Potential Titles: Dance
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somethingdarkerWildly danced above the gulf of ruin - A.L.O.E. "The Second Advent"
The bobbins keep threading a mazy dance - "Abroad"
Dances to the rhythm of the rain - Francisco X. Alarcon "Dancing in the Streets"
To devour only this luring dance - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"
Danced on daggers on the path - Daisy Aldan "The Little Mermaid"
Tuscan rhymes of love and wine and dance - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
Dance near every edge - Threa Almontaser "And That Fast, You're Thinking About Their Bodies"
stars faint and dancing - Alise Alousi "Bite It"
Command our sadness to dance to God's will - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"
Dancing between its teeth - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"
Straw sandals dancing lightly on the cobbles - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
A dance of strangers in my blood - Fatimah Asghar "If They Come for Us"
Join with their friends in the Grasshopper's dance - J.L.B. "The Butterfly's Funeral"
The desperate dance that signifies a loss too great to name - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
The frayed edge of the dance floor - Mary Jo Bang "Reminds Me Ramona"
To the song of gladness dance - James Beattie "Elegy"
Through all the mazes of the dance - "The Belles of Williamsburg"
A golden ball in fountains dancing - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
Their hundred twined and dancing arms - Margo Berdeshevsky "Somewhere Everywhere"
Of dancing away from chains - Rebecca G. Biber "The Children's Firebird"
Giant dervishes dancing under the ancient stars - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"
Dancing to the clouds' rage - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"
And dance beneath my diadem - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
The wild deer dancing light - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"
Dance on seaweed-strings for clapping hands - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"
Let us dance by metal waters burned with gold - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
A snow-white butterfly dancing before the fitful gale - Richard Bowen "Genius" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Away it danced with shimmering glee - Richard Bowen "Genius" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Water dancing with onion, garlic and salt - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
A walk-around dance of rain and dew - Russell Brakefield "Rag"
The hilltop trees still bend like dancers - Joseph Bruchac "Tutuwas"
Dancers in ceremonies that never ended - Joseph Bruchac "Tutuwas"
Unwinds the eternal dances of the sky - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
To her maidens the light dance is dear - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan "Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear"
Happy on entering the dance - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall
Danced in the sphere serene - Giosue Carducci "To Phoebus Apollo" transl. by Frank Sewall
Creation that dance and bubbles and flutters - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Imagery"
Lights dancing to the beat of the ground - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"
Though the wheels may dance all day - G.K. Chesterton "Me Heart"
Dance and think of prophecies in reverse - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"
To dance in music toward the sea - Willis Gaylord Clark "Stanzas Written in Indisposition"
Dance me through the panic - Leonard Cohen "Dance Me to the End of Love"
And watch the ghosts dance - Chris Colderly "Tambourine Things: Celebrating Judith Wright"
A different dance toward death - Donte Collins "Prayer Severing the Cycle"
Danced in the gold waters - Hilda Conkling "Theatre-Song"
Dance before the song runs out - CAConrad "Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return"
Dance with jolly faun and fay - Benjamin Copeland "A Prophecy"
Golden ladies come to dance - Frances Cornford "In France"
By various turns of the celestial dance - Abraham Cowley "To the Royal Society"
Light-footed through the dance's maze - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
To dance creation on the fragile and the unmindful - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
Whirled and tossed into delicious dancing - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"
petals danced against my eyes and down - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"
How the buttercups and daisies dance - Olive Custance "Blue Flowers"
The south wind and the sunlight danced - Olive Custance "A Dream"
With dancing feet and dreaming eyes - Olive Custance "In Praise of Youth"
The silent dancing of my soul - Olive Custance "The Magic Mirrors"
A circle dance on the Sabbath - Krystyna Dąbrowska "White Chairs" transl. by Karen Kovacik
Battle, dance, and song - "The Dance of the Sword" (Translated by Tom Taylor)
Kiss their shadows as they dance - William H. Davies "Oh, Sweet Content"
Dance in the fulcrum of history - Kwame Dawes "from 'A Coda to History: 28. It Is Not As If'"
To the gale of me you danced - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Cantina"
In mazed dances the fairies flit - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"
Dance burning through the night - Walter de la Mare "The Little Salamander: To Margot"
Courting flames as they dance - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"
Betray the dance hall of the elves - Irving Sidney Dix "The Glen"
Must keep dancing till it cracks - Stephen Dobyns "Thelonius Monk"
The mosses creep to her dancing feet - Julia C.R. Dorr "Over the Wall"
Bid every shadow dance - Edward Dowden "The Winnower to the Winds"
Dancing on the bosom of the deep - Miss Draper "A Lay of Ruin"
Dances and drifts in endless play - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs"
Brown sugar waves dance through - Caleb Edmondson "In 2025, His Rings Will Disappear"
The river danced for acres - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"
And danced with my own vanishing - Claudia Emerson "House-Sitting"
Wanton skip with bacchic dance - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
A dance older than the shape of human bone - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"
Dance against language and abandon verse - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "The Sunset and the Flowered Tree"
Soft dawns that danced a shadow fete - Donald Evans "Buveuse d'Absinthe"
Only as immense as what we shed in the dance - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"
Move through the ruins of the dance - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"
Now I woo my dancing fire - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"
Another chance to dance with another new day - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"
Dancing down the sunlight's gold - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VI. To an Outrageous Person"
Dance in mirth up the rainbow - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VI. To an Outrageous Person"
And you shall dance in the velvet sky - Eugene Field "Fairy and Child"
She danced life upside down - Annie Finch "Strangers"
Danced on the skirt of autumn skies - John W. Forney "Time's Changes"
Danced along their wanton wanderings - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Who says I need a partner to dance? - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Rapunzel: I Like the Quiet"
The grey willow that danced to the moon - Goethe "The Erl-King" transl. by Sir Walter Scott
Dances a forlorn tread - Louis Golding "My Lady of Peace"
Since the dawn came dancing - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
Dancing in a glade alone - Theodora Goss "The Fox Wife"
Where no emotion came to dance - Mona Gould "Traitor"
Where the light-footed dancers whirled - James Harris Guy "Old Boggy Bottom"
Dancing in a rose of joy - Katherine Hale "Pavlowa Dancing"
Dance the weave of joy and tears - Joy Harjo "Seven Generations"
The leaves are dancing with Death - F.W. Harvey "Autumn in Prison"
Submitted to that tingling dance of atoms - Robert Hass "State of the Planet"
Glow and dance in every vein - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Who delight in the dance of a darling Bacchante - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"
No slow dance in the undertow - Conrad Hilberry "Scramble Competition Polygyny"
The yellow-black dance of the tiger - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"
In rapid flight as in a whirling dance - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Dancing to liquid edge - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Seven dancers measureless as air - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Live oak spirits in dancer's pose - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Sunbeams dance in dawn's ballet - Scharmel Iris "Fantasy of Dusk and Dawn"
Indeed, your dancing days are done - "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Go dancing through my veins - James Weldon Johnson "The Poet's Heart"
Play in a red moon's dance - Lionel Johnson "In England"
No friend of mine stops my dance - Ashley M. Jones "Song of My Muhammad"
Dancing to the shadow drums - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
Who danced wordless before God - Ilya Kaminsky "Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air"
Only two hands to use in the dance - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Dancing in the shadow of the long hand - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Each dance has the fractal precision of chaos - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Through the dance's dangerous wreath - John Keats "To Fanny"
White waves dance along the shore - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"
The pageant wild go dancing by - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
The ghoul danced a jig in his tomb - Rachel Kolar "Hey, Diddle, Diddle, Black Cat with a Fiddle"
The neighbors were still dancing in their Halloween best - Edgar Kunz "Fixer"
Whose mock fires for ever dance - Archibald Lampman "To the Prophetic Soul"
A silvery ripple dancing for her sport - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway II: A Bog-Filled Valley"
In lines of dancing light - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Where the sunsets dance and play - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
All the dancing wavers rejoice - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
Despise the revel, dance, and song - Henry S. Leigh "Evening Dress"
Each time your roughness danced with me - Jessica Lévai "Rochambeau"
Dances down the sky - J. Patrick Lewis "Aurora Borealis"
Danced into your warm major chords and velvet vibrato - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
in a dance over the obsidian steps - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"
That danced right through sorrow - M.L. Liebler "The Mist Spirit of Everything"
The first of our million dancing years - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"
The Dancing Stars grow still - Lily A. Long "The Singing Place"
A shaking and cracking of dancing bones - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"
Weave a dance with ropes of gray acorns - Amy Lowell "Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H."
The ordered tumult of the dance - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Dance to your shadow - Kenneth MacLeod "Dance to your Shadow"
My aunts danced the mambo - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman
Shaking the sunlight into dance - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"
To dance on the arms of the sun - Herbert Woodward Martin "On Reading Lucille Clifton's 'Homage to My Hips'"
A gathering of pollen, a dance of honey - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Time for Bees"
Glad till the dancing stops - John Masefield "Laugh and Be Merry"
Light parted by shadow-dance - Jamaal May "There Are Birds Here"
As if there were a dance left - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"
Bright angels through the dance's maze - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"
Alive with elfin dance and revelry - Theodore Maynard "There Was an Hour"
Slow dancing on the cooling pavement - John McCarthy "County Fair"
Red dance of my opened fist - Jeffrey McDaniel "Jonathan"
Salome's dance is ended - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Dead Favourites"
Dancing with a timid wind - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"
Slow-danced with the ice - M.S. Merwin "Oak Time"
Dancers and singers in the machine - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"
As I danced in the flickering sunshine - "Midges in the Sunshine"
Dancing storms of leaves in flaming colors - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"
By all the Nymphs that nightly dance - John Milton "Sabrina"
Comes dancing from the East - John Milton "Song on May Morning"
You dance inside the snow - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
The Five Mountains drumming and dancing - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
A dancing star in revel flashed - Francis Neilson "When You Were Born"
Lived in liberty and dance - Pablo Neruda "Ancient History" transl. by Miguel Argarin
The dancers of the celestial sphere - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger
Light dancers of gold and air - Pablo Neruda "Caribbean Birds" transl. by Miguel Algarin
To dance with unmeasured fury - Pablo Neruda "It Rains" transl. by William O'Daly
Rose-crown for the dancing hours - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"
Old visions unheeded dance - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
At the end of this claustrophobic the dance - Alice Notley "At Night the States"
Square-dance with boulders - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Blanco River"
Danced with oak-tree in his belt - "Oh, Seventy-Seven Twice-Told Were They" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Never stopped me from dancing - Jose Olivarez "Maybach Music (with a sample from Paul Wall)"
Seven dancer floating even as worms - Mary Oliver "Seven White Butterflies"
Angels dancing all day on the roof - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
Doesn't the world demand we dance? - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"
Went dancing back to the age of gold - Seumas O'Sullivan "A Piper"
The land of a thousand dances - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"
In your feet the fairies dance - Walter S. Percy "Chatterbox"
The right dance sets me free - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Give the echo to your dancing words - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"
Danced along the marshy damps - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On the Potomac River, U.S.A."
Everything dances with its strict negation - Jeremy Radin "Evening"
Sugar scents dancing through the liquid ripples - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Perfumes"
That the dance is a maelstrom - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
The dress you danced in yesterday - Ernest Rhys "A Song of Happiness"
Cleaving shadows in their dance - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
And dance each with his neighbor - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Feet that dance on slipping earth - Lola Ridge "Incompatibility"
Dance in the dim violet places - Lola Ridge "Snow-Dance for the Dead"
Endure the dance of earth - Lola Ridge "Ward X"
The dance of the big-hearted dog - Alberto Rios "We Dogs of a Thursday Off"
Alive in the dance of the dream - Alberto Rios "When There Were Ghosts"
The grand balance of the dances - Ed Roberson "The Neighbor's Street Sirens Sing"
And winds beyond the heavens are dancing in the light - Lloyd Roberts "Spring Madness"
Curse the Nero who planned this gory dance - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Calm that Comes with Years"
Moving some mystic dance to tread - T.W. Rolleston "The Spell-Struck"
Dance with unmeasured mirth, enraptured - Kenneth Rookwood "The Ruins of Burnside" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
What comes between the dancing - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"
Dances with my blood - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"
Weave silent dances around him - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
Women in their dances and wildness - Muriel Rukeyser "The Poem as Mask"
Dance in my Heart at Dawn - Rumi "The Beloved All in All" transl. by Rev. Professor Hastie
Mix the high howls of your dancing - Carl Sandburg "Fins"
Shadow-dance and laugh at the cost - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"
On the iron plain of glory dance - Friedrich Schiller "Reproach-To Laura"
The crimson death-lights dance - Virna Sheard "Crosses"
Dancing barefoot in the courtyard - Julie Shiel "Cinderella"
Or dancing along the waters pale - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"
By exultation of the flying dance - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Dancing together soon - Clint Smith "FaceTime"
A dance against hunger - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"
Dance out a round on the dreamt eye of water - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney
And danced on five dew drops - George Sterling "Insincerities"
Danced in the liquid wind - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Danced it to dust and drugged it with the rose - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
That forces Love himself to dance - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 47: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Dancing like a peacock in the woods - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 109: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Return and dance to this world's tune - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 230: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Silver wind for your dancing place - May Swenson "Earth Your Dancing Place"
The jubilant whirl of their dizzy dance - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
A dance in the wind at water's edge - Keith Taylor "Circle in the Wind"
Dancing through the grass toward home - Keith Taylor "Prairie Fire"
Dancing with a measured step from wrecked and shattered towns - Edward Wyndham Tennant "Home Thoughts in Laventie"
In the mazes of the dance - F.W. Thomas "A Slighted Woman"
Danced misfortune's miseries down - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"
And dance the music of their dying - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"
Jubilees dancing in the shards - Edwin Torres "The Vase of the Universe"
The gloom is radiant in a dance - Iris Tree "Lamp-Posts"
In a dance of yellow hopefulness - Iris Tree "Lamp-Posts"
Underneath the feet forever dancing - Iris Tree "London"
Close to the dancing heels of the day - Iris Tree "[Oh canst thou not hear in my heart all its whispering fears]"
Danced in a red smoke of dreams - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"
Ash dancing among a living flame - Jacqueline Allen Trimble "Walking Beside the Cemetery, Olivia Street, Key West"
Dance out of the darkness - David Trinidad "Ode to Dusty Springfield"
Dust that dances in the light with all other dust - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Belonging"
Where the thin silver soul of the stars silently dances - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
That flesh has danced with flame - Louis Untermeyer "Dorothy Dances"
A slow dance moving to some silent blues - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Red Shawl"
Bare feet dancing the rhythm of her dream - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Red Shawl"
Fairies light who danced at night - F.E. Weatherly "The Old Picture-Book"
Have bartered your flickering dance for sorrow - Edith Weaver "Lost Cinderella"
Dancing in the meteor's hall of power - "Where Avalanches Wail"
The morning dancing with life - Helen Hay Whitney "Music"
Dancing shadows on the snow - Helen Hay Whitney "A Song of the Oregon Trail"
Dancing dandelions and buttercups - John Wieners "Private Estate"
The mind dances with itself - William Carlos Williams "The Dance"
Some wind-dancing afternoon - William Carlos Williams "Keller Gegen Dom"
Stars dancing to the crack of a leaf - William Carlos Williams "Keller Gegen Dom"
Detached dance of gnomes - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"
Dance where the shadows and music be - Humbert Wolfe "The Wind"
My dance under sorrow's tree - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"
A clever dance of flowers - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"
Join the dance of the rulers - "XIX" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Let the drum be ready for the dance - "XXIV" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Lead the dance of death - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"
Dance like a wave of the sea - W.B. Yeats "The Fiddler of Dooney"
Hosts of dancing bluebells - Francis Brett Young "Easter"
The whirling dust of their dancing - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Come dancing bitter city - Matthew Zapruder "Thank You for Being You"
The dance of flame in full bloom - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #9" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Time passing the dance of cold fire - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver
Milkweeds dance-standing as the wind passes - Ray Young Bear "John Whirlwind's Doublebeat Songs, 1956"
Tap-dancing up a crystal stair - Hailey Leithauser "The Old Woman Gets Drunk with the Moon"
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The bobbins keep threading a mazy dance - "Abroad"
Dances to the rhythm of the rain - Francisco X. Alarcon "Dancing in the Streets"
To devour only this luring dance - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"
Danced on daggers on the path - Daisy Aldan "The Little Mermaid"
Tuscan rhymes of love and wine and dance - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
Dance near every edge - Threa Almontaser "And That Fast, You're Thinking About Their Bodies"
stars faint and dancing - Alise Alousi "Bite It"
Command our sadness to dance to God's will - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"
Dancing between its teeth - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"
Straw sandals dancing lightly on the cobbles - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
A dance of strangers in my blood - Fatimah Asghar "If They Come for Us"
Join with their friends in the Grasshopper's dance - J.L.B. "The Butterfly's Funeral"
The desperate dance that signifies a loss too great to name - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
The frayed edge of the dance floor - Mary Jo Bang "Reminds Me Ramona"
To the song of gladness dance - James Beattie "Elegy"
Through all the mazes of the dance - "The Belles of Williamsburg"
A golden ball in fountains dancing - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
Their hundred twined and dancing arms - Margo Berdeshevsky "Somewhere Everywhere"
Of dancing away from chains - Rebecca G. Biber "The Children's Firebird"
Giant dervishes dancing under the ancient stars - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"
Dancing to the clouds' rage - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"
And dance beneath my diadem - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
The wild deer dancing light - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"
Dance on seaweed-strings for clapping hands - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"
Let us dance by metal waters burned with gold - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
A snow-white butterfly dancing before the fitful gale - Richard Bowen "Genius" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Away it danced with shimmering glee - Richard Bowen "Genius" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Water dancing with onion, garlic and salt - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
A walk-around dance of rain and dew - Russell Brakefield "Rag"
The hilltop trees still bend like dancers - Joseph Bruchac "Tutuwas"
Dancers in ceremonies that never ended - Joseph Bruchac "Tutuwas"
Unwinds the eternal dances of the sky - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
To her maidens the light dance is dear - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan "Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear"
Happy on entering the dance - Giosue Carducci "Sermione" transl. by Frank Sewall
Danced in the sphere serene - Giosue Carducci "To Phoebus Apollo" transl. by Frank Sewall
Creation that dance and bubbles and flutters - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Imagery"
Lights dancing to the beat of the ground - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"
Though the wheels may dance all day - G.K. Chesterton "Me Heart"
Dance and think of prophecies in reverse - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"
To dance in music toward the sea - Willis Gaylord Clark "Stanzas Written in Indisposition"
Dance me through the panic - Leonard Cohen "Dance Me to the End of Love"
And watch the ghosts dance - Chris Colderly "Tambourine Things: Celebrating Judith Wright"
A different dance toward death - Donte Collins "Prayer Severing the Cycle"
Danced in the gold waters - Hilda Conkling "Theatre-Song"
Dance before the song runs out - CAConrad "Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return"
Dance with jolly faun and fay - Benjamin Copeland "A Prophecy"
Golden ladies come to dance - Frances Cornford "In France"
By various turns of the celestial dance - Abraham Cowley "To the Royal Society"
Light-footed through the dance's maze - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
To dance creation on the fragile and the unmindful - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
Whirled and tossed into delicious dancing - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"
petals danced against my eyes and down - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"
How the buttercups and daisies dance - Olive Custance "Blue Flowers"
The south wind and the sunlight danced - Olive Custance "A Dream"
With dancing feet and dreaming eyes - Olive Custance "In Praise of Youth"
The silent dancing of my soul - Olive Custance "The Magic Mirrors"
A circle dance on the Sabbath - Krystyna Dąbrowska "White Chairs" transl. by Karen Kovacik
Battle, dance, and song - "The Dance of the Sword" (Translated by Tom Taylor)
Kiss their shadows as they dance - William H. Davies "Oh, Sweet Content"
Dance in the fulcrum of history - Kwame Dawes "from 'A Coda to History: 28. It Is Not As If'"
To the gale of me you danced - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Cantina"
In mazed dances the fairies flit - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"
Dance burning through the night - Walter de la Mare "The Little Salamander: To Margot"
Courting flames as they dance - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"
Betray the dance hall of the elves - Irving Sidney Dix "The Glen"
Must keep dancing till it cracks - Stephen Dobyns "Thelonius Monk"
The mosses creep to her dancing feet - Julia C.R. Dorr "Over the Wall"
Bid every shadow dance - Edward Dowden "The Winnower to the Winds"
Dancing on the bosom of the deep - Miss Draper "A Lay of Ruin"
Dances and drifts in endless play - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs"
Brown sugar waves dance through - Caleb Edmondson "In 2025, His Rings Will Disappear"
The river danced for acres - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"
And danced with my own vanishing - Claudia Emerson "House-Sitting"
Wanton skip with bacchic dance - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
A dance older than the shape of human bone - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"
Dance against language and abandon verse - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "The Sunset and the Flowered Tree"
Soft dawns that danced a shadow fete - Donald Evans "Buveuse d'Absinthe"
Only as immense as what we shed in the dance - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"
Move through the ruins of the dance - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"
Now I woo my dancing fire - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"
Another chance to dance with another new day - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"
Dancing down the sunlight's gold - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VI. To an Outrageous Person"
Dance in mirth up the rainbow - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VI. To an Outrageous Person"
And you shall dance in the velvet sky - Eugene Field "Fairy and Child"
She danced life upside down - Annie Finch "Strangers"
Danced on the skirt of autumn skies - John W. Forney "Time's Changes"
Danced along their wanton wanderings - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Who says I need a partner to dance? - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Rapunzel: I Like the Quiet"
The grey willow that danced to the moon - Goethe "The Erl-King" transl. by Sir Walter Scott
Dances a forlorn tread - Louis Golding "My Lady of Peace"
Since the dawn came dancing - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
Dancing in a glade alone - Theodora Goss "The Fox Wife"
Where no emotion came to dance - Mona Gould "Traitor"
Where the light-footed dancers whirled - James Harris Guy "Old Boggy Bottom"
Dancing in a rose of joy - Katherine Hale "Pavlowa Dancing"
Dance the weave of joy and tears - Joy Harjo "Seven Generations"
The leaves are dancing with Death - F.W. Harvey "Autumn in Prison"
Submitted to that tingling dance of atoms - Robert Hass "State of the Planet"
Glow and dance in every vein - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Who delight in the dance of a darling Bacchante - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"
No slow dance in the undertow - Conrad Hilberry "Scramble Competition Polygyny"
The yellow-black dance of the tiger - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"
In rapid flight as in a whirling dance - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Dancing to liquid edge - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Seven dancers measureless as air - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Live oak spirits in dancer's pose - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Sunbeams dance in dawn's ballet - Scharmel Iris "Fantasy of Dusk and Dawn"
Indeed, your dancing days are done - "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Go dancing through my veins - James Weldon Johnson "The Poet's Heart"
Play in a red moon's dance - Lionel Johnson "In England"
No friend of mine stops my dance - Ashley M. Jones "Song of My Muhammad"
Dancing to the shadow drums - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
Who danced wordless before God - Ilya Kaminsky "Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air"
Only two hands to use in the dance - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Dancing in the shadow of the long hand - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Each dance has the fractal precision of chaos - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Through the dance's dangerous wreath - John Keats "To Fanny"
White waves dance along the shore - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"
The pageant wild go dancing by - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
The ghoul danced a jig in his tomb - Rachel Kolar "Hey, Diddle, Diddle, Black Cat with a Fiddle"
The neighbors were still dancing in their Halloween best - Edgar Kunz "Fixer"
Whose mock fires for ever dance - Archibald Lampman "To the Prophetic Soul"
A silvery ripple dancing for her sport - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway II: A Bog-Filled Valley"
In lines of dancing light - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Where the sunsets dance and play - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
All the dancing wavers rejoice - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
Despise the revel, dance, and song - Henry S. Leigh "Evening Dress"
Each time your roughness danced with me - Jessica Lévai "Rochambeau"
Dances down the sky - J. Patrick Lewis "Aurora Borealis"
Danced into your warm major chords and velvet vibrato - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
in a dance over the obsidian steps - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"
That danced right through sorrow - M.L. Liebler "The Mist Spirit of Everything"
The first of our million dancing years - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"
The Dancing Stars grow still - Lily A. Long "The Singing Place"
A shaking and cracking of dancing bones - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"
Weave a dance with ropes of gray acorns - Amy Lowell "Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H."
The ordered tumult of the dance - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Dance to your shadow - Kenneth MacLeod "Dance to your Shadow"
My aunts danced the mambo - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman
Shaking the sunlight into dance - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"
To dance on the arms of the sun - Herbert Woodward Martin "On Reading Lucille Clifton's 'Homage to My Hips'"
A gathering of pollen, a dance of honey - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Time for Bees"
Glad till the dancing stops - John Masefield "Laugh and Be Merry"
Light parted by shadow-dance - Jamaal May "There Are Birds Here"
As if there were a dance left - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"
Bright angels through the dance's maze - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"
Alive with elfin dance and revelry - Theodore Maynard "There Was an Hour"
Slow dancing on the cooling pavement - John McCarthy "County Fair"
Red dance of my opened fist - Jeffrey McDaniel "Jonathan"
Salome's dance is ended - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Dead Favourites"
Dancing with a timid wind - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"
Slow-danced with the ice - M.S. Merwin "Oak Time"
Dancers and singers in the machine - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"
As I danced in the flickering sunshine - "Midges in the Sunshine"
Dancing storms of leaves in flaming colors - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"
By all the Nymphs that nightly dance - John Milton "Sabrina"
Comes dancing from the East - John Milton "Song on May Morning"
You dance inside the snow - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
The Five Mountains drumming and dancing - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
A dancing star in revel flashed - Francis Neilson "When You Were Born"
Lived in liberty and dance - Pablo Neruda "Ancient History" transl. by Miguel Argarin
The dancers of the celestial sphere - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger
Light dancers of gold and air - Pablo Neruda "Caribbean Birds" transl. by Miguel Algarin
To dance with unmeasured fury - Pablo Neruda "It Rains" transl. by William O'Daly
Rose-crown for the dancing hours - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"
Old visions unheeded dance - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
At the end of this claustrophobic the dance - Alice Notley "At Night the States"
Square-dance with boulders - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Blanco River"
Danced with oak-tree in his belt - "Oh, Seventy-Seven Twice-Told Were They" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Never stopped me from dancing - Jose Olivarez "Maybach Music (with a sample from Paul Wall)"
Seven dancer floating even as worms - Mary Oliver "Seven White Butterflies"
Angels dancing all day on the roof - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
Doesn't the world demand we dance? - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"
Went dancing back to the age of gold - Seumas O'Sullivan "A Piper"
The land of a thousand dances - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"
In your feet the fairies dance - Walter S. Percy "Chatterbox"
The right dance sets me free - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Give the echo to your dancing words - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"
Danced along the marshy damps - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On the Potomac River, U.S.A."
Everything dances with its strict negation - Jeremy Radin "Evening"
Sugar scents dancing through the liquid ripples - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Perfumes"
That the dance is a maelstrom - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
The dress you danced in yesterday - Ernest Rhys "A Song of Happiness"
Cleaving shadows in their dance - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
And dance each with his neighbor - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Feet that dance on slipping earth - Lola Ridge "Incompatibility"
Dance in the dim violet places - Lola Ridge "Snow-Dance for the Dead"
Endure the dance of earth - Lola Ridge "Ward X"
The dance of the big-hearted dog - Alberto Rios "We Dogs of a Thursday Off"
Alive in the dance of the dream - Alberto Rios "When There Were Ghosts"
The grand balance of the dances - Ed Roberson "The Neighbor's Street Sirens Sing"
And winds beyond the heavens are dancing in the light - Lloyd Roberts "Spring Madness"
Curse the Nero who planned this gory dance - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Calm that Comes with Years"
Moving some mystic dance to tread - T.W. Rolleston "The Spell-Struck"
Dance with unmeasured mirth, enraptured - Kenneth Rookwood "The Ruins of Burnside" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
What comes between the dancing - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"
Dances with my blood - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"
Weave silent dances around him - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
Women in their dances and wildness - Muriel Rukeyser "The Poem as Mask"
Dance in my Heart at Dawn - Rumi "The Beloved All in All" transl. by Rev. Professor Hastie
Mix the high howls of your dancing - Carl Sandburg "Fins"
Shadow-dance and laugh at the cost - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"
On the iron plain of glory dance - Friedrich Schiller "Reproach-To Laura"
The crimson death-lights dance - Virna Sheard "Crosses"
Dancing barefoot in the courtyard - Julie Shiel "Cinderella"
Or dancing along the waters pale - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"
By exultation of the flying dance - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Dancing together soon - Clint Smith "FaceTime"
A dance against hunger - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"
Dance out a round on the dreamt eye of water - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney
And danced on five dew drops - George Sterling "Insincerities"
Danced in the liquid wind - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Danced it to dust and drugged it with the rose - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
That forces Love himself to dance - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 47: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Dancing like a peacock in the woods - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 109: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Return and dance to this world's tune - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 230: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Silver wind for your dancing place - May Swenson "Earth Your Dancing Place"
The jubilant whirl of their dizzy dance - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
A dance in the wind at water's edge - Keith Taylor "Circle in the Wind"
Dancing through the grass toward home - Keith Taylor "Prairie Fire"
Dancing with a measured step from wrecked and shattered towns - Edward Wyndham Tennant "Home Thoughts in Laventie"
In the mazes of the dance - F.W. Thomas "A Slighted Woman"
Danced misfortune's miseries down - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"
And dance the music of their dying - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"
Jubilees dancing in the shards - Edwin Torres "The Vase of the Universe"
The gloom is radiant in a dance - Iris Tree "Lamp-Posts"
In a dance of yellow hopefulness - Iris Tree "Lamp-Posts"
Underneath the feet forever dancing - Iris Tree "London"
Close to the dancing heels of the day - Iris Tree "[Oh canst thou not hear in my heart all its whispering fears]"
Danced in a red smoke of dreams - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"
Ash dancing among a living flame - Jacqueline Allen Trimble "Walking Beside the Cemetery, Olivia Street, Key West"
Dance out of the darkness - David Trinidad "Ode to Dusty Springfield"
Dust that dances in the light with all other dust - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Belonging"
Where the thin silver soul of the stars silently dances - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
That flesh has danced with flame - Louis Untermeyer "Dorothy Dances"
A slow dance moving to some silent blues - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Red Shawl"
Bare feet dancing the rhythm of her dream - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Red Shawl"
Fairies light who danced at night - F.E. Weatherly "The Old Picture-Book"
Have bartered your flickering dance for sorrow - Edith Weaver "Lost Cinderella"
Dancing in the meteor's hall of power - "Where Avalanches Wail"
The morning dancing with life - Helen Hay Whitney "Music"
Dancing shadows on the snow - Helen Hay Whitney "A Song of the Oregon Trail"
Dancing dandelions and buttercups - John Wieners "Private Estate"
The mind dances with itself - William Carlos Williams "The Dance"
Some wind-dancing afternoon - William Carlos Williams "Keller Gegen Dom"
Stars dancing to the crack of a leaf - William Carlos Williams "Keller Gegen Dom"
Detached dance of gnomes - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"
Dance where the shadows and music be - Humbert Wolfe "The Wind"
My dance under sorrow's tree - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"
A clever dance of flowers - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"
Join the dance of the rulers - "XIX" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Let the drum be ready for the dance - "XXIV" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Lead the dance of death - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"
Dance like a wave of the sea - W.B. Yeats "The Fiddler of Dooney"
Hosts of dancing bluebells - Francis Brett Young "Easter"
The whirling dust of their dancing - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Come dancing bitter city - Matthew Zapruder "Thank You for Being You"
The dance of flame in full bloom - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #9" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Time passing the dance of cold fire - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver
Milkweeds dance-standing as the wind passes - Ray Young Bear "John Whirlwind's Doublebeat Songs, 1956"
Tap-dancing up a crystal stair - Hailey Leithauser "The Old Woman Gets Drunk with the Moon"
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