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The promise caught from eastern skies - Medora C. Addison "The Days to Come"

Increased by kings and tetrarchs of the East - J.S.B. "Caesar" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXII, v.LXII, Aug. 1847]

Cat's whiskers to the east - Mary Jo Bang "In the Quieter Aftermath"

Gems of the East her mural crown adorn - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

To the East or the West I will follow - Thomas Boyd "Love on the Mountain"

To greet the purpling east - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"

An eastern star set like a pearl atop a steeple - Nicholas Christopher "Lake Como"

He takes your window for the East - Sir William Davenant "The Lark Now Leaves His Watery Nest"

The east afraid to trust the morn - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XXIV"

Purple could not keep the east - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature IV: Day's Parlor"

From the east unto the east again - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature L: The Snow"

Strike eastward on the narrow road - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull

With the proud monarchs of our eastern heights - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"

Caught like the hunter of the east - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"

From east to west, chased by one wild grey cloud - John Freeman "The Wakers"

And fly at your bidding to East and to West - Rose Fyleman "The Fairy Lover"

All the red of east and west - Zona Gale "A Meeting"

Blows lilacs out of the east - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"

Leaving again for points north and east - Mark Jarman "The Supremes"

Grow old to face east - Fady Joudah "Canopus"

From the bright eastern door - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"

The house of day is closing its eastern shutters - D.H. Lawrence "At the Window"

The last step out of the east - D.H. Lawrence "The Red Wolf"

Whose waters divide to flow half east, half west - Li Po "We Will Grow Old Together" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Fret the east with lines of fire - J.W. Mackail "On the Death of Arnold Toynbee"

When the door of the East unbars - Edwin Markham "Fay Song"

In the east a diseased cloud - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Deaf Old Man"

While the grave East deepens - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Comes dancing from the East - John Milton "Song on May Morning"

And the heart of the east for the day is yearning - Harriet Monroe "Hope"

Life and death alike come out of the East - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"

Where red saltwater waves carry calcium east then west - Margaret Noodin "Bones" transl. by the author

In a fortnight would set East and West in a flame - "A Peep into the Whig Penny Post-Bag" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]

Know nothing of east or west or love - Carl Phillips "Refrain"

The evidence of red-eye flights east - Ed Roberson "Here"

Hurled on heedless eastern coasts - Frederick George Scott "Columbus"

As eastward woke a thorny star - George Sterling "White Magic"

Chrysanthemums by the eastern hedge - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Drinking Wine 5" transl. by Burton Watson

Trees in the eastern garden - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Motionless Clouds" transl. by Burton Watson

With the wind of east at morning - "Tempest on the Sea" transl. by Robin Flower

East and south are black with speeding storm - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"

Through haphazard eastern mountains and beyond - Wang An-Shih "Above the Yangtze" transl. by David Hinton

East of the tangled hills - Wang An-shih "By the River" transl. by Burton Watson

Slept nights beneath my east window - Wang An-Shih "Death of My Horse" transl. by David Hinton
Narrow stones aligned to the east - John Moncure Wettarau "The Early Ones"

Who daily farther from the east must travel - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"


East Wind.


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