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The abyss we sleep under - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"

Drawn up from the lonely abysses - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

Every landing a new abyss - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Through his private abysses - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The ways to see and be an angel"

The resonating filaments of a song across the abyss - R. Christopher Aversa "Gold Foil Experiment"

Summons from the soul's abyss - Benjamin West Ball "Morning"

Throng the blue abysses of eternity - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

When distance is the fixed abyss - Mary Jo Bang "Ashes"

The lot with an abyss at the edge - Mary Jo Bang "Heartbreaking"

Becoming infinite abyss extended to wish - Mary Jo Bang "The Medicinal Cotton Clouds Come Down to Cover Them"

Wandered in the uttermost abyss - Maurice Baring "Dostoyevsky"

Back from the margin of the dim abyss - Maurice Baring "Julian Grenfell"

Hurled the void abyss along - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

Against abhorred Silence and terrors of the abyss - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: II. Penumbra"

May peruse the black abyss - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

With one plunge leaped down the sheer abyss - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Into the spaces of the deep abyss - W. Wilfred Campbell "Lazarus"

What strong memories over time's abyss bore up - G.K. Chesterton "The Myth of Arthur"

Only today did I notice the abyss - Heather Christie "What Big Eyes You Have"

Stands appalled before its dark abyss - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

From atoms crowding God's abyss - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"

Sand troughed us in a glittering abyss - Hart Crane "Passage"

Athwart Truth's deep abyss - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

Prepares to walk out into the abyss of black sky - DéLana R. A. Dameron "My Love is Black"

Just a dome of abyss - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature XXVIII: The Coming of Night"

Rises out of abyssal black - Rebecca Dunham "There Lies the Hydra: 1. Heracles and the Hydra"

Calls the Furies from the dire abyss of Tartarus - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Crueler colours than the abyss - Caleb Femi "Baseline"

That a whirlpool could submerge in the abyss - Luciano Folgore "The Submarine" transl. by Anne Simon

Through what abysses would my soul be tossed - Nora May French "The Spanish Girl"

In the abyss of odor and rustle at my back - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"

On the rasp of the abyss - Robert Frost "Waiting Afield at Dusk"

Into the fastness of its abyss - Elsa Gidlow "I, Lover"

Abyss eyes lingering - Nikita Gill "After the Visit"

At the edge of your own abyss - Nikita Gill "Young Zeus: The Crossroads"

Paused above Infinity's abyss - Ellen Glasgow "The Vision of Hell"

Forth from the old abyss clambering - Russell Green "De Mundo"

High o'er the abyss of ruin - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Starry abysses so high and so impossible - Wendy Guerra "Vertigo Over the Niagara" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

To look adown the cavernous abyss - Claude Halcro "Niagara"

The cavernous abyss that yawns beneath - Claude Halcro "Niagara"

Play crack-the-whip in the abyss - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"

The edge of that unknown abyss - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

A grave in time's abyss - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

An abyss smoked & metal flat - Juan Felipe Herrera "María de la Luz Knows How to Walk"

Tread the precipice of the abyss - John James "Lullaby"

The abyss into which I capsized - June Jordan "Ghaflah"

The crags and the abysses of that most lonely way - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Song of Jacob Boehme"

Preserved me from the drear abyss - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Through abysses unproven, and gulfs beyond thought - Rudyard Kipling "A Doctor of Medicine: An Astrologer's Song"

Dementia boiling in the abyss if we slip - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

In the clear abyss of mind - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"

Around this lit abyss of sunken pearl - Liu Tsung-yuan "Returning to Compass-Line Cliff's Waterfall, I Stay Overnight Below the Cliffwall" transl. by David Hinton

Slant chasm and infinite abyss - J.W. Mackail "On the Death of Arnold Toynbee"

Where a ripple tumbles to abyss - Douglas Malloch "Contrast"

Vexing the void abyss - Don Marquis "The Butchers at Prayer (1914)"

Were blown into the salt abyss - George Martin "Marguerite"

Screened off from those unthinkable abysses - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Staring into the abyss the world was unfolding - Olga Maslova "The Hunt for the Murderous Monkey Has Ended"

Cross that cold and dark abyss - D.M. Matheson "An Elegy Written in Richmond"

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

The Pit and its dreadful abyss - Louis J. McQuilland "Les Papillons"

Heralding seas to a new abyss - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"

Derision stirs the deep abyss - Herman Melville "The Conflict of Convictions"

Rushing madly into the abyss - Carlos Montezuma "Civilization"

The abyss between frames - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"

The cliffside of a starry abyss - Miguel Murphy "Year of the Tiger"

All in the dry abyss nourished - Pablo Neruda "The Disinterred One" translated by Donald D. Walsh

And slept again in their abyss - Pablo Neruda "I Recall the Sea" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Purple bird of the first abyss - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid

A pure part of the abyss - Pablo Neruda "Poetry" transl. by Alastair Reid

Fill the darkness and the void of those abysses - Robert Winkworth Norwood "Antony to Cleopatra After Actium"

Gehenna's abyss gleams with a light - Robert Winkworth Norwood "Dives in Torment"

Up the immeasurable abyss - Alfred Noyes "The Wings"

The abyss between you is infinite - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

Rise forth from the abyss and sink in it again - Kostes Palamas "The Answer" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

Fleeing women nearing the abyss - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"

Into an abyss the weather hadn't dreamt - Melissa Range "All Creation Wept"

Bridge across the abyss - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Where flowed the golden river, yawns the black abyss - Morris Rosenfeld "My Youth" transl. from Yiddish by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank

Looks with strange horror on her own abyss - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"

My path is woven in snow through the abyss - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

The history of tunes sung from the abyss - Philip Schultz "Enthrallment"

On either side of a fresh abyss - Ann K. Schwader "Alien Machines"

In the abyss his soul he stripped - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"

On the verge of that obscure abyss - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

Into Niagara's abyss of blackness - Jean M. Snyder "Fearless Winging"

An echo in the abysses of the heart - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"

Their swords against the abyss - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"

Could not fathom the abyss that surrounds us - Dalia Taha "Enter Terror"

In the undefiled abyss of what can never be - Edward Thomas "The Word"

The smiling bright light lure over the maw of the abyss - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"

To cross the dread abyss no more - H.J.V. "The Precipice" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.1, July 1841]

Brings us to the abyss of the world - Rudolph Valentino "Sympathy (To J.)"

By strange wisps to strange abysses drawn - George Sylvester Viereck "At Nightfall"

Fanned the abyss for mighty joy - John Hall Wheelock "The Fish-Hawk"

The bright abyss that opens in that word - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"


A dark-abyss master grown old - Wang An-Shih "At the Shrine-Tower of Ch'an Master Lumen-Serene" transl. by David Hinton


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