Potential Titles: Ruin
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somethingdarkerWildly danced above the gulf of ruin - A.L.O.E. "The Second Advent"
Every shelf complicity among the ruins - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"
Complicity among the ruins - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"
Ascend the ruins of this place - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
A ruined mass upon the hearth - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"
Memory remains and ruins - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
That faraway place where the ruins spoke to poets - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
Names become the first steppings into ruin - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
Today prepares tomorrow's ruin - Maya Angelou "In a Time"
Long before their ruination - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"
Where ruin echoes to destruction's calls - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Dwells in a desert by her ruins made - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Months with ruin fraught - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"
Irresistible silence on the edge of a ruin - Mary Jo Bang "Etched, Tetched, Touched"
A tabletop scattered with ruins - Mary Jo Bang "Interrupted Briefly by a Borrowed Phrase, the Scene Proceeds"
Living with the ruin we were given - Mary Jo Bang "Our Evening Is Over Us"
Be only known by the gray ruin and the mouldering stone - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Over the ruins of forgotten time - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"
A ruin where the jackals rest - Charles Baudelaire "The Eyes of Beauty" transl. not credited
Not to bleed into ruins but to embrace them - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"
One death and I'm not going to ruin it - Josh Bell "The War Against Birthdays"
I march to my ruin with such a heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
To impersonate iguanas in ruins - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Pegasus"
Not everything tattered is ruined - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."
That only ruins could reveal - Maxwell Bodenheim "Fifth Avenue (New York)"
Stealing into ruin as the centuries unraveled - Bruce Boston "Ghost People"
Plants that spring in ruins and shards - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
Ruined by an ever-bitter extremity - Jericho Brown "Of the Swan"
In virtue of her ruin - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Spreading ruin and scattering ban - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"
Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"
Man marks the earth with ruin - Byron "To the Ocean"
Darkness silently unfurls among colossal ruins - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]
The waters under the ruined mill - Joseph Campbell "The Old Woman"
This ruined verge of time - W. Wilfred Campbell "Departure"
In the wreck of that ruined world - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Dryad"
Some ruined trunk thy citadel - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Humming Bee"
Master of this ruined house - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Last Prayer"
Regions of ruin and age - W. Wilfred Campbell "To the Ottawa"
Ruined bridge at edge of night - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Even your names are in ruins - Will Carleton "Wealth"
Where lurk no ruin of dream - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"
Must watch the waves with ruin all bestrew - Edward Carpenter "As Round a Lighthouse to--"
Came ruin and the rain that burns - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
A ruined wreck adrift upon a surging sea - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Listed red as ruin - Nathalia Crane "The Vestal"
The ruined grounds of the first prayer - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"
Which her ruins and remains attest - Tomas de Iriarte "Epistle to Don Domingo de Iriarte, on His Travelling to Various Foreign Courts" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Buy it with blood, and fire, and ruin wide - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
These stones by time in ruin laid - Walter de la Mare "The Corner Stone"
Some fretting ruin make - Walter de la Mare "The Dark House"
Our tendency to ruin things - Monica de la Torre "Remote Disjunctions"
Come back with me to the ruins - Diana Marie Delgado "Never Mind I'm Dead"
Walking is a process in ruins - Nicole Cecilia Delgado "From Barrio Obrero to La Quince" (translated by Urayodan Noel)
And ruin her pestilential nest - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"
Ruin was inscribed in what he built - Boris Dralyuk "My Hollywood: A Triptych: II. The Flower Painter"
The blessed who walk among our ruin - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Wind-Whipped: 4. Catechism"
Meditating on time's ruins - T.S. Eliot "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"
Listen to the bell in the ruins - Martin Espada "Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World"
The trumpet's breath bids ruin smile - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
From an empire that has always been ruined - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"
Move through the ruins of the dance - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"
Asked, too, to be luminous and ruined - Joseph Fasano "The Moon"
Our star to shine on the ruins of Rum - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"
Crashing in ruin quiet at last - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
If this house should come to ruin - Sandy Florian "House"
Suspended against the ruins - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 2"
Tourists before the separate, chiseled ruin - Katie Ford "Koi"
Ruins even the rats won't enter - Vievee Francis "The Scale of Empire"
Recognizable on my wave of ruin - James Galvin "Putting Down the Night"
Two people to bring the world to ruin - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"
Everything that pulls me down to ruin - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"
Wandered the silent ruins of my city - Dana Gioia "Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles"
Think on vengeance for my ruin - Richard Glover "Admiral Hosier's Ghost"
Heard the bitterns call from ruined palace-wall - Robert Graves "In the Wilderness"
High o'er the abyss of ruin - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
How long a ruined thing will burn - Paul Guest "1987"
Return to roam the same ruins - Nathalie Handal "The City"
The shores of ruined space - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
And grace the ruin in its fall - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"
Midst ruins finds a dwelling - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"
Dark as the ruins of the mind - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"
Such ruin that remained - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Old Masonry"
Carved from ruin upon ruin - William Dean Howells "The Faithful of the Gonzaga"
So full of ruin's solemn grace - William D. Howells (uncredited) "The Old Homestead" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Sweet to my dark ruined heart - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"
Amid the flying ruins of strife - Charles Bertram Johnson "Serenity"
Dirge of the ruined years - Lionel Johnson "Parnell"
Unhealed wounds and home fallen to ruins - Zilka Joseph "A Chirota for My Thoughts"
Through many journeys and ruined days - Rodger Kamenetz "The Broken Tablets"
His arms a gate in ruin - Courtney Kampa "Bella Figura"
Picking through the ruins for my roots - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Ruined by nothing but my thoughts - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Fails the First Test of Being Holy"
Unmoved among the ruins of the works of God - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
A ruin of fallen columns bedded on ice - Ted Kooser "The Celery Heart"
With the dead and ruined dust - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"
With the rain of ruined leaves - Archibald Lampman "September"
Wakening amid the silent ruins of Zion - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
A ruined gasp too proud - Hailey Leithauser "Sex Obstreperous"
The grave of ruined hearts which trusted - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things IV: Sonnet" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Wheel rut in the ruined stone - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"
All the bitter ruin and wreck of us - Fiona MacLeod "The Prayer of Women"
Will wander the ruins of the sun - Anthony Madrid "Kiskindhakanda"
Abandoned ruins of larger schemes - Don Marquis "Proem"
The ruins where the will is free - J. Michael Martinez "Treaty of Guadalupe"
To ruin the great work of time - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"
How lovely the ruins - Jamaal May "There Are Birds Here"
Hideous wings about the arch and ruined roof - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
My soul unshaken by the ruin - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"
Whispers ripening in the same breath as ruin - Shara McCallum "Dear Hours"
Dragging through future ruins - Marc McKee "Hello, New Year"
Ruin's billows them engulfing - H.P. McKnight "An Initial Acrostic"
To see the revelers and the ruined - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
The valley in ruin of fields - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Through ruinous floods uplift - George Meredith "My Theme"
The mossed hush of ruins - M.S. Merwin "Walkers"
Ragged children of the ruins - N. Scott Momaday "War Chronicle"
And through sweet Nature's ruin trace her own - Robert Montgomery "Melancholy" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Outlined in our ruin of stitches - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
Living through the ruin - Gala Mukomolova "Return"
Ruin and fallen parapets predict my fate - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (7)" transl. by Dennis Daly
The dormant fire and the ruined salt - Pablo Neruda "Sonata and Destruction" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Pure heir of the ruined day - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems II" translated by W.S. Merwin
How to make a house of our ruin - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Cape San Blas"
Quicker ruin's instrument - Robert Nichols "The Man of Honour"
Lying on Love's ruin - Yone Noguchi "I Am Like a Leaf"
Time is a ruined fountain - Achy Obejas "Slow"
A rabbit skipping out of absolute ruin - Omodero David Oghenekaro "Questions for the Fallen"
Stands at night beside a ruined house - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"
Your songs are the impossible ruins - Soham Patel "Mixed with always"
A need that ruins - Carl Phillips "Erasure"
The decadent ruin where expatriate gods live - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Another interior to hold the ruin - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"
The bay in its ruined languor - Adrienne Rich "For an Anniversary"
Spraying ruin on revolution - Adrienne Rich "Four Short Poems 4"
Pale ruin with a heart of fire - Lola Ridge "A Worn Rose"
a fingernail scratching the scars of yesterday's ruins - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"
To grow a garden on the ruins - Sanai "The Time Needed" transl. by Coleman Barks
Drink a cup of wine in this ruined house - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
A stranger to my own ruin - Erika L. Sanchez "A Woman Runs on the First Day of Spring"
Broken walls of ruin and story - Carl Sandburg "Follies"
A mighty oak here ruined lies - Friedrich Schiller "Spinosa"
When ruin comes in increments - Teresa J. Scollon "Drought Year"
Heavy and slow in the streets of ruined cities - Gilbert Sheldon "St. Anthony's Township"
Of utter ruin and fast decay - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"
I walked in the garden of ruin - Bruce Smith "Garden"
The ruin of all the wars of time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Sung in the Romes of ruined spheres - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
Where the ruining roses go - Clark Ashton Smith "Quest"
All the crownless, ruined years - Clark Ashton Smith "Recompense"
Instead praise meadow and ruin - Maggie Smith "Perennials"
Rested to view the ruins - Gary Soto "How I Got to Walk Down Six Thousand Feet Barefoot"
Dawn moon passing ruined forts - Ssu-k'ung Shu "The Rebellion Over, I See Off a Friend Who Is Returning North" transl. by Burton Watson
Linger in the ruins of the fight - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Ruined altars yielding up their fire - George Sterling "The Evanescent City"
The portals of the ruined past - George Sterling "Memory of the Dead"
In that ruined mountain city - Gerald Stern "The Hammer"
Glory in folly and fire and ruin - Arthur Stringer "Atavism"
Dust and ruin and emptiness left behind - Arthur Stringer "Prescience"
The lost battle and the ruined shrine - Muriel Stuart "Words"
The ruin in telling the truth - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
Who seeks through Winter's ruins - Edward Thomas "But These Things Also"
Great ruins of an unremembered past - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Rise in formless ruin blown - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"
A gift of quicksand kisses, a ruin of howling - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
ruining our recipe for reanimation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"
That falls on the ruins or on the void - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker
In the lobster-infested ruins of old Atlantis - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Ruined temples half-buried in sand - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"
From the ruins of memory - Rosemarie Waldrop "A Valentine That Can't Be Sent"
Till dawn began to walk among the ruins - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
No ruin but a vision unachieved - Edith Wharton "Segesta"
Amid the ruins of my shattered life - Helen Hay Whitney "Water and Wine"
Infested me with a ruinous desire - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
And Ruin draws the curtains - Oscar Wilde "My Voice"
The ruined splendor before evil - C. K. Williams "Pandora"
Temples soothed by sun to ruin - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"
Archaeologists in quest of ruins - Adolf Wolff "Aphrodite"
Programmed for rot and ruin - Charles Wright "Fortune Cookie"
Featherless birds in the ruined trees - Charles Wright "Remembering Bergamo Alto"
the barest rune of ruin - Monica Youn "Blueacre"
Spelling ruination in the veins of your wrist - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"
Believing in the wealth of the unruined heart - Tim Seibles "Naive"
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Every shelf complicity among the ruins - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"
Complicity among the ruins - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"
Ascend the ruins of this place - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
A ruined mass upon the hearth - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"
Memory remains and ruins - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
That faraway place where the ruins spoke to poets - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
Names become the first steppings into ruin - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
Today prepares tomorrow's ruin - Maya Angelou "In a Time"
Long before their ruination - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"
Where ruin echoes to destruction's calls - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Dwells in a desert by her ruins made - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Months with ruin fraught - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"
Irresistible silence on the edge of a ruin - Mary Jo Bang "Etched, Tetched, Touched"
A tabletop scattered with ruins - Mary Jo Bang "Interrupted Briefly by a Borrowed Phrase, the Scene Proceeds"
Living with the ruin we were given - Mary Jo Bang "Our Evening Is Over Us"
Be only known by the gray ruin and the mouldering stone - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Over the ruins of forgotten time - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"
A ruin where the jackals rest - Charles Baudelaire "The Eyes of Beauty" transl. not credited
Not to bleed into ruins but to embrace them - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"
One death and I'm not going to ruin it - Josh Bell "The War Against Birthdays"
I march to my ruin with such a heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
To impersonate iguanas in ruins - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Pegasus"
Not everything tattered is ruined - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."
That only ruins could reveal - Maxwell Bodenheim "Fifth Avenue (New York)"
Stealing into ruin as the centuries unraveled - Bruce Boston "Ghost People"
Plants that spring in ruins and shards - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
Ruined by an ever-bitter extremity - Jericho Brown "Of the Swan"
In virtue of her ruin - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Spreading ruin and scattering ban - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"
Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"
Man marks the earth with ruin - Byron "To the Ocean"
Darkness silently unfurls among colossal ruins - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]
The waters under the ruined mill - Joseph Campbell "The Old Woman"
This ruined verge of time - W. Wilfred Campbell "Departure"
In the wreck of that ruined world - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Dryad"
Some ruined trunk thy citadel - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Humming Bee"
Master of this ruined house - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Last Prayer"
Regions of ruin and age - W. Wilfred Campbell "To the Ottawa"
Ruined bridge at edge of night - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Even your names are in ruins - Will Carleton "Wealth"
Where lurk no ruin of dream - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"
Must watch the waves with ruin all bestrew - Edward Carpenter "As Round a Lighthouse to--"
Came ruin and the rain that burns - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
A ruined wreck adrift upon a surging sea - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Listed red as ruin - Nathalia Crane "The Vestal"
The ruined grounds of the first prayer - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"
Which her ruins and remains attest - Tomas de Iriarte "Epistle to Don Domingo de Iriarte, on His Travelling to Various Foreign Courts" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Buy it with blood, and fire, and ruin wide - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
These stones by time in ruin laid - Walter de la Mare "The Corner Stone"
Some fretting ruin make - Walter de la Mare "The Dark House"
Our tendency to ruin things - Monica de la Torre "Remote Disjunctions"
Come back with me to the ruins - Diana Marie Delgado "Never Mind I'm Dead"
Walking is a process in ruins - Nicole Cecilia Delgado "From Barrio Obrero to La Quince" (translated by Urayodan Noel)
And ruin her pestilential nest - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"
Ruin was inscribed in what he built - Boris Dralyuk "My Hollywood: A Triptych: II. The Flower Painter"
The blessed who walk among our ruin - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Wind-Whipped: 4. Catechism"
Meditating on time's ruins - T.S. Eliot "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"
Listen to the bell in the ruins - Martin Espada "Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World"
The trumpet's breath bids ruin smile - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
From an empire that has always been ruined - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"
Move through the ruins of the dance - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"
Asked, too, to be luminous and ruined - Joseph Fasano "The Moon"
Our star to shine on the ruins of Rum - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"
Crashing in ruin quiet at last - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
If this house should come to ruin - Sandy Florian "House"
Suspended against the ruins - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 2"
Tourists before the separate, chiseled ruin - Katie Ford "Koi"
Ruins even the rats won't enter - Vievee Francis "The Scale of Empire"
Recognizable on my wave of ruin - James Galvin "Putting Down the Night"
Two people to bring the world to ruin - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"
Everything that pulls me down to ruin - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"
Wandered the silent ruins of my city - Dana Gioia "Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles"
Think on vengeance for my ruin - Richard Glover "Admiral Hosier's Ghost"
Heard the bitterns call from ruined palace-wall - Robert Graves "In the Wilderness"
High o'er the abyss of ruin - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
How long a ruined thing will burn - Paul Guest "1987"
Return to roam the same ruins - Nathalie Handal "The City"
The shores of ruined space - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
And grace the ruin in its fall - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"
Midst ruins finds a dwelling - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"
Dark as the ruins of the mind - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"
Such ruin that remained - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Old Masonry"
Carved from ruin upon ruin - William Dean Howells "The Faithful of the Gonzaga"
So full of ruin's solemn grace - William D. Howells (uncredited) "The Old Homestead" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Sweet to my dark ruined heart - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"
Amid the flying ruins of strife - Charles Bertram Johnson "Serenity"
Dirge of the ruined years - Lionel Johnson "Parnell"
Unhealed wounds and home fallen to ruins - Zilka Joseph "A Chirota for My Thoughts"
Through many journeys and ruined days - Rodger Kamenetz "The Broken Tablets"
His arms a gate in ruin - Courtney Kampa "Bella Figura"
Picking through the ruins for my roots - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Ruined by nothing but my thoughts - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Fails the First Test of Being Holy"
Unmoved among the ruins of the works of God - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
A ruin of fallen columns bedded on ice - Ted Kooser "The Celery Heart"
With the dead and ruined dust - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"
With the rain of ruined leaves - Archibald Lampman "September"
Wakening amid the silent ruins of Zion - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
A ruined gasp too proud - Hailey Leithauser "Sex Obstreperous"
The grave of ruined hearts which trusted - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things IV: Sonnet" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Wheel rut in the ruined stone - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"
All the bitter ruin and wreck of us - Fiona MacLeod "The Prayer of Women"
Will wander the ruins of the sun - Anthony Madrid "Kiskindhakanda"
Abandoned ruins of larger schemes - Don Marquis "Proem"
The ruins where the will is free - J. Michael Martinez "Treaty of Guadalupe"
To ruin the great work of time - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"
How lovely the ruins - Jamaal May "There Are Birds Here"
Hideous wings about the arch and ruined roof - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
My soul unshaken by the ruin - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"
Whispers ripening in the same breath as ruin - Shara McCallum "Dear Hours"
Dragging through future ruins - Marc McKee "Hello, New Year"
Ruin's billows them engulfing - H.P. McKnight "An Initial Acrostic"
To see the revelers and the ruined - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
The valley in ruin of fields - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Through ruinous floods uplift - George Meredith "My Theme"
The mossed hush of ruins - M.S. Merwin "Walkers"
Ragged children of the ruins - N. Scott Momaday "War Chronicle"
And through sweet Nature's ruin trace her own - Robert Montgomery "Melancholy" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Outlined in our ruin of stitches - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
Living through the ruin - Gala Mukomolova "Return"
Ruin and fallen parapets predict my fate - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (7)" transl. by Dennis Daly
The dormant fire and the ruined salt - Pablo Neruda "Sonata and Destruction" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Pure heir of the ruined day - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems II" translated by W.S. Merwin
How to make a house of our ruin - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Cape San Blas"
Quicker ruin's instrument - Robert Nichols "The Man of Honour"
Lying on Love's ruin - Yone Noguchi "I Am Like a Leaf"
Time is a ruined fountain - Achy Obejas "Slow"
A rabbit skipping out of absolute ruin - Omodero David Oghenekaro "Questions for the Fallen"
Stands at night beside a ruined house - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"
Your songs are the impossible ruins - Soham Patel "Mixed with always"
A need that ruins - Carl Phillips "Erasure"
The decadent ruin where expatriate gods live - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Another interior to hold the ruin - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"
The bay in its ruined languor - Adrienne Rich "For an Anniversary"
Spraying ruin on revolution - Adrienne Rich "Four Short Poems 4"
Pale ruin with a heart of fire - Lola Ridge "A Worn Rose"
a fingernail scratching the scars of yesterday's ruins - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"
To grow a garden on the ruins - Sanai "The Time Needed" transl. by Coleman Barks
Drink a cup of wine in this ruined house - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
A stranger to my own ruin - Erika L. Sanchez "A Woman Runs on the First Day of Spring"
Broken walls of ruin and story - Carl Sandburg "Follies"
A mighty oak here ruined lies - Friedrich Schiller "Spinosa"
When ruin comes in increments - Teresa J. Scollon "Drought Year"
Heavy and slow in the streets of ruined cities - Gilbert Sheldon "St. Anthony's Township"
Of utter ruin and fast decay - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"
I walked in the garden of ruin - Bruce Smith "Garden"
The ruin of all the wars of time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Sung in the Romes of ruined spheres - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
Where the ruining roses go - Clark Ashton Smith "Quest"
All the crownless, ruined years - Clark Ashton Smith "Recompense"
Instead praise meadow and ruin - Maggie Smith "Perennials"
Rested to view the ruins - Gary Soto "How I Got to Walk Down Six Thousand Feet Barefoot"
Dawn moon passing ruined forts - Ssu-k'ung Shu "The Rebellion Over, I See Off a Friend Who Is Returning North" transl. by Burton Watson
Linger in the ruins of the fight - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Ruined altars yielding up their fire - George Sterling "The Evanescent City"
The portals of the ruined past - George Sterling "Memory of the Dead"
In that ruined mountain city - Gerald Stern "The Hammer"
Glory in folly and fire and ruin - Arthur Stringer "Atavism"
Dust and ruin and emptiness left behind - Arthur Stringer "Prescience"
The lost battle and the ruined shrine - Muriel Stuart "Words"
The ruin in telling the truth - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
Who seeks through Winter's ruins - Edward Thomas "But These Things Also"
Great ruins of an unremembered past - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Rise in formless ruin blown - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"
A gift of quicksand kisses, a ruin of howling - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
ruining our recipe for reanimation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"
That falls on the ruins or on the void - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker
In the lobster-infested ruins of old Atlantis - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Ruined temples half-buried in sand - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"
From the ruins of memory - Rosemarie Waldrop "A Valentine That Can't Be Sent"
Till dawn began to walk among the ruins - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
No ruin but a vision unachieved - Edith Wharton "Segesta"
Amid the ruins of my shattered life - Helen Hay Whitney "Water and Wine"
Infested me with a ruinous desire - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
And Ruin draws the curtains - Oscar Wilde "My Voice"
The ruined splendor before evil - C. K. Williams "Pandora"
Temples soothed by sun to ruin - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"
Archaeologists in quest of ruins - Adolf Wolff "Aphrodite"
Programmed for rot and ruin - Charles Wright "Fortune Cookie"
Featherless birds in the ruined trees - Charles Wright "Remembering Bergamo Alto"
the barest rune of ruin - Monica Youn "Blueacre"
Spelling ruination in the veins of your wrist - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"
Believing in the wealth of the unruined heart - Tim Seibles "Naive"
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