Potential Titles: Empty
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somethingdarkerEmpty echoes of a passion crush'd and gone - W.E.A. "The Buried Flower" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]
Salute us back with empty kitchen pans - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"
Light as an empty hive - Elizabeth Alexander "Equinox"
Eyes empty as her hopes of escape - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
A promenade of empty shells, automatons - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"
The fall with its empty cup - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"
Only the empty hand is free to hold - Julia Alvarez "That Moment"
A cobalt glow in an empty room - Hala Alyan "Siri as Mother"
Emptying boxes and making order out of pieces - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"
Dappled with rain and emptied smudges - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
My hands stay empty - Fatimah Asghar "When the Orders Came"
Beat the empty air - James Baldwin "The giver (for Berdis)"
The yearning call went out into the empty air - Grant Balfour "Christmas Eve"
Thrown on an empty mirror - Mary Jo Bang "The Diary of a Lost Girl"
Accepted by the empty hour - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Reduced to ideas and empty rooms - Mary Jo Bang "Where Once"
As interesting as a word repeated until emptied - Ari Banias "A Sunset"
To catch the empty hand of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "All This, Before"
Inhabiting space that could go empty - Ellen Bass "I look over and there she is"
Lighting fires in the empty rooms - Ellen Bass "Not Dead Yet"
Have emptied my soul of thought - Charlotte F. Bates "Contrasted Moods" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.98, Feb. 1876]
The empty sky in threads like glass - Stephen Vincent Benet "Going Back to School"
Pigeons in an empty flower trough - Margo Berdeshevsky "Dusk"
Empty grows every bed - John Berryman "Dream Song 1"
Emptied of all but your art - Terry Blackhawk "Diptych ii. Singing You Up"
When our fountains run empty - Jaswinder Bolina "The Reluctant Senator to His Provincial Mistress"
Our wardrobes mostly empty - Mukut Borpujari "Stoic"
Roam the empty highways in search of life - Bruce Boston "Ghost People"
Scatter myself empty as a torn dress - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"
Hold only empty names - William Brewer "Explanation of Matter in Oxyana"
Pretending that the sky is empty - William Brewer "Oxyana, WV: Exit Song"
The empty words of a dream - Robert Bridges "I Love All Beauteous Things"
The chill empty lanes of November - Vera M. Brittain "Daphne"
When mirth was not an empty name - Anne Bronte "Past Days"
A wrecked and empty nest - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"
How never to start the night empty - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"
The reptile caress of empty sound - Paul Cameron Brown "Chrysalis"
Empty warriors breakfast on lost impatience - Paul Cameron Brown "Empty Warriors"
A meaningless refrain to empty walls - Marie Hedderwick Browne "My House Is Left Unto Me Desolate"
To suit thy empty words - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
The empty space not filled - Sue Budin "Jigsaw"
Life's chalice is empty - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
Quiet as an empty bathtub - Marianne Chan "The Lives of Saints"
And leave me to the empty ways of earth - Thomas S. Chard "The Blessed Vale"
Up through an empty house of stars - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
A kind of trash can never emptied - Heather Christie "What Big Eyes You Have"
Not for piping empty reeds - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Not for colouring empty dust - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Who gives her soul an empty room - Leonard Cohen "Death of a Lady's Man"
The memories came back empty - Leonard Cohen "Never Got to Love You"
Set an empty cup in the storm - CAConrad "(Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread"
And empty its mysteries into the air - James Crews "Self-Compassion"
Fills the empty vault of Night with shimmering bars - E. E. Cummings "Summer Silence"
Let the pears cling to the empty branch - H.D. "Sheltered Garden"
To fill the empty stretch of hours between alms - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
Gilded cats guarding the empty bridge - Jim Daniels "Listening to '96 Tears' by? and the Mysterians While Looking Down from My Third-Floor Window at a Kid Crossing the Panther Hollow Bridge"
Empty porticoes that led to nowhere - Deborah L. Davitt "Drowning in this Sunken City"
Morning enshrines the empty hill - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"
Empty scene of water and willow - Walter de la Mare "Motley"
False moods and manners clothed in empty speech - Geoffrey Dearmer "Revelation"
My lungs empty of the innocence that was - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"
Or emptied by the sun - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature XVII"
Biologists will unspool her empty intestines - Rachel Dillon "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem"
Know the cost of singed palm and empty fist - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"
A barge of plywood and empty milk cartons - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
All my lips' empty crying - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"
Firm to hover in that empty height - William Drummond "This Life"
The empty spaces left by the gods - Stephen Dunn "Let's Say"
The emptying chambers of his heart - George William Russell aka A.E. "Endurance"
Voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"
Kneels before an empty fireplace - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"
To make the world an emptier place - Elaine Equi "My Taste"
Empty as the husk of a locust in drought - Martin Espada "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramon Emeterio Betances"
Spoke aloud to an empty audience - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"
Beneath emptying branches - Sid Farrar "The Year Comes Round"
The night in his hands like an empty bridle - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"
A wanton ghost lavishing an empty feast - Beulah Field "Rainbow"
I am emptied of all my dreams - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"
Seven empty chairs form a circle - Sandy Florian "Abacus"
The imprint of birdsong in an empty sky - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VI"
Emptied as a fallen leaf - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"
Empty hands are clasped in vain - Fanny Forrester "Angel Visitors" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.14-v.I, 5 April 1884]
Empty as his own expectations - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Introduction to Engineering by Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius"
Quiet hours and empty blue - Zona Gale "Wraiths"
Emptied of his hand - Tess Gallagher "Ring"
Empty out those raw strips of night - Tess Gallagher "Sad Moments"
In order to be defined as empty - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: IV"
The deep empty longing in the voice of birds - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson
Gold from empty bags in torrents rolled - John Gay "Fable XLII: Juggler and Vice" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Only when you are empty - Kahlil Gibran "On Joy and Sorrow"
Even when the arena is empty - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"
Broken meat for empty bellies - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Hare"
The pathways of the gods are empty, flat, and hard - Dana Gioia "The Freeways Considered as Earth Gods"
We've emptied all the garden's fields - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
Empty on a December weeknight - Christian Gullette "Tattoo"
Explored this emptying intermediate state - Thom Gunn "Lament"
Empty promises of a broken land - Hawa Haji-Hassan "Carrying Anticipation"
Waltzed with the empty lover - Joy Harjo "Deer Dancer"
Your mouth will make no empty shapes - francine j. harris "something in the water"
Her head is empty of the drowned - Yona Harvey "Hurricane"
That once could empty out an hour - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"
The clearing yard loaded with empty freight cars - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"
My empty suitcase and I returned - Jane Hirshfield "My Life Was the Size of My Life"
Has emptied all the vengeance of the storm - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry"
Dusk enfolds the empty curtains - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Fulling Cloth for Clothes" transl. by Burton Watson
Death becomes an empty cabaret - Langston Hughes "Sport"
And find my Muse asleep within an empty Box - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
A birthright to sing until emptied - Marlin M. Jenkins "Pokedex Entry #39: Jigglypuff"
I live in the empty hands discombobulated bastards - Jzl Jmz "Drenched in Reflection"
To dissolve an empty hour - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Curiosities"
Like empty pitchers to a full fountain - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"
Screaming out to an empty street - Jenny Johnson "Spaces"
Empty arms stretching to embrace - Amanda Johnston "We Named You Mercy"
The sidewalks stay empty of my steps - Camisha L. Jones "No Longer Commuting with Chronic Pain"
Pushing a grocery cart of empty beer cans - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"
Empty interstate by starlight - Richard Jones "Rest"
Every empty hour is wrought of gold - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "As a Still Brook"
Wander weeping through empty halls - Juan Chi "Singing of Thoughts 5" transl. by Burton Watson
The eternal pit had emptied forth its demons - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Emptied herself into that blazing child - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
her tears were empty chairs - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"
Empty as a shell and hollow - Donika Kelly "The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings."
An empty bowl careful with my wanting - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"
And fill the room my heart keeps empty - Henry King "The Exequy"
The room my heart keeps empty - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"
Pursue their empty sorceries - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
Emptying night from its branches - Joanna Klink "On Falling (Blue Spruce)"
And reeled the years back empty - Ted Kooser "Casting Reels"
Where a cold wind pinches clothespins down an empty line - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"
Blow through an empty station on a mechanical wind - Edgar Kunz "Good Deal"
Sprawl of generations emptying onward - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"
The bubble hemming this empty existence with lights - D.H. Lawrence "Elegy"
Children draw about the empty hearth - Emma Lazarus "To R. W. E."
The empty spaces you once filled - Aimee Le "Poem Written by Aimee's Imaginary Roommate, Charles"
Empty in the August glare - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "A Pageant of Siena"
Envy will empty your wallet - Hailey Leithauser "Loneliness"
Two angels gather at the empty chest - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"
Let the golden cups never stand empty - Li Po "Let Us Drink Wine" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Empty stars we've tossed aside - Ada Limon "Marketing Life for Those of Us Left"
Held nothing but the empty dawn - Amy Lowell "Crepuscule du Matin"
The key which hides a world empty of hours - Amy Lowell "The Matrix"
An empty phantom as cold as summer dew - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
Empty your bones of heather and moor - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "grey seal"
Pick a Fight in an Empty Room - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "magpie"
Empty songs with weary voices - Naomi Long Madgett "Where Do We Go?"
Empty as the cup of days - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
Full of cups to be emptied - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
A torus-image whose empty center we sought - Harry Martinson "Aniara 3" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
In spheres and cupolas it moved through empty spaces - Harry Martinson "Aniara 4" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
While the bridge between us stayed an empty place - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Make a metaphor for the empty - Jamaal May "Yes, I Know She's Dying"
Raised to a mouth emptied - Charlene McClure "Caretaker"
Hanging thick round empty tower and broken minaret - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Owl-calls over its empty track - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"
Put a roaring halt to our empty rabid existence - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"
Towers of empty mirrors - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"
Empty pools and dry waterfalls - W.S. Merwin "One Valley"
Emerged empty and entire - M.S. Merwin "The West Window"
Utter silence and the empty world - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Through a giant's empty house - Edna St Vincent Millay "Low-Tide"
Two empty suitcases sit in the corner - Jim Moore "Almost Sixty"
My sobs echoing through the empty rooms - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"
From heartless empty fate - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (7)" transl. by Dennis Daly
A fistful of empty flint - Pablo Neruda "Amor America (1400)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Returning an empty dream to a bitter pasture - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Our lives like empty mollusk shells - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly
Parched loneliness and the empty night - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Consumed by an empty god - Pablo Neruda "What Spain Was Like" translated by John Felstiner
Aimed litanies at an empty sky - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"
A pair of empty swing sets - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"
How empty the cup of hope can feel - Naomi Shihab Nye "In Northern Ireland They Called It 'The Troubles'"
That last tone emptying into air - Naomi Shihab Nye "Music"
The arches are empty clear to the sky - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"
An empty skin for the mice to nibble - Mary Oliver "Black Snake This Time"
The ocean empties its pockets - Mary Oliver "Morning Walk"
Sing down an empty road - January Gill O'Neil "How to Love"
A tiny bowl, empty but for hope - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Skippers"
A nourishment of my empty soul - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"
Velvet hides an empty breast - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"
Empty eyes in vacant sockets - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"
Through the empty chaos and pain - Andre F. Peltier "Martha Wayne's Pearl Necklace"
Impregnated with empty symbolism - Andre F. Peltier "Martha Wayne's Pearl Necklace"
Marooned by empty chairs - Kiki Petrosino "The Garden"
Gem of empty air - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Emptier of such distractions as fear - Carl Phillips "The Dark No Softer Than It Was Before"
A Fairy Temple with one niche empty - Po-Chu-i "Taoism and Buddhism" (translated by Arthur Waley)
An empty pool of calmness and of cold - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"
With an empty bullet for decoration - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"
Empty your thoughts to the stars - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Unpredictable years keep emptying - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"
Empty nest of eyelashes & dandelions - Molly Raynor "This Is the Undone Season"
Listen to the song of your empty house - Molly Raynor "You Know You've Got Covid Brain"
only the empty hollow of what could have been - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
Pockets and heart are empty - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"
As it comes in empty places - Lola Ridge "Celia"
A split rind emptied of all good - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Emptying her craters of their silvery ash - Lola Ridge "Saint's Bridge"
Emptied of the known you - Lola Ridge "Wild Duck"
Creeps down empty alleys - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Bride" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Disclosed the empty day - Rainer Maria Rilke "In April"
Let the spring of life well up and drown the empty quest - Lloyd Roberts "Young Blood"
How empty an absence is - Kenyatta Rogers "Labyrinth"
Empty the wild ocean with the shell of an egg - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The silence owns and rules from empty thrones - George William Russell "The Divine Vision"
A bird's empty nest when the tenant has flown - I.A.S. "In the Rhine Woods: Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.24-v.I, 14 June 1884]
All broken hearts, empty hands, sleeping soldiers - Carl Sandburg "Fire Dreams"
When once the dregs are emptied - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"
What breath's left to shriek into the empty - Jennifer Scappettone "Syrinx Spring"
The significant silence of empty mansions - Philip Schultz "Greed"
The sounds empty makes inside a vacant house - Nicole Sealey "unfurnished"
Filling the auditoriums with empty skulls - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"
Into hearts long empty of the sun - Edward Shanks "The Return"
To empty the contents of your (un)troubled heart - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
And in our eyes, we see empty mirrors - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"
The empty truth of tears - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
With never a spark in the empty dark - Langdon Smith "Evolution"
Unclasped and left empty in the center - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"
Empty as a bucket of tears - Richard Solomon "Heaven's Gate"
Through empty heaven without repose - Robert Lewis Stevenson "Summer Sun"
Death can empty a house of shoes worn and new - Margo Taft Stever "For Sale"
Empty shells on sea-spurned sands - Muriel Stuart "A Song for Old Love"
A rust-red share in an empty furrow - Algernon Swinburne "Sorrow"
Out of the empty night arise - Arthur Symons "Stella Maris"
Emptied my heart with the absence of every tick - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"
Empty as ancient desert streams - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Returns at last to the empty road - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson
Down past empty baseball diamonds - Keith Taylor "The Skateboard Park, Seen from Afar"
last sky will empty itself of airplanes - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
Chambers emptied of delight - Tennyson "In Memoriam"
Glutted with gold and dust and empty state - Iris Tree "[And afterwards, when honour has made good]"
court rats in the empty pool - David Trinidad "The afterlife of fame"
My guts are emptied of courage - Tu Fu "Captivity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
With empty schemes of praise - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"
All pockets turned up empty afterwards - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"
And my heart is the empty nest - Katherine Tynan "Wild Geese"
Sustains themself on empty speech - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker
Emptying without exhausting - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
An empty ballad that plays on loop - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Cardinals, a Novena"
Still selling to the empty streets - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"
Perfectly empty and yet not empty at all - Wang An-Shih "After Clouds Limitless by a Monk at Nirvana-Radiant Monastery on Mist-Perch Mountain" transl. by David Hinton
A thousand years of empty hopes - Wang An-Shih "South of Town, Leaving" transl. by David Hinton
Empty hopes in the drift of cicada song - Wang An-Shih "South of Town, Leaving" transl. by David Hinton
Most visible in the empty room - Rosanna Warren "Muse Not Muse"
A legend emptied of concern - William Watson "Estrangement"
Empty of faith and eager to depart - Helen Hay Whitney "False"
Dawn comes with empty arms - John Wieners "For Huncke"
Emptied houses turned shuttered eyes to the sea - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Low"
Emptying his pockets in the dark - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"
My throne is empty in Babylon - Humbert Wolfe "The Crowder's Tune"
And filled the empty caverns of the air - Humbert Wolfe "The Sicilian Expedition"
Had never been the empty dark - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
Clinging onto the depths of empty - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"
Empty your heart - W.B. Yeats "The Hosting of the Sidhe"
If empty night replies - W.B. Yeats "A First Confession"
This city of riches has fallen empty - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Imprisoning empty darkness - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"
The hiss of empty air swirling past - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
A magician closed you in his hand and opened it suddenly empty - Yuan Chen "An Elegy" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Through the walls of an empty house - Jordan Zandi "Solarium"
An empty envelope filling with news - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
The sound of an empty valley - Zheng Min "A Small Room" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Emptiness.
Disappearing into dream-emptied pockets - Carmen Gimenez "from Be Recorder"
Arrive empty-handed and alone - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Hunting Party"
Help arriving empty-handed - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"
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Salute us back with empty kitchen pans - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"
Light as an empty hive - Elizabeth Alexander "Equinox"
Eyes empty as her hopes of escape - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
A promenade of empty shells, automatons - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"
The fall with its empty cup - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"
Only the empty hand is free to hold - Julia Alvarez "That Moment"
A cobalt glow in an empty room - Hala Alyan "Siri as Mother"
Emptying boxes and making order out of pieces - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"
Dappled with rain and emptied smudges - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
My hands stay empty - Fatimah Asghar "When the Orders Came"
Beat the empty air - James Baldwin "The giver (for Berdis)"
The yearning call went out into the empty air - Grant Balfour "Christmas Eve"
Thrown on an empty mirror - Mary Jo Bang "The Diary of a Lost Girl"
Accepted by the empty hour - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Reduced to ideas and empty rooms - Mary Jo Bang "Where Once"
As interesting as a word repeated until emptied - Ari Banias "A Sunset"
To catch the empty hand of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "All This, Before"
Inhabiting space that could go empty - Ellen Bass "I look over and there she is"
Lighting fires in the empty rooms - Ellen Bass "Not Dead Yet"
Have emptied my soul of thought - Charlotte F. Bates "Contrasted Moods" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.98, Feb. 1876]
The empty sky in threads like glass - Stephen Vincent Benet "Going Back to School"
Pigeons in an empty flower trough - Margo Berdeshevsky "Dusk"
Empty grows every bed - John Berryman "Dream Song 1"
Emptied of all but your art - Terry Blackhawk "Diptych ii. Singing You Up"
When our fountains run empty - Jaswinder Bolina "The Reluctant Senator to His Provincial Mistress"
Our wardrobes mostly empty - Mukut Borpujari "Stoic"
Roam the empty highways in search of life - Bruce Boston "Ghost People"
Scatter myself empty as a torn dress - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"
Hold only empty names - William Brewer "Explanation of Matter in Oxyana"
Pretending that the sky is empty - William Brewer "Oxyana, WV: Exit Song"
The empty words of a dream - Robert Bridges "I Love All Beauteous Things"
The chill empty lanes of November - Vera M. Brittain "Daphne"
When mirth was not an empty name - Anne Bronte "Past Days"
A wrecked and empty nest - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"
How never to start the night empty - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"
The reptile caress of empty sound - Paul Cameron Brown "Chrysalis"
Empty warriors breakfast on lost impatience - Paul Cameron Brown "Empty Warriors"
A meaningless refrain to empty walls - Marie Hedderwick Browne "My House Is Left Unto Me Desolate"
To suit thy empty words - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
The empty space not filled - Sue Budin "Jigsaw"
Life's chalice is empty - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
Quiet as an empty bathtub - Marianne Chan "The Lives of Saints"
And leave me to the empty ways of earth - Thomas S. Chard "The Blessed Vale"
Up through an empty house of stars - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
A kind of trash can never emptied - Heather Christie "What Big Eyes You Have"
Not for piping empty reeds - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Not for colouring empty dust - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Who gives her soul an empty room - Leonard Cohen "Death of a Lady's Man"
The memories came back empty - Leonard Cohen "Never Got to Love You"
Set an empty cup in the storm - CAConrad "(Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread"
And empty its mysteries into the air - James Crews "Self-Compassion"
Fills the empty vault of Night with shimmering bars - E. E. Cummings "Summer Silence"
Let the pears cling to the empty branch - H.D. "Sheltered Garden"
To fill the empty stretch of hours between alms - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
Gilded cats guarding the empty bridge - Jim Daniels "Listening to '96 Tears' by? and the Mysterians While Looking Down from My Third-Floor Window at a Kid Crossing the Panther Hollow Bridge"
Empty porticoes that led to nowhere - Deborah L. Davitt "Drowning in this Sunken City"
Morning enshrines the empty hill - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"
Empty scene of water and willow - Walter de la Mare "Motley"
False moods and manners clothed in empty speech - Geoffrey Dearmer "Revelation"
My lungs empty of the innocence that was - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"
Or emptied by the sun - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature XVII"
Biologists will unspool her empty intestines - Rachel Dillon "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem"
Know the cost of singed palm and empty fist - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"
A barge of plywood and empty milk cartons - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
All my lips' empty crying - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"
Firm to hover in that empty height - William Drummond "This Life"
The empty spaces left by the gods - Stephen Dunn "Let's Say"
The emptying chambers of his heart - George William Russell aka A.E. "Endurance"
Voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"
Kneels before an empty fireplace - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"
To make the world an emptier place - Elaine Equi "My Taste"
Empty as the husk of a locust in drought - Martin Espada "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramon Emeterio Betances"
Spoke aloud to an empty audience - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"
Beneath emptying branches - Sid Farrar "The Year Comes Round"
The night in his hands like an empty bridle - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"
A wanton ghost lavishing an empty feast - Beulah Field "Rainbow"
I am emptied of all my dreams - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"
Seven empty chairs form a circle - Sandy Florian "Abacus"
The imprint of birdsong in an empty sky - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VI"
Emptied as a fallen leaf - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"
Empty hands are clasped in vain - Fanny Forrester "Angel Visitors" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.14-v.I, 5 April 1884]
Empty as his own expectations - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Introduction to Engineering by Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius"
Quiet hours and empty blue - Zona Gale "Wraiths"
Emptied of his hand - Tess Gallagher "Ring"
Empty out those raw strips of night - Tess Gallagher "Sad Moments"
In order to be defined as empty - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: IV"
The deep empty longing in the voice of birds - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson
Gold from empty bags in torrents rolled - John Gay "Fable XLII: Juggler and Vice" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Only when you are empty - Kahlil Gibran "On Joy and Sorrow"
Even when the arena is empty - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"
Broken meat for empty bellies - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Hare"
The pathways of the gods are empty, flat, and hard - Dana Gioia "The Freeways Considered as Earth Gods"
We've emptied all the garden's fields - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
Empty on a December weeknight - Christian Gullette "Tattoo"
Explored this emptying intermediate state - Thom Gunn "Lament"
Empty promises of a broken land - Hawa Haji-Hassan "Carrying Anticipation"
Waltzed with the empty lover - Joy Harjo "Deer Dancer"
Your mouth will make no empty shapes - francine j. harris "something in the water"
Her head is empty of the drowned - Yona Harvey "Hurricane"
That once could empty out an hour - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"
The clearing yard loaded with empty freight cars - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"
My empty suitcase and I returned - Jane Hirshfield "My Life Was the Size of My Life"
Has emptied all the vengeance of the storm - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry"
Dusk enfolds the empty curtains - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Fulling Cloth for Clothes" transl. by Burton Watson
Death becomes an empty cabaret - Langston Hughes "Sport"
And find my Muse asleep within an empty Box - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
A birthright to sing until emptied - Marlin M. Jenkins "Pokedex Entry #39: Jigglypuff"
I live in the empty hands discombobulated bastards - Jzl Jmz "Drenched in Reflection"
To dissolve an empty hour - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Curiosities"
Like empty pitchers to a full fountain - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"
Screaming out to an empty street - Jenny Johnson "Spaces"
Empty arms stretching to embrace - Amanda Johnston "We Named You Mercy"
The sidewalks stay empty of my steps - Camisha L. Jones "No Longer Commuting with Chronic Pain"
Pushing a grocery cart of empty beer cans - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"
Empty interstate by starlight - Richard Jones "Rest"
Every empty hour is wrought of gold - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "As a Still Brook"
Wander weeping through empty halls - Juan Chi "Singing of Thoughts 5" transl. by Burton Watson
The eternal pit had emptied forth its demons - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Emptied herself into that blazing child - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
her tears were empty chairs - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"
Empty as a shell and hollow - Donika Kelly "The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings."
An empty bowl careful with my wanting - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"
And fill the room my heart keeps empty - Henry King "The Exequy"
The room my heart keeps empty - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"
Pursue their empty sorceries - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
Emptying night from its branches - Joanna Klink "On Falling (Blue Spruce)"
And reeled the years back empty - Ted Kooser "Casting Reels"
Where a cold wind pinches clothespins down an empty line - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"
Blow through an empty station on a mechanical wind - Edgar Kunz "Good Deal"
Sprawl of generations emptying onward - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"
The bubble hemming this empty existence with lights - D.H. Lawrence "Elegy"
Children draw about the empty hearth - Emma Lazarus "To R. W. E."
The empty spaces you once filled - Aimee Le "Poem Written by Aimee's Imaginary Roommate, Charles"
Empty in the August glare - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "A Pageant of Siena"
Envy will empty your wallet - Hailey Leithauser "Loneliness"
Two angels gather at the empty chest - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"
Let the golden cups never stand empty - Li Po "Let Us Drink Wine" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Empty stars we've tossed aside - Ada Limon "Marketing Life for Those of Us Left"
Held nothing but the empty dawn - Amy Lowell "Crepuscule du Matin"
The key which hides a world empty of hours - Amy Lowell "The Matrix"
An empty phantom as cold as summer dew - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
Empty your bones of heather and moor - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "grey seal"
Pick a Fight in an Empty Room - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "magpie"
Empty songs with weary voices - Naomi Long Madgett "Where Do We Go?"
Empty as the cup of days - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
Full of cups to be emptied - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
A torus-image whose empty center we sought - Harry Martinson "Aniara 3" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
In spheres and cupolas it moved through empty spaces - Harry Martinson "Aniara 4" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
While the bridge between us stayed an empty place - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Make a metaphor for the empty - Jamaal May "Yes, I Know She's Dying"
Raised to a mouth emptied - Charlene McClure "Caretaker"
Hanging thick round empty tower and broken minaret - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Owl-calls over its empty track - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"
Put a roaring halt to our empty rabid existence - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"
Towers of empty mirrors - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"
Empty pools and dry waterfalls - W.S. Merwin "One Valley"
Emerged empty and entire - M.S. Merwin "The West Window"
Utter silence and the empty world - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Through a giant's empty house - Edna St Vincent Millay "Low-Tide"
Two empty suitcases sit in the corner - Jim Moore "Almost Sixty"
My sobs echoing through the empty rooms - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"
From heartless empty fate - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (7)" transl. by Dennis Daly
A fistful of empty flint - Pablo Neruda "Amor America (1400)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Returning an empty dream to a bitter pasture - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Our lives like empty mollusk shells - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly
Parched loneliness and the empty night - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Consumed by an empty god - Pablo Neruda "What Spain Was Like" translated by John Felstiner
Aimed litanies at an empty sky - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"
A pair of empty swing sets - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"
How empty the cup of hope can feel - Naomi Shihab Nye "In Northern Ireland They Called It 'The Troubles'"
That last tone emptying into air - Naomi Shihab Nye "Music"
The arches are empty clear to the sky - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"
An empty skin for the mice to nibble - Mary Oliver "Black Snake This Time"
The ocean empties its pockets - Mary Oliver "Morning Walk"
Sing down an empty road - January Gill O'Neil "How to Love"
A tiny bowl, empty but for hope - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Skippers"
A nourishment of my empty soul - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"
Velvet hides an empty breast - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"
Empty eyes in vacant sockets - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"
Through the empty chaos and pain - Andre F. Peltier "Martha Wayne's Pearl Necklace"
Impregnated with empty symbolism - Andre F. Peltier "Martha Wayne's Pearl Necklace"
Marooned by empty chairs - Kiki Petrosino "The Garden"
Gem of empty air - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Emptier of such distractions as fear - Carl Phillips "The Dark No Softer Than It Was Before"
A Fairy Temple with one niche empty - Po-Chu-i "Taoism and Buddhism" (translated by Arthur Waley)
An empty pool of calmness and of cold - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"
With an empty bullet for decoration - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"
Empty your thoughts to the stars - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Unpredictable years keep emptying - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"
Empty nest of eyelashes & dandelions - Molly Raynor "This Is the Undone Season"
Listen to the song of your empty house - Molly Raynor "You Know You've Got Covid Brain"
only the empty hollow of what could have been - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
Pockets and heart are empty - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"
As it comes in empty places - Lola Ridge "Celia"
A split rind emptied of all good - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Emptying her craters of their silvery ash - Lola Ridge "Saint's Bridge"
Emptied of the known you - Lola Ridge "Wild Duck"
Creeps down empty alleys - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Bride" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Disclosed the empty day - Rainer Maria Rilke "In April"
Let the spring of life well up and drown the empty quest - Lloyd Roberts "Young Blood"
How empty an absence is - Kenyatta Rogers "Labyrinth"
Empty the wild ocean with the shell of an egg - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The silence owns and rules from empty thrones - George William Russell "The Divine Vision"
A bird's empty nest when the tenant has flown - I.A.S. "In the Rhine Woods: Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.24-v.I, 14 June 1884]
All broken hearts, empty hands, sleeping soldiers - Carl Sandburg "Fire Dreams"
When once the dregs are emptied - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"
What breath's left to shriek into the empty - Jennifer Scappettone "Syrinx Spring"
The significant silence of empty mansions - Philip Schultz "Greed"
The sounds empty makes inside a vacant house - Nicole Sealey "unfurnished"
Filling the auditoriums with empty skulls - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"
Into hearts long empty of the sun - Edward Shanks "The Return"
To empty the contents of your (un)troubled heart - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
And in our eyes, we see empty mirrors - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"
The empty truth of tears - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"
With never a spark in the empty dark - Langdon Smith "Evolution"
Unclasped and left empty in the center - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"
Empty as a bucket of tears - Richard Solomon "Heaven's Gate"
Through empty heaven without repose - Robert Lewis Stevenson "Summer Sun"
Death can empty a house of shoes worn and new - Margo Taft Stever "For Sale"
Empty shells on sea-spurned sands - Muriel Stuart "A Song for Old Love"
A rust-red share in an empty furrow - Algernon Swinburne "Sorrow"
Out of the empty night arise - Arthur Symons "Stella Maris"
Emptied my heart with the absence of every tick - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"
Empty as ancient desert streams - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Returns at last to the empty road - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson
Down past empty baseball diamonds - Keith Taylor "The Skateboard Park, Seen from Afar"
last sky will empty itself of airplanes - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
Chambers emptied of delight - Tennyson "In Memoriam"
Glutted with gold and dust and empty state - Iris Tree "[And afterwards, when honour has made good]"
court rats in the empty pool - David Trinidad "The afterlife of fame"
My guts are emptied of courage - Tu Fu "Captivity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
With empty schemes of praise - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"
All pockets turned up empty afterwards - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"
And my heart is the empty nest - Katherine Tynan "Wild Geese"
Sustains themself on empty speech - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker
Emptying without exhausting - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
An empty ballad that plays on loop - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Cardinals, a Novena"
Still selling to the empty streets - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"
Perfectly empty and yet not empty at all - Wang An-Shih "After Clouds Limitless by a Monk at Nirvana-Radiant Monastery on Mist-Perch Mountain" transl. by David Hinton
A thousand years of empty hopes - Wang An-Shih "South of Town, Leaving" transl. by David Hinton
Empty hopes in the drift of cicada song - Wang An-Shih "South of Town, Leaving" transl. by David Hinton
Most visible in the empty room - Rosanna Warren "Muse Not Muse"
A legend emptied of concern - William Watson "Estrangement"
Empty of faith and eager to depart - Helen Hay Whitney "False"
Dawn comes with empty arms - John Wieners "For Huncke"
Emptied houses turned shuttered eyes to the sea - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Low"
Emptying his pockets in the dark - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"
My throne is empty in Babylon - Humbert Wolfe "The Crowder's Tune"
And filled the empty caverns of the air - Humbert Wolfe "The Sicilian Expedition"
Had never been the empty dark - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
Clinging onto the depths of empty - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"
Empty your heart - W.B. Yeats "The Hosting of the Sidhe"
If empty night replies - W.B. Yeats "A First Confession"
This city of riches has fallen empty - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Imprisoning empty darkness - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"
The hiss of empty air swirling past - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
A magician closed you in his hand and opened it suddenly empty - Yuan Chen "An Elegy" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Through the walls of an empty house - Jordan Zandi "Solarium"
An empty envelope filling with news - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
The sound of an empty valley - Zheng Min "A Small Room" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Emptiness.
Disappearing into dream-emptied pockets - Carmen Gimenez "from Be Recorder"
Arrive empty-handed and alone - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Hunting Party"
Help arriving empty-handed - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"
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