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Potential Titles: Man/Men
The noise of dead men's bones - Harold Acton "On the Theme of Ophelia's Madness"
The lighthouse of courageous men - Al-Khansa (further attribution uncertain) "For Her Brother" transl. by E. Powys Mathers
A blind man knows the night - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"
Locked in the memories of forgotten men - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
My own man in the eyes of the law - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
On the railroad tracks of men's arms - Julia Alvarez "Hairbands"
And the men on the nettles under the sky - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XII: Royal Converse" transl. by Sir John Bowring
The power of a good man's prayer - "Away to the Fray" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
To man the mind's dark battlements - Albion Fellows Bacon "The Prophet"
To a man in the midst of dissolving - Mary Jo Bang "Having Both the Present and Future in Mind"
Otherwise covered with tin men - Mary Jo Bang "Rude Mechanicals"
A tin man walking a dog - Mary Jo Bang "T Equals Time to be Tamed"
Great men on horses hunt you - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"
That flows through stars and men - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"
Tunnels eat men like penance - Samiya Bashir "John Henry crosses the threshold--"
As a crowd jeers some unhappy man - Charles Baudelaire "La Beatrice" transl. not credited
And climbed the ladder of swords that men call Life - Stephen Vincent Benet "After Pharsalla"
And fire to strike men blind - Stephen Vincent Benet "Campus Sonnet: 2. Talk"
The stubborn sergeant men call Pride - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Lethe is for no man set - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
Spectral as men once met or crucified - John Berryman "The Possessed"
Where men go mad with craving - Reginald Dwayne Betts "Legacy"
In social converse with the man of straw - Frank Chapman Bliss writing as Octavius "The Naughty Man; or, Sir Thomas Brown"
Made by men to soothe their fears - Maxwell Bodenheim "Landscape"
The avaricious words of a meager, petrified man - Maxwell Bodenheim "Nondescript Typist"
Men who unrolled little souls on plates - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Handpainted Chinaware" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
God suffer little men the taste of soul's desire - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
And listened to the words of men now dead - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Ghosts of dead men meet their ladies walking - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"
Is founded on the hearts of men - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"
That men forget them or were lost in them - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
Remember no man's foot can pass - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
Having endured the forceful nature of men - Jari Bradley "You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See"
A cry of bitter dead men - Gwendolyn Brooks "Gay Chaps at the Bar"
The shape of a man trying to hold up the ceiling - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
Fire set by the staccato of man's rhythm - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"
For one man alone to embody its purpose - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
Disengage one man from the million - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
This the man of thousand thrones - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
That spell upon the minds of men - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
Man marks the earth with ruin - Byron "To the Ocean"
Failure on men's awed tongues - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
By man so soon despised - John Castillo "Thoughts on Good Friday"
When wicked men were reigning - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Waters and stars and the lone moods of men - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Beyond the Verge of Time"
A lost land of boulders and broken men - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"
Also where lynched men die - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"
Let men be what they seem - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"
Only drowning men could see him - Leonard Cohen "Suzanne"
For the vices of a strong man are pardoned - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
Men die, but sorrow never - Susan Coolidge "The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey"
A lonely man upon a lonely shore - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Upset the studied schemes of man - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
From men of study, and from men of straw - George Crabbe "The Library"
Found a man with spears for bones - Dorsey Craft "The Wife's Lament: A Retelling"
The dice of drowned men's bones - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"
The men I wed in wisdom - Nathalia Crane "My Husbands"
Star-dust pays for no man's bread - Adelaide Crapsey "The Fiddling Lad"
own a debt from every man - jason b crawford "Untitled 1975-86"
Some chosen detritus boiling in a poor man's pot - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
The dream a dying man has - Kwame Dawes "At Anchor: The Real Situation"
The live man meeting his own ghost - Coningsby Dawson "The Hill-Tower"
Four elements with man proclaim the unequal war - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
The fruit that makes men wise - Walter de la Mare "The Stranger"
And pen me in this conscious world with guarded men - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"
A pale dream of Nature mocking man - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"
Solace of man's fallen plight - Ernest Dowson "Benedictio Domini"
Cancel half a line to give a Man excuse - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"
With their mild persistence urge man's search - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"
An old man in a dry month - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
The supplication of a dead man's hand - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"
Let each man praise the river - William Hodgson Ellis "Magaguadavic and Digdeguash"
Mean to avoid the eyes of men - Heid E. Erdich "Black and White Monument, Photo Circa 1977"
Tears falling where no man hears - Euripides "The Trojan Women" transl. by ???
Wrong to man's blindfold eye - Frederick William Faber, D.D. "The Right Must Win"
Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
A man cloaked in doves - Carolyn Forche "Curfew"
Above the firmament of man's uncertain strife - Charles Gibson "Sonnets X"
Will make men cast all care away - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
Men gathered together to curse her - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Here stand the dreams of men articulate in stone - Mona Gould "You Wrote"
Trumpeting men through beauty - F.W. Harvey "The Bugler"
The thin blasphemous gravity of wicked men - F.W. Harvey "That I May Be Given Fellowship of Angels and a Happy Heart"
Having all Man's faults combined - Oliver Herford "The Satyr"
Had men the dower of teeth and claws - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
The Paradise whither insurance men turned - C.C. Hine "Mrs. Leary's Cow"
Lay these words on the dead man's eyelids - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
Let God pray to us for this man - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
As wondering men have always done - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
The song of mountains, moths and men - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
To show what man should never see - Thomas Hood "The Water Lady"
Down to man's last dust - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Sea and the Skylark"
Man only has no certain destiny - Henry Clayton Hopkins "Quatrain"
Old ill fortune of better men than I - A.E. Housman "Last Poems II"
The names of men blow soundless by - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXXVIII"
But men may come to worse than dust - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIV"
Clear light that makes men joyful - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Written on the Lake, Returning from the Retreat at Stone Cliff" transl. by Burton Watson
For the lost celestial men - Andrew Hudgins "Two Strangers Enter Sodom"
A dream fell from the sky into the old man's mind - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
A well full of men's tears that weep - "I Saw a Peacock"
That break the heads of dreaming men - Jean Ingelow "Brothers, and a Sermon"
For troubles wrought of men - Jean Ingelow "Brothers, and a Sermon"
The garden of old men playing checkers - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"
The fate of the land is the fate of man - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"
Hear the maddening cheers of men - Fenton Johnson "The Marathon Runner"
The muttered curse of dying men - James Weldon Johnson "Brothers--American Drama"
A spectre men call Duty - James Weldon Johnson "Helene"
A crime to let a bad man live - Roz Kaveney "The Ballad of the Death and the Maid"
Ever cures the good man's ill - John Keats "Faery Song"
Winnow the creeds of men - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Hears the careless foot of man - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"
Named for a man none of us could save - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
Iron left men bent so close to the earth - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
How a man's skin becomes the final page - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Ambition will devour a man without vision - Francis Kruckvich "A Hero and a Great Man"
The wizard touching minds of men - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Power Against Power [Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1864]"
A man dreaming liquid smoke - Michael Lauchlan "Late on Her Birthday"
From the lips of your iron men - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
Only the perfected silence of men - D.H. Lawrence "Going Back"
Sword that no man will put to rout - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
Could change a tree into a wise man - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
Full of storms and men made of seafoam - Angel Leal "A Book Is a Map, a Bed Is a Country"
The traders in men and profit - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"
In proof that men grow old - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Sign'd by a dozen respectable men - Henry S. Leigh "The House on the Top of a Hill"
That gambled with the souls of men - Margaret Leigh "Two Epitaphs: I. On a Diplomat"
In her ears were rings of dead men's bone - Charles G. Leland "Bone Ornaments" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]
By men becoming myths - Philip Levine "And That Night Clifford Died"
The marble walls of men's cold hearts - Amy Levy "Xantippe"
Wildcats and wolves wearing the hats of men - Li Po "Poem No.19 in the Old Manner" transl. by Burton Watson
Vultures hold the flesh of men - Li T'ai-Po "The Battle to the South of the City" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Of a memory in demon-haunted men - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon - Mary Wallace Bundy Little "The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband"
With his merry men well weaponed in steel - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Better to ask what man is not - Nabila Lovelace "The S in 'I Loves You, Porgy'"
A lady of clay and two stone men - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"
No room for men's fears - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Ascension Crater of Solitude"
The rungs by which men climb - John Masefield "Biography"
The men of the tattered battalion - John Masefield "A Consecration"
Grown old with sorrowing men - John Masefield "King Cole"
Poison in a man's distress - John Masefield "King Cole"
Sorceries wherein men's souls grow wise - Theodore Maynard "Pride"
To mortal man the door is sealed - James E. McGirt "Love"
Are these the elements of man's success? - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
From the cursed lips of weak men - Tony Medina "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"
Fighting the devil in other men's fields - George Meredith "Juggling Jerry"
Riding souls of men to night - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Beyond men's bolted doors - Charlotte Mew "The Pedlar"
For spirits are fickle as men - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"
The men behind the ashes and the debris - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
Find your hero in some man despise - George L. Moore "Keats"
A man grown old in in life's dreaming - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
That men still bow down to Caesar - Lewis Morris "Saint Christopher"
While the rich man's mill is strife - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope III: Sending to the War"
When Men are come to mend their Faces - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]
A sword among defenseless men - Pablo Neruda "Dead Gallop" translated by John Felstiner
Could join my wolf steps to the steps of men - Pablo Neruda "Meeting Under New Flags" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Serpents of fire, men of dust - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
Of blood, of mud, of wise men - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Confessional"
Such leave is a free man's due - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
To find yourselves caught in Man's merciless traps - "Night Fall in the Ti-Tree"
That a wandering man may seek her cities - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Traveling the back roads between boy and man - January Gill O'Neil "Hoodie"
A man who has swallowed a cloud - Gregory Orr "From That Moment"
For no man travels twice - John Oxenham "The Pilgrim Way"
Shaped as other men - Dorothy Parker "Salome's Dancing-Lesson"
While the knife is the brother of man - Vesna Parun "Mother of Man" transl. by Mary Coote
Where men reap not, though they plant - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"
Where we pen these unsightly shards of men - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Gotham's three wise men we be - Thomas Love Peacock "The Men of Gotham"
Legions of men with charcoal umbrellas - Andre F. Peltier "I Definitely Dream in Color"
Who made a broken man from parts of broken men - Meghan Phillips "The Bride of Frankenstein Considers Her Options"
Nor juggle with men's bones - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"
The Dead men all wear shoes - John Prine
The hydrogen core of some small man's darkness - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist, Gaslit"
Hunted man straight into your family crests - Noel Quiñones "Orange"
Except for me all men are liars - Charles Rafferty "Advice for Beautiful Daughters Entering a World of Scoundrels"
While dead men's cups brim high - Herbert Randall "Twin Lights"
I hold the souls of men in my pot - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
and no man guards its doors - Barbara Jane Reyes "calles de los dolores y trastorno de tension postraumatica"
Whose ardors work in men and tigers - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Where men are fed into the fires - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"
The walls rise in a man's face - Rihaku "Four Poems of Departure: Leave-taking Near Shoku" transl. by Ezra Pound
The sorcery that subdues the souls of men - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"
The calm of men forbidden to forget - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
The toll men pay to that strange ferry-boat - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"
The old man laughed in the thunder - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Only the battle between man and earth - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Not the men nor the jackals - Erika L. Sanchez "All of Us"
Stronger than all proud men - Carl Sandburg "Death Snips Proud Men"
Know a dead man's thoughts too well - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"
A man sunken to less than cinders - Carl Sandburg "Pool"
Who are mortal men yet - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Invocation"
Constrained no longer by the laws of man - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah III: Nahab"
All men are defeated equal - Ann K. Schwader "Past Human"
In each man's heart a secret temple - Frederick George Scott "Idols"
Though twice ten thousand men have died - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Awakened by man's memory - Salik Shah "Straw-Fitted Elephants"
Old men of less truth than tongue - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVII"
Exceeded by the height of happier men - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXII"
In the immenser hearts of dreaming men - Edward Shanks "Clouds"
Fretted with husks of men - George Soule "Solitude"
Let all men go apart and mourn together - James Stephens "Deirdre"
Twenty men crossing a bridge - Wallace Stevens "Metaphors of a Magnifico"
As men dead in their prime - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
The ocean that thunders upon man's soul - Arthur Stringer "The Surrender"
I drink at dead men's lips - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Time stoops to no man's lure - Algernon Charles Swinburne "At the End of All Desire"
To keep corn for rats and men - Edward Thomas "The Barn"
Chases the dreams of men - Edward Thomas "The Trumpet"
Well-nigh extinct under man's fickle care - Henry David Thoreau "To a Stray Fowl"
Whoever ran pell-mell from smoke-witted man - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"
The wise man builds his house nowhere - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"
The drilling eyes of reptiles and men - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
The men of dust hear bugles, breaking - Herbert Trench "I Heard a Soldier"
porcelain is the purgatory of most men - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
The aim of envious men - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
Comes one day to the minds of waiting men - Mark Van Doren "Waterfall Sound"
Bidding the heart of man to wait - Henry van Dyke "Victor Hugo"
No man's borrowed light - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
The old man weeps for his fairy bride - Susan E. Wallace "The Mistletoe Bough"
No legend lured these men to roam - J. Wareham "The Trojan War, 1915" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
To ransom the children of men - L. Whitehead "New House that Jack Built: an Original American Version"
And Horror stalked before each man - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Cold with dead men's tears - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"
And later men appraise me in the quarrels of poets - Humbert Wolfe "Dedication [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"
The children of men's dreams - Humbert Wolfe "The Gods of the Copy-Book Headings: A Reply"
Reason to lament what man has made of man - William Wordsworth "Lines Written in Early Spring"
Crows flapped down to keep the boatman company - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson
While the bondmen all are weeping - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Unfurled for the exile, the bondman, the world - "The Northmen are Coming" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
The bloodhound's hellish baying stills the hunted bondman's cries - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Towering bellows of babbling businessmen - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"
This hooded ferryman with forked tongue - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
This road requires a toll, a tip to the ferryman - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"
A whisper lost on the ferryman's lips - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
Firemen hacking into the heart of the blaze - Mark Rudolph "Tarot Cards and UFOs"
Beginner's luck and a fisherman's zeal - Lloyd Roberts "A-Fishing"
The sere old fishermen of madness - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Fishermen" transl. by Alma Strettell
Foeman/Foemen: See Foe.
Foreman's shack at the mining pool's edge - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"
So vulgar it would make a foreman blush - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
And made a court that freemen never saw - "The Ghost of Chatham"
A handyman when something breaks down - Mouna Ammar "Ode to Ammou"
The hangman wind that tortures temper and light - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
To ride with the Bandit King and his highwaymen - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
Horseman/Horsemen.
Hunter/Huntsman.
Have heard the junkman's obbligato - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
That kinsman to the wretched - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 186: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Danced the floors of cold longshoremen's halls - David St. John "Guitar"
That was sung to the soul of the madman, Blake - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
The madman in command - John Masefield "Forget"
None but a madman will fling about fire - Isaac Watts "Innocent Play"
Gather the chin hairs of a man-eating goat - A.E. Stallings "Fairy-tale Logic"
The manhandled grammar of nature - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"
Fabric of mankind's tears - Humbert Wolfe "The Gods of the Copy-Book Headings: A Reply"
Never hindered by man-made walls - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"
Leaving manmade dreams behind - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
Queen of the fleets of No-Man's-Land - Vachel Lindsay "Dancing for a Prize"
The scent of an oilman determined to drill - Gabriel Cortez "Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale"
The children the sandman goes to see - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"
Quite unknown to the brown sandman - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"
A spokesman of the night - Wallace Stevens "Chocorua to Its Neighbor"
Never so rash a steersman - "The Drowning of John Remorsson"
A bark all lonely tosses without steersman - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales Gründen]"
Watchman.
Before the woodman's fatal stroke - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"
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The lighthouse of courageous men - Al-Khansa (further attribution uncertain) "For Her Brother" transl. by E. Powys Mathers
A blind man knows the night - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"
Locked in the memories of forgotten men - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
My own man in the eyes of the law - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
On the railroad tracks of men's arms - Julia Alvarez "Hairbands"
And the men on the nettles under the sky - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XII: Royal Converse" transl. by Sir John Bowring
The power of a good man's prayer - "Away to the Fray" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
To man the mind's dark battlements - Albion Fellows Bacon "The Prophet"
To a man in the midst of dissolving - Mary Jo Bang "Having Both the Present and Future in Mind"
Otherwise covered with tin men - Mary Jo Bang "Rude Mechanicals"
A tin man walking a dog - Mary Jo Bang "T Equals Time to be Tamed"
Great men on horses hunt you - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"
That flows through stars and men - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"
Tunnels eat men like penance - Samiya Bashir "John Henry crosses the threshold--"
As a crowd jeers some unhappy man - Charles Baudelaire "La Beatrice" transl. not credited
And climbed the ladder of swords that men call Life - Stephen Vincent Benet "After Pharsalla"
And fire to strike men blind - Stephen Vincent Benet "Campus Sonnet: 2. Talk"
The stubborn sergeant men call Pride - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Lethe is for no man set - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
Spectral as men once met or crucified - John Berryman "The Possessed"
Where men go mad with craving - Reginald Dwayne Betts "Legacy"
In social converse with the man of straw - Frank Chapman Bliss writing as Octavius "The Naughty Man; or, Sir Thomas Brown"
Made by men to soothe their fears - Maxwell Bodenheim "Landscape"
The avaricious words of a meager, petrified man - Maxwell Bodenheim "Nondescript Typist"
Men who unrolled little souls on plates - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Handpainted Chinaware" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
God suffer little men the taste of soul's desire - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
And listened to the words of men now dead - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Ghosts of dead men meet their ladies walking - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"
Is founded on the hearts of men - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"
That men forget them or were lost in them - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
Remember no man's foot can pass - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
Having endured the forceful nature of men - Jari Bradley "You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See"
A cry of bitter dead men - Gwendolyn Brooks "Gay Chaps at the Bar"
The shape of a man trying to hold up the ceiling - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
Fire set by the staccato of man's rhythm - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"
For one man alone to embody its purpose - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
Disengage one man from the million - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
This the man of thousand thrones - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
That spell upon the minds of men - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
Man marks the earth with ruin - Byron "To the Ocean"
Failure on men's awed tongues - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
By man so soon despised - John Castillo "Thoughts on Good Friday"
When wicked men were reigning - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Waters and stars and the lone moods of men - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Beyond the Verge of Time"
A lost land of boulders and broken men - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"
Also where lynched men die - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"
Let men be what they seem - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"
Only drowning men could see him - Leonard Cohen "Suzanne"
For the vices of a strong man are pardoned - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
Men die, but sorrow never - Susan Coolidge "The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey"
A lonely man upon a lonely shore - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Upset the studied schemes of man - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
From men of study, and from men of straw - George Crabbe "The Library"
Found a man with spears for bones - Dorsey Craft "The Wife's Lament: A Retelling"
The dice of drowned men's bones - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"
The men I wed in wisdom - Nathalia Crane "My Husbands"
Star-dust pays for no man's bread - Adelaide Crapsey "The Fiddling Lad"
own a debt from every man - jason b crawford "Untitled 1975-86"
Some chosen detritus boiling in a poor man's pot - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
The dream a dying man has - Kwame Dawes "At Anchor: The Real Situation"
The live man meeting his own ghost - Coningsby Dawson "The Hill-Tower"
Four elements with man proclaim the unequal war - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
The fruit that makes men wise - Walter de la Mare "The Stranger"
And pen me in this conscious world with guarded men - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"
A pale dream of Nature mocking man - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"
Solace of man's fallen plight - Ernest Dowson "Benedictio Domini"
Cancel half a line to give a Man excuse - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"
With their mild persistence urge man's search - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"
An old man in a dry month - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
The supplication of a dead man's hand - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"
Let each man praise the river - William Hodgson Ellis "Magaguadavic and Digdeguash"
Mean to avoid the eyes of men - Heid E. Erdich "Black and White Monument, Photo Circa 1977"
Tears falling where no man hears - Euripides "The Trojan Women" transl. by ???
Wrong to man's blindfold eye - Frederick William Faber, D.D. "The Right Must Win"
Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
A man cloaked in doves - Carolyn Forche "Curfew"
Above the firmament of man's uncertain strife - Charles Gibson "Sonnets X"
Will make men cast all care away - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
Men gathered together to curse her - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Here stand the dreams of men articulate in stone - Mona Gould "You Wrote"
Trumpeting men through beauty - F.W. Harvey "The Bugler"
The thin blasphemous gravity of wicked men - F.W. Harvey "That I May Be Given Fellowship of Angels and a Happy Heart"
Having all Man's faults combined - Oliver Herford "The Satyr"
Had men the dower of teeth and claws - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
The Paradise whither insurance men turned - C.C. Hine "Mrs. Leary's Cow"
Lay these words on the dead man's eyelids - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
Let God pray to us for this man - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
As wondering men have always done - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
The song of mountains, moths and men - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
To show what man should never see - Thomas Hood "The Water Lady"
Down to man's last dust - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Sea and the Skylark"
Man only has no certain destiny - Henry Clayton Hopkins "Quatrain"
Old ill fortune of better men than I - A.E. Housman "Last Poems II"
The names of men blow soundless by - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXXVIII"
But men may come to worse than dust - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIV"
Clear light that makes men joyful - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Written on the Lake, Returning from the Retreat at Stone Cliff" transl. by Burton Watson
For the lost celestial men - Andrew Hudgins "Two Strangers Enter Sodom"
A dream fell from the sky into the old man's mind - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
A well full of men's tears that weep - "I Saw a Peacock"
That break the heads of dreaming men - Jean Ingelow "Brothers, and a Sermon"
For troubles wrought of men - Jean Ingelow "Brothers, and a Sermon"
The garden of old men playing checkers - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"
The fate of the land is the fate of man - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"
Hear the maddening cheers of men - Fenton Johnson "The Marathon Runner"
The muttered curse of dying men - James Weldon Johnson "Brothers--American Drama"
A spectre men call Duty - James Weldon Johnson "Helene"
A crime to let a bad man live - Roz Kaveney "The Ballad of the Death and the Maid"
Ever cures the good man's ill - John Keats "Faery Song"
Winnow the creeds of men - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Hears the careless foot of man - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"
Named for a man none of us could save - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
Iron left men bent so close to the earth - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
How a man's skin becomes the final page - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Ambition will devour a man without vision - Francis Kruckvich "A Hero and a Great Man"
The wizard touching minds of men - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Power Against Power [Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1864]"
A man dreaming liquid smoke - Michael Lauchlan "Late on Her Birthday"
From the lips of your iron men - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
Only the perfected silence of men - D.H. Lawrence "Going Back"
Sword that no man will put to rout - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
Could change a tree into a wise man - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
Full of storms and men made of seafoam - Angel Leal "A Book Is a Map, a Bed Is a Country"
The traders in men and profit - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"
In proof that men grow old - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"
Sign'd by a dozen respectable men - Henry S. Leigh "The House on the Top of a Hill"
That gambled with the souls of men - Margaret Leigh "Two Epitaphs: I. On a Diplomat"
In her ears were rings of dead men's bone - Charles G. Leland "Bone Ornaments" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]
By men becoming myths - Philip Levine "And That Night Clifford Died"
The marble walls of men's cold hearts - Amy Levy "Xantippe"
Wildcats and wolves wearing the hats of men - Li Po "Poem No.19 in the Old Manner" transl. by Burton Watson
Vultures hold the flesh of men - Li T'ai-Po "The Battle to the South of the City" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Of a memory in demon-haunted men - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon - Mary Wallace Bundy Little "The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband"
With his merry men well weaponed in steel - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Better to ask what man is not - Nabila Lovelace "The S in 'I Loves You, Porgy'"
A lady of clay and two stone men - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"
No room for men's fears - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Ascension Crater of Solitude"
The rungs by which men climb - John Masefield "Biography"
The men of the tattered battalion - John Masefield "A Consecration"
Grown old with sorrowing men - John Masefield "King Cole"
Poison in a man's distress - John Masefield "King Cole"
Sorceries wherein men's souls grow wise - Theodore Maynard "Pride"
To mortal man the door is sealed - James E. McGirt "Love"
Are these the elements of man's success? - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
From the cursed lips of weak men - Tony Medina "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"
Fighting the devil in other men's fields - George Meredith "Juggling Jerry"
Riding souls of men to night - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Beyond men's bolted doors - Charlotte Mew "The Pedlar"
For spirits are fickle as men - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"
The men behind the ashes and the debris - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
Find your hero in some man despise - George L. Moore "Keats"
A man grown old in in life's dreaming - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
That men still bow down to Caesar - Lewis Morris "Saint Christopher"
While the rich man's mill is strife - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope III: Sending to the War"
When Men are come to mend their Faces - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]
A sword among defenseless men - Pablo Neruda "Dead Gallop" translated by John Felstiner
Could join my wolf steps to the steps of men - Pablo Neruda "Meeting Under New Flags" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Serpents of fire, men of dust - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
Of blood, of mud, of wise men - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Confessional"
Such leave is a free man's due - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
To find yourselves caught in Man's merciless traps - "Night Fall in the Ti-Tree"
That a wandering man may seek her cities - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Traveling the back roads between boy and man - January Gill O'Neil "Hoodie"
A man who has swallowed a cloud - Gregory Orr "From That Moment"
For no man travels twice - John Oxenham "The Pilgrim Way"
Shaped as other men - Dorothy Parker "Salome's Dancing-Lesson"
While the knife is the brother of man - Vesna Parun "Mother of Man" transl. by Mary Coote
Where men reap not, though they plant - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"
Where we pen these unsightly shards of men - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Gotham's three wise men we be - Thomas Love Peacock "The Men of Gotham"
Legions of men with charcoal umbrellas - Andre F. Peltier "I Definitely Dream in Color"
Who made a broken man from parts of broken men - Meghan Phillips "The Bride of Frankenstein Considers Her Options"
Nor juggle with men's bones - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"
The Dead men all wear shoes - John Prine
The hydrogen core of some small man's darkness - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist, Gaslit"
Hunted man straight into your family crests - Noel Quiñones "Orange"
Except for me all men are liars - Charles Rafferty "Advice for Beautiful Daughters Entering a World of Scoundrels"
While dead men's cups brim high - Herbert Randall "Twin Lights"
I hold the souls of men in my pot - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
and no man guards its doors - Barbara Jane Reyes "calles de los dolores y trastorno de tension postraumatica"
Whose ardors work in men and tigers - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Where men are fed into the fires - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"
The walls rise in a man's face - Rihaku "Four Poems of Departure: Leave-taking Near Shoku" transl. by Ezra Pound
The sorcery that subdues the souls of men - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"
The calm of men forbidden to forget - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
The toll men pay to that strange ferry-boat - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"
The old man laughed in the thunder - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Only the battle between man and earth - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Not the men nor the jackals - Erika L. Sanchez "All of Us"
Stronger than all proud men - Carl Sandburg "Death Snips Proud Men"
Know a dead man's thoughts too well - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"
A man sunken to less than cinders - Carl Sandburg "Pool"
Who are mortal men yet - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Invocation"
Constrained no longer by the laws of man - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah III: Nahab"
All men are defeated equal - Ann K. Schwader "Past Human"
In each man's heart a secret temple - Frederick George Scott "Idols"
Though twice ten thousand men have died - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Awakened by man's memory - Salik Shah "Straw-Fitted Elephants"
Old men of less truth than tongue - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVII"
Exceeded by the height of happier men - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXII"
In the immenser hearts of dreaming men - Edward Shanks "Clouds"
Fretted with husks of men - George Soule "Solitude"
Let all men go apart and mourn together - James Stephens "Deirdre"
Twenty men crossing a bridge - Wallace Stevens "Metaphors of a Magnifico"
As men dead in their prime - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
The ocean that thunders upon man's soul - Arthur Stringer "The Surrender"
I drink at dead men's lips - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Time stoops to no man's lure - Algernon Charles Swinburne "At the End of All Desire"
To keep corn for rats and men - Edward Thomas "The Barn"
Chases the dreams of men - Edward Thomas "The Trumpet"
Well-nigh extinct under man's fickle care - Henry David Thoreau "To a Stray Fowl"
Whoever ran pell-mell from smoke-witted man - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"
The wise man builds his house nowhere - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"
The drilling eyes of reptiles and men - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
The men of dust hear bugles, breaking - Herbert Trench "I Heard a Soldier"
porcelain is the purgatory of most men - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
The aim of envious men - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
Comes one day to the minds of waiting men - Mark Van Doren "Waterfall Sound"
Bidding the heart of man to wait - Henry van Dyke "Victor Hugo"
No man's borrowed light - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
The old man weeps for his fairy bride - Susan E. Wallace "The Mistletoe Bough"
No legend lured these men to roam - J. Wareham "The Trojan War, 1915" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
To ransom the children of men - L. Whitehead "New House that Jack Built: an Original American Version"
And Horror stalked before each man - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Cold with dead men's tears - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"
And later men appraise me in the quarrels of poets - Humbert Wolfe "Dedication [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"
The children of men's dreams - Humbert Wolfe "The Gods of the Copy-Book Headings: A Reply"
Reason to lament what man has made of man - William Wordsworth "Lines Written in Early Spring"
Crows flapped down to keep the boatman company - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson
While the bondmen all are weeping - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Unfurled for the exile, the bondman, the world - "The Northmen are Coming" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
The bloodhound's hellish baying stills the hunted bondman's cries - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Towering bellows of babbling businessmen - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"
This hooded ferryman with forked tongue - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
This road requires a toll, a tip to the ferryman - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"
A whisper lost on the ferryman's lips - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
Firemen hacking into the heart of the blaze - Mark Rudolph "Tarot Cards and UFOs"
Beginner's luck and a fisherman's zeal - Lloyd Roberts "A-Fishing"
The sere old fishermen of madness - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Fishermen" transl. by Alma Strettell
Foeman/Foemen: See Foe.
Foreman's shack at the mining pool's edge - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"
So vulgar it would make a foreman blush - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
And made a court that freemen never saw - "The Ghost of Chatham"
A handyman when something breaks down - Mouna Ammar "Ode to Ammou"
The hangman wind that tortures temper and light - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
To ride with the Bandit King and his highwaymen - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
Horseman/Horsemen.
Hunter/Huntsman.
Have heard the junkman's obbligato - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
That kinsman to the wretched - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 186: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Danced the floors of cold longshoremen's halls - David St. John "Guitar"
That was sung to the soul of the madman, Blake - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
The madman in command - John Masefield "Forget"
None but a madman will fling about fire - Isaac Watts "Innocent Play"
Gather the chin hairs of a man-eating goat - A.E. Stallings "Fairy-tale Logic"
The manhandled grammar of nature - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"
Fabric of mankind's tears - Humbert Wolfe "The Gods of the Copy-Book Headings: A Reply"
Never hindered by man-made walls - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"
Leaving manmade dreams behind - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
Queen of the fleets of No-Man's-Land - Vachel Lindsay "Dancing for a Prize"
The scent of an oilman determined to drill - Gabriel Cortez "Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale"
The children the sandman goes to see - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"
Quite unknown to the brown sandman - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"
A spokesman of the night - Wallace Stevens "Chocorua to Its Neighbor"
Never so rash a steersman - "The Drowning of John Remorsson"
A bark all lonely tosses without steersman - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales Gründen]"
Watchman.
Before the woodman's fatal stroke - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"
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