Potential Titles: Earth
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somethingdarkerMovable earth on mutable axis - Sheikha A. "Nesters"
And give the earth her green again - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
What conjuring stirs up this earth - Elmaz Abinader "Falling into the Ocean"
The last words you hear on earth - Jessica Abughattas "Failed Poems"
Triangulate its distance from Earth - Duane Ackerson "Taking Back the Moon"
Almost muffled by the earth in their mouths - Duane Ackerson "What If"
The full choir of water, air, and earth - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Bombarding Earth with heavenly debris - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Mediator between Heaven and Earth - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Drawing forth Earth's passionate fevers - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
At the centre of the earth, a mighty fire - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
What fiends the earth doth hold - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
The earth gaped wide and swallowed - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
Earth's philosopher traced with his golden pen - Cecil Frances Alexander "The Burial of Moses"
The earth that rides upon his neck - "Alexander the Great"
Smoothes the earth we trample - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"
The earth with flames - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
Quiet Jews robed in earth and light - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Measuring the earth's door - Threa Almontaser "Heritage Emissary"
Pouring their cool nectar to the earth - Lennox Amott "The Summer Shower"
Other planets dark as earth - Maxwell Anderson "Earth Evanescent"
Earth's reddest vintage of blood - "The Angels of War" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
The sky fell and cracked the earth - William Archila "Bury This Pig"
His kingdom of hen-scratched earth - Simon Armitage "Miniatures"
Sun still trapped in the earth - Simon Armitage "The Present"
The cool earth whirled to morn - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [A hundred years ago the church bells spoke]"
Earth had doors to heaven once, wide on golden hinges - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]
No brother have I on earth but thee - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
of all the ghosts sieved into the earth - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
The ills that to the earth belong - William Thompson Bacon "Pen and Ink"
And bring you back to the common earth - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"
Whose temple bright holds earth and sky - Grant Balfour "Where Union Dwelt"
And gold in the earth below - anonymous? "The Ballad of Meikle-Mouthed Meg"
A knife draws a line between heaven and earth - Mary Jo Bang "Nothing Compares to Daphne in Green"
Stranding me between heaven and earth - Mary Jo Bang "Reign of Unreason"
Sweet to tread the soft green earth - Charles H. Barstow "Spring's Advent" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.116-v.III, 20 March 1886]
The earth bled till the moon shone red - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Barren Fig Tree"
an earth which he can trust - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"
A root from the sleeping earth - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
To the rhythm of earth's passage - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
Count patient years in false Earth days - Ennis Rook Bashe "We Have Slain the Savage Martians, but Their Princess Escaped"
The circuit of earth and or air - Cora C. Bass "Joy"
That breaks your back and bends you to the earth - Charles Baudelaire "Be Drunk" transl. by Louis Simpson
Earth's and hell's destructive tooth - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited
To be rich of earth - Sandra Beasley "Say the Word"
With the earth ringing in my chest - Billy-Ray Belcourt "NDN Homopoetics"
Through splitting earth and rending sky - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Poured out on earth the unconquerable sun - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
My love holds while the earth endures - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
No earth or sky or time in clocks - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lunch at a City Club"
A black shield thrust down on earth - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"
Broke the chains of earth - Gwendolyn Bennett "Wind"
My roots still sip the honeyed earth - Paul Bernstein "The Withering Elms and I"
A voice of closeness to the earth - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
Earth is made from this alchemy - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
My hands glean this earth - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Lineage Anagrams II"
This earth retraced me my unlearned effort - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Lineage Anagrams II"
How bright is Earth's rich gown - Paul Bewsher "Three Triolets: Colours"
Finding the earth too small - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
The chained recalcitrance of earth - Max Bodenheim "Topsy-Turvy"
In the crypt among our earth's foundations - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
The sky was come upon the earth at last - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"
Measures out the earth in lines of life - Gordon Bottomley "The Ploughman"
When the old hollowed earth is cracked - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
Listen to the earth beads in this abacus for bees - Catherine Bowman "Pears"
The good earth opening into a field of Cosmos - Jari Bradley "You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See"
Wrestled earth with alchemy - William Brewer "Oxyana, West Virginia"
Not on your earth travel - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 4"
While heaven and earth are whispering - Emily Bronte "How Clear She Shines"
Because the dazzling sun restored our Earth - Emily Bronte "Stars"
Earth reserves no blessing - Emily Bronte "The Two Children"
Turned the sea to silver, the earth to gold - Caris Brooke "[Never a hand on the cottage door]"
Wandered over all earth's lands - J. Crosby Brown, Jr. "Sonnet"
Unaware of the earth moving beneath - Jericho Brown "Another Elegy [This is what our dying looks like]"
The earth and silt our names become - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"
Before sea crept from earth by moon beam - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"
And leave me to the earth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
First forms of earth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
From the low earth round you - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Sings upon the earth grave-riven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraph and Poet"
Passing the earth's store - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
And meetings in the depth of earth - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn of the Waldenses"
The earth with all its jagged borders - Sue Budin "I Dream About Weaving"
Let earth give back the footprints - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVIII. Love's Vain Expense" transl. by John Addington Symonds
That any mind on earth could fashion - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"
Taking an accounting of the earth below - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
Sky knows more than Earth will tell - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"
In a house of earth's own granite - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"
From all the bitter corners of the earth - Witter Bynner "The New World II"
Strewed our earth with hostile bones - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
Man marks the earth with ruin - Byron "To the Ocean"
On things of earth is by a pointed diamond writ - W.G.C. "Yesterday" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Keeping the earth's heart beating - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"
Earth's shadows fall across our thoughts - Calder Campbell "Sonnet [Too much--too much we make Earth's shadows fall]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.308, 24 Nov. 1849]
The plough in the broken earth - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "I Am the Mountainy Singer"
The scornful earth-flung pence - W. Wilfred Campbell "Pan the Fallen"
All things named of earth or heaven - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Long damned of earth's consent - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Earth's golden keys of happiness - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
Earth's host upon its iron power - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
With feet clinging to the earth - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: The Dance"
Where all on earth was black despair - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Who can make the earth stand still - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for my Aggressive Forehead"
The salted earth sheds dust - Wo Chan "the shoes"
Lick the underside of the earth - Tina Chang "Fury"
And leave me to the empty ways of earth - Thomas S. Chard "The Blessed Vale"
For what is heaven but the earth grown full - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Beyond the Verge of Time"
Capital scouring the earth for returns - Ken Chen "Fingernails"
Only heaven and earth have remained - Chen Tzu-ang "Before and After" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Now is the judgment of the earth - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"
And ring upon earth all evil's knell - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"
Tattered outlaw of the earth, of ancient crooked will - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"
the black blood under the earth - Lucille Clifton "shadows"
Pondered the annihilated earth - Henri Cole "At Sixty-Five"
Unmusical of earth and stone - Mary Coleridge "In Dispraise of the Moon"
This close to the earth they have nothing to say - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
A secret from the brown earth steal - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
Gold and crimson strew earth's gloomy floor - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Earth's broadest-visioned prophecy - Benjamin Copeland "The Greater Republic"
treated each break in the earth like a cliff - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"
And view the earth with baleful eye - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "The Band of Gideon"
Lords of Earth's unconquered prime - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Gods and Heroes of the Gael"
All the earth bound with frost, all the sky snow-full - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Birds in the Snow"
At the portals of the Earth - Nathalia Crane "The Swinging Stair"
When Summer on the earth was queen - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
The rich things stolen from the earth - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
Bent against the angle of the Earth - Shutta Crum "Mausoleums"
From the sharp edges of the earth - H.D. "Circe"
Shut me from the earth - H.D. "Circe"
Petals on the black earth - H.D. "Orion Dead"
And tear all the roots from the earth - H.D. "Orion Dead"
Silver dust lifted from the earth - H.D. "Pear Tree"
Oak, earth and waves - "The Dance of the Sword" (Translated by Tom Taylor)
Between the solar shockwave and Earth's rattling - Kyle Dargan "Dear Echo" [Poetry Feb. 2016]
As though they felt the earth in flight - W.H. Davies "In May"
Soon the earth will be darker for the arrival of Solomon - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"
When ghosts and warlocks haunt the troubled earth - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
An earth we knew the name of - Tyree Daye "Field Notes on Beginning"
Cousins with the blue earth - Tyree Daye "'tween my gone people & me"
A prisoner in earth's mournful dungeon - Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada "The Soul's Desire" transl. by the Benedictines of Stanbrook
The Earth upon her diamond axle swayed - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
Out of earth's vast unknown - Walter de la Mare "The Titmouse"
The blood red amanitas pushed out of the earth - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"
Put our ears to the earth to hear the rumblings - Oliver de la Paz "When Benny Agbayani Became a Met"
Winnowed out of the earth's circulation - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Flung a menace at the earth - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXXVII: A Thunder-storm"
Prodigal the leaves the earth accepts - Chris Dombrowski "Grove"
Hailstones galloping across the hard earth - Chris Dombrowski "Strange Lullaby"
Upon earth we're kings - John Donne "The Anniversary"
The round earth's imagined corners - John Donne "At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)"
All gifts of earth above - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Wife's Last Gift"
The earth beneath one finger - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Classroom Globe"
The sun holds all the earth and all the sky - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
Before the earth remembered who we were - Rita Dove "American Smooth"
Mindful of Earth's ancient woe - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"
Old laws of heaven and earth - Edward Dowden "Millet's 'The Sower'"
All earth's riot fades - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"
Quickener of earth's joy - Edward Dowden "Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl's Version of Vigny's 'Chatterton'"
Earth's complaint grows hushed - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
The earth changing gears - Denise Duhamel "Ego"
Smelled of earth and salt but no corruption - Denise Dumars "The Golem"
Not matter forced to earth - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Problem Is"
Earth holding space hostage - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Words Are"
Pauper of the earth - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Christmas in the Heart"
Diademed by earth's velvet mantle - Rebecca Dunham "Mnemosyne to the Poet"
And left me here on earth to mourn - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]
When heaven and earth their concord break - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]
Beyond earth's tainted air - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "My Purest Longings Spring"
Covering earth in forgetful snow - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land I: The Burial of the Dead"
The earth in such a splendid garb - Eliza "October" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
What fiery force the earth renews - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
Ransack earth for riches rare - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"
Who reaps the powers of heaven and earth - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
To split the earth and make it firm - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Stand wide upon the earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 32. E-Igikalama, the Temple of Lugal-Marada in Marada" transl. by Sophus Helle
The midwife of heaven and earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 39. E-Hursang, the Temple of Ninhursanga" transl. by Sophus Helle
Measures the heavens and outlines the earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 42. E-Zagin, the Temple of Nisaba in Eresh" transl. by Sophus Helle
The earth has always supported me - Elaine Equi "I Interview Elaine Equi on the Four Elements"
Hold the earth in sober wit - Lee Fairchild "Couplets"
Water to the parched earth - Sid Farrar "The Year Comes Round"
On our small, transactional earth - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
The intentions of the earth - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
From the livid thunder-cloud he leaps alive on earth - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
To earth by sorrow bowed - "The Fisherman's Keen, or the Lamentation of O'Donoghue of Affadown ('Roaring Water'), in the west of Co. Cork, for his three sons and his son-in-law, who were drowned" transl. by Anonymous
While earth is parched more near - John Gould Fletcher "In Exile"
Moons the earth has forgotten - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Refrain"
On the left banks of the earth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 6"
May cherish naught of earth - Mary Weston Fordham "For Who?"
Let pomp and pride and the treasures of earth be given - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]
While the dark vast earth shakes and rocks - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
And the earth trembled when the stars were gone - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
In that cold trance the earth was held - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
Sleep upon enchanted earth - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Make earth include the sky - Robert Frost "Fragmentary Blue"
Earth is still our fate - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"
A springtime passion for the earth - Robert Frost "Putting in the Seed"
Invite echo of earth chantings - Zona Gale "Ballade of Listening"
Debris falling back to earth - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"
Waltzed the earth awake - Nikita Gill "Eurynome: The Mother of All Things"
The crooked orbit of the earth - Ellen Glasgow "The Vision of Hell"
When earth lay robed in resurrection bloom - Fanny L. Glenfield "Ye Know Not What Ye Ask" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Nothing between the earth and the dark - Louise Gluck "Burning Leaves"
The earth and sky taking turns - Louise Gluck "Cornwall"
Spider webs across the scalded earth - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"
Ten years had poured their various gifts on earth - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Till the Princes of Earth bow low to kiss his stirrup - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Shall together consume the fruits of the earth - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Riding winds to the corners of the earth - Theodora Goss "The Bear's Wife"
Pigeons drifting from sky to earth - Mona Gould "Cathedral"
And bind our thoughts to earth - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
While all the earth is wanton - David Gray "Ezekiel"
Tilling the earth from thorn to rose - James Roane Gregory "Rain"
Run wild through an unholy earth - Kimberly Grey "The First Marriage"
Before I knew these treasures of the Earth - Charles A. Gunnison "Sapphire Ring"
Dearer to sky and earth - Ivor Gurney "The Poplar"
Earth and sky to eyes once disenchanted - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
All night lay hid in hollows of the earth - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
And nothing permanent on earth - William Habington, born 1605, died 1654 "The Firmament" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 3, April 14, 1832]
The uncanny affection of earth for water - Donald Hall "Convergences"
A storm of boiling earth - Joy Harjo "Anchorage"
The earth spirits were fed with songs - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Our forgetfulness stalks us, walks the earth behind us - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
The language of damp earth - Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love,"
Sky tethered to the changing earth - Joy Harjo "She Remembers the Future"
Pried from the earth with shovels of grief - Joy Harjo "Singing Everything"
When time threaded earth and sky - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"
To weave for Earth a chaplet - Frances E.W. Harper "The Crocuses"
Which none on the earth can dissever - Robert M. Hart "The Birth of Our Banner" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Echoes of sound flooding the earth - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"
A cell of brown and bloody earth - F.W. Harvey "The Sleepers"
While earth's mocking echoes call - Paul Hamilton Hayne "Shadows All" [Lippincott's Magazine, Sept. 1885]
Mapped the earth as we imagined it - Samuel Hazo "High, Higher, Highest"
Of earth dreaming its root in flowers and snow - Seamus Heaney "Kinship"
The melody that earth affords - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
Above earth's petty things - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
The gnarled black fist of the earth - Ben Hecht "Moods"
To raise from earth a blighted flower - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"
Voices that have left the earth - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "The Haunted House"
Earth's empires on their march - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Clothing the earth with a livery of lightnings - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
Never was a voice on earth - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Soul"
Only as the earth forgets - Ethel M. Hewitt "Heart's Tide"
The aching earth has no more worth than this - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
Poured her sunshine on the earth - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"
Tiny fires with hurt earth spirits - Brenda Hillman "Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways"
Earth dropped its dark clock - Brenda Hillman "The Eighties"
Coax my own sustenance from the earth - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
From the marl of the earth in a sacred cove - Edward Hirsch "A Greek Island"
Unencumbered by love of earth - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
The earth beneath the proudest seat - Henry B. Hirst "Sonnets: Ianthe" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Down into the jawbone of the earth - Tony Hoagland "Scotch Tape"
Red earth and a hawthorne hedge - Florence Hoatson "Summer Picture"
Whose sordid views to earth alone are given - "Hope" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Never lit upon common earth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
Made of earth and sea his overcoat - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XX"
The hour when earth's foundations fled - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXVII: Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries"
Where the earth was soft still from the waters of the flood - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
A scent of earth in the night - Louisa Humphreys "All Souls' Night"
Who saw the bright earth beckon - Aldous Huxley "Poem"
Gild the span of ruined earth - "Hymn [I praised the earth, in beauty seen]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.333, 27 Sept. 1828]
Rhythmic as dense earth - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
O earth, prepare thy song - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"
Nor earth nor sky has breath - Alex A. Irvine "The Gleaners"
As if the flat earth could answer - Gary Jackson "Kansas"
So insular, so quiet, it enters the earth - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
Energy in the earth's arteries beating red - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Grudge the earth its due - Johannes V. Jensen "At Memphis Station" transl. by S. Foster Damon
To dig my hands wrist deep in pregnant earth - Helene Johnson "Fulfillment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
These transient joys of earth - James Weldon Johnson "A Dream"
Fall back upon an earth of ashes - James Weldon Johnson "The Greatest of These Is War"
Twin sister to the greedy earth - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"
Under the pure silence, earth - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"
No change upon the earth - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
this earth can bear almonds - Megan Johnson "How it comes to pass"
This bit of sun bittered earth - Fred L. Joiner "Below as Above"
Things the earth cannot swallow - Fred L. Joiner "Consume/d"
become a fiery tongue to scorch the earth - Camisha L. Jones "Intercession"
Settle my feet against limitless earth - Tanque R. Jones "Metamorphosis"
lifelines to be colored with earth - Tanque R. Jones "Slave-Hands"
Memory calls me to the earth's opening - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"
Gross Earth, dead Ashes, kindred dust - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
Lakes that cannot be the eyes of the earth - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"
Die where there is no earth - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"
The cracked earth radiated out for miles - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"
Split ears of morning earth - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"
Whose footprints from the earth have vanished - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
That o'er our shadowy earth hang brooding - Fanny Kemble "Lines Written at Night"
Where saffron skies roof in the earth - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Like one who walketh in a plenteous land]"
Upon the face of this blank earth - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"
Hope's bright wings in the dark earth - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"
Wander through this dismal earth - Fanny Kemble "To My Guardian Angel"
Looking upon the never-resting earth - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"
Beneath the Couch of Earth descend - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
With Earth's first Clay - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
A clod of saturated Earth - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Down on the stubborn floor of Earth - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Jest and Scorn of Earth and Aire - Anne Killigrew "An Ode"
The mighty lyre of earth - Joyce Kilmer "George Meredith"
Shall the earth to cinders doom - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"
The motion of earth in sky - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"
Iron left men bent so close to the earth - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
The earth is rejecting the rain - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"
Down a narrow slit of the old earth - Alfred Kreymborg "Initials"
The earth's gold breath falling softly - Danusha Lameris "Dust"
The voices of earth's secret soul - Archibald Lampman "Voices of Earth"
gods and muses arc from sky to earth - Jessica Langer "Chaos"
A music now from earth and now from air - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
One from the dust returning to the earth - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Unperfected"
Earth's lone bewildered guest - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IV: Night Sounds"
Heaven and earth and hellish stream - DH Lawrence "Autumn Sunshine"
Little earthy house-inhabiting Osiris - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"
The dark door of the secret earth - D.H. Lawrence "Snake"
For the wrongs of Earth a cure - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"
Freedom to dig the common earth - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"
No longer dwell the angels on the earth - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
Enlarged unto earth's farthest rim - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"
A little portion of the green, ambitious earth - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"
we wait for the earth to burn - Joseph Lease "Falling"
The milk of earth, the honey of dust - Ruth Lechlitner "How Many Summers"
Sealed rooms deep in the dying earth - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"
Though all earth's lips be mute - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory of the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"
A shadow rests on earth and sky - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"
All dainty things of earth and sky - Henry S. Leigh "Not Quite Fair"
In the pulsing veins of the earth - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
The power of earth called up into the ragged air - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
Still reverberate through frozen earth - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
On earth true happiness to find - Giacomo Leopardi "Consalvo" transl. by Frederick Townsend
In the ice and the earth - Megan Levad "Foundling"
A living candle in the hand of earth - Philip Levine "Bitterness"
Seven hills of scraped earth topped with crab grass - Philip Levine "Drum"
The earth, still cold, still silent, still ungiving - Philip Levine "Gospel"
The earth asks nothing - Philip Levine "The Secret"
Make the Earth your companion - J. Patrick Lewis "Walk Lightly"
All my roots earth laden and bare - Robin Coste Lewis "The Ark: Self-Portrait as Aphrodite Using Her Dress for a Sail, xxx"
Earth has swallowed the snow - Li Po "The Girl at Home" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Heaven and earth our quilt and pillow - Li Po "A Night with a Friend" transl. by Burton Watson
Trembled upon a border of gold and earth - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"
The earth saying language and vision are nothing - Sandra Lim "Cattiveria"
And bows me to the very Earth with Grief - Mary Wallace Bundy Little "The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband"
Against the grain of the earth - Anni Liu "Lake of Isles"
A lurch of earth on the edge of sleep - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"
Being spoken from the earth's inside - Audre Lorde "Coal"
Hover between the earth and furthest heaven - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"
The freedom of the earth's vast solitudes - Amy Lowell "A Japanese Wood-Carving"
Spiced winds which blew when earth was young - Amy Lowell "To John Keats"
Whispered the secrets of earth to the flowers - Amy Lowell "The Way"
From haunted earth broke springs of wonder - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
Fames that earth's tin trumpets fill - James Russell Lowell "Joseph Winlock"
Unstitches the quartered earth - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"
bones circling the belly of the Earth - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"
May for ever be hushed in the homesteads of earth - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "The Return to Lezayre" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.456, 25 Sept. 1852]
Priestess of the visible earth - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"
Nor have I share in earth or sky - William MacDonald "A Spring Trouble"
Curling lips which Earth has kissed - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Crocus Bed"
All Earth's fretting voices - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Lake Louise"
And glory in a dream of time when earth was young - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"
While earth its scented secrets told - James Allan Mackereth "Ioläus"
That filled all earth with flame - James Clarence Mangan "The One Mystery"
Earth's golden bonnet of the day - Jeannette Marks "Blind Sleep"
Resting in my brown upon earth - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"
A sigh from the slumber of earth and sky - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
All melodies of earth and heaven - George Martin "Keats"
Clear and free of interference out from Earth - Harry Martinson "Aniara 2" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Which was to sever us from Sun and Earth - Harry Martinson "Aniara 2" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Weight in the earth or glory in the grass - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
From the abandoned spools of earth - Edgar Lee Masters "The Grand River Marshes"
Seeking light from earth's core - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
How seed turns to leaf regardless of its earth - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"
Satellites that couldn't be coaxed to Earth - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"
An elbow cracking the Earth in half - Jamaal May "Megalophobia"
When the earth was clad with her robe of buds and flowers - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]
No battle for the stricken earth - Theodore Maynard "Ave Atque Vale!"
Gladness on the furrowed earth - Theodore Maynard "In Memoriam F.H.M. Killed in Action, April 9th, 1917"
Prenatal earth rising in the volcano's throat - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
The earth a broken crib - Maureen N. McLane "From A Book of Hours"
The Grail from earth withdrawn - Louis J. McQuilland "Queens in Red and White"
Water, earth all kinds of dust & dirt - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"
That roam the stock exchanges of the earth - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"
Making the earth full glad - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
And read a reflex upon earth - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
As Earth to the crown of Gods - George Meredith "Melampus"
That with deep Earth unites - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Between the earth and silence - W.S. Merwin "Utterance"
Sprawls across the earth like a fallen giant - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"
On all the lonely sorrows of the earth - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
With this ambiguous earth - Alice Meynell "Christ in the Universe"
Walking to and fro in the earth - Joseph Millar "Job"
From the secret earth shall rise - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Elegy"
In the secret earth securely - Edna St Vincent Millay "Elegy"
Rolling sphere's beyond earth's ken - John Mitchell "Oh! Waft Me to the Fairy Clime"
This structure of earth and bone - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"
Stitching patches of color to the earth - N. Scott Momaday "Ago"
Till the drugged earth has drunk her fill - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"
Prefers not seeing what happens on earth - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
The bookshelves connected heaven and earth - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"
Falls to earth from a storm cloud - Jaye Nasir "November"
Wrought in the chambers of the earth - John Neal "Unheeded Growth" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
When rice withdraws from earth - Pablo Neruda "Born in the Woods" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Between the wings of the earth - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Between the teeth of the hard earth - Pablo Neruda "The Disinterred One" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The quiet intent of my earth-stained hands - Pablo Neruda "The Forest" transl. by Alastair Reid
Writing the earth with stars - Pablo Neruda "I Recall the Sea" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The iron spoon that eats the earth - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
Who make the water and the earth tremble - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Burning rain over the red earth - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
Hooves knit swift earth to swift - Pablo Neruda "Rider in the Rain" transl. by John Felstiner
The dense earth of flour and rancor - Pablo Neruda "Rosas (1829-1849)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Clothed in earth and solitude, snow and clover - Pablo Neruda "San Martin (1810)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The harsh dew of your golden earth - Pablo Neruda "Song on the Death and Resurrection of Luis Companys" translated by Donald D. Walsh
If earth does not listen - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
My contract with the earth - Pablo Neruda "The South" transl. by Alastair Reid
By virtue of the earth's pride - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: II" transl. by James Nolan
Swings open the doors of the earth - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XXVIII" transl. by James Nolan
Jewel set in a ring of earth - Pablo Neruda "Swan Lake" transl. by Alastair Reid
A honey that measured the earth - Pablo Neruda "To Miguel Hernandez, Murdered in the Prisons of Spain" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Those eyes sundering the earth - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Through the interstices of the earth - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Earth's rumor grew in the leaves - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly
When earth is grieving for the vanished - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "[Not Summer's crown of scent]"
Distantly tethered to the bestial earth - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"
And kiss the earth farewell - Effie Lee Newsome "Sunset"
The textures of the earth absorb it entirely - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"
My hope in earth's dark dungeon - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]
Bodies enraptured by the abounding earth - Robert Nichols "Fulfilment"
As I stumble on this earth - Nancy Nishihara "The Weight"
Making food of sunshine teasing earth to bloom - Margaret Noodin "Blue-Green Becoming" transl. by the author
Between the good earth and the great sea - Margaret Noodin "Cream City/Doodooshabo'enaande Oodena " transl. by the author
The work of every root is to tunnel through the earth - Margaret Noodin "Work" transl. by the author
Bent her gentle knee to earth - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
One hand out against the earth - Naomi Shihab Nye "All I Can Do"
The earth rattling beneath them - Naomi Shihab Nye "Footfall"
Lines between our pain and earth - Naomi Shihab Nye "Holy Land"
To us the shadow of the earth is given - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]
All the movements of the earth - Achy Obejas "Naiad"
Feel earth's pulses beating - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"
Against you are leagued the earth and the stars - Thomas O'Hagan "The Kaiser's 'Place in the Sun'"
His music of earth's caretaking - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"
Able to be struck by the earth - Sharon Olds "Not Once"
Whose name was Earth - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"
Our earth bent dustward forsworn to decay - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Part of the fabric of earth - January Gill O'Neil "In Praise of Okra"
On earth's time-bounded shore - Oliver Optic "Lizzie"
Heirloom to all the sorrowing nations of the earth - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Nothing but me 'twixt earth and sky - Kate Putnam Osgood "Day-Dream" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]
By vapors of the dreamy earth - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"
Setting up an idol all of earth - Robert Owen "A Prayer" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Earth's ten thousand fragrant incenses - John Oxenham "A Little Te Deum of the Commonplace"
Though long years drown Earth's sounds - M.P. "The Mountain" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]
Had deluged the earth with their rage - Herbert E. Palmer "The New Beginning"
Only tastes of earth and guilt - Coventry Patmore "Joy"
The unshapen dust of earth without a face - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"
All the brightness earth had once for me - Florence Peacock "Lost at Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.137-v.III, 14 Aug. 1886]
Shut within earth's jaws - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Magnolias gloom the earth with densest shades - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
From an opera over the earth - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"
They have but pieces of the earth - Katherine Phillips "To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship"
Locks all my earth into cement - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"
Could part the earth with our voices - Sasha Pimentel "Lament of Submerged Persons"
Arms rooting to earth - Janel Pineda "Mujer Malvada"
Birds cawing over the broken earth - Jon Pineda "Cinque Terre"
And warms the earth in a learned way - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"
Sheep of the earth and sheep of the sky - Miriam Clark Potter "The Two Little Flocks"
The torpor of earth's granite veins - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"
Earth's diurnal axis overruled - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"
From earth's unstable shores - E.J. Pratt "In Memoriam"
And the sunbeams' arrows pierce the green earth - Mary N. Prescott "What So Sweet?" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
The supremest splendor of earth or sky or sea - Margaret J. Preston "Nocturne" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
The armies of earth at your sight would turn pale - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
Sought earth's poisoned feasts - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Our Daily Bread"
Your peer on earth I never did see - "The Queen of Elfland"
On a meteor compelled by earth - Sina Queyras "The Couriers"
When the earth is calmly breathing - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Retrospection"
Airy notions mix with earth - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Splendid Spur"
Earth owns no smiles in absence - Quince "Absence" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
All of earth mysteriously allied - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Ages" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
The Earth has steeped in longing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Bound my soul with chains of earth - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Confidence"
Thy rainbow's footed on the earth - Theodore H. Rand "Beauty"
Lost on earth's lone beach - Theodore H. Rand "Dian and Fundy"
Your roses are too fair for earth - Theodore H. Rand "Glory-Roses"
Blood of earth's wild pulsing veins - Theodore H. Rand "Sea Music"
To hold Earth's architrave in place - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"
With Earth and Ocean reconciled - T. Buchanan Read "Drifting"
as it bursts full flame upon the earth - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
A gleaming stone upon which the skyfolk spilled dark earth - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"
That bard of heaven, earth, chaos, and perdition - "Rhyming Ruminations on Old London Bridge" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20, no.557, 14 July 1832]
This earth and the bones within it - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
A trestle between earth and heaven - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Deep as the earth carries her jewels - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
The traitorous earth that scorpions nest in - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Feet that dance on slipping earth - Lola Ridge "Incompatibility"
Feel the long recoil of earth - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
Endure the dance of earth - Lola Ridge "Ward X"
Shake the doors of earth - Lynn Riggs "Santo Domingo Corn Dance"
Adorning Earth with its esteem - James Whitcombe Riley "Leonanie"
Which troubles the bowels of earth - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
In all the ardent earth - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Good Earth"
Before earth's dawn hour thought to wane - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Forget-Me-Not"
A few still minutes between heaven and earth - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
Change is earth's inevitable dower - Fayette Robinson "Supplication.--Two Sonnets" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The wonderful harmony of the earth and the skies - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
A ruby path between the earth and sky - Rennell Rodd "From the Hills of Gardens"
Bathed in earth's lesser light - Alice Wellington Rollins "Indian Summer"
The peculiar joy of returning to earth - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"
Earth stood hard as iron - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [In the bleak mid-winter]"
Heaven cannot hold Him nor earth sustain - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [In the bleak mid-winter]"
Exalted above earth and heaven - Rumi "The Heart of the Harper" transl. by E.H. Whinfield
The dials of earth may show - Father Ryan "The Rosary of My Years"
Every eddying vacancy of Earth - Kay Ryan "Repulsive Theory"
This apparently tenacious earth - Kay Ryan "Things That Have Stayed in Position"
Treasured up earth's glorious things - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Only the battle between man and earth - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Laden with fruits of the earth - Edna K. Saloomey "My Lebanon"
The slope from the earth to the firmament - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: I. The Creation of the Universe: Measurements of the Universe" transl. by Eleanor Hull
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
Return to earth in prayer - Sonia Sanchez "10 Haiku (for Max Roach)"
Laid on bones taken from the ribs of the earth - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"
Slippery frozen places of the earth - Carl Sandburg "Four Steichen Prints"
Sent from earth to kiss the sky - Margaret E. Sangster "At Dawn: III. The Farmer"
Against the troubled fever of the earth - Margaret E. Sangster "I Dreamed Your Face"
One leg tense with the burden of earth - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"
To taste the sweet and bitter fruits of earth - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"
Pulled down to earth - May Sarton "The O's of November"
the body is ink in the earth - Sam Sax "Bury"
Shifted like the errant sands of Earth - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Until the ravaged earth gave way - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"
The wind-swept harp of earth - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"
Drained earth's pleasures to the lees - Frederick George Scott "Solomon"
Singing his glad, mad songs of earth - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"
With earth and sea's rich gems - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXI"
Voiceless earth and vacant air - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Stands immortal upon earth - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
The sunlight clasps the earth - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"
Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
Read the message writ across Earth's face - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"
Who has the fairest gifts of all the earth to give - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
Earth's forgetfulness of sorrow - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
To anchor earth, to touch the sky - Joyce Sidman "Oak After Dark"
Trac'd o'er the earth his desolating tread - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
While the asteroid kept falling to earth - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"
the earth shines black in the sirens - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"
Detached from earth and earthly voice - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
Earth's denied and cheated sons - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"
The fleshless earth's outjutting ribs - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
All the threads of earth wear to the breaking - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Lights earth's tears - Effie Waller Smith "The Rainbow"
Give your gladness to earth keeping - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"
Earth that never doubts nor fears - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"
Earth that knows of death, not tears - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"
Sow your gladness for earth's reaping - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"
Our other earth opens a secret hand - Nathan Spoon "The Genie Speaks"
Earth and air in snowy sheen commingle - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Sleigh-Ride"
Our wingless gold of earth - George Sterling "Farm of Fools"
Their gold was the gold of earth - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"
That clutched the deviating earth - George Sterling "The Thirst of Satan"
The earth a trinket at my wrist - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"
One bud from off the tree of Earth - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
Twisting earth's iron to their use - Arthur Stringer "The Steel Workers"
Consumes the glowing heart of earth - Alan Sullivan "A Question"
Floods the earth of our chests - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 178: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Reigns over all the earth - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 194 : Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The burdens of earth disappear - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 227: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
To confound the earth and sky - E. Sutton "The Drum"
The earth carpeted with sunlight - May Swenson "Earth Your Dancing Place"
Dust of the labouring earth - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Creation of Man"
Cloud that darkens earth and sea - Algernon Swinburne "A Dialogue"
Where earth's foundations crack - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
The fogs which night gathers upon the earth - G.P.T. "Sonnet [The moon is gliding on her clear blue way]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Tired feet on this rough earth yet walking - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]
Replicant echoes in red earth and Tesla coils - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"
When Earth's revolutions are ended - Rabindranath Tagore "This Day Will Pass"
Move horizontally below the earth - Mutsuo Takahashi "Dead Boy" transl. by Jeffrey Angles
All this youth in Earth's old veins - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Calling up its brothers and sisters from the Earth's hot core - Keith Taylor "Conditions"
Earth wounded stranger that wandered - Te-con-ees-kee "Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation"
The sound of a curse on the earth - Te-con-ees-kee "[Though far from Georgia in exile I roam]"
To take earth's wonder - Sara Teasdale "Spring Night"
The first of insects to have earth and sun - Edward Thomas "The Brook"
Nor choose 'twixt earth and sky - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"
Smoothed earth's furrowed face - Francis Thompson "Daisy"
When earth and heaven lay down their veil - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
Fills the earth and thrills the heavens - Maurice Thompson "The Final Thought"
On our sweet earth and in their unplaced sky - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
The civil sun drying earth's tears - Henry David Thoreau "The Thaw"
Unmix'd with gross compounding of my earth - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: II"
The first sounds that the earth heard - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Moving light spreads round earth a mantle bright - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Touched by Ariel's power, free of air, and earth, and waves - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Which rests awhile on earth and sinks unseen - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VIII. The Lery"
In that fair borderland of earth and heaven - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XII. Sunday.--The Hill-Top"
For love to earth not granted - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Hard my path on earth is closed - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut
Into this artery of earth - Z.G. Tomaszewski "The Poet in the Pinewoods"
Clothing made of cold earthen clay - (Anonymous) Traditional English song collected by Cecil Sharp
The earth is scorched and wretched - Lillian Tsay "The Resolution of N" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]
Trees rose in wild dreams from the earth - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"
Who grieves amid earth's dying leaves - W.J. Turner "Death"
All while clutching the earth - Sarah Grace Tuttle "Rooted"
The cold complacency of earth - Louis Untermeyer "Challenge"
All the morning minded earth - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"
Unconscious of the earth - Louis Untermeyer "Protests"
The lavish miracles of earth - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
Taken by hungry earth - John Updike "Lunar Eclipse"
so I bequeath to earth my dying gasp - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"
To the entrails of the earth - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954
Deep in the earth with a reed to breathe through - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "From the Front of the Fourth World"
Stars wedded to earth in some grand cosmic tying - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Stardust"
Who knew how to bring the stars down to earth - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"
Right and left earth and sky desert me - Mark Van Doren "River Snow"
Earth and sky and the fair ministries of Nature - Henry van Dyke "Dulciora"
And pours balm on the cleft earth - Henry Vaughan "The Rainbow"
Storing tears in the belly of the earth - Ruperta Bautista Vázquez "Jícara | Boch" transl. by Morgan L. Ventura
Low stars and difficult earth - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"
With a softer blue the sky pavilions earth - Hans von Spiegel "June" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Pin this antlered heartbeat back to earth - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"
Dim earth's beauty with stain and spot - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]
Dazzles the earth with his spirit's flight - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]
Answered earth's myriad-voiced petition - W.P.W. "Love's Seasons" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.149--v.III, 6 Nov. 1886]
Fitting bones to the earth - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"
Up from the gray of earth - Charles William Wallace "To Thee Above"
With whirlwinds sweeping all life on earth - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist
Earth is a jealous mother - Thomas Walsh "Coelo et in Terra"
The earth shook beneath him with thunderous raps - George Warwick "Schneider Von Groot's Christmas Dream"
Heaven endures forever and the earth is eternal - "The Way of Virtue: Eternity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Darkens the earth with bones - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Paused on Earth's grey rim - Eugene R. White "Reward"
Earth holds no sweeter secret - Helen Hay Whitney "My Brook"
Her tears dissolve the earth - Helen Hay Whitney "Spring and Autumn"
Within the breast of brooding Earth - Helen Hay Whitney "The Supreme Sacrifice"
Some kites drop fire onto the earth - Amie Whittemore "Future History of Earth's Birds"
To watch the earth paint the moon gray - Amie Whittemore "Lunar Eclipse"
Has been the one companion of the Earth - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"
Some spectral satellite cast glamor on the earth - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"
Strike the earth with a kiss - Phillip B. Williams "Order of Events"
Those fleas that escaped earth and fire - William Carlos Williams "Complete Destruction"
Hugging the earth in August - William Carlos Williams "Daisy"
Argosies of earth their treasures bear - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota--Past and Present"
That first warm rain that melts the heart of earth - Humbert Wolfe "Balder's Song"
Cling like vermin to the earth - Adolf Wolff "The Toilers"
To defeat earth's greatest powers' great plots - Constance Fenimore Woolson "Commonplace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
Earth has not anything to show more fair - William Wordsworth "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course - William Wordsworth "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"
Darkness is dropping inches beneath the earth - Charles Wright "Terrestrial Music"
A whitish light edging the earth's offerings - Charles Wright "Yellow Wings"
The uncompromising reaches of the earth - Willard Huntington Wright "What of the Night?"
The earth may hide - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
The earth closing its one good eye - Wendy Xu "Praxis"
Rain makes a painting on the earth - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu
Earth holds all the answers - Jane Yolen "Call and Response"
A few of the demons dwelling beneath the earth - Dean Young "Permitted a Meadow" [Poetry Oct. 2017]
Because he dove unflinchingly to retrieve Earth - Ray Young Bear "For You, a Handful of the Greatest Gift"
Steady yourself on a foothold of earth - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa
Give wings to the children of earth below - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa
The earth's call to the scouring wind - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"
An appeal from earth to sky - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #1: Heavy Lyricism" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Weathers the white earth's thirst - Art Zilleruelo "Ghost Story"
Who pass through multiformed earth - Zitkála-Šá "The Indian's Awakening"
Earthly.
Unearthly.
Earthbound.
Grim, earth-dank persistence - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"
On the dusty earth-drum beats - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "Rain Music"
What awe is there in earthen labyrinths? - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"
And all arrogance of earthen riches - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
Purple with damps and earthish stains - William D. Howells (uncredited) "The Old Homestead" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
One of the earth-starred denizens - Seamus Heaney "Freedman"
Earthward one dingy drop descends - John Gay "Fable LIII: Ape and Poultry" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Earthward swoops a vulture sun - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Plunging earthward, tossing high - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"
Secret images unearthed by time - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Newly unearthed from its geography - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Earth" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
To unearth the dark pit of your distance - Molly Raynor "This Is the Undone Season"
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And give the earth her green again - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
What conjuring stirs up this earth - Elmaz Abinader "Falling into the Ocean"
The last words you hear on earth - Jessica Abughattas "Failed Poems"
Triangulate its distance from Earth - Duane Ackerson "Taking Back the Moon"
Almost muffled by the earth in their mouths - Duane Ackerson "What If"
The full choir of water, air, and earth - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Bombarding Earth with heavenly debris - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Mediator between Heaven and Earth - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Drawing forth Earth's passionate fevers - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
At the centre of the earth, a mighty fire - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
What fiends the earth doth hold - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
The earth gaped wide and swallowed - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
Earth's philosopher traced with his golden pen - Cecil Frances Alexander "The Burial of Moses"
The earth that rides upon his neck - "Alexander the Great"
Smoothes the earth we trample - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"
The earth with flames - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
Quiet Jews robed in earth and light - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Measuring the earth's door - Threa Almontaser "Heritage Emissary"
Pouring their cool nectar to the earth - Lennox Amott "The Summer Shower"
Other planets dark as earth - Maxwell Anderson "Earth Evanescent"
Earth's reddest vintage of blood - "The Angels of War" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
The sky fell and cracked the earth - William Archila "Bury This Pig"
His kingdom of hen-scratched earth - Simon Armitage "Miniatures"
Sun still trapped in the earth - Simon Armitage "The Present"
The cool earth whirled to morn - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [A hundred years ago the church bells spoke]"
Earth had doors to heaven once, wide on golden hinges - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]
No brother have I on earth but thee - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
of all the ghosts sieved into the earth - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
The ills that to the earth belong - William Thompson Bacon "Pen and Ink"
And bring you back to the common earth - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"
Whose temple bright holds earth and sky - Grant Balfour "Where Union Dwelt"
And gold in the earth below - anonymous? "The Ballad of Meikle-Mouthed Meg"
A knife draws a line between heaven and earth - Mary Jo Bang "Nothing Compares to Daphne in Green"
Stranding me between heaven and earth - Mary Jo Bang "Reign of Unreason"
Sweet to tread the soft green earth - Charles H. Barstow "Spring's Advent" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.116-v.III, 20 March 1886]
The earth bled till the moon shone red - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Barren Fig Tree"
an earth which he can trust - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"
A root from the sleeping earth - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
To the rhythm of earth's passage - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
Count patient years in false Earth days - Ennis Rook Bashe "We Have Slain the Savage Martians, but Their Princess Escaped"
The circuit of earth and or air - Cora C. Bass "Joy"
That breaks your back and bends you to the earth - Charles Baudelaire "Be Drunk" transl. by Louis Simpson
Earth's and hell's destructive tooth - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited
To be rich of earth - Sandra Beasley "Say the Word"
With the earth ringing in my chest - Billy-Ray Belcourt "NDN Homopoetics"
Through splitting earth and rending sky - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Poured out on earth the unconquerable sun - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
My love holds while the earth endures - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
No earth or sky or time in clocks - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lunch at a City Club"
A black shield thrust down on earth - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"
Broke the chains of earth - Gwendolyn Bennett "Wind"
My roots still sip the honeyed earth - Paul Bernstein "The Withering Elms and I"
A voice of closeness to the earth - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
Earth is made from this alchemy - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
My hands glean this earth - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Lineage Anagrams II"
This earth retraced me my unlearned effort - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Lineage Anagrams II"
How bright is Earth's rich gown - Paul Bewsher "Three Triolets: Colours"
Finding the earth too small - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
The chained recalcitrance of earth - Max Bodenheim "Topsy-Turvy"
In the crypt among our earth's foundations - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
The sky was come upon the earth at last - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"
Measures out the earth in lines of life - Gordon Bottomley "The Ploughman"
When the old hollowed earth is cracked - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
Listen to the earth beads in this abacus for bees - Catherine Bowman "Pears"
The good earth opening into a field of Cosmos - Jari Bradley "You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See"
Wrestled earth with alchemy - William Brewer "Oxyana, West Virginia"
Not on your earth travel - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 4"
While heaven and earth are whispering - Emily Bronte "How Clear She Shines"
Because the dazzling sun restored our Earth - Emily Bronte "Stars"
Earth reserves no blessing - Emily Bronte "The Two Children"
Turned the sea to silver, the earth to gold - Caris Brooke "[Never a hand on the cottage door]"
Wandered over all earth's lands - J. Crosby Brown, Jr. "Sonnet"
Unaware of the earth moving beneath - Jericho Brown "Another Elegy [This is what our dying looks like]"
The earth and silt our names become - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"
Before sea crept from earth by moon beam - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"
And leave me to the earth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
First forms of earth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
From the low earth round you - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Sings upon the earth grave-riven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraph and Poet"
Passing the earth's store - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
And meetings in the depth of earth - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn of the Waldenses"
The earth with all its jagged borders - Sue Budin "I Dream About Weaving"
Let earth give back the footprints - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVIII. Love's Vain Expense" transl. by John Addington Symonds
That any mind on earth could fashion - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"
Taking an accounting of the earth below - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
Sky knows more than Earth will tell - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"
In a house of earth's own granite - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"
From all the bitter corners of the earth - Witter Bynner "The New World II"
Strewed our earth with hostile bones - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
Man marks the earth with ruin - Byron "To the Ocean"
On things of earth is by a pointed diamond writ - W.G.C. "Yesterday" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Keeping the earth's heart beating - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"
Earth's shadows fall across our thoughts - Calder Campbell "Sonnet [Too much--too much we make Earth's shadows fall]" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.308, 24 Nov. 1849]
The plough in the broken earth - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "I Am the Mountainy Singer"
The scornful earth-flung pence - W. Wilfred Campbell "Pan the Fallen"
All things named of earth or heaven - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Long damned of earth's consent - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Earth's golden keys of happiness - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
Earth's host upon its iron power - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
With feet clinging to the earth - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: The Dance"
Where all on earth was black despair - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Who can make the earth stand still - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for my Aggressive Forehead"
The salted earth sheds dust - Wo Chan "the shoes"
Lick the underside of the earth - Tina Chang "Fury"
And leave me to the empty ways of earth - Thomas S. Chard "The Blessed Vale"
For what is heaven but the earth grown full - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Beyond the Verge of Time"
Capital scouring the earth for returns - Ken Chen "Fingernails"
Only heaven and earth have remained - Chen Tzu-ang "Before and After" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Now is the judgment of the earth - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"
And ring upon earth all evil's knell - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"
Tattered outlaw of the earth, of ancient crooked will - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"
the black blood under the earth - Lucille Clifton "shadows"
Pondered the annihilated earth - Henri Cole "At Sixty-Five"
Unmusical of earth and stone - Mary Coleridge "In Dispraise of the Moon"
This close to the earth they have nothing to say - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
A secret from the brown earth steal - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
Gold and crimson strew earth's gloomy floor - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Earth's broadest-visioned prophecy - Benjamin Copeland "The Greater Republic"
treated each break in the earth like a cliff - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"
And view the earth with baleful eye - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "The Band of Gideon"
Lords of Earth's unconquered prime - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Gods and Heroes of the Gael"
All the earth bound with frost, all the sky snow-full - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Birds in the Snow"
At the portals of the Earth - Nathalia Crane "The Swinging Stair"
When Summer on the earth was queen - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"
The rich things stolen from the earth - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
Bent against the angle of the Earth - Shutta Crum "Mausoleums"
From the sharp edges of the earth - H.D. "Circe"
Shut me from the earth - H.D. "Circe"
Petals on the black earth - H.D. "Orion Dead"
And tear all the roots from the earth - H.D. "Orion Dead"
Silver dust lifted from the earth - H.D. "Pear Tree"
Oak, earth and waves - "The Dance of the Sword" (Translated by Tom Taylor)
Between the solar shockwave and Earth's rattling - Kyle Dargan "Dear Echo" [Poetry Feb. 2016]
As though they felt the earth in flight - W.H. Davies "In May"
Soon the earth will be darker for the arrival of Solomon - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"
When ghosts and warlocks haunt the troubled earth - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
An earth we knew the name of - Tyree Daye "Field Notes on Beginning"
Cousins with the blue earth - Tyree Daye "'tween my gone people & me"
A prisoner in earth's mournful dungeon - Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada "The Soul's Desire" transl. by the Benedictines of Stanbrook
The Earth upon her diamond axle swayed - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
Out of earth's vast unknown - Walter de la Mare "The Titmouse"
The blood red amanitas pushed out of the earth - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"
Put our ears to the earth to hear the rumblings - Oliver de la Paz "When Benny Agbayani Became a Met"
Winnowed out of the earth's circulation - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Flung a menace at the earth - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXXVII: A Thunder-storm"
Prodigal the leaves the earth accepts - Chris Dombrowski "Grove"
Hailstones galloping across the hard earth - Chris Dombrowski "Strange Lullaby"
Upon earth we're kings - John Donne "The Anniversary"
The round earth's imagined corners - John Donne "At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)"
All gifts of earth above - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Wife's Last Gift"
The earth beneath one finger - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Classroom Globe"
The sun holds all the earth and all the sky - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
Before the earth remembered who we were - Rita Dove "American Smooth"
Mindful of Earth's ancient woe - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"
Old laws of heaven and earth - Edward Dowden "Millet's 'The Sower'"
All earth's riot fades - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"
Quickener of earth's joy - Edward Dowden "Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl's Version of Vigny's 'Chatterton'"
Earth's complaint grows hushed - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
The earth changing gears - Denise Duhamel "Ego"
Smelled of earth and salt but no corruption - Denise Dumars "The Golem"
Not matter forced to earth - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Problem Is"
Earth holding space hostage - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Words Are"
Pauper of the earth - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Christmas in the Heart"
Diademed by earth's velvet mantle - Rebecca Dunham "Mnemosyne to the Poet"
And left me here on earth to mourn - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]
When heaven and earth their concord break - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]
Beyond earth's tainted air - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "My Purest Longings Spring"
Covering earth in forgetful snow - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land I: The Burial of the Dead"
The earth in such a splendid garb - Eliza "October" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
What fiery force the earth renews - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
Ransack earth for riches rare - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"
Who reaps the powers of heaven and earth - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
To split the earth and make it firm - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Stand wide upon the earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 32. E-Igikalama, the Temple of Lugal-Marada in Marada" transl. by Sophus Helle
The midwife of heaven and earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 39. E-Hursang, the Temple of Ninhursanga" transl. by Sophus Helle
Measures the heavens and outlines the earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 42. E-Zagin, the Temple of Nisaba in Eresh" transl. by Sophus Helle
The earth has always supported me - Elaine Equi "I Interview Elaine Equi on the Four Elements"
Hold the earth in sober wit - Lee Fairchild "Couplets"
Water to the parched earth - Sid Farrar "The Year Comes Round"
On our small, transactional earth - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
The intentions of the earth - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
From the livid thunder-cloud he leaps alive on earth - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
To earth by sorrow bowed - "The Fisherman's Keen, or the Lamentation of O'Donoghue of Affadown ('Roaring Water'), in the west of Co. Cork, for his three sons and his son-in-law, who were drowned" transl. by Anonymous
While earth is parched more near - John Gould Fletcher "In Exile"
Moons the earth has forgotten - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Refrain"
On the left banks of the earth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 6"
May cherish naught of earth - Mary Weston Fordham "For Who?"
Let pomp and pride and the treasures of earth be given - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]
While the dark vast earth shakes and rocks - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
And the earth trembled when the stars were gone - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
In that cold trance the earth was held - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
Sleep upon enchanted earth - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Make earth include the sky - Robert Frost "Fragmentary Blue"
Earth is still our fate - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"
A springtime passion for the earth - Robert Frost "Putting in the Seed"
Invite echo of earth chantings - Zona Gale "Ballade of Listening"
Debris falling back to earth - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"
Waltzed the earth awake - Nikita Gill "Eurynome: The Mother of All Things"
The crooked orbit of the earth - Ellen Glasgow "The Vision of Hell"
When earth lay robed in resurrection bloom - Fanny L. Glenfield "Ye Know Not What Ye Ask" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Nothing between the earth and the dark - Louise Gluck "Burning Leaves"
The earth and sky taking turns - Louise Gluck "Cornwall"
Spider webs across the scalded earth - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"
Ten years had poured their various gifts on earth - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Till the Princes of Earth bow low to kiss his stirrup - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Shall together consume the fruits of the earth - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Riding winds to the corners of the earth - Theodora Goss "The Bear's Wife"
Pigeons drifting from sky to earth - Mona Gould "Cathedral"
And bind our thoughts to earth - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
While all the earth is wanton - David Gray "Ezekiel"
Tilling the earth from thorn to rose - James Roane Gregory "Rain"
Run wild through an unholy earth - Kimberly Grey "The First Marriage"
Before I knew these treasures of the Earth - Charles A. Gunnison "Sapphire Ring"
Dearer to sky and earth - Ivor Gurney "The Poplar"
Earth and sky to eyes once disenchanted - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
All night lay hid in hollows of the earth - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
And nothing permanent on earth - William Habington, born 1605, died 1654 "The Firmament" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 3, April 14, 1832]
The uncanny affection of earth for water - Donald Hall "Convergences"
A storm of boiling earth - Joy Harjo "Anchorage"
The earth spirits were fed with songs - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Our forgetfulness stalks us, walks the earth behind us - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
The language of damp earth - Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love,"
Sky tethered to the changing earth - Joy Harjo "She Remembers the Future"
Pried from the earth with shovels of grief - Joy Harjo "Singing Everything"
When time threaded earth and sky - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"
To weave for Earth a chaplet - Frances E.W. Harper "The Crocuses"
Which none on the earth can dissever - Robert M. Hart "The Birth of Our Banner" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Echoes of sound flooding the earth - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"
A cell of brown and bloody earth - F.W. Harvey "The Sleepers"
While earth's mocking echoes call - Paul Hamilton Hayne "Shadows All" [Lippincott's Magazine, Sept. 1885]
Mapped the earth as we imagined it - Samuel Hazo "High, Higher, Highest"
Of earth dreaming its root in flowers and snow - Seamus Heaney "Kinship"
The melody that earth affords - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
Above earth's petty things - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
The gnarled black fist of the earth - Ben Hecht "Moods"
To raise from earth a blighted flower - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"
Voices that have left the earth - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "The Haunted House"
Earth's empires on their march - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Clothing the earth with a livery of lightnings - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
Never was a voice on earth - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Soul"
Only as the earth forgets - Ethel M. Hewitt "Heart's Tide"
The aching earth has no more worth than this - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
Poured her sunshine on the earth - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"
Tiny fires with hurt earth spirits - Brenda Hillman "Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways"
Earth dropped its dark clock - Brenda Hillman "The Eighties"
Coax my own sustenance from the earth - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
From the marl of the earth in a sacred cove - Edward Hirsch "A Greek Island"
Unencumbered by love of earth - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
The earth beneath the proudest seat - Henry B. Hirst "Sonnets: Ianthe" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Down into the jawbone of the earth - Tony Hoagland "Scotch Tape"
Red earth and a hawthorne hedge - Florence Hoatson "Summer Picture"
Whose sordid views to earth alone are given - "Hope" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Never lit upon common earth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
Made of earth and sea his overcoat - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XX"
The hour when earth's foundations fled - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXVII: Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries"
Where the earth was soft still from the waters of the flood - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
A scent of earth in the night - Louisa Humphreys "All Souls' Night"
Who saw the bright earth beckon - Aldous Huxley "Poem"
Gild the span of ruined earth - "Hymn [I praised the earth, in beauty seen]" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.333, 27 Sept. 1828]
Rhythmic as dense earth - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
O earth, prepare thy song - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"
Nor earth nor sky has breath - Alex A. Irvine "The Gleaners"
As if the flat earth could answer - Gary Jackson "Kansas"
So insular, so quiet, it enters the earth - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
Energy in the earth's arteries beating red - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Grudge the earth its due - Johannes V. Jensen "At Memphis Station" transl. by S. Foster Damon
To dig my hands wrist deep in pregnant earth - Helene Johnson "Fulfillment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
These transient joys of earth - James Weldon Johnson "A Dream"
Fall back upon an earth of ashes - James Weldon Johnson "The Greatest of These Is War"
Twin sister to the greedy earth - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"
Under the pure silence, earth - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"
No change upon the earth - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
this earth can bear almonds - Megan Johnson "How it comes to pass"
This bit of sun bittered earth - Fred L. Joiner "Below as Above"
Things the earth cannot swallow - Fred L. Joiner "Consume/d"
become a fiery tongue to scorch the earth - Camisha L. Jones "Intercession"
Settle my feet against limitless earth - Tanque R. Jones "Metamorphosis"
lifelines to be colored with earth - Tanque R. Jones "Slave-Hands"
Memory calls me to the earth's opening - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"
Gross Earth, dead Ashes, kindred dust - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
Lakes that cannot be the eyes of the earth - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"
Die where there is no earth - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"
The cracked earth radiated out for miles - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"
Split ears of morning earth - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"
Whose footprints from the earth have vanished - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
That o'er our shadowy earth hang brooding - Fanny Kemble "Lines Written at Night"
Where saffron skies roof in the earth - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Like one who walketh in a plenteous land]"
Upon the face of this blank earth - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"
Hope's bright wings in the dark earth - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"
Wander through this dismal earth - Fanny Kemble "To My Guardian Angel"
Looking upon the never-resting earth - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"
Beneath the Couch of Earth descend - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
With Earth's first Clay - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
A clod of saturated Earth - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Down on the stubborn floor of Earth - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Jest and Scorn of Earth and Aire - Anne Killigrew "An Ode"
The mighty lyre of earth - Joyce Kilmer "George Meredith"
Shall the earth to cinders doom - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"
The motion of earth in sky - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"
Iron left men bent so close to the earth - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
The earth is rejecting the rain - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"
Down a narrow slit of the old earth - Alfred Kreymborg "Initials"
The earth's gold breath falling softly - Danusha Lameris "Dust"
The voices of earth's secret soul - Archibald Lampman "Voices of Earth"
gods and muses arc from sky to earth - Jessica Langer "Chaos"
A music now from earth and now from air - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
One from the dust returning to the earth - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Unperfected"
Earth's lone bewildered guest - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IV: Night Sounds"
Heaven and earth and hellish stream - DH Lawrence "Autumn Sunshine"
Little earthy house-inhabiting Osiris - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"
The dark door of the secret earth - D.H. Lawrence "Snake"
For the wrongs of Earth a cure - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"
Freedom to dig the common earth - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"
No longer dwell the angels on the earth - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
Enlarged unto earth's farthest rim - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"
A little portion of the green, ambitious earth - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"
we wait for the earth to burn - Joseph Lease "Falling"
The milk of earth, the honey of dust - Ruth Lechlitner "How Many Summers"
Sealed rooms deep in the dying earth - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"
Though all earth's lips be mute - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory of the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"
A shadow rests on earth and sky - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"
All dainty things of earth and sky - Henry S. Leigh "Not Quite Fair"
In the pulsing veins of the earth - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
The power of earth called up into the ragged air - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
Still reverberate through frozen earth - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
On earth true happiness to find - Giacomo Leopardi "Consalvo" transl. by Frederick Townsend
In the ice and the earth - Megan Levad "Foundling"
A living candle in the hand of earth - Philip Levine "Bitterness"
Seven hills of scraped earth topped with crab grass - Philip Levine "Drum"
The earth, still cold, still silent, still ungiving - Philip Levine "Gospel"
The earth asks nothing - Philip Levine "The Secret"
Make the Earth your companion - J. Patrick Lewis "Walk Lightly"
All my roots earth laden and bare - Robin Coste Lewis "The Ark: Self-Portrait as Aphrodite Using Her Dress for a Sail, xxx"
Earth has swallowed the snow - Li Po "The Girl at Home" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Heaven and earth our quilt and pillow - Li Po "A Night with a Friend" transl. by Burton Watson
Trembled upon a border of gold and earth - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"
The earth saying language and vision are nothing - Sandra Lim "Cattiveria"
And bows me to the very Earth with Grief - Mary Wallace Bundy Little "The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband"
Against the grain of the earth - Anni Liu "Lake of Isles"
A lurch of earth on the edge of sleep - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"
Being spoken from the earth's inside - Audre Lorde "Coal"
Hover between the earth and furthest heaven - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"
The freedom of the earth's vast solitudes - Amy Lowell "A Japanese Wood-Carving"
Spiced winds which blew when earth was young - Amy Lowell "To John Keats"
Whispered the secrets of earth to the flowers - Amy Lowell "The Way"
From haunted earth broke springs of wonder - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
Fames that earth's tin trumpets fill - James Russell Lowell "Joseph Winlock"
Unstitches the quartered earth - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"
bones circling the belly of the Earth - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"
May for ever be hushed in the homesteads of earth - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "The Return to Lezayre" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.456, 25 Sept. 1852]
Priestess of the visible earth - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"
Nor have I share in earth or sky - William MacDonald "A Spring Trouble"
Curling lips which Earth has kissed - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Crocus Bed"
All Earth's fretting voices - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Lake Louise"
And glory in a dream of time when earth was young - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"
While earth its scented secrets told - James Allan Mackereth "Ioläus"
That filled all earth with flame - James Clarence Mangan "The One Mystery"
Earth's golden bonnet of the day - Jeannette Marks "Blind Sleep"
Resting in my brown upon earth - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"
A sigh from the slumber of earth and sky - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
All melodies of earth and heaven - George Martin "Keats"
Clear and free of interference out from Earth - Harry Martinson "Aniara 2" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Which was to sever us from Sun and Earth - Harry Martinson "Aniara 2" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Weight in the earth or glory in the grass - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
From the abandoned spools of earth - Edgar Lee Masters "The Grand River Marshes"
Seeking light from earth's core - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
How seed turns to leaf regardless of its earth - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"
Satellites that couldn't be coaxed to Earth - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"
An elbow cracking the Earth in half - Jamaal May "Megalophobia"
When the earth was clad with her robe of buds and flowers - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]
No battle for the stricken earth - Theodore Maynard "Ave Atque Vale!"
Gladness on the furrowed earth - Theodore Maynard "In Memoriam F.H.M. Killed in Action, April 9th, 1917"
Prenatal earth rising in the volcano's throat - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
The earth a broken crib - Maureen N. McLane "From A Book of Hours"
The Grail from earth withdrawn - Louis J. McQuilland "Queens in Red and White"
Water, earth all kinds of dust & dirt - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"
That roam the stock exchanges of the earth - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"
Making the earth full glad - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
And read a reflex upon earth - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
As Earth to the crown of Gods - George Meredith "Melampus"
That with deep Earth unites - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Between the earth and silence - W.S. Merwin "Utterance"
Sprawls across the earth like a fallen giant - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"
On all the lonely sorrows of the earth - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
With this ambiguous earth - Alice Meynell "Christ in the Universe"
Walking to and fro in the earth - Joseph Millar "Job"
From the secret earth shall rise - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Elegy"
In the secret earth securely - Edna St Vincent Millay "Elegy"
Rolling sphere's beyond earth's ken - John Mitchell "Oh! Waft Me to the Fairy Clime"
This structure of earth and bone - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"
Stitching patches of color to the earth - N. Scott Momaday "Ago"
Till the drugged earth has drunk her fill - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"
Prefers not seeing what happens on earth - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
The bookshelves connected heaven and earth - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"
Falls to earth from a storm cloud - Jaye Nasir "November"
Wrought in the chambers of the earth - John Neal "Unheeded Growth" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
When rice withdraws from earth - Pablo Neruda "Born in the Woods" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Between the wings of the earth - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Between the teeth of the hard earth - Pablo Neruda "The Disinterred One" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The quiet intent of my earth-stained hands - Pablo Neruda "The Forest" transl. by Alastair Reid
Writing the earth with stars - Pablo Neruda "I Recall the Sea" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The iron spoon that eats the earth - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
Who make the water and the earth tremble - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Burning rain over the red earth - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
Hooves knit swift earth to swift - Pablo Neruda "Rider in the Rain" transl. by John Felstiner
The dense earth of flour and rancor - Pablo Neruda "Rosas (1829-1849)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Clothed in earth and solitude, snow and clover - Pablo Neruda "San Martin (1810)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The harsh dew of your golden earth - Pablo Neruda "Song on the Death and Resurrection of Luis Companys" translated by Donald D. Walsh
If earth does not listen - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
My contract with the earth - Pablo Neruda "The South" transl. by Alastair Reid
By virtue of the earth's pride - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: II" transl. by James Nolan
Swings open the doors of the earth - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XXVIII" transl. by James Nolan
Jewel set in a ring of earth - Pablo Neruda "Swan Lake" transl. by Alastair Reid
A honey that measured the earth - Pablo Neruda "To Miguel Hernandez, Murdered in the Prisons of Spain" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Those eyes sundering the earth - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Through the interstices of the earth - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Earth's rumor grew in the leaves - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly
When earth is grieving for the vanished - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "[Not Summer's crown of scent]"
Distantly tethered to the bestial earth - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"
And kiss the earth farewell - Effie Lee Newsome "Sunset"
The textures of the earth absorb it entirely - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"
My hope in earth's dark dungeon - H. Ernest Nichol "A Love-Thought" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.45-v.I, 8 Nov. 1884]
Bodies enraptured by the abounding earth - Robert Nichols "Fulfilment"
As I stumble on this earth - Nancy Nishihara "The Weight"
Making food of sunshine teasing earth to bloom - Margaret Noodin "Blue-Green Becoming" transl. by the author
Between the good earth and the great sea - Margaret Noodin "Cream City/Doodooshabo'enaande Oodena " transl. by the author
The work of every root is to tunnel through the earth - Margaret Noodin "Work" transl. by the author
Bent her gentle knee to earth - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
One hand out against the earth - Naomi Shihab Nye "All I Can Do"
The earth rattling beneath them - Naomi Shihab Nye "Footfall"
Lines between our pain and earth - Naomi Shihab Nye "Holy Land"
To us the shadow of the earth is given - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]
All the movements of the earth - Achy Obejas "Naiad"
Feel earth's pulses beating - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"
Against you are leagued the earth and the stars - Thomas O'Hagan "The Kaiser's 'Place in the Sun'"
His music of earth's caretaking - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"
Able to be struck by the earth - Sharon Olds "Not Once"
Whose name was Earth - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"
Our earth bent dustward forsworn to decay - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Part of the fabric of earth - January Gill O'Neil "In Praise of Okra"
On earth's time-bounded shore - Oliver Optic "Lizzie"
Heirloom to all the sorrowing nations of the earth - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Nothing but me 'twixt earth and sky - Kate Putnam Osgood "Day-Dream" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]
By vapors of the dreamy earth - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"
Setting up an idol all of earth - Robert Owen "A Prayer" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Earth's ten thousand fragrant incenses - John Oxenham "A Little Te Deum of the Commonplace"
Though long years drown Earth's sounds - M.P. "The Mountain" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]
Had deluged the earth with their rage - Herbert E. Palmer "The New Beginning"
Only tastes of earth and guilt - Coventry Patmore "Joy"
The unshapen dust of earth without a face - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"
All the brightness earth had once for me - Florence Peacock "Lost at Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.137-v.III, 14 Aug. 1886]
Shut within earth's jaws - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Magnolias gloom the earth with densest shades - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
From an opera over the earth - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"
They have but pieces of the earth - Katherine Phillips "To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship"
Locks all my earth into cement - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"
Could part the earth with our voices - Sasha Pimentel "Lament of Submerged Persons"
Arms rooting to earth - Janel Pineda "Mujer Malvada"
Birds cawing over the broken earth - Jon Pineda "Cinque Terre"
And warms the earth in a learned way - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"
Sheep of the earth and sheep of the sky - Miriam Clark Potter "The Two Little Flocks"
The torpor of earth's granite veins - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"
Earth's diurnal axis overruled - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"
From earth's unstable shores - E.J. Pratt "In Memoriam"
And the sunbeams' arrows pierce the green earth - Mary N. Prescott "What So Sweet?" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
The supremest splendor of earth or sky or sea - Margaret J. Preston "Nocturne" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]
The armies of earth at your sight would turn pale - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
Sought earth's poisoned feasts - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Our Daily Bread"
Your peer on earth I never did see - "The Queen of Elfland"
On a meteor compelled by earth - Sina Queyras "The Couriers"
When the earth is calmly breathing - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Retrospection"
Airy notions mix with earth - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Splendid Spur"
Earth owns no smiles in absence - Quince "Absence" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
All of earth mysteriously allied - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Ages" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
The Earth has steeped in longing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Bound my soul with chains of earth - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Confidence"
Thy rainbow's footed on the earth - Theodore H. Rand "Beauty"
Lost on earth's lone beach - Theodore H. Rand "Dian and Fundy"
Your roses are too fair for earth - Theodore H. Rand "Glory-Roses"
Blood of earth's wild pulsing veins - Theodore H. Rand "Sea Music"
To hold Earth's architrave in place - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"
With Earth and Ocean reconciled - T. Buchanan Read "Drifting"
as it bursts full flame upon the earth - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
A gleaming stone upon which the skyfolk spilled dark earth - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"
That bard of heaven, earth, chaos, and perdition - "Rhyming Ruminations on Old London Bridge" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20, no.557, 14 July 1832]
This earth and the bones within it - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
A trestle between earth and heaven - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Deep as the earth carries her jewels - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
The traitorous earth that scorpions nest in - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Feet that dance on slipping earth - Lola Ridge "Incompatibility"
Feel the long recoil of earth - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
Endure the dance of earth - Lola Ridge "Ward X"
Shake the doors of earth - Lynn Riggs "Santo Domingo Corn Dance"
Adorning Earth with its esteem - James Whitcombe Riley "Leonanie"
Which troubles the bowels of earth - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
In all the ardent earth - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Good Earth"
Before earth's dawn hour thought to wane - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Forget-Me-Not"
A few still minutes between heaven and earth - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
Change is earth's inevitable dower - Fayette Robinson "Supplication.--Two Sonnets" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The wonderful harmony of the earth and the skies - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
A ruby path between the earth and sky - Rennell Rodd "From the Hills of Gardens"
Bathed in earth's lesser light - Alice Wellington Rollins "Indian Summer"
The peculiar joy of returning to earth - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"
Earth stood hard as iron - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [In the bleak mid-winter]"
Heaven cannot hold Him nor earth sustain - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [In the bleak mid-winter]"
Exalted above earth and heaven - Rumi "The Heart of the Harper" transl. by E.H. Whinfield
The dials of earth may show - Father Ryan "The Rosary of My Years"
Every eddying vacancy of Earth - Kay Ryan "Repulsive Theory"
This apparently tenacious earth - Kay Ryan "Things That Have Stayed in Position"
Treasured up earth's glorious things - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Only the battle between man and earth - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Laden with fruits of the earth - Edna K. Saloomey "My Lebanon"
The slope from the earth to the firmament - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: I. The Creation of the Universe: Measurements of the Universe" transl. by Eleanor Hull
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
Return to earth in prayer - Sonia Sanchez "10 Haiku (for Max Roach)"
Laid on bones taken from the ribs of the earth - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"
Slippery frozen places of the earth - Carl Sandburg "Four Steichen Prints"
Sent from earth to kiss the sky - Margaret E. Sangster "At Dawn: III. The Farmer"
Against the troubled fever of the earth - Margaret E. Sangster "I Dreamed Your Face"
One leg tense with the burden of earth - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"
To taste the sweet and bitter fruits of earth - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"
Pulled down to earth - May Sarton "The O's of November"
the body is ink in the earth - Sam Sax "Bury"
Shifted like the errant sands of Earth - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Until the ravaged earth gave way - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"
The wind-swept harp of earth - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"
Drained earth's pleasures to the lees - Frederick George Scott "Solomon"
Singing his glad, mad songs of earth - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"
With earth and sea's rich gems - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXI"
Voiceless earth and vacant air - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Stands immortal upon earth - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
The sunlight clasps the earth - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"
Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
Read the message writ across Earth's face - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"
Who has the fairest gifts of all the earth to give - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
Earth's forgetfulness of sorrow - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
To anchor earth, to touch the sky - Joyce Sidman "Oak After Dark"
Trac'd o'er the earth his desolating tread - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
While the asteroid kept falling to earth - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"
the earth shines black in the sirens - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"
Detached from earth and earthly voice - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
Earth's denied and cheated sons - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"
The fleshless earth's outjutting ribs - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
All the threads of earth wear to the breaking - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Lights earth's tears - Effie Waller Smith "The Rainbow"
Give your gladness to earth keeping - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"
Earth that never doubts nor fears - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"
Earth that knows of death, not tears - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"
Sow your gladness for earth's reaping - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"
Our other earth opens a secret hand - Nathan Spoon "The Genie Speaks"
Earth and air in snowy sheen commingle - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Sleigh-Ride"
Our wingless gold of earth - George Sterling "Farm of Fools"
Their gold was the gold of earth - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"
That clutched the deviating earth - George Sterling "The Thirst of Satan"
The earth a trinket at my wrist - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"
One bud from off the tree of Earth - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
Twisting earth's iron to their use - Arthur Stringer "The Steel Workers"
Consumes the glowing heart of earth - Alan Sullivan "A Question"
Floods the earth of our chests - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 178: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Reigns over all the earth - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 194 : Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The burdens of earth disappear - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 227: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
To confound the earth and sky - E. Sutton "The Drum"
The earth carpeted with sunlight - May Swenson "Earth Your Dancing Place"
Dust of the labouring earth - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Creation of Man"
Cloud that darkens earth and sea - Algernon Swinburne "A Dialogue"
Where earth's foundations crack - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
The fogs which night gathers upon the earth - G.P.T. "Sonnet [The moon is gliding on her clear blue way]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Tired feet on this rough earth yet walking - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]
Replicant echoes in red earth and Tesla coils - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"
When Earth's revolutions are ended - Rabindranath Tagore "This Day Will Pass"
Move horizontally below the earth - Mutsuo Takahashi "Dead Boy" transl. by Jeffrey Angles
All this youth in Earth's old veins - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Calling up its brothers and sisters from the Earth's hot core - Keith Taylor "Conditions"
Earth wounded stranger that wandered - Te-con-ees-kee "Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation"
The sound of a curse on the earth - Te-con-ees-kee "[Though far from Georgia in exile I roam]"
To take earth's wonder - Sara Teasdale "Spring Night"
The first of insects to have earth and sun - Edward Thomas "The Brook"
Nor choose 'twixt earth and sky - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"
Smoothed earth's furrowed face - Francis Thompson "Daisy"
When earth and heaven lay down their veil - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
Fills the earth and thrills the heavens - Maurice Thompson "The Final Thought"
On our sweet earth and in their unplaced sky - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
The civil sun drying earth's tears - Henry David Thoreau "The Thaw"
Unmix'd with gross compounding of my earth - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: II"
The first sounds that the earth heard - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Moving light spreads round earth a mantle bright - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Touched by Ariel's power, free of air, and earth, and waves - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
Which rests awhile on earth and sinks unseen - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VIII. The Lery"
In that fair borderland of earth and heaven - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XII. Sunday.--The Hill-Top"
For love to earth not granted - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Hard my path on earth is closed - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut
Into this artery of earth - Z.G. Tomaszewski "The Poet in the Pinewoods"
Clothing made of cold earthen clay - (Anonymous) Traditional English song collected by Cecil Sharp
The earth is scorched and wretched - Lillian Tsay "The Resolution of N" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]
Trees rose in wild dreams from the earth - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"
Who grieves amid earth's dying leaves - W.J. Turner "Death"
All while clutching the earth - Sarah Grace Tuttle "Rooted"
The cold complacency of earth - Louis Untermeyer "Challenge"
All the morning minded earth - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"
Unconscious of the earth - Louis Untermeyer "Protests"
The lavish miracles of earth - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
Taken by hungry earth - John Updike "Lunar Eclipse"
so I bequeath to earth my dying gasp - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"
To the entrails of the earth - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954
Deep in the earth with a reed to breathe through - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "From the Front of the Fourth World"
Stars wedded to earth in some grand cosmic tying - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Stardust"
Who knew how to bring the stars down to earth - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"
Right and left earth and sky desert me - Mark Van Doren "River Snow"
Earth and sky and the fair ministries of Nature - Henry van Dyke "Dulciora"
And pours balm on the cleft earth - Henry Vaughan "The Rainbow"
Storing tears in the belly of the earth - Ruperta Bautista Vázquez "Jícara | Boch" transl. by Morgan L. Ventura
Low stars and difficult earth - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"
With a softer blue the sky pavilions earth - Hans von Spiegel "June" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Pin this antlered heartbeat back to earth - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"
Dim earth's beauty with stain and spot - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]
Dazzles the earth with his spirit's flight - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]
Answered earth's myriad-voiced petition - W.P.W. "Love's Seasons" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.149--v.III, 6 Nov. 1886]
Fitting bones to the earth - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"
Up from the gray of earth - Charles William Wallace "To Thee Above"
With whirlwinds sweeping all life on earth - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist
Earth is a jealous mother - Thomas Walsh "Coelo et in Terra"
The earth shook beneath him with thunderous raps - George Warwick "Schneider Von Groot's Christmas Dream"
Heaven endures forever and the earth is eternal - "The Way of Virtue: Eternity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Darkens the earth with bones - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Paused on Earth's grey rim - Eugene R. White "Reward"
Earth holds no sweeter secret - Helen Hay Whitney "My Brook"
Her tears dissolve the earth - Helen Hay Whitney "Spring and Autumn"
Within the breast of brooding Earth - Helen Hay Whitney "The Supreme Sacrifice"
Some kites drop fire onto the earth - Amie Whittemore "Future History of Earth's Birds"
To watch the earth paint the moon gray - Amie Whittemore "Lunar Eclipse"
Has been the one companion of the Earth - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"
Some spectral satellite cast glamor on the earth - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"
Strike the earth with a kiss - Phillip B. Williams "Order of Events"
Those fleas that escaped earth and fire - William Carlos Williams "Complete Destruction"
Hugging the earth in August - William Carlos Williams "Daisy"
Argosies of earth their treasures bear - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota--Past and Present"
That first warm rain that melts the heart of earth - Humbert Wolfe "Balder's Song"
Cling like vermin to the earth - Adolf Wolff "The Toilers"
To defeat earth's greatest powers' great plots - Constance Fenimore Woolson "Commonplace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
Earth has not anything to show more fair - William Wordsworth "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course - William Wordsworth "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"
Darkness is dropping inches beneath the earth - Charles Wright "Terrestrial Music"
A whitish light edging the earth's offerings - Charles Wright "Yellow Wings"
The uncompromising reaches of the earth - Willard Huntington Wright "What of the Night?"
The earth may hide - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
The earth closing its one good eye - Wendy Xu "Praxis"
Rain makes a painting on the earth - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu
Earth holds all the answers - Jane Yolen "Call and Response"
A few of the demons dwelling beneath the earth - Dean Young "Permitted a Meadow" [Poetry Oct. 2017]
Because he dove unflinchingly to retrieve Earth - Ray Young Bear "For You, a Handful of the Greatest Gift"
Steady yourself on a foothold of earth - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa
Give wings to the children of earth below - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa
The earth's call to the scouring wind - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"
An appeal from earth to sky - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #1: Heavy Lyricism" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Weathers the white earth's thirst - Art Zilleruelo "Ghost Story"
Who pass through multiformed earth - Zitkála-Šá "The Indian's Awakening"
Earthly.
Unearthly.
Earthbound.
Grim, earth-dank persistence - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"
On the dusty earth-drum beats - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "Rain Music"
What awe is there in earthen labyrinths? - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"
And all arrogance of earthen riches - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
Purple with damps and earthish stains - William D. Howells (uncredited) "The Old Homestead" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
One of the earth-starred denizens - Seamus Heaney "Freedman"
Earthward one dingy drop descends - John Gay "Fable LIII: Ape and Poultry" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Earthward swoops a vulture sun - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Plunging earthward, tossing high - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"
Secret images unearthed by time - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Newly unearthed from its geography - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Earth" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
To unearth the dark pit of your distance - Molly Raynor "This Is the Undone Season"
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