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One glass of water that did not contain war - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"

As if the stone were glass fired and into beauty blown - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Wakes to the moon's glassy stare - Duane Ackerson "The Vampire's Reflection"

Becomes millions, billions of miniscule glass boxes - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Mirror Man"

Snap, like glass, for sheer despair - Harold Acton "In the Month of Athyr"

Split as flowers spun of glass - Harold Acton "Ventilation"

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

The wrong side of a glass coastline - Zaina Alsous "A Theory of Birds"

Torn from within a cold glassy fire - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen "The Mirrors" transl. by Allan Francovich

From the glass to the killing floor - William Archila "Spirits"

In my glass is blood of kings - T.H.W. Armstrong "Heritage"

A girl with glass wings - Cameron Awkward-Rich "The Little Girl Will Never Tire of Confession"

Shattered glass and a checkpoint - Mary Jo Bang "An Autopsy of an Era"

A broken glass on the edge of boredom - Mary Jo Bang "The Disappearance of Amerika: After Kafka"

Measuring an immense span of glass - Mary Jo Bang "The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans"

The chrome skin of a girl behind glass - Mary Jo Bang "If Wishes Were Horses"

The clatter of knives and twice broken glass - Mary Jo Bang "In November We Inched Closer"

Looking back at an avalanche of glass - Mary Jo Bang "The Mirror"

Into love's sweet looking glass - Mary Jo Bang "She Loved Falling"

With its blight of glass bulbs - Mary Jo Bang "A Sonata for Four Hands"

Exiting a cracked glass - Mary Jo Bang "T Equals Time to be Tamed"

And grind that shell into glass dust - Mary Jo Bang "Tomb in Three Parts"

The jagged glass reforming into a narrative - Mary Jo Bang "The Wake Was a Line and We Watched"

Glass slicing open the soles of my feet - Devan Barlow "Dear Charles Perrault"

In glass beneath my seals of red - Charles Baudelaire "The Soul of Wine" transl. not credited

With a jangle of glass bars - Stephen Vincent Benet "Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room"

Weaving glass and silk into a dream - Stephen Vincent Benet "Ghost of a Lunatic Asylum"

The empty sky in threads like glass - Stephen Vincent Benet "Going Back to School"

To lay tourmalines and tinted glass - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"

Patient misfortune of cracked glass - Jaswinder Bolina "Phantom Camera"

Names are only ever glass - William Brewer "Explanation of Matter in Oxyana"

Collected in Time's glass - Patrick Bronte "Verses Sent to a Lady on Her Birthday"

Small fish and forgotten glass - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"

A Glass placed betwixt Nets - John Bunyan "Upon the Lark and the Fowler"

Which kisses the glass coated asphalt - Bryan Byrdlong "Ode to Black Air Forces"

Into an atmosphere of glass - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

Held a billion glass lives - Wo Chan "i pissed on a red christmas"

The stillness of blown glass - Victoria Chang "OBIT"

The self is an invisible glass - Ken Chen "Brief Lives: Descartes in Love" [excerpts]

God of gold and flaming glass - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"

This level floor of liquid glass - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Some glass weight washed on the sand - Alicia Cole "Once, I Was a Mermaid"

The coward's shield of glass - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

See the Infinite through nature's magic glass - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Silhouettes flaring bright as glass melting - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"

Peer curious into this magician's glass - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"

Molten glass from furnace run - Walter de la Mare "Sotto Voce"

To walk on glass - Diana Marie Delgado "Bridge Called Water"

Whether the goal is glass or wine - Diana Marie Delgado "Horses on the Radio"

Watching through warped glass - Chelsea B. DesAutels "A Dangerous Place"

Splinter of dawn through the glass - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"

Broken glass from the self's smashed bottles - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

A pulsing wind below the glass - Cass Donish "You, Emblazoned"

Leave it glimmering on the glass - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"

Trying to fashion a woman out of glass - Cheryl Dumesnil "A Million Silver Minnows"

Flows like a stream of glass - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Sympathy"

Through waves of old, blown glass - Rebecca Dunham "Mnemosyne to the Poet"

In vials of ivory and coloured glass - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land II: A Game of Chess"

My two fates are reflected in the glass - Aziz Isa Elkun "Clouds Hid the Moon" transl. by author

When trout the glassy surface break - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"

Breathless under glass - Heid E. Erdich "That Green Night"

Through the mystic caves of glass - Anthony Euwer "The River"

Turning your fingers to glass - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"

A ceiling of light heaving like molten glass - Susan Fawcett "Black Water Diving"

Tulips and pink depression glass - Megan Fernandes "Amsterdam"

The flowers are made of glass - Megan Fernandes "Quentin Compson at the Natural History Museum, Harvard University"

Use the glass as a dream portal - Nikky Finney "The Inflammation"

The gift of two glass eyes - Sandy Florian "Abacus"

Circling the rims of glass lakes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 5"

Streets of heaped glass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Lost Coast"

The glass mind rearranging itself - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XVI"

Glass that resembled the sky - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Touring the Earth Gallery"

The checquered glass of Time - John W. Forney "Time's Changes"

Compare it by your memory's glass - John W. Forney "Time's Changes"

In a naiad's glass I saw - E. Foxton "The New Search After Happiness"

A little bird before the mystery of glass - Robert Frost "The Hill Wife"

Melt the glass and leave the sticks - Robert Frost "To the Thawing Wind"

A fine glass fishing buoy - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"

Hold a magnifying glass to time - Deborah Garrison "Both Square and Round"

Wind that felt like glass - brian g. gilmore "detroit airport, december 2009 (a sermon)"

Wind that felt like glass - brian g. gilmore "detroit airport, december 2009 (a sermon)"

A bird suddenly stunned by the glass - Aracelis Girmay "Second Estrangement"

In vast echoing rooms behind glass cases - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"

Explode off the glass scales of skyscrapers - Ian Goh "Firework"

Green cashmere sweaters on top of the glass - Natalie Goldberg "Home"

That scattered glass fruit around your feet - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Music Man"

Home to a house of glass - Hannah Flagg Gould "The Boy and the Cricket"

Make of my body a glass bridge - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

Black strokes on a graph of broken glass - Marilyn Hacker "Morning News"

And the spindrift strikes the glass - Thomas Hardy "The Curtains Now Are Drawn"

Her glass voice of the invisible - Joy Harjo "Deer Ghost"

Just to hear the glass it breaks - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

In a dream of glass - Bob Hicok "Grooming"

Where the glass houses of our minds can touch - Bob Hicok "No Stones"

Emptiness reflected in a looking glass - Conrad Hilberry "The Frying Pan"

With his fatal scythe and glass - Henry B. Hirst "The Death of the Year"

And yesterday a glass of gin - Langston Hughes "Sport"

Owns a paradise of glass - Aldous Huxley "Private Property"

A finger strums a seam of glass - fahima ife "our general banality"

We'll fill Time's glass with ruby tears - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Cold and colorless as glass - Robinson Jeffers "The First Grass"

the fire necessary to make glass - Marlin M. Jenkins "against cleansing"

Through fire and broken glass - Marlin M. Jenkins "Pokedex Entry #260: Swampert"

Shards of glass like misplaced stars - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

Two boats upon a sea of glass - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Derelicts"

The windows a crunch of glass - Janine Joseph "Circuitry"

Barefoot on shards of glass - Lawrence Joseph "In a Post-Bubble Credit-Collapse Environment"

Like many glassy pieces of an argument - Courtney Kampa "Cartography"

Knives hierarchical in a glass case - Mary Karr "Country Fair"

From inside their locked, glass places - Laura Kasischke "Ubi Sunt"

The glass globe of hand-spun conjurings - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Standing by a glass furnace - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Gravestones"

Conjured upon the glassy wave - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

Over the small nebula of misted glass - Sammy LĂȘ "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"

Beyond all glass's mirroring - Richard Le Gallienne "The Destined Maid: A Prayer"

Bridged by a road of molten glass - R.B. Lemberg "The Three Immigrations"

at night, the glass steps are silent - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"

in the entrance of the glass desert - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"

But we could drown in a glass of water - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

The one-eyed vulture in the glass - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"

An ignoble heap of broken, dusty glass - Amy Lowell "A Fairy Tale"

A dim red glare through mud bespattered glass - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"

Wipes no dimness from the glass - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

our voices shattering the glass windows - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"

A fly stammering against the glass - Emilie Lygren "Meditation"

The sands in Time's ancient glass - Ronald Campbell MacFie "Song"

The sticky glass of their shattering - Ruth Madievsky "Electrons"

Far from Cinderella's dainty glass slippers - Cynthia Manick "A Taste of Blue"

A balloon full of glass - Corey Marks "Broken Music"

In many a glittering house of glass - John Masefield "Fragments"

The words arrayed in glass - Farid Matuk "For a Daughter/No Address"

Mercury sonorous behind the glass - Farid Matuk "Mimesis"

Plains of mingled fire and glass - Theodore Maynard "Apocalypse"

A bed full of boxes and glass - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Climbing the glass mountain to save her brothers - Mary McMyne "The Mother Searches for Her Own Story"

In a sky made of blue glass - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson

Looked at the sun through welding glass - Joanne Merriam "No Words"

In a basket of glass rain - Claire Millikin "Doll Daughter"

Reflected inwards through glass skies - Claire Millikin "Selfie as Illusory Child at Birthday Party"

No wonder I cry glass tears - Claire Millikin "Seven Stops"

Arrange the facets of stained glass into story - N. Scott Momaday "The Dragon of Saint-Bertrand-De-Comminges"

Standing still in the glitter of ancient glass - N. Scott Momaday "Jornada del Muerto"

Silence is scattered like a broken glass - Harold Monro "Solitude"

Echoes struck from thin glass - Marianne Moore "Those Various Scalpels"

A yoke of honey in a glass of cooling milk - Valzhyna Mort "Singer"

The miracle the sea makes with shards of glass - Maggie Nelson "A History"

Faraway glass of water and oblivion - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Help yourself to a glass of light - Pablo Neruda "Goodbye to the Snow" transl. by Alastair Reid

Which broke the glass of twilight - Pablo Neruda "Oh, My Lost City" transl. by Alastair Reid

Like a tearing river of glass - Pablo Neruda "Sexual Water" translated by Donald D. Walsh

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

Whose walls are glass, whose gates are gold - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Their panes of glass innocent - Diana O'Hehir "Riding the San Francisco Train"

Prayers that are made out of glass - Mary Oliver "Mindful"

With a comb and a glass in her hand - "One Friday Morn"

Green glass eyes of a porcelain doll - Caitriona O'Reilly "II. The Mermaid (from The Sea Cabinet)"

Staring into the glass well of my hands - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Three"

Lives in a house of black glass - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Five"

Sky all broken glass - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"

Came ashore crowned with salt and sea glass - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"

Each far lake's dazzling glass - Fernando Pessoa "Epithalamium"

My life as the glass king - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"

Her face a glass zero - Kiki Petrosino "Maria"

My doubts like glass seeds - Sina Queyras "Thalidomide; Or, What She Didn't Ask"

Watch a sparrow circle the glass ceiling - Paige Quinones "At the Museum"

Withering under a glass dome - Danni Quintos "Age Eleven"

Glass marbles under my skin - Danni Quintos "Breast Pain"

Into that broken glass throat - Jacques J. Rancourt "In the Castro"

Sealed like a pavement of glass - Theodore H. Rand "The Dragonfly"

Glass panes behind which stars rise - Paisley Rekdal "The Cry"

The glass itself now tinged with ash - Paisley Rekdal "Murano"

dark lipstick on the rim of the glass - Seema Reza "The neurologist gives us permission"

Glasses of varying spectrum - Adrienne Rich "Victory"

Staring as through a choked glass - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Cracking the black river glass - Lynn Riggs "Shadow on Snow"

Bring not suspicions candle to the glass - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"

When we kiss my lips shatter like bleeding glass - Hester J. Rook "Under Silver Waves"

On the glass of a dream - Gabrielle Octavia Rucker "I Don't Say Goodbye, I Only Say Ciao"

Her manicured nails were of glass - Sofia Samatar "The Death of Araweilo"

Glass scattered like confetti - Erika L. Sanchez "Kindness"

Sailing on glass - Sonia Sanchez "5 Haiku"

The cut glass vases standing slender - Carl Sandburg "Child of the Romans"

From truth's own glass of fire - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

Countless corridors worn slick as glass - Ann K. Schwader "Climate of Fear"

Grass stains and beach glass - Richard Scott "Peridot"

A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"

Hold Time's fickle glass - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXVI"

Save pomegranate seeds in glass jars - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Eyes of glass hooves of stone - Joyce Sidman "The Gray Ones"

A glass already laced with frost - Richard Siken "Little Beast"

A hint of air seeping through glass - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Envisions Death"

Remorse under glass - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Goes to Hell in an Overnight Bag"

Giggles like towers of glass - Edith Sitwell "Switchback"

So that our histories turn to glass - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"

Less than any broken glass - Clark Ashton Smith "Forgetfulness"

Green glass jars to keep the demons in - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"

Two faces behind glass - Richard Solomon "Away"

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

Turn the old sands in the failing glass of Time - R. H. Stoddard "The World" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

From my fount of shadowy glass - Alfred B. Street "The Ausable"

By amassing a heap of glass - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 40: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Can turn your gold to glass - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 230: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Fills like sand between glass marbles - Adeeba Shahid Talukder "A Love Note"

Built myself a house of glass - Edward Thomas "I Built Myself a House of Glass"

Have bartered diamonds for glass - Iris Tree "[I could explain]"

As if love could be contained in glass - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

A wind of shining ebony in Time's bright glass - Walter J. Turner "Giraffe and Tree"

Rich in broken glass - John Updike "Chicory"

The boulevard of broken glass - Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca "Had Been There"

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

In a confusion of glass - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Glass Trail"

Beauty through dusty glass - Derek Walcott "The Villa Restaurant"

The dream crumbles inside its glass case - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"

A glass palace overlooking an airport - Jackie Wang "Life is a Place Where it's Forbidden to Live"

And the rivers that glass your sky - Edith Wharton "The Tryst"

My head made of glass - Allison Benis White "Description of Symptoms"

The gray of a glass of water in a dimly lit room - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"

Barbarian herds of steel and glass - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"

The glass key of a torch song - John Wieners "Forthcoming"

Through a little roof of glass - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

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

Look carefully in a dark glass - Jay Wright "[Song into holiness]"

Broken glass, reflecting pain - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"

In the sound of colored glass violins - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton

Winter jasmine wilts in its glass vase - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Sent lightning across glass - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today"

In a sea of molten glass - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

In the reflections of my own glass - Matthew Zapruder "Luna My Captive"

In a dress made of laughing glass - Matthew Zapruder "Never Before"


Can't take a photo through the bulletproof glass - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Cachiporrista"


Snapping their beaks against the fairyglass - Ashley Bao "Secrets from a Telepath"


Fiberglass.


Glassblowing and fishing nets and the tide - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"


The glasscut-moon healing into midday sky - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"


The notes of my glasshouse erudition - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"


your body rendered glasslike by fire - Monica Youn "Whiteacre"


A glassmaker's dream of blue - Elizabeth Spires "Cote d'Azur"


They don't even ask you to try on the glass slipper - Mary McMyne "The Mother Searches for Her Own Story"


The black and gold glassed-in air - J. Mae Barizo "Diorama"


will blow our ash into glassware - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"


Hourglass.


Looking-Glass.


Cracking him into squares of safety glass - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Mirror Man"


Through the spyglass of trust - Elaine Equi "Round Corners"


Twin vortices in her black sunglasses - Sofia Samatar "The Death of Araweilo"


bring me wineglasses of miracles - Michael Leong "For My Cats Gaspara & Alfonsina"

Like a wineglass of hatred - Pablo Neruda "Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas (1949)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The wineglass of hereafter - Pablo Neruda "Love Song" transl. by William O'Daly


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