Potential Titles: Flame/Flaming
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somethingdarkerThe dry brush set aflame by your truth - Kwame Dawes "Eat"
And set a careless mind aflame - Walter de la Mare "The Remonstrance"
With sun-kisses all aflame - Frances E.W. Harper "Dandelions"
Her anger struck our ship aflame - Jennie Earngey Hill "Death's Spectre"
The bracken all aflame - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"
Fawns with liquid eyes a-flame - Hilda Reid "The Magnanimity of Beasts"
Setting sumac hedge aflame - Julia Carter Welch "Fall"
How best to enflame the holy fire - Marilyn McCabe "Web"
Lips touched with living flame - A.L.O.E. "Soldier's Hymn"
Flame to lightning in your mouth - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of lightning"
If never I held some fragrant flame - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Flames growing into chrome strips - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"
Smothering the wrathful flame - Richard C. Adams "A Delaware Indian Legend"
Bathes in a flame of space - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"
Whose crown was points of flame - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Has leapt forth in tranquil flame - Daisy Aldan "He Has Entered Midnight"
At the first familiar flaming revelation - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"
Descend down this flaming Sun-stream - Daisy Aldan "Vertical Is Our New Sight"
The earth with flames - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
Too young to own the flame - "The Alter'd Lay"
Fanged house, shirt of flame - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
Rain of blood and wreath of flame - Sir Edwin Arnold "The First Distribution of the Victoria Cross (June 26, 1857)"
With furtive step and cheek of flame - Matthew Arnold "A Southern Night"
An inspiration and a secret flame - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
Became sharp flame to Shelley listening - Joseph Auslander "Is This the Lark!"
The heart going up in flames - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"
With ruddy towers of pillared flame - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Out of the wind and the flame - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
till dust can rise on flaming wings - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"
A flame forever unappeased - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"
every flame that brightened the illusion - Elizabeth Bartlett "life I love"
now that the flame has died - Elizabeth Bartlett "pilgrimage"
and all their flames relit - Elizabeth Bartlett "pilgrimage"
Fall on the flaming sea - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"
flamed in crimson joy - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
flaunt flames deep into december - Samiya Bashir "Some days of wine and pastry"
Obeys the living flame - Charles Baudelaire "The Living Flame" transl. not credited
Climes that flames enfold - Charles Baudelaire "The Sky" transl. not credited
Sable from the wasting flame - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
Seas in tears, seas in flame - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"
By steel and flame you taught - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Dawn held the frozen flame an instant high - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
That burning march under a sky of flame - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
Eros, lord of the honey and flame - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
The evil flames of driftwood - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
In sandy clouds of flame - William Rose Benet "The Marvelous Munchausen"
Through sheets of flame- Henry Kirby Benner "Ballads of the Campaign in Mexico no.III: Monterey"
From the Throne of flame - Robert Hugh Benson "After a Retreat"
A flame that can ride water - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"
The erratic rhythm of this wavering flame - Tamiko Beyer "February"
Flinching not to flame or bolt - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"
Ferret of flame & levity - Lindsey Boldt "A Bartable Enya Afternoon"
The flame will go down in the flower - Arna Bontemps "Length of Moon"
A rushing stream clean as a burning flame - Bruce Boston "The Last Alchemist"
The flame at the hotel bar - John Bosworth "A Boy Can Wear a Dress"
Steady flame in a darkened field - Ana Bozicevic "The Mystery of the Seagulls"
The song of a cello played by flame - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"
Flaming gleams of pointed light - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)"
When all troubled burns life's flame - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
Blows her sinking flame - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"
A prey to quenchless flame - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"
These rising waters filthy and licking with flames - Nickole Brown "Mercy"
The flame perishes in thine eyes - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Where stones are the heartbeat of flame - Joseph Bruchac "Speaking"
The hyena's eyes of flame - William Cullen Bryant "Rizpah"
To see the flaming fury of your hate - Lyman Bryson "The Prophet"
In hurricanes of flame and leaden hail - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
A heart of flaming sulphur - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Ambition soaring up the sky like flame - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"
Ideals twain, on battle height flaming - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
Till our appetites are lit into star spangled flames - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Our doors were made of flame - Nicole Callihan "Fable"
Under the blue flame of the sky - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"
Harsh neglect will smother up the flame - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Breathing flame of pride and power - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
The hissing flames of civil war - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall
Swept away in one great gulf of flame - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall
With the piercing flame of endless sorrow - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"
Light a flame on every strand - Roger Casement "The Triumph of Hugh O'Neill"
To fan the stars with flaming wings - George Spencer Cautley "The Girandola at Rome"
The flame from a nightmare - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Clothes]"
Go clothed in feasts and flames - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Brimstone and pitch and flames - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"
God of gold and flaming glass - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"
In foam and flame at Trafalgar - G.K. Chesterton "The Secret People"
A nest of flames leaping - John Ciardi "Everywhere that Universe"
With fiercer heat than flamed - Arthur Hugh Clough "Easter Day. Naples, 1849"
Asks of our bright, unsteady flame - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
Memory to flame as a beacon - Katherine Eleanor Conway "Saturninus"
Winking glimpses at incarnadined flame - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
Still waste in helpless flame and barren smoke - William Cory "Asterope"
Still imploring flame - Hart Crane "Legend"
New-liveried in sulphur flame - Rev. William Crowe "The Spleen"
Skipping high-heeled flames courtesied before my eyes - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"
About to fall shattered with flame spent - H.D. "Fragment Forty"
A shelter wrought of flame and spirit - H.D. "Nossis"
Sharp-tongued flame of death - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"
When flames the tyrant morning - Coningsby Dawson "Dreamland Love"
Flared in strident flame - Coningsby Dawson "The Once Sung Song"
The flame of a Pompeian lamp - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Cantina"
Who confin'd the rage of civil flame - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
The inner flame which lights the mind - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
Burns impure incense on her altar's flame - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Her flowers in vision flame - Walter de la Mare "Music"
In flame of candle and hearth - Walter de la Mare "The Revenant"
Soft skirts of flame - Leconte de Lisle "The Black Panther" (translated by W.J. Robertson)
Blood running its wires of flame - Toi Derricotte "Elegy for my husband"
Or flames will vault their boundaries - Chelsea B. DesAutels "Burials"
This cloud, this flame will vanish and be cold - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"
And split their pods of flame - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XX: Two Worlds"
Courting flames as they dance - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"
The wavering flame of my heartbeat - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"
Cinnabars where the flame burns purest - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"
The flaming peccary of a comet - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
The flame in the heart of a ruby set - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Three Ships"
Under the flaming wings of cherubim - Edward Dowden "The Initiation"
Twin flames of charity - Eleanor Downing "On the Feast of the Assumption"
Fell over the world in flame - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"
Love immortal leaped to flame - Louise Driscoll "Fireflies"
Dreams will erupt in chaotic buds of flame - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"
The flame of its tenderest breath - A.E. "Love"
No faint trembling Flame - E.E. (might be by Edmund Elys per speculation by the editor of the book in which I found it) "On the Death of The Truly Virtuous Mrs. Anne Killigrew who was Related to my (Deceased) Wife"
And pass among them like a flame - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"
Your small tapering flame of passion - Max Eastman "A Visit"
The dark flame that is your being - Max Eastman "You Make No Answer"
Fierce as the flame in sunset skies - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs"
Flame from scarlet maples swept - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "Purple Asters"
The bluest and coldest of flames - Bijan Elahi "Five Scenes from Icarus" transl. by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian
Wild flames jumped the river - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"
And filled their hearts with flame - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"
The seven flames that are raised high - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle
Flames trembling like cold - Elaine Equi "The Objects in Fairy Tales"
Flames of dust in his hands - Louise Erdrich "Rudy Comes Back"
To land upon this sea of flames - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "The Sunset and the Flowered Tree"
Track him to the witches flame - Donald Evans "In the Vices"
Found a flame elsewhere - Mari Evans "I Have Not Ceased to Love You"
the icing on this flaming trash cake - Eve L. Ewing "eschatology"
Hostile ships in flaming combat join - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
The secret of their mutual flame - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
The flash of a fragrant flame - Eleanor Farjeon "King Laurin's Garden"
Brings no metal to the flames - Eleanor Farjeon "Sonnet V"
A dim chord of flame between his lips - Joseph Fasano "October"
Like a beacon flame of war - R.O. Fenwick "The Goblin Groom"
Churned to flames by the sun - John Gould Fletcher "Mid-Summer Dusk"
A rosy glimmer of flame remembered - John Gould Fletcher "The Old Love and the New"
A word of flame and force - John Gould Fletcher "The Rock"
Leaving behind flames & rage - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Flame in my unfashionable closet - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 15"
Flame in their beaks for breath - Gilbert Frankau "Eyes in the Air"
Around a stump that crackled with flame - Robert Frazier "Wereman"
In her arms and in each finger flame - John Freeman "The Body"
A flame moving in the spirit's wind - John Freeman "The Body"
From the smoke rise the flame's snake-eyes - John Freeman "The Chair"
Gorgeous pyramids of living flame - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
A young Phoenix flaming into birth - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Sweeping round it with a flaming sword - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"
And my flame made a pinnacle to heaven - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"
That would have joined the house in flame - Robert Frost "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things"
Let your eyes flower from the dusk and flame - Zona Gale "Return"
With wild black flame at full of moon - Zona Gale "Terza Rima"
Wears a feather of flame - Zona Gale "Umbra"
Heart like a plateful of black flames - Jenny George "Sunflowers"
A sudden sail of amber flame - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Devil's Edge"
One flame in a glow of green-veined rhodonite - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
Flowers of flaming snow - Louis Golding "Wounded Soldiers"
Blue as the inside of flames - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
Twirl in the flames of paradise - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
Switch to the frequency of flame - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
Flames choose what feeds them - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
That covets every flame - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
The syntax of emergent flame - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
When all the sky flamed with good news - Herbert H. Gowen "Jerusalem 1917"
In my body lives a flame - Robert Graves "Morning Phoenix"
Incense kindled at the Muse's flame - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
In the genesis of a struck flame - Rachel Eliza Griffiths "Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees"
In the flame of day - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"
No sign of flame in us - Ivor Gurney "'Annie Laurie'"
That flame does cherish - Ivor Gurney "Eternal Treasure"
Nor steel nor flame has any power - Ivor Gurney "Serenity"
Before the wick rejects the flame - Jessica Guzman "Predictions of the Material"
Inside a labyrinth of flame - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"
Through a path of flame and fire - Frances E.W. Harper "Death of the Old Sea-King"
And timbers black with flame - F.W. Harvey "The Stranger"
Flame and the noise of doom - F.W. Harvey "The Stranger"
Outflamed the flame he was becoming - Yona Harvey "Boy in the Forest Between Living and Leaving"
The flame like a blade cutting me - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"
His path a whirlwind and his breath a flame - Felicia Hemans "Heliodorus in the Temple"
And flamed with the morning star - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender: Envoy"
Shadows lurch to the leap of the flame - William Ernest Henley "In Hospital VII. Vigil"
Who swallows such a coal would burst into flames - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"
Like nodding plumes of flame - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Ingleside"
Dissolve in Love's soft flame - W.H. Herbert "Stanzas to a Lady"
On seas of thirsty flames - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"
But are held fast to their flames - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"
Three lamps of holy flame - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"
Their battlefields' thunder and flame - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"
Dragonflies draw flame - Gerard Manley Hopkins "As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame"
The flame of future victories - "Hours of Childhood"
Nor fuel for the clean flame of joy - Langston Hughes "Ruby Brown"
Flame out a desperate and last surmise - Richard Hughes "Vagrancy"
Springing in dark and rusty flame - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
In dark and rusty flame - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
In a flame of chiselled stone - Aldous Huxley "Stanzas"
Dazed by the flaming splendor of his wings - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Have nourished a flame in my bosom - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
And soaks the wood in flame - John James "Lullaby"
Wanted to grasp the flame's heat - John James "Materia"
Flashed and will flame terror and light - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Deepening in purple, flaming in gold - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"
Wandering flames and thunders - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
Past the flaming walls afar - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
Shod with angel flames - Lionel Johnson "Saint Columba"
Flame of one long, lone desire - Lionel Johnson "To a Spanish Friend"
Trample out his torch's flame - Henry Johnstone "Love Penitent"
the bluest flame licking each muscle and joint - Camisha L. Jones "Intercession"
kissed by my own flame - Camisha L. Jones "Wrecking Ball"
Gentle flames will glide - Ebenezer Jones "When the World is Burning"
The flame of my single space - June Jordan "On Time Tanka"
Luminous like particles of flame - June Jordan "Poem for Haruko"
Tinder so long unsolicited by flame - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
The gloom of dreams, a blinding flame - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"
The flame that from dark ashes springs - Sir Nizamat Jung "I: Rebirth"
An edifice of temporal flame - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"
Holy oil upon the rising flame - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
The flaming tower we all dared to jump from - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
The spluttering light of this specific flame - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"
Should wear the martyr's robe of flame - John Keble "Fire"
My veins run liquid flame - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [There's not a fibre in my trembling frame]"
Scarred with the chronicles written by flame - Henry Kendall "Beyond Kerguelen"
To light me quick as a fickle flame - Vandana Khanna "Name Calling"
Barren as the Hopeless Flame - Anne Killigrew "The Complaint of a Lover"
The wounds of Love's consuming flame - Joyce Kilmer "St. Laurence"
Flame that licks the roof of hell - C.H.B. Kitchin "Ruler of infinite austerity"
Awful love took flame - Louise Labe sonnet IV
The entire body consists of flames - Nick Laird "Miscegenation"
Still wakeful flame of mind - Archibald Lampman "Vivia Perpetua"
The wavering flames upcaught - Archibald Lampman "The Woodcutter's Hut"
Sunrise skies intense with molten mist and flame - Lucy Larcom "November"
With molten mist and flame - Lucy Larcom "November"
Softly-swaying pillars of dark flame - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"
Shouting forth flame - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"
A tongue of darkened flame to flicker in me - D.H. Lawrence "Shades"
Consuming with its inward flame - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
The flame that may not scorch - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"
Fleeing hosts by flaming angels led - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"
Whose flame is the imprisoned lightning - Emma Lazarus "The New Colossus"
Three golden tulips spouting flame - Richard Le Gallienne "Faery Gold (To Mrs. Percy Dearmer)"
Fair flame of sacrificial light - Richard Le Gallienne "In the Night"
Tasting of acid flame and apple wine - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"
Blowing to flame the golden cup - Frances Ledwidge "Thomas MacDonagh"
I bring you flaming bergamot - Agnes Lee "The Silent House"
Flames in her love from the fires above - Henry S. Leigh "The Seasons"
The virulent water beat my flame down to ash - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"
Flame on our lips - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"
And the flame of Love grow cold - Amy Levy "To Death"
And spirits behind those birds of flame - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"
Tiny flames in the river's ripples - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"
The black stones took on flame - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"
Wonders spreading round you like flame - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"
How a diamond comes into a knot of flame - Audre Lorde "Coal"
A flaming nebula rims my life - Amy Lowell "Apology"
A city whose windows flame gold - Amy Lowell "The Way"
Whose hoofs of flame consume morn's misty threshold - James Russell Lowell "The Brakes"
Chromatic flames in labyrinths of reflections - Mina Loy "Brancusi's Golden Bird"
Flame that twists choking through the ravines - Mario Luzi "Las Animas" transl. by Dana Gioia
Ever sinking with the dying flame - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Are one with flaming spheres - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Cosmos"
This poppy formed of flame - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Time's Garden"
Veined with scarlet flame - Dorothea Mackellar "Colour"
A flame in the wind of death - Dorothea Mackellar "Fire"
When mid-day is all in flames - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: VII"
Let the March storm snuff out my flame - Naomi Long Madgett "How Shall I Face the Dawn?"
Flames of my self-inflicted glory - Anthony Madrid "Try Never"
That filled all earth with flame - James Clarence Mangan "The One Mystery"
The very flame of constancy - Jeannette Marks "His Name"
Flame to my leaf-mould - Jeannette Marks "You"
A circumference of dark flames wavering - Maya Marshall "Some Thoughts on Sons in the Winter of My Child-Bearing Years"
Through the flaming clouds of war - George Martin "The Crisis"
Tempest of flame in his heart - George Martin "Street Waif"
Watch morning jump through a flaming hoop - David Tomas Martinez "Calaveras Section 2"
Cruel as their flame - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
Arrayed as though in flame - John Masefield "King Cole"
Three flaming memories - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
And our hearts are turned to flame - John Masefield "Lyrics from 'The Buccaneer'"
Rushing fishes streaked the sea with flame - John Masefield "The Setting of the Watch"
Can drink the level cup of flame - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
Sustained by a candle flame - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm Under Siege"
That mysterious flame of life - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Mother" transl. by John Pollen
Cataclysms of flame and foam - Theodore Maynard "Apocalypse"
Until the last sad tongue of flame expire - Theodore Maynard "Nocturne"
Whose charity was as a sword of flame - Theodore Maynard "To a Good Atheist"
To build a crown of flames - Shara McCallum "Dear Hours"
Bright with battle flame - John McCrae "The Warrior"
Bowed down for one flame hour - Claude McKay "The City's Love"
Bathed in your immortal flame - Claude McKay "Commemoration"
In the sudden flame of his breath - Edmond McKenna "Prelude"
Caress each flaming line - H.P. McKnight "Dedication"
In robes of smouldering flame - Alexander M'Lachlan "Indian Summer"
Bale-fires burn and cities wrapped in flame - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Smites the dust of the worlds to flame - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"
Flame out of the trodden dust - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"
Pale icicle and lambent flame - Louis J. McQuilland "Queens in Red and White"
Withhold her most destructive flame - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Fast as windy flame devours - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
Up the stone like an unmoored flame - W.S. Merwin "One Valley"
The wavering flame subdue its breath - Charlotte Mew "Beside the Bed"
One flame within those mutual eyes - Alice Meynell "Reflections"
Dancing storms of leaves in flaming colors - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"
Should break our bodies in his flame - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet III from Second April
This body of flame and steel - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]
Twice with sword and flame - Joaquin Miller "Anglo-Saxon Alliance"
And my heart a dull, flat flame - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"
A shrine of cloudy fire flamed redly awful - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Heaven" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
As in dry flax the flame - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"
Bringing the flame from the other shore - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
With passion fine as flame - Ethel Allen Murphy "The Angel of Thought (Suggested by a Fra Angelico Angel)"
And flames wrap hill and wood - "My Dark Rosaleen" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Before it all goes up in flames - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"
The embraces of another flame - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "A Sick Man's Jealousy" transl. by John Pollen
The flames rose in me - Marilyn Nelson "Paper Dolls"
Fleeing from unexpected flame - Pablo Neruda "Alliance (Sonata)" translated by Donald D. Walsh
And my heart split into flames - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Mysterious flames of a phosphorescent god - Pablo Neruda "I Recall the Sea" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Factory of the patriarchal flames - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XII" transl. by William O'Daly
Wraps you in its mortal flame - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems II" translated by W.S. Merwin
Your hands lighting the flame - Mari Ness "Tongueless"
Of hell-fire, of the venomous flame - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Soul of zeal and lips of flame - John Henry Newman "The Greek Fathers"
Warm me with the flame of his breast - Grace Nichols "Robin Redbreast"
I accept the smoke because I accept the flame - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VIII. Deliverance"
A flame chafes in our blood - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Amid war's furnace flame - Meredith Nicholson "In Ether Spaces"
A flame that has blown too near - Grace Fallow Norton "Love Is a Terrible Thing"
The usual flames rising up from the cracks of everything we know - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"
Of spring in the flaming ground - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Flesh unto flowers, and flame unto wind - Edward J. O'Brien "Song"
The waterfalls were still as flames - Frank O'Hara "Augustus"
Paid in full to axe and flame - John Oxenham "Free Men of God"
Kindle many a heart to equal flame - John Oxenham "Tamate"
Flushing valour's cheek with flame - Conde Benoist Pallen "The Raising of the Flag"
Folk of mud and flame - Dorothy Parker "The dark girl’s rhyme"
A fire no flame can burn - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"
It stammers in flames - Carl Phillips "In Which to Wonder Flew a Kind of Reckoning"
In a dress made of flames - Xan Forest Phillips "Captivity Lessons"
Hand of wind and flame - Frederick Erastus Pierce "God and the Farmer"
The lurid flame of mobs gone out - Alexander Posey "Ye Men of Dawes"
Not the first instinct of flame - Lynn Powell "Kind of Blue"
Shield her from the jaws of flame - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Drachenfels"
Truth approaches us on flaming wings - John Presland "The Deluge"
No match for the waking flame - Khadijah Queen "Declination"
Too many flaming suns for signposts - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch "The White Moth"
Mingled with the flame a tear - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Old Verses"
Outshone flaming Mars - Theodore H. Rand "Banishment"
The spirit tipt with flame - Theodore H. Rand "The Nightingale"
Lest the living flame to ashes turn - Theodore H. Rand "The Nightingale"
Pallid ash to crimson flame - Theodore H. Rand "A Red Sunrise"
Dying flame of life's last fire - G.A. Raybold "The Joys of Former Years Have Fled"
Hover your hand above a flame - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Five American Sentences"
From the world, conceal a suffering flame - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Bright burns the searching flame - Edward S. Rend, Jr. "Promise" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
as it bursts full flame upon the earth - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
While the last torch spent its flame - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"
In orbits flaming or cold - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
The pale flame of your foot - Edgell Rickword "Intimacy"
Jeweled with a million flaming points - Lola Ridge "After Storm"
Fused in flaming circuit with the night - Lola Ridge "Electrocution"
That great flame upon the scrolls - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
As though marble should be pithed with flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
In an envelope of fire not yet struck to flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
In the pillared flame of music - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Seed of the fierce flame that burned on Horeb - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 3: The Void"
The wings drip coral flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
The living tendons of a flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 1: Mary of Magdala"
Leaps like flame to flame - Lola Ridge "In Harness"
Like flame at an asbestos curtain - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Swung from the flame of windows - Lola Ridge "Saint's Bridge"
Into the flame and out again - Lola Ridge "Sun-Up"
Carrying stuff of flame - Lola Ridge "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
Torches flaming out like loosened hair - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Boy" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Sleep in a nest of flames - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Her fingers in the flame for me - Alberto Rios "Nani"
And all the myriad star-buds burst in flame - Lloyd Roberts "Flowers of the Sky"
Returning the shards to flame - Karen A. Romanko "The Glass Blower"
A million torches and spears of flaming wings - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"
With flame and blackness ridge the void - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"
Many wishes flaming together - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
The hate that flashed into flames - Abram Joseph Ryan (aka Father Ryan) "Song of the Deathless Voice"
Must win some flaming, fatal climax - Siegfried Sassoon "Dreamers"
Cities are only wind and flame - D.L. Sayers "For Phaon"
No deluge of flame could surprise - Robert Haven Schauffler "The White Comrade"
And glowing flames the hearts assail - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
Whose face is lit with the flames of cities - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
Confront the battery's jaws of flame - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Lamps of a thousand flames - "Sean Dana"
A mad sun goading to frenzied flame - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
In ghostly solitude before a flame - P. Seshadri "Thoughts"
Light's flame with self-substantial fuel - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"
Runes of ever-twisting flame - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Turned the unprinted snow to flame - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The jealous flame of sad, infernal suns - Clark Ashton Smith "Inferno"
Shade nor lightening of her flame - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Flaming shields of dawns between - Clark Ashton Smith "The Land of Evil Stars"
While all the flames of dream expire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Reaps the flame of mightiest stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
In one swifter hour of flame - Clark Ashton Smith "Remembered Light"
And night devour its flaming hues - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"
A choral chant of flame - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of the Stars"
Clear flame in lands extreme - Clark Ashton Smith "A Vision of Lucifer"
Unshadowed flame of phantom suns - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"
Your shape behind a flame - Brian Sneeden "Memory is Blood Soluble"
A small, pointed flame of sound - Leonora Speyer "The Locust"
Plucked a flame from off a tree - Leonora Speyer "October Trees"
Balder's funeral flames are blazing forth - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Sleigh-Ride"
That trod on forks of flame - Riccardo Stephens "A Ballad"
To give thy mouth its flame - George Sterling "Atthan Dances"
And pride of guarding flame - George Sterling "Caeli Enarrant"
Frontiers of flame and thunder - George Sterling "Earth's Anthem"
Stand equal in their flame - George Sterling "Love's Mercy"
Archival gloom, prophetic flame - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Nor stand in flame beside me - George Sterling "To Pain"
The mystery hid in the flame - George Sterling "What Porridge Had John Keats?"
Their lamps' uplifted flame revealed - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"
The flames of remembered fires - Algernon Swinburne "Recollections"
Flame will live, defying Fate's alarm - Carmen Sylva "The Glowworm"
Burnt to lava by your heart's own flame - Carmen Sylva "'Vengeance Is Mine,' Saith the Lord"
Lace-cut flame green filament - Dorothea Tanning "Sequestrienne"
When the mountain is swathed in flame - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The blue flame of the flower - Sara Teasdale "Blue Squills"
My spirit's shaken flame - Sara Teasdale "Driftwood"
As a spark foretells a flame - Sara Teasdale "From the Sea"
Straighten like a flame - Sara Teasdale "On the Dunes"
For beauty as a flame - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"
In phantom flame of flag and flower - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"
When thy cities flake the night with flames - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame - Henry David Thoreau "Smoke"
With thoughts that pierce like flame - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Dead flames send me letters - Kristen Tracy "State Lines"
The eternal flame of laughter - Iris Tree "Lamp-Posts"
Pierced with knives of flame - Iris Tree "Moods III"
Stands on flaming ramparts - Iris Tree "Smoke"
Ash dancing among a living flame - Jacqueline Allen Trimble "Walking Beside the Cemetery, Olivia Street, Key West"
Soundless in the flaming light - Katherine Tynan "The Riders"
In the visible flame of my love - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Possession"
That flesh has danced with flame - Louis Untermeyer "Dorothy Dances"
Unknown passion of each flaming star - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
To little worlds of flame - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"
Dashed through all the flames to kill the witch - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
Her captive flames must needs burn - Henry Vaughan "Beyond the Veil"
No sea of molten flame therein is pent - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Seething through paths of scattering flame - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: The Glory of the Heavens" transl. by Alma Strettell
Irradiate with flaming dawns - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Joy" transl. by Alma Strettell
Speeding along in leaps of flame - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: St. George" transl. by Alma Strettell
Meadows whereon grow the flowers of flame - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell
The white flame of countless diamonds burns - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell
Clothed with flame and embers bright - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell
As a tulip arrays its flame - Karen Volkman "Labor as a Tulip"
flame begets pools of shorn Decembers - Asiya Wadud "Shorn, treaded red"
Tides of flame and darkness - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
'Mid hollow charnel let me watch the flame - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"
Children of splendour and flame - William Watson "Ode in May"
Clarifying like butter over flame - Joshua Weiner "Art Pepper"
Made of smokeless flame and shadowless light - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"
To meet your glance of flame - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
Here the flame of materials - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
The bare bright flame of the sun - Helen Hay Whitney "I Have Seen What the Seraphs Have Seen"
Daring the flame of the sun - Helen Hay Whitney "Prayers"
Radiant with a mimic flame - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Eaten by teeth of flame - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Lips of flame and heart of stone - Oscar Wilde "Impression du Matin"
Chaos mounted on the wasting flame - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
Hold pink flames in their right hands - William Carlos Williams "The Lonely Street"
Swim the winding flame - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"
Wall flowers that once were flame - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"
Spill the shaded flame - William Carlos Williams "The Pot of Flowers"
Where the new grass flames - William Carlos Williams "The Widow's Lament in Springtime"
The unlikelihood of sudden flame - Katie Willingham "A Partial List of Overwriting Errors"
All the rising flames of hope - Adolf Wolff "The Cloud"
A flame in a thrown bottle - Gail Wronsky "The Moon Is in Labor"
The phoenix will still rise from the flames of Paris - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"
Flaming founts of duty - W.B. Yeats "The Countess Cathleen in Paradise"
Hearts of wind-blown flame - W.B. Yeats "The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods"
Unfold your flaming wings - W.B. Yeats "The Poet pleads with the Elemental Powers"
Master of the still stars and of the flaming door - W.B. Yeats "The Valley of the Black Pig"
the shadow zone at the core of the flame - Monica Youn "Blueacre"
Steadfast as the altar candle's flame - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Whose faint flames vanish quite - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"
New-kindled in cold flame - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
The flame of Moloch's pyre - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Lit with one slow-burning flame - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
With teeth transpiring flame - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"
The scorpion inside a cage of flame - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History IV: At Home"
The dance of flame in full bloom - 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
We envy islands of flame - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #10" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
The wind descend with its load of flames - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver
The dark enflamed with error - Miguel Murphy "Hot Tub"
Whose folds are flameless moons - Fiona MacLeod "The Rune of Age"
Set down your flammable colors - Jane Hirshfield "My Debt"
Into stacks of inflammable gold - Linda Pastan "The Poets"
The aura of each candle-flame - L.P. Hartley "Candlemas"
As candle-flames that near the socket - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
When candle-flames burn blue - G.B. Stuart "Haunted"
Trace flame-flicker in the grain of yellow birch - Rosanna Warren "Man in Stream"
Flashed out from the flame-flushed skies - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
A series of flame-fringed ridges - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 10"
In the flame-heart's shade - Claude McKay "Flame-Heart"
That bright line of flame-lipped masters - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
Some flame-red salamander pirouetting - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"
A whirl of flame-stabbed smoke - Gilbert Frankau "Eyes in the Air"
This flame-swept future - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
By the flamethrower's pilot light - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"
Where Macha's flame-tongued horses flee - Thomas Boyd "The King's Son"
Legions in the flame-torn sky - Virna Sheard "Carry On!"
The sun is a flame-white disc - William Carlos Williams "Danse Russe"
Outflamed the flame he was becoming - Yona Harvey "Boy in the Forest Between Living and Leaving"
And words of prophet-flame - W. Wilfred Campbell "In Holyrood"
In which eyes burn like star-flame - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"
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And set a careless mind aflame - Walter de la Mare "The Remonstrance"
With sun-kisses all aflame - Frances E.W. Harper "Dandelions"
Her anger struck our ship aflame - Jennie Earngey Hill "Death's Spectre"
The bracken all aflame - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"
Fawns with liquid eyes a-flame - Hilda Reid "The Magnanimity of Beasts"
Setting sumac hedge aflame - Julia Carter Welch "Fall"
How best to enflame the holy fire - Marilyn McCabe "Web"
Lips touched with living flame - A.L.O.E. "Soldier's Hymn"
Flame to lightning in your mouth - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of lightning"
If never I held some fragrant flame - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Flames growing into chrome strips - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"
Smothering the wrathful flame - Richard C. Adams "A Delaware Indian Legend"
Bathes in a flame of space - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"
Whose crown was points of flame - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Has leapt forth in tranquil flame - Daisy Aldan "He Has Entered Midnight"
At the first familiar flaming revelation - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"
Descend down this flaming Sun-stream - Daisy Aldan "Vertical Is Our New Sight"
The earth with flames - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
Too young to own the flame - "The Alter'd Lay"
Fanged house, shirt of flame - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
Rain of blood and wreath of flame - Sir Edwin Arnold "The First Distribution of the Victoria Cross (June 26, 1857)"
With furtive step and cheek of flame - Matthew Arnold "A Southern Night"
An inspiration and a secret flame - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
Became sharp flame to Shelley listening - Joseph Auslander "Is This the Lark!"
The heart going up in flames - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"
With ruddy towers of pillared flame - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Out of the wind and the flame - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
till dust can rise on flaming wings - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"
A flame forever unappeased - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"
every flame that brightened the illusion - Elizabeth Bartlett "life I love"
now that the flame has died - Elizabeth Bartlett "pilgrimage"
and all their flames relit - Elizabeth Bartlett "pilgrimage"
Fall on the flaming sea - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"
flamed in crimson joy - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
flaunt flames deep into december - Samiya Bashir "Some days of wine and pastry"
Obeys the living flame - Charles Baudelaire "The Living Flame" transl. not credited
Climes that flames enfold - Charles Baudelaire "The Sky" transl. not credited
Sable from the wasting flame - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
Seas in tears, seas in flame - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"
By steel and flame you taught - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Dawn held the frozen flame an instant high - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
That burning march under a sky of flame - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
Eros, lord of the honey and flame - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
The evil flames of driftwood - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
In sandy clouds of flame - William Rose Benet "The Marvelous Munchausen"
Through sheets of flame- Henry Kirby Benner "Ballads of the Campaign in Mexico no.III: Monterey"
From the Throne of flame - Robert Hugh Benson "After a Retreat"
A flame that can ride water - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"
The erratic rhythm of this wavering flame - Tamiko Beyer "February"
Flinching not to flame or bolt - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"
Ferret of flame & levity - Lindsey Boldt "A Bartable Enya Afternoon"
The flame will go down in the flower - Arna Bontemps "Length of Moon"
A rushing stream clean as a burning flame - Bruce Boston "The Last Alchemist"
The flame at the hotel bar - John Bosworth "A Boy Can Wear a Dress"
Steady flame in a darkened field - Ana Bozicevic "The Mystery of the Seagulls"
The song of a cello played by flame - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"
Flaming gleams of pointed light - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)"
When all troubled burns life's flame - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
Blows her sinking flame - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"
A prey to quenchless flame - Patrick Bronte "Journeying for the Recovery of His Health"
These rising waters filthy and licking with flames - Nickole Brown "Mercy"
The flame perishes in thine eyes - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Where stones are the heartbeat of flame - Joseph Bruchac "Speaking"
The hyena's eyes of flame - William Cullen Bryant "Rizpah"
To see the flaming fury of your hate - Lyman Bryson "The Prophet"
In hurricanes of flame and leaden hail - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
A heart of flaming sulphur - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Ambition soaring up the sky like flame - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"
Ideals twain, on battle height flaming - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
Till our appetites are lit into star spangled flames - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Our doors were made of flame - Nicole Callihan "Fable"
Under the blue flame of the sky - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"
Harsh neglect will smother up the flame - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Breathing flame of pride and power - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
The hissing flames of civil war - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall
Swept away in one great gulf of flame - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall
With the piercing flame of endless sorrow - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"
Light a flame on every strand - Roger Casement "The Triumph of Hugh O'Neill"
To fan the stars with flaming wings - George Spencer Cautley "The Girandola at Rome"
The flame from a nightmare - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Clothes]"
Go clothed in feasts and flames - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Brimstone and pitch and flames - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"
God of gold and flaming glass - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"
In foam and flame at Trafalgar - G.K. Chesterton "The Secret People"
A nest of flames leaping - John Ciardi "Everywhere that Universe"
With fiercer heat than flamed - Arthur Hugh Clough "Easter Day. Naples, 1849"
Asks of our bright, unsteady flame - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
Memory to flame as a beacon - Katherine Eleanor Conway "Saturninus"
Winking glimpses at incarnadined flame - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
Still waste in helpless flame and barren smoke - William Cory "Asterope"
Still imploring flame - Hart Crane "Legend"
New-liveried in sulphur flame - Rev. William Crowe "The Spleen"
Skipping high-heeled flames courtesied before my eyes - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"
About to fall shattered with flame spent - H.D. "Fragment Forty"
A shelter wrought of flame and spirit - H.D. "Nossis"
Sharp-tongued flame of death - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"
When flames the tyrant morning - Coningsby Dawson "Dreamland Love"
Flared in strident flame - Coningsby Dawson "The Once Sung Song"
The flame of a Pompeian lamp - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Cantina"
Who confin'd the rage of civil flame - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
The inner flame which lights the mind - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
Burns impure incense on her altar's flame - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Her flowers in vision flame - Walter de la Mare "Music"
In flame of candle and hearth - Walter de la Mare "The Revenant"
Soft skirts of flame - Leconte de Lisle "The Black Panther" (translated by W.J. Robertson)
Blood running its wires of flame - Toi Derricotte "Elegy for my husband"
Or flames will vault their boundaries - Chelsea B. DesAutels "Burials"
This cloud, this flame will vanish and be cold - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"
And split their pods of flame - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XX: Two Worlds"
Courting flames as they dance - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"
The wavering flame of my heartbeat - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"
Cinnabars where the flame burns purest - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"
The flaming peccary of a comet - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
The flame in the heart of a ruby set - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Three Ships"
Under the flaming wings of cherubim - Edward Dowden "The Initiation"
Twin flames of charity - Eleanor Downing "On the Feast of the Assumption"
Fell over the world in flame - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"
Love immortal leaped to flame - Louise Driscoll "Fireflies"
Dreams will erupt in chaotic buds of flame - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"
The flame of its tenderest breath - A.E. "Love"
No faint trembling Flame - E.E. (might be by Edmund Elys per speculation by the editor of the book in which I found it) "On the Death of The Truly Virtuous Mrs. Anne Killigrew who was Related to my (Deceased) Wife"
And pass among them like a flame - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"
Your small tapering flame of passion - Max Eastman "A Visit"
The dark flame that is your being - Max Eastman "You Make No Answer"
Fierce as the flame in sunset skies - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs"
Flame from scarlet maples swept - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "Purple Asters"
The bluest and coldest of flames - Bijan Elahi "Five Scenes from Icarus" transl. by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian
Wild flames jumped the river - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"
And filled their hearts with flame - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"
The seven flames that are raised high - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle
Flames trembling like cold - Elaine Equi "The Objects in Fairy Tales"
Flames of dust in his hands - Louise Erdrich "Rudy Comes Back"
To land upon this sea of flames - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "The Sunset and the Flowered Tree"
Track him to the witches flame - Donald Evans "In the Vices"
Found a flame elsewhere - Mari Evans "I Have Not Ceased to Love You"
the icing on this flaming trash cake - Eve L. Ewing "eschatology"
Hostile ships in flaming combat join - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
The secret of their mutual flame - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
The flash of a fragrant flame - Eleanor Farjeon "King Laurin's Garden"
Brings no metal to the flames - Eleanor Farjeon "Sonnet V"
A dim chord of flame between his lips - Joseph Fasano "October"
Like a beacon flame of war - R.O. Fenwick "The Goblin Groom"
Churned to flames by the sun - John Gould Fletcher "Mid-Summer Dusk"
A rosy glimmer of flame remembered - John Gould Fletcher "The Old Love and the New"
A word of flame and force - John Gould Fletcher "The Rock"
Leaving behind flames & rage - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Flame in my unfashionable closet - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 15"
Flame in their beaks for breath - Gilbert Frankau "Eyes in the Air"
Around a stump that crackled with flame - Robert Frazier "Wereman"
In her arms and in each finger flame - John Freeman "The Body"
A flame moving in the spirit's wind - John Freeman "The Body"
From the smoke rise the flame's snake-eyes - John Freeman "The Chair"
Gorgeous pyramids of living flame - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
A young Phoenix flaming into birth - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Sweeping round it with a flaming sword - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"
And my flame made a pinnacle to heaven - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"
That would have joined the house in flame - Robert Frost "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things"
Let your eyes flower from the dusk and flame - Zona Gale "Return"
With wild black flame at full of moon - Zona Gale "Terza Rima"
Wears a feather of flame - Zona Gale "Umbra"
Heart like a plateful of black flames - Jenny George "Sunflowers"
A sudden sail of amber flame - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Devil's Edge"
One flame in a glow of green-veined rhodonite - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
Flowers of flaming snow - Louis Golding "Wounded Soldiers"
Blue as the inside of flames - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
Twirl in the flames of paradise - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
Switch to the frequency of flame - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"
Flames choose what feeds them - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
That covets every flame - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
The syntax of emergent flame - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
When all the sky flamed with good news - Herbert H. Gowen "Jerusalem 1917"
In my body lives a flame - Robert Graves "Morning Phoenix"
Incense kindled at the Muse's flame - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
In the genesis of a struck flame - Rachel Eliza Griffiths "Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees"
In the flame of day - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"
No sign of flame in us - Ivor Gurney "'Annie Laurie'"
That flame does cherish - Ivor Gurney "Eternal Treasure"
Nor steel nor flame has any power - Ivor Gurney "Serenity"
Before the wick rejects the flame - Jessica Guzman "Predictions of the Material"
Inside a labyrinth of flame - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"
Through a path of flame and fire - Frances E.W. Harper "Death of the Old Sea-King"
And timbers black with flame - F.W. Harvey "The Stranger"
Flame and the noise of doom - F.W. Harvey "The Stranger"
Outflamed the flame he was becoming - Yona Harvey "Boy in the Forest Between Living and Leaving"
The flame like a blade cutting me - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"
His path a whirlwind and his breath a flame - Felicia Hemans "Heliodorus in the Temple"
And flamed with the morning star - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender: Envoy"
Shadows lurch to the leap of the flame - William Ernest Henley "In Hospital VII. Vigil"
Who swallows such a coal would burst into flames - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"
Like nodding plumes of flame - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Ingleside"
Dissolve in Love's soft flame - W.H. Herbert "Stanzas to a Lady"
On seas of thirsty flames - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"
But are held fast to their flames - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"
Three lamps of holy flame - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"
Their battlefields' thunder and flame - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"
Dragonflies draw flame - Gerard Manley Hopkins "As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame"
The flame of future victories - "Hours of Childhood"
Nor fuel for the clean flame of joy - Langston Hughes "Ruby Brown"
Flame out a desperate and last surmise - Richard Hughes "Vagrancy"
Springing in dark and rusty flame - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
In dark and rusty flame - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
In a flame of chiselled stone - Aldous Huxley "Stanzas"
Dazed by the flaming splendor of his wings - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Have nourished a flame in my bosom - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
And soaks the wood in flame - John James "Lullaby"
Wanted to grasp the flame's heat - John James "Materia"
Flashed and will flame terror and light - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Deepening in purple, flaming in gold - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"
Wandering flames and thunders - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
Past the flaming walls afar - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
Shod with angel flames - Lionel Johnson "Saint Columba"
Flame of one long, lone desire - Lionel Johnson "To a Spanish Friend"
Trample out his torch's flame - Henry Johnstone "Love Penitent"
the bluest flame licking each muscle and joint - Camisha L. Jones "Intercession"
kissed by my own flame - Camisha L. Jones "Wrecking Ball"
Gentle flames will glide - Ebenezer Jones "When the World is Burning"
The flame of my single space - June Jordan "On Time Tanka"
Luminous like particles of flame - June Jordan "Poem for Haruko"
Tinder so long unsolicited by flame - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
The gloom of dreams, a blinding flame - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"
The flame that from dark ashes springs - Sir Nizamat Jung "I: Rebirth"
An edifice of temporal flame - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"
Holy oil upon the rising flame - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
The flaming tower we all dared to jump from - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
The spluttering light of this specific flame - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"
Should wear the martyr's robe of flame - John Keble "Fire"
My veins run liquid flame - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [There's not a fibre in my trembling frame]"
Scarred with the chronicles written by flame - Henry Kendall "Beyond Kerguelen"
To light me quick as a fickle flame - Vandana Khanna "Name Calling"
Barren as the Hopeless Flame - Anne Killigrew "The Complaint of a Lover"
The wounds of Love's consuming flame - Joyce Kilmer "St. Laurence"
Flame that licks the roof of hell - C.H.B. Kitchin "Ruler of infinite austerity"
Awful love took flame - Louise Labe sonnet IV
The entire body consists of flames - Nick Laird "Miscegenation"
Still wakeful flame of mind - Archibald Lampman "Vivia Perpetua"
The wavering flames upcaught - Archibald Lampman "The Woodcutter's Hut"
Sunrise skies intense with molten mist and flame - Lucy Larcom "November"
With molten mist and flame - Lucy Larcom "November"
Softly-swaying pillars of dark flame - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"
Shouting forth flame - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"
A tongue of darkened flame to flicker in me - D.H. Lawrence "Shades"
Consuming with its inward flame - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
The flame that may not scorch - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"
Fleeing hosts by flaming angels led - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"
Whose flame is the imprisoned lightning - Emma Lazarus "The New Colossus"
Three golden tulips spouting flame - Richard Le Gallienne "Faery Gold (To Mrs. Percy Dearmer)"
Fair flame of sacrificial light - Richard Le Gallienne "In the Night"
Tasting of acid flame and apple wine - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"
Blowing to flame the golden cup - Frances Ledwidge "Thomas MacDonagh"
I bring you flaming bergamot - Agnes Lee "The Silent House"
Flames in her love from the fires above - Henry S. Leigh "The Seasons"
The virulent water beat my flame down to ash - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"
Flame on our lips - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"
And the flame of Love grow cold - Amy Levy "To Death"
And spirits behind those birds of flame - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"
Tiny flames in the river's ripples - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"
The black stones took on flame - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"
Wonders spreading round you like flame - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"
How a diamond comes into a knot of flame - Audre Lorde "Coal"
A flaming nebula rims my life - Amy Lowell "Apology"
A city whose windows flame gold - Amy Lowell "The Way"
Whose hoofs of flame consume morn's misty threshold - James Russell Lowell "The Brakes"
Chromatic flames in labyrinths of reflections - Mina Loy "Brancusi's Golden Bird"
Flame that twists choking through the ravines - Mario Luzi "Las Animas" transl. by Dana Gioia
Ever sinking with the dying flame - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Are one with flaming spheres - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Cosmos"
This poppy formed of flame - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Time's Garden"
Veined with scarlet flame - Dorothea Mackellar "Colour"
A flame in the wind of death - Dorothea Mackellar "Fire"
When mid-day is all in flames - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: VII"
Let the March storm snuff out my flame - Naomi Long Madgett "How Shall I Face the Dawn?"
Flames of my self-inflicted glory - Anthony Madrid "Try Never"
That filled all earth with flame - James Clarence Mangan "The One Mystery"
The very flame of constancy - Jeannette Marks "His Name"
Flame to my leaf-mould - Jeannette Marks "You"
A circumference of dark flames wavering - Maya Marshall "Some Thoughts on Sons in the Winter of My Child-Bearing Years"
Through the flaming clouds of war - George Martin "The Crisis"
Tempest of flame in his heart - George Martin "Street Waif"
Watch morning jump through a flaming hoop - David Tomas Martinez "Calaveras Section 2"
Cruel as their flame - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
Arrayed as though in flame - John Masefield "King Cole"
Three flaming memories - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
And our hearts are turned to flame - John Masefield "Lyrics from 'The Buccaneer'"
Rushing fishes streaked the sea with flame - John Masefield "The Setting of the Watch"
Can drink the level cup of flame - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
Sustained by a candle flame - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm Under Siege"
That mysterious flame of life - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Mother" transl. by John Pollen
Cataclysms of flame and foam - Theodore Maynard "Apocalypse"
Until the last sad tongue of flame expire - Theodore Maynard "Nocturne"
Whose charity was as a sword of flame - Theodore Maynard "To a Good Atheist"
To build a crown of flames - Shara McCallum "Dear Hours"
Bright with battle flame - John McCrae "The Warrior"
Bowed down for one flame hour - Claude McKay "The City's Love"
Bathed in your immortal flame - Claude McKay "Commemoration"
In the sudden flame of his breath - Edmond McKenna "Prelude"
Caress each flaming line - H.P. McKnight "Dedication"
In robes of smouldering flame - Alexander M'Lachlan "Indian Summer"
Bale-fires burn and cities wrapped in flame - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Smites the dust of the worlds to flame - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"
Flame out of the trodden dust - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"
Pale icicle and lambent flame - Louis J. McQuilland "Queens in Red and White"
Withhold her most destructive flame - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Fast as windy flame devours - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
Up the stone like an unmoored flame - W.S. Merwin "One Valley"
The wavering flame subdue its breath - Charlotte Mew "Beside the Bed"
One flame within those mutual eyes - Alice Meynell "Reflections"
Dancing storms of leaves in flaming colors - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"
Should break our bodies in his flame - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet III from Second April
This body of flame and steel - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]
Twice with sword and flame - Joaquin Miller "Anglo-Saxon Alliance"
And my heart a dull, flat flame - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"
A shrine of cloudy fire flamed redly awful - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Heaven" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
As in dry flax the flame - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"
Bringing the flame from the other shore - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
With passion fine as flame - Ethel Allen Murphy "The Angel of Thought (Suggested by a Fra Angelico Angel)"
And flames wrap hill and wood - "My Dark Rosaleen" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Before it all goes up in flames - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"
The embraces of another flame - Nekrasof (Nikolay Nekrasov) "A Sick Man's Jealousy" transl. by John Pollen
The flames rose in me - Marilyn Nelson "Paper Dolls"
Fleeing from unexpected flame - Pablo Neruda "Alliance (Sonata)" translated by Donald D. Walsh
And my heart split into flames - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Mysterious flames of a phosphorescent god - Pablo Neruda "I Recall the Sea" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Factory of the patriarchal flames - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XII" transl. by William O'Daly
Wraps you in its mortal flame - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems II" translated by W.S. Merwin
Your hands lighting the flame - Mari Ness "Tongueless"
Of hell-fire, of the venomous flame - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Soul of zeal and lips of flame - John Henry Newman "The Greek Fathers"
Warm me with the flame of his breast - Grace Nichols "Robin Redbreast"
I accept the smoke because I accept the flame - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VIII. Deliverance"
A flame chafes in our blood - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Amid war's furnace flame - Meredith Nicholson "In Ether Spaces"
A flame that has blown too near - Grace Fallow Norton "Love Is a Terrible Thing"
The usual flames rising up from the cracks of everything we know - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"
Of spring in the flaming ground - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Flesh unto flowers, and flame unto wind - Edward J. O'Brien "Song"
The waterfalls were still as flames - Frank O'Hara "Augustus"
Paid in full to axe and flame - John Oxenham "Free Men of God"
Kindle many a heart to equal flame - John Oxenham "Tamate"
Flushing valour's cheek with flame - Conde Benoist Pallen "The Raising of the Flag"
Folk of mud and flame - Dorothy Parker "The dark girl’s rhyme"
A fire no flame can burn - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"
It stammers in flames - Carl Phillips "In Which to Wonder Flew a Kind of Reckoning"
In a dress made of flames - Xan Forest Phillips "Captivity Lessons"
Hand of wind and flame - Frederick Erastus Pierce "God and the Farmer"
The lurid flame of mobs gone out - Alexander Posey "Ye Men of Dawes"
Not the first instinct of flame - Lynn Powell "Kind of Blue"
Shield her from the jaws of flame - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Drachenfels"
Truth approaches us on flaming wings - John Presland "The Deluge"
No match for the waking flame - Khadijah Queen "Declination"
Too many flaming suns for signposts - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch "The White Moth"
Mingled with the flame a tear - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Old Verses"
Outshone flaming Mars - Theodore H. Rand "Banishment"
The spirit tipt with flame - Theodore H. Rand "The Nightingale"
Lest the living flame to ashes turn - Theodore H. Rand "The Nightingale"
Pallid ash to crimson flame - Theodore H. Rand "A Red Sunrise"
Dying flame of life's last fire - G.A. Raybold "The Joys of Former Years Have Fled"
Hover your hand above a flame - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Five American Sentences"
From the world, conceal a suffering flame - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Bright burns the searching flame - Edward S. Rend, Jr. "Promise" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
as it bursts full flame upon the earth - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
While the last torch spent its flame - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"
In orbits flaming or cold - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
The pale flame of your foot - Edgell Rickword "Intimacy"
Jeweled with a million flaming points - Lola Ridge "After Storm"
Fused in flaming circuit with the night - Lola Ridge "Electrocution"
That great flame upon the scrolls - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
As though marble should be pithed with flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
In an envelope of fire not yet struck to flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
In the pillared flame of music - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Seed of the fierce flame that burned on Horeb - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 3: The Void"
The wings drip coral flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
The living tendons of a flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 1: Mary of Magdala"
Leaps like flame to flame - Lola Ridge "In Harness"
Like flame at an asbestos curtain - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Swung from the flame of windows - Lola Ridge "Saint's Bridge"
Into the flame and out again - Lola Ridge "Sun-Up"
Carrying stuff of flame - Lola Ridge "Wind Rising in the Alleys"
Torches flaming out like loosened hair - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Boy" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Sleep in a nest of flames - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Her fingers in the flame for me - Alberto Rios "Nani"
And all the myriad star-buds burst in flame - Lloyd Roberts "Flowers of the Sky"
Returning the shards to flame - Karen A. Romanko "The Glass Blower"
A million torches and spears of flaming wings - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"
With flame and blackness ridge the void - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"
Many wishes flaming together - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
The hate that flashed into flames - Abram Joseph Ryan (aka Father Ryan) "Song of the Deathless Voice"
Must win some flaming, fatal climax - Siegfried Sassoon "Dreamers"
Cities are only wind and flame - D.L. Sayers "For Phaon"
No deluge of flame could surprise - Robert Haven Schauffler "The White Comrade"
And glowing flames the hearts assail - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
Whose face is lit with the flames of cities - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
Confront the battery's jaws of flame - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Lamps of a thousand flames - "Sean Dana"
A mad sun goading to frenzied flame - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
In ghostly solitude before a flame - P. Seshadri "Thoughts"
Light's flame with self-substantial fuel - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"
Runes of ever-twisting flame - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Turned the unprinted snow to flame - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The jealous flame of sad, infernal suns - Clark Ashton Smith "Inferno"
Shade nor lightening of her flame - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Flaming shields of dawns between - Clark Ashton Smith "The Land of Evil Stars"
While all the flames of dream expire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Reaps the flame of mightiest stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
In one swifter hour of flame - Clark Ashton Smith "Remembered Light"
And night devour its flaming hues - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"
A choral chant of flame - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of the Stars"
Clear flame in lands extreme - Clark Ashton Smith "A Vision of Lucifer"
Unshadowed flame of phantom suns - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"
Your shape behind a flame - Brian Sneeden "Memory is Blood Soluble"
A small, pointed flame of sound - Leonora Speyer "The Locust"
Plucked a flame from off a tree - Leonora Speyer "October Trees"
Balder's funeral flames are blazing forth - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Sleigh-Ride"
That trod on forks of flame - Riccardo Stephens "A Ballad"
To give thy mouth its flame - George Sterling "Atthan Dances"
And pride of guarding flame - George Sterling "Caeli Enarrant"
Frontiers of flame and thunder - George Sterling "Earth's Anthem"
Stand equal in their flame - George Sterling "Love's Mercy"
Archival gloom, prophetic flame - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Nor stand in flame beside me - George Sterling "To Pain"
The mystery hid in the flame - George Sterling "What Porridge Had John Keats?"
Their lamps' uplifted flame revealed - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"
The flames of remembered fires - Algernon Swinburne "Recollections"
Flame will live, defying Fate's alarm - Carmen Sylva "The Glowworm"
Burnt to lava by your heart's own flame - Carmen Sylva "'Vengeance Is Mine,' Saith the Lord"
Lace-cut flame green filament - Dorothea Tanning "Sequestrienne"
When the mountain is swathed in flame - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The blue flame of the flower - Sara Teasdale "Blue Squills"
My spirit's shaken flame - Sara Teasdale "Driftwood"
As a spark foretells a flame - Sara Teasdale "From the Sea"
Straighten like a flame - Sara Teasdale "On the Dunes"
For beauty as a flame - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"
In phantom flame of flag and flower - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"
When thy cities flake the night with flames - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame - Henry David Thoreau "Smoke"
With thoughts that pierce like flame - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Dead flames send me letters - Kristen Tracy "State Lines"
The eternal flame of laughter - Iris Tree "Lamp-Posts"
Pierced with knives of flame - Iris Tree "Moods III"
Stands on flaming ramparts - Iris Tree "Smoke"
Ash dancing among a living flame - Jacqueline Allen Trimble "Walking Beside the Cemetery, Olivia Street, Key West"
Soundless in the flaming light - Katherine Tynan "The Riders"
In the visible flame of my love - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Possession"
That flesh has danced with flame - Louis Untermeyer "Dorothy Dances"
Unknown passion of each flaming star - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"
To little worlds of flame - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"
Dashed through all the flames to kill the witch - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"
Her captive flames must needs burn - Henry Vaughan "Beyond the Veil"
No sea of molten flame therein is pent - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Seething through paths of scattering flame - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: The Glory of the Heavens" transl. by Alma Strettell
Irradiate with flaming dawns - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Joy" transl. by Alma Strettell
Speeding along in leaps of flame - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: St. George" transl. by Alma Strettell
Meadows whereon grow the flowers of flame - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell
The white flame of countless diamonds burns - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell
Clothed with flame and embers bright - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell
As a tulip arrays its flame - Karen Volkman "Labor as a Tulip"
flame begets pools of shorn Decembers - Asiya Wadud "Shorn, treaded red"
Tides of flame and darkness - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
'Mid hollow charnel let me watch the flame - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"
Children of splendour and flame - William Watson "Ode in May"
Clarifying like butter over flame - Joshua Weiner "Art Pepper"
Made of smokeless flame and shadowless light - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"
To meet your glance of flame - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
Here the flame of materials - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
The bare bright flame of the sun - Helen Hay Whitney "I Have Seen What the Seraphs Have Seen"
Daring the flame of the sun - Helen Hay Whitney "Prayers"
Radiant with a mimic flame - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Eaten by teeth of flame - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Lips of flame and heart of stone - Oscar Wilde "Impression du Matin"
Chaos mounted on the wasting flame - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
Hold pink flames in their right hands - William Carlos Williams "The Lonely Street"
Swim the winding flame - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"
Wall flowers that once were flame - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"
Spill the shaded flame - William Carlos Williams "The Pot of Flowers"
Where the new grass flames - William Carlos Williams "The Widow's Lament in Springtime"
The unlikelihood of sudden flame - Katie Willingham "A Partial List of Overwriting Errors"
All the rising flames of hope - Adolf Wolff "The Cloud"
A flame in a thrown bottle - Gail Wronsky "The Moon Is in Labor"
The phoenix will still rise from the flames of Paris - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"
Flaming founts of duty - W.B. Yeats "The Countess Cathleen in Paradise"
Hearts of wind-blown flame - W.B. Yeats "The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods"
Unfold your flaming wings - W.B. Yeats "The Poet pleads with the Elemental Powers"
Master of the still stars and of the flaming door - W.B. Yeats "The Valley of the Black Pig"
the shadow zone at the core of the flame - Monica Youn "Blueacre"
Steadfast as the altar candle's flame - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Whose faint flames vanish quite - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"
New-kindled in cold flame - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
The flame of Moloch's pyre - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Lit with one slow-burning flame - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
With teeth transpiring flame - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"
The scorpion inside a cage of flame - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History IV: At Home"
The dance of flame in full bloom - 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
We envy islands of flame - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #10" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
The wind descend with its load of flames - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver
The dark enflamed with error - Miguel Murphy "Hot Tub"
Whose folds are flameless moons - Fiona MacLeod "The Rune of Age"
Set down your flammable colors - Jane Hirshfield "My Debt"
Into stacks of inflammable gold - Linda Pastan "The Poets"
The aura of each candle-flame - L.P. Hartley "Candlemas"
As candle-flames that near the socket - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
When candle-flames burn blue - G.B. Stuart "Haunted"
Trace flame-flicker in the grain of yellow birch - Rosanna Warren "Man in Stream"
Flashed out from the flame-flushed skies - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
A series of flame-fringed ridges - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 10"
In the flame-heart's shade - Claude McKay "Flame-Heart"
That bright line of flame-lipped masters - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
Some flame-red salamander pirouetting - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"
A whirl of flame-stabbed smoke - Gilbert Frankau "Eyes in the Air"
This flame-swept future - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
By the flamethrower's pilot light - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"
Where Macha's flame-tongued horses flee - Thomas Boyd "The King's Son"
Legions in the flame-torn sky - Virna Sheard "Carry On!"
The sun is a flame-white disc - William Carlos Williams "Danse Russe"
Outflamed the flame he was becoming - Yona Harvey "Boy in the Forest Between Living and Leaving"
And words of prophet-flame - W. Wilfred Campbell "In Holyrood"
In which eyes burn like star-flame - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"
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