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When the world burst out of an egg - Sheikha A. "Nesters"

i set my love out over an ocean of space - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"

Wrung out cloth of all my salt - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

No way out of the holy well - Rasha Abdulhadi "ZamZam Baby"

Pouring out of the chest's orchestra - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"

Looking out from their window that faces the sea - "Abroad"

Wading out to sea to lure lifeguards - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"

Misery flying out the window - Duane Ackerson "What If"

He cut the soul out of the shark - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Second Bait"

Replaced by a dark fin cutting out to sea - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Second Bait"

A great storm had blown out the stars - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"

You have already stepped out of your body - Carl Adamshick "Moon Seen Through Windshield"

A deluge and then a digging out - Kim Addonizio "Darkening Then Brightening"

The stars drag themselves out from my body - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

Our decision to sneak out to find our own sky - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"

I build you out of argument - Mary Alexandra Agner "Book of the Dead Woman"

Wisdom alembicked out of dust - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"

Turns out tempered resilience outlasts regimes - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

Bioluminescence spells out in abstract typography - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

My other eye went out from sympathy - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

How the new translation left out my crimes - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Bighead"

Staring out at this lifeless American snow - Kaveh Akbar "My Father's Accent"

Black grass dying up out of this snow - Kaveh Akbar "My Father's Accent"

Orchids are gushing out from the faucets - Kaveh Akbar "Orchids Are Sprouting from the Floorboards"

When I was water you poured me out - Kaveh Akbar "Ways to Harm a Thing"

Pours out a measure at the guest's command - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

Rose out of the turning seasons in December - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Wander in and out of material and void - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

And the song died out of her heart - Ellen Tracy Alden "Queen Mabel"

The soul half eaten out with solitude - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

From out the dawn the crows broke across the sky - Lewis Alexander "Tanka V" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Not trusting the beautiful void to seek him out - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Stares out from the space between atoms - Mike Allen "Pulse"

My rooms slip in and out of higher dimensions - Mike Allen "Space War"

The days pour out our songs - Lauren K. Alleyne "Gift"

Who are calling out of the dimness vague and vast - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"

Out comes the broken lantern - Zaina Alsous "the subject of much debate"

Take the hurricane out of the wind - Julia Alvarez "Ars Politica"

Sweeps out the house of childhood - Julia Alvarez "Passing On"

An Ariadne string that leads you out - Julia Alvarez "Touching Bottom"

Here to shovel out the silence - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"

The only way out ahead - Hala Alyan "Step Two: Higher Power"

Emptying boxes and making order out of pieces - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"

The clouds broke out in fiery lightning - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XL: Milica" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Nought he takes from out the world - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXVII: The Conditions" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Rooting out weeds, trampling on trash - William Archila "Bury This Pig"

Clambering out of the rain clouds - William Archila "Childhood"

A soul crawling out of the black dirt - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

Broken out in imps - Rae Armantrout "The Runaround"

A universe out of pleasantries - Rae Armantrout "Vehicles"

Reach out hungered arms to flowing change - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

the latitude is measured out of grief - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"

Out of myrtle and jessamine made - J.L.B. "The Butterfly's Funeral"

The yearning call went out into the empty air - Grant Balfour "Christmas Eve"

Built your bones out of air and hurt - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Driving out of a nine-circle hell - Mary Jo Bang "Magic Makes Everything Right"

Out onto the end of looking - Mary Jo Bang "The Story of Small Cars"

The bodies we inherited and tried to slip out of - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

The small clamors that drown out the one large clamor - Ari Banias "Tautology"

Still having problems figuring me out? - Carmen Bardeguez-Brown "Rican Issues"

You are not obliged to be out in the storm - Mrs. Sale Barker "The Robin's Song"

Out of idleness into urgency - Rick Barot "Adjacent, Against, Upon"

Step out of girlhood's orchard - Lou Barrett "At a Jerusalem Market"

Out of the white and the blue - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

Out of the mist and the ice - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

Out of the wind and the flame - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

race the lightning out to sea - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"

the no of drought flooded out - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"

out of kisses bringing fears - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"

to heights out of time and measure - Elizabeth Bartlett "while I live"

out of canyon silences - Elizabeth Bartlett "while I live"

A thousand torch songs calling out - Ellen Bass "Pearls"

For ever out of human sight - Charlotte F. Bates "Forecast" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

Twelve white eyes always staring out - Mrs. Clara Doty Bates "The Cuckoo Clock" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Out from the long alphabet - Clara Doty Bates "Goody Two-Shoes" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]

Out of the barrow he shovels the tan - Clara Doty Bates "Saarchinkold!" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]

Seven dishes made out of the best red gold - Clara Doty Bates "Sleeping Beauty" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]

Drawing the sun out of my heart - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

The spent sun passes out beneath an arch - Charles Baudelaire "Meditation" transl. by David Yezzi

Out of nocturnal anguish into dawn - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

Smoothed out for the moon - Andrea Blancas Beltran "Year of the Rat, Full Moon in Aries, and Coltrane Plays"

Doling out mortality to Moloch and his bride - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"

Poured out on earth the unconquerable sun - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

A wizard air weaves out of dreams - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"

Strives to wipe out his defeats - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Banquet"

As the swords ran out of their scabbards - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Four hoofs of fire beat out refrain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

Mumbling out dull obscenity - Stephen Vincent Benet "Young Blood"

Out of comfort and easy dreaming - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Giving out buckets as a kind of spiritual practice - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"

Bind your heart lest it find secrets out - Stella Benson "To the Unborn"

Standing in the garden and gazing out - Emily Berry "Freud's Beautiful Things"

Streams out in ribbons of light - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Heart"

From out the roll of dreaming children - Paul Bewsher "A Fallen Leaf"

Big cloud-ships with sails spread out - "A Big Playfellow" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Landscapes turned inside out - Terry Blackhawk "Sonny Rollins and the redemptive handrail"

Yet launch out into fantastic schemes - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Poured out the tribute of their wealth - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"

Armies out of the burnt void - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

Saw her stretch out to the gale - "The Boatman's Hymn" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

Widen out in the silence of air - Maxwell Bodenheim "Images of Life and Death: Death"

Who sway in and out of the waters of life - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Handpainted Chinaware" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Having fallen out of blue September - Jaswinder Bolina "Course in General Linguistics"

Out of the palace of our best efforts - Jaswinder Bolina "Municipal Vistas"

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

Rounding out the hundred rites - "The Book of Odes: No.220. When Guests First Take Their Seats" transl. by Burton Watson

Measures out the earth in lines of life - Gordon Bottomley "The Ploughman"

Fate points out our different ways - John Philip Bourke "The End of the Episode"

Out of the gold of the morning - Thomas Boyd "Love on the Mountain"

Till the blood leaked out in code - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"

Waiting room made out of marzipan - Ana Bozicevic "Paris Pride Parade"

Spoken out of half a dream - William Stanley Braithwaite "Near the End of April"

Bodies shaken out of all but stars - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

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

And tempts me back out on the road - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

New light waiting just out of reach - Russell Brakefield "Myth"

Go out and gather the oldest fires of the universe - Russell Brakefield "The Perseids"

Gave out petals inked with curses - William Brewer "Daedalus in Oxyana"

Fixed on scraping out my veins - William Brewer "Daedalus in Oxyana"

March with a steady toe out of the frying-pan - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Hollowed out of frost - Lucie Brock-Broido "Girl at the Border of Her Own Allegory"

Pounded out a few choice clouds - Julian Talamantez Brolaski "sky hammer"

Out in the twilight realm of dreams - Ruth Margaret Muskrat [Bronson] "Nunih Waiyah"

Out of the unknown they have come - Ruth Margaret Muskrat [Bronson] "Sentenced"

Inviting other sphinxes out - Calef Brown "Tiny Baby Sphinx"

Maintenance issues breaking out all over - Jeffrey Brown "Succession"

Grief borne out under whittled stars - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"

Caught in swift eddies as the tide goes out - Paul Cameron Brown "The Clearing that Is the Trees"

Look out upon further marvels - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"

Live out the threadbare future promises - Paul Cameron Brown "Tussaud's"

Making decisions out of ignorance - Paul Cameron Brown "Tussaud's"

Eke out a living on storybook memories - Paul Cameron Brown "Vertigo"

From out the thickleaved oaken shade - Sterling A. Brown "Return"

Beacons to blaze out the way - Sterling A. Brown "Salutamus"

Measure out the distances from good - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Step out grandly to the infinite - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Soul's Expression"

All our beginnings blasting out - Christopher Buckley "Desire"

Looking out on the blank grey measure of another year - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"

Shadow spilling out onto the street - Sue Budin "City"

Worse than having ten teeth out - Wilhelm Busch "Plish and Plum" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks

This wilderness set out for me - Anthony Butts "Before Autumn"

Run from stars till you are out of breath - Witter Bynner "The Wild Star"

Out in the greenwood to romp and play - L.A.B.C. "Our May-Day at the South" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

graffiti me out of doubt - Regie Cabico "A Queerification"

Out we'll sail where the treasures lie - Frank Oliver Call "Hidden Treasure"

For pence doled out by kings - Tommaso Campanella "XXV. The People" transl. by John Addington Symonds

An old sorrow that has put out the sun - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: The Dance"

To race propriety and prudence out of breath - Edward Carpenter "The Great Peepshow"

The stars pearl out in the azure sky - J.E.A. Carver "Evening"

Call'd a rebel out to lead the van - John Castillo "Old Sam! or the Effects of the Gospel"

Making hammocks out of figs and accidents - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"

The leopards stake out the backyard - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"

Where people breathed out white birds - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"

Our breath comes out elsewhere - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"

What country my breath came out in - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"

Holds out midst flood and fire - Joseph Horatio Chant "Brotherhood"

Out of the poignant vistas of the years - Ralph Chaplin "Distances"

Grey-winged phantoms out of sullen skies - Ralph Chaplin "Prison Shadows"

Wildest grief grew inside out - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"

There came green devils out of the sea - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

When Caesar's sun fell out of the sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

Weeping out of the ancient sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

Chrysanthemums newly set out - The Buddhist Priest Chiao-jan "Looking for Lu Hung-chien but Failing To Find Him" transl. by Burton Watson

Drawn out from the soup of your heart - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"

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

'Til the Barkeep's out of ice - W.E. Christian "Pay Day"

Billowing clouds spread out below - "The Ch'u Tz'u: The Mountain Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson

Magnolias reach out their tendrils - Chu Yuan "An Unhappy Time" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Rancid smells drive out sweet fragrances - Chu Yuan "An Unhappy Time" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Stick their heads out for an instant - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"

My pockets turned out to tiny ghosts - Gabrielle Civil "Three of Cups"

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

the long slide out of paradise - Lucille Clifton "I. at creation"

That lull us out of old things - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XII"

Holes drilled into window sills so rainy days drain out - Andrea Cohen "Weep Holes"

Stretched to call me out of dust - Leonard Cohen "The Way Back"

Dance before the song runs out - CAConrad "Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return"

I locked out the wasteland, but they'll come - Marlane Quade Cook "Breaking"

Measured out the fleeting sands of life - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Out of our arms escaped - Susan Coolidge "Eighteen"

Which out of water brought forth solid rock - "The Coral Island" [The Mirror of Literature v.10, no.279 (20 October 1827)]

The backbone has worn out - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

For love out the door of hope - Joseph S. Cotter Jr "The Deserter" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Out on Life's wild waters - James H. Cousins "The Southern Cross"

The startled birds of night came out - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"

Concluding thieves were out in force - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"

Steering out where Neptune raves - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Yacht-Race"

Throwing out quibbles about the rules - Dorsey Craft "Rainy-Day Games with Kyle"

Out streaming across the lonely road - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"

Hung out my fruit all the summer days - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Wonderful Apple-Tree"

Out of the strange still dusk - Adelaide Crapsey "The Warning"

All inside gone out - Robert Creeley "My New Mexico"

Ended when her oxygen ran out - Jan Cronos "She Remains"

But any memory of that has been crushed out of them - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Out of old Moons was busy cutting Stars - Rev. William Crowe "Written When Buonaparte Was Altering the Governments of Germany"

Stop when the moon clocks out - Cynthia Cruz "Final Performance"

And not a single star chime out of tune - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

the glory is fallen out of the sky - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VIII)"

Which comes carefully out of Nowhere - E. E. Cummings "Spring is like a perhaps hand"

Her children's sharp swords out - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

Out of the shadows of immortal things - Olive Custance "The Magic Mirrors"

Sing to me out of my red fuchsia tree - Charles Dalmon "O What if the Fowler"

Prepares to walk out into the abyss of black sky - DéLana R. A. Dameron "My Love is Black"

Out of such sacred thirst - Olive Tilford Dargan "Path Flower"

The complaint from out the deep - Rubén Darío "Nightfall in the Tropics" Thomas Walsh

Swept Dante out of time - Russell W. Davenport "Poems XI"

Rise up out of the stone you took - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"

Afloat out on the starlit water - Armen Davoudian "Hot Springs"

Taking out a next mortgage on my soul - Kwame Dawes "Alado Seanadra"

My soul is crying out the deep confusion - Kwame Dawes "Dawn"

Who has stepped out of that sky - Meg Day "Another Night at Sea Level"

Break out of the briar's boughs - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"

Doles out Nevers and Nots - Walter de la Mare "The Fool's Song"

To creep from out the silent skies - Walter de la Mare "Full Moon"

And bear me out of the dark - Walter de la Mare "Mrs. Grundy"

Out from the elm-tree's noonday shadow - Walter de la Mare "Off the Ground"

Out of earth's vast unknown - Walter de la Mare "The Titmouse"

The blood red amanitas pushed out of the earth - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"

Beat out our pruning-hooks to spears - Delta "The Covenanters' Night-Hymn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCC, v.LXV, Feb. 1849]

Calls out from heaven the earliest star - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]

From out the twilight labyrinth of bypast things - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]

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

Of the organic, uncultured and out of control - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"

Winnowed out of the earth's circulation - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"

Pouring out of me like silver - Toi Derricotte "Invisible Dreams"

A diamond ring to knock your eyes out - Toi Derricotte "Weekend Guests from Chicago, 1945"

The rose is out of town - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXVIII: Autumn"

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

Found a route out through his eyes - Chris Dombrowski "They Tied the Madmen to Trees Beside the River and All the Shrinks Went Out of Business"

A parasite cast out, inviable - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"

Wrinkling out a language of ancient trees - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Praise"

Left out, banging at the gates - Rita Dove "Prose in a Small Space"

Pull my heart out with teeth and claws - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"

Out of lilac, out of oak - Theodore Dreiser "The Spring Recital"

Gather the silver streams out of the moon - John Drinkwater "Moonlit Apples"

Six little white ducks running out to play - "The Ducks" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]

Days and nights far out upon the sky's dark sea - Carol Ann Duffy "New Year"

Try and figure out how to breathe - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"

Trying to fashion a woman out of glass - Cheryl Dumesnil "A Million Silver Minnows"

Out of the choir of air - Camille T. Dungy "Ars Poetica: Cove Song"

Not a glyph hollowed out - Rebecca Dunham "Field Note, 2011"

Rises out of abyssal black - Rebecca Dunham "There Lies the Hydra: 1. Heracles and the Hydra"

Put out all other Fire - E.E. (might be by Edmund Elys per speculation by the editor of the book in which I found it) "On the Death of The Truly Virtuous Mrs. Anne Killigrew who was Related to my (Deceased) Wife"

The hole in the pocket after the money rolls out - Cornelius Eady "Diabolic"

Laughing out a happy name - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"

A war trots out of your chiaroscuro head - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"

Bluebirds flew out of my mouth - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"

Measured out my life with coffee spoons - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Out of the window perilously spread - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land III: The Fire Sermon"

Voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"

The first radical road out - Ansel Elkins "Autobiography of Eve"

This place where the tide rolls out - Chiyuma Elliott "For Ghosted Girls"

Out of your vigilant silence - Claudia Emerson "Photograph: Farm Auction"

Dropped the third strike with two outs - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"

Out of that long river of forgetting - Nava EtShalom "Philtrum"

As you walk out into the stars - Joseph Fasano "Letter"

Stepped out of the myths and into his life - Joseph Fasano "Odysseus"

Bled out through the bone - Camonghne Felix "'But in what way does the blending of two slightly different cells bring about such a renewal of life?' --Freud"

To finesse choice out of desire - Camonghne Felix "Lost Poem: RX"

To step out of my language - Camonghne Felix "On Entropy"

Mixed with a foregleam out of hell - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: V. Portrait of the Incomparable John Cowper Powys, Esq."

Out of the balefully enfolding mesh - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: IX. The Newest Believer"

Then swept me out on winds of flame - Beulah Field "Mockery"

Crams our cold memories out past the sun - Annie Finch "Final Autumn"

Out of the crane-haunted mists - John Gould Fletcher "Mutability"

But no one riding out - Douglas Florian "The Anteater"

Passing themselves on the way out - Nick Flynn "The Incomprehensibility"

Lay it out beneath the lightning - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Resurrection"

Would starve them out for centuries - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen K"

Out in the cold of the winter - "For the Children" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Out of the passaged darkness - Katie Ford "Colosseum"

A cluster of lanterns blowing out above us - Katie Ford "Koi"

Out of the roots of my desire - Maxwell E. Foster "More Modern Love"

Out of our common reach - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 4 (February 1923)"

Reaching out to the vast sky - Jennifer Franklin "Preparing for Residential Placement for My Disabled Daughter"

the rum barrel hollowed out and beaten into percussion - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"

song morphing out each new generation's lips - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"

Now from having ridden out desire - Robert Frost "Blue-Butterfly Day"

Sometimes I wander out of beaten ways - Robert Frost "An Encounter"

Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs - Robert Frost "For Once, Then, Something"

Our brook's run out of song and speed - Robert Frost "Hyla Brook"

Out of sorts with Fate - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"

Pass out of utter grief - Robert Frost [untitled]

Out beyond the sleeping town - Rose Fyleman "This Island"

Thought keys would fly out of my pocket - Elisa Gabbert "The Bridge"

Dark glimmers and goes out - Zona Gale "Beloved, It Is Daybreak on the Hills"

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

As museums keep calling out - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: IV"

And sleep the time out in dependence - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Sails out to sea at sunset-time - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "Little Sunset Ship of Dreams"

To point out colours to the blind - Thomas Gent "Poems"

Pillow cases shaking out white signals in the sun - Sarah Getty "The Wash"

Until every ghost is hunted out - Andrea Gibson "Fight for Love"

Flying out of black cedars - Wilfrid Gibson "The Parrots"

Would have left the serpent out - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "How Would You?"

Where the gulls shout out their hymns - Dana Gioia "Cold San Francisco"

While her soul goes out to the fray - "Glorious!" [Continental Monthly v.5 no.4 April 1864]

Led out weeping among the ambulances - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Each word rings out over our terrified heads - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Calling the hunger out of ourselves - Natalie Goldberg "Home"

Cut out the yellow heart of heaven - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Mortui Vivos Docent"

Child thieves out of a Dickens novel - Theodora Goss "Goldilocks and the Bear"

Went out into the world unafraid, because heartless - Theodora Goss "Thorns and Briars"

To tax the poor plutocrat out of existence - Harry Graham "What's in a Name?"

To venture out to the fringes of the universe - Aber O. Grand "Marbles"

Poured out for them the venomed draught - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Portion out their wakefulness - Linda Gregerson "Make-Falcon"

And all things else are out of mind - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"

Melted a little of itself out of sheer boredom - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

Could not make a decent year out of its desolation - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

Drying out the heart - Laurie Ann Guerrero "Blessing"

Swim out to wait until the right waves gather - Thom Gunn "From the Wave"

According to the hints that hopes give out - Thom Gunn "A Plan of Self Subjection"

Pour out your light - Ivor Gurney "Requiem"

Draw out of memory all bitterness - Ivor Gurney "Song of Pain and Beauty"

Hounds scenting out the retreat of the stag - W.H.C.H. "Death of Rob Roy" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

A fantasy cobbled out of desire - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"

Burning out its way with torches - Katherine Hale "Crimson Pool"

A sphere out of the road of business - Sir Matthew Hale "Paraphrase from Seneca"

Hearing out of tune voices scream - Aaron Tyler Hand "Self-Portrait as Combinations Taco Bell/Pizza Hut/KFC"

Count your zeros inside out - Nathalie Handal "Amor en la Zona Colonial: Habitacion 32"

From out these parched and thirsty lands - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

When spring rolled out its green - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"

Blows lilacs out of the east - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"

Spill out from the spokes of his wheels - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"

Out of fear of the silence - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"

Lizards coming out of rivers of lava - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: V. Explosion"

You're all rained out diamonds - francine j. harris "until it comes"

Needles shaken from out the gusty pine - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

Letting Life's cider out - F.W. Harvey "Martha Basin on Marriage"

Snuffed out candlewick shadow - Yona Harvey "But for now the music swings from her lacquered radio"

Like a magpie out of orbit - Yona Harvey "Like a Magpie"

Out of the mouth of a tyrant - Yona Harvey "Segregation Continuum"

Existence pouring out its one meaning - Robert Hass "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"

And ever she drains the goblet out - "Havbor and Signelil" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Out of the black maw of the peat - Seamus Heaney "Come to the Bower"

Careful to test out the scaffolding - Seamus Heaney "Scaffolding"

A line of turnips where the seed ran out - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 2. A Constable Calls"

Middle with no way out - Stephanie Heit "Chronic"

Waiting to sail out into unruly ocean - Stephanie Heit "Waiting Bay"

Wishlist of crossed out verbs - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"

Out of the sight of lamp and star - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Out of the reddest hell of the fight - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Out of the roaring, impossible silences - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

From out the calendar of time - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Little Girl"

Who pours out his soul through the bagpipes - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"

Out of airy Nothing to invoke - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"

A way to measure out the wind - Robert Herrick "God Unsearchable"

Till fire runs in the maples and ice goes out - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "January Thaw"

A nova out of fashion - Faylita Hicks "The Kardashian Curse"

Whispers finding their way down and out - Conrad Hilberry "Bowl"

The trace of fear marks out our arteries - Conrad Hilberry "Explosions at 4:00 A.M."

Parceled out in sixteen-second afternoons - Conrad Hilberry "Hurtle"

Uncertain intervals hollow out the time - Conrad Hilberry "Junior Powell, Sand Gap, Kentucky, with a Borrowed Guitar"

A thread snipped out of the design - Conrad Hilberry "Pelican"

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

Such scurrying of blow and bluster out - Jennie Earngey Hill "A Bit o' Cheer"

If envious hate roots out the seed - Leslie Pickney Hill "Tuskegee"

For what turned out to be the last time - Edward Hirsch "Cotton Candy"

That sweet blue light spun out of nothingness - Edward Hirsch "Cotton Candy"

One moment pulling out of the station according to schedule - Edward Hirsch "Fall"

Fanning out and filling the lanes in tandem - Edward Hirsch "Fast Break"

Mysteries sent out without searchlights - Edward Hirsch "Gabriel" [excerpt]

A well runs out of thirst - Jane Hirshfield "A Well Runs Out of Thirst"

Time runs out of a week - Jane Hirshfield "A Well Runs Out of Thirst"

A year runs out of its days - Jane Hirshfield "A Well Runs Out of Thirst"

Out of the seamstress and the ghost - Carlie Hoffman "The Year Made Out of a Cut in Your Civilization"

Out of the branch's private misery - Carlie Hoffman "The Year Made Out of a Cut in Your Civilization"

Poured out its measured tides - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

Spilling out the honey - Norah M. Holland "To Audrey, Aged Four"

Still bringing out the wind - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"

Bringing out the storm - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"

Where fires were burning that went out long ago - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXIV"

The song made in and out of silence - August Huerta "The Woods"

Letting midnight out on bail - Langston Hughes "Jam Session"

Flame out a desperate and last surmise - Richard Hughes "Vagrancy"

Mornings rise out of the night as if in triumph - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

Breathed out a freshness from wild clumps of asphodels - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

Where village towers in play-time ring out - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen

The tides of time run out - Eleanor Hull "The Old Woman of Beare"

Dark blue and calm as music dying out - Aldous Huxley "The Ideal Found Wanting"

The foxes will scent out my slaughter - ascribed to St Cellach of Killala "Hymn to the Dawn" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Poured out the cup of old friendship - ascribed to St Cellach of Killala "Hymn to the Dawn" transl. by Eleanor Hull

My glory out of darkness springs - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

Reach a hand out the wilderness - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"

Shaking out honey, treading perfume - Jean Ingelow "Divided"

Spread out thy fateful wings - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Raven in a White Chine"

The day draws out her shadows - Jean Ingelow "The Star's Monument"

Reaching out towards the opal stool - Carly Inghram "Praise Poem"

Shaking seconds out like salt - Mark Irwin "Dedication"

That my hand-me-down is out of style - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

That beat Vesuvius out for sizz and spunk - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Hollowed out and built of praise - Mark Irwin "Life Is a Red Car"

Mark out braided paths - Malathi Michelle Ivengar "Beige"

Mimic flowers from out my silk and velvet garden - Sade Iverson "The Milliner" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

Send me out to your enemies - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"

We're laid out like liquid timepieces - Major Jackson "Designer Kisses"

Reemerged out of the murder of light - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"

Passed from out the close-barred room of time - Violet Jacob "The Little Dragon"

forked tongue out tasting his own aimless circles - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"

Legacies rolling out like multicolored marbles - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Nice Voice"

As wailing winds went in and out - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]

When we count out our gold at the end - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Service" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

His footsteps hollowed the valleys out - James Weldon Johnson "The Creation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Out of the gunshot of the devil - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Screaming out to an empty street - Jenny Johnson "Spaces"

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

The cicadas sounding out the future - Taylor Johnson "8th & Ingraham"

Sounding out the future through repetition - Taylor Johnson "8th & Ingraham"

The dawn drawn out and hammered thin - Devin Johnston "Fixed Interval"

Trample out his torch's flame - Henry Johnstone "Love Penitent"

To no one out of heaven - Ebenezer Jones "The Hand"

Grey silk sound pulled out by hooks - Saeed Jones "Beheaded Kingdom"

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

Mapping out hell with my feet - Saeed Jones "In Nashville"

Woe weeps out her division - Ben Jonson "Echo's Lament for Narcissus"

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

We remain out of our element - June Jordan "You Came with Shells"

Deck'd out with stars and colors gay - "Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes"

Spin you in my palm to wash out time - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Who takes the bite out of every bark - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"

Snow pours out of the sun - Ilya Kaminsky "A Bundle of Laundry"

The cracked earth radiated out for miles - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"

Confident there are no gods out there - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"

Better things than picking lentils out of the hearth - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Don't miss the cut-off out of here - Janet Kauffman "The Hand of the Sassafras"

One wall flies out the window - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"

Out of those recreations a system of marks - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Sounded out by ant feet - Leora Kava "pronunciation"

Out of immemorial chaos - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

A lit candle saved for when the power goes out - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"

the wind pushing water out of itself - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"

Grasshopper from out the stubble - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [It was harvest time: the broad, bright moon]"

More out of habit than desire - Jane Kenyon "Letter to Alice"

Lift your heart up out of Acheron - T.M. Kettle "Ballad Autumnal l'Envoi"

A bucketful of Boyne to put the sunrise out - T.M. Kettle "Ulster (A Reply to Rudyard Kipling)"

Hate cast out with all his sworded peers - T.M. Kettle "When Others See Us as We See Ourselves!"

Let the birds build nests out of your lies - Vandana Khanna "Fable"

A black forest beating out of time - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Shows up Late for the End-Of-The-World Party"

Beating me out of this world - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Shows up Late for the End-Of-The-World Party"

That abolition will remain out of reach - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

Out of pressures - Kim Unsong "It's Nirvana"

Prefer crossed out, scribbled over monuments - Rosamond S. King "Do not trust the eraser"

To try out its backwards variations - Galway Kinnell "Chamberlain's Porch"

Step out before the endgame - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

In geraniums out of the sun - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

Invent one out of sheer air - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"

Weeding out sharp thorns and nettles - Jan Kochanowski "Laments V" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

Sewing twelve sweaters out of nettles - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Out of four other shades of grace - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Blues & sorrow song called out of the deep night - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

Till the gods cried out in someone's sleep - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

Then walked out of himself dreaming - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

Broken out of ice - Yusef Komunyakaa 'from "The Last Bohemian of Avenue A"'

Out of dust & chance - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"

As gods out of a dream - Yusef Komunyakaa "Warhorses"

Pick out my death from the weeds - Christopher Kondrich "Map of Belonging"

Divined them out of metal - Christopher Kondrich "Peace Epic"

Run its roots out into the salty darkness - Ted Kooser "The Celery Heart"

Skating backward right out of that moment - Ted Kooser "Skater"

A cellar window looking out on February - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"

Through which they hastened out of the past - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

We built this city out of magic, sand, and dust - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

Making five out of two and two - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Made myself a tribe out of my true affections - Stanley Kunitz "The Layers"

Hunting for perfect stones rolled out of glacial time - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

The dawn of day that lifts me out of night - Oscar Laighton "Song [Sweet wind that blows o'er sunny isles]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, no.33, Nov. 1877]

From out a thousand furnace doors - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"

Out from the blossoming shore - Archibald Lampman "Cloud-Break"

Out to the ashen lands - Archibald Lampman "In October"

From out another worldflower lately flown - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]

Breathe out ambrosial passion from their vines - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]

A boat to carry them out of the wreckage - D.H. Lawrence "After the Opera"

Cast out by the hand that scatters food untowards - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"

Out of the sweep of the impulse of life - D.H. Lawrence "Dreams Old and Nascent"

The heart from out of oblivion - D.H. Lawrence "Evolutions of Soldiers"

Out of the unsettled seas and winds - D.H. Lawrence "Grapes"

Lightning out of your smothered dusk - D.H. Lawrence "He-Goat"

Sucking his life out of the dead leaves of greater life - D.H. Lawrence "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is"

A strange white bird blown out of the frozen seas - D.H. Lawrence "Monologue of a Mother"

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

The shadowy house below is out of bounds - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"

The last step out of the east - D.H. Lawrence "The Red Wolf"

Dragged out of an eternity of silent isolation - D.H. Lawrence "Tortoise Gallantry"

Out of life's unfathomable dawn - D.H. Lawrence "Tortoise Shout"

Like mustard-seed rolls out of the husk of death - D.H. Lawrence "War-Baby"

And the world's light went out - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

Planned out imaginary funerals - Aimee Le "Theft"

you don't get out of the universe - Joseph Lease "The Dead Lands"

Quails flitted out of a bamboo tree - Joseph O. Legaspi "Childhood Elegy"

Moths flutter out of her body - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"

Breath by breath to lead me out - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Wrought it out of breath and dust - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"

And pry your breath out - Dana Levin "Instructions for Stopping"

And the dark came out of my eyes flooding everything - Philip Levine "Breath"

A few stars come out to share the witness - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

Go on two legs down the stairs and out - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

Urging the past out of its pockets of silence - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

And stood out blackly from a tender sky - Amy Levy "Xantippe"

God goes out for whiskey Friday night - Robin Coste Lewis "Reason"

Cutting out blocks of ice and fashioning another igloo - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

Who set out without the protection of darkness - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

For the time when we can put out the candle together - Li-Shang-yin "A Letter Home" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Seek out the cubs in the tiger's cave - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson

Goes out by the scented stairs - Li Yu "[Blossoms bright, the moon dark]" transl. by Burton Watson

Crush out the jest of idle minds - W.D. Lighthall "National Hymn"

A satchel of notes drawn out of the tub - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"

Carving out this pocket of air - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Made ten soldiers out of snow - Vachel Lindsay "The Battle-Ax of the Sun"

Time-winds out of Chaos - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

A pinprick of light just out of reach - Angela Liu "The Subway Is Another Place to Die"

Erupting out of the shadows into the burning streets - Angela Liu "The Witches Are Without Work"

My rhymes I pick out from the spice-box - Hugh Lofting "The Porridge Poet"

Singing out within the crash of passing sun - Audre Lorde "Coal"

Out of the cloud of settling dust - Amy Lowell "The Fool Errant"

Swift Destiny shook out her purple wings - Amy Lowell "Francis II, King of Naples Written"

And spends three days washing out his ears - Lu Yu "Sending Tsu-lung Off to a Post in Chi-chou" transl. by Burton Watson

Could leap out of a seed and walk - Tariq Luthun "Fruit"

Slipped among sedges out of sight - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

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

To come to me from out the past - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]

Setting out across a field of spears - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

Sing your heart out at all that dark matter - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "lark"

Tapping out my Morse-code alphabet - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "woodpecker"

Pealing out the surface areas - Aditi Machado "nation"

Tore my heart out and hid the scar - Dorothea Mackellar "Riding Rhyme"

Let its secrets leak out into the starlight - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

Let the March storm snuff out my flame - Naomi Long Madgett "How Shall I Face the Dawn?"

outlawed and driven out of town - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"

Nothing worse than wanting out - Randall Mann "Home"

The cathedrals we've built out of sorrow - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

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

Heard the wind draw out of the west - Jeannette Marks "Dragon"

Out where gray waters slip - Jeannette Marks "Gray Waters"

Throws white fingers up out of loam - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"

As we bleed out at sunrise - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"

Taking the last daylight out in a lightened dusk - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: [It creeps through like night]"

Sweet nectar out of weed and cloud - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"

A black crow spits out white fog - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Deaf Old Man"

Clear and free of interference out from Earth - Harry Martinson "Aniara 2" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Blots out the world remembered and abandoned - Harry Martinson "Aniara 7" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

So they cry out from stones one with the other - Harry Martinson "Aniara 26" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

So they cry out from stones as did Cassandra - Harry Martinson "Aniara 26" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Dismissed the questions flung out in distress - Harry Martinson "Aniara 43" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A nova's flare from out the coils of Berenice's hair - Harry Martinson "Aniara 55" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A mirage from walls that shut out an intolerable space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Set to measure out the time in seconds - Harry Martinson "Aniara 67" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Out of the clutches of demonic space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 89" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Thought broke down and fantasy died out - Harry Martinson "Aniara 97" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Yet, one cannot take a lawsuit out on oneself - Cate Marvin "Lying My Head Off"

Reaching out three thousand miles ahead - John Masefield "A Ballad of Cape St. Vincent"

Windy billows notching out the sky - John Masefield "Cardigan Bay"

To bring the violets out of Caesar's dust - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Woke the fox from out of his nap - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"

Goes out alone on seas unknown - John Masefield "Truth"

Out of me unworthy and unknown - Edgar Lee Masters "Anne Rutledge"

The tulips have found me out - Florence Ripley Mastin "Discovery"

Just a quick inhale before I tiptoed out - Adrian Matejka "17 Kinds of Hungry"

Out where pasture led to brackish waters - Airea D. Matthews "Temptation of the Composer"

The roads go out to Macedon - Furnley Maurice "Little Boys"

Can't be built out of ocean - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"

Looked for maps out of myself - Jamaal May "Ode to Forgetting"

Picking my name out of the wind - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"

The May-fly and the Man each flutter out the same small span - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]

Fashioned out of sin and soap - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of a Ferocious Catholic"

Flung out a magical wild melody - Theodore Maynard "There Was an Hour"

To smash the windows out of my dreams - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

And drew out of his heart Eternity - Claude McKay "Morning Joy"

Out in those far obscure hills - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"

Leans out from the Ivory Door - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"

Flame out of the trodden dust - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"

Out of tune with the times - Mei Yao-ch'en "Back from Green Dragon, Presented to Hsieh Shih-chih" transl. by Burton Watson

Trained to trumpet out his moods - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

An older utterance out of the shadows - W.S. Merwin "The Causeway"

The gallant day go out in storm - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

A place with the lights gone out - Charlotte Mew "I Have Been Through the Gates"

The horse riding out to the pasture of death - Joseph Millar "One Day"

And the breath gone out of beauty - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: IV"

Whose star has guttered out - Edna St Vincent Millay "Interim"

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

Ten million people came out to see - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

Out as far as the eye can reach - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Creation Morn"

Reaching out to strike the ground before him - Wayne Miller "The Affair"

Painted water blue to keep out ghosts - Claire Millikin "Coke-bottle Barbie-doll"

Stretched out throughout histories - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"

Casting out to itself in memory - Jonah Mixon-Webster "Territory"

Best leave a constellation out again tomorrow - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"

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

Curves out to an edge of time - N. Scott Momaday "Transparency"

I stole them out of the moon - Harold Monro "Overheard on a Saltmarsh"

Grew out of hell's fire - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"

Clanging like bells out of tune - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Disbelief"

Orbiting just out of reach - Kamilah Aisha Moon "What Is Believed In Is True"

Out of the surge of yonder silver sea - William Moore "Expectancy"

Life and death alike come out of the East - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"

Spiraling out, a long ribbon of salt - Rusty Morrison "Measurement Fable"

Holds out a ball of mercury - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"

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

But who cried out nobody would tell - "Naughty Willie" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

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

Flickering like a wolf in and out of view - Maggie Nelson "Today's Snow"

Pass out on scaffolds of cotton - Maggie Nelson "Vespers"

Working out plans with bulls - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger

Go out to count the dead - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Keys spread out in secret rocks - Pablo Neruda "From Above (1942)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Bitten out by the teeth of winter - Pablo Neruda "Horses" transl. by Alastair Reid

Go out to sell light on the roads - Pablo Neruda "How Much Happens in a Day" transl. by Alastair Reid

My violin that sings out of tune - Pablo Neruda "Love Song" transl. by William O'Daly

Sketched out triangular victories - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Pulled out the eyes of the wheel - Pablo Neruda "The Strike [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly

Combing out the stones - Pablo Neruda "To the Dead Poor Man" transl. by Alastair Reid

A ghost out of another Spring - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

Out of the chrysalis of history - Grace Nichols "This Destiny"

Flung out upon the freezing storm - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"

Out of my stony heart has struck a tear - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"

Where numbers cancel out names - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

What fate was shaping out betwixt us - Florence Nixon "An Old, Old Story" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.12-v.I, 22 March 1884]

Made out of rainbows and gold - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Butterfly"

Who sought them out to be reassured - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

Tumbled my books all out of the shelves - "Nothing to Do" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Kneaded out of the formless clay - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Out of the wild briar evoked the rose - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

One hand out against the earth - Naomi Shihab Nye "All I Can Do"

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

Years flying out of your skin - Naomi Shihab Nye "Late"

Stretches out the thread between days - Naomi Shihab Nye "San Antonio Mi Sangre: From the Hard Season"

Accept fate today and cast it out tomorrow - Achy Obejas "Boomerang, After Aime Cesaire"

Just draws the route out of doubt - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"

Take out the locked box of the warped evidence - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

A rabbit skipping out of absolute ruin - Omodero David Oghenekaro "Questions for the Fallen"

Piece out their dreams of new glory and freedom - Thomas O'Hagan "His Mission"

My compass taps out of bearing in circles - dg nanouk okpik "Anthropocene Years"

words jetting out like jamboree - Porsha Olayiwola "Notorious"

The cranes crying out in the high clouds - Mary Oliver "Her Grave"

Prayers that are made out of glass - Mary Oliver "Mindful"

Out of the uncombed morning - Mary Oliver "Something"

Setting traps out for darkness - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

Gods walk out upon a path of stars - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

How quickly one carves out a corner of the cosmos - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"

After the birthday crowds thin out - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"

Wrought out of the fires of anguish and pain - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

In winnowing out the one bright grain of truth - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Will build their huts out of mud and bones - Gregory Orr "The Dead in Early Spring"

Fashioned out of this foolish dream - Kate Putnam Osgood "Day-Dream" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]

Out of your garden of insults - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Q&A: Insurance"

Crying and calling to me out of the trees - Seumas O'Sullivan "The Twilight People"

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

Inside out with joy - Ron Padgett "A New Leaf"

Lotus blossoms reach out and unfurl - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson

Beavers make a dam out of slime - Kunjana Parashar "In the Zoo" [Strange Horizons 17 February 2025]

Until my heart goes out - Hannah Sanghee Park "The One Mockingbird Only Sings at Night"

A storm out of nothing strikes - Paul Park "Ragnarok"

Riding music out of sight - Linda Pastan "Listening to Bob Dylan, 2005"

After the stars hung out their lamps - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Conroy's Gap"

Out of the midmost Fire at last - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"

As a broken star out of the Dark - Josephine Preston Peabody "Gladness"

The bitterness of sorrow taken from out my heart - Florence Peacock "Lost at Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.137-v.III, 14 Aug. 1886]

To rake the moon from out the sea - Thomas Love Peacock "The Men of Gotham"

Lashing out in anger and sorrow - Andre F. Peltier "All Good Things"

Drinkin' out of fortune's cup - Walter S. Percy "Knockin' Round"

The stars fall out of bed - Andrew Fusek Peters "Tide and Seek"

Out under the field of data-points - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"

Clouds hung out to dry - Phan Nhien Hao "The City of Ant Nests" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

My body out of context - Xan Forest Phillips "No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits"

When the dream goes out in silence - Marjorie L.C. Pickthall "Mary Shepherdess"

All bumps and potholes that could take out your wheel - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"

Play out our fantasies in real life way - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"

The cuckoo singing his heart out - 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 out the folded hills - Alexander Posey "The Deer"

Trees lean out to save the drowning - Alexander Posey "My Fancy"

The lurid flame of mobs gone out - Alexander Posey "Ye Men of Dawes"

And the Prince of the Wind comes out to ride - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"

When she'd hung the mists out - Miriam Clark Potter "The Fairy's Name was Whisper"

Hung the banner clouds out in the blue - Miriam Clark Potter "May"

Out in the dark the wind rides past - Miriam Clark Potter "Tea Time"

Weaving the universe out of milky strings of chaos - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Blue Cup"

Who out upon Fate did call - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"

Out into the absurd emerald universe - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"

Squeezing light out of a rock - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Telling a Bedtime Story"

Carved its past out of God's shoulder - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"

Wrestling out loud to music - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"

Paths from out eternity - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Night in Italy"

Golden coins from out the blue - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Rustic Courting XXII: Primrose Flowers"

Time to blow out the stars - Charles Rafferty "A Farewell to Poetry"

I'm wrestling skeletons out of my mouth - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"

Out of the ashes of coral - essa may ranapiri "Hinemoana"

The hounds of Death ran out to sea - Herbert Randall "Easterly Weather"

Seeking out the darkest places of the world - Herbert Randall "The Tryst of Nations"

Out where the sirens laugh - Herbert Randall "Twin Lights"

I will go out in a blast of glory - Jessy Randall "Cassini's Mini-Packets Home"

Coal gouged out to fuel the light in other places - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"

Then cut yourself out - Matt Rasmussen "Ekphrastifilia"

Who made a meal out of need - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"

Watching out for the camouflaged stone fish - Tennessee Reed "Fantasy"

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

Out of the fullness of my own reality - Ariana Reines "The Economy"

Out only chosen future - Paisley Rekdal "何日/What Day"

The happiest ending that can come out of a storybook - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"

We'll never get out of here, will we? - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"

And the rainbow breaks out its enormous flag - Adrienne Rich "Peace"

Carved out of marble clouds - Edgell Rickword "Yegor"

Out of sheaths of amethyst - Lola Ridge "Czar's Watch"

Came out with the privy stars at dusk - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"

Out of fiery contacts - Lola Ridge "Electricity"

As out of a burst crystal - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

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

Breaks out of the shivered circle - Lola Ridge "In Harness"

Like God out of his Burning Bush - Lola Ridge "Jude"

Spices drifted out of the blown fire - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"

Into the flame and out again - Lola Ridge "Sun-Up"

Has learned to carve many doors out of its darkness - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"

Go out through a thousand miles of dead grass - Rihaku "Four Poems of Departure: Taking Leave of a Friend" transl. by Ezra Pound

From out the stars into the Solitude - Rainer Maria Rilke "Autumn" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Torches flaming out like loosened hair - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Boy" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Crouching out of the great storm's path - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Arctic Gentian"

Out of the broad gray breast of a stone - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Saxifrage"

The thrush will pipe at twilight to draw the blossoms out - Lloyd Roberts "One Morning when the Rain-Birds Call"

Stamped the miles of mosses and blackened out the day - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"

Out of myself toward gratitude - Valencia Robin "Reset"

Washed out of the world with fire and blood - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Made out of days and out of eternities - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"

How much could be gathered out of air - Catherine Rockwood "In Memoriam Maureen K. Speller"

Shattered by the light from out those darkened eyes - Madeleine Caron Rock "He Is the Lonely Greatness"

Scooped out below the loose and glittering sand - H.W. Rockwell "Mohawk" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

Out of all tracks along the sea's highway - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"

From out the silence of their unknown fate - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"

The ghostly galleys ride out - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"

Flashed out from the flame-flushed skies - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"

The stone cried out for vengeance - Rennell Rodd "Une Heure Viendra Qui Tout Paiera"

Calling us all out into the waves - Mark Rudolph "Threnody at Sea"

Out hunting in the early light - Muriel Rukeyser "Painters"

Hide and seek we play in and out the courts of Time - George William Russell "Alter Ego"

Turning out for tea at midnight - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

waited for God to fall out of my mouth - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Mona Lisa's Abecedarian to Leonardo da Vinci"

Salt rubbed out with a handkerchief - Ira Sadoff "A Few Surprising Turns"

As the bass player knocked out the bottom line - David St. John "Los Angeles, 1954"

Out of their river mouths - Sonia Sanchez "This Is Not a Small Voice"

Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"

A cry out of storm and dark - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"

Out of the sea a song - Carl Sandburg "Far Rockaway Night Till Morn"

Too many doors to go in and out - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"

Out of your many faces flash memories - Carl Sandburg "Passers-by"

Out of the look on a face - Carl Sandburg "Under a Hat Rim"

Count out cities and forget the numbers - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

Two robins fly out of the sun - Reg Saner "Spring Song"

Singing his way out of hell - Reg Saner "Spring Song"

Out of the maddening chalice of a dream - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"

A fire that hollows me out - Chris Santiago "Insurrecto"

Rub out wrinkles from the heart - Dorothy L. Sayers "Pygmalion"

Dull pink and out of stories - Philip Schaefer "Gradually Then Suddenly"

No ether-bath can wash the stigma out - Friedrich Schiller "Actaeon"

Suns from out their orbs of light - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

Engaged with anxious care in pumping Lethe out - Friedrich Schiller "The Journalists and Minos"

Handed out to feed hungry souls - Fritz Schnack "Evening Gift" transl. by William Saphier

Poured out on thy granite shore - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"

Sculptures made out of railroad tracks - Philip Schultz "Googling Ourselves"

Forged out water, woods and stubborn skies - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Four"

Our dreams bleed out upon strange altars - Ann K. Schwader "Alien Machines"

Scrawls out its ocher & imagination - Ann K. Schwader "Cave Bear Dreams"

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

Seeping out across oblivious space - Ann K. Schwader "Dead Light"

Have twisted comets out of thought - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

Carved out Eden between our ribs - Ann K. Schwader "To Theia"

In hopes of wiping out some future hell - Ann K. Schwader "Wolves of Mars"

A long story carried out to a soft conclusion - Leslie Contreras Schwartz "A Body's Universe of Big Bangs"

Out of the void and the vast - Clinton Scollard "The Mist and the Sea"

The mandate which sent out their bravest and their best - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

Beats out the breath from doom-gripped body - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

When wizard clocks ring out - P. Seshadri "Thoughts"

Until he walks out of the sea and into the mountains - Vijay Seshadri "The Long Meadow"

Little gods and devils trying out their wings - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

Ironing out the kinks in despair - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"

Wiped out the syntax of explanation and inquiry - Lisa Sewell "The Land of Nod"

A mirror reflects out of boredom - Salik Shah "Straw-Fitted Elephants"

A time machine made out of zeroes and ones - Salik Shah "Straw-Fitted Elephants"

A garment out of fashion - William Shakespeare "Cymbeline"

And wear their brave state out of memory - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XV"

Shadowy vessels floating out of sight - Edward Shanks "Boats at Night"

Out of the distance a faint, keen breath - Edward Shanks "The Halt"

Cut out by survival's swift knife - Brenda Shaughnessy "Our Family on the Run"

Shy stars out of the evening skies - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

The moon rains out her beams - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"

My heart eaten out with sorrow - Taras Shevchenko "A Dream" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

From out the shadows wondering - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Bird from the West"

Who, breathing on the stars, blows out the sun - Dora Sigerson Shorter "I Am the World"

The pomegranates were out of season - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"

Out through the door of my own shadow - Joyce Sidman "Song of Bravery"

Running out of lullabies - Richard Siken "Little Beast"

the choices we make out of fear - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"

Love and fate crossed out - Charles Simic "Story of My Luck"

Sought out lone Hesper's diamond ray - B. Simmons "Moonlight Memories [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]

His wit ne'er drives his wisdom out of court - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

To follow out and trace its labyrinths - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets IV: Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Sometimes raining out of spite - H. Simpson "'There Are Quantities of Things...'"

Fly out over the carrion scene and remember - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"

Out of the frame into smoke and storm - Bruce Smith "Beautiful Throat"

From out the web of former lives - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"

Pours out the moon's white mercy - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hope of the Infinite"

Pluck out the light of stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"

Who lifts me out of sorrow - Hope Anita Smith "Superheroes"

Missed the last train out - Maggie Smith "Twentieth Century"

Moths migrating out of the cane stalks - Cathy Song "Picture Bride"

Was ambitious to find out the cause of his bliss - "Song [A philosopher once, to the mountain]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

Dance out a round on the dreamt eye of water - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney

Came to clear out my dreams - Juliana Spahr "Ode to Goby"

From out the chambers of my mind - T.G. Spear "I Cling to Thee"

Out of my sorrow I'll build a stair - Leonora Speyer "Duet (I sing with myself)"

Out of the storm that muffles shining night - Leonora Speyer "Garden Under Lightning"

Held out to me a golden handful of bird's-notes - Leonora Speyer "A Gift"

She comes from out the violated sky - Leonora Speyer "The Last Morning in the Country"

That may fill out life's score - Clarence Victor Stahl "Sing It"

Found out by gravity - A.E. Stallings "The Boatman to Psyche, on the River Styx"

Out of the body's loom - A.E. Stallings "The Dress of One Occasion"

We walk out like shadows of a doubt - A.E. Stallings "Evil Eye"

Who's always promising and walking out - A.E. Stallings "Failure"

Falling out of a tree at midnight - Frank Stanford "Watching a Woman Die"

Serves the nectar out to all - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"

Shining out along the zodiac - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

Crude works to shatter out of joint - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

Fling a thousand banners out - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"

The stars out of their courses went - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"

I walked out in my Coat of Pride - James Stephens "The Fur Coat"

Could be found out by the wind - James Stephens "The Secret"

Out of darkness and unhallowed years - George Sterling "Repentance"

Collect ourselves, out of all the indifferences - Wallace Stevens "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"

And portioned out the sea - Wallace Stevens "The Idea of Order at Key West"

Out of a storm of secondary things - Wallace Stevens "Man Carrying Thing"

Silence of a rat come out to see - Wallace Stevens "The Plain Sense of Things"

A fresh universe out of nothingness - Wallace Stevens "Prologues to What Is Possible"

Poverty's speech that seeks us out - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"

Spring wrings out the reedy winter chill - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

Rose out of the dark tide - M. Letitia Stockett "Sleep"

Who seem so strangely out of place - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

My heart called out for some befriending face - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"

Out of the dead that is proved not dead - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"

Weaving vast traceries out on the fringes of Night - Arthur Stringer "Life-Drunk"

Out of the drifting leaf and the dying light - Arthur Stringer "The Passing"

Out of their dust they will call to us yet - Arthur Stringer "Some Day, O Seeker of Dreams"

Out of the fury and the fires of mortal passion - Arthur Stringer "The Steel Workers"

Out of the torture and tumult of inchoate Time - Arthur Stringer "The Steel Workers"

Early and late and forever cries out - Arthur Stringer "Ultimata"

Cry out through my desolate heart - Arthur Stringer "Ultimata"

One branch of chrysanthemum holds out against frost - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson

Green bursts out of every herb - "Summer Has Come" transl. by Kuno Meyer

The altar where I've poured myself out - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 3: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The stars died out with grief - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Other blazing objects out around its crown - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"

Out of the silence of things unknown - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"

Out of the dark pure twilight - Algernon Swinburne "Three Faces: III. Venice"

And make a fortune out of all those waters - Carmen Sylva "Down the Stream"

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

Out of the empty night arise - Arthur Symons "Stella Maris"

When I have just put out the light - "Sympathy" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Out of which all waves rise and fall - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"

Gather wild irises out of the air - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"

From out the tomb of my young misspent years - G.P.T. "Sonnet [The moon is gliding on her clear blue way]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

Those specters thawing out of the Northwest Passage - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"

The silver had run out of all the mirrors - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"

when you climbed out from a garlic clove - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"

Let their cats go out hunting at night - Amber Tamblyn "Epilogue"

Pour out my spring wine - T'ao Ch'ien [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)

Not a breath from out the West - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Out here at the end of a lonely peninsula - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"

Seep out between horizons of gravel and clay - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"

Taj Mahals that rise out of the mist at dawn - Keith Taylor "Picasso and the Taj Mahal"

As rain puts out a star - Sara Teasdale "The Kiss"

From out the boundless deep - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Crossing the Bar"

Silver sails all out of the west - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Sweet and Low"

Out of reach of the road's dust - Edward Thomas "Two Houses"

Gone out of most memories - Edward Thomas "Under the Woods"

From out their raging chasm - Priscilla Jane Thompson "Song of the Moon"

Out of the birth-place of sighs - Priscilla Jane Thompson "A Valentine"

Travels the same wild paths though out of sight - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Because someone blew out the candle - Matthew Thorburn "Forgotten Until You Find It"

The viper that squeezes out of the skin of its remembrance - Samantha Thornhill "38. Shedding the Old"

In and out the enchanted shadows flee - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"

All the sun can weave out of silver seas - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"

We clock out and cross under its lamps - Brian Tierney "Catering"

Wakes the village from out its morning dream - Aleksey Konstantovich Tolstoy "The Wolves" transl. by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi

Rips the heart out of sky - Edwin Torres "Skygrass"

Out of tune where music hungers - Iris Tree "Nerves"

Tread out the ashes of midnight - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"

That jeer from out the wind-stirred tapestries - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Out of the range of time and fate - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"

Out of the long lethargic trance of tears - Trevor "Release" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]

Dance out of the darkness - David Trinidad "Ode to Dusty Springfield"

And go out to sleep among the bamboos - Tu Fu "The Blue Robe" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Looked out on gardens with paths of coral pebbles - Tu Fu "Captivity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Our return is different from our setting out - Tu Fu "The Excursion" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough

Out of their myriad sky-embracing veins - W.J. Turner "Death"

One moment fled out of immortal lands - W.J. Turner "Death"

Still intangible power floats out of the sky - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

Scrawled out in blood and carousel - Morris Tyler "The Bells of Antwerp"

Like harps the wind plays out of sight - Katherine Tynan "The Old House"

Plucked them stars out of the sky - Katharine Tynan "A Song of Christmas"

Just trying brightness out - John Updike "Stretch"

his inner stars all spilling out - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

Rebuilds themself out of distances - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

The doomed trilobites neglect to make out their wills - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"

Looking back and taking out of context - Aldrin Regina Valdez "January"

Came out of the void beyond Jupiter - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Making for the door out of your life - Jean Valentine "The Drinker"

Fences draw their feet up out of the sod - Mark Van Doren "High Meadows"

Out of the visionless woods of dark - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

Thousands of moments spooling out - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"

The fog riding out at day - Oswaldo Vargas "Mister"

Could blot out all those old arguments - Ursula Vernon "It Was a Day"

Not everything's out to take - Avni Vyas "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"

Ring out, my bells, in accents clear - H.K.W. "Song of the Carilloneur" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.682, 20 Jan. 1877]

Out of the window into the air - Wa Wa Chaw "The Indians' Spirit"

Out of the mirage of water - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"

Making sunshine out of shade - Derek Walcott "Tomorrow, Tomorrow"

Built a boundary out of five pounds of definition - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"

A museum erected out of paper-mache - Brad Walrond "Calculus I, II, III"

Ragged ball thrown out from time - Mary Alice Walton "The Photograph"

Scrambling up out of shadowy treetops - Wang An-Shih "Ninth Month, Yi Year of the Snake, On Climbing Metal-Forge Wall" transl. by David Hinton

Setting out wearing robes of clouds - Wang An-Shih "On this side, flood-strewn" transl. by David Hinton

We'll ladle out clouds together here at their source - Wang An-Shih "Wandering Out with a Full Moon to Eightfold-Integrity River" transl. by David Hinton

Out along dream's frontier - Wang An-Shih "Written on a Wall at the Monastery Where I've Stayed Since Quitting My Illustrious Job" transl. by David Hinton

A star shorting out and out - Lauren K. Watel "The Last Act"

And clouds shut out the view - William Watson "The Blind Summit"

Falter out of tune and time - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"

And leap out of the shattered sky - William Watson "Under the Dark and Piny Steep"

Work a saw to cut out doors and windows - "The Way of Virtue: Non-Being" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

The sun spreads out his shining wires - Mary Webb "Market Day"

Mosaics which have crumbled out of place - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"

Out of the numb exuberant wreckage of your days - John Moncure Wettarau "For Coyote"

Lifting us out of grief and terror - Lesley Wheeler "Dragon Questionnaire"

Fades out in fire - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"

Out of the purple treasuries of night - Helen Hay Whitney "Malua"

Working out the curse of Cain - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"

Pour out my life as wine - Helen Hay Whitney "To a Woman"

Little gray shadows fly out on the breeze - "Why?" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Stepped out of eternal dream - John Wieners "Billie"

Churning out valleys in her sleep - "Wildlife Encounter"

Her body carves out rivers in the ground - "Wildlife Encounter"

Out to the ravenous rocks - C. K. Williams "Devout"

Out of the nothing beyond the lake - William Carlos Williams "April"

The boulevards chosen out of ten years - William Carlos Williams "Berket and the Stars"

Has spent this snow out of envy - William Carlos Williams "M. B."

Who know all fires out of the bodies - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Call out in the dark - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Pattern Recognition"

I've become a hard star out of focus - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"

Gaze out upon the forms of night - Charles Wilton "The Voice of Nature" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]

A jarring shard of reality to be spat out - Michelle Wirth "Campus"

To dry out her heart - Janet S. Wong "Cobra"

And pick the sun out of the sky - G.E. Woods "How to Skin Your Wolf"

For yourself find out this truth - Constance Fenimore Woolson "Commonplace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]

I drink out of a humble urn a lowlier pleasure - William Wordsworth "To a Daisy"

No darkness steps out of the woods - Charles Wright "Across the Creek Is the Other Side of the River"

Fir shadows needling out of the woods - Charles Wright "Consolation and the Order of the World"

Come out from the weight of the unbearable - Charles Wright "The Last Word"

Cut out by water into oblivion - Charles Wright "No Entry"

Out of morning's burnt phase - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"

Having run out his luck in the West - Mark Wunderlich "My Local Dead"

Our mothers cast us out as demons - Emanuel Xavier "Après le Feu"

Stars are not only found out in the sky - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"

Water growing out of water - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season"

The mind resides both inside and out - Jenny Xie "Rootless"

Years staining from the inside out - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

To drain time out of speed - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

The dead yawn out of earshot - Jenny Xie "Le Temps Mort"

Reach out toward the margin's white hand - Wendy Xu "Praxis"

Out of a desolate source - W.B. Yeats "His Confidence"

The ball of twine has just run out - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

Law squints out from its burrow - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

No paths lead out - Jane Yolen "All Paths Lead Here"

Make their living out of sleep - Jane Yolen "Winter Song of the Weasel"

You're grown out of knowledge - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]

Shuts out the sunshine of truth - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]

Neural pathways tunneled out by fear - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

Shake our star-pricked shell apart, cracks radiating out - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]

Cut out in pieces and incinerated - Dean Young "Belief in Magic" [Poetry July/August 2014]

When your head splits open and the bird flies out - Dean Young "Dear Friend" [Poetry Feb. 2006]

The usual calm disaster of getting out of bed - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

To find out if my heart is unruined - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

Everyone wants out of the spider's stomach - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]

Come out of the ocean in their parliamentary regalia - Dean Young "Quiet Grass, Green Stone"

Taking a test and running out of time - Dean Young "Spring Reign"

Whitman out past Neptune - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]

Out of those tyrannous glooms - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Grasping arms out of elsewhere - Timothy Yu "Chinese Dream 61"

Going out and never into - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"

An echo out of your hollow - Jordan Zandi "A Lesson in Botany"

The rain rubbing out their shadows - Cynthia Zarin "Meltwater"

As if to reckon absence out of air - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks I: Metaphysick for the New Year"

Hollowing out the day - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

Out from the desert's tomorrow - Zheng Min "If Curses aren't Accompanied by Deep Thought #9: The Forgotten Yesterday (A dirge of ancient culture)" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

A blank yesterday extends out - Zheng Min "If Curses aren't Accompanied by Deep Thought #9: The Forgotten Yesterday (A dirge of ancient culture)" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

The lake of the crescent moon dries out - Zheng Min "If Curses aren't Accompanied by Deep Thought #9: The Forgotten Yesterday (A dirge of ancient culture)" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

Hauling out the secret ledger - Art Zilleruelo "Arrangements"

Twirling out of sight like promises - Yvonne Zipter "Seeds"


The blacked-out cockpit of your mind - Wayne Miller "Mind-Body Problem"


Burn Out/Burnt Out.

Outcast.

Outcome.

An Easter egg cut-out of grass and trees - Sarah Getty "The Wash"

Outer.

Outer Space.

Outgrow.

Outlast.

Outlaw.

Outline.

Outlive.

Outpost.

Outpour.

Outrage.

Outrun/Outran.

Outshine.

Outside.

Outspread.

Outstretch.

Outstrip.

Outward.

Outwear/Outworn.

Outweigh.


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