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Potential Titles: Black
In a crib of black twigs and moss - Seth Abramson "The Woods in Concord"
Rising on phoenix limbs from black smoke - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"
When blood is black roses - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"
Black specks of surly rooks - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"
To mock black flights of years - Conrad Aiken "Discordants [Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket]"
Black leaves and smoke - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"
Skeleton of black borders and color fields - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Clad in diamonds of rose and black - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
Rose water in black coffee - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"
Turn to black for comfort - Maya Angelou "Late October"
Black as the black craters in an isthmus - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
A soul crawling out of the black dirt - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
You give language to black roosters & fossil bones - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Slow as black smoke - Tommy Archuleta "Remedio: Ocotillo (Candlewood)"
questions within the black smoke - Jarid Arraes "Movement"
No wonder the black mole tunnels under the garden loam - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Ghost House"
In the chasm of our black palms - Quenton Baker "[we are]"
Tasting the burnt sun, the black sea - Mary Jo Bang "The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans"
The black and gold glassed-in air - J. Mae Barizo "Diorama"
His reason waits on the law's black hates - William Francis Barnard "The Hangman"
for sun is black with days I can not see - Elizabeth Bartlett "black sun"
Leading to a corridor of black mirrors - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Understanding"
The deep heart of a black marble - Charles Baudelaire "The Remorse of the Dead" transl. not credited
Nor their black legend write - Charles Baudelaire "Sonnet of Autumn" transl. not credited
Mounts the black whirlwind - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Burn the black water of night's lagoons - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
A black shield thrust down on earth - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"
Toiled like yoked black oxen - Stephen Vincent Benet "Road and Hills"
Black wind runs trotting to the dark - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"
The moon's black horses - Paul Bernstein "Dusk: a Cinquain"
Weaves a black thread between white days - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
A disturbing, over-all black translucency - Elizabeth Bishop "Filling Station"
Hung with ivy's blackened chains - Edmund Blunden "April Byeway"
A black overcoat for the soul - Robert Bly "How Mirabai Did Not Care"
Reaching into the black space underneath - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Sword Converses with a Philosopher"
A blackened fire grown emberless - John Philip Bourke "The Leaden Hoof"
The light that lifts from a black mere - Thomas Boyd "The King's Son"
Backyard overgrown with black tulips - Ana Bozicevic "Midnight Oil"
a very black thing at the edge of a sward - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]
Which made your black hearts pure - Anne Bronte "A Word to the 'Elect'"
My black anger made red - Jericho Brown "A Young Man"
May peruse the black abyss - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
That swirls in cavernous black - May Byron "Sea-Ghosts"
Two black cats and a beaver who eats carrots all day - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"
Green blackness of the tangled wood - Giosue Carducci "F. Petrarca" transl. by Frank Sewall
A black wolf careening through a web - Tina Chang "The Future is an Animal"
Aging spine of the black sky - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"
Saw black trees on the battle-height - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
Snow and black ink - Johnson Cheu "Wail"
Weaving death's black wing - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
Thunder's grave black vest - John Clare "To the Clouds"
the black blood under the earth - Lucille Clifton "shadows"
The black that black can go - Leonard Cohen "Teachers"
Through the tempest's blackness rolled - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Blacker than the shadows on the moon - Mary Elizabeth Counselman "Witch-Burning" [Weird Tales October 1936]
A gifted black & white postcard - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"
Roll away, leaving black terror, limitless night - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
I journey to the black unknown - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"
Black and battered hulk that slumbers on the tide - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Blackened stalks of mint - H.D. "Mid-Day"
Petals on the black earth - H.D. "Orion Dead"
Burden the trees with black drops - H.D. "Storm"
The great black beautiful seeds of the Moon - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"
Colored balloons bobbing against a black ceiling - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Termaggio"
Owls buried against the black roofs - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"
In black Oblivion's waves should whelm his name - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
The dismal gulfs of Acheron's black waves - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Over night's black dunes - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
When darkness dawned a black moon - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"
Grasshoppers black as burn - Chris Dombrowski "October Suite"
Pools that dreamed black and unruffled - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
And leaves that should be dressed in black - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Merry Autumn"
The black iris with their sabered blooms - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"
Rises out of abyssal black - Rebecca Dunham "There Lies the Hydra: 1. Heracles and the Hydra"
Where the black duck rears her brood - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"
That lost, stardust word glowing black - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"
Shadows like black roses - B. H. Fairchild "The Big Bands: Liberal, Kansas, Summer of 1955"
Through the veranda's black iron bars - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"
The black violin of his childhood - Joseph Fasano "Mahler in New York"
Past their eyes where the black night lives - Annie Finch "Frozen In"
Gold fish far above the black arches - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
A nest of black hair for the birds - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 8"
Behind the black bark of the moon - Jennifer Foerster "from 'Shadow Poems'"
Stars' dull hatchets behind the black - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 1"
Raising the river's black dress - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 6"
Thunder's black calligraphy - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Undertow"
Black winds tunneled to her sleep - Carolyn Forche "Alfansa"
Black storms of dream - Carolyn Forche "Curfew"
fetched with black rain and wild hanging gardens - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"
whose essences can dissolve the black residues of life - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"
The deep, black jaws of cold annihilation - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Visions of half the world burned black - Robert Frost "The Gum-Gatherer"
In leaves no step had trodden black - Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"
With wild black flame at full of moon - Zona Gale "Terza Rima"
A backdrop of black velvet and rhinestones - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"
driving towards her black and white demise - Gwynne Garfinkle "Dear Tom Cassidy's Daughter"
Heart like a plateful of black flames - Jenny George "Sunflowers"
Flying out of black cedars - Wilfrid Gibson "The Parrots"
With anvils of black granite - Louis Golding "The Singer of High State"
Slip from one black cloak into another - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
In the long night when the black wings beat - Mona Gould "Nightmare"
Black as the night with one star - Alfred Perceval Graves "O Drimin dhu Deelish"
Black strokes on a graph of broken glass - Marilyn Hacker "Morning News"
When reddest flowers are black - Thomas Hardy "The Garden Seat"
Black willow shadows for walls - Joy Harjo "The Black Room"
Flesh of kerosene and black fire - Duriel E. Harris "What he thought belly down, when I was 8 years old"
To thaw a black fog - francine j. harris "rub against it, where"
The black magic of law - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXXI"
Like a cinder fading black at last - F.W. Harvey "Prisoners"
And timbers black with flame - F.W. Harvey "The Stranger"
Out of the black maw of the peat - Seamus Heaney "Come to the Bower"
The gnarled black fist of the earth - Ben Hecht "Moods"
The night is a black poppy - Ben Hecht "Sorrow"
Silver tears across the black petals - Ben Hecht "Sorrow"
When dusk fell, a clutch of black birds landed - Michael Hettich "The Angels"
Bitter black it falls between - Francis Hill "Rich Man, Poor Man"
Crimson tracks in the blackened loam - Robert E. Howard "Shadows on the Road"
Where wolves and black bears prowl - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"
Little rutilant stones sunk in black basalt - Aldous Huxley "Behemoth"
Wind summons a black moon at dawn - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Fret the black sky of night - Sade Iverson "Voices"
Throwing cold light through the black matter - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"
Black, curdling fog climbing into their nostrils - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
His atoms dispersed into a black fog - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Scattered black seeds of a future - Robinson Jeffers "The Treasure"
A band of black, belated crows - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"
The black lungs of the Marlboro woman - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"
Red is at the end of black - Saeed Jones "Boy Found Inside a Wolf"
Wet black stones for pillows - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"
After the black bite of frost - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
Safe from the wolf's black jaw - Ben Jonson "To Himself"
Because the black dresses sit unwashed - Holly Karapetkova "Holiday"
Black stuff and blue, gold and green - Janet Kauffman "The Whirlwind Times"
A black forest beating out of time - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Shows up Late for the End-Of-The-World Party"
Errant and black as my will - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"
The lintel black with absence and size - Kevin Killian "The Door into Darkness"
Black mold along the foundation - Sophie Klahr "Like Nebraska"
Grinning orange against the black - Rachel Kolar "Twinkle, Twinkle, Lantern Jack"
Feed carbon black into morning breezes - Petra Kuppers "Forest Starships"
Hard as my black dawn - Louise Labe sonnet XXIII
Wheeling shadows black with rain - Archibald Lampman "The Poet's Song"
The clouds in black array - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway VI: A Parallel"
Every black tree blossomed outright - D.H. Lawrence "The Attack"
Black piper on an infinitesimal pipe - D.H. Lawrence "Bat"
The great black night scooped out - D.H. Lawrence "New Year's Eve"
Peace congealed in black lava - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"
Black lava on the doorstep - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"
My black doubts illumined and absorbed - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"
Black narrow lists no tears can wash away - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"
Black and mighty shapes of iron and stone - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"
Still shall the blackest hell look up and see - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"
A single Tree stretched black on the moon - Ruth Lechlitner "At the Road's Turn"
Amorphous and black, shedding tears - Katy Lederer "Mass Effect"
From sober black to faintest blue - Ida Lee "Suffolk"
Hell's blackest tricks were put in play - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
Blowing its black breath in the face of creation - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"
To receive the black gifts of a mountain road - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
With black wine and black bread - Philip Levine "Yakov"
The black stones took on flame - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"
Where the great black agates loom - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"
Black willows and stars - Amy Lowell "Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme"
Black clouds oppress the vermilion towers - Lu Chi "Two Poems Presented to the Gentleman in the Office of Palace Writers Ku Yen-hsien" transl. by Burton Watson
The swan's black vanguard told it - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"
The black cat family that roamed our alley - Sheila Maldonado "herederos de cero"
The black swan guarding the pond - Randall Mann "?"
douse this blackness in viscous castor oil - Neha Maqsood "Things I Do to Remember Home"
Storm the black bastions of Night - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"
My electrons black with heat and sound - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"
Needs a black clarity of vision - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"
Picking black daffodils in the shades of broken stones - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
A black crow spits out white fog - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Deaf Old Man"
Twelve black crows in mourning - Herbert Woodward Martin "Twelve Black Crows"
And hell's black bloodhounds mark - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"
With nine black hounds at heel - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"
A black and wicked door - Airea D. Matthews "Rebel Prelude"
The last black anguish of the thief - Theodore Maynard "Faith's Difficulty"
Windows carrying a black bird's wing - Shane McCrae "From the Ground It Must Have Looked Like Its Wings Were Not a Part of It"
Matte black backlit with raw opal - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
Black rock by sunbeams crowned - George Meredith "The Appeasement of Demeter"
The bright wing, the black hoof - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
Watching black shadows on green lawns - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
And seen the rivers bitten black - Adam Mickiewicz "Mountains from the Keslov Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Mountains rising black from the underworld - N. Scott Momaday "The First Day"
Wild beauty extracted from black ashes - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
Black as a plume on a casque - Marianne Moore "My Lantern"
A bundle of black rocks in the heart - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Chronicle of an Execution" transl. by Joshua Freeman
Black talisman of the snow - Pablo Neruda "The Birds Arrive" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Like a black atom in the arid land - Pablo Neruda "Evening LXIII" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Black fire of an exiled planet - Pablo Neruda "Leviathan" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Lit with torches of black snow - Pablo Neruda "Leviathan" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Dreams that run like black horsemen - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Black fog invades the balconies - Pablo Neruda "The Rooming House on the Calle Maruri" transl. by Alastair Reid
Against the black tower of silence - Pablo Neruda "A Small Animal" transl. by William O'Daly
The black ways of the condor - Pablo Neruda "Superstitions" transl. by Alastair Reid
And the hyacinth sips the sun black - Caroline Harper New "If We Move Back In Together"
The mushroom's black underpleats - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"
Scattered starlings from the black sun - Achy Obejas "Succession"
Black sorrow sheds an eclipse on our glory - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson
A summons in black snow - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
A black ant traveling briskly - Mary Oliver "Forty Years"
The long black branches of other lives - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"
In the great, black packet of time - Mary Oliver "The Orchard"
In the black, polished water - Mary Oliver "Some Herons"
The black fingerprint of the rain - Mary Oliver "What Is It"
All the mirrors were painted black - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"
This black moon pulls at my bones - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"
Tugging black thread of tunnel - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: The Parade"
Lives in a house of black glass - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Five"
Ragged holes through which a black wind blows - Gregory Orr "These Words"
A mass of black, unseemly stone - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Imperfect Thoughts"
Into the maw of the grim black night - John Oxenham "The Hungry Sea"
Black as pain - Dorothy Parker "Christmas, 1921"
Left to wander Dante's black forest - Cynthia Pelayo "Afterglow"
By black doll or briar thorn - Kiki Petrosino "Doubloon Oath"
At the oak's black ankle - Kiki Petrosino "Nursery"
A bewilderment of black swans pulling - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"
Black according to some holiness - Carl Phillips "Tugging the Arrow Out"
The tight-fitting black truth of my narrative - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Sprouting from your black waters - Janel Pineda "Mujer Malvada"
Black bat airs wrap me - Sylvia Plath "Nick and the Candlestick"
Desire falls like black lightning - Ezra Pound "The Spring"
The black river beneath the desert of the world - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
In the black December frost - John Presland "A Song"
Chill remorse and black despair - Anne Proctor "Verse: A Legend of Provence"
Bring me my headdress of black feathers - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Beating the black dome over a beach - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
A labyrinth of black roses - Paisley Rekdal "Joan of England in Bordeaux, 1348"
In that black descent of night - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"
Black lace crisp as cinders - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
When the black irises lean at dawn - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
From the matrix of the black cloud - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
A blood-shot eye in the black mask of night - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"
A black chimney throwing up sparks - Lola Ridge "Jude"
Out of the black pockets of alleys - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Cracking the black river glass - Lynn Riggs "Shadow on Snow"
Under her big black wing - James Whitcombe Riley "The Frog"
The vast black solitude around - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Boy" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Behind the chain's black links - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Knight" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Stamped the miles of mosses and blackened out the day - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
Black grief on the plains - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull
With those heavy folds of black - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"
Let the walls be hung with black - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"
Their black wavering lines in the sky - Marjorie Saiser "Crane Migration, Platte River"
Twin vortices in her black sunglasses - Sofia Samatar "The Death of Araweilo"
science rewards me with black temper - Nnadi Samuel "Orchard of Failed Sciences"
Dark as a stack of black cats - Carl Sandburg "Picnic Boat"
Black salt beneath the fingernails - Holly J. Schaeffer-Raymond "Excerpts from Sign & Grudge"
Drank full many a draught of Phlegethon's black flood - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Beaten by the envy of the black branches - Fritz Schnack "Echo" transl. by William Saphier
Have dared with black envy - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Invocation"
Spraying black plumes across the blockaded sunset - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"
Cast adrift by proxy on a vast black sea - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
Yet those black seas bewitched us - Ann K. Schwader "A Voyage(r) Too Far"
The black dog of fanged grief - Teresa J. Scollon "The Garden"
Knew their movement like black on white - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"
Bright syntax on neck-twisting black - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"
Gnawing the black crust of failure - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"
Caskets filled with black feathers - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"
Until their black feathers are edged in gold - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"
Remember the black cherries' gleam - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"
A possessed witch, haunting the black air - Anne Sexton "Her Kind"
Put on black and loving mourners be - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXII"
Black flood on whirlpool driven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
While black vultures scream - Taras Shevchenko "The Night of Taras" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Down the black stairs of death - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Ballad of the Fairy Thorn-Tree"
The orchestration needs tufts of black shadow - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"
A black thread before the mystery - Charles Simic "First Thing in the Morning"
Smoke of black clouds heralding - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"
Black as our loss - Edith Sitwell "Still Falls the Rain"
the earth shines black in the sirens - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"
Bring in the coal that dyes our hands black - Jake Skeets "Let There Be Coal"
A wonderful state of black velvet and feathers - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"
Far-flown in black occlusion - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Black desert gripped in iron silences - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
A black sky framed in saffron - Richard Solomon "Galatea of the Spheres"
Naked with black coffee - Richard Solomon "Homecoming (For Linda)"
Along the black cliffs of the sky - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"
A day so black with maledictions - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
Of some black lily, still and venomous - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
In the storm's black universe - George Sterling "On Fifth Avenue"
Black as bee stripes with honey in my eyes - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
Black festoons that stretch for miles - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
The black mountain eagle drinking the sun - Alfred B. Street "At Rest"
When the bark of the black fox is heard - Alfred B. Street "The Bell Owl"
And the black cat seeks prey - Alfred B. Street "The Bell Owl"
When the wave rolls black with storm - Alfred B. Street "The Loon: Tupper's Lake"
Frowns black to the battling storm - Alfred B. Street "The Storm Mountain"
Black smoke looming like dark mountains - Keith Taylor "Prairie Fire"
Holding black candles and waiting - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
Why evoke the spectres of black night - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Projecting horror on the blacken'd flood - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]
Through the black threads that defined me - Russell Thorburn "Scars"
Black track of dusk - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Bat"
Where I keep rowing through the blaze and the black - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"
Black horses yellowing with strain - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
Crouching bears, black and brown - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Song on Enduring the Cold" transl. by Burton Watson
Beneath the black unheeding waves - John Updike "Endpoint"
at the precipice between gardenias blue and begonias black - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
black neon wrapped in sky blue linen - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"
Pine roots wound down into the black, black mud - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
East and south are black with speeding storm - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"
Holds the black night in leash - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XX" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
Night with its black paws curled - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
Red is only black remembering - Ocean Vuong "Daily Bread"
The night full of black teeth - Ocean Vuong "A Little Closer to the Edge"
A black vowel barking - Derek Walcott "Cul de Sac Valley"
Under the black rook's reign - Derek Walcott "Steam"
Marked him with his own black stamp - A.D.T. Whitney "Bo-Peep"
The ducks' black squadron anchored lay - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
A black tree trunk icily resplendent - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"
A burst of fragrance from black branches - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"
Dipped his hand in the black waters of the sky - William Carlos Williams "Pastoral"
The landscape puts on its black mask - Charles Wright "Sentences II"
Wind the copper through the black - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"
A teapot pouring into the black cup of a summer night - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
A white well in a black cave - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
A bright core to bitter black pain - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
A bright spark where black ashes are - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
Dragged into black moonlight - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Master of the black and green darkness - John Yau "Russian Letter"
No roads in the black night - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Of black hellebore and rosemary - Francis Brett Young "Prothalamion"
A black door that will always remain closed - Matthew Zapruder "Poem for a Suicide"
Bartered forty summers for black pearls - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
A foundation of black cast iron - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #1: Heavy Lyricism" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Black pain and grey loneliness - Zheng Min "My Oriental Soul #4: Snow, It can't be White" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
the skillet heat of black asphalt - Maria Zoccola "Dry Land"
Across the blackened fields are only smothered stars - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
The dust will blacken and blind - "The Book of Odes: No.206. Don't Walk Beside the Big Carriage" transl. by Burton Watson
Below blackened crowns - Adrian Matejka "& Later,"
Blackened the opal knowledge - Louise Mathias "What If the Invader Is Beautiful"
The moon like a piece of blackening crystal - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson
Blackened by strange blight - Edna St Vincent Millay "Recuerdo"
The expanse of my blackening sky - Jenny Molberg "After Twenty Junes"
Stained the sun with blackened love - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Uplifted to the blackened heavens - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
While the long funerals blacken - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"
Blackened with passion and woe - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
That blackens with the passing of the fire - Clark Ashton Smith "Finis"
Butter to blacken the family name - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 61: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
With cloud and tempest's blackening breath - Algernon Swinburne "Aperotos Eros"
The mad sun himself -- blackened crimson - William Carlos Williams "Virtue"
Blunted tapestry of black and blacker - Mary Jo Bang "No Talking"
Pits a trillion times blacker - Maxwell Bodenheim "To the Violinist"
Lest a blacker charm compel - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "A Voice Sings"
A blacker night than ocean knew - Alfred Noyes "The Wings"
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core - Dorothy Parker "Ballade of a Great Weariness"
Blacker the great crag's scowl - Alfred B. Street "The Devil's Pulpit: Tupper's Lake"
Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born - John Milton "L'Allegro"
And stood out blackly from a tender sky - Amy Levy "Xantippe"
Wrinkled suns in awful blackness swim - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
And all the blackness sings - Leonard Cohen "One Night I Burned"
Web-hung blackness of night - Robert Graves "Cynics and Romantics"
A century or more of utter blackness - Ted Kooser "Ink Black"
With flame and blackness ridge the void - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"
Into Niagara's abyss of blackness - Jean M. Snyder "Fearless Winging"
Strumming the blacknesses of black - Wallace Stevens "Madame la Fleurie"
Black and White.
Blackberry.
Blackbird.
Black-blooded as the oil plumes - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Sung in Dirt"
Blackboard.
Burning in Lent's black-bordered dress - Emily Pauline Johnson "Easter"
The pixilated arcs of a black box - Robert Frazier "A Rebel's Pale Eyes ..."
Whose tide to a black-crested viper gave birth - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Black Hole.
Last winter's kisses, like salt on black ice - Kim Addonizio "Wine Tasting"
Black ice and squid ink - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"
The sky is bursting to black ice - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"
Switched on a black light in the sky - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"
Progress is a blacklist - Remica Bingham-Risher "The Lose Your Mother Suite VI. 'across the surface of my studied speech'"
Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"
Blackout curtains blank across her window - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
This month of flood, blackout and frustration - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"
The green-skinned, black-skinned garden of Osiris - Bruce Smith "Garden"
In a silence of vacuumed, black-space sky - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"
The span of the black-starred zone - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Dug from still quarries of grey-black air - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
On your little grey-black hillock - William Carlos Williams "Trees"
Still chased his jet-black butterflies - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"
Seed-black of the waiting heart - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
Clouds of white linen and storm-black damask - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Follow the tide's wet-black eyes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sail"
The yellow-black dance of the tiger - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"
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Rising on phoenix limbs from black smoke - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"
When blood is black roses - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"
Black specks of surly rooks - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"
To mock black flights of years - Conrad Aiken "Discordants [Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket]"
Black leaves and smoke - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"
Skeleton of black borders and color fields - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Clad in diamonds of rose and black - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
Rose water in black coffee - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"
Turn to black for comfort - Maya Angelou "Late October"
Black as the black craters in an isthmus - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
A soul crawling out of the black dirt - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
You give language to black roosters & fossil bones - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Slow as black smoke - Tommy Archuleta "Remedio: Ocotillo (Candlewood)"
questions within the black smoke - Jarid Arraes "Movement"
No wonder the black mole tunnels under the garden loam - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Ghost House"
In the chasm of our black palms - Quenton Baker "[we are]"
Tasting the burnt sun, the black sea - Mary Jo Bang "The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans"
The black and gold glassed-in air - J. Mae Barizo "Diorama"
His reason waits on the law's black hates - William Francis Barnard "The Hangman"
for sun is black with days I can not see - Elizabeth Bartlett "black sun"
Leading to a corridor of black mirrors - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Understanding"
The deep heart of a black marble - Charles Baudelaire "The Remorse of the Dead" transl. not credited
Nor their black legend write - Charles Baudelaire "Sonnet of Autumn" transl. not credited
Mounts the black whirlwind - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Burn the black water of night's lagoons - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
A black shield thrust down on earth - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"
Toiled like yoked black oxen - Stephen Vincent Benet "Road and Hills"
Black wind runs trotting to the dark - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"
The moon's black horses - Paul Bernstein "Dusk: a Cinquain"
Weaves a black thread between white days - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
A disturbing, over-all black translucency - Elizabeth Bishop "Filling Station"
Hung with ivy's blackened chains - Edmund Blunden "April Byeway"
A black overcoat for the soul - Robert Bly "How Mirabai Did Not Care"
Reaching into the black space underneath - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Sword Converses with a Philosopher"
A blackened fire grown emberless - John Philip Bourke "The Leaden Hoof"
The light that lifts from a black mere - Thomas Boyd "The King's Son"
Backyard overgrown with black tulips - Ana Bozicevic "Midnight Oil"
a very black thing at the edge of a sward - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]
Which made your black hearts pure - Anne Bronte "A Word to the 'Elect'"
My black anger made red - Jericho Brown "A Young Man"
May peruse the black abyss - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
That swirls in cavernous black - May Byron "Sea-Ghosts"
Two black cats and a beaver who eats carrots all day - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"
Green blackness of the tangled wood - Giosue Carducci "F. Petrarca" transl. by Frank Sewall
A black wolf careening through a web - Tina Chang "The Future is an Animal"
Aging spine of the black sky - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"
Saw black trees on the battle-height - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
Snow and black ink - Johnson Cheu "Wail"
Weaving death's black wing - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
Thunder's grave black vest - John Clare "To the Clouds"
the black blood under the earth - Lucille Clifton "shadows"
The black that black can go - Leonard Cohen "Teachers"
Through the tempest's blackness rolled - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Blacker than the shadows on the moon - Mary Elizabeth Counselman "Witch-Burning" [Weird Tales October 1936]
A gifted black & white postcard - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"
Roll away, leaving black terror, limitless night - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
I journey to the black unknown - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"
Black and battered hulk that slumbers on the tide - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Blackened stalks of mint - H.D. "Mid-Day"
Petals on the black earth - H.D. "Orion Dead"
Burden the trees with black drops - H.D. "Storm"
The great black beautiful seeds of the Moon - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"
Colored balloons bobbing against a black ceiling - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Termaggio"
Owls buried against the black roofs - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"
In black Oblivion's waves should whelm his name - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
The dismal gulfs of Acheron's black waves - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Over night's black dunes - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
When darkness dawned a black moon - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"
Grasshoppers black as burn - Chris Dombrowski "October Suite"
Pools that dreamed black and unruffled - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
And leaves that should be dressed in black - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Merry Autumn"
The black iris with their sabered blooms - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"
Rises out of abyssal black - Rebecca Dunham "There Lies the Hydra: 1. Heracles and the Hydra"
Where the black duck rears her brood - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"
That lost, stardust word glowing black - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"
Shadows like black roses - B. H. Fairchild "The Big Bands: Liberal, Kansas, Summer of 1955"
Through the veranda's black iron bars - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"
The black violin of his childhood - Joseph Fasano "Mahler in New York"
Past their eyes where the black night lives - Annie Finch "Frozen In"
Gold fish far above the black arches - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
A nest of black hair for the birds - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 8"
Behind the black bark of the moon - Jennifer Foerster "from 'Shadow Poems'"
Stars' dull hatchets behind the black - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 1"
Raising the river's black dress - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 6"
Thunder's black calligraphy - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Undertow"
Black winds tunneled to her sleep - Carolyn Forche "Alfansa"
Black storms of dream - Carolyn Forche "Curfew"
fetched with black rain and wild hanging gardens - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"
whose essences can dissolve the black residues of life - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"
The deep, black jaws of cold annihilation - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Visions of half the world burned black - Robert Frost "The Gum-Gatherer"
In leaves no step had trodden black - Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"
With wild black flame at full of moon - Zona Gale "Terza Rima"
A backdrop of black velvet and rhinestones - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"
driving towards her black and white demise - Gwynne Garfinkle "Dear Tom Cassidy's Daughter"
Heart like a plateful of black flames - Jenny George "Sunflowers"
Flying out of black cedars - Wilfrid Gibson "The Parrots"
With anvils of black granite - Louis Golding "The Singer of High State"
Slip from one black cloak into another - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
In the long night when the black wings beat - Mona Gould "Nightmare"
Black as the night with one star - Alfred Perceval Graves "O Drimin dhu Deelish"
Black strokes on a graph of broken glass - Marilyn Hacker "Morning News"
When reddest flowers are black - Thomas Hardy "The Garden Seat"
Black willow shadows for walls - Joy Harjo "The Black Room"
Flesh of kerosene and black fire - Duriel E. Harris "What he thought belly down, when I was 8 years old"
To thaw a black fog - francine j. harris "rub against it, where"
The black magic of law - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXXI"
Like a cinder fading black at last - F.W. Harvey "Prisoners"
And timbers black with flame - F.W. Harvey "The Stranger"
Out of the black maw of the peat - Seamus Heaney "Come to the Bower"
The gnarled black fist of the earth - Ben Hecht "Moods"
The night is a black poppy - Ben Hecht "Sorrow"
Silver tears across the black petals - Ben Hecht "Sorrow"
When dusk fell, a clutch of black birds landed - Michael Hettich "The Angels"
Bitter black it falls between - Francis Hill "Rich Man, Poor Man"
Crimson tracks in the blackened loam - Robert E. Howard "Shadows on the Road"
Where wolves and black bears prowl - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"
Little rutilant stones sunk in black basalt - Aldous Huxley "Behemoth"
Wind summons a black moon at dawn - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Fret the black sky of night - Sade Iverson "Voices"
Throwing cold light through the black matter - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"
Black, curdling fog climbing into their nostrils - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
His atoms dispersed into a black fog - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Scattered black seeds of a future - Robinson Jeffers "The Treasure"
A band of black, belated crows - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"
The black lungs of the Marlboro woman - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"
Red is at the end of black - Saeed Jones "Boy Found Inside a Wolf"
Wet black stones for pillows - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"
After the black bite of frost - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
Safe from the wolf's black jaw - Ben Jonson "To Himself"
Because the black dresses sit unwashed - Holly Karapetkova "Holiday"
Black stuff and blue, gold and green - Janet Kauffman "The Whirlwind Times"
A black forest beating out of time - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Shows up Late for the End-Of-The-World Party"
Errant and black as my will - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"
The lintel black with absence and size - Kevin Killian "The Door into Darkness"
Black mold along the foundation - Sophie Klahr "Like Nebraska"
Grinning orange against the black - Rachel Kolar "Twinkle, Twinkle, Lantern Jack"
Feed carbon black into morning breezes - Petra Kuppers "Forest Starships"
Hard as my black dawn - Louise Labe sonnet XXIII
Wheeling shadows black with rain - Archibald Lampman "The Poet's Song"
The clouds in black array - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway VI: A Parallel"
Every black tree blossomed outright - D.H. Lawrence "The Attack"
Black piper on an infinitesimal pipe - D.H. Lawrence "Bat"
The great black night scooped out - D.H. Lawrence "New Year's Eve"
Peace congealed in black lava - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"
Black lava on the doorstep - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"
My black doubts illumined and absorbed - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"
Black narrow lists no tears can wash away - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"
Black and mighty shapes of iron and stone - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"
Still shall the blackest hell look up and see - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"
A single Tree stretched black on the moon - Ruth Lechlitner "At the Road's Turn"
Amorphous and black, shedding tears - Katy Lederer "Mass Effect"
From sober black to faintest blue - Ida Lee "Suffolk"
Hell's blackest tricks were put in play - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
Blowing its black breath in the face of creation - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"
To receive the black gifts of a mountain road - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
With black wine and black bread - Philip Levine "Yakov"
The black stones took on flame - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"
Where the great black agates loom - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"
Black willows and stars - Amy Lowell "Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme"
Black clouds oppress the vermilion towers - Lu Chi "Two Poems Presented to the Gentleman in the Office of Palace Writers Ku Yen-hsien" transl. by Burton Watson
The swan's black vanguard told it - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"
The black cat family that roamed our alley - Sheila Maldonado "herederos de cero"
The black swan guarding the pond - Randall Mann "?"
douse this blackness in viscous castor oil - Neha Maqsood "Things I Do to Remember Home"
Storm the black bastions of Night - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"
My electrons black with heat and sound - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"
Needs a black clarity of vision - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"
Picking black daffodils in the shades of broken stones - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
A black crow spits out white fog - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Deaf Old Man"
Twelve black crows in mourning - Herbert Woodward Martin "Twelve Black Crows"
And hell's black bloodhounds mark - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"
With nine black hounds at heel - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"
A black and wicked door - Airea D. Matthews "Rebel Prelude"
The last black anguish of the thief - Theodore Maynard "Faith's Difficulty"
Windows carrying a black bird's wing - Shane McCrae "From the Ground It Must Have Looked Like Its Wings Were Not a Part of It"
Matte black backlit with raw opal - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
Black rock by sunbeams crowned - George Meredith "The Appeasement of Demeter"
The bright wing, the black hoof - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
Watching black shadows on green lawns - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
And seen the rivers bitten black - Adam Mickiewicz "Mountains from the Keslov Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Mountains rising black from the underworld - N. Scott Momaday "The First Day"
Wild beauty extracted from black ashes - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
Black as a plume on a casque - Marianne Moore "My Lantern"
A bundle of black rocks in the heart - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Chronicle of an Execution" transl. by Joshua Freeman
Black talisman of the snow - Pablo Neruda "The Birds Arrive" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Like a black atom in the arid land - Pablo Neruda "Evening LXIII" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Black fire of an exiled planet - Pablo Neruda "Leviathan" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Lit with torches of black snow - Pablo Neruda "Leviathan" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Dreams that run like black horsemen - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Black fog invades the balconies - Pablo Neruda "The Rooming House on the Calle Maruri" transl. by Alastair Reid
Against the black tower of silence - Pablo Neruda "A Small Animal" transl. by William O'Daly
The black ways of the condor - Pablo Neruda "Superstitions" transl. by Alastair Reid
And the hyacinth sips the sun black - Caroline Harper New "If We Move Back In Together"
The mushroom's black underpleats - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"
Scattered starlings from the black sun - Achy Obejas "Succession"
Black sorrow sheds an eclipse on our glory - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson
A summons in black snow - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
A black ant traveling briskly - Mary Oliver "Forty Years"
The long black branches of other lives - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"
In the great, black packet of time - Mary Oliver "The Orchard"
In the black, polished water - Mary Oliver "Some Herons"
The black fingerprint of the rain - Mary Oliver "What Is It"
All the mirrors were painted black - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"
This black moon pulls at my bones - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"
Tugging black thread of tunnel - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: The Parade"
Lives in a house of black glass - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Five"
Ragged holes through which a black wind blows - Gregory Orr "These Words"
A mass of black, unseemly stone - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Imperfect Thoughts"
Into the maw of the grim black night - John Oxenham "The Hungry Sea"
Black as pain - Dorothy Parker "Christmas, 1921"
Left to wander Dante's black forest - Cynthia Pelayo "Afterglow"
By black doll or briar thorn - Kiki Petrosino "Doubloon Oath"
At the oak's black ankle - Kiki Petrosino "Nursery"
A bewilderment of black swans pulling - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"
Black according to some holiness - Carl Phillips "Tugging the Arrow Out"
The tight-fitting black truth of my narrative - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Sprouting from your black waters - Janel Pineda "Mujer Malvada"
Black bat airs wrap me - Sylvia Plath "Nick and the Candlestick"
Desire falls like black lightning - Ezra Pound "The Spring"
The black river beneath the desert of the world - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
In the black December frost - John Presland "A Song"
Chill remorse and black despair - Anne Proctor "Verse: A Legend of Provence"
Bring me my headdress of black feathers - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Beating the black dome over a beach - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
A labyrinth of black roses - Paisley Rekdal "Joan of England in Bordeaux, 1348"
In that black descent of night - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"
Black lace crisp as cinders - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
When the black irises lean at dawn - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
From the matrix of the black cloud - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
A blood-shot eye in the black mask of night - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"
A black chimney throwing up sparks - Lola Ridge "Jude"
Out of the black pockets of alleys - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Cracking the black river glass - Lynn Riggs "Shadow on Snow"
Under her big black wing - James Whitcombe Riley "The Frog"
The vast black solitude around - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Boy" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Behind the chain's black links - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Knight" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Stamped the miles of mosses and blackened out the day - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
Black grief on the plains - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull
With those heavy folds of black - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"
Let the walls be hung with black - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"
Their black wavering lines in the sky - Marjorie Saiser "Crane Migration, Platte River"
Twin vortices in her black sunglasses - Sofia Samatar "The Death of Araweilo"
science rewards me with black temper - Nnadi Samuel "Orchard of Failed Sciences"
Dark as a stack of black cats - Carl Sandburg "Picnic Boat"
Black salt beneath the fingernails - Holly J. Schaeffer-Raymond "Excerpts from Sign & Grudge"
Drank full many a draught of Phlegethon's black flood - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Beaten by the envy of the black branches - Fritz Schnack "Echo" transl. by William Saphier
Have dared with black envy - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Invocation"
Spraying black plumes across the blockaded sunset - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"
Cast adrift by proxy on a vast black sea - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
Yet those black seas bewitched us - Ann K. Schwader "A Voyage(r) Too Far"
The black dog of fanged grief - Teresa J. Scollon "The Garden"
Knew their movement like black on white - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"
Bright syntax on neck-twisting black - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"
Gnawing the black crust of failure - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"
Caskets filled with black feathers - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"
Until their black feathers are edged in gold - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"
Remember the black cherries' gleam - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"
A possessed witch, haunting the black air - Anne Sexton "Her Kind"
Put on black and loving mourners be - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXII"
Black flood on whirlpool driven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
While black vultures scream - Taras Shevchenko "The Night of Taras" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Down the black stairs of death - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Ballad of the Fairy Thorn-Tree"
The orchestration needs tufts of black shadow - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"
A black thread before the mystery - Charles Simic "First Thing in the Morning"
Smoke of black clouds heralding - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"
Black as our loss - Edith Sitwell "Still Falls the Rain"
the earth shines black in the sirens - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"
Bring in the coal that dyes our hands black - Jake Skeets "Let There Be Coal"
A wonderful state of black velvet and feathers - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"
Far-flown in black occlusion - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Black desert gripped in iron silences - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
A black sky framed in saffron - Richard Solomon "Galatea of the Spheres"
Naked with black coffee - Richard Solomon "Homecoming (For Linda)"
Along the black cliffs of the sky - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"
A day so black with maledictions - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
Of some black lily, still and venomous - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
In the storm's black universe - George Sterling "On Fifth Avenue"
Black as bee stripes with honey in my eyes - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
Black festoons that stretch for miles - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
The black mountain eagle drinking the sun - Alfred B. Street "At Rest"
When the bark of the black fox is heard - Alfred B. Street "The Bell Owl"
And the black cat seeks prey - Alfred B. Street "The Bell Owl"
When the wave rolls black with storm - Alfred B. Street "The Loon: Tupper's Lake"
Frowns black to the battling storm - Alfred B. Street "The Storm Mountain"
Black smoke looming like dark mountains - Keith Taylor "Prairie Fire"
Holding black candles and waiting - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
Why evoke the spectres of black night - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Projecting horror on the blacken'd flood - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]
Through the black threads that defined me - Russell Thorburn "Scars"
Black track of dusk - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Bat"
Where I keep rowing through the blaze and the black - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"
Black horses yellowing with strain - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
Crouching bears, black and brown - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Song on Enduring the Cold" transl. by Burton Watson
Beneath the black unheeding waves - John Updike "Endpoint"
at the precipice between gardenias blue and begonias black - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
black neon wrapped in sky blue linen - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"
Pine roots wound down into the black, black mud - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
East and south are black with speeding storm - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"
Holds the black night in leash - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XX" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
Night with its black paws curled - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
Red is only black remembering - Ocean Vuong "Daily Bread"
The night full of black teeth - Ocean Vuong "A Little Closer to the Edge"
A black vowel barking - Derek Walcott "Cul de Sac Valley"
Under the black rook's reign - Derek Walcott "Steam"
Marked him with his own black stamp - A.D.T. Whitney "Bo-Peep"
The ducks' black squadron anchored lay - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
A black tree trunk icily resplendent - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"
A burst of fragrance from black branches - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"
Dipped his hand in the black waters of the sky - William Carlos Williams "Pastoral"
The landscape puts on its black mask - Charles Wright "Sentences II"
Wind the copper through the black - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"
A teapot pouring into the black cup of a summer night - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
A white well in a black cave - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
A bright core to bitter black pain - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
A bright spark where black ashes are - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
Dragged into black moonlight - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Master of the black and green darkness - John Yau "Russian Letter"
No roads in the black night - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Of black hellebore and rosemary - Francis Brett Young "Prothalamion"
A black door that will always remain closed - Matthew Zapruder "Poem for a Suicide"
Bartered forty summers for black pearls - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
A foundation of black cast iron - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #1: Heavy Lyricism" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Black pain and grey loneliness - Zheng Min "My Oriental Soul #4: Snow, It can't be White" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
the skillet heat of black asphalt - Maria Zoccola "Dry Land"
Across the blackened fields are only smothered stars - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
The dust will blacken and blind - "The Book of Odes: No.206. Don't Walk Beside the Big Carriage" transl. by Burton Watson
Below blackened crowns - Adrian Matejka "& Later,"
Blackened the opal knowledge - Louise Mathias "What If the Invader Is Beautiful"
The moon like a piece of blackening crystal - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson
Blackened by strange blight - Edna St Vincent Millay "Recuerdo"
The expanse of my blackening sky - Jenny Molberg "After Twenty Junes"
Stained the sun with blackened love - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Uplifted to the blackened heavens - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
While the long funerals blacken - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"
Blackened with passion and woe - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
That blackens with the passing of the fire - Clark Ashton Smith "Finis"
Butter to blacken the family name - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 61: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
With cloud and tempest's blackening breath - Algernon Swinburne "Aperotos Eros"
The mad sun himself -- blackened crimson - William Carlos Williams "Virtue"
Blunted tapestry of black and blacker - Mary Jo Bang "No Talking"
Pits a trillion times blacker - Maxwell Bodenheim "To the Violinist"
Lest a blacker charm compel - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "A Voice Sings"
A blacker night than ocean knew - Alfred Noyes "The Wings"
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core - Dorothy Parker "Ballade of a Great Weariness"
Blacker the great crag's scowl - Alfred B. Street "The Devil's Pulpit: Tupper's Lake"
Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born - John Milton "L'Allegro"
And stood out blackly from a tender sky - Amy Levy "Xantippe"
Wrinkled suns in awful blackness swim - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
And all the blackness sings - Leonard Cohen "One Night I Burned"
Web-hung blackness of night - Robert Graves "Cynics and Romantics"
A century or more of utter blackness - Ted Kooser "Ink Black"
With flame and blackness ridge the void - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"
Into Niagara's abyss of blackness - Jean M. Snyder "Fearless Winging"
Strumming the blacknesses of black - Wallace Stevens "Madame la Fleurie"
Black and White.
Blackberry.
Blackbird.
Black-blooded as the oil plumes - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Sung in Dirt"
Blackboard.
Burning in Lent's black-bordered dress - Emily Pauline Johnson "Easter"
The pixilated arcs of a black box - Robert Frazier "A Rebel's Pale Eyes ..."
Whose tide to a black-crested viper gave birth - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Black Hole.
Last winter's kisses, like salt on black ice - Kim Addonizio "Wine Tasting"
Black ice and squid ink - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"
The sky is bursting to black ice - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"
Switched on a black light in the sky - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"
Progress is a blacklist - Remica Bingham-Risher "The Lose Your Mother Suite VI. 'across the surface of my studied speech'"
Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"
Blackout curtains blank across her window - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
This month of flood, blackout and frustration - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"
The green-skinned, black-skinned garden of Osiris - Bruce Smith "Garden"
In a silence of vacuumed, black-space sky - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"
The span of the black-starred zone - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Dug from still quarries of grey-black air - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
On your little grey-black hillock - William Carlos Williams "Trees"
Still chased his jet-black butterflies - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"
Seed-black of the waiting heart - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
Clouds of white linen and storm-black damask - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Follow the tide's wet-black eyes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sail"
The yellow-black dance of the tiger - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"
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