Potential Titles: Sky/Skies

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The costly treasures of the skies - A.L.O.E. "The Willing Sacrifice"

And bid the sky repent of being dark - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Opened in the sky a narrow door - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Winter sunshine cheered the bitter sky - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"

The splendour of our traffic with the sky - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan IV" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)

Before they themselves are swallowed by the sky - Duane Ackerson "Bird Seed"

Glimpses a new star in the sky - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"

Across thousands of miles of sky - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"

Immediately, the sky opened with teeth - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Second Bait"

Inhaled from scorching sky - Harold Acton "Capriccio Espagnol"

And crack the sky with laughter - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

A young leopard prancing from the skies - Harold Acton "The Prodigal Son"

For every hour of sky - Leonie Adams "Never Enough of Living"

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

And Dedalus left for the sky - Etel Adnan "Night"

Our decision to sneak out to find our own sky - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"

Built their sky one story and one stellar cluster at a time - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"

Some days the sky is too bright - Kelli Russell Agodon "Magpies Recognize Themselves in the Mirror"

Dragging a belligerent sun to the sky - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"

Cut the sky with glittering swords - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Trace a silvery circumference of sky - Joan Aiken "Π in the Sky"

As whirlwinds scour the passive sky - Mark Akenside "An Epistle to Curio. [1]"

The baleful charms of superstition there infect the skies - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination Book. A Poem, in Three Books. II"

Breaks through an opaque silken sky - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

From the blue gift of the sky - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"

The sky extends blazing centrifugal rays - Daisy Aldan "The Little Mermaid"

Against the sky behind the dodecahedron - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"

Bring two dewy, fresh pieces of the sky - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

My shoulders reaching to the sky - Ellen Tracy Alden "[Once on a time, in early dawn of summer]"

The sky darts through you like blue rain - Richard Aldington "The Poplar"

Trumpets blaring to the patient skies - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"

Let down the lightning from a sultry sky - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Cold against the sky the blue jays cried - Lewis Alexander "Tanka IV" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

From out the dawn the crows broke across the sky - Lewis Alexander "Tanka V" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Pity the sky once- Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"

In some sequestered forest glade beneath a starry sky - George Leonard Allen "Portrait" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

A shining figure cut from a summer sky - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

No glimpse of sky or sun - Alise Alousi "Forgiveness is the smell of crushed flowers"

Ten acres and a sky-reflecting pond - Julia Alvarez "Locust"

Her palms cupped open to the sky - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

Stepping through blue curtains of sky - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"

A golden sky smiles on the soil's increase - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IX--Autumn, in its First Aspect"

Oedipal dreams and apocalyptic fevers inhabit these skies - Ryu Ando "The Drum Star (Orion's Ghost" [Strange Horizons Fund Drive Special 2017]

Phantom stars and perfect circles that haunt our skies - Ryu Ando "The Drum Star (Orion's Ghost" [Strange Horizons Fund Drive Special 2017]

A screaming fell across the sky - Ryu Ando "Season of the Ginzakura" [Strange Horizons 13 July 2015]

And the men on the nettles under the sky - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XII: Royal Converse" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Two wingless geese flew up the sky - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXVI: Hard to Believe" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Speaks from its own sky - Raymond Antrobus "I Want the Confidence of"

The sky is a bridge of stars - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

Ascending toward the ending sky - Cristoso Apache "Gahe Dzil/Mountain Spirits"

The sky fell and cracked the earth - William Archila "Bury This Pig"

How trout and mackerel plunged from the sky - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"

Panels of the sky capsized - William Archila "El Mozote"

You were braiding the sky with flame - Rob Arnold "Fourth of July"

the sky doesn't know her reasons - Jarid Arraes "Movement"

yesterday I read the sky - Jarid Arraes "Movement"

Crazed and whirled on an aimless search for the sky - Frank D. Ashburn "The Lost Legion" [The Yale Literary Magazine v.LXXXVIII, no.4, Jan. 1923]

In shooting skies and freckled stars - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

To stain the ashy sky - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Spinning throughout the darkened sky - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Down half the moon of sky - Atticus "Magic in Her"

I should learn to look at an empty sky - W.H. Auden "The More Loving One"

Authority whose buildings grope the sky - W.H. Auden "September 1, 1939"

An artificial wilderness and a sky like lead - W.H. Auden "The Shield of Achilles"

Windless, wingless sky - Ruth Awad "In the gloaming, in the roiling night"

Ignored and abraded by a coarse sky - Ruth Awad "My Hair Burned Like Berenice" [Poetry Jan/Feb 2024]

Heart-broken shapes that stand in field and sky - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Structures"

Stand in converse with the skies - Albion Fellows Bacon "The Prophet"

Intense and holy as the mirrored sky - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"

Sanctuary before the sky - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Whose temple bright holds earth and sky - Grant Balfour "Where Union Dwelt"

A thousand leagues into the western sky - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"

We hang ourselves up by needle-thin threads of sky - Eleanor Ball "Holy Days" [Strange Horizons 20 October 2025]

The softness of a trillion purple skies - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

You deserve a piece of sky - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

The concrete sky insists on rain - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"

Blowing raw sky and storm scream - Mary Jo Bang "Gretel"

When the pink sliver of sky swims in through the window - Mary Jo Bang "How will it feel months from now"

Only ever wanted the red sky to turn blue - Mary Jo Bang "How will it feel months from now"

Stars guide the eye across the sky - Mary Jo Bang "How will it feel months from now"

A drawing of an all-night sky - Mary Jo Bang "Speaking of the Future, Hamlet"

Across a wide sky staggered with chimneys - Ari Banias "Fountain"

Brave enough to scale the skies - Maurice Baring "Icarus"

In skies not dark but only dim - Maurice Baring "A June Night in Russia"

Beneath a sky of cryptic stars - R.H. Barlow "R.E.H."

A rumpled sky forever unrolling - Lou Barrett "Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932"

Clear of the storms that twist the sky - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Cave"

A breath from the yawning sky - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

to mountain height of sky - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"

as the sky measures breath - Elizabeth Bartlett "the lovers"

youth's honor on a windless sky - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

to make a stiff and faultless sky - Elizabeth Bartlett "washday in the tropics"

Pierced the pitying sky - Cora C. Bass "The Battle of Bunker Hill"

When tempests of sorrow were shrouding the sky - Cora C. Bass "Comrades"

'neath a tender southern sky - Cora C. Bass "Dead on the Field of Battle"

Upon the dappled curtain of the sky - Cora C. Bass "'Mid Eternal Snow"

Imprint their glory on the sky - Cora C. Bass "Ring Busy Bells"

Fantastic tendons to the sky - F.N.W. Bateson "Trespassers"

That mirrored all the skies - Charles Baudelaire "A Former Life" transl. not credited

In the glimmering distance of the sky - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

A square with no roof but the sky - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"

Gliding remote on the verge of the sky - James Beattie "The Hermit"

To trace the secrets of the skies - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

The sky is full of stumbling ghosts - Jan Beatty "I'll Write the Girl"

Made half the sky one darkness - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

The hard cup of the sky - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Smoke climbing the sky's cup - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Through splitting earth and rending sky - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

Nothing but scarlet sand and brassy sky - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

That burning march under a sky of flame - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

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

Cobalt from the cliffs of the sky - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Watching the chariot moon trample the skies - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

When the full moon bleaches the skies - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

No earth or sky or time in clocks - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lunch at a City Club"

Where skies are free from stain - William Rose Benét "The Tamer of Steeds"

Painted peace upon the sky above - Stella Benson "The Secret Day"

The swinging stars shall plumb the silence of the sky - Stella Benson "Words [Oh words, oh words, and shall you rule]"

When mind extends toward sky - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"

Connecting with a geography of sky - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"

Between sky and home - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

A narrow door between sky and ground - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

The blue and white enamel of the skies - Paul Bewsher "The Country Beautiful"

A ball of twine in the grey sky - Tamiko Beyer "February"

Conjure the potent sky of the longest day - Tamiko Beyer "February"

The sky looked kindly on us - L.H. Bickford "Victory: Being a Chant After Battle" [The Philistine v.2 no.3 Feb. 1896]

Fish-hawks warring in the upper sky - Ambrose Bierce "Famine's Realm"

Hungry ravens glooming all the skies - Ambrose Bierce "A Lifted Finger"

The infected sky glooms with a sun aghast - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: II. Penumbra"

Coveting what power those skies might enthrone - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: III. The Undiscovered World"

Awakes to those more ample skies - Laurence Binyon "Youth"

Clenched ignorant against the sky - Elizabeth Bishop "The Armadillo"

His singing split the sky - Elizabeth Bishop "Behind Stowe"

Speculating about the breeze or the sky - Terry Blackhawk "Early Elegy"

Beneath a sun-bitten sky - Terry Blackhawk "A Peaceable Kingdom"

In the assembled stories of sky - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"

In what distant deeps or skies - William Blake "The Tiger"

That gravitation tends not to the sky - Frank Chapman Bliss writing as Octavius "The Naughty Man; or, Sir Thomas Brown"

Mustered from the fevered sky - Edmund Blunden "Sheet Lightning"

And flings their turmoil to the sky - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a River Steam-Boat"

Blue with which the sky retreats - Max Bodenheim "Baby"

That wins the pity of a sky - Max Bodenheim "City Streets"

Where your brown hills bite the sky - Maxwell Bodenheim "Realism"

Into the poised lyric of the sky - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"

In your kirtle of borrowed skies - Maxwell Bodenheim "Young Poet"

Facing a sheer sky - Louise Bogan "Medusa"

Demands the scope of the sky and the stretch of the sands - George H. Boker "Mosoor Pacha" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]

Provisional under the permanent sky - Jaswinder Bolina "Body in a Phone Booth"

Colored shapes winging against the sky - L.R. Bonham "The Flower Smeller" [The Little Review, Apr. 1917, v.3, no.10]

Blurring on the borders of the sky - Arna Bontemps "Golgotha Is a Mountain"

And tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

Sky chained to torture - Sara Borjas "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"

Through gray streets beneath an ashen sky - Bruce Boston "Gray People"

Primeval props of the new threatening sky - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"

The sky was come upon the earth at last - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"

May find the secret of the skies - Gordon Bottomley "The Quest"

Ash woven into a distant sky - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, you say all our bones are made of paper"

Made of illicit skyscapes - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"

Holds a goldmine in the sky - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Radio dust stretched across the night sky - Russell Brakefield "The Perseids"

Opened room enough in the sky for the stars - Russell Brakefield "The Way We Learned to Sing"

Along cracking walls of sky - Shannon Bramer "Dreaming Upside Down"

The sky of ten thousand apologies - William Brewer "The Good News"

Pretending that the sky is empty - William Brewer "Oxyana, WV: Exit Song"

The sky's color an old blade - William Brewer "We Burn the Bull"

Reaching to the sky for an offering - William Brewer "West Virginia"

Though the Sun has left my sky - Anne Bronte "Fluctuations"

As he looks to the kindling sky - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"

The dim moon struggling in the sky - Emily Bronte "Faith and Despondency"

Silent sign of winter skies - Emily Bronte "To a Wreath of Snow"

The blue sky filled to brimming with the breeze - Stopford A. Brooke "San Francesco del Deserto" [The Charm of Venice, 1908, ed. by Alfred H. Hyatt]

Black against the yellow arch of sky - Stopford A. Brooke "Sunset" [The Charm of Venice, 1908, ed. by Alfred H. Hyatt]

Flows o'er the shores of sea and sky - Stopford A. Brooke "Sunset and Venice" [The Charm of Venice, 1908, ed. by Alfred H. Hyatt]

No sky here allows for rain - Jericho Brown "The Interrogation"

Hail from a blind sky - Jericho Brown "Prayer of the Backhanded"

Waves its wild tentacles against the high blue sky - Lee Ann Brown "Beauty Supply"

Scraps of fabricated sky - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"

Marching blue legions across the sky - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"

Torn from the roof of the sky - Paul Cameron Brown "Marzipan"

To cloak the sky with pillow whispers - Paul Cameron Brown "Moon Dark World"

Signs coded in stars speeding across the sky - Paul Cameron Brown "Sanguine"

Disintegrated into a sky burial of trade - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

Under an ignited sky of ocean - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"

While the sky hemorrhaged quietly down - Jenny Browne "Late Fermata"

Translates the wonders of the sky - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Poet"

Bribe a passage to the skies - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

Unwinds the eternal dances of the sky - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

Thy breath in the burning sky - William Cullen Bryant "The Hurricane"

Waits on the horizon of a brighter sky - William C. Bryant "The Return of Youth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.4, Oct. 1842]

Darkly painted on the crimson sky - William Cullen Bryant "To a Waterfowl"

A sky blistered with millions of stars - Sue Budin "Markers"

Scarlet and bronze in a tired sky - Sue Budin "Sunset Over K Mart"

Drinks the intoxicating skies - Gerald Bullett "The Poet"

The windows of the sky unbar - George W. Bungay "The Autograph of God" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Ambition soaring up the sky like flame - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"

The summer meeting of sky and sea - Amelia Josephine Burr "A Lynmouth Widow"

To the rims of the sky - Amelia Josephine Burr "Perugia"

When cloudy weather obscures our skies - Clarence Butler "We Two" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]

The butterfly spread his wings to the sky - "Butterfly Wisdom" [Pages for Laughing Eyes, no date. Project Gutenberg]

Sky knows more than Earth will tell - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"

Who own the mantle of the sky - Witter Bynner "The Last Words of Tolstoi"

And hide face down from the sky - Witter Bynner "The Wild Star"

Sweet influences of earth, and air, and sky - C. "That's What We Are" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCL, v.LVI, Dec. 1844]

Passage from another sky - F. O. Call "Gray Birds"

The wish was enough to point to the sky - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"

Skies that tempt the swallow back - C.S. Calverley "Waiting"

Dark against the sky of steel - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"

Set the sky on blue fire and shook the ground - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"

Under the blue flame of the sky - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"

Nor trust deceitful skies - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Our faces toward the arctic sky - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

Teeth tearing bloodily at the sky's throat - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"

Smiled straight into the skies - Giosue Carducci "Beatrice" transl. by Frank Sewall

The lofty mountains of the sky - Bliss Carman "A Mountain Gateway"

And wander through the trembling harvest sky - Bliss Carman "Pulvis et Umbra"

Under skies never seen by waking eyes - Lewis Carroll "A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky"

To a solid unlit white sky - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

As if the sky was torn off - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

No whispering zephyrs fan the glowing skies - N.H. Carter "[No verdure smiles; no crystal fountains play]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

The stars pearl out in the azure sky - J.E.A. Carver "Evening"

The sky's arrow - Rosario Castellanos "Three Poems"

That hold our home in the sky - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"

Planets pale in violet skies - Willa Cather "Song"

The cold pale patina of sky - John R. Chamberlain "Lines"

To measure the sky - Jennifer Chang "About Trees"

Untwisting the sky - Jennifer Chang "Ceremony"

Wasted on the unknowable sky - Jennifer Chang "Lost Child"

The sky spitting dust and light - Tina Chang "Celestial"

And an eagle parted the sky - Tina Chang "Sugar"

Grey-winged phantoms out of sullen skies - Ralph Chaplin "Prison Shadows"

His vision tinged the torn and bleeding skies - Ralph Chaplin "The Vision Maker: To Eugene Victor Debs"

In distant skies beyond our time - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"

Runs through the sky in ecstasy - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Noon"

To train these earth-born spirits for the skies - Rev. George B. Cheever "To an Infant in the Cradle" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]

Aging spine of the black sky - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"

When Caesar's sun fell out of the sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

What wicked things are written on the sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

Save that the sky grows darker - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"

On a marble pillar in the sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

Weeping out of the ancient sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

Flings frail palaces at the sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

Sent it splendid through the sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"

That dwell in the corners of the sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"

Violet sky cradling shards of sun - Johnson Cheu "Wail"

A silence over the void sky - Wilfred Childe "Sea Fairy"

Takes his sacramental sip of Guinness and resets the sky - M.C. Childs "The Admiral Pub Pinball Repairman Repairs Witch Mountain" [Strange Horizons 19 May 2025]

My hand grasping at the sky - Chiwan Choi "portraitures and erasures"

How many a wanderer to the skies it turned - "The Christian Hero's Epitaph" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Cleave the sky with cheers - Annie Rothwell Christie "Welcome Home"

Hand your woes to the sky above - Chung-Ch'ang T'ung "Speaking My Mind" transl. by Burton Watson

And walk this azure sky - Arthur Hugh Clough "The New Sinai"

The dead diamond machinery of the sky - Leonard Cohen "I Draw Aside the Curtain"

The light of the seamless sky - Leonard Cohen "Roshi's Poem"

Written on the evening skies - Arthur Colton "The Thrush"

Away down the sky - Hilda Conkling "Adventure"

Like a feathered sky - Hilda Conkling "Bluebird"

End in the sky - Hilda Conkling "Venice Bridge"

Signs and symbols throng the sky - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Though the skies weep to-day - Ina Coolbrith "After the Winter Rain"

The sky is a century with no windows - Eduardo C. Corral "To a Blossoming Saguaro"

The band of Gideon roam the sky - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "The Band of Gideon"

From a stranger sea and sky - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"

In all the windows of the skies - James H. Cousins "Heaven and Earth"

The portent of the season's skies - James H. Cousins "Ireland"

Withholds the secret of the skies - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"

The sky's holy tantrum - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Says Her Prayers"

All the earth bound with frost, all the sky snow-full - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Birds in the Snow"

The bleakest sky has tiny rifts when the stars shine through - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Don't Be Afraid"

'Twixt the level street and the level sky - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Over the Hills and Far Away"

How we watched the sun set, and criticized the sky - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"

Between the dreadful crystal seas and the sky's dreadful smile - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Story of the Birkenhead"

Where the cedar leaf divides the sky - Hart Crane "Passage"

Shift green borders under stranger skies - Hart Crane "Voyages VI"

The sky and harbor of the phoenix' breast - Hart Crane "Voyages VI"

Threw wild hands toward the sky - Stephen Crane "War Is Kind"

The stars that tread the sky - Adelaide Crapsey "The Fiddling Lad"

Ancient algae, reptile tread, soot-filled skies - Shutta Crum "On the Beach"

A well drained bitter by the sky - Countee Cullen "In Memory of Col. Charles Young"

To contemplate a changing sky - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

No quick white scar of wrath emboss the sky - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

the smiting sky tense with blending - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VI)"

the glory is fallen out of the sky - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VIII)"

In its box of sky lavender and cornerless - E. E. Cummings "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls"

Under a sky of opal fire - Olive Custance "Primrose Hill"

In Hope's silver sky unfurled - Olive Custance "The Wings of Fortune"

Clear as skies of paradise - T.A. Daly "October"

Prepares to walk out into the abyss of black sky - DéLana R. A. Dameron "My Love is Black"

Showers of stars rush headlong from the sky - Erasmus Darwin "The Botanic Garden part 1: The Economy of Vegetation canto I"

Gazing at the stars that bubbled in clear skies - W.H. Davies "In May"

Firm on my slackening sky - Olena Kalytiak Davis "sweet reader, flanneled and tulled"

kin to the one who holds the sky - Deborah L. Davitt "Unbound" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]

to walk free again under the darkening sky - Deborah L. Davitt "Unbound" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]

Beneath the sky's unseeing eyes - Armen Davoudian "Hot Springs"

The sky is a ceiling I wake to - Meg Day "Another Night at Sea Level"

Who has stepped out of that sky - Meg Day "Another Night at Sea Level"

This eerie glow of stucco sky - Meg Day "Big Sky Domestic"

The sky in the middle of a conversation - Tyree Daye "Don't Say Love Just Signal"

Rising triumphant in the azure sky - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

Cleaving the skies with an echoing cry - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

To creep from out the silent skies - Walter de la Mare "Full Moon"

And scan the skies for crows - Walter de la Mare "The Scarecrow"

There are always buzzards in the sky - Salomon de la Selva "Tropical Town"

The sky is waiting for an airship - Monica de la Torre "Poem in Spanish"

Red, sun-gilded riot floods the sky - Geoffrey Dearmer "B.E.F. Missing"

Came hurtling from shrapnel-shaken skies - Geoffrey Dearmer "Dedication: to Christopher Killed, Suvla Bay, October 6th, 1915"

Blinding shrapnel scattered from the sky - Geoffrey Dearmer "Mudros After the Evacuation"

Reaching for the ear of the sky - Diane DeCillis "Arranged Marriage"

Captive sky gathering words that burn and rise - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"

Written with stars on a chalkboard sky - Diane DeCillis "View from a Room, NYC"

Measure nuances in the sky - Diane DeCillis "When You Cannot Sleep"

A sky raining diamonds collected in my hat - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"

In that small space of branches and of sky - Clarissa Scott Delany "Solace" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The sky a full-blown rose - Diana Marie Delgado "Songs of Escape"

Rend the skies with acclamation - Delta "Stanzas for the Burns' Festival" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLVII, v.LVI, Sept. 1844]

Whose fingers brush the sky - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXIV: The Wind"

From an abundant sky - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XXXIV"

The faithless sky breaks itself over us - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"

The sky & what it leaves behind - Chelsea Dingman "Notes on Inheritance"

Ask the sky to show its hands - Chelsea Dingman "Reconstructing the Saints"

When the sun has slit its wrists into the undarkened sky - Woody Dismukes "The Color of the Mule"

Circuit-rider of the endless skies - Irving Sidney Dix "The Comet"

Some lost spirit banished from the sky - Irving Sidney Dix "An Idyll of the Hills part 1: January"

The sky will soon collapse - Stephen Dobyns "Thelonius Monk"

Have sky to drink - Mary Mapes Dodge "Nell's Notions"

Follow the hurrying clouds across the sky - Nathan Haskell Dole "The Swallow" [St. Nicholas v.V no.6, Apr. 1878]

Surviving worshippers of the sky - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

In the cottonwoods' grasp of sky - Chris Dombrowski "Heron Rookery Aubade"

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

In the weight of last year's skies - Chris Dombrowski "To Carry Water"

Sung by the myriads that sport through the sky - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset "The Peacock 'At Home' by a Lady"

The sun holds all the earth and all the sky - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

Has dropped from its home in the sky - Malcolm Douglas "What It Was" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.9, July 1886]

Skies of snow and bitter air - Edward Dowden "Burdens"

The mute sky resigns itself to Night - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

The light of strange discovered skies - Edward Dowden "If it Might Be"

And the endurance of the sky - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"

Floods the sky with song of day begun - John William Draper "Carpe Diem"

From these drab pavements to the star-lit sky - John William Draper "To Shelley"

Pressed upon the daily custom of the sky - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

No sign upon the forehead of the skies - John Drinkwater "The Fires of God" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]

No sound across a windless sky - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"

Cash in the sky's dark pocket - Carol Ann Duffy "Death and the Moon"

Days and nights far out upon the sky's dark sea - Carol Ann Duffy "New Year"

Bright enough to burn the whole sky - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"

Vertigo under the infinite sky - Michael Dumanis "Sehnsucht"

With the lore of winds and skies - Paul Laurence Dunbar "At Loafing-Holt"

Where brood the grieving skies - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Beyond the Years"

Through what strange realms and unfamiliar skies - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The storm obscures the sky - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Slow through the Dark"

And now the brook can see the sky - Edith Dunham "Our Little Brook" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Lance and drain this ravened sky - Rebecca Dunham "Atavism at Twilight"

And grief re-greens the sky - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Wind-Whipped: 5. Broken"

To redefine the sky - Stephen Dunn "Cut and Break"

Dancing in circles in the skies - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"

What thrones are shaken in the skies - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

Dusk its ash-grey blossoms sheds on violet skies - George William Russell aka A.E. "Song [Dusk its ash-grey blossoms sheds]"

Dwindle down beneath the skies - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

With the leagued legions of the sky - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"

An opening bright revealed a vision of the sky - "The Early Taken" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXVI, v.LXI, Feb. 1847]

In the new immortal sky - Max Eastman "A Hymn to God: In Time of Stress"

Fierce as the flame in sunset skies - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs"

To shoot bright stars around the sky - Seymour Eaton (Paul Piper) "The Roosevelt Bears Celebrate the Fourth"

Alerting us to threats from the sky - Deron Eckert "Luke Skywalker Could Do a Lot of Things"

For their abdicated skies - Helen Parry Eden "Coal and Candlelight"

So sympathetic with the sky - Helen Parry Eden "Trees"

Singing under saffron skies - Helen Parry Eden "The Wind"

Into vast escaping sky - Katherine Edgren "This Morning, My Father"

Linger in wide sky spaces - B. Edwards "The Man Who Has Forgotten Time"

Searching the angry night sky for proof - Natalie Eilbert "Crescent Moons"

Bring home the river and sky - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Each and All"

Through tracts and provinces of sky - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Snow Storm"

the sky yawning over me - Akwaeke Emezi "july 28"

Under sky's low ceiling - Elaine Equi "Trenton Local"

The sky holds its breath - Heid E. Erdich "Again, Today"

Confusing waves of sky - Heid E. Erdich "Craving, First Month"

A hole at the top of the sky - Heid E. Erdich "TV News: Detox Closed"

Collapsing the sky around us - Louise Erdrich "The Flood"

The sky's unyielding reflection - Terri Kirby Erickson "Goldfinch"

A dream of swimming up to see the sky - Daniel Errico "Noble Gnarble"

As the harp of the sky had rung - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"

Upwafting to the skies no more their frankincense - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Raise to the skies a festive sound - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

If Justice haunt the skies - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Winged from the skies with tenfold ruin - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull

The rim of the sky's bowl - Anthony Euwer "Mountain Tops"

April buds and August skies - Sebastian Evans "Shadows"

Sheer ocean of sky - Ed Falco "Morning Voices"

The meteors of her native sky - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

Who scrapes the skies and cleaves the patient air - "False Estimations" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

The impulses of air and sky - Catharine M. Fanshawe "An Imitation of Wordsworth"

Our honeymoon hangs in the sky - Eleanor Farjeon "From an Old Garden"

With a million stars you pin it to the sky - Eleanor Farjeon "The Night Will Never Stay"

From the sky such a mighty flood unfolding - Edgar Fawcett "Rain" [St. Nicholas v.V no.9, July 1878]

Nor any altars in the sky - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 13"

Her sky grows dark and lightning-streaked - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

A charnel that affronts the sky - Arthur Davison Ficke "A Watteau Melody"

When the sunlight runs away from skies gone mad - Beulah Field "When I Remember"

And you shall dance in the velvet sky - Eugene Field "Fairy and Child"

To enshroud the midnight sky - Darrell Figgis "[Friends vanish at my face]"

Bend down to what the sky has sent us - Annie Finch "Changing Woman"

Cover our eyes with the edge of winter sky - Annie Finch "Winter Solstice Chant"

Lost amid the azure of the skies - Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald "A Winter Day"

On the sullen beach of the sky - John Gould Fletcher "The Clouds"

The trees splash the sky - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

From pale river-pools of sky - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Mark the mad ballet of the midsummer sky - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

A pale ideal lost in the vast grey sky - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

The sky is a swirling cataract of fire - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"

Pillars of the sky at rest - John Gould Fletcher "Snowy Mountains"

Deep withdrawn into the heedless sky - Robin Flower "Sonnet 8 [They say the gods are to the woodlands fled]"

Bones scraping the sky - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"

The imprint of birdsong in an empty sky - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VI"

Saw-toothed lightning slashed the sky - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Richer than Anyone in Heaven"

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

Ten thousand torches flamed towards the sky - Edward Edwin Foot "The Death, Burial, and Destruction of Bacchus"

A spackled fresco of sky - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"

Never begging at the sky - Katie Ford "[I Failed Him and He Failed Me]"

Danced on the skirt of autumn skies - John W. Forney "Time's Changes"

A reflex of our native skies - Arthur M. Forrester "Father Tom Malone"

Downward from the starlit skies - Fanny Forrester "Angel Visitors" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.14-v.I, 5 April 1884]

Welcome as blue to the midnight skies - G.G. Foster "Song of Sleep" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

My mansions in the sky - Maxwell E. Foster "More Modern Love"

Scorching the sky with the iron that turns to rust - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth" [The Yale Literary Magazine v.LXXXVIII, no.1, Oct. 1922]

Reaching out to the vast sky - Jennifer Franklin "Preparing for Residential Placement for My Disabled Daughter"

the spaceships cover the sky completely - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins

Broken arabesques upon the sullen crimson of the sky - Nora May French "Along the Track"

Gathers where the moody sky is bending - Nora May French "Ave Atque Vale"

Deep drinking from that mirrored sky - Nora May French "In Camp"

And found the sky a vault of empty blue - Nora May French "The Spanish Girl"

And stilled with sudden wonder of the sky - Nora May French "The Spanish Girl"

Upon the narrow trail that meets the sky - Nora May French "The Spanish Girl"

Against the sky that last sweet echoes fail - Nora May French "Two Songs"

Molten lead along the sullen sky - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

A meteor through the changing sky - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

One luminary clock against the sky - Robert Frost "Acquainted with the Night"

Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills - Robert Frost "The Death of the Hired Man"

Make earth include the sky - Robert Frost "Fragmentary Blue"

String an instrument against the sky - Robert Frost "The Line-Gang"

The sky existed because we believed in the storm - Jorge Galán "Winter" transl. by Janet Hendrickson

Under influence of sky - James Galvin "Dear May Eighth"

The star that shines in the midnight sky - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

From mansions of the skies - Paul Gerhardt "Wie soll ich Dich epfangen" transl. by James W. Alexander

In rich pavilion of the skies - Paul Gerhardt "Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud" transl. by James W. Alexander

Rise toward the throne of the sky - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"

Wandered earth and sky with a broken heart - Nikita Gill "Hekate: An Eternal Day"

A baneful vagrant from the stormy skies - Dana Gioia "Pardon Me, Pilgrim"

Deciphering the future from a dusky summer sky - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"

The earth and sky taking turns - Louise Gluck "Cornwall"

Silence coming from the sky - Louise Gluck "A Warm Day"

Dragons breathing white-hot magnesium across humid skies - Ian Goh "Firework"

By the treason of the skies - Louis Golding "Silver-Badged Waiter"

Leaping to the displaced skies - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"

Hell's depth and sky's height - Louis Golding "Wind of Black Night"

Nobody's born unwedged between dirt and sky - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"

Blue as a thwack of sky on stolen land - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"

Pigeons drifting from sky to earth - Mona Gould "Cathedral"

When all the sky flamed with good news - Herbert H. Gowen "Jerusalem 1917"

New stars in the subterrene sky - Robert Graves "Escape"

Great winds over the sky - Robert Graves "The Face of the Heavens"

A week spent under raining skies - Robert Graves "Limbo"

Wild swans urged whistling across dazzled sky - Robert Graves "The Sibyl"

Tattoos his shape upon the sky - Robert Graves "The Snake and the Bull"

Wings taking after the sky - Leah Naomi Green "River and Fugue"

Sky to keep me from want - Leah Naomi Green "Week Five: Measure"

Some parting of the beaten sky - Linda Gregerson "The Turning"

Their hands scraping at the sky's silent faces - Landis Grenville "Homecoming"

A world with sky in every direction - Kimberly Grey "The First Marriage"

Will fill you in with sky - Kimberly Grey "Invention"

Stabbing the skies for stars - William Griffith "Litany of Nations: Balkan States"

Father and son and the open sky - Edgar A. Guest "A Boy and His Dad"

December with crystal skies - Margherita Guidacci "All Saints' Day" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann

Pearls command the sky in hushes - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Send your daughters to the sky for clay - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"

Between the sky and the hot crust of hell - Thom Gunn "A Plan of Self Subjection"

Dearer to sky and earth - Ivor Gurney "The Poplar"

As the sky reflected in clear streams - Ivor Gurney "To an Unknown Lady"

Roads against the windy skies - Ivor Gurney "Toasts and Memories"

Earth and sky to eyes once disenchanted - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

At the end of an imagined sky - Jin Ha "The Detached" (translated by the author)

Mysteries to read in the large volumes of the skies - William Habington, born 1605, died 1654 "The Firmament" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 3, April 14, 1832]

Other skies of other decades - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"

The palace portal of the sky - Hafiz "The Divan XIV" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Where confusions of ice outlast summer skies - Han Shan aka Cold Mountain "9 [People ask about Cold Mountain Way]" transl. by David Hinton

Waiting for the dappling of sky - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"

A mad star crossed the sky - Thomas Hardy "The Second Night"

Falling from one sky to another - Joy Harjo "Blue Elliptic"

A map for those who would climb through the hole in the sky - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"

In the arms of another sky - Joy Harjo "Moonlight"

Remember the sky that you were born under - Joy Harjo "Remember"

Running towards a cracked sky - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: II. Two Horses"

Sky tethered to the changing earth - Joy Harjo "She Remembers the Future"

Into the cutting edge of the sky - Joy Harjo "She Remembers the Future"

When time threaded earth and sky - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"

Sang the sky to eternity - Joy Harjo "Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words"

Caught upon a buried sky - Avis Harley "Catching a Butterfly (2)"

Enough to fill the whole sky - francine j. harris "(i belong to that voice. it owns what i breathe.)"

Make it through the sky - francine j. harris "Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monstitch Past 45"

Whom angels capture for the skies - Geo. W.H. Harrison "A Prison Vision"

To pierce the mysteries of the skies - Geo. W.H. Harrison "A Prison Vision"

Seeding the sky - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"

Swimming on a young October sky - Marsden Hartley "Fishmonger"

Far into the skies of thought - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXVII"

Cutting the sky in pattern - F.W. Harvey "Autumn in Prison"

With passions of skies - F.W. Harvey "'Local Fatalities Are Reported'"

She imagines my sky - Matthea Harvey "Robber Sentenced to Reflection"

That shivered 'cross the leaden sky - Henry Hasse "Lost Soul" [Futuria Fantasia, v.1, no.2, Fall 1939]

Found her patch of sky and shared her vision - Margaret Hasse "Art"

Watching the sky regret nothing - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"

Address the sky with smoke - Ava Leavell Haymon "Festival of Lights"

Thunder drums the skin of sky - Georgia Heard "Room of Nature"

A map for those who would climb through the hole in the sky - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"

And I am weary of the skies - "Helen of Kirconnell"

The dread loneliness of sea and skies - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

Half mingled with the sky - Felicia Hemans "Night-Scene in Genoa"

To dare the splendour of the sky - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Kept vigil with the watchfires of the sky - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

The tempest swept the troubled sky - Felicia Hemans "Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte"

The nurture of our bitter sky - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

A lamplit bridge touching the troubled sky - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"

When the sky was dim from some worn glory - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "A Dream"

Gleamed in my sky more bright for the distress - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "Prayer"

Drinking the beauties of the sky and sea - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "To-Morrow"

The bridal of the earth and sky - Herbert "Song [Sweet day, so cool, so calm]" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 24, 18 Aug. 1832]

A crooked meteor slicing what's left of the sky - fei hernandez "Singing Funeral"

Build a castle to the sky - Aileen Cleveland Higgins "Dream-Blocks"

A sky of starlings circle - Conrad Hilberry "A Body in Between"

Knew the January sky - Conrad Hilberry "Villanelle for Marion"

A wide city under a bronze sky - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"

A golden bomb bursts the glow'ring sky - Jennie Earngey Hill "Nature's Game"

Those silent heights that lose themselves in sky - Kate Hillard "After a Year" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.100, April. 1876]

Leapt through the vault of the sky - Brenda Hillman "The Eighties"

Holds a butterfly to the sky - Noor Hindi "Breaking [News]"

In memory's distant sky - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "Alice Vernon"

Dimmed each star in memory's sky - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "Homeward Bound" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]

A temple on top of a hill at the bottom of the sky - Edward Hirsch "A Greek Island"

I shall begin scouring the sky for signs - Edward Hirsch "I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic"

Canopy the swollen sky with sunspots - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

Brightness from the sky is lending - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

Crimson sky and crystal run - Henry B. Hirst "The Valley of Shadow"

The varnished, punctured skein of sky - Tony Hoagland "Frog Song"

Go up and down the burning sky - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

Every chanting sprite that lit the sky - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

While through the sounding sky - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"

That stood on the railing, puffed up with sky - Chloe Honum "Devonport"

The backyard sky split in half - David Hornibrook "After August"

Bled together in the sky above the disappearing city - David Hornibrook "Damn Good Living"

Shifted the sidewalk twelve inches closer to the sky - David Hornibrook "Motion & Eclipse"

The sky sucked water from small puddles - David Hornibrook "Pax Americana"

Clouds anchor the sky to the west - David Hornibrook "Weather"

Word inscribe in the face of the sky - David Hornibrook "What if I Grew Dark"

Reign beneath a darkened sky - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Their shoulders held the sky suspended - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXVII: Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries"

To skies that knit their heartstrings right - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad I"

From eve and morning and yon twelve-winded sky - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXXII"

The feather pate of folly bears the falling sky - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIX"

A horror-blasted statue in the sky - Robert E. Howard "Voice of the Night" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]

Leap across rifts of empty sky - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Dwelling in the Mountains 26" transl. by David Hinton

Trust myself to the star-filled skies - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Dwelling in the Mountains 36" transl. by David Hinton

The sky dripping from his heart - Amorak Huey "We Were All Odysseus in Those Days"

Acid rain from a sky the color of cinders - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"

Ships etched against the sky - Langston Hughes "Seascape"

The heavy sky that could not weep - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"

And thirty singing furies ride to split the sky - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"

When a brass sun staggers above the sky - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"

Sudden flashes of the slipping skies - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"

Effulgent skies enthrone his mighty name - T.M. Hughes "Iberia Won Canto I"

A dream fell from the sky into the old man's mind - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

As flowers upon the sky - Aldous Huxley "Italy"

The gold serenity of western skies - Aldous Huxley "Mole"

Grey pillars bear the stooping sky - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"

Grey tears that blur the sky - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

Through the grey tears that blur the sky - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

On a scale between dirt and sky - fahima ife "consider the dial"

Leaps between cocoon and sky - fahima ife "porous aftermath"

Gathered mushrooms from the moist sky - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"

Scan the sky for the hunter - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"

High in the forest of the sky - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Nor earth nor sky has breath - Alex A. Irvine "The Gleaners"

Nothing remains between you and the sky - Mark Irwin "What did you do today? How Long will it last? Will you remember?"

The Keeper of the Sky has hasped his Doors - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

On a bed of saffron sky - Sade Iverson "Eidolons"

Throwing kisses to the sky - Sade Iverson "Reminders"

Fret the black sky of night - Sade Iverson "Voices"

Beyond the curtains of the vaulted sky - J.T.J. "The Death of Socrates" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

gold against the mica sky - Didi Jackson "Fall"

the late fall's layered sky - Didi Jackson "Fall"

Stealing light from a flash in the sky - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"

The sky is full of my thinking - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

The sky is prepared to lie about its moods - Richard Jackson "The Italian Phrase Book"

Above the haunted glamour of the skies - Violet Jacob "White Magic"

They will push you into the sky - Elizabeth Jacobson "Blood Moon"

Recedes against the sky's aperture - John James "Driving Arizona"

Emblem to hang in the future sky - Robinson Jeffers "Rock and Hawk"

Lie too near the sky - Charles Bertram Johnson "Snow"

I asked the raven sky - Daniel Johnson "Inheritance"

A hundred steeples on the sky out-lining - Emily Pauline Johnson "Nocturne"

Bends the skies to me - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I've Learned to Sing"

To climb a hill that hungers for the sky - Helene Johnson "Fulfillment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Shine into the brilliance of an overly lit sky - Jacqueline Johnson "Oracle"

Some flowers waft scent to the skies - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]

Nights of starless skies - James Weldon Johnson "Beauty That is Never Old"

Go up to a tearless sky - James Weldon Johnson "The Greatest of These Is War"

Under the autumn of her skies - James Weldon Johnson "If I Were Paris"

Travel our tranquil skies - Lionel Johnson "Bells"

Circling triumph of the skies - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

Bright beacon of the azure sky - Edward Smyth Jones "Flag of the Free"

Framed in a sky of gold - Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. "I Saw You"

Shading into sky of gold - Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. "In Summer Twilight"

Open to a sky of windblown herons - Saeed Jones "Boy at Threshold"

Like the sky seeking justice - Saeed Jones "A Memory"

drifting under a wooden sky - Tanque R. Jones "Eight Months"

The field where sky and violet blend - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Violets"

The evening sky bruised dull gray - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

And wheel into the scalded sky - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

We lose the idea of the sky - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

The sky uncurling to the light - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

Your reward came from the skies - Zilka Joseph "Prophet of the Rock"

The final pale song of the sky - Zilka Joseph "Three Notes to Blue Jays"

When the skies cleared and the waters retreated - Zilka Joseph "What Ravens Do"

The sky where there was none - A.M. Juster "No Man's Island"

Our sole remaining neighbor was the sky - Donald Justice "Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy"

Sovereign of the blissful skies - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The sky tore strips of wax paper - Rodger Kamenetz "The Living Hive"

Her shout a hole torn in the sky - Ilya Kaminsky "As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy's Face with a Newspaper"

The sky of my mind against - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"

His body is the sky - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"

There will be no sky - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"

Fell upward into the sky - Holly Karapetkova "Refugees"

Bumping only against the sky - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"

Who stared up into the same punctured sky - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"

One star upon the desert of the sky - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"

Saw two wandering stars fall through the sky - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"

Shall crash out of the ruin of the sky - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"

Learned the secrets and signs of all the sky - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Song of Jacob Boehme"

I talk to owls and crows, hear voices from the sky - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Willow's Forge"

The London glare climbs upward to make the sad skies glow - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Willow's Forge"

Let me behold the summer sky - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

That answered well the weeping skies - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

Ever-varying skies contend - Fanny Kemble "Fragment from an epistle written when the thermometer stood at 98 in the shade"

Athwart the leaden sky - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"

Through the still sapphire skies - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"

Where saffron skies roof in the earth - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Like one who walketh in a plenteous land]"

Some sunny dream of river, field, and sky - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"

Limned in his blood across your clearing skies - T.M. Kettle "Parnell"

Pinned the sky with arrows of fire - Vandana Khanna "Hindu Mythology in Shorthand"

Hear the dusk burning from the sky - Vandana Khanna "In Captivity, Sita Contemplates Fidelity"

Make your dreams bigger than his sky - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

That will not view the Skies - Anne Killigrew "An Ode"

Wants a roof to keep away the sky - Joyce Kilmer "Roofs"

Charms the grateful skies - Joyce Kilmer "The Rosary"

Soaring high to the bright windows of the sky - "Kindness to Animals" [Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories (ed. by Hamilton Wright Mabie, William Byron Forbush, and Edward Everett Hale). 1927]

Bright windows of the sky - Anonymous "Kindness to Animals"

Whose blue light rattles sky - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"

Green-barked yew supports the sky - "King and Hermit" transl. by Kuno Meyer

O'er the fallen pillars of the deep and sky - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

As old and as true as the sky - Rudyard Kipling "The Law of the Jungle"

The motion of earth in sky - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"

Heard a wind blowing down the sky - Anne Knish "Opus 88"

The dust-mote mottled skies of our own minds - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"

Locked in the dust-mote mottled skies - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"

Refusing to give up the sky - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

The ore under their breath weighed down the gray sky - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"

Paint a dark, salty blood of surreal skies & wet soil - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

Cutting black shapes into the sky - Yusef Komunyakaa "Nighthawks"

A key to a door in the sky - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Wild geese moved like a wedge between sky and sagebrush - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

The ocean is sky to fish and mollusk - Christopher Kondrich "Layer of Ash"

Sky clear all the way up to the stars - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Electrician to the sky - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

Clouds with crepe bedeck and shroud the skies - Alfred Kreymborg "Crocus"

In the top branches, quizzing the sky - Alfred Kreymborg "The Tree"

From a blind sky - Maxine Kumin "New Hampshire, February 7, 2003"

An arpeggio climbing the ladder of sky - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"

Cherries falling from the crown of sky - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"

Die slowly from the olive sky - Archibald Lampman "Sunset"

As heaven looks through star-lit skies - Meta Lander "To the Picture of My Child" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.1, Jul. 1852]

And showing but the broken sky - Walter Savage Landor "To Wordsworth"

gods and muses arc from sky to earth - Jessica Langer "Chaos"

Sunrise skies intense with molten mist and flame - Lucy Larcom "November"

Her errands of air map the sky with longing - Lance Larsen "For I Will Consider the Lone Crow at Angels Landing"

As skies shall nourish the thunderbolt and gale - "The Last Song" translated from German, no translator credited [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The moon falls fainting on the sky - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"

Half the broad sky scowled in thunder and rain - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Twenty Bold Mariners"

The shadowed woods that grow on the sky's mountains - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Unity in Space"

A sky cross-stitched and beaded - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"

Commerce with the sun and skies - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway II: A Bog-Filled Valley"

With eyes uplifted to the sky - Emily Lawless "The Third Trumpet: a Ballad of Meath, May 1, 1654"

The wan, wondering look of the pale sky - D.H. Lawrence "Bei Hennef"

A summering tree unfolds from the sky - D.H. Lawrence "Bitterness of Death"

A sharp sky brushes upon the myriad glittering chimney-tips - D.H. Lawrence "Bombardment"

Under your fallen skies - D.H. Lawrence "The Revolutionary"

The unclouded glow of sun-steeped skies - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"

Naked branches point to frozen skies - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

Holds the hoarded lights of earth and sky - Richard Le Gallienne "Alfred Tennyson"

Who sang their passion to the skies - Richard Le Gallienne "Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy"

Eyes that look of lonely hills and skies - Richard Le Gallienne "Spirit of Sadness"

Under the amber torches of the sky - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"

Snow is the dream we had before the sky - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

Before the sky became hell's house - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

A shadow rests on earth and sky - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

All pause to sing in praise of rain and sky - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"

Who marvels at the sky - Eugenia Leigh "Glossolalia"

All dainty things of earth and sky - Henry S. Leigh "Not Quite Fair"

Jeweler to the wide rebellious sky - R.B. Lemberg "The Ash Manifesto"

Adorned in all the wide rebellious sky - R.B. Lemberg "The Ash Manifesto"

Though the sky be dark as midnight - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

To breathe the frozen sky - Philip Levine "Blood"

Calm us then under a gold sky - Philip Levine "Breath"

The absence of sky - Philip Levine "Clouds Above the Sea"

And stood out blackly from a tender sky - Amy Levy "Xantippe"

A place uplifted towards the midnight sky - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXVI. The Star Bath"

Lies hidden from the cheerful sky - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXVII. Tu Ne Quaesieris"

Dances down the sky - J. Patrick Lewis "Aurora Borealis"

Under the billion-acre sky - J. Patrick Lewis "the child"

Seized the sudden sky - J. Patrick Lewis "The Highest Air on a Skateboard"

By sea's bend, sky's border - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Year after year in the snow]" transl. by Burton Watson

Could not pierce these meshed and low-slung skies - Li Ho "The Northland in Cold" transl. by Burton Watson

The long river flowing to the edge of the sky - Li Po "At Yellow Crane Tower Taking Leave of Meng Hao-jan as He Sets off for Kuang-ling" transl. by Burton Watson

For I fear to surprise the people in the sky - Li Po "Mountain-Top Temple" transl. by Sasaki and Maxwell Bodenheim [The Little Review, June 1917, v.4, no.2]

Where the river sky drowns - Li Po "The White River at Nan-Yang" transl. by Arthur Waley

In the rafters of the sky - Sandra Lim "Certainty"

A bold blundering sky of fresh water - Ada Limon "The Crossing"

Tornadoes piled across the sky - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

My wizard cloak beneath that alien sky - Vachel Lindsay "The Comet of Prophecy"

Giants afar still touch the sky - Vachel Lindsay "In Memory of My Friend Joyce Kilmer, Poet and Soldier"

The powers of a thousand dreaming skies - Vachel Lindsay "Meeting Ourselves"

And in the logic of the skies - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"

Wander from Scotland to some darker sky - "Lines in Humble Imitation of an Inimitable Scottish Poet" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

When the helicopters shred the sky - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"

Seeking tiny pearls across the night sky - Svetlana Litvinchuk "I Was a Fish" [25 Aug. 2025]

Stealing a red moon from the silky sky - Liu Chengyu "Pillage, Thundersnow" [Strange Horizons 16 Dec. 2019]

Moon rolling down the gutter of the same sky - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

The lurid skies are hot with his fiery breath - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Enceladus" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]

Not a spider in the sky - "A Love-Song by a Lunatic"

Skies clear with deceitful welcome - Amy Lowell "Epitaph in a Church-Yard in Charleston, South Carolina"

With herons blowing like smoke across the sky - Amy Lowell "Hoar-Frost"

And marching upon a blue sky - Amy Lowell "Lilacs"

Guards the vision of the sunset sky - Amy Lowell "The Poet"

Inheriting the dowers of bending sky - Amy Lowell "To an Early Daffodil"

In the thin sky - Amy Lowell "Wind and Silver"

Croon a dirge to the lowering sky - James Russell Lowell "Farewell" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.6, June 1842]

A glow from deeper skies - James Russell Lowell "The Protest"

Over orphaned lives a gracious sky - James Russell Lowell "Sonnet: To Fanny Alexander"

To cry more than the sky - Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta "[Untitled]"

Run my tongue along the granite sky - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

With the sky's knees in my back - Tariq Luthun "Sermon (For Those Who Survive)"

Under a sky fast-blue with change - Alessandra Lynch "Funeral: For Us His Gold"

Poised for an instant against the sky - P.H.B. Lyon "The Song of Strength"

Where the unsealed mountain meets the sky - Francis J. Lys "Justitia Excedens Terris"

Flying from former fires into cerulean skies - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."

Lights the deepening sky of Time - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"

Nor have I share in earth or sky - William MacDonald "A Spring Trouble"

Hover mid the world's troubled sky - Annie Macdonell "Reiselust" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]

A field of spears, a lake of pikes, a sky of hawks, a hundred winters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

Shredding the sky in their hooligan gangs - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"

An outcome of the upper sky - Eric MacKay "Letter I. Prelude"

With miles and miles of unused sky - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Homesteader"

Lost in the enfolding skies - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Vale"

The kind sky folding all - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Wanderlust"

A hot, white sky above it - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Wet Weather"

The curving sky's blue hollow - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "When as a Lad"

Bare to turquoise skies - Dorothea Mackellar "The Grey Lake"

Scornful stars in the sky - Dorothea Mackellar "Night on the Plains"

Where the pale sea melts into the sky - Dorothea Mackellar "Sea-Fog"

Has roots in the depths of the sky - Fiona MacLeod "Lullaby"

I have tumbled through so many skies - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

Recede from the sky's hairline - Ruth Madievsky "Fog"

Under a colourless desolate sky - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Passions" transl. by Bernard Miall

When our skies become bright - E.G. Mallery "The Invitation"

Weave their figures in the sky - Douglas Malloch "When the Geese Come North"

Black lace against a sky of nacre - Frederic Manning "The Sign"

Ebony against a sky of jade - Frederic Manning "Wind"

Whirling high, from the Clock Tower to the sky - William Manning "A Child's Dream of the Zoo"

A topaz sky and huge windows - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman

The sky is a luminous scarlet arch - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie

In steep sky granaries - Jeannette Marks "Calendar"

Tiptoe with hunger for the sky - Jeannette Marks "Somewhere Tonight"

Brought the sun from other skies - Don Marquis "Dickens"

In futile glory storm the skies - Don Marquis "The Name"

Stole through the hollow sky - Don Marquis "Sea Changes II: Moonlight"

A sigh from the slumber of earth and sky - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

And awful silence of the sky - George Martin "Marguerite"

A cup cracked through with sky - J. Michael Martinez "Self-Portrait as Letter Addressed to Self"

When dark skies are writ with crimson prophecies - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]

To cast an eye upon the only cloud in this cold sky - Harry Martinson "Aniara 17" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That doesn't come from daydreams in the skies - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Moving off, diminishing against the sky's expanse - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Rising every evening in the skies of night - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Heard appeals and echoes from far skies - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Gazing back upon the skies - Andrew Marvell "A Drop of Dew"

Windy billows notching out the sky - John Masefield "Cardigan Bay"

The mightier silence of the skies - John Masefield "'Rest Her Soul, She's Dead'"

Pierced the roof of the sky - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (6)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Peeling clouds from the monochromatic sky - Adrian Matejka "Unfunky UFO"

The sky is bright with exhortation - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

To vengeance arm the skies - Matilda "The Mall" [The New-York Weekly Magazine; or, Miscellaneous Repository v.2 1796/97]

When the lights first appeared in the sky - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"

But I mistook the sky for an iris - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

All the rooms the sky makes - Farid Matuk "My Daughter Among the Names"

Blows from out the angry sky - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"

Responsive only to the skies - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"

The bounty of these quiet skies - Theodore Maynard "The Ensign"

Lost in the slate-cold sky - Theodore Maynard "The Stirrup Cup"

Shout beneath exultant skies - Theodore Maynard "Vocation"

Returning the swallow to the sky - Shara McCallum "History Is a Room"

Watching lightning open up the sky - John McCarthy "Garnett, Kansas"

Which the stars ciphered in fire upon the vaulted sky - Justin H. McCarthy "The Grave of Omar-I-Khayyam"

Beneath this leaden London sky - Justin H. McCarthy "The Grave of Omar-I-Khayyam"

The skies are sown with stars tonight - Samuel McCoy "The Off-Shore Wind"

Beneath the sky's eclipse - Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee "Our Ladye of the Snow"

The same sky the Babylonians scanned - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"

In the school of the sky - Maureen N. McLane "OK Let’s Go"

The weirdest shrieks would shake the sky - Vivian Estelle McMeekin "Stranger" [Strange Horizons 12 May 2025]

Why aim for the blue sky? - Mei Yao-ch'en "Back from Green Dragon, Presented to Hsieh Shih-chih" transl. by Burton Watson

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

The sky all turned to blue glass - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by David Hinton

A crown of glory from the skies - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"

New message from the skies - George Meredith "Archduchess Anne"

Raised clear horns on a transforming sky - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

To spell the letters of the sky - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

All vein and artery on cold sky - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Straight rains and tiger sky - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Raise lilies to the skyfields - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Sign within him of deep sky and sounded sea - George Meredith "On the Danger of War"

Fruits were all their sky - George Meredith "The Orchard and the Heath"

With this sky gone - W.S. Merwin "At the Same Time"

Always a sky made of water - W.S. Merwin "Coming to the Morning"

On the long sky of midsummer - W.S. Merwin "The Duck"

An arid net into sky - W.S. Merwin "The Rose Beetle"

The sky vaulted as a heart - W.S. Merwin "The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence"

Whistling on under the Winter sky - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

Until that noon of sombre sky - Alice Meynell "Easter Night"

Between what warming seas and conquering skies - Alice Meynell "The Roaring Frost"

They dropped in beauty from the pitying sky - Nicholas Michell "The Oases of Libya" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.431, 3 April 1852]

The skies of night, crystal and cold - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "A Winter Lullaby"

Made a darker sky below the sky - Wayne Miller "Nocturne"

A house is sky folded back - Claire Millikin "Cupboard"

November sky mimes heaven - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"

The way a sky shuts with rain - Claire Millikin "Escalator"

A golden plinth for sky - Claire Millikin "The Mannequins"

An apatite translucency of winter sky - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"

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

Or does it know this sky to hold more fire? - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"

Fold the lights of the night sky - Anis Mojgani "Leda"

The expanse of my blackening sky - Jenny Molberg "After Twenty Junes"

Will burrow in sky - Jenny Molberg "Atropos"

Drinking from the sky - Jenny Molberg "The Outer Core"

When it's hard to find stars in this daily sky - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"

Heard the cry subside in vacant skies - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"

Shimmering under the fluency of skies - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"

Skies radiant with crystal light - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"

Upon the glacial face of the sky - N. Scott Momaday "The Great Fillmore Street Buffalo Drive"

Could articulate the night sky - N. Scott Momaday "Prayer for Words"

Bright lightning on obsidian skies - N. Scott Momaday "The Rider of Two Gray Hills"

Points a stark hand at the sky - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"

And the storm's red rack in the sky is burning - Harriet Monroe "Hope"

Each cup mirrors the glowing skies - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"

Through morning eyes explores the skies - Harriet Monroe "Love Song"

Alone in the dark sky - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"

The manifold teachings of ocean, and forest, and sky - Beverly Moore "Vacation" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

A staircase ending at the sky - Jim Moore "Diptych: My Bracelet"

That lie amid a sky of shrouds - John Trotwood Moore "The Last Drive" [The Taylor-Trotwood Magazine v.IV no.4, Jan. 1907]

Has borrowed laughter from the sky - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."

Fell in the depths of the deep, dark sky - William Moore "Dusk Song"

Burn clear against a sky of tender blue - William Moore "Here in the Time of the Winter Morn"

As night sky caresses the murmuring sand - Ed Morales "The Talking Coconut"

A Russian sable running circles in the skies - Emanuel Morgan "Opus 6"

Turn this white page of nothing into a night sky - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"

Lava from the sky poured rashly out - Robert Morris "A Sea Scene" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.1, Jan. 1841]

In a silence of vacuumed, black-space sky - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"

A drop of sky from Paradise - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Chronicle of an Execution" transl. by Joshua Freeman

The sky with an icebound sun - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "History" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

Whatever kite begs the sky - Angel Nafis "TarBaby Fly!"

Under a sunset sky of dreams diaphanous - Sarojini Naidu "June Sunset"

Under a sunset sky of dreams - Sarojini Naidu "June Sunset"

When dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky - Sarojini Naidu "Street Cries"

And plucked the fruit of many an alien sky - Sarojini Naidu "To Youth"

And should life's sky be overcast - John Napier "Who Knows?"

Impassive sky against your forehead - Chris Nealon "All About You"

An orange sun fatter than the sky - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

Solitary monk of the sky - Pablo Neruda "The Birds Arrive" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Scatter transparent letters across the sky - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: VII" transl. by William O'Daly

A bitter sky of soaked metal - Pablo Neruda "Disaction" translated by Donald D. Walsh

By the great winds of the sky - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney

A darting fish in the water of the sky - Pablo Neruda "I Want to Return to the South (1941)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The whole sky drop by drop - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid

Sweeps the meadows of the sky - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Seagull" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Always found the flavor of sky - Pablo Neruda "This Is Where We Live" transl. by Alastair Reid

The sky lies easy to his plow - Pablo Neruda "To the Dead Poor Man" transl. by Alastair Reid

Daughters of wheat and sky - Pablo Neruda "We Together" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The goblet of summer was a fleeting sky - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly

The sky with its goblet of freshness - Pablo Neruda "With Quevedo, In Springtime" transl. by William O'Daly

The wide sky guards their flight - E. Nesbit "The Poet to His Love"

A jewel for sky and sea - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"

Like lamps between sky and sea - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"

Came down from the sky in the night - "The New Baby" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]

Aimed litanies at an empty sky - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"

Jam jars to can this summer sky - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"

The biggest sky of my life remains - Hieu Minh Nguyen "SoMa"

sky and earth convulse in all directions - Huy Tưởng aka Đức Hiệp Nguyễn "final final night" transl. by Phương Anh

echoes of green i return to the sky - Huy Tưởng aka Đức Hiệp Nguyễn "Night in the forest" transl. by Phương Anh

Pitching their absence across the sky - Grace Nichols "Lewes Night Out"

Under the dazed and distant sky - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

A comet's loveliness shaken across the midnight sky - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

To climb the curve of arid sky - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Since night's robes trailed Eden's sky - Meredith Nicholson "In Ether Spaces"

Demarcate the limits of the sky - Sara Nicholson "The Burden"

Dark had not unwrapped the skies - Sarah Noble-Ives "An Early Start"

Place the flames in the sky make a night river of light - Margaret Noodin "Fireflies" transl. by the author

Seven sisters of the night sky - Margaret Noodin "Gidiskinaadaa Mitigwaakiing/Woodland Liberty"

While grandmother moon sliced the sky - Margaret Noodin "Northern Lights" transl. by the author

The sky echoes in my ears - Margaret Noodin "Northern Lights" transl. by the author

While the sky hums she pours the liquid of her soul - Margaret Noodin "Together Between" transl. by the author

To front the thundering sky - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Shared the silence of the sky - Alfred Noyes "The Book of Earth X: Epilogue"

One hand up against the sky - Naomi Shihab Nye "All I Can Do"

Into the sky's wide ear - Naomi Shihab Nye "Almost, Never"

Only the sky tying the universe together - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Grandmother in the Stars"

Wearing the sky - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"

As wind claims the whole sky - Naomi Shihab Nye "Wind and the Sleeping Breath of Men"

Who fly from her like seeds into a deep sky - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Words Under the Words"

No cure beneath the skies - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson

Under the sky of brightness - "Oghuzname Epic" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken

Smote the sky in tremulous bars of doom - Thomas O'Hagan "In the Trenches"

The arches are empty clear to the sky - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"

As I draw thunder from the sky at dusk - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Hard ground and hard sky - Sharon Olds "Take the I Out"

Know nothing about the sky - Mary Oliver "This Morning"

If the sky had a throat - Mary Oliver "West Wind 3"

Moon, ice, the glass-edged sky - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

levitates & darts into the dark, moon-streaked skies - Elisha Oluyemi "Another Beauty of Darkness" [25 March 2024]

Sky after sky waiting to fall - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"

My son reaches into the sky - January Gill O'Neil "The Rookie"

Shift the gorgeous scenery of the sky - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Whose floating glory melts within the sky - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Nothing but me 'twixt earth and sky - Kate Putnam Osgood "Day-Dream" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]

In the sky's great shroud of light - Ekhmetjan Osman "My Love" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

Uplift the eyelids of the starry skies - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Thankful and the Thankless"

Tranquil as the vestal sky - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

That sable mantle of the sky - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

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

The veil embroidered with the star-spangled sky - Kostes Palamas "The Sinner" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

In the sky's mouth - Marigloria Palma "Twilight" (translated by Carina del Valle Schorske)

To shatter the quiet of the skies - Herbert E. Palmer "The New Beginning"

Battle for the pastured sky - Sebastian H. Paramo "The Tejano Considers Seeds"

Mask the gentle sky - Dorothy Parker "Absence"

Headlong through your paper sky - Dorothy Parker "August"

Scan the renovated skies - Dorothy Parker "Recurrence"

Sappho's restriction was only the sky - Dorothy Parker "Words of Comfort to be Scratched on a Mirror"

A storm come churning through the endless sky - Lauren Parker "Miranda"

Painting the leaden sky - Ann Whitford Paul "My Dog and I"

To sweep away our guilt before the sky - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

The eagle builds his eyrie nearest to the fervid skies - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

In the light of a contented sky - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"

The sky's edgeless statement about vastness - Carl Phillips "Searchlights"

From the banquet of the skies - Ippolito Pindemonte "On the Hebe of Canova" translated by Felicia Hemans

Inlaid on the skies of the heart - Ping Hsin "Multitudinous Stars" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

Twice on Sunday the bells startle the sky - Sylvia Plath "The Moon and the Yew Tree"

Outcasts at the farther end of the sky - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson

Drop fire from the sky but don't expect it to purify - Iain Haley Pollock "the smoke of the country went up"

Drop fire from the sky but don't name me as reason - Iain Haley Pollock "the smoke of the country went up"

Drop fire from the sky - Iain Haley Pollock "the smoke of the country went up"

No bright reversion in the sky - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

Far in the midnight sky - Alexander Posey "My Hermitage"

Silence settle from the midnight sky - Alexander Posey "On Viewing the Skull and Bones of a Wolf"

Sit in the sky and study the clouds - Miriam Clark Potter "Fire-flies"

A glint of gold from the evening sky - Miriam Clark Potter "How Sleep Was Made"

The sky is buttoned with the stars - Miriam Clark Potter "The Lady Night"

Rushing in from jungle lands of sky - Miriam Clark Potter "The March Wind"

Some birds belong to the sky and hills - Miriam Clark Potter "The Swans"

Come up with us in the pasture sky - Miriam Clark Potter "The Two Little Flocks"

Sheep of the earth and sheep of the sky - Miriam Clark Potter "The Two Little Flocks"

The hounds of the crimson sky - Ezra Pound "Ballad of the Goodly Fere"

In an ecstasy of sky - Lynn Powell "Driftings at Anchor"

The sky was but an anchor - E.J. Pratt "In Absentia"

A smudged white thumbprint on the night sky - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Blue Cup"

A face that shifts like the sky or water - Tim Pratt "Mask"

To mingle with the skies - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"

A holy star in retrospection's sky - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"

To the eagle leave the sky - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"

The supremest splendor of earth or sky or sea - Margaret J. Preston "Nocturne" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]

Wailing storms and weeping skies - C.I. Pringle "The Last Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.121-v.III, 24 April 1886]

And cry fierce answers to the angry sky - Adelaide Anne Proctor "The Storm"

Through gold rents torn in a violet sky - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: My Picture Gallery"

Having shot the sky full of bright holes - Kevin Prufer "After You Have Vanished"

Drilled the sun in the sky so light dumped out - Kevin Prufer "There Is No Audience for Poetry"

The convex sky bottling cirrus highs - Wyatt Prunty "Last Century"

Sit vigil under a sky of shifting indigo - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist in the NICU"

Strike us as a reversal of sky - Khadijah Queen "Imminence"

No cloud of doubt come o'er your sky - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Across the endless field of sky - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Road to Colla"

The fathomless smile of the sky - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Si Parva Licet Componere Magnis"

Floating on a haze of sky - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Winter on the Zuyder Zee"

No other branches coroneting the sky - Shivanee Ramlochan "The Meaning of Trees"

The sky will populate itself - Yaxkin Melchy Ramos "The Boxwood Sketches" transl. by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Nothing human that can scratch even the lowest sky - Yaxkin Melchy Ramos "Capybara Hot Springs" transl. by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

The algae were bridges to other skies - Yaxkin Melchy Ramos "Capybara Hot Springs" transl. by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Wrought of the sea and sky - Theodore H. Rand "The Arethusa"

Under the hollow sky - Theodore H. Rand "Sea Music"

The burnished cypher of the sky - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

All the spheres along the sky - Herbert Randall "Feel of the Wander-Lure"

The vaulted skies your rosary - Herbert Randall "To Massasoit"

When the sky rains jewels - Muhemmetjan Rashidin "Long Live" transl. by Nicholas Kontovas and edited by Gulnisa Nazarova

The sky is of ancient tin - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"

Touches the earth and flies back to the sky - G.A. Raybold "The First Kiss of Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.3, Sept. 1841]

Meteors through the midnight skies - G.A. Raybold "The Joys of Former Years Have Fled"

Wading into the sky - Roger Reeves "Brazil"

Watch his comrades close down the sky - Roger Reeves "The Head of the Cottonmouth"

And flung into the falling sky - Roger Reeves "The Head of the Cottonmouth"

After we have taken to the sky - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"

a motionless mirror of the full moon sky - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Rise triumphant through the starry skies - "Resurgamus" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]

Hawk-skied, carrion-clean - Adrienne Rich "Camino Real"

Levitating into the night sky riding the polished lenses - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"

Bent under the shattering skies of harvest - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

A meteor thrown athwart some sky - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"

Erect upon her wheeling skies - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

That leaned so gaunt against the sky - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Under its iron band of sky - Lynn Riggs "The Arid Land"

An arch of iron to frame the sky - Lynn Riggs "Endless Legend"

Black light streams from skies of ebony - Duane W. Rimel "Dreams of Yith" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]

Walked as far as the sky is blue - Jade Riordan "We Others"

Of an otherwise quiet sky - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"

When fair Hebe left the sky - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"

stroking you forward to the center of the sky - Ed Roberson "Black Earth Song"

Winged with a flake of sky - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Place of His Rest"

Little comrades of the sky - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Recessional"

And the Heart of the Sky leaned down to me - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Saxifrage"

Chaos lifts the heavy sea and bends the hollow sky - Lloyd Roberts "The Madness of Winds"

Slowly creeping round the northern sky - D.J. Robertson "The Return" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.119--v.III, 10 April 1886]

Wrench one banner from the western skies - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Sonnet [Oh for a poet--]"

The wonderful harmony of the earth and the skies - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

A ruby path between the earth and sky - Rennell Rodd "From the Hills of Gardens"

Flashed out from the flame-flushed skies - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"

A blankness giving way to sky - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"

Statues ranged along an azure sky - Samuel Rogers "That Glorious City in the Sea" [The Charm of Venice, 1908, ed. by Alfred H. Hyatt]

Through the stately circles of the skies - Alice Wellington Rollins "Expression"

She steps silent from the sky onto sand - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"

Night is stretched across the frame of the sky - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"

That cotton mangle of a sky - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"

And face the whole gray sky - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"

Those ice-bound summits pierce the sky - "The Rose of Warning" transl. by Adam Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVIII, v.LIX, June 1846]

In a sky of mute chagrin - Isaac Rosenberg "Chagrin"

Sang beneath the sunset sky - Christina Rossetti "An Apple Gathering"

Burn more deep than star-flushed skies - George Rostrevor "Moments"

With a pomp of cloud in the roofless sky - George Rostrevor "Moments"

Cloudy waters of the sky flow no longer - George Rostrevor "Orpheus"

A sip of the lake and a bite of the sky - Deborah Ruddell "Today at the Bluebird Cafe"

A new enchantment lights the ancient skies - George William Russell "Divine Visitation"

Is love less kindred with the skies - J.S. "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]

Decreed to that eternal sky - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]

Come under washed void skies - Vita Sackville-West "Dissonance"

Streets of cities threatening the sky - Vita Sackville-West "Fallen Youth"

Follows the pricked revolving sky - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"

Bird climbing the wheel of sky - David St. John "Francesco and Clare"

Their black wavering lines in the sky - Marjorie Saiser "Crane Migration, Platte River"

At this angle of the sky no pictures are allowed - Tomaž Šalamun "We Build a Barn and Read Reader's Digest"

A crown made of this visible sky - Sanai "Energetic Work" transl. by Coleman Barks

Seven stars upon the sky that beamed - Robert Alden Sanborn "The Children and Judas"

Under the torched gown of sky - Erika L. Sanchez "Self-Portrait 2"

Got lost in the sky - Carl Sandburg "The Moon"

A red poppy gone up to the sky - Reg Saner "The Red Poppy"

To challenge the waking skies - Margaret E. Sangster "At Dawn: I. The Caveman"

Sent from earth to kiss the sky - Margaret E. Sangster "At Dawn: III. The Farmer"

Scorched by the sky's inexorable zeal - George Santayana "Avila"

Trouble stalked beneath the sky - George Santayana "Resurrection"

The sky sells cotton candy - Ralph James Savarese "The Bearing Edge"

Let earth and sky return to darkness - Friederich Schiller "Friendship" transl. not credited

For thousands of years to roll on through the skies - Friederich Schiller "The Greatness of the World" transl. not credited

Ghosts on the midnight skies - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"

Forged out water, woods and stubborn skies - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Four"

Silt of stars washed down from skies - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Marker Memory"

Imperishable blue this bitter sky - Ann K. Schwader "Maya Blue (At Chichen Itza)"

All vacating this scrap of sky - Ann K. Schwader "On Any Given Midnight"

Tongues of fire across our midnight sky - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"

Dying stars our skies have long forgotten - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

Shadow on a shattered concrete sky - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"

In the sky's serene immensity - Clinton Scollard "Dusk at Sea"

Under the arch of a leaden sky - Clinton Scollard "The Spectral Rowers"

The turquoise sweep of sky - Clinton Scollard "Wild Geese"

Pear-green and freckled sky - Richard Scott "Peridot"

To have a sky that stays there - Nicole Sealey "cento for the night i said, 'i love you'"

Find traces of laughter in the night sky - M. Bartley Seigel "Etched in Gemstone and Antler"

Pondering the sky while our sacred waters run out - M. Bartley Seigel "Love Is Made from Laughter, Fists, Tears, and Forgetting"

At opposite ends of the sky - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

The insolent towers that sprawl to the sky - Robert W. Service "I'm Scared of it All"

In the flush of my midnight skies - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"

Monster mountains scrape the sky - Robert Service "To C.M."

Where the sun gutters from the sky - Anne Sexton "The Truth the Dead Know"

That beckons sojourn through skies - Purvi Shah "You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious--"

With ageless fire in skies serene - Edward Shanks "Fear in the Night"

Shy stars out of the evening skies - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

Legions in the flame-torn sky - Virna Sheard "Carry On!"

Swept the blue from the sky - Virna Sheard "A War Chant"

Golden letters on the midnight sky - Virna Sheard "The Young Knights"

Perform ablutions in the ashen forehead of sky - Deema K. Shehabi "Migrant Earth"

That listening is made for the ashen sky - Deema K. Shehabi "Migrant Earth"

I retrieve my guilt and confess it to the sky - Deema K. Shehabi "Solstice Pantoum"

Beating in the sky's eardrum - Deema K. Shehabi "Vista"

Half the sky was roofed with clouds - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Fabrics of Enchantment Piled to Heaven" [The Charm of Venice, 1908, ed. by Alfred H. Hyatt]

The steep sky's commotion - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"

The stars made their way to the center of the sky - Matthew Shenoda "The Pigeons Rose from the Floor of the Earth; A Clamoring of Wings to Disturb the Silence"

Our suspension in the sky brings us closer - Matthew Shenoda "The Pigeons Rose from the Floor of the Earth; A Clamoring of Wings to Disturb the Silence"

A tissue of gold for the midnight skies - Odell Shepard "The Hidden Weaver"

Were born in the dark hollows of the sky - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"

Until one forgets the color of the unseen skies - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

Show me a fairer sky above - Frank Dempster Sherman "At Her Window"

Stars, that dwell in noonday skies, shine on - Fannie Isabelle Sherrick "Easter"

When the obsidian sky trembles at crystal starlight - Julie Shiel "Cinderella"

Darkness that will tear the sky down - Julie Shiel "Cinderella"

Fell, heavy with sky - Evie Shockley "color bleeding"

When he came from unknown skies - Dora Sigerson Shorter "All-Souls' Night"

The lark a pilgrim in the skies - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Lover"

Exposed throat of the sky - Iryna Shuvalova "a moving grove" transl. by Uilleam Blacker

Climb a hill where the sky is wide - Joyce Sidman "Heartless"

The one whose hands are full of sky - Joyce Sidman "Illness: A Conversation"

In dizzy rings of clouds and sky - Joyce Sidman "Lake's Promise"

To anchor earth, to touch the sky - Joyce Sidman "Oak After Dark"

Tinging the retina with rays from sky - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Laura Bridgman"

the austerity of silver stars in a winter sky - ire'ne lara silva "el abanico" [Poetry April 2025]

And sun shatters the sky - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Never Learns to Cook or Sew"

Eyes full of the sky's terror - Charles Simic "Winter Sunset"

There shall be blessings from the skies for thee - W. Gilmore Simms "Sonnet: To Mrs. -- -- --" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

The sky places an arm on the near hills - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

Fair gardens long ago beneath a changing sky - Albert W. Smith "How It Happened"

The skies of steel and gold - Clark Ashton Smith "The Exile"

Eating the dead blue sky - Clark Ashton Smith "Finis"

Usurp the skies with thunder - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

And turn the skies to perfume - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

In icy deserts of the sky - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"

On the black flowing of Lethean skies - Clark Ashton Smith "Revenant" [Fantasy Fan, v.1, no.7, Mar. 1934]

Through the sky like severing swords - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

They know us as the drums in their dirt sky - Danez Smith "Two Deer in a Southside Cemetery"

Twelve fingers stretching for the winter sky - Emily Smith "Such Monstrous Births"

The starlings choose one piece of sky - Maggie Smith "Starling"

Stitch the sky with warnings - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"

Questions in the swirled sky - Patricia Smith "The Dawn of Luther B's Best Day"

Stealing gladness from the skies - Mrs. Seba Smith "To Fanny H***" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

Projecting the whole night sky of constellations - Cynthia So "The Unicorn's Question"

A black sky framed in saffron - Richard Solomon "Galatea of the Spheres"

Under a cold gray dragon of a sky - Richard Solomon "Report to the Bodhisattvas on the Heart Sutra After Dying in the Up on the Sturgeon River"

Birds crash into a windowed sky - Richard Solomon "Young Virgin Autosodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity"

A cloak on the face of the sky - "Songs of the Seedy no.VII" [Punch v.1 July-Dec. 1841]

Under the tall sky of hope - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney

To sound the silent skies - Leonora Speyer "Enigma"

She comes from out the violated sky - Leonora Speyer "The Last Morning in the Country"

Along the black cliffs of the sky - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Seek the high austerity of evening sky and swirl into its depths - Leonora Speyer "Swallows"

Whilst shouts of Huntsmen rend the Sky - "Stag Hunt" [W. Belch's British Sports, for the Amusement of Children]

Slash with a net at the empty skies - Stagnelius "Kaspar's Song in Varda" transl. by Rudyard Kipling [Traffics and Discoveries]

Outtop the blue-ribbed sky - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Spirit of War"

Underneath the silent sky - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

See the light of azure skies - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"

Forever narrowing to that unknown sky - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

Armada of the sky - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"

And the sad moon walks the sky - James Stephens "Day and Night"

I put the sky into my pocket, and the sea into my locket - James Stephens "The Gombeen-Man"

Broke loose to a remoter sky - George Sterling "The Altar Flame"

The silence of the sky - George Sterling "The Black Vulture"

Too sad to watch the sky - George Sterling "The Faun"

The battle of contending skies - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"

In the isolation of the sky - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

From that sky where sorrow swirls - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"

Thinking we belong to the sky - Susan Stewart "Poem from Holderlin"

Sky-pictures of silver and sapphire - Alfred B. Street "Buttermilk Falls: Racket River"

Quieter sky, aching with isolation absolute - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"

Their wild strength to possess the sky - "A Stroll by Starlight" [Household Words no.15, 6 July 1850]

Merciful skies, uncradle your mist - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

Flashed up the startled skies - Muriel Stuart "Forgotten Dead, I Salute You"

While death patiently paces the sky - SM Stubbs "Faith"

Where a hundred waterfalls leap from the sky - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson

One speck where the river swallows the sky - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson

So come when the moon is enthroned in the sky - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"

From your stations in the sky - Howard V. Sutherland "Lyric [Tell me, tell me, gentle stars]"

Veil across that ever-brooding sky - Howard V. Sutherland "The Northern Light"

In the sky of life are brilliant stars - Wm. Albert Sutliffe "Fragment of a Poem" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.6, Dec. 1852]

To confound the earth and sky - E. Sutton "The Drum"

With eyes that sounded the deep skies - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Song of Italy"

Eyes too proud to thank the sky and sea - Algernon Swinburne "Three Faces: I. Ventimiglia"

The wind's way in the deep sky's hollow - Algernon Swinburne "The Way of the Wind"

To lie at home beneath the equal sky - Arthur Symons "On the Zattere" [The Charm of Venice, 1908, ed. by Alfred H. Hyatt]

As a full moon lifts against an ocean of sky - Arthur Sze "White Sands"

The sky is bursting to black ice - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"

With rosy kisses maddening all the sky - Rabindranath Tagore "Spring that in My Courtyard"

Left to hold up the sky's condolences - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"

Bare, brown branches stark against the deep, blue sky - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"

Just silhouettes now against the evening sky - Keith Taylor "Landscape, 1963: The Rocks"

Unlimited protein falling from the sky - Keith Taylor "One Species to Mourn"

Sad tomatoes, sullen sky - Tess Taylor "Mud Season"

In the sky, starlings eddying - Tess Taylor "Mud Season"

Sweeping all the nine-tiered sky - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "In the Year with the Cyclical Sign Mou-shen (408), in the Sixth Month We Had a Fire" transl. by Burton Watson

who stitches together the last sky - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

there are birds making treaties with the sky - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

last sky will empty itself of airplanes - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

days add intervals of light to sky - Brian Teare "smallholding"

Robbing the sky of stars - Sara Teasdale "Broadway"

A sister of the sky - Sara Teasdale "Morning"

Should kneel in joy beneath the sky - Sara Teasdale "Spring Night"

Thunder gripping the earth and lightning scrawled on the sky - Sara Teasdale "Spring Rain"

As curving skies above - Sara Teasdale "To E"

Are offensive to the sky - Öykü Tekten "mountain language"

As Icarus arrives at the border of the sky - Jonathan Teklit "Black Mythology"

From the splendor of the crimson sky - Celia Thaxter "A Triumph" [St. Nicholas v.V no.8, June 1878]

Though vultures still cloud the political sky - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"

Get into puddles with the sky - Amber Flora Thomas "Damaged Photos"

Challenges and menaces to the wide sky - Edward Thomas "Ambition"

The one sound under the sky - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"

Nor choose 'twixt earth and sky - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"

For my house all made of sky - Francis Thompson "Ex Ore Infantium"

A golden crevice in the sky - Francis Thompson "To My Godchild--Francis M. W. M."

On our sweet earth and in their unplaced sky - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

They take the sky with them - Matthew Thorburn "Birds before Winter"

A starry sky above the pyramids - Matthew Thorburn "Like Hours of Rain on Piles of Brown Leaves"

Their thoughts conversing with the sky - Henry David Thoreau "Rumors from an Aeolian Harp"

A living veil drops down from the sky - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"

What will you pay to watch the sky fall? - Trevor Tingle "The World Awaits My Little Chicken" [Strange Horizons 18 Aug. 2025]

A nasty cloud of doubt above our sunlit sky - "To Doctor Falbe" [Punch v.105, Sept. 23, 1893]

Brilliant orange strikes the sky - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"

When by the heated skies oppressed - Too-qua-stee "Dignity"

Sweeping throu the frigid skies - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Sequoyah"

All pigment of natural sky - Edwin Torres "Skygrass"

Rips the heart out of sky - Edwin Torres "Skygrass"

A sky to throw wishes against - Michael Torres "Writing Prompt"

Whose mad hands tear the sky - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"

A wish hurling across the sky - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"

Once sky met wind for the first time - John Trudell "Heart Jump Bouquet"

Now I understand why the sky is falling - John Trudell "Isn't My Life/Elk Song"

Blood through the hole in the sky - John Trudell "Thicker than Blood for Billy Joe/Chiefs Song"

Tall branches sweeping the azure sky - Ts'ao P'i "Lotus Lake" transl. by Burton Watson

Some dread sky rocket of Eternity - Tso-le-oh-woh "What an Indian Thought When He Saw the Comet"

In the endless sky's empty tranquility - Tu Mu "Climbing Joy-Abroad Plateaus" transl. by David Hinton

Toward some other sky - Mark Turcotte "Dear New Blood"

Be you in your own sky - Mark Turcotte "Dear New Blood"

Against the edge of the sky - Mark Turcotte "Dear New Blood"

If the sky's got to cry - Nancy Byrd Turner "A Rainy Day Plan" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

And strength flowed to him from the sky - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"

On the dark pavements of the sky - W.J. Turner "Kent in War"

Hang across the sky like solid limbs of night - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

Still intangible power floats out of the sky - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

But again the sky is spared - Chase Twichell "Stirred Up By Rain"

Speak directly into the ear of the sky - Chase Twichell "To the Reader: Twilight"

So still against a sky of daffodil - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"

Plucked them stars out of the sky - Katharine Tynan "A Song of Christmas"

Roses in the sky, roses in the sea - Katherine Tynan "Winter Sunset"

Bowers of scarlet sky-roses - Katherine Tynan "Winter Sunset"

All this sky a rose-garden - Katherine Tynan "Winter Sunset"

The scornful and untroubled skies - Louis Untermeyer "Challenge"

The unexplored and endless skies - Louis Untermeyer "God's Youth"

In all the skies or under - Louis Untermeyer "The Heretic: Blasphemy"

The angry face of the sky - Louis Untermeyer "Leaving the Harbor"

All the sudden singing skies - Louis Untermeyer "Protests"

The noble skies and the inviolate stars - Louis Untermeyer "Sunday Night"

Against the numbed sky - John Updike "Icarus"

black neon wrapped in sky blue linen - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"

Sky would quick forget - Pamela Uschuk "Green Flame"

Blood the skies like a storm of Gods - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"

A great bear tracking across the endless sky - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Starry Night"

As the sunset breathes the sky - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"

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

Right and left earth and sky desert me - Mark Van Doren "River Snow"

Earth and sky and the fair ministries of Nature - Henry van Dyke "Dulciora"

Floods of wrath from the frowning skies - Henry van Dyke "Victor Hugo"

turning the night sky and river orange - Katrina Vandenberg "Oarlock, Oar (Y, W, V, U, F)"

The sky weeps in abundance - Ruperta Bautista Vázquez "Jícara | Boch" transl. by Morgan L. Ventura

This landscape's clear and tender sky - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires I" transl. by Alma Strettell

Rags that cling about the sullen sky - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: Rain" transl. by Alma Strettell

Outlines lost and blended with the sky - Jones Very "The Clouded Morning"

Thunders that break from the sky of fate - George Sylvester Viereck "Dr. Faust's Descent from Heaven"

A sky gilded with violets and myrrh - R.A. Villanueva "When Doves"

From its hive of the sky - Virgil (translated by Kristina Chew) "The Georgics, Book IV, lines 58-66"

With a softer blue the sky pavilions earth - Hans von Spiegel "June" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

As another war coppers the sky - Ocean Vuong "Anaphora as Coping Mechanism"

Like stones fallen from the sky - Ocean Vuong "Aubade with Burning City"

Filled with all the colors of the sky - Ocean Vuong "To My Father/To My Future Son"

Across the bleak skies overcast scurries - "The Wail of the Wasp" [Punch v.159, Sept. 22, 1920]

Sky around your shoulders - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"

Water the skies of the dead - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"

Sing chorals in the sky - Charles William Wallace "A Choral of Sunset"

To run under such maddening skies - Kathleen Montgomery Wallace "Unreturning"

Where the sky swoops down to meet the fields - Kathleen Montgomery Wallace "Yesterday"

A creature less of earth than skies - Wm. Wallace "Perditi: Part Second" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.6, June 1842]

Chasing each other away into clear blue skies - Wang An-Shih "Late Spring" transl. by David Hinton

Sky answers lake with light - Noah Warren "Shuttle"

Now the air grows tunneled, now the sky diminishes - Noah Warren "Shuttle"

Above me the sky was a lake of blue fire - Noah Warren "Wind"

The sky moved crying through your walls - Noah Warren "Wind"

A fearful diapason rends the arches of the skies - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

When the sullen sky stoops with its weight of terror - "Watchword" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]

A starry sky for the jar of the world - Lauren K. Watel "The Last Act"

Woods of gold and skies of grey - William Watson "Autumn"

Where gentian flowers make mimic sky - William Watson "A Child's Hair"

Impale the sky on silver spears - William Watson "A Child's Hair"

Mountains pillaring the perfect sky - William Watson "The Glimpse"

And leap out of the shattered sky - William Watson "Under the Dark and Piny Steep"

Telling wonders from the sky - Isaac Watts "A Cradle Hymn"

The sky will be a gouache of scratches - Andrea Werblin "Barrio with Sketchy Detail"

Roam this strange earth beneath a stranger sky - A. Ethelwyn Wetherald "At Dawn"

A wall of flame from the brilliant sky - A. Ethelwyn Wetherald "Autumn Fire"

The sky's clear face was from me turned - A. Ethelwyn Wetherald "The Chipmunk"

The sky's great curtains downward steal - A. Ethelwyn Wetherald "A Midday in Midsummer"

The sky path to the gate of dreams - A. Ethelwyn Wetherald "The Sky Path"

The bare road burns beneath a dazzling sky - A. Ethelwyn Wetherald "The Sun on the Trees"

The broken moon in the star garden of the skies - A. Ethelwyn Wetherald "Three Years Old"

A wound made of fire opening in the sky - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"

Under a pale sky where no shadows fall - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

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

Behold the beauty of fairer skies - Kate Louise Wheeler "Under the Pines"

The glittering sky of soundless winter - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

And the sky holds up her stars - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Up the clear stair of the eternal sky - John Hall Wheelock "The Fish-Hawk"

Shadow winnowed through the skies - Eugene R. White "Reward"

Not asking the sky to come down - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"

Catch glints of rapture from the sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Bird Love--Rose Love"

A lost star I wander down your sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Flower of the Clove"

And sought the island of enchanted skies - Helen Hay Whitney "The Golden Fruit"

Bleak trees stand up against the sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"

In golden haze melt down the amber sky - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Psalm" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]

Melt down the amber sky - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

The hawk's grey fleck along the sky - John Greenleaf Whittier "Red Riding-Hood"

Slow tracing down the thickening sky - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

A universe of sky and snow - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Stripped clear against the sky - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"

With the cold flushed sky behind - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"

The hollow vastness of the sky - William Carlos Williams "Dawn"

Sweet smells from a white sky - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"

And try them against the sky's limits - William Carlos Williams "M. B."

Dipped his hand in the black waters of the sky - William Carlos Williams "Pastoral"

Always against a grey sky - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"

Touching a grey, broken sky - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"

The sky has given over its bitterness - William Carlos Williams "Spring Storm"

The weight of the sky is upon them - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

On a sheet of grey sky - William Carlos Williams "Woman Walking"

Look at the sky and remember different stars - Rin Willis "After the Wolf"

Fell like a kiss from the sky - Joseph R. Wilson "One Sweet Moment"

The revolution of wheel to sky - Keith S. Wilson "I Find Myself Defending Pigeons"

The sky is petty enough without us pestering it - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"

And gaze into my mind's blue sky - Allan Wolf "My Mind's Eye Is a Clear Blue Sky"

Diamonds in a pressure-cooker sky - Allan Wolf "Uranus: The Planet Behind the Blue-Green Mask"

Icarus, drowning upwards through the sky - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"

For orange moons in skies of jade - Humbert Wolfe "The Silver Cat"

As an astronomer looks at the star-filled sky - Adolf Wolff "Lines Inspired on Meeting a Lady: To A. L."

And pick the sun out of the sky - G.E. Woods "How to Skin Your Wolf"

As one tries to shoot into the sky - Constance Fenimore Woolson "Commonplace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]

And sacred to the sky - William Wordsworth "The Danish Boy"

Connect the landscape with the quiet of the sky - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"

With such a sky to lead him on - William Wordsworth "Stepping Westward"

My tentative statement under the threatening sky - Charles Wright "Four Dog Night"

The blank page of the sundown sky - Charles Wright "Next"

As he would invade the sky - John Wright "An Autumnal Cloud"

That sky like a thin gold mask - Elinor Wylie "Sunset on the Spire"

Wears that sky like a thin gold mask - Elinor Wylie "Sunset on the Spire"

Cold silver on a sky of slate - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"

Stars are not only found out in the sky - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"

Open plains and empty sky on all four sides - Yang Wan-li "At Hsieh Cove" transl. by David Hinton

Chatting with clear evening skies - Yang Wan-li "Cold Sparrows" transl. by David Hinton

Switched on a black light in the sky - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

All rivers are full of sky - Dean Young "Belief in Magic" [Poetry July/August 2014]
An airplane to connect you to the sky - Dean Young "Elegy on a Toy Piano" [Poetry Oct. 2003]

And open'd wondrous scenes above the sky - Edward Young "The Force of Religion; or, Vanquished Love I"

And kindled wars immortal thro' the sky - Edward Young "The Last Day Book I"

Fill the vacant stations of the sky - Edward Young "The Last Day Book III"

Commerce spreading sails in every sky - Edward Young "Love of Fame, the Universal Passion: Satire VII. To the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole"

And borrow life from an indulgent sky - Edward Young "A Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job.25 To the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Parker, Baron of Macclesfield..."

Pour'd his flaming train o'er half the skies - Edward Young "A Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job.25 To the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Parker, Baron of Macclesfield..."

A piece of the sky has fallen down - Francis Brett Young "Easter"

To illumine the sad skies of night - Francis Brett Young "Slender Themes"

Beneath the glare of brazen skies - Francis Brett Young "Sonnet [Not only for remembered loveliness]"

A square of sky possess'd by the wind - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Pick a sky and name it - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa

Under the door of sky - Matthew Zapruder "A Summer Rainstorm"

Look up the skirt of the night sky - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

A whale made of sky - Cynthia Zarin "The Impulse Wants Company"

The sky's aria after weeks of rain - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The mill wheel turning the sleeve of the sky - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

Pressed against the still silver sky - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Letter in Fog"

The illusions and disappointments of a clear sky - Zheng Min "Existence that no longer Exists #1: Van Gogh's Pleasure Boat is Gone" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

An appeal from earth to sky - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #1: Heavy Lyricism" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

Against the sky's glutton lung - Art Zilleruelo "Ghost Story"

Great kings of the sky - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer "Cousins of Clouds"

The certain precipice of sky - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver

Flooded with thunder and tumbling skies - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 15" transl. by Katherine Silver

Into the solid floor of sky - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"


Empyrean.


Up on the waves of the great sea-sky - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Ships"


The world-edge, pillar for the sky-arch - H.D. "The Cliff Temple"


Sky-born shadows mirrored on a stream - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender XV"


To explore the sky-bound marches - Clive Bell "To A.V.S. with a Book"


Respected the pause between lightning and skybreak - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"


With their crow faces and their sky-colored suits - Noah Warren "The Standard"


Out of their myriad sky-embracing veins - W.J. Turner "Death"


Our night terrors embroidered skyfall - M. Bartley Seigel "Out Here, We're All of Us Cracked"


A gleaming stone upon which the skyfolk spilled dark earth - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"


Skylight took her in - Diane Mehta "Plum Cake"


Skyline.


Will keep forever their sky-lost words - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Primrose"


I have been sky-prancing all night long - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"


Impaled on the pinnacles of a brassy skyscape - Bruce Boston "The Lesions of Genetic Sin"


Skyscraper.


Acid-dipped, and sky-tempered, storm-bathed - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"


Skyward.


Continents traveling the skyway - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"


Penguins fly through watersky - Eileen Spinelli "Water-Wings"


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