Potential Titles: Hour

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Like the afterhours inside a library - Carolina Ebeid "[You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior]"


This flimsy math of hours - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"

Above the ground for another cluster of hours - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"

Light in the sinning hours - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"

Accomplices that come befriending languid hours - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"

The terrible music of the slipping hours - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"

For every hour of sky - Leonie Adams "Never Enough of Living"

Though it always mistakes the hour - Kim Addonizio "Darkening Then Brightening"

In hours always uncertain - Etel Adnan "Night"

Every evening at the same hour - Daisy Aldan "Women at Windows"

The hour when the wonders open - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

What hour may bring the doom - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"

Yet I hold one hour beyond all price - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Carved on Life's facade of hours - Auguste Angellier "The Garland of Sleep" transl. by Henry van Dyke

Each fragment paints its little hour - Alice M. Ardagh "Sic Passim"

An hour's lull in the space-time continuum - Simon Armitage "Gravity"

Unknown for an hour - Simon Armitage "The Review"

Answers not the hour's demand - Albion Fellows Bacon "Eclipse"

Dieted down to twelve hours of light - Mary Jo Bang "The Beauties of Nature"

Attenuates the hour of late gray - Mary Jo Bang "The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans"

A watch that kept adding up the hours - Mary Jo Bang "Hanging the Curtain"

Outraced the latest hour of midnight - Mary Jo Bang "The Head of a Dancer"

Cabins on either side of an hour - Mary Jo Bang "In November We Inched Closer"

Accepted by the empty hour - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

Metal filings filled the hour - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

Silver radiance of the twilight hour - Maurice Baring "Vita Nuova"

Night is your hour - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"

have seen the between hours - Elizabeth Bartlett "dusk I love"

drew forth an hour's spark - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"

that hour cannot die - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"

And shudder at the striking hour - Charles Baudelaire "A Madrigal of Sorrow" transl. not credited

Until that melancholy hour - Charles Baudelaire "The Owls" transl. not credited

Now as in a bygone hour - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Grateful in the hour of drought - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

The jocund Hours are fluttering seen - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"

Hours away from starvation - Robin Becker "Hummingbird"

On feet that outstripped the Hours - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

Became magnificence for my hour - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Dragging slow chains the hours went by - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

Crushed by machining, implacable hours - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"

The wisdom of the present hour - Park Benjamin "Press On"

Those buried hours - Reginald Dwayne Betts "Legacy"

Cast elusive perfume on each hour - Paul Bewsher "The Country Beautiful"

At the fourth hour of the night - Frank Bidart "Love Incarnate"

Calmly wait the hour of his decay - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

The hieroglyphics of his leisure hours - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

The changeful hours of daylight - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

Founded on the practice of the hour - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: Alfred and Jennet"

The grim destiny of the hour - Edmund Blunden "Sheet Lightning"

Separated hour from hour - Louise Bogan "Words for Departure"

The mirror in the lavender hour - Sara Borjas "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"

A clock that makes a different noise every hour - Bruce Boston "Surreal Domestic"

The blue hour from which there is no escape - Julia Bouwsma "I Walk My Road at Dusk"

Turning like the hinge of hours - William Brewer "The Good News"

Hear the heart-beat of the hours - Roscoe W. Brink "Helen Is Ill"

Lonely here in recognition's hour - Vera M. Brittain "To A V.C."

A throttled hour - Lucie Brock-Broido "Of the Finished World"

Beneath the hardback hour - Lucie Brock-Broido "Spain"

My hours of tryst are over - Ruth Margaret Muskrat [Bronson] "Nunih Waiyah"

Pole-star of my darkest hours - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

Yearning for shadows and the darkened hours - Caris Brooke "March Violets"

Within each hour the precious minutes lie - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"

While hours sauntered past - Sterling A. Brown "Return"

No better cloister from the bickering hours - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"

Deferred the hour ordained - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

A shadow for the noontide hour - William Cullen Bryant "The Planting of the Apple Tree"

Slow plague shall bring the fatal hour - William Cullen Bryant "Sonnet to --"

Golden hours on angel wings - Robert Burns "Highland Mary"

Through the silver-pure hours - Amelia Josephine Burr "Perugia"

Rough-hewn hours of practice and malcontent - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"

For hours, the flowers were enough - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"

Hours and angers - Lauren Camp "Original Hope"

That bitter hour drained the life from me - Ethna Carbery "The Love-Talker"

Had rained diamonds for an hour - Will Carleton "Wealth"

One white hour of life - Bliss Carman "A Sea Child"

The flight of the fox-foot hours - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Vagabondia"

In all hours of life and death - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"

All the hours forsaken of her face - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"

Move to the quick measure of the hours - Walter Richard Cassels "Spring"

Slight children of an hour - John R. Chamberlain "Lines"

The hour's tedious orbit - Jennifer Chang "Lost Child"

In the dark abundant hours - Chen Chen "The School of Night & Hyphens"

He also looked forth for an hour - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

One far fierce hour and sweet - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"

Golden hours we freely spent - Arthur Colton "Twenty Years Hence"

In the late, grey hours - Arthur Colton "Wayfarers"

Strike their inaudible hour - Susan Coolidge "Time to Go"

Where voices low and sweet the hours beguiled - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Heir of every hour - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"

The hour of his heart's despairing - James H. Cousins "The Southern Cross"

All hours clapped dense into a single stride - Hart Crane "Recitative"

Her turning shoulders wind the hours - Hart Crane "Voyages II"

Round Time's dial thronged the hours - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

The hours by their shadows - Adelaide Crapsey "The Sun-Dial"

Haggard beggars of hours that die - George Cronyn "Song in Winter"

Who patiently knit dark hours into tangled shrouds - Shutta Crum "Always, there are mothers"

by certain foolish perfect hours - E. E. Cummings "Amores (IX)"

Through the young and awkward hours - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"

a slender dimness in the unshapeful hour - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

Fall in a pride of petaled hours - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"

To fill the empty stretch of hours between alms - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"

Stark hours of panther-footed dark - Coningsby Dawson "Unanswerable Questions"

Spinning the guileless hours away - Walter de la Mare "Voices"

Shifting on the hour in spliced histories - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

Three hours after the celestial attack - Monica de la Torre "Poem in Spanish"

Deep in the moth hour - Diana Marie Delgado "Correspondence"

The hours call out their commands - Carl Dennis "Bimini Queen"

Though they must drag a net of heavy hours - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"

The witched hours of want - Natalie Diaz "From the Desire Field"

For frigid hour of mind - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXIV"

A cuckoo sounds the hour of rest - Irving Sidney Dix "Twin Lake: In the Wayne Highlands"

The tattered hour when moths arrive - Chris Dombrowski "Statesboro Blues"

Clasp me to this impossible hour - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

Truer representation of the hours' ruse - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

The hour the world wants most from me - Chris Dombrowski "Whittling"

How noteless creep the hours - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Hours after the last act is dust - Timothy Donnelly "Habitable Nebula"

The hour that we spend complacent - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"

That reddened all the hours - Jeanne d'Orge "Memories"

If pleasure steal from toil one hour - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset "Think Before You Speak; Or, The Three Wishes"

And the hours forgot to pass - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Summer"

Some far faint-gleaming hour of Hell - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

That sweet strain of hours - Edward Dowden "From April to October: III. The Dawn"

Ancient sunsets and lost hours - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"

Through all the hours that laugh - Edward Dowden "Millet's 'The Sower'"

Clear in this dismantled hour - Edward Dowden "Winter Noontide"

A twilight hour of breath - Ernest Dowson "Extreme Unction"

The cricket has called the second hour - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Like the hours of doom - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"

To a few golden hours diminished - Helen Parry Eden "A Prayer for St Innocent's Day"

Unbroken dark hours - Safia Elhillio "how to say"

in the aperture of the sunless hours - Safia Elhillo "Transport"

The evening hour that strives homeward - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land III: The Fire Sermon"

All scorning the jaded hours - Eleanor Farjeon "A Sheaf of Nature-Songs V"

No bell to call the Hours - "The Feathered Hermit" transl. by Eleanor Hull

In one of those strange hours - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

The brief renascence of the midnight hour - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Hope destined an hour to last - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VII. In a Bar Room"

The knowledge of his hour - John Gould Fletcher "The Traitor"

Creation's first imperfect hours - "Flora: a Vision"

Knows but the sweet survival of an hour - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"

Remember each hour alone - Nick Flynn "Epithalamion"

Wearing a quill dress of hours - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen b"

A house made of hours - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"

Have grown a child of hours - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"

The violent order of hours - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 6"

Hours like dull gold - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Winter Watch"

The black and white collapse of hours - Carolyn Forche "Selective Service"

A rosary of unanswered hours - Ariel Francisco "Insomniami"

For the hour of the red battle-harvest - Gilbert Frankau "A Song of the Guns"

As the soft-shod hours passed - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

Obtain such grace of hours - Robert Frost "Rose Pogonias"

Dream upon the opposing lights of the hour - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"

The opposing lights of the hour - Robert Frost "Waiting Afield at Dusk"

you'd speak only truths for six hours afterwards - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"

With faint rememberings of hours - Zona Gale "Ballade of Old Perfumes"

Some unclaimed and starry hour - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Quiet hours and empty blue - Zona Gale "Wraiths"

Who slowed the jagged hours with absinthe - Dana Gioia "Tedium"

Scheduled hours of bartered joy - Louis Golding "Lady of Babylon"

Still had hopes my later hours to crown - Oliver Goldsmith "Old Age"

By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour - Oliver Goldsmith "The Village Preacher"

Can teach the hour to speak - Gerald Gould "Oxford"

What every hour is free to learn - Gerald Gould "Oxford"

Yearning for solace in desolate hours - C. L. Graves "On Re-Reading 'Barchester Towers'"

The rooster keeps faith with his hour - Linda Gregerson "Petrarchan"

Then kneel to duty's hour - James Roane Gregory "Storm Lights"

Waiting hours, before the brazen frenzy starts - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"

The hour of passion's unforgotten tryst - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"

A harrowing tale of dear departed hours - Eliza Paul Gurney "[Hush, hush! my thoughts are resting]"

This hour of stars and music - Ivor Gurney "'Annie Laurie'"

The hour of thy dread passion - Ivor Gurney "To the Poet Before Battle"

Lost hours, lost friends, lost pleasures - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Tastes many nameless hours - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Love's Mode of Action"

Only the hours’ pageant - Hazel Hall "The Circle"

In that hot sweet hour - Radclyffe Hall "On the Hill-Side"

Dreams of prouder hours to come - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"

Exalt and crown the hour - Thomas Hardy "A Young Man's Exhortation"

In victory's hour of pride - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

The dark hour of stern delight - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

Hours of suspense and vigils of regret - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

Some bright hour on rapture's wing - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

The fiat of that midnight hour - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

That still and speechless hour - Felicia Hemans "Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte"

To speed the banquet's hour - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"

In the hour of need and day of trouble - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--Brother and Friend"

The memories of hours where his brother had years - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"

That once could empty out an hour - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"

Light in the hour of lemon & water - Brenda Hillman "The Late Cold War"

No twenty-fifth hour will be given - Jane Hirshfield "Ledger"

The hours of growing restlessness - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

Did my eyes profane the hour - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

The grinding hours since I left - Meredith Holmes "In Praise of My Bed"

Though Error for an hour hold - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The hour you slipped away - Walter Edwards Houghton, Jr. "Recall"

Through dark Destiny's hour - Mrs. Volney E. Howard "The Dusty White Rose"

Jocund sports beguile the silent hours - J.H.I. "Ethelbert and Elfrida" [The Mirror of Literature issue 576 Nov 17 1832]

To dissolve an empty hour - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Curiosities"

Those hours outrunning ghosts - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Pacman"

The truant hour came back at dawn - Emily Pauline Johnson "The King's Consort"

In one lonely lingering hour - Helene Johnson "A Southern Road"

Now lengthen your gray hours - Lionel Johnson "Ash Wednesday"

On a windy hour of noon - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

Prepare the secret of the fatal hours - Lionel Johnson "Mystic and Cavalier"

The ancient hours live yet - Lionel Johnson "Oracles"

Solitary griefs, desolate passions, aching hours - Lionel Johnson "The Precept of Silence"

Favorable hours hymned by Pan - Lionel Johnson "Summer Storm"

A vacant hour before the sun - Devin Johnston "Aubade"

Wades out into the blue hour - Saeed Jones "Cruel Body"

In an hour colored tourmaline - Saeed Jones "Hour Between Dog & Wolf"

The first hour in a life without clocks - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

Every empty hour is wrought of gold - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "As a Still Brook"

Surrounded by the dying hour - C.R. Jury "Love"

The fruit of my best hour - C.R. Jury "Sonnet"

Refuge in his hour of dread - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

So many hundreds of hours of bliss - Laura Kasischke "Recall the Carousel"

Entranced by calm of midnight hours - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"

A moan upon the midnight hours - John Keats "Psyche"

To soothe our parting hour - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"

From hours of weary waking - Fanny Kemble "Lines for Music [Good night! from music's softest spell]"

The strife of hourly being - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [But to be still! oh, but to cease awhile]"

In Time's storehouse lie days, hours, and moments - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Say thou not sadly, "never," and "no more,"]"

Filling the brief space of one mortal hour - Fanny Kemble "To --- [I would I might be with thee, when the year]"

Time beckons on the hours - Fanny Kemble "To Miss ---"

And in her train the hour of parting - Fanny Kemble "To Miss ---"

The tale of all my blissful hours - Joyce Kilmer "Tribute"

The hour of watching and envy - Rudyard Kipling "The Centaurs"

Hours that grind us in our places - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

The hour I walked into - Joanna Klink "Pericardium"

The hours adjusting the neatly clicking gears - Edgar Kunz "Tuning"

At every hour the wind awoke - Archibald Lampman "After Rain"

Saw the echoing hours go by - Archibald Lampman "The Frogs"

In the full furnace of this hour - Archibald Lampman "Heat"

The hours slip bitterly over - Archibald Lampman "One Day"

In some former curious hour - Archibald Lampman "Sunset"

The treasure of hours gone - Archibald Lampman "Winter Hues Recalled"

Necklace of days bracelets of hours - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"

Pale against this gorgeous hour - Lucy Larcom "November"

The hour when the sun dreams - Irene Latham "This Is the Hour"

Restless hours with ceaseless hum - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

The hours have tumbled their leaden, monotonous sands - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"

Release them when the hour strikes - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"

And rouse them to the urgent hour - Emma Lazarus "The Banner of the Jew"

An hour for our tears - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XII: A Lost Hour"

That filled their destined hours - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory of the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"

At twilight hour to commune - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

Through an unheeded hour - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"

Dividing the hours into two mismatched halves - Yoon Ha Lee "Equinox"

One hour of sojourn on the wide blue sea - Henry S. Leigh "A Fit of the Blues"

Poised for hours in her spun palace - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"

Chased the changeful hours - Amy Levy "Between the Showers"

In the small hours even God drinks alone - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"

The hours when I am not who I am - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Leave your arms loose in the hour - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"

The dead hours in their graves - Vachel Lindsay "The Boat with the Kite String and the Celestial Eyes"

Their hours are clocked by impulse - Katinka Loeser "Spring Is the Time for Flowers"

My own book of your last hours - Audre Lorde "Legacy -- Hers"

The key which hides a world empty of hours - Amy Lowell "The Matrix"

As fly the irrevocable hours - James Russell Lowell "For a Bell at Cornell University"

In the quiet transformations of each hour - Mario Luzi "Las Animas" transl. by Dana Gioia

Pour her dreary note upon the solemn hour - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things III: Ruins" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Ghosts of long-dead hours - Dorothea Mackellar "The Closed Door"

Only Pan walks hourly here - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

The hours stage their jumbled drama - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

Circle through a crumbling hour - Edwin Markham "The Goblin Laugh"

Through hours that whirl to dust - Jeannette Marks "Bubbles"

Where Time enters not with his Hours - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Unconquered by the sunless hours - Don Marquis "Silvia"

For one clean hour of struggle - John Masefield "The Khalif's Judgment"

These many thousand hours - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

One lethed hour that duty never brings - Florence Ripley Mastin "Moth Moon"

In the hush of hidden hours - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"

Inside each hour that moved - Shara McCallum "Gravid Gravitas"

A few hours to encircle in entirety - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

Bowed down for one flame hour - Claude McKay "The City's Love"

Through hours of soulful dread - Claude McKay "One Year After"

The flying hours shall chase regret - Louis J. McQuilland "Chateau d'Espoir"

Flaunts the sullen hours - Louis J. McQuilland "Queens in Red and White"

That hour of the piercing shaft - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

That robe of printed hours - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

Will not live another hour - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"

This sudden hour retrieves the purpose of the past - Alice Meynell "The Two Poets"

Keep your golden hour - Alice Meynell "Your Own Fair Youth"

The hour has already scattered - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"

My seven brief hours of mortal life - "Midges in the Sunshine"

Swelling out like hours - Jenny Molberg "Our Lady of the Rio Grande"

The hours dissolve in time - N. Scott Momaday "Meditation on Wilderness"

Its spirit haunt him in romantic hours - Robert Montgomery "Beautiful Influences" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Not without hours of joy - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"

The long hours spent sweating - Ed Morales "The Talking Coconut"

Amid the multitude of buried hours - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

From my memory raze one hour - Anna Cora Mowatt "To My Sisters: Written After Their Departure for Europe"

The throat of these hours - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Like a bell holds space between the hours - Miguel Murphy "Demon and the Dove"

All the glow of fragrant hours - Francis Neilson "The Garden Made for Me"

The burning stars, the fainting hours - Francis Neilson "The Keeper of the Kisses"

Rise from dreary hours - Francis Neilson "Rejuvenation"

The hour of fallen leaves - Pablo Neruda "The Egoist" transl. by William O'Daly

Raising hours to the light - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The hour of great solitude - Pablo Neruda "The Stones and the Birds" transl. by Dennis Maloney

If such an hour goes by with all the rest - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"

Rose-crown for the dancing hours - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"

Mad counsels in its hour - John Henry Newman "England"

For their brief hour unbound - John Henry Newman "The Sign of the Cross"

Counts the hours until it can turn toward the sun - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

That drank its age's fuel in an hour - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons II. The Past"

Asleep within the deadest hour of night - Robert Nichols "To ---"

Where loiter all the coming hours - Meredith Nicholson "A Secret"

In present hours as in the years gone by - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "Love Not"

And fix the future hours, dark or bright - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

The lie may steal an hour - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Withheld his judgment for an hour - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Cuvier: The Vera Causa"

Lift out the gleaming hours - Naomi Shihab Nye "Every Day"

Three secret hours before dawn - Naomi Shihab Nye "Muchas Gracias por Todo"

The hours are distributed according to need - Achy Obejas "Naiad"

Somewhere between hours - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May"

The golden hours of promise - Thomas O'Hagan "The Song My Mother Sings"

Hear the trees in their easy hours - Mary Oliver "Do the Trees Speak?"

Only so many precious hours - Mary Oliver "Luna"

The collation of all the hours we have known - Mary Oliver "Shelley"

That shines the space of an hour - Ou-yang Hsiu "Calligraphy Practice" transl. by Burton Watson

Who sorrow for our darkened hours - "Our Friends Abroad" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]

Beyond the landmarks of the present hour - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

All her hours were yellow sands - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph for a Darling Lady"

The hours were all messengers - Amy Parkinson "The Messenger Hours"

No hour of all the band - Amy Parkinson "The Messenger Hours"

Sunlight in sweet April hours - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Pride is merely for an hour - Walter S. Percy "The Glory Dwells"

And walked into the remaining hours and miles - Tim Pratt "The God of the Crossroads"

Fruits of some convulsive hour - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Beyond"

The garments of the passing hours - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Summer Thought"

Whose fair mirages coming hours dispel - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

In the lone hours of the voiceless night - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Rubble of the hours spent - Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes "pitter/patter"

Ancient hour between light and dark - Adrienne Rich "Darklight"

Peddles the notions of the hour - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

The caressing wing of a radiant hour - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Desire in still perfect hours - Rainer Maria Rilke "Completed Fragments of Rilke" (translated by A.M. Juster)

Softly falls at that dim hour - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont

The slow clog of the hours - Charles G.D. Roberts "Wayfarer of Earth"

If you should only steal an hour to think - Edwin Arlington Robinson "An Evangelist's Wife"

Takes the sorrow of the threefold hour - Madeleine Caron Rock "He Is the Lonely Greatness"

And we took no count of the hours - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

This is the hour of ghosts that rise - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"

The weeds now have their hour of beauty - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Good Old Days"

Supreme through all the hours - Alice Wellington Rollins "The New Day"

Each hour a pearl - Anon. "The Rosary"

The tombs of buried hours - Isaac Rosenberg "My Hours"

For when the slow dark hours begin - Christina Rossetti "Up-Hill"

sorrow knew me in the early hours - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"

So many stars and so few hours to dream - Carl Sandburg "Black Horizons"

Unmindful of the mocking hours - George Santayana "Avila"

Be quelled for an hour - Sappho "XII" (translated by Bliss Carman)

Woe betide the weary hour - D.L. Sayers "Vials Full of Odours"

For ten long hours of doubt and dread - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

On the top of happy hours - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"

Steal sweet hours from love's delight - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXVI"

On leases of short-number'd hours - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXIV"

In selling hours of dross - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 146"

To mark the sweetness of the sudden hour - Edward Shanks "The Return"

Through the hour that scars and sears - Virna Sheard "Carry On!"

The brightest hour of unborn Spring - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"

Those unborn hours that surely follow after - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"

Of all old hours and places - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"

The hour hand of a broken clock - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"

For the hour you promised me - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Fetch"

Pace with the serious hours - Dora Sigerson Shorter "When the Dark Comes"

Through all its dark and absent hours - Joyce Sidman "Sleep Charm"

Last few hours of gold - Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen "Snake's Lullaby"

And the hour fugitive - Charles Simic "At the Vacancy Sign"

The hour ruled by destiny - Charles Simic "The Infinite"

Cannot spare more hours - Marilyn Singer. "Paint Me"

The hours of joy we now inherit - G.B. Singleton "Anacreontic"

Drenched between the hours - Jake Skeets "Anthropocenic"

In one swifter hour of flame - Clark Ashton Smith "Remembered Light"

Emblems of her sad hours - Richard Penn Smith "On the Death of a Young Lady"

The rapture of stolen hours - Tracy K. Smith "Soulwork"

Till through the weight of overcoming hours - C.H. Sorley "German Rain"

Along the ledges of sun-lacquered hours - Leonora Speyer "King's Garden"

That wears this hour like a crown - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

The hour of broken luck - A.E. Stallings "Country Song"

Breaks the spell of the ancient, numbered hours - A.E. Stallings "First Miracle"

What sweetly stolen hours - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"

A crystal dial to mark the hours - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Wild Wind Whistle"

And hunger for departed hours - George Sterling "Revelation"

Meet the question of the hours - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"

Shook the pillaring hours - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"

The dregs within its crystal hours - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"

Of the motionless August hour - Alfred B. Street "The Waterfall"

The sands telling golden hours - Muriel Stuart "Boys Bathing"

One hour worth a thousand gold coins - Su Tung-p'o "Spring Night" transl. by Burton Watson

By those hours marked older - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"

Three hours before the moon - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"

Mother of loves and hours - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Mother of mutable winds and hours - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Darken not the hour when I rise out of myself - Carmen Sylva "Lethe"

Rabbits count the hours no more - John B. Tabb "Hare-Bells"

Where the vapours dream the sunlit hours away - John B. Tabb "Jack-o'-Lantern"

To charm the languid evening hours - Bayard Taylor "The Odalisque" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

This is the hour when the thief will come - Keith Taylor "Statue of the Blind Girl"

For one white singing hour - Sara Teasdale "Barter"

Gave me heaven for an hour - Sara Teasdale "I Have Loved Hours at Sea"

Hour of wind and light - Sara Teasdale "Swallow Flight"

Link the unbroken hours - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"

Erase the signs and figures of the circling hours - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

The hour of holy musings - Richard Chenevix Trench "An Evening in France"

Keep faith with the hour - Tu Fu "Lovely Lady" transl. by Burton Watson

Hollow the world in the moonlit hour - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

Through the gold hours dreameth - Katherine Tynan "Shamrock Song"

Storming hours with their dark increase - Louis Untermeyer "Peace"

Yield up the harvest of our hours - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"

Break forth at the devil's hour - Henry van Dyke "The Red Flower"

Uncounted hours of presence - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954

A glory in the sudden hour of struggle -Tertius van Dyke "Love of Life"

In the dew's bright morning hour - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell

Wedded to this weakened hour - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Aurelio, Seer Tecolote"

Hope within its circling hours to see - Hans Von Spiegel "Sonnet: to the Old Year" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

Drip from the wing of the hours - Charles William Wallace "Useless?"

The echoless feet of the Hours - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

Vineyards steeped in ardent hours - William Watson "A Child's Hair"

'Twixt the gold hour and the grey - William Watson "The Frontier"

Dear gnomon of the passing hour - Harvey Maitland Watts "To a Roadside Cedar"

His hours without number - Isaac Watts "The Sluggard"

The hours of the harness know little rest - Arthur Waugh "The Toilsome Goat"

The hour that beauty brings - John Hall Wheelock "The Secret One"

The hour when night must fall - John Hall Wheelock "The Secret One"

No more the puzzling hour - Walt Whitman "Eidolons"

On the thorns that are the hours - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"

When sunlight stole through the soft hours - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

To let its frozen hours melt - Richard Wilbur "Anterooms"

The strange hours we keep to see them - William Carlos Williams "January Morning"

In the anguish of the mortal hour - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Under the noise of hours - Eliot Khalil Wilson "While Waiting for the Bus"

Ripened in hours of darkest tribulation - Joseph R. Wilson "Words to Mendelssohn's 'Consolation'"

As in the hour of thoughtless youth - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

A tale of visionary hours - William Wordsworth "To the Cuckoo"

Children of the flaring hours - William Wordsworth "To the Small Celandine"

The least division of an hour - William Wordsworth "XXIX [Surprised by joy--impatient as the Wind]"

The hour of disappearing things - Charles Wright "Four Dog Night"

Swift darkness is spring's first hour - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"

Hangs for an hour in the blue cave of night - Elinor Wylie "Silver Filigree"

That came centuries after the hour - Jenny Xie "Present Continuous"

Hour of gentleness - William Butler Yeats "Ephemera"

Drowning love’s lonely hour - W.B. Yeats "He bids his Beloved be at Peace"

Above the tide of hours- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

Fatal hours scored by falling timber - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Each hour a gilt thread spool - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

The hour's arrow never misses - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"


Entombed with the hourless night - Djuna Barnes "Call of the Night"


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