Potential Titles: White
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somethingdarkerThat keep the moon's white company - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
The white cliffs of our own native land - "Abroad"
In the night lit by white phosphorus - Ammiel Alcalay "My Apologies"
Whose blood mixed with the white sands - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
In the beginning of their white dreaming - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Seas of white and turquoise ice - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"
The white wind loves you - Richard Aldington "The Poplar"
The white mist curling and hesitating - Richard Aldington "The Poplar"
Where the white owl sits and blinks - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Echo-Song"
Mistaking white space for emptiness - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Upon the whitened walls of Jericho - Willis Boyd Allen "Blind"
Falls soft on the white - Willis Boyd Allen "By Night"
Green jacket, red cap, and white owl's feather - William Allingham "The Fairies"
Nuts like white stars - Alise Alousi "Mess"
The glow from a single white tulip - Alise Alousi "Pandemic"
The television yōkai glares white - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
Whisper white lies to the dead - Rae Armantrout "Djinn"
The way the clouds exchange white scraps in glory - Rae Armantrout "Upper World"
The whitest no eye could choose - Sir Edwin Arnold "He and She"
All the white space remains - Julie Babcock "American Flyers"
Forever marked with white - Benjamin West Ball "The Autumnal Ride"
the stairs are white with noble gases - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"
Put to shame the white rose and the red - Maurice Baring "Vita Nuova"
the night is white - Elizabeth Bartlett "black sun"
Out of the white and the blue - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
white with speed - Elizabeth Bartlett "item: body found"
ends with a dawn cold white - Elizabeth Bartlett "pilgrimage"
White silence like a nun - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"
Twelve white eyes always staring out - Mrs. Clara Doty Bates "The Cuckoo Clock" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
White lights in the mimosa trees - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"
Seared me white with burning scars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Breaking Point"
The harsh taste of white poppies - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Weaves a black thread between white days - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
White days on the cosmic loom - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Cowers in its white fog bed - Julius Berstl "Highland" transl. by William Saphier
The blue and white enamel of the skies - Paul Bewsher "The Country Beautiful"
Daisies white in generous flood - Paul Bewsher "The Crash"
Fawn as white as mountain snow - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"
An unbidden word whitening the death of a smile - Maxwell Bodenheim "An Old Man Humming a Song" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
The white clock dropping gray minutes - Max Bodenheim "Silence"
Following the track of blowing leaves and cool white rain - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
Ink spilled on the fringe of white clouds - Arna Bontemps "A Tree Design"
White as bone-bleached sun - Julia Bouwsma "Each Morning Drowns in Open Air"
The cry of waters where the snow was white - Caris Brooke "March Violets"
Raking the white spent embers - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
The white pin wheel of heat - Paul Cameron Brown "Cienfuegos"
Among bones white and sweet - Rebecca Buchanan "The First Morning in May"
Snowplows etch lines in the whiteness - Sue Budin "After the Blizzard"
White crosses grow larger in their trinities - Anthony Butts "Intercession to Saint Brigid"
Birches white before the moon - Witter Bynner "The New World VIII"
A white candle in a holy place - Joseph Campbell "The Old Woman"
With Venus and Psyche in white - Joseph Campbell "The Orangeman"
Mute on the white edge of dawn - Laura Campbell "Pilgrimage"
Under the white awe of planets - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
The elm-trees white with dust - Giosue Carducci "The Mother" transl. by Frank Sewall
One white hour of life - Bliss Carman "A Sea Child"
To a solid unlit white sky - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"
Where people breathed out white birds - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"
Spitting white ash smoke - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
The broad highway's glaring white ascent - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Among the beeches a white nymph - Arthur Colton "An Idyl of the Wood"
Folded in petals of the purest white - Arthur Colton "The Water-Lily"
Spectral birches, slim and white - Arthur Colton "Without the Gate"
I'll make you a crown of the pretty white daisies - "A Comforter" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]
With a different whiteness - Hilda Conkling "Snow-Capped Mountain"
The lassitude from the white shroud of mutation - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan
Washed and white and newly spun - Frances Cornford "Spring Morning"
If frost should paint his orchard white - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"
A gifted black & white postcard - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"
Shedding white rings of tumult - Hart Crane "To Brooklyn Bridge"
In one merciless white blade - Hart Crane "Voyages V"
Each tingle a bright white morning glory - James Crews "Awe"
Blossomed with white stars - George Cronyn "Night-Flowers"
whose white voices pass upon forgetting - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Ran to meet white Aphrodite risen from the sea - Olive Custance "Hyacinthus"
That white road of wonder and delight - Olive Custance "Hylas"
In the white gardens of the moon - Olive Custance "The Prisoner of God"
The kiss of your white fire - H.D. "Cassandra"
Scorched at the edge to white - H.D. "Fragment Forty-one"
Shake white light in whiter water - H.D. "Fragment Thirty-six"
White ash amid funereal cypresses - H.D. "Helen"
White as ash bled of heat - H.D. "Simaetha"
From the white arches of infinity - Russell W. Davenport "Poems IV"
The white cascade that's both a bird and star - W.H. Davies "The White Cascade"
In solid cages of white ice - William H. Davies "Sweet Stay-at-Home"
In the sudden white light of noon - Kwame Dawes "Shook Foil"
A white lily with seven blooms thereon - Walter de la Mare "The Three Beggars"
By the right of the white election - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love I: Mine"
In the blind white grip of ice - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
In the clean white light of the market - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"
Padded in white and wind - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Quiet"
The white phantom ships of dawn - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Praise of Shame"
White as the snow on pathless mountains - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
White with burning heat - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
Six little white ducks running out to play - "The Ducks" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]
raw-red from offering white flags - Elliott Dunstan "Inherited Battlefield"
The Knight's eyes dwell on a star's white crest - Eleanor Farjeon "The Quest"
The night's white wake - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Dead Fires"
When all the roads are white with dust - Hannah G. Fernald "In Summer" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
lights pinning red over white snow - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"
Countries where the white moons burn - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"
Green, gold and incandescent whiteness - F.S. Flint "Lunch"
Lost as a white doe in winter - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen e"
Followed a path of winding white grass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen A"
Of rented rooms and white air - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"
Bees wooed the white clusters of the hawthorn trees - Fanny Forrester "Spring in the Alley" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.21-v.I, 24 May 1884]
White roses broke like foam - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
the white powder of internal softness and decay - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"
A white moon stares Time's thinning fabric through - John Freeman "Shadows"
Pass six tall hollyhocks red and white - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Enchanted Tale of Banbury Cross"
hard white bones shot with pitchblende - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
The lotus of the dawn is white - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
White reefs of clouds on airy shores - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Liveried in a kind of white - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"
A corridor of leafage pillared white - Zona Gale "The Kilbourn Road"
Seen the whiteness smitten through - Zona Gale "Light"
The petals' solemn white - Zona Gale "Wonder"
One white line of praise - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"
driving towards her black and white demise - Gwynne Garfinkle "Dear Tom Cassidy's Daughter"
Roses white and lilies tender - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Became dry white rectangles of moonlight - Louise Gluck "A Summer Garden"
To freeze or shrivel with whitest fires - Louis Golding "Ghost and Body"
Banners of white fire and rose - Louis Golding "The Midmost Field in Kent"
With the white stars I commune - Louis Golding "Who Knows Me?"
The white sparks in my brain - Rigoberto Gonzalez "The Bordercrosser's Pillowbook"
Its white eyes unnumbered - Leah Naomi Green "Seeds and Fugue"
Wild with asters' blue rays and white - Pamela Gross "The Hive"
White to the hollowing breeze - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
A shivering giant in its glistening cloak of white - Ellyn Hall "Bringing home the holly" [Laugh and Play, no date, Project Gutenberg]
The white mists robed and throned her - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
Discuss philosophy with the white clouds - Han-Shan "[I look far off at T'ien-t'ai's summit]" transl. by Burton Watson
White dew descends on the hundred grasses - Han Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson
Look up to the brightest white - Joy Harjo "Directions to You"
Find our peace here in the white - Joy Harjo "Directions to You"
A white buffalo escaped from memory - Joy Harjo "Grace"
A praying mantis in white sheets - francine j. harris "why i haven't written"
To regions of the white beyond - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XII"
The traverse of white sails - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXII"
White iron shimmers in the forge - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXIII"
Trailed a white hearse - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXII"
Saw white Helen on the walls of Troy - F.W. Harvey "The Moon"
A white stain on the night - Ben Hecht "My Island"
Secret white mirror - Edward Hirsch "Blue Hydrangea"
No hot iron of torture whitened in his forge - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
White and milk-warm sphinx - Aldous Huxley "Revelation"
The blue and white lament - fahima ife "our general banality"
Pollinating the white face of the moon - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"
A white stucco ceiling with its million spider-cracks - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
The white tailed kite will arc across the mesa - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
A wave in the silk of white water - Mark Jarman "The Supremes"
The white gleam of our bright star - James Weldon Johnson "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
Whitened by a fine silt of flour - Jenny Johnson "Little Apophat"
A snowstorm of white wings - Lionel Johnson "In England"
Each white second was knit into a sheet - Mary Karr "The Patient"
Whiter still than Leda's love - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Young buds sleep in the root's white core - John Keats "Faery Song"
White waves dance along the shore - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"
White blossoms fondly murmuring - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
After all my wildness turned to white - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"
Obscure and still and white - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"
Wear only Death's livid, dreadful white - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"
Warm inside the white dusk of morning - Joanna Klink "A Welcome"
A white moon opening countless false mouths of laughter - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"
The rounding noon hangs hard and white - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"
Winged with white mirth - Archibald Lampman "Winter"
Through the forest white and bare - Archibald Lampman "The Woodcutter's Hut"
Round a white hearth of desert - D.H. Lawrence "Men in New Mexico"
Pillars of white bronze standing rigid - D.H. Lawrence "The Revolutionary"
Bitter-stinging white world - D.H. Lawrence "Southern Night"
Bridges and blood boiled white - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"
Clouds of white linen and storm-black damask - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Silver shavings whitened with milky oil - Philip Levine "Drum"
A white eye to the hills - Li Po "Looking at the Moon After Rain" (translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell)
By white gates lost and lonely - Li Shang-yin "Spring Rain" transl. by Burton Watson
Your feet will be white lightning - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"
The white pavilions rose and fell - Henry W. Longfellow "The Beleaguered City"
The wild white honey of your words - Amy Lowell "Carrefour"
Little white skeletons playing the fiddle - Amy Lowell "Katydids"
Cracker sparks of scarlet in the white - Amy Lowell "Red Slippers"
The white Pierrot, wreathed in smoke - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: Second Movement"
Whiter than thistle-down - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"
And walk with me in the moon's white rain - Wilson MacDonald "The Miracle Songs of Jesus"
His mantle of sand so white - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"
A hot, white sky above it - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Wet Weather"
A great white flower of solitude - Dorothea Mackellar "The Moon and the Morning"
An orchid doubled-over with white blooms - Joanie Mackowski "View from a Temporary Window"
From the sobbing viols drew white tears - Stephane Mallarme "Apparition" translated by Wilfrid Thorley
Net the white water with silver - Jeannette Marks "Bread"
Scoops the white crest off a wave - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"
His winter's cell of silver white - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"
Throws white fingers up out of loam - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"
There I pulled the whitest stars - Jeannette Marks "Stars"
A black crow spits out white fog - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Deaf Old Man"
By the white swan chaperoned - D.M. Matheson "The Gardens"
With clean white tears of April rain - Theodore Maynard "Easter"
The treasury of her white memories - Theodore Maynard "In Domo Johannis"
The thin, white ashes of the hearth - Theodore Maynard "Spring, 1916"
Dust descending in the glaring white gap - Medbh McGuckian "Painting by Moonlight"
The white blanket icicles pierce - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"
Has seen white Eros die - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Dead Favourites"
In white triple tiers of glittering gates - Herman Melville "The Maldive Shark"
Dreams upon the eyes of white geraniums - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
The white houses transfigured one by one - Alice Meynell "Summer in England, 1914"
White lilies by the gray hearthstone - Joaquin Miller "To Ye Fighting Lords of London Town"
The humbled white of the snow - Jenny Molberg "The Pheasant"
A lone dark seed with its own white soul - David Mook "Milkweed"
A white fluffy ball changing semblance - Marjorie Moorhead "Head in the Clouds"
Turn this white page of nothing into a night sky - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"
The ingenue faces of pink and white impatiens - Lisel Mueller "When I Am Asked"
Blue with stormy swirls of white and worried gray - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"
Storms of white trigonometries - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Little white boxes of ash - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"
Gone to their white lairs - Francis Neilson "Let Us Make a Garden"
Of the days white with space - Pablo Neruda "Alliance (Sonata)" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A white phantom in cold garments - Pablo Neruda "The Egoist" transl. by William O'Daly
A white shivering in the void - Pablo Neruda "Swan Lake" transl. by Alastair Reid
How triumphal and boundless your orbit of white - Pablo Neruda "We Together" translated by Donald D. Walsh
White palaces wrought for love - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"
An orchard of white lies - Hieu Minh Nguyen "A/S/L"
Fall's white glare and drumming zest - Robert Nichols "The Man of Honour"
A circuit of white orchids ringing - Achy Obejas "Volver"
Time melts when white hawks come - dg nanouk okpik "When White Hawks Come"
The white and silky trumpet of nothing - Mary Oliver "At the Shore"
The quick white summer rain - Mary Oliver "Maples"
Tossed the white moon upward - Mary Oliver "Nature"
For the white blossoms, and the secrecy - Mary Oliver "Someday"
Friends with the hard white stars - Mary Oliver "Stars"
To the white feet of the trees - Mary Oliver "Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End?"
The wind-bird with its white eyes - Mary Oliver "White-eyes"
And the white rose is a dove - John Boyle O'Reilly "The White Rose"
A white road only as long as your body - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Six: The Journey"
The white searchlight's quivering spires - Herbert E. Palmer "Air Raid"
White scallions with frost on their spines - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
Fell in marble precipice of white - R.M.S. Pasley "The Diver"
Timeless agony of the white fire - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"
The whited pumice of the storm - Walter S. Percy "The Blizzard"
Over the white pellet of noon - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
White blood appearing from warm air - Kiki Petrosini "Terrorem"
One endless white furrow of water - Patrick Philips "Elegy with Oil in the Bilge"
A swift white ship in which to ride - Miriam Clark Potter "A Ballad of Three"
White as god's own ribs - D.A. Powell "corydon & alexis, redux"
The sun's white alchemy - E.J. Pratt "Flashlights and Echoes"
In wreaths of white stars - E.J. Pratt "Flashlights and Echoes"
A smudged white thumbprint on the night sky - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Blue Cup"
Wearing the white dress of sanctuary - "Presence" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]
An a white scarf he did wear - anonymous? "Proud Lady Margaret"
Stitches itself a whitened scar - Khadijah Queen "Common Miracles"
Smoke rising grey to white - Khadijah Queen "Erosion"
A skulk of white foxes stands watch - Paige Quinones "Canopy"
White petals pooled around her ankles - Paige Quinones "Venice Beach"
A great white bird on sunlit wing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Sunday in Liguria"
The moon wheels its white shoulder - Paisley Rekdal "何日/What Day"
White and still as a pillar of salt - Lola Ridge "Back Yards"
As a white goat before the slaughter - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Of some white palpitating core - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Pierced with the white crow of dawn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
The white bones of fanged Jerusalem - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
The white eyes of blind gods - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
With naked lilies in white truce - Lola Ridge "Lull Before Storm"
Late snow beats with cold white fists - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Little white runners before the dawn - Lola Ridge "To the Free Children"
A weed we named white whisper - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"
With yellow gold and white jewels - Rihaku "Exile's Letter" transl. by Ezra Pound
White with a thousand frosts - Rihaku "Lament of the Frontier Guard" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)
Would follow the white gulls or ride them - Rihaku "The River Song" transl. by Ezra Pound
Framed her in a smile of white - James Whitcombe Riley "Leonanie"
As white as the gleam of her beckoning hand - James Whitcombe Riley "The Little Red Ribbon"
swallowed in the calculations of white sheets - Ed Roberson "(...As for the Swallows, All They Were Doing)"
Love's white hand upon my wrist - Charles G.D. Roberts "My Garden"
White fire and amethyst - Charles George Douglas Roberts "The Silver Thaw"
Beneath green leaves and lilies white - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
Smile at my old white years - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
Pretty white lamb in the clover - "Rural Song" transl. by Eleanor Hull
White bars against the dark ochre matting - David St. John "Beeches"
Through blue nights into white stars - Carl Sandburg "Prayers of Steel"
Talking to a spread of white stars - Carl Sandburg "Shirt"
A million miles of white snowstorms - Carl Sandburg "Two Strangers Breakfast"
thrashing in the white space between - Sam Sax "Bury"
Pearls of white enchantment I bestrew - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
White from the chrysalis of death - Clinton Scollard "The Mist and the Sea"
Stretching weird and white - Clinton Scollard "Wild Geese"
Knew their movement like black on white - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"
The great suns burn into whitest ash - Virna Sheard "The Cry"
With white fire laden - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Cloud"
Pours out the moon's white mercy - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hope of the Infinite"
White hells of light and clamour - Clark Ashton Smith "Inferno"
The white curse of clearer day - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"
Green to gold to blinding white - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"
Spinning her wild white thread - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"
The sorrow of white paper - Elizabeth Spires "A Little Song"
Hears nothing but the white vowels of the wind - A.E. Stallings "Epic Simile"
The warm, white oblivion of sleep - A.E. Stallings "Two Nursery Rhymes: Lullaby and Rebuttal"
White as the moon's cold hands - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
The voice of Heaven's whitest star - George Sterling "Duandon"
The whitest beacon on the coasts of Time - George Sterling "The Fleet"
Where Love's white altars gleam - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"
Time's whitest loves lie radiant - George Sterling "To Browning"
And webs as white as milk - George Sterling "Sails"
White silent owls of snow - L.A.G. Strong "The Bird Man"
The red moons wane to white - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"
The vortex of the white page - Arthur Sze "The Glass Constellation"
Beyond white drill and red ink - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
White through my cradled dreams - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
White shadows descending through long twilight - Keith Taylor "The Roads to Cordoba"
For one white singing hour - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
White flying joy - Sara Teasdale "Meadowlarks"
Willows whiten, aspens quiver - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"
Lying, robed in snowy white - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"
Down descends in orbs of white - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: III. Thoughts"
Tarnished prisons lined with white and gold - Iris Tree "Streets"
The white sun all at once lost in the west - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
Of cynic ice and sudden white blasts - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"
In shining pools of white and gold - Henry van Dyke "Flood-Tide of Flowers in Holland"
Amid the white and crimson store - Henry van Dyke "Reliance"
The white flame of countless diamonds burns - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell
The thick felt of the mist's white hood - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Fishermen" transl. by Alma Strettell
Blossoms into a hyacinth-flower, cold, fragrant, white - Maximilian Voloshin "The Birth of a Poem" transl. by A. S. K. [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Clouds naked and white - Afaa Michael Weaver "The Silver Thread"
Coming home to cook white stones - Wei Ying-wu "Sent to the Taoist Holy Man of Ch'uan-chiao" transl. by Burton Watson
White rage of desperate moon-drawn waters - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Face the day's white monotone - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ribbon"
With the white amaranths underneath - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Whiter than silk and redder than thread - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"
Into overpowering white - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"
Winds of the white poppy - William Carlos Williams "The Dark Day"
Plash into the clean white sink - William Carlos Williams "Good Night"
With a roar show the white - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"
Sweet smells from a white sky - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"
Pink confused with white flowers - William Carlos Williams "The Pot of Flowers"
Waved me from the white wet - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
Grey gulls among the white - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
A whitish light edging the earth's offerings - Charles Wright "Yellow Wings"
White angels of surprise - R. Walter Wright "Easter Morn"
A white well in a black cave - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
In the smothering dark one white star - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
Reach out toward the margin's white hand - Wendy Xu "Praxis"
With white feet of angels seven - W.B. Yeats "A Dream of a Blessed Spirit"
Under the same white stars- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
White birds on the foam - W.B. Yeats "The White Birds"
A white egret under a waterfall - Cynthia Zarin "Conversazione"
Weathers the white earth's thirst - Art Zilleruelo "Ghost Story"
The white and drunken pallet of memories - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 9" transl. by Katherine Silver
In a whitened time that fades desire - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 20" transl. by Katherine Silver
Black and White.
Sycamores peeling to bonewhite - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan "Without a Philosophy"
A fire-white ghost - Tracy K. Smith "Einstein's Mother"
The sun is a flame-white disc - William Carlos Williams "Danse Russe"
A foam-white arm that beckoned once - George Sterling "Duandon"
Pass, frost-white ghost - Arthur Shearly Cripps "A Lyke-Wake Carol"
The long, green-white reverie of the horizon - Maxwell Bodenheim "Images of Life and Death: Death"
Brought a lily-white doe - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Lady Clare"
Every building wears a milk-white dome - Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond "After a Snow Storm"
A monument of moon-white stone - Tracy K. Smith "Everybody's Autobiography"
Mustard yellow, off-white, and mocha brown - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"
Reliquary for the off-white light of January - Michael Dumanis "Joseph Cornell, with Box"
Phantoms of the pale-white stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Morning Pool"
Heaven's motes sift to salt-white - Dorothea Tanning "Sequestrienne"
With quivering wand of silver-white - Joyce Kilmer "Star o' Love"
A snow-white butterfly dancing before the fitful gale - Richard Bowen "Genius" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Frail as a snow-white feather - Archibald Lampman "Sleep"
The whiteblue well of constant water - Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be]"
Or crush them in my white-fanged hands - Effie Lee Newsome "O Sea, That Knowest Thy Strength"
Each white-fire-leaf of a star distinct - Stephen Vincent Benet "Flood-Tide"
Hail and white-flaked fantasy - E.J. Pratt "In a Beloved Home"
Pouring white-flecked fire - Florence Kiper Frank "Dawn in the Hills"
White-fruited cocoa shown against the shell - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"
Love and anger and white-gold milk - Maggie Nelson "The World"
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To hide our white-lightning past - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
A mixture of whitelime and brine - Angela Figuera Aymerich "Women at the Market" transl. by Hardie St Martin
Spilling in the white noise of my head - Peter Balakian "Waiting for a Number"
Whatever unannounced whiteout blizzard hits our blood - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"
A spark crystal in a whiteout - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Where White phosphorus is made - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"
When first the white-thorn blows - John Milton "Lycidas"
Highways burnt then whitewashed - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"
An orchard with white-washed trees - David O'Neil "Poems: Moods and Moments"
The adagio echoes in that whitewashed cave - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
And watched Magellan's white-winged ships - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
White-winged mother of crags - E.J. Pratt "Re-Born"
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The white cliffs of our own native land - "Abroad"
In the night lit by white phosphorus - Ammiel Alcalay "My Apologies"
Whose blood mixed with the white sands - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
In the beginning of their white dreaming - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Seas of white and turquoise ice - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"
The white wind loves you - Richard Aldington "The Poplar"
The white mist curling and hesitating - Richard Aldington "The Poplar"
Where the white owl sits and blinks - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Echo-Song"
Mistaking white space for emptiness - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Upon the whitened walls of Jericho - Willis Boyd Allen "Blind"
Falls soft on the white - Willis Boyd Allen "By Night"
Green jacket, red cap, and white owl's feather - William Allingham "The Fairies"
Nuts like white stars - Alise Alousi "Mess"
The glow from a single white tulip - Alise Alousi "Pandemic"
The television yōkai glares white - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
Whisper white lies to the dead - Rae Armantrout "Djinn"
The way the clouds exchange white scraps in glory - Rae Armantrout "Upper World"
The whitest no eye could choose - Sir Edwin Arnold "He and She"
All the white space remains - Julie Babcock "American Flyers"
Forever marked with white - Benjamin West Ball "The Autumnal Ride"
the stairs are white with noble gases - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"
Put to shame the white rose and the red - Maurice Baring "Vita Nuova"
the night is white - Elizabeth Bartlett "black sun"
Out of the white and the blue - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
white with speed - Elizabeth Bartlett "item: body found"
ends with a dawn cold white - Elizabeth Bartlett "pilgrimage"
White silence like a nun - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"
Twelve white eyes always staring out - Mrs. Clara Doty Bates "The Cuckoo Clock" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
White lights in the mimosa trees - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"
Seared me white with burning scars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Breaking Point"
The harsh taste of white poppies - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Weaves a black thread between white days - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
White days on the cosmic loom - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Cowers in its white fog bed - Julius Berstl "Highland" transl. by William Saphier
The blue and white enamel of the skies - Paul Bewsher "The Country Beautiful"
Daisies white in generous flood - Paul Bewsher "The Crash"
Fawn as white as mountain snow - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"
An unbidden word whitening the death of a smile - Maxwell Bodenheim "An Old Man Humming a Song" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
The white clock dropping gray minutes - Max Bodenheim "Silence"
Following the track of blowing leaves and cool white rain - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
Ink spilled on the fringe of white clouds - Arna Bontemps "A Tree Design"
White as bone-bleached sun - Julia Bouwsma "Each Morning Drowns in Open Air"
The cry of waters where the snow was white - Caris Brooke "March Violets"
Raking the white spent embers - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
The white pin wheel of heat - Paul Cameron Brown "Cienfuegos"
Among bones white and sweet - Rebecca Buchanan "The First Morning in May"
Snowplows etch lines in the whiteness - Sue Budin "After the Blizzard"
White crosses grow larger in their trinities - Anthony Butts "Intercession to Saint Brigid"
Birches white before the moon - Witter Bynner "The New World VIII"
A white candle in a holy place - Joseph Campbell "The Old Woman"
With Venus and Psyche in white - Joseph Campbell "The Orangeman"
Mute on the white edge of dawn - Laura Campbell "Pilgrimage"
Under the white awe of planets - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
The elm-trees white with dust - Giosue Carducci "The Mother" transl. by Frank Sewall
One white hour of life - Bliss Carman "A Sea Child"
To a solid unlit white sky - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"
Where people breathed out white birds - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"
Spitting white ash smoke - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
The broad highway's glaring white ascent - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Among the beeches a white nymph - Arthur Colton "An Idyl of the Wood"
Folded in petals of the purest white - Arthur Colton "The Water-Lily"
Spectral birches, slim and white - Arthur Colton "Without the Gate"
I'll make you a crown of the pretty white daisies - "A Comforter" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]
With a different whiteness - Hilda Conkling "Snow-Capped Mountain"
The lassitude from the white shroud of mutation - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan
Washed and white and newly spun - Frances Cornford "Spring Morning"
If frost should paint his orchard white - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"
A gifted black & white postcard - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"
Shedding white rings of tumult - Hart Crane "To Brooklyn Bridge"
In one merciless white blade - Hart Crane "Voyages V"
Each tingle a bright white morning glory - James Crews "Awe"
Blossomed with white stars - George Cronyn "Night-Flowers"
whose white voices pass upon forgetting - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Ran to meet white Aphrodite risen from the sea - Olive Custance "Hyacinthus"
That white road of wonder and delight - Olive Custance "Hylas"
In the white gardens of the moon - Olive Custance "The Prisoner of God"
The kiss of your white fire - H.D. "Cassandra"
Scorched at the edge to white - H.D. "Fragment Forty-one"
Shake white light in whiter water - H.D. "Fragment Thirty-six"
White ash amid funereal cypresses - H.D. "Helen"
White as ash bled of heat - H.D. "Simaetha"
From the white arches of infinity - Russell W. Davenport "Poems IV"
The white cascade that's both a bird and star - W.H. Davies "The White Cascade"
In solid cages of white ice - William H. Davies "Sweet Stay-at-Home"
In the sudden white light of noon - Kwame Dawes "Shook Foil"
A white lily with seven blooms thereon - Walter de la Mare "The Three Beggars"
By the right of the white election - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love I: Mine"
In the blind white grip of ice - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
In the clean white light of the market - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"
Padded in white and wind - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Quiet"
The white phantom ships of dawn - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Praise of Shame"
White as the snow on pathless mountains - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
White with burning heat - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
Six little white ducks running out to play - "The Ducks" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]
raw-red from offering white flags - Elliott Dunstan "Inherited Battlefield"
The Knight's eyes dwell on a star's white crest - Eleanor Farjeon "The Quest"
The night's white wake - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Dead Fires"
When all the roads are white with dust - Hannah G. Fernald "In Summer" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
lights pinning red over white snow - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"
Countries where the white moons burn - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"
Green, gold and incandescent whiteness - F.S. Flint "Lunch"
Lost as a white doe in winter - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen e"
Followed a path of winding white grass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen A"
Of rented rooms and white air - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"
Bees wooed the white clusters of the hawthorn trees - Fanny Forrester "Spring in the Alley" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.21-v.I, 24 May 1884]
White roses broke like foam - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
the white powder of internal softness and decay - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"
A white moon stares Time's thinning fabric through - John Freeman "Shadows"
Pass six tall hollyhocks red and white - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Enchanted Tale of Banbury Cross"
hard white bones shot with pitchblende - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
The lotus of the dawn is white - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
White reefs of clouds on airy shores - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Liveried in a kind of white - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"
A corridor of leafage pillared white - Zona Gale "The Kilbourn Road"
Seen the whiteness smitten through - Zona Gale "Light"
The petals' solemn white - Zona Gale "Wonder"
One white line of praise - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"
driving towards her black and white demise - Gwynne Garfinkle "Dear Tom Cassidy's Daughter"
Roses white and lilies tender - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Became dry white rectangles of moonlight - Louise Gluck "A Summer Garden"
To freeze or shrivel with whitest fires - Louis Golding "Ghost and Body"
Banners of white fire and rose - Louis Golding "The Midmost Field in Kent"
With the white stars I commune - Louis Golding "Who Knows Me?"
The white sparks in my brain - Rigoberto Gonzalez "The Bordercrosser's Pillowbook"
Its white eyes unnumbered - Leah Naomi Green "Seeds and Fugue"
Wild with asters' blue rays and white - Pamela Gross "The Hive"
White to the hollowing breeze - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
A shivering giant in its glistening cloak of white - Ellyn Hall "Bringing home the holly" [Laugh and Play, no date, Project Gutenberg]
The white mists robed and throned her - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
Discuss philosophy with the white clouds - Han-Shan "[I look far off at T'ien-t'ai's summit]" transl. by Burton Watson
White dew descends on the hundred grasses - Han Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson
Look up to the brightest white - Joy Harjo "Directions to You"
Find our peace here in the white - Joy Harjo "Directions to You"
A white buffalo escaped from memory - Joy Harjo "Grace"
A praying mantis in white sheets - francine j. harris "why i haven't written"
To regions of the white beyond - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XII"
The traverse of white sails - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXII"
White iron shimmers in the forge - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXIII"
Trailed a white hearse - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXII"
Saw white Helen on the walls of Troy - F.W. Harvey "The Moon"
A white stain on the night - Ben Hecht "My Island"
Secret white mirror - Edward Hirsch "Blue Hydrangea"
No hot iron of torture whitened in his forge - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
White and milk-warm sphinx - Aldous Huxley "Revelation"
The blue and white lament - fahima ife "our general banality"
Pollinating the white face of the moon - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"
A white stucco ceiling with its million spider-cracks - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
The white tailed kite will arc across the mesa - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
A wave in the silk of white water - Mark Jarman "The Supremes"
The white gleam of our bright star - James Weldon Johnson "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
Whitened by a fine silt of flour - Jenny Johnson "Little Apophat"
A snowstorm of white wings - Lionel Johnson "In England"
Each white second was knit into a sheet - Mary Karr "The Patient"
Whiter still than Leda's love - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Young buds sleep in the root's white core - John Keats "Faery Song"
White waves dance along the shore - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"
White blossoms fondly murmuring - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
After all my wildness turned to white - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"
Obscure and still and white - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"
Wear only Death's livid, dreadful white - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"
Warm inside the white dusk of morning - Joanna Klink "A Welcome"
A white moon opening countless false mouths of laughter - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"
The rounding noon hangs hard and white - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"
Winged with white mirth - Archibald Lampman "Winter"
Through the forest white and bare - Archibald Lampman "The Woodcutter's Hut"
Round a white hearth of desert - D.H. Lawrence "Men in New Mexico"
Pillars of white bronze standing rigid - D.H. Lawrence "The Revolutionary"
Bitter-stinging white world - D.H. Lawrence "Southern Night"
Bridges and blood boiled white - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"
Clouds of white linen and storm-black damask - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Silver shavings whitened with milky oil - Philip Levine "Drum"
A white eye to the hills - Li Po "Looking at the Moon After Rain" (translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell)
By white gates lost and lonely - Li Shang-yin "Spring Rain" transl. by Burton Watson
Your feet will be white lightning - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"
The white pavilions rose and fell - Henry W. Longfellow "The Beleaguered City"
The wild white honey of your words - Amy Lowell "Carrefour"
Little white skeletons playing the fiddle - Amy Lowell "Katydids"
Cracker sparks of scarlet in the white - Amy Lowell "Red Slippers"
The white Pierrot, wreathed in smoke - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: Second Movement"
Whiter than thistle-down - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"
And walk with me in the moon's white rain - Wilson MacDonald "The Miracle Songs of Jesus"
His mantle of sand so white - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"
A hot, white sky above it - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Wet Weather"
A great white flower of solitude - Dorothea Mackellar "The Moon and the Morning"
An orchid doubled-over with white blooms - Joanie Mackowski "View from a Temporary Window"
From the sobbing viols drew white tears - Stephane Mallarme "Apparition" translated by Wilfrid Thorley
Net the white water with silver - Jeannette Marks "Bread"
Scoops the white crest off a wave - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"
His winter's cell of silver white - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"
Throws white fingers up out of loam - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"
There I pulled the whitest stars - Jeannette Marks "Stars"
A black crow spits out white fog - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Deaf Old Man"
By the white swan chaperoned - D.M. Matheson "The Gardens"
With clean white tears of April rain - Theodore Maynard "Easter"
The treasury of her white memories - Theodore Maynard "In Domo Johannis"
The thin, white ashes of the hearth - Theodore Maynard "Spring, 1916"
Dust descending in the glaring white gap - Medbh McGuckian "Painting by Moonlight"
The white blanket icicles pierce - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"
Has seen white Eros die - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Dead Favourites"
In white triple tiers of glittering gates - Herman Melville "The Maldive Shark"
Dreams upon the eyes of white geraniums - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
The white houses transfigured one by one - Alice Meynell "Summer in England, 1914"
White lilies by the gray hearthstone - Joaquin Miller "To Ye Fighting Lords of London Town"
The humbled white of the snow - Jenny Molberg "The Pheasant"
A lone dark seed with its own white soul - David Mook "Milkweed"
A white fluffy ball changing semblance - Marjorie Moorhead "Head in the Clouds"
Turn this white page of nothing into a night sky - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"
The ingenue faces of pink and white impatiens - Lisel Mueller "When I Am Asked"
Blue with stormy swirls of white and worried gray - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"
Storms of white trigonometries - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Little white boxes of ash - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"
Gone to their white lairs - Francis Neilson "Let Us Make a Garden"
Of the days white with space - Pablo Neruda "Alliance (Sonata)" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A white phantom in cold garments - Pablo Neruda "The Egoist" transl. by William O'Daly
A white shivering in the void - Pablo Neruda "Swan Lake" transl. by Alastair Reid
How triumphal and boundless your orbit of white - Pablo Neruda "We Together" translated by Donald D. Walsh
White palaces wrought for love - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"
An orchard of white lies - Hieu Minh Nguyen "A/S/L"
Fall's white glare and drumming zest - Robert Nichols "The Man of Honour"
A circuit of white orchids ringing - Achy Obejas "Volver"
Time melts when white hawks come - dg nanouk okpik "When White Hawks Come"
The white and silky trumpet of nothing - Mary Oliver "At the Shore"
The quick white summer rain - Mary Oliver "Maples"
Tossed the white moon upward - Mary Oliver "Nature"
For the white blossoms, and the secrecy - Mary Oliver "Someday"
Friends with the hard white stars - Mary Oliver "Stars"
To the white feet of the trees - Mary Oliver "Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End?"
The wind-bird with its white eyes - Mary Oliver "White-eyes"
And the white rose is a dove - John Boyle O'Reilly "The White Rose"
A white road only as long as your body - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Six: The Journey"
The white searchlight's quivering spires - Herbert E. Palmer "Air Raid"
White scallions with frost on their spines - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
Fell in marble precipice of white - R.M.S. Pasley "The Diver"
Timeless agony of the white fire - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"
The whited pumice of the storm - Walter S. Percy "The Blizzard"
Over the white pellet of noon - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
White blood appearing from warm air - Kiki Petrosini "Terrorem"
One endless white furrow of water - Patrick Philips "Elegy with Oil in the Bilge"
A swift white ship in which to ride - Miriam Clark Potter "A Ballad of Three"
White as god's own ribs - D.A. Powell "corydon & alexis, redux"
The sun's white alchemy - E.J. Pratt "Flashlights and Echoes"
In wreaths of white stars - E.J. Pratt "Flashlights and Echoes"
A smudged white thumbprint on the night sky - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Blue Cup"
Wearing the white dress of sanctuary - "Presence" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]
An a white scarf he did wear - anonymous? "Proud Lady Margaret"
Stitches itself a whitened scar - Khadijah Queen "Common Miracles"
Smoke rising grey to white - Khadijah Queen "Erosion"
A skulk of white foxes stands watch - Paige Quinones "Canopy"
White petals pooled around her ankles - Paige Quinones "Venice Beach"
A great white bird on sunlit wing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Sunday in Liguria"
The moon wheels its white shoulder - Paisley Rekdal "何日/What Day"
White and still as a pillar of salt - Lola Ridge "Back Yards"
As a white goat before the slaughter - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Of some white palpitating core - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Pierced with the white crow of dawn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
The white bones of fanged Jerusalem - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
The white eyes of blind gods - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
With naked lilies in white truce - Lola Ridge "Lull Before Storm"
Late snow beats with cold white fists - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Little white runners before the dawn - Lola Ridge "To the Free Children"
A weed we named white whisper - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"
With yellow gold and white jewels - Rihaku "Exile's Letter" transl. by Ezra Pound
White with a thousand frosts - Rihaku "Lament of the Frontier Guard" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)
Would follow the white gulls or ride them - Rihaku "The River Song" transl. by Ezra Pound
Framed her in a smile of white - James Whitcombe Riley "Leonanie"
As white as the gleam of her beckoning hand - James Whitcombe Riley "The Little Red Ribbon"
swallowed in the calculations of white sheets - Ed Roberson "(...As for the Swallows, All They Were Doing)"
Love's white hand upon my wrist - Charles G.D. Roberts "My Garden"
White fire and amethyst - Charles George Douglas Roberts "The Silver Thaw"
Beneath green leaves and lilies white - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
Smile at my old white years - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
Pretty white lamb in the clover - "Rural Song" transl. by Eleanor Hull
White bars against the dark ochre matting - David St. John "Beeches"
Through blue nights into white stars - Carl Sandburg "Prayers of Steel"
Talking to a spread of white stars - Carl Sandburg "Shirt"
A million miles of white snowstorms - Carl Sandburg "Two Strangers Breakfast"
thrashing in the white space between - Sam Sax "Bury"
Pearls of white enchantment I bestrew - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
White from the chrysalis of death - Clinton Scollard "The Mist and the Sea"
Stretching weird and white - Clinton Scollard "Wild Geese"
Knew their movement like black on white - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"
The great suns burn into whitest ash - Virna Sheard "The Cry"
With white fire laden - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Cloud"
Pours out the moon's white mercy - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hope of the Infinite"
White hells of light and clamour - Clark Ashton Smith "Inferno"
The white curse of clearer day - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"
Green to gold to blinding white - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"
Spinning her wild white thread - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"
The sorrow of white paper - Elizabeth Spires "A Little Song"
Hears nothing but the white vowels of the wind - A.E. Stallings "Epic Simile"
The warm, white oblivion of sleep - A.E. Stallings "Two Nursery Rhymes: Lullaby and Rebuttal"
White as the moon's cold hands - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
The voice of Heaven's whitest star - George Sterling "Duandon"
The whitest beacon on the coasts of Time - George Sterling "The Fleet"
Where Love's white altars gleam - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"
Time's whitest loves lie radiant - George Sterling "To Browning"
And webs as white as milk - George Sterling "Sails"
White silent owls of snow - L.A.G. Strong "The Bird Man"
The red moons wane to white - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"
The vortex of the white page - Arthur Sze "The Glass Constellation"
Beyond white drill and red ink - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
White through my cradled dreams - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
White shadows descending through long twilight - Keith Taylor "The Roads to Cordoba"
For one white singing hour - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
White flying joy - Sara Teasdale "Meadowlarks"
Willows whiten, aspens quiver - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"
Lying, robed in snowy white - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"
Down descends in orbs of white - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: III. Thoughts"
Tarnished prisons lined with white and gold - Iris Tree "Streets"
The white sun all at once lost in the west - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
Of cynic ice and sudden white blasts - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"
In shining pools of white and gold - Henry van Dyke "Flood-Tide of Flowers in Holland"
Amid the white and crimson store - Henry van Dyke "Reliance"
The white flame of countless diamonds burns - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell
The thick felt of the mist's white hood - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Fishermen" transl. by Alma Strettell
Blossoms into a hyacinth-flower, cold, fragrant, white - Maximilian Voloshin "The Birth of a Poem" transl. by A. S. K. [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Clouds naked and white - Afaa Michael Weaver "The Silver Thread"
Coming home to cook white stones - Wei Ying-wu "Sent to the Taoist Holy Man of Ch'uan-chiao" transl. by Burton Watson
White rage of desperate moon-drawn waters - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Face the day's white monotone - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ribbon"
With the white amaranths underneath - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Whiter than silk and redder than thread - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"
Into overpowering white - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"
Winds of the white poppy - William Carlos Williams "The Dark Day"
Plash into the clean white sink - William Carlos Williams "Good Night"
With a roar show the white - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"
Sweet smells from a white sky - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"
Pink confused with white flowers - William Carlos Williams "The Pot of Flowers"
Waved me from the white wet - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
Grey gulls among the white - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
A whitish light edging the earth's offerings - Charles Wright "Yellow Wings"
White angels of surprise - R. Walter Wright "Easter Morn"
A white well in a black cave - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
In the smothering dark one white star - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"
Reach out toward the margin's white hand - Wendy Xu "Praxis"
With white feet of angels seven - W.B. Yeats "A Dream of a Blessed Spirit"
Under the same white stars- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
White birds on the foam - W.B. Yeats "The White Birds"
A white egret under a waterfall - Cynthia Zarin "Conversazione"
Weathers the white earth's thirst - Art Zilleruelo "Ghost Story"
The white and drunken pallet of memories - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 9" transl. by Katherine Silver
In a whitened time that fades desire - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 20" transl. by Katherine Silver
Black and White.
Sycamores peeling to bonewhite - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan "Without a Philosophy"
A fire-white ghost - Tracy K. Smith "Einstein's Mother"
The sun is a flame-white disc - William Carlos Williams "Danse Russe"
A foam-white arm that beckoned once - George Sterling "Duandon"
Pass, frost-white ghost - Arthur Shearly Cripps "A Lyke-Wake Carol"
The long, green-white reverie of the horizon - Maxwell Bodenheim "Images of Life and Death: Death"
Brought a lily-white doe - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Lady Clare"
Every building wears a milk-white dome - Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond "After a Snow Storm"
A monument of moon-white stone - Tracy K. Smith "Everybody's Autobiography"
Mustard yellow, off-white, and mocha brown - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"
Reliquary for the off-white light of January - Michael Dumanis "Joseph Cornell, with Box"
Phantoms of the pale-white stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Morning Pool"
Heaven's motes sift to salt-white - Dorothea Tanning "Sequestrienne"
With quivering wand of silver-white - Joyce Kilmer "Star o' Love"
A snow-white butterfly dancing before the fitful gale - Richard Bowen "Genius" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Frail as a snow-white feather - Archibald Lampman "Sleep"
The whiteblue well of constant water - Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be]"
Or crush them in my white-fanged hands - Effie Lee Newsome "O Sea, That Knowest Thy Strength"
Each white-fire-leaf of a star distinct - Stephen Vincent Benet "Flood-Tide"
Hail and white-flaked fantasy - E.J. Pratt "In a Beloved Home"
Pouring white-flecked fire - Florence Kiper Frank "Dawn in the Hills"
White-fruited cocoa shown against the shell - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"
Love and anger and white-gold milk - Maggie Nelson "The World"
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To hide our white-lightning past - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
A mixture of whitelime and brine - Angela Figuera Aymerich "Women at the Market" transl. by Hardie St Martin
Spilling in the white noise of my head - Peter Balakian "Waiting for a Number"
Whatever unannounced whiteout blizzard hits our blood - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"
A spark crystal in a whiteout - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Where White phosphorus is made - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"
When first the white-thorn blows - John Milton "Lycidas"
Highways burnt then whitewashed - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"
An orchard with white-washed trees - David O'Neil "Poems: Moods and Moments"
The adagio echoes in that whitewashed cave - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
And watched Magellan's white-winged ships - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
White-winged mother of crags - E.J. Pratt "Re-Born"
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