Potential Titles: Dark

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Ghosts stepped from dark corners - Rasha Abdulhadi "Lanternseed"

And bid the sky repent of being dark - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

To amaze the dark heads with strange fire - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

That withers quickly back into dark water - Duane Ackerson "A Ghost Story"

Climb the dark tunnel of the chimney - Duana Ackerson "The Observatory"

Owls to sing their own dark songs - Duane Ackerson "What If"

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

Dark red circles filled with dust - Harold Acton "Green grow the Rushes, O"

Covering its glitter with a cloak of dark - Leonie Adams "A Gull Goes Up"

In the dark purse of my breathing - Carl Adamshick "Colorado"

The only guide into the known dark - Carl Adamshick "Moon Seen Through Windshield"

The rope of dark stars - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"

Through dark and wind - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Make it learn to live in the dark - Kaveh Akbar "Ways to Harm a Thing"

From the waste of dark oblivion - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Alone amid so much dark - Francisco X. Alarcon "Somewhere Else"

Receding on the path of dark spruce and roses - Daisy Aldan "I Awake in These Hills"

The reeds and the dark clouds - Richard Aldington "Au Vieux Jardin"

By the dark streams of Persephone - Richard Aldington "Chorikos"

Past the dark pool your voice makes - Elizabeth Alexander "Stray"

Left us in the dark - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"

Wolf dark matter gulfs in gassy gulps - Mike Allen "Deluge"

Alone with the famished dark - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"

From the dark corners of time they attacked - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"

Those dark clouds of fate on the horizon - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"

Dante's dark wood closing in - Julia Alvarez "Last Trees"

From the quiet dark file drawers of imagination - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

Other planets dark as earth - Maxwell Anderson "Earth Evanescent"

The dark tastes of salt and oranges - Ralph Angel "Sampling"

To death's dark door of parting - Auguste Angellier "The Garland of Sleep" transl. by Henry van Dyke

The wreath begins and ends in dark - Auguste Angellier "The Garland of Sleep" transl. by Henry van Dyke

Of wonder and dark envy - Maya Angelou "The Pusher"

Turn off the light to occupy the dark - William Archila "Childhood"

The dark swelling of the open ground - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"

Afraid of the dark forest trees - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

Dark, glorious, and nimble - Jabari Asim "Some Call It God"

My dark between the stars - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

A dark angel whispering to me - Margaret Atwood "Half Hanged Mary"

In the light of the dark that swallowed me - A.H. Jerriod Avant "Who Can Govern Themselves Out of Governance?"

Who walked with Science to mark the lights along dark ways - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Pathmaker (To Maria Mitchell)"

Shrouds itself and whispers exits in the dark - Julie Babcock "Driving at Midnight"

To man the mind's dark battlements - Albion Fellows Bacon "The Prophet"

The dark dagger of the ocean - Quenton Baker "[we are]"

Of all bright illusions and dark delusions - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

The dark billows of the sea of fate - Benjamin West Ball "Agimur Fatis"

Sole solace of my dark career - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"

A demon beagle dark as night - Benjamin West Ball "A Hermitage"

The dark Plutonian tide - Benjamin West Ball "Threnody"

Radical in the dark room - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

In skies not dark but only dim - Maurice Baring "A June Night in Russia"

The weeping face of love touched in the dark - Natalie Clifford Barney "More Night!"

The thought immense in the dark - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"

the lonely dark comes again - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"

Climb the dark pass - Basho transl. by David Young

A dark arc of copper - Ellen Bass "Fungus on Fallen Alder at Lookout Creek"

Light in the dark house - Ellen Bass "Ode to Zeke"

In lost pagan caverns dark and deep - Charles Baudelaire "The Accursed" transl. not credited

My dark heart's deep desiring - Charles Baudelaire "The Ideal" transl. not credited

Michelangelo's dark daughter Night - Charles Baudelaire "The Ideal" transl. not credited

For I desire the dark, the naked and the lone - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

Dark owls sit in solemn state - Charles Baudelaire "The Owls" transl. not credited

A daylight dingier than the dark - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Makes firm her dark domain - Charles Baudelaire "Sunset" transl. not credited

This chaos dark to clear - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book II"

Dark Phlegethon's detested maze - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

The slow, dark cattle call of cause and effect - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"

Hooded in dark and ashamed - Stephen Vincent Benet "Flood-Tide"

Light towards the dark secret heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Gone like vapor in the dark - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

My jackdaw Muse of the rebel and dark - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

Black wind runs trotting to the dark - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

In light and dark, a zero sum - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"

Observe this enigmatic dark energy - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Scalar"

Too dense for any dark planet - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

Of mystic, dark, discordant lore - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"

The thirst for the dark heavens - Robert Bly "Waiting for the Stars"

The dark and candid gaze of night - Maxwell Bodenheim "Rattlesnake Mountain Fable II"

From the night giving off flames, and the dark renewing - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"

On its dark November dream - G.H. Bonner "Sonnet"

Treasured rain falling on dark ground - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

And threatens you with dark possibility - Bruce Boston "Futurity Wears the Head"

By dark in the caul of the devil - John Bosworth "A Boy Can Wear a Dress"

I can reach the bull's-eye nearer in the dark - "Boy Billy and the Rabbit" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Dark alleys between night-crested waves - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

And the dark surge roll below - John Breslin "Rolling Home"

When the dark makes its largest sound - William Brewer "Letter in Response to a Letter from My Son"

Stand on a lawn of frozen dark - William Brewer "Resolution"

Through such dark doors - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 22"

The dark rain veil making a bride of the mountain - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"

And doubly will the dark world grieve - Emily Bronte "Stanzas [I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me]"

Tunnel up from the dark - Nickole Brown "Parable"

Teach the drum within that dark to drum again - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

From the dark edges of the sensual ground - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Soul's Expression"

Followed the dark effigies - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

Dark winding from the bright abodes - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"

Dark with the thick moss of centuries - William Cullen Bryant "Monument Mountain"

Dropping here or there beneath the dark - Christopher Buckley "Desire"

A ribbon of gas twist away in the dark - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"

That must contend to the dark and bitter end - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

The democratization of dark energy - Bryan Byrdlong "Ode to Black Air Forces"

Or dark with sublime despair - May Byron "Sea-Ghosts"

Deep idolatry on the dark and stormy tides - G.R.C. "The Wreck (For the Mirror)"

And doubt's dark shadows veil the light - Frank Oliver Call "Through a Long Cloister"

Dark against the sky of steel - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"

The dream that came of the dark - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "The Dark"

Some splendor rifts the dark - W. Wilfred Campbell "Departure"

That make forever dark the vales of hell - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

At the gate of dark oblivion's lands - Giosue Carducci "Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto" transl. by Frank Sewall

A whiff of flint in the dark - Ina Cariño "Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before"

Shot all his shining fingers through the Dark - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"

A den of dark and deadly mazes - Lewis Carroll "Four Riddles IV"

Stars in their dark blue bow'rs - G.R. Carter "The Homeward Voyage" [The Mirror of Literature v.20 issue 562, 18 Aug. 1832]

Under the dark tent of heaven - Willa Cather "Macon Prairie"

The dark, witch-haunted solitude - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"

Fled the dragons of the dark - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

To trace the hidden spell's dark origin - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

Dark unforgiven imagination - Stephanie Chang "Spider Lily Cyborg"

Mercy and its dark twin - Tina Chang "Fury"

The early dark is a paraphrase of Mars - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"

The deep dark is an anagram of Jupiter - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"

In the dark abundant hours - Chen Chen "The School of Night & Hyphens"

When all the north was dark - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

Of night and dark obscurity - John Clare "An Invite to Eternity"

This dark night of wild dismay - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto II"

On the dark infested sea - Leonard Cohen "Banjo"

By the rivers dark in Babylon - Leonard Cohen "By the Rivers Dark"

Dark all down the line - Leonard Cohen "Never Got to Love You"

Dark things know the delving - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"

Dark things know what we hide and the why - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"

Unmoved by pity or the dark heart of the sea - Alicia Cole "Once, I Was a Mermaid"

Light shall be dark and darkness shine - Mary Coleridge "Wither Away?"

From dark and icy caverns called - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

The extravagant circus of the dark - Billy Collins "On Reading in the Morning Paper that Dreams May Be Only Nonsense"

Weary of mist and dark - Padraic Colum "An Old Woman of the Roads"

Moving through the vocal dark - "Comforted" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

And flowers in the dark - Hilda Conkling "Spring Song"

Stands appalled before its dark abyss - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

Dark, fierce, and full of power - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Hoarse caws and dark wings - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Bubbles bright and bits of dark - Palmer Cox "The Brownies Fishing"

Dark scarf from the spiral of the conch - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Wishes Walt Whitman a Happy Birthday"

The moving of His hands beneath the eternal Dark - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Story of the Birkenhead"

Prodigal, complete the dark confessions - Hart Crane "Voyages II"

In the silver-sifted dark - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"

Who patiently knit dark hours into tangled shrouds - Shutta Crum "Always, there are mothers"

In the dark recess where one weeps for Grendel - Shutta Crum "Always, there are mothers"

Dark seam woven of regret - Shutta Crum "How Poetry Reframes the Moment"

painting of the dark with meteors - E. E. Cummings "Amores (IV)"

Marched against the dark - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"

A meek thrush whisper to the dark - E. E. Cummings "Sunset"

The dark spangled curtains of the night - Olive Custance "Gifts"

Till fire shatter the dark - H.D. "Demeter"

Flung her name against the dark - H.D. "Nossis"

I was a massacre for the dark - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"

The moon's last dark smudge - Jim Daniels "Lip Gloss, Belgium"

The dark effort of tomorrow - Geffrey Davis "Hear the Light"

Hidden in that wider dark - Jon Davis "Gratitude"

Remembering the past in this dark house - Edward L. Davison "In This Dark House"

Dark with the legacies of brokenness - Kwame Dawes "Steel"

Stark hours of panther-footed dark - Coningsby Dawson "Unanswerable Questions"

Traveling through the dark of another's shadow - Meg Day "The Permanent Way"

Snakes the color of wood ash or fresh dark - Tyree Daye "Town Day on the Hill"

Beneath the dark's ensilvered arch - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

From the roots of the dark thorn - Walter de la Mare "The Ghost"

The dangers of the dark engage - Walter de la Mare "Happy England"

As soon as dark's dreams begin - Walter de la Mare "The Little Creature"

Mocking the dark with ecstasies - Walter de la Mare "Mistress Fell"

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

The coursers of the dark stamp down - Walter de la Mare "Nightfall"

Dark-spiked rosemary and myrrh - Walter de la Mare "The Sunken Garden"

Cutting vines that blossom in the dark - Diana Marie Delgado "The Kind of Light I Give Off Isn't Going to Last"

And circle in the dark of his blood - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"

A dark gas geyser - Steve Denehan "The Crevasse"

Through dark's thin language - Jay Deshpande "Wanting a Child"

Found the dark on my own - Danielle DeTiberus "The Artist Signs Her Masterpiece, Immodestly"

Echoed with the dark ones' footfall - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

Dark ones seeking milk and honey - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

The dark seeps in faster underneath the lights - Kaily Dorfman "The Wolf"

From the dark horizon's brim - Julia C.R. Dorr "Under the Palm-Trees"

The dark musician's fiercer harmony - Edward Dowden "If it Might Be"

The awful convex dark - Edward Doyle "Chime, Dark Bell"

Tore a hole in the night's dark curtain - William Henry Drummond "Madeleine Vercheres"

Dark inspiration of iron times - W.E.B. Du Bois "The Song of the Smoke"

Cash in the sky's dark pocket - Carol Ann Duffy "Death and the Moon"

A date with the glamorous dark - Carol Ann Duffy "A Dreaming Week"

In the heart of the honeyed dark - Carol Ann Duffy "A Dreaming Week"

In a tower in the dark heart - Carol Ann Duffy "The Long Queen"

Stir the dark weeds with the turn of the tide - Paul Laurence Dunbar "The Murdered Lover"

Purple carnations dark as my heart - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"

Give permission to the dark - Stephen Dunn "Backyard"

Phones that work in the dark - Stephen Dunn "Let's Say"

Its twelve lonely years in the dark - Stephen Dunn "Summer Nocturne"

A dark blanket of river - Cornelius Eady "Birthing"

Shot the dark with frosty crashings - Max Eastman "X Rays"

The dark flame that is your being - Max Eastman "You Make No Answer"

The words pollinated the dark - Carolina Ebeid "[You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior]"

Within my spirit's dark stream - Helen Parry Eden "To E.A.P."

On this dark land of water - Katherine Edgren "Muskies and Reveries: Reverie on the Invisible Twitch"

Unbroken dark hours - Safia Elhillio "how to say"

hushed in brief sanctuary by the dark - Safia Elhillo "Transport"

Being looking from the dark - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"

In the dark room shifting the candles - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"

Both go alone into the dark - J. Hal. Elliot "What Then?" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Wearing the century's dark caul - Claudia Emerson "Atlas"

To worship the dark saint of the sea - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"

Took up his trail along the dark - Donald Evans "In the Vices"

Saved from time's dark creek - B. H. Fairchild "Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest"

The dark has its own blindfold - Tarfia Faizullah "Aubade with Sage and Lemon"

Dark silhouette hurrying past - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"

Into each day's dark hands - Tarfia Faizullah "Self-Portrait as Slinky"

From the wave of dark oblivion - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

The great elk in the dark door - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"

Dark as a wintering hive - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"

Bearing a dark star inside me - Susan Fawcett "Black Water Diving"

the dark, dank alley the only path toward home - b ferguson "parkside & ocean"

The dark, damp alley the only path - b ferguson "Parkside & Ocean"

Her sky grows dark and lightning-streaked - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

Dark stones from the torrent wrenched - Michael Field "Stones of the Brook"

Centuries dark with Cromwell's name - James T. Fields "On a Portrait of Cromwell"

And the day draws to its dark end - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"

Dark militia of the southern shore - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"

Cower together in dark valleys - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

The late dark cloisters of the grotto - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen a"

Must read some dark or words to-night - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Counting the dark tongues of bells - Carolyn Forche "The Memory of Elena"

The unbroken flock of starling dark between them - Katie Ford "Koi"

Carefree laughter echoing in the dark - Chad Frame "A Union Victory"

Even its monstrous size can be buried in dark waters - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

And too the instruments of dark mercy - Robert Frazier "A Rebel's Pale Eyes ..."

Smelted in a starless dark - Santee Frazier "Hyperacusis"

Cloud after cloud, in dark array - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]

While the dark vast earth shakes and rocks - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

Because a sorrow on dark midnight lies - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

Flashed a swift terror on the dark - John Freeman "Stone Trees"

With darkness ridged the riven dark - John Freeman "Stone Trees"

A sleep so dark and so bewilderingly deep - John Freeman "Waking"

Slinging hoop in the dark - Denice Frohman "Shooting in the Dark"

Down dark converging paths between the pines - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"

When the wind works against us in the dark - Robert Frost "Storm Fear"

After dark upon the attic stairs - Rose Fyleman "There Are No Wolves in England Now"

The dark and bitter flow of grief - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)

The rough end of a dark age - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Introduction to Ecotoxicology, or, a Short History of the Chemical Age"

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

Into the silver dark - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Lit deep within the dark - Zona Gale "The Secret Way"

Dark behind the flaring particles - John Gallaher "In the Little Book of Guesses"

Make every dark wish lie down - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"

Dark plotting, spreading net and snare - "The Ghost of Chatham"

Everybody's dark side is daytime somewhere - Andrea Gibson "Daylight, Somewhere"

No dark to cradle - Michelle Gil-Montero "First Forty Days"

Dead waters and dark destinies - Nikita Gill "What It Means to Be a Forgotten Magic Maker"

Like the dark silence of night - brian g. gilmore "yellow school bus"

Contradiction of hate's dark thrall - Carmen Gimenez "Ode to People Who Hate Me"

Nothing between the earth and the dark - Louise Gluck "Burning Leaves"

Scribe intentions on the dark - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

And joy, like a shining sword cutting the dark - Mona Gould "Immortality, 1943"

In her eyrie above the dark street - Mona Gould "The Old Lady and the Cat!"

But a whispered echo through the dark - Mona Gould "Some Quiet Day ... Perhaps"

Dark unfathomed caves of ocean - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Quenched in dark clouds of slumber - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

A tangle of dark ravelled time - Russell Green "De Mundo"

A baby in the crook of the dark's arms - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

To go unseen in a dark wood - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"

Wonders of the dark and day - Angelina Weld Grimke "To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimke"

The pocketed dark behind fireplace brick - Pamela Gross "The Hive"

Quell the dark defiance of her eye - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

The dark king's fatal spear - Ieuan Gwynedd "Go and Dig a Grave for me" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Where pale stars pierced the dark - Tom Hall "Her Reverie"

Holding time in the dark - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"

A terrible enactment in the dark - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"

That vouched the dark as done - Thomas Hardy "Barthelemon at Vauxhall"

Were beating up and down the dark - Thomas Hardy "Trafalgar"

And beheld the uprising dark weather - Thomas Hardy "The Two Wives"

On the shoulder of the dark universe - Joy Harjo "Bird"

An ocean of fear of the dark - Joy Harjo "Call It Fear"

Blooming in the miraculous dark - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"

Root deeply dark - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"

And dark as the bark of our open souls - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

To drink a dark strong poison - Terrance Hayes "Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy"

In despite of sorrow's dark control - William Hayley "Felpham: An Epistle to Henrietta of Lavant 1814"

A dark that evaporates from every threshold - Ava Leavell Haymon "Festival of Lights"

Opens inwards to a dark elderberry place - Seamus Heaney "The Grauballe Man"

Light bulbs aflicker in so much dark - Stephanie Heit "The Shock Machine: Neuromodulation Master"

The dark hour of stern delight - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

Dark as the ruins of the mind - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"

With his home-grown quality of dark - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"

Space and dread and the dark - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

With waves of dark light & star dust - Faylita Hicks "Letter to Black Girls"

In our dark geometry - Conrad Hilberry "The Double Flail or Double Hook"

The dark is filling with toads - Conrad Hilberry "Toads"

Throughout the wood's dark mazes - Geo. Canning Hill "Theodora: a Ballad of the Woods"

Fled to electrical dark water - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"

Earth dropped its dark clock - Brenda Hillman "The Eighties"

Carrying the dark water of need - Ellen Hinsey "The Multitude"

In a magnetic dark - Edward Hirsch "Lafcadio Hearn"

I am disappearing so far into the dark - Edward Hirsch "Widening Sky"

The dark's mirror lengthened - Jane Hirshfield "Solstice"

Of happiness measured against all the dark - Jane Hirshfield "The Weighing"

Vapors dark and gray as Saturn - Henry B. Hirst "The Death of the Year"

Down the dark path to the Blasphemous Tree - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"

Through the unencumbered dark - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

All the dark feathered beings will rivet the air - Cynthia Hogue "The Changeling"

Count your knuckles in the dark - Jackson Holbert "2003"

Touched the hem of the dark mountain's robe - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

To those dark Gods suspended - Thomas Hood "To Goldenhair"

To dark oblivion's goal - "Hours of Childhood"

Stir in the dark of the stars unborn - Richard Hovey "The Death Song of Taliesin"

Through dark Destiny's hour - Mrs. Volney E. Howard "The Dusty White Rose"

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

In dark and rusty flame - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

Springing in dark and rusty flame - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

In dark oblivion their renown expires - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

The beautiful berry leaves a dark stain on the tongue - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"

Sweet to my dark ruined heart - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"

Pour moonbeams into the dark night of my thought - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

Away from the cornerless dark - K. Iver "The Gotham Hotel"

Dark melting orbs of liquid light - G.C.J. "En Passant" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.35-v.I, 30 Aug. 1884]

The dark hands of developers and myths of profits - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"

Our dark harbors finding level - Major Jackson "Spain"

The scarecrow standing sentinel in the dark - John James "Scarecrow"

Red ash of the dark solstice - Robinson Jeffers "Salmon-Fishing"

Dark, except for your hearts - Allison Eir Jenks "Old Soldiers"

A dark geography of need - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Affirmative Action Babies"

The threshold of the unknown dark - James Weldon Johnson "My City"

Swam in spools of dark - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"

Despite all dark fates - Lionel Johnson "Lines to a Lady upon Her Third Birthday"

Thunders of the shaken dark - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"

Ancients of dark majesty - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"

These truths like dark snuff - Ashley M. Jones "All Y'all Really from Alabama"

Against the crowding dark - Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. "I Saw You"

Things that I do in the dark - June Jordan "These Poems"

The unsleeping captain of the dark - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

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

The flame that from dark ashes springs - Sir Nizamat Jung "I: Rebirth"

Dark in our bodies - Mary Karr "Animistic Anatomy"

Went deepest from the dark of me - Mary Karr "Belongings"

That little fence against the war with dark - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"

As Satan spider-like stalked the orb of dark - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

I shake the whole world dark again - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

But without digging into dark - Janet Kauffman "The Hand of the Sassafras"

Foliage, crenelated, dark at the root - Janet Kauffman "Upended By Error"

Dark velvet edges them round - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Framer of the light and dark - John Keble "Evening"

These dark days be once gone by - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

Only a more dark eclipse - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

Visions Time's dark wing effaces - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet ['Twas but a dream! and oh! what are they all]"

One dark, fatal, deep eclipse - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

Hope's bright wings in the dark earth - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"

Benign in the dark - Jane Kenyon "Dark Morning: Snow"

How we fever the dark's bones - Willie Lee Kinard III "Aubade: Nocturne"

The music of the dark torrent - "King and Hermit" transl. by Kuno Meyer

In the mist of dark decay - Henry King "The Dirge"

Breasting the dark storm, the red bolt defying - "The King of the Mountain" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

In the cobweb of light and dark - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

Traveling like cool silence through the dark - Joanna Klink "New Year"

Paint a dark, salty blood of surreal skies & wet soil - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

Reach over and grasp the dark air - Christopher Kondrich "Schedule for Burning"

Reached on tiptoe to pull ripe pomelos from the dark - Edgar Kunz "Fixer"

So much closer into the dark - Petra Kuppers "Forest Starships"

Your dark morning tears - Petra Kuppers "Gut Body"

The economy of Heaven is dark - Charles Lamb "On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born"

Above the world's dark border - Archibald Lampman "April Night"

A dark wave of clapping shadows - Archibald Lampman "Chione"

Dark waters and an unknown shore - Archibald Lampman "Chione"

And know not it is dark despair - Archibald Lampman "A Song"

Gold in the sun, dark when it fails - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Inlet and Shore"

The dark woods bow their heads in sorrow - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"

The dark imprints of use - Michael Lauchlan "Glove"

As light razors into dark - Michael Lauchlan "Mementos"

How some dark will move illicit - Rickey Laurentiis "2019"

Folded in like a dark thought - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"

Softly-swaying pillars of dark flame - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"

A dark membrane over the will - D.H. Lawrence "Men in New Mexico"

On the shadow's dark red rim - D.H. Lawrence "The Red Wolf"

Lord of the dark and moving hosts - D.H. Lawrence "The Revolutionary"

The dark door of the secret earth - D.H. Lawrence "Snake"

Imprisoned in dark corners of misery - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

The red, dark year is dead - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

Dark boxes of freight - Aimee Le "The Shape Issue"

The whole dark butchery without a soul - Richard Le Gallienne "The Illusion of War"

The dark muttering of the forest maze - Richard Le Gallienne "Matthew Arnold (Died, April 15, 1888)"

Spun from the moon and woven dark with willow - Ruth Lechlitner "How Many Summers"

To their dark home of hunger again - Chas. G. Leland "The Wolf Hunt" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]

And one by one the bulbs went dark - Keith Leonard "Museum"

Though the sky be dark as midnight - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

My shadow, in your dark boat - Denise Levertov "A Defeat"

Glowing behind the dark others - Denise Levertov "A Surrogate"

The dark road toward their silence - Philip Levine "After the War"

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

Dark capped juncos hidden in dense foliage - Philip Levine "For the Country: The Garden"

Before the dark whispers the last word - Philip Levine "Unholy Saturday"

Roosting in the dark branches of the Joshua tree - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

From a dark dungeon see the clear stars shining - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

Choose a dark line to hang over you - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

Walking with each other from one dark room to another - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

On a ladder of dark clouds - Li Po "A Dream of T'ien-Mu Mountain" transl. by Arthur Waley

Diving into a dark, incenseless exorcism - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"

Dark force that drew me across uncharted space - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"

To the dark center of things - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

From some dark gate of cloud - Henry W. Longfellow "Haunted Houses"

In an anguish of dark planets - Federico Garcia Lorca "Gacela of the Terrible Presence" (translated by W.S. Merwin)

Foiled with riddles dark - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Dark stretched the array of war - Maria White Lowell "Rouen, Place de la Pucelle"

Dark scars between seasons - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

Who wrought in the dark mines of Truth - James Russell Lowell "Franciscus de Verulamio sic Cogitivat"

Rears its dark walls, invincible to time - G.T.M. "The Danish Sailor" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.1, July 1864]

Dark torn from dark - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"

Dew and dark together meet - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Lost Name"

Rimming the dark with golden coins - Percy MacKaye "Fight: The Tale of a Gunner at Plattsburgh"

And sooner comes the dark - Dorothea Mackellar "September"

The flooding dark about their knees - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"

Dark scarlet petals of discovery - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

When it's dark enough for sunrise - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

Dark dwellings of the gnome - Edwin Markham "A Lyric of the Dawn"

All dark to mortal eyes - Gwilym Marles aka William Thomas "New Year Thoughts" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

A circumference of dark flames wavering - Maya Marshall "Some Thoughts on Sons in the Winter of My Child-Bearing Years"

Beauteous streams flow through the dark of night - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

In the dark womb where I began - John Masefield "C.L.M."

Such indirect dark avenues to joy - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

The myriad seeds of dark rebellion - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Into my heart's dark cup - Edgar Lee Masters "St. Deseret"

Dark trees, gravely conferring - Florence Ripley Mastin "Discovery"

Cross that cold and dark abyss - D.M. Matheson "An Elegy Written in Richmond"

Where the road is lonely, dark, and still - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"

Flew the dark recess of God's mind - Louise Mathias "Quandary"

Roots sending it deeper into the dark - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

In the dark of your creation - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"

Into the ocean-dark behind me - Jamaal May "Ode to the White-Line-Swallowing-Horizon"

Flicks cherries into the dark - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

the salt dark comes late - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"

With the cold, dark fruit under our tongues - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Turn into a thousand dark miles of water - Brandy Nālani McDougall "On Finding My Father's First Essay"

To write dark letters on dark pages - Mark McMorris "The Thought of the World"

Deprived by dark misfortune - H.P. McKnight "Freedom"

Around the dark estate of public knowledge - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

Fair fountains of the dark - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

The eggshell of dark before - W.S. Merwin "The Curlew"

In the dark before I remember - W.S. Merwin "Just This"

To walk in the dark together - W.S. Merwin "Night with No Moon"

I believe it even in the dark - W.S. Merwin "Tracing the Letters"

To inhale the mountain's bodily dark - Sara S. Messenger "Ampersand"

From the stars to the dark country roads - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

While she measures the leagues of dark - Alice Meynell "The Divine Privilege"

Who know our need and leave us in the dark - Alice Meynell "In Sleep"

Vacant parking lots like dark hallways - Claire Millikin "Bright Shadows"

Colloquium of dark birds and mirrors - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"

Of frangipani and dark oratory roses - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"

Rigged with curses dark - John Milton "Lycidas"

Dark bodies of song return - Rajiv Mohabir "Why Whales Are Back in New York City"

Our songs will pierce the dark fathoms - Rajiv Mohabir "Why Whales Are Back in New York City"

To breathe in the song of a curious sun god going dark - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"

Watched the swans drop from the dark air - Anis Mojgani "Leda"

The steep flight of dark angels - N. Scott Momaday "War Chronicle"

A lone dark seed with its own white soul - David Mook "Milkweed"

Alone in the dark sky - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"

Round the dark fringes of the storm - Dugald Moore "Lucy's Grave"

Fell in the depths of the deep, dark sky - William Moore "Dusk Song"

She moves unheard in the dark - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"

Through the dark paths of this lost town - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"

Murderous spells and dark enchantments - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

Dark hills whose heath-bloom feeds no bee - William Morris "I Know a Little Garden-Close"

Leads but to death in the dark - William Morris "The Pilgrims of Hope II: The Bridge and the Street"

In the dark tree of the self - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

March down dark roads - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Colorful Words" transl. by Joshua Freeman

The dark enflamed with error - Miguel Murphy "Hot Tub"

From love's dark uncertain shore - Walter Dean Myers "Marcia Williams, 17, High School Senior"

Two dark moons or their eclipse - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

Of long dark hair and blasphemy - Jaye Nasir "November"

Songs of dark, infinite eyes - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Dark like a dreaming hand - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Accustomed to the satisfactions of dark - Pablo Neruda "The Long Day Called Thursday" transl. by Alastair Reid

Peace to you, dark sun - Pablo Neruda "Meeting Under New Flags" translated by Donald D. Walsh

In the shape of dark poppies - Pablo Neruda "Phantom" translated by Donald D. Walsh

This song of dark words - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The balcony dark with mourning - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly

Circling the fence in the overgrown dark - Caroline Harper New "The Elephant Mother"

Our own small sins grown in the dark - Caroline Harper New "Interview with a Cervidologist"

Dark reclaims the night - Tim Newcomb "Unlight"

Dark corners of the possible - Tim Newcomb "Waiting for Us"

Rhubarb sings in dark gardens - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

woke up in the overlooked dark - Hoa Nguyen "Autumn Poem 2012"

With umbrellas and dark pink feathers - Hoa Nguyen "Naming Assembles You"

My hope in earth's dark dungeon - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]

Dark had not unwrapped the skies - Sarah Noble-Ives "An Early Start"

Storm-clouds and thunder and dark rainy weather - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Rainbow"

And turns their brightness to dark despair - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

And fix the future hours, dark or bright - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

The wild sorrow of those dark bright eyes - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

As it gets dark remember - Alice Notley "The Poem"

The dark gates of that world-quelling mind - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Searching the dark scripture of the rocks - Alfred Noyes "Darwin II: The Voyage"

A dark point of travelling thought - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

An Angel's finger in the dark - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Along the dark diminishing road - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

The dark key to Creation - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

Moving on the same dark quest - Alfred Noyes "An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin"

Through the dark gates of prayer - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"

By dark predetermined laws - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard I: The Rock of the Good Virgin"

Rocked to their dark foundations - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"

The dark wind of our breath - Naomi Shihab Nye "How Palestinians Keep Warm"

Connected us in the dark - Naomi Shihab Nye "Supple Cord"

The warm dark of dreams - Joyce Carol Oates "The Dark"

carve words in the dark - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"

While dark Fate weaves your chaplet - Thomas O'Hagan "Sock it to 'Em"

Through its dark-knit glare - Mary Oliver "Bone"

The dark deer went running - Mary Oliver "Dogs"

Open the dark fields of your mind - Mary Oliver "Flare"

Over the dark acorn of your heart - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"

My delicious dark happiness - Mary Oliver "Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen"

By dark, godforsaken inches - Mary Oliver "Rain, Tree, Thunder and Lightning"

The dark pinprick well of sweetness - Mary Oliver "This World"

Void behind the twin masks of light and dark - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

A heartbeat telling stories in the dark - Matthew Olzmann "Astronomers Locate a New Planet"

London in the moon's dark phases - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Dark and fearful whispered words - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Stitching a dark shroud - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: The Parade"

Gem on the dark brow of night - James F. Otis "To the New Moon"

Monsters that lurk in dark riverbanks - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"

Within the dark circle of his demons - Linda Pastan "It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank"

Dark forms yearning upward - Linda Pastan "Vertical"

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

Over my heart's dark shuddering - Josephine Preston Peabody "Gladness"

No memories abide to star the music-haunted dark - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

As thunders among dark crags roar - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Climb into the sinking dark - Kiki Petrosino "Political Poem"

That dark garnet of a husband - Kiki Petrosino "Prospera"

The dark shore of himself - Carl Phillips "Bronze Where Once the Blue Had Been"

Grief, like the dark, lifts eventually - Carl Phillips "The Length of the Field"

And how the stars swelled the dark - Carl Phillips "Ransom"

Spreading dark spots to remind the world - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

Nets of red teas and spiny shoes in the dark - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"

Dream-dark piers of speech - Robert Pinsky "The Dig"

Naught save the dark whip-poor-will is heard - Charles Constantine Pise "Summer Evening"

The stars plummet to their dark address - Sylvia Plath "Nick and the Candlestick"

Dark reproaches taking form - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson

Dazed all the dark with sweetness - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"

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

Tuck in the edges of the dark around the weary town - Miriam Clark Potter "The Twilight Man"

To twinkle so on dark and windy nights - Miriam Clark Potter "The Yellow City Lights"

Promoting the better side of constant dark - Ken Poyner "Ineffective"

Majestic in its dark decay - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Bridal of Belmont"

Plant your roots when the moon is dark - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"

Lights the dark vale of sorrow - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"

Sapped of their strange, dark potency - Tim Pratt "Making Monsters"

Enchain dew-soft darks in silence tender - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

A dark pillar of flight - Sina Queyras "The Jailer"

Vainly builds itself on dark despair - Quince "Age" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Kissed in a dark exhibit - Paige Quinones "At the Museum"

In the dark instant between commercials - Danni Quintos "Pond's White Beauty"

Dark in the shadow of sycamores - Danni Quintos "Where Good People Live"

Already are dark threats breathed forth - A. R. "The Count of Paris" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Sweeping the dark from my pillow - Charles Rafferty "Golf Course Moon"

A mind reaching back into the dark - Camille Rankine "Inheritance"

That dark realm to which we're all addressed - Elizabeth Virginia Raplee "To a Skull on My Bookshelf" [Weird Tales Oct. 1937]

In the forlorn dark - Wendy Rathbone "Grief"

The twisted dark of the hemlock hedge - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"

The dark confetti of your absence - Molly Raynor "This Is the Undone Season"

To unearth the dark pit of your distance - Molly Raynor "This Is the Undone Season"

Plucked grass in the dark - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"

Then the dark came down again between us - Paisley Rekdal "Driving to Santa Fe"

What dark road will they ride together? - Paisley Rekdal "Joan of England in Bordeaux, 1348"

Dark as the current of a dream - A.J. Requier "Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

From the dark caverns of the past - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

A gleaming stone upon which the skyfolk spilled dark earth - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"

dark lipstick on the rim of the glass - Seema Reza "The neurologist gives us permission"

From one dark street to another - Charles Reznikoff "Rhythms (Section I)"

Sweet dark drops of your spirit - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"

Ancient hour between light and dark - Adrienne Rich "Darklight"

Dark's velvet dialectic - Adrienne Rich "Rusted Legacy"

The dark mouth enveloping - Susan Rich "Shadowbox"

Till the dark and the dawning meet - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "Song of the Little Winds"

Fluttering down from the dark trees of night - Edgell Rickword "Winter Prophecies"

To chase the dark sorrow - Henry Scott Riddell "Flora's Lament"

Of dark fortune's decreeing - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Glen All Is Still"

Dark as a demon's dream - John Rollin Ridge "False, but Beautiful"

So close to the flowing dark - Lola Ridge "Caesar"

Gods of the first dark surmise - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"

One dark note weaving endlessly - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

The dark solstice of his dream - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 1: Flower of Silver"

Dark adventure for the heart - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Hooding all dark secrets of the flesh - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

A coiling and dark place - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"

On velvet bales of the dark - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Dispelling the hushed dark - Lynn Riggs "Rhythm of Rain"

The dark and purple stain of war - James Whitcombe Riley "The Silent Victors"

Dark beech trees along the pathway - Rainer Maria Rilke "Maidens. II" transl. by Jessie Lemont

The dark foundations of the land - Charles G.D. Roberts "Ascription"

Shall stumble in ultimate dark - Charles G.D. Roberts "On the Road"

Lights the cradle and runs dark along the rafter - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"

Some hard dark shadow - Lee Ann Roripaugh "#to my mother's dementia #kaze no denwa"

Dark music blown from Sleep's trumpet - Isaac Rosenberg "Louse Hunting"

For when the slow dark hours begin - Christina Rossetti "Up-Hill"

That dark taste still lingers in the mouth - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Starfire of silver flames, lighting the dark beneath - George William Russell "A Call of the Sidhe"

And night, the dark blue hunter, followed fast - George William Russell "The Hunter"

Where the lych-gate casts its cool dark shadow - G.S. "Butterflies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 30 March 1878]

And quench her light in the dark stream of death - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Life's little lantern between dark and dark - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"

Reaching back into the dark century - David St. John "Alexandr Blok"

White bars against the dark ochre matting - David St. John "Beeches"

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

Dark as a stack of black cats - Carl Sandburg "Picnic Boat"

On a dark night when lovers pass whispering - Carl Sandburg "Still Life"

Knowing what light shall burst from dark - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Or anchor silent in what stagnant dark? - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

When the dark hand of destiny failed - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

The doom of worlds in those dark sails - Friedrich Schiller "The Invincible Armada" transl. not credited

When I have crossed dark Lethe's river - Friedrich Schiller "Klopstock and Wieland"

In thy dark house of clay - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Invocation"

Each word a dark psalm - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

Anchored by the dark anvil of death - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Four"

Rose against the dark like vengeance hurled - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah II: The White Stone"

That king whose tattered mantle beckons from the dark - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"

Though Homer knew the power of dark blood - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"

What dark god's avatar awaits - Ann K. Schwader "A Voyage(r) Too Far"

When the dusk droops dark - Clinton Scollard "Dusk at Sea"

Upon the silent face of a dark dial in a sunless place - "The Sea of Death"

Roads and terrible things in dark turnings - Tobias Seamon "Near Life Experience"

Under thy dark-blue gates - "Sean Dana"

The dark embraces of the storm - "Sean Dana"

The dark side lighted only by the cycles of the moon - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"

Clearly reflected in the dark space of her eyes - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"

Light garments brush against the dark - Virna Sheard "Before the Dawn"

With dark obliterating course - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Dark fanes where truth has ceased to dwell - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Were born in the dark hollows of the sky - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"

Dark Emperor of hooked face and hungry eye - Joyce Sidman "Dark Emperor"

Through all its dark and absent hours - Joyce Sidman "Sleep Charm"

Huddled in dark unopened books - Charles Simic "In the Library"

A dark page I am trying to turn - Safiya Sinclair "Hands"

Nursed dark by decades of dread - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"

Those unvaried darks that veil Eternity - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"

At portals dark and desperate - Clark Ashton Smith "The Refuge of Beauty"

Hyperion divides the pillared vault of dark - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"

With never a spark in the empty dark - Langdon Smith "Evolution"

Cling to the potential in the dark - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"

Roused from their dark alcoves - William Somerville "The Chase"

Closed eyes in dark cellars - Marin Sorescu "Paintings" transl. by Gabriela Dragnea

In that faraway dark - Elizabeth Spires "On Upnor Road"

Walking through the dark singing - Frank Stanford "Freedom, Revolt, and Love"

The cursing wives of the dark - Frank Stanford "Vanish"

When the rain has washed the dark - George Sterling "The Forest Mother"

Alone with anguish and the dark - George Sterling "The Golden Past"

From the dark a dust of fire - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"

Only the dark voice of the sea - Wallace Stevens "The Idea of Order at Key West"

Dark on the horizons of perception - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"

Rose out of the dark tide - M. Letitia Stockett "Sleep"

Ten dark steps of tangled rapture and tears - Arthur Stringer "Life"

In dark ignorance have destroyed myself - Su Tung-p'o "Under the Heaven of Our Holy Ruler" transl. by Burton Watson

Grass growing upside down in the dark - May Swenson "Rain at Wildwood"

A whole dead month in the dark - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Out of the dark pure twilight - Algernon Swinburne "Three Faces: III. Venice"

In the dark with the dreams and the dews - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Soundless sobs of dark and burning tears - Carmen Sylva "To the Memory of Queen Victoria"

Her dark spots to herself - Rabindranath Tagore "from Stray Birds [233-237]"

see a stigma of stars falling across dark fields - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"

Barrier island that shields us from a dark horizon - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"

Black smoke looming like dark mountains - Keith Taylor "Prairie Fire"

The tense dark air - Sara Teasdale "From the North"

Dark splendor of the sea - Sara Teasdale "The Net"

Beneath the weight of dark - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"

And in the dark was not afraid - Amber Flora Thomas "Shed"

The frigid threads of doubt and dark - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

Riding the dark surge silently - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"

Thickened with inundating dark - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"

The rich dark clusters of the Vine of Death - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Oppression's long dark night of pain - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

In the light cast by the dark - Paul Tran "Terroir"

A few dark days of terror past - Melesina Trench "On Being Pressed to Go to a Masqued Ball not Many Months After the Death of My Child"

Through dark ways underground - Richard C. Trench "The Kingdom of God"

And see nothing but dark - Natasha Trethewey "Saturday Drive"

The dark itself parted to let us pass - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Latent"

That careens through the deepening dark - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Latent"

A dark hymn only the damned will ever hear - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

not letting me baptize the dark - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges

Plucks dark iris from the rippling shallows - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

Chase through endless forests dark - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"

The surging dark will flow over my hopes - W.J. Turner "Death"

Hands to feel the forests and the dark nights - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"

Upon a dark ball spun in Time - Walter J. Turner "Giraffe and Tree"

On the dark pavements of the sky - W.J. Turner "Kent in War"

When stars are singing in dark ecstasy - W.J. Turner "Soldier in a Small Camp"

Count down stone steps into the dark - Chase Twichell "Downstairs in Dreams"

Past the cold and breathless dark - Louis Untermeyer "In the Subway"

Storming hours with their dark increase - Louis Untermeyer "Peace"

The sun's dark kiss - John Updike "Endpoint"

Half dipped in dark - John Updike "Lunar Eclipse"

my dark surrealism written in slang - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

commanding dark algebraic emblems to stand - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

Lift your dark eyes dreaming - Una Urquhart "An Old Tale of Three"

A secret down in the deep of my dark - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

A swift dark wind that turns the maples pale - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"

Dark the night and dim the day - Henry van Dyke "From Glory Unto Glory"

Out of the visionless woods of dark - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

Who dared in the dark eclipse - Henry van Dyke "Victor Hugo"

Tracing flakes in shades of dark - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Lichens"

Shining nowhere but in the dark - Henry Vaughan "The World of Light"

Poet of the dark - Suzanne Vega "I Never Wear White"

In the dark winds from the North - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours II" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

The wreckage dark of his remorse - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Fishermen" transl. by Alma Strettell

Built you on a dark day - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"

Who thought a dark eye could save you - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"

To meet another's dark heart - Elsa Hildegard Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven "Appalling Heart"

Your fist choking the dark - Ocean Vuong "Anaphora as Coping Mechanism"

Dark shrieks and groans and the lonely death rattle - "Waiting for News!" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

From the dark cribs of doorways - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"

Toward the unquestionable dark - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"

Piloted by dark despair - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

Dark sisters spinning with the grace of death - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"

Mastered by fear of dark compulsions - Joshua Weiner "Psalm"

Dark trees reaching for far stars - Judy Patterson Wenzel "New Found Land"

The silver dawn of night that melts the dark - Edith Wharton "Impromptu"

As the twilight loves the dark - John Hall Wheelock "Exultation"

Troubles her dark repose - John Hall Wheelock "Haunted Earth"

Receive your meed of Dark - Eugene R. White "Reward"

In nonchalant procession to the dark - Helen Hay Whitney "Ave atque Vale"

Scatheless through the sin-lit dark - Margaret Widdemer "The Factories"

Moons perched on dark spires - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"

Wheels rumbling through the dark city - William Carlos Williams "The Great Figure"

A dark crimson corner of roof - William Carlos Williams "Woman Walking"

Call out in the dark - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Pattern Recognition"

Emptying his pockets in the dark - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"

That deals in destiny's dark counsels - Henry Willson "William Lilly, Astrologer" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct., 1863 - no.IV]

Carving from the dark this difficult tree - Christian Wiman "Hard Night"

Only a sound of drowning in the dark - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"

Had never been the empty dark - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"

The dark doesn't notice you - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"

Under this dark sycamore - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

Beyond the boundaries of light and dark - Charles Wright "Like the New Moon, My Mother Drifts Through the Night Sky"

Look carefully in a dark glass - Jay Wright "[Song into holiness]"

A bright shell in a dark wave - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"

In the smothering dark one white star - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"

build dark dwellings of negative space - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

Cannot illuminate every dark corner - C. Dale Young "What Is Revealed"

Dark clouds charged with thunder - Francis Brett Young "On a Subaltern Killed in Action"

Dark carnation's breath of clove - Francis Brett Young "Prothalamion"

By a dark canal debating - Francis Brett Young "Testament"

Forbidden to abandon our dark cities - Adam Zagajewski "Our Northern Cities"

When the dark rebounds - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"

Dark and indifferent as a well - Matthew Zapruder "Luna My Captive"

Dark sobbing into the light - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

Hostage to the dark's slant dream - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"

Marionette running on the brain's dark marrow - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

On a day the clouds turn dark green - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"

Dissolve in dark waters - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer "Grace"


A moment's orphan in the afterdark - Mary Jo Bang "The Opening"


golden butterfly against the cave-dark - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"


Heaven's fire in dark-browed storms - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]


Darken.

Darker.

Darkest.


From her dark-gnarled yew-tree lair - Walter de la Mare "Snow"


Darkling.

Darkly.

Dark Matter.

Darkness.


Advertise a propensity for dark-red - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"


Had traveled darksome ways - Effie Waller Smith "At the Grave of the Forgotten"


Full of the dark-stooping night - Edward Shanks "A Night-Piece"


By this dark-winged planet - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"


Drew blood to fill our cups of dream-dark wine - Mike Allen "Ascending"


To the shores of silent-dark and back - Deborah Landau "Flesh"


The vowel-dark grapes of autumn - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"


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