Potential Titles: Night

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Pockets of mist in night's corneas - Sheikha A. "Nesters"

I lie down each numbered night - Anne Carly Abad "Exchange"

Caught last night in open sea - "Abroad"

Real estate agents may notice a gap in the night - Duane Ackerson "Taking Back the Moon"

This peacock-throated night - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

A veil that makes the night weep - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"

The shale night filling with rain - Carl Adamshick "The solitude of an apricot"

The stars when night is darkest - Medora C. Addison "The Days to Come"

This forest that created the night - Etel Adnan "Night"

Night is crowned with dreams - Etel Adnan "Night"

You can shipwreck against the night - Etel Adnan "Night"

The night sounds like a murder of magpies - Kelli Russell Agodon "Magpies Recognize Themselves in the Mirror"

And through the night strange music - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

No time to shame the night with light - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger

As if eating were a thousand and one nights - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"

In the night lit by white phosphorus - Ammiel Alcalay "My Apologies"

The blue cat of night glides in the grass - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"

A blind man knows the night - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"

The frame for this chainsaw night - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"

Rimmed with light, shaded with night - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

One endless night, stolen contraband - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

That night you escaped - Alise Alousi "Love Letter to A"

How many times can I repeat myself in one night? - Hala Alyan "Siri as Mother"

Down from the fields of night - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Brook"

This helpless passage through the night - Maxwell Anderson "Earth Evanescent"

A candle in a night of storms - Maxwell Anderson "Earth Evanescent"

The unveiled orb of night - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIII--Moonlight on Land"

Nights when sleep plays coy - Maya Angelou "Insomniac"

Between the unsung notes of night - Maya Angelou "Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?"

The people who wandered into night - Cristoso Apache "Gahe Dzil/Mountain Spirits"

Among the bodies of night - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The childhood of an angel"

Where ignorant armies clash by night - Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"

Deep into the ghostly night - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Orange moon, pale night, and cricket hum - Joseph Auslander "I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come"

Night coming like wet - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"

A demon beagle dark as night - Benjamin West Ball "A Hermitage"

Watching the night creep up on the noon - Mary Jo Bang "Don't"

Night shuts the door of the train - Mary Jo Bang "Elegy for Two"

The night obscures its losses - Mary Jo Bang "Everything that Was Is Now Owned"

Bright night of distance - Mary Jo Bang "The Fall"

Day collapsing into equal night - Mary Jo Bang "An Individual Equinox Suitable for Framing"

With night as a needle - Mary Jo Bang "On the Balcony of the Building"

The low lit ceiling of night - Mary Jo Bang "Visiting"

Swing lights in the closet of night - Mary Jo Bang "You Could Say She Was Willful, but Compared to What?"

Such night of ravage and rain - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"

Broken sword that vanquished all but Night - R.H. Barlow "R.E.H."

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

The night's secret dissolves at dawn - Lou Barrett "Address Book"

Letting the ink of night in - Lou Barrett "Black Milk"

In waves of light upon the far, dim shades of night - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Divides me by day and escapes me at night - Elizabeth Bartlett "Balance"

the night is white - Elizabeth Bartlett "black sun"

steel canyons and arctic nights - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"

Night is your hour - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"

To catch the hands of night - Elizabeth Bartlett "Final Performance"

Dreams flower in the cells of night - Elizabeth Bartlett "Landscape: With Bread"

and questions when they come by night - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"

whose night strong arms had banished - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"

before night creeps along the mist - Elizabeth Bartlett "washday in the tropics"

the throat of night catches - Elizabeth Bartlett "while I live"

Challenging night's trespassers - F.N.W. Bateson "Trespassers"

Michelangelo's dark daughter Night - Charles Baudelaire "The Ideal" transl. not credited

And build my faery palace in the night - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

Where water sleeps at night - Charles Baudelaire "The Little Old Women" transl. not credited

Through the lone watches of the silent night - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Wild ravings in Night's frighted ear - James Beattie "Elegy"

Attends Night's lovely queen - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book II"

Nights curled sulfurous on my side - Erin Belieu "Pity the Doctor, Not the Disease"

Unreels in the road of the days and nights - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Burn the black water of night's lagoons - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

Dream phantasm it spread aloft at night - William Rose Benét "The City"

Through the ebon walls of night - Park Benjamin "Press On"

Sinks in roaring voids of night - Robert Hugh Benson "The Teresian Contemplative"

The night pouring from my hands - Emily Berry "Arlene and Esme"

In a lift shaft on the other side of the night - Emily Berry "Ghosts (Homage to Burial)"

Against night's screen of stars - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

Pale Queen of the silent night - Charles Best "A Sonnet of the Moon"

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

To look past the coming night - Sherwin Bitsui "Knives Whistle"

Draws near to the witching time of night - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Streetlights on clear nights - John S. Blake "No Room to Form"

Calls the watchman of the night - William Blake "A Dream"

Removed the curtains of the night - William Blake "A Little Girl Lost"

A night set on edge - Brian Blanchfield "One First Try and then Another"

With nothing to deny the night - Richard Blanco "Somewhere to Paris"

Heard the fox bark through the night - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"

Their tales dulled by moonless night - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"

Against the tangled vividness of night - Maxwell Bodenheim "North Clark Street, Chicago"

The dark and candid gaze of night - Maxwell Bodenheim "Rattlesnake Mountain Fable II"

Escaping nightly from their souls - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"

Night will lean upon them - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"

Crash into night like ghostly curses - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"

Night has broken her heart upon him - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"

Acquaintance with the eccentric night - Max Bodenheim "Three Portraits"

Pouring out of the perforated night - Jaswinder Bolina "Portrait of the Minor Character"

Missed every night of the opera - Jaswinder Bolina "Sunday, Sunday"

Retained from those lost nights our fathers slept - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

The bruised & bloodied vocabularies of the urban night - Bruce Boston "The Lesions of Genetic Sin"

When night makes life unwary - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

Buried in the night, preparing destinies of rust - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"

That hold the fury of the night - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"

Loud notes against the night - Jari Bradley "Unruly"

In silent night when rest I took - Anne Bradstreet "Verses upon the Burning of our House"

The night shakes out its own lament - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Radio dust stretched across the night sky - Russell Brakefield "The Perseids"

The night woven into a net - William Brewer "Playing Along"

Last night in fever dreams - Geoffrey Brock "Forever Street"

In the good night of my company - Lucie Brock-Broido "Soul Keeping Company"

And nights in rosy riot fly - Charlotte Bronte "Evening Solace"

Walked through the times of night - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"

Emerged from the ocean of night - Patrick Bronte "The Rainbow"

How never to start the night empty - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"

Torn from the throat of night - Paul Cameron Brown "The Bells"

Our nights have cruel eyes - Paul Cameron Brown "Investiture"

The dust of my night screams - Mahogany L. Browne "If Love is For the Fishes"

The Mayan night breathing deep - Joseph Bruchac "Neh Tsoi"

What will you dream this night? - Joseph Bruchac "Neh Tsoi"

The jackal and wolf that yelled in the night - William Cullen Bryant "Rizpah"

If Day burst sudden from the bars of Night - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Cast then upon me unillumined night - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"

To set in such a starless night - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"

Celestial fantasies of deathless night - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]

Night stirs but wakens not - A.Y. Campbell "Animula Vagula"

And had so soon rejoined the night - A.Y. Campbell "The Panic"

Till danger's troubled night depart - Thomas Campbell "Ye Mariners of England"

Through the night's mad melodies - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Children of the Foam"

Shrivelled and wind-moaning night - W. Wilfred Campbell "To the Ottawa"

The loveless, hearthless arctic night - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

Ruined bridge at edge of night - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

A curse to the heart of the night - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"

When Gorgon-headed Night was gone - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"

The feathery train of granite Night - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Second Voice"

All night with closed eyes - Anne Carson "O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love"

Enough music for the night - Susan Cataldo "Poem for the Family"

Nights so quick to flee - Willa Cather "Evening Song"

Trembling with full love for Night - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"

Chrysanthemum don't thrive in starless night - Ty Chapman "Alone in bed thinking about another breakup"

Sew the night onto your own coat - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"

In mirrors of ice and night - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

To chisel out a star each night - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"

Of night and dark obscurity - John Clare "An Invite to Eternity"

Gone away to nothingness and night - John Clare "The Old Year"

Good citizen torch bearers out to set the night ablaze - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

Fiery torches foreshadowing my night - Tiana Clark "Flambeaux"

Floating in the deep throat of night - Tiana Clark "Flambeaux"

This dark night of wild dismay - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto II"

Came to clutch my dreams at night - Lucille Clifton "david has slain his ten thousands"

dry mornings and bitter nights - Lucille Clifton "dear fox"

And then the night commanded me - Leonard Cohen "Drank a Lot"

As many nights endure - Leonard Cohen "The Mist"

The dust of a long sleepless night - Leonard Cohen "One of Us Cannot Be Wrong"

Steal my breath tonight and every night - Aaron Coleman "Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)"

Struggling with the darkness all night - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

Visited all night by troops of stars - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

That with the night he may associate joy - Coleridge "The Nightingale"

The frozen nights of antiquity - Billy Collins "A History of Weather"

Grey and ghostly in the night - Arthur Colton "By the Sea"

A rose lasts all night long - Arthur Colton "Phyllis and Corydon"

Find the rain of night - Hilda Conkling "First Songs: V"

Every night of clearness - Hilda Conkling "Morning"

Sing patiently all night - Hilda Conkling "Tree-Toad"

Terrors of night and delay of light - Katherine Eleanor Conway "Saturninus"

The Raven from the 'night's Plutonian shore' - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

Where Night her starlight pours - "The Corsair"

From the hidden heart of Night - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"

Some horror-haunted night - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

And never knew the loneliness of night - Noel Coward "Nothing Is Lost"

Obscurist night involved - William Cowper "The Cast-Away"

Roll away, leaving black terror, limitless night - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Not your golden days nor your silver nights - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Nor your silver nights - Stephen Crane "Untitled"

Till this stormy night be gone - Richard Crashaw "An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife, Who Died and Were Buried Together"

And hides from sharp knives in the night - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

The golden night of mingling fire - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"

Inside the locked rooms of night - Cynthia Cruz "Deathscape Lullaby"

Last night's dream is entering my body again - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"

Of night's soft decline - Cynthia Cruz "Riding"

beheld night's speechless carnival - E. E. Cummings "Amores (IV)"

offered up each fragrant night - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"

o'er whose night three willows wail - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

Fills the empty vault of Night with shimmering bars - E. E. Cummings "Summer Silence"

The dark spangled curtains of the night - Olive Custance "Gifts"

Night has become a temple for my tears - Olive Custance "Grief"

To drive night's dreams away - Olive Custance "A Morning Song"

The night has cut each from each - H.D. "Night"

Straying in a glimmering night - Danske Dandridge "A Question"

Into another absent night - Jim Daniels "The Family Price"

The height of a great mountain forested with night - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva

Across the spent fires of the night - Russell W. Davenport "Poems III"

A clock's chime in the long waste of night - Edward L. Davison "In This Dark House"

That night shall mutter her lost name - Edward L. Davison "In This Dark House"

Waited too long to howl against the night - Kwame Dawes "Talk"

The covering cloth of night - Coningsby Dawson "Abandon"

Along the Parapet of Night - Coningsby Dawson "Daybreak"

Pull the night up over our heads - Meg Day "10 AM is When You Come to Me"

Those who rule the paler orbs of night - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

A thousand nights of torment borne - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "To Galatea's Bird" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Night with her darkened caravans - Walter de la Mare "Beware!"

A night of stars and snow - Walter de la Mare "The Little Salamander: To Margot"

Dance burning through the night - Walter de la Mare "The Little Salamander: To Margot"

Flee into some forgotten night - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"

Wide are the meadows of night - Walter de la Mare "Wanderers"

Night's elfin lanterns burn and gleam - Walter de la Mare "The World of Dream"

silent music notes falling into night - Cenizas de Rosas "Bone Flute"

And let night surge over you - Harriet Dean "Blue-Prints: The Pillar"

More idols are growing in the night - Carl Dennis "Holy Brethren"

By moon, noon, and night - J.C. Denovan "Oh Dermot, Dear Loved One!"

Trapped in the mesh of Saturday night - Toi Derricotte "Blackbottom"

Shared the night of the closet - Toi Derricotte "In Knowledge of Young Boys"

Over night's black dunes - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

Thread the dews all night - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature IX: The Grass"

And the night that didn't fall away - Chelsea Dingman "And What If I Spoke of the Hours"

Speak out amid the depth of night - Irving Sidney Dix "Hope"

Dim Night is monarch now - Irving Sidney Dix "Starlight Lake"

Through the broken web of night - Irving Sidney Dix "Twin Lake: In the Wayne Highlands"

Both the night and the lantern - Tarik Dobbs "Deconstructing My Birth"

Betrayed to endless night - John Donne "I Am a Little World Made Cunningly (Holy Sonnet V)"

Night's impecunious craftsman - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"

Till he came unasked by night - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

The mute sky resigns itself to Night - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

Star-enchanted hollows of the night - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

Grave Night is no betrayer - Edward Dowden "In the Cathedral"

Hell confuses Heaven, and night, the day - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"

To vindicate night's ancient fame - Edward Dowden "The Morning Star"

Backward down the blind gulfs of night - Edward Dowden "To a Year"

A night of storm and wailing stress - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

To meet the thousand eyes of night - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Under the calm ascension of the night - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"

Into the night old hearts came - Louise Driscoll "Fireflies"

That fairest states have fatal nights and days - William Drummond "Ah! Would 'Twere So"

Quiet peace of sleep at night - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"

Nights holding stars as puncture wounds - Cheryl Dumesnil "Some Days Are Skin as Tinfoil"

Uncoil reptilian in the night - Rebecca Dunham "To Walk on Air"

Only the night as a shawl - Stephen Dunn "Replicas"

Through the night's weary vigils - Enna Duval "Invocation to Sleep"

The sad ones discrowned in the night - A.E. "Love"

In the bottom of the night - Cornelius Eady "Revenge (Running Man)"

Ride misery through the night - Cornelius Eady "The Train (Miss Look)"

Loves the dews of the starry night - Charles G. Eastman "The Yellow Corn"

Tracing on the ancient screen of night - Max Eastman "X Rays"

Hallowing the truce of night - Helen Parry Eden "Coal and Candlelight"

The distractions of the night air - Katherine Edgren "Muskies and Reveries: Seeing Mars"

From the passing wings of night - B. Edwards "The Man Who Has Forgotten Time"

Night is ink to all pens - Merdan Ehet'Eli "Common Night" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

A night that shatters Noah's ship - Merdan Ehet'Eli "Common Night" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

Sore with night - Natalie Eilbert "Crescent Moons"

Searching the angry night sky for proof - Natalie Eilbert "Crescent Moons"

The muttering retreats of restless nights - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

And the scream of the night hawk is heard - William Hodgson Ellis "The Wanderer's Song"

Mix polar night with tropic glow - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Rises slow the noiseless Night - George Allan England "Morning, Noon and Night"

Of morning in dalliance with night - C.H.W. Esling "The Mother's Pride"

After night burst the dam of day - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"

Chased invisible armies into the night - Martin Espada "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramon Emeterio Betances"

Verses about the night - Martin Espada "The Republic of Poetry"

Some spirit born of endless night - Anthony Euwer "The Caves of Josephine"

Still seeking succor from the night - Mari Evans "Modern American Suite in Four Movements"

A good night's sleep before deadly fame - Hazem Fahmy "Interrogation of an Alternate Timeline"

The night braids my hair - Tarfia Faizullah "Self-Portrait as Artemis"

Fair regent of the night - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

Woven through the heart of night - Eleanor Farjeon "Fairy-Time"

The night in his hands like an empty bridle - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"

The night's white wake - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Dead Fires"

The full night’s milk - Andrew Feld "Opium Poppies I"

The long night must remain - Sir Samuel Ferguson "Molly Asthore"

Too sweet painsong in passages of night - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 28"

The night is fractured with mountains - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"

All the possibilities of a warm night - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"

The door Night had closed over the world - Monica Ferrell "In Safranbolu"

Where afternoon melts into night - Arthur Davison Ficke "A Watteau Melody"

Only the wolves in the night - George Blackstone Field "Men of the Line"

Past their eyes where the black night lives - Annie Finch "Frozen In"

Only one night is her door - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"

The night stretching away thousands long behind - Annie Finch "Samhain"

sirens sing fire in the cold night - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"

The source of dreams by night - "The First Hole at St. Andrews on a Crowded Day"

Scrawl on the walls of night - John Gould Fletcher "Sharaku Dreams"

Athens and Babylon I breathe upon the night - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

Have drunk the night's perfumes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Descent"

Boat in night's dense harbor - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7"

The night's contorted face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"

The blinding traffic of night's beheading - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten IV"

In the wind of night the arras swells and swings - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

I know the night lives inside you - Rebecca Foust "Abeyance"

Eyeless night - Isabel Fraire

Trapped in the seashell of night - Ariel Francisco "Insomniami"

The last light that leaps the night - Gilbert Frankau "The Observers"

Acquainted with the night - Robert Frost "Acquainted with the Night"

Sits in Sirius' disc all night - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"

Woven by the troubled loom of night - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

With the ancient urge of night - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Night and day in some wild wine - Zona Gale "The Secret Way"

The fragile fabric of dissolved night - Zona Gale "Terza Rima"

Down the ample arcade of the night - Zona Gale "Umbra"

With a lullaby for the dead night - Zona Gale "Wind Song"

Empty out those raw strips of night - Tess Gallagher "Sad Moments"

The stars of night in circling systems moved - Miss Mary Gardiner "The Deity" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)

Whose light is faint as the moon in a cloudy night - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

All night upon my heart - Theodosia Garrison "The Child"

Here in the blue and silver night - Crosbie Garstin "Nocturne"

Caught no glimmer through the night - Wilfrid Gibson "Flannan Isle"

On a night of moon-enchanted tides - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

Like the dark silence of night - brian g. gilmore "yellow school bus"

Night will always bring the old hungers - Dana Gioia "Starting Over"

Have read the secrets of the night - Ellen Glasgow "The Hunter"

In the night of persecution - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

And each night my heart protested - Louise Gluck "An Adventure"

The world beyond the night remains - Louise Gluck "Before the Storm"

Summer nights of lightning bugs and Johnny Cash - Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake "Someday I'll Love--"

Transformed the night into a beautiful mosaic - Maxwell I. Gold "Where the Moon Smiles"

Blaze through the jungles of night - Louis Golding "For My Friend"

The sharp stars of the winter night - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"

Builds himself a shelter from the night - Mona Gould "Man is a Lonely One"

In the long night when the black wings beat - Mona Gould "Nightmare"

Golden sunshine driving back the night - Herbert H. Gowen "What the Wise Men Saw"

Nectars of the night - Joan Bransfield Graham "Great Indian Fruit Bat"

To leave this widening night - Peter Grandbois "When your son abandons the lawnmower for the second time in as many days"

Night's shades are coming - Joseph Grant "The Blackbird's Hymn Is Sweet"

When Night lifts her veil from you - Alfred Perceval Graves "Lough Leane"

Black as the night with one star - Alfred Perceval Graves "O Drimin dhu Deelish"

Cherries of the night are riper - Robert Graves "Cherry-Time"

Web-hung blackness of night - Robert Graves "Cynics and Romantics"

Threads our hair with the loam of night - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"

Hasten dawn to night - Leah Naomi Green "The World Tips Back"

Where Hope's signal lights the night - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"

A wide expanse of grass dead to the night - John Grey "Skywatching"

Shut away within the night - Angelina Weld Grimké "To Joseph Lee"

Of shy things at night - Angelina Weld Grimke "To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimke"

Gone down into the night - Ivor Gurney "Hail and Farewell"

With eyes that challenge night - Ivor Gurney "Hospital Pictures 6. Upstairs Piano"

As in a dream of some bad night - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, May 1917"

Till the brow of Night grew pale and starless - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

All night lay hid in hollows of the earth - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

A 9 second lullaby in the dead of night - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"

Night at the gates where a soul would go - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Iter Supremum"

When the days grew legs of night - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"

Into the night of a split world - Joy Harjo "Legacy"

Who waltzed nightly on the moon - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"

In the fragile weft of ebony night - Joy Harjo "Song for the Deer and Myself to Return On"

The arms of night in the arms of day - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"

Giving away to night - Joy Harjo "Remember"

Paws like a long arctic night - Joy Harjo "White Bear"

Sun laced with night - Avis Harley "Opposites"

Around the couch of night - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"

Springing from the arms of night - Frances E.W. Harper "Truth"

Under the cold feet of the night - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"

Ice in long slow nights - Leslie Harrison "[God speaks]"

Who silently languish in grief's fearful night - Robert M. Hart "Sweet Maid of Erin" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Into the blue, shimmering night - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XIX"

Plucks the stars from night's blue vault - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXVIII"

Lost in the monotone of night - Sadakichi Hartmann "Nocturne"

Osiris' arms open and wait seventy days and nights - Maryann Hazen-Stearns "Embalmer"

The water beasts roaring in the night - Ben Hecht "Moods"

Sweeping in a foam across the night - Ben Hecht "Moods"

A white stain on the night - Ben Hecht "My Island"

The night is a black poppy - Ben Hecht "Sorrow"

Sleepless gnomes that haunt the night - Percy Hemingway "Love's Tyranny"

On the darkest dais of his night - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed Hendan "He Was Taken Away" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

Bleak day from bleaker night - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender III"

Lie awake at night wondering - S*an D. Henry-Smith "remedies I"

Voiceless years of night and grieving - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Shadows"

Dripping with the dews of night - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "This Year"

Bring our nights there without knowing - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"

The keys betraying this night - Robert Herrick "Corinna's Going a-Maying"

With night we banish sorrow - Thomas Heywood "Good-Morrow"

Each night is a casket of rain - Faylita Hicks "Saint She of All the Missing Things"

Night descending like a tired bird - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

Still loyal to the night - Conrad Hilberry "Cretan Dawn: A Metaphor"

As night itself picks the lock - Conrad Hilberry "The Cur"

Chewing the edges of night - Conrad Hilberry "Midnight"

Merge with night like oil of bergamot - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"

Branded spectre of the night - Jennie Earngey Hill "Death's Spectre"

So many fears to haunt the night - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"

The tall night trees between them - Brenda Hillman "Wood's Edge"

Night from her gloomy dungeon freed - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "A Vision" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Burn away the night - Edward Hirsch "Blue Hydrangea"

Why the night hungers for the day - Edward Hirsch "Heinrich Heine"

This night again will watch its fireflies - Jane Hirshfield "Solstice"

One Tuesday night's unhappiness - Tony Hoagland "Real Estate"

At odds with fortune night and day - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

The blinding, pathless night - William D. Hodjkiss "Song of the Storm Swept-Plain"

When the night climbs into my bed - Jackson Holbert "Poem with a Smoke Cloud Hanging in It"

Other nights and other storms - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

The skirt of night's descending robe - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Evening"

Dusk all night - Chloe Honum "At a Days Inn in Barstow, California"

Beneath the suffocating night - A.E. Houseman "A Shropshire Lad, XXX"

In our god-dazzled night - Andrew Hudgins "Two Strangers Enter Sodom"

In the raffle of the night - Langston Hughes "Midnight Raffle"

With noise the night went by - Richard Hughes "Moon-Struck"

The first wind of night - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"

A scent of earth in the night - Louisa Humphreys "All Souls' Night"

Besides the shades of the night - Louisa Humphreys "All Souls' Night"

The lanterns of a revelling night - Aldous Huxley "The Elms"

Forever drenched in this night - Noor Ibn Najam "Untitled"

this hunger transitive as the night - fahima ife "post-acid"

Leave the place of night and clouds - "III: Occe al Mismo Tono Tlamelauhcayotl | Another Plain Song, to the Same Tune" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Betray the ravages of night - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]

Than any night that day comes after - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"

Lays her head on the knees of Night - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

Pour moonbeams into the dark night of my thought - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

Dame Night her tapestry's begun - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

A mouse who gets eaten every night - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"

Fret the black sky of night - Sade Iverson "Voices"

Knowing well the ruthlessness of night - Marcus Jackson "What of Fire?"

Past the open gates of night - Marcus Jackson "What of Fire?"

For fear of wolves or shepherds in the night - Tracina Jackson-Adams "Shepherds in the Night"

Spend a night or two among the dead - John James "Le Moribond"

On his third night of dreams - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"

Took the night with me - Omotara James "Half Girl, Then Elegy"

Strewn upon the night - Elinor Jenkins "April Nights"

Night's first timid star - Elinor Jenkins "Veronica"

A nightly spell of sleep falls heavy - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

Morn breaks on the longest night of sorrow - Edwin R. Johnson "Who Knows?" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Ventures forth along the edge of night - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Wolf"

No night is omnipotent - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Hope"

The curtains of eternal night - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Quest"

Nights of starless skies - James Weldon Johnson "Beauty That is Never Old"

The muted music of the night - James Weldon Johnson "Vashti"

Some remnant of the night - Jenny Johnson "Little Apophat"

For the heart of sea and night - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

Break fire out of night - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

Alone with ancient night - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"

Through vigils of the painful night - Lionel Johnson "Our Lady of the Snows"

Night robs me of all pride - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"

Kitchen smoke and calm night air - Ashley M. Jones "Harriette Winslow and Aunt Rachel Clean Collard Greens on Prime Time Television"

Unravel in the late night - Camisha L. Jones "No Longer Commuting with Chronic Pain"

A night replete with gifts of June - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

The myriad gleams that light the night - Joshua Henry Jones "The Universe"

This last night of Sodom - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Whalebone Corset"

Night made of locusts - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Whalebone Corset"

leading me through another night of dreams - Tanque R. Jones "Morning Time"

The pattern night pens on tender skin - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Courage that cries out at night - June Jordan "Oughta Be a Woman"

Told old stories to the night - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

Waited three days and nights - Zilka Joseph "Pantoum for Chik-cha Halwa"

Cry unto the night their battle-name - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"

Through desert tracts of Silence and of Night - Sir Nizamat Jung "Prologue"

Sliding downward to abysmal night - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The shades and monsters of our night - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"

Supreme beyond the depths of night - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Disrobe in night's cold maw - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

On the wide night's manifest - Mary Karr "Belongings"

What sad nights I'll cradle in my lap - Mary Karr "Diogenes Passes the Time"

Stare hard enough at the fabric of night - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"

At night I travelled everywhere on LSD - Mary Karr "For My Children"

All night I've untangled alleys - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

He goes into every factory at night - Janet Kauffman "In His Arms"

The witching time of night - John Keats "A Prophecy: To George Keats in America"

some nights labour, some nights grieve - Kaie Kellough "if who"

as night drips pandemic & toil - Kaie Kellough "if who"

Broke on the stillness of the night - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

Hangs on the brow of night - Fanny Kemble "A Farewell"

My nights of burning tears - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [In the dark, lonely night]"

The night with solemn eyes - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the dawn]"

On the listening ear of night - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."

One with the daughters of dolour and night - Henry Kendall "Australia Vindex"

My night on the wild river - Adele Kenny "Survivor"

Where day speaks to the night - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"

Found me with night in my teeth - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Remade"

Invent me in the half-opened eye of night - Vandana Khanna "Monologue for a Goddess in Her First Incarnation"

Morning in the Bowl of Night - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Hidden by the sleeve of Night - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Of the night revels fair - Joyce Kilmer "Lullaby for a Baby Fairy"

Waves madly in the face of night - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

Take God's gracious gift of night - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

Convince the night to do our bidding - Willie Lee Kinard III "Aubade: Nocturne"

Even gravity works at night - Amy King "You Make the Culture"

Saw more than the nights could hide - Rudyard Kipling "The Changelings"

When night was a new thing - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"

The miserable forebodings of the night - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Emptying night from its branches - Joanna Klink "On Falling (Blue Spruce)"

Vanish to the halls of night - Jan Kochanowski "Laments II" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

night bending through a stairwell - Ruth Ellen Kocher "She Manifests Her Own Ineffable"

Join the goblin-folk in the night - Rachel Kolar "Boys and Girls, Come Trick-or-Treat"

Like a watchman in the night - Rachel Kolar "Twinkle, Twinkle, Lantern Jack"

Unraveled this rainy night - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

The night dangling from the trees - Christopher Kondrich "[I Speak into the Color Blue Cut]"

In the frozen hive of night - Ted Kooser "In January"

Their ears are full of night - Ted Kooser "The Old People"

Filling the night with whispers - Lam Lai "I, New York"

Her soprano spare and sharp in the night air - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"

Tangled in the snares of night - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"

Down the gray border of night - Archibald Lampman "An October Sunset"

In the night's bewildered noon - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"

In the xyzs of nights and days - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"

To see last night's moon - Susan Landgraf "Reading 'Lives of the Animals' by Robert Wrigley"

A night of memories and of sighs - Walter Savage Landor "Rose Aylmer"

To be reconciled with the night - Else Lasker-Schuler "Reconciliation" transl. by Robert Alter

A wall in the center of the night - Rickey Laurentiis "Epithalamion"

Night still in their throats - Dorianne Laux "I Never Wanted to Die"

The night upholds its mantle - Emily Lawless "From the Burren XI: A Wave"

Emerges from inward shades of our night - D.H. Lawrence "Evolutions of Soldiers"

The great black night scooped out - D.H. Lawrence "New Year's Eve"

The night's membrane of tranquil stars - D.H. Lawrence "Southern Night"

Within the hollow arch of night - Richard Le Gallienne "In the Night"

Blossoms at the brink of night - Ruth Lechlitner "How Many Summers"

The galaxy of night which leaves nothing - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"

Night's storied house - Li-Young Lee "Spoken For"

Through night's scorched riven cloak - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"

Little gray hunger that nibbles the night - Hailey Leithauser "Charm against Insomnia"

This cloud-break that ravels the night - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"

Folded in the bedclothes of night - R.B. Lemberg "In the Third Cycle"

A blade of night to shape and soothe - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Doubles and smears the night across the wide world - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Softened to the usual shades of rain, night, sleep - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Cold night heavy with medicine fumes - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson

Last night's planets and stars - Li Shang-yin "[Last night's planets and stars]" transl. by Burton Watson

at night, the glass steps are silent - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"

Night of open obsidian and owls - Ada Limon "Territory"

The nightly ritual washings and lockings - Sandra J. Lindow "The Wolf from the Door"

Swans that prophesy night and day - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Bitter dreams of enigma and night - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

The laughter of Night in his lair - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Fire-winged cats that light the nights - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

In an ancient melee of night flowers - Angela Liu "The witches are without work"

Darting golden through the night - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"

The duel of the wounded night - Federico Garcia Lorca "Gacela of the Terrible Presence" (translated by W.S. Merwin)

The moon-pierced warp of night - Amy Lowell "Apples of Hesperides"

All night I wrestled with a memory - Amy Lowell "Crepuscule du Matin"

Watch over a century of nights - Amy Lowell "A Little Song"

The sharp edges of the night - Amy Lowell "The Taxi"

The air of icy centuries of night - Amy Lowell "To Elizabeth Ward Perkins"

Night has its own quiet stepping - Alessandra Lynch "Meditation on Rain"

Old battle calls at night - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Dispelling all the hosts of night - E.M. "Part III. The Lathe of Morpheus"

Translate the portent of night - Alain Mabanckou "When the Rooster Announces the Dawn of Another Day" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson

From out the night of ignorance and fears - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"

The starless night of fraud and wrong - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"

The terror of the night begins with prayer - George MacDonald "Within and Without"

Where night rains weep - Amice MacDonell "Culloden Moor"

At the postern held by Night - John MacFarlane "A Midsummer Madrigal"

Scattering night to left and right - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "egret"

Though the nights might weep - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Intrusion"

On the hills and wastes of Night - Fiona MacLeod "The Rune of Age"

Unmask the secret face of night - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

Gilded dreams of silver-singing night - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

Into the hot night of her origins - Sheila Maldonado "herederos de cero"

Night is flirty words with fiends - Randall Mann "Realtor"

A ventriloquist of the night - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

Pay their nightly homage to the Owls - William Manning "A Child's Dream of the Zoo"

A July night scented with gardenia - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

Hiding the essence of the night - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

That broke the nights of Babylon - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"

A lost bird riding out the night - Jeannette Marks "Dragon"

Primrose with eyes for night - Jeannette Marks "To Some Flowers"

And scale the bastioned nights - Don Marquis "At Last"

Storm the black bastions of Night - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Groping through terror and night - Don Marquis "A Song of Men"

Sows the night with troops of stealthy ghosts - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"

The Ghost of a Gargoyle riding his night colored mare - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"

Like night in a country of worn fields - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: [It creeps through like night]"

Beauteous streams flow through the dark of night - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

Before the diamond is bright its night of carbon is long - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

While I dally with the Night - George Martin "Aspiration"

With night dews chilled and wet - George Martin "Celestine"

Gray wizards of the night - George Martin "The Lover's Dream"

From the deepest parts of night - Herbert Woodward Martin "Contemplations on Snow"

A night that owls inhabit most - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Night running off with itself - Louise Mathias "Larrea"

On the rafters in the night - Furnley Maurice "A Whisper Song"

Night with its silence oppressed me - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "A Midsummer Night's Dream" transl. by John Pollen

A clear and cleansing night of stars - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"

Against the phantoms of the night - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"

Night like a radiant kindled noon - Theodore Maynard "There Was an Hour"

Conjugating the squandered night - Shara McCallum "A Grammar for War"

This night of joyous sounds - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"

Needles knitting the night - Roger McGough "Mrs Moon"

Sons of the seductive night - Claude McKay "Exhortation: Summer, 1919"

When night lets fall its fall - Claude McKay "Harlem Shadows"

Sweep me into utter night - Claude McKay "Poetry"

The soft rain-kisses of the night - Claude McKay "A Red Flower"

With nights of unabating bitterness - Claude McKay "Rest in Peace"

Idle in the dew drenched night - Claude McKay "Subway Wind"

The night is yours for revels - Claude McKay "Tormented"

Night is a fallen sparrow - Arch Alfred McKillen "Night"

Completing what night began - D'Arcy McNickle "Cycle"

On a night of screaming chill - D'Arcy McNickle "The Mountains"

Unlocked all brass latches to the night - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

The night cut by the moon - Erika Meitner "What Follows Is a Reconstruction Based on the Best Available Evidence"

In the light from dust to night - Celeste Guzman Mendoza "Man Praying--Encroachment"

As the lightning night reveals - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

Riding souls of men to night - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

You be Good, I'll be Night - Eve Merriam "You Be Saucer"

The way the night tastes - W.S. Merwin "Blueberries After Dark"

The sound of blue at night - W.S. Merwin "Coming to Hear"

Carrying the night back - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

The good nights are not made for sleep - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

The jessamine music on the thin night air - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"

Night and storm are met together - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"

When night gives pause to the long watch I keep - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"

And robbers arm them for the nightly raid - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ruins of Balaclava" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

As many nights as there are days - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Philosopher"

Suns that shine by night - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"

beside a road carved out of desert night - Andy Miller "All Those Bleached Bones"

Made of straws of night - Claire Millikin "After Ballet"

By all the Nymphs that nightly dance - John Milton "Sabrina"

Fold the lights of the night sky - Anis Mojgani "Leda"

Into the star-soaked nights - Jenny Molberg "Civilization"

The shivering colors of the Arctic night - N. Scott Momaday "The Death of Sitting Bear"

Engulfed in the perfect night of millennia - N. Scott Momaday "The Galleries"

Could articulate the night sky - N. Scott Momaday "Prayer for Words"

On nights of the spilling moon - N. Scott Momaday "Revenant"

As dusk ebbs on the plane of night - N. Scott Momaday "The Snow Mare"

In the fury of the false night - N. Scott Momaday "Torrent"

Then I will howl all night in the reeds - Harold Monro "Overheard on a Saltmarsh"

Long nights and the whisperings of new ones - William Moore "Dusk Song"

The night to be long, the moon blind - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"

As night sky caresses the murmuring sand - Ed Morales "The Talking Coconut"

Long before the lonely night comes on - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

Pale wooer of the solemn night - Robert Morris "The Student's Dream of Fame"

Kneel all night in prayer - "My Dark Rosaleen" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

Spinned from night and knuckle - Angel Nafis "I Know I'm Pretty Cuz the Boys Tell Me So"

The moonless vigils of her lonely night - Sarojini Naidu "Dirge"

Breeze lifts voices from the night - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

Night reaches out to night - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

A doorway between our nights - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

This one long night where we'd emerged - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

Sleep in threadbare night - Jaye Nasir "November"

Her promises rule this night - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (8)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Wakeful night in its slow flight - Francis Neilson "Fortune, You Have Naught I Need"

The night hears not - Francis Neilson "The Music of My Heart"

Out of dashing sudden night - Maggie Nelson "Carnegie Hall"

Into the night of a thousand fates - Maggie Nelson "Zero"

Nights of infinite substance fallen - Pablo Neruda "Ars Poetica" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The birds consume the night - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger

The multiplied geography of the night - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger

Bitter family of the trembling night - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Spikes in the hostile night - Pablo Neruda "Commoners from Socorro (1781)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Of doves between night and time - Pablo Neruda "Dead Gallop" translated by John Felstiner

Night shining in grapes - Pablo Neruda "Death" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The night trembling with frozen constellations - Pablo Neruda "The Invisible Man" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

The wheel of night eclipsed his face - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti

The night waiting like a widow - Pablo Neruda "The Long Day Called Thursday" transl. by Alastair Reid

The blue stone of the sailing night - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid

The sawmills of the night - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

Tears daybreak from its night roots - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Parched loneliness and the empty night - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

The cold stone of the South's night - Pablo Neruda "Winter in the South, on Horseback" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The interminable spine of stone and night - Pablo Neruda "Winter in the South, on Horseback" transl. by Jack Schmitt

In the cold and the outer night - E. Nesbit "Accession"

The dreams of Life's treacherous night - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

As the night mutes every color - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

Flashlight prying through the night swamps - Caroline Harper New "The Elephant Mother"

Dark reclaims the night - Tim Newcomb "Unlight"

As the firefly lights the night - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"

Whispers fermenting the night air - Grace Nichols "Tea with Demerara Sugar"

Whose night brings no guiding star - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath V. Shut of Night"

In the serene trance of a summer night - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"

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

The night world scorning - Meredith Nicholson "Good Night and Pleasant Dreams"

Since night's robes trailed Eden's sky - Meredith Nicholson "In Ether Spaces"

As sweet as the breath of night - Meredith Nicholson "The Shepherd's Song"

Bright noons and starry nights - Meredith Nicholson "Three Friends"

The stone sternum of night - Urayoan Noel "cinquains written during a tropical storm"

Seven sisters of the night sky - Margaret Noodin "Gidiskinaadaa Mitigwaakiing/Woodland Liberty"

Melting into the flood of night - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Lucid harmonies on our night bestow - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

Held the lilac last of night - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"

Wrestled with oblivion all night - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard I: The Rock of the Good Virgin"

A blacker night than ocean knew - Alfred Noyes "The Wings"

Tumbleweeds coming to their doors in the night - Naomi Shihab Nye "At Portales, New Mexico"

Only night's smooth stare - Naomi Shihab Nye "Fireflies"

Stars spilling over our huge night - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Wisdom"

Unafraid of the night and its noises - Achy Obejas "Naiad"

His own eternal night - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Portrait of My Father as a Pianist"

On the jacket of the night - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda"

That the night walks freely - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda"

Only those standing in a row in the night - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Choose sable day and flux night - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

A rich and enduring night - Sharon Olds "The Task of Naming Me"

Past the mirrors and night windows - Sharon Olds "Wonder as Wander"

Every night we baited nine traps - Christina Olivares "Preserving an Ecosystem"

Until we kiss good night - Lin Oliver "Hush"

The body of the night opens - Mary Oliver "The Deer"

A new lover in the unbroken night - January Gill O'Neil "How to Love"

Stands at night beside a ruined house - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"

Deprived me of the night - Ekhmetjan Osman "My Love" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

Gem on the dark brow of night - James F. Otis "To the New Moon"

From larger day to huger night - Wilfred Owen "Insensibility"

Night crushed out the day - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"

All the fringes of the night - John Oxenham "Darkness and Light"

On the tablets of the night - John Oxenham "God Is Good"

Into the maw of the grim black night - John Oxenham "The Hungry Sea"

To match the gleams of heaven's night - Arthur Caswell Parker "Faith"

Joy stayed with me a night - Dorothy Parker "Light of Love"

Safe from August night - Dorothy Parker "Story of Mrs. W--"

Welcome wraiths of joyous nights - W. Theodore Parkes "Bohemians, Hail!"

The evil spirits will do as they please with our nights - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"

Fire and devils blazed at night - Elise Paschen "Division Street"

Carry the first cupfuls of night - Walter Pavlich "Road with Five Waterfalls"

As the light gave way to another endless night - Andre F. Peltier "Petoskey Sun Set, 4 July 2010"

Auspicious walks on hot nights - Angela Penaredondo "to hold these contradictions in kinship"

Cold nights of moral darkness - J.G. Percival "The Soul"

In the sleepy night's embrace - Walter S. Percy "A Lullaby"

Another night of apocalyptic dominos - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"

Dreams that make each night restless - Carl Phillips "All the Love You've Got"

Let the nights unfurl before them - Carl Phillips "On Mistaking the Sound of Spurs for Bells Approaching"

Fall asleep to the wind at night - Carl Phillips "So the Edge of the World"

When the nights bloom with cricket song - Carl Phillips "Yes"

When night fell on my running keel - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"

Among the shadows of the Terrace of Night - Po-Chu-i "Dreaming of Yuan Chen" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Seeing off a guest at night - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson

The wind came out of the cloud by night - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"

From night's crystal bars - E.J. Pratt "Flashlights and Echoes"

Through the silent tenure of the night - E.J. Pratt "Sea Variations"

A smudged white thumbprint on the night sky - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Blue Cup"

A mark left by the hand of Night - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Blue Cup"

Losing his shadow at night - John Prine

Last night and this morning - John Prine "Souvenirs"

Day and night are alike to him - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

A graveyard for nights and dreams - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

Pour our children into the night - Sina Queyras "I Am No Lady, Lazarus"

Wrested from the grasp of night - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Before Dawn: Malvern"

Will count the hosts of night - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"

The night and the storm combine - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Hands and Lips"

To shake the very stars at night - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Prayer"

By the night of her own grief - Theodore H. Rand "'By the Love'"

A seer in night of Time - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

With the night begins our day - Thomas Ravenscroft "By the Moon"

In the velvet knife of night - Molly Raynor "Yamim Noraim///Days of A W E"

Land in the viscera of night - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"

Chrysalis hanging on the bough of this night - Roger Reeves "For Black Children at the End of the World--and the Beginning"

Nothing more than the night extended - Roger Reeves "Prayer to the Gods of the Night, II"

Until they run out of nights - William Reichard "In the Evening"

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]

Blinked melancholy into the seething night - Ariana Reines "The Economy"

hope on ice sharpened days and nights - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Cellars cold with air of rivers at night - Charles Reznikoff "[The city breaks in houses to the sea, uneasy with waves]"

In that black descent of night - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"

Through the gate of night - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"

Nor conjure you by night - Ernest Rhys "A Song of Happiness"

At night when the moon is hidden - Grantland Rice "Ghosts of the Argonne"

Some night with its moonless weather - Grantland Rice "Ghosts of the Argonne"

The night's first dream - Adrienne Rich "Darklight"

As we don't say of the night - Adrienne Rich "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"

Fluttering down from the dark trees of night - Edgell Rickword "Winter Prophecies"

Within the deep of wilderness and night - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"

Fell on my spirit's deeper night - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"

The night that walks alone - Lola Ridge "Celia"

Fused in flaming circuit with the night - Lola Ridge "Electrocution"

In the vast equations of the night - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

Divide the ancient body of the night - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

Informing the night's arteries - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

Laughter in the night's valleys - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 3: The Void"

And reach his arms out to the night - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

The blizzard waltzes with the night - Lola Ridge "The Foundling"

A blood-shot eye in the black mask of night - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"

Of a crevice in the night - Lola Ridge "Jaguar"

The recurrent shadow of the night - Lola Ridge "Sonnet (To E.S.)"

Saying the same thing they said last night - Lynn Riggs "A Letter"

When time's night has fled - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Night, guardian of dreams - Rainer Maria Rilke "Evening" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Breathes warmth into the night - Arthur Rimbaud "Waifs and Strays" transl. not credited

Across the asphalt night - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"

Was courted by the Queen of night - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"

The solemn stars, the sacred night - Charles G.D. Roberts "Under the Pillars of the Sky"

Forget the night in dawning day - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson "From a Motor in May"

This last of nights before the last of days - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Amid the silver loneliness of night - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"

To vanish in irrevocable night - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Sonnet [Oh for a poet--]"

And night shall have her dirge - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"

A sweet still night of the vintage time - Rennell Rodd "Where the Rhone Goes Down to the Sea"

Alone with the night wind's sigh - Rennell Rodd "Where the Rhone Goes Down to the Sea"

Your eyes blazing in the moonless night - Levi Romero "the cherry end of
your cigarette against the pale sky"

Night is stretched across the frame of the sky - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"

Drenched with the perfumes of summer nights and rose-hush - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"

Warm as loveliest star of night - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)

You who are the sea & the night - Alireza Roshan "The Book of Absence" (translated by Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach)

The roses entrancing the night - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Song of Summer"

The long starless night of our past - Abram Joseph Ryan (aka Father Ryan) "Song of the Deathless Voice"

Winds that are wearied of night - Abram Joseph Ryan (aka Father Ryan) "Song of the Deathless Voice"

Have the night behind us - Kay Ryan "It's Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn"

what the night forgets to cover in its shadows - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"

Before the temple of the Night - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"

Every night I dream of scissors - Erika L. Sanchez "On the Eve of the Tepehuan Revolt"

The play of fountains at night - Carl Sandburg "Choices"

Through blue nights into white stars - Carl Sandburg "Prayers of Steel"

On a dark night when lovers pass whispering - Carl Sandburg "Still Life"

The night watchmen stuff their pipes with dreams - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"

Night calls its dogs - Reg Saner "Spring Song"

As dreams across an endless night - Margaret E. Sangster "'Be of Good Cheer!'"

Of nights when stars were falling dust - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"

that occur nightly in this late stage of the collapsing - Sam Sax "My Hole. My Whole"

Night's gloomy jaws veil him darkly - Friedrich Schiller "Monument of Moor the Robber"

Where the world's eye is hid by cheating night - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"

Her misgivings never strayed from liquid night - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Marker Memory"

One lotus night tinged blue with deja vu - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"

As night begins its metamorphosis - Ann K. Schwader "At the Last of Carcosa"

Cries out in siren welcome to the night - Ann K. Schwader "Cordyceps zombii"

Scars across the face of night - Ann K. Schwader "Fatal Constellations"

All night beneath the dreams of London - Ann K. Schwader "Necropolis Railway Incident"

Familiar as the ghosts of our bad nights - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"

On the edge of night's vast labyrinth - Clinton Scollard "Autumn by the Sea"

Into night's deep shades - Clinton Scollard "Elusion"

Old Babylon etched on the night - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"

The veil of night withdrawn - Frederick George Scott "At Lauds"

Allowing the night to have the last word - Nicole Sealey "cento for the night i said, 'i love you'"

Banished to the night and the wilderness - Tobias Seamon "Halos"

His eyes blinded shut with night and stars - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"

Sobbing on the bosom of the night - Robert W. Service "Music in the Bush"

When day's oppression is not eas'd by night - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"

Hid in death's dateless night - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXX"

Mournful hymns did hush the night - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CII"

Small shadows standing lost in the huge night - Edward Shanks "The Glow-Worm"

Full of the dark-stooping night - Edward Shanks "A Night-Piece"

The culverts where night squats - Betsy Sharp "Alarm"

Amnesiac of our nights together - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"

Emerges in the malnourished night - Brenda Shaughnessy "Never Ever"

The world of night is their kingdom - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"

Woven hymns of night and day - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

The gloom of the long polar night - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

Among the stars of mortal night - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

That mocks the night - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Flower That Smiles Today"

The dreams of a departed Night - Frank Dempster Sherman "Song at Daybreak"

Through a cherry blossom orchard at night - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"

All this strange and noisy night - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Banagher Rhue"

All night did the Banshee weep - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"

That fills the night's blue cup - Frank Dempster Sherman "At Her Window"

Drops down from the echoing room of night - Joyce Sidman "Bat Wraps Up"

Throw a few stones into the belly of the night - Joyce Sidman "Heartless"

Berries grown on the vines of night - Joyce Sidman "In the Almost-Light"

Jewels of dawn in the cool night's breeze - Joyce Sidman "In the Almost-Light"

To remake the world each night - Joyce Sidman "Night-Spider's Advice"

What the night is thinking - Richard Siken "Little Beast"

Night spilling over them like gasoline - Richard Siken "The Torn-Up Road"

As at the bitter night of hell - Paulus Silentarius "241. ["Farewell" is on my tongue]" (translated by William Roger Paton)

the night slips down my throat - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"

Memory dissolves across night - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Never Tells the Man"

Not falling asleep the next night - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"

Nights of an eternal November - Charles Simic "Classic Ballroom Dances"

The night writing in its diary - Charles Simic "Factory"

and the night turns over a millennia - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

The sun clocks in to overwrite the night - Bruce Smith "What Are They Doing in the Next Room"

With light in the night of infinitude - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"

Towers of night and fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

Power lent by the stronger night - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"

The spell of waves intense with night - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"

Grasped within the hollow hand of Night - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"

And night devour its flaming hues - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"

Weavings wrought of noon and night - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Coax the night into being - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"

Reptiles drag night from their tails - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"

Slipped into the embrace of the night - Jean M. Snyder "Benediction"

Projecting the whole night sky of constellations - Cynthia So "The Unicorn's Question"

With bears that each night enter my room - Juliana Spahr "Ode to Goby"

Coming to terms with the night - A.E. Stallings "Another Bedtime Story"

I am the prey of night - Frank Stanford "The Mind Reader"

Shooting stars in clear October nights - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

When Night unveils her stars - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"

The purple wings of Night - George Sterling "Aldebaran at Dusk"

Emerald beacons from the night - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"

In memory's regretful night - George Sterling "At Dusk"

Rebuild the palace of the night - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"

Had gathered the night's last tear - George Sterling "Hesperian"

Alert and faithful in the night - George Sterling "Night-Sentries"

A wandering echo in the night of Change - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"

The dome of unremembered nights - George Sterling "Three Sonnets by the Night Sea"

At fall of some disastrous night - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"

Seeks the silence of a vaster night - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"

One with the wine of night - George Sterling "With the Strength of Dreams"

The compassion of their night - George Sterling "Yosemite"

A spokesman of the night - Wallace Stevens "Chocorua to Its Neighbor"

Endure our thoughts all night - Wallace Stevens "Man Carrying Thing"

Full of night's midsummer blaze - Wallace Stevens "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad"

A breath upon her hand muted the night - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"

We foxes can set the night afire - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

Invitation to a plunging ride over the edge of night - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

An atom is working in deepest night - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"

The night more bitter cold will bring - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"

All night long I walked - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "In the Still, Star-Lit Night"

And faced the hushed infinity of night - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"

Weaving vast traceries out on the fringes of Night - Arthur Stringer "Life-Drunk"

Night runs in my blood - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

When night removes the brilliance of the sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 110: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

At night when her gold-light is spent - Charles Swain "The Ship 'Extravagance'" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

A night still vibrating with crickets - Alison Swan "Self-Serve"

The nights that a frost could fret - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Night outspeeding light - Algernon Swinburne "One of Twain"

What tortured nights have gone before - Carmen Sylva "A Debtor"

Till the night calls forth the moon - Carmen Sylva "The Shadow"

Out of the empty night arise - Arthur Symons "Stella Maris"

A night when dusk never comes - Milo K. Szyszka "A Tale of Moths and Home (of Bones and Breathing) (of Extrinsic Restrictive Lung Disease)"

The night has thrice denied the glory of the Sun - John B. Tabb "At Cock-Crow"

Under the florescent butts of night's cigarette - Amber Tamblyn "Epilogue"

Let their cats go out hunting at night - Amber Tamblyn "Epilogue"

Come with the true heart of the faithful Night - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Still, light rises all night long - Keith Taylor "After the Holidays"

I limped too close to night and too far - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

Disappearing one warm night when I forget to look - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

To keep off the wild dogs snarling in the night - Keith Taylor "Our Castle and the Wild Dogs"

Against the fear mounting at night - Keith Taylor "Three Springs"

The primrose that blossoms in the night - Keith Taylor "Through the Friendly Silence of the Moon"

Fleeing night creatures undoing themselves above the streetlights - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"

Shades from the night of forgetfulness - Te-con-ees-kee "Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation"

Thoughts that star the night - Sara Teasdale "Barter"

Never tears at night - Sara Teasdale "The Mother of a Poet"

The strangling sea of night - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"

But still the night is kind - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"

And strength to climb on a summer night - Sara Teasdale "Two Songs for Solitude"

The year is dying in the night - Alfred Tennyson "In Memoriam"

Exercised in the still night - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"

When night was on the waters - Francis Thompson "Lilium Regis"

Keep the vigils of the night - Francis Thompson "To My Godchild--Francis M. W. M."

When thy cities flake the night with flames - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"

Why evoke the spectres of black night - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

The doubtful empire of the night - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]

The night when fog hungered for clarity - Russell Thorburn "Many Miles from Home"

Some grains of night tincture the noontide air - Henry David Thoreau "The Fall of the Leaf"

Oppression's long dark night of pain - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Formless as the night wind's moan - Eunice Tietjens "To Jake"

The night that bounds my knowledge - Eunice Tietjens "To S"

Slaughter night, that day might have a place - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"

Boundless fields of rayless polar night - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Sequoyah"

In the sawdust glow of night - Jean Toomer "Song of the Son"

Through the sunflowers at night - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"

Star-reflected gardens walled with night - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

In the night's pale coronet - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"

Each night a refrain - Natasha Trethewey "Expectant"

Spring scallions cut in night rain - Tu Fu "Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement" transl. by Burton Watson

Hands to feel the forests and the dark nights - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"

Hang across the sky like solid limbs of night - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

When every night turns into a dream - Perhat Tursun "The Heart" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Home from the night and rain - Katherine Tynan "The Old House"

The night with its pitiless stars - Louis Untermeyer "Any City"

The quiet and courageous night - Louis Untermeyer "Challenge"

And even the night is wounded - Louis Untermeyer "Waters of Babylon"

Bursting into itself as night draped above - Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca "Had Been There"

Walks all night upon a narrow rafter - Mark Van Doren "Midwife Cat"

All of this is nothing to the night - Mark Van Doren "Possession"

On a night of whirling snow - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"

Dark the night and dim the day - Henry van Dyke "From Glory Unto Glory"

Down the pathway of the night - Henry van Dyke "The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet"

Pure nature in the night - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"

The stars move calm within the brow of night - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Holds the black night in leash - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XX" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

And Night alone o'erheard - Paul Verlaine "Colloque Sentimental" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Face the bottomless nights - Jeanann Verlee "Helen Considers Leaving Troy"

Of coral come to life in the night - R.A. Villanueva "Archipelagic"

The me that made this heavenless night - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"

Night with its black paws curled - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"

The night full of black teeth - Ocean Vuong "A Little Closer to the Edge"

Scorches the skin of night - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament VII"

The night's moth-eaten sleeve - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"

A more welcoming slope of the night - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"

Night already seeps through my brittle bones - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"

Night shall weep her silent tears - Charles William Wallace "Good-Night: Infant"

The iron-plated breast of Night - Charles William Wallace "Sonnets of Life I"

Those plagues of night and of desolation - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist

New dawns beyond Hell's night - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"

Other nights we use just our names - Jo Walton "When We Were Robots in Egypt"

A thing hanging in the air at night - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"

Toiling through the tedious night - Thomas Warton Jr. "Ode to Sleep"

As if he were agreeing with the night - Jamie Wasserman "German Man Found Dead in Home 5 Years After He Died"

Trapped in the night of the throat - Michael Wasson "So Call it Grace"

Encamped on Night's waste plain - William Watson "Night on Curbar Edge, Derbyshire"

Flake of night drifting in the eye of day - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"

Fairies light who danced at night - F.E. Weatherly "The Old Picture-Book"

The elfish glare of a polar night - "The Whale's Last Moments: A Lamp-Light Musing"

That we are fellows till the last night falls - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

The silver dawn of night that melts the dark - Edith Wharton "Impromptu"

While the heaven of night grows - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"

As the morning wakes the night - John Hall Wheelock "Exultation"

Move down the night's shore - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"

Till the throne of night be shaken - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"

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

Vex not the night with sound - Helen Hay Whitney "Be Still"

In this vortex day with night combines - Helen Hay Whitney "A Dream in Fever"

Prisons of triumphant night - Helen Hay Whitney "The Last Cloud"

Out of the purple treasuries of night - Helen Hay Whitney "Malua"

Rose blossoms, traitors to the night - Helen Hay Whitney "The Rose-Colored Camelia-Tree"

The deep mysterious caves forget the distant night - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"

The haze of glimmering nights and golden days - Helen Hay Whitney "Was There Another Spring"

Still until the night - Margaret Widdemer "The Factories"

On the seventh night of the seventh moon - John Wieners "For Huncke"

The gloom of the jealous night - Oscar Wilde "In the Gold Room"

Putting off the night's usual end - Phillip B. Williams "And Now Upon My Head the Crown"

Toward the infinite summits of the night - William Carlos Williams "Trees"

Spend all night fighting off the morning - Elizabeth Willis "Ephemeral Stream"

Wake up from a long night of walking - Elizabeth Willis "The Steam Engine"

A night filled with pinpricks instead of stars - Rin Willis "After the Wolf"

From the night and heart of me - Christian Wiman "Hard Night"

Where lingering daylight plays with the skirts of night - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota Sunsets"

Nine hundred degrees of nonstop night - Allan Wolf "Venus: Come Live with Me and Be My Lunch"

And each of them walks by night alone - Humbert Wolfe "The Crowder's Tune"

Night with its full syringe - Charles Wright "Consolation and the Order of the World"

Give us our unrequited, forsaken nights - Charles Wright "Detour"

An untuned harmonium that Muzaks our nights and days - Charles Wright "Music for Midsummer's Eve"

And makes the night wakeful and full of remorse - Charles Wright "Time Is a Child-Biting Dog"

Only the night is wound up tight - Charles Wright "Time Is a Graceless Enemy, but Purls as It Comes and Goes"

Autumn night at the end of the world - Charles Wright "We Hope That Love Calls Us, but Sometimes We're Not So Sure"

Two nights I wooed in vain - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]

To the adequate measure of night - Jay Wright "Kumu"

A teapot pouring into the black cup of a summer night - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

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

The blue cave of night - Elinor Wylie "Silver Filigree"

And the nights end - Elinor Wylie "Sunset on the Spire"

Such a night as witches love - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"

If empty night replies - W.B. Yeats "A First Confession"

All night's fathomless wisdom - W.B. Yeats "Her Dream"

The night grows rough - W.B. Yeats "'I am of Ireland'"

For always night and day - W.B. Yeats "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

The nets of day and night - W.B. Yeats "The Poet pleads with the Elemental Powers"

Pure unchanging night - W.B. Yeats "Tom the Lunatic"

No roads in the black night - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Dreaming of the night's decadence - C. Dale Young "The Wolf"

Drinking honey of the night's flowers - Francis Brett Young "Moths"

And the night fell on our battle - Francis Brett Young "On a Subaltern Killed in Action"

To illumine the sad skies of night - Francis Brett Young "Slender Themes"

In that star-powdered night - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"

Merged into perpetual night - Francis Brett Young "Testament"

Glitter in the spirit's night - Francis Brett Young "Testament"

Under the vast dominion of night - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Awaken to frozen days and bitter nights - Francis Brett Young "Winter Sunset"

Dream each long, blank night - Josephine Yu "The Compulsive Liar Apologizes to Her Therapist for Certain Fabrications and Omissions"

Toward the promise of night - Matthew Zapruder "Brooklyn with a New Beginning"

You drink too much night - Matthew Zapruder "The Lark"

Look up the skirt of the night sky - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

The night unfolds tomorrow's news - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks: III. Mid-January"

Jibing the night's storm-battered prow - Cynthia Zarin "Mirror"


A drawing of an all-night sky - Mary Jo Bang "Speaking of the Future, Hamlet"

In the harsh inner light of an all-night diner - Edward Hirsch "The Task"

Crimson from your all-night vigil - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 96: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Benighted, blinded and confused - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Chasing a fly-by-night sparrow - Cyrus Cassells "How Many Lives Have We Lived in Paris?"

Shopping has become my good-night kiss - Maggie Farren "Palms"

Unholy trinity of suburban late-night salvation - Aaron Tyler Hand "Self-Portrait as Combinations Taco Bell/Pizza Hut/KFC"

Over a long-night chrysanthemum sun - Mary Jo Bang "Still Life with Glasses"

The green night-baying of the dog-star - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"

Scattering our night-born ills - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

Away from this year's cubicle to night class - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

Dark alleys between night-crested waves - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Footprints on some night-drowned beach - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

Nightfall.

Dream upon the night-hawks peopling heaven - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"

Gives song a nightless day - Charles Bertram Johnson "Negro Poets"

Nightlights going unused in the swinging forests - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"

Sleeker than night-swollen mushrooms - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

A bell upon the night-tide - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2"

That nighttime brigade of ghosts now laid to rest - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"

In the night-time or sorrow - E. Clementine Stedman "Stanzas"

The nightvault swarming with stars - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

O'er which they had kept night-watch - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

His the voice in the night-watches - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Night-Wind.

Night-wrought spells about me thrown - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"

A flurry of coronaries in the overnight forecast - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"

To survive overnight - Robin Becker "Hummingbird"

Built up soundless overnight - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"

Through the dreams of yesternight - Robert Graves "The Dying Knight and the Fauns"

On the door of Yesternight - Ruth Guthrie Harding "Song"


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