Potentital Titles: Dawn
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somethingdarkerA dawn without a burden for his wounded back - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XLI" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
Rising at the smell of dawn - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
How dim the dawn of truth - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
From out the dawn the crows broke across the sky - Lewis Alexander "Tanka V" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A laughing, joyous sprite who smiles from dawn to dark - George Leonard Allen "Portrait" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The forever memory of dawn - Atticus "Magic in Words"
The outrageous dawning of opinion - Mary Jo Bang "Crossed-Over, Fiend-Snitched, X-ed Out"
In the dawn of a reasonable doubt - Mary Jo Bang "What Is a Mouth?"
Gaze on the dawning mysteries - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"
Pink as dawn in the silver dust - Maurice Baring "Greece"
Turns dim against the dawn - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"
The night's secret dissolves at dawn - Lou Barrett "Address Book"
vanished in the dawn's contempt - Elizabeth Bartlett "cold wakening"
The chain of centuries from dusk to dawn - Elizabeth Bartlett "Even if We Did"
And sweet dreams until dawn - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
ends with a dawn cold white - Elizabeth Bartlett "pilgrimage"
The royal conquest of the dawn - Cora C. Bass "'Mid Eternal Snow"
Dawn and dusk the ancient thresholds - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
Out of nocturnal anguish into dawn - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"
As charging seas first seen at dawn - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"
Dawn held the frozen flame an instant high - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
With the pollen and seeds of dawn - Stephen Vincent Benet "Flood-Tide"
Our dream is at dawn - Yahya Kemal Beyath "Night" (translated by Roger Finch)
Be a liquid threshold for the dawn - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Pool"
The hunted transparency of dawn - Maxwell Bodenheim "Expressions on a Child's Face"
Pallid dawns and pale sunsets enclosing our gray inclinations - Bruce Boston "Gray People"
Where dawn and midnight mingled - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
The hill's elixir at dawn - Ana Bozicevic "Controlling the Weather"
Sung sweet beneath the coming dawn - Jari Bradley "Boihood"
Till dawn upon the hills shall smile - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"
Which will not dawn on grief and tears - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
Ash ascending the altitudes of dawn - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
The flashing squadrons of the dawn - H.I. Burt "From Their Dust"
The Goddess of Numbers multiplying into dawn's light - Anthony Butts "Song of Starry-Eyed Children"
This veil of lavender and dawn - Witter Bynner "Veils"
Forgot the nature of dawn - Julie Byrne "Melting Grid"
Such as creation's dawn beheld - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)
Such as creation's dawn beheld - Byron "To the Ocean"
Leading us into a new dawn of Omega 3's & prosperity - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
The young dawn's golden fire - F. O. Call "On a Swiss Mountain"
When the pale stars fade at dawn - C.S. Calverley "Arcades Ambo"
Mute on the white edge of dawn - Laura Campbell "Pilgrimage"
How merciless is the dawn - Laura Campbell "Pilgrimage"
In the wild October dawning - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Children of the Foam"
Meadows of the dew build dawn - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Opening to dawn's young footsteps - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
The dawn to daylight shifting - Giosue Carducci "On the Sixth Centenary of Dante" transl. by Frank Sewall
Ere dawn visits the vale of sleep - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
The dawning light of sorrow and scorn - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"
Through the lavish tangerine of dawn - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"
The sun finds us each dawn - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"
Dawn after a journey home - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"
The oxen pulling me toward dawn - Tina Chang "Birth"
Somewhere the dawn breaks laughing - Ralph Chaplin "Prison Reveille"
Sunbirds exalting the break of dawn - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"
With Love in the flower of dawn - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
The golden joys of fancy's dawning - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Silver Wedding"
And soon the dawn is ready - Leonard Cohen "The Faithless Wife"
Awakened by the opera of dawn - Billy Collins "Rip Van Winkle"
Steadily traipsing toward dawn - Susan Comninos "Arctic Traveler"
Read his pledge of dawn - Susan Coolidge "After-Glow"
As dawn to eyes that wake - Susan Coolidge "'Of Such as I Have'"
Build a bower of dawn - James D. Corrothers "Dream and the Song"
Abide with never a glimpse of dawn - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr "Sonnet [I would not tarry if I could be gone]"
So weary of waiting the dawn - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "Supplication"
Trembling tears of dawn - James H. Cousins "Heaven and Earth"
That comes to make way for the dawn - Marion Couthouy "Three Watches" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Dec. 1878]
Young dawn of our eternal day - Richard Crashaw "Verses from the Shepherd's Hymn"
Whom shrill dawn devours - George Cronyn "Disillusion"
On a great horse of gold into the silver dawn - E. E. Cummings "Song (V)"
Riding the echo down into the silver dawn - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"
Riding the mountain down into the silver dawn - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"
The magic mirror of the dawn - Olive Custance "Gifts"
Younger than the dawn - Russell W. Davenport "Poems I"
Familiar as all dawns - Kwame Dawes "At Anchor: The Real Situation"
The cloven cliff of Dawn - Coningsby Dawson "Daybreak"
Until dawn bleaches it bare - Meg Day "Big Sky Domestic"
Through the enchanted hall of dawn - Alfred de Musset "Rappelle-Toi" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Until the dawn's sure prophets cleft the night - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
We painted dawn into midnight - Desdamona "Once and Future"
Of dawn the ancestor - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXI: The Mountain"
That makes no show for dawn - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LVII: Sleeping"
When darkness dawned a black moon - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"
Open the door holding back dawn - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"
Splinter of dawn through the glass - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"
No longer in the chair where dawn found me - Chris Dombrowski "Naive Melody"
Filled with dawn's initial hue - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"
As dawn stretched her blue shawl - Chris Dombrowski "To the First of the Getting-Longer Days"
The sound of dawn's first sacrifice - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
The white phantom ships of dawn - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Praise of Shame"
Beyond the fountains of the dawn - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
A ghost at the dawn of the day - John William Draper "The Song of Lorenzo"
Travel through the singing air of dawn - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"
The postponement of dawn - Stephen Dunn "In a Dream of Dawn"
Break from the fairy fountain of the dawn - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dawn"
Heard the thrushes sing at dawn - Florence Earle "Morning" [Lippincott's Magazine, Nov. 1885]
And serenade you at dawn and dusk - Aziz Isa Elkun "The Spring Bird" transl. by author
Soft dawns that danced a shadow fete - Donald Evans "Buveuse d'Absinthe"
by dawn I'd sneak in beside your soul - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"
And the scarlet screaming dawn - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
The eve of Eternity's dawn - George Blackstone Field "The Coming of the Line"
Came from the mist of a future dawn - George Blackstone Field "The Mustering of the Legion"
Bees in the wind of the dawn - Michael Field "Paschal's Mass"
Gleaming fish that gasp in the death-bright dawn - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"
Let the timid feet of dawn fly - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
That my night is dawn in another part of the world - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Pinnacles of clouds, pyres of dawn - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Sun and starlight of the lonely dawn - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2 (February 1923)"
That last far dawn which is eternity - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
Only the wandering air that grows with dawn - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
So dawn goes down to day - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
A place of rest invisible at dawn - Robert Frost "Stars"
The lotus of the dawn is white - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Quiet in the blue of dawn - Zona Gale "A Meeting"
Ages past the dawn of days - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"
The dawn stayed till the last had gone - Theodosia Garrison "The Neighbors"
Then the grey dawn shall end my hateful days - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"
My heart is still veiling dawn - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
Weave a pathway for the dawning moon - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"
Dosed into the dawning of a fairy day - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Since the dawn came dancing - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
Wild cherry tipped with dawn - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
Who catches the first crimsoning of dawn - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Small enough to hear the dawn breaking - Theodora Goss "Thumbelina"
To its bonds at dawn restoring - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Hasten dawn to night - Leah Naomi Green "The World Tips Back"
Their wistful buds at dawn - Angelina Weld Grimke "To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimke"
Broken tears in the profane lace of dawn - Wendy Guerra "Delicates" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
Brief dreams and hollow dawns - Nicolás Guillén "The Clouds" transl. by Aaron Coleman
Came shouting down the world to meet the dawn - Katherine Hale "Cun-ne-wa-bum"
Thinner than stars in the flush of dawn - Han Yu "The Girl of Mt. Hua" transl. by Burton Watson
One document at dawn - Han Yu "Written on My Way into Exile When I Reached the Lan-t'ien Pass and Shown to My Brother's Grandson Hsiang" transl. by Burton Watson
Through dawns of tenderness I see - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Here at the dawn of forever - Joy Harjo "Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words"
As real as any garden at dawn - Jim Harrison "The Golden Window"
To meet at last the desecrated dawn - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Three Poems of Christmas Eve: Tonight"
False dawn of vision - Robert Hayden "El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz"
The voice we heard at dawn - Ruth Guthrie Harding "Grotesque"
High in the horror of dawn - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender III"
Dries the dripping eyes of dawn - Jennie Earngey Hill "Life's Day"
In vain would morning dawn - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"
When dawns were young - Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Roses red as an angry dawn - Aldous Huxley "Variations on a Theme of LaForgue"
At dawn's first livid beam - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
Wind summons a black moon at dawn - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
To waken and weep at the dawn - John Imlah "Farewell to Scotland"
Within my bosom are a hundred dawns - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
Sunbeams dance in dawn's ballet - Scharmel Iris "Fantasy of Dusk and Dawn"
Some dawn infused with honey - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "On Becoming River Rat, Fat-Tongued and/or Finding Your Once Pretty Body at the Park, Full of Holes"
Dawn grey-garbed and velvet-shod - Emily Pauline Johnson "Day Dawn"
The truant hour came back at dawn - Emily Pauline Johnson "The King's Consort"
With Sappho sleep like the stars at dawn - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Fruits redden to their dawn - Lionel Johnson "In England"
The annulling light of any pitiless dawn - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Weak clarities of dawn - Devin Johnston "Aubade"
The dawn drawn out and hammered thin - Devin Johnston "Fixed Interval"
That shone at the dawn of spring - Edward Smyth Jones "A Song of Thanks"
Dawn oversees percolating coffee - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
Coldly and shuddering breaks the dawn of Truth - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VII" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
Dawning charm of every infant grace - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Measures dawn by absence of desire - Karan Kapoor "Time Is a Motherfucker"
Found it in a spider's web at dawn - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"
A quick replay of all my dawns - Mary Karr "For My Children"
And the Caravan starts for the dawn - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Endure in pursuit of dawn - Mina King "In Pursuit of Dawn"
A touch of dawn was again nightfall - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"
Choose to love the dawn - Christopher Kondrich "Asylum"
Hauling the heavy bucket of dawn - Ted Kooser "The Early Bird"
Hard as my black dawn - Louise Labe sonnet XXIII
The dawn of day that lifts me out of night - Oscar Laighton "Song [Sweet wind that blows o'er sunny isles]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, no.33, Nov. 1877]
A smile as golden as the dawn - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"
On whose wings the dawn hath smiled - Archibald Lampman "An Ode to the Hills"
A star the dawning drives away - Andrew Lang "A Star in the Night"
And tremble if the day but dawns - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Why thus allowed this dawn - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
That my love can dawn in warmth again, unafraid - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"
Glittering, compact drops of dawn - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"
Out of life's unfathomable dawn - D.H. Lawrence "Tortoise Shout"
To blot the sins of dawn away - Ida Lee "Suffolk"
Turns round to face each post-apocalyptic dawn - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"
The dawn that follows the gin - Hailey Leithauser "From the Grandiloquent Dictionary"
when dawn calls to daybreak - Michael Leong "For My Cats Gaspara & Alfonsina"
To whom the darkness whispers of the dawning - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
When midnight dozes into dawn - J. Patrick Lewis "The Repast of the Lion"
As winter takes my last dawn - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"
Sweet with the glory of ten thousand dawns - Vachel Lindsay "The Amaranth"
Unsubdued by burning dawn - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"
Held nothing but the empty dawn - Amy Lowell "Crepuscule du Matin"
Hears Dawn's faint footfall - James Russell Lowell "Phoebe"
Innuendoes of your inverse dawn - Mina Loy "Moreover, the Moon--"
Coated in the thick semblance of dawn - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
Exulting in the promise of dawn - Francis J. Lys "Life's Voyage"
Adventure calls with every dawn - Sidney Royse Lysaght "New Horizons"
In the ring of dawn - Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "A Northern Love Song"
That day of joy may never dawn - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]
When the last dawn breaks - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Last Things"
Chattering in the greying dawn - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"
Sullen dawn blurred into sunless day - Naomi Long Madgett "After Parting"
Until the mottled jaguar dawn surrenders - Joyce Mansour "Auditory Hallucination" transl. by Carol Cosman
Toward dawn a cold spell - Mao Wen-hsi "[I mustn't ask about him]" transl. by Burton Watson
Into the darkness of the dawn - Edwin Markham "One Life, One Law"
Lifting the dawn with rosy feet - Jeannette Marks "Sea Gulls"
Kissing the dawn with my silver - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"
When by the dark of war its dawn was scattered - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Tell my sorrows to the winds of dawn - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Glaciers in the dawn's blush glow - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Alpine Glacier" transl. by John Pollen
Started husking corn at dawn - John McCarthy "On and Off Route 130, Collinsville, Illinois"
Go forth at haggard dawn - John McCrae "The Harvest of the Sea"
Although your eyes are dawning day - Claude McKay "The Barrier"
Song of the primal dawn - Louis J. McQuilland "Gladys in the Woodland"
Through the Gates of Dawn - Louis J. McQuilland "The Song of Forgotten Heroes"
The dawn moon struggles to shine - Meng Chiao "On Failing the Examination" transl. by Burton Watson
Bring back a braver dawn - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
Near the face of dawn - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Trouble the dubious dawn - Alice Meynell "The Rainy Summer"
Dawn will find them still again - Edna St Vincent Millay "Sorrow"
Tenderness that fell from the new dawn - George Logan Moore "Love's Transfiguration" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.1-v.I, 6 Jan. 1884]
Laden with the precious freight dawn brings - William Moore "Expectancy"
When dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky - Sarojini Naidu "Street Cries"
Together drunk of many an alien dawn - Sarojini Naidu "To Youth"
May drift a wreck ere dawn of day - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]
Dawn marks the reign of Sun - A.R. Narayanan "Man"
Golden fires consumed dawn's keep - Francis Neilson "When You Were Born"
The pigs hold up the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger
Preserved the original sparks of dawn - Pablo Neruda "The Birds Arrive" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Heroes of an acid-etched dawn - Pablo Neruda "Cristobal Miranda (Shoveler, Tocopilla)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Day dawns without debts - Pablo Neruda "Day Dawns" transl. by Alastair Reid
The muscles that disregard the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Then dawn filled all the goblets - Pablo Neruda "Morning" transl. by Stephan Tapscott
In the crevice drilled by dawn - Pablo Neruda "Not Only the Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Amber coffins carried by the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Fruits just stolen from the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The fishes of the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Age" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
The teeth of every dawn - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The darkness asking the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The hard thread that will uphold the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The desert of the forgotten dawn - Pablo Neruda "There's No Forgiving" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Quartered the light of the implacable dawn - Pablo Neruda "Tupac Amaru (1781)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Fresh dawning after the dews of blood - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"
Holds in store the dawn - Meredith Nicholson "Song"
Fresh from the dawn of life - Sarah Noble-Ives "On the Shining Way"
When the dawn hides the three hunters - Margaret Noodin "Gidiskinaadaa Mitigwaakiing/Woodland Liberty"
But midnight fades to dawn - Bruce Nugent "My Love"
The echo right before dawn - Naomi Shihab Nye "Alien Rescue"
Three secret hours before dawn - Naomi Shihab Nye "Muchas Gracias por Todo"
In the familiar fabric of dawn - Mary Oliver "Sunrise"
The indefinite unshapen dawn - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"
Under the light of that unwanted dawn - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"
Dread the dawn's recurrent light - Dorothy Parker "Symptom Recital"
And morning's dawn awakened naught - Samuel D. Patterson "The Prayer of the Dying Girl" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Remember how light dawned in chapters - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Tasted midnights and dawns, delayed twilight - Marisca Pichette "Waning, Waning"
Ache with the chill of dawn water - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson
On the hills of dawn - Alexander Posey "On the Hills of Dawn"
The cool cloisters of the dawn - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"
Other spirits exhaled before dawn - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"
In a treaty at the dawn of time - Rena Priest "The Index"
Grim in the light of dawn - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Cloud and the Mountain"
To whom the darkness whispers of the dawning - Edward Sprague Rand "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
Companions of dawn, partners of rain - Victoria Redel "The Pact"
Crowned in the aureole of dawn - M. Regan "The Hollow"
When the black irises lean at dawn - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Great dawns of inner mornings - Mark Rich "To Sleep"
Till the dark and the dawning meet - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "Song of the Little Winds"
From the dawning shall borrow - Henry Scott Riddell "Flora's Lament"
At dawn before the locusts - Lola Ridge "The Alley"
Golden spools of the sun and dawns - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Pierced with the white crow of dawn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Who saw the dawn break over Egypt - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Like a taper forgotten in the dawn - Lola Ridge "Labor"
Wild trees that strain against the dawn - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"
A tentacle of the vast dawn - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"
Bearing strange symbols to the new dawn - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"
Little white runners before the dawn - Lola Ridge "To the Free Children"
A word the color of dawn - Lynn Riggs "Spring Morning--Santa Fe"
Or in the pink of dawn - James Whitcombe Riley "Summer-Time and Winter-Time"
The gray, phantom shadows of dawn - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Beyond the sequence of the dawn - Charles G.D. Roberts "O Earth, Sufficing All Our Needs"
Before earth's dawn hour thought to wane - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Forget-Me-Not"
Forget the night in dawning day - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson "From a Motor in May"
What the dawn of one more day shall give them - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
When hell waits on the dawn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
Tinged her eyes with love-light's dawning - F. Rochat "My Baby" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.710, 4 Aug. 1877]
But we wait for a day that dawns not - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
And one star waits for the dawning light - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"
Dawned instantly supreme - Alice Wellington Rollins "Among Those Joys for Which We Utter Praise"
A miracle destroy the dawn - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
Your elbows in the dawn - Isaac Rosenberg "Sleep"
Dance in my Heart at Dawn - Rumi "The Beloved All in All" transl. by Rev. Professor Hastie
Inherit thoughts whose dawn is life - J.S. "Hymn of a Hermit" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
To him the dawn is punctual - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Between these penciled lines of dusk & dawn - Ann K. Schwader "Deconstructing Night"
Rolls from the face of the dawn - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
Her moon-candle burns till dawn - Frederick George Scott "In the Woods"
Like dawn indebted to light - Nicole Sealey "object permanence"
Midnight feast and famished dawn - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"
Welling back from the raw, red dawn of life - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
The curve of a pilgrimage awaiting dawn - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"
Of a pilgrimage awaiting dawn - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"
To curdle dawns uneaten skin - Betsy Sharp "Alarm"
And so we lingered not for dawn - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
With the dawn my tireless feet were led - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Regret"
The glad, first herald of triumphant dawn - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
Jewels of dawn in the cool night's breeze - Joyce Sidman "In the Almost-Light"
A rooster has found the dawn - Joyce Sidman "Song in a Strange Land"
The ashen dawn of Autumn - Clark Ashton Smith "Belated Love"
Iron rays of dawn relentless - Clark Ashton Smith "Desolation"
Flaming shields of dawns between - Clark Ashton Smith "The Land of Evil Stars"
Cried to me in a dawn of dreams - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Enkindling dawns of memory - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Facing the looked-for dawn - Effie Smith "Toward Sunrise"
Dawn tangled with my dust - Patricia Smith "Only Everything I Own"
Courteous as dawn over a heron - Richard Solomon "Homecoming (For Linda)"
Their brief victories of dusk and dawn - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"
Dawn moon passing ruined forts - Ssu-k'ung Shu "The Rebellion Over, I See Off a Friend Who Is Returning North" transl. by Burton Watson
a spirit pleading for the next break of dawn - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"
Past the crystal thresholds of the dawn - George Sterling "The Caged Eagle"
The crimson fountains of the dawn - George Sterling "Duandon"
Turn my gaze to the dawn - George Sterling "Rainbow's End"
Whose light is not in the refusing dawn - George Sterling "Thy Laughing Loveliness"
The ghost of dawns forgotten - George Sterling "The Tides of Change"
The cold glories of the dawn - Robert Louis Stevenson "The House Beautiful"
The crimson dawn breaks through - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"
Dream-besieged, made dawn and midnight one - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"
From this poor broken twilight to rebuild the Dawn - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
The pale flamingoes of the dawn - L.A.G. Strong "The Bird Man"
Dew-drunken daffodils shouting the dawn - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"
Pink with the dawn of my promise - Marguerite Swawite "I Am Woman"
In the dawn's rekindling urn - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Eyes full of dawning day - Algernon Swinburne "First Footsteps"
The dreamy decline of the dawn - A.C. Swinburne "Nephelidia"
Cruel dawn, with icy, deathlike eyes and hollow voice - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
As rest forbids the cruel dawn to break - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
My baggage ready at dawn - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson
Fainting on the shores of Dawn - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Taj Mahals that rise out of the mist at dawn - Keith Taylor "Picasso and the Taj Mahal"
Dawn had taken in the stars - Sara Teasdale "Morning Song"
For the measured dawns - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"
Her struggling dawn, convulsed or bright - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
So along in the enormous dawn - Iris Tree "[The curtains are drawn as though it still were night]"
Shall softer than the dawn come stealing - Herbert Trench "I Heard a Soldier"
In clear dawn departing - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
Slept on unknowing in that early dawn - Tsiang-Tien "To the Dancing-Girl Siao-Ling" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Akin to dawn, the daisy and the sea - Louis Untermeyer "How Much of Godhood"
where dawn is denied a body - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"
Irradiate with flaming dawns - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Joy" transl. by Alma Strettell
Unbreakable dawn mounting in your throat - Ocean Vuong "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"
New dawns beyond Hell's night - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
The moon arcs now from that dawn to this - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]
From dawn till the stars reappear - Arthur Weir "Jules' Letter"
What throne can dawn upraise - Winifred Welles "Exile"
Let the lamb wake in the dawn - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Come Shaker Life"
Kept my vigil in the waste till dawn began - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Till dawn began to walk among the ruins - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
The silver dawn of night that melts the dark - Edith Wharton "Impromptu"
Dawning Spring time's fairest pledge - Edith Wharton "Prophecies of Summer"
Other hearts beyond the dawn - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"
Through the hush of dawn a glad good-bye - Helen Hay Whitney "Beneath the Moon"
One amber dawn's delight - Helen Hay Whitney "Persephone"
My heart must wake at dawn - Helen Hay Whitney "To-Morrow"
Dawn's chorus is a peace-making operation - Amie Whittemore "Future History of Earth's Birds"
Fadeless and fair is that glorious dawn - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Dawn comes with empty arms - John Wieners "For Huncke"
Nor dawn nor eventide nor any light we know - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"
Like dawn on the pond - Crystal Williams "The Voice of God"
The dawn in which one bird believes - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"
Know again the tune of dawn - Humbert Wolfe "At Noontide Seeking"
What bird is singing in the dawn - Humbert Wolfe "Cleopatra"
Dawns that scatter like startled birds - Humbert Wolfe "The Jungle"
Given strength at dawn - Nancy Wood "Beginning Time"
Have visions only of the dawn - Willard Huntington Wright "What of the Night?"
A morning star to hail the dawning year - "The Year" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
At dawn the phantoms fly - Francis Brett Young "Before Action"
Mist into tomorrow's dawns - Javier Zamora "Abuela Says Goodbye"
Powerless before the dawn-borne rains - Li Yu "[Blossoms of the wood have scattered]" transl. by Burton Watson
Dawn-dream of my heart - Clinton Scollard "Elusion"
He stalks until the dawn-stars burn away - Vachel Lindsay "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
To rail at the dawn-watch wind - Wang Chien "Palace Song" transl. by Burton Watson
Still in its prehistoric silver-dawn atmosphere - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"
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Rising at the smell of dawn - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
How dim the dawn of truth - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
From out the dawn the crows broke across the sky - Lewis Alexander "Tanka V" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A laughing, joyous sprite who smiles from dawn to dark - George Leonard Allen "Portrait" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The forever memory of dawn - Atticus "Magic in Words"
The outrageous dawning of opinion - Mary Jo Bang "Crossed-Over, Fiend-Snitched, X-ed Out"
In the dawn of a reasonable doubt - Mary Jo Bang "What Is a Mouth?"
Gaze on the dawning mysteries - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"
Pink as dawn in the silver dust - Maurice Baring "Greece"
Turns dim against the dawn - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"
The night's secret dissolves at dawn - Lou Barrett "Address Book"
vanished in the dawn's contempt - Elizabeth Bartlett "cold wakening"
The chain of centuries from dusk to dawn - Elizabeth Bartlett "Even if We Did"
And sweet dreams until dawn - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
ends with a dawn cold white - Elizabeth Bartlett "pilgrimage"
The royal conquest of the dawn - Cora C. Bass "'Mid Eternal Snow"
Dawn and dusk the ancient thresholds - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
Out of nocturnal anguish into dawn - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"
As charging seas first seen at dawn - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"
Dawn held the frozen flame an instant high - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
With the pollen and seeds of dawn - Stephen Vincent Benet "Flood-Tide"
Our dream is at dawn - Yahya Kemal Beyath "Night" (translated by Roger Finch)
Be a liquid threshold for the dawn - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Pool"
The hunted transparency of dawn - Maxwell Bodenheim "Expressions on a Child's Face"
Pallid dawns and pale sunsets enclosing our gray inclinations - Bruce Boston "Gray People"
Where dawn and midnight mingled - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
The hill's elixir at dawn - Ana Bozicevic "Controlling the Weather"
Sung sweet beneath the coming dawn - Jari Bradley "Boihood"
Till dawn upon the hills shall smile - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"
Which will not dawn on grief and tears - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
Ash ascending the altitudes of dawn - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
The flashing squadrons of the dawn - H.I. Burt "From Their Dust"
The Goddess of Numbers multiplying into dawn's light - Anthony Butts "Song of Starry-Eyed Children"
This veil of lavender and dawn - Witter Bynner "Veils"
Forgot the nature of dawn - Julie Byrne "Melting Grid"
Such as creation's dawn beheld - Lord Byron "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (selections)
Such as creation's dawn beheld - Byron "To the Ocean"
Leading us into a new dawn of Omega 3's & prosperity - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
The young dawn's golden fire - F. O. Call "On a Swiss Mountain"
When the pale stars fade at dawn - C.S. Calverley "Arcades Ambo"
Mute on the white edge of dawn - Laura Campbell "Pilgrimage"
How merciless is the dawn - Laura Campbell "Pilgrimage"
In the wild October dawning - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Children of the Foam"
Meadows of the dew build dawn - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Opening to dawn's young footsteps - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
The dawn to daylight shifting - Giosue Carducci "On the Sixth Centenary of Dante" transl. by Frank Sewall
Ere dawn visits the vale of sleep - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
The dawning light of sorrow and scorn - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"
Through the lavish tangerine of dawn - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"
The sun finds us each dawn - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"
Dawn after a journey home - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"
The oxen pulling me toward dawn - Tina Chang "Birth"
Somewhere the dawn breaks laughing - Ralph Chaplin "Prison Reveille"
Sunbirds exalting the break of dawn - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"
With Love in the flower of dawn - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
The golden joys of fancy's dawning - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Silver Wedding"
And soon the dawn is ready - Leonard Cohen "The Faithless Wife"
Awakened by the opera of dawn - Billy Collins "Rip Van Winkle"
Steadily traipsing toward dawn - Susan Comninos "Arctic Traveler"
Read his pledge of dawn - Susan Coolidge "After-Glow"
As dawn to eyes that wake - Susan Coolidge "'Of Such as I Have'"
Build a bower of dawn - James D. Corrothers "Dream and the Song"
Abide with never a glimpse of dawn - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr "Sonnet [I would not tarry if I could be gone]"
So weary of waiting the dawn - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "Supplication"
Trembling tears of dawn - James H. Cousins "Heaven and Earth"
That comes to make way for the dawn - Marion Couthouy "Three Watches" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Dec. 1878]
Young dawn of our eternal day - Richard Crashaw "Verses from the Shepherd's Hymn"
Whom shrill dawn devours - George Cronyn "Disillusion"
On a great horse of gold into the silver dawn - E. E. Cummings "Song (V)"
Riding the echo down into the silver dawn - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"
Riding the mountain down into the silver dawn - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"
The magic mirror of the dawn - Olive Custance "Gifts"
Younger than the dawn - Russell W. Davenport "Poems I"
Familiar as all dawns - Kwame Dawes "At Anchor: The Real Situation"
The cloven cliff of Dawn - Coningsby Dawson "Daybreak"
Until dawn bleaches it bare - Meg Day "Big Sky Domestic"
Through the enchanted hall of dawn - Alfred de Musset "Rappelle-Toi" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Until the dawn's sure prophets cleft the night - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
We painted dawn into midnight - Desdamona "Once and Future"
Of dawn the ancestor - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXI: The Mountain"
That makes no show for dawn - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LVII: Sleeping"
When darkness dawned a black moon - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"
Open the door holding back dawn - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"
Splinter of dawn through the glass - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"
No longer in the chair where dawn found me - Chris Dombrowski "Naive Melody"
Filled with dawn's initial hue - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"
As dawn stretched her blue shawl - Chris Dombrowski "To the First of the Getting-Longer Days"
The sound of dawn's first sacrifice - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
The white phantom ships of dawn - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Praise of Shame"
Beyond the fountains of the dawn - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
A ghost at the dawn of the day - John William Draper "The Song of Lorenzo"
Travel through the singing air of dawn - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"
The postponement of dawn - Stephen Dunn "In a Dream of Dawn"
Break from the fairy fountain of the dawn - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dawn"
Heard the thrushes sing at dawn - Florence Earle "Morning" [Lippincott's Magazine, Nov. 1885]
And serenade you at dawn and dusk - Aziz Isa Elkun "The Spring Bird" transl. by author
Soft dawns that danced a shadow fete - Donald Evans "Buveuse d'Absinthe"
by dawn I'd sneak in beside your soul - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"
And the scarlet screaming dawn - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
The eve of Eternity's dawn - George Blackstone Field "The Coming of the Line"
Came from the mist of a future dawn - George Blackstone Field "The Mustering of the Legion"
Bees in the wind of the dawn - Michael Field "Paschal's Mass"
Gleaming fish that gasp in the death-bright dawn - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"
Let the timid feet of dawn fly - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
That my night is dawn in another part of the world - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Pinnacles of clouds, pyres of dawn - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Sun and starlight of the lonely dawn - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2 (February 1923)"
That last far dawn which is eternity - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
Only the wandering air that grows with dawn - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
So dawn goes down to day - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
A place of rest invisible at dawn - Robert Frost "Stars"
The lotus of the dawn is white - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Quiet in the blue of dawn - Zona Gale "A Meeting"
Ages past the dawn of days - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"
The dawn stayed till the last had gone - Theodosia Garrison "The Neighbors"
Then the grey dawn shall end my hateful days - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"
My heart is still veiling dawn - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
Weave a pathway for the dawning moon - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"
Dosed into the dawning of a fairy day - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Since the dawn came dancing - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
Wild cherry tipped with dawn - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
Who catches the first crimsoning of dawn - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Small enough to hear the dawn breaking - Theodora Goss "Thumbelina"
To its bonds at dawn restoring - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Hasten dawn to night - Leah Naomi Green "The World Tips Back"
Their wistful buds at dawn - Angelina Weld Grimke "To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimke"
Broken tears in the profane lace of dawn - Wendy Guerra "Delicates" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
Brief dreams and hollow dawns - Nicolás Guillén "The Clouds" transl. by Aaron Coleman
Came shouting down the world to meet the dawn - Katherine Hale "Cun-ne-wa-bum"
Thinner than stars in the flush of dawn - Han Yu "The Girl of Mt. Hua" transl. by Burton Watson
One document at dawn - Han Yu "Written on My Way into Exile When I Reached the Lan-t'ien Pass and Shown to My Brother's Grandson Hsiang" transl. by Burton Watson
Through dawns of tenderness I see - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Here at the dawn of forever - Joy Harjo "Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words"
As real as any garden at dawn - Jim Harrison "The Golden Window"
To meet at last the desecrated dawn - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Three Poems of Christmas Eve: Tonight"
False dawn of vision - Robert Hayden "El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz"
The voice we heard at dawn - Ruth Guthrie Harding "Grotesque"
High in the horror of dawn - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender III"
Dries the dripping eyes of dawn - Jennie Earngey Hill "Life's Day"
In vain would morning dawn - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"
When dawns were young - Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Roses red as an angry dawn - Aldous Huxley "Variations on a Theme of LaForgue"
At dawn's first livid beam - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
Wind summons a black moon at dawn - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
To waken and weep at the dawn - John Imlah "Farewell to Scotland"
Within my bosom are a hundred dawns - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
Sunbeams dance in dawn's ballet - Scharmel Iris "Fantasy of Dusk and Dawn"
Some dawn infused with honey - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "On Becoming River Rat, Fat-Tongued and/or Finding Your Once Pretty Body at the Park, Full of Holes"
Dawn grey-garbed and velvet-shod - Emily Pauline Johnson "Day Dawn"
The truant hour came back at dawn - Emily Pauline Johnson "The King's Consort"
With Sappho sleep like the stars at dawn - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Fruits redden to their dawn - Lionel Johnson "In England"
The annulling light of any pitiless dawn - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Weak clarities of dawn - Devin Johnston "Aubade"
The dawn drawn out and hammered thin - Devin Johnston "Fixed Interval"
That shone at the dawn of spring - Edward Smyth Jones "A Song of Thanks"
Dawn oversees percolating coffee - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
Coldly and shuddering breaks the dawn of Truth - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VII" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
Dawning charm of every infant grace - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Measures dawn by absence of desire - Karan Kapoor "Time Is a Motherfucker"
Found it in a spider's web at dawn - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"
A quick replay of all my dawns - Mary Karr "For My Children"
And the Caravan starts for the dawn - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Endure in pursuit of dawn - Mina King "In Pursuit of Dawn"
A touch of dawn was again nightfall - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"
Choose to love the dawn - Christopher Kondrich "Asylum"
Hauling the heavy bucket of dawn - Ted Kooser "The Early Bird"
Hard as my black dawn - Louise Labe sonnet XXIII
The dawn of day that lifts me out of night - Oscar Laighton "Song [Sweet wind that blows o'er sunny isles]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, no.33, Nov. 1877]
A smile as golden as the dawn - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"
On whose wings the dawn hath smiled - Archibald Lampman "An Ode to the Hills"
A star the dawning drives away - Andrew Lang "A Star in the Night"
And tremble if the day but dawns - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Why thus allowed this dawn - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
That my love can dawn in warmth again, unafraid - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"
Glittering, compact drops of dawn - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"
Out of life's unfathomable dawn - D.H. Lawrence "Tortoise Shout"
To blot the sins of dawn away - Ida Lee "Suffolk"
Turns round to face each post-apocalyptic dawn - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"
The dawn that follows the gin - Hailey Leithauser "From the Grandiloquent Dictionary"
when dawn calls to daybreak - Michael Leong "For My Cats Gaspara & Alfonsina"
To whom the darkness whispers of the dawning - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
When midnight dozes into dawn - J. Patrick Lewis "The Repast of the Lion"
As winter takes my last dawn - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"
Sweet with the glory of ten thousand dawns - Vachel Lindsay "The Amaranth"
Unsubdued by burning dawn - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"
Held nothing but the empty dawn - Amy Lowell "Crepuscule du Matin"
Hears Dawn's faint footfall - James Russell Lowell "Phoebe"
Innuendoes of your inverse dawn - Mina Loy "Moreover, the Moon--"
Coated in the thick semblance of dawn - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
Exulting in the promise of dawn - Francis J. Lys "Life's Voyage"
Adventure calls with every dawn - Sidney Royse Lysaght "New Horizons"
In the ring of dawn - Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "A Northern Love Song"
That day of joy may never dawn - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]
When the last dawn breaks - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Last Things"
Chattering in the greying dawn - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"
Sullen dawn blurred into sunless day - Naomi Long Madgett "After Parting"
Until the mottled jaguar dawn surrenders - Joyce Mansour "Auditory Hallucination" transl. by Carol Cosman
Toward dawn a cold spell - Mao Wen-hsi "[I mustn't ask about him]" transl. by Burton Watson
Into the darkness of the dawn - Edwin Markham "One Life, One Law"
Lifting the dawn with rosy feet - Jeannette Marks "Sea Gulls"
Kissing the dawn with my silver - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"
When by the dark of war its dawn was scattered - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Tell my sorrows to the winds of dawn - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Glaciers in the dawn's blush glow - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Alpine Glacier" transl. by John Pollen
Started husking corn at dawn - John McCarthy "On and Off Route 130, Collinsville, Illinois"
Go forth at haggard dawn - John McCrae "The Harvest of the Sea"
Although your eyes are dawning day - Claude McKay "The Barrier"
Song of the primal dawn - Louis J. McQuilland "Gladys in the Woodland"
Through the Gates of Dawn - Louis J. McQuilland "The Song of Forgotten Heroes"
The dawn moon struggles to shine - Meng Chiao "On Failing the Examination" transl. by Burton Watson
Bring back a braver dawn - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
Near the face of dawn - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Trouble the dubious dawn - Alice Meynell "The Rainy Summer"
Dawn will find them still again - Edna St Vincent Millay "Sorrow"
Tenderness that fell from the new dawn - George Logan Moore "Love's Transfiguration" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.1-v.I, 6 Jan. 1884]
Laden with the precious freight dawn brings - William Moore "Expectancy"
When dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky - Sarojini Naidu "Street Cries"
Together drunk of many an alien dawn - Sarojini Naidu "To Youth"
May drift a wreck ere dawn of day - John Napier "Which?" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.126-v.III, 29 May 1886]
Dawn marks the reign of Sun - A.R. Narayanan "Man"
Golden fires consumed dawn's keep - Francis Neilson "When You Were Born"
The pigs hold up the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger
Preserved the original sparks of dawn - Pablo Neruda "The Birds Arrive" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Heroes of an acid-etched dawn - Pablo Neruda "Cristobal Miranda (Shoveler, Tocopilla)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Day dawns without debts - Pablo Neruda "Day Dawns" transl. by Alastair Reid
The muscles that disregard the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Then dawn filled all the goblets - Pablo Neruda "Morning" transl. by Stephan Tapscott
In the crevice drilled by dawn - Pablo Neruda "Not Only the Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Amber coffins carried by the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Fruits just stolen from the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The fishes of the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Age" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
The teeth of every dawn - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The darkness asking the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The hard thread that will uphold the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The desert of the forgotten dawn - Pablo Neruda "There's No Forgiving" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Quartered the light of the implacable dawn - Pablo Neruda "Tupac Amaru (1781)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Fresh dawning after the dews of blood - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"
Holds in store the dawn - Meredith Nicholson "Song"
Fresh from the dawn of life - Sarah Noble-Ives "On the Shining Way"
When the dawn hides the three hunters - Margaret Noodin "Gidiskinaadaa Mitigwaakiing/Woodland Liberty"
But midnight fades to dawn - Bruce Nugent "My Love"
The echo right before dawn - Naomi Shihab Nye "Alien Rescue"
Three secret hours before dawn - Naomi Shihab Nye "Muchas Gracias por Todo"
In the familiar fabric of dawn - Mary Oliver "Sunrise"
The indefinite unshapen dawn - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"
Under the light of that unwanted dawn - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"
Dread the dawn's recurrent light - Dorothy Parker "Symptom Recital"
And morning's dawn awakened naught - Samuel D. Patterson "The Prayer of the Dying Girl" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Remember how light dawned in chapters - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Tasted midnights and dawns, delayed twilight - Marisca Pichette "Waning, Waning"
Ache with the chill of dawn water - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson
On the hills of dawn - Alexander Posey "On the Hills of Dawn"
The cool cloisters of the dawn - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"
Other spirits exhaled before dawn - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"
In a treaty at the dawn of time - Rena Priest "The Index"
Grim in the light of dawn - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Cloud and the Mountain"
To whom the darkness whispers of the dawning - Edward Sprague Rand "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
Companions of dawn, partners of rain - Victoria Redel "The Pact"
Crowned in the aureole of dawn - M. Regan "The Hollow"
When the black irises lean at dawn - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Great dawns of inner mornings - Mark Rich "To Sleep"
Till the dark and the dawning meet - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "Song of the Little Winds"
From the dawning shall borrow - Henry Scott Riddell "Flora's Lament"
At dawn before the locusts - Lola Ridge "The Alley"
Golden spools of the sun and dawns - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Pierced with the white crow of dawn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Who saw the dawn break over Egypt - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Like a taper forgotten in the dawn - Lola Ridge "Labor"
Wild trees that strain against the dawn - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"
A tentacle of the vast dawn - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"
Bearing strange symbols to the new dawn - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"
Little white runners before the dawn - Lola Ridge "To the Free Children"
A word the color of dawn - Lynn Riggs "Spring Morning--Santa Fe"
Or in the pink of dawn - James Whitcombe Riley "Summer-Time and Winter-Time"
The gray, phantom shadows of dawn - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Beyond the sequence of the dawn - Charles G.D. Roberts "O Earth, Sufficing All Our Needs"
Before earth's dawn hour thought to wane - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Forget-Me-Not"
Forget the night in dawning day - Corinne Roosevelt Robinson "From a Motor in May"
What the dawn of one more day shall give them - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
When hell waits on the dawn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
Tinged her eyes with love-light's dawning - F. Rochat "My Baby" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.710, 4 Aug. 1877]
But we wait for a day that dawns not - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
And one star waits for the dawning light - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"
Dawned instantly supreme - Alice Wellington Rollins "Among Those Joys for Which We Utter Praise"
A miracle destroy the dawn - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
Your elbows in the dawn - Isaac Rosenberg "Sleep"
Dance in my Heart at Dawn - Rumi "The Beloved All in All" transl. by Rev. Professor Hastie
Inherit thoughts whose dawn is life - J.S. "Hymn of a Hermit" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
To him the dawn is punctual - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Between these penciled lines of dusk & dawn - Ann K. Schwader "Deconstructing Night"
Rolls from the face of the dawn - Frederick George Scott "Calvary"
Her moon-candle burns till dawn - Frederick George Scott "In the Woods"
Like dawn indebted to light - Nicole Sealey "object permanence"
Midnight feast and famished dawn - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"
Welling back from the raw, red dawn of life - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
The curve of a pilgrimage awaiting dawn - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"
Of a pilgrimage awaiting dawn - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"
To curdle dawns uneaten skin - Betsy Sharp "Alarm"
And so we lingered not for dawn - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
With the dawn my tireless feet were led - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Regret"
The glad, first herald of triumphant dawn - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
Jewels of dawn in the cool night's breeze - Joyce Sidman "In the Almost-Light"
A rooster has found the dawn - Joyce Sidman "Song in a Strange Land"
The ashen dawn of Autumn - Clark Ashton Smith "Belated Love"
Iron rays of dawn relentless - Clark Ashton Smith "Desolation"
Flaming shields of dawns between - Clark Ashton Smith "The Land of Evil Stars"
Cried to me in a dawn of dreams - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Enkindling dawns of memory - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Facing the looked-for dawn - Effie Smith "Toward Sunrise"
Dawn tangled with my dust - Patricia Smith "Only Everything I Own"
Courteous as dawn over a heron - Richard Solomon "Homecoming (For Linda)"
Their brief victories of dusk and dawn - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"
Dawn moon passing ruined forts - Ssu-k'ung Shu "The Rebellion Over, I See Off a Friend Who Is Returning North" transl. by Burton Watson
a spirit pleading for the next break of dawn - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"
Past the crystal thresholds of the dawn - George Sterling "The Caged Eagle"
The crimson fountains of the dawn - George Sterling "Duandon"
Turn my gaze to the dawn - George Sterling "Rainbow's End"
Whose light is not in the refusing dawn - George Sterling "Thy Laughing Loveliness"
The ghost of dawns forgotten - George Sterling "The Tides of Change"
The cold glories of the dawn - Robert Louis Stevenson "The House Beautiful"
The crimson dawn breaks through - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"
Dream-besieged, made dawn and midnight one - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"
From this poor broken twilight to rebuild the Dawn - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
The pale flamingoes of the dawn - L.A.G. Strong "The Bird Man"
Dew-drunken daffodils shouting the dawn - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"
Pink with the dawn of my promise - Marguerite Swawite "I Am Woman"
In the dawn's rekindling urn - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Eyes full of dawning day - Algernon Swinburne "First Footsteps"
The dreamy decline of the dawn - A.C. Swinburne "Nephelidia"
Cruel dawn, with icy, deathlike eyes and hollow voice - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
As rest forbids the cruel dawn to break - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
My baggage ready at dawn - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson
Fainting on the shores of Dawn - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Taj Mahals that rise out of the mist at dawn - Keith Taylor "Picasso and the Taj Mahal"
Dawn had taken in the stars - Sara Teasdale "Morning Song"
For the measured dawns - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"
Her struggling dawn, convulsed or bright - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
So along in the enormous dawn - Iris Tree "[The curtains are drawn as though it still were night]"
Shall softer than the dawn come stealing - Herbert Trench "I Heard a Soldier"
In clear dawn departing - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
Slept on unknowing in that early dawn - Tsiang-Tien "To the Dancing-Girl Siao-Ling" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Akin to dawn, the daisy and the sea - Louis Untermeyer "How Much of Godhood"
where dawn is denied a body - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"
Irradiate with flaming dawns - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Joy" transl. by Alma Strettell
Unbreakable dawn mounting in your throat - Ocean Vuong "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"
New dawns beyond Hell's night - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
The moon arcs now from that dawn to this - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]
From dawn till the stars reappear - Arthur Weir "Jules' Letter"
What throne can dawn upraise - Winifred Welles "Exile"
Let the lamb wake in the dawn - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Come Shaker Life"
Kept my vigil in the waste till dawn began - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Till dawn began to walk among the ruins - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
The silver dawn of night that melts the dark - Edith Wharton "Impromptu"
Dawning Spring time's fairest pledge - Edith Wharton "Prophecies of Summer"
Other hearts beyond the dawn - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"
Through the hush of dawn a glad good-bye - Helen Hay Whitney "Beneath the Moon"
One amber dawn's delight - Helen Hay Whitney "Persephone"
My heart must wake at dawn - Helen Hay Whitney "To-Morrow"
Dawn's chorus is a peace-making operation - Amie Whittemore "Future History of Earth's Birds"
Fadeless and fair is that glorious dawn - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Dawn comes with empty arms - John Wieners "For Huncke"
Nor dawn nor eventide nor any light we know - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"
Like dawn on the pond - Crystal Williams "The Voice of God"
The dawn in which one bird believes - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"
Know again the tune of dawn - Humbert Wolfe "At Noontide Seeking"
What bird is singing in the dawn - Humbert Wolfe "Cleopatra"
Dawns that scatter like startled birds - Humbert Wolfe "The Jungle"
Given strength at dawn - Nancy Wood "Beginning Time"
Have visions only of the dawn - Willard Huntington Wright "What of the Night?"
A morning star to hail the dawning year - "The Year" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
At dawn the phantoms fly - Francis Brett Young "Before Action"
Mist into tomorrow's dawns - Javier Zamora "Abuela Says Goodbye"
Powerless before the dawn-borne rains - Li Yu "[Blossoms of the wood have scattered]" transl. by Burton Watson
Dawn-dream of my heart - Clinton Scollard "Elusion"
He stalks until the dawn-stars burn away - Vachel Lindsay "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
To rail at the dawn-watch wind - Wang Chien "Palace Song" transl. by Burton Watson
Still in its prehistoric silver-dawn atmosphere - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"
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