Potential Titles: Without
Nov. 5th, 2011 05:11 pmTheir edges lost without the needle - Rasha Abdulhadi "What Trauma Remembers About Us"
Stranded in the Caribbean without a passport - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"
Riding the waves without comment - Duane Ackerson "Various Horses"
Eight days without a sun - Harold Acton "As Dmitri Karamazoff sang on the way to Chaos"
A song without ears - Stephanie Adams-Santos "from Xibalba [Outside the water sings]"
Died without a windy agony - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"
They sang words without falsehood - "Alexander the Great"
Aggressive disputes between entities without boundaries - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
O sea without compassion - Alun "Song of the Fisherman's Wife" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Without the harmony of speaking here - Ralph Angel "Sampling"
Loose without oars or sails - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Created worlds without knowing - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "About the angels"
Wafted on without an aim - Martin Armstrong "Miss Thompson Goes Shopping"
Which never yet without remorse - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"
From isolation without end - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"
Razor thin minutes slot without stop - Mary Jo Bang "The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice"
Windless season without rain - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
Windless without wings - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
without the energy to die - Elizabeth Bartlett "washday in the tropics"
Without incurring the debt of grief - Ellen Bass "The Long Recovery"
Nemesis without a zipper for escape - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"
The roaring mill where gods grind without pity - William Rose Benét "The City"
A little stone without a star - Paul Bernstein "Worlds Apart"
Like starlight without an object to fall on - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Lux"
Without surprise the world might change - Elizabeth Bishop "It Is Marvellous..."
Shows a maze without a clue - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
The crooked roads without improvement - William Blake "Proverbs of Hell"
Caught me without a prayer - Tommye Blount "The Black Umbrella"
Could stand without family - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"
Without the help of time - William Brewer "Detox Psalm"
Heavenly blessings without number - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
Fed without the aid of joy - Emily Bronte "Remembrance"
A passionate music stirs without her walls - Caris Brooke "[Girdled with gold my little lady's bower]"
Wake without an alarm telling them - Jericho Brown "'N'em"
Without instinct for the West - Molly McCully Brown "Rabbitbrush"
Without the common face - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh"
Learned to wake without exaggeration - Scott Cairns "Early Frost"
Banished, elsewhere, without a shred - Cyrus Cassells "The World That the Shooter Left Us"
Houses without names - Juana Castro "Cruz de Ventura Street"
Without reflection, without mercy, without shame - C.P. Cavafy "Walls" transl. from modern Greek by John Cavafy
Darkness is falling without end - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Frontal Lobe]"
Old films you watched without sleep - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"
Shrines without name or number - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"
Lords without anger and honour - G.K. Chesterton "The Secret People"
Without language for its opposite - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"
Spoke a whole year without vowels - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"
Without reflection we stop - Killarney Clary "[Into the land of youth]"
Cannot act without assuming - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Going home without my sorrow - Leonard Cohen "Going Home"
Being here without you - Wanda Coleman "Dear Mama (4)"
Without wound or mark - Padraic Colum "Christ the Comrade"
On this day without judgment - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Without the sorrows of a slow decay - George Crabbe "The Village"
Without a battlefield at home - Nathalia Crane "The Battle on the Floor"
Who navigate without lane markers - Barbara Crooker "This Summer Day"
Without stopping our breath of song - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"
Without my right of frost - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XII: In Vain"
Caught without her diadem - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXIX: Beclouded"
Without the fear to justify - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXIV: Too Much"
To go without the spectre's aid - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXVI"
Could not breathe without a key - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXV"
Petition the future for more days without rain - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"
Without the cries of blackbirds overhead - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"
Look at me without turning - Mary Mapes Dodge "That's What We'd Do"
Letting go without drowning - Dom "Seaside Sunrise: Happiness when it Comes"
Bridges without a trace of threnody - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
A kite without a wind to fill it - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
Two better hemispheres without sharp north - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"
A door without mystery - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"
Where it rained always & without pity - Matt Donovan "Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More"
Parched silence without stir - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
The thieving of delight without return - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Without so much as a glance in my direction - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"
Nightfall without fanfare - Stephen Dunn "Here and There"
Without comparisons, mirrors, ambition - Stephen Dunn "A Short History of Long Ago"
The echoes of a room without furniture - Carolina Ebeid "Dead Dead Darlings"
In a space without smoke - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"
Without progenitor nor end of years - Erastus W. Ellsworth "Shakspeare" [sic]
Gulfs of sweetness without bound - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Humble-Bee"
Who flutter about without object or reason - "The Emperor's Rout"
Its maze without walls - Elaine Equi "Carol Feared Her Narcissism"
Go brightly on without me - Nava EtShalom "Conduct"
Thought I could live without grief - Tarfia Faizullah "What This Elegy Wants"
Without virus or vaccine poison or antidote - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"
That without planting grow - "Flora: a Vision"
A sound without dimension - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VIII"
Without protection from the world - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
Live without having survived - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
Without passing through thought - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"
A throat without chain - T'ai Freedom Ford "Emancipation Celebration"
No echo without a wall - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson
No holiday is holy without ghosts - Dana Gioia "Tinsel, Frankincense, and Fir"
Without rancour or spleen - "The Golfer's Garland"
A flower that blossoms without light - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
No music without violence or wind - torrin a. greathouse "Belt Is Just Another Verb for Song"
Could keep the world without - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Four: Atomic"
Without fearing the broken waves - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
A wraith without a name - Louise Imogen Guiney "Bankrupt"
Waiting without knowing they are - Sandra Gustin "Cause of Death"
All without bitterness - Hadewijch of Brabant "My Best Success"
Left without loss - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Vale Millies"
Without fear feast on the music - Arthur Henry Hallam "Sonnet"
A preface without any book - Thomas Hardy "A Two-Years' Idyll"
Without winds becoming words - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
A compass without a needle - Jim Harrison "Hard Times"
Can give without gain - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"
A capacity for love without forgiveness - Terrance Hayes "Snow for Wallace Stevens"
Weaving without stint or measure - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Bring our nights there without knowing - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
Without a rein or a riders - Faylita Hicks "Letter to Black Girls"
A crossroads without a choice - Conrad Hilberry "The Chevron"
Nowhere without walls - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"
Stand without settling - Jen Hofer "future somatics to-do list"
Resist without refusal - Jen Hofer "future somatics to-do list"
Better without a heart - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"
Arrive without certificate or cash - Bill Holm "Wedding Poem For Schele and Phil"
Without the armor of its scars - Nicole Homer "Underbelly"
Who haunts a land without a sun - William H.C. Hosmer "Impromptu: Written on Receiving a Rose-Bud from a Lady"
Without longing in my mind - "I Have a Young Sister"
The ballet can't perform without fairy tale - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"
Not ripen without frost - Helen Hunt Jackson "September"
Lived without dreams - Allison Eir Jenks "Heaven"
To open them without a sound - Allison Eir Jenks "The Prisoner"
What's Atlantis without the water - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Somebody told me we got LA"
Love without resource or peace - Jenny Johnson "Aria"
Without competing for sunlight - Jenny Johnson "Gay Marriage Poem"
Whose Children Were Freed Without Her - Ashley M. Jones "What It Means To Say Sally Hemings"
Drinks anguish without ruling it bitter - Camisha L. Jones "Praise Song for the Body"
The first hour in a life without clocks - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
Deep thoughts without a name - Sir Nizamat Jung "IV: Worship"
Without burying splinters in his eyes - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"
But without digging into dark - Janet Kauffman "The Hand of the Sassafras"
They live without limits - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Without one cooling tear - John Keats "Lamia [Left to herself]"
Burns me away without control - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"
Who builds the world without you - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"
without the pretension of release - Eunsong Kim "In English for Clarity"
Lead Without - Rudyard Kipling
Without heart or history - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
To estimate one's position without instruments - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"
Tried to ride the buses without paying - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Eel Week"
Ghost organs blush without blood - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"
Discord without evolution - Alfred Kreymborg "Grasses"
Without dust - Monique Laederach "Penelope"
The years droning on without argument - Danusha Laméris "Eve, After"
And love you without word or tear - Richard Le Gallienne "Desiderium"
The whole dark butchery without a soul - Richard Le Gallienne "The Illusion of War"
Grasslands extending as if without limit - Mary Soon Lee "The Sign of the King"
By inertia without boundaries - Yoon Ha Lee "When Soft the Water Fell"
That drinks forevermore without attaining equilibrium - Yoon Ha Lee "When Soft the Water Fell"
Without consequence or query - Keegan Lester "Huntington Beach"
Without bearing away my sorrow - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
Without all those ghosts on the edge - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"
Without fear of our tampering - J. Estanislao Lopez "The Systemic"
Repeating without change - Amy Lowell "From One Who Stays"
Wheeling through the universe without leaving - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"
Without any history or future - Thomas Lynch "Woman Gardening"
The wild things from without passed through - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"
Not without resistance - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"
A splendid Hope without alloy - Eric MacKay "Letter I. Prelude"
The only soul left without wings - Dorothea Mackellar "Sea-Fog"
The swallows without number - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"
Without my presence at your rebirth - Naomi Long Madgett "Without Condition"
Without condition of return - Naomi Long Madgett "Without Condition"
Indulgence in ritual without replenishment - Maya Marshall "Self-Portrait as a Recurring Reflection Elongated like a Length of Vertebrae"
Without wings to block out the light - Dawn Lundy Martin "Nothingness"
Without thought to consequence - Daria-Ann Martineau "Carnivorous, with a varied and opportunistic diet"
Without such turbulent hope - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
Without their merit of trial and urgency - Furnley Maurice "Motherhood"
Don't hide without a fight - John McCarthy "How to Disappear"
Like love in beauty without end - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
In a grammar without horizons - W.S. Merwin "After the Alphabets"
Without hesitation or stars - W.S. Merwin "Cargo"
View the damage without regretting - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"
House without air - Edna St Vincent Millay "Wild Swans"
No words without shadows - Claire Millikin "Bright Shadows"
Shelved for years without testimony - Claire Millikin "Doll Mothers"
One place without connection - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"
Derivatives of rain without protection - Claire Millikin "Some Dolls"
Leader without Machiavellian teeth - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"
Without deep revolt - Kamilah Aisha Moon "After Surgery: Riding in My Body with Others in Theirs"
Without such devious love - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Shared Plight"
Not without hours of joy - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"
A darkening song without end - Jim Moore "So Be It"
Without teaching you how to swim - Edgar Morales "Swim"
Without the possibility of drowning - Edgar Morales "Swim"
On days without a tragedy - Joan Murray "Survivors--Found"
Without tools other than time - Pablo Neruda "The Blind Statue" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Day dawns without debts - Pablo Neruda "Day Dawns" transl. by Alastair Reid
Without other gods than thunder - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Guitars without a destination - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Toward that springtime without ashes - Pablo Neruda "Maternity" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A hive without sound - Pablo Neruda "Night" transl. by Alastair Reid
Without fear of truth - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Past" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Without putting an end to truth - Pablo Neruda "To Search" transl. by William O'Daly
This shadow without stars - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Without returning any kind of sun - Caroline Harper New "Etymology of Chlorophyll"
Fire without its light - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
All foes without the line - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Without the falcon's wings to carry me - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)
Without these rock-ribbed facts - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"
Without a line of language - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"
Without their merit of trial and urgency - Furnley Maurice "Motherhood"
Without the push of wind - Mary Oliver "Black Oaks"
Deeply and without patience - Mary Oliver "The Gift"
Shut tight, without dreams - Mary Oliver "Now comes the long blue cold"
Step across without stretching - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
Without thy ceaseless motion - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Sistrum"
Without a hidden spirit - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)
Them without a name - Dorothy Parker "The dark girl’s rhyme"
Go on without really moving - G.E. Patterson "The Keeping Room"
Without passports or means of escape - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"
No loitering without intent or purpose - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"
Plunge forward without thought for consequence - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"
A farewell without promise - Phan Nhien Hao "Day Flowers in the Highlands" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
Foreseeing a century without light - Phan Nhien Hao "Flamenco Vietnamese Opera" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
Stealing hearts without design - Ambrose Philips "To Miss Georgiana Carteret"
Without the past's precision - Carl Phillips "As for that Piece of Sundown You've Been Wanting"
Falling without motion - Carl Phillips "The Darker Powers"
To sleep without a star - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"
Touched me without leaving fingerprints - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 411"
The moon never beams without bringing me dreams - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
Without forcing them to touch - Ben Purkert "The Past Suffers Too"
Who am I without this danger? - Khadijah Queen "Ancient Mother I Keep Teaching Us New Ways to Find Joy"
Survive without her voice - Sina Queyras "Years"
A soul that treads without retreat - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Doom of the Esquire Bedell"
Of beauty without blame - Theodore H. Rand "The Rose"
Everyone I have to live without - Diane Raptosh "American Amnesiac [The self is a thousand localities]"
What curiosity lurks without - Man Ray "Three Dimensions"
All the ocean's water without me - Roger Reeves "Black Laws"
Without his esteem, untethered, the string snapped - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Five American Sentences"
Who entered the room without nod or knock - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The stranger that entered without a word - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Caught in a laboratory without a science - Adrienne Rich "Letters to a Young Poet"
The wall pour forth without aim - Lola Ridge "Back Yards"
Omnivorous and without mercy - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Without blare of any gilded trumpet - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Running over my soul without sound - Lola Ridge "Secrets"
Where the sun goes down without a scratch - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Archibald's Example"
Grew dead without and small within - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
Without tapers they may give a light - "A Royal Guest"
Sorrows without grief - Luis J. Rodriguez "Fevered Shapes"
Done without aid of the law - Joshua Ross "The Wanderer"
Gifts delivered without a sense of etiquette - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"
Without care for consequence - Rumi "O Angels, Bring Him Back to Me" transl. by E.H. Whinfield
Everywhere without being seen - Carl Sandburg "Anywhere and Everywhere People"
Without a hint of flower or fruit - William Saphier "Etchings Not to Be Read Aloud: The Old Prize Fighter"
A bark all lonely tosses without steersman - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales Gründen]"
The knowledge that you have been living without something - Jason Schneiderman "Vocabulary"
A reality without windows or doors - Philip Schultz "A Moment"
Outcomes and aftermaths without resolution - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Three"
A truth unbearable without this stranger's mask - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"
Placed close within destruction's scope - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Without consummation of clay - "The Sea-God's Address to Bran" transl. by Kuno Meyer
A shot of whiskey without embellishment - Diane Seuss "Poetry"
An arrow without a target - Diane Seuss "Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote"
Without accusing you of injury - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LVIII"
In pain without knowing why - Charif Shanahan "If I Am Alive To"
Upon that path without obvious company - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"
To roam without sorrow or sigh - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Wishes"
Without having to confess anything - Richard Siken "The Torn-Up Road"
Without its portal doomed to roam - "The Sleeping Peri: Lines Suggested by Palmer's Statue" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Without even kissing their ghosts in my dreams - Cynthia So "The Unicorn's Question"
Shall yet within my heart remain - "Song [Each gentle word thy lip imparts]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Without a speck of tarnish - Elizabeth Spires "Story of a Soul"
As the wood without deer - Catherine Staples "Vert"
The house of death without a door - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Without lineage or language - Wallace Stevens "So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch"
Through empty heaven without repose - Robert Lewis Stevenson "Summer Sun"
Without care or coaxing - Kate R. Stiles "Clover Blossoms"
Without hope or rumour of reprieve - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
As a root would wither without rain - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 56: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Without any payment they are sold - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 79: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Moving vision without form or breath - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
A month without sight of the sun - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Of days without crown - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Go hence together without fear - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"
Wine and bread without lees or leaven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
without pretending that home is an open prison - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
Couldn't talk about without slicing at each other - Keith Taylor "In Spite of Myself"
Not to celebrate anything without reservation - Keith Taylor "In the Presence of Large Predators"
As they remember me without smile or moan - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"
As the rain can do without the flowers - Edward Thomas "What Will They Do?"
Not stir a flower without troubling of a star - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
A bunch of violets without their roots - Henry David Thoreau "Sic Vita"
To revel on time without end - "The Three Expectants" transl. by George Borrow
No moon without a sun - Edwin Torres "Bit by Bite"
With or without witnesses - Elizabeth Torres "The Play"
Another chance without talking - Edwin Torres "Under Venus's Hair"
My face without the conquering light - Iris Tree "[Sometimes I look into the glass]"
The clamours knocking without pause - Iris Tree "[What words that move on wings"]
Vaster galaxy primordial and without memories - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
Swallows his lies without measure - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"
Complete without a blooming rose - Irvin W. Underhill "Solitude"
Seen without its scars - Louis Untermeyer "The Wine of Night"
Without speech to drown our words - Cecilia Vicuna "The Disappeared" (translated by Rosa Alcala)
Without an accurate memory - Derek Walcott "French Colonial. "Vers de Societe""
On a sea without seasons - Derek Walcott "A Latin Primer"
Learn their limits without degrees - Brad Walrond "Calculus I, II, III"
Our tasks without chance of resting - Jo Walton "When We Were Robots in Egypt"
All these years without a rest - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "Montauk"
His hours without number - Isaac Watts "The Sluggard"
and retired without a pension - Chaun Webster "[by way of entry you sit with an object]"
To a place without command - Joshua Weiner "In the Event"
Streets where the weary may walk without fear - Edith Wharton "The Tryst"
Of adoration without end - John Hall Wheelock "Immensity"
Each day without a thought of you - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
Without one spark of gratitude display'd - "The Whore"
Walk on without being tempted - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"
A mill that will go without water or wind - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"
Without e'en a farthing's expense - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"
Without the power of stone - Nancy Wood "The Sacred Songs of Our Ancestors"
Practicing religions without a roof - Emanuel Xavier "Americano"
Moving through time without malice - Wendy Xu "Praxis"
Burden without end - W.B. Yeats "Fergus and the Druid"
Wind without borders - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
How to go on without you - Kevin Young "Ledge"
Without silence - Adam Zagajewski "Epithalamium"
After so many days without - Javier Zamora "Let Me Try Again"
Before daylight without a name - Matthew Zapruder "Poem for Ferlinghetti"
Without the mettle of dinosaurs - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #2" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Without gods to sing the news - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 17" transl. by Katherine Silver
Tender marriage without terror - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"
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Stranded in the Caribbean without a passport - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"
Riding the waves without comment - Duane Ackerson "Various Horses"
Eight days without a sun - Harold Acton "As Dmitri Karamazoff sang on the way to Chaos"
A song without ears - Stephanie Adams-Santos "from Xibalba [Outside the water sings]"
Died without a windy agony - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"
They sang words without falsehood - "Alexander the Great"
Aggressive disputes between entities without boundaries - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
O sea without compassion - Alun "Song of the Fisherman's Wife" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Without the harmony of speaking here - Ralph Angel "Sampling"
Loose without oars or sails - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Created worlds without knowing - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "About the angels"
Wafted on without an aim - Martin Armstrong "Miss Thompson Goes Shopping"
Which never yet without remorse - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"
From isolation without end - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"
Razor thin minutes slot without stop - Mary Jo Bang "The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice"
Windless season without rain - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
Windless without wings - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
without the energy to die - Elizabeth Bartlett "washday in the tropics"
Without incurring the debt of grief - Ellen Bass "The Long Recovery"
Nemesis without a zipper for escape - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"
The roaring mill where gods grind without pity - William Rose Benét "The City"
A little stone without a star - Paul Bernstein "Worlds Apart"
Like starlight without an object to fall on - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Lux"
Without surprise the world might change - Elizabeth Bishop "It Is Marvellous..."
Shows a maze without a clue - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
The crooked roads without improvement - William Blake "Proverbs of Hell"
Caught me without a prayer - Tommye Blount "The Black Umbrella"
Could stand without family - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"
Without the help of time - William Brewer "Detox Psalm"
Heavenly blessings without number - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
Fed without the aid of joy - Emily Bronte "Remembrance"
A passionate music stirs without her walls - Caris Brooke "[Girdled with gold my little lady's bower]"
Wake without an alarm telling them - Jericho Brown "'N'em"
Without instinct for the West - Molly McCully Brown "Rabbitbrush"
Without the common face - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh"
Learned to wake without exaggeration - Scott Cairns "Early Frost"
Banished, elsewhere, without a shred - Cyrus Cassells "The World That the Shooter Left Us"
Houses without names - Juana Castro "Cruz de Ventura Street"
Without reflection, without mercy, without shame - C.P. Cavafy "Walls" transl. from modern Greek by John Cavafy
Darkness is falling without end - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Frontal Lobe]"
Old films you watched without sleep - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"
Shrines without name or number - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"
Lords without anger and honour - G.K. Chesterton "The Secret People"
Without language for its opposite - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"
Spoke a whole year without vowels - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"
Without reflection we stop - Killarney Clary "[Into the land of youth]"
Cannot act without assuming - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Going home without my sorrow - Leonard Cohen "Going Home"
Being here without you - Wanda Coleman "Dear Mama (4)"
Without wound or mark - Padraic Colum "Christ the Comrade"
On this day without judgment - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Without the sorrows of a slow decay - George Crabbe "The Village"
Without a battlefield at home - Nathalia Crane "The Battle on the Floor"
Who navigate without lane markers - Barbara Crooker "This Summer Day"
Without stopping our breath of song - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"
Without my right of frost - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XII: In Vain"
Caught without her diadem - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXIX: Beclouded"
Without the fear to justify - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXIV: Too Much"
To go without the spectre's aid - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXVI"
Could not breathe without a key - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXV"
Petition the future for more days without rain - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"
Without the cries of blackbirds overhead - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"
Look at me without turning - Mary Mapes Dodge "That's What We'd Do"
Letting go without drowning - Dom "Seaside Sunrise: Happiness when it Comes"
Bridges without a trace of threnody - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
A kite without a wind to fill it - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
Two better hemispheres without sharp north - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"
A door without mystery - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"
Where it rained always & without pity - Matt Donovan "Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More"
Parched silence without stir - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
The thieving of delight without return - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Without so much as a glance in my direction - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"
Nightfall without fanfare - Stephen Dunn "Here and There"
Without comparisons, mirrors, ambition - Stephen Dunn "A Short History of Long Ago"
The echoes of a room without furniture - Carolina Ebeid "Dead Dead Darlings"
In a space without smoke - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"
Without progenitor nor end of years - Erastus W. Ellsworth "Shakspeare" [sic]
Gulfs of sweetness without bound - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Humble-Bee"
Who flutter about without object or reason - "The Emperor's Rout"
Its maze without walls - Elaine Equi "Carol Feared Her Narcissism"
Go brightly on without me - Nava EtShalom "Conduct"
Thought I could live without grief - Tarfia Faizullah "What This Elegy Wants"
Without virus or vaccine poison or antidote - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"
That without planting grow - "Flora: a Vision"
A sound without dimension - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VIII"
Without protection from the world - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
Live without having survived - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
Without passing through thought - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"
A throat without chain - T'ai Freedom Ford "Emancipation Celebration"
No echo without a wall - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson
No holiday is holy without ghosts - Dana Gioia "Tinsel, Frankincense, and Fir"
Without rancour or spleen - "The Golfer's Garland"
A flower that blossoms without light - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
No music without violence or wind - torrin a. greathouse "Belt Is Just Another Verb for Song"
Could keep the world without - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Four: Atomic"
Without fearing the broken waves - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
A wraith without a name - Louise Imogen Guiney "Bankrupt"
Waiting without knowing they are - Sandra Gustin "Cause of Death"
All without bitterness - Hadewijch of Brabant "My Best Success"
Left without loss - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Vale Millies"
Without fear feast on the music - Arthur Henry Hallam "Sonnet"
A preface without any book - Thomas Hardy "A Two-Years' Idyll"
Without winds becoming words - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
A compass without a needle - Jim Harrison "Hard Times"
Can give without gain - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"
A capacity for love without forgiveness - Terrance Hayes "Snow for Wallace Stevens"
Weaving without stint or measure - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Bring our nights there without knowing - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
Without a rein or a riders - Faylita Hicks "Letter to Black Girls"
A crossroads without a choice - Conrad Hilberry "The Chevron"
Nowhere without walls - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"
Stand without settling - Jen Hofer "future somatics to-do list"
Resist without refusal - Jen Hofer "future somatics to-do list"
Better without a heart - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"
Arrive without certificate or cash - Bill Holm "Wedding Poem For Schele and Phil"
Without the armor of its scars - Nicole Homer "Underbelly"
Who haunts a land without a sun - William H.C. Hosmer "Impromptu: Written on Receiving a Rose-Bud from a Lady"
Without longing in my mind - "I Have a Young Sister"
The ballet can't perform without fairy tale - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"
Not ripen without frost - Helen Hunt Jackson "September"
Lived without dreams - Allison Eir Jenks "Heaven"
To open them without a sound - Allison Eir Jenks "The Prisoner"
What's Atlantis without the water - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Somebody told me we got LA"
Love without resource or peace - Jenny Johnson "Aria"
Without competing for sunlight - Jenny Johnson "Gay Marriage Poem"
Whose Children Were Freed Without Her - Ashley M. Jones "What It Means To Say Sally Hemings"
Drinks anguish without ruling it bitter - Camisha L. Jones "Praise Song for the Body"
The first hour in a life without clocks - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
Deep thoughts without a name - Sir Nizamat Jung "IV: Worship"
Without burying splinters in his eyes - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"
But without digging into dark - Janet Kauffman "The Hand of the Sassafras"
They live without limits - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Without one cooling tear - John Keats "Lamia [Left to herself]"
Burns me away without control - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"
Who builds the world without you - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"
without the pretension of release - Eunsong Kim "In English for Clarity"
Lead Without - Rudyard Kipling
Without heart or history - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
To estimate one's position without instruments - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"
Tried to ride the buses without paying - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Eel Week"
Ghost organs blush without blood - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"
Discord without evolution - Alfred Kreymborg "Grasses"
Without dust - Monique Laederach "Penelope"
The years droning on without argument - Danusha Laméris "Eve, After"
And love you without word or tear - Richard Le Gallienne "Desiderium"
The whole dark butchery without a soul - Richard Le Gallienne "The Illusion of War"
Grasslands extending as if without limit - Mary Soon Lee "The Sign of the King"
By inertia without boundaries - Yoon Ha Lee "When Soft the Water Fell"
That drinks forevermore without attaining equilibrium - Yoon Ha Lee "When Soft the Water Fell"
Without consequence or query - Keegan Lester "Huntington Beach"
Without bearing away my sorrow - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
Without all those ghosts on the edge - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"
Without fear of our tampering - J. Estanislao Lopez "The Systemic"
Repeating without change - Amy Lowell "From One Who Stays"
Wheeling through the universe without leaving - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"
Without any history or future - Thomas Lynch "Woman Gardening"
The wild things from without passed through - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"
Not without resistance - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"
A splendid Hope without alloy - Eric MacKay "Letter I. Prelude"
The only soul left without wings - Dorothea Mackellar "Sea-Fog"
The swallows without number - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"
Without my presence at your rebirth - Naomi Long Madgett "Without Condition"
Without condition of return - Naomi Long Madgett "Without Condition"
Indulgence in ritual without replenishment - Maya Marshall "Self-Portrait as a Recurring Reflection Elongated like a Length of Vertebrae"
Without wings to block out the light - Dawn Lundy Martin "Nothingness"
Without thought to consequence - Daria-Ann Martineau "Carnivorous, with a varied and opportunistic diet"
Without such turbulent hope - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
Without their merit of trial and urgency - Furnley Maurice "Motherhood"
Don't hide without a fight - John McCarthy "How to Disappear"
Like love in beauty without end - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
In a grammar without horizons - W.S. Merwin "After the Alphabets"
Without hesitation or stars - W.S. Merwin "Cargo"
View the damage without regretting - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"
House without air - Edna St Vincent Millay "Wild Swans"
No words without shadows - Claire Millikin "Bright Shadows"
Shelved for years without testimony - Claire Millikin "Doll Mothers"
One place without connection - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"
Derivatives of rain without protection - Claire Millikin "Some Dolls"
Leader without Machiavellian teeth - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"
Without deep revolt - Kamilah Aisha Moon "After Surgery: Riding in My Body with Others in Theirs"
Without such devious love - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Shared Plight"
Not without hours of joy - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"
A darkening song without end - Jim Moore "So Be It"
Without teaching you how to swim - Edgar Morales "Swim"
Without the possibility of drowning - Edgar Morales "Swim"
On days without a tragedy - Joan Murray "Survivors--Found"
Without tools other than time - Pablo Neruda "The Blind Statue" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Day dawns without debts - Pablo Neruda "Day Dawns" transl. by Alastair Reid
Without other gods than thunder - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Guitars without a destination - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Toward that springtime without ashes - Pablo Neruda "Maternity" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A hive without sound - Pablo Neruda "Night" transl. by Alastair Reid
Without fear of truth - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Past" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Without putting an end to truth - Pablo Neruda "To Search" transl. by William O'Daly
This shadow without stars - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Without returning any kind of sun - Caroline Harper New "Etymology of Chlorophyll"
Fire without its light - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
All foes without the line - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Without the falcon's wings to carry me - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)
Without these rock-ribbed facts - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"
Without a line of language - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"
Without their merit of trial and urgency - Furnley Maurice "Motherhood"
Without the push of wind - Mary Oliver "Black Oaks"
Deeply and without patience - Mary Oliver "The Gift"
Shut tight, without dreams - Mary Oliver "Now comes the long blue cold"
Step across without stretching - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
Without thy ceaseless motion - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Sistrum"
Without a hidden spirit - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)
Them without a name - Dorothy Parker "The dark girl’s rhyme"
Go on without really moving - G.E. Patterson "The Keeping Room"
Without passports or means of escape - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"
No loitering without intent or purpose - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"
Plunge forward without thought for consequence - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"
A farewell without promise - Phan Nhien Hao "Day Flowers in the Highlands" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
Foreseeing a century without light - Phan Nhien Hao "Flamenco Vietnamese Opera" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
Stealing hearts without design - Ambrose Philips "To Miss Georgiana Carteret"
Without the past's precision - Carl Phillips "As for that Piece of Sundown You've Been Wanting"
Falling without motion - Carl Phillips "The Darker Powers"
To sleep without a star - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"
Touched me without leaving fingerprints - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 411"
The moon never beams without bringing me dreams - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
Without forcing them to touch - Ben Purkert "The Past Suffers Too"
Who am I without this danger? - Khadijah Queen "Ancient Mother I Keep Teaching Us New Ways to Find Joy"
Survive without her voice - Sina Queyras "Years"
A soul that treads without retreat - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Doom of the Esquire Bedell"
Of beauty without blame - Theodore H. Rand "The Rose"
Everyone I have to live without - Diane Raptosh "American Amnesiac [The self is a thousand localities]"
What curiosity lurks without - Man Ray "Three Dimensions"
All the ocean's water without me - Roger Reeves "Black Laws"
Without his esteem, untethered, the string snapped - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Five American Sentences"
Who entered the room without nod or knock - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The stranger that entered without a word - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Caught in a laboratory without a science - Adrienne Rich "Letters to a Young Poet"
The wall pour forth without aim - Lola Ridge "Back Yards"
Omnivorous and without mercy - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Without blare of any gilded trumpet - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Running over my soul without sound - Lola Ridge "Secrets"
Where the sun goes down without a scratch - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Archibald's Example"
Grew dead without and small within - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
Without tapers they may give a light - "A Royal Guest"
Sorrows without grief - Luis J. Rodriguez "Fevered Shapes"
Done without aid of the law - Joshua Ross "The Wanderer"
Gifts delivered without a sense of etiquette - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"
Without care for consequence - Rumi "O Angels, Bring Him Back to Me" transl. by E.H. Whinfield
Everywhere without being seen - Carl Sandburg "Anywhere and Everywhere People"
Without a hint of flower or fruit - William Saphier "Etchings Not to Be Read Aloud: The Old Prize Fighter"
A bark all lonely tosses without steersman - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales Gründen]"
The knowledge that you have been living without something - Jason Schneiderman "Vocabulary"
A reality without windows or doors - Philip Schultz "A Moment"
Outcomes and aftermaths without resolution - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Three"
A truth unbearable without this stranger's mask - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"
Placed close within destruction's scope - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Without consummation of clay - "The Sea-God's Address to Bran" transl. by Kuno Meyer
A shot of whiskey without embellishment - Diane Seuss "Poetry"
An arrow without a target - Diane Seuss "Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote"
Without accusing you of injury - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LVIII"
In pain without knowing why - Charif Shanahan "If I Am Alive To"
Upon that path without obvious company - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"
To roam without sorrow or sigh - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Wishes"
Without having to confess anything - Richard Siken "The Torn-Up Road"
Without its portal doomed to roam - "The Sleeping Peri: Lines Suggested by Palmer's Statue" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Without even kissing their ghosts in my dreams - Cynthia So "The Unicorn's Question"
Shall yet within my heart remain - "Song [Each gentle word thy lip imparts]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Without a speck of tarnish - Elizabeth Spires "Story of a Soul"
As the wood without deer - Catherine Staples "Vert"
The house of death without a door - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Without lineage or language - Wallace Stevens "So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch"
Through empty heaven without repose - Robert Lewis Stevenson "Summer Sun"
Without care or coaxing - Kate R. Stiles "Clover Blossoms"
Without hope or rumour of reprieve - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
As a root would wither without rain - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 56: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Without any payment they are sold - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 79: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Moving vision without form or breath - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
A month without sight of the sun - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Of days without crown - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Go hence together without fear - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"
Wine and bread without lees or leaven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
without pretending that home is an open prison - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
Couldn't talk about without slicing at each other - Keith Taylor "In Spite of Myself"
Not to celebrate anything without reservation - Keith Taylor "In the Presence of Large Predators"
As they remember me without smile or moan - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"
As the rain can do without the flowers - Edward Thomas "What Will They Do?"
Not stir a flower without troubling of a star - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
A bunch of violets without their roots - Henry David Thoreau "Sic Vita"
To revel on time without end - "The Three Expectants" transl. by George Borrow
No moon without a sun - Edwin Torres "Bit by Bite"
With or without witnesses - Elizabeth Torres "The Play"
Another chance without talking - Edwin Torres "Under Venus's Hair"
My face without the conquering light - Iris Tree "[Sometimes I look into the glass]"
The clamours knocking without pause - Iris Tree "[What words that move on wings"]
Vaster galaxy primordial and without memories - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
Swallows his lies without measure - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"
Complete without a blooming rose - Irvin W. Underhill "Solitude"
Seen without its scars - Louis Untermeyer "The Wine of Night"
Without speech to drown our words - Cecilia Vicuna "The Disappeared" (translated by Rosa Alcala)
Without an accurate memory - Derek Walcott "French Colonial. "Vers de Societe""
On a sea without seasons - Derek Walcott "A Latin Primer"
Learn their limits without degrees - Brad Walrond "Calculus I, II, III"
Our tasks without chance of resting - Jo Walton "When We Were Robots in Egypt"
All these years without a rest - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "Montauk"
His hours without number - Isaac Watts "The Sluggard"
and retired without a pension - Chaun Webster "[by way of entry you sit with an object]"
To a place without command - Joshua Weiner "In the Event"
Streets where the weary may walk without fear - Edith Wharton "The Tryst"
Of adoration without end - John Hall Wheelock "Immensity"
Each day without a thought of you - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
Without one spark of gratitude display'd - "The Whore"
Walk on without being tempted - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"
A mill that will go without water or wind - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"
Without e'en a farthing's expense - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"
Without the power of stone - Nancy Wood "The Sacred Songs of Our Ancestors"
Practicing religions without a roof - Emanuel Xavier "Americano"
Moving through time without malice - Wendy Xu "Praxis"
Burden without end - W.B. Yeats "Fergus and the Druid"
Wind without borders - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
How to go on without you - Kevin Young "Ledge"
Without silence - Adam Zagajewski "Epithalamium"
After so many days without - Javier Zamora "Let Me Try Again"
Before daylight without a name - Matthew Zapruder "Poem for Ferlinghetti"
Without the mettle of dinosaurs - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #2" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Without gods to sing the news - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 17" transl. by Katherine Silver
Tender marriage without terror - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"
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