "The Empty House"
Under the ghostly sycamores - William Dean Howells "The Mulberries"
And haunted with the ghost of home - William D. Howells (uncredited) "The Old Homestead" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Grey ghost in the mountain - Aldous Huxley "By the Fire"
Ghost of some moon departed - Jean Ingelow "Requiescat In Pace!"
Storm the ghosts in ambuscade - Jean Ingelow "Scholar and Carpenter"
Gasping and giving up a ghost of spray - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Strange shapes and grieves ghosts - Elinor Jenkins "The Last Evening"
Filling our mouths with ghosts - Allison Eir Jenks "The Church of St. Sulspicious"
Steal the ghosts from the river - Allison Eir Jenks "Lament"
Stained with the breath of ghosts - Allison Eir Jenks "A Place We Briefly Lived"
Foucault lectures to the ghosts of crows - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"
Those hours outrunning ghosts - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Pacman"
A ghost upon the shore - Emily Pauline Johnson "Dawendine"
My ghost is my plus-one tonight - Saeed Jones "Grief #213"
Chains of absolute ghosts - Fady Joudah "Sandra Bland, Texas"
Never ghostless as it glows - A.M. Juster "The impossible in which I believe"
Ghosts of old letters, old laws - Rodger Kamenetz "The Broken Tablets"
Ghosts of melodious prophecyings - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Some ghostly queen of spades had come to mock - John Keats "The Eve of Saint Mark"
The ghost snare of a gray whale's call - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"
Ghost of a land by the ghost of a sea - Henry Kendall "Beyond Kerguelen"
Scatter these murderous ghosts - Joyce Kilmer "Absinthe"
A ghost from tomorrow - Suji Kwock Kim "Fugue"
A ghost in born-again tatters - Amy King "The Marble Faun"
I know something about talking with ghosts - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"
In a ghost schooner's nocturnal calm - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Sit in the ghostly chair in a big room of unnatural things - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
A few more years, a few more ghosts to embrace - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"
Embossed letters to ghosts - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Towers"
Ghost organs blush without blood - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"
Ghost wood splinters into your fingertips - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"
Lurks no ghost behind the arras - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
The ghosts of the dead flowers - Archibald Lampman "Ballade of Summer's Sleep"
Like homeless ghosts are calling - Archibald Lampman "Storm"
Pavements fit for ghostly feet - Emily Lawless "From the Burren"
Ghosts of the sea and shore - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IV: Night Sounds"
Transubstantiation of the Luminous Ghost - D.H. Lawrence "The Attack"
Only the old ghosts know I have come - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"
Owl and gibbering ghost - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
where the headless ghost dogs run - Joseph Lease "Falling"
Remember the ghost of that voice - Joseph Lease "True Faith"
Lost loves come shaking ghostly heads - Ruth Lechlitner "Afterward"
Stretch our ghostly arms - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Acheron"
Faint as sunshine-faded ghosts - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
The ghost of dwindled power - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode of the Tuscan Shore"
Ghost fragrances of wisteria and gardenia - Joseph O. Legaspi "On an Island (New York City)"
With the moan of an injured ghost - Henry S. Leigh "The Seasons"
The ghost of you startling and tattered - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
Those lost trailed us as ghosts - R.B. Lemberg "Ranra's Unbalancing"
The moon ghosting a hole through a rainbow - Dana Levin "Ghosts That Need Reminding"
And ghosts dissolved in shame - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"
The ghostly cofferdam of my own mind - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Without all those ghosts on the edge - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"
Haunted by the ghosts I used to be - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"
The drumbeat of a ghost - Vachel Lindsay "The Song of the Sturdy Snails"
Distinguish between the ghosts and the guests - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Meeting"
Ghosts emerging suddenly from stone - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Modern Fiction"
Summer ghosts betrayed by vision - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"
Arrest your very ghost for debt - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
Lightning flashes old ghost on my blade - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
With her one ghost eye - George MacDonald "The Wind and the Moon"
And ghosts of hyacinths - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "In an Autumn Garden"
These garden ghosts of memory - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Time's Garden"
Ghosts of long-dead hours - Dorothea Mackellar "The Closed Door"
My ghost shall stand in the wind - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: X"
Silent ghosts in a bewildered dream - Naomi Long Madgett "Where Do We Go?"
Ambition was the ghost unseen - Randall Mann "End Words"
All its ghosts still shudder through us - Sally Wen Mao "Occidentalism"
A belt of ghosts trailing after - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
So ghosts can't dial me at midnight - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
On a field of ghostly wildflowers - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"
Only ghosts of gods and wraiths - Don Marquis "At Last"
Sows the night with troops of stealthy ghosts - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"
The Ghost of a Gargoyle riding his night colored mare - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
Abandon the ghost in the house - Maya Marshall "The Field of Blood"
The ghost of his inhuman curse - George Martin "Marguerite"
That lodestar of the ghost - John Masefield "King Cole"
Bearers of ghost that burns - John Masefield "King Cole"
What his ghost finger traced - Louise Mathias "What If the Invader Is Beautiful"
Invisible webs that trapped ghosts - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"
Conjuring that ghost I honor - Airea D. Matthews "etymology"
May every ghost find you - Jamaal May "To Detroiters I Too May Have Called by the Wrong Names"
Can't help but be the loudest ghost - Jamaal May "Unsigned Letter to a Human in the 21st Century"
Ghosts of tragic kings - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
Clad in ghostly mysteries - Theodore Maynard "The Ensign"
The ghosts that garish daylight hid - Theodore Maynard "Sunset on the Desert"
To digest the color of ghosts - John McCarthy "How to Disappear"
The first half of the ghost - Shane McCrae "In the Event Of"
Only smoke from flailing ghosts - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Tehura"
The ghosts we shall harvest - Arch Alfred McKillen "Apocalypse"
Throwaway cameras to capture your twin ghosts - Nancy Mercado "Going to Work"
In ghost across a ground - George Meredith "King Harald's Trance"
He is Death that weds a ghost - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
The moment when the ghosts go home - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"
Ghostly drums that only seem to beat - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
A ghost behind my chair - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
The ghosts of reddened swords - Charlotte Mew "The Quiet House"
But the rain is full of ghosts tonight - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: V"
Ghosts in relict summer light - Claire Millikin "Coke-bottle Barbie-doll"
Painted water blue to keep out ghosts - Claire Millikin "Coke-bottle Barbie-doll"
The town square is filled with ghosts - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
And ghosts never left behind - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
a ghost with trees for feet - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"
Lost, their ghosts suspended in trees - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"
Asking all my ghosts to join me - Anis Mojgani "Sock Hop"
An omnipotent ghost - Jenny Molberg "Bathsheba as Poet"
The faint laughter of ghosts - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
His ghost leads holy armies - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Angel"
The wrong ghost beckons - Kamilah Aisha Moon "A Golden Shovel"
Paper muslin ghost - Marianne Moore "Pedantic Literalist"
I make a ghost of everything - Angel Nafis "Angel's Heart Clowns the Ocean"
Two-step with beloved ghosts - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"
must fight multi-headed ghosts alone - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
The twin ghosts of hollowness and want - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"
Ghosts almost visible on the horizons - Marilyn Nelson "The History of Tribal Suppression"
Of ghosts with grief and tail - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger
The day waking from sleep like a ghost - Pablo Neruda "The Egoist" transl. by William O'Daly
With arrows like an icy ghost - Pablo Neruda "Rider in the Rain" transl. by John Felstiner
A ghost out of another Spring - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
The morning dream with ghosts - Hoa Nguyen "Haunted Sonnet"
Multiple ghosts jab your throat - Hoa Nguyen "She Leads with Flower Wands"
To meet the ghost of my childhood - Grace Nichols "If I Were to Meet"
Her ghost to wed and to be paid - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons III. The Reckoning"
Ghost in sheet risen at midnight bell - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
The world's imagination and ghost - Yone Noguchi "I Am Like a Leaf"
Walked like a ghost in Athens - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
For the ghost of bread in Lebanon - Naomi Shihab Nye "Darling"
The ghost of a star's past life - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
To aid us in our grim and ghostly quest - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Missing" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.136-v.III, 7 Aug. 1886]
A fraternity ghost waiting to stay home - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"
Upon which these future ghosts will cut astonished rivers - Christina Olivares "Portrait"
What ghosts urge these riots? - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Corridors only ghosts patrol - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
But no ghost woke - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"
I ghost wrote a letter - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Study Guide Toward Naturalization of the Mouth"
Ghosts of friends follow us here - Paul Park "Ragnarok"
Ghosts of all my lovely sins - Dorothy Parker "Rainy night"
Ghosts of pictures never painted - Linda Pastan "Late in October"
Ghosts of buried centuries - Sir Noel Paton "In Shadowland"
Mingle in that ghostly tread - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"
Not queens, but ghosts - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"
Some ghosts are my mothers - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"
Some of my ghosts are planets - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"
Do not weep in your way of ghosts - Kiki Petrosino "Let Me Tell You People Something"
The ghosts in the walls - Carl Phillips "Interior: All the Leaves Shake Off Their Light"
The ghosts of leaves - Carl Phillips "Snow Globe"
With the ghost I call failure - Carl Phillips "Snow Globe"
Wrought its ghost upon the floor - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
The anxious ghosts of all the drowned - Alexander Posey "The Arkansas River"
With the ghosts of the before and the after - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Function of inhabiting"
Burning despite the ghostly winds - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
A ghost running crowded - Khadijah Queen "Synesthesia"
To wrestle down family ghosts - Sina Queyras "Years"
Ghosts of passions burnt out - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Ghosts of burnt-out kisses - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Roses"
All the ghosts rattling my ribs - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"
Flicker blue with bright desire after such ghosting - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"
Their ghosts gossiping above me - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"
In the beheading of your ghost - Roger Reeves "For Black Children at the End of the World--and the Beginning"
a poet among ghosts - Ariel Resnikoff "ghost canto"
Some ghosts come everywhere with you - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
Flower by dream-ghosts planted - Edgell Rickword "Grave Joys"
Where the ghost of the moon looks blue - James Whitcombe Riley "The Frog"
A ghost of sorrows gone - Charles G.D. Roberts "In a City Room"
Could he but have what a ghost had stolen - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"
The ghost of someone you had poisoned - Edwin Arlington Robinson "London Bridge"
Roland's ghost winding a silent horn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"
This is the hour of ghosts that rise - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"
The ghostly galleys ride out - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"
A July ghost standing - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"
Ghosts in flocks and shoals - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"
Dusty photographs of faces like ghosts - Nicky Russell "The World Is a Curio"
As though ghost ribs had been added - Kay Ryan "Post-Construction"
Searched among ghosts - Assotto Saint "The Geography of Poetry: For Ntozake Shange"
To say the forest is the sanctuary of ghosts - David St. John "Beeches"
Ghost songs and love to the harvest moon - Carl Sandburg "Theme in Yellow"
Not ghosts, perhaps, but dreams - Margaret E. Sangster "To an Old Schoolhouse"
a ghost haunting my wallet - Sam Sax "Politics of Elegy"
Ghosts on the midnight skies - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"
Familiar as the ghosts of our bad nights - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"
Till their ghosts are unmasked - Frederick George Scott "Te Judice"
The curiosity of ghosts relating boneyard tales - Tobias Seamon "Near Life Experience"
New notes of ghostly beauty - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
If I should perish my ghost will come back - Robert W. Service "Good-Bye, Little Cabin"
In ghostly solitude before a flame - P. Seshadri "Thoughts"
Call the ghost to my fragile table - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"
By forcing some lone ghost - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
Loud as the ghosts of prisoners long-forgotten - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
Reminders, a company of ghosts, prisoners in kind - Marge Simon "Spacers' Prison"
Cries like a prophet's ghost - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"
Let us praise the ghost gardens - Maggie Smith "Perennials"
Some ghostly laughter in the shrubbery - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
A fire-white ghost - Tracy K. Smith "Einstein's Mother"
Without even kissing their ghosts in my dreams - Cynthia So "The Unicorn's Question"
Like ghosts that never slept - Riccardo Stephens "A Ballad"
Our ghosts can feel no wrong - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
Ghosts hovering like hawks - Alison Swan "The Language of Field Guides"
Dissolving in ghost water - Chad Sweeney "Prophecy of a Monday"
A timeless vision and a ghostly fire - George Sterling "Afterward (BtB)"
The ghost of something futile and forgot - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
The ghost of dawns forgotten - George Sterling "The Tides of Change"
And bind with ghostly light - George Sterling "White Magic"
A ghost of blood and granite - Arthur Stringer "Dreamers"
The call of the ages whispers and the countless ghosts awaken - Arthur Stringer "If I Love You"
Querulous ghosts that sigh and awaken and move - Arthur Stringer "March Twilight"
The twilight is thronged with her ghosts - Arthur Stringer "Ultimata"
A soundless word, a ghostly whisper - Carmen Sylva "Sadness"
Every suitcase in the ghost stations - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"
Only the ghost of children through my dreams - Sonya Taaffe "Night Boat"
The ghosts of sense and sound and sight - Genevieve Taggard "The Vast Hour"
Beckoning ghosts of crime and dreams of maddening beauty - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Over the ghost who wonders why - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"
With a Knight of ghosts and shadows - "Tom o' Bedlam"
And all the train of bitter ghosts adore - Iris Tree "Holy Russia"
My own host and guest and ghost - Iris Tree "[I feel so much alone]"
Sweeter than ghostly music - Iris Tree "[I laid my heart on a stone]"
Ghostly mirth and phantom hands applauding - Iris Tree "[I think myself the fool of tragedy]"
Where the ghosts blow by - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
Holding the ghosts of generations - Natasha Trethewey "South"
languishing as ghost of her famous self - David Trinidad "The afterlife of fame"
The ghost of love conjured as fruit - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
The ghost that's in his bones dreams in the sodden clay - W.J. Turner "Death"
Fading now like ghosts at morn - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]
The playground of youth and of ghostly tradition - Morris Tyler "Under the Arch I Passed"
Ghosts of vanished joy and pain - Henry van Dyke "Indian Summer"
Unnumbered ghosts that haunt the wave - Henry van Dyke "Mare Liberum"
Legions of ghosts above - Angela C. Truddell Vasquez "In the Discount Lot"
Their ghost a homing signal - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal [cross symbol]
All the ghosts within your breast - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin
Forgive our ghosts - Derek Walcott "Steam"
Ghosts from hungry graves - Charles William Wallace "Life's Lost Skiff"
Moved like gray ghosts into the port - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Lake Lessons"
Wane to an underworld of ghosts - Edith Wharton "Les Salettes"
The kisses were ghostly with jasmine - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ghost"
The wind lays ghostly kisses on my lips - Helen Hay Whitney "In the Mist"
Pale as the ghost of a flower - Helen Hay Whitney "Music"
A little mist by ghosts made magical - Helen Hay Whitney "The Pattern of the Earth"
Ghostly finger-tips of sleet - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Imperfections filed into ghost - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"
The House of Ghosts was bright within - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"
Stayed to keep the ghost watch - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Slack"
Hung his ghost like a sheet from a mast - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Bone"
This ghostly incandescence and unearthly afterglow - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"
Also called ghosts - Katie Willingham "Artifact (Disambiguation)"
A ghost, not quite destroyed - Katie Willingham "A Partial List of Overwriting Errors"
Ghosts upon the trail - Joseph R. Wilson "The Santa Fe Trail"
Helped us no longer be afraid of ghosts - Tanaya Winder "For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It's the Quickest Way Through"
And ghosts of rapture in a ghost of heaven - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"
Afraid of some forgotten ghost awakening - Humbert Wolfe "The Crowder's Tune"
Kept a scrapbook of ghost stories - Jennifer Wong "Calling the dead"
Immediate burn upon discovery of ghosts - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
Where everything is or becomes a ghost - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
Do not assume ghosts were birthed by other ghosts - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
Bitten and erratic ghosts - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
Hear seabirds cackle like ghosts - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
All round the garden are ghosts - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
A ghost beyond her own reach - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Sleep echoed my ghostly tread - Francis Brett Young "Invocation"
In ghostly gardens a hundred miles away - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"
Ghostly zone of thwarted destinies - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Entrusted to a ghost - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
Do what the ghosts cannot - Matthew Zapruder "Water Street"
Learn to move as ghosts do - Jenny Zhang "under the chiming bell"
Ghost of a cocooned spring - Zheng Min "The Ghost of a Spring Cocoon" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
The ghost of a dead oak - Art Zilleruelo "Ghost Story"
From the ghost-hills of your fathers - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "A Mojave Lullaby"
Wandering the wings of a ghost-run factory - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
From your ghost-wrapped throat - Gala Mukomolova "Vasya, in Bed"
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