Potential Titles: Leaf/Leaves

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Botanical leaves only.

From the leaves of budless violets - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"

With green leaves and a few visible stars - Carl Adamshick "Black Snow [I live between the bus stop]"

Brother of larks and leaves - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Black leaves and smoke - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"

New leaves after her dead flowers - Richard Aldington "New Love"

Breaking through leafless brambles and dead leaves - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Wrap the song in the leaves of the lotus- Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"

Not a dead leaf dares to fall - Elizabeth Akers Allen "A Midnight Visitor"

To lone retreats and leafy cells - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IV--The Sunbeam"

Poppy flowers, with leaves of lotus blended - Auguste Angellier "The Garland of Sleep" transl. by Henry van Dyke

Collect all the autumn leaves - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "About the angels"

Hosts of leaves come down to die - A.B. "Autumn in the Woods" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.717, 22 Sept. 1877]

Ferns may fade and leaves may fall - A.B. "Autumn in the Woods" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.717, 22 Sept. 1877]

A fig leaf against a smashed wall - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

Withered leaves and sighing winds - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

A swallow coiled with gold leaves - Taneum Bambrick "Lovers' Mural"

Turning the leaves into teas - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"

A hummingbird in leafy bowers - Waitman Barbe "The Fly Leaf"

Hopes that fall like leaves before the wind - Maurice Baring "Diffugere Nives, 1917"

caught like a leaf burning - Elizabeth Bartlett "beyond cost"

rooted origins of leaf - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"

beneath the crystal scent sweet leaves - Elizabeth Bartlett "search the wild wind"

let autumn shake its leaves - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"

before the old leaves go - Elizabeth Bartlett "tropic time"

Lost in a river of falling leaves - Basho transl. by David Young

Twines with oak the laurel leaves - James Beattie "Ode on Lord Hay's Birth-Day. 13th May, 1767"

Tastes the day's first plasma of leaf - Jan Beatty "I'll Write the Girl"

Inscribed upon their leaves the words - Park Benjamin "Lines Sent with a Bouquet"

A ladder of branches and leaves into heaven - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Loom"

Brightest three leaved bay - Craven Langstroth Betts "Pope"

Following the track of blowing leaves and cool white rain - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

Crowned with leaf and bud - Thomas Boyd "To the Lianhaun Shee"

Dark matter & a castle of leaves - Paul Cameron Brown "Red Fox (Red Horse Lake)"

Steadfast as midnight leaves - Anthony Butts "Embers"

Filled each leafy vein with dew - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"

Where the deep-cut leaves of the liverwort grow - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Dead leaves tiger bright - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"

Brown upon the woodland leaf - John R. Chamberlain "Lines"

On the edge of each spring leaf - Tina Chang "Astroturf"

By every path the leaves of healing grow - Thomas S. Chard "The Blessed Vale"

What escapes the grasp of leaves - Jos Charles "A Note on Form"

Even a leaf can have teeth - MK Chavez "Little Red Riding Hood/Companion"

Transplanted these memories leaf stalk and barrel - May Chong "Kamcia"

Waiting for a leaf to turn - John Ciardi "Everywhere that Universe"

quills erect among the leaves - Lucille Clifton "blake"

where is the light of one leaf falling? - Lucille Clifton "consulting the book of changes: radiation"

Any record on the leaves of time - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Leaves of the first green of raw almonds - Alicia Cole "On an Iranian Goblet, 5,000 Years Old"

All flew like leaves fluttering to escape - Michael Collier "Birds Appearing in a Dream"

The blight of dead leaves in the blood - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"

A queen of yellow leaves - Hilda Conkling "Autumn Song"

Bare as a leaf - Hilda Conkling "By Lake Champlain"

Fallen leaves that curled and shrank - Frances Cornford "The Old Witch in the Copse"

Its drums and darkest blowing leaves ignore - Hart Crane "Recitative"

Fair hung with tapestry of leaves - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

Dispersed as Sibyl's leaves of yore - Rev. William Crowe "Epigram"

the last immortal leaf is dead - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VIII)"

and the language of leaves repeats - E. E. Cummings "Amores (X)"

Honey and amber flecked each leaf - H.D. "The Gift"

Such acrid fragrance hardened in a leaf - H.D. "Sea Rose"

A weighted leaf in the wind - H.D. "Storm"

The leaves of the sun-mellowed hickories - Clinton Dangerfield "Autumn"

And fame like a young curled leaf - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"

Shorn of leaves by Fate - Russell W. Davenport "Poems VI"

Gems among the gold and silver leaves - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Bands of moonlight flecked with shadowed leaves - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"

Brown leaf shards gathering in the gutter - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Human Habitat"

The leaves November left - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love VIII: At Home"

A glory to the fading leaf - Irving Sidney Dix "An Idyll of the Hills part 2: October"

Takes a leaf of live-forever - Mary Mapes Dodge Rhymes and Jingles (p.38)

Prodigal the leaves the earth accepts - Chris Dombrowski "Grove"

An aspen missing half its leaves - Chris Dombrowski "Koan"

Something as stubborn as the leaves - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"

Brittle leaves sketching their way to rest - Chris Dombrowski "Wintering"

Red sunbeam athwart the withered leaf - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Beneath a trillion leaves cloud-braided - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Nature"

The shadow of a sigh breathes on the leaves - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

Hidden under autumn's leaves - Cheryl Dumesnil "Ode to October"

And leaves that should be dressed in black - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Merry Autumn"

Written on the iron leaf - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

Composed of fantastic leaves - Heid E. Erdich "Paint These Streets"

Wove it from tree leaves and piles of hay - Daniel Errico "The Particular Way of Odd Ms. McKay"

One of the leaves in the crown is gold - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

The leafy sun that pours liquid through doors - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

And Autumn's falling leaves proclaimed - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"

Leaves of the sea's decay - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Descent"

Knee-deep in eucalyptus leaves - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 10"

A silkworm's bitten mulberry leaves - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XIV"

Emptied as a fallen leaf - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"

Thick and fast the leaves are falling - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"

The amaranthine leaves of an immortal coronal - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Swallowed up in leaves that blew away - Robert Frost "A Dream Pang"

For them the lilac renewed its leaf - Robert Frost "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things"

Her early leaf's a flower - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

Leaf subsides to leaf - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

Release one leaf at break of day - Robert Frost "October"

Whose leaves already are burnt with frost - Robert Frost "October"

In leaves no step had trodden black - Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"

Eating nothing but radishes and lime leaf tea - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Rapunzel: I Like the Quiet"

All delicate leaf and toxic petal - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Supervillain Studies: For the Love of Ivy"

The leaves of Spring turn gold - Zona Gale "Half Thought"

A corridor of leafage pillared white - Zona Gale "The Kilbourn Road"

One leaf left to bear witness - George Garrett "Or Death and December"

One leaf from that immortal wreath - Thomas Gent "The Grave of Dibdin"

Autumn sheds her latest leaf - Manmohan Ghose "Mentem Mortalia Tangunt"

Find an answer in the leaves - Manmohan Ghose "[Thou who hast follow'd far]"

Leafy beech in verdant hollow - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Lonely as a withered leaf - David Gray "Despondency"

Watched a leaf disappear eight thousand times - Leah Naomi Green "Hashem"

No power beyond the reach of leaves - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"

Leaves prolong their summer zest - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

Two geraniums bravely in leaf - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"

Every power that bids the leaf be green - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"

Like the buds that wait patient beneath the dead leaves - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "In an Album"

While the withered leaf is left - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Parting Rosary"

Singing among young oak leaves - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "April Will Come"

The leaves are dancing with Death - F.W. Harvey "Autumn in Prison"

Darkness that lives beneath the leaves - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"

When new leaves swell in the forest - Ella Higginson "When the Birds Go North Again"

The math-prone leaves of every rhododendron - Conrad Hilberry "Subtract the Digits"

As fall the leaves in Autumn storm - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "A Vision" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Leaves in the breath of the whirlwind - William Dean Howells "Louis Lebeau's Conversion"

A brown swirl of windy leaves - Aldous Huxley "Anniversaries"

Bind again these scattered leaves - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

As cloth-of-gold the fallen leaves lie - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Ev'ry leaf has been nipped by a blight - Alex A. Irvine "The Withered Rose" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

the jeweled leaves of the maple and elm - Didi Jackson "Fall"

The tempered regularity of falling leaves - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

To smell the winter leaves - Allison Eir Jenks "Refugee"

Cowrie shells, tea leaves, coins - Jacqueline Johnson "Oracle"

My veins in every leaf - Saeed Jones "Eclipse of My Third Life"

Pale flowers on his mantle, dark leaves on his hair - James Joyce "Strings in the Earth and Air"

To nourish life upon the fallen leaf - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

So many thousands of leaves - Holly Karapetkova "Holiday"

A chorus of leaves and grasses - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Upon the emblazoned leaf of fame - Fanny Kemble "A Wish [Let me not die forever when I'm laid]"

How easily autumn shakes the yellow leaves - Adele Kenny "Survivor"

Ate leaves until your jaw ached with ash - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

Your name scrapes against thick-edged leaves - Vandana Khanna "Parvati: A Wife's Mantra"

Bathed with the debris of dried leaves - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"

Die like the falling leaf - Kim Unsong "Detachment"

Sleep beneath leaves curling like ribbons - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"

You come forth like falling leaves - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blind Fish"

Blood-lit veins on leaves left quivering - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"

Blue jays & redbirds wove light through leaves - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Leaves behind us swirling in our plasma trail - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

I would renounce them, wind, leaf, and tree - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"

Blake's angel parting willow leaves - Stephen Kuusisto "Only Bread, Only Light"

With the rain of ruined leaves - Archibald Lampman "September"

Sage leaves stripped, stirred into stew - Susan Landgraf "What's Left"

Defending the memory of leaves - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"

Restate the strength of leaf and bone - Ruth Lechlitner "Change Must Be Served"

Where brown leaves gather shadow - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"

A flock of leaves came sobbing - Agnes Lee "The Silent House"

Cut like steel each tiny leaf - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

Wind in its dissonance of leaves - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"

Under the leafy shadow of lindens - Henry P. Leland "Wounded" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

Firebright blessings of fallen leaves - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

With vows that bound the leaf and stone - Jessica Lévai "Rochambeau"

The mad swirl of leaves and newspapers - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

The leaves are not angry at falling - Li Po "The Sun" transl. by Arthur Waley

A leaf hatching from its green shell - Rebecca Lindenberg "Ghostology"

The leaf is no more cherished - Amy Lowell "Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme"

Withered leaves upon the poplars tall - J.R. Lowell "Ballad"

Teaches the withering leaves to rejoice - Francis J. Lys "Autumn"

Leafy maze and dusky corridor - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The World's End"

The linden leaves are falling - Dorothea Mackellar "September"

Leaf in a sympathetic breeze - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

The exotic names of every flower and leaf - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

Are whispering to the leaves - George Martin "The Blind Minstrel of the Market Place"

Thorns whose leafy garb deceived - George Martin "Marguerite"

The leaves whirl in the wind's riot - John Masefield "On Malvern Hill"

Days like scented leaves - Khaled Mattawa "Season of Migration to the North/Northwest"

How seed turns to leaf regardless of its earth - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"

The names of the leaves before they change - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

Fallen leaves careen on fairy keels - Theodore Maynard "Vocation"

Filtered through glowing leaves - Marilyn McCabe "Web"

Moving the one mind of leaves - Anne Haven McDonnell "Owl"

Yields to a sprig with one leaf unfurling - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"

Leaves are getting brown - James E. McGirt "Winter"

A trembling tangle of leaves - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger "Midmorning" transl. by Carlie Hoffman

The space of dewdrops running over leaf - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

Sick Philosophy's last leaves - George Meredith "The Spirit of Shakespeare"

Budded beech with dry leaves curled - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"

Discover an enigma on every leaf - Helen M. Merrill "The Blue Flower"

Time with all its leaves - W.S. Merwin "Traces"

Closed in these thousand leaves articulate - Alice Meynell "The Two Poets"

If all the leaves my name could cry - Adam Mickiewicz "Tschatir Dagh (The Pilgrim)" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Dancing storms of leaves in flaming colors - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"

The bittersweet smoke of burning leaves - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"

Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year - John Milton "Lycidas"

Leaves have no choice - Carol Moldaw "Meditation in the Open-Air Garage"

Fallen leaf and gathered sheaf - Harriet Monroe "Shadows"

The stricken leaves of the copper beech - Jim Moore "The Need Is So Great"

Like leaves of autumn weather - George P. Morris "We Were Boys Together"

Maple leaves abducted by the wind - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"

Desire in the upper leaves - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

While all the leaves leak gold - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Eucalyptus more blades than leaves - Eileen Myles "Fifty-Three"

A country of tiny leaves - Eileen Myles "Fifty-Three"

Yellow birch trees weeping leaves - Jaye Nasir "November"

The hour of fallen leaves - Pablo Neruda "The Egoist" transl. by William O'Daly

Made of linked and bitter leaves - Pablo Neruda "Tyranny" Translated by Donald D. Walsh

Earth's rumor grew in the leaves - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly

Bids the leaves of silence part - E. Nesbit "Song"

Trod dead leaves in chill and wintry ways - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "[Not Summer's crown of scent]"

The sheltering leaves are everywhere - "Nesting Time" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]

Through the green deeps of leafy spring - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"

Whatever small light bees bestow on fallen leaves - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

Shiver as the poplar's leaves - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

The path of sunlight through leaves - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

Each leaf expands its view - Naomi Shihab Nye "Morning Song"

No olive trees or mint leaves in their forest - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay Afloat"

Mint leaves floating in a cup - Naomi Shihab Nye "You Are Your Own State Department"

And left me but the rustling leaves - Thomas O'Hagan "Ripened Fruit"

Down from the heaven of leaves - Mary Oliver "At Black River"

Like the diligent leaves - Mary Oliver "Flare"

In the universe of leaves - Mary Oliver "Work"

Under layers of leaves and soft dirt - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"

Alight upon this beggar leaf - Frances S. Osgood "Lines to an Idea that Wouldn't 'Come'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

No leaves upon this muddy stream appear - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"

Grudge not the green leaves - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

Hold converse with the wind and leaves - Manuel José Othón "The River" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell

The leafy scrolls and fretted niches - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)

Before a single leaf has changed - Linda Pastan "The Blackbirds"

leaves elevated to eat blue light - Shailja Patel "Solstice Re-pot"

With joy among the leaves - Mary C. Peckham "The Wood-Thrush at Sunset"

Measuring the crinolines of leaves - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"

Not noticing the leaves - Carl Phillips "Brothers in Arms"

The ghosts of leaves - Carl Phillips "Snow Globe"

The apparent weightlessness of leaves - Carl Phillips "To Autumn"

What can leaves know of courtesy - Carl Phillips "Wake Up"

Though leaves can know nothing - Carl Phillips "What They Did, Who They Did it With"

Memory as a forest of leaves - Carl Phillips "Wherefore Less Lonely"

Some land of wind and drifting leaves - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"

The rustling of the sere leaves as they fall - Susan Pinkerton "Autumn Leaves" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.306, 10 Nov. 1849]

The password of the leaves upon the cottonwood - Alexander Posey "To Wahilla Enhotulle"

Fruit before the time of leaves - E.J. Pratt "Magnolia Blossoms"

Dead leaves drift on the lute - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Alma Mater"

The withered leaf clings latest to the tree - Quince "Age" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

The gleam and sway of burning leaves - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Autumn in Sussex"

To make sense of these billion leaves - Charles Rafferty "An Adulterous Spring"

Breaks from these leafen lips - Theodore H. Rand "Under the Beeches"

Gathered about her a skirt of brittle leaves - Wendy Rathbone "Gravemaid"

I bring the sea tobacco leaves and fruit - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"

Tangled in the net of leaves - Edgell Rickword "Intimacy"

Match the whisper of the leaves - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [Come to the river's side, my love]"

Light on the underside of leaves - Jack Ridl "It Was Last Night, I Think"

Nor ever Autumn's leaves of brown - James Whitcombe Riley "My Bride that Is to Be"

The spirit of lilies in a leafy place - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"

Came with strawberry leaves in her bill - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Babes in the Woods"

Their bones recall summer leaves long lost - Lloyd Roberts "Dead Days"

The leaves of Autumn guard the buds of Spring - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson "From a Motor in May"

As lightning would annihilate a leaf - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Beneath green leaves and lilies white - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"

Wave living flower and living leaf - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"

Where the leaves hang trembling - Christina Rossetti "Who Has Seen the Wind"

Oak leaves sitting on elm branches - Alison Rumfitt "Romance of Possible Contrasts"

End like a spring leaf shed - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"

All the dead leaves listen in - Reg Saner "Spring Song"

Living in this sea of leaves - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #22"

Offering me their flowers and then their leaves - Jason Schneiderman "House with a Hot Tub and Pool"

Collects dry leaves in pools and pockets - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [This beauty that I see]"

Kindle leaves & clay with rare copal - Ann K. Schwader "Maya Blue (At Chichen Itza)"

The kind of love that lands like a leaf - Tim Seibles "Naive"

Sour leisure gave sweet leave - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIX"

The clover was folding, leaf on leaf - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

A pyramid of mouldering leaves - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"

Poet of the dead leaves - Charles Simic "Shelley"

Hunt the dead leaves it cannot find - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VIII. The Watch"

Swirl the leaves before the tempest - "The Sleep-Song of Grainne Over Dermuid" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Foretold by signs written in the swirling leaves - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"

The bard of the leaves - "The Song of the Thrush"

Melodious wanderings in leafy refuge - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Hope Deferred"

Wind uplifts the briony leaves - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"

Regret for every fallen leaf - George Sterling "Discord"

Another leaf from life's wild rose - George Sterling "Hostage"

Brown and brittle falls the leaf - George Sterling "The Pathway"

In a shelter made by the leaves - Wallace Stevens "Lunar Paraphrase"

Spread hallucinations on every leaf - Wallace Stevens "St. Armorer's Church from the Outside"

Leaves of sure obligation on our paths - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

Ten by ten tithes have been paid in a dazzling of leaves - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

Out of the drifting leaf and the dying light - Arthur Stringer "The Passing"

Fresh milk from a cup of leaves - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 132: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Though my leaves shut before the sunflower - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

When summer leaves grow false - A.C. Swinburne "John Jones"

That leaf may be eternal by the light - Carmen Sylva "The Glowworm"

The music of sycamore leaves - Arthur Sze "Cloud Hands"

Whose last branch failed to leaf - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"

Blinded by a leafy crown - Sara Teasdale "Leaves"

The Leaf of many Sorrows - John Todhunter "The Sunburst"

Shake crisp leaves from long-dead trees - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"

Who grieves amid earth's dying leaves - W.J. Turner "Death"

Beauty folded in the flowers and leaves - Jehangir Jivaji Vakil "Revelation"

The leaves that every autumn drives before - Mark Van Doren "Waterfall Sound"

Poison has three leaves - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Warning"

Dead leaves from the birches - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Wind" transl. by Alma Strettell

Read my fortune on a leaf of shining holly - H.K.W. "The Leaf Prophetic" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.681, 13 Jan. 1877]

Leaves fall from the quince tree - Wang Yu-ch'eng "Journey to a Village" transl. by Burton Watson

That rustles in the leaves of flaunting ivy - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

Uttering joyous leaves - Walt Whitman "I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing"

A blown leaf across the face of Time - Helen Hay Whitney "Ave atque Vale"

In a jacket of gold leaves drawn tight - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"

To bless far landscapes anew with leaf and bud - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"

The gutters packed with dead leaves - William Carlos Williams "A Goodnight"

Stars dancing to the crack of a leaf - William Carlos Williams "Keller Gegen Dom"

The leaves are little yellow fish - William Carlos Williams "Metric Figure"

Outshines the noise of leaves clashing - William Carlos Williams "Metric Figure"

My voice of leaves and varicolored bark - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Plotting to devour every leaf We release - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"

Whose leaves have shivered in our dreams - Humbert Wolfe "The Dancers"

Language of leaves and rain - Valerie Worth "Wood Thrush"

Bear witness to the absent fig leaves - Jay Wright "Kumu"

With burdens of old leaves - Jane Yolen "Here Where the Path of Healing Starts"

Wind a lariat of leaves - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks I: Metaphysick for the New Year"

A ribbon of cold in the leaves - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Fragment"

With their nests of new leaves - Lisa Zimmerman "Lake at Night"


Gold apples set with silver apple-leaf - H.D. "Lais"


Instead of cheap bay-leaves - James Russell Lowell "In the Half-Way House"


Which deep-leaved June had hidden - Edward Dowden "Winter Noontide"


Painted with four-leaf clovers - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"


Yield rose-dust and ivy-leaf - Clark Ashton Smith "Sepulture"


The chestnut tree admires her large-leaved shadow - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"


A leaf-gray shadow that sings - Hilda Conkling "Tree-Toad"


Leafless.


Leaf-loss and worried sprout - Jennifer Chang "Pastoral"


Flame to my leaf-mould - Jeannette Marks "You"


The leaf-red fire warmed no one's hands - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"


Holding a bucket full of leaf-song - Chris Dombrowski "To Carry Water"


Adverbs from the leaf-talk of the elves - Stephen Vincent Benet "Talk"


Singing among the oak-leaves - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"


Entwined with flowers and poison-leaves - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two at the Crossroads"


Quaint jars with rose-leaf memories - Edward Dowden "To Hester"

Received the rose-leaf soul - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"

Will mount again into rose-leaves - William Carlos Williams "History"


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


That shines unleafed in winter rain - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"


Each white-fire-leaf of a star distinct - Stephen Vincent Benet "Flood-Tide"


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