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somethingdarkerOther songs you've forgotten - Rasha Abdulhadi "What Trauma Remembers About Us"
His fingers catch glimpse of other lives - Duane Ackerson "The Blind Man"
My other eye went out from sympathy - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Weary of sowing for others to reap - Elizabeth Akers "Rock Me to Sleep"
No other worship abides and endures - Elizabeth Akers "Rock Me to Sleep"
Far other wishes warm my heart - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle
Envelopes of money in other people's pockets - Elizabeth Alexander "The African Picnic"
The other quite bankrupt in morals and mind - Horatio Alger Jr "Nothing to Do"
In making the fortune which others inherit - Horatio Alger Jr "Nothing to Do"
Weary of sowing for others to reap - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
Kept her attention focused in other space - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Telescope aimed at an angle no other could perceive - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Allowing him to shape others to his whim - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
Protect us from the envy of others' eyes - Alise Alousi "Tangent"
Other anniversaries of near misses - Julia Alvarez "Death Days"
Other planets dark as earth - Maxwell Anderson "Earth Evanescent"
Other than a privileged dream - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.II--Morning Further Advanced"
No choice other than exodus - William Archila "Saturn's Country"
Lost in other lonelinesses of concrete - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"
The cost of looking the other way - Fatimah Asghar "When the Orders Came"
My desperate belief in other realities - Desiree C. Bailey "Woman in Dub"
Other themes all passed beneath her spell - Grant Balfour "Christmas Eve"
We have already outlasted the others - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
The other half of my divided self - Mary Jo Bang "Close Observation Especially of One Under Suspicion"
All other routes are sown with burdock - Mary Jo Bang "Nonesuch"
Exchanging vows and other platitudes - Natalie Clifford Barney "Habit"
To kill for some other purpose - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Incident on the Road to the Capital"
No other knowledge but chance - Elizabeth Bartlett "Notes for the Future"
Aware of other tides - Elizabeth Bartlett "Ship of Earth"
Ghosts of other years - Ardelia Maria Barton "Ghosts of the Attic"
Busy with other kinds of play - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Like I have mourned no other loss - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"
Not continue in other dimensions - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Consciousness Self-Learns"
Formed by acts of other entities - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"
Relatives on other planets - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"
On horizons of other worlds - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"
Obedient to some other moon - Robert Bly "Thomas and the Codfish's Psalm"
Nor other orison at morn - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
Sharp tang of other waters known - Elizabeth Bradfield "Learning to Swim"
Other prey too shudders with the light - Russell Brakefield "Pardon, Trout Farm"
For other token do not seek - Emily Bronte "My Comforter"
Inviting other sphinxes out - Calef Brown "Tiny Baby Sphinx"
Nobody, from one distance to the other - Fleda Brown "A Few Lines from Rehoboth Beach"
The shadow of other men's souls passing over him - Kurt Brown "Fisherman"
It's shadow masking all other shadows - Kurt Brown "Fisherman"
This other species of grief - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"
No other grace to ask - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Who can boast of other seizure - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Weeping in the playtime of the others - Elizabeth B. Barret [Barrett Browning] "The Cry of the Children" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]
A brazen sound excluding others - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
The treacherous forsaking of other hearts - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Till each astonishes the other - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
One side boils and the other blows away - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"
He who laughs at others' woes - Wilhelm Busch "Plish and Plum" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks
The other day I almost felt the burden - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"
No other ship among the stars - Witter Bynner "The New World II"
Nor vex the ghosts of other days - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"
One inside the other as torqued ellipses - Anne Carson "Thunderstorm Stack"
Outside with the other worlds - Paul Celan "So Many Constellations" (translated by Pierre Joris)
Mirrors reflect other people's furniture - Marianne Chan "A Country of Beautiful Women"
May other reckless souls be consumed - Chia-Lun Chang "Vote Your Way to Hell"
When all the others are overcome with drinking - Chang Wu-chien "The Poet and the Dancers" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
A sweetness that no other strains possess - "The Children's Song" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
no other insomniac notices me - May Chong "Bunian Laundry"
The sometime wonderfulness of other - Lucille Clifton "albino"
The snow that keeps recalling all those other snows - Andrea Cohen "More Stones"
Gossiping with the other stones - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "He Mea Mālo'elo'e #3"
And other distant dogs respond - Frances Cornford "At Night"
A lyre with other strings - William Cowper "To Mary Unwin"
The hares to other groves withdrew - Palmer Cox "The Brownies at Archery"
Others perched on fences round - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
Building your mansion with other folks' sticks - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Blackbird and the Rooks"
Unaware of all that burns down on the other bank - Armen Davoudian "The Yellow Swan"
All other furious faiths outpace - Coningsby Dawson "Abandon"
The dwelling place for other dodos - Monica de la Torre "View from a Dodo Chair"
Maps to other moons - Diane DeCillis "Mr. Right"
In other balance are our actions weighed - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
The other sounds and shadows of the night - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
I have no other ransom money - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #1"
To throw the other end of a tin can telephone - Mark Dimaisip "Housekeeping Duties"
Redeem all other god-cast stones - Chris Dombrowski "Lunar Calendar"
All love of other sights controls - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"
Entreat one other tear to fall - John Donne "Lovers' Infiniteness"
That one hunger devouring all others - Cheryl Dumesnil "Instinct"
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"
Other Incense on their Altars blaz'd - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"
Vain desire still to be what others were - George Eliot "Self and Life"
The other masquerades that time resumes - T.S. Eliot "Preludes"
The other pushing back the flood - Fatihah Quadri Eniola "Down-Streaming"
Other themes of deep distress - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
Nothing in particular by any other name - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"
The other dolls sit as I tell them they must - Hannah G. Fernald "A Troublesome Daughter" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain - "Fine Knacks for Ladies"
Living my life unknown by others - Mina Florea "Remember"
Locomotives and other forgettings - Sandy Florian "House"
One the only antidote for the other - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VII"
Sail through other people's raptures - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XI"
And some other folly - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"
A residue of other suns - Zona Gale "Light"
Builds schemes for others' ruin - John Gay "Fable XXXIII: Courtier and Proteus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Separated from all other worlds - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
Heaven is in the other direction - Andrea Gibson "Living Proof"
Through the noisy crowds of other conversations - Dana Gioia "The Argument"
Wed to some mystery or other - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
The trees growing wildly on the other shore - Natalie Goldberg "Home"
For other notes repine - Thomas Gray "On the Death of Richard West"
That facilitates the annihilation of the other - Raquel Gutiérrez "Solip Cystic"
Gnarls of an old text in the other alphabet - Marilyn Hacker "Interval"
Other skies of other decades - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"
That other dreamless sleep of rest - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Name it with other songs - Joy Harjo "Call It Fear"
Who questioned any other than Adam about the fruit - francine j. harris "Burden, old story"
Of other wonder worlds - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXIX"
Nocturnal prowl on the edge of other worlds - Stephanie Heit "Mad Flora and Fauna Catalog: Hyena"
Memories inscribed in other tongues - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"
O'er the wrecks of other years - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"
Each increased the other's glow - Luisa Hewitt "[You lit your cigarette from mine]"
Beneath other fields of want - Faylita Hicks "The Birth Mother's Red Bath for Courage"
Others come from deeper hues - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"
Or some other mystic of nothingness - Edward Hirsch "The Task"
His grave prayers for the other lunatics - Edward Hirsch "Wild Gratitude"
One's gain was not the other lessened - Jane Hirshfield "Solstice"
Relinquish ev'ry other prop - "The History of Will Worthy and Nancy Wilmot"
Who brought hunger from other lands - Linda Hogan "Map"
Other nights and other storms - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
Other souls in other latitudes - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
The knightly deeds of other years eclipse - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Other stones such mystic spells have wrought - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
We had no other music - "In Hebrid Seas" (Translation by Thomas Pattison)
Falling bridges and other reminders of our neglect - Geoffrey Jacques "Viewers Like"
Waking at nightfall like the other monsters - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
All memory of other motion swept back in your wake - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Rising with copper in one hand and cadmium in the other - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Measures of oil for others - Emily Pauline Johnson "In Grey Days"
Worlds at the feet of others - Emily Pauline Johnson "In Grey Days"
The fight of others in the trenches of Mars - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"
As other saw their bubbles burst in air - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Old Black Men" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Need for other hearts broken differently - Courtney Kampa "Ars Biologica"
If you do we will look the other way and wait - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]
The names would conjure other invisibles - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
All the other ways of saying history - Leora Kava "pronunciation"
Using no other exercise - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"
Dispersed by the breath of other people - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"
Out of four other shades of grace - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Not a footprint or any other trace - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Follow Up"
Stood with the other bridesmaids in champagne - Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers "After a Rochester Wedding"
Hearts, by other loves supplanted - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
Waiting for something other than arrival - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
Glowing behind the dark others - Denise Levertov "A Surrogate"
Strangling other throats - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"
Must invent someone on the other end of eternity - Philip Levine "Picture Postcard from the Other World"
Would ask of memory no other boon - Mrs. S. A. Lewis "The Ennuyee" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Motes among a thousand other motes - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"
Others approached me from the horizon - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
An annual guest in other lands - John Logan "Ode to the Cuckoo"
No other dreams so potent in their charm - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"
Though others heed not my sigh - Alastair MacDonald "On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog" transl. by Alexander Stewart [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.706, 7 July 1877]
To approximate the durations of others - Aditi Machada "Rhapsody"
Lost voices called in other years - James Allan Mackereth "Ioläus"
The blurred horizon with its dust of other feet - Jeannette Marks "Too Late"
Brought the sun from other skies - Don Marquis "Dickens"
That other company unbidden to the tryst - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"
Never needed any other emotion than power - David Tomas Martinez "An Alluded to Letter from DTM for Matthew Olzmann"
And other parts less damaged could be mended - Harry Martinson "Aniara 3" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Her fish in other seas than those we now traverse - Harry Martinson "Aniara 6" 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
The gulfs to which the others were consigned - Harry Martinson "Aniara 43" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Coldly elapsing without other trace - Harry Martinson "Aniara 63" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Waiting for a star to shake loose from the others - Harry Martinson "Aniara 72: The Song of Karella" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Other countries, other fortunes on my tropic transmigration - Harry Martinson "Aniara 72: The Song of Karella" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Far other worlds and other seas - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
Fighting the devil in other men's fields - George Meredith "Juggling Jerry"
Beyond the landscapes of other times - W.S. Merwin "Cargo"
who will be but a name in the mouths of others - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"
Any other gesture of surrender - Kamilah Aisha Moon "The Emperor's Deer"
Fond memory brings the light of other days - Thomas Moore "Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)"
He has fourteen other senses there are no words for - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Bringing the flame from the other shore - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
A greeting from this other land - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"
Without tools other than time - Pablo Neruda "The Blind Statue" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Without other gods than thunder - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Twelve others might open - Naomi Shihab Nye "Problems with the Story"
Believe speaking is for others - Naomi Shihab Nye "Voices"
Among the thorns some others fell - "Of the Sower" [The Parables of the Saviour, no date, Project Gutenberg]
The long black branches of other lives - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"
Whose other name is rain - Mary Oliver "Not This, Not That"
Born with a knife in one hand and a wound in the other - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"
every other element implicit - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"
Hid their names behind other names - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Women of the 1980s"
Shaped as other men - Dorothy Parker "Salome's Dancing-Lesson"
Signposts leading to other words - Linda Pastan "All Nights" [Yes, 'words' is right.]
Wake and watch while others sleep - Coventry Patmore "The Shadow of Night"
Others under erasure will disclose the truth - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"
No different from any other song - Carl Phillips "So the Mind Like a Gate Swings Open"
No other way to tether love - Xan Forest Phillips "Never Have I Ever"
Lived with no other thought - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
Or melt at others' woe - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"
When all other trees are asleep in the snow - Miriam Clark Potter "The Candle Tree"
Other spirits exhaled before dawn - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"
While the other dusts off the morning star - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"
Her charities had overflowed for others - Margaret J. Preston "Francesca's Worship" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]
A path to lose our sense of others - Khadijah Queen "Epilogue for Personae"
Guilt planted for others - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"
Coal gouged out to fuel the light in other places - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
These lines force one foot in front of the other - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Relinquenda"
Missing Every Other Point - Adrienne Rich "Shooting Script 12"
When every other source of joy has fled - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
His own eyeful against the other's eyeful - Lola Ridge "Emma Goldman"
In other worlds expect another joy - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"
Made for other altitudes - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"
A loss for every other drop of rain - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"
Flows through other hearts than mine - George William Russell "[I thought, beloved, to have brought to you]"
Resources sacrificed to other crises - Ann K. Schwader "If Cold Is a War"
Rattling the branches of other lives - Teresa J. Scollon "Mid-Life, I'm Lost"
The first my thought, the other my desire - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"
To make any other mistake - Brenda Shaughnessy "Me in Paradise"
inherited or acquired by other means - Evie Shockley "it: a user's guide"
See how many other hearts are burning - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"
Light of some other evening - Charles Simic "Evening Walk"
Brought other Muses down to aid - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets I: Chaucer" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Slipped down from starry heavens to walk in other step - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
While half the world the other greets - Alexander Smith "[Joy, like a stream, flows]" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
The miracle of other people's lives - Danez Smith "in lieu of a poem, i'd like to say"
Among her other half-done projects - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
No other rebuttal to trust - R.T. Smith "Still Life: From the Notebook of Ambrose Bierce, 1862"
Each one the other's phantom limb - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney
Writhing paths I surely walked in that other life - Leonora Speyer "Garden Under Lightning"
Our other earth opens a secret hand - Nathan Spoon "The Genie Speaks"
Stray back into the moonlight and other kitchens - A.E. Stallings "The Dogdom of the Dead"
Others, shadows of the first - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
Added to such other woes - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
What other blessing could be sent? - Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard "Nameless Pain"
Other blazing objects out around its crown - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"
Petty death where each in other live - Sir P. Sydney "A Kiss" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]
Away to other heights and other temples - Carmen Sylva "'Vengeance Is Mine,' Saith the Lord"
The other half of the sea-god's bones - Genevieve Taggard "Skull Song"
We head home in other starlight - Tess Taylor "Solstice"
On the other elbow of this country - Kristen Tracy "Teton Road"
Dust that dances in the light with all other dust - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Belonging"
Toward some other sky - Mark Turcotte "Dear New Blood"
A sprawl of other lives - John Updike "Endpoint"
A hundred thousand other files doused in kerosene - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Inside the other ephemeral vase of air - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Both here and of other waters - R.A. Villanueva "Annus Mirabilis"
Other nights we use just our names - Jo Walton "When We Were Robots in Egypt"
While the other half lives in the crypt - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
Other hearts beyond the dawn - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"
Other fond, erroneous calculation of splendid schemes - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"
Grow by swallowing others - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"
Some other purpose in death - Katie Willingham "Dear Charlie"
'Twas others dranke the wine - George Wither "A Love Song"
To anoint some other god - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"
Twice on other travels - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"
The crack between this world and the other - Charles Wright "I'm Going to Take a Trip in that Old Gospel Ship"
Time's double door at the other - Charles Wright "Time and the Centipedes of Night"
Do not assume ghosts were birthed by other ghosts - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
And other woes have chased the gloom - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
In the crush of one thing into the other - Jenny Xie "Le Temps Mort"
Behind the truth are other truths - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu
Other mammals full of feathers - Abe Louise Young "Who"
Others were dark and always silent - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]
Prefer other nightmares - Adam Zagajewski "Venice, November"
Each Other.
Some small folded breath of otherlife - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"
Its temple of otherlight and salt - William Brewer "Halfway House Diary"
Consider the first knowledge of otherness - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"
Other Side.
Hexes, unwanted gifts, and othersuch hexes - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart" [sic]
Your otherworldliness preserved in soul - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"
Bubbling back up from the other world - Armen Davoudian "Coming Out of the Shower"
Flecked with otherworldly raindrops - Joseph O. Legaspi "Imagined Love Poem to my Mother from my Father"
Whistling from the other world - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
That otherworldly moaning glissando - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"
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His fingers catch glimpse of other lives - Duane Ackerson "The Blind Man"
My other eye went out from sympathy - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Weary of sowing for others to reap - Elizabeth Akers "Rock Me to Sleep"
No other worship abides and endures - Elizabeth Akers "Rock Me to Sleep"
Far other wishes warm my heart - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle
Envelopes of money in other people's pockets - Elizabeth Alexander "The African Picnic"
The other quite bankrupt in morals and mind - Horatio Alger Jr "Nothing to Do"
In making the fortune which others inherit - Horatio Alger Jr "Nothing to Do"
Weary of sowing for others to reap - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
Kept her attention focused in other space - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Telescope aimed at an angle no other could perceive - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Allowing him to shape others to his whim - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
Protect us from the envy of others' eyes - Alise Alousi "Tangent"
Other anniversaries of near misses - Julia Alvarez "Death Days"
Other planets dark as earth - Maxwell Anderson "Earth Evanescent"
Other than a privileged dream - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.II--Morning Further Advanced"
No choice other than exodus - William Archila "Saturn's Country"
Lost in other lonelinesses of concrete - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"
The cost of looking the other way - Fatimah Asghar "When the Orders Came"
My desperate belief in other realities - Desiree C. Bailey "Woman in Dub"
Other themes all passed beneath her spell - Grant Balfour "Christmas Eve"
We have already outlasted the others - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
The other half of my divided self - Mary Jo Bang "Close Observation Especially of One Under Suspicion"
All other routes are sown with burdock - Mary Jo Bang "Nonesuch"
Exchanging vows and other platitudes - Natalie Clifford Barney "Habit"
To kill for some other purpose - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Incident on the Road to the Capital"
No other knowledge but chance - Elizabeth Bartlett "Notes for the Future"
Aware of other tides - Elizabeth Bartlett "Ship of Earth"
Ghosts of other years - Ardelia Maria Barton "Ghosts of the Attic"
Busy with other kinds of play - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Like I have mourned no other loss - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"
Not continue in other dimensions - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Consciousness Self-Learns"
Formed by acts of other entities - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"
Relatives on other planets - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"
On horizons of other worlds - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"
Obedient to some other moon - Robert Bly "Thomas and the Codfish's Psalm"
Nor other orison at morn - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
Sharp tang of other waters known - Elizabeth Bradfield "Learning to Swim"
Other prey too shudders with the light - Russell Brakefield "Pardon, Trout Farm"
For other token do not seek - Emily Bronte "My Comforter"
Inviting other sphinxes out - Calef Brown "Tiny Baby Sphinx"
Nobody, from one distance to the other - Fleda Brown "A Few Lines from Rehoboth Beach"
The shadow of other men's souls passing over him - Kurt Brown "Fisherman"
It's shadow masking all other shadows - Kurt Brown "Fisherman"
This other species of grief - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"
No other grace to ask - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Who can boast of other seizure - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Weeping in the playtime of the others - Elizabeth B. Barret [Barrett Browning] "The Cry of the Children" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]
A brazen sound excluding others - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
The treacherous forsaking of other hearts - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Till each astonishes the other - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
One side boils and the other blows away - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"
He who laughs at others' woes - Wilhelm Busch "Plish and Plum" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks
The other day I almost felt the burden - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"
No other ship among the stars - Witter Bynner "The New World II"
Nor vex the ghosts of other days - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"
One inside the other as torqued ellipses - Anne Carson "Thunderstorm Stack"
Outside with the other worlds - Paul Celan "So Many Constellations" (translated by Pierre Joris)
Mirrors reflect other people's furniture - Marianne Chan "A Country of Beautiful Women"
May other reckless souls be consumed - Chia-Lun Chang "Vote Your Way to Hell"
When all the others are overcome with drinking - Chang Wu-chien "The Poet and the Dancers" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
A sweetness that no other strains possess - "The Children's Song" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
no other insomniac notices me - May Chong "Bunian Laundry"
The sometime wonderfulness of other - Lucille Clifton "albino"
The snow that keeps recalling all those other snows - Andrea Cohen "More Stones"
Gossiping with the other stones - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "He Mea Mālo'elo'e #3"
And other distant dogs respond - Frances Cornford "At Night"
A lyre with other strings - William Cowper "To Mary Unwin"
The hares to other groves withdrew - Palmer Cox "The Brownies at Archery"
Others perched on fences round - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
Building your mansion with other folks' sticks - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Blackbird and the Rooks"
Unaware of all that burns down on the other bank - Armen Davoudian "The Yellow Swan"
All other furious faiths outpace - Coningsby Dawson "Abandon"
The dwelling place for other dodos - Monica de la Torre "View from a Dodo Chair"
Maps to other moons - Diane DeCillis "Mr. Right"
In other balance are our actions weighed - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
The other sounds and shadows of the night - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
I have no other ransom money - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #1"
To throw the other end of a tin can telephone - Mark Dimaisip "Housekeeping Duties"
Redeem all other god-cast stones - Chris Dombrowski "Lunar Calendar"
All love of other sights controls - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"
Entreat one other tear to fall - John Donne "Lovers' Infiniteness"
That one hunger devouring all others - Cheryl Dumesnil "Instinct"
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"
Other Incense on their Altars blaz'd - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"
Vain desire still to be what others were - George Eliot "Self and Life"
The other masquerades that time resumes - T.S. Eliot "Preludes"
The other pushing back the flood - Fatihah Quadri Eniola "Down-Streaming"
Other themes of deep distress - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
Nothing in particular by any other name - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"
The other dolls sit as I tell them they must - Hannah G. Fernald "A Troublesome Daughter" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain - "Fine Knacks for Ladies"
Living my life unknown by others - Mina Florea "Remember"
Locomotives and other forgettings - Sandy Florian "House"
One the only antidote for the other - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VII"
Sail through other people's raptures - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XI"
And some other folly - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"
A residue of other suns - Zona Gale "Light"
Builds schemes for others' ruin - John Gay "Fable XXXIII: Courtier and Proteus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Separated from all other worlds - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
Heaven is in the other direction - Andrea Gibson "Living Proof"
Through the noisy crowds of other conversations - Dana Gioia "The Argument"
Wed to some mystery or other - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
The trees growing wildly on the other shore - Natalie Goldberg "Home"
For other notes repine - Thomas Gray "On the Death of Richard West"
That facilitates the annihilation of the other - Raquel Gutiérrez "Solip Cystic"
Gnarls of an old text in the other alphabet - Marilyn Hacker "Interval"
Other skies of other decades - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"
That other dreamless sleep of rest - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Name it with other songs - Joy Harjo "Call It Fear"
Who questioned any other than Adam about the fruit - francine j. harris "Burden, old story"
Of other wonder worlds - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXIX"
Nocturnal prowl on the edge of other worlds - Stephanie Heit "Mad Flora and Fauna Catalog: Hyena"
Memories inscribed in other tongues - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"
O'er the wrecks of other years - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"
Each increased the other's glow - Luisa Hewitt "[You lit your cigarette from mine]"
Beneath other fields of want - Faylita Hicks "The Birth Mother's Red Bath for Courage"
Others come from deeper hues - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"
Or some other mystic of nothingness - Edward Hirsch "The Task"
His grave prayers for the other lunatics - Edward Hirsch "Wild Gratitude"
One's gain was not the other lessened - Jane Hirshfield "Solstice"
Relinquish ev'ry other prop - "The History of Will Worthy and Nancy Wilmot"
Who brought hunger from other lands - Linda Hogan "Map"
Other nights and other storms - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
Other souls in other latitudes - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
The knightly deeds of other years eclipse - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Other stones such mystic spells have wrought - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
We had no other music - "In Hebrid Seas" (Translation by Thomas Pattison)
Falling bridges and other reminders of our neglect - Geoffrey Jacques "Viewers Like"
Waking at nightfall like the other monsters - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
All memory of other motion swept back in your wake - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Rising with copper in one hand and cadmium in the other - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Measures of oil for others - Emily Pauline Johnson "In Grey Days"
Worlds at the feet of others - Emily Pauline Johnson "In Grey Days"
The fight of others in the trenches of Mars - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"
As other saw their bubbles burst in air - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Old Black Men" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Need for other hearts broken differently - Courtney Kampa "Ars Biologica"
If you do we will look the other way and wait - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]
The names would conjure other invisibles - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
All the other ways of saying history - Leora Kava "pronunciation"
Using no other exercise - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"
Dispersed by the breath of other people - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"
Out of four other shades of grace - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Not a footprint or any other trace - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Follow Up"
Stood with the other bridesmaids in champagne - Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers "After a Rochester Wedding"
Hearts, by other loves supplanted - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
Waiting for something other than arrival - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
Glowing behind the dark others - Denise Levertov "A Surrogate"
Strangling other throats - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"
Must invent someone on the other end of eternity - Philip Levine "Picture Postcard from the Other World"
Would ask of memory no other boon - Mrs. S. A. Lewis "The Ennuyee" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Motes among a thousand other motes - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"
Others approached me from the horizon - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
An annual guest in other lands - John Logan "Ode to the Cuckoo"
No other dreams so potent in their charm - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"
Though others heed not my sigh - Alastair MacDonald "On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog" transl. by Alexander Stewart [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.706, 7 July 1877]
To approximate the durations of others - Aditi Machada "Rhapsody"
Lost voices called in other years - James Allan Mackereth "Ioläus"
The blurred horizon with its dust of other feet - Jeannette Marks "Too Late"
Brought the sun from other skies - Don Marquis "Dickens"
That other company unbidden to the tryst - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"
Never needed any other emotion than power - David Tomas Martinez "An Alluded to Letter from DTM for Matthew Olzmann"
And other parts less damaged could be mended - Harry Martinson "Aniara 3" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Her fish in other seas than those we now traverse - Harry Martinson "Aniara 6" 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
The gulfs to which the others were consigned - Harry Martinson "Aniara 43" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Coldly elapsing without other trace - Harry Martinson "Aniara 63" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Waiting for a star to shake loose from the others - Harry Martinson "Aniara 72: The Song of Karella" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Other countries, other fortunes on my tropic transmigration - Harry Martinson "Aniara 72: The Song of Karella" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Far other worlds and other seas - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
Fighting the devil in other men's fields - George Meredith "Juggling Jerry"
Beyond the landscapes of other times - W.S. Merwin "Cargo"
who will be but a name in the mouths of others - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"
Any other gesture of surrender - Kamilah Aisha Moon "The Emperor's Deer"
Fond memory brings the light of other days - Thomas Moore "Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)"
He has fourteen other senses there are no words for - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Bringing the flame from the other shore - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
A greeting from this other land - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"
Without tools other than time - Pablo Neruda "The Blind Statue" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Without other gods than thunder - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Twelve others might open - Naomi Shihab Nye "Problems with the Story"
Believe speaking is for others - Naomi Shihab Nye "Voices"
Among the thorns some others fell - "Of the Sower" [The Parables of the Saviour, no date, Project Gutenberg]
The long black branches of other lives - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"
Whose other name is rain - Mary Oliver "Not This, Not That"
Born with a knife in one hand and a wound in the other - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"
every other element implicit - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"
Hid their names behind other names - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Women of the 1980s"
Shaped as other men - Dorothy Parker "Salome's Dancing-Lesson"
Signposts leading to other words - Linda Pastan "All Nights" [Yes, 'words' is right.]
Wake and watch while others sleep - Coventry Patmore "The Shadow of Night"
Others under erasure will disclose the truth - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"
No different from any other song - Carl Phillips "So the Mind Like a Gate Swings Open"
No other way to tether love - Xan Forest Phillips "Never Have I Ever"
Lived with no other thought - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
Or melt at others' woe - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"
When all other trees are asleep in the snow - Miriam Clark Potter "The Candle Tree"
Other spirits exhaled before dawn - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"
While the other dusts off the morning star - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"
Her charities had overflowed for others - Margaret J. Preston "Francesca's Worship" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]
A path to lose our sense of others - Khadijah Queen "Epilogue for Personae"
Guilt planted for others - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"
Coal gouged out to fuel the light in other places - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
These lines force one foot in front of the other - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Relinquenda"
Missing Every Other Point - Adrienne Rich "Shooting Script 12"
When every other source of joy has fled - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
His own eyeful against the other's eyeful - Lola Ridge "Emma Goldman"
In other worlds expect another joy - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"
Made for other altitudes - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"
A loss for every other drop of rain - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"
Flows through other hearts than mine - George William Russell "[I thought, beloved, to have brought to you]"
Resources sacrificed to other crises - Ann K. Schwader "If Cold Is a War"
Rattling the branches of other lives - Teresa J. Scollon "Mid-Life, I'm Lost"
The first my thought, the other my desire - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"
To make any other mistake - Brenda Shaughnessy "Me in Paradise"
inherited or acquired by other means - Evie Shockley "it: a user's guide"
See how many other hearts are burning - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"
Light of some other evening - Charles Simic "Evening Walk"
Brought other Muses down to aid - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets I: Chaucer" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Slipped down from starry heavens to walk in other step - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
While half the world the other greets - Alexander Smith "[Joy, like a stream, flows]" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
The miracle of other people's lives - Danez Smith "in lieu of a poem, i'd like to say"
Among her other half-done projects - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
No other rebuttal to trust - R.T. Smith "Still Life: From the Notebook of Ambrose Bierce, 1862"
Each one the other's phantom limb - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney
Writhing paths I surely walked in that other life - Leonora Speyer "Garden Under Lightning"
Our other earth opens a secret hand - Nathan Spoon "The Genie Speaks"
Stray back into the moonlight and other kitchens - A.E. Stallings "The Dogdom of the Dead"
Others, shadows of the first - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
Added to such other woes - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
What other blessing could be sent? - Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard "Nameless Pain"
Other blazing objects out around its crown - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"
Petty death where each in other live - Sir P. Sydney "A Kiss" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]
Away to other heights and other temples - Carmen Sylva "'Vengeance Is Mine,' Saith the Lord"
The other half of the sea-god's bones - Genevieve Taggard "Skull Song"
We head home in other starlight - Tess Taylor "Solstice"
On the other elbow of this country - Kristen Tracy "Teton Road"
Dust that dances in the light with all other dust - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Belonging"
Toward some other sky - Mark Turcotte "Dear New Blood"
A sprawl of other lives - John Updike "Endpoint"
A hundred thousand other files doused in kerosene - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Inside the other ephemeral vase of air - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Both here and of other waters - R.A. Villanueva "Annus Mirabilis"
Other nights we use just our names - Jo Walton "When We Were Robots in Egypt"
While the other half lives in the crypt - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
Other hearts beyond the dawn - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"
Other fond, erroneous calculation of splendid schemes - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"
Grow by swallowing others - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"
Some other purpose in death - Katie Willingham "Dear Charlie"
'Twas others dranke the wine - George Wither "A Love Song"
To anoint some other god - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"
Twice on other travels - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"
The crack between this world and the other - Charles Wright "I'm Going to Take a Trip in that Old Gospel Ship"
Time's double door at the other - Charles Wright "Time and the Centipedes of Night"
Do not assume ghosts were birthed by other ghosts - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
And other woes have chased the gloom - X. "My Mother's Grave" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
In the crush of one thing into the other - Jenny Xie "Le Temps Mort"
Behind the truth are other truths - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu
Other mammals full of feathers - Abe Louise Young "Who"
Others were dark and always silent - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]
Prefer other nightmares - Adam Zagajewski "Venice, November"
Each Other.
Some small folded breath of otherlife - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"
Its temple of otherlight and salt - William Brewer "Halfway House Diary"
Consider the first knowledge of otherness - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"
Other Side.
Hexes, unwanted gifts, and othersuch hexes - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart" [sic]
Your otherworldliness preserved in soul - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"
Bubbling back up from the other world - Armen Davoudian "Coming Out of the Shower"
Flecked with otherworldly raindrops - Joseph O. Legaspi "Imagined Love Poem to my Mother from my Father"
Whistling from the other world - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
That otherworldly moaning glissando - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"
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