Potential Titles: Ancient
Jan. 15th, 2010 04:36 pmEngraved with an ancient, simple fact - Aria Aber "Oakland in Rain"
If ancient fame the truth unfold - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
That walked beside me in the ancient time - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
That touched the ancient folds around his eyes - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Your ancient ground and your somber river waters - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"
Of ancient kisses vile and vain - Auguste Angellier "An Evocation" transl. by Henry van Dyke
The ancient beauty of the commonplace - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [A hundred years ago the church bells spoke]"
Old markets selling ancient glories - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"
the myriad flavors of ancient childhoods - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"
Where ancient kings enchanted lie - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Ancient stars in clusters bright - Benjamin West Ball "Love's Labor Lost"
The secret scent of ancient waters - Lou Barrett "Young Fisher King"
That climb up ancient roads - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
Dawn and dusk the ancient thresholds - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
Rivers under ancient walls flowing - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"
A voice from ancient slaughters - Stephen Vincent Benet "Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room"
Within whose heart no spark of ancient fire burns - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Sharp-pointed skeletons of ancient geometric trolls - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"
Giant dervishes dancing under the ancient stars - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"
Wear this ancient armour of belonging - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"
Archipelago of dream plastics already ancient - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"
The color of an ancient thesaurus - Catherine Bowman "Pears"
This mass of ancient treasures - Charlotte Bronte "Mementos"
Growth of the ancient atoms - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Sat grieving on her ancient throne - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Coming of Summer"
Rock-ribbed and ancient - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"
The living soul of ancient might - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"
The resonant and ancient darkness - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"
All weirds of haunted ancientness - W. Wilfred Campbell "Morning"
Object of their ancient dread - Giosue Carducci "Roma" transl. by Frank Sewall
A saga of cities ancient and buried - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall
Ancient eagles on its brink - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Weeping out of the ancient sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Strange spears hung with ancient charms - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
Tattered outlaw of the earth, of ancient crooked will - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"
Worse than the ancient wrongs - G.K. Chesterton "The Secret People"
To the highest key of ancient Rome - John Cleveland "To the Memory of Ben Jonson"
Reap where ancients sowed - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Listen to the ancient silence - Chris Colderly "Tambourine Things: Celebrating Judith Wright"
As ancient as my blood - Donte Collins "Prayer Severing the Cycle"
Where an ancient wrath is denizen - Arthur Colton "The Herb of Grace"
Ancient Adam's will - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Pry dirt from the roots of an ancient oak - Dorsey Craft "The Wife's Lament: A Retelling"
Thru ancient Gothic arches seen - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"
Find forgiveness in the ancient light - Shutta Crum "Everything is Far"
Ancient algae, reptile tread, soot-filled skies - Shutta Crum "On the Beach"
With meagre counterfeit of ancient rite - H.D. "Projector"
Where ancient suns have gone - Russell W. Davenport "Poems I"
All echoing ancient things - Fannie Stearns Davis "Wind"
Ancient valleys reignited by more lightning - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Farmhouse"
Ancient rivers that green the desert's edge - Kwame Dawes "Eat"
Chanting strains of ancient chivalry - Coningsby Dawson "The Mirror of Thought"
The marrow of their ancient griefs - Benjamin De Casseres "The Protagonist"
Nothing ever breaks the ancient spell - Salomon de la Selva "Tropical Town"
Wrinkling out a language of ancient trees - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Praise"
Intone their ancient litany - Edward Dowden "At Mullion (Cornwall)"
Mindful of Earth's ancient woe - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"
The ancient wail heard by dead Gods - Edward Dowden "A Child's Noonday Sleep"
Ancient sunsets and lost hours - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"
What deep heart of the ancient hills - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel II. In a Mountain Pass"
To vindicate night's ancient fame - Edward Dowden "The Morning Star"
Love's ancient fire - Ernest Christopher Dowson "In Tempore Senectutis"
Whose ancient voice is lifted on the wind - Max Eastman "Earth's Night"
Tracing on the ancient screen of night - Max Eastman "X Rays"
Some ancient discontent impairs- Helen Parry Eden "Coal and Candlelight"
Some ancient memory of apples - Helen Parry Eden "Simkin"
Ancient in the repetition - Safia Elhillo "1000"
Where the ancient cedar grows - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Overhead the ancient crows - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"
Founded to house the ancient powers - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 4. E-Melemhush, the Temple of Nuska in Nippur" transl. by Sophus Helle
When the last ancient glacier gleamed blue - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"
Through the windows of an ancient aquarium - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"
At midnight in the ancient language of bronze - Martin Espada "Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World"
Scissoring your ancient way through - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"
While the ancient things are woken - Joseph Fasano "The Moon"
Ancient days in endless dynasty - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"
Echoing in the ancient wind - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Prayers of grandmothers current and ancient - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
I remember an ancient sea and mountains older - Robin Flower "The Pipes"
Written over ancient oyster beds - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten III"
Drenched stars' ancient frieze - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"
With the ancient urge of night - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
The dunes were lit like ancient silk - Eric Gamalinda "Zero Gravity"
Outside my door under the ancient oak - Elizabeth W. Garber "Feasting"
Fifteen hundred ancient woes - Louis Golding "Numbers"
Lucid in the light of ancient song - David Gray "The Luggie III [sonnet]"
Keen as the ancient drift of sleep - Louise Imogen Guiney "Borderlands"
Wrapped in ancient symbols - Nathalie Handal "Dor"
A sea of ancient tunes - Nathalie Handal "Love Undone: Se Ou Mwen Vle"
A whisper from ancient roots - Avis Harley "The Skyway to Mexico"
Robed in moonlight's ancient gold - F.W. Harvey "Lassington"
Through the space program and into the ancient sea of stars - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"
Free from the ancient gyves that bind and gall - John Northern Hilliard "Iconoclasm" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
An elephant wept in ancient memory - Cheng Him "Declaration"
Tore away its ancient root - "In Hebrid Seas" (Translation by Thomas Pattison)
Ancient spiders with a flutter spread - Juan Ramon Jimenez "One Night" transl. by Thomas Walsh
The ancient faith of prophets - James Weldon Johnson "O Black and Unknown Bards"
Alone with ancient night - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
The ancient hours live yet - Lionel Johnson "Oracles"
Ancients of dark majesty - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"
By ancient prophets found - Lionel Johnson "Trentals"
Burdens in an ancient tongue - Lionel Johnson "Trentals"
Afloat in their ancient miasma - Mary Karr "Metaphysique du Mal"
Like a bit of ancient punctuation - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"
A wind of ancient romance blows - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Some wild snatch of ancient melody - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"
An ancient meadow made wild with onion - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"
This young companion of an ancient star - Joyce Kilmer "Mount Houvenkopf"
Love's ancient magic run - Joyce Kilmer "Summer of Love"
By every ancient mark our fathers used - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"
The wind will keep its ancient lullaby - L.L. "The Graves of Gallipoli" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Of forgotten time and ancient doing - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"
The ancient world's sad glories - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"
Has joined the ancient lost tongues - Michael Lauchlan "Detroit Pheasant"
Your ancient strength remains unbent - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"
There falls each ancient barrier - Emma Lazarus "1492"
To waste grief on ancient tragedies - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"
All things ancient, vast, towering - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"
Of ancient fellowships and new dissensions - Henry S. Leigh "The End of an Old Year"
Just outside the hall of their ancient Guild - Henry S. Leigh "The Vision of the Alderman"
Ancient storms awoke from aeons' slumber - R.B. Lemberg "The Ash Manifesto"
A breath as ancient as the world - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Stone"
In an ancient melee of night flowers - Angela Liu "The witches are without work"
Spilled you on the ancient sea bed - Kenji C. Liu "Gaman: Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah"
Ancient, eternal even, in our heavenly bodies - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"
Ancient Oak hears with ancient ears - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "oak"
The sands in Time's ancient glass - Ronald Campbell MacFie "Song"
Pulling you toward the ancient texts - Aditi Machado "then"
Memories of heroes pave the ancient streets - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"
On an ancient road of Hell - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"
Fire for ancient reason - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
Ancient sorrows that were sealed - Theodore Maynard "Lyric Love"
Their ancient language preserved as awe - John McCarthy "Garnett, Kansas"
In ancient splendid starlight - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"
In the ancient forest maze - John M'Pherson "In the Woods"
Jewels of ancient note - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"
Borrows wisdom from its ancient heat - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"
An ancient bell within their throats - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Has disdained her ancient conquests - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
An ancient wheel spinning a knotted thread - George Meredith "Bellerophon"
Paints phantom purple upon ancient snow - Adam Mickiewicz "Alushta By Night" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
To cross the bridge of ancient snow - Adam Mickiewicz "The Pass Across the Abyss in the Tschufut-Kale" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Standing still in the glitter of ancient glass - N. Scott Momaday "Jornada del Muerto"
A silence on the ancient walls - N. Scott Momaday "Torrent"
The ancient garden where we met - Henri Murger "Old Loves" transl. by Andrew Lang
Like an ancient map of pain - Walter Dean Myers "Junice Lomax, 23, Unemployed"
Old flints to kindle ancient lamps - Pablo Neruda "Arise to Birth" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Brought back ancient beginnings - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Testament" transl. by Alastair Reid
Hoarded by the ancient mother of roots - Pablo Neruda "The Earth" transl. by Richard Schaaf
Of ancient blood devoured by the jaguars' snouts - Pablo Neruda "Guatemala" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Ancient dream of talons and knives - Pablo Neruda "The Judges" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Rivers splintered by ancient stone - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
The ancient cinders of a heart - Pablo Neruda "Night XCV" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Will count again the ancient stars - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Numbers" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Towards the ancient scent of moss - Pablo Neruda "Ox" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The ancient hero of the minutes - Pablo Neruda "To Don Asterio Alacaron, Clocksmith of Valparaiso" transl. by Alastair Reid
Ancient rivers of green fire - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Ancient cities stacked one atop another - Robbi Nester "Rot"
Already more ancient than the moons - Caroline Harper New "The Loon's Solid Bones Help Her Sink"
The steps of an ancient ritual - Grace Nichols "Masquerade"
Shows the ancient proverb's force - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: III. The Third Hole"
The ancient altar of the moment - Alice Notley "Individual Time"
To breathe against those ancient rocks - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci II: At Florence"
Savory smoke from ancient fires - Naomi Shihab Nye "Grandfathers Say"
Casting ourselves toward ancient altars - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"
Tidings of ancient summer - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Each ancient and suspiciously free - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May"
An ancient bitter nod - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"
Pocketfuls of ancient seed - Grace Paley "It Doesn't Matter If"
Ancient scars of trench and tomb - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"
More than twenty thousand ancient stars - Kiki Petrosino "The Prince"
A visitor at some ancient ceremony - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"
The shark more ancient than trees - Xan Forest Phillips "Nature Poem with Compulsive Attraction to the Shark"
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
Now is revenge for an ancient grudge - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"
Mythic muse with ancient loom - Herbert Randall "Sundown on the Marshes"
The sky is of ancient tin - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"
Placed at the ancient heart of a temple - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
Ancient hour between light and dark - Adrienne Rich "Darklight"
Divide the ancient body of the night - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Abiding brood of those ancient mothers - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
An ancient tapestry of motley weave - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Littered with memories like ancient garrets - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
The key to that ancient party - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Whose skin resembles the bark of an ancient oak - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"
The ancient hills commune with sleep - Charles George Douglas Roberts "The Train Among the Hills"
Daring deeds and ancient border-glory - Henry W. Rockwell "Mohawk: IV"
No monoliths inscribed with ancient rites - David Salisbury "On Mars"
Frail echo of some ancient sacred joy - George Santayana "In Grantchester Meadows"
With ancient grievances and souring schemes - Philip Schultz "Sadness"
Truth beyond the authorized & ancient - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
Ancient opener of all ways to darkness - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
Ancient wisdom like the bitterness of stars - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
Falls ancient as the curse of Cain - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"
Of vermin beset by ancient plagues - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"
As brown as an ancient scroll - Frederick George Scott "On an Old Venetian Portrait"
Silence resumes her ancient reign - Owen Seaman "Of Baiting the Lion"
A lone wolf howls his ancient rune - Robert W. Service "The Land God Forgot"
That the ancient things I loved would comfort you - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
Hark the rumour of ten thousand ancient Springs - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
O'er ancient tombs keep watch - Taras Shevchenko "To Jacques de Balmont" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Three ancient trees of purple pure - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: Laegh's Description of Fairy-Land" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Ancient cities built on cliffs - Joyce Sidman "The Mushrooms Come"
The map of ancient Rome in your pocket - Charles Simic "A Word"
Ancient lips to silence vowed - Clark Ashton Smith "Twilight on the Snow"
Ancient boundary stone on the edge - Marin Sorescu "To the Sea" transl. by Michael Hamburger
Breaks the spell of the ancient, numbered hours - A.E. Stallings "First Miracle"
As ancient scrolls determine - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"
Whose ancient salt is in our blood - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
And ancient as the air - George Sterling "Duandon"
On ancient roads of war - George Sterling "England, August 1914"
The harvests of her ancient rain - George Sterling "To Germany"
Time's sure and ancient treachery - George Sterling "To Ina Coolbrith"
The holy hush of ancient sacrifice - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
Within the ancient circles of shapes - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
That grey, ancient sea of sleep - M. Letitia Stockett "Sleep"
Weave these phantoms by this ancient loom - Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard "Before the Mirror"
Wailing deep its ancient moan - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "March"
Empty as ancient desert streams - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
While far away towers fall and ancient cities crumble - Keith Taylor "Responsibilities"
Howling dunes across ancient bones - Edwin Torres "Bit by Bite"
The ancient orchard, where the russets thickly gleam - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
As I spill the ancient wine - Iris Tree "Flame"
Ancient maps scored inside the lace of their bones - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
Ancient conspiracy ran to our doors - Morris Tyler "The Bells of Antwerp"
Certain of its ancient ground - John Updike "Reality"
Drifting lands close on ancient seas - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"
The ancient star trails that sang them home - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Beneath the Southern Cross"
And tread again that ancient track - Henry Vaughan "The Retreat"
Sunrise on some ancient summer solstice - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"
Fathers of the ancient day - Thomas Walsh "Coelo et in Terra"
Hears a presage in the ancient thunder - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
Scatter the ancient mist of gloom - "The Whale's Last Moments: A Lamp-Light Musing"
And the ancient struggles cease - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
Some answering glimmer of the ancient Spark - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
With the ancient doubt and terror - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"
Leaving the ancient, the angry and the slow - Mark Wunderlich "My Local Dead"
The ancients had their mountains of sorrow - Yang Wan-li "Relaxing in the Evening in My Study, the Wo-chi-chai" transl. by Burton Watson
On whose ancient wings - W.B. Yeats "Fergus and the Druid"
An air that ancient poets knew - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
With your calm ancient terror - Matthew Zapruder "There Is a Light"
The ancient method of damage and repair - Matthew Zapruder "Water Street"
Hunger of ancient density - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 10" transl. by Katherine Silver
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If ancient fame the truth unfold - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
That walked beside me in the ancient time - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
That touched the ancient folds around his eyes - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Your ancient ground and your somber river waters - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"
Of ancient kisses vile and vain - Auguste Angellier "An Evocation" transl. by Henry van Dyke
The ancient beauty of the commonplace - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [A hundred years ago the church bells spoke]"
Old markets selling ancient glories - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"
the myriad flavors of ancient childhoods - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"
Where ancient kings enchanted lie - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Ancient stars in clusters bright - Benjamin West Ball "Love's Labor Lost"
The secret scent of ancient waters - Lou Barrett "Young Fisher King"
That climb up ancient roads - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
Dawn and dusk the ancient thresholds - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
Rivers under ancient walls flowing - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"
A voice from ancient slaughters - Stephen Vincent Benet "Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room"
Within whose heart no spark of ancient fire burns - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Sharp-pointed skeletons of ancient geometric trolls - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"
Giant dervishes dancing under the ancient stars - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"
Wear this ancient armour of belonging - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"
Archipelago of dream plastics already ancient - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"
The color of an ancient thesaurus - Catherine Bowman "Pears"
This mass of ancient treasures - Charlotte Bronte "Mementos"
Growth of the ancient atoms - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Sat grieving on her ancient throne - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Coming of Summer"
Rock-ribbed and ancient - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"
The living soul of ancient might - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"
The resonant and ancient darkness - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"
All weirds of haunted ancientness - W. Wilfred Campbell "Morning"
Object of their ancient dread - Giosue Carducci "Roma" transl. by Frank Sewall
A saga of cities ancient and buried - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall
Ancient eagles on its brink - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Weeping out of the ancient sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Strange spears hung with ancient charms - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
Tattered outlaw of the earth, of ancient crooked will - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"
Worse than the ancient wrongs - G.K. Chesterton "The Secret People"
To the highest key of ancient Rome - John Cleveland "To the Memory of Ben Jonson"
Reap where ancients sowed - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Listen to the ancient silence - Chris Colderly "Tambourine Things: Celebrating Judith Wright"
As ancient as my blood - Donte Collins "Prayer Severing the Cycle"
Where an ancient wrath is denizen - Arthur Colton "The Herb of Grace"
Ancient Adam's will - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Pry dirt from the roots of an ancient oak - Dorsey Craft "The Wife's Lament: A Retelling"
Thru ancient Gothic arches seen - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"
Find forgiveness in the ancient light - Shutta Crum "Everything is Far"
Ancient algae, reptile tread, soot-filled skies - Shutta Crum "On the Beach"
With meagre counterfeit of ancient rite - H.D. "Projector"
Where ancient suns have gone - Russell W. Davenport "Poems I"
All echoing ancient things - Fannie Stearns Davis "Wind"
Ancient valleys reignited by more lightning - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Farmhouse"
Ancient rivers that green the desert's edge - Kwame Dawes "Eat"
Chanting strains of ancient chivalry - Coningsby Dawson "The Mirror of Thought"
The marrow of their ancient griefs - Benjamin De Casseres "The Protagonist"
Nothing ever breaks the ancient spell - Salomon de la Selva "Tropical Town"
Wrinkling out a language of ancient trees - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Praise"
Intone their ancient litany - Edward Dowden "At Mullion (Cornwall)"
Mindful of Earth's ancient woe - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"
The ancient wail heard by dead Gods - Edward Dowden "A Child's Noonday Sleep"
Ancient sunsets and lost hours - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"
What deep heart of the ancient hills - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel II. In a Mountain Pass"
To vindicate night's ancient fame - Edward Dowden "The Morning Star"
Love's ancient fire - Ernest Christopher Dowson "In Tempore Senectutis"
Whose ancient voice is lifted on the wind - Max Eastman "Earth's Night"
Tracing on the ancient screen of night - Max Eastman "X Rays"
Some ancient discontent impairs- Helen Parry Eden "Coal and Candlelight"
Some ancient memory of apples - Helen Parry Eden "Simkin"
Ancient in the repetition - Safia Elhillo "1000"
Where the ancient cedar grows - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Overhead the ancient crows - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"
Founded to house the ancient powers - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 4. E-Melemhush, the Temple of Nuska in Nippur" transl. by Sophus Helle
When the last ancient glacier gleamed blue - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"
Through the windows of an ancient aquarium - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"
At midnight in the ancient language of bronze - Martin Espada "Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World"
Scissoring your ancient way through - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"
While the ancient things are woken - Joseph Fasano "The Moon"
Ancient days in endless dynasty - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"
Echoing in the ancient wind - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Prayers of grandmothers current and ancient - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
I remember an ancient sea and mountains older - Robin Flower "The Pipes"
Written over ancient oyster beds - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten III"
Drenched stars' ancient frieze - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"
With the ancient urge of night - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
The dunes were lit like ancient silk - Eric Gamalinda "Zero Gravity"
Outside my door under the ancient oak - Elizabeth W. Garber "Feasting"
Fifteen hundred ancient woes - Louis Golding "Numbers"
Lucid in the light of ancient song - David Gray "The Luggie III [sonnet]"
Keen as the ancient drift of sleep - Louise Imogen Guiney "Borderlands"
Wrapped in ancient symbols - Nathalie Handal "Dor"
A sea of ancient tunes - Nathalie Handal "Love Undone: Se Ou Mwen Vle"
A whisper from ancient roots - Avis Harley "The Skyway to Mexico"
Robed in moonlight's ancient gold - F.W. Harvey "Lassington"
Through the space program and into the ancient sea of stars - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"
Free from the ancient gyves that bind and gall - John Northern Hilliard "Iconoclasm" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
An elephant wept in ancient memory - Cheng Him "Declaration"
Tore away its ancient root - "In Hebrid Seas" (Translation by Thomas Pattison)
Ancient spiders with a flutter spread - Juan Ramon Jimenez "One Night" transl. by Thomas Walsh
The ancient faith of prophets - James Weldon Johnson "O Black and Unknown Bards"
Alone with ancient night - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
The ancient hours live yet - Lionel Johnson "Oracles"
Ancients of dark majesty - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"
By ancient prophets found - Lionel Johnson "Trentals"
Burdens in an ancient tongue - Lionel Johnson "Trentals"
Afloat in their ancient miasma - Mary Karr "Metaphysique du Mal"
Like a bit of ancient punctuation - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"
A wind of ancient romance blows - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Some wild snatch of ancient melody - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"
An ancient meadow made wild with onion - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"
This young companion of an ancient star - Joyce Kilmer "Mount Houvenkopf"
Love's ancient magic run - Joyce Kilmer "Summer of Love"
By every ancient mark our fathers used - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"
The wind will keep its ancient lullaby - L.L. "The Graves of Gallipoli" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Of forgotten time and ancient doing - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"
The ancient world's sad glories - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"
Has joined the ancient lost tongues - Michael Lauchlan "Detroit Pheasant"
Your ancient strength remains unbent - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"
There falls each ancient barrier - Emma Lazarus "1492"
To waste grief on ancient tragedies - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"
All things ancient, vast, towering - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"
Of ancient fellowships and new dissensions - Henry S. Leigh "The End of an Old Year"
Just outside the hall of their ancient Guild - Henry S. Leigh "The Vision of the Alderman"
Ancient storms awoke from aeons' slumber - R.B. Lemberg "The Ash Manifesto"
A breath as ancient as the world - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Stone"
In an ancient melee of night flowers - Angela Liu "The witches are without work"
Spilled you on the ancient sea bed - Kenji C. Liu "Gaman: Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah"
Ancient, eternal even, in our heavenly bodies - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"
Ancient Oak hears with ancient ears - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "oak"
The sands in Time's ancient glass - Ronald Campbell MacFie "Song"
Pulling you toward the ancient texts - Aditi Machado "then"
Memories of heroes pave the ancient streets - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"
On an ancient road of Hell - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"
Fire for ancient reason - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
Ancient sorrows that were sealed - Theodore Maynard "Lyric Love"
Their ancient language preserved as awe - John McCarthy "Garnett, Kansas"
In ancient splendid starlight - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"
In the ancient forest maze - John M'Pherson "In the Woods"
Jewels of ancient note - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"
Borrows wisdom from its ancient heat - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"
An ancient bell within their throats - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Has disdained her ancient conquests - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
An ancient wheel spinning a knotted thread - George Meredith "Bellerophon"
Paints phantom purple upon ancient snow - Adam Mickiewicz "Alushta By Night" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
To cross the bridge of ancient snow - Adam Mickiewicz "The Pass Across the Abyss in the Tschufut-Kale" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Standing still in the glitter of ancient glass - N. Scott Momaday "Jornada del Muerto"
A silence on the ancient walls - N. Scott Momaday "Torrent"
The ancient garden where we met - Henri Murger "Old Loves" transl. by Andrew Lang
Like an ancient map of pain - Walter Dean Myers "Junice Lomax, 23, Unemployed"
Old flints to kindle ancient lamps - Pablo Neruda "Arise to Birth" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Brought back ancient beginnings - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Testament" transl. by Alastair Reid
Hoarded by the ancient mother of roots - Pablo Neruda "The Earth" transl. by Richard Schaaf
Of ancient blood devoured by the jaguars' snouts - Pablo Neruda "Guatemala" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Ancient dream of talons and knives - Pablo Neruda "The Judges" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Rivers splintered by ancient stone - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
The ancient cinders of a heart - Pablo Neruda "Night XCV" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Will count again the ancient stars - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Numbers" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Towards the ancient scent of moss - Pablo Neruda "Ox" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The ancient hero of the minutes - Pablo Neruda "To Don Asterio Alacaron, Clocksmith of Valparaiso" transl. by Alastair Reid
Ancient rivers of green fire - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Ancient cities stacked one atop another - Robbi Nester "Rot"
Already more ancient than the moons - Caroline Harper New "The Loon's Solid Bones Help Her Sink"
The steps of an ancient ritual - Grace Nichols "Masquerade"
Shows the ancient proverb's force - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: III. The Third Hole"
The ancient altar of the moment - Alice Notley "Individual Time"
To breathe against those ancient rocks - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci II: At Florence"
Savory smoke from ancient fires - Naomi Shihab Nye "Grandfathers Say"
Casting ourselves toward ancient altars - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"
Tidings of ancient summer - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Each ancient and suspiciously free - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May"
An ancient bitter nod - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"
Pocketfuls of ancient seed - Grace Paley "It Doesn't Matter If"
Ancient scars of trench and tomb - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"
More than twenty thousand ancient stars - Kiki Petrosino "The Prince"
A visitor at some ancient ceremony - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"
The shark more ancient than trees - Xan Forest Phillips "Nature Poem with Compulsive Attraction to the Shark"
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
Now is revenge for an ancient grudge - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"
Mythic muse with ancient loom - Herbert Randall "Sundown on the Marshes"
The sky is of ancient tin - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"
Placed at the ancient heart of a temple - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
Ancient hour between light and dark - Adrienne Rich "Darklight"
Divide the ancient body of the night - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Abiding brood of those ancient mothers - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
An ancient tapestry of motley weave - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Littered with memories like ancient garrets - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
The key to that ancient party - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Whose skin resembles the bark of an ancient oak - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"
The ancient hills commune with sleep - Charles George Douglas Roberts "The Train Among the Hills"
Daring deeds and ancient border-glory - Henry W. Rockwell "Mohawk: IV"
No monoliths inscribed with ancient rites - David Salisbury "On Mars"
Frail echo of some ancient sacred joy - George Santayana "In Grantchester Meadows"
With ancient grievances and souring schemes - Philip Schultz "Sadness"
Truth beyond the authorized & ancient - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
Ancient opener of all ways to darkness - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
Ancient wisdom like the bitterness of stars - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
Falls ancient as the curse of Cain - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"
Of vermin beset by ancient plagues - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"
As brown as an ancient scroll - Frederick George Scott "On an Old Venetian Portrait"
Silence resumes her ancient reign - Owen Seaman "Of Baiting the Lion"
A lone wolf howls his ancient rune - Robert W. Service "The Land God Forgot"
That the ancient things I loved would comfort you - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
Hark the rumour of ten thousand ancient Springs - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
O'er ancient tombs keep watch - Taras Shevchenko "To Jacques de Balmont" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Three ancient trees of purple pure - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: Laegh's Description of Fairy-Land" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Ancient cities built on cliffs - Joyce Sidman "The Mushrooms Come"
The map of ancient Rome in your pocket - Charles Simic "A Word"
Ancient lips to silence vowed - Clark Ashton Smith "Twilight on the Snow"
Ancient boundary stone on the edge - Marin Sorescu "To the Sea" transl. by Michael Hamburger
Breaks the spell of the ancient, numbered hours - A.E. Stallings "First Miracle"
As ancient scrolls determine - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"
Whose ancient salt is in our blood - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
And ancient as the air - George Sterling "Duandon"
On ancient roads of war - George Sterling "England, August 1914"
The harvests of her ancient rain - George Sterling "To Germany"
Time's sure and ancient treachery - George Sterling "To Ina Coolbrith"
The holy hush of ancient sacrifice - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
Within the ancient circles of shapes - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
That grey, ancient sea of sleep - M. Letitia Stockett "Sleep"
Weave these phantoms by this ancient loom - Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard "Before the Mirror"
Wailing deep its ancient moan - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "March"
Empty as ancient desert streams - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
While far away towers fall and ancient cities crumble - Keith Taylor "Responsibilities"
Howling dunes across ancient bones - Edwin Torres "Bit by Bite"
The ancient orchard, where the russets thickly gleam - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
As I spill the ancient wine - Iris Tree "Flame"
Ancient maps scored inside the lace of their bones - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
Ancient conspiracy ran to our doors - Morris Tyler "The Bells of Antwerp"
Certain of its ancient ground - John Updike "Reality"
Drifting lands close on ancient seas - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"
The ancient star trails that sang them home - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Beneath the Southern Cross"
And tread again that ancient track - Henry Vaughan "The Retreat"
Sunrise on some ancient summer solstice - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"
Fathers of the ancient day - Thomas Walsh "Coelo et in Terra"
Hears a presage in the ancient thunder - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
Scatter the ancient mist of gloom - "The Whale's Last Moments: A Lamp-Light Musing"
And the ancient struggles cease - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
Some answering glimmer of the ancient Spark - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
With the ancient doubt and terror - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"
Leaving the ancient, the angry and the slow - Mark Wunderlich "My Local Dead"
The ancients had their mountains of sorrow - Yang Wan-li "Relaxing in the Evening in My Study, the Wo-chi-chai" transl. by Burton Watson
On whose ancient wings - W.B. Yeats "Fergus and the Druid"
An air that ancient poets knew - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
With your calm ancient terror - Matthew Zapruder "There Is a Light"
The ancient method of damage and repair - Matthew Zapruder "Water Street"
Hunger of ancient density - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 10" transl. by Katherine Silver
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