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Potential Titles: Kiss
Kiss me in between the static - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"
Last winter's kisses, like salt on black ice - Kim Addonizio "Wine Tasting"
Be less lavish with her kisses rare - Ellen Tracy Alden "Neighbor Edith"
Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
The one whose kiss she chose to return - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Of ancient kisses vile and vain - Auguste Angellier "An Evocation" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Baubles of stolen kisses - Maya Angelou "When You Come to Me"
Kissing a bitter mouth - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The ways to see and be an angel"
The softest kiss in the wrong direction - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Kissed better than the champagne - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Hear the bad news kiss the wind - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"
Where you on kisses fed - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"
The guerdon of a burning kiss - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"
One fragment kissed another - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"
Had sealed you with a warning kiss - Maurice Baring "Julian Grenfell"
Shakes the whirling planets with a kiss - Maurice Baring "Wagner"
To kiss the eyes of night farewell - Natalie Clifford Barney "Life"
And greet a stranger with a kiss - Willis Barnstone "At My Funeral"
out of kisses bringing fears - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"
to kiss the imaged mist - Elizabeth Bartlett "while I live"
Hang your kisses on all my branches - Ellen Bass "Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of My Fur"
Kisses as icy as the moon - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited
Until they kissed their souls away - Clive Bell "December"
Lands on a trail of blood kisses - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "A Tale of Collaboration"
This kiss and its sleepless itinerary - Traci Brimhall "Aubade on a Ghost Hunt"
Receive the kiss of silk - Gwendolyn Brooks "The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith"
Never kiss a nettle - Calef Brown "Bossy Casey"
Until the key kisses the lock - Mahogany L. Browne "Goodnight, Moon"
Waiting the zephyr's first faint kiss - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Water Lilies"
Amid the kisses of the soft south-west - William Cullen Bryant "Autumn Woods"
Which kisses the glass coated asphalt - Bryan Byrdlong "Ode to Black Air Forces"
A kiss of mayo & mustard on a whole wheat bun - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Kiss the lips of Silence - Willa Cather "L'Envoi"
Air kisses the wine - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Brown Estate, 2018 Tempranillo"
The radiant kisses of the air - Wilfred Childe "Rosa Innocens"
A kiss so cold you'll catch your death - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"
Her night will kisses that midnight sun - W.E. Christian "Weaning Time"
Kiss me with your teeth - Leonard Cohen "It Uses Us!"
We kissed goodbye in fire - Leonard Cohen "Nothing I Can Lose"
A thousand kisses deep - Leonard Cohen "Thousand Kisses Deep"
And kiss the cheek of the moon - Leonard Cohen "The Window"
And bound themselves, by kisses twelve - "Come Lasses and Lads"
When the sunset rays dart kisses - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cirrus. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Feel the willow's tender kiss - Benjamin Copeland "The Meadow Air Is Sweet"
Let's commence the vigil of kisses - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Kisses from a waterfall - Nathalia Crane "Choice"
kisses are a better fate than wisdom - E. E. Cummings "[since feeling is first]"
Moist eyes are at kisses playing - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IV)"
The kiss of your white fire - H.D. "Cassandra"
Soft kisses like bright flowers - H.D. "Telesila"
A bloody kiss at thirty paces - Jim Daniels "Slaughter Ball"
Kiss their shadows as they dance - William H. Davies "Oh, Sweet Content"
Kissed me with the breath of hate - Coningsby Dawson "Love at Last"
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes - Thomas Dekker "Golden Slumbers"
One day we shall not kiss or quarrel any more - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"
No zephyrs kiss the little lake - Irving Sidney Dix "Twin Lake: In the Wayne Highlands"
This last lamenting kiss - John Donne "The Expiration"
Kissed the shining feet of Twilight - Helen Dudley "To One Unknown"
A kiss on the lip of the wind - Carol Ann Duffy "North-West"
And tosses a kiss at the stars - Paul Laurence Dunbar "The Rising of the Storm"
Kiss the edge of Saturn's outermost ring - Caleb Edmondson "In 2025, His Rings Will Disappear"
Fire kissed us and laughed - Eve L. Ewing "I come from the fire city"
Shopping has become my good-night kiss - Maggie Farren "Palms"
A kiss blown in the mirror - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"
One kiss from her honey mouth - Sir Samuel Ferguson "Molly Asthore"
With his fairy kisses three - Eugene Field "Ganderfeather's Gift"
I stand in these shadows to kiss her - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"
Kiss the dust from my weary feet - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]
Our scorching breath shall kiss - Gilbert Frankau "Eyes in the Air"
Morning ran and kissed the grass - John Freeman "The Wakers"
Throwing kisses to the birds - Rose Fyleman "Vision"
Steals its kisses with delight - Alfred C. Gellis "An Indian Cradle Song"
Caged as a prisoner, kissed as a pet - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The cruelty of its awful kiss - Elsa Gidlow "I, Lover"
Kissed by the wild and loved by lightning - Nikita Gill "The Moon Goddess"
The wings for the kiss - Louise Gluck "An Endless Story"
Waiting for the kiss of May - Louis Golding "Jack of April"
Spurred our parents to the kiss - Robert Graves "Children of Darkness"
And give you kisses by the dozen - Grace Greenwood "Babie Annie to Cousin J--, acknowledging the Christmas-gift of a chain"
I'd kiss the oranges blue - Kimberly Grey "Hunger Sentences"
Whose sweet breath is kissed by windflowers - J.C.H. "A Day in Early Summer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.44-v.I, 1 Nov. 1884]
Imagination's kisses - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
A lipstick kiss imprinted invisibly in a nano dimension - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
Who kiss to shield yourselves from blame - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
Flinging its kisses to the budding trees - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]
Kissing all the bees - Florence Hoatson "Blossoms"
Sprang to kiss the sun - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
Kissed the cheek of death - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Kiss the cheek of my periphery - Jennifer Huang "Neighborhood Walk"
Cutting the darkness and kissing the moon - Langston Hughes "Moonlight Night: Carmel"
Throwing kisses to the sky - Sade Iverson "Reminders"
Your kisses were little poisons - Ashley M. Jones "Love Note: Surely"
kissed by my own flame - Camisha L. Jones "Wrecking Ball"
Till time withers with his kiss - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"
And carry me into a seven-day kiss - June Jordan "Alla Tha's All Right, But"
Wraiths of kisses newly dead - Joyce Kilmer "Matin"
The trumpet's almost kissed by enough pain - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"
Whose kiss was poison - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
Kiss the marble and the gold - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "A Pageant of Siena"
The first kiss carries history - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"
A kiss can resuscitate the drowned Ophelia - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"
Decide if it's a kiss or a bullet - Dana Levin "Instructions for Stopping"
And burn the Pilgrim's kiss - Ada Limon "Publicity"
A kiss from far off Eden - Vachel Lindsay "My Lady Is Compared to a Young Tree"
Curling lips which Earth has kissed - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Crocus Bed"
Whose kiss was in the wind - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Rose Dolores"
For wild redemption of his kiss - Fiona MacLeod "The Songs of Ethlenn Stuart"
Print of some immortal's kiss - Stephane Mallarme "L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune" (translated by Aldous Huxley)
One azure word turned kiss - Jeannette Marks "Bubbles"
Kissing the dawn with my silver - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"
Awakened by kisses of fire - Edgar Lee Masters "Toward the Gulf"
Reaping time for kisses - Louis J. McQuilland "With Bertha Up the River"
And the kisses you returned - Frank J. Medina "'Twas Not to Be"
Kissing resolution on the lips - Risalet Merdan "Today Is a Day to Write Poems" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
Posturing kisses gone astray for scattered sweets - Alice Meynell "The Fold"
The long, the new surprises of his kiss - Alice Meynell "West Wind in Winter"
Submerged in salt kisses - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Mercy Beach"
As keen for a kiss as a crime - Charles Pelham Mulvaney "Poppoea"
Kiss of sorrow's bitter lips - Ethel Allen Murphy "A Botticelli Madonna. I, The Wondering Angel"
Flowers to kiss her - Francis Neilson "The Tryst"
A rosary of yellow kisses - Pablo Neruda "Advancing in the Lands of Chile" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The republic my kisses founded - Pablo Neruda "Night XC" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Drunk with pines and long kisses - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems IX" translated by W.S. Merwin
The lips that kissed fire - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
All the world kissing his glove - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"
Kiss the sand in wanton mockery - Effie Lee Newsome "O Sea, That Knowest Thy Strength"
And kiss the earth farewell - Effie Lee Newsome "Sunset"
Kissed him with ripples of laughter - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"
Until we kiss good night - Lin Oliver "Hush"
Kissing me with its golden mouth - Mary Oliver "I don't want to live a small life"
The stiff kiss of acorns - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"
Has a kiss of desire on the lips - John Boyle O'Reilly "The White Rose"
Kissing the Old World, softly to sleep - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"
To the kiss of the winds above - Conde Benoist Pallen "The Raising of the Flag"
Disaster's alkaline kiss - D.A. Powell "Useless Landscape"
Kissing the dust of the Holy Land - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Rest"
Kissed in a dark exhibit - Paige Quinones "At the Museum"
Sun that pauses to kiss the dew - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "My Valley"
May not perish for a kiss - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On a Battle Field"
Beneath the fire of kisses - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "One Night"
Ghosts of burnt-out kisses - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Roses"
Ere they were kissed by winds - Theodore H. Rand "Partridge Island"
With the kiss of the tide entwine - Herbert Randall "Outside"
Faint beneath the kiss of fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Drain their own kisses as they drink - James Whitcombe Riley "The Song I Never Sing"
The salt of a thousand dry kisses - Luis J. Rodriguez "Making Medicine"
Kissed by burning stars - Alice Wellington Rollins "Indian Summer"
Caressing surveillance cameras and blowing whisper kisses - Karen A. Romanko "The Invisible Woman Runs for President"
And kisses the sparrows in her hair - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"
When we kiss my lips shatter like bleeding glass - Hester J. Rook "Under Silver Waves"
Kisses and hatred, chocolate and vengeance - Benjamin Rosenbaum "A Gardener Betrayed by Roses"
Kiss and wake the waters - Isaac Rosenberg "Don Juan's Song"
Turned with malign kiss - Isaac Rosenberg "On Receiving the First News of the War"
The breath of a first kiss - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"
Sent from earth to kiss the sky - Margaret E. Sangster "At Dawn: III. The Farmer"
And their dreams dew kissed - Margaret E. Sangster "To an Old Schoolhouse"
Peace kiss and blot their tarnished light - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Sealed forever by reentry's kiss of peace - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"
With cantrip kisses seven - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Three times round with kisses seven - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Plighted faith renewed with every kiss - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"
Kiss high heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"
Who kissed the veil from Beauty's face - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
Graves by cloud wreaths kissed - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
With a cool kiss of surprise - Joyce Sidman "Come, Happiness"
Hiding kisses before they grieve - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Escapes a Bosch Painting"
With kisses keen as snow - Clark Ashton Smith "Beauty Implacable"
Desert years in one deep kiss - Clark Ashton Smith "Ecstasy"
Without even kissing their ghosts in my dreams - Cynthia So "The Unicorn's Question"
From the distance of a kiss - Richard Solomon "Salt Doll's Incarnation"
The strawberry of a good-bye kiss - Gary Soto "California Geography"
The wind's kisses turn rough - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
Paradox and ambiguity kiss each time - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "When my OB/GYN Said He Didn't Understand Poetry"
Stir beneath June's magic kiss - Muriel Stuart "The Seed Shop"
When the cold North-wind kissed her pallid lips - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Smiles of silver and kisses of gold - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
With rosy kisses maddening all the sky - Rabindranath Tagore "Spring that in My Courtyard"
Slips past the sun's long kiss - Tess Taylor "Solstice"
Never kissed at all - Sara Teasdale "The Look"
Wind kissing the river - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"
Meet our pity with a traitor's kiss - Iris Tree "[The scandal-monger after all is right]"
Crushing the poisonous berries of sinister kisses - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"
A gift of quicksand kisses, a ruin of howling - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
The sun's dark kiss - John Updike "Endpoint"
Warmed to metal's kiss - John Updike "Endpoint"
blowing kisses to clouds of heather - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
To kiss the edge of their universe - Emily van Kley "Lacustrine"
And kiss the sun "Good-bye!" - Charles William Wallace "A Choral of Sunset"
Kissed the bony branches into blossom - Charles William Wallace "The Old Benoni Tree"
Kissing apples till they blush - Julia Carter Welch "Fall"
Her kiss upon the brows of dream - John Hall Wheelock "The Undissuadable Austerity"
The kisses were ghostly with jasmine - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ghost"
The wind lays ghostly kisses on my lips - Helen Hay Whitney "In the Mist"
Strike the earth with a kiss - Phillip B. Williams "Order of Events"
Fell like a kiss from the sky - Joseph R. Wilson "One Sweet Moment"
The sun would steale a kisse - George Wither "A Love Song"
Radiance woven into kisses - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 16" transl. by Katherine Silver
Of passion pale and amber-kissed - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"
Amber-kissed with years of heat - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"
Petals of moon-kissed roses - Joyce Kilmer "Slender Your Hands"
The soft rain-kisses of the night - Claude McKay "A Red Flower"
Chalice of sun-kissed foam - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Brook"
With sun-kisses all aflame - Frances E.W. Harper "Dandelions"
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Last winter's kisses, like salt on black ice - Kim Addonizio "Wine Tasting"
Be less lavish with her kisses rare - Ellen Tracy Alden "Neighbor Edith"
Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
The one whose kiss she chose to return - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Of ancient kisses vile and vain - Auguste Angellier "An Evocation" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Baubles of stolen kisses - Maya Angelou "When You Come to Me"
Kissing a bitter mouth - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The ways to see and be an angel"
The softest kiss in the wrong direction - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Kissed better than the champagne - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Hear the bad news kiss the wind - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"
Where you on kisses fed - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"
The guerdon of a burning kiss - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"
One fragment kissed another - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"
Had sealed you with a warning kiss - Maurice Baring "Julian Grenfell"
Shakes the whirling planets with a kiss - Maurice Baring "Wagner"
To kiss the eyes of night farewell - Natalie Clifford Barney "Life"
And greet a stranger with a kiss - Willis Barnstone "At My Funeral"
out of kisses bringing fears - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"
to kiss the imaged mist - Elizabeth Bartlett "while I live"
Hang your kisses on all my branches - Ellen Bass "Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of My Fur"
Kisses as icy as the moon - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited
Until they kissed their souls away - Clive Bell "December"
Lands on a trail of blood kisses - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "A Tale of Collaboration"
This kiss and its sleepless itinerary - Traci Brimhall "Aubade on a Ghost Hunt"
Receive the kiss of silk - Gwendolyn Brooks "The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith"
Never kiss a nettle - Calef Brown "Bossy Casey"
Until the key kisses the lock - Mahogany L. Browne "Goodnight, Moon"
Waiting the zephyr's first faint kiss - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Water Lilies"
Amid the kisses of the soft south-west - William Cullen Bryant "Autumn Woods"
Which kisses the glass coated asphalt - Bryan Byrdlong "Ode to Black Air Forces"
A kiss of mayo & mustard on a whole wheat bun - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Kiss the lips of Silence - Willa Cather "L'Envoi"
Air kisses the wine - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Brown Estate, 2018 Tempranillo"
The radiant kisses of the air - Wilfred Childe "Rosa Innocens"
A kiss so cold you'll catch your death - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"
Her night will kisses that midnight sun - W.E. Christian "Weaning Time"
Kiss me with your teeth - Leonard Cohen "It Uses Us!"
We kissed goodbye in fire - Leonard Cohen "Nothing I Can Lose"
A thousand kisses deep - Leonard Cohen "Thousand Kisses Deep"
And kiss the cheek of the moon - Leonard Cohen "The Window"
And bound themselves, by kisses twelve - "Come Lasses and Lads"
When the sunset rays dart kisses - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cirrus. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Feel the willow's tender kiss - Benjamin Copeland "The Meadow Air Is Sweet"
Let's commence the vigil of kisses - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Kisses from a waterfall - Nathalia Crane "Choice"
kisses are a better fate than wisdom - E. E. Cummings "[since feeling is first]"
Moist eyes are at kisses playing - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IV)"
The kiss of your white fire - H.D. "Cassandra"
Soft kisses like bright flowers - H.D. "Telesila"
A bloody kiss at thirty paces - Jim Daniels "Slaughter Ball"
Kiss their shadows as they dance - William H. Davies "Oh, Sweet Content"
Kissed me with the breath of hate - Coningsby Dawson "Love at Last"
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes - Thomas Dekker "Golden Slumbers"
One day we shall not kiss or quarrel any more - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"
No zephyrs kiss the little lake - Irving Sidney Dix "Twin Lake: In the Wayne Highlands"
This last lamenting kiss - John Donne "The Expiration"
Kissed the shining feet of Twilight - Helen Dudley "To One Unknown"
A kiss on the lip of the wind - Carol Ann Duffy "North-West"
And tosses a kiss at the stars - Paul Laurence Dunbar "The Rising of the Storm"
Kiss the edge of Saturn's outermost ring - Caleb Edmondson "In 2025, His Rings Will Disappear"
Fire kissed us and laughed - Eve L. Ewing "I come from the fire city"
Shopping has become my good-night kiss - Maggie Farren "Palms"
A kiss blown in the mirror - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"
One kiss from her honey mouth - Sir Samuel Ferguson "Molly Asthore"
With his fairy kisses three - Eugene Field "Ganderfeather's Gift"
I stand in these shadows to kiss her - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"
Kiss the dust from my weary feet - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]
Our scorching breath shall kiss - Gilbert Frankau "Eyes in the Air"
Morning ran and kissed the grass - John Freeman "The Wakers"
Throwing kisses to the birds - Rose Fyleman "Vision"
Steals its kisses with delight - Alfred C. Gellis "An Indian Cradle Song"
Caged as a prisoner, kissed as a pet - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The cruelty of its awful kiss - Elsa Gidlow "I, Lover"
Kissed by the wild and loved by lightning - Nikita Gill "The Moon Goddess"
The wings for the kiss - Louise Gluck "An Endless Story"
Waiting for the kiss of May - Louis Golding "Jack of April"
Spurred our parents to the kiss - Robert Graves "Children of Darkness"
And give you kisses by the dozen - Grace Greenwood "Babie Annie to Cousin J--, acknowledging the Christmas-gift of a chain"
I'd kiss the oranges blue - Kimberly Grey "Hunger Sentences"
Whose sweet breath is kissed by windflowers - J.C.H. "A Day in Early Summer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.44-v.I, 1 Nov. 1884]
Imagination's kisses - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
A lipstick kiss imprinted invisibly in a nano dimension - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
Who kiss to shield yourselves from blame - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
Flinging its kisses to the budding trees - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]
Kissing all the bees - Florence Hoatson "Blossoms"
Sprang to kiss the sun - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
Kissed the cheek of death - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Kiss the cheek of my periphery - Jennifer Huang "Neighborhood Walk"
Cutting the darkness and kissing the moon - Langston Hughes "Moonlight Night: Carmel"
Throwing kisses to the sky - Sade Iverson "Reminders"
Your kisses were little poisons - Ashley M. Jones "Love Note: Surely"
kissed by my own flame - Camisha L. Jones "Wrecking Ball"
Till time withers with his kiss - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"
And carry me into a seven-day kiss - June Jordan "Alla Tha's All Right, But"
Wraiths of kisses newly dead - Joyce Kilmer "Matin"
The trumpet's almost kissed by enough pain - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"
Whose kiss was poison - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"
Kiss the marble and the gold - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "A Pageant of Siena"
The first kiss carries history - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"
A kiss can resuscitate the drowned Ophelia - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"
Decide if it's a kiss or a bullet - Dana Levin "Instructions for Stopping"
And burn the Pilgrim's kiss - Ada Limon "Publicity"
A kiss from far off Eden - Vachel Lindsay "My Lady Is Compared to a Young Tree"
Curling lips which Earth has kissed - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Crocus Bed"
Whose kiss was in the wind - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Rose Dolores"
For wild redemption of his kiss - Fiona MacLeod "The Songs of Ethlenn Stuart"
Print of some immortal's kiss - Stephane Mallarme "L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune" (translated by Aldous Huxley)
One azure word turned kiss - Jeannette Marks "Bubbles"
Kissing the dawn with my silver - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"
Awakened by kisses of fire - Edgar Lee Masters "Toward the Gulf"
Reaping time for kisses - Louis J. McQuilland "With Bertha Up the River"
And the kisses you returned - Frank J. Medina "'Twas Not to Be"
Kissing resolution on the lips - Risalet Merdan "Today Is a Day to Write Poems" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
Posturing kisses gone astray for scattered sweets - Alice Meynell "The Fold"
The long, the new surprises of his kiss - Alice Meynell "West Wind in Winter"
Submerged in salt kisses - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Mercy Beach"
As keen for a kiss as a crime - Charles Pelham Mulvaney "Poppoea"
Kiss of sorrow's bitter lips - Ethel Allen Murphy "A Botticelli Madonna. I, The Wondering Angel"
Flowers to kiss her - Francis Neilson "The Tryst"
A rosary of yellow kisses - Pablo Neruda "Advancing in the Lands of Chile" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The republic my kisses founded - Pablo Neruda "Night XC" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Drunk with pines and long kisses - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems IX" translated by W.S. Merwin
The lips that kissed fire - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
All the world kissing his glove - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"
Kiss the sand in wanton mockery - Effie Lee Newsome "O Sea, That Knowest Thy Strength"
And kiss the earth farewell - Effie Lee Newsome "Sunset"
Kissed him with ripples of laughter - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"
Until we kiss good night - Lin Oliver "Hush"
Kissing me with its golden mouth - Mary Oliver "I don't want to live a small life"
The stiff kiss of acorns - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"
Has a kiss of desire on the lips - John Boyle O'Reilly "The White Rose"
Kissing the Old World, softly to sleep - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"
To the kiss of the winds above - Conde Benoist Pallen "The Raising of the Flag"
Disaster's alkaline kiss - D.A. Powell "Useless Landscape"
Kissing the dust of the Holy Land - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Rest"
Kissed in a dark exhibit - Paige Quinones "At the Museum"
Sun that pauses to kiss the dew - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "My Valley"
May not perish for a kiss - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On a Battle Field"
Beneath the fire of kisses - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "One Night"
Ghosts of burnt-out kisses - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Roses"
Ere they were kissed by winds - Theodore H. Rand "Partridge Island"
With the kiss of the tide entwine - Herbert Randall "Outside"
Faint beneath the kiss of fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Drain their own kisses as they drink - James Whitcombe Riley "The Song I Never Sing"
The salt of a thousand dry kisses - Luis J. Rodriguez "Making Medicine"
Kissed by burning stars - Alice Wellington Rollins "Indian Summer"
Caressing surveillance cameras and blowing whisper kisses - Karen A. Romanko "The Invisible Woman Runs for President"
And kisses the sparrows in her hair - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"
When we kiss my lips shatter like bleeding glass - Hester J. Rook "Under Silver Waves"
Kisses and hatred, chocolate and vengeance - Benjamin Rosenbaum "A Gardener Betrayed by Roses"
Kiss and wake the waters - Isaac Rosenberg "Don Juan's Song"
Turned with malign kiss - Isaac Rosenberg "On Receiving the First News of the War"
The breath of a first kiss - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"
Sent from earth to kiss the sky - Margaret E. Sangster "At Dawn: III. The Farmer"
And their dreams dew kissed - Margaret E. Sangster "To an Old Schoolhouse"
Peace kiss and blot their tarnished light - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Sealed forever by reentry's kiss of peace - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"
With cantrip kisses seven - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Three times round with kisses seven - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Plighted faith renewed with every kiss - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"
Kiss high heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"
Who kissed the veil from Beauty's face - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
Graves by cloud wreaths kissed - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
With a cool kiss of surprise - Joyce Sidman "Come, Happiness"
Hiding kisses before they grieve - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Escapes a Bosch Painting"
With kisses keen as snow - Clark Ashton Smith "Beauty Implacable"
Desert years in one deep kiss - Clark Ashton Smith "Ecstasy"
Without even kissing their ghosts in my dreams - Cynthia So "The Unicorn's Question"
From the distance of a kiss - Richard Solomon "Salt Doll's Incarnation"
The strawberry of a good-bye kiss - Gary Soto "California Geography"
The wind's kisses turn rough - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
Paradox and ambiguity kiss each time - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "When my OB/GYN Said He Didn't Understand Poetry"
Stir beneath June's magic kiss - Muriel Stuart "The Seed Shop"
When the cold North-wind kissed her pallid lips - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Smiles of silver and kisses of gold - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
With rosy kisses maddening all the sky - Rabindranath Tagore "Spring that in My Courtyard"
Slips past the sun's long kiss - Tess Taylor "Solstice"
Never kissed at all - Sara Teasdale "The Look"
Wind kissing the river - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"
Meet our pity with a traitor's kiss - Iris Tree "[The scandal-monger after all is right]"
Crushing the poisonous berries of sinister kisses - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"
A gift of quicksand kisses, a ruin of howling - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
The sun's dark kiss - John Updike "Endpoint"
Warmed to metal's kiss - John Updike "Endpoint"
blowing kisses to clouds of heather - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
To kiss the edge of their universe - Emily van Kley "Lacustrine"
And kiss the sun "Good-bye!" - Charles William Wallace "A Choral of Sunset"
Kissed the bony branches into blossom - Charles William Wallace "The Old Benoni Tree"
Kissing apples till they blush - Julia Carter Welch "Fall"
Her kiss upon the brows of dream - John Hall Wheelock "The Undissuadable Austerity"
The kisses were ghostly with jasmine - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ghost"
The wind lays ghostly kisses on my lips - Helen Hay Whitney "In the Mist"
Strike the earth with a kiss - Phillip B. Williams "Order of Events"
Fell like a kiss from the sky - Joseph R. Wilson "One Sweet Moment"
The sun would steale a kisse - George Wither "A Love Song"
Radiance woven into kisses - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 16" transl. by Katherine Silver
Of passion pale and amber-kissed - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"
Amber-kissed with years of heat - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"
Petals of moon-kissed roses - Joyce Kilmer "Slender Your Hands"
The soft rain-kisses of the night - Claude McKay "A Red Flower"
Chalice of sun-kissed foam - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Brook"
With sun-kisses all aflame - Frances E.W. Harper "Dandelions"
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