Potential Titles: Bright
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somethingdarkerShadows mark the brightest light - A.L.O.E. "Blanche"
A bright star on their swords - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
But by degrees they grew less bright - "Abroad"
The bright heads of eagles - Samuel Ace "I hear a dog who is always in my death"
Calm and bright with tropic sunshine - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"
Bright beauty of the risen dust - Leonie Adams "Midsummer"
Some days the sky is too bright - Kelli Russell Agodon "Magpies Recognize Themselves in the Mirror"
Now shining in bright sun - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
Vivid tattoos only bright through my skin - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"
Bright forms of excellence attend - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
While the bright eyed stars their long watch kept - Louisa May Alcott "The Flower's Lesson"
Somehow brighter through the cloud of memory - Kazim Ali "The Man in 119"
Into his bright blue fear - Lauren K. Alleyne "Variations in Blue"
Death in one bright peerless day - William Talbot Allison "Vanishings"
Mourn for the vanished brightness - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Her Cradle"
Adorned in solid silver and rare bright coral - Mouna Ammar "Inheritance"
Bright blue and violet summer flavors - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"
Of all bright illusions and dark delusions - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Ancient stars in clusters bright - Benjamin West Ball "Love's Labor Lost"
Bright night of distance - Mary Jo Bang "The Fall"
Burn bright in the realm of Death - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"
every flame that brightened the illusion - Elizabeth Bartlett "life I love"
The brighter silk of summers past - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"
In order bright to our parade - "The Belles of Williamsburg"
The bright insult of that sparking brand - Stephen Vincent Benet "Before Michael's Last Fight"
I am Death's bright arrow! Forgive me not! - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Bright tears may Envy shed - William Rose Benet "The Marvelous Munchausen"
Shining bright as Lucifer's waistcoat - Joshua Bennett "First Date"
Any bright object before sunrise - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"
Brightest three leaved bay - Craven Langstroth Betts "Pope"
How bright is Earth's rich gown - Paul Bewsher "Three Triolets: Colours"
My faith in their bright veracity - Rebecca G. Biber "Idyll"
However bright his tools or sharp his skills - Jenny Blackford "Beneath the Wheeler Centre"
A brighter star on Hope's horizon - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
And disappearing into bright wet mirror - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
Brighter than a coyote's eye - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, in winter my camp on the hill becomes"
Stars of flowers brightening the moss - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"
While gazing on her full bright eye - Anne Bronte "The Captive Dove"
A hope of bright prosperity - Anne Bronte "In Memory of a Happy Day in February"
The buttercup's bright goblet fill - Anne Bronte "Memory"
From a hundred brighter eyes - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet III in Sonnets from the Portuguese"
Dark winding from the bright abodes - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"
Weaving her bright chain - Lord Byron "Stanzas for Music"
And the moon be still as bright - Byron "We'll Go No More a-Roving"
The bright torches you stole from the sun - Will Carleton "Wealth"
Move forward from the deep in squadrons bright - Edward Carpenter "Beethoven"
Their bright fantastic shadows - Alice Cary "Music"
Brighter than jewels or pearl - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"
A spark in the bright flare of the possible - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"
Dead leaves tiger bright - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"
That something bright has vanished - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
How bright his golden laugh - Ken Chen "Cruel Cogito"
Blazes bright above the cup - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Freaks of bright crystal - Jose Santos Chocano "The Orchids" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
still too bright to hear - Lucille Clifton "alabama 9/15/63"
The bright stars unreproving mix - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
How can our land be bright? - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"
Bright the dying spark - Leonard Cohen "Happens to the Heart"
Bright bowers of orange, bergamot and broom - Mrs. Agnes S. Coleman "The Spanish Maiden" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Asks of our bright, unsteady flame - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
Bright with reflex of light - Katherine Eleanor Conway "Saturninus"
Hope's bright birds sing through them - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Summon gold and crimson, bright as dyed in blood - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Your heritage of brightness - Susan Coolidge "To J.H. and E.W.H."
This bright, hard, polished stone of rage - Andrea Cote-Botero "Dear Beth" (translated by Sasha Pimentel)
Of bright Queens vanished - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
Silhouettes flaring bright as glass melting - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"
Each tingle a bright white morning glory - James Crews "Awe"
Under seven heavens bright - George Cronyn "Song [A cup full of star-shine]"
Baskets of bright berries and red marmalade - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
With diamonds make her desolation bright - Olive Custance "Grief"
Bright herald of glory - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)
Written of brightness and light - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)
Soft kisses like bright flowers - H.D. "Telesila"
Crowned with bright berries of the bitter-sweet - Danske Dandridge "The Spirit of the Fall"
When Hope's bright star's the transient guest - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Upon their brightest list enroll - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
To pause 'mid its day-dreams so witchingly bright - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"
That pave heaven's highway with their bright and burning forms - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
Split bodies stroked bright - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
Spoils your brightest day - Mary Mapes Dodge "Willie's Lodger"
Bright tapestry of boulders before the melt - Chris Dombrowski "Heron Rookery Aubade"
Fire taking one bright liberty after another - Timothy Donnelly "By Night with Torch and Spear"
Shape themselves around that one bright seizure - Rita Dove "Prose in a Small Space"
Sad eyes bright with strange tears - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VI. In the Wood"
Nymphs of brightest Form appear - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"
Bright enough to burn the whole sky - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"
Filling its darkness with bright things - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
One bright, enchanting moment - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"
Bubbles bright as crystal beads - Helen Parry Eden "The Brook Along the Romsey Road"
Bejewelled with argent brightness - Maurice Francis Egan "Vigil of the Immaculate Conception"
A devil hides in the bright Moon - Aziz Isa Elkun "Clouds Hid the Moon" transl. by author
Brighter than Solomon shone of old - William Hodgson Ellis "The Cowdung Fly"
Bring to me a thousand visions bright - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"
And bid our lamp burn brighter - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."
Toward a brightness so blank - Heid E. Erdich "Mitochondrial Eve"
On the bright sward in lowly homage kneeling - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Go brightly on without me - Nava EtShalom "Conduct"
A fragrance bright and broken - Donald Evans "Epicede"
Evaporating under the pressure of a bright sun - A.M. Fals "Space in Our Relationship"
That bright line of flame-lipped masters - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
Up brighter slopes of day - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: X. Song of a Very Small Devil"
Free and burning and bright green - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"
Because you have the brightest terror - Jennifer Firestone "Consequences of a Heavy Heart"
The brightness of goose feather snow - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"
To pass the day with bright misfortune - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 4"
When every brighter line is vain - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
In bright prismatic splendor - Joseph Kearney Foran "The Aurora Borealis"
Before the daisy and the sorrel buy their brightness back - John Freeman "The Wakers"
The brightest and best in the lists of fame - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Bright, impetuous avalanche of glory - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"
Her children bright in the slipstream - Deborah Garrison "Sestina for the Working Mother"
Brighter days and joys to see - Alfred C. Gellis "An Indian Cradle Song"
Our demi-galaxy brighter than the zodiac - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"
Like a bright light passing through - Louise Gluck "Faithful and Virtuous Night"
A bright vial of wrath - Hannah Flagg Gould "The Humming-Bird's Anger"
Bright and wicked was his glance - Mona Gould "Apple Orchard"
Tread a measure against bright candles - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"
Wear your tinsel bright and bravely - Mona Gould "Small Christmas Tree (For F.G.)"
Hovering bone bright beside you - Lora Gray "Jupiter of Jupiter"
Catch heaven's brightness on their waves - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
With the fire that made them bright - Julian Grenfell "To a Black Greyhound"
Beyond the cities and its affectations of brightness - John Grey "Skywatching"
The marigold unbarred her casement bright - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
The downside of any evening's bright exchanges - Marilyn Hacker "Headaches"
For brightest brown have donned a gray - Thomas Hardy "On a Discovered Curl of Hair"
Look up to the brightest white - Joy Harjo "Directions to You"
A brightness intended for violins - francine j. harris "intention"
Didn't sleep on my bright side - francine j. harris "Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monstitch Past 45"
Dead hopes and faded joys of bright departed years - Rev. T.L. Harris "The Mourners" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Bright flesh startling my fasting tongue - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"
Bright silver upon hard morning - F.W. Harvey "That I May Be Taught the Gesture of Heaven"
To glimmer in a rare bright cup - F.W. Harvey "Timmy Taylor and the Rats"
The passing breath of flowers bright - F.W. Harvey "The Wind's Grief"
Bright amid the vapourous fears - H.C. Harwood "Dedication, of an Unwritten Masterpiece, to a Woman as Yet Unknown"
How bright upon the mountain - Robert Hayden "On Lookout Mountain"
To brighter visions of celestial days - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Bright with majesty serene - Felicia Hemans "Night-Scene in Genoa"
Bright jewels of the mine - Felicia Hemans "The Pilgrim Fathers"
Some bright hour on rapture's wing - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
By the bright lamp of thought - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Though bright the laurels waved - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
The brightest vision of a throne - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
From the bright fountain of her glory - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Brightness from the sky is lending - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]
And stars unrivalled bright - Thomas Hood "Fair Ines"
Cupid, why make the passage brighter - T. Hood "On a Picture of Hero and Leander" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Round his mind a bright horizon threw - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
But brighter for conquering - Ellen Hopkins "By Some Stroke of Heaven"
Brain bright with her fire - Andrew Hudgins "Asleep with the Dog"
Who saw the bright earth beckon - Aldous Huxley "Poem"
Bright lipstick comes off with grease - K. Iver "1987"
Bright and bitter geometry - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Place Your Bets"
Mortgaged the brightest corners - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Wall"
The white gleam of our bright star - James Weldon Johnson "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
Apples of ashes, golden bright - Lionel Johnson "The Dark Angel"
Laugh with malign, bright eyes - Lionel Johnson "Upon a Drawing"
Bright beacon of the azure sky - Edward Smyth Jones "Flag of the Free"
Cursed her bright beauty - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Bright dyes of saffron - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
With bright whiskey anthems - Ilya Kaminsky "Townspeople Speak of Galya on Her Green Bicycle"
Madly follow that bright path of light - John Keats "Specimen of an Induction to a Poem"
All youth's brightest power - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [In the dark, lonely night]"
As its bright drops fall starlike - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"
Wrapt in a halo as soft, and as bright - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"
Bright flood of burning light - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Lady, whom my beloved loves so well!]"
Visions Hope's bright finger traces - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet ['Twas but a dream! and oh! what are they all]"
From the bright eastern door - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"
When the warm hearth throws its bright glow - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the glad sun looks smiling from the sky]"
Hope's bright wings in the dark earth - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"
Brighter than his favorite constellation - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"
Bright windows of the sky - Anonymous "Kindness to Animals"
Delight in the glories that brighten - James King "The Lake Is at Rest"
Risen bright into daybreak - Galway Kinnell "Mount Fuji at Daybreak"
The body's bright wailing against its limits - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
Ladders into the bright haven above our heads - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
The strange bright murmur of life - Archibald Lampman "One Day"
The midnight bright and bare - Archibald Lampman "The Poet's Song"
Sweet voices and words bright - Archibald Lampman "Winter Hues Recalled"
With the bright souvenirs of this day - Deborah Landau "Flesh"
Turned bright gold and left - Joan Larkin "Afterlife"
Streaks of glowing brightness - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
The fathomless in bright pride - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"
Pomegranates like bright green stone - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"
This bright drink of heady music, sweet as hell - Richard Le Gallienne "The Illusion of War"
Of bright serenity and mirth - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"
Bright creature of impulse - Henry S. Leigh "A Plain Answer (To a Civil Question)"
Hope never wore a brighter brow - Leila "Stanzas" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
I beckon the bright moon - Li Po "Drinking Alone by Moonlight" transl. by Arthur Waley
Focus on the bright noise of traffic - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Bright reflection of traffic underneath - Ada Limon "Spring, 1989"
Tomorrows brighter than candle-blown - P. H. Low "Ode"
Brightest stars rise from a troubled sea - Amy Lowell "In Darkness"
Touch the rim of your brightness - Amy Lowell "In Excelsis"
Hurling clouds at a bright moon - Amy Lowell "Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme"
Brightens you with silver - Amy Lowell "The Weather-Cock Points South"
A bright thread through the spreading ashes - Mario Luzi "Las Animas" transl. by Dana Gioia
Just departed in the sun's bright coach - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Bright blackberries where the light falls - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "bramble"
A ring of the gold so bright - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"
The breeze comes odorous and bright - Donnchad Ruadh MacNamara, c.1730 "The Fair Hills of Eire" transl. by George Sigerson
The bright apples burn - Donnchad Ruadh MacNamara, c.1730 "The Fair Hills of Eire" transl. by George Sigerson
Imagination sparkles proportionately bright - A.A. Macnichol "The Sea-Rover" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Blew up promises like bright balloons - Naomi Long Madgett "Impressions"
Promise stars forever bright - Naomi Long Madgett "Wedding Song"
When our skies become bright - E.G. Mallery "The Invitation"
Blown garments bright as fire - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"
Snare the bright wings of delight - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"
Before the diamond is bright its night of carbon is long - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
And the Dog bright at his heels - John Masefield "Esther"
The sky is bright with exhortation - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
Little bright stars watch us too - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Kiss Refused" transl. by John Pollen
Bright angels through the dance's maze - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"
On grass brighter than jewels - Theodore Maynard "Blindness"
Seven stars bright with awful mystery - Theodore Maynard "The Building of the City"
How bright my headlights shine - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Bright with battle flame - John McCrae "The Warrior"
Whose third eye brightens the room - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"
The bright wing, the black hoof - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
Bright Seraphim in burning row - John Milton "At a Solemn Music"
The eclipse of Heaven's brightness - "The Misanthrope"
A halo webbed and weaving and electric bright - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"
Bright lightning on obsidian skies - N. Scott Momaday "The Rider of Two Gray Hills"
Enweaves the light in woof as bright - Harriet Monroe "Love Song"
Invaded by Brightness - Vicente Luis Mora
How coldly bright the memory of their parted light - Morna "Ianthe"
Bright as the sun's delicious radiance - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"
The heart with its deep bright colors - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"
Bright cradle armed with lightning - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Last bright relic of the moon's full gold - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"
Makes bright the gateway - Meredith Nicholson "My Lady of the Golden Heart"
Bright noons and starry nights - Meredith Nicholson "Three Friends"
Deep, bright and most expressive blue - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"
And turns their brightness to dark despair - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
And fix the future hours, dark or bright - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
The wild sorrow of those dark bright eyes - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
Travel on the long bright dream - Edward J. O'Brien "Of Moira Up the Glen"
Under the sky of brightness - "Oghuzname Epic" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken
in the grip of a fierce brightness - Sharon Olds "Song to Gabriel Hirsch"
The sweet ache of crab still bright - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"
Seems nearer and more bright - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To E. C."
A belt of brightness - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
Wantons go in bright brocades - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"
The bright arrows of beauty - Linda Pastan "Renunciation"
Notes that make darkness bright - Coventry Patmore "The Shadow of Night"
Banks of beryl bright - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Thrill bright witchcraft through my longing mind - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
More varied and bright than the stars - Cynthia Pelayo "La Noche que en el Sur lo Velaron"
Given to be a bright interpreter - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
One bright, flashing hammer of love - Carl Phillips "Initial Descent"
One last bright chance to believe - Carl Phillips "Of California"
Amid the bright reflections of the day - Charles Constantine Pise "Summer Evening"
Here in the bright moon's presence - Po Chu'i "Pine Sounds" transl. by Burton Watson
No bright reversion in the sky - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"
The bright silence breaks - Alexander Posey "The Call of the Wild"
Birds of air dip bright wings in my tide - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"
All bright jealous objects of desire - D.A. Powell "To Last"
Brightener of my soul's eclipse - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"
Bright rainbow of life's stormy day - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"
Beauty too bright for camouflage - Joy Priest "When I See the Stars in the Night Sky"
The great sorrow of brightness - Jeremy Radin "Evening"
A haze of waste whose brightness rivals heaven - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
Flicker blue with bright desire after such ghosting - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"
A certificate of a bright somewhere - Jasmine Reid "Certificate of Live Birth"
To find a future brighter than the past - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Bright burns the searching flame - Edward S. Rend, Jr. "Promise" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Bright balloons of mirth - E. Rendall "Epitaph"
Dreaming of the bright ones that are gone - "RÊVES ET SOUVENIRS" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)
Yet more bright shall return - Henry Scott Riddell "We'll Meet Yet Again"
Pay bright homage to oblivion - Lola Ridge [Firehead untitled prologue]
Pass in some bright avalanche of dew - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Their bright invulnerable seed - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Nor withheld one bright jot - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Coifed in the bright beginning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 2: The Unborn"
No bright leaven arise from the beloved dust - Lola Ridge "Unburnt Offering"
In silver largess and gold twinklings bright - James Whitcombe Riley "When I Do Mock"
Hidden deep in each bright bud - Rainer Maria Rilke "In April" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Racing full toward the bright horizon - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"
Makes bright the midnight gloom - Alice Wellington Rollins "Baby-Hood"
Hostile spies in the bright noon - Ronsard "To the Moon" transl. by Andrew Lang
Bright with the conscious power to bless - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Fire blown bright by thought - Isaac Rosenberg "Expression"
Wrists bright with the afternoon - Isaac Rosenberg "Sleep"
A darkness brighter than the blazing noon - Christina Rossetti "Christmas Eve"
Bright as sunlight on a stream - Christina Rossetti "Echo"
Enamelled bright with flowers of every sort - anonymous? "The Royal Court"
Brightens the galaxy of sister stones - George Santayana "Avila"
Bright lyrics at a cent a yard - George Santayana "The Poetic Medium"
The bright petals of the minutes enfold me - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"
Bright dust of a hundred worlds on your feet - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
These stars will never shine so bright - Ann K. Schwader "On Any Given Midnight"
Bright syntax on neck-twisting black - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"
Learning the last bright routs - Anne Sexton "Her Kind"
Finding brightness where there is none - Prageeta Sharma "Seattle Sun"
Spectres chasing joy and brightness - Thomas Hall Shastid "The Spectres"
Bright spoils for her enchanted dome - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"
In some brighter sphere - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Fragment: Questions"
The brightest hour of unborn Spring - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
Flit jewel bright and beautiful - Julie Shiel "Cinderella"
His shoulder full of brightness - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: Summons to Cuchulain" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Bright chips of sunlight flung skyward - Joyce Sidman "Always Together"
And don the bright colors of scarlet and gold - Joyce Sidman "Ballad of the Wandering Eft"
Weave for each other a garment of brightness - Joyce Sidman "Starting Now"
Bright and wild as pollen - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Stalks the Man"
Beneath the bright scorn of the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Besieges me with bright - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"
The coinage of bright pearls and rubies - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Bar of Science"
Love's taper grew more bright - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"
Who craves the brightest star above - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Montagu"
Bright glimpses of the Infinite - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
The bright obvious stands motionless - Wallace Stevens "Man Carrying Thing"
Fallen brightly away - Wallace Stevens "No Possum, No Sop, No Taters"
While blossom bright the stars - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"
The bright land of his hopes - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Twisting bright swift thread on airy looms - Muriel Stuart "The Thief of Beauty"
Bright throne in her sorrowing heart - J.T.S. Sullivan "Elizabeth"
Our cosmos is growing into a bright castle - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
Flashes with an anger a thousand times brighter - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 115: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
A bright geyser of metal-petaled sound - May Swenson "A Bird's Life"
Bright as heaven's bare brow - Algernon Swinburne "Change"
Unknowing of the bright and quenchless fire - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Be your bright accomplices - Mary Szybist "In the Beginning God Said Light"
The vine's bright blood shall crown the bowl - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
As shaken and as bright - Sara Teasdale "Arcturus"
Bright as the trembling stars - Sara Teasdale "Change"
With the bright frailty of foam - Sara Teasdale "A Little While"
The bright wine of immortality - Sara Teasdale "The Wine"
Moving light spreads round earth a mantle bright - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Opening into some bright dream - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"
Bright sun dispelled the gloom of rolling centuries - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Exposed to suns too strangely bright - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"
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"
How bright were all things here - Thomas Traherne "Wonder"
Brightens the gloom of the anchorite's cell - Charles E. Trail "They May Tell of a Clime. To -- --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
A book turning its own bright pages - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"
Trapped the sun's bright lion - Iris Tree "Nerves"
Some hidden nest in brighter lands - Richard Chenevix Trench "To England"
Brighter than the autumn chrysanthemum - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Pure and bright in the cool evening air - Tu Fu "The Excursion" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
All the pale stars down bright rivers wept - W.J. Turner "Death"
When rain is lying in shattered bright pools - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"
A wind of shining ebony in Time's bright glass - Walter J. Turner "Giraffe and Tree"
Just trying brightness out - John Updike "Stretch"
A fire of my expectation and the brightening of an eye - Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca "Had Been There"
The bright awe of his gift - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954
As angels in some brighter dreams - Henry Vaughan "Beyond the Veil"
Bright pledge of peace and sunshine - Henry Vaughan "The Rainbow"
Bright shoots of everlastingness - Henry Vaughan "The Retreat"
In some brighter dreams call to the soul - Henry Vaughan "The World of Light"
Bright joy amid my stones - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: St. George" transl. by Alma Strettell
In the dew's bright morning hour - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell
Clothed with flame and embers bright - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell
Must be a brightness moving - Jose Garcia Villa "Lyrics: II (17)"
Outside whose bright doors - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"
The brightest day must fall - Charles William Wallace "Good-Night: Infant"
Would feed on brighter flowers - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
Harmodius' sword bright flashing through the gloom - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
And you will shine bright as a winter star - Jamie Wasserman "Spontaneous Human Combustion"
Rising in brighter array - Isaac Watts "Summer's Evening"
Many a knight in armour bright - F.E. Weatherly "The Old Picture-Book"
And June to brighten our life's December - Edith Wharton "June and December"
A glimpse of brightness, parting and pain - Edith Wharton "Nothing More"
Bright forts against Oblivion - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Bright lightnings of dread - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Like a bright sword of sorrow - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
His trophies bright are truth and light - C.L. Wheler "The Song of the Axe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The bare bright flame of the sun - Helen Hay Whitney "I Have Seen What the Seraphs Have Seen"
The House of Ghosts was bright within - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"
Bright enough to create the day - "Wildlife Encounter"
The bright abyss that opens in that word - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"
The bright filled us so deep and long - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
To walk hard in the bright places - Charles Wright "Bitter Herbs to Eat, and Dipped in Honey"
To descry each bright realm - John Wright "An Autumnal Cloud"
A bright shell in a dark wave - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
A bright core to bitter black pain - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
A bright spark where black ashes are - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
We'll trample bright persimmons - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"
Bright to Memory's fond survey - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Bright air alive with dragonflies - Francis Brett Young "Bete Humaine"
Sitting there so bitter-bright - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"
What we need after so many bone-bright days - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"
The bright-heeled constellations - Walter de la Mare "Voices"
Bright-shielded Mars, who leads the host - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "A Vision" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Between her fingers crystal-bright - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell
Gleaming fish that gasp in the death-bright dawn - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"
Firebright blessings of fallen leaves - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
See you nova-bright and radiant - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"
Within those snake-bright grottoes - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Sun-bright splendors on the noonday rest - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The heavy torture of sorrows unbrightened - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"
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A bright star on their swords - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
But by degrees they grew less bright - "Abroad"
The bright heads of eagles - Samuel Ace "I hear a dog who is always in my death"
Calm and bright with tropic sunshine - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"
Bright beauty of the risen dust - Leonie Adams "Midsummer"
Some days the sky is too bright - Kelli Russell Agodon "Magpies Recognize Themselves in the Mirror"
Now shining in bright sun - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
Vivid tattoos only bright through my skin - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"
Bright forms of excellence attend - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
While the bright eyed stars their long watch kept - Louisa May Alcott "The Flower's Lesson"
Somehow brighter through the cloud of memory - Kazim Ali "The Man in 119"
Into his bright blue fear - Lauren K. Alleyne "Variations in Blue"
Death in one bright peerless day - William Talbot Allison "Vanishings"
Mourn for the vanished brightness - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Her Cradle"
Adorned in solid silver and rare bright coral - Mouna Ammar "Inheritance"
Bright blue and violet summer flavors - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"
Of all bright illusions and dark delusions - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Ancient stars in clusters bright - Benjamin West Ball "Love's Labor Lost"
Bright night of distance - Mary Jo Bang "The Fall"
Burn bright in the realm of Death - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"
every flame that brightened the illusion - Elizabeth Bartlett "life I love"
The brighter silk of summers past - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"
In order bright to our parade - "The Belles of Williamsburg"
The bright insult of that sparking brand - Stephen Vincent Benet "Before Michael's Last Fight"
I am Death's bright arrow! Forgive me not! - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Bright tears may Envy shed - William Rose Benet "The Marvelous Munchausen"
Shining bright as Lucifer's waistcoat - Joshua Bennett "First Date"
Any bright object before sunrise - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"
Brightest three leaved bay - Craven Langstroth Betts "Pope"
How bright is Earth's rich gown - Paul Bewsher "Three Triolets: Colours"
My faith in their bright veracity - Rebecca G. Biber "Idyll"
However bright his tools or sharp his skills - Jenny Blackford "Beneath the Wheeler Centre"
A brighter star on Hope's horizon - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
And disappearing into bright wet mirror - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
Brighter than a coyote's eye - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, in winter my camp on the hill becomes"
Stars of flowers brightening the moss - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"
While gazing on her full bright eye - Anne Bronte "The Captive Dove"
A hope of bright prosperity - Anne Bronte "In Memory of a Happy Day in February"
The buttercup's bright goblet fill - Anne Bronte "Memory"
From a hundred brighter eyes - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet III in Sonnets from the Portuguese"
Dark winding from the bright abodes - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"
Weaving her bright chain - Lord Byron "Stanzas for Music"
And the moon be still as bright - Byron "We'll Go No More a-Roving"
The bright torches you stole from the sun - Will Carleton "Wealth"
Move forward from the deep in squadrons bright - Edward Carpenter "Beethoven"
Their bright fantastic shadows - Alice Cary "Music"
Brighter than jewels or pearl - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"
A spark in the bright flare of the possible - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"
Dead leaves tiger bright - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"
That something bright has vanished - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
How bright his golden laugh - Ken Chen "Cruel Cogito"
Blazes bright above the cup - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Freaks of bright crystal - Jose Santos Chocano "The Orchids" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
still too bright to hear - Lucille Clifton "alabama 9/15/63"
The bright stars unreproving mix - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
How can our land be bright? - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"
Bright the dying spark - Leonard Cohen "Happens to the Heart"
Bright bowers of orange, bergamot and broom - Mrs. Agnes S. Coleman "The Spanish Maiden" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Asks of our bright, unsteady flame - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
Bright with reflex of light - Katherine Eleanor Conway "Saturninus"
Hope's bright birds sing through them - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Summon gold and crimson, bright as dyed in blood - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Your heritage of brightness - Susan Coolidge "To J.H. and E.W.H."
This bright, hard, polished stone of rage - Andrea Cote-Botero "Dear Beth" (translated by Sasha Pimentel)
Of bright Queens vanished - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
Silhouettes flaring bright as glass melting - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"
Each tingle a bright white morning glory - James Crews "Awe"
Under seven heavens bright - George Cronyn "Song [A cup full of star-shine]"
Baskets of bright berries and red marmalade - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
With diamonds make her desolation bright - Olive Custance "Grief"
Bright herald of glory - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)
Written of brightness and light - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)
Soft kisses like bright flowers - H.D. "Telesila"
Crowned with bright berries of the bitter-sweet - Danske Dandridge "The Spirit of the Fall"
When Hope's bright star's the transient guest - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Upon their brightest list enroll - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
To pause 'mid its day-dreams so witchingly bright - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"
That pave heaven's highway with their bright and burning forms - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
Split bodies stroked bright - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
Spoils your brightest day - Mary Mapes Dodge "Willie's Lodger"
Bright tapestry of boulders before the melt - Chris Dombrowski "Heron Rookery Aubade"
Fire taking one bright liberty after another - Timothy Donnelly "By Night with Torch and Spear"
Shape themselves around that one bright seizure - Rita Dove "Prose in a Small Space"
Sad eyes bright with strange tears - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VI. In the Wood"
Nymphs of brightest Form appear - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"
Bright enough to burn the whole sky - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"
Filling its darkness with bright things - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
One bright, enchanting moment - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"
Bubbles bright as crystal beads - Helen Parry Eden "The Brook Along the Romsey Road"
Bejewelled with argent brightness - Maurice Francis Egan "Vigil of the Immaculate Conception"
A devil hides in the bright Moon - Aziz Isa Elkun "Clouds Hid the Moon" transl. by author
Brighter than Solomon shone of old - William Hodgson Ellis "The Cowdung Fly"
Bring to me a thousand visions bright - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"
And bid our lamp burn brighter - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."
Toward a brightness so blank - Heid E. Erdich "Mitochondrial Eve"
On the bright sward in lowly homage kneeling - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Go brightly on without me - Nava EtShalom "Conduct"
A fragrance bright and broken - Donald Evans "Epicede"
Evaporating under the pressure of a bright sun - A.M. Fals "Space in Our Relationship"
That bright line of flame-lipped masters - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
Up brighter slopes of day - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: X. Song of a Very Small Devil"
Free and burning and bright green - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"
Because you have the brightest terror - Jennifer Firestone "Consequences of a Heavy Heart"
The brightness of goose feather snow - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"
To pass the day with bright misfortune - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 4"
When every brighter line is vain - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
In bright prismatic splendor - Joseph Kearney Foran "The Aurora Borealis"
Before the daisy and the sorrel buy their brightness back - John Freeman "The Wakers"
The brightest and best in the lists of fame - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Bright, impetuous avalanche of glory - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"
Her children bright in the slipstream - Deborah Garrison "Sestina for the Working Mother"
Brighter days and joys to see - Alfred C. Gellis "An Indian Cradle Song"
Our demi-galaxy brighter than the zodiac - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"
Like a bright light passing through - Louise Gluck "Faithful and Virtuous Night"
A bright vial of wrath - Hannah Flagg Gould "The Humming-Bird's Anger"
Bright and wicked was his glance - Mona Gould "Apple Orchard"
Tread a measure against bright candles - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"
Wear your tinsel bright and bravely - Mona Gould "Small Christmas Tree (For F.G.)"
Hovering bone bright beside you - Lora Gray "Jupiter of Jupiter"
Catch heaven's brightness on their waves - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
With the fire that made them bright - Julian Grenfell "To a Black Greyhound"
Beyond the cities and its affectations of brightness - John Grey "Skywatching"
The marigold unbarred her casement bright - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
The downside of any evening's bright exchanges - Marilyn Hacker "Headaches"
For brightest brown have donned a gray - Thomas Hardy "On a Discovered Curl of Hair"
Look up to the brightest white - Joy Harjo "Directions to You"
A brightness intended for violins - francine j. harris "intention"
Didn't sleep on my bright side - francine j. harris "Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monstitch Past 45"
Dead hopes and faded joys of bright departed years - Rev. T.L. Harris "The Mourners" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Bright flesh startling my fasting tongue - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"
Bright silver upon hard morning - F.W. Harvey "That I May Be Taught the Gesture of Heaven"
To glimmer in a rare bright cup - F.W. Harvey "Timmy Taylor and the Rats"
The passing breath of flowers bright - F.W. Harvey "The Wind's Grief"
Bright amid the vapourous fears - H.C. Harwood "Dedication, of an Unwritten Masterpiece, to a Woman as Yet Unknown"
How bright upon the mountain - Robert Hayden "On Lookout Mountain"
To brighter visions of celestial days - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Bright with majesty serene - Felicia Hemans "Night-Scene in Genoa"
Bright jewels of the mine - Felicia Hemans "The Pilgrim Fathers"
Some bright hour on rapture's wing - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
By the bright lamp of thought - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Though bright the laurels waved - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
The brightest vision of a throne - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
From the bright fountain of her glory - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Brightness from the sky is lending - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]
And stars unrivalled bright - Thomas Hood "Fair Ines"
Cupid, why make the passage brighter - T. Hood "On a Picture of Hero and Leander" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Round his mind a bright horizon threw - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
But brighter for conquering - Ellen Hopkins "By Some Stroke of Heaven"
Brain bright with her fire - Andrew Hudgins "Asleep with the Dog"
Who saw the bright earth beckon - Aldous Huxley "Poem"
Bright lipstick comes off with grease - K. Iver "1987"
Bright and bitter geometry - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Place Your Bets"
Mortgaged the brightest corners - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Wall"
The white gleam of our bright star - James Weldon Johnson "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
Apples of ashes, golden bright - Lionel Johnson "The Dark Angel"
Laugh with malign, bright eyes - Lionel Johnson "Upon a Drawing"
Bright beacon of the azure sky - Edward Smyth Jones "Flag of the Free"
Cursed her bright beauty - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Bright dyes of saffron - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
With bright whiskey anthems - Ilya Kaminsky "Townspeople Speak of Galya on Her Green Bicycle"
Madly follow that bright path of light - John Keats "Specimen of an Induction to a Poem"
All youth's brightest power - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [In the dark, lonely night]"
As its bright drops fall starlike - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"
Wrapt in a halo as soft, and as bright - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"
Bright flood of burning light - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Lady, whom my beloved loves so well!]"
Visions Hope's bright finger traces - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet ['Twas but a dream! and oh! what are they all]"
From the bright eastern door - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"
When the warm hearth throws its bright glow - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the glad sun looks smiling from the sky]"
Hope's bright wings in the dark earth - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"
Brighter than his favorite constellation - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"
Bright windows of the sky - Anonymous "Kindness to Animals"
Delight in the glories that brighten - James King "The Lake Is at Rest"
Risen bright into daybreak - Galway Kinnell "Mount Fuji at Daybreak"
The body's bright wailing against its limits - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
Ladders into the bright haven above our heads - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
The strange bright murmur of life - Archibald Lampman "One Day"
The midnight bright and bare - Archibald Lampman "The Poet's Song"
Sweet voices and words bright - Archibald Lampman "Winter Hues Recalled"
With the bright souvenirs of this day - Deborah Landau "Flesh"
Turned bright gold and left - Joan Larkin "Afterlife"
Streaks of glowing brightness - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
The fathomless in bright pride - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"
Pomegranates like bright green stone - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"
This bright drink of heady music, sweet as hell - Richard Le Gallienne "The Illusion of War"
Of bright serenity and mirth - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"
Bright creature of impulse - Henry S. Leigh "A Plain Answer (To a Civil Question)"
Hope never wore a brighter brow - Leila "Stanzas" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
I beckon the bright moon - Li Po "Drinking Alone by Moonlight" transl. by Arthur Waley
Focus on the bright noise of traffic - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Bright reflection of traffic underneath - Ada Limon "Spring, 1989"
Tomorrows brighter than candle-blown - P. H. Low "Ode"
Brightest stars rise from a troubled sea - Amy Lowell "In Darkness"
Touch the rim of your brightness - Amy Lowell "In Excelsis"
Hurling clouds at a bright moon - Amy Lowell "Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme"
Brightens you with silver - Amy Lowell "The Weather-Cock Points South"
A bright thread through the spreading ashes - Mario Luzi "Las Animas" transl. by Dana Gioia
Just departed in the sun's bright coach - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Bright blackberries where the light falls - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "bramble"
A ring of the gold so bright - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"
The breeze comes odorous and bright - Donnchad Ruadh MacNamara, c.1730 "The Fair Hills of Eire" transl. by George Sigerson
The bright apples burn - Donnchad Ruadh MacNamara, c.1730 "The Fair Hills of Eire" transl. by George Sigerson
Imagination sparkles proportionately bright - A.A. Macnichol "The Sea-Rover" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Blew up promises like bright balloons - Naomi Long Madgett "Impressions"
Promise stars forever bright - Naomi Long Madgett "Wedding Song"
When our skies become bright - E.G. Mallery "The Invitation"
Blown garments bright as fire - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"
Snare the bright wings of delight - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"
Before the diamond is bright its night of carbon is long - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
And the Dog bright at his heels - John Masefield "Esther"
The sky is bright with exhortation - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
Little bright stars watch us too - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Kiss Refused" transl. by John Pollen
Bright angels through the dance's maze - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"
On grass brighter than jewels - Theodore Maynard "Blindness"
Seven stars bright with awful mystery - Theodore Maynard "The Building of the City"
How bright my headlights shine - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Bright with battle flame - John McCrae "The Warrior"
Whose third eye brightens the room - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"
The bright wing, the black hoof - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
Bright Seraphim in burning row - John Milton "At a Solemn Music"
The eclipse of Heaven's brightness - "The Misanthrope"
A halo webbed and weaving and electric bright - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"
Bright lightning on obsidian skies - N. Scott Momaday "The Rider of Two Gray Hills"
Enweaves the light in woof as bright - Harriet Monroe "Love Song"
Invaded by Brightness - Vicente Luis Mora
How coldly bright the memory of their parted light - Morna "Ianthe"
Bright as the sun's delicious radiance - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"
The heart with its deep bright colors - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"
Bright cradle armed with lightning - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Last bright relic of the moon's full gold - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"
Makes bright the gateway - Meredith Nicholson "My Lady of the Golden Heart"
Bright noons and starry nights - Meredith Nicholson "Three Friends"
Deep, bright and most expressive blue - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"
And turns their brightness to dark despair - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
And fix the future hours, dark or bright - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
The wild sorrow of those dark bright eyes - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
Travel on the long bright dream - Edward J. O'Brien "Of Moira Up the Glen"
Under the sky of brightness - "Oghuzname Epic" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken
in the grip of a fierce brightness - Sharon Olds "Song to Gabriel Hirsch"
The sweet ache of crab still bright - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"
Seems nearer and more bright - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To E. C."
A belt of brightness - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
Wantons go in bright brocades - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"
The bright arrows of beauty - Linda Pastan "Renunciation"
Notes that make darkness bright - Coventry Patmore "The Shadow of Night"
Banks of beryl bright - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Thrill bright witchcraft through my longing mind - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
More varied and bright than the stars - Cynthia Pelayo "La Noche que en el Sur lo Velaron"
Given to be a bright interpreter - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
One bright, flashing hammer of love - Carl Phillips "Initial Descent"
One last bright chance to believe - Carl Phillips "Of California"
Amid the bright reflections of the day - Charles Constantine Pise "Summer Evening"
Here in the bright moon's presence - Po Chu'i "Pine Sounds" transl. by Burton Watson
No bright reversion in the sky - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"
The bright silence breaks - Alexander Posey "The Call of the Wild"
Birds of air dip bright wings in my tide - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"
All bright jealous objects of desire - D.A. Powell "To Last"
Brightener of my soul's eclipse - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"
Bright rainbow of life's stormy day - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"
Beauty too bright for camouflage - Joy Priest "When I See the Stars in the Night Sky"
The great sorrow of brightness - Jeremy Radin "Evening"
A haze of waste whose brightness rivals heaven - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
Flicker blue with bright desire after such ghosting - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"
A certificate of a bright somewhere - Jasmine Reid "Certificate of Live Birth"
To find a future brighter than the past - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Bright burns the searching flame - Edward S. Rend, Jr. "Promise" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Bright balloons of mirth - E. Rendall "Epitaph"
Dreaming of the bright ones that are gone - "RÊVES ET SOUVENIRS" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)
Yet more bright shall return - Henry Scott Riddell "We'll Meet Yet Again"
Pay bright homage to oblivion - Lola Ridge [Firehead untitled prologue]
Pass in some bright avalanche of dew - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Their bright invulnerable seed - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Nor withheld one bright jot - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Coifed in the bright beginning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 2: The Unborn"
No bright leaven arise from the beloved dust - Lola Ridge "Unburnt Offering"
In silver largess and gold twinklings bright - James Whitcombe Riley "When I Do Mock"
Hidden deep in each bright bud - Rainer Maria Rilke "In April" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Racing full toward the bright horizon - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"
Makes bright the midnight gloom - Alice Wellington Rollins "Baby-Hood"
Hostile spies in the bright noon - Ronsard "To the Moon" transl. by Andrew Lang
Bright with the conscious power to bless - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Fire blown bright by thought - Isaac Rosenberg "Expression"
Wrists bright with the afternoon - Isaac Rosenberg "Sleep"
A darkness brighter than the blazing noon - Christina Rossetti "Christmas Eve"
Bright as sunlight on a stream - Christina Rossetti "Echo"
Enamelled bright with flowers of every sort - anonymous? "The Royal Court"
Brightens the galaxy of sister stones - George Santayana "Avila"
Bright lyrics at a cent a yard - George Santayana "The Poetic Medium"
The bright petals of the minutes enfold me - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"
Bright dust of a hundred worlds on your feet - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
These stars will never shine so bright - Ann K. Schwader "On Any Given Midnight"
Bright syntax on neck-twisting black - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"
Learning the last bright routs - Anne Sexton "Her Kind"
Finding brightness where there is none - Prageeta Sharma "Seattle Sun"
Spectres chasing joy and brightness - Thomas Hall Shastid "The Spectres"
Bright spoils for her enchanted dome - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"
In some brighter sphere - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Fragment: Questions"
The brightest hour of unborn Spring - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
Flit jewel bright and beautiful - Julie Shiel "Cinderella"
His shoulder full of brightness - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: Summons to Cuchulain" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Bright chips of sunlight flung skyward - Joyce Sidman "Always Together"
And don the bright colors of scarlet and gold - Joyce Sidman "Ballad of the Wandering Eft"
Weave for each other a garment of brightness - Joyce Sidman "Starting Now"
Bright and wild as pollen - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Stalks the Man"
Beneath the bright scorn of the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Besieges me with bright - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"
The coinage of bright pearls and rubies - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Bar of Science"
Love's taper grew more bright - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"
Who craves the brightest star above - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Montagu"
Bright glimpses of the Infinite - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
The bright obvious stands motionless - Wallace Stevens "Man Carrying Thing"
Fallen brightly away - Wallace Stevens "No Possum, No Sop, No Taters"
While blossom bright the stars - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"
The bright land of his hopes - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Twisting bright swift thread on airy looms - Muriel Stuart "The Thief of Beauty"
Bright throne in her sorrowing heart - J.T.S. Sullivan "Elizabeth"
Our cosmos is growing into a bright castle - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
Flashes with an anger a thousand times brighter - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 115: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
A bright geyser of metal-petaled sound - May Swenson "A Bird's Life"
Bright as heaven's bare brow - Algernon Swinburne "Change"
Unknowing of the bright and quenchless fire - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Be your bright accomplices - Mary Szybist "In the Beginning God Said Light"
The vine's bright blood shall crown the bowl - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
As shaken and as bright - Sara Teasdale "Arcturus"
Bright as the trembling stars - Sara Teasdale "Change"
With the bright frailty of foam - Sara Teasdale "A Little While"
The bright wine of immortality - Sara Teasdale "The Wine"
Moving light spreads round earth a mantle bright - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Opening into some bright dream - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"
Bright sun dispelled the gloom of rolling centuries - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Exposed to suns too strangely bright - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"
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"
How bright were all things here - Thomas Traherne "Wonder"
Brightens the gloom of the anchorite's cell - Charles E. Trail "They May Tell of a Clime. To -- --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
A book turning its own bright pages - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"
Trapped the sun's bright lion - Iris Tree "Nerves"
Some hidden nest in brighter lands - Richard Chenevix Trench "To England"
Brighter than the autumn chrysanthemum - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Pure and bright in the cool evening air - Tu Fu "The Excursion" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
All the pale stars down bright rivers wept - W.J. Turner "Death"
When rain is lying in shattered bright pools - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"
A wind of shining ebony in Time's bright glass - Walter J. Turner "Giraffe and Tree"
Just trying brightness out - John Updike "Stretch"
A fire of my expectation and the brightening of an eye - Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca "Had Been There"
The bright awe of his gift - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954
As angels in some brighter dreams - Henry Vaughan "Beyond the Veil"
Bright pledge of peace and sunshine - Henry Vaughan "The Rainbow"
Bright shoots of everlastingness - Henry Vaughan "The Retreat"
In some brighter dreams call to the soul - Henry Vaughan "The World of Light"
Bright joy amid my stones - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: St. George" transl. by Alma Strettell
In the dew's bright morning hour - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell
Clothed with flame and embers bright - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell
Must be a brightness moving - Jose Garcia Villa "Lyrics: II (17)"
Outside whose bright doors - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"
The brightest day must fall - Charles William Wallace "Good-Night: Infant"
Would feed on brighter flowers - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
Harmodius' sword bright flashing through the gloom - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
And you will shine bright as a winter star - Jamie Wasserman "Spontaneous Human Combustion"
Rising in brighter array - Isaac Watts "Summer's Evening"
Many a knight in armour bright - F.E. Weatherly "The Old Picture-Book"
And June to brighten our life's December - Edith Wharton "June and December"
A glimpse of brightness, parting and pain - Edith Wharton "Nothing More"
Bright forts against Oblivion - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Bright lightnings of dread - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Like a bright sword of sorrow - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
His trophies bright are truth and light - C.L. Wheler "The Song of the Axe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The bare bright flame of the sun - Helen Hay Whitney "I Have Seen What the Seraphs Have Seen"
The House of Ghosts was bright within - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"
Bright enough to create the day - "Wildlife Encounter"
The bright abyss that opens in that word - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"
The bright filled us so deep and long - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
To walk hard in the bright places - Charles Wright "Bitter Herbs to Eat, and Dipped in Honey"
To descry each bright realm - John Wright "An Autumnal Cloud"
A bright shell in a dark wave - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
A bright core to bitter black pain - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
A bright spark where black ashes are - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
We'll trample bright persimmons - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"
Bright to Memory's fond survey - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Bright air alive with dragonflies - Francis Brett Young "Bete Humaine"
Sitting there so bitter-bright - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"
What we need after so many bone-bright days - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"
The bright-heeled constellations - Walter de la Mare "Voices"
Bright-shielded Mars, who leads the host - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "A Vision" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Between her fingers crystal-bright - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell
Gleaming fish that gasp in the death-bright dawn - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"
Firebright blessings of fallen leaves - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
See you nova-bright and radiant - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"
Within those snake-bright grottoes - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Sun-bright splendors on the noonday rest - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The heavy torture of sorrows unbrightened - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"
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