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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
Hours and angers - Lauren Camp "Original Hope"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
Through the young and awkward hours - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"
Stark hours of panther-footed dark - Coningsby Dawson "Unanswerable Questions"
Spinning the guileless hours away - Walter de la Mare "Voices"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
The opposing lights of the hour - Robert Frost "Waiting Afield at Dusk"
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"
Scheduled hours of bartered joy - Louis Golding "Lady of Babylon"
Can teach the hour to speak - Gerald Gould "Oxford"
What every hour is free to learn - Gerald Gould "Oxford"
The rooster keeps faith with his hour - Linda Gregerson "Petrarchan"
Then kneel to duty's hour - James Roane Gregory "Storm Lights"
The hour of passion's unforgotten tryst - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"
This hour of stars and music - Ivor Gurney "'Annie Laurie'"
The hour of thy dread passion - Ivor Gurney "To the Poet Before Battle"
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"
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"
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"
The hour you slipped away - Walter Edwards Houghton, Jr. "Recall"
Through dark Destiny's hour - Mrs. Volney E. Howard "The Dusty White Rose"
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"
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 I walked into - Joanna Klink "Pericardium"
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"
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"
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"
Poised for hours in her spun palace - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"
Chased the changeful hours - Amy Levy "Between the Showers"
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"
As fly the irrevocable hours - James Russell Lowell "For a Bell at Cornell University"
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"
Will not live another hour - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"
Keep your golden hour - Alice Meynell "Your Own Fair Youth"
The hour has already scattered - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"
Swelling out like hours - Jenny Molberg "Our Lady of the Rio Grande"
The hours dissolve in time - N. Scott Momaday "Meditation on Wilderness"
Not without hours of joy - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"
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
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"
That drank its age's fuel in an hour - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons II. The Past"
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
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"
Pride is merely for an hour - Walter S. Percy "The Glory Dwells"
Fruits of some convulsive hour - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Beyond"
The garments of the passing hours - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Summer Thought"
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"
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"
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"
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"
Through the hour that scars and sears - Virna Sheard "Carry On!"
For the hour you promised me - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Fetch"
Pace with the serious hours - Dora Sigerson Shorter "When the Dark Comes"
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"
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"
The hour of broken luck - A.E. Stallings "Country Song"
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"
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"
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
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"
Drip from the wing of the hours - Charles William Wallace "Useless?"
The echoless feet of the Hours - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
'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 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"
To let its frozen hours melt - Richard Wilbur "Anterooms"
The strange hours we keep to see them - William Carlos Williams "January Morning"
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]"
Swift darkness is spring's first hour - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"
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"
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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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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
Hours and angers - Lauren Camp "Original Hope"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
Through the young and awkward hours - E.E. Cummings "Puella Mea"
Stark hours of panther-footed dark - Coningsby Dawson "Unanswerable Questions"
Spinning the guileless hours away - Walter de la Mare "Voices"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
The opposing lights of the hour - Robert Frost "Waiting Afield at Dusk"
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"
Scheduled hours of bartered joy - Louis Golding "Lady of Babylon"
Can teach the hour to speak - Gerald Gould "Oxford"
What every hour is free to learn - Gerald Gould "Oxford"
The rooster keeps faith with his hour - Linda Gregerson "Petrarchan"
Then kneel to duty's hour - James Roane Gregory "Storm Lights"
The hour of passion's unforgotten tryst - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"
This hour of stars and music - Ivor Gurney "'Annie Laurie'"
The hour of thy dread passion - Ivor Gurney "To the Poet Before Battle"
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"
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"
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"
The hour you slipped away - Walter Edwards Houghton, Jr. "Recall"
Through dark Destiny's hour - Mrs. Volney E. Howard "The Dusty White Rose"
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"
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 I walked into - Joanna Klink "Pericardium"
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"
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"
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"
Poised for hours in her spun palace - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"
Chased the changeful hours - Amy Levy "Between the Showers"
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"
As fly the irrevocable hours - James Russell Lowell "For a Bell at Cornell University"
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"
Will not live another hour - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"
Keep your golden hour - Alice Meynell "Your Own Fair Youth"
The hour has already scattered - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"
Swelling out like hours - Jenny Molberg "Our Lady of the Rio Grande"
The hours dissolve in time - N. Scott Momaday "Meditation on Wilderness"
Not without hours of joy - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"
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
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"
That drank its age's fuel in an hour - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons II. The Past"
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
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"
Pride is merely for an hour - Walter S. Percy "The Glory Dwells"
Fruits of some convulsive hour - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Beyond"
The garments of the passing hours - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Summer Thought"
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"
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"
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"
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"
Through the hour that scars and sears - Virna Sheard "Carry On!"
For the hour you promised me - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Fetch"
Pace with the serious hours - Dora Sigerson Shorter "When the Dark Comes"
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"
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"
The hour of broken luck - A.E. Stallings "Country Song"
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"
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"
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
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"
Drip from the wing of the hours - Charles William Wallace "Useless?"
The echoless feet of the Hours - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
'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 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"
To let its frozen hours melt - Richard Wilbur "Anterooms"
The strange hours we keep to see them - William Carlos Williams "January Morning"
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]"
Swift darkness is spring's first hour - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"
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"
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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