Potential Titles: Keep/Kept

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Keeps no record of wrongs - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

We shouldn't touch things we can't keep - Anne Carly Abad "Where the Waves Meet"

Keep time with quiet hands - Rasha Abdulhadi "Advice on Love from an Astronaut with a Failing Memory"

measure your pace, keep time with quiet hands - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"

That keep the moon's white company - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

The bobbins keep threading a mazy dance - "Abroad"

Always keeping in mind the distinction between mushroom and toadstools - Duane Ackerson "Black Hole Hunter's Guide"

To keep the garden free of insects and apparitions - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"

The nihilism that managed to keep me alive - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

This obscurity that's keeping no promise - Etel Adnan "Night"

Kept vigil with stars - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Remembering keeps me wakeful - al-Khansa "[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful]" transl. by Reynold A. Nicholson

While the bright eyed stars their long watch kept - Louisa May Alcott "The Flower's Lesson"

The eyes in our back keep vigil - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"

A pretty treasure to keep in mind - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

Burn to a wick and keep moving - Elizabeth Alexander "Blues"

Kept her attention focused in other space - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

To keep the traces of buried experiences intact - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"

Sugar dusted images I keep visiting - Mouna Ammar "Time-travel"

Nor keep the place from Sorrow - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XCVI: Sleeplessness" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

Parrots that kept diving into creeks - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"

Stars keep great guard upon you - T.H.W. Armstrong "Watching"

Better to keep your breath cold - Attar "Looking for Your Own Face" transl. by Coleman Barks

Abandoned love kept whispering hope - Julie Babcock "The Grey Goose"

Keep my heart from the dust - Albion Fellows Bacon "At Last"

Will keep the reality wolves at bay - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

A round breath of hope keeping cover - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

My spirit keep from deeds of darkness - Benjamin West Ball "Morning"

The jar in which I keep the day - Mary Jo Bang "The Circus Watcher"

Dreamland kept getting larger - Mary Jo Bang "Don't"

A watch that kept adding up the hours - Mary Jo Bang "Hanging the Curtain"

Prophet of the keeping quiet - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

Silence kept sounding its silver bell - Mary Jo Bang "Staying Is a Form of Haunting"

How the sea keeps beating up the boardwalk - Mary Jo Bang "Think of Jane and the Regency Era"

Where Lancelot and Tristram vigil keep - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"

Flannel and furs to keep yourself warm - Mrs. Sale Barker "The Robin's Song"

Though jealousy keep live the rotten core - Natalie Clifford Barney "Habit"

keep you forever thus unchanged - Elizabeth Bartlett "now and forever"

Keep this foundling self - Lou Barrett "Fanny"

Keep these lovely atoms - Ellen Bass "Mammogram Callback with Ultrasound"

The quiet evening kept her tryst - Hilaire Belloc "Dedicatory Ode"

Let them air the inn they keep - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

My mind kept on its burning wheel - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"

A coat too confining to keep - Paul Bernstein "Skin Deep"

A framework that keeps stars in place - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"

Keep on knocking at the gates of joy - Rebecca G. Biber "Heiligenstadt"

Trees and houses keep their careful distance - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"

To keep sailing and not land - Robert Bly "On the Oregon Coast"

Keep us in the midnight - John R. Bolles "Hymn 2 [Keep us in the midnight]"

Yet keeps unfaltering trust - Sarah Knowles Bolton "The Inevitable"

Kept the sequence of the days - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"

Kept her tally of the years - Louise Morey Bowman "The Witch"

That keeps the stars in cadence - Thomas Boyd "To the Lianhaun Shee"

And keeps quiet the worrying wind - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

In secret kept, in silence sealed - Charlotte Bronte "Evening Solace"

Kept a scandal in my pocket - Jericho Brown "Obituary"

Where pearls of joy keep bubbling up - Marie Hedderwick Browne "The Blackbird"

Kept holy to our tears - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Neither keeping either under - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Well has Nature kept the truth - William Cullen Bryant "The Rivulet"

Lock'd with a key which Fate keeps - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"

Keep their high and rigorous distinction - Stephanie Burt "Silt"

Keeping the earth's heart beating - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"

Keep me under the shadow of your wings - Anthony Vahni Capildeo "Niche"

Kept alive their ardent zeal - Giosue Carducci "Beatrice" transl. by Frank Sewall

A story kept in a cedar box - Ana Castillo "P.S. Bittersweet"

Sorrow keeps a stone house - Willa Cather "In Rose-Time"

The tryst you did not keep - Willa Cather "The Star Dial"

Fair apple trees keep ward - Ceiriog "The White Stone" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Neither flee nor be kept - Jennifer Chang "A Horse Named Never"

Keeps your rage room temperature - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

A cloth kept in a moth-filled closet - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"

Kept a poultice of stars strapped to her hip - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"

Let us keep our souls in silence - Annie Rothwell Christie "The Woman's Part"

From long debts keep free - John Clare "The Woodman"

Keep track of each fallen robin - Leonard Cohen "Chelsea Hotel"

Our duty to keep on climbing - Jamie Harris Coleman "Difficulties in Life"

I keep a version of you in my pocket - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "Our Red Road"

Too fair and frail to keep - Benjamin Copeland "Among the Lilies"

Keep a quiet tally of their responses - Gabriel Cortez "Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale"

The record fair that memory keeps - William Cowper "Lines on Receiving His Mother's Picture"

Keep the rites of Beauty lost - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"

Kept my place through wind and rain - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"

I'm determined to keep my whole crop - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Wonderful Apple-Tree"

Keep your distant beauty - Stephen Crane "Untitled"

Keep thou thy tearless watch - Adelaide Crapsey "Anguish"

Keep one red tower in sight - Arthur Shearly Cripps "Essex"

That sealed all eyes from battlement to keep - Albert Francis Cross "Let There Be Light" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.118-v.III, 3 April 1886]

Still Nature keeps to one unvarying plan - Albert Francis Cross "Let There Be Light" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.118-v.III, 3 April 1886]

To keep secure my wild chimeras - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

pride keeps you from the pawn shop - E. E. Cummings "La Guerre"

My hands keep the gold they took - H.D. "Evadne"

The revels that your whirlwinds keep - Clinton Dangerfield "Autumn"

To keep us in your tight grip - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org

While the ghosts keep tryst - Walter de la Mare "The Disguise"

Encouraged me to keep searching - Kristen De Leon "Reclaim"

From such faithless rascals keep you free - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Most noble ladies, cherish your fair fame]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

My speech with my thoughts keeps no pace - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Verily, Love, I have no language, none" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

And care must keep you - Thomas Dekker "Golden Slumbers"

Who keeps the stars from falling - Diana Marie Delgado "Never Mind I'm Dead"

I keep my dreams close - Kym Deyn "Wolpertinger at Thebes"

Learn to keep warm with breathing - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #3"

Keeps his oath to sparrows - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXVI"

Purple could not keep the east - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature IV: Day's Parlor"

Must keep dancing till it cracks - Stephen Dobyns "Thelonius Monk"

The clouds of hawthorn keep so short a state - John Drinkwater "Birthright"

Even though my mother kept warning us - Denise Duhamel "Poem in Which My Mother Snapped"

Its waters will keep broadcasting - Iris Jamahl Dunkle "House Empty Speaks a Loud Truth, 2018"

Keeps lions in his chest - Carolina Ebeid "Punctum/Metaphor"

A shape that keeps returning - Carolina Ebeid "Shape"

What time the gods kept carnival - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"

Strong Hades could not keep his own - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Uriel"

Keep only the punctuation - Elaine Equi "Return of the Sensuous Reader"

That secret the wind kept from the surface of the sea - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"

To keep up with the brood of Fortune's darlings - Anthony Euwer "The Want-Ad of My Soul"

Storms their prowling vigils keep - William Falconer "To a Swallow that Dropped on Deck During a Storm at Sea"

after keeping you up late as my youth last night - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"

Keeps sanctity in aluminum cans - B. K. Fischer "Perceptive"

Or stars their long vigils shall keep - "The Flag of the Brave" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Let one Eye his watches keep - John Fletcher "Folding the Flocks"

A box for the keeping of birds - Sandy Florian "House"

Must keep a lung of briars - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 9"

Keep vigils long as flesh can bear - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Keep returning to the present - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"

The stars, their death-watch keeping - Fanny Forrester "A Last 'Good-Night'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.31-v.I, 2 Aug. 1884]

We keep the wall between us as we go - Robert Frost "Mending Wall"

As museums keep calling out - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: IV"

Death the collector is keeping the tab - Dana Gioia "Meet Me at the Lighthouse"

Keep foreign foes in awe - "Golfing Song"

That can keep horror bristling round the head - Robert Graves "A Child's Nightmare"

Keeps the company of everything - Leah Naomi Green "River and Fugue"

Used to keep the moon for company - Leah Naomi Green "Week Five: Measure"

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

Could keep the world without - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Four: Atomic"

The rooster keeps faith with his hour - Linda Gregerson "Petrarchan"

Some unseen warder kept the key - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

With cloven logs to keep alight - Thomas Hardy "The Wood Fire"

I'd keep one trick in my ear - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

Who keep their mouths caved open - francine j. harris "(i belong to that voice. it owns what i breathe.)"

Tern and piping plover that keeps expansion along its shore - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

I keep going back for pain samples - Deborah Hauser "Never Admit Your Mistakes"

And Love keeps sentry - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"

To keep the outside from taking root - Stephanie Heit "Window Dressing"

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

That keeps the rolling universe ensphered - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"

Whose mailed hand keeps the keys - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Keeps the keys of death - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Humility"

To keep your head and save my Pride - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"

And kept thenceforth the crown conferred - Oliver Herford "How the Lion Became King"

The Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"

A dragonfly keeps coming back to the same dead twig - Conrad Hilberry "Angles"

Kept selfishness busy - Anna Grossnickle Hines "An Invitation"

The walls around you kept closing in - Edward Hirsch "What the Last Evening Will Be Like"

When windows keep their promise to open - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

Keeps coming back in the dream - Jane Hirshfield "Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt"

A voice kept far from feeling - Jane Hirschfield "Ledger"

In order to keep open the possibly - Cynthia Hogue "The Simple"

Keep the meddlesome chthonic wordslingers cranky - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"

Everything we burned to keep the power on - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"

Kept it for some goldless debt - Richard Hughes "Gratitude"

Kept in by a wall that already exists - Maria Ibarra-Frayre "Awareness"

I keep borrowing your hands - Carly Inghram "Praise Poem"

Which keeps hobos poor and corporations rich - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

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

The only ones that don't keep count - Gary Jackson "Kansas"

The houses where we keep our secrets - Helen Hunt Jackson "Dreams"

Tourists keeping the views new - Major Jackson "Designer Kisses"

Freedom which is a crater I keep falling into - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

Each version keeps a section - Marcus Jackson "Ode to Kool-Aid"

The strength to keep laughing breaks in a sigh - Mark Jarman "My Parents Have Come Home Laughing"

The grey dew keeps no traces - Elinor Jenkins "The Lovers' Walk"

Better to clear keep of ev'ry brawl - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]

keeping me company in the silence - Camisha L. Jones "In/Ability"

Where the sharpest knives are kept - Camisha L. Jones "Ode to the Chronically Ill Body"

Keep watch over the wayfarers - Richard Jones "Rest"

Keep time with my salt tears - Ben Jonson "Echo's Lament for Narcissus"

O'er which they had kept night-watch - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

To keep me from losing even a drop of our life - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

Keeps a box of baby pigs - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"

When I kept my belongings in paper bags - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"

kept her tears where they'd pass for shotgun - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"

When sleep and silence keep their watch - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [In the dark, lonely night]"

Built my tomb walls strong enough to keep me safe - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"

The Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

And fill the room my heart keeps empty - Henry King "The Exequy"

The room my heart keeps empty - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Unable to keep the lights on - Merie Kirby "Mother"

& anger almost kept them warm - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

Once they got good at keeping warm - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Last Time, We Trust"

Keeping its prisoners for eternity - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

The wind will keep its ancient lullaby - L.L. "The Graves of Gallipoli" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

With everything I keep to myself - Nick Laird "The Vehicles and the Tenor"

How odd the way a watch keeps going - Danusha Laméris "The Watch"

The sun's chariot yet keeps its azure track - "The Last Song" translated from German, no translator credited [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

While gnats keep up a dizzy reel - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love II"

Kept filling up with time - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"

The light of a joint and fragile keeping - Li-Young Lee "To Hold"

The You who keeps disembarking - Dana Levin "Zozo-ji"

Did the stars keep their appointments - Philip Levine "On 52nd Street"

Why I never returned to keep them in my life - Philip Levine "The Two"

Exists to keep audiences unsatisfied - Paige Lewis "Logically, I know the Circus"

And let Reason keep the door - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

I keep ready half the quilt - Li T'ai-Po "The Lonely Wife" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

Left to keep subtracting from my life - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"

That keep vigils on the windows of beggars - Vachel Lindsay "The Song of the Sturdy Snails"

At the veiled Isis in its keep - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

The trees all kept their counsel - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"

Secrets that the noonday keeps - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"

His horses keep the arrow-track - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

Standing guard and keeping vigils - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "silver birch"

Escaped from winter's keeping - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Miracle"

Kept neatly on the shores of conversation - Mack W. Mani "Sanctuary"

Where Wit keeps tryst with Folly - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

In the keeping of memory's trust - George Martin "To a Young Lady"

And keep the eye of conscience clear - George Martin "W.H. Magee"

The nettle keeps vigil about him - John Masefield "The Dead Knight"

My fierceness keeps the wolves at bay - John Masefield "Esther"

Kept this habit of his grief - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"

The mechanisms of late capitalism keeping us fed - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"

Their shadows to keep me company - Jamaal May "The Spirit Names of Stolen Books"

Keep your crested courage high - Theodore Maynard "To a Good Atheist"

To keep the years from breaking apart - John McCarthy "Repeating the Past in Future Tense"

Know the vigils that I keep - John McCrae "Penance"

In the long record the sand has kept - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Some tireless Watch to keep - Clara A. Merrill "All Things Speak of God"

Kept by an unseen giant - W.S. Merwin "Clear Water"

Keeping time with the thread of light - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

When night gives pause to the long watch I keep - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"

What fortress is thus kept? - Alice Meynell "The Treasure"

No mirror keeps its glances - Alice Meynell "Your Own Fair Youth"

Keep your golden hour - Alice Meynell "Your Own Fair Youth"

And all their cruelty for the sunlight keep - Adam Mickiewicz "Becalmed" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Keep the lens of vision open - Claire Millikin "Amatorium"

Painted water blue to keep out ghosts - Claire Millikin "Coke-bottle Barbie-doll"

And the circle keeps closing - Gabriela Mistral "The Teller of Tales" (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)

Keep alive the holy fires - N. Scott Momaday "In the Forest"

Keeping the beat of burning rain - N. Scott Momaday "Linguist"

Keeps adjusting the ash heaps - Marianne Moore "The Fish"

The things she keeps invisible - Ilze Mueller "Invisibility Poem: Lesbian"

Even if they keep denying their existence - Najah Hussein Musa "Bethlehem"

And virtue's path kept in my view - "My Mother" [Spring Blossoms, no date, no editor/author, Project Gutenberg]

Keeping the wasteland's unending tide - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"

Golden fires consumed dawn's keep - Francis Neilson "When You Were Born"

Keeping a kind of thieves' kitchen - Howard Nemerov "Pockets"

Keep this taste of shadow - Pablo Neruda "Landscape After a Battle" translated by Richard Schaaf

I keep my books until I get to zero - Pablo Neruda "Numbered" transl. by Ilan Stavans

To keep your roots from frost - E. Nesbit "The Things that Matter"

Poison kept in crystal flagons - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Of thy senses kept the keys - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Keep tryst with Memory - Meredith Nicholson - "The Battles Grandsire Missed"

Gave their secrets to his own heart's keeping - Meredith Nicholson "Three Friends"

What keeps the temple of imagination burning - Idra Novey "Value City"

To hold the time that kept leaving - Naomi Shihab Nye "Music"

Keeping them from the darker joys - Frank O'Hara "Ave Maria"

Keeping watch until we rise - Mary Oliver "I will try"

Keep awe bare - Soham Patel "Mixed with always"

Must keep to a half-mile track - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Saltbush Bill"

Tickled the hurt you kept company - G.E. Patterson "The Keeping Room"

These weltering alleys keep their outcast treasury - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

Keep the watch for stars and sun - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"

The ocean keeping whate'er it gains - Florence Peacock "Lost at Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.137-v.III, 14 Aug. 1886]

A lungful of gold I can keep - Kiki Petrosino "Confession"

The dreams keep our wishes walking - Kiki Petrosino "Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County"

To keep the calliope of dreams from sounding - Kiki Petrosino "Young"

Promises kept becoming apologies - Carl Phillips "Career"

Keep a space for tenderness - Carl Phillips "Stamina"

She must keep the little stars awake - Miriam Clark Potter "Little Sister of the Moon"

The shimmering secret kept by rain - Rena Priest "Tour of a Salmonberry"

Keep just one thread of doubt - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: A Warning"

Winter keeps us lucky - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

Unpredictable years keep emptying - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"

Keeping time against the urge to quit - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"

I keep death in a jar - Paige Quinones "Wing Covert"

In Nature's maternal keeping - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Spring Hopes: Song"

A song that keeps just ahead of your footfall - Charles Rafferty "Grackles"

And of some I keep the key - John Reade "In My Heart"

to keep the sweetness in our mouths - Seema Reza "The neurologist gives us permission"

Still our pulses kept the tale - Ernest Rhys "The Night Ride"

A dream corrupts if kept too long - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Clasps and keeps in voiceless joy - James Whitcombe Riley "Little David"

Were all wines kept flowing - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

a sparrow no one had kept an eye on except the peregrine - Ed Roberson "once the magnolia has blossomed"

That keeps perpetual June - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Stream"

Will keep forever their sky-lost words - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Primrose"

Will not keep you standing at the door - Christina Rossetti "Up-Hill"

Faith to keep each promise spoken - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

Where chaos keeps its throne - Ann K. Schwader "Lavinia in Autumn"

Keep strange faith with entities of elder void - Ann K. Schwader "Void Flyers"

Imps keeping time with skip and hop - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Keep the faces of our enemies well lit - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"

Keep their tryst with the tranquil snows - Robert W. Service "The Heart of the Sourdough"

Kept me at the surface of thoughts - Lisa Sewell "The Land of Nod"

No horse with my desire keep pace - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LI"

Keep invention in a noted weed - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVI"

Keep for us remembrance fast - Evalyn Callahan Shaw "October"

Darkness keeps each corner of the town - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The Last Storm"

Have eyes forgotten their tryst to keep? - Taras Shevchenko "Hymn of Exile" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

O'er ancient tombs keep watch - Taras Shevchenko "To Jacques de Balmont" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Keep up the shout of freedom - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"

While the asteroid kept falling to earth - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"

Hate them for the watery secrets they keep - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"

Green glass jars to keep the demons in - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"

My words keep slithering away from me - Marin Sorescu "Creation" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea

Cunning life keeps asking for more - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney

Give your gladness to earth keeping - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"

Our shadows struggling to keep up - Gary Soto "Itching to Travel"

Keep breathing as best we can - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"

Keep a tryst with cunning - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

Crows flapped down to keep the boatman company - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson

Eyes that keep eternal watch, unshaken, strong, and true - Alan Sullivan "A Question"

Neither keeps to its side of the line - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 54: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The stately birches keep unbroken vigils - Howard V. Sutherland "In Winter"

Keeps forgotten memories of grace - Arthur Symons "White Heliotrope"

Sweetly keeping me under Love's command - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]

To Keep the memories nimble - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

Keep the tales of what we cannot forget - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

Keeps the rain off my bed and mat - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Moving House, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

Keeps green and fresh in his spicy heart - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

To keep off the wild dogs snarling in the night - Keith Taylor "Our Castle and the Wild Dogs"

To keep corn for rats and men - Edward Thomas "The Barn"

Only what none else would keep - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

Keep the vigils of the night - Francis Thompson "To My Godchild--Francis M. W. M."

Cannot all its treasures keep - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"

Keep your realms and your circumscribed power - Henry David Thoreau "Independence"

Half untold their secret keep - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"

Iberia's brood with iron sway kept down - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Burying you to keep us alive - TC Tolbert "felo-de-se-- Melissa"

The past is kept in bubbles - Elizabeth Torres "The Voyage"

Where starving souls are kept - Iris Tree "Streets"

Where I keep rowing through the blaze and the black - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"

And in thought keep holiday - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"

Keep faith with the hour - Tu Fu "Lovely Lady" transl. by Burton Watson

Keep me still unsatisfied - Louis Untermeyer "Prayer"

Does a growing oak keep lists? - Edward van de Vendel "Tree Sports"

To have and to keep unspoken - Suzanne Vega "Crack in the Wall"

Trysts with grief have kept - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours III" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Keeping step in brave communion - "Victory's Band" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Keeps its shadow by swallowing it - Ocean Vuong "Into the Breach"

And lies keep you turning to follow - Jo Walton "Nemi"

A book of reckoning keeps - Isaac Watts "Against Lying"

By the way the roots kept pushing - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"

Kept my vigil in the waste till dawn began - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Spring will rise from her dungeon keep - Helen Hay Whitney "In Autumn"

Kept the body taut with thirst - Amie Whittemore "Ghosting Aubade"

And duty keeping pace with all - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Keeping to true ways - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"

Stayed to keep the ghost watch - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Slack"

Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

The strange hours we keep to see them - William Carlos Williams "January Morning"

Kept my life in a small room - Kirk Wilson "Gifts"

Kept a scrapbook of ghost stories - Jennifer Wong "Calling the dead"

Keep the ceaseless shuttles flying - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]

Let us keep our stars to ourselves - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Say Grace"

Where they keep your name - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"

To keep imagining beyond - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

In a game I kept agreeing to play - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

The hermit crab who keeps me company - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Keeping the ospreys from the chimney - Cynthia Zarin "Ouija Board"


'Til the Barkeep's out of ice - W.E. Christian "Pay Day"


Time, that immaculate housekeeper - Airea D. Matthews "Psyche on Prozac"


Addled keepers of yesterday's disasters - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

The shepherd wind your keeper - Archibald Lampman "Among the Millet"

The mad keeper of numbers is always present - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

A lighthouse keeper for every weather - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"

The keeper of your anger - Maggie Nelson "After a Fight"

A lighthouse keeper's ethics - Adrienne Rich "For This"

Wood was also the keeper of fires - Alberto Rios "Faithful Forest"

Some keeper of music will know - Gerald Stern "Exordium and Terminus"

The keepers of the roses have shut the garden-gate - Richard Henry Stoddard "A Winter Scene"


Many are the keepsakes that she's sent me - "I Have a Young Sister"

Faded polaroids stacked in a keepsake box - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"


Unkept by the present tense - Hanae Jonas "Pastoral"

In the discipline of upkeep - Khadijah Queen "The Rule of Opulence"

From the peatmoss of our winter-keep - Serena Chopra "Garden Variety with Lesbians"


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