Potential Titles: Take/Took
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somethingdarkerCan take a retreat from horrors - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"
Moles take burrowing jaunts abroad - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"
Help the imagination to also take flight - Duane Ackerson "The Painting Speaks"
Taking back the moon for the lunatics - Duane Ackerson "Taking Back the Moon"
Maybe they have merely taken unreasonable risks - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"
Sorrow takes different names - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"
Sprout feathers and take to the air - Jose A. Alcantara "Archilocus Colubris"
A hot meal that can take us anywhere - Elizabeth Alexander "Tending"
Take the echo seriously - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"
Take the hurricane out of the wind - Julia Alvarez "Ars Politica"
Take shape beneath the grasp of Thought - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]
The grain of salt takes fire - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
Nought he takes from out the world - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXVII: The Conditions" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Take grass for granted - Fatimah Asghar "I Don't Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We've Done to the Earth"
Take these remains and plant them - Julie Babcock "Johnny Appleseed Proposes"
the waitress takes moonbeams into her mouth - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"
The aluminum morning takes on more tension - Mary Jo Bang "The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice"
A forest of fruit taking root - Mary Jo Bang "In the Book of All That's Befallen"
Waiting fate takes the form of Ariadne - Mary Jo Bang "Mask Photo"
Romance only takes us so far - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"
Days we take cover in like roadside brush - Ari Banias "Human Time"
The dusk takes with it every detail - Ari Banias "Human Time"
Volunteer wildflowers take defiant root - Rachel Barenblat "Peak"
Taking courage in a song - Lou Barrett "The Unraveling"
Nearby I take your words to water - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
Cannot take up stitches dropped - Ardelia Maria Barton "Meridian"
Have taken gold for your soul's treasury - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"
Taking old gifts and granting new - Park Benjamin "Press On"
Take my cue from the blizzard - Joshua Bennett "First Date"
On the verge of taking your last breath - Terry Blackhawk "Of Course"
We take up space in their ledgers - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."
The roads they take in journeying - Robert Blair "The Grave"
A heaven taken by storm - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "The Desolate City"
Has taken iron into his laugh - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"
Whoever takes the devil's bait - John R. Bolles "The Story of Two Bulls"
Take the pencil in its turn - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
And take the hope of dreams in trust - William Stanley Braithwaite "It's a Long Way"
We'll take a yard since you gave us an inch - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
With the color taken from their sight - Lucie Brock-Broido "Physicism"
The routes we take in the dark, trusting - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"
Left soft with room for goodness to take hold - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"
All take their calculated toll - Paul Cameron Brown "Fabulist"
Made holy in the taking - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Entitled to take in this very small star - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
And Leathe's wick tide takes that, too - CM Burroughs "I am Warm, I Know Nothing"
Takes the reeds and visitors by storm - Stephanie Burt "At the Providence Zoo"
Take possession of such a grief-blasted heart - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"
Taking an accounting of the earth below - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
Taking his high inheritance - Witter Bynner "The New World V"
Short as a breath half taken - Julie Byrne "The Singing of the Bread"
Takes from the fish-hawk his newly caught prey - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
Now confusion has taken the place of repose - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
How blood faithfully takes - Kayleb Rae Candrilli "One Geography of Belonging"
The drowsy coals a livelier sparkle take - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall
The Way is long so Bread we'll take - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Solicitude"
To take a walk inside yourself - Paul Carroll "Song [To be able to walk along and see]"
Taking forever to finish their task - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
Ungovernable angers take the waves - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene VII"
Some arbitrary judgment take - Arthur Hugh Clough "Through a Glass Darkly"
The birds of passage take their flight - C. Cole "The Robin"
Take the diamonds from my forehead - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "Ethel: Fitz Fashion's Wife" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]
the effort it takes to make sweet fruit - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"
Who take the legacy and iniquity - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Taken flight unto the deepest caves of night - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Kites"
Shifting sail to take advantage of the gale - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Yacht-Race"
Forever taking one eternal bath - Nathalia Crane "Diana"
Had taken root in the floodplain of your hands - Shutta Crum "Things Done Wrong"
Will take the sun in my mouth - ee cummings "Crepuscule"
Take the moon in your hands - H.D. "The Moon in Your Hands"
He takes your window for the East - Sir William Davenant "The Lark Now Leaves His Watery Nest"
The restless spirit take its flight - Catharine Davidson "Dreamland--a Sonnet" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 18 May 1878]
Taking & being this dust - Marissa Davis "Singularity"
Do not take a stone from my shores - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"
Taking out a next mortgage on my soul - Kwame Dawes "Alado Seanadra"
Take the far stars for fruit - Walter de la Mare "The Disguise"
Till they take this changeling creature - Walter de la Mare "Peak and Puke"
Take the far stars for fruit - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"
Even destiny takes a shortcut - Diane DeCillis "Happy-Go-Lucky"
Take meaning from all turmoil and leave serenity - Clarissa Scott Delany "Solace" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Who dreams of taking Troy alone - Carl Dennis "Help from the Audience"
Take form in ways only experts can decipher - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Taking a shift in Delphi - Kym Deyn "Wolpertinger at Thebes"
And thorns take long to rot - E.C. Dickinson "A Child's Voice"
Waiting for lightning to take over - Mark Dimaisip "Where Frequencies Talk Over" [Strange Horizons 10 Feb. 2025]
Take it and fly through never - Gregory Djanikian "Children's Hospital, Emergency Room"
Takes a leaf of live-forever - Mary Mapes Dodge "Rhymes and Jingles" (p.38)
Fire taking one bright liberty after another - Timothy Donnelly "By Night with Torch and Spear"
Shadows that I may not take into my hands again - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
But you'll have to take me, too - Rita Dove "Heart to Heart"
Cannot now take hold on joy - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"
Eager to take the riches of renown - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"
While Moonshine takes the Cash - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"
Taken Time for a husband - Carol Ann Duffy "The Long Queen"
Takes every burning kiss we give - George William Russell aka A.E. "Blindness"
The wingspan of an idea taking off - Carolina Ebeld "There Is a Devil Inside Me"
The time it takes to touch - Katherine Edgren "Deep"
Signs are taken for wonders - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
To take his post as sentinel - William Hodgson Ellis "As a Watch in the Night"
Taking the wages of a world deceived - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"
The ice takes a bite - Heid E. Erdich "How We Walk"
The bees take most of metaphor with them - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"
Hoping it would take you whole - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"
Has taken lessons from the river - Megan Fernandes "Friends with No Benefits"
Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain - "Fine Knacks for Ladies"
Take no more solace from the palm-girt wells - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
Who has taken sins and sorrows - John Gould Fletcher "The True Conqueror"
Even sleep is taken - Carolyn Forche "Curfew"
Take the thin call of bells - Katie Ford "A Spell"
Take a string to a bittern's back - Katie Ford "The Throats of Guantanamo"
As the great abstractions come to take you away - Carrie Fountain "[You Belong to the World]"
What form my dreaming was about to take - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"
When you have to go there, they have to take you in - Robert Frost "The Death of the Hired Man"
Yet backward let me take one look - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
The winds take fright and question - Zona Gale "Ballade of Listening"
Where eloquence takes either side - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Who dare to ask or take a bribe - John Gay "Fable LIX: The Jackall [sic], Leopard, and Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Take praise in solemn mood - Richard Watson Gilder "Ah, Be Not False"
The earth and sky taking turns - Louise Gluck "Cornwall"
If you can take it without breaking anything - Theodora Goss "What Her Mother Said"
Takes root where you weep - Cynthia Grady "Tree of Life"
What a curve will Hades take - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
Wings taking after the sky - Leah Naomi Green "River and Fugue"
It takes a stalwart soul to find the light - John Grey "Skywatching"
Take a lonelier road - Nikki Grimes "Crucible of Champions"
Allow his voice to take them apart - Nathalie Handal "Granada Sings Whitman"
Take my dreamless rest - Ruth Guthrie Harding "In a Forgotten Burying-Ground"
The time it takes a blackbird to understand - Joy Harjo "Desire"
Takes the hand of the moon - Joy Harjo "Heartbeat"
The lilacs have taken over - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"
No heed takes of the dial's stealth - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat X"
Everything I hold takes root - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"
Taking protective colouring from bole and bark - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"
To keep the outside from taking root - Stephanie Heit "Window Dressing"
Take off thy wings of speed - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "A Day in Spring"
Take refuge in the deep Thesaurus - Oliver Herford "The Fairy Godmother-in-Law IV: The Ball"
Griefs take shelter in the trees - Conrad Hilberry "A Dialogue Between the Body and Soul"
Take their flight on the rifting clouds - Jennie Earngey Hill "Thot"
Take heart in the pale light - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
Taking away its names - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"
The envious gods take back what they can - Jane Hirshfield "Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World"
Taking the treacherous road to Ithaka - Tony Hoagland "The Third Dimension"
'Twill take your thoughts and sink them far - A.E. Housman "Last Poems I: The West"
Take from seventy springs a score - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad II"
Taking leave at the western river - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Replying to a Poem from My Cousin Hui-lien" transl. by Burton Watson
Take the neon lights and make a crown - Langston Hughes "Juke Box Love Song"
Taken my blues and gone - Langston Hughes "Note on Commercial Theatre"
While fogs and dreams are taking flight - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
Fantastic monsters take new forms - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
We take a tumble and the cog-wheels stop - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
The news will take some time to get here - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
The pelican takes a hatchet to the water - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
What leap takes off from here towards evolution - Mark Jarman "Then Saw the Problem"
take elevators and stairs to more deserted spaces - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"
When the year takes them in the fall - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXXIII"
you take & taste my acquired time - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
take what wilts from my lips - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
Taken in by the netted branches of raspberries - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
The sterile taker's tools - Amanda Johnston "We Named You Mercy"
Be taken with false baits - Ben Jonson "To Himself"
Who takes the bite out of every bark - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"
Take imperturbable possession of his last tenement - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
Has fate taken its revenge? - Mahmud Kashgari "Alp Er Tunga" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken
Where the crazy love of a slope takes over - Janet Kauffman "Eco-Dementia"
Bid old Saturn take his throne - John Keats "Hyperion"
Have ta'en Achilles by the hair - John Keats "Hyperion"
Clumps of woodbine taking the soft wind - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
Take the new skin this place has offered - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"
Takes its time unraveling - X.J. Kennedy "The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"
Let the unexpected take shape - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Takes a sheet of moonbeam - Joyce Kilmer "In Fairyland"
Take God's gracious gift of night - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
Who take the brunt of economies - John Kinsella "'A Coda to History: 29'"
Taking home the emptiness - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"
A dance to take away hurt in memory - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
Not sure of the paths & turns taken - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"
A blizzard of petals that will take your breath - Ted Kooser "In Early April"
Taken away by the stars - Ted Kooser "Screech Owl"
Sly frosts shall take the creepers by surprise - Archibald Lampman "September"
To take just our chances in living - Lucy Larcom "The Cat's Questions" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
Each soul may take his fondest choice - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Inlet and Shore"
Take me away into a storm of snow - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Unity in Space"
Take the whisper of sulphur - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Almond-Trees"
Quicksilver taking the downward track - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
The silence waiting to take them all up again - D.H. Lawrence "Silence"
Taking flight from dismal now - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"
Chant psalms of victory till the heart takes fire - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"
Buildings that take root inside the land - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"
To take my starveling's portion and pretend - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"
Taking us deep into lotus blossoms - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson
Take my nice new wheelbarrow and fill it to the brim - F. Liley-Young "Haying Time" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Hate, a hungry animal that only takes - Ann-Margaret Lim "One Summer"
As winter takes my last dawn - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"
Take a dip inside your gene pool - Susan L. Lin "Rap(tors) EP"
Taking shape in the ashes of beauty, desire and pain - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"
Taking leave in roars of jade - Audre Lorde "Parting"
Take on the semblances of finite things - Amy Lowell "Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H."
To take December by the beard - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
To the deeps of ether takes its flight - James Russell Lowell "The Eye's Treasury"
To take away their heart of stone - Nancy Luce "No Comfort"
Let new names take and root - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "dandelion"
Takes years to grow and seconds to crash - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heartwood"
Taker of risks and riddle-maker - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"
The trail you must take on trust - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Wanderlust"
Take a rose by the throat - Anthony Madrid "Maxims 1"
If I take my time machine back to sixteen - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Blows Out Sixteen Candles"
Taking the last daylight out in a lightened dusk - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: [It creeps through like night]"
Take the same flight as a bluebird - Herbert Woodward Martin "Blue"
But does not need to take the path of thought - Harry Martinson "Aniara 13" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
And I take up the ballad of cast-iron - Harry Martinson "Aniara 27" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
On perfection's ice the very act of thinking takes a spill - Harry Martinson "Aniara 45" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Yet, one cannot take a lawsuit out on oneself - Cate Marvin "Lying My Head Off"
Who in bounty gives in wisdom takes - John Masefield "Philip the King"
If the flowers are taken into account - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
Shall take Beauty in her citadel - Theodore Maynard "Beauty II: Absolute"
Taking all the weather with them - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Fallen wire taken by the dust - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"
Takes a handful of memories from my chest - Michael McGriff "Inversion"
Taking my breath with their rare symmetry - Claude McKay "Russian Cathedral" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
An idea never taking root - Tony Medina "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"
Even the harpies have taken sides - Diane Mehta "Walking to Athena"
Taking lightning in the veins - George Meredith "The Appeasement of Demeter"
Dare take Niagara leaps - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
Takes advice from blackbirds - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"
Take comfort behind neon signs - Claire Meuschke "zero in on"
A flock of bells take flight - Alice Meynell "Chimes"
A verse of bells takes wing - Alice Meynell "Chimes"
Take the riches of the rain - Alice Meynell "The Spring to the Summer"
What the flood will take from us - Jenny Molberg "Invocation"
That takes its prey to privacy - Marianne Moore "Silence"
Letting cloud take what shapes it may - Marjorie Moorhead "Head in the Clouds"
I take up fear with my chisel - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"
Taken in the net of my music - Pablo Neruda "In My Sky at Twilight" transl. by W.S. Merwin
My father takes a different angle - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"
It takes the world's eternal wars - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"
It takes the moon and all the stars - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"
It takes the might of heaven and hell - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"
Takes something different with it every time - Naomi Shihab Nye "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change"
Where the spaces between our worlds take root - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong"
Take away from this haunted space - Brandon O'Brien "Cento for Lagahoos"
Take out the locked box of the warped evidence - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"
The secrecy our smiles take on - Frank O'Hara "Having a Coke with You"
Taking some wild passion by the throat - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Who decide to take their shadows with them - Walter Pavlich "Awareness"
Take all their mirth away with them - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Trees"
The bitterness of sorrow taken from out my heart - Florence Peacock "Lost at Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.137-v.III, 14 Aug. 1886]
The soul can take no lower flight - J.G. Percival "The Soul"
The shape that luck mostly takes - Carl Phillips "Flight of Doves"
Taking a horsewhip to a swarm of bees - Carl Phillips "On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing"
All bumps and potholes that could take out your wheel - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"
Take away your veil of stars - Ping Hsin "Multitudinous Stars" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
Takes a plunge among the luckless throng - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
Dark reproaches taking form - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson
Give him whatever he takes - Iain Haley Pollock "the smoke of the country went up"
Taking my incendiary heart - Lynn Powell "October Edge"
Take the threads of faith apart - E.J. Pratt "In Retreat"
Giver and taker of dreams - Sina Queyras "Mummy"
We take off down the same backroads - m.s. RedCherries "the end cannot be me"
These steps are the ones I have to take - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Relinquenda"
Taking from his rival fear and desire - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"
After we have taken to the sky - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"
Because you said we should take words to the world - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"
Take the temperature of the soul - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
That a light wave could take 15 years to travel through me - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"
Take the harp and tune its wail - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
Take a multitude for a partner - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 1: Flower of Silver"
Takes on a garbled majesty - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Take our worn souls Home - James Whitcombe Riley "Out of the Hitherwhere"
Takes the sorrow of the threefold hour - Madeleine Caron Rock "He Is the Lonely Greatness"
Nothing whole to take away - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Take some echo of my vanished voice - Alice Wellington Rollins "There Will Be Silence Here, Love"
Forgetting takes space - Kay Ryan "Forgetting"
Take off their caps and breathe their tears into them - Tomaž Šalamun "Young Cops"
the kind of applause it takes to live - C.T. Salazar "River"
Laid on bones taken from the ribs of the earth - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"
Take your fill of intimate remorse, perfume sorrow - Carl Sandburg "The Right to Grief"
Has taken your lips for its wisdom - Reg Saner "What Wilderness Tells You"
Takes from darkness and cold their undivided victories - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
I'll take whatever prize sage Clotho gives - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
The highway takes them young - Ann K. Schwader "Goodnight Aileen"
Take the torch and go wandering - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Can take no bitter leaving - Robert W. Service "The Lure of Little Voices"
Taken to mean a warning - Prageeta Sharma "My Poem for My Stepdaughter"
Reimagining can take place at the root of time - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"
Take her cordial for your cares - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "May Morning"
Echo hath taken the song - Clark Ashton Smith "Requiescat"
Take grace where we find it - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"
Stealing fire means taking sides - Richard Solomon "Possession III: Ball"
Make one song and Heaven takes it - Anne Spencer "Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Takes a twisted mind, a puzzled art - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"
Or take the curse from off thy soul - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"
Take you away when the sun goes down - James Stephens "The Appointment"
Thou takest to thee strange wine - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Take their symbol from the light - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
For now his soul has taken iron - George Sterling "Henri"
Taken in the toils of Sleep - George Sterling "The Music of Sleep"
Whose roots take hold on Hell - George Sterling "The Night of Man"
Takes the golden spendthrift's trail - Muriel Stuart "The Thief of Beauty"
Where the soul's delight takes fire - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Takes sunlight from the world - Genevieve Taggard "The Vast Hour"
Your pulse has taken body - Genevieve Taggard "With Child"
Take up the mantle but beware the war - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
Taking dynamite to it's foundation - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry" [sic]
Don't take faucets for fountainheads - Dorothea Tanning "All Hallow's Eve"
Dawn had taken in the stars - Sara Teasdale "Morning Song"
To take earth's wonder - Sara Teasdale "Spring Night"
They take the sky with them - Matthew Thorburn "Birds before Winter"
And takes the golden glory from the day - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: VII"
The shape the song takes - Z.G. Tomaszewski "The Soul"
To take all water from the streams - Jean Toomer "November Cotton Flower" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Take my conscience out for waffles - Kristen Tracy "Urban Animals"
Into the shadows I had taken me - Paul Tran "Eros"
Could stop time by taking apart the clock - Paul Tran "Galileo"
A sail that wind takes wantonly - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"
Take what we need of light - Natasha Trethewey "Gathering"
Taking whatever his hands will give - Natasha Trethewey "His Hands"
There all cold creatures can take shelter - Tu Fu "The Wind-Torn Roof" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The pleasure I take in loneliness - Chase Twichell "Inland"
The dusk takes refuge in the steady rain - Chase Twichell "Stirred Up By Rain"
Taken by hungry earth - John Updike "Lunar Eclipse"
Looking back and taking out of context - Aldrin Regina Valdez "January"
But take another's accusations to his heart - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"
Thither now I take my flight - Henry van Dyke "The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet"
That in my heart has taken root - Francois Villon "Arbor Amoris" transl. by Andrew Lang
Not everything's out to take - Avni Vyas "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"
Wherever our beguiled whims take us - Wang An-Shih "Flourish Time-worn and I Wander Beguiled and Never Meet" transl. by David Hinton
Age takes the form of mountains - Wang An-Shih "Wandering Bell Mountain" transl. by David Hinton
Take the palace escalator heavenward - Jackie Wang "Life is a Place Where it's Forbidden to Live"
When the sun takes a final bow - Lauren K. Watel "The Last Act"
Take for a change a narrower range - Arthur Waugh "An Explanation"
We take our roots and country sweets - Mary Webb "Market Day"
Flow and knuckle taken by poured bronze - John Moncure Wettarau "The Sculptor's Trade"
The stuff Hope takes to build her brittle boat - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"
And take your fingers from the monster's teeth - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"
Wild carrot taking the field by force - William Carlos Williams "Queen-Ann's-Lace"
The time it takes to materialize - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Disappointment"
A green eye taking in the storm - Elizabeth Willis "Ephemeral Stream"
Time takes almost everything away - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
We feast on all you take for granted - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"
To take half the storm - Humbert Wolfe "Sometimes When I Think of Love"
For which we've no takes to pay - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"
Whate'er the sense take or may refuse - William Wordsworth "Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes"
Some memory that had taken flight - William Wordsworth "To a Daisy"
Some futures take root - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"
Truth and fiction taking turns - Jenny Xie "Square Cells"
I've taken to this mind fasting - Jenny Xie "To Be a Good Buddhist Is Ensnarement"
Take this error from your hearts - "XVI" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Would take word form from excited electrons - Dean Young "Bird-Shaped Cliff"
The day taking on the sheen of a stone - Dean Young "Speech Therapy" [Poetry Oct. 2010]
Taking a test and running out of time - Dean Young "Spring Reign"
Take a left into the wrong skin - Kevin Young "Nightstick [A Mural for Michael Brown]"
Takes breath in pairs - Josephine Yu "Passages from the Travel Diary of Noah's Wife"
To the banquet of bones will betake him - ascribed to St Cellach of Killala "Hymn to the Dawn" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Breathtaking presumption - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Breathtaking vistas of bodily hell - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"
His music of earth's caretaking - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"
Heavy sweetness proves its own caretaker - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
Their estimating, census-taking eyes - Seamus Heaney "Freedman"
Bitter outtakes from tar - Maxe Crandall "Sappho for Everybody"
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Undertake/Undertake.
A hawk that took possession of this electric creature - Duane Ackerson "Raven Rules"
Stone touched by her fingertips took flight - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Even when the Bolsheviks took his home - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Took solace from those locust trees - Julia Alvarez "Locust"
Took all my careless curiosity to climb - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"
Took half a mile of sunlight - Martin Armstrong "The Buzzards"
Of how the young world took to sin - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [A hundred years ago the church bells spoke]"
Took their shadows and went - Mary Jo Bang "Eclipsed"
Took no favor from the hands of Time - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
In silent night when rest I took - Anne Bradstreet "Verses upon the Burning of our House"
The early winds took up the words - Jonathan Henderson Brooks "The Resurrection" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Tenderly took each his treasure - Wilhelm Busch "Plish and Plum" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks
Took a ghost to bed - Leonard Cohen "The Rebellion"
Now took advantage of the hour - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"
My hands keep the gold they took - H.D. "Evadne"
A warning sign that I took as ecstasy - Michelle Dang "Calculating U"
Rise up out of the stone you took - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"
Where trees unshattered took the wind - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
Took no pressure of decay - Eric Dickinson "The Garden"
Took it only for a jest - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Left us splinters we took as choice - Dom "Number Cruncher: Scaling the Ladder"
Oblivion took the heart and eye - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel III: The Castle"
Took the narrow stair as wondering - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"
Took the long broom of Memory - Helen Parry Eden "The Confessional"
Took a few herbs and apples - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Days"
Took up his trail along the dark - Donald Evans "In the Vices"
The cloud-host, vanquished, took to flight - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
All the sweet in the world she took as her right - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Spoiled Darling"
Leave us so to the way we took - Robert Frost "In Neglect"
While every wicked little cat its own diversion took - "Fun for Kittens" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
The moon took silvery aim - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
As if looking took time - Forrest Gander "Pastoral"
He took his province from the fox - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Array me in the spoils I took - W.H.C.H. "Death of Rob Roy" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
The unmapped seas took tribute - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
Like it took applause apart - Bob Hicok "More than whispers, less than rumors"
The days we took to dream - Leslie Pinckney Hill "Vacation End"
The woods took them back - Jane Hirshfield "Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight"
Took the night with me - Omotara James "Half Girl, Then Elegy"
The calm took two weeks to notice - Janet Kauffman "Abandoned"
Took her praise for a wreath of bay - Joyce Kilmer "Alchemy"
Double dares took root in night soil - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Took millennia to reach completion - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"
Took seriously our allegiance to dreams - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"
Took her down our twisted stair - Emily Lawless "The Third Trumpet: a Ballad of Meath, May 1, 1654"
Flowers that the hot wind took - D.H. Lawrence "The Wild Common"
The black stones took on flame - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"
Took my soul to light a shrine - Archibald MacLeish "Charity"
Through a deranged and poisoned land took flight - Harry Martinson "Aniara 79" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Took my strength by minutes - Edgar Lee Masters "Fletcher McGee"
Took a somewhat smaller price - Henry S. Leigh "Etiquette"
Joy took me up to the clouds for a holiday - Henry S. Leigh "See-Saw"
Took them through seven small seas to a great ocean - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
War took our prayers - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
Took the path of needles - Mary McMyne "The Mother Searches for Her Own Story"
Skylight took her in - Diane Mehta "Plum Cake"
The roof took flight long ago - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
Ten thousand cannon took up the song - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"
Took into body my own self - Yesenia Montilla "a brief meditation on breath"
When grief took to the roads - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
Exhaustion took over my will - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"
Took nothing with it except faith - Mary Oliver "Black Swallowtail"
No one took a cat nap in the shadows - Andre F. Peltier "Christ at the Comedy Store"
Took to thraldom through the devil's lore - Sir Thomas Phillipps "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" (transl. by Samuel Weller Singer)
And took a tormentor by the throat - D.A. Powell "Rewilding"
Took gladly the second chain - D.A. Powell "To Last"
That took the light like ivory - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
And we took no count of the hours - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
I took a picture of myself but I did not appear - Margaret Ross "Saturday"
Took up her dwelling in that house of clay - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
Before their needles took us - Ann K. Schwader "Cave Bear Dreams"
The lens by which he took the heavens - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
And all his mind took fire - George Sterling "A Character"
Took an ocean for its harp - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Took the wind and let it go - Sara Teasdale "Places III: Winter Sun (Lenox)"
Of all hell's hosts he took the lead - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"
The full story that Eve took from the tree - Marina Tsvetayeva "Poem of the End" transl. by Elaine Feinstein and Angela Livingstone
One took a slate to cipher - "Two Little Girls" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Khrushchev took a crystal submarine down - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Took a betrayal under its wing - Rudolph Valentino "The Carrier (To J.K.)"
Took the final arms of fate - Henry van Dyke "From Glory Unto Glory"
Took it back into my heart - John Hall Wheelock "The Buried Dream"
And hostage from the future took - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
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Moles take burrowing jaunts abroad - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"
Help the imagination to also take flight - Duane Ackerson "The Painting Speaks"
Taking back the moon for the lunatics - Duane Ackerson "Taking Back the Moon"
Maybe they have merely taken unreasonable risks - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"
Sorrow takes different names - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"
Sprout feathers and take to the air - Jose A. Alcantara "Archilocus Colubris"
A hot meal that can take us anywhere - Elizabeth Alexander "Tending"
Take the echo seriously - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"
Take the hurricane out of the wind - Julia Alvarez "Ars Politica"
Take shape beneath the grasp of Thought - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]
The grain of salt takes fire - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
Nought he takes from out the world - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXVII: The Conditions" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Take grass for granted - Fatimah Asghar "I Don't Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We've Done to the Earth"
Take these remains and plant them - Julie Babcock "Johnny Appleseed Proposes"
the waitress takes moonbeams into her mouth - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"
The aluminum morning takes on more tension - Mary Jo Bang "The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice"
A forest of fruit taking root - Mary Jo Bang "In the Book of All That's Befallen"
Waiting fate takes the form of Ariadne - Mary Jo Bang "Mask Photo"
Romance only takes us so far - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"
Days we take cover in like roadside brush - Ari Banias "Human Time"
The dusk takes with it every detail - Ari Banias "Human Time"
Volunteer wildflowers take defiant root - Rachel Barenblat "Peak"
Taking courage in a song - Lou Barrett "The Unraveling"
Nearby I take your words to water - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
Cannot take up stitches dropped - Ardelia Maria Barton "Meridian"
Have taken gold for your soul's treasury - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"
Taking old gifts and granting new - Park Benjamin "Press On"
Take my cue from the blizzard - Joshua Bennett "First Date"
On the verge of taking your last breath - Terry Blackhawk "Of Course"
We take up space in their ledgers - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."
The roads they take in journeying - Robert Blair "The Grave"
A heaven taken by storm - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "The Desolate City"
Has taken iron into his laugh - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"
Whoever takes the devil's bait - John R. Bolles "The Story of Two Bulls"
Take the pencil in its turn - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
And take the hope of dreams in trust - William Stanley Braithwaite "It's a Long Way"
We'll take a yard since you gave us an inch - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
With the color taken from their sight - Lucie Brock-Broido "Physicism"
The routes we take in the dark, trusting - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"
Left soft with room for goodness to take hold - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"
All take their calculated toll - Paul Cameron Brown "Fabulist"
Made holy in the taking - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Entitled to take in this very small star - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
And Leathe's wick tide takes that, too - CM Burroughs "I am Warm, I Know Nothing"
Takes the reeds and visitors by storm - Stephanie Burt "At the Providence Zoo"
Take possession of such a grief-blasted heart - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"
Taking an accounting of the earth below - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
Taking his high inheritance - Witter Bynner "The New World V"
Short as a breath half taken - Julie Byrne "The Singing of the Bread"
Takes from the fish-hawk his newly caught prey - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
Now confusion has taken the place of repose - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
How blood faithfully takes - Kayleb Rae Candrilli "One Geography of Belonging"
The drowsy coals a livelier sparkle take - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall
The Way is long so Bread we'll take - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Solicitude"
To take a walk inside yourself - Paul Carroll "Song [To be able to walk along and see]"
Taking forever to finish their task - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
Ungovernable angers take the waves - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene VII"
Some arbitrary judgment take - Arthur Hugh Clough "Through a Glass Darkly"
The birds of passage take their flight - C. Cole "The Robin"
Take the diamonds from my forehead - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "Ethel: Fitz Fashion's Wife" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]
the effort it takes to make sweet fruit - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"
Who take the legacy and iniquity - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Taken flight unto the deepest caves of night - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Kites"
Shifting sail to take advantage of the gale - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Yacht-Race"
Forever taking one eternal bath - Nathalia Crane "Diana"
Had taken root in the floodplain of your hands - Shutta Crum "Things Done Wrong"
Will take the sun in my mouth - ee cummings "Crepuscule"
Take the moon in your hands - H.D. "The Moon in Your Hands"
He takes your window for the East - Sir William Davenant "The Lark Now Leaves His Watery Nest"
The restless spirit take its flight - Catharine Davidson "Dreamland--a Sonnet" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 18 May 1878]
Taking & being this dust - Marissa Davis "Singularity"
Do not take a stone from my shores - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"
Taking out a next mortgage on my soul - Kwame Dawes "Alado Seanadra"
Take the far stars for fruit - Walter de la Mare "The Disguise"
Till they take this changeling creature - Walter de la Mare "Peak and Puke"
Take the far stars for fruit - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"
Even destiny takes a shortcut - Diane DeCillis "Happy-Go-Lucky"
Take meaning from all turmoil and leave serenity - Clarissa Scott Delany "Solace" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Who dreams of taking Troy alone - Carl Dennis "Help from the Audience"
Take form in ways only experts can decipher - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Taking a shift in Delphi - Kym Deyn "Wolpertinger at Thebes"
And thorns take long to rot - E.C. Dickinson "A Child's Voice"
Waiting for lightning to take over - Mark Dimaisip "Where Frequencies Talk Over" [Strange Horizons 10 Feb. 2025]
Take it and fly through never - Gregory Djanikian "Children's Hospital, Emergency Room"
Takes a leaf of live-forever - Mary Mapes Dodge "Rhymes and Jingles" (p.38)
Fire taking one bright liberty after another - Timothy Donnelly "By Night with Torch and Spear"
Shadows that I may not take into my hands again - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
But you'll have to take me, too - Rita Dove "Heart to Heart"
Cannot now take hold on joy - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"
Eager to take the riches of renown - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"
While Moonshine takes the Cash - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"
Taken Time for a husband - Carol Ann Duffy "The Long Queen"
Takes every burning kiss we give - George William Russell aka A.E. "Blindness"
The wingspan of an idea taking off - Carolina Ebeld "There Is a Devil Inside Me"
The time it takes to touch - Katherine Edgren "Deep"
Signs are taken for wonders - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
To take his post as sentinel - William Hodgson Ellis "As a Watch in the Night"
Taking the wages of a world deceived - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"
The ice takes a bite - Heid E. Erdich "How We Walk"
The bees take most of metaphor with them - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"
Hoping it would take you whole - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"
Has taken lessons from the river - Megan Fernandes "Friends with No Benefits"
Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain - "Fine Knacks for Ladies"
Take no more solace from the palm-girt wells - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
Who has taken sins and sorrows - John Gould Fletcher "The True Conqueror"
Even sleep is taken - Carolyn Forche "Curfew"
Take the thin call of bells - Katie Ford "A Spell"
Take a string to a bittern's back - Katie Ford "The Throats of Guantanamo"
As the great abstractions come to take you away - Carrie Fountain "[You Belong to the World]"
What form my dreaming was about to take - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"
When you have to go there, they have to take you in - Robert Frost "The Death of the Hired Man"
Yet backward let me take one look - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
The winds take fright and question - Zona Gale "Ballade of Listening"
Where eloquence takes either side - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Who dare to ask or take a bribe - John Gay "Fable LIX: The Jackall [sic], Leopard, and Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Take praise in solemn mood - Richard Watson Gilder "Ah, Be Not False"
The earth and sky taking turns - Louise Gluck "Cornwall"
If you can take it without breaking anything - Theodora Goss "What Her Mother Said"
Takes root where you weep - Cynthia Grady "Tree of Life"
What a curve will Hades take - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
Wings taking after the sky - Leah Naomi Green "River and Fugue"
It takes a stalwart soul to find the light - John Grey "Skywatching"
Take a lonelier road - Nikki Grimes "Crucible of Champions"
Allow his voice to take them apart - Nathalie Handal "Granada Sings Whitman"
Take my dreamless rest - Ruth Guthrie Harding "In a Forgotten Burying-Ground"
The time it takes a blackbird to understand - Joy Harjo "Desire"
Takes the hand of the moon - Joy Harjo "Heartbeat"
The lilacs have taken over - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"
No heed takes of the dial's stealth - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat X"
Everything I hold takes root - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"
Taking protective colouring from bole and bark - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"
To keep the outside from taking root - Stephanie Heit "Window Dressing"
Take off thy wings of speed - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "A Day in Spring"
Take refuge in the deep Thesaurus - Oliver Herford "The Fairy Godmother-in-Law IV: The Ball"
Griefs take shelter in the trees - Conrad Hilberry "A Dialogue Between the Body and Soul"
Take their flight on the rifting clouds - Jennie Earngey Hill "Thot"
Take heart in the pale light - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
Taking away its names - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"
The envious gods take back what they can - Jane Hirshfield "Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World"
Taking the treacherous road to Ithaka - Tony Hoagland "The Third Dimension"
'Twill take your thoughts and sink them far - A.E. Housman "Last Poems I: The West"
Take from seventy springs a score - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad II"
Taking leave at the western river - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Replying to a Poem from My Cousin Hui-lien" transl. by Burton Watson
Take the neon lights and make a crown - Langston Hughes "Juke Box Love Song"
Taken my blues and gone - Langston Hughes "Note on Commercial Theatre"
While fogs and dreams are taking flight - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
Fantastic monsters take new forms - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
We take a tumble and the cog-wheels stop - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
The news will take some time to get here - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
The pelican takes a hatchet to the water - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
What leap takes off from here towards evolution - Mark Jarman "Then Saw the Problem"
take elevators and stairs to more deserted spaces - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"
When the year takes them in the fall - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXXIII"
you take & taste my acquired time - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
take what wilts from my lips - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
Taken in by the netted branches of raspberries - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
The sterile taker's tools - Amanda Johnston "We Named You Mercy"
Be taken with false baits - Ben Jonson "To Himself"
Who takes the bite out of every bark - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"
Take imperturbable possession of his last tenement - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
Has fate taken its revenge? - Mahmud Kashgari "Alp Er Tunga" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken
Where the crazy love of a slope takes over - Janet Kauffman "Eco-Dementia"
Bid old Saturn take his throne - John Keats "Hyperion"
Have ta'en Achilles by the hair - John Keats "Hyperion"
Clumps of woodbine taking the soft wind - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
Take the new skin this place has offered - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"
Takes its time unraveling - X.J. Kennedy "The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"
Let the unexpected take shape - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Takes a sheet of moonbeam - Joyce Kilmer "In Fairyland"
Take God's gracious gift of night - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"
Who take the brunt of economies - John Kinsella "'A Coda to History: 29'"
Taking home the emptiness - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"
A dance to take away hurt in memory - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
Not sure of the paths & turns taken - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"
A blizzard of petals that will take your breath - Ted Kooser "In Early April"
Taken away by the stars - Ted Kooser "Screech Owl"
Sly frosts shall take the creepers by surprise - Archibald Lampman "September"
To take just our chances in living - Lucy Larcom "The Cat's Questions" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
Each soul may take his fondest choice - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Inlet and Shore"
Take me away into a storm of snow - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Unity in Space"
Take the whisper of sulphur - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Almond-Trees"
Quicksilver taking the downward track - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
The silence waiting to take them all up again - D.H. Lawrence "Silence"
Taking flight from dismal now - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"
Chant psalms of victory till the heart takes fire - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"
Buildings that take root inside the land - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"
To take my starveling's portion and pretend - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"
Taking us deep into lotus blossoms - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson
Take my nice new wheelbarrow and fill it to the brim - F. Liley-Young "Haying Time" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Hate, a hungry animal that only takes - Ann-Margaret Lim "One Summer"
As winter takes my last dawn - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"
Take a dip inside your gene pool - Susan L. Lin "Rap(tors) EP"
Taking shape in the ashes of beauty, desire and pain - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"
Taking leave in roars of jade - Audre Lorde "Parting"
Take on the semblances of finite things - Amy Lowell "Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H."
To take December by the beard - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
To the deeps of ether takes its flight - James Russell Lowell "The Eye's Treasury"
To take away their heart of stone - Nancy Luce "No Comfort"
Let new names take and root - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "dandelion"
Takes years to grow and seconds to crash - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heartwood"
Taker of risks and riddle-maker - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"
The trail you must take on trust - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Wanderlust"
Take a rose by the throat - Anthony Madrid "Maxims 1"
If I take my time machine back to sixteen - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Blows Out Sixteen Candles"
Taking the last daylight out in a lightened dusk - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: [It creeps through like night]"
Take the same flight as a bluebird - Herbert Woodward Martin "Blue"
But does not need to take the path of thought - Harry Martinson "Aniara 13" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
And I take up the ballad of cast-iron - Harry Martinson "Aniara 27" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
On perfection's ice the very act of thinking takes a spill - Harry Martinson "Aniara 45" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Yet, one cannot take a lawsuit out on oneself - Cate Marvin "Lying My Head Off"
Who in bounty gives in wisdom takes - John Masefield "Philip the King"
If the flowers are taken into account - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
Shall take Beauty in her citadel - Theodore Maynard "Beauty II: Absolute"
Taking all the weather with them - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Fallen wire taken by the dust - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"
Takes a handful of memories from my chest - Michael McGriff "Inversion"
Taking my breath with their rare symmetry - Claude McKay "Russian Cathedral" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
An idea never taking root - Tony Medina "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"
Even the harpies have taken sides - Diane Mehta "Walking to Athena"
Taking lightning in the veins - George Meredith "The Appeasement of Demeter"
Dare take Niagara leaps - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
Takes advice from blackbirds - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"
Take comfort behind neon signs - Claire Meuschke "zero in on"
A flock of bells take flight - Alice Meynell "Chimes"
A verse of bells takes wing - Alice Meynell "Chimes"
Take the riches of the rain - Alice Meynell "The Spring to the Summer"
What the flood will take from us - Jenny Molberg "Invocation"
That takes its prey to privacy - Marianne Moore "Silence"
Letting cloud take what shapes it may - Marjorie Moorhead "Head in the Clouds"
I take up fear with my chisel - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"
Taken in the net of my music - Pablo Neruda "In My Sky at Twilight" transl. by W.S. Merwin
My father takes a different angle - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"
It takes the world's eternal wars - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"
It takes the moon and all the stars - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"
It takes the might of heaven and hell - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"
Takes something different with it every time - Naomi Shihab Nye "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change"
Where the spaces between our worlds take root - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong"
Take away from this haunted space - Brandon O'Brien "Cento for Lagahoos"
Take out the locked box of the warped evidence - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"
The secrecy our smiles take on - Frank O'Hara "Having a Coke with You"
Taking some wild passion by the throat - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Who decide to take their shadows with them - Walter Pavlich "Awareness"
Take all their mirth away with them - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Trees"
The bitterness of sorrow taken from out my heart - Florence Peacock "Lost at Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.137-v.III, 14 Aug. 1886]
The soul can take no lower flight - J.G. Percival "The Soul"
The shape that luck mostly takes - Carl Phillips "Flight of Doves"
Taking a horsewhip to a swarm of bees - Carl Phillips "On Being Asked to Be More Specific When It Comes to Longing"
All bumps and potholes that could take out your wheel - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"
Take away your veil of stars - Ping Hsin "Multitudinous Stars" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung
Takes a plunge among the luckless throng - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
Dark reproaches taking form - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson
Give him whatever he takes - Iain Haley Pollock "the smoke of the country went up"
Taking my incendiary heart - Lynn Powell "October Edge"
Take the threads of faith apart - E.J. Pratt "In Retreat"
Giver and taker of dreams - Sina Queyras "Mummy"
We take off down the same backroads - m.s. RedCherries "the end cannot be me"
These steps are the ones I have to take - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Relinquenda"
Taking from his rival fear and desire - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"
After we have taken to the sky - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"
Because you said we should take words to the world - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"
Take the temperature of the soul - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
That a light wave could take 15 years to travel through me - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"
Take the harp and tune its wail - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
Take a multitude for a partner - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 1: Flower of Silver"
Takes on a garbled majesty - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Take our worn souls Home - James Whitcombe Riley "Out of the Hitherwhere"
Takes the sorrow of the threefold hour - Madeleine Caron Rock "He Is the Lonely Greatness"
Nothing whole to take away - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Take some echo of my vanished voice - Alice Wellington Rollins "There Will Be Silence Here, Love"
Forgetting takes space - Kay Ryan "Forgetting"
Take off their caps and breathe their tears into them - Tomaž Šalamun "Young Cops"
the kind of applause it takes to live - C.T. Salazar "River"
Laid on bones taken from the ribs of the earth - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"
Take your fill of intimate remorse, perfume sorrow - Carl Sandburg "The Right to Grief"
Has taken your lips for its wisdom - Reg Saner "What Wilderness Tells You"
Takes from darkness and cold their undivided victories - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
I'll take whatever prize sage Clotho gives - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
The highway takes them young - Ann K. Schwader "Goodnight Aileen"
Take the torch and go wandering - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Can take no bitter leaving - Robert W. Service "The Lure of Little Voices"
Taken to mean a warning - Prageeta Sharma "My Poem for My Stepdaughter"
Reimagining can take place at the root of time - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"
Take her cordial for your cares - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "May Morning"
Echo hath taken the song - Clark Ashton Smith "Requiescat"
Take grace where we find it - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"
Stealing fire means taking sides - Richard Solomon "Possession III: Ball"
Make one song and Heaven takes it - Anne Spencer "Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Takes a twisted mind, a puzzled art - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"
Or take the curse from off thy soul - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"
Take you away when the sun goes down - James Stephens "The Appointment"
Thou takest to thee strange wine - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"
Take their symbol from the light - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
For now his soul has taken iron - George Sterling "Henri"
Taken in the toils of Sleep - George Sterling "The Music of Sleep"
Whose roots take hold on Hell - George Sterling "The Night of Man"
Takes the golden spendthrift's trail - Muriel Stuart "The Thief of Beauty"
Where the soul's delight takes fire - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Takes sunlight from the world - Genevieve Taggard "The Vast Hour"
Your pulse has taken body - Genevieve Taggard "With Child"
Take up the mantle but beware the war - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
Taking dynamite to it's foundation - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry" [sic]
Don't take faucets for fountainheads - Dorothea Tanning "All Hallow's Eve"
Dawn had taken in the stars - Sara Teasdale "Morning Song"
To take earth's wonder - Sara Teasdale "Spring Night"
They take the sky with them - Matthew Thorburn "Birds before Winter"
And takes the golden glory from the day - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: VII"
The shape the song takes - Z.G. Tomaszewski "The Soul"
To take all water from the streams - Jean Toomer "November Cotton Flower" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Take my conscience out for waffles - Kristen Tracy "Urban Animals"
Into the shadows I had taken me - Paul Tran "Eros"
Could stop time by taking apart the clock - Paul Tran "Galileo"
A sail that wind takes wantonly - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"
Take what we need of light - Natasha Trethewey "Gathering"
Taking whatever his hands will give - Natasha Trethewey "His Hands"
There all cold creatures can take shelter - Tu Fu "The Wind-Torn Roof" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The pleasure I take in loneliness - Chase Twichell "Inland"
The dusk takes refuge in the steady rain - Chase Twichell "Stirred Up By Rain"
Taken by hungry earth - John Updike "Lunar Eclipse"
Looking back and taking out of context - Aldrin Regina Valdez "January"
But take another's accusations to his heart - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"
Thither now I take my flight - Henry van Dyke "The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet"
That in my heart has taken root - Francois Villon "Arbor Amoris" transl. by Andrew Lang
Not everything's out to take - Avni Vyas "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"
Wherever our beguiled whims take us - Wang An-Shih "Flourish Time-worn and I Wander Beguiled and Never Meet" transl. by David Hinton
Age takes the form of mountains - Wang An-Shih "Wandering Bell Mountain" transl. by David Hinton
Take the palace escalator heavenward - Jackie Wang "Life is a Place Where it's Forbidden to Live"
When the sun takes a final bow - Lauren K. Watel "The Last Act"
Take for a change a narrower range - Arthur Waugh "An Explanation"
We take our roots and country sweets - Mary Webb "Market Day"
Flow and knuckle taken by poured bronze - John Moncure Wettarau "The Sculptor's Trade"
The stuff Hope takes to build her brittle boat - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"
And take your fingers from the monster's teeth - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"
Wild carrot taking the field by force - William Carlos Williams "Queen-Ann's-Lace"
The time it takes to materialize - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Disappointment"
A green eye taking in the storm - Elizabeth Willis "Ephemeral Stream"
Time takes almost everything away - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
We feast on all you take for granted - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"
To take half the storm - Humbert Wolfe "Sometimes When I Think of Love"
For which we've no takes to pay - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"
Whate'er the sense take or may refuse - William Wordsworth "Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes"
Some memory that had taken flight - William Wordsworth "To a Daisy"
Some futures take root - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"
Truth and fiction taking turns - Jenny Xie "Square Cells"
I've taken to this mind fasting - Jenny Xie "To Be a Good Buddhist Is Ensnarement"
Take this error from your hearts - "XVI" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Would take word form from excited electrons - Dean Young "Bird-Shaped Cliff"
The day taking on the sheen of a stone - Dean Young "Speech Therapy" [Poetry Oct. 2010]
Taking a test and running out of time - Dean Young "Spring Reign"
Take a left into the wrong skin - Kevin Young "Nightstick [A Mural for Michael Brown]"
Takes breath in pairs - Josephine Yu "Passages from the Travel Diary of Noah's Wife"
To the banquet of bones will betake him - ascribed to St Cellach of Killala "Hymn to the Dawn" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Breathtaking presumption - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Breathtaking vistas of bodily hell - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"
His music of earth's caretaking - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"
Heavy sweetness proves its own caretaker - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"
Their estimating, census-taking eyes - Seamus Heaney "Freedman"
Bitter outtakes from tar - Maxe Crandall "Sappho for Everybody"
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Undertake/Undertake.
A hawk that took possession of this electric creature - Duane Ackerson "Raven Rules"
Stone touched by her fingertips took flight - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Even when the Bolsheviks took his home - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Took solace from those locust trees - Julia Alvarez "Locust"
Took all my careless curiosity to climb - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"
Took half a mile of sunlight - Martin Armstrong "The Buzzards"
Of how the young world took to sin - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [A hundred years ago the church bells spoke]"
Took their shadows and went - Mary Jo Bang "Eclipsed"
Took no favor from the hands of Time - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
In silent night when rest I took - Anne Bradstreet "Verses upon the Burning of our House"
The early winds took up the words - Jonathan Henderson Brooks "The Resurrection" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Tenderly took each his treasure - Wilhelm Busch "Plish and Plum" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks
Took a ghost to bed - Leonard Cohen "The Rebellion"
Now took advantage of the hour - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"
My hands keep the gold they took - H.D. "Evadne"
A warning sign that I took as ecstasy - Michelle Dang "Calculating U"
Rise up out of the stone you took - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"
Where trees unshattered took the wind - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
Took no pressure of decay - Eric Dickinson "The Garden"
Took it only for a jest - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Left us splinters we took as choice - Dom "Number Cruncher: Scaling the Ladder"
Oblivion took the heart and eye - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel III: The Castle"
Took the narrow stair as wondering - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"
Took the long broom of Memory - Helen Parry Eden "The Confessional"
Took a few herbs and apples - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Days"
Took up his trail along the dark - Donald Evans "In the Vices"
The cloud-host, vanquished, took to flight - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
All the sweet in the world she took as her right - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Spoiled Darling"
Leave us so to the way we took - Robert Frost "In Neglect"
While every wicked little cat its own diversion took - "Fun for Kittens" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
The moon took silvery aim - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
As if looking took time - Forrest Gander "Pastoral"
He took his province from the fox - John Gay "Fable LV: The Bear in a Boat" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Array me in the spoils I took - W.H.C.H. "Death of Rob Roy" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
The unmapped seas took tribute - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
Like it took applause apart - Bob Hicok "More than whispers, less than rumors"
The days we took to dream - Leslie Pinckney Hill "Vacation End"
The woods took them back - Jane Hirshfield "Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight"
Took the night with me - Omotara James "Half Girl, Then Elegy"
The calm took two weeks to notice - Janet Kauffman "Abandoned"
Took her praise for a wreath of bay - Joyce Kilmer "Alchemy"
Double dares took root in night soil - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Took millennia to reach completion - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"
Took seriously our allegiance to dreams - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"
Took her down our twisted stair - Emily Lawless "The Third Trumpet: a Ballad of Meath, May 1, 1654"
Flowers that the hot wind took - D.H. Lawrence "The Wild Common"
The black stones took on flame - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"
Took my soul to light a shrine - Archibald MacLeish "Charity"
Through a deranged and poisoned land took flight - Harry Martinson "Aniara 79" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Took my strength by minutes - Edgar Lee Masters "Fletcher McGee"
Took a somewhat smaller price - Henry S. Leigh "Etiquette"
Joy took me up to the clouds for a holiday - Henry S. Leigh "See-Saw"
Took them through seven small seas to a great ocean - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
War took our prayers - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
Took the path of needles - Mary McMyne "The Mother Searches for Her Own Story"
Skylight took her in - Diane Mehta "Plum Cake"
The roof took flight long ago - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
Ten thousand cannon took up the song - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"
Took into body my own self - Yesenia Montilla "a brief meditation on breath"
When grief took to the roads - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
Exhaustion took over my will - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"
Took nothing with it except faith - Mary Oliver "Black Swallowtail"
No one took a cat nap in the shadows - Andre F. Peltier "Christ at the Comedy Store"
Took to thraldom through the devil's lore - Sir Thomas Phillipps "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" (transl. by Samuel Weller Singer)
And took a tormentor by the throat - D.A. Powell "Rewilding"
Took gladly the second chain - D.A. Powell "To Last"
That took the light like ivory - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
And we took no count of the hours - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
I took a picture of myself but I did not appear - Margaret Ross "Saturday"
Took up her dwelling in that house of clay - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
Before their needles took us - Ann K. Schwader "Cave Bear Dreams"
The lens by which he took the heavens - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
And all his mind took fire - George Sterling "A Character"
Took an ocean for its harp - George Sterling "Hesperian"
Took the wind and let it go - Sara Teasdale "Places III: Winter Sun (Lenox)"
Of all hell's hosts he took the lead - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"
The full story that Eve took from the tree - Marina Tsvetayeva "Poem of the End" transl. by Elaine Feinstein and Angela Livingstone
One took a slate to cipher - "Two Little Girls" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Khrushchev took a crystal submarine down - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Took a betrayal under its wing - Rudolph Valentino "The Carrier (To J.K.)"
Took the final arms of fate - Henry van Dyke "From Glory Unto Glory"
Took it back into my heart - John Hall Wheelock "The Buried Dream"
And hostage from the future took - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
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