Potential Titles: Great
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somethingdarkerBecame greater and greater strangers to themselves - Duane Ackerson "Exiling the Earth"
A great storm had blown out the stars - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"
Only the sea lifted its great voice - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
The great wheel of darkness - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"
Hands afire with a vision of two great towers - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Regimented shards of the Great Order - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
And in her dream a great tree grew - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVI: Dream of the Holy Virgin" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Stars keep great guard upon you - T.H.W. Armstrong "Watching"
Where great whales come sailing by - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"
The great freight of the summer - Ingeborg Bachmann "The Great Freight" transl. by Bill Crisman
May not ask too great a boon - Albion Fellows Bacon "An Alpine Valley"
The desperate dance that signifies a loss too great to name - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Great men on horses hunt you - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"
No greater in the heavens - Ardelia Maria Barton "A Prayer"
Whom one great desire gnaws - Charles Baudelaire "The Swan" transl. not credited
Expressly charged to mock the great - Clive Bell "Letter to a Lady II"
Fold your great wings about my face - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"
Great ropes of gorgeous vapor - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Its blazing wheel of great aims lost - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"
Directed toward greater coherence - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
Who in great zig-zag blows the bee - Edmund Blunden "April Byeway"
Under the great balanced day - Louise Bogan "Medusa"
The capital of the great state of Thursday - Jaswinder Bolina "Sunday, Sunday"
Silver angels etching great cursive blessings - Laure-Anne Bosselaar "Late Afternoon Stroll on the Cliffs"
In my ears a great triumphant song - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"
Great, echoing chambers of herself - Lisa M. Bradley "The Skin Walker's Wife"
A great impassable gate of tumult - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"
And the great tides roared, assembling - Mary C.G. Byron "The Tryst of the Night (M. C. Gillington)"
Greater wonders than shook Pharaoh's throne - Tommaso Campanella "XXXIX. On the Lord's Prayer. No.3" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Where the great war banners are furled - W. Wilfred Campbell "England"
His great chariot built of fire - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
My soul is a great plain made desolate - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"
Swept away in one great gulf of flame - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall
Where great Plato paced serene - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"
The winter wood and its great absorbent heart - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"
A great apocalyptic wheeze - Tina Chang "Lion"
In this great world of rush and riot - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Steps"
Of great limbs gone to chaos - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
The third great thunder on the wind - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
Great ghosts shall rise to vindicate the right of cats - G.K. Chesterton "To Enid who acted the Cat in private Pantomime"
In the great gaps of the system - John Ciardi "Everywhere that Universe"
The great floods of the soul - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Through the great sinful streets - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
This great wink of eternity - Hart Crane "Voyages II"
In some great Arctic arsenal - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"
Mountain ranges and great rifts that break the land - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
A message through the cages of a great whale's teeth - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
On a great horse of gold into the silver dawn - E. E. Cummings "Song (V)"
Sang at the sun's great golden doors - Olive Custance "The Prisoner of God"
The height of a great mountain forested with night - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
In the footsteps of the great feet of Bacchus - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org
How rich and great the times are now - W.H. Davies "A Great Time"
A great pale apple of silver and pearl - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"
The great black beautiful seeds of the Moon - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"
Four great walls have hemmed me in - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"
That great water in the west - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LII: Thirst"
Which dead in great fishes' jaws - John Donne "The Calm"
Around a goblet of great waters - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"
The centre of the world's great wheel - Edward Dowden "The Secret of the Universe: an Ode"
The molten ore of the great stars - Edward Doyle "Chime, Dark Bell"
In Time's great periods shall return to nought - William Drummond "Ah! Would 'Twere So"
May struggle with great odds to gain - B.F.D. Dunn "Our Heritage" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
Not greatly larger than a star - Lord Dunsany "The Return of Song"
Go to the great house of grief - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Riding on seven great lions - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
City where the great crown lies - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle
Wrapped in a great, frightful light - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 4. E-Melemhush, the Temple of Nuska in Nippur" transl. by Sophus Helle
Has made your dominion great - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 9. E-Hursang, the Temple of Shulgi in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle
A basilisk and a great serpent intertwined - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 33. E-Dimgalkalama, the Temple of Ishtaran in Der" transl. by Sophus Helle
Skilled in the great powers of dominion - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 33. E-Dimgalkalama, the Temple of Ishtaran in Der" transl. by Sophus Helle
Hallowed house of great powers - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 34. E-Sikil, the Temple of Ninazu in Eshnunna" transl. by Sophus Helle
Ten thousand magnificent greatnesses - Frederick William Faber, D.D. "The Grandeurs of Mary"
The great elk in the dark door - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"
The great deeds of the hopeless - Joseph Fasano "Odysseus"
A great fire muted by holy water - Camonghne Felix "Yes, It Is Possible"
The great vigilance of the 19th century - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"
A great wind of complaining - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
While he feasted all the great - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"
Displays the greatest art - "The First Hole at St. Andrews on a Crowded Day"
And the great orchards burst from bud to blossom - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"
In fire the great boat beats the seas - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"
Sit at the edge of our great new void - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"
As the great abstractions come to take you away - Carrie Fountain "[You Belong to the World]"
The great harvest I myself desired - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"
To know that for destruction ice is also great - Robert Frost "Fire and Ice"
The great work of those patient things - Zona Gale "Paradise and Purgatory"
Up to the end of the great QUEEN'S reign - C. L. Graves "Ballade of Free Verse"
Great winds over the sky - Robert Graves "The Face of the Heavens"
Great rats on leather wings - Robert Graves "In the Wilderness"
It's pride that makes the heart so great - Robert Graves "To Lucasta on Going to the Wars--for the Fourth Time"
Only see the great gulf set between us - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
To pay our greatest debt - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Love's Mode of Action"
The great AVENGER unsheathed his awful sword - "Hark to the Tread" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Filled the least and the greatest places - Leslie Harrison "[God speaks]"
Ten bundles and four great piles - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"
Moves the seven great ebony pharaohs - Anne Hebert "The Tomb of Kings" transl. by Kathleen Weaver
Making a great noise to wake a dead god - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"
With great hope in its energy - Brenda Hillman "Winged One"
The great sword of understanding - Ellen Hinsey "The Multitude"
A great drum beaten with swift sticks - Langston Hughes "Sport"
Sleep, like a messenger of great import - Richard Hughes "Vagrancy"
Had no great plans to live happily ever after - Linda Susan Jackson "Nailing Things Down"
Each affliction bear a greater beauty - Eva A. Jessye "To a Rosebud"
A great fire of dreams - Lionel Johnson "Wales"
Great rush of wrecked air - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
Monarch of the three great worlds - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Sprung from these greater furrows - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"
When my thirst got great enough to ask - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"
With greater force in the forest - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"
The backbeat of a world of great machines - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"
Great key to golden palaces - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
The great machinery of merchandising - Stuart Kestenbaum "Prayer in the Strip Mall, Bangor, Maine"
The Greatest Plagues to bear - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"
Under our great star - Kim Unsong "Silent Afar"
The great change already underway - Joanna Klink "New Year"
Their numbers as great as your soul - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"
In great storms, it even crosses the sea - Danusha Lameris "Dust"
Grown great and stately with the rain - Archibald Lampman "After Rain"
Rolls a great and burning star - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"
A vision of the great and burning star - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"
By great winds in awful unison - Archibald Lampman "New Year's Eve"
The great black night scooped out - D.H. Lawrence "New Year's Eve"
The great depths of its reversed zenith - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
Great hands open towards the west - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
Gleaming spears of great Apollo's host - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love I: 1"
Broken in time's great wound - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"
Named great planets in their orbits race - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
The great networks of the screaming air - Ruth Lechlitner "Quiz Program"
Some score too great for payment - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"
To an ocean's greatest rise - Hailey Leithauser "Rapture"
When I was by a great grief stricken - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
In the great throat of a glacier - Megan Levad "Foundling"
Speaking of the great theater of conquest - Philip Levine "For the Country: The President"
Took them through seven small seas to a great ocean - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
A great ocean tasting of salt and our lives - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
She walked the great clear void - Li Po "Poem No.19 in the Old Manner" transl. by Burton Watson
Where the great black agates loom - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"
Under the fire of the great moon - Amy Lowell "The Letter"
Pledge of greater majesty unseen - Amy Lowell "Monadnock in Early Spring"
And grapples with great winds - Percy MacKaye "Fight: The Tale of a Gunner at Plattsburgh"
A great white flower of solitude - Dorothea Mackellar "The Moon and the Morning"
With the stars' great golden choir - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"
With a great soul's deepest love - Jeannette Marks "His Name"
Hypocrisy in this great falling hegemony - David Tomas Martinez "An Alluded to Letter from DTM for Matthew Olzmann"
To ruin the great work of time - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"
In all the great cliff's gaps - John Masefield "Biography"
Send me a ninth great peaceful wave - John Masefield "Prayer"
Those great powers of marching silences - John Masefield "The South-West Wind"
Hiding in burrows of fate amid great cities - Edgar Lee Masters "Theodore the Poet"
The great scourge of the great love - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
Our own great ranges of feelings - Heather McHugh "A Physics"
The great migration of the material abandoning the nest - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
On the brink of the great waters - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
Her great word of life - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
Great silences and spaces - Charlotte Mew "Fame"
Forsaken by great winds - Charlotte Mew "I Have Been Through the Gates"
But greatly and in gold - Alice Meynell "Lord, I Owe Thee a Death"
The golden vessel of great song - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet II from Second April
The Great Migration of words - E. Ethelbert Miller "The Ear is an Organ Made for Love"
Will wander, outcasts, from the great world's gate - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Too great for silken fetters - Lewis Morris "Saint Christopher"
A candle lit from the great unending fire - Mark Nepo "The Clearing"
Great idols with phosphoric feet - Pablo Neruda "Far from Here" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Great stars clear as vodka - Pablo Neruda "The Future Is Space" transl. by Alastair Reid
The great solitude of bells tolling - Pablo Neruda "Goodbyes" transl. by Alastair Reid
By the great winds of the sky - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The hour of great solitude - Pablo Neruda "The Stones and the Birds" transl. by Dennis Maloney
While the great rain of July falls - Pablo Neruda "Superstitions" transl. by Alastair Reid
The firelit glow of a great hearth's gleam and glare - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "[Where do we fly, under deep dark sky?]"
So dares affront the great god Pan - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Between the good earth and the great sea - Margaret Noodin "Cream City/Doodooshabo'enaande Oodena " transl. by the author
Washed by a water greater than the world - Alfred Noyes "Goethe I: The Discoverer"
The great rhythm of law - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"
In the great, black packet of time - Mary Oliver "The Orchard"
Hold us in the great hands of light - Mary Oliver "Why I Wake Early"
In the sky's great shroud of light - Ekhmetjan Osman "My Love" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
The great cedar's benedictory grace - John Oxenham "A Little Te Deum of the Commonplace"
Though great Urania guide her flight - Conde Benoist Pallen "Maria Immaculata"
Deserter from the great autumn army - Linda Pastan "Repetitions: After Van Gogh: 1. Yellow"
Only the greatest souls can speak - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
Too great to tarry questioning - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
How the great thorn trees wept - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
My great morning of wrath - Kiki Petrosino "Purgatorio"
The great equity of darkness - Emily Pittinos "A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down"
The great betrayals are impersonal - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
Gathered great heaps of fraying asbestos - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Workshop on the avenue of greater dreaming - Tim Pratt "Mask"
A great white bird on sunlit wing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Sunday in Liguria"
The great sorrow of brightness - Jeremy Radin "Evening"
A gnat in the air of greatness - Charles Rafferty "Mal Evans Counting"
The deep's great harmonies - Theodore H. Rand "Of Beauty"
Greet the great wide savannahs - Diane Raptosh "American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument"
The paths great Homer trod - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "The Venus of Milo"
Found great solace at that song - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"
A great ship that steered into the stars - Cale Young Rice "All's Well"
Great spears folding into letters - Adrienne Rich "Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot"
Great dawns of inner mornings - Mark Rich "To Sleep"
That great flame upon the scrolls - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Wings great enough to sustain our victories - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
Majestic discords greater than harmonies - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Like a great spurious diamond - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Crouching like a great cat - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Hear the stars as a great roar - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"
Something greater from the distance - Alberto Rios "When Giving Is All We Have"
Swing the doors to the four great winds - Lloyd Roberts "There's Music in My Heart To-day"
When heaven's great scroll is spread before us - Fayette Robinson "Supplication.--Two Sonnets" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
All things blend in the world's great harmony - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
Coincidence is the great mystery of the human mind - Sahar Romani "Sign"
Joined to the great sunk silences - Isaac Rosenberg "Dead Man's Dump"
Beneath one great canopy - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse
In the ray of one great sun - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse
A word of rescue from the great eyes - Muriel Rukeyser "The Poem as Mask"
Your great way of forgetting - Carl Sandburg "Graves"
The great nail holding a skyscraper - Carl Sandburg "Prayers of Steel"
In the great west's golden urn - Clinton Scollard "Nightfall in Sligo"
The four great winds rejoice - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Rover"
Pass great worlds of silent stone - Frederick George Scott "My Lattice"
You have held the throne of the Great Unknown - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
Laid great bases for eternity - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXV"
The wide hallways of a great endowment - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"
The great fruits of my failure - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"
The great suns burn into whitest ash - Virna Sheard "The Cry"
Shivering like a great grey bull - Taras Shevchenko "Hamaleia" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
With ox-teams great in the fall - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Beneath a greater shadow's wings - Clark Ashton Smith "The Eldritch Dark"
The sun's great warship - A.E. Stallings "On Visiting a Borrowed Country House in Arcadia"
The great weightings of the end - Wallace Stevens "Madame la Fleurie"
Great Achilles crumbling on his pyre - Phillips Stewart "De Profundis"
As greatest kings might die to gain - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Blacker the great crag's scowl - Alfred B. Street "The Devil's Pulpit: Tupper's Lake"
Creates one great impassable division twixt us and our desire - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"
Of foes who lift great mountains - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 107: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Great as mortal eye and brain encompass - Carmen Sylva "A Dream"
In hearts that are too great for hope - Carmen Sylva "Out of the Deep"
The Great Potter works no private favors - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
Waves in the great process of change - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
In the great rain of moonlight - Sara Teasdale "Places II: Full Moon (Santa Barbara)"
Asked for something greater - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"
Great ruins of an unremembered past - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Great wonders clothed with glory - Thomas Traherne "Wonder"
The great sweep of threatening harmony - Richard Chenevix Trench "To a Lady Singing"
Great waves churn and leap - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Viewing the Ocean" transl. by Burton Watson
Floated soundless in the great gulf of space - W.J. Turner "Death"
Walked in a great golden dream - Walter J. Turner "Romance"
A thing too great for tears - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
Protocols of great discretion - John Updike "Transparent Strategems"
Covering Beowulf's greatest hits on your tin kazoo - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
A great bear tracking across the endless sky - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Starry Night"
Drunk with the great human battle of wills - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Life" transl. by Alma Strettell
Each great nocturnal planet steadfast - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Allow me this great sorrow - Asiya Wadud "Syncope"
Great Agamemnon lifts his hand - J. Wareham "The Trojan War, 1915" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
You asked, I think, too great a sacrifice - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"
With life's great venture, in an ark of clay - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"
Grey on the great wall of Thought - Helen Hay Whitney "Age"
Have burned to their last great glow - Helen Hay Whitney "In Autumn"
Great in loneliness of grey despair - Helen Hay Whitney "Little Sad Face"
Have known great gold Sorrows - Margaret Widdemer "The Jester"
The great divide of falsehood, hunger and last year - John Wieners "In Public"
Great mother of eternal sleep - Oscar Wilde "The Grave of Shelley"
Great gold cross shining in the wind - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"
The corner of a great rain - William Carlos Williams "Contemporania"
In the zenith of his great renown - Joseph R. Wilson "An Actor's Epitaph"
A part of greater beauties than inform your heart - Humbert Wolfe "Cambridge"
For this Priam's great city of Troy was sacrificed - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"
At the great fork on the untouchable road - Charles Wright "Little Ending"
By that great glory driven wild - W.B. Yeats "From the "Antigone'"
Great kings of the sky - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer "Cousins of Clouds"
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A great storm had blown out the stars - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"
Only the sea lifted its great voice - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
The great wheel of darkness - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"
Hands afire with a vision of two great towers - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Regimented shards of the Great Order - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
And in her dream a great tree grew - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVI: Dream of the Holy Virgin" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Stars keep great guard upon you - T.H.W. Armstrong "Watching"
Where great whales come sailing by - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"
The great freight of the summer - Ingeborg Bachmann "The Great Freight" transl. by Bill Crisman
May not ask too great a boon - Albion Fellows Bacon "An Alpine Valley"
The desperate dance that signifies a loss too great to name - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Great men on horses hunt you - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"
No greater in the heavens - Ardelia Maria Barton "A Prayer"
Whom one great desire gnaws - Charles Baudelaire "The Swan" transl. not credited
Expressly charged to mock the great - Clive Bell "Letter to a Lady II"
Fold your great wings about my face - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"
Great ropes of gorgeous vapor - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Its blazing wheel of great aims lost - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"
Directed toward greater coherence - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
Who in great zig-zag blows the bee - Edmund Blunden "April Byeway"
Under the great balanced day - Louise Bogan "Medusa"
The capital of the great state of Thursday - Jaswinder Bolina "Sunday, Sunday"
Silver angels etching great cursive blessings - Laure-Anne Bosselaar "Late Afternoon Stroll on the Cliffs"
In my ears a great triumphant song - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"
Great, echoing chambers of herself - Lisa M. Bradley "The Skin Walker's Wife"
A great impassable gate of tumult - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"
And the great tides roared, assembling - Mary C.G. Byron "The Tryst of the Night (M. C. Gillington)"
Greater wonders than shook Pharaoh's throne - Tommaso Campanella "XXXIX. On the Lord's Prayer. No.3" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Where the great war banners are furled - W. Wilfred Campbell "England"
His great chariot built of fire - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
My soul is a great plain made desolate - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"
Swept away in one great gulf of flame - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall
Where great Plato paced serene - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"
The winter wood and its great absorbent heart - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"
A great apocalyptic wheeze - Tina Chang "Lion"
In this great world of rush and riot - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Steps"
Of great limbs gone to chaos - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
The third great thunder on the wind - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
Great ghosts shall rise to vindicate the right of cats - G.K. Chesterton "To Enid who acted the Cat in private Pantomime"
In the great gaps of the system - John Ciardi "Everywhere that Universe"
The great floods of the soul - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Through the great sinful streets - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
This great wink of eternity - Hart Crane "Voyages II"
In some great Arctic arsenal - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"
Mountain ranges and great rifts that break the land - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
A message through the cages of a great whale's teeth - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
On a great horse of gold into the silver dawn - E. E. Cummings "Song (V)"
Sang at the sun's great golden doors - Olive Custance "The Prisoner of God"
The height of a great mountain forested with night - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
In the footsteps of the great feet of Bacchus - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org
How rich and great the times are now - W.H. Davies "A Great Time"
A great pale apple of silver and pearl - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"
The great black beautiful seeds of the Moon - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"
Four great walls have hemmed me in - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"
That great water in the west - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LII: Thirst"
Which dead in great fishes' jaws - John Donne "The Calm"
Around a goblet of great waters - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"
The centre of the world's great wheel - Edward Dowden "The Secret of the Universe: an Ode"
The molten ore of the great stars - Edward Doyle "Chime, Dark Bell"
In Time's great periods shall return to nought - William Drummond "Ah! Would 'Twere So"
May struggle with great odds to gain - B.F.D. Dunn "Our Heritage" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
Not greatly larger than a star - Lord Dunsany "The Return of Song"
Go to the great house of grief - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Riding on seven great lions - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
City where the great crown lies - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle
Wrapped in a great, frightful light - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 4. E-Melemhush, the Temple of Nuska in Nippur" transl. by Sophus Helle
Has made your dominion great - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 9. E-Hursang, the Temple of Shulgi in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle
A basilisk and a great serpent intertwined - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 33. E-Dimgalkalama, the Temple of Ishtaran in Der" transl. by Sophus Helle
Skilled in the great powers of dominion - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 33. E-Dimgalkalama, the Temple of Ishtaran in Der" transl. by Sophus Helle
Hallowed house of great powers - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 34. E-Sikil, the Temple of Ninazu in Eshnunna" transl. by Sophus Helle
Ten thousand magnificent greatnesses - Frederick William Faber, D.D. "The Grandeurs of Mary"
The great elk in the dark door - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"
The great deeds of the hopeless - Joseph Fasano "Odysseus"
A great fire muted by holy water - Camonghne Felix "Yes, It Is Possible"
The great vigilance of the 19th century - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"
A great wind of complaining - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
While he feasted all the great - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"
Displays the greatest art - "The First Hole at St. Andrews on a Crowded Day"
And the great orchards burst from bud to blossom - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"
In fire the great boat beats the seas - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"
Sit at the edge of our great new void - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"
As the great abstractions come to take you away - Carrie Fountain "[You Belong to the World]"
The great harvest I myself desired - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"
To know that for destruction ice is also great - Robert Frost "Fire and Ice"
The great work of those patient things - Zona Gale "Paradise and Purgatory"
Up to the end of the great QUEEN'S reign - C. L. Graves "Ballade of Free Verse"
Great winds over the sky - Robert Graves "The Face of the Heavens"
Great rats on leather wings - Robert Graves "In the Wilderness"
It's pride that makes the heart so great - Robert Graves "To Lucasta on Going to the Wars--for the Fourth Time"
Only see the great gulf set between us - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
To pay our greatest debt - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Love's Mode of Action"
The great AVENGER unsheathed his awful sword - "Hark to the Tread" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Filled the least and the greatest places - Leslie Harrison "[God speaks]"
Ten bundles and four great piles - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"
Moves the seven great ebony pharaohs - Anne Hebert "The Tomb of Kings" transl. by Kathleen Weaver
Making a great noise to wake a dead god - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"
With great hope in its energy - Brenda Hillman "Winged One"
The great sword of understanding - Ellen Hinsey "The Multitude"
A great drum beaten with swift sticks - Langston Hughes "Sport"
Sleep, like a messenger of great import - Richard Hughes "Vagrancy"
Had no great plans to live happily ever after - Linda Susan Jackson "Nailing Things Down"
Each affliction bear a greater beauty - Eva A. Jessye "To a Rosebud"
A great fire of dreams - Lionel Johnson "Wales"
Great rush of wrecked air - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
Monarch of the three great worlds - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Sprung from these greater furrows - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"
When my thirst got great enough to ask - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"
With greater force in the forest - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"
The backbeat of a world of great machines - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"
Great key to golden palaces - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
The great machinery of merchandising - Stuart Kestenbaum "Prayer in the Strip Mall, Bangor, Maine"
The Greatest Plagues to bear - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"
Under our great star - Kim Unsong "Silent Afar"
The great change already underway - Joanna Klink "New Year"
Their numbers as great as your soul - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"
In great storms, it even crosses the sea - Danusha Lameris "Dust"
Grown great and stately with the rain - Archibald Lampman "After Rain"
Rolls a great and burning star - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"
A vision of the great and burning star - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"
By great winds in awful unison - Archibald Lampman "New Year's Eve"
The great black night scooped out - D.H. Lawrence "New Year's Eve"
The great depths of its reversed zenith - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
Great hands open towards the west - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
Gleaming spears of great Apollo's host - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love I: 1"
Broken in time's great wound - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"
Named great planets in their orbits race - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
The great networks of the screaming air - Ruth Lechlitner "Quiz Program"
Some score too great for payment - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"
To an ocean's greatest rise - Hailey Leithauser "Rapture"
When I was by a great grief stricken - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
In the great throat of a glacier - Megan Levad "Foundling"
Speaking of the great theater of conquest - Philip Levine "For the Country: The President"
Took them through seven small seas to a great ocean - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
A great ocean tasting of salt and our lives - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
She walked the great clear void - Li Po "Poem No.19 in the Old Manner" transl. by Burton Watson
Where the great black agates loom - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"
Under the fire of the great moon - Amy Lowell "The Letter"
Pledge of greater majesty unseen - Amy Lowell "Monadnock in Early Spring"
And grapples with great winds - Percy MacKaye "Fight: The Tale of a Gunner at Plattsburgh"
A great white flower of solitude - Dorothea Mackellar "The Moon and the Morning"
With the stars' great golden choir - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"
With a great soul's deepest love - Jeannette Marks "His Name"
Hypocrisy in this great falling hegemony - David Tomas Martinez "An Alluded to Letter from DTM for Matthew Olzmann"
To ruin the great work of time - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"
In all the great cliff's gaps - John Masefield "Biography"
Send me a ninth great peaceful wave - John Masefield "Prayer"
Those great powers of marching silences - John Masefield "The South-West Wind"
Hiding in burrows of fate amid great cities - Edgar Lee Masters "Theodore the Poet"
The great scourge of the great love - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
Our own great ranges of feelings - Heather McHugh "A Physics"
The great migration of the material abandoning the nest - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
On the brink of the great waters - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
Her great word of life - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
Great silences and spaces - Charlotte Mew "Fame"
Forsaken by great winds - Charlotte Mew "I Have Been Through the Gates"
But greatly and in gold - Alice Meynell "Lord, I Owe Thee a Death"
The golden vessel of great song - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet II from Second April
The Great Migration of words - E. Ethelbert Miller "The Ear is an Organ Made for Love"
Will wander, outcasts, from the great world's gate - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Too great for silken fetters - Lewis Morris "Saint Christopher"
A candle lit from the great unending fire - Mark Nepo "The Clearing"
Great idols with phosphoric feet - Pablo Neruda "Far from Here" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Great stars clear as vodka - Pablo Neruda "The Future Is Space" transl. by Alastair Reid
The great solitude of bells tolling - Pablo Neruda "Goodbyes" transl. by Alastair Reid
By the great winds of the sky - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The hour of great solitude - Pablo Neruda "The Stones and the Birds" transl. by Dennis Maloney
While the great rain of July falls - Pablo Neruda "Superstitions" transl. by Alastair Reid
The firelit glow of a great hearth's gleam and glare - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "[Where do we fly, under deep dark sky?]"
So dares affront the great god Pan - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Between the good earth and the great sea - Margaret Noodin "Cream City/Doodooshabo'enaande Oodena " transl. by the author
Washed by a water greater than the world - Alfred Noyes "Goethe I: The Discoverer"
The great rhythm of law - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"
In the great, black packet of time - Mary Oliver "The Orchard"
Hold us in the great hands of light - Mary Oliver "Why I Wake Early"
In the sky's great shroud of light - Ekhmetjan Osman "My Love" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
The great cedar's benedictory grace - John Oxenham "A Little Te Deum of the Commonplace"
Though great Urania guide her flight - Conde Benoist Pallen "Maria Immaculata"
Deserter from the great autumn army - Linda Pastan "Repetitions: After Van Gogh: 1. Yellow"
Only the greatest souls can speak - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
Too great to tarry questioning - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
How the great thorn trees wept - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
My great morning of wrath - Kiki Petrosino "Purgatorio"
The great equity of darkness - Emily Pittinos "A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down"
The great betrayals are impersonal - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
Gathered great heaps of fraying asbestos - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Workshop on the avenue of greater dreaming - Tim Pratt "Mask"
A great white bird on sunlit wing - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Sunday in Liguria"
The great sorrow of brightness - Jeremy Radin "Evening"
A gnat in the air of greatness - Charles Rafferty "Mal Evans Counting"
The deep's great harmonies - Theodore H. Rand "Of Beauty"
Greet the great wide savannahs - Diane Raptosh "American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument"
The paths great Homer trod - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "The Venus of Milo"
Found great solace at that song - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"
A great ship that steered into the stars - Cale Young Rice "All's Well"
Great spears folding into letters - Adrienne Rich "Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot"
Great dawns of inner mornings - Mark Rich "To Sleep"
That great flame upon the scrolls - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Wings great enough to sustain our victories - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
Majestic discords greater than harmonies - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Like a great spurious diamond - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Crouching like a great cat - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Hear the stars as a great roar - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"
Something greater from the distance - Alberto Rios "When Giving Is All We Have"
Swing the doors to the four great winds - Lloyd Roberts "There's Music in My Heart To-day"
When heaven's great scroll is spread before us - Fayette Robinson "Supplication.--Two Sonnets" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
All things blend in the world's great harmony - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
Coincidence is the great mystery of the human mind - Sahar Romani "Sign"
Joined to the great sunk silences - Isaac Rosenberg "Dead Man's Dump"
Beneath one great canopy - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse
In the ray of one great sun - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse
A word of rescue from the great eyes - Muriel Rukeyser "The Poem as Mask"
Your great way of forgetting - Carl Sandburg "Graves"
The great nail holding a skyscraper - Carl Sandburg "Prayers of Steel"
In the great west's golden urn - Clinton Scollard "Nightfall in Sligo"
The four great winds rejoice - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Rover"
Pass great worlds of silent stone - Frederick George Scott "My Lattice"
You have held the throne of the Great Unknown - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
Laid great bases for eternity - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXV"
The wide hallways of a great endowment - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"
The great fruits of my failure - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"
The great suns burn into whitest ash - Virna Sheard "The Cry"
Shivering like a great grey bull - Taras Shevchenko "Hamaleia" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
With ox-teams great in the fall - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Beneath a greater shadow's wings - Clark Ashton Smith "The Eldritch Dark"
The sun's great warship - A.E. Stallings "On Visiting a Borrowed Country House in Arcadia"
The great weightings of the end - Wallace Stevens "Madame la Fleurie"
Great Achilles crumbling on his pyre - Phillips Stewart "De Profundis"
As greatest kings might die to gain - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Blacker the great crag's scowl - Alfred B. Street "The Devil's Pulpit: Tupper's Lake"
Creates one great impassable division twixt us and our desire - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"
Of foes who lift great mountains - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 107: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Great as mortal eye and brain encompass - Carmen Sylva "A Dream"
In hearts that are too great for hope - Carmen Sylva "Out of the Deep"
The Great Potter works no private favors - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
Waves in the great process of change - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
In the great rain of moonlight - Sara Teasdale "Places II: Full Moon (Santa Barbara)"
Asked for something greater - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"
Great ruins of an unremembered past - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Great wonders clothed with glory - Thomas Traherne "Wonder"
The great sweep of threatening harmony - Richard Chenevix Trench "To a Lady Singing"
Great waves churn and leap - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Viewing the Ocean" transl. by Burton Watson
Floated soundless in the great gulf of space - W.J. Turner "Death"
Walked in a great golden dream - Walter J. Turner "Romance"
A thing too great for tears - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
Protocols of great discretion - John Updike "Transparent Strategems"
Covering Beowulf's greatest hits on your tin kazoo - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
A great bear tracking across the endless sky - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Starry Night"
Drunk with the great human battle of wills - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Life" transl. by Alma Strettell
Each great nocturnal planet steadfast - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Allow me this great sorrow - Asiya Wadud "Syncope"
Great Agamemnon lifts his hand - J. Wareham "The Trojan War, 1915" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
You asked, I think, too great a sacrifice - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"
With life's great venture, in an ark of clay - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"
Grey on the great wall of Thought - Helen Hay Whitney "Age"
Have burned to their last great glow - Helen Hay Whitney "In Autumn"
Great in loneliness of grey despair - Helen Hay Whitney "Little Sad Face"
Have known great gold Sorrows - Margaret Widdemer "The Jester"
The great divide of falsehood, hunger and last year - John Wieners "In Public"
Great mother of eternal sleep - Oscar Wilde "The Grave of Shelley"
Great gold cross shining in the wind - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"
The corner of a great rain - William Carlos Williams "Contemporania"
In the zenith of his great renown - Joseph R. Wilson "An Actor's Epitaph"
A part of greater beauties than inform your heart - Humbert Wolfe "Cambridge"
For this Priam's great city of Troy was sacrificed - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"
At the great fork on the untouchable road - Charles Wright "Little Ending"
By that great glory driven wild - W.B. Yeats "From the "Antigone'"
Great kings of the sky - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer "Cousins of Clouds"
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