Potential Titles: Down

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To look adown the cavernous abyss - Claude Halcro "Niagara"

Adown the clefts of under-space - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"


I lie down each numbered night - Anne Carly Abad "Exchange"

Down by the oaks tonight - Seth Abramson "The Woods in Concord"

Drifting down through the dissolving parachutes - Duane Ackerson "Infinite Zero"

Jerking down a pathway to eternity - Linda Addison "Evolving"

Metal, plastic, glass running down a roadway to infinity - Linda Addison "Evolving"

Skeleton trees bow down - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"

If one could get down there and hide - Joan Aiken "Down Below"

Descend down this flaming Sun-stream - Daisy Aldan "Vertical Is Our New Sight"

The dust of twilight sifting down - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"

Let down the lightning from a sultry sky - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Up and down a chain of moods - Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"

The escalator, rolling ever down - Mike Allen "Ascending"

Longed to pour galaxies down his throat - Mike Allen "Deluge"

Do not accept, we whisper down the soul-webs - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"

A ghost ride down the corridor of the city - Alise Alousi "Skip"

Until I jotted down my gratitude - Julia Alvarez "Why I Write"

Down from the fields of night - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Brook"

All the lifetimes sift down like golden grains - Mouna Ammar "Inheritance"

A handyman when something breaks down - Mouna Ammar "Ode to Ammou"

Walking down cracked sidewalks - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

Clings to anything nailed down - Ralph Angel "Sampling"

Bones breaking down to the ground - William Archila "Bury This Pig"

Go down in mortal conflict - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"

Upside down at dusk - Rae Armantrout "Provenance"

Ticking down into rust - Simon Armitage "Prometheus"

Pheasants flew down from the rafters - "At Fifteen I Went Off to the Army" transl. by Burton Watson

Down half the moon of sky - Atticus "Magic in Her"

Down the road and back again - Derrick Austin "The Birthday Interviews"

Until the sun bowed down to me - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Life whittled down to fiction - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Thin"

And gentlest ray of stars glide down - Rev. Rufus Henry Bacon "Woman's Heart:--A Sonnet. For Julia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Dieted down to twelve hours of light - Mary Jo Bang "The Beauties of Nature"

Looking down at the nothing that's left - Mary Jo Bang "Everything that Was Is Now Owned"

Both sides of Apollo will look down on us - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"

A ball that rolls down a timeless hill - Mary Jo Bang "The Wallpaper behind the Day"

Colossal Power with overwhelming force bears down - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Three paces down the shore - Djuna Barnes "Serenade"

Brain thin whips to beat you down - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"

wear down my sorrow - Elizabeth Bartlett "guadalajara"

And bring down the sun - Elizabeth Bartlett "Not Just Once"

Glide down vertical waves of light - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sleepwalkers"

caught swirling autumn down - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"

bow down and lift me to the sun - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"

Reclaimed emeralds pouring like stars down my neck - Ennis Rook Bashe "We Have Slain the Savage Martians, but Their Princess Escaped"

Pealing down the vale of time - Cora C. Bass "A Song to the Zephyr"

Throw down the pruning axe - Cora C. Bass "Spare the Trees"

Strip each rib down to light - Ellen Bass "Wilderness"

Weighted down with my distrust - Charles Baudelaire "To a Madonna" transl. not credited

Rolls headlong down the steep - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

Throw the red flag down - Jan Beatty "Drag"

And rattles down the pebbly shore - Thomas Lovell Beddoes "To Sea"

With singed pinions tumbling down - "The Belles of Williamsburg"

Lazy paws of light claw idly up and down - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"

Whose eyes can beat down lions' eyes - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

And the kites drop down in a ring - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Down in a mud of blood and dirt and wine - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"

They've stopped the Lethe, down in Hell - Stephen Vincent Benet "Prohibition"

A black shield thrust down on earth - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"

A posse of ghosts chasing down life - Paul Bernstein "Night Mares: a Cinquain"

Stepped down from galaxies - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"

The kiosk shutters crash down - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"

Snap-frozen in the blizzards called down by Baba Yaga - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"

Nothing to lose by touching down - Terry Blackhawk "Query"

The labour of whole ages tumbles down - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Runs in blood down palace walls - William Blake "London"

When the stars threw down their spears - William Blake "The Tiger"

Drink down so many angers - Robert Bly "The Man Who Walks Toward Us"

And down in one hole they did dwell - G. Boare "What Became of Them?"

Down a glaring maze of walls - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Forest"

Pushed down by silence - Maxwell Bodenheim "Minna (IX)"

Start crying down the wrath of Baal - Nelson S. Bond "The Ballad of Blaster Bill" [Planet Stories summer 1941 issue]

Unhappy hills, bowed down with broken backs - Arna Bontemps "Golgotha Is a Mountain"

The flame will go down in the flower - Arna Bontemps "Length of Moon"

And I have broken down before the wind - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne of the Wharves"

They have broken roses down - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"

Down a hall where your portrait becomes ancestral - Bruce Boston "Futurity Wears the Head"

Down to the last stray molecule and rebel atom - Bruce Boston "The Last Alchemist"

Tying down the wind with rope or chain or tackle - Bruce Boston "Wind People"

To cook down to syrup with chicory leaves and clover - Catherine Bowman "Pears"

Winter chased us down the coast - Elizabeth Bradfield "Pursuit"

Clamping down on each homesick wish - Lisa M. Bradley "The Skin Walker's Wife"

Down the tide of Time - William Stanley Braithwaite "It's a Long Way"

Dream upside down - Shannon Bramer "Dreaming Upside Down"

Through the hedge and down the furrow - Nicholas Breton "The Happy Countryman"

Down a rare path - Lucie Brock-Broido "How Can It Be I Am No Longer I"

Presses down my shrinking heart - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

Stooped down into the starlight - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

Before tornadoes whistle damage down - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"

A tumbleweed down the waxed hallway - Nickole Brown "Mercy"

Delighted by life's parade throwing its confetti down - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Realism hastening down that leaden street - Paul Cameron Brown "The Gathering of Dead Wood"

Have dried down to the root - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Change on Change"

Sit down among your senses - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Treading down the steps of cloud - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Pan, down in the reeds by the river - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"

Down their silvery glances - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

With one plunge leaped down the sheer abyss - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Witches chasing down shadows - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"

Tread those reviving passions down - Lord Byron "On this Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year"

Violet splendor melting down - W. Wilfred Campbell "Glory of the Dying Day"

Down under the iron hoof - W. Wilfred Campbell "A Present-Day Creed"

Eyes down as though you might be able to forget - Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello "The Houseguest"

Memory, down whose face the tears are streaming - Giosue Carducci "Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto" transl. by Frank Sewall

Bugle down the wintry verge of time - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"

Alluring up and enticing down - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Joys of the Road"

No lie poured down the stairs - Tina Chang "Infinite and Plausible"

Wings pushing down metaphor - Victoria Chang "The Trees Witness Everything"

Folded down into yourself - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"

The holy kings ride down by Severn side - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

Down to the buried kingdoms creep - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"

The seven heavens came roaring down - G.K. Chesterton "Wine and Water"

Whittled down to smoke and doubt - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"

Everyone scared of being cut down - May Chong "Kamcia"

Determined to drag one down to their bottom line - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"

Down from your mountains of emerald and gold - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

galloping down the highway of my life - Lucille Clifton "hag riding"

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

Down the wet ways of despair - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

Away down the sky - Hilda Conkling "Adventure"

The fickle glitter looked in anger down - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

In long procession down the stream of Time - E. Coungeau "Peace"

The gulf goes down to Hell - James H. Cousins "Schakhe"

Down the edge of hostile spears- Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"

Down Death's mildewed stair - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"

Bringing the skyline down with her - Dorsey Craft "Ode to Sex and the City"

Making cunning noiseless travel down the ways - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Cast down from heights to languish - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Runs crafty down the wind - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Tunneled my hunger down deep - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"

Down alleyways of dreams - Countee Cullen "Harlem Wine"

petals danced against my eyes and down - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"

down the singing reaches of my soul - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"

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)"

Where the Rhine pours down its sounding tide - Charlotte Cushman "Duchess de la Valliere"

Shake the stars down for your sake - Olive Custance "Blue Flowers"

From lonely downs and silent woods - Olive Custance "The Vision"

Beat not the portal down - H.D. "Flute Song"

The scratching of a mouse may echo down my mind - Edward L. Davison "In This Dark House"

Rocks used to hold an angel down - Tyree Daye "The Tomato Women's Meetings: The Washing of Hands"

And down the wings of Pegasus would fold - Tomas de Iriarte "Epistle to Don Domingo de Iriarte, on His Travelling to Various Foreign Courts" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

That bowed down like barley - Walter de la Mare "I Saw Three Witches"

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

Surge pell-mell down the Milky Way - Walter de la Mare "The Ride-by-Nights"

My heart is broken down with bitter pain - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Since, O my Love, I may behold no more]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

As the stars breathe destiny down on us - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #2"

Knowledged strapped down like a knapsack - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

Wandering down the latitudes - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love X: Transplanted"

Belted down with emerald - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XI: My Rose"

Laid her docile crescent down - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XIX: The Monument"

Or upside down water - Michael Dickman "Broadway"

Down through all the saints' isles - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

Warm as whiskey chased down with cold water - Chris Dombrowski "Nostrums (Bill Monroe)"

Down here in this lack of wind - Chris Dombrowski "Still Life with Starlight"

Fell sideways instead of down - Chris Dombrowski "Wintering"

Backward down the blind gulfs of night - Edward Dowden "To a Year"

And with inquiries stoop down - Edward Doyle "To a Child Reading"

Three times up and three times down - Theodore Dreiser "The Spring Recital"

Wheel like a maelstrom up and down - Rebecca Dunham "Mnemosyne to the Poet"

The adamantine door bolted down - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"

Thirsty reaching down for roots - Kathy Engel "It would be water"

Breaks down walls of stone - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Reaches down to the fifty Deep Seas - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 8. E-Kishnugal, the Temple of Nanna in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle

Brought down from heaven's heart - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle

Down to the fatal shore where sirens smile - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"

Set down into this new atmosphere - Kristina Erny "Abduction"

Accelerate down the line to steal home - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"

Then blood gurgled down the corners, the streets and the rivers - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "In One Sentence"

Rains down light like argent snows - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"

Music up and down the wind - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"

And the wind kneels down in me - Joseph Fasano "Mahler in New York"

Down on humbled, human knees - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"

Down the avenue of lamp-posts - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Dancing down the sunlight's gold - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VI. To an Outrageous Person"

Bend down to what the sky has sent us - Annie Finch "Changing Woman"

A bugle dying down the gale - Mahlon Leonard Fisher "November"

Thy rocks shall down through time endure - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"

Down to the granite of patience - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

A daughter who brings the house down - Sandy Florian "House"

I build and cast down the dream - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

Call down moose from the mountain - Carolyn Forche "Calling Down the Moose"

Down on bruised knees - T'ai Freedom Ford "ode to an African urn"

Goes down burning into the gulf below - Robert Frost "Acceptance"

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

So dawn goes down to day - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers - Robert Frost "The Oven-Bird"

Down the ample arcade of the night - Zona Gale "Umbra"

Where the grasses bow down obedient to the blast - Deborah Garrison "Atlantic Wind"

Strange shadows led me down - Theodosia Garrison "The Child"

Everything that pulls me down to ruin - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"

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

Skip along down the moonbeams - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "The Fairies' Ball"

With courage beat your enemies down - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"

As stars burn down like candle-wicks - Louis Golding "The Moon-Clock"

Down crags of song reverberate - Louis Golding "The Singer of High State"

The brown larks of the dwindling down - Louis Golding "Skylark Noon"

When that call came down the wind - Mona Gould "So Fair a Season"

Our moments shared shall crumble down to dust - Mona Gould "Some Quiet Day ... Perhaps"

the fireworks' ashes rain down - Layla Azmi Goushey "Dream Particles"

Music rained down ineffably sweet - Herbert H. Gowen "The Little Grey Lamb"

Down dirty streets in stench and smoke - Robert Graves "Oh, and Oh!"

Down payments on possibility - torrin a. greathouse "The Body of a Girl Lies on the Asphalt Like the Body of a Girl"

Come down from the light that blinds - Scott E. Green "Killers from the Light, Killers from the Heat"

To crush the mighty yearning down - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Its cunning corrective to up and down - Linda Gregerson "Over Easy"

Sit her down mute as Sorrow's daughter - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

I see her pale face looking down - Viscountess Grey "Echo"

Cut down a tree on top of a hellmouth - Carrie Grigorian "Baking in Different Conditions"

Down the blossomed aisle of April - Louise Imogen Guiney "Borderlands"

Down Time's star-lucent stream - Louise Imogen Guiney "Cyclamen"

Gone down into the night - Ivor Gurney "Hail and Farewell"

The down of that pure azure breast - G.H. "The Blue Bird" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Choke down snake of shame - Tara Hardy "Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor)"

By bearing down the western road - Thomas Hardy "On a Discovered Curl of Hair"

Meeting those meandering down - Thomas Hardy "Snow in the Suburb"

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

Stumbled down into your own shadow - Joy Harjo "The Returning"

And saints were casting down their crowns - Frances E. Watkins Harper "Fishers of Men"

Swirl down the sun - francine j. harris "feeder"

Stitch them tight or burn them down - K.D. Harryman "Whipping"

Cascading down the glacial spills of granite - Robert Hass "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"

Down in the anywhere streets - Robert Hayden "Soledad"

To bed me down among my love's hideouts - Seamus Heaney "The Betrothal of Cavehill"

Vocabulary of doubt and down - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"

Gold coins raining down on her - Mary Hickman "Everything Is Autobiography and Everything Is a Portrait"

Traveling down instead of across - Mary Hickman "Helen"

Whispers finding their way down and out - Conrad Hilberry "Bowl"

The emptiness sits down and waits - Conrad Hilberry "Explosions at 4:00 A.M."

Two starlings sail down the wind - Conrad Hilberry "March Birthday"

Scattered down the unmarked trails - Conrad Hilberry "Open"

Down loyal Art's lost corridor of Time - Jennie Earngey Hill "My Tribute"

Has echoed down the ages as truth - John Northern Hilliard "Iconoclasm" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]

Put down its roots below the phyla - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"

Went down to the ferris wheel - Brenda Hillman "Sediments of Santa Monica"

Walked up and down my barren rows - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"

Set down your flammable colors - Jane Hirshfield "My Debt"

Down into the jawbone of the earth - Tony Hoagland "Scotch Tape"

Cranes and gaudy parrots go up and down - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

Go up and down the burning sky - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

Dwindled down with shame and grief - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

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

Bleak horse with its music breaking down - Carlie Hoffman "Memory of France"

Watch true brews slide down that mahogany bar - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"

Down to man's last dust - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Sea and the Skylark"

And Truth walk down the sounding aisles - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Down the blank visage of the wall - William D. Howells (uncredited) "The Old Homestead" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Grind the fable of my life down - Jane Huffman "On Moving"

Lie down in the shadow - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"

Down wet and slippery roads to hell - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"

And chant down stars - Ishion Hutchinson "Roof Nightclub"

A blazing comet drop down hail - "I Saw a Peacock"

Misty fragments down its face - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: Sea-Mews in Winter Time"

And falling down in thunder - Jean Ingelow "The Star's Monument"

Sift down his charity of snow - Scharmel Iris "Foreboding"

Down slumber's vine I'll send him dreams - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

And rained down flowers of speech - "IV: Mexica Otoncuicatl | An Otomi Song of the Mexicans" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Tamping down the day's anarchy - Linda Susan Jackson "Nailing Things Down"

Loud timbales and drums blasting down - Major Jackson "Mighty Pawns"

Drifted down the steps in an ebony fog - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

Which failure cannot cast down nor success make proud - Robinson Jeffers "Rock and Hawk"

Came slowly down the dismal shore - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]

Weighed us down as Samson in the temple - Fenton Johnson "The New Day"

Mercy walks down a different block - Patricia Spears Jones "Saturnine"

That tapers down to salt poured in the breach - June Jordan "Alla Tha's All Right, But"

Chase me down death's way - June Jordan "I guess it was my destiny to live so long"

But here is the axe coming down - Janet Kauffman "Oh, Corporeal"

They lie down and roar and burn - Janet Kauffman "Slashed"

Runs down in crumbling cadence - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Tastes like ash going down - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"

Lest I sink down beneath my load - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

Crept down into its depths - Fanny Kemble "Written After Leaving West Point"

Stripped down to the brown of my mind - Vandana Khanna "Monologue for a Goddess in Her First Incarnation"

Down on the stubborn floor of Earth - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Called down wind to shatter - Aline Murray Kilmer "Shards"

And from the clouds will fetch thee down - Henry Killigrew "Song [While Morpheus thus does gently lay]"

Can be dreamed up and shot down - Mia King "Abracadabra"

Lay down this weight of sceptred misery - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Lie down for an aeon or two - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"

And sit down among honest seagulls - Sarah Kirsch "Sad Day in Berlin" transl. by Gerda Mayer

Spiraled down through the family history - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"

Down to each numbered bone - Yusef Komunyakaa "Canticle"

Where a cold wind pinches clothespins down an empty line - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"

Climbing the beanstalk down the gravity well - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"

No matter how hard you nail it down - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"

the heat current shutting down - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

The pine tree lay down its needles - Danusha Lameris "Let Rain Be Rain"

Down the gray border of night - Archibald Lampman "An October Sunset"

Another talisman to fasten down the day - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

As the last tune burns down to embers - Joan Larkin "The Combo"

Morning light sliding down - Dorianne Laux "I Never Wanted to Die"

A minnow down some wild mill-race - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VIII: To a Forgotten Triton"

Took her down our twisted stair - Emily Lawless "The Third Trumpet: a Ballad of Meath, May 1, 1654"

Draws down the winter's frown - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

Run down the labyrinth of the sinister flower - D.H. Lawrence "Bombardment"

Down the tendrilled avenues of wine - D.H. Lawrence "Grapes"

Down the strange lanes of hell - D.H. Lawrence "Medlars and Sorb-Apples"

As an eagle staring down on the Sun - D.H. Lawrence "St John"

Down the winding stair of love - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

A ragged orchestra chasing down time - Stephen Leggett "So Happy to Have a Coat with Pockets"

Should I deign to dive an atom deeper down - Henry S. Leigh "A Wild Hunt"

The virulent water beat my flame down to ash - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"

The platform winding down - Keith Leonard "Museum"

Though thrones may totter down - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Shall go down to future ages as heroes - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

The long shadows settle down to rest - Philip Levine "For the Country: The Garden"

Go on two legs down the stairs and out - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

Dances down the sky - J. Patrick Lewis "Aurora Borealis"

Down the long corridors of memory - M.L. Liebler "I Want to Be Once"

To lie down on your inconsistent shore - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Down like a wind-smashed fence - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

Swim the violent current down Broadway - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"

Watch down the highway - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Summer"

Calcified gravity, built up and broken down - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

Moon rolling down the gutter of the same sky - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

A small greyhound run down both hart and hind - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Catches the stars and pulls them down - Amy Lowell "A Little Song"

Sifts down between the uneven roofs - Amy Lowell "Solitaire"

Down through mist the sunbeams slide - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"

Threw down our golden citadel - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Floodwater pulling me down - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

Come down the heavenly stair - George MacDonald "The Christmas Child"

Powder seeping down walls - D. Keali'i MacKenzie "Miracles Welcome"

Whistle down the corridor of your memory - Naomi Long Madgett "Small Wind"

Comes down to the repulsion of electrons - Ruth Madievsky "Electrons"

Dreams down its cadenced monologues - Stephane Mallarme "L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune" (translated by Aldous Huxley)

Went down in jewelled fire - Stephane Mallarme "L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune" (translated by Aldous Huxley)

Down wells of time - Jeannette Marks "Mist"

Love and I laughed down the fates - Don Marquis "Across the Night"

To the cool stars peering down - Don Marquis "New York"

Down aisles of tangled underwood - Don Marquis "The Rondeau"

Follow the moon down the sidewalk - Maya Marshall "The Field of Blood"

Where shaken sunlight slowly filters down - John Masefield "Cardigan Bay"

Our shrouds new rattled down - John Masefield "A Night at Dago Tom's"

A slim lilac drew me down - Florence Ripley Mastin "Discovery"

Hunkered down in the old fallout shelter - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"

All his triumphs gone down in doom - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"

Dropped fantastic shadows down - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"

Went down in beauty - George Marion McClellan "The Sun Went Down in Beauty"

Their hurt seeps down into the dirt - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

Bowed down for one flame hour - Claude McKay "The City's Love"

Down through the days of my living - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"

Crowds of stars trailing it down the west - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson

Galvanic impulses dialed down - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"

Ground down and thrown on the metallic topiary - Joanne Merriam "Improving on Nature"

Remnants handed down as patchwork - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Frightened birds shot cruelly down - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

Around the tossing park and down the softened street- Alice Meynell "West Wind in Winter"

Which Lucifer in rage from God cast down - Adam Mickiewicz "Baktschi Serai By Night" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Infinity came down - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Renascence"

Fling down that map and measure - Joaquin Miller "Usland to the Boers"

Down the gold tipped September elms - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"

Further down pinewoods' blood horizon - Claire Millikin "Cupboard"

Centuries of rain weighed the windows down - Claire Millikin "Dress Like a Girl"

Drew iron tears down Plato's cheek - John Milton "Il Penseroso"

Counts down the lightning - Jenny Molberg "Storm Coming"

The river down both our faces - Jenny Molberg "The Uncommon Mirror"

Slowed down for civilian conversation - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"

Crush all the particles down - Marianne Moore "To a Steam Roller"

That men still bow down to Caesar - Lewis Morris "Saint Christopher"

Tear down the fabric of ten thousand years - William Mountain "Dies Irae"

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

In golden haze melt down the amber sky - "My Psalm" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]

because I called down blood rains - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

Whirled a joyous tempest down - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"

Crashed down like a broken tower - Pablo Neruda "The First Sea" transl. by Alastair Reid

To set down the wine's scripture - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly

Lay down in the deepest shadow - Grace Fallow Norton "Love Is a Terrible Thing"

Down to their dreams of sunset - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"

A forest razed down to its knees - Omodero David Oghenekaro "Questions for the Fallen"

Down from the overcharged clouds - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

The moon and sun going down together - Sharon Olds "Suddenly"

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

Sift it down into fractions - Mary Oliver "Bone"

Went down like a thousand roses - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"

Fell down the side of the maple tree - Mary Oliver "Spring"

Burning down like a wild needle - Mary Oliver "West Wind 4"

Sing down an empty road - January Gill O'Neil "How to Love"

Down to the cleansing sea - James Oppenheim "Self"

Bringing the priestly heron down - Caitriona O'Reilly "IV. The Curee (from A Quartet for the Falcon)"

Chased the sun down cobblestone mazes - Mayra Paris "New York, 2009"

Folds down the banners of the sun - Gilbert Parker "It Is Enough"

Dormant tears stream down my face - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"

Blown down in the streets of Jericho - Andre F. Peltier "At the Grave of Little Sadie"

That pool of slow gold scraped down - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

To at least go down singing - Carl Phillips "After Learning that the Spell Is Irreversible"

The field lays down its winded swords - Carl Phillips "Capella"

Strong enough to bring the stars down - Carl Phillips "This Far In"

As to which wind to bow down for - Carl Phillips "What They Did, Who They Did it With"

The divine thrown down to us - Xan Forest Phillips "I Never Used to Write About Birds"

Neither the angels in heaven above nor the demons down under the sea - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"

Down all the stretch of Carpetbaggers - Alexander Posey "The Fall of the Redskin"

Taproots growing down through treasure caverns - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Nidhigg"

Down this interstate of solitude - Joy Priest "Looking for the Beautiful Things"

Any friend that's been turned down is bound to be a friend of mine - John Prine

Sliding down the rain-filled darkness - Kevin Prufer "Rain"

Until my pain is upside down - Khadijah Queen "Something About the Way I Am Made Is Not Made"

Lay down your head upon my knee - "The Queen of Elfland"

To wrestle down family ghosts - Sina Queyras "Years"

The road winds down in deepening shadow - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Dawn Among the Olive Groves"

To hurtle headlong down each slick & proper lane - Jacie Ragan "The Secret Lives of Fingerprints"

Down the sorrow of the wind - Herbert Randall "Cry of the Wounded Loon"

A shadow tiptoes down the blue - Herbert Randall "Sundown on the Marshes"

Down the spaces of the wind - Herbert Randall "The Tryst of Nations"

While Triton thunders down the gale - Herbert Randall "The White Pine"

Lay your millstone down - Diane Raptosh "American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument"

Glides down my drowsy indolence - T. Buchanan Read "Drifting"

As down the future years I gaze - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Light of Our Home" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

We take off down the same backroads - m.s. RedCherries "the end cannot be me"

Watch his comrades close down the sky - Roger Reeves "The Head of the Cottonmouth"

How the unsaid presses down on our human bodies - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"

Tears rolled down a cheek of stone - Ariana Reines "The Economy"

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

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

Bone and sinew dragging mountains down - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

Down into rich and endless darkness - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"

Where the stars drip down - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"

Creeps down empty alleys - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Bride" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Solitude floats down the river wan - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Melt me down with your charms - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

Down the void withdrawn - Charles G.D. Roberts "Eastward Bound"

The ages circle down beyond recalling - Charles George Douglas Roberts "The Falling Leaves"

Singing down the leafless aisles to the budding year - Lloyd Roberts "Spring's Singing"

Ceaseless winds that eddy down to whip the iron street - Lloyd Roberts "The Winter Harvest"

To replace the lie passed down to you - Valencia Robin "Naming Yourself"

Where the sun goes down without a scratch - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Archibald's Example"

Suns go down beyond the windy seas - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"

Red and gold strike down the twilight dim - Rennell Rodd "In Chartres Cathedral"

Glide down the music's swell - Rennell Rodd "In Chartres Cathedral"

Till the owl's long cry dies down - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"

Lay your costly roses down - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"

A dais of silk and down - Christina Rossetti "A Birthday"

When the trees bow down their heads - Christina Rossetti "Who Has Seen the Wind"

The despair that flows down in widest rivers - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"

Love gone down with song - Muriel Rukeyser "The Poem as Mask"

From the rigid earth down to the depths of hell - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: I. The Creation of the Universe: Measurements of the Universe" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Goes down to eat ashes - Carl Sandburg "At the Gates of Tombs"

Down on the floors of salt and wet - Carl Sandburg "Bones"

And down in a garden old with years - Carl Sandburg "Follies"

Pulled down to earth - May Sarton "The O's of November"

not my down payment or my dowery - Sam Sax "My Hole. My Whole"

Boiled down all his blood to brine - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"

Permission to lie down forever - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #24"

Comes down as a bride to the sea - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"

Silt of stars washed down from skies - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Marker Memory"

Haunted mirrors stare down from all sides - Ann K. Schwader "Aurelia Aurita"

Crush down continents of powdered bones - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"

Down the dread current hurled - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

And down each stair they thronged - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Beneath the inward fire sinks down - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems II"

Flowing down like lingering light - Alexandra Seidel "The Honey Man"

Before I lie down in bed with my coins and shroud - Alexandra Seidel "Seven Truths and the In-Between"

Down the scarlet glittering street - Robert W. Service "The March of the Dead"

Down the facing mirrors of future and past - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"

Pulling her down to that rocky undertow - Lisa Sewell "The Land of Nod"

My soul bowed down with grief and care - W. Wallace Shaw "Passed Away" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Bound down with fetters fast - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Darkness that will tear the sky down - Julie Shiel "Cinderella"

quick light flowing down the back of my throat - Evie Shockley "black love"

Down the black stairs of death - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Ballad of the Fairy Thorn-Tree"

Drops down from the echoing room of night - Joyce Sidman "Bat Wraps Up"

Plunge down to deep worlds - Joyce Sidman "Deep Currents"

Hide down deep where the sun is not - Joyce Sidman "Song of the Water Boatman and Backswimmer's Refrain"

Incidental notes to weigh it down - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

the night slips down my throat - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"

Brought other Muses down to aid - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets I: Chaucer" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Slipped down from starry heavens to walk in other step - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

And the climber slips down gulfs of fear - Clark Ashton Smith "The Unrevealed"

Wove the long braid down my back - Maggie Smith "Twentieth Century"

Swagger up and down the shore - Tracy K. Smith "In Brazil"

Life sears a path down the throat - Tracy K. Smith "In Brazil"

Where survival wrestled his angels down - Richard Solomon "Ba'al Teshuva"

Counting down the heartbeats of eternity - Richard Solomon "Possession IX: Prayer Beads"

A hundred feet down a filigree of ice - Richard Solomon "Writing Itself"

The sun that will not go down again - Marin Sorescu "Seneca" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Roistering down the centuries - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"

Weighed down with many a red-cheeked little Cain - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

Thrown me down on a stony shore - Elizabeth Spires "Troubadour at a Fork in the Road"

Down in the land of roses - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "[Down in the land of roses]"

And tumble zig-zag down - Clarence Victor Stahl "Enmity"

Drinks it down with a glass of gin - A.E. Stallings "Drinking Song"

Crouching down where nothing stirs - James Stephens "The Goat Paths"

The orange far down in yellow - Wallace Stevens "The Green Plant"

The wind pours down - Wallace Stevens "Ploughing on Sunday"

Our cup is upside down - Kate R. Stiles "Lines Written on a Stormy Night"

A swan and shadow floating down - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

That would trample truth down in the dust - Arthur Stringer "The Children"

Falter up and down a tracery of years - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"

Crows flapped down to keep the boatman company - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson

Spellbound, silent, down a shimmering track of light - Alan Sullivan "The Widower's Lullaby"

To quaff down a forest fire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 18: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The lion who peers down the well - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 224: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Crows shout down from the canopy - Alison Swan "The Old Days"

Up and down the funnels of evolution - Chad Sweeney "Prophecy of a Monday"

That live down here in shade - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Drawn down through desperate ways - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

Slammed the lid down on the twilight - Mary Szybist "What If I Could Look At You"

The road the sun lays down in light - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"

Deep down in my mind where it all turns inside out - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"

Weigh down the wings of airborn birds - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"

Down the blue fields of the untraveled Infinite - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Down past empty baseball diamonds - Keith Taylor "The Skateboard Park, Seen from Afar"

Half a mile down from Monticello - Tess Taylor "Eighteenth Century Remains"

When the parched river drank you down - Shveta Thakrar "A Love in Twelve Feathers"

Down the rivers of the windfall light - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

Down the arches of the years - Francis Thompson "The Hound of Heaven"

When earth and heaven lay down their veil - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

Comes floating down in long vibration - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

Down the endless chords of time - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

Down descends in orbs of white - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: III. Thoughts"

A living veil drops down from the sky - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"

Iberia's brood with iron sway kept down - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Scornfully dashes its surging billows down - "The Tide" [The Continental Monthly v.II - Nov., 1862 - no.VI]

Danced misfortune's miseries down - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"

How like an Angel came I down - Thomas Traherne "Wonder"

A gutter down the white-hot streets of Hell - Iris Tree "Flame"

roller skate down the new sidewalk - David Trinidad "9773 Comanche Ave."

Never turn down a sedative - David Trinidad "Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera"

Send down their shining colors - Ts'ao P'i "Lotus Lake" transl. by Burton Watson

Piles aerial down the tide of dreams - H.T. Tuckerman "Luna.--An Ode" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

All the pale stars down bright rivers wept - W.J. Turner "Death"

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

Eating olives as the sun goes down - Chase Twichell "Never"

blue jays spun down from outer space - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

Pine roots wound down into the black, black mud - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Khrushchev took a crystal submarine down - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

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

Shut down and opened wrong - Jean Valentine "To Ireland"

Who knew how to bring the stars down to earth - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"

The mind lies down among them - Mark Van Doren "The Hills of Little Cornwall"

Tumble down and in upon our brains - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"

The impartial sun laughs down upon the battle - Henry van Dyke "The Fall of the Leaves"

Down the pathway of the night - Henry van Dyke "The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet"

Gleaming silverly down through the manifold bloom - Henry van Dyke "Sierra Madre"

Downs of gold beflecked with shadows' flight - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Silence" transl. by Alma Strettell

Gold rust down my back - Ocean Vuong "Immigrant Haibun"

Water whittled down to intention - Ocean Vuong "Immigrant Haibun"

This amber light whittled down - Ocean Vuong "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"

A tooth tossed down a well - Ocean Vuong "Queen Under the Hill"

Whittled down to a single red trip wire - Ocean Vuong "Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong"

The seas draw down the stars - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"

Go down to the grotto with your headlamp and crowbar - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"

And pearls of light rained down on me - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"

Monkeys peer down from the cliffs and cry - Wang Ts'an "Seven Sorrows" transl. by Burton Watson

Yellowed messages sailing down - Rosanna Warren "Boletus"

As the stag leaps down the mountain - Arthur Weir "Fleurs de Lys: The Captured Flag"

Creeping down by waterless defiles under an iron midnight - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Down the large shores of evening - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Move down the night's shore - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"

Ran down avenues of air - John Hall Wheelock "Of Day Came Night"

Beggar thoughts pass down the lanes - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"

A lost star I wander down your sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Flower of the Clove"

Tales that haunt the Brocken and whisper down the Rhine - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Down on the sharp-horned ledges - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Down these slopes of sunset lead - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"

Melt down the amber sky - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

Slow tracing down the thickening sky - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Climbed to shake the ripe nuts down - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Spring is gone down in purple - William Carlos Williams "Daisy"

Until the Hell-flower dies down - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"

Rooted, they grip down and begin - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]"

Instantly down the mists of my eyes - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

To trace down your ancestors' name - Huldah Lucile Winsted "In the Land of Dakota"

And smiling laid his cup of hemlock down - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"

When for us the stars go down - Humbert Wolfe "V.D.F. (Ave atque Vale.)"

The aspirations of youth burn down to char - Charles Wright "Grace II"

The stars will lean down and stare from their faceless spaces - Charles Wright "Nothing Is Written"

When the waters go down on their knees - Charles Wright "Time and the Centipedes of Night"

Mist candles down below - Charles Wright "Well, Roll On, Buddy, Don't You Roll Too Slow"

As Scorpio rises, Orion goes down - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

They have burned down my libraries - Assétou Xango "Eve"

Beloved stones rain down - "XII: Xopancuicatl Nenonotzalcuicatl Ipampa in Aquique Amo on Mixtilia in Yaoc | A Spring Song, a Song of Exhortation, Because Certain Ones Did Not Go to the War" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Rain down in wondrous showers - "XXVII" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

When you lay down your thorns - Wendy Xu "Praxis"

Where the Admiral gazes down - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton

Would clouds rain down nails from the heavens? - James F. Yockey "What If"

A piece of the sky has fallen down - Francis Brett Young "Easter"

Down through my circle of light - Francis Brett Young "Moths"

Drink the day down - Kevin Young "Russet"

A down payment on restraint - Josephine Yu "Plea of the Penitent"

And fall down in a beautiful tantrum - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

The dune bowling down meteors - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The rain sluices down the bent azaleas - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"


Breakdown way more wicked than Noah's flood - Mike Allen "Deluge"

A downcast silent regret - Frank J. Medina "Loneliness"

One field sparrow song down-falling - Janet Kauffman "Air Here"

Football players firing glory-cannons downfield - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Small rivulets still flowing downhill - Jane Hirshfield "I wanted to be surprised."

What the FBI already downloaded - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"

Downpour.

Anguish rushing downriver - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Irma Gate of Heaven"

The down-rushing arc of heaven - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

The downside of any evening's bright exchanges - Marilyn Hacker "Headaches"

While someone else's fortune drifts downstream - Dana Gioia "At the Crossroads"

Two old swans landing downstream - Richard Solomon "The River Through Your Eyes (For Linda)"

See eels wandering around downtown - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Eel Week"

The pale down-trodden aster lifts her head - Helen Hunt Jackson "November"

Downward.

Downwind through the winter weeds - Charles Wright "I've Been Sitting Here Thinking Back Over My Life..."

Five downy fledglings in a row - Edward Dowden "In the Cathedral Close"

Cobalt perfect from downy barbs to vanes - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"

A dropdown menu of dreams - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"

This new century of cosmic meltdown - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

Upside Down.


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