Potential Titles: Gray/Grey
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somethingdarkerGrey tranquilities of mental judgment - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"
For now I climb gray hills alone - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
The first time he followed her beyond the grey lands - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
A steady lamp in a vast plain of shifting grey - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Of grey magic like rain - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
Covered with lichens red and gray - Auguste Angellier "The Old Bridge" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Roil ceaselessly in cobweb greys - Maya Angelou "Late October"
What's ghostlier than gray morning winter light? - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"
Attenuates the hour of late gray - Mary Jo Bang "The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans"
Dusted the anteroom with alibi gray - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"
Be only known by the gray ruin and the mouldering stone - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
just grayish pulp - Elizabeth Bartlett "cold wakening"
all composition of the gray sameness - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"
the grays of violent and tame - Elizabeth Bartlett "life I love"
who say all colors are gray - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
Where the gray linnets carol - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"
The first gray drops of dew - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
When grey trouble looms so near - Paul Bewsher "The Star"
A ball of twine in the grey sky - Tamiko Beyer "February"
And heavy with gray crochet - Elizabeth Bishop "Filling Station"
Her locks covered with grey despair - William Blake "Earth's Answer"
Their shamefaced grays and reds - Maxwell Bodenheim "North Clark Street, Chicago"
The white clock dropping gray minutes - Max Bodenheim "Silence"
Through gray streets beneath an ashen sky - Bruce Boston "Gray People"
Wearing gray coats and monochromatic expressions - Bruce Boston "Gray People"
Gray and threadbare from the passage of many feet - Bruce Boston "Gray People"
Pallid dawns and pale sunsets enclosing our gray inclinations - Bruce Boston "Gray People"
Written on the smooth gray stone - Louise Morey Bowman "The Witch"
With the grey alphabet of pigeons - William Brewer "In the New World"
Rivers of scarlet and crosses of grey - Vera M. Brittain "Vengeance Is Mine"
With gray walls compassed round - Anne Bronte "Home"
Vanished with a gray grief - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
A grey overcast of noise - Mahogany L. Browne "Goodnight, Moon"
Only the old grey walls remain - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Abbey Walls"
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"
Seeking nectar in a grey metropolis - Sue Budin "On Hearing of the Imminent Crash of a Satellite on Earth"
The giant swirled with grey and shadow - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"
Clothed in the gray of November - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
And makes the gray stone burn - F. O. Call "Cathedral Vespers"
Those five gray, haggard days - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
The gray stones beneath you feel young again - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"
Grey fields gone behind the set of sun - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Grey twilight and a yellow star - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Offering up their gray matter to irrational half truths - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
In the gray signatures of rivers - Billy Collins "Student of Clouds"
Grey and ghostly in the night - Arthur Colton "By the Sea"
Veiled in grey ashes sleeps - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
The campfire's last grey embers fall - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
If no grey threads are in our gold - Arthur Colton "Heirs of Time"
Time's grey insignia - Arthur Colton "The House"
Age came upon us, grey and sad - Arthur Colton "The Roman Way"
In the late, grey hours - Arthur Colton "Wayfarers"
The gray fur of a crimson cat - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"
Gray rocky meteors of memory flare - Jan Cronos "She Remains"
In azure cloak and gown of ashen grey - Olive Custance "The Autumn Day"
Where climbs the grey winter - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"
Gray which gives to Weariness unrest - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
The mistletoe with globes of sheenless grey - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"
His ax shone keen and grey - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"
Where the grey elder-thickets hang - Walter de la Mare "They Told Me"
The gray gull flaps the written stones - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"
The gray pavement show a sheeted face - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"
And the grey dust of a heart - Edward Dowden "Helena"
Fields so gray with autumn - Michael Earls, S.J. "An Autumn Rose-Tree"
Toil through the morning grey- The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"
And their ghostly, gray battalions - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"
Only are grey as diamonds are - Eleanor Farjeon "A Sheaf of Nature-Songs III"
Beside the Fairy Hawthorn grey - Samuel Ferguson "The Fairy Thorn"
O'er her low head grey and dim - Samuel Ferguson "The Fairy Thorn"
Gray prophet of the fount of Thebes - Michael Field "An Antiphony of Advent"
And the feet give up the gray walk - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"
Space with gaunt grey eyes and her brother Time - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"
The pilgrimage of grey souls passing - John Gould Fletcher "Court Lady Standing Under a Plum Tree"
Cold, gray streams of lead - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7"
Nor from those chill gray granite trees was music wrought - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
From east to west, chased by one wild grey cloud - John Freeman "The Wakers"
Gaunt and dusty grey with roaming - Robert Frost "Flower-Gathering"
Green upon waters grey - Rose Fyleman "This Island"
Dim grey with shade - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Never knew her till her hair was grey - Zona Gale "Last Night I Dreamed I Saw My Mother Young"
Green was grey with dew - Zona Gale "One Dawn She Woke Me--"
Veiling green with grey - Zona Gale "Wonder"
Then the grey dawn shall end my hateful days - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"
If the stars be gold or gray - Ellen Glasgow "Reunion"
The grey willow that danced to the moon - Goethe "The Erl-King" transl. by Sir Walter Scott
Summer's echo purging the common gray - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
Parallel greys to oppress the glance - Margherita Guidacci "All Saints' Day" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
And bade the gray seas guard - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
For brightest brown have donned a gray - Thomas Hardy "On a Discovered Curl of Hair"
Mumbling the grey wax of a song - francine j. harris "until it comes"
To grey routine hope dwindles - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVIII"
Cannot stay so dull and grey - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XLVIII"
Forget grey cares - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXXII"
Their old grey gods of Pain - F.W. Harvey "Lassington"
Tracing gray skin around the unsayable - Brenda Hillman "The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice"
The angle of gray minutes entering the medium days - Brenda Hillman "On a Day, In the World"
Vapors dark and gray as Saturn - Henry B. Hirst "The Death of the Year"
Crammed up in cities grim and grey - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
From lonely hearths too gray to tell - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Grey ghost in the mountain - Aldous Huxley "By the Fire"
In a vanishing skein of grey - Aldous Huxley "On the 'Bus"
Grey pillars bear the stooping sky - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"
Through the grey tears that blur the sky - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Grey tears that blur the sky - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
The grey dew keeps no traces - Elinor Jenkins "The Lovers' Walk"
Disappeared into sound dressed in gray - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"
Now lengthen your gray hours - Lionel Johnson "Ash Wednesday"
Gray hope was there - Lionel Johnson "Parnell"
Naught save the grim, grey pyramid - Edward Smyth Jones "The Sylvan Cabin"
Grey silk sound pulled out by hooks - Saeed Jones "Beheaded Kingdom"
The evening sky bruised dull gray - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"
More gray sneaking in each day - Allison Joseph "Thirty Lines About the 'Fro"
The shingled hippo becomes the gray unicorn - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"
The ghost snare of a gray whale's call - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"
With gray eyes lifted to the moon - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [It was harvest time: the broad, bright moon]"
From stony rifts of granite gray - Fanny Kemble "To the Wissahiccon"
Turning life into gray moss - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
A thin gray absence waiting there - Ted Kooser "Ink Black"
Grey hands growing from parched soil - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Monoculture"
In secret thickets grey - Archibald Lampman "April"
The thin mist of grey gnats - Archibald Lampman "April"
With the pale gray shadowy plumes - Archibald Lampman "By an Autumn Stream"
So gray, so haggard, and austere - Archibald Lampman "In November"
Down the gray border of night - Archibald Lampman "An October Sunset"
Grey battalions of rain - Archibald Lampman "An Ode to the Hills"
The blood-root in its sheath of gray - Archibald Lampman "The Return of the Year"
With hearts grown grey - Archibald Lampman "Song"
By that grey and solemn water - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
All the gray miles of this storm - Michael Lauchlan "Rain"
Stars punched in gray tin - Dorianne Laux "My Mother's Colander"
Gathered all that grey and moony light - Emily Lawless "From the Burren X: A Garden"
Huddles in grey heaps coiling and holding back - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"
Cliffs abutting in shadow a drear grey sea - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"
Where the grey bombers loose their metal thunder - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Little gray hunger that nibbles the night - Hailey Leithauser "Charm against Insomnia"
Gray starlings on the winter lawn - Philip Levine "For the Country: The Dream"
Clothed in my spirit's grey - Amy Levy "In a Minor Key"
Never hears their slow grey feet - Francis Ledwidge "The Shadow People"
Clouds of gray engulf the day - Robert Loveman "It's Raining Violet"
Your lovers of dull grey stone - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"
The round, grey stones of the market-place - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"
Weave a dance with ropes of gray acorns - Amy Lowell "Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H."
The old house grey among the trees - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"
Sprang from his good grey steed - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"
Up on his steed of grey - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"
Grey with the roadside dust - Dorothea Mackellar "Pilgrim Song"
Chattering in the greying dawn - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"
Like grey mist on sable wave - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: IV: Connal, Crimora"
Five grey dogs attended his steps - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XI"
Gray balsam dripping amber on the mould - Jeannette Marks "Again?"
The dove wings gray she wore - Jeannette Marks "Blind Sleep"
Out where gray waters slip - Jeannette Marks "Gray Waters"
Gray peaceful rest beside - Jeannette Marks "Gray Waters"
Out where gray waters slip - Jeannette Marks "Gray Waters"
Fire on a cloud of gray - Jeannette Marks "Last Dawn"
Beyond that last, gray step - Jeannette Marks "Mist"
A gray heron battling up against the wind - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"
With those gray eyes of the sea - Jeannette Marks "These Two"
Gray thoughts stalk round me - Jeannette Marks "Too Late"
Sees gray branches weep - Jeannette Marks "'When Spring'"
Only the frogs and the gray owl know - Don Marquis "In the Bayou"
Gray wizards of the night - George Martin "The Lover's Dream"
Gray clouds tattered into rags - John Masefield "Cardigan Bay"
When old eternity becomes mossy and gray - James E. McGirt "True Love"
A stumpy gray asymmetry of grasp - Heather McHugh "The Matter Over"
Exquisite song of the little grey days - D'Arcy McNickle "Minuet in G"
Let's be off to the gray sea's border - Mei Yao-ch'en "Back from Green Dragon, Presented to Hsieh Shih-chih" transl. by Burton Watson
The mute smoothness of grey pearls - Joanne Merriam "No Words"
Grey months to wait for spring - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"
Before the grey gate closes - Charlotte Mew "Jour des Morts (Cimetiere Montparnasse)"
The dying of the golden and the grey - Alice Meynell "Parentage"
Between the dust's grey fingers - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Interim"
White lilies by the gray hearthstone - Joaquin Miller "To Ye Fighting Lords of London Town"
The grey goose winge that was there-on - anonymous? "The More Modern Ballad of Chevy-Chase"
A path of gold on stones worn grey - K. Mounsey "To a Little House in Oxford"
Blue with stormy swirls of white and worried gray - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"
Dreaming as gray recursion - Jaye Nasir "November"
A bloom when woods are grey - Francis Neilson "A Flower"
To rob the grey shade of its spoil - Francis Neilson "Resurrection"
The gray links of lives that repeat - Pablo Neruda "Modestly" transl. by William O'Daly
The gray cry of sea birds - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid
Dressed in gray and bitter sounds - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems IX" translated by W.S. Merwin
Grey rain in roaring streams - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Under the gray waves' spinning threshold - Mary Oliver "West Wind 8"
In ranks on shivering ranks of gray - Wilfred Owen "Exposure"
It's gray that grabs you - Ron Padgett "The Hook"
My days are gray with yearning - Dorothy Parker "Now at Liberty"
With garments more gold than gray - Amy Parkinson "The Messenger Hours"
With all her makeup shades of gray and red - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"
Escaping greyness and air - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"
Smoke rising grey to white - Khadijah Queen "Erosion"
An atom cast in the pearly gray - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"
Standing on the cold, grey moon - William Reichard "In the Evening"
Pink inuendoes hooded in gray - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
In the gray stone of your face - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"
In the gray of the morn - James Whitcombe Riley "Charms I: For Corns and Things"
The gray, phantom shadows of dawn - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Hunt the elusive green in gray and blue - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"
The last gray feather to southward goes - Lloyd Roberts "At the Year's End"
Our long grey hosts of rain forever marching by - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
The shadow of Vesuvius lies gray across the land - Lloyd Roberts "The Trail from Napoli"
This changeless glimmer of dead gray - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Sonnet [Oh for a poet--]"
With the jagged grey teeth in the storm - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
And face the whole gray sky - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"
Hid beneath some passing shadows gray - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Mortal gray becomes the indigo of tides - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"
In the teeth of gray weather - Clinton Scollard "Donegal"
As warm, we'll say, is the russet grey - Sir Walter Scott "Alice Brand"
Shivering like a great grey bull - Taras Shevchenko "Hamaleia" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
The gray ones that linger at wood's edge - Joyce Sidman "The Gray Ones"
Met an army of gray days - Charles Simic "The Immortal"
Gray highway veins narrow - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"
Star of the morrow gray - John Skelton "In Praise of Isabel Pennell"
Within the rain's grey monotone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Dream-Bridge"
The grey flowers and the fallen grass - Clark Ashton Smith "Forgetfulness"
The weary, grey, forgetful heavens - Clark Ashton Smith "In November"
From autumn's grey, forgotten roses - Clark Ashton Smith "November Twilight"
Under a cold gray dragon of a sky - Richard Solomon "Report to the Bodhisattvas on the Heart Sutra After Dying in the Up on the Sturgeon River"
The gray pickerel from his reedy shoals - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
With grey, demoniac breath - George Sterling "The Death of Circe"
Grey as with oblivion - George Sterling "Duandon"
On waters, grey and lone - George Sterling "Duandon"
And grey disposal of mine art - George Sterling "The Forest Mother"
Guardian and serf of that grey house - George Sterling "The Forest Mother"
Where the wind ran grey - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Beyond the grey and desolate Gate - George Sterling "The Homing of Drake"
Grey as any rain - George Sterling "Justice"
The grey wings of fleeting Twilight - George Sterling "The Spirit of Dusk"
Had touched the world to grey - George Sterling "To Ruth Chatterton"
The rain's grey army passed - George Sterling "A Visitor"
That grey, ancient sea of sleep - M. Letitia Stockett "Sleep"
In the sorrowful greys and muffled violets - Arthur Stringer "Autumn"
No answer for life's grey monotonies - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
A whisper of life in the grey dead trees - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"
Through the shadows gray and umber - E. Sutton "The Drum"
Four grey walls, and four grey towers - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"
With emerald from our mortal mornings grey - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
Gray light on an unmade bed - Matthew Thorburn "Gray Light on an Unmade Bed"
Each grey street mourns - Iris Tree "[The caravans of spring are in the town]"
Gathering the cold grey lilies of the stars - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"
The gray faces and their merciless tongues - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"
School of gray glimpses - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"
The youthful world's grey fathers - Henry Vaughan "The Rainbow"
Till time with endless years grows gray - Hon. Robert J. Walker "Patria Spes Ultima Mundi: Flag of our Union" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]
Up from the gray of earth - Charles William Wallace "To Thee Above"
Woods of gold and skies of grey - William Watson "Autumn"
'Twixt the gold hour and the grey - William Watson "The Frontier"
Went away in the twilight gray - F.E. Weatherly "A Bunch of Flowers"
Moved like gray ghosts into the port - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Lake Lessons"
Toiled in low meadows of gray asphodel - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Clasped hands glimmer through the deepening gray - Edith Wharton "Sonnets: II. Vespers"
Paused on Earth's grey rim - Eugene R. White "Reward"
Grey on the great wall of Thought - Helen Hay Whitney "Age"
Great in loneliness of grey despair - Helen Hay Whitney "Little Sad Face"
The gray of a glass of water in a dimly lit room - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
The hawk's grey fleck along the sky - John Greenleaf Whittier "Red Riding-Hood"
The gray wizard's conjuring-book - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Some gray unfinished world in age-long reverie - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"
And scorn greyness - William Carlos Williams "Chickory and Daisies"
Straw grey, frost grey - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"
The grey of frozen ground - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"
Rimming the banked blue grey - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"
Whose days are vast and gray - William Carlos Williams "The Desolate Field"
To separate you from your greyness - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"
Always against a grey sky - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"
Touching a grey, broken sky - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"
Even you the few grey stars - William Carlos Williams "Trees"
Grey gulls among the white - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
On a sheet of grey sky - William Carlos Williams "Woman Walking"
And gray winds hunt the foam - "The Wives of Brixham"
The gray defeat of age - Willard Huntington Wright "What of the Night?"
Less kind than the gray twilight - W.B. Yeats "Into the Twilight"
Grey doves of Astarte - Francis Brett Young "Doves"
Of grey lavender bushes and weedy lawns - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"
The stars remain & do not grey - Kevin Young "Dog Star"
Black pain and grey loneliness - Zheng Min "My Oriental Soul #4: Snow, It can't be White" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Fantasy forests draped in graying waters - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 18" transl. by Katherine Silver
Love of grey-blue distance - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"
Mottled grey-blue with threats of yellow - Khadijah Queen "Declination"
A tissue-thin monotone of blue-grey buds - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"
Tense blue-grey twigs - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"
Two blue-grey birds chasing a third - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"
Dug from still quarries of grey-black air - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
On your little grey-black hillock - William Carlos Williams "Trees"
Into your grey-brown landscapes - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"
The gray-fly winds her sultry horn - John Milton "Lycidas"
Dawn grey-garbed and velvet-shod - Emily Pauline Johnson "Day Dawn"
Where many a stubble gray-goose preens - John Masefield "The Daffodil Fields"
An arrangement in rust and gray-green - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"
The gray-green fruit of the juniper - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"
The gallant greyhounds swiftly ran - anonymous? "The More Modern Ballad of Chevy-Chase"
An oceanic circus of gray-light - Jonah Mixon-Webster "Territory"
Grey-mossed and lichened by centuries - Arthur Colton "The Poet and the Fountain"
All my thoughts go fluttering gray-winged - Jeannette Marks "Proem"
A leaf-gray shadow that sings - Hilda Conkling "Tree-Toad"
Dust on the sage-grey desert - D.H. Lawrence "The Red Wolf"
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For now I climb gray hills alone - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
The first time he followed her beyond the grey lands - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
A steady lamp in a vast plain of shifting grey - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Of grey magic like rain - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
Covered with lichens red and gray - Auguste Angellier "The Old Bridge" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Roil ceaselessly in cobweb greys - Maya Angelou "Late October"
What's ghostlier than gray morning winter light? - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"
Attenuates the hour of late gray - Mary Jo Bang "The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans"
Dusted the anteroom with alibi gray - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"
Be only known by the gray ruin and the mouldering stone - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
just grayish pulp - Elizabeth Bartlett "cold wakening"
all composition of the gray sameness - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"
the grays of violent and tame - Elizabeth Bartlett "life I love"
who say all colors are gray - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
Where the gray linnets carol - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"
The first gray drops of dew - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
When grey trouble looms so near - Paul Bewsher "The Star"
A ball of twine in the grey sky - Tamiko Beyer "February"
And heavy with gray crochet - Elizabeth Bishop "Filling Station"
Her locks covered with grey despair - William Blake "Earth's Answer"
Their shamefaced grays and reds - Maxwell Bodenheim "North Clark Street, Chicago"
The white clock dropping gray minutes - Max Bodenheim "Silence"
Through gray streets beneath an ashen sky - Bruce Boston "Gray People"
Wearing gray coats and monochromatic expressions - Bruce Boston "Gray People"
Gray and threadbare from the passage of many feet - Bruce Boston "Gray People"
Pallid dawns and pale sunsets enclosing our gray inclinations - Bruce Boston "Gray People"
Written on the smooth gray stone - Louise Morey Bowman "The Witch"
With the grey alphabet of pigeons - William Brewer "In the New World"
Rivers of scarlet and crosses of grey - Vera M. Brittain "Vengeance Is Mine"
With gray walls compassed round - Anne Bronte "Home"
Vanished with a gray grief - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
A grey overcast of noise - Mahogany L. Browne "Goodnight, Moon"
Only the old grey walls remain - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Abbey Walls"
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"
Seeking nectar in a grey metropolis - Sue Budin "On Hearing of the Imminent Crash of a Satellite on Earth"
The giant swirled with grey and shadow - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"
Clothed in the gray of November - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
And makes the gray stone burn - F. O. Call "Cathedral Vespers"
Those five gray, haggard days - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
The gray stones beneath you feel young again - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"
Grey fields gone behind the set of sun - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Grey twilight and a yellow star - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Offering up their gray matter to irrational half truths - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
In the gray signatures of rivers - Billy Collins "Student of Clouds"
Grey and ghostly in the night - Arthur Colton "By the Sea"
Veiled in grey ashes sleeps - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
The campfire's last grey embers fall - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
If no grey threads are in our gold - Arthur Colton "Heirs of Time"
Time's grey insignia - Arthur Colton "The House"
Age came upon us, grey and sad - Arthur Colton "The Roman Way"
In the late, grey hours - Arthur Colton "Wayfarers"
The gray fur of a crimson cat - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"
Gray rocky meteors of memory flare - Jan Cronos "She Remains"
In azure cloak and gown of ashen grey - Olive Custance "The Autumn Day"
Where climbs the grey winter - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"
Gray which gives to Weariness unrest - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
The mistletoe with globes of sheenless grey - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"
His ax shone keen and grey - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"
Where the grey elder-thickets hang - Walter de la Mare "They Told Me"
The gray gull flaps the written stones - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"
The gray pavement show a sheeted face - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"
And the grey dust of a heart - Edward Dowden "Helena"
Fields so gray with autumn - Michael Earls, S.J. "An Autumn Rose-Tree"
Toil through the morning grey- The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"
And their ghostly, gray battalions - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"
Only are grey as diamonds are - Eleanor Farjeon "A Sheaf of Nature-Songs III"
Beside the Fairy Hawthorn grey - Samuel Ferguson "The Fairy Thorn"
O'er her low head grey and dim - Samuel Ferguson "The Fairy Thorn"
Gray prophet of the fount of Thebes - Michael Field "An Antiphony of Advent"
And the feet give up the gray walk - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"
Space with gaunt grey eyes and her brother Time - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"
The pilgrimage of grey souls passing - John Gould Fletcher "Court Lady Standing Under a Plum Tree"
Cold, gray streams of lead - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7"
Nor from those chill gray granite trees was music wrought - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
From east to west, chased by one wild grey cloud - John Freeman "The Wakers"
Gaunt and dusty grey with roaming - Robert Frost "Flower-Gathering"
Green upon waters grey - Rose Fyleman "This Island"
Dim grey with shade - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Never knew her till her hair was grey - Zona Gale "Last Night I Dreamed I Saw My Mother Young"
Green was grey with dew - Zona Gale "One Dawn She Woke Me--"
Veiling green with grey - Zona Gale "Wonder"
Then the grey dawn shall end my hateful days - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"
If the stars be gold or gray - Ellen Glasgow "Reunion"
The grey willow that danced to the moon - Goethe "The Erl-King" transl. by Sir Walter Scott
Summer's echo purging the common gray - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
Parallel greys to oppress the glance - Margherita Guidacci "All Saints' Day" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
And bade the gray seas guard - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
For brightest brown have donned a gray - Thomas Hardy "On a Discovered Curl of Hair"
Mumbling the grey wax of a song - francine j. harris "until it comes"
To grey routine hope dwindles - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVIII"
Cannot stay so dull and grey - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XLVIII"
Forget grey cares - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXXII"
Their old grey gods of Pain - F.W. Harvey "Lassington"
Tracing gray skin around the unsayable - Brenda Hillman "The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice"
The angle of gray minutes entering the medium days - Brenda Hillman "On a Day, In the World"
Vapors dark and gray as Saturn - Henry B. Hirst "The Death of the Year"
Crammed up in cities grim and grey - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
From lonely hearths too gray to tell - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Grey ghost in the mountain - Aldous Huxley "By the Fire"
In a vanishing skein of grey - Aldous Huxley "On the 'Bus"
Grey pillars bear the stooping sky - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"
Through the grey tears that blur the sky - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Grey tears that blur the sky - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
The grey dew keeps no traces - Elinor Jenkins "The Lovers' Walk"
Disappeared into sound dressed in gray - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"
Now lengthen your gray hours - Lionel Johnson "Ash Wednesday"
Gray hope was there - Lionel Johnson "Parnell"
Naught save the grim, grey pyramid - Edward Smyth Jones "The Sylvan Cabin"
Grey silk sound pulled out by hooks - Saeed Jones "Beheaded Kingdom"
The evening sky bruised dull gray - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"
More gray sneaking in each day - Allison Joseph "Thirty Lines About the 'Fro"
The shingled hippo becomes the gray unicorn - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"
The ghost snare of a gray whale's call - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"
With gray eyes lifted to the moon - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [It was harvest time: the broad, bright moon]"
From stony rifts of granite gray - Fanny Kemble "To the Wissahiccon"
Turning life into gray moss - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
A thin gray absence waiting there - Ted Kooser "Ink Black"
Grey hands growing from parched soil - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Monoculture"
In secret thickets grey - Archibald Lampman "April"
The thin mist of grey gnats - Archibald Lampman "April"
With the pale gray shadowy plumes - Archibald Lampman "By an Autumn Stream"
So gray, so haggard, and austere - Archibald Lampman "In November"
Down the gray border of night - Archibald Lampman "An October Sunset"
Grey battalions of rain - Archibald Lampman "An Ode to the Hills"
The blood-root in its sheath of gray - Archibald Lampman "The Return of the Year"
With hearts grown grey - Archibald Lampman "Song"
By that grey and solemn water - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
All the gray miles of this storm - Michael Lauchlan "Rain"
Stars punched in gray tin - Dorianne Laux "My Mother's Colander"
Gathered all that grey and moony light - Emily Lawless "From the Burren X: A Garden"
Huddles in grey heaps coiling and holding back - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"
Cliffs abutting in shadow a drear grey sea - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"
Where the grey bombers loose their metal thunder - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Little gray hunger that nibbles the night - Hailey Leithauser "Charm against Insomnia"
Gray starlings on the winter lawn - Philip Levine "For the Country: The Dream"
Clothed in my spirit's grey - Amy Levy "In a Minor Key"
Never hears their slow grey feet - Francis Ledwidge "The Shadow People"
Clouds of gray engulf the day - Robert Loveman "It's Raining Violet"
Your lovers of dull grey stone - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"
The round, grey stones of the market-place - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"
Weave a dance with ropes of gray acorns - Amy Lowell "Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H."
The old house grey among the trees - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"
Sprang from his good grey steed - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"
Up on his steed of grey - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"
Grey with the roadside dust - Dorothea Mackellar "Pilgrim Song"
Chattering in the greying dawn - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"
Like grey mist on sable wave - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: IV: Connal, Crimora"
Five grey dogs attended his steps - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XI"
Gray balsam dripping amber on the mould - Jeannette Marks "Again?"
The dove wings gray she wore - Jeannette Marks "Blind Sleep"
Out where gray waters slip - Jeannette Marks "Gray Waters"
Gray peaceful rest beside - Jeannette Marks "Gray Waters"
Out where gray waters slip - Jeannette Marks "Gray Waters"
Fire on a cloud of gray - Jeannette Marks "Last Dawn"
Beyond that last, gray step - Jeannette Marks "Mist"
A gray heron battling up against the wind - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"
With those gray eyes of the sea - Jeannette Marks "These Two"
Gray thoughts stalk round me - Jeannette Marks "Too Late"
Sees gray branches weep - Jeannette Marks "'When Spring'"
Only the frogs and the gray owl know - Don Marquis "In the Bayou"
Gray wizards of the night - George Martin "The Lover's Dream"
Gray clouds tattered into rags - John Masefield "Cardigan Bay"
When old eternity becomes mossy and gray - James E. McGirt "True Love"
A stumpy gray asymmetry of grasp - Heather McHugh "The Matter Over"
Exquisite song of the little grey days - D'Arcy McNickle "Minuet in G"
Let's be off to the gray sea's border - Mei Yao-ch'en "Back from Green Dragon, Presented to Hsieh Shih-chih" transl. by Burton Watson
The mute smoothness of grey pearls - Joanne Merriam "No Words"
Grey months to wait for spring - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"
Before the grey gate closes - Charlotte Mew "Jour des Morts (Cimetiere Montparnasse)"
The dying of the golden and the grey - Alice Meynell "Parentage"
Between the dust's grey fingers - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Interim"
White lilies by the gray hearthstone - Joaquin Miller "To Ye Fighting Lords of London Town"
The grey goose winge that was there-on - anonymous? "The More Modern Ballad of Chevy-Chase"
A path of gold on stones worn grey - K. Mounsey "To a Little House in Oxford"
Blue with stormy swirls of white and worried gray - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"
Dreaming as gray recursion - Jaye Nasir "November"
A bloom when woods are grey - Francis Neilson "A Flower"
To rob the grey shade of its spoil - Francis Neilson "Resurrection"
The gray links of lives that repeat - Pablo Neruda "Modestly" transl. by William O'Daly
The gray cry of sea birds - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid
Dressed in gray and bitter sounds - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems IX" translated by W.S. Merwin
Grey rain in roaring streams - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Under the gray waves' spinning threshold - Mary Oliver "West Wind 8"
In ranks on shivering ranks of gray - Wilfred Owen "Exposure"
It's gray that grabs you - Ron Padgett "The Hook"
My days are gray with yearning - Dorothy Parker "Now at Liberty"
With garments more gold than gray - Amy Parkinson "The Messenger Hours"
With all her makeup shades of gray and red - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"
Escaping greyness and air - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"
Smoke rising grey to white - Khadijah Queen "Erosion"
An atom cast in the pearly gray - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"
Standing on the cold, grey moon - William Reichard "In the Evening"
Pink inuendoes hooded in gray - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
In the gray stone of your face - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"
In the gray of the morn - James Whitcombe Riley "Charms I: For Corns and Things"
The gray, phantom shadows of dawn - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Hunt the elusive green in gray and blue - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"
The last gray feather to southward goes - Lloyd Roberts "At the Year's End"
Our long grey hosts of rain forever marching by - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
The shadow of Vesuvius lies gray across the land - Lloyd Roberts "The Trail from Napoli"
This changeless glimmer of dead gray - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Sonnet [Oh for a poet--]"
With the jagged grey teeth in the storm - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
And face the whole gray sky - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"
Hid beneath some passing shadows gray - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Mortal gray becomes the indigo of tides - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"
In the teeth of gray weather - Clinton Scollard "Donegal"
As warm, we'll say, is the russet grey - Sir Walter Scott "Alice Brand"
Shivering like a great grey bull - Taras Shevchenko "Hamaleia" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
The gray ones that linger at wood's edge - Joyce Sidman "The Gray Ones"
Met an army of gray days - Charles Simic "The Immortal"
Gray highway veins narrow - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"
Star of the morrow gray - John Skelton "In Praise of Isabel Pennell"
Within the rain's grey monotone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Dream-Bridge"
The grey flowers and the fallen grass - Clark Ashton Smith "Forgetfulness"
The weary, grey, forgetful heavens - Clark Ashton Smith "In November"
From autumn's grey, forgotten roses - Clark Ashton Smith "November Twilight"
Under a cold gray dragon of a sky - Richard Solomon "Report to the Bodhisattvas on the Heart Sutra After Dying in the Up on the Sturgeon River"
The gray pickerel from his reedy shoals - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
With grey, demoniac breath - George Sterling "The Death of Circe"
Grey as with oblivion - George Sterling "Duandon"
On waters, grey and lone - George Sterling "Duandon"
And grey disposal of mine art - George Sterling "The Forest Mother"
Guardian and serf of that grey house - George Sterling "The Forest Mother"
Where the wind ran grey - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Beyond the grey and desolate Gate - George Sterling "The Homing of Drake"
Grey as any rain - George Sterling "Justice"
The grey wings of fleeting Twilight - George Sterling "The Spirit of Dusk"
Had touched the world to grey - George Sterling "To Ruth Chatterton"
The rain's grey army passed - George Sterling "A Visitor"
That grey, ancient sea of sleep - M. Letitia Stockett "Sleep"
In the sorrowful greys and muffled violets - Arthur Stringer "Autumn"
No answer for life's grey monotonies - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
A whisper of life in the grey dead trees - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"
Through the shadows gray and umber - E. Sutton "The Drum"
Four grey walls, and four grey towers - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"
With emerald from our mortal mornings grey - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
Gray light on an unmade bed - Matthew Thorburn "Gray Light on an Unmade Bed"
Each grey street mourns - Iris Tree "[The caravans of spring are in the town]"
Gathering the cold grey lilies of the stars - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"
The gray faces and their merciless tongues - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"
School of gray glimpses - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"
The youthful world's grey fathers - Henry Vaughan "The Rainbow"
Till time with endless years grows gray - Hon. Robert J. Walker "Patria Spes Ultima Mundi: Flag of our Union" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]
Up from the gray of earth - Charles William Wallace "To Thee Above"
Woods of gold and skies of grey - William Watson "Autumn"
'Twixt the gold hour and the grey - William Watson "The Frontier"
Went away in the twilight gray - F.E. Weatherly "A Bunch of Flowers"
Moved like gray ghosts into the port - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Lake Lessons"
Toiled in low meadows of gray asphodel - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Clasped hands glimmer through the deepening gray - Edith Wharton "Sonnets: II. Vespers"
Paused on Earth's grey rim - Eugene R. White "Reward"
Grey on the great wall of Thought - Helen Hay Whitney "Age"
Great in loneliness of grey despair - Helen Hay Whitney "Little Sad Face"
The gray of a glass of water in a dimly lit room - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
The hawk's grey fleck along the sky - John Greenleaf Whittier "Red Riding-Hood"
The gray wizard's conjuring-book - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Some gray unfinished world in age-long reverie - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"
And scorn greyness - William Carlos Williams "Chickory and Daisies"
Straw grey, frost grey - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"
The grey of frozen ground - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"
Rimming the banked blue grey - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"
Whose days are vast and gray - William Carlos Williams "The Desolate Field"
To separate you from your greyness - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"
Always against a grey sky - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"
Touching a grey, broken sky - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"
Even you the few grey stars - William Carlos Williams "Trees"
Grey gulls among the white - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
On a sheet of grey sky - William Carlos Williams "Woman Walking"
And gray winds hunt the foam - "The Wives of Brixham"
The gray defeat of age - Willard Huntington Wright "What of the Night?"
Less kind than the gray twilight - W.B. Yeats "Into the Twilight"
Grey doves of Astarte - Francis Brett Young "Doves"
Of grey lavender bushes and weedy lawns - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"
The stars remain & do not grey - Kevin Young "Dog Star"
Black pain and grey loneliness - Zheng Min "My Oriental Soul #4: Snow, It can't be White" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Fantasy forests draped in graying waters - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 18" transl. by Katherine Silver
Love of grey-blue distance - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"
Mottled grey-blue with threats of yellow - Khadijah Queen "Declination"
A tissue-thin monotone of blue-grey buds - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"
Tense blue-grey twigs - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"
Two blue-grey birds chasing a third - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"
Dug from still quarries of grey-black air - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
On your little grey-black hillock - William Carlos Williams "Trees"
Into your grey-brown landscapes - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"
The gray-fly winds her sultry horn - John Milton "Lycidas"
Dawn grey-garbed and velvet-shod - Emily Pauline Johnson "Day Dawn"
Where many a stubble gray-goose preens - John Masefield "The Daffodil Fields"
An arrangement in rust and gray-green - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"
The gray-green fruit of the juniper - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"
The gallant greyhounds swiftly ran - anonymous? "The More Modern Ballad of Chevy-Chase"
An oceanic circus of gray-light - Jonah Mixon-Webster "Territory"
Grey-mossed and lichened by centuries - Arthur Colton "The Poet and the Fountain"
All my thoughts go fluttering gray-winged - Jeannette Marks "Proem"
A leaf-gray shadow that sings - Hilda Conkling "Tree-Toad"
Dust on the sage-grey desert - D.H. Lawrence "The Red Wolf"
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