Potential Titles: Fall

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Veiling all that may befall - Rupert Brooke "Beauty and Beauty"


Roses fall, but the thorns remain - Anonymous Dutch proverb (I can't find a firmer source for this)

Wherever the last domino of my body falls - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

And catch you falling into trust - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

Falling through the generous doom of your mind - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

Wind falls through my hair - Carl Adamshick "Black Snow [I live between the bus stop]"

The hills won't fall to their knees - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

A constellation of stars fallen - Francisco X. Alarcon "Our City"

Rocks adorned with crowns of fallen branches - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

Vaguely caught through whispers fallen from tradition's lip - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Not a dead leaf dares to fall - Elizabeth Akers Allen "A Midnight Visitor"

Eaten from the inside and about to fall - Mike Allen "The Journey fo Kailash"

To yearn for flight is to fall into forever - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Falls soft on the white - Willis Boyd Allen "By Night"

The fall with its empty cup - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"

In liquid numbers drowsy falling - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Sleep's Serenade"

To fall into belief - Rae Armantrout "On Growth"

'Mid the wrecks of a falling world - Avena "Columbia's Banner"

In broken sentences of falling rain - Albion Fellows Bacon "Oh, Dreary Day!"

Such as only fall at midnight - Albion Fellows Bacon "The Prophet"

Old wasp nests fallen by the door - Nina Bagley "Gathering"

Falling in love with the sun - Taneum Bambrick "Legend"

Early fall wrapped in a shawl - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

Who had fallen in love with amnesia - Mary Jo Bang "When April Was Beginning, and End"

How it feels to fall straight - Rachel Barenblat "Untie"

Hopes that fall like leaves before the wind - Maurice Baring "Diffugere Nives, 1917"

Fell gently on my heart like falling dews - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Fallen among the angels - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Dark Centaur"

Fall on the flaming sea - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"

To see your blades fall at a tilt of my wrist - Ennis Rook Bashe "We Have Slain the Savage Martians, but Their Princess Escaped"

Lost in a river of falling leaves - Basho transl. by David Young

Resurrection of fallen warriors - Robin Becker "Hummingbird"

And fall like jackstraws - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

The strength of the flood, the might of the falling snow - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"

The burden of our fall - Robert Hugh Benson "The Teresian Contemplative"

Like starlight without an object to fall on - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Lux"

Falling off the round, turning world - Elizabeth Bishop "In the Waiting Room"

Lets fall a supernumerary horror - Robert Blair "The Grave"

All the days that have fallen - Richard Blanco "Time as Art in The Eternal City"

Rich the crops that fall - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

A nation wept its fallen flowers - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"

Fallen plum-bloom stars the green - Edmund Blunden "The Poor Man's Pig"

Falling from a tapestry of memory - Maxwell Bodenheim "North Clark Street, Chicago"

Falling like precipitous water - Louise Bogan "Words for Departure"

Having fallen out of blue September - Jaswinder Bolina "Course in General Linguistics"

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

Kingdoms froth forth and fall - Haley Bossé "When the Time Comes to Split the Gym"

Crossed that dry falling dust - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"

As snow apples fall - Lucie Brock-Broido "Self-Portrait as a Herd of One"

That moonlight falls on Memory - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert I: The Garden"

Falling seeds their promise bring - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"

Falling is the consequence of gravity - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"

In the rubble of a fallen bridge - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"

Already dead but refusing to fall - Nickole Brown "Mercy"

Fall hot on all the hissing scorns - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Gathering the nuts just fallen - William Cullen Bryant "A Winter Piece"

Falling away in a hive of liquid gold - Sue Budin "Japanese Baskets"

Mouth so deep even the stars fall through - Sue Budin "Passport, 1954"

Falls in the well of sound - Sue Budin "Synesthesia"

Cast anchor where no shadows fall - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Drifting"

When rain falls like cold missiles - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"

The floods of sunshine falling - F. O. Call "On a Swiss Mountain"

Laid it where the sunbeams fall - C.S. Calverley "Motherhood"

Tomatoes in the summer and pumpkins in the fall - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"

Let oblivion's curtain fall - Thomas Campbell "The Last Man"

Of thrones foredoomed to fall - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"

Snow-flakes fall through the ashen heavens - Giosue Carducci "Snowed Under " transl. by Frank Sewall

Just as they chance to fall - Lewis Carroll "Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur"

A wife of freshly fallen snow - Paul Carroll "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"

And silent fall the dews - J.E.A. Carver "Evening"

That in a golden silence fall - Willa Cather "Autumn Melody"

Day's radiant monarch falling - Ceiriog "Climb the hillside" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

No one ever need fall - Mary Jean Chan "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter"

Thorns falling on the imagined grass - Tina Chang "Astroturf"

History's weapons fall from my pockets - Tina Chang "Revolutionary Kiss"

Darkness is falling without end - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Frontal Lobe]"

Fallen into place beside the oldest stones - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"

The door of the darkness fallen ajar - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

At the precipice of the fall - Chiwan Choi "portraitures and erasures"

When shapes fall from the air - John Ciardi "Abundance"

The music of snowflakes falling - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"

With tenderness falling inside - Tiana Clark "800 Days: Libation"

where is the light of one leaf falling? - Lucille Clifton "consulting the book of changes: radiation"

The fallen coin of honour - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

To fall before the gilded beast - Arthur Hugh Clough "The New Sinai"

Keep track of each fallen robin - Leonard Cohen "Chelsea Hotel"

The bridge of fallen answers - Leonard Cohen "Drank a Lot"

Magnet of the falling cherry petals - Leonard Cohen "I Draw Aside the Curtain"

Beyond the falling dust of spires - Leonard Cohen "Isaiah"

Create an embrace and fall - Leonard Cohen "You Have the Lovers"

In their perilous fall shall thunder - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

The campfire's last grey embers fall - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"

And tones of falling water - Hilda Conkling "Little Papoose"

Sharp strokes fall piercing, unceasing, and true - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

But the famine will not fall forever - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan

Thirty times in the fallen city - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Fallen leaves that curled and shrank - Frances Cornford "The Old Witch in the Copse"

Flustered as feathers falling - Cristina Correa "A Study in Eventuality"

Love's arrows falling in the grass - Walter Crane "Love's Arrows"

And each one sought his fallen foe - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

the glory is fallen out of the sky - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VIII)"

a noise of petals falling silently - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

Fall in a pride of petaled hours - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"

shallowness of sunlight falls - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VIII)"

Ashes fall around me like pieces of the moon - P. Scott Cunningham "Florida Snow"

About to fall shattered with flame spent - H.D. "Fragment Forty"

That never saw the sun fall in the sea - H.D. "Projector"

In the brown brittle of fall - Jim Daniels "Foundation"

Falling anchors dash the foaming flood - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

The cricket whistling while the dewdrops fall - Walter de la Mare "Some One"

silent music notes falling into night - Cenizas de Rosas "Bone Flute"

silent notes falling into dust and darkness - Cenizas de Rosas "Bone Flute"

Who keeps the stars from falling - Diana Marie Delgado "Never Mind I'm Dead"

Until they fall like withered roots - Toi Derricotte "Invisible Dreams"

And the night that didn't fall away - Chelsea Dingman "And What If I Spoke of the Hours"

Small epiphanies falling through the fingers - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

Geese falling quiet as stardust - Chris Dombrowski "Still Life with Starlight"

Entreat one other tear to fall - John Donne "Lovers' Infiniteness"

To stop myself from falling awake - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Falls to the asphalt of a final parking lot - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"

Solace of man's fallen plight - Ernest Dowson "Benedictio Domini"

A voice falling on the midnight sea - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Where promised snow always refuses to fall - Cheryl Dumesnil "Breaking the Broken Things"

The cry of the fallen recalling me - A.E. "Love"

The heart's fallen architecture - Cornelius Eady "My Eyes"

Like jonquil perfume softly falls - Maurice Francis Egan "He Made Us Free"

With a dying fall beneath the music - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Sunshine there in saddening lustre fall - Eliza "October" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Even the roosters fall silent - Aziz Isa Elkun "Father" transl. by author

A place forever falling on itself - Heid E. Erdich "Translation"

Soft as music's dying fall - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "Old Memories"

Where the shadow falls the deepest - James Hogg "A Boy's Song" [Ettrick Shepherd]

Where the clustering nuts fall free - James Hogg "A Boy's Song" [Ettrick Shepherd]

A tune of tears falling - Euripides "The Trojan Women" transl. by ???

Tears falling where no man hears - Euripides "The Trojan Women" transl. by ???

Over your bed let the Yew-bough fall - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"

The bridge across the Torrent's fall - George Blackstone Field "To You Who Can Never Understand"

Through the rifts of rising, falling seed - Michael Field "The Depths of the Grass"

The fall of a sideways flicker from a neon sign - Annie Finch "In Cities, Be Alert"

Yellow fall roars over the ground - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

And Autumn's falling leaves proclaimed - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"

And winds and shadows fall toward the West - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Opening fanlike to fall - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Of snow falling into itself - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"

Emptied as a fallen leaf - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"

Thick and fast the leaves are falling - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"

The spirit of the falling sands - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 1 (February 1923)"

Almost mad with the pain of his fall - "The Fox and the Geese"

Like Jericho's falling wall - Vievee Francis "Gettysburg: Blue and Grey"

With a sign for the ranging shrapnel's fall - Gilbert Frankau "Headquarters"

Falling with the curve of time - John Freeman "The Body"

Water falling golden from the sun - John Freeman "The Body"

Stream that falls to the deeps of the mind - John Freeman "The Body"

The serried hosts of falling waters - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

And I let it fall and break - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"

The rhythmic fall of speeding feet - Zona Gale "Return"

Fall from any mortal flower - Zona Gale "Troth"

Debris falling back to earth - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"

Solemn jubilation of the falls - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"

Up the narrow stair of fall - Deborah Garrison "November on Her Way"

i hear atoms falling together and falling apart - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"

With weary burden fall - Philip Gerry "Monotony"

Who gently places fallen baby birds back - Nikita Gill "Your Soft Heart"

Falling, starless veils of lace - Aracelis Girmay "Ceremony for Remembering the Doorless World"

As pyrotechnic stars fall on already fragile dreams - Ian Goh "Firework"

The sunset falls like lead - Louis Golding "Lyric in Gloom"

The sheer steep falls of space - Louis Golding "The Moon-Clock"

The shadow of the Grail falls like a silver whisper - Mona Gould "You Wrote"

As manna on the meadow falls - David Gray "The Mavis"

Falls through the spaces of my days - Leah Naomi Green "Hashem"

The city not yet fallen - Linda Gregerson "De Magnete"

Fallen beneath a foreign oak - Louise Imogen Guiney "Chaluz Castle"

Annoying when they're first to fall - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

Rest till stars shall fall - Ieuan Gwynedd "Go and Dig a Grave for me" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Fallen moon rolling up the bone railroad - Joy Harjo "Backwards"

Falling from one sky to another - Joy Harjo "Blue Elliptic"

Too blue for falling angels - Joy Harjo "Crossing Water"

Falling into a liquid mirror - Jim Harrison "Tomorrow"

Such delicate flowers falling silent - Leslie Harrison "[December]"

Must know the fall of tears - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXI"

Pray devil's thunder may fall - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet II (from Farewell)"

Falling because gravity exists - Stephanie Heit "Chronic"

Bid the aged cedar fall - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"

Where the deep elm-shadows fall - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "The Haunted House"

Falls on the placid brow of sleep - Felicia Hemans "Invocation"

And grace the ruin in its fall - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"

Where we have held the loose feathers of a fallen bird - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"

Mozart lets the chords fall in place - Conrad Hilberry "Divertimento 563"

Bitter black it falls between - Francis Hill "Rich Man, Poor Man"

Moonbeams falling, gently trace - Jennie Earngey Hill "A Sleighing Song"

With the snowflakes merry fall - Jennie Earngey Hill "When Snowflakes Fall"

As fall the leaves in Autumn storm - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "A Vision" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Before all the firmament starts to fall apart - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"

On falling waters writes the text - Gerard Manley Hopkins "It was a hard thing to undo this knot"

Fall winds strip the ash tree - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Fulling Cloth for Clothes" transl. by Burton Watson

Noises that fall through the yellow dust - Hsieh Shang "Song of the Thoroughfare" transl. by Burton Watson

When the chilling snows fall - Imogene "Mother and Child" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

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

As cloth-of-gold the fallen leaves lie - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

the late fall's layered sky - Didi Jackson "Fall"

It does feel a bit like falling - Sarah Jackson "The Time Bureau Came to Careers Day"

The tempered regularity of falling leaves - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

A flight of scarlet locusts fallen - Elinor Jenkins "Poppyfields"

With stars falling through your hands - Allison Eir Jenks "Different Ideas of Honor"

A nightly spell of sleep falls heavy - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

Fall back upon an earth of ashes - James Weldon Johnson "The Greatest of These Is War"

Never forgetful silence fall - Lionel Johnson "Celtic Speech"

The last October peaches fall - Lionel Johnson "Comfort"

Fallen from their blossoming height - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

And the heirs of glory fall - Lionel Johnson "Ways of War"

A feral squirrel watches the fall - Patricia Spears Jones "A pillow in the city"

Unhealed wounds and home fallen to ruins - Zilka Joseph "A Chirota for My Thoughts"

Now each regardless of a fall - "Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes"

To nourish life upon the fallen leaf - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Made of everything that has fallen from Heaven - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"

When he falls asleep, does light fade? - Janet Kauffman "Cut the Lure"

The new soft fallen mask of snow - John Keats "Bright Star"

A ring-dove let fall a sprig of yew - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

By reason of his fallen divinity - John Keats "Hyperion"

The shadows fall more soothing - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"

As its bright drops fall starlike - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

That far land where fall no blights - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"

Life's sweetest buds fall withered - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"

Dead bees falling from your mouth - Vandana Khanna "Self-Portrait as a Girl Conceding"

Interrupted by falling in love - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

Die like the falling leaf - Kim Unsong "Detachment"

Musing o'er the dust of fallen Carthage - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

O'er the fallen pillars of the deep and sky - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Which regards not taint or fall - Rudyard Kipling "Rahere"

Have fallen from me like gossamer - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Even as my fidelity falls- Michael Kleber-Diggs "America is Loving Me to Death"

As the present falls upon the past - Christopher Kondrich "Bellfounding"

A ruin of fallen columns bedded on ice - Ted Kooser "The Celery Heart"

Any type of weather might fall through - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"

The earth's gold breath falling softly - Danusha Laméris "Dust"

What a relief to feel the weight fall - Danusha Laméris "Eve, After"

Cherries falling from the crown of sky - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"

Where no hurricane falls - Archibald Lampman "Inter Vias"

Fall into the wind toward the first day - Deborah Landau "Flesh"

A fall all consuming - Susan Landers "I Don't Know What You're Called, I'll Call You by Your Sounds"

Which on some dripping threshold fall - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

Lest I fall in doubt, and reproach you - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"

Fall asleep under the fleece of shadow - D.H. Lawrence "The Little Town at Evening"

Under your fallen skies - D.H. Lawrence "The Revolutionary"

Falls league by league from our destiny - D.H. Lawrence "Tommies in the Train"

Falls like meteorite backward into space - D.H. Lawrence "Tommies in the Train"

Woe to the straggler who falls - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

There falls each ancient barrier - Emma Lazarus "1492"

After the sumac's banners fall - Ruth Lechlitner "At the Road's Turn"

Grasp the fallen sceptre of the day - Ida Lee "The Homestead"

Falling thick in showers of hail - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

Trusting the trees to catch my fall - R.B. Lemberg "Between the Mountain and the Moon"

Firebright blessings of fallen leaves - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

The leaves are not angry at falling - Li Po "The Sun" transl. by Arthur Waley

Falling from yesterday's stars - M.L. Liebler "Winter Meditation"

Compelled to fall around you forever - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"

A million strangers waiting for you to fall - Angela Liu "The Subway Is Another Place to Die"

Power falls twice - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Untitled (Havana, 2000)"

My steps fall ringed with light - Amy Lowell "Apology"

How has the rainbow fallen - Amy Lowell "In Excelsis"

The fallen roses of outlived minutes - Amy Lowell "A Lady"

To fall into this lair of leopards and tigers - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson

Fall back in dust upon my soul - George MacDonald "Within and Without"

Bright blackberries where the light falls - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "bramble"

Falling around you as flecks, as grains, as glitter - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "goldfinch"

Deep fall the fathoms beyond your beliefs - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "grey seal"

The linden leaves are falling - Dorothea Mackellar "September"

Falls from the vortice of the spheres - Edwin Markham "The Poet"

Fallen mute are the strings of Apollo - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

May fall as a symbol of grace - Don Marquis "This Earth, It Is Also a Star"

Grapes fall under their own command - Herbert Woodward Martin "Standing Beneath Grapes"

Hypocrisy in this great falling hegemony - David Tomas Martinez "An Alluded to Letter from DTM for Matthew Olzmann"

Unless the giddy Heaven fall - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"

Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"

When the world's last cities fall - Theodore Maynard "Processional"

Falling a sudden arrow of dismay - Theodore Maynard "Sunset"

Fallen leaves careen on fairy keels - Theodore Maynard "Vocation"

All the snow that never falls - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"

The benediction of the falling snow - John McCrae "Slumber Songs"

The owl who just witnessed another tree fall - Jeffrey McDaniel "Compulsively Allergic to the Truth"

A fall opening to swoop and glide - Anne Haven McDonnell "Owl"

Fallen wire taken by the dust - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"

When night lets fall its fall - Claude McKay "Harlem Shadows"

Night is a fallen sparrow - Arch Alfred McKillen "Night"

Within the fallen fortress of my will - Arch Alfred McKillen "Sonnet"

Climb and then fall back to me - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger "Midmorning" transl. by Carlie Hoffman

In the misery of a fallen bird's nest - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"

Always falling toward each other - Joanne Merriam "Surface Properties"

Had fallen away from the road underneath - W.S. Merwin "The Crust"

Sprawls across the earth like a fallen giant - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"

The quick shadows of the sparrows fall - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"

In the blue and bitter fall - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Elegy"

Reverse that bridge of the falling sun - Claire Millikin "City of Disappeared Girls"

A worse relapse and heavier fall - John Milton "Paradise Lost"

Fallen leaf and gathered sheaf - Harriet Monroe "Shadows"

Prostrate where the crow falls - Marianne Moore "To Military Progress"

Tolls the knell of falling steam - Christopher Morley "Elegy Written in a Country Coal-Bin"

Two red shadows falling - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Fallen pine needles under fallen snow - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"

Falling asleep in a safe place - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"

Sand falling from a cracked fist - Daniel J. Nadler "Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems"

With adverse fortune fall - "Nala and Damayanti" (translated by Henry Hart Milman)

Falls to earth from a storm cloud - Jaye Nasir "November"

Ruin and fallen parapets predict my fate - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (7)" transl. by Dennis Daly

The ash that falls from the glaciers - Pablo Neruda "America" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Let fall its tears like glacial swords - Pablo Neruda "Appointment with Winter" transl. by Alastair Reid

Nights of infinite substance fallen - Pablo Neruda "Ars Poetica" translated by Donald D. Walsh

A branch of fallen crystal - Pablo Neruda "Battle of the Jarama River" translated by Richard Schaaf

Fall from the hems of snow - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

Listening to God's money falling - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Let dew fall on horseshoes - Pablo Neruda "The Earth" transl. by Richard Schaaf

The hour of fallen leaves - Pablo Neruda "The Egoist" transl. by William O'Daly

Falls on metallic mountains - Pablo Neruda "Night" transl. by Alastair Reid

Until the doors of hatred fall - Pablo Neruda "Song for the Mothers of Slain Militiamen" translated by Richard Schaaf

Sisters like the fallen dust - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Mothers of Dead Loyalists" translated by Angel Flores

Fallen from the spring of misfortune - Pablo Neruda "Spain Poor Through the Fault of the Rich" translated by Richard Schaaf

While the great rain of July falls - Pablo Neruda "Superstitions" transl. by Alastair Reid

Broken glass fallen in a bitter street - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid

The buds of the poplars are falling - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

I have nightmares every time I fall in love - Caroline Harper New "The Bioluminescent Bays of Vieques"

The forest falling in ribbons through the windows - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

A path of safe falling - Tim Newcomb "Upper Sacramento River Valley"

Whatever small light bees bestow on fallen leaves - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

Fall's white glare and drumming zest - Robert Nichols "The Man of Honour"

The decaying roots of a fallen empire - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

That are made to fade and fall away - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "Love Not"

The consequences of falling in love - Achy Obejas "Naiad"

Weeping larks falling all over the heavens - Frank O'Hara "Aus Einem April"

A barbed wire of sand falls - Frank O'Hara "The Eyelid Has its Storms..."

Sky after sky waiting to fall - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"

Snow falling on the ocean - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Q&A: Insurance"

Arranged its shade to let hearts of sunlight fall - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"

And fall on bleeding streets - Willie Perdomo "The Making of a Harlem Love Poem"

The stars fall out of bed - Andrew Fusek Peters "Tide and Seek"

While stars fall on my face - Phan Nhien Hao "Don't Die Another Person's Death" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

Over footpaths of fallen petals - Phan Nhien Hao "Seattle Memory" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

Falling without motion - Carl Phillips "The Darker Powers"

Some fall like empire - Carl Phillips "Forecast"

Fall asleep to the wind at night - Carl Phillips "So the Edge of the World"

Watched them fall like dull pennies - Rachel Pittman "The Quickening"

The law of things falling - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"

A single grain of rice falling - Po-Chu-i "Climbing the Ling Ying Terrace and Looking North" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Little pearls falling on a plate of jade - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson

Desire falls like black lightning - Ezra Pound "The Spring"

Falls in love with those icy eyes of chaos - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"

Called forth mercy for the fallen throng - Alexander Pushkin "A Monument" transl. by John Pollen

Then waving as I fall - Sina Queyras "The Applicant"

Snow-flakes that fall upon fire - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"

Now falls the twisted rain - Theodore H. Rand "The Rain Cloud"

Line up and wait to fall - Matt Rasmussen "Ekphrastifilia"

Dryad hiding among fallen graves - Wendy Rathbone "Gravemaid"

And flung into the falling sky - Roger Reeves "The Head of the Cottonmouth"

watered with the fallen dreams of all women - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Until the final shadows fall - Grantland Rice "Play Ball"

Simple textures falling open - Adrienne Rich "Messages"

Falls off the wings of the silence - Lola Ridge "Betty"

While rain falls through oleanders - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Who holds this falling infinitely - Rainer Maria Rilke "Autumn" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Through the falling torrent of our fears - Rainer Maria Rilke "Symbols" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Shadows on the foot-worn threshold fall - Rainer Maria Rilke "Initiation" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Softly falls at that dim hour - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont

My heart to fall asleep on - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell [Delirium I]" transl. by James Sibley Watson

Frozen hearts and falling music - Edwin Arlington Robinson "London Bridge"

What falls away is always - Theodore Roethke "The Waking"

Rising and falling on a machine's time - Elizabeth Kestrel Rogers "Spare Parts"

Where love's sweet offerings fall - Alice Wellington Rollins "I Know Myself the Best-Beloved of All"

That fall on the roses in May - Abram J. Ryan "Song of the Mystic"

And a bridge had just fallen - Kay Ryan "Tripped"

waited for God to fall out of my mouth - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Mona Lisa's Abecedarian to Leonardo da Vinci"

Catch all the auroras before they fall - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"

Nothing but waiting and watching the dust fall - David Salisbury "On Mars"

Of nights when stars were falling dust - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"

Fair fall the lusty thorn - D.L. Sayers "Vials Full of Odours"

Falls ancient as the curse of Cain - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"

Knot by knot they fall undone - Ann K. Schwader "Frost Ghosts"

Time falls away with twilight - Ann K. Schwader "Last Light, Frijoles Canyon"

That rings like rain before it falls - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

How the soul finally falls - Tim Seibles "Unmarked"

Fallen brains and hearts of brass - Robert W. Service "Dreams Are Best"

So fair a house fall to decay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIII"

The fallen towers of Babylon - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

With ox-teams great in the fall - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Not falling asleep the next night - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"

While the asteroid kept falling to earth - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"

Twisted in a peculiar way and fallen in an unlikely place - Charles Simic "First Thing in the Morning"

Where fallen roses stir - Clark Ashton Smith "Autumnal"

Fairer the petals that fall - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"

Reigns above the fallen noon - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"

The grey flowers and the fallen grass - Clark Ashton Smith "Forgetfulness"

Where fall the snows of silence - Clark Ashton Smith "The Fugitives"

Fall into the furnace of Arcturus - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"

Watch it rise through our fallen - Tracy K. Smith "We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On"

A mushroom cloud of fallen shoes - Richard Solomon "Possession IV: Shoe"

Her tears falling in a hundred streams - "Southeast the Peacock Flies" transl. by Burton Watson

Although he fall a thousand times - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Falling out of a tree at midnight - Frank Stanford "Watching a Woman Die"

Regret for every fallen leaf - George Sterling "Discord"

Brown and brittle falls the leaf - George Sterling "The Pathway"

Half its glowing temples fall to ash - George Sterling "A Visitor"

At fall of some disastrous night - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"

Fallen brightly away - Wallace Stevens "No Possum, No Sop, No Taters"

Moods in falling snow - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

Through the umber woods the echo falls - Arthur Stringer "The Last of Summer"

Knows how the count will fall - L.A.G. Strong "Eena-Mena-Mina-Mo"

As when grieves and sings a fallen angel - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

To catch the legends as they fall - T.A. Swan "The Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Fallen beads of sight - May Swenson "The Blindman"

Lest ambition make us fall - May Swenson "First Walk on the Moon"

Out of which all waves rise and fall - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"

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

Watch the snow fall in layers - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"

Where Pelion's twilight shadow falls - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"

Unlimited protein falling from the sky - Keith Taylor "One Species to Mourn"

While far away towers fall and ancient cities crumble - Keith Taylor "Responsibilities"

Like petals of light fallen - Sara Teasdale "Old Tunes"

Fall to forsaken embers - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"

Splendour falls on castle walls - Tennyson "The Splendour Falls"

And dew-drops fall for tears alone - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut

enter the sweat of what falls before I catch it - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"

Falls among tiles and stones - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson

Troubling the still soft swarms of fallen stars - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

A waiting for the edge to fall - Leah Umansky "Desire [even in the time of the tyrant]"

That falls on the ruins or on the void - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

The fallen stones give shape to a new structure - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

Fallen into your destiny - Jean Valentine "He Says to Me, In Ireland"

As if the sky had been of glass and had fallen - Mark Van Doren "Alfalfa Coming"

As falls from some enchanted bell - Henry van Dyke "The After-Echo"

Heard a pinecone fall - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Invitation"

Like stones fallen from the sky - Ocean Vuong "Aubade with Burning City"

The sparrows who flew from falling Rome - Ocean Vuong "Seventh Circle of Earth"

The rain falling through him - Ocean Vuong "Threshold"

Falling upward from the body - Claire Wahmanholm "Poem with No Children in It"

The stone slabs of forces fallen - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament I"

Watch time fall - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"

Because light finds a place to fall - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: Preconceptions Without Delay"

Fallen like a broken cart - Loretta Diane Walker "Imagining my Neighbor"

The brightest day must fall - Charles William Wallace "Good-Night: Infant"

Leaves fall from the quince tree - Wang Yu-ch'eng "Journey to a Village" transl. by Burton Watson

Already a falling of frogs has begun - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"

His hands fall like sun on my hair - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"

That we are fellows till the last night falls - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Under a pale sky where no shadows fall - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

The long light that Beauty leaves up her fallen veils - Edith Wharton "Mistral in the Maquis"

Fallen from your faultless love - John Hall Wheelock "My Lonely One"

The hour when night must fall - John Hall Wheelock "The Secret One"

Through fingers her jewels are falling - Helen Hay Whitney "Music"

A cadence trailing where broken music falls - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Love is a broken lily]"

A golden glow when twilight curtains fall - Helen Hay Whitney "Winter Song"

The restless sands' incessant fall - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Snag and fall and siren-haunted islet - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

Plunging glassy funnels fall - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"

Fall into the day - Eliot Khalil Wilson "While Waiting for the Bus"

The swoon of love that soars in fire to fall - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"

Where death's raven marriage blossom falls - Humbert Wolfe "Heine's Last Song"

The sunlight continues its dying fall - Charles Wright "Homage to Samuel Beckett"

The kingfisher falls through fire - Charles Wright "Walking Beside the Diversion Ditch Lake"

Submit to its first fall - Jay Wright "Imule"

Wanting falls around me - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season"

This element of toxicity falling like snow - Wendy Xu "Notes on Sentence Crossing"

A rain of various flowers falls - "XVII: Xochicuicatl | A Flower Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Falling on dream-dimmed eyes - W.B. Yeats "He tells of a Valley full of Lovers"

Fistfuls of rain fall hard - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

This city of riches has fallen empty - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

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

A galaxy falling as snow - Ray Young Bear "In Pine, Arizona"

Wishing stars would fall as rain - Javier Zamora "Exilados"

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

Orion's arrows pinning fallen stars - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History:IV. At Home"

Fall is summer's bronze wing - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Fatal hours scored by falling timber - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Curious flowers that never fall - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #9" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

A voice falls into a vacuum - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 11" transl. by Katherine Silver

The masks suddenly fallen - Rachel Zucker "To Save America"


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


Falling Star.


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

Inside the fall-out shelter's quarantine - Richard Solomon "Possession IV: Shoe"


Footfall.


A broken elevator trying to contain its freefall - Alise Alousi "Skip"

Of a landfall won barely - Carl Phillips "Said the Horse to the Light"

Greet us at landfall - May Sarton "Coming Into Eighty"

Nightfall without fanfare - Stephen Dunn "Here and There"

Mid snares and pitfalls scattered - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds

With Pitfall and with Gin beset - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Raging rainfall of fire - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

In the rainfall of light - Mary Oliver "Gravel"

The soft harp of snowfall - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"

Heavy with portents of snowfall - Kwame Dawes "Dawn"

Stepping light as snowfall - Emily van Kley "Ways to Hunt Deer"

Sunlight, treefall, decaying signals, shade - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"


Waterfall.


The windfalls of my mistakes - Carl Phillips "Capella"

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


Fell.


Nightfall.


That pleasures are pitfalls prepared to deceive - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]


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