Potential Titles: Know

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How the angle twists what we can know - Rasha Abdulhadi "El Condor y El Toro"

Knows nothing of the bat's wings - Rasha Abdulhadi "little bat"

I know of no devils who evict themselves - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"

If our grievance they but knew - Richard C. Adams "To the Delaware Indians"

The only guide into the known dark - Carl Adamshick "Moon Seen Through Windshield"

It was no help knowing Wordsworth - Kim Addonizio "Darkening Then Brightening"

My sisters refuse to know me - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"

And knew what knave I was - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

We know most of our universe is missing - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"

A blind man knows the night - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"

But ne'er the time that we have known together - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

He knew he could be the new Harlequin - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

All the Dead that ever I knew going one by one - William Allingham "A Dream"

Knows America as equation to be memorized - Hala Alyan "Turnpike // Ghost"

On sacred spots which once he knew - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]

Know well the scurrying quail - Duncan Anderson "Sport"

That knows no grudging thrifts - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VII--Midsummer"

I don't know a love that doesn't destroy - Diannely Antigua "Anniversary"

the sky doesn't know her reasons - Jarid Arraes "Movement"

An Autumn known to the heart - A.B. "Autumn in the Woods" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.717, 22 Sept. 1877]

Not born knowing how to walk across - Julie Babcock "Amen to Artillery"

As if he knew a thousand more - Albion Fellows Bacon "Sufficiency"

To make her royal mandates known - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"

Never stops knowing hunger - Mary Jo Bang "Apology for Want"

A mind that knows nothing of boundaries - Mary Jo Bang "Captivity"

Knew my altered perception must be accurate - Mary Jo Bang "On the Nature of Hardwiring"

The tailor's eye which knows by sight - Mary Jo Bang "Still Life with Glasses"

Be only known by the gray ruin and the mouldering stone - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Trust your dragon knows its business best - Devan Barlow "Your Visiting Dragon"

Then you knew forever can end - Lou Barrett "Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932"

that the oceans have known better universes - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"

Go ask the sphinx, perhaps she knows - Ardelia Maria Barton "What Is the Future of the Race?"

Knew his unclipped wings were free to soar - Clara Doty Bates "Goody Two-Shoes" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]

Those starry rays which speak a language known - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

Not to have known what the dead weep for - Charles Baudelaire "Posthumous Remorse" transl. by Keith Waldrop

Secrets that only the lilacs know - Clive Bell "March"

And know there was an end to pain - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Original Impulse"

Blake knew how deep is Hell, and Heaven how high - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

I don't know what your secrets are - Emily Berry "Allegiances"

What cannot be known of shade - Brian Blanchfield "In Their Motions"

How waves know when to stop cresting - Terry Blackhawk "A Blessing of Scallops: Eastern Market, Detroit"

Who no traitor word know - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "How Shall I Build"

My heart no measure knows - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "Song"

never let them know your true size - Leah Bobet "Notable Escapes"

magicians knew spectacle was struggle reframed - Leah Bobet "Notable Escapes"

My heart has known its winter and carried gall - Arna Bontemps "My Heart Has Known Its Winter"

Know the weight of my heart - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"

But those alone may know the cost - John Philip Bourke "The End of the Episode"

Sharp tang of other waters known - Elizabeth Bradfield "Learning to Swim"

Best not to know the cooling kettle - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

So I can know whose names they're singing - William Brewer "Letter in Response to a Letter from My Son"

My heart shall never know despair - Anne Bronte "Consolation"

All the woe creation knows - Emily Bronte "How Clear She Shines"

Of suns that know no winter days - Emily Bronte "To Imagination"

The foolish broken things we knew - Rupert Brooke "Tiare Tahiti"

And know the exact flavor of what's to come - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Serrated edge of the known world - Paul Cameron Brown "Isles and Rivulets"

One whole eclipse not knowing any fire - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"

We know we will not touch ground - Stephanie Burt "White Lobelias"

Sky knows more than Earth will tell - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"

Not the darkest one I know - Anthony Butts "Song of Starry-Eyed Children"

Beyond all that the loud world knows - Calder Campbell "By the Sea" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.425, 21 Feb. 1852]

The curse to know one's self unknown - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Know nothing of forgiveness - Rafael Campo "California"

Knowing nothing of the bliss of sorrow borne - Edward Carpenter "Death"

Whispering things nobody knows - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"

Knowing his soul was fled - C.P. Cavafy "The Horses of Achilles" (translated by John Marvrogordato)

Have known misgivings of light - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"

Sparkless for lack of knowing better - Jennifer Chang "Sonogram"

As if to know you was to drown - Tina Chang "Color"

I only know you are not as you were - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Shall know a new light in the mind - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

I knew no harm of Bonaparte - G.K. Chesterton "The Rolling English Road"

Knowing me never made anyone a needle - Dan Chiasson "Thread"

Gaps knowing cannot fill - Jeremy Michael Clark "One Fire, Quenched with Another"

although she knows no enemy - Lucille Clifton "the coming of the fox"

of no known kingdom - Lucille Clifton "leda 2"

who knew the truth but didn't always choose it - Lucille Clifton "lee"

Passions you have known in dreams - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

So potent are the spells they know - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Silver Wedding"

So you know she is smiling under her mask - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"

Knew the transformations to come - Kai Coggin "Essence"

What Memory knows - Allison Adelle Hedge Coke "Clan Sister"

Dark things know the delving - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"

Dark things know what we hide and the why - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"

As if he knows all things in the world change - Michael Collier "Goat on a Pile of Scrap Lumber"

Subtraction knows what it did - Donte Collins "they need some of us to die"

Only the hydrofluorocarbons know for sure - S. R. Compton "The Leonids, 11/18, 2002"

Only to thunder's lips is known - Susan Coolidge "A Thunder Storm"

Knowing that each layer is a viscera of pain - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

You don't know which embarrassments are yours - Gabriel Cortez "Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale"

You know the sound of a hungry dog - Gabriel Cortez "Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale"

Knowing better, the closer they get - Rio Cortez "Driving at Night"

And never knew the loneliness of night - Noel Coward "Nothing Is Lost"

To judge before the facts they know - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"

Who knows what skill their hands possess - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Kites"

Who knows no good unmix'd and pure - George Crabbe "The Library"

I know each step of the fearsome way - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Don't Be Afraid"

Little you know of broken hearts - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Story of the Birkenhead"

Breath sealed by the ghost I do not know - Hart Crane "Voyages V"

All bitter yesterdays I knew - Countee Cullen "Oh, for a Little While Be Kind"

whose hand my folded soul shall know - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"

I know I'm one of God's sparrows - DéLana R. A. Dameron "When Mama died, I lost my air"

Knows not flowers from stones - William H. Davies "The Hawk"

If only to know the shared sinew - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Harmony (I)"

Whose measureless horizon knew no bounds - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

An earth we knew the name of - Tyree Daye "Field Notes on Beginning"

Fox and adder and weasel know - Walter de la Mare "Bewitched"

A sip of coffee before I knew bitter - Monica de la Torre "Equivalences"

How in your works they knew your wantonness - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Most noble ladies, cherish your fair fame]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

The color of risk & knowing - Diane DeCillis "Artemisia Absinthium"

This sense, despite all I know of marrow, of wind in my bones - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"

That stand between this knowing and the end - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"

And angels know the rest - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love VII: With a Flower"

Did not know the ample bread - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life L: Hunger"

Whom none but daisies know - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature XXVII: Aurora"

Know the cost of singed palm and empty fist - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

What only the wind knows - Chelsea Dingman "Here, the Sparrows Were, All Along"

I know nothing of heaven - Chelsea Dingman "Snow Fugue"

Caligula and Nero knew a godliness akin to mine - Thomas M. Disch "Ballade of the New God"

Knowing little of cathedrals - Chris Dombrowski "The Roofers Listen to Heart's "Crazy on You" as They Work"

The advantage of not knowing - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

And still aren't known to be extinct - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

The approving angels know - Edward Dowden "Love-Tokens"

Defiling wonder that he never knew - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

And knows herself in death - A.E. "The Great Breath"

Before the knowing and the naming - Katherine Edgren "Lost and Found"

where we all knew each other's secrets - Safia Elhillo "spring"

I knew, not love, the law - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Our beginnings never know our ends - T.S. Eliot "Portrait of a Lady"

Knew the anguish of the marrow - T.S. Eliot "Whispers of Immortality"

Known fruit of the unknown - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Sphinx"

A special trick that bigger mammoths knew - Daniel Errico "Woolly Not So Mammoth"

Rendered mute by all you do not know - Anne Evans "A New Variant"

Knew pearl-powder was still sweet - Donald Evans "Love in Patagonia"

Neither knowing the taste of exile - Hazem Fahmy "Interrogation of an Alternate Timeline"

Know it by the cloudy thrill - Arthur Davison Ficke "Among Shadows"

Few but the winds ever know - George Blackstone Field "The Spectre"

No silence known beneath the sun - Hildegarde Flanner "To a Tree in Bloom"

For lust of knowing what should not be known - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Knows but the sweet survival of an hour - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"

Because they know they cannot stay - Julie Fogliano "Fall, October 15"

What I can know and admit to - Katie Ford "All I Ever Wanted"

Should it not soothe my grief to know - Fanny Forrester "Not Lost, but Gone Before" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.3-v.I, 19 Jan. 1884]

A renunciation of the known - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 4 (February 1923)"

I know the night lives inside you - Rebecca Foust "Abeyance"

Mothers with secrets know better - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"

The smug stars think they know - Ariel Francisco "Insomniami"

To that extent will know the truth - W.A. Frisbie "A Fore Word [The Pirate Frog, and Other Tales]"

To know that for destruction ice is also great - Robert Frost "Fire and Ice"

Ask to know what I was walling in - Robert Frost "Mending Wall"

The sweetest dream that labor knows - Robert Frost "Mowing"

To know the love of bare November days - Robert Frost "My November Guest"

We shall know by the kettle-drums - R.L. Gales "Waiting for the Kings"

Taxes every power you know - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Heroism"

Wanting to know what enough felt like - Carmen Gimenez "All Money Is a Matter of Belief"

My past where no one knows me - Dana Gioia "Reunion"

Some truths that only darkness knows - Dana Gioia "The Underworld: IX. Questions"

Still knows their extinguished songs - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"

Close tighter than midnight knows - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"

Known to all the vagrant train - Oliver Goldsmith "The Village Preacher"

Know for certain that angels sing - Mona Gould "Small Christmas Tree (For F.G.)"

Woodland fauns that know no fear - Robert Graves "The Dying Knight and the Fauns"

Known courses with uncharted doubt - Russell Green "De Mundo"

Know us by our scattered wake - Linda Gregerson "A History Play"

Sixteen times had known them come - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

And I knew you by your hands - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"

Know there is spring in the world - Arthur Guiterman "In the Hospital"

Before I knew these treasures of the Earth - Charles A. Gunnison "Sapphire Ring"

Knew some touch of sacred wonder - Ivor Gurney "The Day of Victory"

Waiting without knowing they are - Sandra Gustin "Cause of Death"

The woman who knows names - Marilyn Hacker "Iva's Pantoum"

Know each of the star's stories - Joy Harjo "Remember"

So the swarm knows how to proceed - francine j. harris "feeder"

Know the feast in their eyes - francine j. harris "from the bottom"

Hopes my thoughts alone have known - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"

Knows when to leave her imaginings - Yona Harvey "But for now the music swings from her lacquered radio"

But the subconscious knows best - Deborah Hauser "Never Admit Your Mistakes"

Voices from worlds we know not - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

Of the sword that knows no sheath - Felicia Hemans "Alaric in Italy"

Although I have forgotten clean, I know - William Ernest Henley "Of a Toyokuni Color Print"

All dreams of what I know can never be - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--I Will Forget"

Bring our nights there without knowing - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"

We've drunk to everything we know - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"

Water knew anything could be a seed - Matthew Herskovitz "Water on Mars"

Knew the January sky - Conrad Hilberry "Villanelle for Marion"

a twice born girl knows how to rotate a tomb - DaMaris B. Hill "Come. Pray. Know"

A wait not even known yet - Brenda Hillman "Wood's Edge"

Only know the breeze of encounters - Zinaida Hippius (Gippius) "L'Imprevisibilite" transl. by Temira Pachmuss

When I lost you, I knew the hell of it - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"

So that the next reader will know - Tony Hoagland "Field Guide"

Whose gift you do not yet know - Carlie Hoffman "Driving Through Maspeth, NY, After Teaching an Introduction to Creative Writing Class"

Who ever knew sorrow in all its shades - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Not knowing the taste of grief - Hsin Ch'i-chi "[When I Was Young]" transl. by Burton Watson

Yet sings, knowing he hath wings - Victor Hugo "Be Like the Bird"

You played me double and you knew it - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

You know not what's Inside them till they're Broke - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

The singing thrush and lily know - Helen Hunt Jackson "August"

Knowing well the ruthlessness of night - Marcus Jackson "What of Fire?"

I have cleaved to what I know - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

But what do they know of endlessness? - Perry Janes "Nearly all my friends call me spoiled and ungrateful"

Will know that it contains my blessing - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"

a pendulum from knowing eye to mystery - Stephanie Jean "Recommendation"

Know that the worm had conquered all - Edwin R. Johnson "Who Knows?" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

No alien hearts may know - Lionel Johnson "Wales"

In Misery's darkest cavern known - Samuel Johnson "On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet"

Thirst is a way of knowing - Taylor Johnson "Club 2718"

Knows the secrets in my gaze - Allison Joseph "Incognito Grief: A Blues"

my testimony is the absolute of what i know - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"

When we knew that no more ships would come - Raimo Kangasniemi "October 2026: The End of the Picnic"

And Kansas knew his valor when he fought her rights to save - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Knowing our kitchen sink of years has dripped away - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

Best known by their refusals - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

To the birds and waters only known - Henry Kendall "After Many Years"

Woke to know their native worth - Henry Kendall "Australian War Song"

And there are dangers worse than you know - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Erasure part 3"

To know of violence is to somersault into it - Jessica Kim "Montage"

This way, I know the dead can find me - Elizabeth Knapp "Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak"

I know something about talking with ghosts - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

Because I know salt - Yusef Komunyakaa "Canticle"

As a young woman who knew steel - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

The knowing scent hidden in each bloom - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

Bronze pouring between us and what we know - Christopher Kondrich "Bellfounding"

Direction and distance traveled from the last known fix - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"

We know how to predict their courses - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

We will know when we give it a Turing test - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Raised by Wolves"

Known alike of peer and peasant - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]

Because we can't know what comes next - Danusha Laméris "Omens"

An age of fear made known - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"

Whose shapes are known no more - Archibald Lampman "The Moon-Path"

And know not it is dark despair - Archibald Lampman "A Song"

And my wan, suffering psyches know new power - Else Lasker-Schüler "Sphinx" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

Every agony my heart has known - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Life's Burying-Ground"

My heart yearns to know - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"

Only the old ghosts know I have come - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"

Knowing the thunder of his heart - D.H. Lawrence "St Luke"

But everyone knows love is bankrupt - Katy Lederer "Love"

What I know I must relinquish in time - Li-Young Lee "To Hold"

What does the sparrow know of the eagle? - Mary Soon Lee "The Languages of Birds"

Knew the taste of that ending - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"

Knowing that it only hastens fate - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

Reason over it no victory knows - Lermontof "My Native Land" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Gave names in any known language - Robin Coste Lewis "Self-Portrait as the Bootblack in Daguerre's Boulevard du Temple"

Still my journey knows no return - Li Po "Sent to My Two Little Children in the East of Lu" transl. by Burton Watson

Knows the need for a transcendent blues - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"

Wars most Americans never know are happening - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"

Would no longer know moon from sun - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"

All the windowsills you've ever known - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"

Throw myself off the cliff of Knowing - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"

And every rumor known to time - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Never known a law to rewind a bullet - Tariq Luthun "Al-Bahr"

Not all creatures with wings know flight - Tariq Luthun "I Sing This Elegy for the Nameless"

But the Moon she knew nothing - George MacDonald "The Wind and the Moon"

But now I know the truth at last - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]

And know her by her tears - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Lost Name"

And the garden known alone in despair - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

the only one who knows the tension between - David Maduli "alameda point"

The impulse to protect what you know you could destroy - Maya Marshall "Daddy on the Sofa"

I know of betrayal's claims - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

Know not the drift of my dreaming - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "A Midsummer Night's Dream" transl. by John Pollen

Only the frogs and the gray owl know - Don Marquis "In the Bayou"

To which the Sphinx hath known the rhyme - Don Marquis "Selves"

The best September knows - John Masefield "King Cole"

A help that the abandoned know - John Masefield "King Cole"

Knew the feeble tenure of dominion - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

In age I knew the mountains - Edgar Lee Masters "Alexander Throckmorton"

Who do not know the ways of the wind - Edgar Lee Masters "Serepta Mason"

Free of known enemy - Airea D. Matthews "etymology"

I will die knowing that we lived forever - Wes Matthews "Immortality"

Know love in the desperate abyss - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"

And never was known to run away - Annie Willis McCullough "Velocipede" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Reverting to the old knowing words - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Harder even than knowing the living - Maureen N. McLane "They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century"

Know the vigils that I keep - John McCrae "Penance"

Knowing forces it to become true - Rachel McKibbens "Mentor"

Knows the deuce from the ace - Frank J. Medina "That's My Beau"

Knowing the importance of what is invisible - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"

Drink to know how jewels taste - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"

Who know our need and leave us in the dark - Alice Meynell "In Sleep"

Until all the knowing turns to nonsense - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"

That only mist and morning knew - Edna St Vincent Millay sonnet III from Renascence and Other Poems

Or does it know this sky to hold more fire? - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"

For having known mercy - Jenny Molberg "I Am Not Thine, But Thee"

Knows alone and guards too well - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"

Played coy as if everyone didn't already know - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"

To know halftime won't fix everything - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"

Knowing only shifter's arts - Shweta Narayan "Triumph XV: Vetala"

Who'd know what would emerge from the unintended? - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"

Had climbed beyond what I knew - Mark Nepo "The Clearing"

Only dogs know how to be happy - Pablo Neruda "A Dog Has Died" transl. by William O'Daly

Knew hunger like a sacred text - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid

We know the sweetness held in lies - Mari Ness "Gretel's Bones"

You never knew her name - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Knowing it didn't deserve an afterlife - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

I don't know who to blame for the silence - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

O Sea, that knowest thy strength - Effie Lee Newsome "O Sea, That Knowest Thy Strength"

Shadows of moons we don't yet know - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Naming the Heartbeats"

Knowing naught of all the shining train - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]

Joy's full measure knew - Meredith Nicholson "My Paddle Gleamed"

Into the knowing hands of the next person - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

A blacker night than ocean knew - Alfred Noyes "The Wings"

Knows how to catch a fly in his hands - Naomi Shihab Nye "Blood"

The usual flames rising up from the cracks of everything we know - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"

That none their depths may know - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "No Tears" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.43-v.I, 25 Oct. 1884]

Shall know not the ardor of noon - Thomas O'Hagan "Gather the Harvest"

Know where candy bars come from - Frank O'Hara "Ave Maria"

know the sound of smoke - Jose Olivarez "you the business folk"

Play at the edges of knowing - Mary Oliver "Bone"

The collation of all the hours we have known - Mary Oliver "Shelley"

Knowing that fire in childhood - January Gill O'Neil "Early Memory"

To which no blight is known - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Song Written for a May Day Festival"

know the terror of unhoming - Shailja Patel "Solstice Re-pot"

Know that the stars exist - Walter S. Percy "The Ladder of Cloud"

The only rivers memory knows - Carl Phillips "All the Love You've Got"

Know nothing of east or west or love - Carl Phillips "Refrain"

What can leaves know of courtesy - Carl Phillips "Wake Up"

Walked with Wisdom, though they knew her not - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"

With sweets that never know decay - J. Pitman (who died in 1825) "Lines to a Young Lady on Her Birthday" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.743, 23 March 1878]

Of faces and names known - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"

The drowsy song that the river knows - Miriam Clark Potter "How Sleep Was Made"

By no known means compliant - Khadijah Queen "Copper Men"

My fingers knew taste before the orange - Noel Quiñones "Orange"

As if we always knew we were history - Noel Quiñones "Orange"

Who know my left-handed handwriting - Danni Quintos "Quintos"

Had known each other's form - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Knows not the meaning of a broken crown - Herbert Randall "The Tryst of Nations"

Knowing force as a brother - Lola Ridge "The Legion of Iron"

I know you flower darkly - Lola Ridge "Still Water (To D.L.)"

Have known only my own shallows - Lola Ridge "Submerged"

Then throw everything you know away - Julia Rios "On Where to Find Strange Horizons, and How to Get There"

how you know a song from anything else - Ed Roberson "Come On in the Song of the Changes"

Knows never an end of the harrowing war - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Indian Paint Brush"

No Spring that Autumn has not known - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson "From a Motor in May"

Not given to know the riper fruit that waits - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Knowing that most things break - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"

That knew no still awaking - Alice Wellington Rollins "Among Those Joys for Which We Utter Praise"

They know when the hawk looms - Ciona Rouse "Red-Shouldered Hawk"

Copper doesn't know it's copper - Rumi "The Mouse and the Camel" transl. by Coleman Barks

Knows the wounds that quiver unconfessed - George William Russell "The Place of Rest"

Could not know our true and deep farewell - V. Sackville-West "To Knole"

everyone knows how to run through gun smoke - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"

Nobody knows the price of silence - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"

sorrow knew me in the early hours - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"

Unity knows no error - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton

Know a dead man's thoughts too well - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"

Heaped with snow that shall know no thawing - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Knowing what light shall burst from dark - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Be known by its face - Jason Schneiderman "Wedding Poem for Ada & Lucas"

Know the truth of your corruption - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"

Though Homer knew the power of dark blood - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"

To know the secrets of the sea - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Shell"

Knew the name of every sheep - Duncan Campbell Scott "A Flock of Sheep"

Away and toward the shore of knowing what is to come - Chet'la Sebree "An End"

Even knowing that someone is stealing our lives - Tim Seibles "Faith"

Knew their movement like black on white - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"

The panther felt compelled to know the path - Alafia Nicole Sessions "Fable with Cyst, Celestial Being & Sacrifice"

Fugitive cows known for escaping - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

Known for escaping their borders - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

My judgment knew no reason why - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXV"

In pain without knowing why - Charif Shanahan "If I Am Alive To"

All raptures known before were vain - Edward Shanks "The Return"

With grief and care the orphan only knows - W. Wallace Shaw "Passed Away" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The grand gesture of a thing once known - Matthew Shenoda "Traces"

Our feet should know fair ways to travel - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"

And orchards knew no mirth at Autumn time - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The Fourth Day"

How long ago I wonder if Time knows - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Content"

Know each ancient joy a cup for tears - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Regret"

Though I have known the fellowship of kings - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

Know this fight is justifies - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"

Our wings knew - Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen "Dream of the Tundra Swan"

Knows the shadow's intangible depth - Steven David Justin Sills "Post Annulment 2"

knows nothing of the work that sets you free - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"

They know us as the drums in their dirt sky - Danez Smith "Two Deer in a Southside Cemetery"

Know the bloodbath we inhabit - R.T. Smith "Still Life: From the Notebook of Ambrose Bierce, 1862"

Only known to souls of truth - Mrs. Seba Smith "To Fanny H***" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

Earth that knows of death, not tears - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"

The mesquites know their time to burn - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"

Know the song struggling in your throat - Lyz Soto "Today I Am Full of Birds"

Knew each heart was only lent - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"

Who knows a thing and will not tell - James Stephens "The College of Science"

Some keeper of music will know - Gerald Stern "Exordium and Terminus"

Knows how the count will fall - L.A.G. Strong "Eena-Mena-Mina-Mo"

Knew only sheep and cows - Su Tung-p'o "Long Ago I Lived in the Country" transl. by Burton Watson

The mystery that none but her children know - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"

If I'd known you'd break your word - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 172: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

They do not know I dream as well - Howard V. Sutherland "Vain Dreams"

Most of what I know is contagious - Joyce Sutphen "The Temptation to Invent"

Not knowing if again the storm will blow - Carmen Sylva "The Gnat"

That the stranger knows what home is yours - Carmen Sylva "The Shadow"

Know the influx of afternoon clouds - Arthur Sze "Xeriscape"

Mountains and rivers know no season of change - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson

I know where the roads end - Keith Taylor "The Roads to Cordoba"

More than I know of fear's hard presence - Keith Taylor "Three Springs"

what the birds know is the way home - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

The secret of each other's knowing - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"

Reasons only a cow can know - Kristen Tracy "Sometimes This Happens"

This stone river knows what you have done - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

A promise awake with knowing - Leah Umansky "Desire [even in the time of the tyrant]"

Who know no void nor common sense - John Updike "Song of Myself"

What you don't know is going to break you - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

The old school gods knew the value of silence - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Who knew how to bring the stars down to earth - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"

Not know what house we shall come back to - Mark Van Doren "High Meadows"

And venture a voyage they know not where - Henry van Dyke "Turn o' the Tide"

Their boots knew the footwork - Vickie Vertiz "Under the Spell of Conjunto"

A knowing so inherited - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "O, Casada"

Whose trees know the weight of history - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"

Only useful if you already know true north - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"

Haunt every solitude known - Charles William Wallace "Lonely!"

In its fiercest aching know - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

Knew not whence the magic came - Mrs. Alaric Watts "The Ship's First Voyage" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.452, 28 Aug. 1852]

The hours of the harness know little rest - Arthur Waugh "The Toilsome Goat"

Everyone knows the default mode - The Cyborg Jillian Weise "Nondisabled Demands"

Knowing the impossibility of getting there - Nora Weston "Things Allergic to Sleep"

Find and shape what is not known until it's made - John Moncure Wettarau "The Sculptor's Trade"

In this kitchen that I never knew was infinite - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"

Voids that never knew the pity of creation - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Yet have I known your heart - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"

Horizon beyond the heart you know - Renia White "off the shore of oneself as in ..."

They know the stars of Hades - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"

Who knew the virtue of the fatal fruit - "The Whore"

Have known great gold Sorrows - Margaret Widdemer "The Jester"

Nor dawn nor eventide nor any light we know - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"

Knows nothing of savoring - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"

And cease to know the poet's rapture - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Who better knows your gravity - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"

We know how reckless you can be - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"

Know again the tune of dawn - Humbert Wolfe "At Noontide Seeking"

Coming one knows not how or whence, nor whither going - William Wordsworth "To a Daisy"

Since faith knows its way before hand - Baron Wormser "Anecdotes"

Where we know the light will never reach us - Charles Wright "April Evening"

Only the blackbirds know my thoughts - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie III"

Unlike despair, happiness knows no final answer - Charles Wright "Only the I-Ching Hexagrams Are Lacking"

Pass from knowing to being - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"

Only time knows who is who - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

a steel ring cast over what I know - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

What you already know to be expendable - Monica Youn "Leave"

And never rest shalt know - "Young Svejdal" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

An air that ancient poets knew - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"

Knowing the me only midnight sees - Kevin Young "Hurricane Song"

To retire gracefully known - Matthew Zapruder "Never Before"

Otherwise known as nothing - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

Where the lunar craters establish a known address - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


Unknown.


Tread those well known paths - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the glad sun looks smiling from the sky]"

That well-known foolish heresy - Marina Tsvetayeva "Poem of the End" transl. by Elaine Feinstein and Angela Livingstone

Well-known but half-forgotten - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"



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