Potential Titles: Dusk

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To float impalpable in dusk - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

Mimicking the sound of dusk - Zaina Alsous "A Theory of Birds"

Upside down at dusk - Rae Armantrout "Provenance"

Into the dusk of her sleeping - F.D. Ashburn "Song [You roses that lean away]"

Through the dusky-woven veil of time - Benjamin West Ball "Athens"

let me have time's dusk perspective - Elizabeth Bartlett "dusk I love"

The chain of centuries from dusk to dawn - Elizabeth Bartlett "Even if We Did"

Dawn and dusk the ancient thresholds - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"

Less separate at dusk - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"

Dusk strumming the birches - Richard Blanco "Listening at Reading Farm, an Elegy"

Wants doves returning at dusk - Robert Bly "Men and Women"

Wear your moment of dusk - Julia Bouwsma "I Walk My Road at Dusk"

Follow till the dusk of my day - Thomas Boyd "Love on the Mountain"

Traipsing past dusk - Lucie Brock-Broido "The Deerhunting"

A street lamp at the outpost of dusk - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"

In the splendor of vermillion dusk - Sue Budin "Sunset Over K Mart"

The uttermost ridge of dusk - Mary C.G. Byron "The Tryst of the Night (M. C. Gillington)"

The irrevocable, raw dusk - Cyrus Cassells "Clarinet"

Presiding over vespertine flowers and dusky courts - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"

Dusky courts hidden behind the moon - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"

Out of the strange still dusk - Adelaide Crapsey "The Warning"

Intent upon the dusky book of fate - Olive Custance "St. Anthony (The Engraving by Durer)"

A dusk where one dim lamp burns - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"

Through the dusk with muffled bell - Walter de la Mare "The World of Dream"

Dusk buds their breathing wings - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

Early in the noon-stabbed dusk - Chris Dombrowski "Direction"

Eluding dusk's clutch - Chris Dombrowski "Study for the Ridgeline Blue in Winter"

A face for dusk - Stephen Dunn "At His House"

Dusk's confused traveler - Stephen Dunn "The Obsession"

And serenade you at dawn and dusk - Aziz Isa Elkun "The Spring Bird" transl. by author

The wrens build at dusk - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"

And the dusk is again holy - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Till dusk met the hills - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: II. The Prudent Lover"

Moon has dusks for walls - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"

Every dusk the longing. Every daybreak the loss - Vievee Francis "The Poems Repeat as Dreams as Tears"

The first breath of dusk - Zona Gale "Alias"

In sleep and in the solitary dusk - Zona Gale "Light"

Let your eyes flower from the dusk and flame - Zona Gale "Return"

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

In the fixed dusk of his negligence - Louise Gluck "Lamentations"

Dusk-airs and breaths of half-light - Ivor Gurney "De Profundis"

A tangle of silver gleams and dusky lights - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"

When dusk fell, a clutch of black birds landed - Michael Hettich "The Angels"

Shadowy fingers of approaching Dusk - B. Higgins "Eventide"

Daring each other at dusk - Conrad Hilberry "Crete: The Diktaean Cave"

In a season of odd, dusky congruences - Edward Hirsch "Fall"

Dusk all night - Chloe Honum "At a Days Inn in Barstow, California"

Dusk enfolds the empty curtains - Hsieh Hui-Lien "Fulling Cloth for Clothes" transl. by Burton Watson

Laughter hardening the dusk - Langston Hughes "Railroad Avenue"

Golden radiance from boughs of dusk - Scharmel Iris "Fantasy of Dusk and Dawn"

From the husk of dusk I shake the stars - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Carry my eyes into the dusk - Allison Eir Jenks "Exit"

A single singing line of dusky song - Helene Johnson "The Road"

Fear this feathered dusk - Saeed Jones "Boy at Threshold"

This dusk between both of me - Saeed Jones "Hour Between Dog & Wolf"

Murmur their mysteries through dusky aisles - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

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

Warm inside the white dusk of morning - Joanna Klink "A Welcome"

With dusk's slow bleed - Nate Klug "Jasmine"

Deflecting the ricochet against that anarchy of dusk - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

As dusky birds brushed blues into a montage - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

A skirt of flames dances around her at dusk - Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I Are Disappearing"

With smiles that chill as dusks descend - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Power Against Power [Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1864]"

The dusk of slow-accomplished Time - Emily Lawless "Afterword"

Dusky depths of shadowlands - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"

Lightning out of your smothered dusk - D.H. Lawrence "He-Goat"

We forge the dusk of Chaos - Mina Loy "Apology of Genius"

In a blue collusion of dusk and rain - Alessandra Lynch "Meditation on Rain"

Leafy maze and dusky corridor - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The World's End"

There is no dusk to be - Archibald MacLeish "An Eternity"

His breath was sweet as dusk to me - Fiona MacLeod "The Songs of Ethlenn Stuart"

Breathing dusk and arrowy moonlight - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

Taking the last daylight out in a lightened dusk - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: [It creeps through like night]"

Sow the dusk with fiery grains - John Masefield "Invocation"

Truths spun at dusk - Shara McCallum "The Border"

Frogs perfect their symphony at dusk - Campbell McGrath "The Everglades"

As dusk ebbs on the plane of night - N. Scott Momaday "The Snow Mare"

The dusk has gone with the Evening Star - William Moore "Dusk Song"

With the haunting dream of the dusk - William Moore "Dusk Song"

As Autumn's ruth steals through the dusks - William Moore "Dusk Song"

As I draw thunder from the sky at dusk - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Shadows the color of moss at dusk - Walter Pavlich "Road with Five Waterfalls"

In the dusk of my body - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"

Spiraling deep in the dusk - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"

Against the cusp of dusk - Xan Forest Phillips "I Never Used to Write About Birds"

The heavy hanging air of dusk - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On the Potomac River, U.S.A."

Palls of dusky paleness cling - M. Regan "The Hollow"

Came out with the privy stars at dusk - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"

Twilight people to be a dusk in memory - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Sun soaked and dusk stained - Hester J. Rook "Under Silver Waves"

In golden dusks of memory - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems II: An Afternoon Soliloquy"

What enraptured hosts burn on the dusky heath - George William Russell "A Call of the Sidhe"

Lights of infinite pity star the grey dusk - George William Russell "Immortality"

Crawl into a dusk of velvet - Carl Sandburg "The Answer"

In dusk and dust and dreams - Carl Sandburg "Bringers"

Dusk metes our mornings for everyone - Varsha Saraiya-Shah "Anthem for America"

Through the dusky halls of Hades - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]

The dusks and damps of dissolution spread - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Echoes against the dusks of the Unapproachable - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Through dusky deep solitude - Fritz Schnack "Echo" transl. by William Saphier

Between these penciled lines of dusk & dawn - Ann K. Schwader "Deconstructing Night"

When the dusk droops dark - Clinton Scollard "Dusk at Sea"

Dusk-dream of my soul - Clinton Scollard "Elusion"

Their brief victories of dusk and dawn - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"

When the bright eyes of the day open on the dusk - James Stephens "Day and Night"

Haunting yet the dusk of unforgotten days - George Sterling "Music"

Through moonlight and silence and dusk - Arthur Stringer "The Pilot"

A night when dusk never comes - Milo K. Szyszka "A Tale of Moths and Home (of Bones and Breathing) (of Extrinsic Restrictive Lung Disease)"

Stately tragedy of dusk - Sara Teasdale "Twilight"

A few words whispered at dusk - Matthew Thorburn "Gray Light on an Unmade Bed"

Black track of dusk - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Bat"

The world spinning towards dusk - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Two Chairs Under an Apple Tree"

Talks me through dusk - Edwin Torres "E.G. as I.E."

Driven by dusk - Edwin Torres "Father Song"

my static charge of light and dusk - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"

To passers of light and dusk - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"

The noisy machine dissolves in the dusk - Chase Twichell "Stirred Up By Rain"

The dusk takes refuge in the steady rain - Chase Twichell "Stirred Up By Rain"

A fragrant dusk of coming thunder - Maximilian Voloshin "The Birth of a Poem" transl. by A. S. K. [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

The bronze dusk of imperial palms - Derek Walcott "A Latin Primer"

Tinted by the dyeing dusk - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"

The dusk so royal and so rich - Winifred Welles "Exile"

As the slow dusk advances - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"

The yellow and purple dusk - William Carlos Williams "History"

The whisper of dusk in the drowsy ear - Charles Wright "Basin Creek Sundown"


Dim curtains of duskfire and dew - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"


Gifted with the frequent fate of dusk-lit hope - William Moore "Expectancy"


Like the dusk-winged albatross - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"


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