Potential Titles: Year

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Sparrows gather all the year - "Abroad"

And the years replay like a foreign movie - Jessica Abughattas "Failed Poems"

To mock black flights of years - Conrad Aiken "Discordants [Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket]"

Wait for ten, or ten score, years - Aion "Prudence" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]

Thus round the starry girdle of the year - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

After the lapse of thrice a thousand years - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"

A hundred years I trembled in the grass - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

A loveliness garnished through the years - Lewis Alexander "Transformation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Long years of grief have frozen me cold and lonely - Kazim Ali "The Man in 119"

The years don't forgive anyone - Julia Alvarez "In Spanish"

All the years and come and pass like human fears - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]

Five hundred years of tide - Cynthia Arrieu-King "Ming the Clam"

I blast the mist of worlds and years apart - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

Emerging after years underground - Lae Astra "Binary Star System"

Hang on the shivering wind-swept year - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Song of Scarlet"

200 years underline with waving ribbons - Julie Babcock "The Remainder of Barns"

Long years in damp vaults below - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"

Will circumvent innumerable years of blank infinity - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Sadly bends the stricken Year - Benjamin West Ball "L'Envoi"

Over years of my stagnant dreams - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Comes running to watch while a year plummets - Mary Jo Bang "Catastrophe Theory III"

In the trunk of a hollowed year - Mary Jo Bang "This Supposed Alchemy"

Whispers the tale of waning years - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"

Backward, through the drifting mist of years - Maurice Baring "Harvest in Russia"

Forgetting the tears of the darker years - William Francis Barnard "The Tongues of Toil"

the ghosts of years file past - Elizabeth Bartlett "black sun"

of years grown thick as forest trees - Elizabeth Bartlett "maturity"

for every year my dust shall rise - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"

Ghosts of other years - Ardelia Maria Barton "Ghosts of the Attic"

Count patient years in false Earth days - Ennis Rook Bashe "We Have Slain the Savage Martians, but Their Princess Escaped"

Companion of ten thousand years - Ellen Bass "Ode to Zeke"

If old Methuselah's years were mine - Charlotte F. Bates "Contrasted Moods" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.98, Feb. 1876]

As the dead years lurch, in tattered clothes - Charles Baudelaire "Meditation" transl. by David Yezzi

Under the heavy weather of the years - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

A thousand years have seen it shine - James Beattie "Ode on Lord Hay's Birth-Day. 13th May, 1767"

The last word of a thousand years - Clive Bell "The Last Infirmity"

Saying one name for a thousand years - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

All planet years in yours mind's embrace - William Rose Benét "Imagination"

During the years we grew tired trying not to die - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Toy Gun"

The honest years shall make amends - Stella Benson "The Cornishman"

A thousand years would fail to blur the still profiled reproach - John Berryman "Dream Song 29"

A world rippled by the years we've left behind - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"

Their years they fill with dross - Paul Bewsher "To Hilda"

Years their shadows round us raise - G. Clifton Bingham "Sweet Day of Days" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.156, v.III, 25 Dec. 1886]

Through the piled up years of his art - Terry Blackhawk "I know it's bad form"

In pity to my joyless years - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"

The wisdom of a thousand years - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"

With all the lumber of six thousand years - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Cradled in the lap of years - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"

The long vista of departed years - Laman Blanchard "Ode to the Human Heart"

Years loosen one sand grain - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Horned Toad"

Hard with years of thought-spinning - Maxwell Bodenheim "Images of Life and Death: Life"

Trapped within these months and years - Max Bodenheim "Poem to a Policeman"

The seed of the year beyond the year - Louise Bogan "Elders"

This dream tucked into the pocket of a year - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"

Planted safe against this stark, lean year - Arna Bontemps "A Black Man Talks of Reaping"

The years go back with an iron clank - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"

In the closing months of the year - "The Book of Odes: No.167. We Pick Ferns, We Pick Ferns" transl. by Burton Watson

His acre brought forth roots last year - Gordon Bottomley "The Ploughman"

Who has slept four thousand years - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

Icicle tears from the ice-bound years - Louise Morey Bowman "The Dead Violin"

Kept her tally of the years - Louise Morey Bowman "The Witch"

In life's book of years - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"

Retraced the broad arc of our years - Geoffrey Brock "Mundane Comedies. II. Leaving Kansas"

All the dreary wanton years - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee"

Reviewing lone departed years - Anne Bronte "The Arbour"

Equals in fortune and in years - Emily Bronte "Anticipation"

With iron sceptre rules the year - Patrick Bronte "Winter-Night Meditations"

Together we have gathered through the year - Caris Brooke "Before Parting"

For twenty years I have watched them bud - Caris Brooke "[Never a hand on the cottage door]"

For twenty years I have seen them die - Caris Brooke "[Never a hand on the cottage door]"

When we dream the year has just awoke - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"

The tears that fill the years - Rupert Brooke "Beauty and Beauty"

When time rolls a few more years - J.G. Brooks "To the 'Blue-eyed Lassie'"

Ere the sorrow comes with years - Elizabeth B. Barret [Barrett Browning] "The Cry of the Children" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

The old year is ending in the frost - Elizabeth B. Barret [Barrett Browning] "The Cry of the Children" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

Kept seven years in a drawer - Elizabeth Barrett Barrett [Browning] "A Dead Rose" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXII, v.LX, Oct. 1846]

Through the tempestuous years - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Counts his dying years by sun and sea - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Love"

Of the storm-beaten years - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Ripened by years of toil - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn to Death"

Looking out on the blank grey measure of another year - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"

Spent their rich inheritance of years - H.I. Burt "From Their Dust"

Homeward in the years - F.W. Butler-Thwing "The Tramp-Ship"

In the compass of a year - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Lament of Padraic Mor Mac Cruimin Over His Sons"

Mad, late children of the year - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Children of the Foam"

Of the splendid thousand years - W. Wilfred Campbell "England"

Sought him o'er the World for Years - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Credulity"

Rejoice with the light-footed days of the year - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"

To watch the year repeat its days - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

A year ago in another country - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

Perfumed with a thousand years - Willa Cather "London Roses"

Through a thousand years of wrong - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

Tasting the years ahead of me - Tina Chang "Birth"

Out of the poignant vistas of the years - Ralph Chaplin "Distances"

Crush him or serve a thousand years - Ralph Chaplin "Up from Your Knees"

Fought to attain a thousand years - Ralph Chaplin "Up from Your Knees"

Bought with your blood a thousand years - Ralph Chaplin "Up from Your Knees"

A rusty yawn in a rumored year - Chen Chen "Self-Portrait as So Much Potential"

Last year's extinctions paint the wall - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"

Spoke a whole year without vowels - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"

That for a thousand years had dwelt within the glen - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

on fire a hundred years - Lucille Clifton "winnie song"

The due consolements of the circling years - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XII"

From one far unforgotten year - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Silver Wedding"

All the subtlest alchemy of years - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Silver Wedding"

Like clocks wound for a thousand years - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."

Lived a thousand years in one - Leonard Cohen "Half the Perfect World"

By process of the silent years - Arthur Colton "As We Grow Old"

The servants of an unborn year - Arthur Colton "The Shepherd and the Knight"

Lead me back into the sunny years - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "Ethel: Fitz Fashion's Wife" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]

The crowding years divide - Susan Coolidge "The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey"

The clouds that hang above our coming years - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

for years i skipped over crevices - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"

For a thousand years the Devil cursed - Frank J. Cotter "The Birth of the Land"

Imperturable and silent years - James H. Cousins "On Some Twentieth Century Forecasts"

To the swift express of years - James H. Cousins "The Railway Arch"

The ghosts of all the years - James H. Cousins "The Railway Arch"

Prophet of the ripened year - Abraham Cowley "The Grasshopper"

Has ploughed thro' years of sorrow deep - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Going to Work"

To win the crown of all the year - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

All law-born years - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"

The hard cold knuckle of the year - Barbara Crooker "Ordinary Life"

the gold year a formal spasm in the dust - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VIII)"

Pressed forward with the force of years - Wesley Curtwright "The Close of Day" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Decayed the hope of future years - The Rev. Thomas Dale "A Mother's Grief" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

The year, a spendthrift growing old - Danske Dandridge "Indian Summer"

Singing alone to the years - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"

A million years before the blooming sun - John Davidson "Thirty Bob a Week"

The years sift through their hands - Fanny Stearns Davis "Profits"

A thousand years, a single yesterday - G.A. Davis "The Sea's Secret" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]

Seeds spilled across another year - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"

The stars die a million years ago - Kwame Dawes "Last Days"

When storms assail the year - Garcilaso de Vega "Coyed de vuestra alegre primavera" translated by Felicia Hemans

Mourn not the joys of the lost last year - "Dead!" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

From the turmoil of maturer years - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]

Through man a changeable and checquer'd year - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]

Last year's sundered tune - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature VIII: Summer's Armies"

The years in the crescent above - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity IV"

Sharp pittances of years - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XI: Compensation"

Had been hungry all the years - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life L: Hunger"

Has ever breath of years - Eric Dickinson "Three Sonnets III"

The shadows of last year's fields - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"

That wake no more for the passing year - Mary B. Dodge "Autumn Voices" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.12, no.32, Nov. 1873]

In the weight of last year's skies - Chris Dombrowski "To Carry Water"

Golden reflections in the lake of vanished years - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

All those years I could get lost in anything - Rita Dove "Insomnia Etiquette"

At the end of a tunnel of years - Carol Ann Duffy "The Light Gatherer"

I drop the dying year behind me - Carol Ann Duffy "New Year"

For years in the stones of my eyes - Michael Dumanis "The Forecast"

Jewels of the brave old year - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Christmas in the Heart"

Because the year is dying - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Merry Autumn"

Its twelve lonely years in the dark - Stephen Dunn "Summer Nocturne"

Tears that still must flow through future years - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]

Amber-kissed with years of heat - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"

Hard faces, pinched by starving years - J. Hal. Elliot "What Then?" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Without progenitor nor end of years - Erastus W. Ellsworth "Shakspeare" [sic]

Faithful through a thousand years - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

The spending of the steam through years - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Two Rivers"

Nine circling years name thee - George Allan England "Dante"

With billions of years left to burn - Terri Kirby Erickson "Goldfinch"

Years renew their seasons - Anthony Euwer "The Ghost-Trees"

Listens for the ghost years as they speak - Donald Evans "Epicede"

Bore along the passion-flood of years - Marie J. Ewen "The Two Prayers" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.457, 2 Oct. 1852]

Another year of pretending - Tarfia Faizullah "Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth"

Pitiless of the buried years - Eleanor Farjeon "A Burying"

Within me surged the grief of years - Jessie Fauset "Rencontre" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Pack years in my bags like souvenirs - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

the year that marked us but we cannot wash away the wind - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"

With only a dream to bridge the years - Beulah Field "In the Street of Painted Flowers"

Has sown the wastes through countless years - Beulah Field "The Law"

Tossed me up and down the years - Beulah Field "Needles and Pins"

To burn the gifts of all my broken years - Beulah Field "Tokens"

And twine around the year's fermenting wine - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

A year slid overboard in storms - B. K. Fischer "Economies of Scale"

Through dull years of bitter silence - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

Last year's bear asleep - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen L"

This day, another day and all the year - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"

Living thin wooden years around the aspen - Carolyn Forche "Song Coming Toward Us"

The changing power of years - John W. Forney "Time's Changes"

Though years are multiplied between - John W. Forney "Time's Changes"

Her light streamed through the years - John Freeman "The Body"

Could see the next year's rose and honey-bee - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "A Swing"

The gathered shades of many years - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Nearer with each passing year - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]

Twenty years ago and Tuesday - John Gallaher "In the Little Book of Guesses"

Ushers the firstborn of the radiant year - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"

One hundred years of oxygen - Andrea Gibson "First Love"

Hushes the heaving wave all the year - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Spend years painting your soul - Nikita Gill "Your Heart Is Not a Hospital"

The house where we buried the years - Dana Gioia "Cold San Francisco"

Fortitude through years of wormwood - Zinaida Gippius "[I seek for rhythmic whisperings]" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

More old in sorrow than in years - Howard Glyndon "Seniority" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]

Ten years had poured their various gifts on earth - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

The hundred year old air in Macy's - Natalie Goldberg "Home"

Four years I spent beneath his rule - C. L. Graves "The House-Master"

The seven years' curse is ended now - Robert Graves "Return"

You, too, shall clank the seven years' chain - Robert Graves "Return"

His pride twenty thousand years mute - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"

Could not make a decent year out of its desolation - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

Years of doom and dagger - Kimberly Grey "Heroic Sentences"

Into the bowl of years - Nikki Grimes "Emergency Measures"

Through long years of toil and darkness - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Years of trial and of sorrow - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Sharp unrest of the young year - Louise Imogen Guiney "April Desire"

Below a molten field of stars five years ago - Thom Gunn "Lament"

The work that the years have done - James Harris Guy "Fort Arbuckle"

Across the waste of years I see - J.H. "The Churchyard by the Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.8-v.I, 23 Feb. 1884]

Bright days may light the closing of our year - J.H. [Jessie C. Howden per the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry site] "A Bright Day in November" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.152--v.III, 27 Nov. 1886]

Stirred the hoarded hate of years - W.H.C.H. "Death of Rob Roy" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

The year poised on the equinox - Marilyn Hacker "Nearly a Valediction"

That changed not with the changing years - Eliza Calvert Hall "Possession" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]

Already a thousand years divide us - Han Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

The prime and crown of their fleeting years - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

In heavy years she would remember - Thomas Hardy "The Marble Tablet"

The year we had nothing to lose - Joy Harjo "Grace"

To plant the roots of coming years - Frances E.W. Harper "The Present Age"

Candle wax from last year's vigil - francine j. harris "what you'd find buried in the dirt under charles f. kettering sr. high school"

Dead hopes and faded joys of bright departed years - Rev. T.L. Harris "The Mourners" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

The years have turned the rusted key - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Around the Boree Log"

See the everlasting drift of years - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"

Bud at another year's breaking - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Fallen Leaves"

I have laboured seven years - H.C. Harwood "Dedication, of an Unwritten Masterpiece, to a Woman as Yet Unknown"

Enough for a fresh coat every year - Deborah Hauser "Never Admit Your Mistakes"

Summer reigns throughout the year - "Heaven" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]

Through sorrow's lingering year - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

And mocks the waste of years - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

O'er the wrecks of other years - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

Voiceless years of night and grieving - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Shadows"

The memories of hours where his brother had years - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"

In the terrible sea of our years - Faylita Hicks "Black Escapism"

Seven years' worth of blood moons - Faylita Hicks "Photo of X, 2010: A Box of Wine"

Begged the year for intimacy - Faylita Hicks "Self-Care"

Every year hath its winter - Ella Higginson "When the Birds Go North Again"

Pulled through a marsh of years - Conrad Hilberry "Open"

Scarred with sordid rust of years - John Northern Hilliard "Iconoclasm" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]

An interminable night that stretched into months and years - Edward Hirsch "The Task"

Last year's late-ripening persimmons - Jane Hirshfield "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me"

A year runs out of its days - Jane Hirshfield "A Well Runs Out of Thirst"

Away from this year's cubicle to night class - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

From the silent sleep of years - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"

The ghosts of pleasant hours in bygone years - Lucy H. Hooper "Farewell" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]

That year of now done darkness - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Carrion Comfort"

This daughter of the years - Nora Hopper "April in Ireland"

The knightly deeds of other years eclipse - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Offers fair omen for a rich year - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Prose Poem on the Snow" transl. by Burton Watson

When the swallows returned last year - Hsin Ch'i-chi "When the Swallows Returned" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Those years a torch for tomorrow - Langston Hughes "The Negro Mother"

Across the Lethe of the years - Aldous Huxley "Books and Thoughts"

Seven burning years before I remembered - fahima ife "shamanism"

That the years unborn would render - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: The Warbling of Blackbirds"

Better than Years with Ibsen spent - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

A Solon ponders till his Years are great - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

A description of hundreds of years - Lucy Ives "First Husband"

For years of painful yesterdays - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"

In the van of desperate years - Robinson Jeffers "Song of Quietness"

The old years forget the echoes - Robinson Jeffers "To an Old Square Piano"

Eighty years in a notch of eternity - Robinson Jeffers "The Treasure"

Last year's fading yield - Elinor Jenkins "To H.S.T."

The fury at the wasted years - Laura Jensen "Heavy Snowfall in a Year Gone Past"

Expansive enough to fill years' worth of slumber - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

For passion sleeps alas and keeps no vigil with the years - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Recessional" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

From the summit of fifty thousand years - James Weldon Johnson "The Greatest of These Is War"

Laughing in the face of years - James Weldon Johnson "If I Were Paris"

Delight to spice the tasteless years - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

Dirge of the ruined years - Lionel Johnson "Parnell"

How I waited a whole year for September - Rindon Johnson "There Is a Black Fly in Your Chardonnay"

Robber-bands of grim-faced years - Annie Fellows Johnston "Banditti"

Each year demands its toll - Annie Fellows Johnston "Banditti"

A cold and vanished year - Joshua Henry Jones "A Wish"

Four years in the asylum - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

When the year takes them in the fall - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXXIII"

And Grief anticipate the the work of years - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]

With the leaden weight of sorrowing years - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

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

A harbor for Last Year - Kaneko Misuzu "Last Year" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

A waltz of one hundred years - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

This home of ten long years - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"

The flower will bloom another year - John Keats "Faery Song"

When the year begins to wane - Fanny Kemble "To --- [I would I might be with thee, when the year]"

To tear your flag down in the bitter years - T.M. Kettle "Reason in Rhyme"

In a river a hundred years wide - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess as Jilted Lover"

With Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Reduce the Year to better reckoning - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Forty years' strange winds had fanned - William Kirby "The Sparrows"

With the lost years away have fled - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]

Wearing the silver mask of years - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]

The endless chain of unrepentant years - C.H.B. Kitchin "Epilogue"

Lifting ninety years of stillness - Joanna Klink "On Falling (Blue Spruce)"

Obsessing over the years I have left - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"

Who stays silent for seven years - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

A few more years, a few more ghosts to embrace - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

And reeled the years back empty - Ted Kooser "Casting Reels"

Because next year might be too late - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Not the Home World"

Those crazy things that fooled me all those years - Alfred Kreymborg "Under Glass"

The years of the tortoise and the crane - Kuo P'u "Poem on the Wandering Immortal" transl. by Burton Watson

Return with the year's return - Chaman Lall "Departure"

Thirty unswept, cobweb years - Chaman Lall "'Thirty Years After'"

The years droning on without argument - Danusha Laméris "Eve, After"

The weight of years of argument - Danusha Laméris "Nothing Wants to Suffer"

To the year's first altar step - Archibald Lampman "April"

When the iron year changes - Archibald Lampman "The Song Sparrow"

Fifty years under the greenwood tree - Andrew Lang "The Brigand's Grave"

To the warring of our haggard years - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Clock-Tower Bell"

With the tumults of eight hundred years - Emily Lawless "Afterword"

Through ever-darkening years - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway VI: A Parallel"

Sweep from the years regret - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

Six hundred years twice told - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

Twelve hundred high-piled years - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

The transitions of the swift year's flight - Emma Lazarus "Changes" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

These lone exiles of a thousand years - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"

The red, dark year is dead - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

Pluck from the tree of the years - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love I: 2"

An ivory cup of years - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XIV: A June Lily"

In the glow of morning years - Frances Ledwidge "The Lost Ones"

Yields in peace its yearly grain - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

Had passed six idle years - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

While counting years by sorrow - Leila "Stanzas" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Look back upon the vanished years - Charles G. Leland "Thank God for All" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

Spluttering grievances of a thousand years' past - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"

Through the dim vista of past years - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"

Shed brightness on each coming year - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"

Spent in slumber just nine hundred years - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

A thousand years of petty, weak disputings - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Greets me with last year's dead thistles - Philip Levine "Gospel"

Gathering up the remnants of this year's garden - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

Drive away the sorrows of a thousand years - Li Po "Drinking Song" transl. by Arthur Waley

That never wear by change of years - W.D. Lighthall "Canada Not Last: At Venice"

Wearing last year's sunbeams - Sandra J. Lindow "The Theater for Cloud Repair"

The seventeen year locust charged by - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

The first of our million dancing years - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"

A thousand burnt up years behind - Vachel Lindsay "Harps in Heaven"

While the years howled by - Vachel Lindsay "In Praise of Johnny Appleseed"

When a million years were done - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Ten thousand years have thundered on - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

No winter in thy year - John Logan "Ode to the Cuckoo"

No knowledge taught by unrelenting years - Amy Lowell "Hero-Worship"

Mock with a light of long dead years - Amy Lowell "To Elizabeth Ward Perkins"

The years have swung shut behind me - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

Whatever the hollow year must offer - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

a fortune of mirrors and years - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"

We met last in the distant years - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]

And through the future years hope on - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]

Takes years to grow and seconds to crash - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heartwood"

Will listen for a day, a week, a year - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "willow"

The prey of dusty years - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Lost Name"

Across the trodden continent of years - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "A Pilgrim"

Lost voices called in other years - James Allan Mackereth "Ioläus"

Year of drought in my heart's country - Naomi Long Madgett "Old Wine"

December holds no threat this year - Naomi Long Madgett "Song for a Season"

Step by step, the vanished years - Jeannette Marks "Mist"

Touch your years with mine - Jeannette Marks "Sun-Path"

For the peace of my years - Leo Marks "Code Poem for the French Resistance"

Blown outward for a million years - Don Marquis "The Awakening"

Quick pardon for the selfish years - Don Marquis "The Land of Yesterday"

The quicksand of the sliding years - George Martin "Hallowe'en in Canada"

Its light is the same light this year and every year - Harry Martinson "Aniara 20" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Of dreams to live upon in cold and evil years - Harry Martinson "Aniara 26" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

When springtimes of a thousand years turned winter without end - Harry Martinson "Aniara 56" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Will have reposed a thousand years in sand - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

No mortal knows in years of cosmic space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 63" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And years went over to the frigid, bitter spaces - Harry Martinson "Aniara 72: The Song of Karella" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Might sail a million years in nothing - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

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

Bears the seed of future years - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"

Words of wheat across years of salt - Khaled Mattawa "Revisiting Hekale"

That his thread of years is a life more blest - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]

Our names and our years and achievements - Laurens Maynard "Ave Post Saecula"

The runes and legends of a thousand years - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of the Best Song in the World"

Old trophies, missing years and nameplates - John McCarthy "Ashley, Indiana"

And the years break apart - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

To keep the years from breaking apart - John McCarthy "Repeating the Past in Future Tense"

hard wrackline of a year's ebb - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"

How truant years have flown - John McCrae "Then and Now"

Our years of slow unknowing - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Far years in vain I sought - James E. McGirt "Love"

Together on a page for fifty years - Medbh McGuckian "Garden Homage"

Cast aside this cloak of years - Arch Alfred McKillen "I Would Have Brought You Fire"

Will toil in the Future's hundred years - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"

Through all the sullen, bitter years - Louis J. McQuilland "The Country of the Young"

Years by the locust eaten - Louis J. McQuilland "Romance at Rest"

Of all the rose-crowned year - Louis J. McQuilland "To the New Helen on Her Birthday"

Inside your simmering year - Joyelle McSweeney "Simon the Good"

In some rich year become a dream - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

The year advancing to the vernal gate - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"

The crown the years have brought you - Adam Mickiewicz "On Juda's Cliff" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Broken splendor years have scattered wide - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ruins of Balaclava" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

After a year of silence - Edna St Vincent Millay "Assault"

The roots of last year's roses - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: VIII"

Sweet garden of a thousand years - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Interim"

A breath of days spun through years - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"

After a year of boundless fasting - Claire Millikin "Anorexic Girl"

Shelved for years without testimony - Claire Millikin "Doll Mothers"

Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year - John Milton "Lycidas"

Quaffs years of bitter breath - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"

Count the years as we feed the beast of time - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"

Ashes from last year's fire - jessica Care moore "After Heaven is All Goodbyes (for Tongo Eisen-Martin)"

A conversation of five hundred years - Marianne Moore "In This Age of Hard Trying Nonchalance Is Good, and"

With the tremor of the far-off years - William Moore "Dusk Song"

His name has changed with human years - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Tear down the fabric of ten thousand years - William Mountain "Dies Irae"

Born in the year of the apocalypse - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"

And borne the conflict of dream-shattering years - Sarojini Naidu "Life"

That has slept long years within the bells - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Returns" translated by Donald D. Walsh

A thousand rainless years - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A shroud over one hundred years - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Of years different from time - Pablo Neruda "The Destroyed Street" translated by Donald D Walsh

The dead year of doubt - Pablo Neruda "Insomnia" transl. by Alastair Reid

And Thursday would go on all year - Pablo Neruda "The Long Day Called Thursday" transl. by Alastair Reid

Some sixty years of hunger - Pablo Neruda "To the Dead Poor Man" transl. by Alastair Reid

To mock the evil years - E. Nesbit "En Tout Cas"

The splendid spoils of wasted years - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

While the months and the years roll over him - Henry Newbolt "Messmates"

Remember not past years - John Henry (Cardinal) Newman "Lead Kindly Light"

All the years no day - Lorine Niedecker "Poems at the Porthole"

Contain a thousand years' sorrow - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)

In present hours as in the years gone by - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "Love Not"

Continued through forty years of deer season - Idra Novey "Value City"

After twice a thousand years - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

So much of any year is flammable - Naomi Shihab Nye "Burning the Old Year"

Years flying out of your skin - Naomi Shihab Nye "Late"

All these years of running from the beast - Omodero David Oghenekaro "Questions for the Fallen"

Three thousand years have turned to dust - Thomas O'Hagan "Achilles' Tomb"

That soothed the lingering grief of years - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Poured the whole sorrow of years - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"

When years have floated onward - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)

Though long years drown Earth's sounds - M.P. "The Mountain" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]

Through the changing, coming years - T.S.P. "To a Little Child," [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.745, 6 April 1878]

To view the reeling years - Dorothy Parker "Song of Perfect Propriety"

Throwing good years after bad - Lauren Parker "Miranda"

All these years from home - Linda Pastan "All Nights"

The sullen might of the dead year - John Payne "Chant Royal of the God of Love"

Years of a morning routine - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"

Ninety-three years of horse-drawn dreams - Andre F. Peltier "The Ebullient Signpost"

devastating years of industrious complexities - Angela Peñaredondo "harvest"

Who designed the beautiful years to be alone - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

A canyon through the years - Hai-Dang Phan "River to River"

History's four-thousand-year stomach ache - Phan Nhien Hao "Don't Die Another Person's Death" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

And the year in fresh attire - Ambrose Philips "To the Honourable Miss Carteret"

More inviting than the year - Ambrose Philips "To the Honourable Miss Carteret"

After years of forgetting - Carl Phillips "A Stillness Between the Hunting and the Chase"

Swallow a key for every year - Xan Forest Phillips "Angola Penitentiary"

Within the narrow space of fifty years - Philo "The Tribute"

In the clouds ten years in the future - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Femme Futures"

Sorrow cloud thy coming years - Ann Plato "Forget Me Not"

That burn a length of years - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

The first roses of the year - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

Rifted by years of rain - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"

He's old as all the years there are - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Lighter"

This nameless triad of the years - E.J. Pratt "Ode to December, 1917"

Last year's vintage crowds our cellars - Margaret J. Preston "The Ballad of the Bell-Tower" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.101, May 1876]

Were I only sure of a few kind years more - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]

The dust of future years - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: My Will"

Unpredictable years keep emptying - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"

Till seven years were past and gone - "The Queen of Elfland"

That no rude voice from coming years may break - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Will become the prey of years - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"

Youthful in the count of years - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To --"

Of timeless years and iron fate - Theodore H. Rand "In the Cool of the Day"

Has known a thousand years of shock - Theodore H. Rand "The Tireless Sea"

My year of pulling the knots loose - Molly Raynor "Yamim Noraim///Days of A W E"

As down the future years I gaze - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Light of Our Home" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Which the hallowed veil of years bequeaths - Thomas Buchanan Read "Lines, Suggested by Rogers' Statue of Ruth"

To escape this year's killing season - Roger Reeves "Tag at Pullman National Monument"

Spawn of the years - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"

That a light wave could take 15 years to travel through me - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"

From the years that used to be - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"

Far-flung islands lost to worldly years - Duane W. Rimel "Dreams of Yith" [Fantasy Fan v.1, no.11, July 1934]

A celebration that would defy the gloom of the year - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"

Made wan with endless years - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Night in a Down-Town Street"

Singing down the leafless aisles to the budding year - Lloyd Roberts "Spring's Singing"

The dead years seemed fallen dim and strange - D.J. Robertson "The Return" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.119--v.III, 10 April 1886]

Less than are the downward years - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Eros Turannos"

With three years' dust above the mellow wine - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"

The song that the years have silenced - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

Seed that the years have scattered - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

With the gladness of years unspent - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

Smile at my old white years - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

Identity theft has knocked off a few years - Karen A. Romanko "The Invisible Woman Runs for President"

Indelible through centuries of years - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]

Through worlds they will explore over the coming Love of finished years - Christina Rossetti "Echo"

To-day and yesterday and thrice a thousand years behind - George William Russell "Babylon"

On the billows of all the years - Father Ryan "The Rosary of My Years"

Through the dim distant years it resoundeth - I.A.S. "In the Rhine Woods: Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.24-v.I, 14 June 1884]

Through all his years of striving hope - J.S. "Goethe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]

Mountains, clad with countless years - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]

And down in a garden old with years - Carl Sandburg "Follies"

And no longer forget who robbed me last year - Carl Sandburg "I am the People, the Mob"

Buries the year's naked forests - Reg Saner "The Red Poppy"

The sorrows of the barren year - George Santayana "Avila"

All those hollow years - Teresa J. Scollon "Exile"

A thousand years of worry - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

Watch me grow younger every year - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"

Vintage of desperate years - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"

For a million years and a day - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"

This year's jinx rides us apart - Anne Sexton "All My Pretty Ones"

May interpret to his silent years - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

To the rough Year just awake - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"

Crown the pale year weak and new - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"

The slumber of the year - Percy Bysshe Shelley "When Passion’s Trance Is Overpast"

My fields in the prime of the year - William Shenstone "The Shepherd's Home"

When the year stood still at June - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"

Should haunt the undying stars ten million years - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Wisdom"

The years flow after them - Taras Shevchenko "A Poem of Exile" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

years - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

Lifted past the level years - Clark Ashton Smith "Desire of Vastness"

Desert years in one deep kiss - Clark Ashton Smith "Ecstasy"

The depth and eminence of years - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"

Where trampling years have stood - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

Between the boundary marks of finite years - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"

All the crownless, ruined years - Clark Ashton Smith "Recompense"

The spirits of years unborn - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"

Swings back the door of years - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Twisting of the threads of years - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

The relics of the dying year - Effie Smith "December Snow"

The years poured back from one cracked jar into a perfect basin - Cynthia So "The Unicorn's Question"

It was Tuesday all last year - Marin Sorescu "Question" transl. by Michael Hamburger

The barrow of the buried year - A.E. Stallings "The Compost Heap"

Miser of a thousand years - Robert J.C. Stead "The Plow"

By the bitter years withdrawn - George Sterling "At the Lily's Heart"

The mournful music of the years - George Sterling "The Fall of the Year"

The hidden grace of vanished years - George Sterling "Harp-Song"

The harvest of annihilating years - George Sterling "The Inexorable Hour"

Hunger in the perished years - George Sterling "Reborn"

Out of darkness and unhallowed years - George Sterling "Repentance"

In that undying garden of the years - George Sterling "Sweet Poesy, She Liveth"

Squander the year's unhoarded gold - George Sterling "Untitled Poem"

Shall reap the years of peace - George Sterling "The Voice of the Wheat"

Starry sheaves of the delighted year - Trumbull Stickney "At Sainte-Marguerite"

All the iron years - M. Letitia Stockett "At Eventide"

The songs the years have sung us - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"

Can thus embrace the dying year - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Autumn"

Feasts and revels of the year - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"

Weave a chaplet for the Old Year's bier - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "November"

Four fateful years of mortal strife - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

A wind that blew a thousand years ago - Richard Henry Stoddard "The End of All" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]

And drag a chain for years - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

The Year demands a sterner chaplet - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

Sour with the reek of the years - Arthur Stringer "Hill-Top Hours"

Falter up and down a tracery of years - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"

Whom the years forbade to stand - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

Last year's frost and last year's fruit - Muriel Stuart "Leda"

But what of next year's hunger? - Su Tung-p'o "Lament of the Farm Wife of Wu" transl. by Burton Watson

Six years the moon shone at mid-autumn - Su Tung-p'o "Mid-Autumn Moon" transl. by Burton Watson

Bounty of the grape-crowned year - Caroline D. Swan "Stars of Cheer"

Sliding sand from under the feet of the years - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Creation of Man"

With years and memories piled - Algernon Swinburne "Not a Child"

Though the gods and the years relent - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The sound of time, the rhyme of the years - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

That hoards the many destinies of thousand years - Carmen Sylva "Night"

From out the tomb of my young misspent years - G.P.T. "Sonnet [The moon is gliding on her clear blue way]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

The balance of the year on her outspread palms - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"

The owl who's been here for years - Amber Tamblyn "Epilogue"

What years have passed of sorrow - Rev. William B. Tappan "Stanzas" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Wakes from the darkness of three thousand years - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

On the sixth new moon of each bright year - Keith Taylor "Conditions"

Broke into the shards that would cut us for a dozen years - Keith Taylor "Litter on the Narrative Arc"

Smolder into the autumn of a parched year - Keith Taylor "Upper Peninsula Fires"

Up from the shadow of years - Te-con-ees-kee "Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation"

The year is dying in the night - Alfred Tennyson "In Memoriam"

The gathered pangs of years - Frederick W. Thomas "The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio"

Rise from the ashes of my buried years - Frederick W. Thomas "The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio"

Down the arches of the years - Francis Thompson "The Hound of Heaven"

To blot the sunshine of exultant years - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

And sing the glories of the circling year - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]

Amid the flux of many thousand years - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]

By the decrees of fate from year to year - Henry David Thoreau "Friendship"

Beckon across the years - Eunice Tietjens "To Jake"

Woven magic of the wistful years - Eunice Tietjens "To S"

After many years retired - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Flesh and Blood"

When autumns there serenely walked a hundred years ago - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Sowed the seed of mourning years - Melesina Trench "On Being Pressed to Go to a Masqued Ball not Many Months After the Death of My Child"

Two thousand years of daily reparation - Richard Chenevix Trench "Lines: Written at the Village of Passignano, on the Lake of Thrasymene"

The year rests between Mulberry and Elm - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson

Next year on floods of spring - Tu Fu "They Say You're Staying in a Mountain Temple" transl. by Burton Watson

When summer died last year - Katherine Tynan "Shamrock Song"

Not one with the conquering year - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"

The weary years forever - Louis Untermeyer "God's Youth"

The silent years skipped over - John Updike "Doo-Wap"

Through years he never endured - John Updike "Outliving One's Father"

Set back the clock a thousand years - Henry van Dyke "Lights Out"

Left behind with the vanished years - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

In a hotel room for fifteen years - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

Of kindred echoes from past years - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours III" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Years convulsed with pang and throe - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

And all the promise the year could bring - W.P.W. "Love's Seasons" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.149--v.III, 6 Nov. 1886]

For the cramped bewildered years - Margaret Walker "For My People"

Till time with endless years grows gray - Hon. Robert J. Walker "Patria Spes Ultima Mundi: Flag of our Union" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]

To fathom realms of endless space and years - Mary Alice Walton "The Photograph"

Wind-scoured silence I wander all year - Wang An-Shih "The Ancient Monastery" transl. by David Hinton

Through ten scattered years all confusion - Wang An-Shih "Sent to a Monk" transl. by David Hinton

Ten years cascaded away - Wang An-Shih "Sitting Still on a Spring Day" transl. by David Hinton

A thousand years of empty hopes - Wang An-Shih "South of Town, Leaving" transl. by David Hinton

All these years without a rest - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "Montauk"

More than one million years past her last sigh - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]

Ten swift years had flown - F.E. Weatherly "No Thank You, Tom"

Last year among the flowers - Wei Ying-wu "To Send to Li Tan and Yuan Hsi" transl. by Burton Watson

Thousands of years shimmer in the mist - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Hore Abbey"

I send my heart across the years to you - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"

We'd drink the years like wine - Helen Hay Whitney "How we would Live!"

And he counted the long years coming - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Pleasant songs in idle years - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"

Mourn no more my vanished years - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Psalm" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]

The monographs of outlived years - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The great divide of falsehood, hunger and last year - John Wieners "In Public"

If I must live again these weary years - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "An Autumn Reverie"

And that's the burden of the year - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"

The burden of the year - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"

The boulevards chosen out of ten years - William Carlos Williams "Berket and the Stars"

Years of anger following - William Carlos Williams "Blizzard"

An arrogance endured six thousand years - William Carlos Williams "History"

Worn against the years - William Carlos Williams "History"

The dust of ten thousand dirt years - William Carlos Williams "March"

Barely a baby in universe years - Allan Wolf "Earth: Your Mother I'll Be"

No one watched the years go by - Humbert Wolfe "Envoi [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"

Since no years can harden - Humbert Wolfe "V.D.F. (Ave atque Vale.)"

Some bones to break in the years of fire - Nicholas Wong "Intergenerational"

The years go by in single file - Elinor Wylie "Let No Charitable Hope"

When rolling years had soothed the wound - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

In those kerosene years - Jenny Xie "Metamorphosis"

Rustling the folds of the year - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"

Years staining from the inside out - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

On those lean black-and-white years - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

During those years of blue ants - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

Darkly reverent years of reading - Lynn Xu "Earth Light: I"

A morning star to hail the dawning year - "The Year" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

Shall form a coronet for the regal year - "The Year" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

An anthem for the glories of the year - "The Year" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

Years before burning up in the atmosphere - Dean Young "Sneeze Ode" [Poetry July 2006]

That sailed from Tyre a thousand years ago - Francis Brett Young "The Dhows"

A debt of thousands of years - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #11" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

The resentment of thousands of years - Zheng Min "A False Image" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

Thousands of years of yesterday - Zheng Min "If Curses aren't Accompanied by Deep Thought #9: The Forgotten Yesterday (A dirge of ancient culture)" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

By years of unremitting love - Rachel Zucker "Paying Down the Debt: Happiness"


Walk with you through this forever-year - Wendy Xu "Notes on Sentence Crossing"


Swelling my hundred-year sorrow - Wang An-Shih "Above the River" transl. by David Hinton


Light Year.


New Year.


Roused me from my thirty-year slumber - Anne Carly Abad "Rehearsal for When He Wakes"


The thousand-year empire was about to see the light - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Each sight opens thousand-year dreams - Wang An-Shih "Radiance-Hut" transl. by David Hinton


Two-million-year-old currents - Tyree Day "Gin River"


Whose year-devouring glance - Adah Isaacs Menken "Aspiration"


I hold my breath, daylong, yearlong - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"


Carry yesteryears within our wallets - Vachel Lindsay "A Meditation on the Sun"

Sweet as cakes of yesteryear - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: IX" transl. by William O'Daly


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