Potential Titles: Spirit
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somethingdarkerSome ants drag around spirits the size of houses - Duane Ackerson "Little Ghosts"
Enlarged to the size of her spirit - Duane Ackerson "Little Ghosts"
With pure spirits in regions of light - "Addressed to a Friend"
Steal on my spirit's hearing - Effie Afton "Lines to a Friend, on Removing from Her Native Village"
A spirit on slender ropes of mist - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Before the Rain"
Guardian spirits grown weary-hearted - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"
The holy spirit of the ridiculous - Julia Alvarez "Why Don't We Ever See Jesus Laughing?"
And all the dead spirits walking with me - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
Full many a martyred spirit dwells - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"
My spirit keep from deeds of darkness - Benjamin West Ball "Morning"
Lift my spirit to the spheres - Benjamin West Ball "Proem"
Would sooner set my spirit on fire - John Kendrick Bangs "Where Are They?"
Still as a spirit's breath - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"
Have bidden those waiting spirits speed - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"
The vagrant spirit fretted in your feet - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"
My spirit finds them in himself - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott
My spirit like a sail outspread - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
The spirit of a heron lifting from the river - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"
Spirits that call and no one answers - Hilaire Belloc "Hannaker Mill (1913)"
Roving spirits too chill for living, moving pulses - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Collates spirit with this consensus - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"
Thy spirit intermix with earthly hope - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Hungry, unappeasable furious spirit - Frank Bidart "The Ghost"
Because his spirit was afraid of its nakedness - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: III. The Undiscovered World"
A ram for the spirits of the road - "The Book of Odes: No.245. She Who First Bore Our People" transl. by Burton Watson
Crushed his spirit with gibe and jest - Mary E. Bradley "Thanks to You" [St. Nicholas v.V no.11, Sept. 1878]
Still my spirit's inward sight beholds - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"
Sets the impatient spirit free - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"
My spirit drank a mingled tone - Emily Bronte "My Comforter"
Carrying the spirit of the weed - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
Who are spirits of scorn - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Dismal spirits doomed to wander - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Winter"
The troubled spirit that had driven me forth - C. "That's What We Are" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCL, v.LVI, Dec. 1844]
And read my spirit's dower - W. Wilfred Campbell "Peniel"
Velvet-winged spirits of sleep - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
And the unabiding spirit knocks forever - Bliss Carman "Bahaman"
Once more your spirit stirs the air - Bliss Carman "Carnations in Winter"
Pride shall make my spirit strong - Robert Chambers "The Ladye that I Love" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
To train these earth-born spirits for the skies - Rev. George B. Cheever "To an Infant in the Cradle" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
The will of a local spirit - Catherine Chen "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right to Left"
Invoke the listening spirit to my aid - William Chiddon "Idyll: In Imitation of Theocritus"
Spirit voices from an unseen world - Jose Santos Chocano "A Song of the Road" transl. by John Pierrepont Rice
Rest awhile by its spirit gates - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
My spirit would grateful rise - "The City" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
At the right hand of whatever spirit guides us - Patricia Clark "Creed"
Like demons in my spirit's house - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene VI"
To dwell with wicked spirits - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XI"
And left within his spirit hope - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob"
The webs of my sleeping spirit - Leonard Cohen "O Wife Unmasked"
The hinges of the spirit world - Billy Collins "Questions About Angels"
The spirit poured on the air unused - Arthur Colton "Snow"
In dusty deserts of the spirit find - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
What grief might now our spirits balk - James Henry Cousins "Death and Life"
The high splendor of his spirit - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"
But with a spirit all unreconciled - Adelaide Crapsey "To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window"
The city is people with spirits, not ghosts - H.D. "Cities"
A shelter wrought of flame and spirit - H.D. "Nossis"
Spirit between the headlands and the further rocks - H.D. "The Shrine ('She Watches Over the Sea')"
The restless spirit take its flight - Catharine Davidson "Dreamland--a Sonnet" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 18 May 1878]
Spirits' dust from witches' broom - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
Spirits entering a boardinghouse - Tyree Daye "Friday Night on the Hill"
In fear or favour of my spirit's need - Geoffrey Dearmer "Eight Sonnets III"
Horror weighs my spirit to the ground - Delta "The Message of Seth: An Oriental Tradition" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
When spirits held the air, and the earth below - Delta "The Snow" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIII, v.LV, May 1844]
Between the spirit and the dust - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XXXI"
Some lost spirit banished from the sky - Irving Sidney Dix "An Idyll of the Hills part 1: January"
That the future his spirited plans will repay - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset and William Roscoe "The Fancy Fair; of, Grand Gala of the Zoological Gardens"
Roll back the Spirit's portals - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"
Compact of spirit and fire and dew - Edward Dowden "Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl's Version of Vigny's 'Chatterton'"
Until the spirit's instincts could he spell - John William Draper "Thomas de Quincey"
Much wearied with the spirit's journeying - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A spirit caught among its wires - John Hunter Duvar "John A'Var's Last Lay"
A stainless spirit, born of Love undying - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Too subtle is the spirit's bliss - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"
Within my spirit's dark stream - Helen Parry Eden "To E.A.P."
Pale as the spirit of the stories - Heid E. Erdich "Our Words Are Not Our Own"
Wherever now resides his dauntless spirit - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Some spirit born of endless night - Anthony Euwer "The Caves of Josephine"
Trembling stars athwart her spirit's night - Marie J. Ewen "The Two Prayers" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.457, 2 Oct. 1852]
The spirits flit more freely now - Tarfia Faizullah "Wait Until It Grows Roots"
A keen knife of spirit stabbing - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
The chambers of his spirit's state - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: IX. The Newest Believer"
Whose spirits haunt the void - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"
And whose deathless spirit leaps - John Gould Fletcher "The True Conqueror"
The uncertain hand of a lost spirit - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
With the spirits of wayward witches - t'ai freedom ford "Answers"
cracked just enough for spirit to seep in - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"
Which frees ignoble spirits from their clay - G.G. Foster "Nydia, the Blind Flower-Girl of Pompeii" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]
Unveil their beauties for the spirit stars - G.G. Foster "The Old Man Returned Home" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.4, Apr. 1842]
A spirit of light on the pale moonbeam flew - G.G. Foster "Sybil and Maiden" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.1, July 1841]
My untamed spirit's mood - G.G. Foster "To an Old Rock"
The spirit of the falling sands - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 1 (February 1923)"
Shape and spirit together mingling - John Freeman "The Body"
A flame moving in the spirit's wind - John Freeman "The Body"
Thwarting the eager spirit's pure intelligence - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Risking spirit in substantiation - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"
The slant spirits trooping by in streams - Robert Frost "The Trial by Existence"
The spirit loses helm and chart - 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"
Daring spirit and purpose high - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Mourners from the spirit of hope - Alimjan Metqasim Ghemnaki "The Monument of Betrayal" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Deserves no space within your spirit - Nikita Gill "Anger"
My raiment fits smooth to the spirit - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Birth"
Became a saint's reptilian spirit - Carmen Gimenez "Post-Identity"
My spirit has turned honey-moth - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
Shattered the doors of my spirit - Louis Golding "Reactionary"
Some kindred spirit shall inquire - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
This stone on your spirit - Linda Gregerson "My Father Comes Back from the Grave"
A fish of my own spirit - Linda Gregg "Whole and Without Blessing"
Within our spirit's garden - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"
Soul's unrest and spirit's scar - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
The vacillating spirit of that flaring omnipotent star - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"
Where heal the spirit's scars - Ivor Gurney "Camps"
Your spirits high in honour - Ivor Gurney "To Certain Comrades"
A country in your spirit - Nathalie Handal "She"
By the spirit of frolic and mischief led - Hare and Hounds" [St. Nicholas v.V no.12, Oct. 1878]
A lead line into the spirit world - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
The earth spirits were fed with songs - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Spirit spent to coalesce - Marwa Helal "the days is numbered"
The free spirit of its eagle flight - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Youth's buoyant spirit wakes for me - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Whose spirits all my thoughts control - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
High spirit of ascendant worth - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"
The proud spirit's veil - Felicia Hemans "The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra"
Spirits deep immerse in doubt and trouble - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Futurity"
Poltergeist among the grand spirits - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"
Pervades the air my spirit breathes - Jennie Earngey Hill "My Tribute"
Tiny fires with hurt earth spirits - Brenda Hillman "Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways"
My soaring spirit conquered at thy feet - Henry B. Hirst "Sonnets: Ianthe" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
My spirit humbled by surprise - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
My spirit flew in feathers then - Thomas Hood "I Remember"
In this regret there's no kindred spirit - Hsieh Ling-Yun "On Stone-Gate Mountain's Highest Peak" transl. by David Hinton
A punch that knocks the wind and spirit clear - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"
Twin spirits in alternate ebb and flow - Maurice Hutton, LL.D. "Introduction [to Wayside Poems by William Hodgson Ellis]"
As evil spirits near them wend - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
Chanting the music of a spirit strong - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Live oak spirits in dancer's pose - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Speak my spirit's emotion - John Imlah "Farewell to Scotland"
A cyclone in my spirit led to divorce - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"
when the spirit returns to the magnitude it belongs - Jzl Jmz "I Have a New Obsession with Bones"
Some gentle spirit sorrow-fed - Emily Pauline Johnson "Fire-Flowers"
The fiery spirit of the seer - James Weldon Johnson "O Black and Unknown Bards"
The spirit of the vampire lurks - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"
No art to welcome spirits - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Amass the spirit of dead fire - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
Hearts with responding spirit - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
Refreshing to the wounded spirit's thirst - J. Beauchamp Jones "An Hour Among the Dead" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
A fluid holiness of spirits - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
Words live in the spirit of her face - June Jordan "A Song for Soweto"
Their spirits whisper old recipes - Zilka Joseph "Pantoum for Chik-cha Halwa"
Here my spirit folds her wings - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
Sunder'd far from all my spirit values - H.G.K. "The Wanderer" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXXIV, no.CCCCLVI, Oct. 1853]
A spirit pushes its way through the busted geometry - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
Where my wandering spirit will return - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"
When your spirit has crushed mountains - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
A melancholy spirit well might win - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Some midnight spirit nurse - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
In presumption of the daring spirit - Fanny Kemble "The Prayer of a Lonely Heart"
Spirit of all sweet sounds - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Spirit of all sweet sounds! who in mid air]"
Wither our spirits stray - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"
Where sea grass and spirit hair grow - Rosamond S. King "Sea Garden"
Light a fire to the feet of my son's spirit - "Lament of a Man for His Son" [collected from the Paiute by Nellie Barnes] https://poets.org/poem/lament-man-his-son
Let my spirit dream a while - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
My spirit swift with passion - Archibald Lampman "Passion"
Sink my spirit to the dust - Archibald Lampman "Peccavi, Domine"
When the spirit flowed unbroken - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
Invoke the spirits of the lost - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"
The lion of the spirit - D.H. Lawrence "St Mark"
Leave off my wings of the spirit - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
Lost murdered spirits of the world - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
Clothed in my spirit's grey - Amy Levy "In a Minor Key"
Spirits of the past and future days - Amy Levy "Sinfonia Eroica"
From each fiery bed higher the stricken spirit lifts - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: IV. Victory"
Awakes the spirit in its chrysalis - Mrs. Estelle Anna Lewis "Sonnets: Joys of Intellectual Employment" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.5, Nov. 1852]
The style of an immortal spirit - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson
The spirit of killing is in the spears - Li T'ai-Po "The Northern Flight" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
And spirits behind those birds of flame - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"
Our spirit's suns divided - Amy Lowell "The End"
The quiet of your spirit - Amy Lowell "The Giver of Stars"
But still the spirit sees and hears - James Russell Lowell "Rosaline" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]
In three thousand leagues of my spirit - Leopoldo Lugones "Journey" (translated by Muna Lee)
The guiding spirits of the stars - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"
Breathes like a startled spirit - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "In an Autumn Garden"
Strips my spirit of the pall Time weaves - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"
Throw the silence of my spirit - Fiona MacLeod "The Rune of Age"
Splendors round my spirit wheel - George Martin "Aspiration"
Around my dreamy spirit weaves - George Martin "In the Woods of St. Leon"
Which constitutes the lowest reach of time in spirit's day - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Magic arts in truth not worth the spirit I expend - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The spirits that inhabit dream - John Masefield "King Cole"
A stretching of the spirit's hand - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Various gifts of flesh and spirit - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
Broke open spirit secrets - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
Where shadows exhale their spirits of smoke - John McCarthy "Portrait of a Preacher's Secret, Dekalb, Illinois"
Every lily in the garden set my spirit once aflame - Justin H. McCarthy "Memory"
What jewelled glory fills my spirit's eye - Claude McKay "Russian Cathedral" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
My spirit wails for water - Claude McKay "Thirst"
The rare lonely spirits - Claude McKay "To a Poet"
The spirit of change is burning - Louis J. McQuilland "A Song of the Open Road"
What spirit noise this time permits - Diane Mehta "Gala Noise"
Honor in them the spirit that seeks to save - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson
For giving their one spirit voice - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"
Infuse a spirit to misty shapes of ancient strife - George Meredith "Rhine-land" [Household Words no.330, July 19, 1856]
With spirit past the sense - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
For spirits are fickle as men - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"
My subtle spirit's end - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"
Or unsphere the spirit of Plato - John Milton "Il Penseroso"
The strong, deep current of your spirit's voice - N. Scott Momaday "Yahweh to Urset"
Its spirit haunt him in romantic hours - Robert Montgomery "Beautiful Influences" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Satellite spirits - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Still Life as Rocket: 42"
Spiritual brother to the coral - Marianne Moore "Black Earth"
Spirit creates form - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"
The lone spirit's vesper hymn - Thomas Moore "Nonsense"
If spirits can steal from the regions of air - Thomas Moore (1779-1852) "At the Mid Hour of Night"
Faith to the noble spirit of Space - William Moore "Dusk Song"
The chains that wounded spirits wear - Morna "Ianthe"
Yet think not that my spirit stoops - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Home for a hundred immortal spirits - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
the spirits have refused to die by fire - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
Dead spirits dance upon the slope - Robert Nelson "Below the Phosphor" [Fantasy Fan, v.1, no.10, June 1934]
Spirits in the belly suddenly enlarged - Hoa Nguyen "The Flying Motorist Artist"
Chains that clogged my spirit's pinions - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Veiled Altar, or the Poet's Dream" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]
My earth-freed spirit soars and spurns control - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Veiled Altar, or the Poet's Dream" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]
Spirit spent by sterile tears - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons III. The Reckoning"
Their spirits dancing like woodpeckers hungry and knocking - Margaret Noodin "Circle Images" transl. by the author
Watches the new spirits arriving in the belly of the sturgeon - Margaret Noodin "Sometimes" transl. by the author
Memories call over the summits of spirit and mind - Robert Winkworth Norwood "Dives in Torment"
The tiring task of casting lots on the cost of a human spirit - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"
Like the clothes of our spirits - Mary Oliver "Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen"
Their labor no adversity to the spirit - Mary Oliver "Self-Portrait"
the spirits of all those who must hide from the day - Elisha Oluyemi "Another Beauty of Darkness" [25 March 2024]
Like wine to my spirit - James Oppenheim "Self"
To the world of my spirit - James Oppenheim "We Dead"
Without a hidden spirit - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)
Our spirits join at journey's midpoint - P'an Yueh "Thinking of My Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
The evil spirits will do as they please with our nights - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"
Shimmering spirits lead our sheep astray - Paul Pastnor "Little Boy Blue" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Oct. 1878]
Easy games for a spirit - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"
As a splinter of spirit - Robert Pinsky "First Things to Hand: 2. Book"
A show of arrogant spirit - Po Chu'i "Light Furs, Fat Horses" transl. by Burton Watson
Cups brim with nine kinds of spirits - Po Chu'i "Light Furs, Fat Horses" transl. by Burton Watson
My heart has spirit enough to listen - Po-Chu-i "On Being Sixty" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Elusive spirit of the shadow-land - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"
Blithe spirit of the morning air - Alexander Posey "To a Morning Warbler"
Other spirits exhaled before dawn - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"
The viewless spirit of the zephyr - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"
All the forms through which spirit yearns - John Presland "The German Band"
Golden shuttles flung by spirit hands - Ita Aniol Prokop "Gold" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.29, Aug. 1873]
By the ransomed spirit cast away - K.R. (H.I.H. Grand Prince Constantine Constantinovich) "[No! I can ne'er believe, no recollection]" transl. by John Pollen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Konstantin_Konstantinovich_of_Russia
My aching spirit to the yoke of truth - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Mountain Path"
Pretend to recognize the spirit under the skin - Jacie Ragan "The Secret Lives of Fingerprints"
Spirits bang on my sternum - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Bomba"
The spirit shadowed in wraith - Theodore H. Rand "I Am"
The spirit tipt with flame - Theodore H. Rand "The Nightingale"
dreams wash spirits in midnight waters - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
spirits washed in midnight waters - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
Circling as the wheel of spirits - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"
Sweet dark drops of your spirit - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"
Enshrouds the spirit sorrowing pale - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
Fell on my spirit's deeper night - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"
Draws the trembling spirit like a seed - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Drew their sundered spirits close - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
The darkened corners of the spirit - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
My spirit so high it was all over the heavens - Rihaku "Exile's Letter" transl. by Ezra Pound
My spirit in its dress of stillness - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Whom the spirit moves in dreams - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
The spirit of lilies in a leafy place - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"
Into all our dreaming drew the spirit of the stars - Rennell Rodd "A Star-Dream"
Recall the voices of wrong'd spirits fled - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Generous spirits that protect the brave - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Busy spirits that pervade the air - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Some bright spirit tread before the trooping stars - Ronald Ross "Hesperus" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
Mount the spirit spires of beauty - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"
Nerve the flagging spirit's gaze - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
If lonely spirit cross another - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"
The wayward spirit of a pagan tree - Vita Sackville-West "On the Statue of a Vestal Virgin by Toma Rosandic"
A spirit so riddled with leeches - Erika L. Sanchez "Quincenera"
The sad trophies of my spirit - George Santayana "Avila"
The loose rivets of the spirit clay - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"
With his spell upon her spirit - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]
My spirit from its shell breaks free - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
What spirit of corruption endures to threaten - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
How can I guess the visions of your spirit - Marjorie Allen Seiffert "November Afternoon" [The Little Review, Apr. 1917, v.3, no.10]
So many spirits named in candle flame - M. Bartley Seigel "Blood Sonnet"
Every hymn that able spirit affords - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXV"
By spirits taught to write - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVI"
Expense of spirit - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 129"
The Spirit of wind with lightning eyes - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
The lyre on which my spirit lingers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"
A spirit in my feet - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Indian Serenade"
In one spirit meet and mingle - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"
Spirit of delight - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Song"
becoming one body one heart one mind one spirit - ire'ne lara silva "lo nuestro"
Whispering to the spirits - Charles Simic "Early Morning in July"
Remember the things spirited away - Bruce Smith "Ferment"
The spirits of years unborn - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
Buy wooden spoons to stir the spirits - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Every spirit all treason despising - "Song of Union" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Darling of spirit and form - Anne Spencer "At the Carnival"
The spirit level, sacred chart - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"
Visions make their spirits strong - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
Constant to the spirit of our time - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
these jangling night lights fixed to a spirit pleading - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"
a spirit pleading for the next break of dawn - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"
With spirits of unnumbered rains - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
When the spirit's chains are rust - George Sterling "In a Thousand Years"
By hesitating spirits of the wind - George Sterling "The Sibyl of Dreams"
Stab my spirit broad awake - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Task of Happiness"
Before that spirit die - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Task of Happiness"
That pierces heart and spirit - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"
All senses mixed in the spirit's cup - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
The scratch marks on my spirit - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"
Her wild spirits fall away to grief - Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro "Agathè--A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras I" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]
Spirits of pale pearl, in the bosom of the sea - Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro "Agathè--A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras II" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]
His spirit glowed with zeal - Henry Taylor "In Remembrance of the Hon. Edward Ernest Villiers"
Rise away with the celluloid spirits - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
Only my own spirit's pride - Sara Teasdale "Alone"
Built my spirit's house - Sara Teasdale "At Midnight"
For your spirit's still delight - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
My spirit's shaken flame - Sara Teasdale "Driftwood"
From my spirit's gray defeat - Sara Teasdale "Refuge"
My spirit like my flesh - Sara Teasdale "The Voice"
Not even the spirits of memory - Edward Thomas "The Ash Grove"
When the mortal spirit weds a half-veiled immortality - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"
Buckle on my spirit's skate - "Thy Heart"
Clay and spirit must now part - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut
Shall lift my martyred spirit from the dust - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"
Tightening strings upon our spirit's fiddles - Iris Tree "Nerves"
A swarm of milling spirits appears - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
That Endymion sighed to yield his spirit - H.T. Tuckerman "Luna.--An Ode" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
The jubilant spirits increase - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"
And all her rushing spirits - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"
Met indulgent spirits - John Updike "Endpoint"
Nude as spirit's outer form - John Updike "Lucian Freud"
Shadows of the memory haunting your spirit - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"
My truant spirit outward looks - "La Vie Poetique" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Ascend the spirit into the design - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"
Dazzles the earth with his spirit's flight - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]
To catch the spirit of passage - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"
Our spirits of pain - Margaret Walker "We Have Been Believers"
'Mid seas of stars and spirit worlds unknown - Mary Alice Walton "The Photograph"
Spirit creatures ascending heaven - Wang An-Shih "Spirit creatures" transl. by David Hinton
The spirit of the mountain brought to play - G.B. Warren "The Last Arete"
To give their mighty spirits greeting - Mrs J. Webb "Lines to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:2, Feb. 1844)
I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
Prophetic spirit of materials - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
Merged in its spirit I and mine - Walt Whitman "To Thee Old Cause"
The spirit's temper grows too soft - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"
All chains from limb and spirit strike - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Only the fading inks of spirit artistry - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"
Under the eaves of your spirit - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
And the spirit shall be dispersed as thin air - "The Wisdom of Solomon 2" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
A moment in the realm of spirits - Yolanda Wisher "no more grandma poems"
In spirit also marching by - Adolf Wolff "On Seeing the Garment Strikers March"
My spirits play with kindred motion - William Wordsworth "To a Daisy"
A voice is the advent of spirit - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"
Until the spirit untangles itself - Wendy Xu "Pledge"
Glitter in the spirit's night - Francis Brett Young "Testament"
An eager spirit of fragile fancies - Francis Brett Young "Testament"
Spirit me into the six - Kevin Young "Eulogy"
Strange things to my spirit-eyes lie bare - H.L. Leonard "My Treasure" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
Upborne upon the gathering wave of spirit-forces - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XXIV"
Which is spirit-fruit of reverence - Walter S. Percy "Hearted Good"
The tramp of the weird spirit-horses - Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde "Foreshadowings"
The falling star sinks in spiritless death - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
A spirit-planted, fadeless flower - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"
Symphonies of spirit-power divine - Herbert Randall "The White Pine"
Alone did fare forth into spirit-silences - Robert Winkworth Norwood "His Lady of the Sonnets"
When a spirit-spring broke open - Wang An-Shih "River" transl. by David Hinton
With a spirit-tainted breath - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"
Giving out buckets as a kind of spiritual practice - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"
Spiritual amnesia is surely my sorrow - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"
Luring the living into spiritual gates - Hart Crane "Emblems of Conduct"
Her spiritual taper of snow - Archibald Lampman "Inter Vias"
Our spiritual solar-kings - Vachel Lindsay "A Meditation on the Sun"
Too cold and dry for spiritual small potatoes - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
A hunger-fire searching after fuel for spiritual light - Harry Martinson "Aniara 5" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Single and spiritual notes of light - Alice Meynell "A Thrush Before Dawn"
The spiritual steel of Saint Augustine - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"
The jealous spiritualities of the abstract - Frank O'Hara "On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art"
A spiritual escape velocity - Tommy Pico "Junk"
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Enlarged to the size of her spirit - Duane Ackerson "Little Ghosts"
With pure spirits in regions of light - "Addressed to a Friend"
Steal on my spirit's hearing - Effie Afton "Lines to a Friend, on Removing from Her Native Village"
A spirit on slender ropes of mist - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Before the Rain"
Guardian spirits grown weary-hearted - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"
The holy spirit of the ridiculous - Julia Alvarez "Why Don't We Ever See Jesus Laughing?"
And all the dead spirits walking with me - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
Full many a martyred spirit dwells - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"
My spirit keep from deeds of darkness - Benjamin West Ball "Morning"
Lift my spirit to the spheres - Benjamin West Ball "Proem"
Would sooner set my spirit on fire - John Kendrick Bangs "Where Are They?"
Still as a spirit's breath - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"
Have bidden those waiting spirits speed - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"
The vagrant spirit fretted in your feet - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"
My spirit finds them in himself - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott
My spirit like a sail outspread - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
The spirit of a heron lifting from the river - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"
Spirits that call and no one answers - Hilaire Belloc "Hannaker Mill (1913)"
Roving spirits too chill for living, moving pulses - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Collates spirit with this consensus - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"
Thy spirit intermix with earthly hope - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Hungry, unappeasable furious spirit - Frank Bidart "The Ghost"
Because his spirit was afraid of its nakedness - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: III. The Undiscovered World"
A ram for the spirits of the road - "The Book of Odes: No.245. She Who First Bore Our People" transl. by Burton Watson
Crushed his spirit with gibe and jest - Mary E. Bradley "Thanks to You" [St. Nicholas v.V no.11, Sept. 1878]
Still my spirit's inward sight beholds - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"
Sets the impatient spirit free - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"
My spirit drank a mingled tone - Emily Bronte "My Comforter"
Carrying the spirit of the weed - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"
Who are spirits of scorn - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Dismal spirits doomed to wander - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Winter"
The troubled spirit that had driven me forth - C. "That's What We Are" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCL, v.LVI, Dec. 1844]
And read my spirit's dower - W. Wilfred Campbell "Peniel"
Velvet-winged spirits of sleep - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
And the unabiding spirit knocks forever - Bliss Carman "Bahaman"
Once more your spirit stirs the air - Bliss Carman "Carnations in Winter"
Pride shall make my spirit strong - Robert Chambers "The Ladye that I Love" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
To train these earth-born spirits for the skies - Rev. George B. Cheever "To an Infant in the Cradle" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
The will of a local spirit - Catherine Chen "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right to Left"
Invoke the listening spirit to my aid - William Chiddon "Idyll: In Imitation of Theocritus"
Spirit voices from an unseen world - Jose Santos Chocano "A Song of the Road" transl. by John Pierrepont Rice
Rest awhile by its spirit gates - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
My spirit would grateful rise - "The City" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
At the right hand of whatever spirit guides us - Patricia Clark "Creed"
Like demons in my spirit's house - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene VI"
To dwell with wicked spirits - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XI"
And left within his spirit hope - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob"
The webs of my sleeping spirit - Leonard Cohen "O Wife Unmasked"
The hinges of the spirit world - Billy Collins "Questions About Angels"
The spirit poured on the air unused - Arthur Colton "Snow"
In dusty deserts of the spirit find - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
What grief might now our spirits balk - James Henry Cousins "Death and Life"
The high splendor of his spirit - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"
But with a spirit all unreconciled - Adelaide Crapsey "To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window"
The city is people with spirits, not ghosts - H.D. "Cities"
A shelter wrought of flame and spirit - H.D. "Nossis"
Spirit between the headlands and the further rocks - H.D. "The Shrine ('She Watches Over the Sea')"
The restless spirit take its flight - Catharine Davidson "Dreamland--a Sonnet" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 18 May 1878]
Spirits' dust from witches' broom - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
Spirits entering a boardinghouse - Tyree Daye "Friday Night on the Hill"
In fear or favour of my spirit's need - Geoffrey Dearmer "Eight Sonnets III"
Horror weighs my spirit to the ground - Delta "The Message of Seth: An Oriental Tradition" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
When spirits held the air, and the earth below - Delta "The Snow" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIII, v.LV, May 1844]
Between the spirit and the dust - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XXXI"
Some lost spirit banished from the sky - Irving Sidney Dix "An Idyll of the Hills part 1: January"
That the future his spirited plans will repay - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset and William Roscoe "The Fancy Fair; of, Grand Gala of the Zoological Gardens"
Roll back the Spirit's portals - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"
Compact of spirit and fire and dew - Edward Dowden "Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl's Version of Vigny's 'Chatterton'"
Until the spirit's instincts could he spell - John William Draper "Thomas de Quincey"
Much wearied with the spirit's journeying - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A spirit caught among its wires - John Hunter Duvar "John A'Var's Last Lay"
A stainless spirit, born of Love undying - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Too subtle is the spirit's bliss - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"
Within my spirit's dark stream - Helen Parry Eden "To E.A.P."
Pale as the spirit of the stories - Heid E. Erdich "Our Words Are Not Our Own"
Wherever now resides his dauntless spirit - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Some spirit born of endless night - Anthony Euwer "The Caves of Josephine"
Trembling stars athwart her spirit's night - Marie J. Ewen "The Two Prayers" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.457, 2 Oct. 1852]
The spirits flit more freely now - Tarfia Faizullah "Wait Until It Grows Roots"
A keen knife of spirit stabbing - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
The chambers of his spirit's state - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: IX. The Newest Believer"
Whose spirits haunt the void - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"
And whose deathless spirit leaps - John Gould Fletcher "The True Conqueror"
The uncertain hand of a lost spirit - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
With the spirits of wayward witches - t'ai freedom ford "Answers"
cracked just enough for spirit to seep in - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"
Which frees ignoble spirits from their clay - G.G. Foster "Nydia, the Blind Flower-Girl of Pompeii" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]
Unveil their beauties for the spirit stars - G.G. Foster "The Old Man Returned Home" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.4, Apr. 1842]
A spirit of light on the pale moonbeam flew - G.G. Foster "Sybil and Maiden" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.1, July 1841]
My untamed spirit's mood - G.G. Foster "To an Old Rock"
The spirit of the falling sands - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 1 (February 1923)"
Shape and spirit together mingling - John Freeman "The Body"
A flame moving in the spirit's wind - John Freeman "The Body"
Thwarting the eager spirit's pure intelligence - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Risking spirit in substantiation - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"
The slant spirits trooping by in streams - Robert Frost "The Trial by Existence"
The spirit loses helm and chart - 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"
Daring spirit and purpose high - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Mourners from the spirit of hope - Alimjan Metqasim Ghemnaki "The Monument of Betrayal" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Deserves no space within your spirit - Nikita Gill "Anger"
My raiment fits smooth to the spirit - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Birth"
Became a saint's reptilian spirit - Carmen Gimenez "Post-Identity"
My spirit has turned honey-moth - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
Shattered the doors of my spirit - Louis Golding "Reactionary"
Some kindred spirit shall inquire - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
This stone on your spirit - Linda Gregerson "My Father Comes Back from the Grave"
A fish of my own spirit - Linda Gregg "Whole and Without Blessing"
Within our spirit's garden - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"
Soul's unrest and spirit's scar - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
The vacillating spirit of that flaring omnipotent star - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"
Where heal the spirit's scars - Ivor Gurney "Camps"
Your spirits high in honour - Ivor Gurney "To Certain Comrades"
A country in your spirit - Nathalie Handal "She"
By the spirit of frolic and mischief led - Hare and Hounds" [St. Nicholas v.V no.12, Oct. 1878]
A lead line into the spirit world - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
The earth spirits were fed with songs - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Spirit spent to coalesce - Marwa Helal "the days is numbered"
The free spirit of its eagle flight - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Youth's buoyant spirit wakes for me - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Whose spirits all my thoughts control - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
High spirit of ascendant worth - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"
The proud spirit's veil - Felicia Hemans "The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra"
Spirits deep immerse in doubt and trouble - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Futurity"
Poltergeist among the grand spirits - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"
Pervades the air my spirit breathes - Jennie Earngey Hill "My Tribute"
Tiny fires with hurt earth spirits - Brenda Hillman "Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways"
My soaring spirit conquered at thy feet - Henry B. Hirst "Sonnets: Ianthe" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
My spirit humbled by surprise - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
My spirit flew in feathers then - Thomas Hood "I Remember"
In this regret there's no kindred spirit - Hsieh Ling-Yun "On Stone-Gate Mountain's Highest Peak" transl. by David Hinton
A punch that knocks the wind and spirit clear - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"
Twin spirits in alternate ebb and flow - Maurice Hutton, LL.D. "Introduction [to Wayside Poems by William Hodgson Ellis]"
As evil spirits near them wend - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
Chanting the music of a spirit strong - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Live oak spirits in dancer's pose - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Speak my spirit's emotion - John Imlah "Farewell to Scotland"
A cyclone in my spirit led to divorce - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"
when the spirit returns to the magnitude it belongs - Jzl Jmz "I Have a New Obsession with Bones"
Some gentle spirit sorrow-fed - Emily Pauline Johnson "Fire-Flowers"
The fiery spirit of the seer - James Weldon Johnson "O Black and Unknown Bards"
The spirit of the vampire lurks - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"
No art to welcome spirits - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Amass the spirit of dead fire - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
Hearts with responding spirit - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
Refreshing to the wounded spirit's thirst - J. Beauchamp Jones "An Hour Among the Dead" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
A fluid holiness of spirits - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
Words live in the spirit of her face - June Jordan "A Song for Soweto"
Their spirits whisper old recipes - Zilka Joseph "Pantoum for Chik-cha Halwa"
Here my spirit folds her wings - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
Sunder'd far from all my spirit values - H.G.K. "The Wanderer" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXXIV, no.CCCCLVI, Oct. 1853]
A spirit pushes its way through the busted geometry - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
Where my wandering spirit will return - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"
When your spirit has crushed mountains - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
A melancholy spirit well might win - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Some midnight spirit nurse - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
In presumption of the daring spirit - Fanny Kemble "The Prayer of a Lonely Heart"
Spirit of all sweet sounds - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Spirit of all sweet sounds! who in mid air]"
Wither our spirits stray - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"
Where sea grass and spirit hair grow - Rosamond S. King "Sea Garden"
Light a fire to the feet of my son's spirit - "Lament of a Man for His Son" [collected from the Paiute by Nellie Barnes] https://poets.org/poem/lament-man-his-son
Let my spirit dream a while - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
My spirit swift with passion - Archibald Lampman "Passion"
Sink my spirit to the dust - Archibald Lampman "Peccavi, Domine"
When the spirit flowed unbroken - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
Invoke the spirits of the lost - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"
The lion of the spirit - D.H. Lawrence "St Mark"
Leave off my wings of the spirit - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
Lost murdered spirits of the world - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
Clothed in my spirit's grey - Amy Levy "In a Minor Key"
Spirits of the past and future days - Amy Levy "Sinfonia Eroica"
From each fiery bed higher the stricken spirit lifts - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: IV. Victory"
Awakes the spirit in its chrysalis - Mrs. Estelle Anna Lewis "Sonnets: Joys of Intellectual Employment" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.5, Nov. 1852]
The style of an immortal spirit - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson
The spirit of killing is in the spears - Li T'ai-Po "The Northern Flight" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
And spirits behind those birds of flame - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"
Our spirit's suns divided - Amy Lowell "The End"
The quiet of your spirit - Amy Lowell "The Giver of Stars"
But still the spirit sees and hears - James Russell Lowell "Rosaline" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]
In three thousand leagues of my spirit - Leopoldo Lugones "Journey" (translated by Muna Lee)
The guiding spirits of the stars - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"
Breathes like a startled spirit - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "In an Autumn Garden"
Strips my spirit of the pall Time weaves - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"
Throw the silence of my spirit - Fiona MacLeod "The Rune of Age"
Splendors round my spirit wheel - George Martin "Aspiration"
Around my dreamy spirit weaves - George Martin "In the Woods of St. Leon"
Which constitutes the lowest reach of time in spirit's day - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Magic arts in truth not worth the spirit I expend - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The spirits that inhabit dream - John Masefield "King Cole"
A stretching of the spirit's hand - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Various gifts of flesh and spirit - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
Broke open spirit secrets - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
Where shadows exhale their spirits of smoke - John McCarthy "Portrait of a Preacher's Secret, Dekalb, Illinois"
Every lily in the garden set my spirit once aflame - Justin H. McCarthy "Memory"
What jewelled glory fills my spirit's eye - Claude McKay "Russian Cathedral" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
My spirit wails for water - Claude McKay "Thirst"
The rare lonely spirits - Claude McKay "To a Poet"
The spirit of change is burning - Louis J. McQuilland "A Song of the Open Road"
What spirit noise this time permits - Diane Mehta "Gala Noise"
Honor in them the spirit that seeks to save - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson
For giving their one spirit voice - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"
Infuse a spirit to misty shapes of ancient strife - George Meredith "Rhine-land" [Household Words no.330, July 19, 1856]
With spirit past the sense - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
For spirits are fickle as men - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"
My subtle spirit's end - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"
Or unsphere the spirit of Plato - John Milton "Il Penseroso"
The strong, deep current of your spirit's voice - N. Scott Momaday "Yahweh to Urset"
Its spirit haunt him in romantic hours - Robert Montgomery "Beautiful Influences" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Satellite spirits - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Still Life as Rocket: 42"
Spiritual brother to the coral - Marianne Moore "Black Earth"
Spirit creates form - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"
The lone spirit's vesper hymn - Thomas Moore "Nonsense"
If spirits can steal from the regions of air - Thomas Moore (1779-1852) "At the Mid Hour of Night"
Faith to the noble spirit of Space - William Moore "Dusk Song"
The chains that wounded spirits wear - Morna "Ianthe"
Yet think not that my spirit stoops - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Home for a hundred immortal spirits - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
the spirits have refused to die by fire - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
Dead spirits dance upon the slope - Robert Nelson "Below the Phosphor" [Fantasy Fan, v.1, no.10, June 1934]
Spirits in the belly suddenly enlarged - Hoa Nguyen "The Flying Motorist Artist"
Chains that clogged my spirit's pinions - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Veiled Altar, or the Poet's Dream" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]
My earth-freed spirit soars and spurns control - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Veiled Altar, or the Poet's Dream" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]
Spirit spent by sterile tears - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons III. The Reckoning"
Their spirits dancing like woodpeckers hungry and knocking - Margaret Noodin "Circle Images" transl. by the author
Watches the new spirits arriving in the belly of the sturgeon - Margaret Noodin "Sometimes" transl. by the author
Memories call over the summits of spirit and mind - Robert Winkworth Norwood "Dives in Torment"
The tiring task of casting lots on the cost of a human spirit - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"
Like the clothes of our spirits - Mary Oliver "Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen"
Their labor no adversity to the spirit - Mary Oliver "Self-Portrait"
the spirits of all those who must hide from the day - Elisha Oluyemi "Another Beauty of Darkness" [25 March 2024]
Like wine to my spirit - James Oppenheim "Self"
To the world of my spirit - James Oppenheim "We Dead"
Without a hidden spirit - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)
Our spirits join at journey's midpoint - P'an Yueh "Thinking of My Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
The evil spirits will do as they please with our nights - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"
Shimmering spirits lead our sheep astray - Paul Pastnor "Little Boy Blue" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Oct. 1878]
Easy games for a spirit - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"
As a splinter of spirit - Robert Pinsky "First Things to Hand: 2. Book"
A show of arrogant spirit - Po Chu'i "Light Furs, Fat Horses" transl. by Burton Watson
Cups brim with nine kinds of spirits - Po Chu'i "Light Furs, Fat Horses" transl. by Burton Watson
My heart has spirit enough to listen - Po-Chu-i "On Being Sixty" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Elusive spirit of the shadow-land - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"
Blithe spirit of the morning air - Alexander Posey "To a Morning Warbler"
Other spirits exhaled before dawn - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"
The viewless spirit of the zephyr - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"
All the forms through which spirit yearns - John Presland "The German Band"
Golden shuttles flung by spirit hands - Ita Aniol Prokop "Gold" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.29, Aug. 1873]
By the ransomed spirit cast away - K.R. (H.I.H. Grand Prince Constantine Constantinovich) "[No! I can ne'er believe, no recollection]" transl. by John Pollen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Konstantin_Konstantinovich_of_Russia
My aching spirit to the yoke of truth - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Mountain Path"
Pretend to recognize the spirit under the skin - Jacie Ragan "The Secret Lives of Fingerprints"
Spirits bang on my sternum - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Bomba"
The spirit shadowed in wraith - Theodore H. Rand "I Am"
The spirit tipt with flame - Theodore H. Rand "The Nightingale"
dreams wash spirits in midnight waters - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
spirits washed in midnight waters - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
Circling as the wheel of spirits - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"
Sweet dark drops of your spirit - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"
Enshrouds the spirit sorrowing pale - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
Fell on my spirit's deeper night - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"
Draws the trembling spirit like a seed - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Drew their sundered spirits close - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
The darkened corners of the spirit - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
My spirit so high it was all over the heavens - Rihaku "Exile's Letter" transl. by Ezra Pound
My spirit in its dress of stillness - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Whom the spirit moves in dreams - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
The spirit of lilies in a leafy place - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"
Into all our dreaming drew the spirit of the stars - Rennell Rodd "A Star-Dream"
Recall the voices of wrong'd spirits fled - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Generous spirits that protect the brave - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Busy spirits that pervade the air - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
Some bright spirit tread before the trooping stars - Ronald Ross "Hesperus" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
Mount the spirit spires of beauty - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"
Nerve the flagging spirit's gaze - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
If lonely spirit cross another - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"
The wayward spirit of a pagan tree - Vita Sackville-West "On the Statue of a Vestal Virgin by Toma Rosandic"
A spirit so riddled with leeches - Erika L. Sanchez "Quincenera"
The sad trophies of my spirit - George Santayana "Avila"
The loose rivets of the spirit clay - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"
With his spell upon her spirit - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]
My spirit from its shell breaks free - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
What spirit of corruption endures to threaten - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
How can I guess the visions of your spirit - Marjorie Allen Seiffert "November Afternoon" [The Little Review, Apr. 1917, v.3, no.10]
So many spirits named in candle flame - M. Bartley Seigel "Blood Sonnet"
Every hymn that able spirit affords - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXV"
By spirits taught to write - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVI"
Expense of spirit - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 129"
The Spirit of wind with lightning eyes - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
The lyre on which my spirit lingers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"
A spirit in my feet - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Indian Serenade"
In one spirit meet and mingle - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"
Spirit of delight - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Song"
becoming one body one heart one mind one spirit - ire'ne lara silva "lo nuestro"
Whispering to the spirits - Charles Simic "Early Morning in July"
Remember the things spirited away - Bruce Smith "Ferment"
The spirits of years unborn - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
Buy wooden spoons to stir the spirits - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Every spirit all treason despising - "Song of Union" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Darling of spirit and form - Anne Spencer "At the Carnival"
The spirit level, sacred chart - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"
Visions make their spirits strong - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
Constant to the spirit of our time - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
these jangling night lights fixed to a spirit pleading - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"
a spirit pleading for the next break of dawn - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"
With spirits of unnumbered rains - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
When the spirit's chains are rust - George Sterling "In a Thousand Years"
By hesitating spirits of the wind - George Sterling "The Sibyl of Dreams"
Stab my spirit broad awake - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Task of Happiness"
Before that spirit die - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Task of Happiness"
That pierces heart and spirit - Algernon Swinburne "The Lute and the Lyre"
All senses mixed in the spirit's cup - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
The scratch marks on my spirit - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"
Her wild spirits fall away to grief - Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro "Agathè--A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras I" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]
Spirits of pale pearl, in the bosom of the sea - Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro "Agathè--A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras II" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]
His spirit glowed with zeal - Henry Taylor "In Remembrance of the Hon. Edward Ernest Villiers"
Rise away with the celluloid spirits - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
Only my own spirit's pride - Sara Teasdale "Alone"
Built my spirit's house - Sara Teasdale "At Midnight"
For your spirit's still delight - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
My spirit's shaken flame - Sara Teasdale "Driftwood"
From my spirit's gray defeat - Sara Teasdale "Refuge"
My spirit like my flesh - Sara Teasdale "The Voice"
Not even the spirits of memory - Edward Thomas "The Ash Grove"
When the mortal spirit weds a half-veiled immortality - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"
Buckle on my spirit's skate - "Thy Heart"
Clay and spirit must now part - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut
Shall lift my martyred spirit from the dust - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"
Tightening strings upon our spirit's fiddles - Iris Tree "Nerves"
A swarm of milling spirits appears - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
That Endymion sighed to yield his spirit - H.T. Tuckerman "Luna.--An Ode" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
The jubilant spirits increase - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"
And all her rushing spirits - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"
Met indulgent spirits - John Updike "Endpoint"
Nude as spirit's outer form - John Updike "Lucian Freud"
Shadows of the memory haunting your spirit - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"
My truant spirit outward looks - "La Vie Poetique" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Ascend the spirit into the design - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"
Dazzles the earth with his spirit's flight - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]
To catch the spirit of passage - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"
Our spirits of pain - Margaret Walker "We Have Been Believers"
'Mid seas of stars and spirit worlds unknown - Mary Alice Walton "The Photograph"
Spirit creatures ascending heaven - Wang An-Shih "Spirit creatures" transl. by David Hinton
The spirit of the mountain brought to play - G.B. Warren "The Last Arete"
To give their mighty spirits greeting - Mrs J. Webb "Lines to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:2, Feb. 1844)
I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
Prophetic spirit of materials - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
Merged in its spirit I and mine - Walt Whitman "To Thee Old Cause"
The spirit's temper grows too soft - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"
All chains from limb and spirit strike - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Only the fading inks of spirit artistry - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"
Under the eaves of your spirit - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
And the spirit shall be dispersed as thin air - "The Wisdom of Solomon 2" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
A moment in the realm of spirits - Yolanda Wisher "no more grandma poems"
In spirit also marching by - Adolf Wolff "On Seeing the Garment Strikers March"
My spirits play with kindred motion - William Wordsworth "To a Daisy"
A voice is the advent of spirit - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"
Until the spirit untangles itself - Wendy Xu "Pledge"
Glitter in the spirit's night - Francis Brett Young "Testament"
An eager spirit of fragile fancies - Francis Brett Young "Testament"
Spirit me into the six - Kevin Young "Eulogy"
Strange things to my spirit-eyes lie bare - H.L. Leonard "My Treasure" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
Upborne upon the gathering wave of spirit-forces - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XXIV"
Which is spirit-fruit of reverence - Walter S. Percy "Hearted Good"
The tramp of the weird spirit-horses - Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde "Foreshadowings"
The falling star sinks in spiritless death - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
A spirit-planted, fadeless flower - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"
Symphonies of spirit-power divine - Herbert Randall "The White Pine"
Alone did fare forth into spirit-silences - Robert Winkworth Norwood "His Lady of the Sonnets"
When a spirit-spring broke open - Wang An-Shih "River" transl. by David Hinton
With a spirit-tainted breath - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"
Giving out buckets as a kind of spiritual practice - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"
Spiritual amnesia is surely my sorrow - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"
Luring the living into spiritual gates - Hart Crane "Emblems of Conduct"
Her spiritual taper of snow - Archibald Lampman "Inter Vias"
Our spiritual solar-kings - Vachel Lindsay "A Meditation on the Sun"
Too cold and dry for spiritual small potatoes - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
A hunger-fire searching after fuel for spiritual light - Harry Martinson "Aniara 5" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Single and spiritual notes of light - Alice Meynell "A Thrush Before Dawn"
The spiritual steel of Saint Augustine - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"
The jealous spiritualities of the abstract - Frank O'Hara "On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art"
A spiritual escape velocity - Tommy Pico "Junk"
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