Potential Titles: Work
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somethingdarkerThe spell will only work if you don't choke - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"
Kaleidoscopic hints, to be worked up in farce or tragedy - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
Through the crooked working of his mind - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
Where spined and shelled imps bent to their work - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
Work and sing beneath a twisted thorn - William Allingham "The Winding Banks of Erne"
The hard work of staying alive - Julia Alvarez "Keeping Watch"
I do the wolfish work of god and make myself again - Ruth Awad "My Hair Burned Like Berenice" [Poetry Jan/Feb 2024]
Their plowing proved too much like work - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Praising them all for honest, quiet work - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"
Learn the work song of smaller creatures - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
A few centuries of honest work - Wendell Berry "Anglo-Saxon Protestant Heterosexual Men"
When those who work are idling - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"
Working in sweat and skin and bone - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
Prophecy is no light work - Antoinette Brim-Bell "Duplex: Black Mamas Praying"
Worked on the bone of a lie - R. Browning "Master Hughes of Saxe-Gotha"
Sea glass worked smooth and lovely by the sheer fact of time - Sarah Browning "Praisesong"
Whose high work remains unknown - Michelangelo Buonarroti "I. On Dante Alighieri" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Paid by work so frail as mine - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XIII. To Vittoria Colonna. Brazen Gifts for the Golden" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Works adverse to my wish - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XV. The Lover and the Sculptor" transl. by John Addington Symonds
The paragon of all their works - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXIV. The Doom of Beauty" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Each working the grindstone in turn - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"
Against the work of death - C.P. Cavafy "The Horses of Achilles" (translated by John Marvrogordato)
Indignant at this work of death - C.P. Cavafy "The Horses of Achilles" (translated by Daniel Mendelsohn)
The zigzag work of bees - Robin Chapman "The Door-to-Door Saleswoman"
Work supersedes alphabetical order - Catherine Chen "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right to Left"
Do their best work on vegan fare - May Chong "Catering"
Working with a slide rule protractor and graph paper - Nicholas Christopher "1943"
The work of Hell in all the ages - Helen Gray Cone "Soldiers of the Light"
Time nor chance shall your work untwine - Barry Cornwall "The Weaver's Song" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17, July 7, 1832]
And carried on the work with speed - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
To gaze upon their work and smile - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"
Fire only works on the brim of stone - Brody Parrish Craig "Southern Comfort"
Come along for the work is ready - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Going to Work"
Spies on Heaven's work - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
The work of frosted fruit - H.D. "Lais"
How in your works they knew your wantonness - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Most noble ladies, cherish your fair fame]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
The primal curse, working its deadly way - Delta "The Message of Seth: An Oriental Tradition" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
Their handless work of transmutation - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
A work of all good yokes - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
Half engineering, half a work of art - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
The works and sufferings of light - Chris Dombrowski "Going Home"
Phones that work in the dark - Stephen Dunn "Let's Say"
In fact anyone who'll work for pebbles - Bernadine Evaristo "Amo Amas Amat"
Worked on smaller debris first - A.M. Fals "Space in Our Relationship"
Working the strange colors of clamor and bells - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"
And their sweet work of life is done - "Flowers" [Our Little Tot's Own Book, 1912]
declare an end to the working day - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
When the wind works against us in the dark - Robert Frost "Storm Fear"
The great work of those patient things - Zona Gale "Paradise and Purgatory"
Sacrificed his son for his life's work - Carlos Andrés Gómez "Ghazal Circling Fatherhood"
The work that the years have done - James Harris Guy "Fort Arbuckle"
Working loom of ceaseless pleasure - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Work his will, and bow before his rod of iron - Oliver Herford "How the Lion Became King"
Whose works are depressing and eerie - Oliver Herford "A Little Book of Bores"
The trembling work of a spider - Jane Hirshfield "My Debt"
These words alone should work a charm - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]
Cleverly work morals by machinery - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
The apple of silver will work him a charm - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
And all their works dissolve - Robinson Jeffers "Carmel Point"
Any breath works as thread - Joe Jimenez "Broken Retablo for Being on My Back, My Feet Bare & in the Air"
Smile and work in some slight groove - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]
And Grief anticipate the work of years - 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]
Hidden in the works of a mysterious clock - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"
The wreathed trellis of a working brain - John Keats "Psyche"
to work its internalized heresies - Kaie Kellough "if who"
The perfect work of wisdom - Fanny Kemble "Lines, Written in London"
Working hard to deny the fact of bones - Christopher Kennedy "Ghost in the Land of Skeletons"
Unmoved among the ruins of the works of God - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Even gravity works at night - Amy King "You Make the Culture"
Making remarkable machines that almost worked - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Wise and Now-Departed Uncles"
If work was completed according to plan - Francis Kruckvich "A Hero and a Great Man"
My fingers working at nothing - Stephen Kuusisto "Letter to Borges from London"
A surgeon of time attending to the inner workings - Danusha Laméris "The Watch"
A slave to work in Mammon's cave - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Large schemes of undone work - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"
Artist working only with light and stone - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"
Working to dissolve its myths - danilo machado "(telling)"
Worked with rose and saffron - Dorothea Mackellar "Bazar"
The devil works overtime - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"
To ruin the great work of time - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"
An earthquake was at work at her foundations - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
All my long and weary work - Theodore Maynard "The Mystic"
Bring her silver work and spice - Theodore Maynard "The Ships"
By the dreadful work was wrought - J.H. McKenzie "The Titanic Disaster"
Worked so hard for my sorrow - Anis Mojgani "Sock Hop"
Violent winds come to work mischief - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Even after the world ends, there is work to do - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"
Working out plans with bulls - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger
To participate in the work of the hive - Pablo Neruda "Celebration" transl. by Richard Schaaf
A work room for the unknown - Pablo Neruda "Men IX" transl. by William O'Daly
The sea works in my silence - Pablo Neruda "Nothing More" transl. by Dennis Maloney
She worked the bitter charm - E. Nesbit "Death"
not wanting to work with ashes - Hoa Nguyen "Autumn Poem 2012"
That now will work me woe - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
The work of every leaf is to open in the sun - Margaret Noodin "Work" transl. by the author
The work of every root is to tunnel through the earth - Margaret Noodin "Work" transl. by the author
Her work of words no less at home than his work of creation - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"
When the work of life is done - T.S.P. "To a Little Child," [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.745, 6 April 1878]
Working upward across bone - Linda Pastan "I Am Learning to Abandon the World: for M"
His hands duplicated the work of eons - Andre F. Peltier "6: Carbon; C1" [superscript 1]
In that shadow our work is done - Adelaide Anne Proctor "A Chant"
Working to forget it - Ben Purkert "The Past Suffers Too"
The work of our hearts is dust - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"
Whose ardors work in men and tigers - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
I forget how disaster works - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"
And we must work to get our living - Sir Ronald Ross "An Expostulation with Truth Uttered by the Well Meaning Poet"
Work all that my wishing would - Richard Rowlands "Lullaby"
To work inside hearts - Kay Ryan "Why it Is Hard to Start"
The endless work of overcoming - Kay Ryan "Why it Is Hard to Start"
Working dull shears in one hand - David St. John "Iris"
By the oath of work - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"
A star chart might work better than a map - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Missing Time"
That he will work ere he pass onward - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
Bring their prize assassins to the bloody work - Robert W. Service "The Dreamer"
That with gentle work did frame - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"
Doing the scholarly work of facing the empire - Prageeta Sharma "Lateral Violence"
knows nothing of the work that sets you free - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"
Where Faction works by wrath and wrong - B. Simmons "Lines on the Landing of His Majesty King Louis Philippe, Tuesday, October 8, 1844" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
Do this patient urgent work - Tracy K. Smith "[The will to see oneself as fragile]"
Crude works to shatter out of joint - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
An atom is working in deepest night - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"
Between my work and my dreams - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
The Great Potter works no private favors - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
I still carry the weight of today's work - Keith Taylor "In the Other Life"
The grasshopper works at his sewing-machine - Edward Thomas "The Child on the Cliffs"
And his true workings to the world disclose - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: XI"
A rococo footbridge hard at work holding up some dumb illusion - Brian Tierney "Catering"
The workings of each cabalistic vision - "The Times" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Worked on through storms and troubles - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
The faithful work of drowning - Ocean Vuong "Telemachus"
The working of instinct near water - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"
Such bitter work could earn such miserable hunger - Wang An-Shih "A Country Walk" transl. by David Hinton
Manage their work in such regular forms - Isaac Watts "The Ant, or Emmet"
Work a saw to cut out doors and windows - "The Way of Virtue: Non-Being" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Worked with his muscles, his brain and his pen - L. Whitehead "New House that Jack Built: an Original American Version"
Working out the curse of Cain - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"
Word and work irrevocably done - John Greenleaf Whittier "Response"
No work but leisure - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Knitting"
Work on your word a thousand weeks - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Word"
Such little work required of me - Katie Willingham "Internal Reasons and the Obscurity of Blame"
Who work in wind and foam - "The Wives of Brixham"
Dragons in embossed brickwork marching - William Carlos Williams "March"
A nervous brushwork of grass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"
Clockwork.
The dreamwork of trees - Lisel Mueller "Why I Need the Birds"
Their boots knew the footwork - Vickie Vertiz "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
Bundled guesswork disguised as intention - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "Our Red Road"
By guesswork with a failing torch for light - Gilbert Frankau "Gun-Teams"
Of eleven maidens the handiwork - "Valdemar and Tove (A)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Signposts in sorrow & paperwork - Stephanie Heit "Forecast"
Patchwork.
In this glittering piece-work world - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Ghost House"
Rope-work of wisteria, wands of oleander - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
Graffiti on the stonework - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
A rainbow tapework as a token of goodbye - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Ringing of threadwork and carpet - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"
The citrus peels our witch-work requires - Devan Barlow "A Moon Witch at the Party"
Workshop.
The work-song of the early bees - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
Stirred the workers of all nations to rebel - Ralph Chaplin "The Industrial Heretics"
For construction workers and dreamers - Jordan Jace "I Want"
On pillars that nameless workers placed - Mark Nepo "Under the Temple"
These workers of the golden straw - Theodore H. Rand "Marie Depure"
The little workers of destinies - Rudolph Valentino "Bees"
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Kaleidoscopic hints, to be worked up in farce or tragedy - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
Through the crooked working of his mind - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
Where spined and shelled imps bent to their work - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
Work and sing beneath a twisted thorn - William Allingham "The Winding Banks of Erne"
The hard work of staying alive - Julia Alvarez "Keeping Watch"
I do the wolfish work of god and make myself again - Ruth Awad "My Hair Burned Like Berenice" [Poetry Jan/Feb 2024]
Their plowing proved too much like work - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Praising them all for honest, quiet work - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"
Learn the work song of smaller creatures - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
A few centuries of honest work - Wendell Berry "Anglo-Saxon Protestant Heterosexual Men"
When those who work are idling - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"
Working in sweat and skin and bone - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
Prophecy is no light work - Antoinette Brim-Bell "Duplex: Black Mamas Praying"
Worked on the bone of a lie - R. Browning "Master Hughes of Saxe-Gotha"
Sea glass worked smooth and lovely by the sheer fact of time - Sarah Browning "Praisesong"
Whose high work remains unknown - Michelangelo Buonarroti "I. On Dante Alighieri" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Paid by work so frail as mine - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XIII. To Vittoria Colonna. Brazen Gifts for the Golden" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Works adverse to my wish - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XV. The Lover and the Sculptor" transl. by John Addington Symonds
The paragon of all their works - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXIV. The Doom of Beauty" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Each working the grindstone in turn - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"
Against the work of death - C.P. Cavafy "The Horses of Achilles" (translated by John Marvrogordato)
Indignant at this work of death - C.P. Cavafy "The Horses of Achilles" (translated by Daniel Mendelsohn)
The zigzag work of bees - Robin Chapman "The Door-to-Door Saleswoman"
Work supersedes alphabetical order - Catherine Chen "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right to Left"
Do their best work on vegan fare - May Chong "Catering"
Working with a slide rule protractor and graph paper - Nicholas Christopher "1943"
The work of Hell in all the ages - Helen Gray Cone "Soldiers of the Light"
Time nor chance shall your work untwine - Barry Cornwall "The Weaver's Song" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17, July 7, 1832]
And carried on the work with speed - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
To gaze upon their work and smile - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"
Fire only works on the brim of stone - Brody Parrish Craig "Southern Comfort"
Come along for the work is ready - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Going to Work"
Spies on Heaven's work - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
The work of frosted fruit - H.D. "Lais"
How in your works they knew your wantonness - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Most noble ladies, cherish your fair fame]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
The primal curse, working its deadly way - Delta "The Message of Seth: An Oriental Tradition" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
Their handless work of transmutation - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
A work of all good yokes - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
Half engineering, half a work of art - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
The works and sufferings of light - Chris Dombrowski "Going Home"
Phones that work in the dark - Stephen Dunn "Let's Say"
In fact anyone who'll work for pebbles - Bernadine Evaristo "Amo Amas Amat"
Worked on smaller debris first - A.M. Fals "Space in Our Relationship"
Working the strange colors of clamor and bells - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"
And their sweet work of life is done - "Flowers" [Our Little Tot's Own Book, 1912]
declare an end to the working day - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
When the wind works against us in the dark - Robert Frost "Storm Fear"
The great work of those patient things - Zona Gale "Paradise and Purgatory"
Sacrificed his son for his life's work - Carlos Andrés Gómez "Ghazal Circling Fatherhood"
The work that the years have done - James Harris Guy "Fort Arbuckle"
Working loom of ceaseless pleasure - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Work his will, and bow before his rod of iron - Oliver Herford "How the Lion Became King"
Whose works are depressing and eerie - Oliver Herford "A Little Book of Bores"
The trembling work of a spider - Jane Hirshfield "My Debt"
These words alone should work a charm - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]
Cleverly work morals by machinery - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
The apple of silver will work him a charm - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
And all their works dissolve - Robinson Jeffers "Carmel Point"
Any breath works as thread - Joe Jimenez "Broken Retablo for Being on My Back, My Feet Bare & in the Air"
Smile and work in some slight groove - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]
And Grief anticipate the work of years - 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]
Hidden in the works of a mysterious clock - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"
The wreathed trellis of a working brain - John Keats "Psyche"
to work its internalized heresies - Kaie Kellough "if who"
The perfect work of wisdom - Fanny Kemble "Lines, Written in London"
Working hard to deny the fact of bones - Christopher Kennedy "Ghost in the Land of Skeletons"
Unmoved among the ruins of the works of God - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Even gravity works at night - Amy King "You Make the Culture"
Making remarkable machines that almost worked - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Wise and Now-Departed Uncles"
If work was completed according to plan - Francis Kruckvich "A Hero and a Great Man"
My fingers working at nothing - Stephen Kuusisto "Letter to Borges from London"
A surgeon of time attending to the inner workings - Danusha Laméris "The Watch"
A slave to work in Mammon's cave - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Large schemes of undone work - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"
Artist working only with light and stone - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"
Working to dissolve its myths - danilo machado "(telling)"
Worked with rose and saffron - Dorothea Mackellar "Bazar"
The devil works overtime - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"
To ruin the great work of time - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"
An earthquake was at work at her foundations - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
All my long and weary work - Theodore Maynard "The Mystic"
Bring her silver work and spice - Theodore Maynard "The Ships"
By the dreadful work was wrought - J.H. McKenzie "The Titanic Disaster"
Worked so hard for my sorrow - Anis Mojgani "Sock Hop"
Violent winds come to work mischief - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Even after the world ends, there is work to do - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"
Working out plans with bulls - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger
To participate in the work of the hive - Pablo Neruda "Celebration" transl. by Richard Schaaf
A work room for the unknown - Pablo Neruda "Men IX" transl. by William O'Daly
The sea works in my silence - Pablo Neruda "Nothing More" transl. by Dennis Maloney
She worked the bitter charm - E. Nesbit "Death"
not wanting to work with ashes - Hoa Nguyen "Autumn Poem 2012"
That now will work me woe - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
The work of every leaf is to open in the sun - Margaret Noodin "Work" transl. by the author
The work of every root is to tunnel through the earth - Margaret Noodin "Work" transl. by the author
Her work of words no less at home than his work of creation - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"
When the work of life is done - T.S.P. "To a Little Child," [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.745, 6 April 1878]
Working upward across bone - Linda Pastan "I Am Learning to Abandon the World: for M"
His hands duplicated the work of eons - Andre F. Peltier "6: Carbon; C1" [superscript 1]
In that shadow our work is done - Adelaide Anne Proctor "A Chant"
Working to forget it - Ben Purkert "The Past Suffers Too"
The work of our hearts is dust - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"
Whose ardors work in men and tigers - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
I forget how disaster works - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"
And we must work to get our living - Sir Ronald Ross "An Expostulation with Truth Uttered by the Well Meaning Poet"
Work all that my wishing would - Richard Rowlands "Lullaby"
To work inside hearts - Kay Ryan "Why it Is Hard to Start"
The endless work of overcoming - Kay Ryan "Why it Is Hard to Start"
Working dull shears in one hand - David St. John "Iris"
By the oath of work - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"
A star chart might work better than a map - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Missing Time"
That he will work ere he pass onward - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
Bring their prize assassins to the bloody work - Robert W. Service "The Dreamer"
That with gentle work did frame - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"
Doing the scholarly work of facing the empire - Prageeta Sharma "Lateral Violence"
knows nothing of the work that sets you free - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"
Where Faction works by wrath and wrong - B. Simmons "Lines on the Landing of His Majesty King Louis Philippe, Tuesday, October 8, 1844" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
Do this patient urgent work - Tracy K. Smith "[The will to see oneself as fragile]"
Crude works to shatter out of joint - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
An atom is working in deepest night - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"
Between my work and my dreams - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
The Great Potter works no private favors - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
I still carry the weight of today's work - Keith Taylor "In the Other Life"
The grasshopper works at his sewing-machine - Edward Thomas "The Child on the Cliffs"
And his true workings to the world disclose - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: XI"
A rococo footbridge hard at work holding up some dumb illusion - Brian Tierney "Catering"
The workings of each cabalistic vision - "The Times" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Worked on through storms and troubles - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
The faithful work of drowning - Ocean Vuong "Telemachus"
The working of instinct near water - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"
Such bitter work could earn such miserable hunger - Wang An-Shih "A Country Walk" transl. by David Hinton
Manage their work in such regular forms - Isaac Watts "The Ant, or Emmet"
Work a saw to cut out doors and windows - "The Way of Virtue: Non-Being" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Worked with his muscles, his brain and his pen - L. Whitehead "New House that Jack Built: an Original American Version"
Working out the curse of Cain - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"
Word and work irrevocably done - John Greenleaf Whittier "Response"
No work but leisure - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Knitting"
Work on your word a thousand weeks - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Word"
Such little work required of me - Katie Willingham "Internal Reasons and the Obscurity of Blame"
Who work in wind and foam - "The Wives of Brixham"
Dragons in embossed brickwork marching - William Carlos Williams "March"
A nervous brushwork of grass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"
Clockwork.
The dreamwork of trees - Lisel Mueller "Why I Need the Birds"
Their boots knew the footwork - Vickie Vertiz "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
Bundled guesswork disguised as intention - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "Our Red Road"
By guesswork with a failing torch for light - Gilbert Frankau "Gun-Teams"
Of eleven maidens the handiwork - "Valdemar and Tove (A)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Signposts in sorrow & paperwork - Stephanie Heit "Forecast"
Patchwork.
In this glittering piece-work world - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Ghost House"
Rope-work of wisteria, wands of oleander - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
Graffiti on the stonework - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
A rainbow tapework as a token of goodbye - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Ringing of threadwork and carpet - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"
The citrus peels our witch-work requires - Devan Barlow "A Moon Witch at the Party"
Workshop.
The work-song of the early bees - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
Stirred the workers of all nations to rebel - Ralph Chaplin "The Industrial Heretics"
For construction workers and dreamers - Jordan Jace "I Want"
On pillars that nameless workers placed - Mark Nepo "Under the Temple"
These workers of the golden straw - Theodore H. Rand "Marie Depure"
The little workers of destinies - Rudolph Valentino "Bees"
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