Potential Titles: Against
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somethingdarkerAgainst a foe I cannot see - A.L.O.E. "Soldier's Hymn"
She has her secret scotch against the cold - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"
A refuge built against two reckonings - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"
Breathing against the tide of your breath - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"
My lips against the nebula of you - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"
A million heartbeats against the silence - Elmaz Abinader "After Breakfast"
When fickle fate against her turned - "Abroad"
This would provide armor against the tedium - Duane Ackerson "The War on Terror"
You can shipwreck against the night - Etel Adnan "Night"
Magicians against this baleful dust - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"
Against the sky behind the dodecahedron - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
What conspires against arrival - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"
An inference clean against logical laws - Grant Allen "The First Idealist"
Swimming against the undertow of infinity - Mike Allen "Pulse"
Against the scarab of malachite - Zaina Alsous "Window Strike"
Rage against the mockery of art - Julia Alvarez "Anger and Art"
Laying her hand deliberately against each thorn - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
To ward against dangers we can't see - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
Come to cast my vote against your future - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
Turtles banging their heads against rocks - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"
Broken nails against the underworld - Julie Babcock "The Witnesses"
The clatter of chalk against blackboard - George A. Baker "After the German"
A fig leaf against a smashed wall - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"
Thoughts washed against a reef - Mary Jo Bang "Anniversary"
Fear pressed against stone - Mary Jo Bang "The Clairvoyant"
Against the brilliance of the last act - Mary Jo Bang "In the Present and Probable Future"
Beauty protecting against summer scorch - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Palm trees pinned against a wall - Mary Jo Bang "A Room in Cleopatra's Palace"
Stark against the light box of servitude - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"
To build a house against thunder and thirst - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"
Snapping their beaks against the fairyglass - Ashley Bao "Secrets from a Telepath"
Those I hold against myself - Rachel Barenblat "Untie"
Turns dim against the dawn - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"
The blackberry against the trellis - Catherine Barnett "Living Room Altar"
With wings against the wind - Elizabeth Bartlett "Self-Evident"
Against the granite of her skin - Charles Baudelaire "An Allegory" transl. not credited
Pricked clear against a splash of woad - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"
Against night's screen of stars - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Clenched ignorant against the sky - Elizabeth Bishop "The Armadillo"
Against this motion clear in steel - MacKnight Black "Corliss Engine"
Against the tangled vividness of night - Maxwell Bodenheim "North Clark Street, Chicago"
Against the wide malevolence of space - Max Bodenheim "Topsy-Turvy"
Its eight arguments against daylight - Jaswinder Bolina "Elegy"
Planted safe against this stark, lean year - Arna Bontemps "A Black Man Talks of Reaping"
To waste the life against a stubborn will - Arna Bontemps "The Day-Breakers"
Against my hand a little crumbling dust - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"
Grew against the smallest profit - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"
Against a heat-storm of cicadas - Ana Bozicevic "About a Fish"
Against the frozen wall of what is known - Elizabeth Bradfield "Polar Explorer Capt. John Cleves Symmes (1820)"
Loud notes against the night - Jari Bradley "Unruly"
Against the dashboard of stars - William Brewer "In the Room of the Overdosed, an Ember"
Of prayer against the grasses - Jericho Brown "Duplex"
To bloom against the will of the sun - Jericho Brown "The Tradition"
A ransom parleyed against the crowned heads of this world - Paul Cameron Brown "The Treasure Ships"
Moving against the tide of a world - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"
That scream against the thunder - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Against the coming of the wasteful flood - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Against such old-world heresy and schism - H.B.C. "The Kaiser to his Secretary" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Dark against the sky of steel - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"
Their worn shoes scratch against the paths of stone - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"
Aimed against the oligarchs - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall
Alone against hundreds - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "At Sea"
Throwing trees against the house - Anne Carson "Thunderstorm Stack"
Still set against the stream - Willa Cather "A Likeness"
Against the work of death - C.P. Cavafy "The Horses of Achilles" (translated by John Marvrogordato)
An argument against vindication - Jennifer Chang "The Strangers"
Bruising my heart against its rocky breast - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
brushing against the shadows - Lucille Clifton "one year later"
latticed against all light - Lucille Clifton "11/10 again"
Close our eyes against regret - Lucille Clifton "mirror"
Against the prevailing winds of horror - Leonard Cohen "I Draw Aside the Curtain"
Against the limits of the sea - Leonard Cohen "Thousand Kisses Deep"
Against that shadowy day - Wanda Coleman "Dear Mama (4)"
The pile of turf against the wall - Padraic Colum "An Old Woman of the Roads"
Set our ringing discords against celestial song - Susan Coolidge "The Better Prayer"
Those pleas against my scruples - William Cory "Amavi"
The brain's disk shivered against lust - Hart Crane "Recitative"
Against the birth of May - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Proof against the storm of war - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Bent against the angle of the Earth - Shutta Crum "Mausoleums"
My winged shadow pressed against their windows - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"
Whistle a melody against the percussion - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"
petals danced against my eyes and down - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"
Marched against the dark - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"
against the strong silences of your song - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"
Flung her name against the dark - H.D. "Nossis"
Memory against time - Jim Daniels "Souvenir"
Begging against the grave song - Geffrey Davis "For the Child's Mole"
Against the hive's collapse - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"
Waited too long to howl against the night - Kwame Dawes "Talk"
Colored balloons bobbing against a black ceiling - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Termaggio"
Owls buried against the black roofs - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"
Against incantations of false prophets - "The Deer's Cry" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Amber pockets against the snow - Chelsea B. DesAutels "Burials"
Songs against her body - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
Secure against its own - Emily Dickinson "The Soul unto itself (683)"
Swift song keening against granite - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"
A crowd of eyes against an asphalt wall - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"
Crashing mathematically against our coastlines - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Against the scintillant anthracite of space - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Hollow the wind against me - Marie-Ovide Dorceley "Sojourner"
Against the crouching lions - Julia C.R. Dorr "Vashti's Scroll"
Against the grownup world's uncertain horrors - Boris Dralyuk "Universal Horror"
Catching against my heartbeat - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"
Develop immunity against this violence - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"
With her ear against a dead wasp nest - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"
One hand against the strand - Fatihah Quadri Eniola "Down-Streaming"
Arched against violent thunder - Heid E. Erdich "Morrisseau Creatures from the Woodland Painters School"
Red against the north wind - Heid E. Erdich "Wilsah kote: The Burnt Wood People"
Dance against language and abandon verse - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "The Sunset and the Flowered Tree"
No moon to break myself against - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Apricots"
Your reflection pulls against currents - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Catch"
Suspended against the ruins - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 2"
Shackled against the shooting wall - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XI"
Branches scratch against my sleep - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Other Side"
Scratch against my sleep - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Other Side"
Watching the waves pull against time - Jennifer Elise Foerster "River"
Against infinity's cinematic Eden - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen F"
The fort over against the oak-wood - "The Fort of Rathangan"
Could not turn them back against the inferno - Robert Frazier "Wereman"
Raw, gold coiling whirled against air - Carol Frost "The Part of the Bee's Body Embedded in the Flesh"
One luminary clock against the sky - Robert Frost "Acquainted with the Night"
String an instrument against the sky - Robert Frost "The Line-Gang"
As measured against maple, birch, and oak - Robert Frost "The Onset"
When the wind works against us in the dark - Robert Frost "Storm Fear"
Crimes against the immaculate - James Galvin "Dear May Eighth"
Wet against my fingers in a dream - Suzanne Gardinier "Gapped Sonnet"
Leaning against the shadow of dead cells - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
Her mind so tight against the stitching - Hafizah Augustus Geter "Praise Song"
Against me the wind and the storm rebel - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Invitation"
Against the bare bleak brows of granite - Louis Golding "Courage the Dreamers"
To swirl, formless against each other - Amelia Gorman "Pickling Dog"
Tread a measure against bright candles - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"
Hundreds of shoulders leaned against their strength - Mona Gould "You Wrote"
To open against the prayer - Leah Naomi Green "C-section"
Roads against the windy skies - Ivor Gurney "Toasts and Memories"
Against the naked mouth of Hell - Ivor Gurney "The Volunteer"
Veiled against too strong a stare - Thomas Hardy "An Ancient to Ancients"
Against some unimagined darkness - Joy Harjo "Anchorage"
The gods weaving against sundown - Joy Harjo "For Alva Benson, And For Those Who Have Learned to Speak"
With no blade edge against ourselves - Joy Harjo "Song for Thantog"
A war against 500 lifetimes of submission - Abiola Haroun "Identity Voodoo"
That spent their strength against the unheeding shore - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Soothing"
Of happiness measured against all the dark - Jane Hirshfield "The Weighing"
Shot fierce light against the stars - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Ships etched against the sky - Langston Hughes "Seascape"
Against the divided sun - Ishion Hutchinson "Rocksteady"
The wind of romance hard against it - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"
Against a spiral of owned objects - Ra Malika Imhotep "Hurstonian Mythos 0.2: Custodial Spirits"
And laughed against the red - "In Hebrid Seas" (Translation by Thomas Pattison)
Brushed her mortal weeds against their wings - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"
gold against the mica sky - Didi Jackson "Fall"
Recedes against the sky's aperture - John James "Driving Arizona"
A hold against the host of the air - Robinson Jeffers "To the House"
Our collective weight against stone - Marlin M. Jenkins "Pokedex Entry #260: Swampert"
Light locked against us - Amanda Jernigan "Years, Months, and Days"
Rooted against the tides - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Kaōnōn"
My heart against the ground - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Calling Dreams"
Against hell's iron gate - James Weldon Johnson "The Prodigal Son"
Where Lethe glides against the sand - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
rock against my searching feet - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"
golden butterfly against the cave-dark - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"
Against the crowding dark - Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. "I Saw You"
Stand against the wind - Patricia Spears Jones "Autumn, New York, 1999"
Settle my feet against limitless earth - Tanque R. Jones "Metamorphosis"
Against the relentless laughter of evil - June Jordan "Moving towards Home"
Winners of the wars against breathing - June Jordan "Roman Poem Number Thirteen"
Chafe against the secret spell - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
A woman who speaks against silence - Ilya Kaminsky "While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses"
The sky of my mind against - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"
Bumping only against the sky - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"
That little fence against the war with dark - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"
Forgotten news whipped against parking meters - Mary Karr "The New Year"
Against the door to heaven - Mary Karr "The Pallbearer"
Vain as swords against the enchased crocodile - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Leaps of grasshoppers against the sun - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Fierce breath against the sleepy portals - John Keats "Hyperion"
Burst Joy's grape against his palate - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"
Against the voice of his conviction - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Your name scrapes against thick-edged leaves - Vandana Khanna "Parvati: A Wife's Mantra"
Against shadows of all that burning - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"
Winds that blow against a star - Joyce Kilmer "As Winds That Blow Against a Star"
Against the kind and awful reign - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
How to rupture against relief - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
Shake fists against the failings of insects - Amy King "The Marble Faun"
runs against the speed camera - John Kinsella "Redneck Refutation"
Against a million anonymous eyes - Elizabeth Knapp "Self-Portrait as Cindy Sherman's Instagram Account"
recessing against a train of No - Ruth Ellen Kocher "She Manifests Her Own Ineffable"
Grinning orange against the black - Rachel Kolar "Twinkle, Twinkle, Lantern Jack"
Angling themselves against the waves - Christopher Kondrich "Beach Scene"
A breath or two against all time - Alfred Kreymborg "Dirge"
Set against an infinite backdrop of space - Kien Lam "Big Bang Theory"
The body's bright wailing against its limits - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
Pale against this gorgeous hour - Lucy Larcom "November"
Tossed against its limestone - Emily Lawless "From the Burren X: A Garden"
Steel hawks against moonlight - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"
Against a day when they dare meet - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"
No chance against the knife - David Lehman "Wedding Song"
A verdict against creation - Philip Levine "Magic"
Brushes the blossoms against the balustrade - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Against the back fences of my soul - M.L. Liebler "Another Ah Sunflower!"
Against the day's blunt silence - Ann-Margaret Lim "One Summer"
Do not hold my own escape against me - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
Their windows crashing against rocks - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"
Against the grain of the earth - Anni Liu "Lake of Isles"
Strangle themselves against my fingers - Amy Lowell "Grotesque"
Against the jutting angle of a wall - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"
Against the jutted stars - Amy Lowell "The Taxi"
A fly stammering against the glass - Emilie Lygren "Meditation"
Bent against their fatal gravity - Thomas Lynch "I Felt Myself Turning"
Poised for an instant against the sky - P.H.B. Lyon "The Song of Strength"
To match our blood against the cold - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
Fields of corn against the moor - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Our Homeland"
A promise means swimming against the current - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
Sing against her thirsty stones - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Unchanged"
Flints of sunlight strike against your skin - Naomi Long Madgett "Signature"
Dirt's ammunition against discipline - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Stars as Cyborg #86"
To fret against the chain - Edwin Markham "A Lyric of the Dawn"
A gray heron battling up against the wind - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"
Should one thought cry against me - Jeannette Marks "Your Sunlit Way"
Against the towers of stone and steel - Don Marquis "Lower New York--A Storm"
Measure chance against truth - Herbert Woodward Martin "Five Finger Exercise"
Before losing love against itself - J. Michael Martinez "Death to Paint Us"
Against the north wind's misery - Edgar Lee Masters "Delilah"
The guarded heart against excess of rain - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"
Against the phantoms of the night - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"
Against our day of bitter scorn - Theodore Maynard "To a Good Atheist"
Plaid patterns push against bloodroot - John McCarthy "General Electric Monitor Top"
Trying to crush beer cans against the moon - John McCarthy "Ghost Friends, Sangamon County"
Sophisticated spaces against the day - Medbh McGuckian "Garden Homage"
Struggle against impossible circumstance - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"
Music dims against the complicated bramble - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"
Stormful shadows against the gold - Helen M. Merrill "The Promise of Spring"
Jarred against Nature's chime - John Milton "At a Solemn Music"
And press your heart against the ground - Harold Monro "The Fresh Air"
Against my unknowing - Lara Mimosa Montes "A Pain That Is Not Private"
Sounded the keynote against you - Carlos Montezuma "I Have Stood Up for You"
Against future flight - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Angel"
Against eternal midnight lit - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Still Life as Rocket: 42"
Crashing against the family tree - jessica Care moore "She Was"
Not proof against a worm - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"
Burn clear against a sky of tender blue - William Moore "Here in the Time of the Winter Morn"
That one's heart must be steeled against the east wind - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
beats against the wall of the waterless - Valzhyna Mort "crossword"
[Light opening against my back - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"]
An oath against the roman calendar - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"
Impassive sky against your forehead - Chris Nealon "All About You"
Against a backdrop of bare time - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (II)" transl. by Alastair Reid
Only your light against extinction - Pablo Neruda "Night XC" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Against the black tower of silence - Pablo Neruda "A Small Animal" transl. by William O'Daly
Corrosive tongue against the water - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
Against an inexorable citadel - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Holding our wings against the wind - Mari Ness "Tongueless"
Umbrellas against the searing glory - Grace Nichols "In the Fleeting Now"
Against the stars and scars of a city - Grace Nichols "A Sacrament of Words"
What another mind may scrape against - Idra Novey "Translator's Confession, 3 a.m."
Blasphemed against their gods of clay - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
To breathe against those ancient rocks - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci II: At Florence"
One hand out against the earth - Naomi Shihab Nye "All I Can Do"
One hand up against the sky - Naomi Shihab Nye "All I Can Do"
Raised his hand against the roaring ocean - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop"
Swimming against the molten current - Achy Obejas "Inner Core"
Against the silence of the trees - Mary Oliver "Spring"
Soldiers in the march against time - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"
Cut crystal against rainbow walls - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"
against the shoreline's erratic discipline - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"
Our human fists against heaven - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "The Glory of Cities"
Doors still bolted against - John Oxenham "Darkness and Light"
Complaints against mortality - Grace Paley [untitled]
With magnets to guard against assault - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
Thread a needle against time - Dorothy Parker "Parties: A Hymn of Hate"
Honey jars rattle laughter against our teeth - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"
Laughter against our teeth - Soham Patel "Mixed with always"
Against the solemn register of his losses - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"
Prospero warned me against walking alone - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"
Pressed up against that which we cannot control - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"
Against the snow of memory - Carl Phillips "Dominion"
Dream against dream’s return - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"
An angled argument against despair - Carl Phillips "On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing"
A spell against indifference - Carl Phillips "Sing a Darkness"
Against having sworn to be kind - Carl Phillips "Wherefore Less Lonely"
Against the cusp of dusk - Xan Forest Phillips "I Never Used to Write About Birds"
Cast against an ocean's skin - Xan Forest Phillips "Never Have I Ever"
Die against the skyline - Xan Forest Phillips "Splay My Country"
Sweet taboo silhouetted against red temptation - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Fighting against our assumption - Cherise Pollard "Nodes of Growth"
Broken against false knowledge - Ezra Pound "The Rest"
Against the glistening odds of the frost - Lynn Powell "Aubade for the Muse"
Weighed against something lighter than life - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Against a corridor of wounds - Khadijah Queen "Ode to 180 Pairs of White Gloves"
Keeping time against the urge to quit - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"
Against small violent spark of will - Sina Queyras "Years"
To put my palm against that mirror - Paige Quinones "Bipolar and its Related Disorders"
Stand against the stress of weather - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On the Sea-Shore"
Phantom fists against the plexiglass of the living world - Nen G. Ramirez "Love poem with a dying cat"
Against this frowning rock - Theodore H. Rand "The Tireless Sea"
Followed three shadows against the moon - Ernest Rhys "Ballad of the Buried Sword"
His own eyeful against the other's eyeful - Lola Ridge "Emma Goldman"
That leaned so gaunt against the sky - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Against the dimmer arc of heaven - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 1: Mary of Magdala"
Against the words of princes - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Wild trees that strain against the dawn - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"
Breaks against me like a lance - Lola Ridge "Ward X"
Everything becomes a protest against darkness - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
White-fruited cocoa shown against the shell - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"
Armed myself against justice - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Harder than agates against an egg-shell - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"
Foundering against the Russian winter - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"
To match against its increments - Kay Ryan "It's Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn"
Sick with struggles against fate - Saadi "Guardians" transl. by E.B. Eastwick
light that fell against the prison floor - C.T. Salazar "River"
Against this mad vibration of death - Sonia Sanchez "On the Occasion of Essence's Twenty-fifth Anniversary"
Whistling ragtime against the sunsets - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"
Against the troubled fever of the earth - Margaret E. Sangster "I Dreamed Your Face"
A fast cloud moving against the sand - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #95"
Spitting against the wind - Philip Schultz "Googling Ourselves"
Darkest anodyne against our pain - Ann K. Schwader "Darkest Anodyne"
Rose against the dark like vengeance hurled - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah II: The White Stone"
The weight of tech against Thoth's scale - Ann K. Schwader "Past Human"
Against this coming end you should prepare - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIII"
Those boughs which shake against the cold - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXIII"
Against strange maladies a sovereign cure - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLIII"
Light garments brush against the dark - Virna Sheard "Before the Dawn"
The orbits of universes pinging against my skeleton - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"
Your points against the sapphire day - Clark Ashton Smith "Pine Needles"
Protection against the swords of the world - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
Like a small stone against her back - Hope Anita Smith "Sleepover"
Needs another to chime against - Maggie Smith "Perennials"
Against a city's flat face - Patricia Smith "Siblings"
The voices scraping against the river - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"
A dance against hunger - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"
Outlined against the peaceful Eden hills - Jean M. Snyder "Buffalo Harbor"
Flashing arabesques against the sun - George Soule "Winter's Pride"
Against the day of thy hope - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Their swords against the abyss - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
One branch of chrysanthemum holds out against frost - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson
A blade against the ribbon of desire - Arthur Sze "Rock Paper Scissors"
Dreams beat against the inner eye - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"
Taxis rubbing up against each other's paint - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Bare, brown branches stark against the deep, blue sky - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"
Could invest against their tenuous future - Keith Taylor "One Species to Mourn"
Noiseless waves breaking against her feet - Keith Taylor "Reading Late"
Against the fear mounting at night - Keith Taylor "Three Springs"
Against the tyranny of rain - Öykü Tekten "mountain language"
Watery dreams against the desert of her days - Shveta Thakrar "Shadowskin"
Against the outgoing sea of ebbing mystery - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"
Against the arrows of the coming sun - Henry David Thoreau "Winter Memories"
Our might against their glacial certainty - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"
Against a wall of wind and sand - Edwin Torres "Neptune's Elegia"
A sky to throw wishes against - Michael Torres "Writing Prompt"
The drums of time beating against oblivion - Iris Tree "[How soundly sleepeth the fool]"
Stack up against the seasons - Natasha Trethewey "Accounting"
Strain against motion - Natasha Trethewey "Three Photographs"
A silver bullet against every demon you fashioned - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
Against the edge of the sky - Mark Turcotte "Dear New Blood"
How to build a case against the bees - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"
Cherries in nets against the wall - Katharine Tynan "The Choice"
So still against a sky of daffodil - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"
A broken lance against iron laws - Louis Untermeyer "He Goads Himself"
Against the numbed sky - John Updike "Icarus"
Protest against the forgetting - John Updike "In the Cemetery High Above Shillington"
Lying for warmth against my heart - Mark Van Doren "Three Friends"
Stacked immense against every fact - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"
The doomed shrub fanned against the rockface - Ellen Bryant Voigt "The Field Trip"
No feud of family could stand against - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: ii) Godzilla in Shakespeare"
Played against olive and smoky lime - Rosanna Warren "Muse Not Muse"
Against a country of promise - Michael Wasson "Countdown as Slow Kisses"
Clink against cups of remembered courage - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Who Really Stirs the World"
Bright forts against Oblivion - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Locked against all circumstance - Helen Hay Whitney "Amor Mysticus"
Hurls her rage against the sands - Helen Hay Whitney "False"
Bleak trees stand up against the sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"
Against the challenge of her knock - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Stripped clear against the sky - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"
Drawn tight against the city wind - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"
Rise against their rootedness - Richard Wilbur "Young Orchard"
Broken against cold winds - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
Holds an edge against the weather - William Carlos Williams "History"
Worn against the years - William Carlos Williams "History"
An injured Juno roused against Heaven's King - William Carlos Williams "Immortal"
And try them against the sky's limits - William Carlos Williams "M. B."
Against treacherous bitterness of wind - William Carlos Williams "March"
Always against a grey sky - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"
Prepared their buds against a sure winter - William Carlos Williams "Winter Trees"
Against their intractable edges - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"
Against the boundless curb of light - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
Holding my soul strong against foreign powers - Nicholas Wong "The Little Pink"
Gravetree estuaries against the winds of Paradise - Charles Wright "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted..."
Stand tall against the wind - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"
That inoculates against the past tense - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
Misfortune and misery were written against us - "XVIII: Nican Ompehua Teponazcuicatl | Here Begin Songs for the Teponaztli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Music pushes back against pain - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Race instead against the almost rain - Kevin Young "For the Confederate Dead"
Pressed against the still silver sky - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Letter in Fog"
Against the sky's glutton lung - Art Zilleruelo "Ghost Story"
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She has her secret scotch against the cold - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"
A refuge built against two reckonings - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"
Breathing against the tide of your breath - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"
My lips against the nebula of you - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"
A million heartbeats against the silence - Elmaz Abinader "After Breakfast"
When fickle fate against her turned - "Abroad"
This would provide armor against the tedium - Duane Ackerson "The War on Terror"
You can shipwreck against the night - Etel Adnan "Night"
Magicians against this baleful dust - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"
Against the sky behind the dodecahedron - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
What conspires against arrival - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"
An inference clean against logical laws - Grant Allen "The First Idealist"
Swimming against the undertow of infinity - Mike Allen "Pulse"
Against the scarab of malachite - Zaina Alsous "Window Strike"
Rage against the mockery of art - Julia Alvarez "Anger and Art"
Laying her hand deliberately against each thorn - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
To ward against dangers we can't see - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
Come to cast my vote against your future - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
Turtles banging their heads against rocks - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"
Broken nails against the underworld - Julie Babcock "The Witnesses"
The clatter of chalk against blackboard - George A. Baker "After the German"
A fig leaf against a smashed wall - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"
Thoughts washed against a reef - Mary Jo Bang "Anniversary"
Fear pressed against stone - Mary Jo Bang "The Clairvoyant"
Against the brilliance of the last act - Mary Jo Bang "In the Present and Probable Future"
Beauty protecting against summer scorch - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Palm trees pinned against a wall - Mary Jo Bang "A Room in Cleopatra's Palace"
Stark against the light box of servitude - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"
To build a house against thunder and thirst - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"
Snapping their beaks against the fairyglass - Ashley Bao "Secrets from a Telepath"
Those I hold against myself - Rachel Barenblat "Untie"
Turns dim against the dawn - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"
The blackberry against the trellis - Catherine Barnett "Living Room Altar"
With wings against the wind - Elizabeth Bartlett "Self-Evident"
Against the granite of her skin - Charles Baudelaire "An Allegory" transl. not credited
Pricked clear against a splash of woad - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"
Against night's screen of stars - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Clenched ignorant against the sky - Elizabeth Bishop "The Armadillo"
Against this motion clear in steel - MacKnight Black "Corliss Engine"
Against the tangled vividness of night - Maxwell Bodenheim "North Clark Street, Chicago"
Against the wide malevolence of space - Max Bodenheim "Topsy-Turvy"
Its eight arguments against daylight - Jaswinder Bolina "Elegy"
Planted safe against this stark, lean year - Arna Bontemps "A Black Man Talks of Reaping"
To waste the life against a stubborn will - Arna Bontemps "The Day-Breakers"
Against my hand a little crumbling dust - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"
Grew against the smallest profit - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"
Against a heat-storm of cicadas - Ana Bozicevic "About a Fish"
Against the frozen wall of what is known - Elizabeth Bradfield "Polar Explorer Capt. John Cleves Symmes (1820)"
Loud notes against the night - Jari Bradley "Unruly"
Against the dashboard of stars - William Brewer "In the Room of the Overdosed, an Ember"
Of prayer against the grasses - Jericho Brown "Duplex"
To bloom against the will of the sun - Jericho Brown "The Tradition"
A ransom parleyed against the crowned heads of this world - Paul Cameron Brown "The Treasure Ships"
Moving against the tide of a world - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"
That scream against the thunder - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Against the coming of the wasteful flood - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Against such old-world heresy and schism - H.B.C. "The Kaiser to his Secretary" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Dark against the sky of steel - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"
Their worn shoes scratch against the paths of stone - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"
Aimed against the oligarchs - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall
Alone against hundreds - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "At Sea"
Throwing trees against the house - Anne Carson "Thunderstorm Stack"
Still set against the stream - Willa Cather "A Likeness"
Against the work of death - C.P. Cavafy "The Horses of Achilles" (translated by John Marvrogordato)
An argument against vindication - Jennifer Chang "The Strangers"
Bruising my heart against its rocky breast - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
brushing against the shadows - Lucille Clifton "one year later"
latticed against all light - Lucille Clifton "11/10 again"
Close our eyes against regret - Lucille Clifton "mirror"
Against the prevailing winds of horror - Leonard Cohen "I Draw Aside the Curtain"
Against the limits of the sea - Leonard Cohen "Thousand Kisses Deep"
Against that shadowy day - Wanda Coleman "Dear Mama (4)"
The pile of turf against the wall - Padraic Colum "An Old Woman of the Roads"
Set our ringing discords against celestial song - Susan Coolidge "The Better Prayer"
Those pleas against my scruples - William Cory "Amavi"
The brain's disk shivered against lust - Hart Crane "Recitative"
Against the birth of May - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Proof against the storm of war - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Bent against the angle of the Earth - Shutta Crum "Mausoleums"
My winged shadow pressed against their windows - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"
Whistle a melody against the percussion - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"
petals danced against my eyes and down - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"
Marched against the dark - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"
against the strong silences of your song - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"
Flung her name against the dark - H.D. "Nossis"
Memory against time - Jim Daniels "Souvenir"
Begging against the grave song - Geffrey Davis "For the Child's Mole"
Against the hive's collapse - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"
Waited too long to howl against the night - Kwame Dawes "Talk"
Colored balloons bobbing against a black ceiling - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Termaggio"
Owls buried against the black roofs - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"
Against incantations of false prophets - "The Deer's Cry" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Amber pockets against the snow - Chelsea B. DesAutels "Burials"
Songs against her body - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
Secure against its own - Emily Dickinson "The Soul unto itself (683)"
Swift song keening against granite - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"
A crowd of eyes against an asphalt wall - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"
Crashing mathematically against our coastlines - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Against the scintillant anthracite of space - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Hollow the wind against me - Marie-Ovide Dorceley "Sojourner"
Against the crouching lions - Julia C.R. Dorr "Vashti's Scroll"
Against the grownup world's uncertain horrors - Boris Dralyuk "Universal Horror"
Catching against my heartbeat - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"
Develop immunity against this violence - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"
With her ear against a dead wasp nest - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"
One hand against the strand - Fatihah Quadri Eniola "Down-Streaming"
Arched against violent thunder - Heid E. Erdich "Morrisseau Creatures from the Woodland Painters School"
Red against the north wind - Heid E. Erdich "Wilsah kote: The Burnt Wood People"
Dance against language and abandon verse - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "The Sunset and the Flowered Tree"
No moon to break myself against - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Apricots"
Your reflection pulls against currents - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Catch"
Suspended against the ruins - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 2"
Shackled against the shooting wall - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XI"
Branches scratch against my sleep - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Other Side"
Scratch against my sleep - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Other Side"
Watching the waves pull against time - Jennifer Elise Foerster "River"
Against infinity's cinematic Eden - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen F"
The fort over against the oak-wood - "The Fort of Rathangan"
Could not turn them back against the inferno - Robert Frazier "Wereman"
Raw, gold coiling whirled against air - Carol Frost "The Part of the Bee's Body Embedded in the Flesh"
One luminary clock against the sky - Robert Frost "Acquainted with the Night"
String an instrument against the sky - Robert Frost "The Line-Gang"
As measured against maple, birch, and oak - Robert Frost "The Onset"
When the wind works against us in the dark - Robert Frost "Storm Fear"
Crimes against the immaculate - James Galvin "Dear May Eighth"
Wet against my fingers in a dream - Suzanne Gardinier "Gapped Sonnet"
Leaning against the shadow of dead cells - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
Her mind so tight against the stitching - Hafizah Augustus Geter "Praise Song"
Against me the wind and the storm rebel - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Invitation"
Against the bare bleak brows of granite - Louis Golding "Courage the Dreamers"
To swirl, formless against each other - Amelia Gorman "Pickling Dog"
Tread a measure against bright candles - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"
Hundreds of shoulders leaned against their strength - Mona Gould "You Wrote"
To open against the prayer - Leah Naomi Green "C-section"
Roads against the windy skies - Ivor Gurney "Toasts and Memories"
Against the naked mouth of Hell - Ivor Gurney "The Volunteer"
Veiled against too strong a stare - Thomas Hardy "An Ancient to Ancients"
Against some unimagined darkness - Joy Harjo "Anchorage"
The gods weaving against sundown - Joy Harjo "For Alva Benson, And For Those Who Have Learned to Speak"
With no blade edge against ourselves - Joy Harjo "Song for Thantog"
A war against 500 lifetimes of submission - Abiola Haroun "Identity Voodoo"
That spent their strength against the unheeding shore - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Soothing"
Of happiness measured against all the dark - Jane Hirshfield "The Weighing"
Shot fierce light against the stars - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Ships etched against the sky - Langston Hughes "Seascape"
Against the divided sun - Ishion Hutchinson "Rocksteady"
The wind of romance hard against it - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"
Against a spiral of owned objects - Ra Malika Imhotep "Hurstonian Mythos 0.2: Custodial Spirits"
And laughed against the red - "In Hebrid Seas" (Translation by Thomas Pattison)
Brushed her mortal weeds against their wings - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"
gold against the mica sky - Didi Jackson "Fall"
Recedes against the sky's aperture - John James "Driving Arizona"
A hold against the host of the air - Robinson Jeffers "To the House"
Our collective weight against stone - Marlin M. Jenkins "Pokedex Entry #260: Swampert"
Light locked against us - Amanda Jernigan "Years, Months, and Days"
Rooted against the tides - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Kaōnōn"
My heart against the ground - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Calling Dreams"
Against hell's iron gate - James Weldon Johnson "The Prodigal Son"
Where Lethe glides against the sand - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
rock against my searching feet - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"
golden butterfly against the cave-dark - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"
Against the crowding dark - Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. "I Saw You"
Stand against the wind - Patricia Spears Jones "Autumn, New York, 1999"
Settle my feet against limitless earth - Tanque R. Jones "Metamorphosis"
Against the relentless laughter of evil - June Jordan "Moving towards Home"
Winners of the wars against breathing - June Jordan "Roman Poem Number Thirteen"
Chafe against the secret spell - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
A woman who speaks against silence - Ilya Kaminsky "While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses"
The sky of my mind against - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"
Bumping only against the sky - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"
That little fence against the war with dark - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"
Forgotten news whipped against parking meters - Mary Karr "The New Year"
Against the door to heaven - Mary Karr "The Pallbearer"
Vain as swords against the enchased crocodile - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Leaps of grasshoppers against the sun - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Fierce breath against the sleepy portals - John Keats "Hyperion"
Burst Joy's grape against his palate - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"
Against the voice of his conviction - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Your name scrapes against thick-edged leaves - Vandana Khanna "Parvati: A Wife's Mantra"
Against shadows of all that burning - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"
Winds that blow against a star - Joyce Kilmer "As Winds That Blow Against a Star"
Against the kind and awful reign - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
How to rupture against relief - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
Shake fists against the failings of insects - Amy King "The Marble Faun"
runs against the speed camera - John Kinsella "Redneck Refutation"
Against a million anonymous eyes - Elizabeth Knapp "Self-Portrait as Cindy Sherman's Instagram Account"
recessing against a train of No - Ruth Ellen Kocher "She Manifests Her Own Ineffable"
Grinning orange against the black - Rachel Kolar "Twinkle, Twinkle, Lantern Jack"
Angling themselves against the waves - Christopher Kondrich "Beach Scene"
A breath or two against all time - Alfred Kreymborg "Dirge"
Set against an infinite backdrop of space - Kien Lam "Big Bang Theory"
The body's bright wailing against its limits - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
Pale against this gorgeous hour - Lucy Larcom "November"
Tossed against its limestone - Emily Lawless "From the Burren X: A Garden"
Steel hawks against moonlight - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"
Against a day when they dare meet - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"
No chance against the knife - David Lehman "Wedding Song"
A verdict against creation - Philip Levine "Magic"
Brushes the blossoms against the balustrade - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Against the back fences of my soul - M.L. Liebler "Another Ah Sunflower!"
Against the day's blunt silence - Ann-Margaret Lim "One Summer"
Do not hold my own escape against me - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
Their windows crashing against rocks - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"
Against the grain of the earth - Anni Liu "Lake of Isles"
Strangle themselves against my fingers - Amy Lowell "Grotesque"
Against the jutting angle of a wall - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"
Against the jutted stars - Amy Lowell "The Taxi"
A fly stammering against the glass - Emilie Lygren "Meditation"
Bent against their fatal gravity - Thomas Lynch "I Felt Myself Turning"
Poised for an instant against the sky - P.H.B. Lyon "The Song of Strength"
To match our blood against the cold - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
Fields of corn against the moor - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Our Homeland"
A promise means swimming against the current - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
Sing against her thirsty stones - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Unchanged"
Flints of sunlight strike against your skin - Naomi Long Madgett "Signature"
Dirt's ammunition against discipline - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Stars as Cyborg #86"
To fret against the chain - Edwin Markham "A Lyric of the Dawn"
A gray heron battling up against the wind - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"
Should one thought cry against me - Jeannette Marks "Your Sunlit Way"
Against the towers of stone and steel - Don Marquis "Lower New York--A Storm"
Measure chance against truth - Herbert Woodward Martin "Five Finger Exercise"
Before losing love against itself - J. Michael Martinez "Death to Paint Us"
Against the north wind's misery - Edgar Lee Masters "Delilah"
The guarded heart against excess of rain - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"
Against the phantoms of the night - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"
Against our day of bitter scorn - Theodore Maynard "To a Good Atheist"
Plaid patterns push against bloodroot - John McCarthy "General Electric Monitor Top"
Trying to crush beer cans against the moon - John McCarthy "Ghost Friends, Sangamon County"
Sophisticated spaces against the day - Medbh McGuckian "Garden Homage"
Struggle against impossible circumstance - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"
Music dims against the complicated bramble - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"
Stormful shadows against the gold - Helen M. Merrill "The Promise of Spring"
Jarred against Nature's chime - John Milton "At a Solemn Music"
And press your heart against the ground - Harold Monro "The Fresh Air"
Against my unknowing - Lara Mimosa Montes "A Pain That Is Not Private"
Sounded the keynote against you - Carlos Montezuma "I Have Stood Up for You"
Against future flight - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Angel"
Against eternal midnight lit - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Still Life as Rocket: 42"
Crashing against the family tree - jessica Care moore "She Was"
Not proof against a worm - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"
Burn clear against a sky of tender blue - William Moore "Here in the Time of the Winter Morn"
That one's heart must be steeled against the east wind - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
beats against the wall of the waterless - Valzhyna Mort "crossword"
[Light opening against my back - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"]
An oath against the roman calendar - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"
Impassive sky against your forehead - Chris Nealon "All About You"
Against a backdrop of bare time - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (II)" transl. by Alastair Reid
Only your light against extinction - Pablo Neruda "Night XC" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Against the black tower of silence - Pablo Neruda "A Small Animal" transl. by William O'Daly
Corrosive tongue against the water - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
Against an inexorable citadel - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Holding our wings against the wind - Mari Ness "Tongueless"
Umbrellas against the searing glory - Grace Nichols "In the Fleeting Now"
Against the stars and scars of a city - Grace Nichols "A Sacrament of Words"
What another mind may scrape against - Idra Novey "Translator's Confession, 3 a.m."
Blasphemed against their gods of clay - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
To breathe against those ancient rocks - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci II: At Florence"
One hand out against the earth - Naomi Shihab Nye "All I Can Do"
One hand up against the sky - Naomi Shihab Nye "All I Can Do"
Raised his hand against the roaring ocean - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop"
Swimming against the molten current - Achy Obejas "Inner Core"
Against the silence of the trees - Mary Oliver "Spring"
Soldiers in the march against time - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"
Cut crystal against rainbow walls - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"
against the shoreline's erratic discipline - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"
Our human fists against heaven - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "The Glory of Cities"
Doors still bolted against - John Oxenham "Darkness and Light"
Complaints against mortality - Grace Paley [untitled]
With magnets to guard against assault - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
Thread a needle against time - Dorothy Parker "Parties: A Hymn of Hate"
Honey jars rattle laughter against our teeth - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"
Laughter against our teeth - Soham Patel "Mixed with always"
Against the solemn register of his losses - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"
Prospero warned me against walking alone - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"
Pressed up against that which we cannot control - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"
Against the snow of memory - Carl Phillips "Dominion"
Dream against dream’s return - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"
An angled argument against despair - Carl Phillips "On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing"
A spell against indifference - Carl Phillips "Sing a Darkness"
Against having sworn to be kind - Carl Phillips "Wherefore Less Lonely"
Against the cusp of dusk - Xan Forest Phillips "I Never Used to Write About Birds"
Cast against an ocean's skin - Xan Forest Phillips "Never Have I Ever"
Die against the skyline - Xan Forest Phillips "Splay My Country"
Sweet taboo silhouetted against red temptation - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Fighting against our assumption - Cherise Pollard "Nodes of Growth"
Broken against false knowledge - Ezra Pound "The Rest"
Against the glistening odds of the frost - Lynn Powell "Aubade for the Muse"
Weighed against something lighter than life - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Against a corridor of wounds - Khadijah Queen "Ode to 180 Pairs of White Gloves"
Keeping time against the urge to quit - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"
Against small violent spark of will - Sina Queyras "Years"
To put my palm against that mirror - Paige Quinones "Bipolar and its Related Disorders"
Stand against the stress of weather - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On the Sea-Shore"
Phantom fists against the plexiglass of the living world - Nen G. Ramirez "Love poem with a dying cat"
Against this frowning rock - Theodore H. Rand "The Tireless Sea"
Followed three shadows against the moon - Ernest Rhys "Ballad of the Buried Sword"
His own eyeful against the other's eyeful - Lola Ridge "Emma Goldman"
That leaned so gaunt against the sky - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Against the dimmer arc of heaven - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 1: Mary of Magdala"
Against the words of princes - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Wild trees that strain against the dawn - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"
Breaks against me like a lance - Lola Ridge "Ward X"
Everything becomes a protest against darkness - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
White-fruited cocoa shown against the shell - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"
Armed myself against justice - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Harder than agates against an egg-shell - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"
Foundering against the Russian winter - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"
To match against its increments - Kay Ryan "It's Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn"
Sick with struggles against fate - Saadi "Guardians" transl. by E.B. Eastwick
light that fell against the prison floor - C.T. Salazar "River"
Against this mad vibration of death - Sonia Sanchez "On the Occasion of Essence's Twenty-fifth Anniversary"
Whistling ragtime against the sunsets - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"
Against the troubled fever of the earth - Margaret E. Sangster "I Dreamed Your Face"
A fast cloud moving against the sand - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #95"
Spitting against the wind - Philip Schultz "Googling Ourselves"
Darkest anodyne against our pain - Ann K. Schwader "Darkest Anodyne"
Rose against the dark like vengeance hurled - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah II: The White Stone"
The weight of tech against Thoth's scale - Ann K. Schwader "Past Human"
Against this coming end you should prepare - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIII"
Those boughs which shake against the cold - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXIII"
Against strange maladies a sovereign cure - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLIII"
Light garments brush against the dark - Virna Sheard "Before the Dawn"
The orbits of universes pinging against my skeleton - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"
Your points against the sapphire day - Clark Ashton Smith "Pine Needles"
Protection against the swords of the world - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
Like a small stone against her back - Hope Anita Smith "Sleepover"
Needs another to chime against - Maggie Smith "Perennials"
Against a city's flat face - Patricia Smith "Siblings"
The voices scraping against the river - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"
A dance against hunger - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"
Outlined against the peaceful Eden hills - Jean M. Snyder "Buffalo Harbor"
Flashing arabesques against the sun - George Soule "Winter's Pride"
Against the day of thy hope - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Their swords against the abyss - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
One branch of chrysanthemum holds out against frost - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson
A blade against the ribbon of desire - Arthur Sze "Rock Paper Scissors"
Dreams beat against the inner eye - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"
Taxis rubbing up against each other's paint - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Bare, brown branches stark against the deep, blue sky - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"
Could invest against their tenuous future - Keith Taylor "One Species to Mourn"
Noiseless waves breaking against her feet - Keith Taylor "Reading Late"
Against the fear mounting at night - Keith Taylor "Three Springs"
Against the tyranny of rain - Öykü Tekten "mountain language"
Watery dreams against the desert of her days - Shveta Thakrar "Shadowskin"
Against the outgoing sea of ebbing mystery - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"
Against the arrows of the coming sun - Henry David Thoreau "Winter Memories"
Our might against their glacial certainty - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"
Against a wall of wind and sand - Edwin Torres "Neptune's Elegia"
A sky to throw wishes against - Michael Torres "Writing Prompt"
The drums of time beating against oblivion - Iris Tree "[How soundly sleepeth the fool]"
Stack up against the seasons - Natasha Trethewey "Accounting"
Strain against motion - Natasha Trethewey "Three Photographs"
A silver bullet against every demon you fashioned - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
Against the edge of the sky - Mark Turcotte "Dear New Blood"
How to build a case against the bees - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"
Cherries in nets against the wall - Katharine Tynan "The Choice"
So still against a sky of daffodil - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"
A broken lance against iron laws - Louis Untermeyer "He Goads Himself"
Against the numbed sky - John Updike "Icarus"
Protest against the forgetting - John Updike "In the Cemetery High Above Shillington"
Lying for warmth against my heart - Mark Van Doren "Three Friends"
Stacked immense against every fact - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"
The doomed shrub fanned against the rockface - Ellen Bryant Voigt "The Field Trip"
No feud of family could stand against - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: ii) Godzilla in Shakespeare"
Played against olive and smoky lime - Rosanna Warren "Muse Not Muse"
Against a country of promise - Michael Wasson "Countdown as Slow Kisses"
Clink against cups of remembered courage - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Who Really Stirs the World"
Bright forts against Oblivion - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Locked against all circumstance - Helen Hay Whitney "Amor Mysticus"
Hurls her rage against the sands - Helen Hay Whitney "False"
Bleak trees stand up against the sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"
Against the challenge of her knock - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Stripped clear against the sky - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"
Drawn tight against the city wind - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"
Rise against their rootedness - Richard Wilbur "Young Orchard"
Broken against cold winds - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
Holds an edge against the weather - William Carlos Williams "History"
Worn against the years - William Carlos Williams "History"
An injured Juno roused against Heaven's King - William Carlos Williams "Immortal"
And try them against the sky's limits - William Carlos Williams "M. B."
Against treacherous bitterness of wind - William Carlos Williams "March"
Always against a grey sky - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"
Prepared their buds against a sure winter - William Carlos Williams "Winter Trees"
Against their intractable edges - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"
Against the boundless curb of light - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
Holding my soul strong against foreign powers - Nicholas Wong "The Little Pink"
Gravetree estuaries against the winds of Paradise - Charles Wright "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted..."
Stand tall against the wind - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"
That inoculates against the past tense - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
Misfortune and misery were written against us - "XVIII: Nican Ompehua Teponazcuicatl | Here Begin Songs for the Teponaztli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Music pushes back against pain - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Race instead against the almost rain - Kevin Young "For the Confederate Dead"
Pressed against the still silver sky - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Letter in Fog"
Against the sky's glutton lung - Art Zilleruelo "Ghost Story"
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