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Masticate the ash of witness - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"

With the veins of your witnessing - Elmaz Abinader "Heartwood"

Blue witness of the Second Empire - Harold Acton "As Dmitri Karamazoff sang on the way to Chaos"

Witness the blessing of my flesh - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"

The witnesses of your face - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen "The Small Square" (translated by Ruth Fainlight)

Hoping to find a witness - James Baldwin "Guilt, Desire and Love"

A partisan witness to the uneasy union of life and loss - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Being witness to my sleep - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

Witness of life’s race - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XXXIX in Sonnets from the Portuguese"

A kind of witness in transition - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"

Gossiping cicadas will witness - Crys S. Campbell "(How to be a) Fast Girl"

Witnessing the vanishing of human voices - Onyedikachi Chinedu "Snail-Picking"

The ninth heaven as witness - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Stay alive to witness tomorrow - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "I Do Not Wish to Carry so Much Burden"

Even the clouds had witnessed the extinction - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "Why Is the Forest Lonely?"

When the witnesses are gone - Leonard Cohen "Dance Me to the End of Love"

Eternal witness of the march of time - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

To the task of witnessing - Carl Dennis "A Landscape"

To witness the ten thousand worlds - Chris Dombrowski "Blown Snow"

Living witness in the chiselled stone - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

Dangerous weather he witnessed but could do nothing to stop - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"

Witnessed too many crashing within - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"

all witnesses to the crimes of the crystallizing eye - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"

One leaf left to bear witness - George Garrett "Or Death and December"

From age to age in silent witness stand - Herbert H. Gowen "Jerusalem 1917"

No witnesses but the crows - Stephanie Heit "White Wedding"

We witnessed with voices and hands - Jane Hirshfield "Let Them Not Say"

An expert witness on the death of God - Tony Hoagland "In the Waiting Room with Leonard Cohen"

Witness the wondrous sights in heaven - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

With all thy train of witnesses - Islwyn "Night" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Witness the fury of poppies - Lois P. Jones "Between Fulmination and Adoration"

Geographic couplings with no witnesses - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

A witness to his legerdemain - Arlene Keizer "Canopy"

A witness to the sea and the sun - Donika Kelly "Love Poem: Mermaid"

Witnesses waiting to be sworn - Joan Larkin "My Father's Tie Rack"

A few stars come out to share the witness - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

A thousand years the sun has witnessed - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The owl who just witnessed another tree fall - Jeffrey McDaniel "Compulsively Allergic to the Truth"

Witness of all-judging Jove - John Milton "Lycidas"

Bears witness to the veiled truth of myth - N. Scott Momaday "The Dragon of Saint-Bertrand-De-Comminges"

By mutual pressure witness - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Claims the witness of a song - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

The sea was witness - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Out at Sea"

Witness of all the adornments - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell [Delirium I]" transl. by James Sibley Watson

The audience that witnesses history - Carl Sandburg "I am the People, the Mob"

Like eventual witnesses will outlive your boast - Tobias Seamon "Deities"

Witness to this dread and wonder - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"

With witness of a light - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"

And witness this, my jubilee - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "March"

As witnessed by sages and gods - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 202: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Sole witnesses to the vigil - Alison Swan "Lifeboat"

Witness is a magnitude of vulnerability - TC Tolbert "What Space Faith Can Occupy"

Nor did I allow my witness a true flight - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"

With or without witnesses - Elizabeth Torres "The Play"

Do not wonder or witness - Louis Untermeyer "In a Cab"

Within my witness - John Updike "In the Cemetery High Above Shillington"

Breathless to be witnesses - William Carlos Williams "Burning the Christmas Greens"

The time that I can't witness - Katie Willingham "Correction: Tonight Is Not the Longest Night in the History of Earth"

A witness standing by your loneliness - Nicholas Wong "101, Taipei"

Bear witness to the absent fig leaves - Jay Wright "Kumu"

The condor be a floating witness - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


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