Potential Titles: Green
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somethingdarkerAnd give the earth her green again - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Listen for a green word from the redwoods - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
An ocean of green legumes joining hands - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"
With green leaves and a few visible stars - Carl Adamshick "Black Snow [I live between the bus stop]"
A green growing odour seeping up through the floor - Joan Aiken "Down Below"
Green jacket, red cap, and white owl's feather - William Allingham "The Fairies"
Green fields and flowering banks among - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.III--Noonday"
Like silver through the olive's green - Benjamin West Ball "Athens"
Through marbled gold and green - Rita Banerjee "Sleep"
A tractor skirting a green triangle - Mary Jo Bang "Children Were Erasing Their Faces"
In the sculptured undersea of silenced green - Elizabeth Bartlett "Afternoon of a Journey"
I've seen green land turn to salt - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Barren Fig Tree"
where time is green - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"
Behind a desert moon now green - Elizabeth Bartlett "Civilized Spring"
our little green where lilies were - Elizabeth Bartlett "the lovers"
the search for first green bud - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"
prepare for me some green retreat - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"
The fist of the mind grows roots and greens - Dan Beachy-Quick "Onta"
And change life's desert to a living green - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Not the abstracted greens of surrender - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
Distract me from understanding green - Terry Blackhawk "Meditation in Green"
Whole childhoods of green - Terry Blackhawk "Meditation in Green"
Fallen plum-bloom stars the green - Edmund Blunden "The Poor Man's Pig"
In the doom of green - Maxwell Bodenheim "Cry, Naked and Personal"
These mottled green and hard-bottled mineral songs - Catherine Bowman "Pears"
Green above and fire beneath - Ana Bozicevic "About Mayakovsky"
All the yards torn by their green rust beings - Russell Brakefield "Effigy"
A Faun a-peeping through the green - Rupert Brooke "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"
Thirsted for a green grave - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
Pull pink from green - Jericho Brown "Cain"
All the green herbs are stirring - William Cullen Bryant "Summer Wind"
In this temple of green silence - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"
Green blackness of the tangled wood - Giosue Carducci "F. Petrarca" transl. by Frank Sewall
To chase gold butterflies by green hedgerows - Edward Carpenter "The Great Peepshow"
All the green woods forsaking - P.J. Carroll, C.S.C. "Lady Day in Ireland"
The trees with their secrets and green faces - Paul Carroll "Untitled [I want to write a poem the birds will understand]"
Battles are fought on greens - Anne Carson "Short Talk on Pain"
Like a basket of green fruit, intact - Rosario Castellanos "Silence Concerning an Ancient Stone" transl. by George D. Schade
Cool green echoes of the voice that sings - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Beyond the Verge of Time"
Hear the green sage sing - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"
There came green devils out of the sea - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
Dim green or torn with golden scars - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
Green heart exchanged for ash - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "Why Is the Forest Lonely?"
In a bowl of green suffocation - Tiana Clark "BNA --> LAX"
Leaves of the first green of raw almonds - Alicia Cole "On an Iranian Goblet, 5,000 Years Old"
Thy choicest color was Green - Jamie Harris Coleman "The Artist Above"
Strangely green like fox-fire on the fen - Mary Elizabeth Counselman "Witch-Burning" [Weird Tales October 1936]
Prisoner of the tree and its green fingers - Hart Crane "Garden Abstract"
Four tall stags at a green mountain - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"
Burn green shoots with withered scorn - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets I"
Every green reason to wait - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"
Ancient rivers that green the desert's edge - Kwame Dawes "Eat"
The green of cloistered Knowledge - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
Acid green on the crown of his head - Monica de la Torre "Intimacy in Discourse: A Comedy in Three Movements"
The trees exhale their one green breath - Chris Dombrowski "Heron Rookery Aubade"
That watercolor done in greens - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
That green might mean so many things - Matt Donovan "Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More"
The apple green water of my mother's youthful memory - Jasmeet Dosanjh "A Spirit Friend"
Two jewels of green fire - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
Greening aisles of sacred shade - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
Of green gems on my apple tree - John Drinkwater "May Garden"
Rich with Immortal Green above - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"
A stalk of green panic and desire - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"
a green mark in the cosmic ledger - Eve L. Ewing "eschatology"
Six green singers stood at my door - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"
The pale green light of distant moons - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"
In the green jungle of wild selves - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
Till green no longer bandages what I feel - Annie Finch "Chain of Women"
Green spores carried on green light - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"
Free and burning and bright green - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"
Your ramparts green with briar fortify - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"
And paints the shadows green and red - James Elroy Flecker "The Gates of Damascus"
A restless green rout of stars - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Darting along their green flickering fronds - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Green, gold and incandescent whiteness - F.S. Flint "Lunch"
From the time when all was green - John W. Forney "Time's Changes"
Giving us orange and yellow and sometimes green - JD Fox "Coloring the Sun You Know"
Green upon waters grey - Rose Fyleman "This Island"
Covert in creeping green - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Line and green and melody - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"
Green was grey with dew - Zona Gale "One Dawn She Woke Me--"
Veiling green with grey - Zona Gale "Wonder"
The love that I give the green - Zona Gale "Wraiths"
A green that can only be perceived in dreams - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson
Green mosses in the melting snow - Alfred C. Gellis "To the Wenem Mame River"
In the green groves of the orange and lime - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Swirls of copper blue and barium green - Ian Goh "Firework"
Green cashmere sweaters on top of the glass - Natalie Goldberg "Home"
And claim the cast of green shade for ourselves - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
In saffrons and sad greens - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
The oligarchs trampling the green - Marilyn Hacker "Ghazal (Ya Lateef!)"
Every power that bids the leaf be green - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"
When spring rolled out its green - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"
Some lambient world of green and gold - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat II"
Cannot rise from the green mould - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXI"
Let its greener laurels flourish - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
Grass springs green on the plain - Ella Higginson "When the Birds Go North Again"
A green itch of weeds - Conrad Hilberry "Abandon"
Old greens not crisp enough for salad - Donna Hilbert "Ribollita"
Flashes blinding revelation green - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"
Green aquarium of phantom fish - Aldous Huxley "The Reef"
The way blue might want for green - fahima ife "spirit of the times, the spirit of death"
To move like all things green - Mark Irwin "In Autumn"
A mosaic of opaque green ice - Elizabeth Jacobson "14 Love Songs"
That spurn the pure green fern - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"
Green ice in blue water - Janet Kauffman "The Knife in the Fish"
Nothing there but green grass and sticks - Janet Kauffman "My Father Tells Me"
Painted turtles, pumpkinseed or green sunfish - Janet Kauffman "Wanting Ice"
Black stuff and blue, gold and green - Janet Kauffman "The Whirlwind Times"
Can't count invisibles in the green shallows - Janet Kauffman "Zooplankton and More"
Alive in a green crashing world - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"
A baby lizard gumdrop green - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"
Spring's thousand tender greens - Jane Kenyon "The Clearing"
Dress my uncertain path with green - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
The green boughs are beckoning me - Fanny Kemble "A Lament for the Wissahiccon"
The large green of an oak fronting the storm - "King and Hermit" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Through the green fuse drives the flower - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"
Shattering green bones on cliffs of ice - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"
The green twilight of the forest-trees - Letitia Elizabeth Landon "The Oak"
Through yonder rended veil of green - Lucy Larcom "November"
The green night-baying of the dog-star - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"
Green wine held up in the sun - D.H. Lawrence "Green"
Pomegranates like bright green stone - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"
Crown of spiked green metal - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"
A little portion of the green, ambitious earth - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"
In their garb of modest green - Henry S. Leigh "The Lord Mayor's Apotheosis"
A leaf hatching from its green shell - Rebecca Lindenberg "Ghostology"
Eyes the green of kerosene burns - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"
Endure a sunset green with poison - Federico Garcia Lorca "Ghazal of the Terrible Presence" (translated by Catherine Brown)
When the sun burnished all the green to gorse - Thomas MacDonagh "The Night Hunt"
Green shadow in a golden net - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Spring in Nazareth"
Where the golden and green intertwine - Mrs Elizabeth A (MacQueen) MacLeod "Sieur de Maisonneuve, or The Founding of Montreal"
Green golden door, swing in - Jeannette Marks "Green Golden Door"
A green thought in a green shade - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
The nymphs trip nimbly o'er the green - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
Gnawing the green roots from a blinded moon - Michael McGriff "Inversion"
Green transfused in silver - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Will know how green is spelled - W.S. Merwin "Tracing the Letters"
No grief for them in the green Spring - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
Watching black shadows on green lawns - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
When the air hums green - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"
Cedar green and molten silver - Arthur Milliken "Rhapsody"
From her green lap throws the yellow Cowslip - John Milton "Song on May Morning"
Seeded with a green sun - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Rinsing green life's yellow waters - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Colorful Words" transl. by Joshua Freeman
Now cast on flowers fresh and green - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"
In the green mouth of the wind - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Testament" transl. by Alastair Reid
In the grape's green darkness - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Green as water in October - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The green perfume of the vineyard - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Smell of Firewood" transl. by Mark Strand
The green whale of the summer - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]" transl. by Robert Bly
Three thousand green gulls - Pablo Neruda "To Search" transl. by William O'Daly
In the darkest entrails of greenness - Pablo Neruda "The South" transl. by Alastair Reid
Ancient rivers of green fire - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Alone with green seas rocking him - Henry Newbolt "Messmates"
Through the green deeps of leafy spring - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"
The horse of the park's green geometry - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"
The ground speaks green - Aimee Nezhukumatahil "Hummingbird Abecedarian"
In their green and breathing tolerance - Grace Nichols "In the Shade of a London Plane Tree"
The green silence of the branching limes - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
The uproar of whose toil filled your green vaults - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"
To wild green arts and letters - Lorine Niedecker "My Life by Water"
Not so green elsewhere - Naomi Shihab Nye "Isle of Mull, Scotland"
Shocking radiance of green - Naomi Shihab Nye "Wales"
Grace us with green slender stems - January Gill O'Neil "For Ella"
Green glass eyes of a porcelain doll - Caitriona O'Reilly "II. The Mermaid (from The Sea Cabinet)"
Grudge not the green leaves - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."
In fresher green forgetting them - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."
Green mallows enfolding the dew - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
Whose greens vary according to light and wind - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"
The green jungle of our sleep - Linda Pastan "Domestic Animals"
With green deep in their throats - Walter Pavlich "Road with Five Waterfalls"
His green shadow condenses - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Where it sleeps in green velvet - Patrick Phillips "The Guitar"
The creases between the red light and the green - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Haunted by grime and green water - Terese Mason Pierre "A New Face"
The dead thorns sharper than the green - Robert Pinsky "The Thicket"
Red dust coats the mirror's green bronze - Po Chu'i "Feelings Wakened by a Mirror" transl. by Burton Watson
The green haunts of the chickadee - Alexander Posey "Spring in Tulwa Thloco"
Rare isotopes housed in translucent green - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Runs between hanging cliffs and meadows green - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Like a psalm of green days telling - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon"
Lifting the green head of aconite - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon"
Green with the flare of life - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"
No more communicants of the green sap - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Secret darkness full of green banners - Lola Ridge "Seed"
Stroll beneath green lindens - Arthur Rimbaud "Novel" transl. by Wyatt Mason
Hunt the elusive green in gray and blue - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"
Beneath green leaves and lilies white - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
Rainbows sleeping in the green - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Wild flowers spangling every green - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
And also the green tree of grace - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
A jaunty angle sinking in the bioluminescent green - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"
The Fairies' fatal green - Sir Walter Scott "Alice Brand"
In the green flood of twilight - Clara Shanafelt "Interlude"
Glittering in green fermentation - Prageeta Sharma "Lateral Violence"
Grows me up into the green of trees - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"
Sweet green woods with heart of stone - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Lover"
Faith may blossom green again - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A New Year"
green horned lord of my waking forest - Danez Smith "C.R.E.A.M."
Green glass jars to keep the demons in - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Green to gold to blinding white - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"
Would turn the eyes of Nero green - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"
Past the green and scarlet moons - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"
And green vine angering for life - Wallace Stevens "Nomad Exquisite"
The green freedom of a cockatoo - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
As April's green endures - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
Through the mingled gloom and green - Arthur Stringer "Autumn"
With citrons yellow and tangerines still green - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson
Green bursts out of every herb - "Summer Has Come" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Assembles according to some fierce green fire - Alison Swan "Lifeboat"
Through high hedges of the green rain - May Swenson "Earth Your Dancing Place"
Dressed in Eden's green apron - May Swenson "That the Soul May Wax Plump"
Lace-cut flame green filament - Dorothea Tanning "Sequestrienne"
Keeps green and fresh in his spicy heart - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Toward the last green barrier island - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"
Blues and greens framed in a circle of filigree - Shveta Thakrar "A Love in Twelve Feathers"
Green of the seaweeds' iron - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"
Village green and woodland spells - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"
From the green hush of twilight - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
Making the green hearts flutter - Natasha Trethewey "Limen"
The green fuse that ignites us - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Belonging"
Where the green Silence laughed - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"Greenest greetings sent to Spring - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "April Walking"
Through a whole green thunderstorm - Ocean Vuong "Immigrant Haibun"
Cottage deep in the intertwining green - Wang An-shih "Impromptu: Late Spring at Pan-shan" transl. by Burton Watson
Golden water or green hail - Mary Webb "Green Rain"
And fling a very ecstasy of green - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
The first young twigs that burst in green - Edith Wharton "Spring Song"
Slow breaking into green completeness - Edith Wharton "Spring Song"
A glamour of the gorgeous summer green - Helen Hay Whitney "Alpha and Omega"
The key that opens to green arches - Helen Hay Whitney "Tranquility"
Green light burning in the stars - Dana Wilde "Abductions"
Coating this clay with green of peace - Iolo Aneurin Williams "From a Flemish Graveyard"
Time is a green orchid - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
Quietly twirling his green moustaches - William Carlos Williams "Light Hearted William"
Green stars of scrawny weed - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"
A green eye taking in the storm - Elizabeth Willis "Ephemeral Stream"
Green as the turquoise and emerald - "XXII" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Master of the black and green darkness - John Yau "Russian Letter"
The dial turned to green downpour - Dean Young "Spring Reign"
On a day the clouds turn dark green - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"
Only silence and green bones - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 12" transl. by Katherine Silver
Unified mix of greenery, gravity, and water - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"
Perched with robins and jays atop the greenery - Andre F. Peltier "When War Broke Out"
Bordering on cool but tinged with bitter-green - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
The deep-green forests of that epauletted century - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Fission-green flaw deep within - Richard Scott "Peridot"
Where the gold-green waters run - Fanny Kemble "A Lament for the Wissahiccon"
grape-green and wounded - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"
An arrangement in rust and gray-green - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"
The gray-green fruit of the juniper - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"
Green-barked yew supports the sky - "King and Hermit" transl. by Kuno Meyer
The green-eyed dog upright on his throne - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"
Green-faced violin players guarding vertical streets - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
A greenhouse I entered alone - Kiki Petrosino "Pastoral"
Toward the greenroom of John Wilkes Booth - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"
Ink of the green-skinned holly - "Colum Cille the Scribe" transl. by Kuno Meyer
The green-skinned, black-skinned garden of Osiris - Bruce Smith "Garden"
One flame in a glow of green-veined rhodonite - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
The long, green-white reverie of the horizon - Maxwell Bodenheim "Images of Life and Death: Death"
Pear-green and freckled sky - Richard Scott "Peridot"
And grief re-greens the sky - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Wind-Whipped: 5. Broken"
The sea-green shadows of your dream - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne of the Wharves"
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Listen for a green word from the redwoods - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
An ocean of green legumes joining hands - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"
With green leaves and a few visible stars - Carl Adamshick "Black Snow [I live between the bus stop]"
A green growing odour seeping up through the floor - Joan Aiken "Down Below"
Green jacket, red cap, and white owl's feather - William Allingham "The Fairies"
Green fields and flowering banks among - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.III--Noonday"
Like silver through the olive's green - Benjamin West Ball "Athens"
Through marbled gold and green - Rita Banerjee "Sleep"
A tractor skirting a green triangle - Mary Jo Bang "Children Were Erasing Their Faces"
In the sculptured undersea of silenced green - Elizabeth Bartlett "Afternoon of a Journey"
I've seen green land turn to salt - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Barren Fig Tree"
where time is green - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"
Behind a desert moon now green - Elizabeth Bartlett "Civilized Spring"
our little green where lilies were - Elizabeth Bartlett "the lovers"
the search for first green bud - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"
prepare for me some green retreat - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"
The fist of the mind grows roots and greens - Dan Beachy-Quick "Onta"
And change life's desert to a living green - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Not the abstracted greens of surrender - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
Distract me from understanding green - Terry Blackhawk "Meditation in Green"
Whole childhoods of green - Terry Blackhawk "Meditation in Green"
Fallen plum-bloom stars the green - Edmund Blunden "The Poor Man's Pig"
In the doom of green - Maxwell Bodenheim "Cry, Naked and Personal"
These mottled green and hard-bottled mineral songs - Catherine Bowman "Pears"
Green above and fire beneath - Ana Bozicevic "About Mayakovsky"
All the yards torn by their green rust beings - Russell Brakefield "Effigy"
A Faun a-peeping through the green - Rupert Brooke "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"
Thirsted for a green grave - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
Pull pink from green - Jericho Brown "Cain"
All the green herbs are stirring - William Cullen Bryant "Summer Wind"
In this temple of green silence - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"
Green blackness of the tangled wood - Giosue Carducci "F. Petrarca" transl. by Frank Sewall
To chase gold butterflies by green hedgerows - Edward Carpenter "The Great Peepshow"
All the green woods forsaking - P.J. Carroll, C.S.C. "Lady Day in Ireland"
The trees with their secrets and green faces - Paul Carroll "Untitled [I want to write a poem the birds will understand]"
Battles are fought on greens - Anne Carson "Short Talk on Pain"
Like a basket of green fruit, intact - Rosario Castellanos "Silence Concerning an Ancient Stone" transl. by George D. Schade
Cool green echoes of the voice that sings - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Beyond the Verge of Time"
Hear the green sage sing - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"
There came green devils out of the sea - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
Dim green or torn with golden scars - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
Green heart exchanged for ash - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "Why Is the Forest Lonely?"
In a bowl of green suffocation - Tiana Clark "BNA --> LAX"
Leaves of the first green of raw almonds - Alicia Cole "On an Iranian Goblet, 5,000 Years Old"
Thy choicest color was Green - Jamie Harris Coleman "The Artist Above"
Strangely green like fox-fire on the fen - Mary Elizabeth Counselman "Witch-Burning" [Weird Tales October 1936]
Prisoner of the tree and its green fingers - Hart Crane "Garden Abstract"
Four tall stags at a green mountain - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"
Burn green shoots with withered scorn - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets I"
Every green reason to wait - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"
Ancient rivers that green the desert's edge - Kwame Dawes "Eat"
The green of cloistered Knowledge - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
Acid green on the crown of his head - Monica de la Torre "Intimacy in Discourse: A Comedy in Three Movements"
The trees exhale their one green breath - Chris Dombrowski "Heron Rookery Aubade"
That watercolor done in greens - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
That green might mean so many things - Matt Donovan "Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More"
The apple green water of my mother's youthful memory - Jasmeet Dosanjh "A Spirit Friend"
Two jewels of green fire - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
Greening aisles of sacred shade - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
Of green gems on my apple tree - John Drinkwater "May Garden"
Rich with Immortal Green above - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"
A stalk of green panic and desire - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"
a green mark in the cosmic ledger - Eve L. Ewing "eschatology"
Six green singers stood at my door - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"
The pale green light of distant moons - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"
In the green jungle of wild selves - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
Till green no longer bandages what I feel - Annie Finch "Chain of Women"
Green spores carried on green light - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"
Free and burning and bright green - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"
Your ramparts green with briar fortify - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"
And paints the shadows green and red - James Elroy Flecker "The Gates of Damascus"
A restless green rout of stars - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Darting along their green flickering fronds - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Green, gold and incandescent whiteness - F.S. Flint "Lunch"
From the time when all was green - John W. Forney "Time's Changes"
Giving us orange and yellow and sometimes green - JD Fox "Coloring the Sun You Know"
Green upon waters grey - Rose Fyleman "This Island"
Covert in creeping green - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Line and green and melody - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"
Green was grey with dew - Zona Gale "One Dawn She Woke Me--"
Veiling green with grey - Zona Gale "Wonder"
The love that I give the green - Zona Gale "Wraiths"
A green that can only be perceived in dreams - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson
Green mosses in the melting snow - Alfred C. Gellis "To the Wenem Mame River"
In the green groves of the orange and lime - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Swirls of copper blue and barium green - Ian Goh "Firework"
Green cashmere sweaters on top of the glass - Natalie Goldberg "Home"
And claim the cast of green shade for ourselves - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
In saffrons and sad greens - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
The oligarchs trampling the green - Marilyn Hacker "Ghazal (Ya Lateef!)"
Every power that bids the leaf be green - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"
When spring rolled out its green - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"
Some lambient world of green and gold - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat II"
Cannot rise from the green mould - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXI"
Let its greener laurels flourish - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
Grass springs green on the plain - Ella Higginson "When the Birds Go North Again"
A green itch of weeds - Conrad Hilberry "Abandon"
Old greens not crisp enough for salad - Donna Hilbert "Ribollita"
Flashes blinding revelation green - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"
Green aquarium of phantom fish - Aldous Huxley "The Reef"
The way blue might want for green - fahima ife "spirit of the times, the spirit of death"
To move like all things green - Mark Irwin "In Autumn"
A mosaic of opaque green ice - Elizabeth Jacobson "14 Love Songs"
That spurn the pure green fern - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"
Green ice in blue water - Janet Kauffman "The Knife in the Fish"
Nothing there but green grass and sticks - Janet Kauffman "My Father Tells Me"
Painted turtles, pumpkinseed or green sunfish - Janet Kauffman "Wanting Ice"
Black stuff and blue, gold and green - Janet Kauffman "The Whirlwind Times"
Can't count invisibles in the green shallows - Janet Kauffman "Zooplankton and More"
Alive in a green crashing world - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"
A baby lizard gumdrop green - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"
Spring's thousand tender greens - Jane Kenyon "The Clearing"
Dress my uncertain path with green - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
The green boughs are beckoning me - Fanny Kemble "A Lament for the Wissahiccon"
The large green of an oak fronting the storm - "King and Hermit" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Through the green fuse drives the flower - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"
Shattering green bones on cliffs of ice - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"
The green twilight of the forest-trees - Letitia Elizabeth Landon "The Oak"
Through yonder rended veil of green - Lucy Larcom "November"
The green night-baying of the dog-star - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"
Green wine held up in the sun - D.H. Lawrence "Green"
Pomegranates like bright green stone - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"
Crown of spiked green metal - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"
A little portion of the green, ambitious earth - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"
In their garb of modest green - Henry S. Leigh "The Lord Mayor's Apotheosis"
A leaf hatching from its green shell - Rebecca Lindenberg "Ghostology"
Eyes the green of kerosene burns - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"
Endure a sunset green with poison - Federico Garcia Lorca "Ghazal of the Terrible Presence" (translated by Catherine Brown)
When the sun burnished all the green to gorse - Thomas MacDonagh "The Night Hunt"
Green shadow in a golden net - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Spring in Nazareth"
Where the golden and green intertwine - Mrs Elizabeth A (MacQueen) MacLeod "Sieur de Maisonneuve, or The Founding of Montreal"
Green golden door, swing in - Jeannette Marks "Green Golden Door"
A green thought in a green shade - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
The nymphs trip nimbly o'er the green - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
Gnawing the green roots from a blinded moon - Michael McGriff "Inversion"
Green transfused in silver - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Will know how green is spelled - W.S. Merwin "Tracing the Letters"
No grief for them in the green Spring - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
Watching black shadows on green lawns - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
When the air hums green - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"
Cedar green and molten silver - Arthur Milliken "Rhapsody"
From her green lap throws the yellow Cowslip - John Milton "Song on May Morning"
Seeded with a green sun - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Rinsing green life's yellow waters - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Colorful Words" transl. by Joshua Freeman
Now cast on flowers fresh and green - Anthony Munday "Weep, Weep, Ye Woodmen!"
In the green mouth of the wind - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Testament" transl. by Alastair Reid
In the grape's green darkness - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Green as water in October - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The green perfume of the vineyard - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Smell of Firewood" transl. by Mark Strand
The green whale of the summer - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]" transl. by Robert Bly
Three thousand green gulls - Pablo Neruda "To Search" transl. by William O'Daly
In the darkest entrails of greenness - Pablo Neruda "The South" transl. by Alastair Reid
Ancient rivers of green fire - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Alone with green seas rocking him - Henry Newbolt "Messmates"
Through the green deeps of leafy spring - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"
The horse of the park's green geometry - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"
The ground speaks green - Aimee Nezhukumatahil "Hummingbird Abecedarian"
In their green and breathing tolerance - Grace Nichols "In the Shade of a London Plane Tree"
The green silence of the branching limes - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
The uproar of whose toil filled your green vaults - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"
To wild green arts and letters - Lorine Niedecker "My Life by Water"
Not so green elsewhere - Naomi Shihab Nye "Isle of Mull, Scotland"
Shocking radiance of green - Naomi Shihab Nye "Wales"
Grace us with green slender stems - January Gill O'Neil "For Ella"
Green glass eyes of a porcelain doll - Caitriona O'Reilly "II. The Mermaid (from The Sea Cabinet)"
Grudge not the green leaves - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."
In fresher green forgetting them - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."
Green mallows enfolding the dew - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
Whose greens vary according to light and wind - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"
The green jungle of our sleep - Linda Pastan "Domestic Animals"
With green deep in their throats - Walter Pavlich "Road with Five Waterfalls"
His green shadow condenses - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Where it sleeps in green velvet - Patrick Phillips "The Guitar"
The creases between the red light and the green - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Haunted by grime and green water - Terese Mason Pierre "A New Face"
The dead thorns sharper than the green - Robert Pinsky "The Thicket"
Red dust coats the mirror's green bronze - Po Chu'i "Feelings Wakened by a Mirror" transl. by Burton Watson
The green haunts of the chickadee - Alexander Posey "Spring in Tulwa Thloco"
Rare isotopes housed in translucent green - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Runs between hanging cliffs and meadows green - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Like a psalm of green days telling - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon"
Lifting the green head of aconite - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon"
Green with the flare of life - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"
No more communicants of the green sap - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Secret darkness full of green banners - Lola Ridge "Seed"
Stroll beneath green lindens - Arthur Rimbaud "Novel" transl. by Wyatt Mason
Hunt the elusive green in gray and blue - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"
Beneath green leaves and lilies white - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
Rainbows sleeping in the green - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Wild flowers spangling every green - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
And also the green tree of grace - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
A jaunty angle sinking in the bioluminescent green - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"
The Fairies' fatal green - Sir Walter Scott "Alice Brand"
In the green flood of twilight - Clara Shanafelt "Interlude"
Glittering in green fermentation - Prageeta Sharma "Lateral Violence"
Grows me up into the green of trees - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"
Sweet green woods with heart of stone - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Lover"
Faith may blossom green again - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A New Year"
green horned lord of my waking forest - Danez Smith "C.R.E.A.M."
Green glass jars to keep the demons in - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Green to gold to blinding white - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"
Would turn the eyes of Nero green - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"
Past the green and scarlet moons - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"
And green vine angering for life - Wallace Stevens "Nomad Exquisite"
The green freedom of a cockatoo - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
As April's green endures - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
Through the mingled gloom and green - Arthur Stringer "Autumn"
With citrons yellow and tangerines still green - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson
Green bursts out of every herb - "Summer Has Come" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Assembles according to some fierce green fire - Alison Swan "Lifeboat"
Through high hedges of the green rain - May Swenson "Earth Your Dancing Place"
Dressed in Eden's green apron - May Swenson "That the Soul May Wax Plump"
Lace-cut flame green filament - Dorothea Tanning "Sequestrienne"
Keeps green and fresh in his spicy heart - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Toward the last green barrier island - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"
Blues and greens framed in a circle of filigree - Shveta Thakrar "A Love in Twelve Feathers"
Green of the seaweeds' iron - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"
Village green and woodland spells - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"
From the green hush of twilight - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
Making the green hearts flutter - Natasha Trethewey "Limen"
The green fuse that ignites us - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Belonging"
Where the green Silence laughed - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"Greenest greetings sent to Spring - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "April Walking"
Through a whole green thunderstorm - Ocean Vuong "Immigrant Haibun"
Cottage deep in the intertwining green - Wang An-shih "Impromptu: Late Spring at Pan-shan" transl. by Burton Watson
Golden water or green hail - Mary Webb "Green Rain"
And fling a very ecstasy of green - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
The first young twigs that burst in green - Edith Wharton "Spring Song"
Slow breaking into green completeness - Edith Wharton "Spring Song"
A glamour of the gorgeous summer green - Helen Hay Whitney "Alpha and Omega"
The key that opens to green arches - Helen Hay Whitney "Tranquility"
Green light burning in the stars - Dana Wilde "Abductions"
Coating this clay with green of peace - Iolo Aneurin Williams "From a Flemish Graveyard"
Time is a green orchid - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
Quietly twirling his green moustaches - William Carlos Williams "Light Hearted William"
Green stars of scrawny weed - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"
A green eye taking in the storm - Elizabeth Willis "Ephemeral Stream"
Green as the turquoise and emerald - "XXII" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Master of the black and green darkness - John Yau "Russian Letter"
The dial turned to green downpour - Dean Young "Spring Reign"
On a day the clouds turn dark green - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"
Only silence and green bones - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 12" transl. by Katherine Silver
Unified mix of greenery, gravity, and water - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"
Perched with robins and jays atop the greenery - Andre F. Peltier "When War Broke Out"
Bordering on cool but tinged with bitter-green - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
The deep-green forests of that epauletted century - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Fission-green flaw deep within - Richard Scott "Peridot"
Where the gold-green waters run - Fanny Kemble "A Lament for the Wissahiccon"
grape-green and wounded - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"
An arrangement in rust and gray-green - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"
The gray-green fruit of the juniper - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"
Green-barked yew supports the sky - "King and Hermit" transl. by Kuno Meyer
The green-eyed dog upright on his throne - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"
Green-faced violin players guarding vertical streets - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
A greenhouse I entered alone - Kiki Petrosino "Pastoral"
Toward the greenroom of John Wilkes Booth - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"
Ink of the green-skinned holly - "Colum Cille the Scribe" transl. by Kuno Meyer
The green-skinned, black-skinned garden of Osiris - Bruce Smith "Garden"
One flame in a glow of green-veined rhodonite - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
The long, green-white reverie of the horizon - Maxwell Bodenheim "Images of Life and Death: Death"
Pear-green and freckled sky - Richard Scott "Peridot"
And grief re-greens the sky - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Wind-Whipped: 5. Broken"
The sea-green shadows of your dream - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne of the Wharves"
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