Potential Titles: Made/Make

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In a ship made of recycled parts - Rasha Abdulhadi "Advice on Love from an Astronaut with a Failing Memory"

Poison in meal most lovingly made - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

With the flesh made of a golden light - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

The scent of orange bloom made redolent - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"

The world made new by past tears - Linda Addison "Evolving"

This body made of layers of shadows - Etel Adnan "Night"

I do not want what Mary Shelley made - Mary Alexandra Agner "Book of the Dead Woman"

Whose forefathers made miracles - Gulten Akin "Ellas and the Statues" translated by Nermin Menemencioglu

Made up a language in which to exist - Elizabeth Alexander "Toomer"

Made of all your wrong turns - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"

In the mote that made the big band bang - Mike Allen "Pulse"

Made your first and failed exile - Julia Alvarez "Did I Redeem Myself?"

All made space from getting lost - Mouna Ammar "Homage to a Cat Stevens song"

Made habit of pulling off my skin - Gia Anansi-Shakur "The Owl"

My basket made of many eyes - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

Like I was made of the heat - C. Prudence Arceneaux "Menopause"

Made up of false promises - Rae Armantrout "Djinn"

Who made the roots of trees his bed - Matthew Arnold "A Southern Night"

Made a Tuesday monument - Cynthia Arrieu-King "Poem"

Like you were made for snow - Fatimah Asghar "Ghareeb"

All that warbled ecstasy made the garden's chorus - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]

Made gentle the wild oceans - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Out of myrtle and jessamine made - J.L.B. "The Butterfly's Funeral"

This land is made for resurrection - Julie Babcock "Johnny Appleseed Proposes"

World made sweet with thyme - Albion Fellows Bacon "Her Title-Deeds"

If drops of blood are made from pearls - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Dwells in a desert by her ruins made - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"

A village made of thick paper - Taneum Bambrick "Saying I Am a Survivor in Another Language"

Elements that made up the inevitable present - Mary Jo Bang "The Actual Occurences"

Made from the hinge of day - Mary Jo Bang "T Equals Time to be Tamed"

Made a list of obsessions - Catherine Barnett "The August Preoccupations"

The mouth of bitterness made lyrical - Natalie Clifford Barney "On a Picture to Music"

Where Hammurabi made firm wings of law - Lou Barrett "Fertile Crescent"

Made yourself a mustache of gold - Lou Barrett "Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932"

Made rivers part and mountains cry - Elizabeth Bartlett "Reflected in Brass"

Across a field made of sunlight - Basho transl. by David Young

A being made of gauze and fire - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited

Made a river with her tears - Charles Baudelaire "The Little Old Women" transl. not credited

Math made of light and loss - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"

A chest made of barley fire - b: william bearhart "No More Fire Here: A Sestina"

All my reparations made in darkness - Kyce Bello "Far Country"

Shoot the hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: The Hippopotamus"

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

A hunter made entirely of oil - Joshua Bennett "Ode to the Mascot"

Made fields of cattails kneel - Ariana Benson "Love Poem in the Black Field"

Earth is made from this alchemy - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

Whose every day was made of melody - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Since first I was made of stone - "The Boatman's Hymn" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

Fixed idols made by flesh and mind - Max Bodenheim "Decadent Cry"

Made by men to soothe their fears - Maxwell Bodenheim "Landscape"

A bouquet made of moths - Jaswinder Bolina "Municipal Vistas"

That made a nest upon a currant bush - John R. Bolles "Lullaby [There, lullaby, and I will sing to you]"

Made him a rudimentary fault line - Catherine Bowman "Provisional"

Made him her unruly quorum - Catherine Bowman "Provisional"

Made her his margin of error - Catherine Bowman "Provisional"

A dress made of hymns - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"

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

Waiting room made out of marzipan - Ana Bozicevic "Paris Pride Parade"

And rubbing off a spot still made a flaw - Anne Bradstreet "The Author to Her Book"

Like flies made of crystal - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"

Which made your black hearts pure - Anne Bronte "A Word to the 'Elect'"

And made her pillow sweet - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

First made famous yesterday - Calef Brown "Biscuits in the Wind"

The dances that made them their money - Jericho Brown "Reunion Tour"

My black anger made red - Jericho Brown "A Young Man"

A place the birds made for someone else - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"

When I finally made a home for my body - Nickole Brown "Self-Portrait as Land Snail"

Made holy in the taking - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Fragments made whole in my seeing - Sue Budin "On Beauty"

A name I made by trading lives - Richard Ford Burley "I Fight Monsters"

Who made the thread of flax and hemp - Francis Burrows "The Unforgotten"

The next house made of papier-mache - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"

A curious kinship made us choose to stay - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"

Made to be alone - Julie Byrne "Follow My Voice"

The tortoise made off at the mention of rain - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"

Made good ale in the glen - Jeremiah John Callanan "The Outlaw of Loch Lene"

Our doors were made of flame - Nicole Callihan "Fable"

Made the same shape of myself - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "Homecoming Cistern Alien Vessel"

To quell three Titan evils I was made - Tommaso Campanella "VII. The Brood of Ignorance" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Made bold by fraud and perfidy - Tommaso Campanella "XLII. A Prophecy of Judgment. No.3. The Golden Age" transl. by John Addington Symonds

My soul is a great plain made desolate - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"

A statue made of words - Paul Carroll "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"

Of better mettle made - John Castillo "Old Sam! or the Effects of the Gospel"

Made a mimic waterfall - Ceiriog "The White Stone" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Made a home of everywhere - Jennifer Chang "The Strangers"

Dwells in Temples never made by hands - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"

When silence means being made a frozen sea - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

Knowing me never made anyone a needle - Dan Chiasson "Thread"

A woman made of water can never crack - Lisa Ciccarello "A Water Woman Has No Body"

In footprints made deep - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"

Made rare mockery of her broken vow - "Cloud and Sunshine" [The Continental Monthly v.III - June, 1863 - no.VI]

To a shade by terror made - Arthur Hugh Clough "Duty"

Life-blood in the trench Ulysses made - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Shadow"

For the ghost I made you be - Leonard Cohen "Treaty"

Like shackles made of snow - Leonard Cohen "True Love Leaves No Traces"

Devoted as a dog made of tears - Leonard Cohen "When Desire Rests"

All that I had made crooked - Henri Cole "Gulls"

Had made a crimson crown - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "A Moment"

You who have made bright things from shadows - Michael Collier "Birds Appearing in a Dream"

In bargains made to cover wrong - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

A bottle made of ideas - CAConrad "Home.3"

And strange experiments were made - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"

Until I learned how kites are made - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Kites"

Summon a minion made of radishes - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"

Made magic in my eyes - Nathalia Crane "My Husbands"

That Time has made his prey - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Made complete in sunlight and starshine - Countee Cullen "Sacrament"

Probably made of roses & hello - E.E. Cummings "Post Impressions (VI)"

Made to resist the fury of the storms - Ruben Dario "Poets! Towers of God!" (translation by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva)

Made of flint and roses - John Davidson "Thirty Bob a Week"

Made and bastioned with grace - Coningsby Dawson "In Bedlam"

A train of unseen movements made singular - Meg Day "The Permanent Way"

I made a photograph of my name - Meg Day "Portrait of My Gender as [Inaudible]"

Made a star he couldn't follow - Tyree Daye "To: All Poets From: Northeastern North Carolina"

Made me a changeling to my own - Walter de la Mare "Bewitched"

An epic full of the honest weather we made - Diana Marie Delgado "Lucky You"

Gulls made space for sunlight - Diana Marie Delgado "Tracing the Horse"

What we'd made of our hypotheses - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"

In handwriting made heavy - Dante Di Stefano "Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry)"

Are made the prisoners of the sun - E.R. Dodds "Measure"

Skipping across waves made of breath - Chris Dombrowski "Like a pearl in a sea of liquid jade"

Private islands made of water bottles - Chris Dombrowski "Weekly Apocalyptic or Poem Written on the Wall in an Ascending Space Capsule"

Money made in lieu of conversation - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"

If I were the type who made promises - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"

To loose a link never made - "Eadwacer" transl. from Old English by Kemp Malone

The monarch whose reft hand made discord ring - Elizabeth J. Eames "Pedro and Inez" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Shadows made by even the tiniest pebbles - Katherine Edgren "Trails: Morning Walk"

Made & remade by longing - Safia Elhillo "Sudanese-American"

In minds made better by their presence - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

Has made your dominion great - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 9. E-Hursang, the Temple of Shulgi in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle

A curve-ball made of shelter - Elaine Equi "After and in Keeping with H.D."

Would have made this path unnecessary - Heid E. Erdich "Grand Portage"

Made fractional by law - Heid E. Erdich "Now, What Is She?"

A sign made with vines held together by glue - Daniel Errico "The Island of Bum Bum Ba Loo"

A power that made the fetters fall - J.F. "The Better Thought" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.460, 23 Oct. 1852]

Made small by those obsessions - Summer Farah "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural"

Listening for sounds that will never be made again - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

The flowers are made of glass - Megan Fernandes "Quentin Compson at the Natural History Museum, Harvard University"

i made theater of skepticism - Mckendy Fils-Aimé "on superstitions"

A riddle made to break my heart - John Gould Fletcher "Masonubu -- Early"

Palaces made for cloud - John Gould Fletcher "Snowy Mountains"

A house made of hours - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"

Made servant only to salt - Katie Ford "Song After Sadness"

The exhibit of birches the forest has made - Katie Ford "Song After Sadness"

Made of bronze light and snow - Katie Ford "Song After Sadness"

Made her a necklace of cranberries - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Out-Doors Girl"

And my flame made a pinnacle to heaven - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"

A hilltop made of papier mache - Neil Gaiman "House"

Made of what I've missed - Suzanne Gardinier "Stammering translated sonnet in which the poet sends the rains of Havana to her love in New York"

And made a court that freemen never saw - "The Ghost of Chatham"

Paradise never made you any promises - Nikita Gill "How to Leave Paradise"

Not made to surrender - Nikita Gill "An Interlude with Artemis"

Made from your own silver-tipped wishes - Nikita Gill "The Moon Writes a Love Letter to Artemis"

Has made of the stars its flowers - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"

A phalanx of swift song made - Louis Golding "Bird, Bird, Bird"

Made grand odes of tempest - Louis Golding "The Singer of High State"

The world gets made each morning - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"

Sips tea made from flakes of gold - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"

The footprints made by water - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Sons"

To see how hurt is made - Leah Naomi Green "Week Twelve: Taproot"

With the fire that made them bright - Julian Grenfell "To a Black Greyhound"

Some lash made of history - Nikki Grimes "Through the Eyes of Artists"

Boots made for the roads we travelled in woe - Katherine Hale "Silver Slippers"

This mansion made of thinnest air - Patricia Hampl "This Is How Memory Works"

A rainbow sight of promise made - Thomas Hardy "A Procession of Dead Days"

Berries made of promises - Joy Harjo "Granddaughters"

Made singers of tricksters - Joy Harjo "Rabbit Invents the Saxophone"

Rhetoric made of too much rum - Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love,"

Stars for her benefit made - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"

Were made wise beneath the twisted thorn - F.W. Harvey "'Local Fatalities Are Reported'"

Made banked fires blaze - Robert Hayden "Those Winter Sundays"

By his guilt made desolate - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

When a hazard has made them one - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender XXII"

Made his bed among the glowing embers - Oliver Herford "The Salamander"

Praise made of copper - Faylita Hicks "Letter to Black Girls"

The flowers, orchids, all made of silk - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"

My life and I made jokes together - Jane Hirshfield "My Life Was the Size of My Life"

Made real by their weight in sweat - Millie Ho "3D-Printed Brother"

Those flowers made of light - Thomas Hood "I Remember"

Whose voices made them tremble - Ellen Hopkins "By Some Stroke of Heaven"

Cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world - A.E. Housman "Last Poems IX"

Made of earth and sea his overcoat - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XX"

The song made in and out of silence - August Huerta "The Woods"

Through dreams made whole - Langston Hughes "To You"

Made his pallet on the threshing floor - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

Room made of metal and want - fahima ife "more poverty interwoven with equal happiness"

That spells are made of words - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"

Etched with promises made to eternity - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"

The things made for the heavens - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

my costumes made of blood - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"

Made Orpheus turn back - Gary Jackson "Kansas"

People are made of paper - Elizabeth Jacobson "Blood Moon"

Eons made the flower and flowers have their agendas - Mark Jarman "Then Saw the Problem"

Beets made into involuntary supports - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"

Don't tell me about the contracts you've made - Jacqueline Jiang "If My Body Is Dying, Tell Me You Love Me"

Made him captive to her singing - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Ballad of Yaada"

Remember not the promises we made - Helene Johnson "Remember Not"

Laughed until it made the teardrops start - Marie L. Johnson "The Snow Man" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]

Your body made full with starmilk - Sara Eliza Johnson "Parable of the Unclean Spirit"

Pleasure made into light - Taylor Johnson "W 177th & Broadway"

the eye of God was made with blood - Ashley M. Jones "HOLYHEADHARRIET"

was made from the hands of an ungodly master - Ashley M. Jones "HOLYHEADHARRIET"

If a woman were made of sun - Ashley M. Jones "Summer Vacation in the Subjunctive"

If I were made of sun - Ashley M. Jones "Summer Vacation in the Subjunctive"

Night made of locusts - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Whalebone Corset"

Made of bats and blood-red gems - Saeed Jones "The Fabulist"

In a house made of guns - Saeed Jones "History, according to Boy"

In a city made of rain - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

Handmade armor of bone - Saeed Jones "Terrible Boy"

Before the spacious world was made - "The Judgment" [The Parables of the Saviour, no date, Project Gutenberg]

Made of stubbornness and a little air - Ilya Kaminsky "Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air"

What the soul has made suffice - Courtney Kampa "Ars Balletica"

And he made the gallows holy - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Made of everything that has fallen from Heaven - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"

Something spinning and made of history - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"

Made gathers of light inside itself - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"

An ancient meadow made wild with onion - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"

The jungle we made in blame - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"

Undo the map his hands made - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"

Roses made of crimson light - Joyce Kilmer "A Valentine"

Stars made of molten music - Joyce Kilmer "White Bird of Love"

Affection with a soul made of bone - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

The world made of wishes - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"

Made treaty with Time to stand still - Rudyard Kipling "[Late Came the God]"

Made entirely of hovering - Joanna Klink "On Falling (Blue Spruce)"

In that air made of loneliness - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Made the shadows kneel - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Helmet"

Decisions are made and acted upon - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"

Made mirrors of the pond and birdbath - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "A Story for Winter"

Made the season transparent and thin - Keetje Kuipers "10,000 Acres Burned"

A marble made of hot pink plastic - Edgar Kunz "Missing It"

Made a beehive from old letters - Stephen Kuusisto "Letter to Borges from London"

Made a library for inchworms - Stephen Kuusisto "Letter to Borges from London"

Made cold prisons of my faery caves - Chaman Lall "'Thirty Years After'"

Made my heart a heaven - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"

An age of fear made known - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"

This room made warm by our own resources - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"

Through grief and loss made glorious - Lucy Larcom "November"

Weaves a veil made of weeping - Else Lasker-Schuler "Homesick" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Where White phosphorus is made - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"

Made of sweet, untarnished silver - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"

Made our calculations pay - Jack LaZebnik "The Day the Tree Fell Down"

A thing made all of rattling bone - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

Looking for a book made of water - Angel Leal "A Book Is a Map, a Bed Is a Country"

Full of storms and men made of seafoam - Angel Leal "A Book Is a Map, a Bed Is a Country"

Old maps made of flowers - Angel Leal "Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father"

Made us lords but scorned the sparrows - Mary Soon Lee "The Languages of Birds"

Are made so strange by echo - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Who made them walk in chains - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

To notice the efforts he made to conceal - Henry S. Leigh "Shabby-Genteel"

Whose coats were made of rainbow - Li Po "A Dream of T'ien-Mu Mountain" transl. by Arthur Waley

Lotus flowers made skirts for her - Li Shang-yin "[At eight stealing a mirror glance]" transl. by Burton Watson

Come back made new and barking - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"

Made ten soldiers out of snow - Vachel Lindsay "The Battle-Ax of the Sun"

And waits to be made free once more - Amy Lowell "The Coal Picker"

Where gothic saints and warriors made a shield - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"

My fancied safeguard made my snare - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

Made the psalms and prophets partners - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Made to it an invertebrate overture - Aditi Machado "then"

Thank the bones that made your soup - Ruth Madievsky "You Look Up Pictures of Icelandic Ponies"

You're the ones who made me hide - Mack W. Mani "Trans Rage 2: The Reckoning"

Sentences already made in air - Dawn Lundy Martin "Perspective is Supposed to Yield Clarity"

Annihilating all that's made - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"

Who made their pence of gold - John Masefield "Esther"

Made of nerves and steel springs - John Masefield "Right Royal"

Made from my last pennies - Adrian Matejka "I Say the Thing for the First Time"

Thinks of the hands that made them - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

Made of stardust and spider thread - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm of Departure"

Like the shapes we made - Farid Matuk "For a Daughter/No Address"

To find whatever mainspring made things go - E.L. Mayo "Letter to My Grandfather's Picture"

Made of birthstone & birchbark - John McCarthy "I Wanted to Save Her but the Trailer Park Was a Chasm"

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

Made to bruise and bless - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Whom Song has made her stars - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

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

Not a place made for knowledge - W.S. Merwin "Walled Place above the River"

Morays have teeth made for rending - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"

The good nights are not made for sleep - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

Mountains made from valleys - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"

Made of straws of night - Claire Millikin "After Ballet"

Would recant vows made in pain - John Milton "Paradise Lost"

In a body not made of stone - Jenny Molberg "The Muse, Posing as Maria"

My bracelet made of jasper - Jim Moore "Diptych: My Bracelet"

A bird made of bone, solemn and dead - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"

And missed more than I made - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"

Until the charm be made complete - Christopher Morley "A Charm: For Our New Fireplace, to Stop Its Smoking"

Gravity made visible - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Like a sailing ship made of stone - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Molten and made up of moods - Maggie Nelson "The World"

Made golden by gunpowder - Pablo Neruda "Battle of the Jarama River" translated by Richard Schaaf

Like roses made of whips and perfume - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Made fire of blood and flint - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Walking the roads made for returning - Pablo Neruda "San Martin (1810)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Made of linked and bitter leaves - Pablo Neruda "Tyranny" Translated by Donald D. Walsh

Their crosses made of vipers - Pablo Neruda "The War (1936)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Made for the sun's depth - Pablo Neruda "We Together" translated by Donald D. Walsh

My heart has made me orphan - E. Nesbit "The Temptation"

So lovingly made with iron fire - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

A heart too soon made discontented - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

What the seas have made us - Lorine Niedecker "Traces of Living Things"

Made out of rainbows and gold - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Butterfly"

And only once is the journey made - Sarah Noble-Ives "On the Shining Way"

Made friends in a left-handed trance - "Nonsense"

That are made to fade and fall away - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "Love Not"

Made complete by single things - Naomi Shihab Nye "Even at War"

Made of bone and flesh and story - Naomi Shihab Nye "Janna"

Made the choice of rupture - Achy Obejas "Boomerang, After Aime Cesaire"

Children made vapor, families ground to grist - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"

The use they've made of cardamom - Akilah Oliver "In Aporia"

Prayers that are made out of glass - Mary Oliver "Mindful"

Little flowers made from red tape - Matthew Olzmann "Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz"

Made of days and days - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"

Porch made of breath - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

House made of air - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

A rose made from cellophane - Gregory Orr "Domestic Life"

Made good ale in the glen - "The Outlaw of Loch Lene" transl. by Jeremiah Joseph Callanan

In Arno's vale you made yourself a nest - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Made up of slander, corruption, and spleen - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"

Made of flint and backbone - Linda Pastan "Elizabethan"

Monsters made of stone and nerve - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

Made from secret herbs - Lucia Perillo "Christmas at Forty"

Who made a broken man from parts of broken men - Meghan Phillips "The Bride of Frankenstein Considers Her Options"

In a dress made of flames - Xan Forest Phillips "Captivity Lessons"

A partition made of circumstance - Xan Forest Phillips "You and I"

Made solitude appear amid the waste - Philo "The Tribute"

Or made the Oligarchal Tyrants strong - Philo "The Tribute"

Not the least obeisance made he - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"

Made of undreamed dreams glassed in morning dew - Miriam Clark Potter "Bubbles"

Made her counsel with all sides - D.A. Powell "To Last"

But your hopes made you forget - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Tlaltecuhtli"

No statue made with hands - Alexander Pushkin "A Monument" transl. by John Pollen

A journey of feet made of water - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Is it distance or is it a far god?"

Made of sorrow a sail - Sina Queyras "Mummy"

Which made the burning depths of hell its home - Quince "Ambition" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

The same as made blossoms in Eden - Andrew Ramsay "Atkinson's Mill"

Made red by the comet's flare - Herbert Randall "The Derelict"

Who made a meal out of need - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"

Before they made the red carpet shine - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"

The market is made of fire - Roger Reeves "Tag at Pullman National Monument"

Why the root is made desperate by inability - Andrea Rexilius "New Organism [I want to think like a magi]"

The spider's decision is made - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Promises made and mocked - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Of music that is time made audible - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

Made terrible with too much light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 2: The Unborn"

Made marble blossom in quarries - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"

The factory where lightning and thunder are made - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"

Whose electricity is made from dreams - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"

whether hunger made it that particular - Ed Roberson "(...As for the Swallows, All They Were Doing)"

Made wan with endless years - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Night in a Down-Town Street"

With only laughter for the havoc we have made - Lloyd Roberts "The Madness of Winds"

Made out of days and out of eternities - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"

This was the end love made - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"

By experience made strong - Alice Wellington Rollins "Experience"

Made for other altitudes - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"

Sorrows by time made dim - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems VI: Northumbria.--A Dirge"

Death made wide a million gates - George William Russell "The Memory of Earth"

With the sudden vision that made us one with night - George William Russell "The Vision of Love"

What did I owe a world that made no sense - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"

A crown made of this visible sky - Sanai "Energetic Work" transl. by Coleman Barks

Sculptures made out of railroad tracks - Philip Schultz "Googling Ourselves"

Crime & punishment made one - Ann K. Schwader "Gone to Ground"

Forged new orbits for the myths we made - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

Made me the devil's tool - Robert W. Service "The Song of the Wage-Slave"

A time machine made out of zeroes and ones - Salik Shah "Straw-Fitted Elephants"

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece - Shakespeare "Macbeth"

Swears that she is made of truth - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXVIII"

Made useful by her choosing - Charif Shanahan "If I Am Alive To"

Made my bed in charnels - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Who am made one with grief - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"

On the path her feet have made - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Old Maid"

My tryst was never made with them - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: The Lamentation of Fand When She Is About to Leave Cuchulain"

Are made diamonds by the sun - George Sigerson "Mo Cailin Donn"

Made the moving lip a harp-string for the thought - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Laura Bridgman"

Made of the South Wind and the West Wind - May Sinclair "The Dark Night (XVIII)"

Seven dishes made out of the best red gold - "Sleeping Beauty" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]

Mirrors made of lucid stone - Clark Ashton Smith "Impression"

Which Pygmalion made and loved - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

prison made of emerald & pennies - Danez Smith "C.R.E.A.M."

prison is a plantation made of stone & steel - Danez Smith "C.R.E.A.M."

Was made in necessity blameless - "The Soul (From 'The Black Book of Caermarthen.')" (translated by ??)

Our speech of silence made - George Soule "Winter's Pride"

Made myself one with a dream - Frank Stanford "The Cape"

And all my memory is made thy throne - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"

Made sister to the wordless wind - George Sterling "Before Dawn"

Sorrow and Art made Love - George Sterling "A Character"

Altars of the buried sun made red - George Sterling "Duandon"

A famished star made desperate - George Sterling "Fire of Dreams"

Made equal in the dust - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"

In a shelter made by the leaves - Wallace Stevens "Lunar Paraphrase"

A melody made up of rain - M. Letitia Stockett "Sounds"

Made me turn liquid with sorrow - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

For the axe was made for slaughter - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

While symphonies filled up the gaps she made - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Watching the slippery elm made new - Alison Swan "Some Things I Needed to Know"

Fervent flower made fruitful from the sun - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Made stars to cover themselves - Mary Szybist "Wafian as in Waven as in Wif"

Never touched what made me holy - Dujie Tahat "On Desire"

Made of water and invisible feathers dipped in moonlight - Lehua M. Taitano "When the World Falls in Around You or, Vows to My Palestinian Wife on Our Wedding Day"

A raiment made of fire - Sara Teasdale "To E"

Made weak by time and fate - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"

On the days made of fire and dust - Shveta Thakrar "A Love in Twelve Feathers"

For my house all made of sky - Francis Thompson "Ex Ore Infantium"

Made of loops and lines - Matthew Thorburn "Wouldn't Hold"

All thy gifts were made more rich, more rare - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: V"

Youth and strength and life made answer - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Today the goose is made of steel - Kristen Tracy "Having It?"

Clothing made of cold earthen clay - (Anonymous) Traditional English song collected by Cecil Sharp

Blade made sharp by a throat - Paul Tran "Terroir"

A world made by displacement - Natasha Trethewey "Monument"

Made by blind gods waving sieves - Laurel Trivelpiece "The Turkish Bee"

Life is not made for meetings - Tu Fu "Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement" transl. by Burton Watson

Made of rose and fire and mist - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

the evisceration of slang on altars made unkind - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"

Made salt tea in a coral samovar - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Made of your sacrifice - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"

The me that made this heavenless night - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"

Begs to be made the moon - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "The Way Back"

The room made of broken mockingbirds - Ocean Vuong "Untitled (Blue, Green, and Brown): oil on canvas: Mark Rothko: 1952"

Made one with my horizon - Derek Walcott "A Latin Primer"

Suddenly made clear by the cicadas - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"

Sickle made of blooming flowers - Charles William Wallace "The Sickle of Flowers"

Words were not made for us - Sharon Wang "Radial Scent"

A call that made the life-blood leap - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "The First American Alliance"

And made obeisance to the Spring - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"

Find and shape what is not known until it's made - John Moncure Wettarau "The Sculptor's Trade"

A wound made of fire opening in the sky - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"

Made of smokeless flame and shadowless light - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"

Have made a secret pact with Sleep - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

This temple is a house not made with hands - Edith Wharton "Segesta"

Made thirst seem bitter-sweet - John Hall Wheelock "Of Day Came Night"

My head made of glass - Allison Benis White "Description of Symptoms"

Yet of contradictions made - Walt Whitman "Still Though the One I Sing"

A little mist by ghosts made magical - Helen Hay Whitney "The Pattern of the Earth"

Made chilly by traitor touch of snows - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Love is a broken lily]"

A gull made of bone and cloth - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: High"

Made arbitrary again - Katie Willingham "A Partial List of Overwriting Errors"

Made of chemicals and death - Adolf Wolff "Optimism"

One made of wind and starlight - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"

On a path already made firm - Janet Wong "Walking to Temple"

An eye made quiet by the power of harmony - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"

Reason to lament what man has made of man - William Wordsworth "Lines Written in Early Spring"

Made quiet by the power of harmony - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

Of mother-of-pearl and moonshine made - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"

Made of the moon - Elinor Wylie "Silver Filigree"

Who are made mostly of distance - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

Made acquainted with affliction - "XIII: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of Huexotzinco" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Then their water shall be made bitter - "XIII: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of Huexotzinco" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Who made you bitter made you wise - W.B. Yeats "Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea"

Like a fence made of bones - Jane Yolen "Fence of Bones"

Will ride the horses made of straw - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

Made real by photographs in silver frames - Kevin Young "Mantle"

With thread made of memory - Matthew Zapruder "Come On All You Ghosts"

Made a large kind of sense - Matthew Zapruder "Luna My Captive"

In a dress made of laughing glass - Matthew Zapruder "Never Before"

An arrow made of smoke - Matthew Zapruder "Poem (for Grace Paley)"

A whale made of sky - Cynthia Zarin "The Impulse Wants Company"


Pull a ribbon of honey into handmade mugs - Rage Hezekiah "Lake Sunapee"


One of those old homemade heartbreak songs - Joy Harjo "Washing My Mother's Body"

To mix with nuts and home-made cake - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"

Jelly jars tinted with homemade whiskey - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"


Never hindered by man-made walls - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"

Leaving manmade dreams behind - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"


One of the mart-made helots - W. Wilfred Campbell "Sebastian Cabot"


A mind new-made of shadowless delight - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"

An iron claw and a new-made screw - Mary Jo Bang "A Calculation Based on Figures in a Scene"


Remade/Remake.


An exile in a self-made skiff - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"


Technicolor and twilight-made - Taylor Johnson "W 177th & Broadway"


Unmade/Unmake.


Make uproar loud as drums - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Dream"

The silence that makes singing a miracle - Elmaz Abinader "The Last Lesson We Learn"

To make a clock of my insides - Liz Adair "Dragon in the E.R."

Make peace beyond the river - Richard C. Adams "A Delaware Indian Legend"

A house of my own making - Carl Adamshick "Black Snow [I came home]"

A veil that makes the night weep - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"

Making clocks look simple - Zubair Ahmed "Red with a Touch of Sulfur"

It must be rage because it makes no sound - Kaveh Akbar "My Father's Accent"

God makes us in pairs - Kaveh Akbar "Ultrasound"

Make it learn to live in the dark - Kaveh Akbar "Ways to Harm a Thing"

And make a mixtape of time - Nuola Akinde "Mothering"

Making sharp their arms of terror - "Alain the Fox" (translated by F.G. Fleay)

Make me part of your nests - Francisco X. Alarcon "Prayer of the Fallen Tree"

Germ of that which makes our circle whole - John Albee "Evolution"

Past the dark pool your voice makes - Elizabeth Alexander "Stray"

In making the fortune which others inherit - Horatio Alger Jr "Nothing to Do"

Make my own time, counterfeit the minutes - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

The more time I make, the less you have - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

Vowed to make the next model indestructible - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"

Weeks of rain making me forget - Hari Alluri "Spiral"

A minotaur of your own making - Julia Alvarez "Touching Bottom"

Emptying boxes and making order out of pieces - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"

That makes the walls themselves remember - Mouna Ammar "Ode to Ammou"

Makes the cane ash sting less in my throat - Keisha-Gaye Anderson "We Dreamed You"

Makes music of our meditations - Afua Ansong "what we did while waiting for the rain"

Makes the Moon say something new - Raymond Antrobus "Happy Birthday Moon"

Meaning making music like a heretic - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

Didn't make my demons disappear - Atticus "Magic in Love"

Make me dream in oceans - Cameron Awkward-Rich "What Returns"

To make her royal mandates known - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"

A litter of mimics about to make a killing - Mary Jo Bang "Filming the Doomsday Clock"

Making a strudel of bluebirds - Mary Jo Bang "The Numbers"

Will later make the illusion seem cruel - Mary Jo Bang "The Trip"

Reclining love will make the heavens dance - Natalie Clifford Barney "A Parisian Roof Garden in 1918"

And make the world their choice - "The Barren Fig Tree" [The Parables of the Saviour, no date, Project Gutenberg]

Make myself a harbor - Kay Ulanday Barrett "While looking at photo albums"

makes true poetry of lips - Elizabeth Bartlett "art"

That makes our fingers seek revenge - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Ghost of Anne Frank"

making music in ditches - Elizabeth Bartlett "the lovers"

Make our moons birds of prey - Ennis Rook Bashe "We Have Slain the Savage Martians, but Their Princess Escaped"

And make the true heart bold - Cora C. Bass "Ours Is the Choice"

Make my approaches wisely - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"

Makes firm her dark domain - Charles Baudelaire "Sunset" transl. not credited

Enough to avoid making an easy sum - Erin Belieu "Pity the Doctor, Not the Disease"

As silver marries brass to make a bell - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

Cement burst jugs and make them healthy - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"

Make the sun our rendezvous - Stephen Vincent Benet "Positively the Last Performance!"

And makes us less divisible than stone - Stephen Vincent Benet "Positively the Last Performance!"

What makes all autobiographies worthless - Emily Berry "Freud's Beautiful Things"

Making all the vales rejoice - William Blake "The Lamb"

Wants a river that makes its own way - Robert Bly "Men and Women"

Make an incense of sound - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Forest"

And the tipped bell make no sound - Louise Bogan "Medusa"

To see what suns can make - Louise Bogan "A Tale"

Makes a tambourine of the wind chime - Jaswinder Bolina "Phantom Camera"

A clock that makes a different noise every hour - Bruce Boston "Surreal Domestic"

When night makes life unwary - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

Your vision is machines for making more machines - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"

Makes a nest of inbound hulls and masts - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Making shadows inside you - Shannon Bramer "You Speak Violets"

When the dark makes its largest sound - William Brewer "Letter in Response to a Letter from My Son"

The dark rain veil making a bride of the mountain - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"

Rattlesnakes making a cursive communion on the road - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"

Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue - Anne Bronte "Consolation"

Still make the golden crocus shine - Anne Bronte "Memory"

Makes Olympian glory dim - Charlotte Bronte "Pilate's Wife's Dream"

Whatever narrow miseries I make - Jericho Brown "Taken"

Makes tender twilight of her face - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A Portrait"

Ambitions make the world unkind - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

Alight on the altar of making - Paola Bruni "The Lesson"

Somber is the sound the heart makes - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"

And makes the gray stone burn - F. O. Call "Cathedral Vespers"

Enough to make the pinecone grow wings - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"

That make blind chance the heir - Tommaso Campanella "XXXI. To Poland" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Lit my candle to make a song for you - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"

That make forever dark the vales of hell - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

And so make sunshine in the house - Phoebe Cary "Suppose!" [Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories (ed. by Hamilton Wright Mabie, William Byron Forbush, and Edward Everett Hale). 1927]

Make ghosts of such dead aromas - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"

Pride shall make my spirit strong - Robert Chambers "The Ladye that I Love" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

Who can make the earth stand still - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for my Aggressive Forehead"

Making a room bubble like a shoal of bream - Marianne Chan "The Lives of Saints"

Making hammocks out of figs and accidents - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"

A doubt that makes my heart grow sick - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Makes you chairs when you need justice - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

Piled up small stones to make a town - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"

Ribosomes in the scabbard of their maker - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"

All the things which make real the world - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"

What sound does a subatomic particle make? - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"

Making outrageous dreams - Leonard Cohen "These Heroics"

Making food from sunlight - Henri Cole "Twilight"

Making every moment important - Wanda Coleman "Dear Mama (4)"

I'll make you a crown of the pretty white daisies - "A Comforter" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]

Making sumptuous death - CAConrad "Leave Something Quiet in Shell of My Ear"

Make a grave for the dreams of the Past - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

the effort it takes to make sweet fruit - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"

To make my dream-children live - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "A Prayer"

Makes rainbows of our tears - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"

To learn where Fancy makes her nest - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Academy"

Whittled sticks to make the frame - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Kites"

Shame if ever you make them weep - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Going to Work"

Makes a grail of laughter - Hart Crane "Chaplinesque"

Makes an angel worth the view - Nathalia Crane "The History of Painting"

Will make no melody at my will - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Making cunning noiseless travel down the ways - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Going ridiculous voyages, making quaint progress - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Making families where river meets sea - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"

And make Neptune's self to quake - Rev. William Crowe "From Purchase's Pilgrimage, Versified and Designed as a Motto to 'Voyages for the Discovery of a N.W. Passage'"

Make early flowers of all things - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IV)"

With diamonds make her desolation bright - Olive Custance "Grief"

Your coaxing will only make a bitter fruit - H.D. "Sheltered Garden"

Which vanish to make room - Krystyna Dąbrowska "White Chairs" transl. by Karen Kovacik

Makes bitter poison into sweet - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets I"

Make a parody of paradise - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets III"

Makes a coffin of your nest - William H. Davies "A Bird's Anger"

Whose happy heart has power to make a stone a flower - W.H. Davies "The Example"

Make music to the bone - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Harmony (I)"

The disasters we make - Kwame Dawes "It Bruises, Too"

Which serves to make the silence audible - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"

Makes allowances for missing stars - Holly Day "The Mismanagement of Stars"

Making a maple tree's shadow jealous - Tyree Daye "Dirt Cakes"

Make magic under midnight moons - Tyree Daye "what the angels eat"

The best of us will make mistakes - Sydney Dayre "A Letter to Mother Nature" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Some fretting ruin make - Walter de la Mare "The Dark House"

The fruit that makes men wise - Walter de la Mare "The Stranger"

Cleanse my soul and make it fair - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Love, I had not ever thought]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Makes a young heart melancholy - Aubrey de Vere "Song"

That make wind chimes of words - Diane DeCillis "Nest"

Never meant for the apple to make you hungry - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"

Make not the grave too narrow - "Deirdre's Lament" transl. by Kuno Meyer

That makes no show for dawn - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LVII: Sleeping"

Courage makes his own chair - Dom "Number Cruncher: Here's a Crowd"

Breezes eons in the making - Chris Dombrowski "Hammock Poem"

Makes one little room an everywhere - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"

Firmness makes my circle just - John Donne "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

Making repairs to a skeletal umbrella - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"

And drinking makes immortal - Jeanne d'Orge "The Cup"

Imagined lutes make voiceless harmonies - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

And firm feet making conquest - Edward Dowden "A Day of Defection"

Make our private misery the star - Boris Dralyuk "The Bureau of Street Lighting"

Make the most of what we still may spend - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"

Makes a home for the stars - Stephen Dunn "Let's Say"

Makes trouble look like a feather bed - Cornelius Eady "I'm a Fool to Love You"

Making the wild waste blossom - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The Roman method for making bees - Carolina Ebeid "[You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior]"

As hyacinths make way - Maurice Francis Egan "He Made Us Free"

To make undying music in the world - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

Makes a welcome of indifference - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land III: The Fire Sermon"

The disguise the fog makes - Chiyuma Elliott "For Ghosted Girls"

Can make a feast out of trouble - R.J. Ellmann "To A Frustrated Poet"

And make just laws below the sun - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"

The blackbirds make the maples ring - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Your gold makes you seem wise - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Park"

Can make teeth crush stone - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

To split the earth and make it firm - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

To make the world an emptier place - Elaine Equi "My Taste"

Makes even cosmology offensive - Timons Esaias "Dark Matter"

Makes song in many a sullen tone - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]

Letters the magnolias make - Bernard Ferguson "awaiting a carriage, any"

The numerous letters the magnolias make - b ferguson "awaiting a carriage, any"

Make it to the season of reversals - b ferguson "awaiting a carriage, any"

Her shadow would make day - Sir Samuel Ferguson "Molly Asthore"

Making Melville eat his whale - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Make my notebooks into sheaves of grass - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Would make a plutocracy of our democracy - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "To the Oracle at Delphi"

Make public space for loss - Megan Fernandes "Amsterdam"

While Homer makes his slow way home - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"

Make of nothing bread enough - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 6"

Too small to make a morning - Julie Fogliano "Summer, September 10"

Makes a sigh half a smile - James W. Foley "Some One Like You"

Never a burden but you make it lighter - James W. Foley "Some One Like You"

To make no more of a wall than an open gate - Robert Frost "The Cow in Apple Time"

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

We have to use a spell to make them balance - Robert Frost "Mending Wall"

We make ourselves a place apart - Robert Frost "Revelation"

How I should make a good retreat - Catherine Grant Furley "Quits!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.20-v.I, 17 May 1884]

Thus neither needs to make amends - Catherine Grant Furley "Quits!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.20-v.I, 17 May 1884]

A wolf on the horizon making a movie - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"

Now for the match that I must make - "The Game of Dice" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Make every dark wish lie down - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"

Yet make his sorrowing subjects dwell on both - "The Ghost of Chatham"

How small a circle my dream makes - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"

Will make men cast all care away - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"

Making homes inside broken hearts - Nikita Gill "Homes"

Can't make this mayhem a miracle - brian g. gilmore "denny mcclain, in garden city, michigan (for scott & dan)"

Making an inventory of her failing - Carmen Gimenez "Beasts"

And still for idle loitering make excuse - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]

Rain making rivers by the curb - Natalie Goldberg "Home"

Make moons thy pebbles - Louis Golding "For My Friend"

Make a running road of noise - Louis Golding "Jack of April"

And grasshoppers make summer rhyme - Louis Golding "Shepherd Singing Ragtime"

Making a fire that marries fire - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

That makes my grief her gain - Barnabe Googe "The Fly"

And make my heart forget you - Mona Gould "Promise"

Golden light to make a flight of dreams - Mona Gould "Sherry"

And make roses of the daisies - Robert Graves "The Dying Knight and the Fauns"

It's pride that makes the heart so great - Robert Graves "To Lucasta on Going to the Wars--for the Fourth Time"

Make holiday of memory - Linda Gregerson "Double Portrait with American Flags"

Make penance of the air - Linda Gregerson "Double Portrait with American Flags"

Could not make a decent year out of its desolation - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

Make of my body a glass bridge - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

Shall make all darkness clear - Ivor Gurney "Afterwards"

Makes communion with this wind - Ivor Gurney "The Poplar"

Somewhat of the making's eager pain - Ivor Gurney "Song and Pain"

Make mournful music over me - Ieuan Gwynedd "Go and Dig a Grave for me" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

The phoenix's wings make the windows rattle - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"

Make her free disposal - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Triumph Hard-Won"

The clouds a ceiling make - Hafiz "The Divan VIII" (translated by H. Bicknell)

After making three millions in gold - Tom Hall "Why he asked for a Vacation"

Make use of broken walls - Nathalie Handal "How to Bite Hard"

Make prayers of clear stone - Joy Harjo "We Must Call a Meeting"

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

Your mouth will make no empty shapes - francine j. harris "something in the water"

April was in your making - F.W. Harvey "June"

Make my river an ocean - Yona Harvey "Hurricane"

Makes a mystic of the pauper - Terrance Hayes "Liner Notes for an Imaginary Planet"

Never have the luxury of making ourselves simple - Tom Healy "Base Camp"

Make emptiness an acquired aesthetic - Stephanie Heit "Dear Murderer"

Make a cookbook where poison tastes good - Stephanie Heit "Mad Flora and Fauna Catalog: Kudzu"

All things that make the rose - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender XVI"

Making a great noise to wake a dead god - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"

With a time-honoured craft to make free - Oliver Herford "A Little Book of Bores"

The steep water of your making - Conrad Hilberry "For Katharine, 1952-1961"

Make diverse pilgrimages - Edward Hirsch "Lafcadio Hearn"

Brooding about our fathers always on the make - Edward Hirsch "Liberty Brass"

Make curious queries to the Sphynx - Henry B. Hirst "The Valley of Shadow"

Thought no cares could make him sad - "The History of Will Worthy and Nancy Wilmot"

Will make you a special loan called Time - Tony Hoagland "Marriage Song"

Poisonous rivers make poisonous ice - Jackson Holbert "Landscape"

Cupid, why make the passage brighter - T. Hood "On a Picture of Hero and Leander" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Making his stony ribs thy stony stairs - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Who makes rainbows by invention? - Gerard Manley Hopkins "It was a hard thing to undo this knot"

Make the savage Czar in terror clutch his crown - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Make a paper wolf for me - Joan Houlihan "H. Antecessor"

And make me dance as they desire - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XII"

To make a robe you'll wear ten thousand miles - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Fulling Cloth for Clothes" transl. by Burton Watson

Clear light that makes men joyful - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Written on the Lake, Returning from the Retreat at Stone Cliff" transl. by Burton Watson

About buying time & making do - Amorak Huey "We Were All Odysseus in Those Days"

Take the neon lights and make a crown - Langston Hughes "Juke Box Love Song"

Makes hammer beat of drum beat - Langston Hughes "Migrant"

Hearts for peace make room - Jean Ingelow "The Letter L"

Thy gods are making wine - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: A Raven in a White Chine"

Making Lament with many an Ivory Yawn - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Makes me appear to those who think I've disappeared - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

War makes people disappear like chess pieces - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

To make waves in a history - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"

The lily clothed to make Solomon rue his glory - Mark Jarman "Then Saw the Problem"

Which failure cannot cast down nor success make proud - Robinson Jeffers "Rock and Hawk"

the fire necessary to make glass - Marlin M. Jenkins "against cleansing"

Makes the power of the Lion's jaw - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Riders of the Plain"

To make a weapon of my song - James Weldon Johnson "Envoy"

the murder that pen and protocol make - Fred L. Joiner "Austerity"

make small steps. in this wild place - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving at the Sipsey River"

Makes note of battles - Saeed Jones "History, according to Boy"

As if only whispers could make the world hear - Patricia Spears Jones "SELF PORTRAIT as retratos de cosas locas y de locos (stolen)"

And even make a sweet thing of the acrid - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

To make of silence a language - Ilya Kaminsky "Search Patrols"

Paris makes me speak this strange language - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

Unspoken because nothing makes a sound - Janet Kauffman "Stress Position"

Making directly for the woodland altar - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Makes of our bodies a mirror - Donika Kelly "Winter Poem"

Makes a mad, elemental tea - Jane Kenyon "Letter to Alice"

Makes a brittle rustling - Jane Kenyon "We Let the Boat Drift"

Make an agreement with the living - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

You forget the music your own voice makes - Vandana Khanna "For Some Girls It's Impossible"

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

No power can make this kingdom less - Henry Killigrew "Song [While Morpheus thus does gently lay]"

Even bees make holiday - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"

These clouds that make my heart jump - Annie Kim "Eros the Contagion"

With all the speed desire can make - Henry King "The Exequy"

Making walking like sleepwalking - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"

Jobs making infinite voids - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

The pewit's cry only makes deeper nature's rest - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]

Make vast shelter together - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"

Depending on the light to make a difference - Yusef Komunyakaa "Facing It"

To make the light pivot - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Helmet"

Making five out of two and two - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Making remarkable machines that almost worked - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Wise and Now-Departed Uncles"

time makes change possible - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

A flock of birds that can make no song - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"

That makes the past a dream to me - M.E.L. "A Farewell" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Make a new system for breathing - Kien Lam "Big Bang Theory"

Whose memory makes them sweet - Archibald Lampman "Between the Rapids"

Make the worst of any season - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

And makes my soul obedient to her will - Else Lasker-Schüler "Sphinx" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

This is what a darkness makes - Rickey Laurentiis "I Saw I Dreamt Two Men"

Sifted to make cakes and castles - Dorianne Laux "My Mother's Colander"

The very draught my anger makes - D.H. Lawrence "The Mosquito"

As I make my way in twilight now to rest - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"

While angry thunders make reply - Ida Lee "The Water Frog"

Makes my daily soup taste sour - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Isissimus"

Makes my daily bread taste salt - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Isissimus"

Make a thousand angels gaze up - Stephen Leggett "Making Angels"

Or make a martyr grumble - Henry S. Leigh "Clumsy Servant"

Make no bargains with immortals - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

A blade of blue to make a song - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Making what was lost whole - Keegan Lester "Huntington Beach"

With no more fuss than the moon makes - Philip Levine "Picture Postcard from the Other World"

Make the Earth your companion - J. Patrick Lewis "Walk Lightly"

Will make you a teacher of kings - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson

will make it feel small enough to fit - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"

Make myself a sandcastle and draw myself a door - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Making our strange disasters suddenly public - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Makes you hallucinate the food you are eating - Tan Lin "RPT MC-60 00.27 8"

Making our hearts their prey - Vachel Lindsay "We Start West for the Waterfalls"

We recite the songs our makers wrote - Angela Liu "The Machine Family"

Could make profit on a single pin - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

To make your lives of sand or granite - James Russell Lowell "For a Bell at Cornell University"

To make a sycophant or spy - Henry Lushington "To the Memory of Pietro d'Alessandro"

Makes golden moments swiftly glide - Arthur Macy "At Marliave's"

blend together erasing, making each other - David Maduli "alameda point"

Collect my germs and make a fountain - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Stars as Cyborg #86"

making it hard for your homes to welcome me - Neha Maqsood "Things I Do to Remember Home"

Make our rag-time banjo hum - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"

And make the circle strong - Edwin Markham [Untitled]

These gods that make perfect and blight - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"

To make acquaintance with the clay - George Martin "Eudora"

Make a helix of my hands - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"

Who make salt sweet - John Masefield "King Cole"

The verbed streetlights make ellipsis - Adrian Matejka "16 Bars Poetica"

Into the grammar of its making - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

As if you were making an afterlife with your touch - Wes Matthews "Immortality"

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

Make a metaphor for the empty - Jamaal May "Yes, I Know She's Dying"

A world the old trees make of water and air - Anne Haven McDonnell "Owl"

The crew making sure nothing goes awry - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "Ice Magic"

Make a racket pounding on mirrors - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson

Fight to make mercy last - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"

Making the earth full glad - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Makes the house of heaven splendid - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

Make sure the orb is glowing before I return - Lincoln Michel "Another Tuesday Afternoon"

Making a hole in the afternoon - Joseph Millar "Venetian Siesta"

Makes everyone the same as laughter - Joseph Millar "Venetian Siesta"

Making angles with the root - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Bean-Stalk"

Only my heart makes answer - Edna St Vincent Millay "Journey"

Cannot make the false the true - Joaquin Miller "To Oom Paul Kruger"

To make peace at the foot of heaven - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Catskills Retreat"

Make me a monster to myself - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fannie Lou Hamer"

A commitment we all make - jessica Care moore "She Was"

Who should make a bargain with hell - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope V: New Birth"

Make a necklace from all the rivers - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Makes room for the silence - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

I make a ghost of everything - Angel Nafis "Angel's Heart Clowns the Ocean"

Whatever road the gravel makes - Angel Nafis "TarBaby Fly!"

Make each tear a pearl - Francis Neilson "Hebe"

Making music for my homecoming - Maggie Nelson "After the Holidays"

The miracle the sea makes with shards of glass - Maggie Nelson "A History"

Making a net in a knot of thorns - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Who make the water and the earth tremble - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf

To make a third at your tryst - E. Nesbit "True Love and New Love"

For life makes no amends - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

How to make a house of our ruin - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Cape San Blas"

A hurricane, too, can make a house - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Cape San Blas"

Making a morning path to the light - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"

Makes bright the gateway - Meredith Nicholson "My Lady of the Golden Heart"

Make flower and fruit in me - Meredith Nicholson "To the Seasons"

Making their radiant versions - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"

And only memory making us rich - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Grandmother in the Stars"

Make bets with destiny - Naomi Shihab Nye "Shadow"

That can make any lie seem true - Achy Obejas "Conceits"

That makes the rose about me and gnashes at thorns - Brandon O'Brien "Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Belle"

Slate makes knives for sharpening fingers - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Treason's madness makes them foemen - "The Old Flag Alone" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

We exist because of what we make - Jose Olivarez "I Walk Into Every Room and Yell Where the Mexicans At"

Make me laugh over coffee - January Gill O'Neil "In the Company of Women"

Which justly makes the highest claim - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"

Two and two will not make five - John Oxenham "God Is Good"

To make so many taste sorrow - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

Make you songs of hearts denied - Dorothy Parker "I Know I Have Been Happiest"

And makes us unwillling till late to depart - James Parkerson "A Description of the Pine-apple at Towse"

Notes that make darkness bright - Coventry Patmore "The Shadow of Night"

The singing makes of me my own desire - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"

Parted indeed by more than makes the Sea - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

A dash in the whirlpool of Fashion to make - "The Peacock and Parrot, on their Tour to Discover the Author of 'The Peacock at Home'"

What were we to make of his misfortune - Andre F. Peltier "Miyagi's Wisdom and the Lunch-Table Debates"

Thunder making promises - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"

Dreams that make each night restless - Carl Phillips "All the Love You've Got"

Making from cricket-song and dying - Carl Phillips "And If I Fall"

A minor chord sparrows make with doves - Carl Phillips "Blow it Back"

What makes pattern dangerous - Carl Phillips "The Blue Door"

Who makes his heavy burden weigh more light - Philo "The Tribute"

Dread of making another tombstone - Robert Pinsky "First Things to Hand: 2. Book"

Makes us sugar things to eat - Miriam Clark Potter "Dutch Katrina"

May decline to make them immortal - Ezra Pound "Salvationists"

She makes me live in my head - John Prine

Make bright music give forth a sound of pain - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Murmurs" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]

Choices to make for the labyrinth - Khadijah Queen "Imminence"

Still interrupts the body I didn't make - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"

Who live, and love, and dying make amends - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Ode to Sappho"

To make sense of these billion leaves - Charles Rafferty "An Adulterous Spring"

And my arms to make my enemies fall - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"

Makes willing answer to Love's call - Theodore H. Rand "Marie Depure"

And winds make faces at the moon - Herbert Randall "Twin Lights"

The sundial makes no sign - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"

Making dolls of hollyhock blossoms - Molly Raynor "Grandy, 1939"

Time was always something you could make more of - Laura Read "Love Poem with Staples"

To make the prisoned heart rejoice - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Light of Our Home" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

From the myth they make of me - Justin Phillip Reed "About the Bees"

Making of my mind a begging bowl - Ariana Reines "The Economy"

Who suffered barely making ends meet - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Creed"

Make brave sallies at the stars - Lola Ridge "Amy Lowell"

Here we must make a separation - Rihaku "Four Poems of Departure: Taking Leave of a Friend" transl. by Ezra Pound

Who make the sun resound - Rainer Maria Rilke "Completed Fragments of Rilke" (translated by A.M. Juster)

Make a house called tomorrow - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"

Forward into the history you will make - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"

As your memories make their crash landing - Valencia Robin "Insomnia"

By the short road that mystery makes long - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Makes bright the midnight gloom - Alice Wellington Rollins "Baby-Hood"

Who now make merry at the gloom - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Make the most of what you still may spend - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

inheriting wounds from bodies you make a home in - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"

Makes room for freedom to mold another day - Varsha Saraiya-Shah "Anthem for America"

Make haste to bring your wares to light - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"

Makes the floor weep and the ceiling grieve - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

Make the universe a mirror - Frederick George Scott "The Everlasting Father"

The sounds empty makes inside a vacant house - Nicole Sealey "unfurnished"

And make peppermint resolutions to the New Year - Tobias Seamon "A Daybook of Devils"

But unrequited love can make an avalanche - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"

And make worms thine heir - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VI"

Make grief's length seem stronger - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"

As the waves make towards the pebbled shore - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LX"

Making beautiful old time - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"

Whose beauties proudly make them cruel - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXI"

How to make time an unmediated horizon - Prageeta Sharma "I Am Learning to Find the Horizons of Peace"

To make any other mistake - Brenda Shaughnessy "Me in Paradise"

Make me worthy of my friends - Frank Dempster Sherman "A Prayer"

More wisdom than near tongues can make - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Distant Voices"

The one thing they cannot make their own - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

You who make the forest sing - Joyce Sidman "Welcome to the Night"

In an effort to make the minutes stop - Richard Siken "The Torn-Up Road"

Because memory makes you hungry - Charles Simic "Marina's Epic"

Making the heart forgetful of itself - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets IV: Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

To make shadow play of their contents on the walls - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

Make a brief and broken wind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

Some small magic to make onion soup - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"

And makes you drink rain - Patricia Smith "Prologue-- And Then She Owns You"

To make the angels jealous - Richard Solomon "Homecoming (For Linda)"

No end of trouble you make for me - "Somebody Did It" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Making a prison of the world - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

To make their surer paradise of tears - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

Choices that we didn't make and never wanted - A.E. Stallings "Whethering"

When everything you touch makes a spark - Frank Stanford "Freedom, Revolt, and Love"

An echo that didn't make a sound - Frank Stanford "Vanish"

Visions make their spirits strong - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"

Make essay to trace its glimmerings - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

Real only if I make them so - Wallace Stevens "Holiday in Reality"

And makes a constant sacrament of praise - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"

Makes the willow shiver in the sun - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

The hunter who makes the world his prey - Arthur Stringer "Hunter and Hunted"

Making us drink octaves of sound - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 38: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The breath that makes it glow and die - Howard V. Sutherland "The Northern Light"

Lest ambition make us fall - May Swenson "First Walk on the Moon"

All the dreams that make him fearful - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Ultra"

That make their path a desert - Carmen Sylva "A Coronation"

And make a fortune out of all those waters - Carmen Sylva "Down the Stream"

Used to make such riot once - Rabindranath Tagore "Spring that in My Courtyard"

Pound grain to make good wine - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Matching a Poem by Secretary Kuo, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

Make clear the road through toil and darkness - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

there are birds making treaties with the sky - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

our responsibility to make the answer - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

Making slow acquaintance with the day - Henry David Thoreau "Smoke in Winter"

Which make the best philosophy untrue - Henry David Thoreau "Winter Memories"

His will makes the world drear and dun - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: VII"

A sunny silence makes heart-music - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"

Make of my body a bridge - TC Tolbert "Nine Haiku"

Make me music to my sorrow - "Tom o' Bedlam"

So vulgar it would make a foreman blush - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"

And makes silence pollute the air - Elizabeth Torres "The Voyage"

Making each stone a matchbook - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"

Making her a mountain of smoke - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"

Making the green hearts flutter - Natasha Trethewey "Limen"

Enough to make the cartwheels crack - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Song on Enduring the Cold" transl. by Burton Watson

Hammer needles to make fish-hooks - Tu Fu "The River Village" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough and Amy Lowell

The doomed trilobites neglect to make out their wills - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"

Making for the door out of your life - Jean Valentine "The Drinker"

Makes amends for all the wintry past - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"

Making a story from some pieces of truth - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"

Played the makings of a masterpiece off-key - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"

Making sunshine out of shade - Derek Walcott "Tomorrow, Tomorrow"

Make all your sorrow neat - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"

The constellation we make with each other - Eric Wang "I Roll Up to the Club in a Gundam"

The impossibility of making a day - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"

Making ten thousand turnings - Wang Wei "The Blue-Green Stream" (translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell)

Where gentian flowers make mimic sky - William Watson "A Child's Hair"

To make the journey to the heart - Afaa Michael Weaver "This Morning, This First Poem"

Bent to making clumsy prayer - John Moncure Wettarau "Wally's Poem"

The making of perfect soldiers - Walt Whitman "As I Ponder'd in Silence"

We make a trial of ourselves - Walt Whitman "On Journeys Through the States"

To make the halting history much longer - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"

As children play who make no noise - Helen Hay Whitney "As a Pale Child"

The little night-owl make her throne - Oscar Wilde "The Grave of Shelley"

Makes a needle and thread of itself - L. Ash Williams "Red Wine Spills"

To make roses stand before thorns - William Carlos Williams "The Ivy Crown"

What sound the sun makes - Katie Willingham "When I Ask the Internet if the Sun Is a Ball of Fire"

Make rats and spiders my associates - Adolf Wolff "The Liberty I Loathe"

With his eternal motion make a sound like thunder - William Wordsworth "It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free"

Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn - William Wordsworth "The World Is Too Much With Us"

And makes the night wakeful and full of remorse - Charles Wright "Time Is a Child-Biting Dog"

By what law did Sagittarius make his squatter's claim - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

When the frost makes all the birches burn - Elinor Wylie "Atavism"

Making blind moons of all your eyes - Elinor Wylie "Escape"

Checkpoints of your own making - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

Rain makes a painting on the earth - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu

Makes no good first impression - Jane Yolen "Little House in the Wood"

Make their living out of sleep - Jane Yolen "Winter Song of the Weasel"

And make the granite hum beneath - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"

Make of him a memento - C. Dale Young "Curio"

When midges' wings make a thin music - Francis Brett Young "On a Subaltern Killed in Action"

Only the milk makes sense - Kevin Young "For the Confederate Dead"

Make the most of sunshine - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

That my ribs might make a belfry - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks XI: Cathexis"

Makes even the universe dizzy - Zheng Min "The Gift of Life #1" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Messenger, trickster, curfew-maker - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"


A glassmaker's dream of blue - Elizabeth Spires "Cote d'Azur"


With blood of some high-making passion - Ivor Gurney "The Day of Victory"


The boat-yard of the last gondola maker - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

The silence of the shadows' makers - Tim Newcomb "The Smoke Within the Fire's Ring"

The maker of a woodland hymn - Grantland Rice "The Bug's View-Point"

The maker of terrible delicate decisions - Adrienne Rich "Char"


Makeshift forests - Carol Frost "Circus City"

Mercy at the makeshift desk - Gerald Stern "Places You Wouldn't Believe"


Dispatched the falcon to be my matchmaker - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson


Mischief-making Time would never dare - Sterling A. Brown "Challenge"


Dawn's chorus is a peace-making operation - Amie Whittemore "Future History of Earth's Birds"


Remade/Remake.


Taker of risks and riddle-maker - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"


Unmade/Unmake.


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