Potential Titles: God/Goddess
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somethingdarkerMy children half wild screaming demigods - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"
A million-dollar god with a two-cent heaven - Hanif Abdurraqib "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This"
We are the crooked alphabet of God - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan CI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
God's word is a melody I sang once then forgot - Kaveh Akbar "I Wouldn't Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance"
Another of God's secrets wasted on me - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog"
God makes us in pairs - Kaveh Akbar "Ultrasound"
Among prisms and imprisoned gods - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"
Undefiled graffiti of gods - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"
Bewitched gods tracking time - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"
To god with no return address - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"
Tributes to the god who slew the celestial bull - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
To argue with God in context - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"
A god in the minus numbers - Julia Alvarez "Small Portions"
Command our sadness to dance to God's will - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"
And to the sun God gave a speedy answer - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XIV: The Maiden and the Sun" transl. by Sir John Bowring
To forsake this absent god tired in the pale grass - William Archila "Childhood"
Those who seek a tiny shot of God - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
The god of small slaughters - Fatimah Asghar "How We Left: Film Treatment"
What the pagans called god - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Wander among fragments of gods - Margaret Atwood "A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum"
I do the wolfish work of god and make myself again - Ruth Awad "My Hair Burned Like Berenice" [Poetry Jan/Feb 2024]
To worship winter's God - Grant Balfour "Where Union Dwelt"
The best gods of the boggled mind - Mary Jo Bang "The Experience of Being Outside"
The oxidized face of a statue of some goddess - Ari Banias "Curriculum"
Like gods competing for the universe - Elizabeth Bartlett "City Game: Marbles"
As we are all gods - Sandra Beasley "Say the Word"
Sit like a dead god incensed - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Come alive at the nod of a god grown mute - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
In his secret shrine hallows a wealth of gods - Stephen Vincent Benet "Hymn in Columbus Circle"
A slender javelin tipped with light, hurled at the gods - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
The cry of the bitter clay to the God who devised it carrion - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"
The roaring mill where gods grind without pity - William Rose Benét "The City"
Where swarming vermin hailed it god and lord - William Rose Benét "The City"
Blake heard the asides of God - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
No small iron gods in our pockets - Joshua Bennett "Summer Job"
Climbed to the feet of God - Robert Hugh Benson "After a Retreat"
The clutch of God's great rocks upon my keel - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"
Where forgotten gods lie thirsting - Paul Bernstein "A Prayer for the Departed"
Eldritch visions of the Armageddon of the Elder Gods - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"
God suffer little men the taste of soul's desire - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
Gods and goddesses of geometric exactitude - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"
The wind bares you for a god's descent - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
Siphoned sacrifices meant for our goddess - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Of bronze, that God's salt was corroding - William Stanley Braithwaite "Rye Bread" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The stars of God's mercies - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
The God who dwells inside the winning - Fleda Brown "Afternoons at the Lake"
An iteration of the many names of god - Nickole Brown "Parable"
Marooned in the Land God gave Cain - Paul Cameron Brown "Helluland"
Angels of a creative god - Mahogany L. Browne "litany"
True gods sigh for the cost and pain - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"
The Goddess of Numbers multiplying into dawn's light - Anthony Butts "Song of Starry-Eyed Children"
With which God veils His face - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
The old gods stand silently - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: In the Forest"
To quench the arrows of the god of day - N.H. Carter "[No verdure smiles; no crystal fountains play]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Possessed some quilt scrap of God - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"
Drift where the gods won't find us - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"
God of gold and flaming glass - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"
Sweets for the stove god - May Chong "Catering"
The voice of a drunken Greek god - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
iron understands time is another name for God - Lucille Clifton "rust"
But God can act the Devil - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Who were the gods you smiled for? - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "He Mea Mālo'elo'e #3"
The grieved god came not again - Susan Coolidge "The Legend of Kintu"
From atoms crowding God's abyss - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"
Lend a myth to God - Hart Crane "To Brooklyn Bridge"
The old gods shaking existence beneath my feet - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
And call upon the unknown Gods - Olive Custance "The Magic Mirrors"
I know I'm one of God's sparrows - DéLana R. A. Dameron "When Mama died, I lost my air"
for one punished by the gods to walk free - Deborah L. Davitt "Unbound" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]
Who plays with God for worlds, and wins - Geoffrey Dearmer "Eight Sonnets II"
Cast in ashes at the trampling feet of mortal gods - Geoffrey Dearmer "On the Road"
Some villains decompose into gods - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Met by the gods with banners - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXIII: Requiem"
Caligula and Nero knew a godliness akin to mine - Thomas M. Disch "Ballade of the New God"
And what can dead gods do? - Thomas M. Disch "Ballade of the New God"
Dirges from some demon goddess - Irving Sidney Dix "The Storm"
One god in every hidden face - Mary B. Dodge "A Sylvan Search" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.17, no.99, Mar. 1876]
Whorled thumbprint of a god - Chris Dombrowski "Another rapture rescheduled,"
The ancient wail heard by dead Gods - Edward Dowden "A Child's Noonday Sleep"
Cup-bearer at feasts of God - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"
Untouched by everything except the god who is the sun - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"
Should still in justice strive with Gods - Drayton "Kings" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.14, no.379, 4 July 1829]
The empty spaces left by the gods - Stephen Dunn "Let's Say"
That was humble among the gods - Lord Dunsany "The Return of Song"
What gods have met in battle - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"
Our battle with the gods to wage - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"
Thin as the fingernail of god - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
The vanished gods to me appear - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Brahma"
With the gods on mallows dined - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
Soothsayer of the eldest gods - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
Not the gods can shake the Past - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"
What time the gods kept carnival - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"
The gods in their cloudless periods - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"
Seized the seven powers of the gods - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
With God's gauntlet flung - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"
Praise god for the art of forgetting - Nava EtShalom "Of Ceos"
Pays a high price for discarded gods - Donald Evans "En Monocle"
The names of the gods who chose to ignore us - Kendall Evans "Now We Must Speak in the Shadows of Silence"
The gods are nervous - Noah Falck "Fatigue Performance"
Lonely Gods on shrouded heights - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"
The moon reaping God's blue fields - Eleanor Farjeon "A Sheaf of Nature-Songs VII"
later than the gods' twilight - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"
Perilous tombs of forgotten goddesses - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
God's first dream as her crown - Michael Field "Virgo Potens"
an insurance policy against what God won't cover - Mckendy Fils-Aimé "on superstitions"
Renting them from God - Ralph Fletcher "Frost in the Woods"
Graft their gods upon empires - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"
Arranging mosaics of god's face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 8"
Balm fresh flung from the hand of God - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]
By present impulse of the god - Zona Gale "Why Am I Silent?"
Waking up to Goddesses - Nikita Gill "The Book"
The pathways of the gods are empty, flat, and hard - Dana Gioia "The Freeways Considered as Earth Gods"
All kindred gods have crumbled - Philip Becker Goetz "Eumenides" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
Which stares clean into God's face - Louis Golding "Ploughman at the Plough"
Alone shall be his gods - Louis Golding "Shrift Among Hills"
The translation of some common god - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
To purge the god of watchtowers - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
Houdini picking the locks of god - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
Hostile god to me and mine - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Podas Okus"
The sculptor saw the god in marble - Amelia Gorman "Pickling Dog"
Surfeit from the table of the gods - Linda Gregerson "Prodigal"
Even gods must obey what's drawn from Urd's well - Christian Gullette "The Fates"
And God once more seems kind - Ivor Gurney "Letters"
The sentence God never gave us - Nathalie Handal "Glory"
The sweet and bitter gods who walk beside us - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
The gods weaving against sundown - Joy Harjo "For Alva Benson, And For Those Who Have Learned to Speak"
Through the shimmering houses of the gods - Joy Harjo "Nine Below"
gods in the twilight of the universe - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."
These clouds are not God - francine j. harris "Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monstitch Past 45"
The fingerprints of God - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
The too-full goblets of the gods - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "The Poet"
Their old grey gods of Pain - F.W. Harvey "Lassington"
Dipped in sunset by the summer gods - Robert Hass "Mouth Slightly Open"
Carved me in the semblance of a god - Alice Corbin Henderson "From the Stone Age"
Making a great noise to wake a dead god - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"
A god for some fair soul to reverence - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--Brother and Friend"
Let God pray to us for this man - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
I got confused and mixed up God and grief - Edward Hirsch "My First Bookstore"
The envious gods take back what they can - Jane Hirshfield "Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World"
An expert witness on the death of God - Tony Hoagland "In the Waiting Room with Leonard Cohen"
Playing music when god is renounced - Carlie Hoffman "After Translating the Women of the Twentieth Century"
And give her to the god of storms - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Old Ironsides"
To those dark Gods suspended - Thomas Hood "To Goldenhair"
And a god died at the crown - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
A lamp the great God places near all our mortal things - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
Concealing all deeds which God has done - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
Watched God wandering the station in a business suit - T.R. Hummer "After"
That lift the shoulder of a god - Aldous Huxley "Stanzas"
Thy gods are making wine - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Raven in a White Chine"
Enshrouds the throne of God - Eva A. Jessye "To a Rosebud"
Shaping another lonely god - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Strawberry"
the eye of God was made with blood - Ashley M. Jones "HOLYHEADHARRIET"
Who danced wordless before God - Ilya Kaminsky "Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air"
Confident there are no gods out there - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"
A Goddess of the infant world - John Keats "Hyperion"
Take God's gracious gift of night - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
Unmoved among the ruins of the works of God - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
The wine-press of the Wrath of God - Rudyard Kipling "The Vineyard"
Condemned to circle contours of a god's state of mind - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blind Fish"
Till the gods cried out in someone's sleep - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"
All their high gods knelt on the ground - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"
A goddess in a world mastered by repetition - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"
As we played some deadly game for blind gods - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"
As gods out of a dream - Yusef Komunyakaa "Warhorses"
Forsaking nearly everything but God and science - Danusha Laméris "Service Station"
The glamours of the gods return - Archibald Lampman "The Return of the Year"
gods and muses arc from sky to earth - Jessica Langer "Chaos"
Proxy fays, false fauns and rascal gods - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
The shadow of a builder god - Michael Lauchlan "Outside the Community Center"
With the darker gods has died - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory fo the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"
God's wrath upon the wing - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"
God goes out for whiskey Friday night - Robin Coste Lewis "Reason"
Why be jealous of mere gods? - Li Po "Why Be Jealous?" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
In the small hours even God drinks alone - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"
Turn you to ash for a glimpse of god - Angela Liu "The Subway Is Another Place to Die"
Hermes, god of cheats and chatter - "London Lyrics: The Auctioneer's Ode to Mercury" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Never saw god written in neon lights - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
Like the ire of demons and gods - Lu Yu "After Getting Drunk, I Scribble Songs and Poems in Grass Script--Written as a Joke" transl. by Burton Watson
Where the gods' romances are woven in wondrous dream - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
Accepting what the gods provide - Arthur Macy "At Marliave's"
The dice of God were loaded - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
Breathless at the feet of God - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
Paves for the feet of God - Edwin Markham [Untitled]
Only ghosts of gods and wraiths - Don Marquis "At Last"
False gods of gold and steel - Don Marquis "The Child and the Mill"
The dangerous, tender regard of the gods - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"
These gods that make perfect and blight - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"
That gave the gods their wings - Don Marquis "Unrest"
The utterance of the sleepless god - George Martin "The News-Boy"
Curses being the implements of gods - Herbert Woodward Martin "Standing Beneath Grapes"
To be blinded in the skin by a god of light - Harry Martinson "Aniara 58" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Gods may have their watchmen sitting here and listening - Harry Martinson "Aniara 72: The Song of Karella" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A god of roses draws nigh - Harry Martinson "Aniara 86: Song from Gond" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
When the summers of gods begin greening - Harry Martinson "Aniara 86: Song from Gond" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The Goddess with the mask and dagger - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]
Flew the dark recess of God's mind - Louise Mathias "Quandary"
Warring gods vying for last words - Airea D. Matthews "Psyche on Prozac"
The hollow timbre of any submerged god - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"
The vials of the wrath of God - Theodore Maynard "The Building of the City"
A post-tribulationist vaudeville act of God - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"
Toward the earliest gods - Sandra McPherson "Pregnancy"
Sped with the gods of yesterday - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Angry Gallery First-Nighters"
Gone with his gods of yesterday - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Angry Gallery First-Nighters"
As Earth to the crown of Gods - George Meredith "Melampus"
Do half-homage to the God of Laws - George Meredith "Society"
To the high seat of laughing gods - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Which Lucifer in rage from God cast down - Adam Mickiewicz "Baktschi Serai By Night" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Goddess of the silver lake, listen and save! - John Milton "Sabrina"
To breathe in the song of a curious sun god going dark - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"
And mysteries the gods forbid - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"
Wrought in God's perilous mood - William Vaughan Moody "I Am the Woman"
Not the business of the gods - Marianne Moore "In This Age of Hard Trying Nonchalance Is Good, and"
A god toiled that Achilles' arms might shine - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."
To find those lost in the blizzard that God made for Himself - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
A heart beloved of the wiser gods - Allan Munier "R. H. -- A Portrait"
Listening to God's money falling - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Without other gods than thunder - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Mysterious flames of a phosphorescent god - Pablo Neruda "I Recall the Sea" transl. by Jack Schmitt
This island the Wind God inhabits - Pablo Neruda "Men IX" transl. by William O'Daly
Upon the same steps that her gods tread - Pablo Neruda "Men IX" transl. by William O'Daly
Poppies and forgotten gods - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
A closed palace for the lost gods - Pablo Neruda "The Ship" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Watched the vegetable gods grow - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Consumed by an empty god - Pablo Neruda "What Spain Was Like" translated by John Felstiner
Goddess of the shining shrine - E. Nesbit "The Least Possible"
Believed in the gods I am searching for - Caroline Harper New "The Loon's Solid Bones Help Her Sink"
The gods sculpted from that accident - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"
So dares affront the great god Pan - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
All Gods are haunted - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Twin gods hawk-headed and immense - Robert Nichols "Polyphemus His Passion: A Pastoral"
The goddess of the smooth doorway - Alice Notley "The New Brain"
A god's bones upon the naked hills - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Blasphemed against their gods of clay - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
By the axe of an angry god - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"
An eden with no God or Eve in it - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"
Asking to see God's identity papers - Mary Oliver "I Wake Close to Morning"
Private show for the Gods - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
The God found within the stone - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Gods walk out upon a path of stars - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Blood thins to Gods' ichor - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
A cobbler in the house of the Gods - Matthew Olzmann "Olympus"
Standeth as a goddess stands - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Three Flowers of Modern Greece II. The Fair Maid and the Sun"
Even God needs two versions of Creation - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
Were banging God's Throne with their cellos - Herbert E. Palmer "Air Raid"
Through God's acre of memory - Dorothy Parker "Ballade at Thirty-Five"
Honor the gods of the vertical - Linda Pastan "Vertical"
To pour wine to the Unknown God - Josephine Preston Peabody "Noon at Paestum"
To catch a wind god breathing - Carl Phillips "Vikings"
Fired to do the will of gods - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"
Where the slumbering ice god hides - James E. Pickering "The Call of the Mountains"
White as god's own ribs - D.A. Powell "corydon & alexis, redux"
The decadent ruin where expatriate gods live - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Carved its past out of God's shoulder - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"
Gold tricking mortals, mortals tricking gods - Noel Quiñones "Orange"
God as he ransacked the world - Charles Rafferty "An Adulterous Spring"
Have a word with all the gods that failed me - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"
Fresh from the mint of God - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"
Faith tastes the bread of God - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"
The madness when the old gods rave - Herbert Randall "The Dream That's in the Sea"
Staring at the god he could never rival - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"
Gods of the first dark surmise - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"
The white eyes of blind gods - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Peer into the craters of an eyeless god - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
A word molten out of the mouth of God - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Like God out of his Burning Bush - Lola Ridge "Jude"
In God's garden they are silent - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Angels" transl. by Jessie Lemont
No churches to encircle God - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
A fist in the face of God - Peggy Robles-Alvarado "When I Became La Promesa"
Heard a song that the wood gods sing - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
And lay a daisy at the feet of God - Rennell Rodd "From the Hills of Gardens"
And the wild god rode on the storm - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
A right way to send someone back to the lap of God - Brittany Rogers "Dressing the Body"
The season of greedy gods - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"
Though the cunning gods outwit us - Isaac Rosenberg "Sleep"
The astrolabe of God's mysteries - Rumi "The Silence of Love" transl. by E.H. Whinfield
Who tower beside this goddess of twilight air - George William Russell "Aphrodite"
waited for God to fall out of my mouth - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Mona Lisa's Abecedarian to Leonardo da Vinci"
Stalwarts given to the joys of God - David St. John "Francesco and Clare"
For the gods will lend no hand - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales Gründen]"
Split by jealous gods - Jason Schneiderman "Wedding Poem for Ada & Lucas"
Strange wisdom from a god long dead - Ann K. Schwader "Set in Whitechapel"
What dark god's avatar awaits - Ann K. Schwader "A Voyage(r) Too Far"
Had with the Gods again acceptance found - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]
With God's breath at their backs - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"
Wrestled with God for the sacred fire - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"
Little gods and devils trying out their wings - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXI"
That no God's heart is softened by our cries - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Doubt"
An altar dignifying the god of chance - Charles Simic "The Altar"
The god of the underworld has let you go - Sandra Simonds "It's Going to Hurt" [Poetry May 2017]
God in his tattered coat - Safiya Sinclair "Center of the World"
Deep-muffled as the dead-march of a god - Alexander Smith "[Joy, like a stream, flows]" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
Fragment of a god's array - Clark Ashton Smith "A Live-Oak Leaf"
Hidden, as are the hands of gods - Leonora Speyer "King's Garden"
Following the wrong god home - William Stafford "A Ritual to Read to Each Other"
Ran like dragons driven by gods - George Sterling "Beyond the Breakers"
Of kingdoms past and gods undone - George Sterling "The Night of Gods"
Rarer songs of gods - Robert Louis Stevenson "To Will. H. Low"
Blown and tossed by tides no god controls - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"
The infinite orbits of all God's loneliest stars - Arthur Stringer "Life-Drunk"
As witnessed by sages and gods - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 202: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
No jealous god's mercies - Algernon Swinburne "A Singing Lesson"
Though the gods and the years relent - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Deal in straight lines with a god of double faces - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"
Prayed to avian gods we don't believe in - Keith Taylor "Acolytes in the Bird-While"
Past all those barriers thrown up by the gods - Keith Taylor "The Sickness That Comes from the Longing for Home"
The grieved verses of a dirge for dying gods - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XIX: The Seeker"
The gods with mouths full of rain - Öykü Tekten "mountain language"
Evils reserved in the judgment of God - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame - Henry David Thoreau "Smoke"
Gods tangled in humanity - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"
Made by blind gods waving sieves - Laurel Trivelpiece "The Turkish Bee"
Thus the stately gods themselves - Louis Untermeyer "Isadora Duncan Dancing"
All the old and heartless gods - Louis Untermeyer "Two Funerals"
God's curse is on the thief - Louis Untermeyer "A Voice from the Sweat-Shops"
By the light of dying gods - John Updike "The Old Bills"
to all the gods in waiting - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"
a crevice that leaks god and reeks magic - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
Burst into the eight million gods of this world - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
The trickster god of silent films - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
The old school gods knew the value of silence - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
The god of the secret world-on-fire - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
Ambrosia spoiled by the gods - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Blood the skies like a storm of Gods - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
The gods in benediction stoop to bless - Rudolph Valentino "Heart Flower"
Farmers in courtyards offer seeds to gods - Wang An-Shih "On mountain slopes" transl. by David Hinton
River gods see no further than themselves - Wang An-Shih "River" transl. by David Hinton
Drive wild gods in their flight - Helen Hay Whitney "In Tonga"
And found the Gods had cheated - Helen Hay Whitney "Water and Wine"
'Twixt Yankee pedlers and old gods - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
By the god of blood - William Carlos Williams "Con Brio"
Gods deadened by the weight of waiting - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
Tracing a pigeon's god to Abraham - Keith S. Wilson "I Find Myself Defending Pigeons"
God upon a crimson wave - Keith S. Wilson "Impression of a Rib"
The North Wind roared defiance to the gods - Huldah Lucile Winsted "The Deluge"
If an injured god used his prerogative of anger - Humbert Wolfe "The Sicilian Expedition"
To anoint some other god - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"
God and the Devil hang side by side - Charles Wright "Tutti Frutti"
Only a mind reading God could unfold - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"
Our shamans were women and our gods multiple - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Say Grace"
From those who serve different gods - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Say Grace"
God opening his box of fish-hooks - Dean Young "Dear Reader," [Poetry Dec. 2004]
Waiting for the god under the anthill to speak - Dean Young "Quiet Grass, Green Stone"
And the jackal-headed god to weigh my heart - Dean Young "Quiet Grass, Green Stone"
The best gods can do for visitation - Dean Young "Sneeze Ode" [Poetry July 2006]
Let the gods look away as always - Kevin Young "Hive"
Without gods to sing the news - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 17" transl. by Katherine Silver
A burning bush driven by a godawful wind - Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I Are Disappearing"
Redeem all other god-cast stones - Chris Dombrowski "Lunar Calendar"
Of gnats, amyl nitrate, and goddamn rain - Randall Mann "The Fall of 1992, Gainesville, Florida"
In our god-dazzled night - Andrew Hudgins "Two Strangers Enter Sodom"
Loved to death, to damnation and God-death - Toi Derricotte "A Note on My Son's Face"
Rivals Homer's god-enraptured dreams - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
By dark, godforsaken inches - Mary Oliver "Rain, Tree, Thunder and Lightning"
Spice of Godhead in this brew - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"
A little bubble in the glass of Godhead - Harry Martinson "Aniara 13" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A fake among all the real and gorgeous godheads - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
Clenched tight on godspeak shrapnel - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"
Hear the mantra of the mouse-god sounding - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
Boldly sings the river-god - Louise Imogen Guiney "Down Stream"
Where Nereid maids about the sea-god throng - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"
The other half of the sea-god's bones - Genevieve Taggard "Skull Song"
Where the gates of the Storm-god are - William D. Hodjkiss "Song of the Storm Swept-Plain"
A smile of Sarcophagi, Sun-gods, and Madonnas - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
To meet the sun-god's call - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Awakening of the Lilies"
Dews wrung from the Sun-god's eyes - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"
Above the prison of the captive Titan-god - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
was made from the hands of an ungodly master - Ashley M. Jones "HOLYHEADHARRIET"
War-god banners lead us - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"
When the wind-god shrieks aloud - George Martin "Aspiration"
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A million-dollar god with a two-cent heaven - Hanif Abdurraqib "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This"
We are the crooked alphabet of God - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan CI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
God's word is a melody I sang once then forgot - Kaveh Akbar "I Wouldn't Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance"
Another of God's secrets wasted on me - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog"
God makes us in pairs - Kaveh Akbar "Ultrasound"
Among prisms and imprisoned gods - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"
Undefiled graffiti of gods - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"
Bewitched gods tracking time - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"
To god with no return address - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"
Tributes to the god who slew the celestial bull - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
To argue with God in context - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"
A god in the minus numbers - Julia Alvarez "Small Portions"
Command our sadness to dance to God's will - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"
And to the sun God gave a speedy answer - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XIV: The Maiden and the Sun" transl. by Sir John Bowring
To forsake this absent god tired in the pale grass - William Archila "Childhood"
Those who seek a tiny shot of God - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
The god of small slaughters - Fatimah Asghar "How We Left: Film Treatment"
What the pagans called god - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Wander among fragments of gods - Margaret Atwood "A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum"
I do the wolfish work of god and make myself again - Ruth Awad "My Hair Burned Like Berenice" [Poetry Jan/Feb 2024]
To worship winter's God - Grant Balfour "Where Union Dwelt"
The best gods of the boggled mind - Mary Jo Bang "The Experience of Being Outside"
The oxidized face of a statue of some goddess - Ari Banias "Curriculum"
Like gods competing for the universe - Elizabeth Bartlett "City Game: Marbles"
As we are all gods - Sandra Beasley "Say the Word"
Sit like a dead god incensed - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Come alive at the nod of a god grown mute - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
In his secret shrine hallows a wealth of gods - Stephen Vincent Benet "Hymn in Columbus Circle"
A slender javelin tipped with light, hurled at the gods - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
The cry of the bitter clay to the God who devised it carrion - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"
The roaring mill where gods grind without pity - William Rose Benét "The City"
Where swarming vermin hailed it god and lord - William Rose Benét "The City"
Blake heard the asides of God - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
No small iron gods in our pockets - Joshua Bennett "Summer Job"
Climbed to the feet of God - Robert Hugh Benson "After a Retreat"
The clutch of God's great rocks upon my keel - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"
Where forgotten gods lie thirsting - Paul Bernstein "A Prayer for the Departed"
Eldritch visions of the Armageddon of the Elder Gods - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"
God suffer little men the taste of soul's desire - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
Gods and goddesses of geometric exactitude - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"
The wind bares you for a god's descent - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
Siphoned sacrifices meant for our goddess - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Of bronze, that God's salt was corroding - William Stanley Braithwaite "Rye Bread" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The stars of God's mercies - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
The God who dwells inside the winning - Fleda Brown "Afternoons at the Lake"
An iteration of the many names of god - Nickole Brown "Parable"
Marooned in the Land God gave Cain - Paul Cameron Brown "Helluland"
Angels of a creative god - Mahogany L. Browne "litany"
True gods sigh for the cost and pain - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"
The Goddess of Numbers multiplying into dawn's light - Anthony Butts "Song of Starry-Eyed Children"
With which God veils His face - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
The old gods stand silently - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: In the Forest"
To quench the arrows of the god of day - N.H. Carter "[No verdure smiles; no crystal fountains play]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Possessed some quilt scrap of God - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"
Drift where the gods won't find us - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"
God of gold and flaming glass - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"
Sweets for the stove god - May Chong "Catering"
The voice of a drunken Greek god - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
iron understands time is another name for God - Lucille Clifton "rust"
But God can act the Devil - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Who were the gods you smiled for? - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "He Mea Mālo'elo'e #3"
The grieved god came not again - Susan Coolidge "The Legend of Kintu"
From atoms crowding God's abyss - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"
Lend a myth to God - Hart Crane "To Brooklyn Bridge"
The old gods shaking existence beneath my feet - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
And call upon the unknown Gods - Olive Custance "The Magic Mirrors"
I know I'm one of God's sparrows - DéLana R. A. Dameron "When Mama died, I lost my air"
for one punished by the gods to walk free - Deborah L. Davitt "Unbound" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]
Who plays with God for worlds, and wins - Geoffrey Dearmer "Eight Sonnets II"
Cast in ashes at the trampling feet of mortal gods - Geoffrey Dearmer "On the Road"
Some villains decompose into gods - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Met by the gods with banners - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXIII: Requiem"
Caligula and Nero knew a godliness akin to mine - Thomas M. Disch "Ballade of the New God"
And what can dead gods do? - Thomas M. Disch "Ballade of the New God"
Dirges from some demon goddess - Irving Sidney Dix "The Storm"
One god in every hidden face - Mary B. Dodge "A Sylvan Search" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.17, no.99, Mar. 1876]
Whorled thumbprint of a god - Chris Dombrowski "Another rapture rescheduled,"
The ancient wail heard by dead Gods - Edward Dowden "A Child's Noonday Sleep"
Cup-bearer at feasts of God - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"
Untouched by everything except the god who is the sun - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"
Should still in justice strive with Gods - Drayton "Kings" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.14, no.379, 4 July 1829]
The empty spaces left by the gods - Stephen Dunn "Let's Say"
That was humble among the gods - Lord Dunsany "The Return of Song"
What gods have met in battle - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"
Our battle with the gods to wage - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"
Thin as the fingernail of god - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
The vanished gods to me appear - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Brahma"
With the gods on mallows dined - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
Soothsayer of the eldest gods - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
Not the gods can shake the Past - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"
What time the gods kept carnival - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"
The gods in their cloudless periods - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"
Seized the seven powers of the gods - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
With God's gauntlet flung - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"
Praise god for the art of forgetting - Nava EtShalom "Of Ceos"
Pays a high price for discarded gods - Donald Evans "En Monocle"
The names of the gods who chose to ignore us - Kendall Evans "Now We Must Speak in the Shadows of Silence"
The gods are nervous - Noah Falck "Fatigue Performance"
Lonely Gods on shrouded heights - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"
The moon reaping God's blue fields - Eleanor Farjeon "A Sheaf of Nature-Songs VII"
later than the gods' twilight - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"
Perilous tombs of forgotten goddesses - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
God's first dream as her crown - Michael Field "Virgo Potens"
an insurance policy against what God won't cover - Mckendy Fils-Aimé "on superstitions"
Renting them from God - Ralph Fletcher "Frost in the Woods"
Graft their gods upon empires - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"
Arranging mosaics of god's face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 8"
Balm fresh flung from the hand of God - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]
By present impulse of the god - Zona Gale "Why Am I Silent?"
Waking up to Goddesses - Nikita Gill "The Book"
The pathways of the gods are empty, flat, and hard - Dana Gioia "The Freeways Considered as Earth Gods"
All kindred gods have crumbled - Philip Becker Goetz "Eumenides" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
Which stares clean into God's face - Louis Golding "Ploughman at the Plough"
Alone shall be his gods - Louis Golding "Shrift Among Hills"
The translation of some common god - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
To purge the god of watchtowers - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
Houdini picking the locks of god - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
Hostile god to me and mine - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Podas Okus"
The sculptor saw the god in marble - Amelia Gorman "Pickling Dog"
Surfeit from the table of the gods - Linda Gregerson "Prodigal"
Even gods must obey what's drawn from Urd's well - Christian Gullette "The Fates"
And God once more seems kind - Ivor Gurney "Letters"
The sentence God never gave us - Nathalie Handal "Glory"
The sweet and bitter gods who walk beside us - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"
The gods weaving against sundown - Joy Harjo "For Alva Benson, And For Those Who Have Learned to Speak"
Through the shimmering houses of the gods - Joy Harjo "Nine Below"
gods in the twilight of the universe - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."
These clouds are not God - francine j. harris "Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monstitch Past 45"
The fingerprints of God - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
The too-full goblets of the gods - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "The Poet"
Their old grey gods of Pain - F.W. Harvey "Lassington"
Dipped in sunset by the summer gods - Robert Hass "Mouth Slightly Open"
Carved me in the semblance of a god - Alice Corbin Henderson "From the Stone Age"
Making a great noise to wake a dead god - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"
A god for some fair soul to reverence - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--Brother and Friend"
Let God pray to us for this man - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
I got confused and mixed up God and grief - Edward Hirsch "My First Bookstore"
The envious gods take back what they can - Jane Hirshfield "Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World"
An expert witness on the death of God - Tony Hoagland "In the Waiting Room with Leonard Cohen"
Playing music when god is renounced - Carlie Hoffman "After Translating the Women of the Twentieth Century"
And give her to the god of storms - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Old Ironsides"
To those dark Gods suspended - Thomas Hood "To Goldenhair"
And a god died at the crown - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
A lamp the great God places near all our mortal things - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
Concealing all deeds which God has done - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
Watched God wandering the station in a business suit - T.R. Hummer "After"
That lift the shoulder of a god - Aldous Huxley "Stanzas"
Thy gods are making wine - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Raven in a White Chine"
Enshrouds the throne of God - Eva A. Jessye "To a Rosebud"
Shaping another lonely god - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Strawberry"
the eye of God was made with blood - Ashley M. Jones "HOLYHEADHARRIET"
Who danced wordless before God - Ilya Kaminsky "Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air"
Confident there are no gods out there - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"
A Goddess of the infant world - John Keats "Hyperion"
Take God's gracious gift of night - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
Unmoved among the ruins of the works of God - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
The wine-press of the Wrath of God - Rudyard Kipling "The Vineyard"
Condemned to circle contours of a god's state of mind - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blind Fish"
Till the gods cried out in someone's sleep - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"
All their high gods knelt on the ground - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"
A goddess in a world mastered by repetition - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"
As we played some deadly game for blind gods - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"
As gods out of a dream - Yusef Komunyakaa "Warhorses"
Forsaking nearly everything but God and science - Danusha Laméris "Service Station"
The glamours of the gods return - Archibald Lampman "The Return of the Year"
gods and muses arc from sky to earth - Jessica Langer "Chaos"
Proxy fays, false fauns and rascal gods - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
The shadow of a builder god - Michael Lauchlan "Outside the Community Center"
With the darker gods has died - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory fo the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"
God's wrath upon the wing - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"
God goes out for whiskey Friday night - Robin Coste Lewis "Reason"
Why be jealous of mere gods? - Li Po "Why Be Jealous?" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
In the small hours even God drinks alone - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"
Turn you to ash for a glimpse of god - Angela Liu "The Subway Is Another Place to Die"
Hermes, god of cheats and chatter - "London Lyrics: The Auctioneer's Ode to Mercury" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Never saw god written in neon lights - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
Like the ire of demons and gods - Lu Yu "After Getting Drunk, I Scribble Songs and Poems in Grass Script--Written as a Joke" transl. by Burton Watson
Where the gods' romances are woven in wondrous dream - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
Accepting what the gods provide - Arthur Macy "At Marliave's"
The dice of God were loaded - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
Breathless at the feet of God - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
Paves for the feet of God - Edwin Markham [Untitled]
Only ghosts of gods and wraiths - Don Marquis "At Last"
False gods of gold and steel - Don Marquis "The Child and the Mill"
The dangerous, tender regard of the gods - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"
These gods that make perfect and blight - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"
That gave the gods their wings - Don Marquis "Unrest"
The utterance of the sleepless god - George Martin "The News-Boy"
Curses being the implements of gods - Herbert Woodward Martin "Standing Beneath Grapes"
To be blinded in the skin by a god of light - Harry Martinson "Aniara 58" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Gods may have their watchmen sitting here and listening - Harry Martinson "Aniara 72: The Song of Karella" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A god of roses draws nigh - Harry Martinson "Aniara 86: Song from Gond" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
When the summers of gods begin greening - Harry Martinson "Aniara 86: Song from Gond" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The Goddess with the mask and dagger - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]
Flew the dark recess of God's mind - Louise Mathias "Quandary"
Warring gods vying for last words - Airea D. Matthews "Psyche on Prozac"
The hollow timbre of any submerged god - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"
The vials of the wrath of God - Theodore Maynard "The Building of the City"
A post-tribulationist vaudeville act of God - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"
Toward the earliest gods - Sandra McPherson "Pregnancy"
Sped with the gods of yesterday - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Angry Gallery First-Nighters"
Gone with his gods of yesterday - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Angry Gallery First-Nighters"
As Earth to the crown of Gods - George Meredith "Melampus"
Do half-homage to the God of Laws - George Meredith "Society"
To the high seat of laughing gods - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Which Lucifer in rage from God cast down - Adam Mickiewicz "Baktschi Serai By Night" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Goddess of the silver lake, listen and save! - John Milton "Sabrina"
To breathe in the song of a curious sun god going dark - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"
And mysteries the gods forbid - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"
Wrought in God's perilous mood - William Vaughan Moody "I Am the Woman"
Not the business of the gods - Marianne Moore "In This Age of Hard Trying Nonchalance Is Good, and"
A god toiled that Achilles' arms might shine - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."
To find those lost in the blizzard that God made for Himself - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
A heart beloved of the wiser gods - Allan Munier "R. H. -- A Portrait"
Listening to God's money falling - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Without other gods than thunder - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Mysterious flames of a phosphorescent god - Pablo Neruda "I Recall the Sea" transl. by Jack Schmitt
This island the Wind God inhabits - Pablo Neruda "Men IX" transl. by William O'Daly
Upon the same steps that her gods tread - Pablo Neruda "Men IX" transl. by William O'Daly
Poppies and forgotten gods - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
A closed palace for the lost gods - Pablo Neruda "The Ship" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Watched the vegetable gods grow - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Consumed by an empty god - Pablo Neruda "What Spain Was Like" translated by John Felstiner
Goddess of the shining shrine - E. Nesbit "The Least Possible"
Believed in the gods I am searching for - Caroline Harper New "The Loon's Solid Bones Help Her Sink"
The gods sculpted from that accident - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"
So dares affront the great god Pan - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
All Gods are haunted - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Twin gods hawk-headed and immense - Robert Nichols "Polyphemus His Passion: A Pastoral"
The goddess of the smooth doorway - Alice Notley "The New Brain"
A god's bones upon the naked hills - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Blasphemed against their gods of clay - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
By the axe of an angry god - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"
An eden with no God or Eve in it - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"
Asking to see God's identity papers - Mary Oliver "I Wake Close to Morning"
Private show for the Gods - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
The God found within the stone - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Gods walk out upon a path of stars - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Blood thins to Gods' ichor - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
A cobbler in the house of the Gods - Matthew Olzmann "Olympus"
Standeth as a goddess stands - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Three Flowers of Modern Greece II. The Fair Maid and the Sun"
Even God needs two versions of Creation - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
Were banging God's Throne with their cellos - Herbert E. Palmer "Air Raid"
Through God's acre of memory - Dorothy Parker "Ballade at Thirty-Five"
Honor the gods of the vertical - Linda Pastan "Vertical"
To pour wine to the Unknown God - Josephine Preston Peabody "Noon at Paestum"
To catch a wind god breathing - Carl Phillips "Vikings"
Fired to do the will of gods - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"
Where the slumbering ice god hides - James E. Pickering "The Call of the Mountains"
White as god's own ribs - D.A. Powell "corydon & alexis, redux"
The decadent ruin where expatriate gods live - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Carved its past out of God's shoulder - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"
Gold tricking mortals, mortals tricking gods - Noel Quiñones "Orange"
God as he ransacked the world - Charles Rafferty "An Adulterous Spring"
Have a word with all the gods that failed me - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"
Fresh from the mint of God - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"
Faith tastes the bread of God - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"
The madness when the old gods rave - Herbert Randall "The Dream That's in the Sea"
Staring at the god he could never rival - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"
Gods of the first dark surmise - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"
The white eyes of blind gods - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Peer into the craters of an eyeless god - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
A word molten out of the mouth of God - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Like God out of his Burning Bush - Lola Ridge "Jude"
In God's garden they are silent - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Angels" transl. by Jessie Lemont
No churches to encircle God - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
A fist in the face of God - Peggy Robles-Alvarado "When I Became La Promesa"
Heard a song that the wood gods sing - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
And lay a daisy at the feet of God - Rennell Rodd "From the Hills of Gardens"
And the wild god rode on the storm - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
A right way to send someone back to the lap of God - Brittany Rogers "Dressing the Body"
The season of greedy gods - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"
Though the cunning gods outwit us - Isaac Rosenberg "Sleep"
The astrolabe of God's mysteries - Rumi "The Silence of Love" transl. by E.H. Whinfield
Who tower beside this goddess of twilight air - George William Russell "Aphrodite"
waited for God to fall out of my mouth - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Mona Lisa's Abecedarian to Leonardo da Vinci"
Stalwarts given to the joys of God - David St. John "Francesco and Clare"
For the gods will lend no hand - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales Gründen]"
Split by jealous gods - Jason Schneiderman "Wedding Poem for Ada & Lucas"
Strange wisdom from a god long dead - Ann K. Schwader "Set in Whitechapel"
What dark god's avatar awaits - Ann K. Schwader "A Voyage(r) Too Far"
Had with the Gods again acceptance found - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]
With God's breath at their backs - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"
Wrestled with God for the sacred fire - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"
Little gods and devils trying out their wings - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXI"
That no God's heart is softened by our cries - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Doubt"
An altar dignifying the god of chance - Charles Simic "The Altar"
The god of the underworld has let you go - Sandra Simonds "It's Going to Hurt" [Poetry May 2017]
God in his tattered coat - Safiya Sinclair "Center of the World"
Deep-muffled as the dead-march of a god - Alexander Smith "[Joy, like a stream, flows]" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
Fragment of a god's array - Clark Ashton Smith "A Live-Oak Leaf"
Hidden, as are the hands of gods - Leonora Speyer "King's Garden"
Following the wrong god home - William Stafford "A Ritual to Read to Each Other"
Ran like dragons driven by gods - George Sterling "Beyond the Breakers"
Of kingdoms past and gods undone - George Sterling "The Night of Gods"
Rarer songs of gods - Robert Louis Stevenson "To Will. H. Low"
Blown and tossed by tides no god controls - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"
The infinite orbits of all God's loneliest stars - Arthur Stringer "Life-Drunk"
As witnessed by sages and gods - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 202: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
No jealous god's mercies - Algernon Swinburne "A Singing Lesson"
Though the gods and the years relent - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Deal in straight lines with a god of double faces - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"
Prayed to avian gods we don't believe in - Keith Taylor "Acolytes in the Bird-While"
Past all those barriers thrown up by the gods - Keith Taylor "The Sickness That Comes from the Longing for Home"
The grieved verses of a dirge for dying gods - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XIX: The Seeker"
The gods with mouths full of rain - Öykü Tekten "mountain language"
Evils reserved in the judgment of God - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame - Henry David Thoreau "Smoke"
Gods tangled in humanity - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"
Made by blind gods waving sieves - Laurel Trivelpiece "The Turkish Bee"
Thus the stately gods themselves - Louis Untermeyer "Isadora Duncan Dancing"
All the old and heartless gods - Louis Untermeyer "Two Funerals"
God's curse is on the thief - Louis Untermeyer "A Voice from the Sweat-Shops"
By the light of dying gods - John Updike "The Old Bills"
to all the gods in waiting - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"
a crevice that leaks god and reeks magic - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
Burst into the eight million gods of this world - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
The trickster god of silent films - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
The old school gods knew the value of silence - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
The god of the secret world-on-fire - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
Ambrosia spoiled by the gods - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Blood the skies like a storm of Gods - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
The gods in benediction stoop to bless - Rudolph Valentino "Heart Flower"
Farmers in courtyards offer seeds to gods - Wang An-Shih "On mountain slopes" transl. by David Hinton
River gods see no further than themselves - Wang An-Shih "River" transl. by David Hinton
Drive wild gods in their flight - Helen Hay Whitney "In Tonga"
And found the Gods had cheated - Helen Hay Whitney "Water and Wine"
'Twixt Yankee pedlers and old gods - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
By the god of blood - William Carlos Williams "Con Brio"
Gods deadened by the weight of waiting - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
Tracing a pigeon's god to Abraham - Keith S. Wilson "I Find Myself Defending Pigeons"
God upon a crimson wave - Keith S. Wilson "Impression of a Rib"
The North Wind roared defiance to the gods - Huldah Lucile Winsted "The Deluge"
If an injured god used his prerogative of anger - Humbert Wolfe "The Sicilian Expedition"
To anoint some other god - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"
God and the Devil hang side by side - Charles Wright "Tutti Frutti"
Only a mind reading God could unfold - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"
Our shamans were women and our gods multiple - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Say Grace"
From those who serve different gods - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Say Grace"
God opening his box of fish-hooks - Dean Young "Dear Reader," [Poetry Dec. 2004]
Waiting for the god under the anthill to speak - Dean Young "Quiet Grass, Green Stone"
And the jackal-headed god to weigh my heart - Dean Young "Quiet Grass, Green Stone"
The best gods can do for visitation - Dean Young "Sneeze Ode" [Poetry July 2006]
Let the gods look away as always - Kevin Young "Hive"
Without gods to sing the news - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 17" transl. by Katherine Silver
A burning bush driven by a godawful wind - Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I Are Disappearing"
Redeem all other god-cast stones - Chris Dombrowski "Lunar Calendar"
Of gnats, amyl nitrate, and goddamn rain - Randall Mann "The Fall of 1992, Gainesville, Florida"
In our god-dazzled night - Andrew Hudgins "Two Strangers Enter Sodom"
Loved to death, to damnation and God-death - Toi Derricotte "A Note on My Son's Face"
Rivals Homer's god-enraptured dreams - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
By dark, godforsaken inches - Mary Oliver "Rain, Tree, Thunder and Lightning"
Spice of Godhead in this brew - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"
A little bubble in the glass of Godhead - Harry Martinson "Aniara 13" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A fake among all the real and gorgeous godheads - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
Clenched tight on godspeak shrapnel - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"
Hear the mantra of the mouse-god sounding - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
Boldly sings the river-god - Louise Imogen Guiney "Down Stream"
Where Nereid maids about the sea-god throng - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"
The other half of the sea-god's bones - Genevieve Taggard "Skull Song"
Where the gates of the Storm-god are - William D. Hodjkiss "Song of the Storm Swept-Plain"
A smile of Sarcophagi, Sun-gods, and Madonnas - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
To meet the sun-god's call - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Awakening of the Lilies"
Dews wrung from the Sun-god's eyes - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"
Above the prison of the captive Titan-god - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
was made from the hands of an ungodly master - Ashley M. Jones "HOLYHEADHARRIET"
War-god banners lead us - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"
When the wind-god shrieks aloud - George Martin "Aspiration"
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