Potential Titles: Look
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somethingdarkerLooking out from their window that faces the sea - "Abroad"
Of the look he left behind - Elizabeth Acevedo "After He’s Decided to Leave"
You could look to the moon for advice - Duane Ackerson "Various Horses"
Who looks just beyond the day - John Lynch Adair "Hec Dies: an Imitation"
Making clocks look simple - Zubair Ahmed "Red with a Touch of Sulfur"
Anywhere I look is born a rose - Zubair Ahmed "Red with a Touch of Sulfur"
Looked upon the compass of his soul - A.C. Ainsworth "The Meeting at Sea"
From the palace window looked forth at set of sun - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
Doesn't look much like promise - Hari Alluri "Spiral"
Soft pity's sorrowing look - "The Alter'd Lay"
Looking upward for more certainty - Julia Alvarez "Looking Up"
Look back to the city of change - Aldo Amparan "Aubade at the City of Change"
Looking for a foothold among the crags - William Archila "Bury This Pig"
The cost of looking the other way - Fatimah Asghar "When the Orders Came"
Look back and see the uneaten banquet - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Caught in the frame of their looking - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Essay on the Awkward/Black/Object"
Looked up from my solitary suffering - Cameron Awkward-Rich "My Life Closed Twice"
With holes that look like the eyes of owls - Nina Bagley "Gathering"
Looking down at the nothing that's left - Mary Jo Bang "Everything that Was Is Now Owned"
Both sides of Apollo will look down on us - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"
Looking into a box of scattered catastrophes - Mary Jo Bang "Fragment of a Bride"
Looking at the map of her hands - Mary Jo Bang "Let's Say Yes: 5. Opened and Shut"
Looking at a watch that says now - Mary Jo Bang "Masquerade: After Beckmann"
Looking back at an avalanche of glass - Mary Jo Bang "The Mirror"
Looking for a fake mirror - Mary Jo Bang "Practice for Being Empty"
Into love's sweet looking glass - Mary Jo Bang "She Loved Falling"
Out onto the end of looking - Mary Jo Bang "The Story of Small Cars"
A future where no one will look at it - Ari Banias "A Sunset"
What passes through the keyhole of a look - Ari Banias "Tribute"
Looks on with merry jest and smile - Mrs. Sale Barker "The Fairy Queen"
Look for grief tomorrow - Ardelia Maria Barton "Do Not Borrow Trouble"
And when they looked across the patch - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Looking through a maze of tiny stems - Stephen Vincent Benet "Going Back to School"
When you looked your crisis in the eyes - Stella Benson "The Dog Tupman"
Like a wolf looking toward home - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Lux"
Looking back only once - Rebecca G. Biber "Away, Russia"
To look past the coming night - Sherwin Bitsui "Knives Whistle"
With only the sunflowers looking on - Jean Blewett "In Sunflower Time"
Look at the future obituaries - Ana Bozicevic "The Fall of Luci"
Loading a boat to look for whales - Elizabeth Bradfield "Pursuit"
As he looks to the kindling sky - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"
Who have looked in the mirror and begged - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"
Change a shape by looking - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"
Look out upon further marvels - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"
Tortured by a regime that looks like you - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"
Looking for her in the dusk flake of air - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"
You look to me through the glazed fever of forget - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"
Forced to look outside their own heartbreak - Mahogany L. Browne "I Remember Death by its Proximity to What I Love"
A steadfast looking of desire - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Looking at your own fingerprints - Joseph Bruchac "Prints"
Looking up through a vacancy of trees - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
Looking out on the blank grey measure of another year - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
The red moon from Babelmandel's strand looks - N.H. Carter "[No verdure smiles; no crystal fountains play]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
He also looked forth for an hour - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
Looking back feels like looking forward - Adam Clay "Only Child"
No dream's complete without looking ahead - Andrea Cohen "Weep Holes"
Without seeing ourselves looking back - Andrea Cohen "Weep Holes"
The monument for the history they're looking for - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
The fickle glitter looked in anger down - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Looking backward on our dreary way - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Don green spectacles before you look at roses - Stephen Crane "War Is Kind"
I never look at my own face in the mirror - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"
As stars look on the night - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Look on me with unwounding eyes - John Danyel "Why Canst Thou not, as Others Do?"
Where only tenderness would think to look - Geffrey Davis "For the Child's Mole"
On a bus looking for your grave - Tyree Daye "Uncle Gig's Return"
Telescopes looking through fear - Toi Derricotte "Holy Cross Hospital"
Looks like tomorrow happening over again - Kym Deyn "Wolpertinger at Thebes"
The distance on the look of death - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXXI"
Just a look at the horses - Emily Dickinson "Tie the Strings to my Life, My Lord"
I look to the stars to bring me answers - Woody Dismukes "The Color of the Mule"
Look at me without turning - Mary Mapes Dodge "That's What We'd Do"
Looked to meteorologists for explanations - Stephen Dunn "Moon Song"
Makes trouble look like a feather bed - Cornelius Eady "I'm a Fool to Love You"
Look for harbors of miracle - Peg Edera "Harbors of Miracle"
Though in clear Plato's stream I look no more - Maurice F. Egan "The Chrysalis of a Bookworm" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
Being looking from the dark - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"
Looking into the heart of light - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land I: The Burial of the Dead"
Looking back on Fate's decree - Constance Fairbanks "Those Far-Off Fields"
Looked homeward and saw no angel - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Look among the shadows in my soul - Beulah Field "To Congdon"
Looking backward on preceding time - "Flora: a Vision"
Neither when you look at them twice - Calvin Forbes "Homing"
Tired eyes that looked at nothing at all - John Freeman "The Chair"
Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs - Robert Frost "For Once, Then, Something"
Yet backward let me take one look - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Look in the deep of me - Zona Gale "In Arvia's Room"
Look back or lose your way - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"
As if looking took time - Forrest Gander "Pastoral"
To look with grief on the culprit's way - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Look at the way the stars burn - Nikita Gill "Endings"
Forward far as Plato looked - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Why Not?"
To never look away - Ira Goga "The Kitchen, Indexed"
And fill my eyes with looking - Mona Gould "Wise Child"
Looking for what they watch - Leah Naomi Green "Week Ten: Plum"
Half the look betrayed a wish - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
I see her pale face looking down - Viscountess Grey "Echo"
To look adown the cavernous abyss - Claude Halcro "Niagara"
Put on youth in her look and air - Thomas Hardy "A Wife Comes Back"
Invented to look like October - Joy Harjo "Crossing Water"
Look up to the brightest white - Joy Harjo "Directions to You"
that I never stopped looking for you - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."
Learnt the art of looking wise - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "His Father"
Where the future never thinks to look - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"
Look back, forward, or in - Brenda Hillman "Triple Moments of Light and Industry"
Never looked at the unbroken ground - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
Look not beneath his azure veil - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Dilemma"
The Queen she sent to look for me - A.E. Housman "Last Poems V: Grenadier"
Only because it hurts to look - Jess Hyslop "After"
And looked at the ground through its cracks - Katerina Iliopoulou "Cape Tenaron" transl. by Jackson Watson
Looking for something to worship - Carly Inghram "Disappearing into a Fiction"
Looking at the agave outside my window - Perry Janes "Nearly all my friends call me spoiled and ungrateful"
To look at their two shadows on your surface - Mark Jarman "Spell for Encanto Creek"
place the world inside the light and look - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Light of the World"
Looking for you in between - Jacqueline Johnson "Oracle"
His blank gaze looking through mine - Amanda Johnston "Facing US"
He never looked the darkest side - "A Jolly Frog" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]
If you do we will look the other way and wait - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]
Binoculars for you to see how the moon looks to us - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]
To look on mists in idleness - John Keats "The Human Seasons"
Remember Apollo's summer look - John Keats "In drear nighted December"
Looking upon the never-resting earth - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"
Over trees with blooms too red to look at - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
A look that shoved a blade into his heart - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"
A cellar window looking out on February - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"
Looking downward from creation's dome - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"
When deep eternity shall look most clear - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "A Song Before Grief"
Whose look demure consults the ground - Latienne "'76" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
The wan, wondering look of the pale sky - D.H. Lawrence "Bei Hennef"
Look through the film of the bubble of night - D.H. Lawrence "Elegy"
Draw me looking like somebody else - Aimee Le "Analogies, or, Twinkie Is to Egg As"
Still shall the blackest hell look up and see - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"
Looking for a book made of water - Angel Leal "A Book Is a Map, a Bed Is a Country"
Look back upon the vanished years - Charles G. Leland "Thank God for All" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
My heart looks back in sadness - Li Po "Picking the Lotus" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Look into the entrails of Uranus - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"
Would not look so far - Amy Lowell "Fatigue"
Never a look or a turning back - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Wanderlust"
Looking through the sunshot deep - Dorothea Mackellar "Bathing Rhyme"
I looked at you at the end of the world - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
They too look down the pinnacle of fear - Harry Martinson "Aniara 5" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Must look for recompense unpleasant - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]
Looks upon embowered darkness - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
Looked for maps out of myself - Jamaal May "Ode to Forgetting"
Wry look of accomplished conspiracy - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"
Looked every bit as real as the deuterium - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "Ice Magic"
Laughs looking at the heavens - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Looked at the sun through welding glass - Joanne Merriam "No Words"
Naked and never looking back - W.S. Merwin "Note"
Worth the effort of a second look - Michael Mesic "Night Letter"
The doll's house looking on the Park - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Looking back from the rearview and parked alone - Joseph Millar "Job"
Listening to the wind and looking at the wall - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Philosopher"
Has looked on Beauty bare - Edna St. Vincent Millay untitled sonnet from Sonnets and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Telling journalists they are looking into it - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
That musing glance that looks through cunning time - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Looking in like the crazed bells of silence - Miguel Murphy "Demon and the Dove"
Looking for a version of me who survives - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"
Angle looks too much like angel - Hoa Nguyen "Seeds and Crumbs"
When the ghost visits looking for bones - Margaret Noodin "Bones" transl. by the author
Look we still for joys to come - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
Look, how your flowers light the world - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"
Look under the sun's brass - Mary Oliver "Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith"
Look into his exile eyes - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"
Dared not look on the new moon's cup - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Dared not look on the sweet young rain - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Looking on cruel lands - Dorothy Parker "A Well-Worn Story"
Who haughtiest look of pride assumes - "The Peacock" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
Where we two may share eternal looks - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
Wept till the world looked blue - Kiki Petrosino "The Spell"
Winter looking at May - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps "Released"
Must only look like leaving - Carl Phillips "Civilization"
And at first look easy - Carl Phillips "Island"
Rises at midnight and looks back - Po-Chu-i "On the Way to Hangchow: Anchored on the River at Night" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Will be looking up at moss - Sina Queyras "Cut"
With the look of the always astonished - Sina Queyras "Years"
My sister's eyes looking back at him - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"
A pilgrim wind will pause to look - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"
Look to the soil and all that it houses - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"
Set ourselves on fire looking for infinity - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"
Look through history's bloodshot eyes - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Can look in the face of the sun - Lola Ridge "Jude"
Where the ghost of the moon looks blue - James Whitcombe Riley "The Frog"
Look into the shadow with moon-dazed eyes - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"
A song that dares us to look inside - Sahar Romani "Sign"
The colors on screen looked richer, less treacherous - Margaret Ross "Saturday"
Ceased to look on light - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems IV: Revoke Not"
Out of the look on a face - Carl Sandburg "Under a Hat Rim"
Looks with strange horror on her own abyss - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"
Two mirrors looking for arrowheads - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #56"
All my look was law - Clinton Scollard "A King in Kerry"
Looks on tempests and is never shaken - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"
Corrupt by over-partial looks - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXVII"
A look they share with the acid-eater - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"
As ocean's moon looks on the moon in heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
The prospectus of looking at oneself - Brandon Shimoda "The Desert"
Look'd scornful down on Alexander's might - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
Whose eyes have looked on Lethe - Clark Ashton Smith "Ave Atque Vale"
Facing the looked-for dawn - Effie Smith "Toward Sunrise"
Whether we're looking or not - Maggie Smith "Poem Beginning with a Line from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
Looking for more ambitious treasures - Richard Solomon "By Subtraction -- I Tego Arcana Dei"
Looked into your startled depths and fled - Anne Spencer "Lines to a Nasturtium (a lover muses)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Into the changed look of the afternoon - A.E. Stallings "Evil Eye"
Where Life looks forth on Time - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
One last look at the ducks - Wallace Stevens "The Hermitage at the Centre"
Looked Janus-faced to innocence and guilt - William Wetmore Story "A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem"
Too late to look for a lost road - Su Tung-p'o "Beginning of Autumn: A Poem to Send to Tzu-yu" transl. by Burton Watson
With winsome looks and twisted glances - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 47: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Disappearing one warm night when I forget to look - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Where I've learned to look for winter - Keith Taylor "Weather Report"
That looked at him for recognition - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
This one long look must be the last - James Maurice Thompson "Solace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.12, no.32, Nov. 1873]
Who trained his eye to look beneath - Henry David Thoreau "Free Love"
Separate, but looking at each other - Brian Tierney "We Dream the Dreams Dreaming Us"
Look coldly at us with their frostbitten eyes - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"
looking for an orbit to call its own - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"
Look back fondly at the city gates - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
Looked out on gardens with paths of coral pebbles - Tu Fu "Captivity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Always looking for bad luck - Perhat Tursun "The Heart" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Looking back and taking out of context - Aldrin Regina Valdez "January"
Most are looking for the worm in the bud - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"
My truant spirit outward looks - "La Vie Poetique" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Still looks like a life - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"
Shadows looking into flight - Wang An-Shih "Climbing Up to Treasure-Master's Grave-Shrine" transl. by David Hinton
But looking find no light - Wang An-Shih "I can't see anything of this autumn day" transl. by David Hinton
Look down and mourn how water slips past - Wang An-Shih "On a moonlit island bridge" transl. by David Hinton
Masked my haggard look in smiles - Wang An-Shih "Sent to a Monk" transl. by David Hinton
A touch containing history, a look to lift my name away - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
Making themselves look boneless in the dirt - Andrea Werblin "Barrio with Sketchy Detail"
Look at us with eyes that missed the roses - Edith Wharton "Elegy"
And then stand looking back and sighing at our choice - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"
Nor look through the eyes of the dead - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
Look up the etymology of melancholia - Amie Whittemore "Lunar Eclipse"
Look at the sky and remember different stars - Rin Willis "After the Wolf"
As an astronomer looks at the star-filled sky - Adolf Wolff "Lines Inspired on Meeting a Lady: To A. L."
Which he forbears again to look upon - William Wordsworth "Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes"
Look carefully in a dark glass - Jay Wright "[Song into holiness]"
Look up to me alone - William Butler Yeats "Two Songs of a Fool"
Looking for the sound of another way - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"
Let the gods look away as always - Kevin Young "Hive"
Look like you hear colors - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
Look up the skirt of the night sky - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
This black-looking root is the cause - "Song [A philosopher once, to the mountain]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Looking-Glass.
Lookout soldiers who watch the sea - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
Each onlooker's single deepest sorrow unremarked - Chris Dombrowski "Brook Trout"
Overlook.
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Of the look he left behind - Elizabeth Acevedo "After He’s Decided to Leave"
You could look to the moon for advice - Duane Ackerson "Various Horses"
Who looks just beyond the day - John Lynch Adair "Hec Dies: an Imitation"
Making clocks look simple - Zubair Ahmed "Red with a Touch of Sulfur"
Anywhere I look is born a rose - Zubair Ahmed "Red with a Touch of Sulfur"
Looked upon the compass of his soul - A.C. Ainsworth "The Meeting at Sea"
From the palace window looked forth at set of sun - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
Doesn't look much like promise - Hari Alluri "Spiral"
Soft pity's sorrowing look - "The Alter'd Lay"
Looking upward for more certainty - Julia Alvarez "Looking Up"
Look back to the city of change - Aldo Amparan "Aubade at the City of Change"
Looking for a foothold among the crags - William Archila "Bury This Pig"
The cost of looking the other way - Fatimah Asghar "When the Orders Came"
Look back and see the uneaten banquet - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Caught in the frame of their looking - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Essay on the Awkward/Black/Object"
Looked up from my solitary suffering - Cameron Awkward-Rich "My Life Closed Twice"
With holes that look like the eyes of owls - Nina Bagley "Gathering"
Looking down at the nothing that's left - Mary Jo Bang "Everything that Was Is Now Owned"
Both sides of Apollo will look down on us - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"
Looking into a box of scattered catastrophes - Mary Jo Bang "Fragment of a Bride"
Looking at the map of her hands - Mary Jo Bang "Let's Say Yes: 5. Opened and Shut"
Looking at a watch that says now - Mary Jo Bang "Masquerade: After Beckmann"
Looking back at an avalanche of glass - Mary Jo Bang "The Mirror"
Looking for a fake mirror - Mary Jo Bang "Practice for Being Empty"
Into love's sweet looking glass - Mary Jo Bang "She Loved Falling"
Out onto the end of looking - Mary Jo Bang "The Story of Small Cars"
A future where no one will look at it - Ari Banias "A Sunset"
What passes through the keyhole of a look - Ari Banias "Tribute"
Looks on with merry jest and smile - Mrs. Sale Barker "The Fairy Queen"
Look for grief tomorrow - Ardelia Maria Barton "Do Not Borrow Trouble"
And when they looked across the patch - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Looking through a maze of tiny stems - Stephen Vincent Benet "Going Back to School"
When you looked your crisis in the eyes - Stella Benson "The Dog Tupman"
Like a wolf looking toward home - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Lux"
Looking back only once - Rebecca G. Biber "Away, Russia"
To look past the coming night - Sherwin Bitsui "Knives Whistle"
With only the sunflowers looking on - Jean Blewett "In Sunflower Time"
Look at the future obituaries - Ana Bozicevic "The Fall of Luci"
Loading a boat to look for whales - Elizabeth Bradfield "Pursuit"
As he looks to the kindling sky - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"
Who have looked in the mirror and begged - Ariana Brown "For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella"
Change a shape by looking - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"
Look out upon further marvels - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"
Tortured by a regime that looks like you - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"
Looking for her in the dusk flake of air - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"
You look to me through the glazed fever of forget - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"
Forced to look outside their own heartbreak - Mahogany L. Browne "I Remember Death by its Proximity to What I Love"
A steadfast looking of desire - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Looking at your own fingerprints - Joseph Bruchac "Prints"
Looking up through a vacancy of trees - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
Looking out on the blank grey measure of another year - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
The red moon from Babelmandel's strand looks - N.H. Carter "[No verdure smiles; no crystal fountains play]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
He also looked forth for an hour - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
Looking back feels like looking forward - Adam Clay "Only Child"
No dream's complete without looking ahead - Andrea Cohen "Weep Holes"
Without seeing ourselves looking back - Andrea Cohen "Weep Holes"
The monument for the history they're looking for - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
The fickle glitter looked in anger down - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Looking backward on our dreary way - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Don green spectacles before you look at roses - Stephen Crane "War Is Kind"
I never look at my own face in the mirror - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"
As stars look on the night - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Look on me with unwounding eyes - John Danyel "Why Canst Thou not, as Others Do?"
Where only tenderness would think to look - Geffrey Davis "For the Child's Mole"
On a bus looking for your grave - Tyree Daye "Uncle Gig's Return"
Telescopes looking through fear - Toi Derricotte "Holy Cross Hospital"
Looks like tomorrow happening over again - Kym Deyn "Wolpertinger at Thebes"
The distance on the look of death - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXXI"
Just a look at the horses - Emily Dickinson "Tie the Strings to my Life, My Lord"
I look to the stars to bring me answers - Woody Dismukes "The Color of the Mule"
Look at me without turning - Mary Mapes Dodge "That's What We'd Do"
Looked to meteorologists for explanations - Stephen Dunn "Moon Song"
Makes trouble look like a feather bed - Cornelius Eady "I'm a Fool to Love You"
Look for harbors of miracle - Peg Edera "Harbors of Miracle"
Though in clear Plato's stream I look no more - Maurice F. Egan "The Chrysalis of a Bookworm" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
Being looking from the dark - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"
Looking into the heart of light - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land I: The Burial of the Dead"
Looking back on Fate's decree - Constance Fairbanks "Those Far-Off Fields"
Looked homeward and saw no angel - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Look among the shadows in my soul - Beulah Field "To Congdon"
Looking backward on preceding time - "Flora: a Vision"
Neither when you look at them twice - Calvin Forbes "Homing"
Tired eyes that looked at nothing at all - John Freeman "The Chair"
Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs - Robert Frost "For Once, Then, Something"
Yet backward let me take one look - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Look in the deep of me - Zona Gale "In Arvia's Room"
Look back or lose your way - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"
As if looking took time - Forrest Gander "Pastoral"
To look with grief on the culprit's way - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Look at the way the stars burn - Nikita Gill "Endings"
Forward far as Plato looked - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Why Not?"
To never look away - Ira Goga "The Kitchen, Indexed"
And fill my eyes with looking - Mona Gould "Wise Child"
Looking for what they watch - Leah Naomi Green "Week Ten: Plum"
Half the look betrayed a wish - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
I see her pale face looking down - Viscountess Grey "Echo"
To look adown the cavernous abyss - Claude Halcro "Niagara"
Put on youth in her look and air - Thomas Hardy "A Wife Comes Back"
Invented to look like October - Joy Harjo "Crossing Water"
Look up to the brightest white - Joy Harjo "Directions to You"
that I never stopped looking for you - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."
Learnt the art of looking wise - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "His Father"
Where the future never thinks to look - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"
Look back, forward, or in - Brenda Hillman "Triple Moments of Light and Industry"
Never looked at the unbroken ground - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
Look not beneath his azure veil - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Dilemma"
The Queen she sent to look for me - A.E. Housman "Last Poems V: Grenadier"
Only because it hurts to look - Jess Hyslop "After"
And looked at the ground through its cracks - Katerina Iliopoulou "Cape Tenaron" transl. by Jackson Watson
Looking for something to worship - Carly Inghram "Disappearing into a Fiction"
Looking at the agave outside my window - Perry Janes "Nearly all my friends call me spoiled and ungrateful"
To look at their two shadows on your surface - Mark Jarman "Spell for Encanto Creek"
place the world inside the light and look - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Light of the World"
Looking for you in between - Jacqueline Johnson "Oracle"
His blank gaze looking through mine - Amanda Johnston "Facing US"
He never looked the darkest side - "A Jolly Frog" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]
If you do we will look the other way and wait - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]
Binoculars for you to see how the moon looks to us - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]
To look on mists in idleness - John Keats "The Human Seasons"
Remember Apollo's summer look - John Keats "In drear nighted December"
Looking upon the never-resting earth - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"
Over trees with blooms too red to look at - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
A look that shoved a blade into his heart - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"
A cellar window looking out on February - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"
Looking downward from creation's dome - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"
When deep eternity shall look most clear - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "A Song Before Grief"
Whose look demure consults the ground - Latienne "'76" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
The wan, wondering look of the pale sky - D.H. Lawrence "Bei Hennef"
Look through the film of the bubble of night - D.H. Lawrence "Elegy"
Draw me looking like somebody else - Aimee Le "Analogies, or, Twinkie Is to Egg As"
Still shall the blackest hell look up and see - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"
Looking for a book made of water - Angel Leal "A Book Is a Map, a Bed Is a Country"
Look back upon the vanished years - Charles G. Leland "Thank God for All" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
My heart looks back in sadness - Li Po "Picking the Lotus" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Look into the entrails of Uranus - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"
Would not look so far - Amy Lowell "Fatigue"
Never a look or a turning back - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Wanderlust"
Looking through the sunshot deep - Dorothea Mackellar "Bathing Rhyme"
I looked at you at the end of the world - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
They too look down the pinnacle of fear - Harry Martinson "Aniara 5" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Must look for recompense unpleasant - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]
Looks upon embowered darkness - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
Looked for maps out of myself - Jamaal May "Ode to Forgetting"
Wry look of accomplished conspiracy - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"
Looked every bit as real as the deuterium - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "Ice Magic"
Laughs looking at the heavens - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Looked at the sun through welding glass - Joanne Merriam "No Words"
Naked and never looking back - W.S. Merwin "Note"
Worth the effort of a second look - Michael Mesic "Night Letter"
The doll's house looking on the Park - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Looking back from the rearview and parked alone - Joseph Millar "Job"
Listening to the wind and looking at the wall - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Philosopher"
Has looked on Beauty bare - Edna St. Vincent Millay untitled sonnet from Sonnets and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Telling journalists they are looking into it - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
That musing glance that looks through cunning time - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Looking in like the crazed bells of silence - Miguel Murphy "Demon and the Dove"
Looking for a version of me who survives - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"
Angle looks too much like angel - Hoa Nguyen "Seeds and Crumbs"
When the ghost visits looking for bones - Margaret Noodin "Bones" transl. by the author
Look we still for joys to come - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
Look, how your flowers light the world - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"
Look under the sun's brass - Mary Oliver "Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith"
Look into his exile eyes - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"
Dared not look on the new moon's cup - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Dared not look on the sweet young rain - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Looking on cruel lands - Dorothy Parker "A Well-Worn Story"
Who haughtiest look of pride assumes - "The Peacock" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
Where we two may share eternal looks - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
Wept till the world looked blue - Kiki Petrosino "The Spell"
Winter looking at May - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps "Released"
Must only look like leaving - Carl Phillips "Civilization"
And at first look easy - Carl Phillips "Island"
Rises at midnight and looks back - Po-Chu-i "On the Way to Hangchow: Anchored on the River at Night" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Will be looking up at moss - Sina Queyras "Cut"
With the look of the always astonished - Sina Queyras "Years"
My sister's eyes looking back at him - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"
A pilgrim wind will pause to look - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"
Look to the soil and all that it houses - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"
Set ourselves on fire looking for infinity - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"
Look through history's bloodshot eyes - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Can look in the face of the sun - Lola Ridge "Jude"
Where the ghost of the moon looks blue - James Whitcombe Riley "The Frog"
Look into the shadow with moon-dazed eyes - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"
A song that dares us to look inside - Sahar Romani "Sign"
The colors on screen looked richer, less treacherous - Margaret Ross "Saturday"
Ceased to look on light - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems IV: Revoke Not"
Out of the look on a face - Carl Sandburg "Under a Hat Rim"
Looks with strange horror on her own abyss - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"
Two mirrors looking for arrowheads - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #56"
All my look was law - Clinton Scollard "A King in Kerry"
Looks on tempests and is never shaken - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"
Corrupt by over-partial looks - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXVII"
A look they share with the acid-eater - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"
As ocean's moon looks on the moon in heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
The prospectus of looking at oneself - Brandon Shimoda "The Desert"
Look'd scornful down on Alexander's might - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
Whose eyes have looked on Lethe - Clark Ashton Smith "Ave Atque Vale"
Facing the looked-for dawn - Effie Smith "Toward Sunrise"
Whether we're looking or not - Maggie Smith "Poem Beginning with a Line from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
Looking for more ambitious treasures - Richard Solomon "By Subtraction -- I Tego Arcana Dei"
Looked into your startled depths and fled - Anne Spencer "Lines to a Nasturtium (a lover muses)" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Into the changed look of the afternoon - A.E. Stallings "Evil Eye"
Where Life looks forth on Time - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
One last look at the ducks - Wallace Stevens "The Hermitage at the Centre"
Looked Janus-faced to innocence and guilt - William Wetmore Story "A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem"
Too late to look for a lost road - Su Tung-p'o "Beginning of Autumn: A Poem to Send to Tzu-yu" transl. by Burton Watson
With winsome looks and twisted glances - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 47: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Disappearing one warm night when I forget to look - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Where I've learned to look for winter - Keith Taylor "Weather Report"
That looked at him for recognition - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
This one long look must be the last - James Maurice Thompson "Solace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.12, no.32, Nov. 1873]
Who trained his eye to look beneath - Henry David Thoreau "Free Love"
Separate, but looking at each other - Brian Tierney "We Dream the Dreams Dreaming Us"
Look coldly at us with their frostbitten eyes - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"
looking for an orbit to call its own - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"
Look back fondly at the city gates - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
Looked out on gardens with paths of coral pebbles - Tu Fu "Captivity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Always looking for bad luck - Perhat Tursun "The Heart" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Looking back and taking out of context - Aldrin Regina Valdez "January"
Most are looking for the worm in the bud - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"
My truant spirit outward looks - "La Vie Poetique" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Still looks like a life - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"
Shadows looking into flight - Wang An-Shih "Climbing Up to Treasure-Master's Grave-Shrine" transl. by David Hinton
But looking find no light - Wang An-Shih "I can't see anything of this autumn day" transl. by David Hinton
Look down and mourn how water slips past - Wang An-Shih "On a moonlit island bridge" transl. by David Hinton
Masked my haggard look in smiles - Wang An-Shih "Sent to a Monk" transl. by David Hinton
A touch containing history, a look to lift my name away - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
Making themselves look boneless in the dirt - Andrea Werblin "Barrio with Sketchy Detail"
Look at us with eyes that missed the roses - Edith Wharton "Elegy"
And then stand looking back and sighing at our choice - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"
Nor look through the eyes of the dead - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
Look up the etymology of melancholia - Amie Whittemore "Lunar Eclipse"
Look at the sky and remember different stars - Rin Willis "After the Wolf"
As an astronomer looks at the star-filled sky - Adolf Wolff "Lines Inspired on Meeting a Lady: To A. L."
Which he forbears again to look upon - William Wordsworth "Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes"
Look carefully in a dark glass - Jay Wright "[Song into holiness]"
Look up to me alone - William Butler Yeats "Two Songs of a Fool"
Looking for the sound of another way - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"
Let the gods look away as always - Kevin Young "Hive"
Look like you hear colors - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
Look up the skirt of the night sky - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
This black-looking root is the cause - "Song [A philosopher once, to the mountain]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Looking-Glass.
Lookout soldiers who watch the sea - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
Each onlooker's single deepest sorrow unremarked - Chris Dombrowski "Brook Trout"
Overlook.
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