Potential Titles: Break/Broke

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Break the absolute into prisms - Etel Adnan "Night"

Where buds are beginning to break - Jose A. Alcantara "Archilocus Colubris"

Breaks through an opaque silken sky - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

Not breaking on a violation of touch - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"

The Maenads break through the myrtles - Richard Aldington "Bromios"

Breaking through leafless brambles and dead leaves - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

No longer sullen break - Alun "Song of the Fisherman's Wife" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

A handyman when something breaks down - Mouna Ammar "Ode to Ammou"

Met a sage at the break of day - H.M. Andrews "Song"

The world will break your blessing - Diannely Antigua "Blessing the Baby"

Bones breaking down to the ground - William Archila "Bury This Pig"

When there is no break from motion - Mesandel Virtusio Arguelles "Juggle" transl. Kristine Ong Muslim

The rigid origin of the break - A.H. Jerriod Avant "Who Can Govern Themselves Out of Governance?"

The spell of sleep to break - Albion Fellows Bacon "Silent Keys"

Till in full worth it breaks at last - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"

The flutter of the taut rope about to break - Mary Jo Bang "Girls Dress Well to Stave Off Chaos"

Learn to break free - Rachel Barenblat "So Much (Ahavah Rabbah)"

That breaks your back and bends you to the earth - Charles Baudelaire "Be Drunk" transl. by Louis Simpson

Bones breaking like time in a song - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"

Break the caved Tritons' azure day - Thomas Lovell Beddoes "To Sea"

That breaking wave of pain - Stephen Vincent Benet "The City Revisited"

Whose jade prevails breaking Disaster's rods - Stephen Vincent Benet "Hymn in Columbus Circle"

A feasting where mailed kings break bread - Stephen Vincent Benet "Sir John Rimbeck to the Princess of Acre"

On her breaks the lightning - Robert Hugh Benson "The Teresian Contemplative"

Breaking their shells one by one - Margo Berdeshevsky "Dusk"

With waves that break with force - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "To M. S."

Breaks time's lesser flow - MacKnight Black "Corliss Engine"

Then the dreadful light shall break - William Blake "A Cradle Song"

Break the reign of monotone - John Philip Bourke "The Versemakers"

The first rain to break a dry spell - William Brewer "Dog Days"

Of a world breaking its own heart - Mahogany L. Browne "The 19th Amendment & My Mama"

Lie still upon his heart--which breaks below thee - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Dead Rose"

Shall neither break nor burn - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Or break the sinful vow - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Words of Rosalind's Scroll"

And break their iron net - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

Hearts that break into clusters of stars - Ana Castillo "Whitman"

Time breaks for the living - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Caretakers]"

And neither breaks toward justice - Cortney Lamar Charleston "It's Important I Remember that the Moral Arc of the Universe Bends--"

Where blood must spill and bones break - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"

Sunbirds exalting the break of dawn - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"

Where the breaking is for love - Leonard Cohen "All My Life"

Teach old hearts to break - Leonard Cohen "Teachers"

Breaking things I can't repair - Leonard Cohen "There for You"

As fairies vanish at the break of day - Hartley Coleridge "The Lonely"

Break in tortured whirling drifts - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Every break and mystic chasm opening - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Break all the unwritten covenants - Rasheed Copeland "to be considered before inviting everyone to The Cookout TM"

treated each break in the earth like a cliff - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"

That break the arm of Toil - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"

Break no pledge to the poppies - Nathalia Crane "The Roll of the Roses"

Mountain ranges and great rifts that break the land - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Breaks the sceptic chain that bound my soul - Robert W. Cryan "Picciola" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.139-v.III, 28 Aug. 1886]

Could break death's adamantine law - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For an Anarchist"

the breaking of your soul upon my lips - E. E. Cummings "Amores (V)"

Fate's summons to this breaking - Charlotte Cushman "Duchess de la Valliere"

Break across a blood-stained throat - H.D. "The bird-choros of Ion"

Break through your veils of lawn - Sir William Davenant "The Lark Now Leaves His Watery Nest"

Breaking blighted pigeon eggs - Geffrey Davis "The Epistemology of Rosemary"

Break out of the briar's boughs - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"

Living rage beyond the break of the horizon - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"

Nothing ever breaks the ancient spell - Salomon de la Selva "Tropical Town"

For the miracle of breaking my hands into breadcrumbs - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"

Breaking crooked as an eggshell - Diana Marie Delgado "Correspondence"

Changing into something even harder to break - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"

Break the bones to get to the heart - Toi Derricotte "My great teacher, Galway Kinnell, taught me: 'Speak the unspeakable'"

This net will break before they tire - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"

Nothing to break or barter - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #1"

The obligation of breaking - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

The break of day that wears a shining dew decked diadem - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Poem [Ah, I know what happiness is....]"

Stop one heart from breaking - Emily Dickinson [untitled]

The faithless sky breaks itself over us - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"

Untie or break that knot again - John Donne "Batter my heart, three person'd God (Holy Sonnet 14)"

Earnest language breaks upon my dreaming ear - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Breaking the broken things - Cheryl Dumesnil "Breaking the Broken Things"

Right before it breaks - Cheryl Dumesnil "Prayer for Beginning"

When heaven and earth their concord break - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]

To break this iron cage - Aziz Isa Elkun "Borders" transl. by author

To guard until the break of day - William Hodgson Ellis "As a Watch in the Night"

When trout the glassy surface break - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"

Nor with ambition break the peace - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Teach me I am forgotten by the dead"

Breaks down walls of stone - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

The sound of a promise breaking - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star"

Those old rocks break the hill that we the heights should win - James Elroy Flecker "Areiya"

Breaking and spilling fiery cups - John Gould Fletcher "An Actor as a Dancing Girl"

That breaks in bubbles of gold - John Gould Fletcher "Fugitive Thoughts"

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

Leave behind the breaking of curses - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

No moon to break myself against - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Apricots"

Breaking the winter of my room - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Other Side"

Break them the bread of love and pour the wine - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"

No human voices break the stillness - Laura Foley "What Stillness"

Breaking that the world could be otherwise - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"

A ballad of breaking in her marrow - Diamond Forde "Rememory"

Each incipient disaster breaking the night - Jazno Francoeur "Home"

And all the long inquietude of breaking seas - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"

The strangeness of the heart's breaking seas - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"

And I let it fall and break - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"

Release one leaf at break of day - Robert Frost "October"

Breaks the silver chain of harmony - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]

To break through the fragile borders - John Gallaher "My Life in Brutalist Architecture #1"

Breaks upon its rocky shore - Alfred C. Gellis "To the Wenem Mame River"

Gyves and bonds at one fierce effort breaks - "The Ghost of Chatham"

Break on my distorted sight - L. Gielgud "Summer Delivery"

To break open something forgotten - Nikita Gill "House of Hyperion, Titan of Light"

No break in life's unceasing chain - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "For Us"

For the birds to break their silence - Ingrid Goff-Maidoff "The Listening Bridge"

Or any single thing to break this tenuous leash - Mona Gould "Autumn Is Unfair"

And comes again like the breaking day - "Grandmother's Chair" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

Breaking the desert's boundaries - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"

Comes with the sound of breaking chains - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [In the wet rice-swamps]"

And when the burning moment breaks - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"

Breaking just beneath the eyes - Nikki Grimes "Through the Eyes of Artists"

More than a bubble breaking - Angelina Weld Grimké "A Mona Lisa"

Break from gravity's cold grip - Lesley Hart Gunn "The Exorcism of Icarus"

A tale of severed ties to break the bleeding heart - Eliza Paul Gurney "Heaven and Earth"

The vow of silence breaks - Marilyn Hacker "Lacoste IV"

And half the town was breaking - Jesse Hammond "Confidence and Credit" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]

Break from the snares of the world - Han-Shan "[I climb the road to Cold Mountain]" transl. by Burton Watson

That breaks grief in half - Nathalie Handal "She"

The fox breaking through the lilacs - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"

Who were clay and would break - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"

Like muffled thunders breaking - Frances E.W. Harper "The Hermit's Sacrifice"

Bid me break my fiery chain - Frances E.W. Harper "Save the Boys"

Just to hear the glass it breaks - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

Break their teeth on concrete - francine j. harris "what teeth poems ain't"

Now the crucible is breaking - F. Hartmann "Endlich bricht der heisse Tiegel" transl. by James W. Alexander

The sword shall break the sword - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XLIV"

Bud at another year's breaking - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Fallen Leaves"

Shall break in the blast of Eternity - F.W. Harvey "The Golden Snake"

Breaking at the edge of midnight - Yona Harvey "Hickory Street, New Orleans"

Not afraid of breaking things - Yona Harvey "You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love"

And break him in battle with fate - H.C. Harwood "Incompatibility"

The hills break forth in singing - Frances Ridley Havergal "Led in Peace"

Ice no axe or book will break - Seamus Heaney "Audenesque"

Old bridges breaking between - Seamus Heaney "Scaffolding"

Who will not break the bruised reed - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

That break along this visual orchestra - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender: Praeludium"

I break my heart on your hard unfaith - William Ernest Henley "Or Ever the Knightly Years Were Gone"

In the winds of thy fierce breaking - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Chastening"

Nor shall it break my sleep - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"

Be the code breaker not the code - Bob Hicok "More than whispers, less than rumors"

The moan of centuries breaks - B. Higgins "Gallipoli: An Epitaph"

Bleak horse with its music breaking down - Carlie Hoffman "Memory of France"

Breaks the last jigsaw of ice - Jackson Holbert "Letter from Nine Mile"

Like those of old in breaking spears - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

But doomed to break in weeping music - Aldous Huxley "The Garden"

When words break through a surface - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"

That break the heads of dreaming men - Jean Ingelow "Brothers, and a Sermon"

Breaking into little universes - Carly Inghram "This Woman's Work"

A tide of mysteries breaking - Islwyn "Thought" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

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

Clocks break in our hands - Allison Eir Jenks "War Tribes"

Morn breaks on the longest night of sorrow - Edwin R. Johnson "Who Knows?" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

A break of a cloud's coiling shadow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Promise"

Who breaks the bread of life - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Break fire out of night - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

Breaking all their moments in half - Ilya Kaminsky "4 a.m. Bombardment"

In smoothest echoes breaking - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

No prying sunbeams break - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [By jasper founts, whose falling waters make]"

Morning breaks from sparrow's wings - Adele Kenny "Survivor"

Where bulbs break into bloom - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

Breaks apart like honey in the mouth - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 3"

But cannot break his Sleep - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Proceed breaking harmony - Kim Unsong "Technology"

Break apart a rotting ladder - Sophie Klahr "Like Nebraska"

another breaking the soil - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"

Trust the water to break - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Body Remembers"

I'll break you most dearly with sweet words - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

breaking space and time with an iron sound - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

Have seen the forest break in bloom - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"

The biting north wind breaks full - Archibald Lampman "Sunset"

At the cost of systems still breaking - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"

Light breaks over all Eyes - Rickey Laurentiis "Hermaphrodite"

As a prism breaks light into jewels - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"

The hand that would break us is strong - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"

my seizure breaking word and world - Joseph Lease "The Dead Lands"

A chorus breaks from shore to shore - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"

River breaks past its banks of ash - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: The New Craft"

To break on the tongue - Denise Levertov "On the Parables of the Mustard Seed"

Sometimes the ice breaks open - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

My shadow tangles and breaks - Li Po "Drinking Alone by Moonlight" transl. by Arthur Waley

Come quick to the breaking - Ada Limon "Evolution"

Lofty enough to break regimen - Chip Livingston "There Is No San Lenin"

Breaks skin, soars past bone - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Modern Fiction"

The fickle wind will break its truce - James Russell Lowell "To a Friend Who Gave Me a Group of Weeds and Grasses, After a Drawing of Durer"

Heedless of the rifts and breaks - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"

Break on our edgeless contours - Mina Loy "The Dead"

Break free and transcend the transparent boundary - Emilie Lygren "Meditation"

Thought, breaking, rends them in twain - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"

When the last dawn breaks - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Last Things"

The glory of a future breaks - Mrs Elizabeth A (MacQueen) MacLeod "Canada"

To break the chain that sorrow wears - Arthur Macy "All on a Golden Summer Day"

Trying to outrun it before it breaks - Arthur H. Manners "Now You Know"

While each component atom breaks - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

An infinite whole revealed by the breaks - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"

Breaking a stolen mirror - Ted Mathys "Appalachian Trail"

The exact moment of its breaking - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

And the years break apart - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Listening to the gravel break its spine - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

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

The emissary eglantine break wave round - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

With lights breaking in their tongues - M.S. Merwin "White Morning"

Urgent in the break of day - Alice Meynell "The English Metres"

Should break our bodies in his flame - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet III from Second April

Break grief into islands - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Mercy Beach"

To break the chill of patience - Francis Neilson "Oh, Tranquil Night"

Endurance break for aching need - Francis Neilson "Oh, Tranquil Night"

A breaking up of foam and quicksand - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid

Breaking abandoned things - Pablo Neruda "Sexual Water" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Our hearts would break to prove - E. Nesbit "March Violets"

Swans who wear and break a chain - E. Nesbit "[The swans along the water glide]"

Since Love is a mirror we break - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

Could break their ceramic silence - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

Breaking them, one by one - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

Breaking the bread of our deepest words - Grace Nichols "In the Fleeting Now"

Which breaks the lingering echo - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"

A break from sun's sharp gaze - Naomi Shihab Nye "Each Day We Are Given So Many Gifts"

Breaks with the agony of surprise - Joyce Carol Oates "The Dark"

How the sun can break itself - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Lament"

Trusting branches not to break - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Build"

When the egg of sleep will not break - Kiki Petrosino "This Is How We Feed the Animals"

And words the way to break it - Carl Phillips "A Little Closer Though, If You Can, For What Got Lost Here"

Breaking of the storm inside me - Carl Phillips "Sky Coming Forward"

The light breaks like a rough sea - Carl Phillips "What They Did, Who They Did it With"

When the Armageddon sunrise breaks - Frank L. Pollock "Ad Bellonam"

The bright silence breaks - Alexander Posey "The Call of the Wild"

The rust of the cold day breaking - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

Before that last time breaking - Khadijah Queen "Disposed"

That no rude voice from coming years may break - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

For water to break the river's ceiling - Jacques J. Rancourt "Voyeur"

Though in the strife our heart-strings break - Edward S. Rand "Fallen" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

Breaks from these leafen lips - Theodore H. Rand "Under the Beeches"

The echo of the last link breaking - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Where the long wave breaks in measured time - Robert Reid "Poesie"

The fog's irregular documents break open - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Who saw the dawn break over Egypt - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Breaks out of the shivered circle - Lola Ridge "In Harness"

Breaking the long stride of stars - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"

Breaks against me like a lance - Lola Ridge "Ward X"

Breaks the sleep of the silence - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"

But the world endures the break - Alberto Rios "The Broken"

The breaking news of the century - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"

Break across insulating space - Ed Roberson "Whose sleeves: American Tagasode"

Knowing that most things break - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"

Where never wild seas break - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"

Eager and longing to break - Alice Wellington Rollins "Dawn"

To break their towers of wantonness and mirth - George William Russell "Three Counsellors"

Breaking the long loneliness - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"

Window panes breaking in slow motion - Janice Lobo Sapigao "HomeGoods"

Shall have power to break the chain - 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]

Threat to break the thread by force - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"

My spirit from its shell breaks free - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"

To break open the air with your grief - Ollie Schminkey "The First Rule of Buoyancy"

Too strong for my breaking - Laura Redden Searing "Corinna Confesses"

The hours break the line - Tim Seibles "All the Time Blues Villanelle"

More difficult than to break the time's wall - Salik Shah "The Last Scan"

Forced to break a twofold truth - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLI"

Till on these rocks the waves returning break - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"

All the threads of earth wear to the breaking - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Breaks into chaos toccatas & fugues - Richard Solomon "Writing Itself"

Hearts sooner turn to stone than break - "Sorrow and My Heart" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]

Its million breaking bubbles - George Soule "Winter's Pride"

Breaks the line along the failing tide - Leonora Speyer "Deep Sea Fishing"

That none shall ever bless or break - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

Dead ends that seem like lucky breaks - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"

Breaks the spell of the ancient, numbered hours - A.E. Stallings "First Miracle"

a spirit pleading for the next break of dawn - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"

Order breaks tension where the lines turn - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"

Breaks the design at will - M. Letitia Stockett "The Pool"

The crimson dawn breaks through - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"

Break your breast in murdering stone - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

If I'd known you'd break your word - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 172: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

As rest forbids the cruel dawn to break - Carmen Sylva "Rest"

With untoward avowal break the peace - Carmen Sylva "A Room"

Even pebbles want to break - Mary Szybist "Withdrawal"

Noiseless waves breaking against her feet - Keith Taylor "Reading Late"

Sings only when it breaks - Sara Teasdale "In Spring, Santa Barbara"

Break the seals of mute despair unbidden - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

When brave hearts bleed and faint ones break - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Breaking the shell of water - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Running Naked"

The men of dust hear bugles, breaking - Herbert Trench "I Heard a Soldier"

Breaking into isles of light - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"

In a daydream I break free - Devin S. Turk "Statue of David with Top Surgery Scars"

Break a twig on the lilac - Chase Twichell "To the Reader: Polaroids"

two tragic martyrs on coffee break - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

and neither of us can break tradition - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"

What you don't know is going to break you - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Until the cataract of colour breaks - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"

Break forth at the devil's hour - Henry van Dyke "The Red Flower"

Wild steeds breaking the yoke - Henry van Dyke "Vera"

That breaks the waiting - Emily van Kley "Ways to Hunt Deer"

A voice breaks to the surface - A. Van Jordan "Vestiges"

Gravity breaking our kneecaps - Ocean Vuong "Eurydice"

Sing of joy to hearts now breaking - H.K.W. "Song of the Carilloneur" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.682, 20 Jan. 1877]

Break happily into blossom - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"

Give you each point of fissure and break - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"

Of languages breaking open - Mark Wallace "Deep Cover Costumes"

And wrestle till the break of day - Charles Wesley "Wrestling Jacob"

Early mist breaking on low tide - John Moncure Wettarau "Morning, Maine Honolulu"

Slow breaking into green completeness - Edith Wharton "Spring Song"

That breaks the thing it frees - Helen Hay Whitney "The Golden Fruit"

Break the crystal of a poet's heart - Oscar Wilde "On the Sale By Auction of Keats' Love Letters"

That you may break them utterly - William Carlos Williams "Ad Infinitum"

The gates that guard the river breaking - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"

Some bones to break in the years of fire - Nicholas Wong "Intergenerational"

Break off all commerce with the Muse - William Wordsworth "Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes"

Breaking the silence of the seas - William Wordsworth "The Solitary Reaper"

They break your back on hell - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"

That thief already scheming to break free - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

A more clinical name for breaking - C. Dale Young "The Hanged Man"

Breaking the path of sunlight - Matthew Zapruder "Cat Radio"

Break this winter day's narcissus - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #1" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Where the cooled sunbeams broke in wrack - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Calmly I rise with broken threads - Harold Acton "Conversations and Crumbling"

Sprayed with broken light - Harold Acton "Trepak"

Blackbirds broke veins in their throats - Sandra Alcosser "Cry"

The reflection of the broken nine mirrors - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"

With tables broken and chairs o'erthrown - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

The withered bonds are broken - Richard Aldington "Bromios"

A power whose prisons are broken - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

The clouds are broken into melancholy gold - William Allingham "Aeolian Harp"

Here is the token of gold that was broken - William Allingham "The Nobleman's Wedding"

A broken elevator trying to contain its freefall - Alise Alousi "Skip"

Out comes the broken lantern - Zaina Alsous "the subject of much debate"

Your own broken and soldered together heart - Mouna Ammar "Permission"

Each glance was a language that broke - Lennox Amott "The Friends"

Orion's sword was broke in bits - Elizabeth Anderson "The Goblins' Christmas"

Bartered flesh and broken bones - Maya Angelou "Southeast Arkanasia"

Shards of broken air - Maya Angelou "To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough"

The clouds broke out in fiery lightning - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XL: Milica" transl. by Sir John Bowring

A splutter of broken sentences - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"

Clasping us with broken hands - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel of names"

Broken out in imps - Rae Armantrout "The Runaround"

I've broken free from orbit - Lae Astra "Binary Star System"

Just another broken doll - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

My hilt lies broken in pieces three - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Applause in broken scattering sound - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Dock Drama"

Broken nails against the underworld - Julie Babcock "The Witnesses"

In broken sentences of falling rain - Albion Fellows Bacon "Oh, Dreary Day!"

Not whole but lovely in their brokenness - Nina Bagley "Gathering"

The broken sound of a puppet's voice - Mary Jo Bang "Awake, I Listened"

A broken glass on the edge of boredom - Mary Jo Bang "The Disappearance of Amerika: After Kafka"

Dripping onto a broken stone floor - Mary Jo Bang "The Echo"

The clatter of knives and twice broken glass - Mary Jo Bang "In November We Inched Closer"

The broken stair with perilous step shall climb - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Smiling over broken flowers - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 I"

Broken sword that vanquished all but Night - R.H. Barlow "R.E.H."

A book of dreams and broken memories - Natalie Clifford Barney "Avertissement"

for the sun was a broken sword - Elizabeth Bartlett "the lovers"

Bathed in broken light - Zeina Hashem Beck "There, There, Grieving"

Nor a broken thing mend - Hilaire Belloc "The South Country"

And broken the saints for bread - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Until the broken heavens streamed apart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

The things are broken to which I aspired - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Banquet"

As forty brazen cohorts broke the foe - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"

Broke upon them like a million swords - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

Broke the chains of earth - Gwendolyn Bennett "Wind"

That his step broke calm - Gwendolyn Bennett "Wind"

Chicken little in a broken shell - Paul Bernstein "Day One of the Deluge"

Filling my dreams with broken windows - Terry Blackhawk "From the Roof"

Will paper their walls with maps and broken promises - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"

With broken shields piled at her feet - Maxwell Bodenheim "Boarding-House Episode"

Night has broken her heart upon him - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"

Unhappy hills, bowed down with broken backs - Arna Bontemps "Golgotha Is a Mountain"

And I have broken down before the wind - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne of the Wharves"

They have broken roses down - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"

halted by broken sidewalks - Aaron Boothby "Jurupa Hills/Riverside"

When the last bubbles of Atlantis broke - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"

With tangled warp and broken woof - John Philip Bourke "The Leaden Hoof"

For the charm they have broken - Robert Bridges "London Snow"

An exile with a broken rhyme - Roscoe W. Brink "Helen Is Ill"

With broken hopes and bitter fears - Ruth Margaret Muskrat [Bronson] "The Trail of Tears"

Whose charms were broken if revealed - Charlotte Bronte "Evening Solace"

Broken notes, blending in a wild delight - Caris Brooke "March Violets"

The foolish broken things we knew - Rupert Brooke "Tiare Tahiti"

Fluttered brokenly and grand - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Till the strong tornado broke - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

History in jagged squares, broken lines - Sue Budin "On Beauty"

Bordered with broken pearls - F. O. Call "Omnipresence"

The plough in the broken earth - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "I Am the Mountainy Singer"

That broke the hilly land for bread - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "I Am the Mountainy Singer"

The dust of broken empires - Giosue Carducci "Roma" transl. by Frank Sewall

A crystal case broken to free some glory - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"

Broke all his moments in half - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

Through the broken walls of time - Alice Cary "Music"

Tempests broke its gentle dream - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

The debris of a broken ship - Marianne Chan "Some Words of the Aforesaid Heathen Peoples"

A lost land of boulders and broken men - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"

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

Gather up the brokenness - Leonard Cohen "Come Healing"

And the golden bowl is broken - Arthur Colton "Snow"

Blight of a broken word - Katherine Eleanor Conway "Saturninus"

Seek to link again our broken ties - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

The conqueror's sceptre broke - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"

Through melon-vines and broken glass - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"

From the muzzle broke the sound - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Celebration"

Broken from the withering tree - George Crabbe "The Village"

Mends the broken hedge with icy thorn - George Crabbe "The Village"

Some promise must have been broken - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"

Broken by ice, smoothed by water and time - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

They broke a pitiless enemy - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

The broken breath of liberty enchained - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

Broke hyssop and bramble - H.D. "The Helmsman"

One petal like a shell is broken - H.D. "Sea Iris"

Loaded with broken clocks - Jim Daniels "Church Reform"

Through the sands of the broken hourglass - Jim Daniels "Church Reform"

Gathering the people's broken minds - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"

Dark with the legacies of brokenness - Kwame Dawes "Steel"

With shards of broken illusions - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Under the Cypresses"

My worn reeds broken - Walter de la Mare "The Scribe"

My heart is broken down with bitter pain - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Since, O my Love, I may behold no more]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

All the questions that lead to a broken wall - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"

I am the singer of the broken sanctuaries - Julián del Casal "Vas Doloris" transl. by William George Williams

Broken and scattered among the seekers - Carl Dennis "Holy Brethren"

Whose pain unraveled and broke you - Dante Di Stefano "Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry)"

The air broken by lighting - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

In broken mathematics - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XII"

Through the broken web of night - Irving Sidney Dix "Twin Lake: In the Wayne Highlands"

A sprig of mint broken - Chris Dombrowski "Going Home"

Broken glass from the self's smashed bottles - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

Broke the water into a thousand needles - Rita Dove "Someone's Blood"

Now that the wheel has broken - Rita Dove "Testimony: 1968"

Chiron in broken bathroom light - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"

Breaking the broken things - Cheryl Dumesnil "Breaking the Broken Things"

Fox with broken legs - Dara Yen Elerath "The White Paws"

Strode across the hills and broke them - T.S. Eliot "Cousin Nancy"

Form prayers to broken stone - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"

A broken violin on an August afternoon - T.S. Eliot "Portrait of a Lady"

Only a heap of broken images - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land I: The Burial of the Dead"

By briar, branch and broken stick - Anthony Euwer "Snoots"

Your immunity to wonder will be broken - Anne Evans "A New Variant"

A fragrance bright and broken - Donald Evans "Epicede"

Broken bits of habitat disappeared - A.M. Fals "Space in Our Relationship"

On the broken walls you stand - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"

Cling to a hope that was broken - George Blackstone Field "Forever"

My thoughts are willow branches already broken - John Gould Fletcher "Dead Thoughts"

Camels carted away the broken Colossus of Rhodes - Katie Ford "Koi"

Tell of hearts you've sadly broken - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"

Dance through my broken dreams - Fanny Forrester "Not Lost, but Gone Before" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.3-v.I, 19 Jan. 1884]

White roses broke like foam - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"

Cupid has broken his bow - Ralph W.W. Fox "Love Weeping Among the Crosses"

Airs from the Beggar's Opera on broken fiddles played - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Beggar King"

The past becomes a broken altar-stone - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

A curse too bitter and wild for the broken heart - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

That bent and broke my heart - Theodosia Garrison "A Ballad of Halloween"

Broken meat for empty bellies - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Hare"

Gets your heart broken over cruel words - Nikita Gill "Your Soft Heart"

Broken by the chasms of despair - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Why Not?"

Broken vows will vex and grieve - John Goldie "And Can Thy Bosom?"

Here broken Orpheus searches - Louis Golding "Down Tottenham Court Road"

And the golden bowl was broken - Russell Green "De Mundo"

Broken tears in the profane lace of dawn - Wendy Guerra "Delicates" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

Without fearing the broken waves - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

Hollow shell and broken bowl - Louise Imogen Guiney "Bankrupt"

Who watch the stars through broken walls - Ivor Gurney "From Omiecourt"

Fragile mirrors easily broken - Ivor Gurney "Strange Service"

If loneliness can be broken - Roy G. Guzman "The Age of Aquarius"

Black strokes on a graph of broken glass - Marilyn Hacker "Morning News"

Empty promises of a broken land - Hawa Haji-Hassan "Carrying Anticipation"

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

Echoes like a broken bottle - Joy Harjo "The Bloodletting"

From the broken mask of change - Joy Harjo "Fury of Rain"

Strands broken from the web of life - Joy Harjo "Reconciliation: A Prayer"

To take it dizzy and broken down through the falls - francine j. harris "There are inanimate things out there loving each other"

As if broken were just another glittering season - Leslie Harrison "[December]"

Those silver chords are broken - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "The Haunted House"

Already in the broken gone - Gordon Henry "It Was Snowing on the Monuments"

Now closing up the broken ranks - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Crows"

A manifest of loss & broken vows - Faylita Hicks "Saint She of All the Missing Things"

Mocks the night wind's broken howl - Conrad Hilberry "A Bird"

Drove the sap and broke the bud - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"

A master at the art of being broken - Tony Hoagland "In the Waiting Room with Leonard Cohen"

We count the broken lyres - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Voiceless"

The birds sing faint broken songs - Aldous Huxley "Philoclea in the Forest"

A broken branch remembers quiet - fahima ife "porous aftermath"

Broke under the weight of tenancy - fahima ife "post-acid"

Satan broke loose and nothing between - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

Day has broken Night's unwholesome Dish - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

You know not what's Inside them till they're Broke - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Destroy every system that has ever left us broken - Jordan Jace "I Want"

Through fire and broken glass - Marlin M. Jenkins "Pokedex Entry #260: Swampert"

Brood not over the broken past - James Weldon Johnson "The Gift to Sing"

Broke at once the vital chain - Samuel Johnson "On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet"

Shrieks sharp as broken champagne flutes - Saeed Jones "Grief #213"

Sleeps in broken buildings - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Until my heart broke me awake - Fady Joudah "Dehiscence"

The law of broken things - Rodger Kamenetz "The Broken Tablets"

As memory preserves the pattern of broken things - Rodger Kamenetz "The Broken Tablets"

Need for other hearts broken differently - Courtney Kampa "Ars Biologica"

Hip broken under the weight of time - Anoma Kanie "All that You Have Given Me, Africa" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

At the feet of those who broke you - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

All the broken tragedy of life - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Broke on the stillness of the night - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

Not only our hearts that are broken - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"

Practiced how to hold the moon's broken bowl - Vandana Khanna "Goddess in the Dark"

Hide the broken halo of dead bees - Vandana Khanna "Self-Portrait as a Girl Conceding"

By rough Encounters broke - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

Passions which the Reins have broke - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

Barren days, stale loves and broken spells - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"

Terror that broke their vigil now - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

Broken, leaking deeds, songs & testaments - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Broken out of ice - Yusef Komunyakaa 'from "The Last Bohemian of Avenue A"'

Gleaming metal reflecting how it is to be broken - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

Oscillating dances in a broken room - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

A statue with its arms broken off - Christopher Kondrich "Common Things"

All the cogs of our life have broken teeth - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"

A welcome cure for broken arms - Jennifer G. Lai "In My Mind's Coral, Mother Still Calls Us from Inside"

The wasps' nest in the rafters, broken - Jennifer G. Lai "In My Mind's Coral, Mother Still Calls Us from Inside"

In sullen packs that loomed and broke - Archibald Lampman "After Rain"

Broken with curled flower buds - Archibald Lampman "April"

Broken glimmers of the moon - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"

Broken beeches tangled with wild vine - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"

Only bitter broken sand - Archibald Lampman "What Do Poets Want with Gold?"

A broken mirror in a trembling hand - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Unperfected"

Of kings, fools, blood, and broken cities - Michael Lauchlan "Reading Herodotus"

With jewels of passion once broken through - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"

Prefer my heart to be broken - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"

Broken in time's great wound - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"

Contagion of sanity broken - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"

Who killed the curse and broke the ban - Chas. G. Leland "The Proclamation [September 22, 1862]" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]

The perfect and then the broken - Dana Levin "Dream Nest"

Born and lit and broken - Dana Levin "Dream Nest"

A tight nest of broken eggs - Philip Levine "Blood"

By a thousand broken paths - Li Po "A Dream of T'ien-Mu Mountain" transl. by Arthur Waley

Came back from the broken land - Li Po "In Yuch Viewing the Past" transl. by Burton Watson

Heal the broken Dreamers - M.L. Liebler "Upon Christ's Entry into Liverpool"

Calcified gravity, built up and broken down - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

And the broken arches where time suffers - Federico Garcia Lorca "Gacela of the Terrible Presence" (translated by W.S. Merwin)

An ignoble heap of broken, dusty glass - Amy Lowell "A Fairy Tale"

Hoards of torn desires, broken joys - Amy Lowell "Frankincense and Myrrh"

From haunted earth broke springs of wonder - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

The door broke in a thousand fragments - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."

And the trance of Time is broken - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"

Vanishing in broken light - Dorothea Mackellar "Bathing Rhyme"

Laughed the slow sad sound of broken things - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"

Around it broke the crimson gale - Douglas Malloch "The Chickamauga Oak"

That broke the nights of Babylon - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"

The moon's fair face is broken - Edwin Markham "A Lyric of the Dawn"

Mist and myriad broken wings - Jeannette Marks "To Some Flowers"

Wakened and shaken and broken - Don Marquis "New York"

Soar with broken wings - Don Marquis "The Singer"

Picking black daffodils in the shades of broken stones - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"

Why should we leave good things broken? - Maya Marshall "The Field of Blood"

A broken carburetor of sobs - David Tomas Martinez "The Only Mexican"

With broken hearts for lime and oaths for sand - John Masefield "The Haunted"

And hounds broke into cry - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"

The shrilling trumpets broke the halt - John Masefield "On Malvern Hill"

With a fathom or more of broken sea - John Masefield "One of the Bo'sun's Yarns"

Broke open spirit secrets - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"

Your voice broke like a flower - Florence Ripley Mastin "From the Telephone"

Mending his boat's broken beam - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "Who Was He? A Story of Peter the Great" transl. by John Pollen

Broke its vase of burning tears - Theodore Maynard "Mater Desolata"

A high branch of broken promises - J.D. McClatchy "Wolf's Tree"

And binding rule forever broken - Claude McKay "Homing Swallows"

The earth a broken crib - Maureen N. McLane "From A Book of Hours"

Doomward the broken gamesters' ranks - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of One-and-Twenty"

Your own broken heart held tightly in your fist - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"

His arms are full of broken things - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"

Broken splendor years have scattered wide - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ruins of Balaclava" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Nor a broken dart of moonlight - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: I"

A broken dart of moonlight - Edna St. Vincent Millay untitled sonnet from Sonnets and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver

Fragments of the broken world - Claire Millikin "Figurine"

Have broken my name's oath - Jenny Molberg "Bathsheba as Poet"

Broken windmills mark distances of despair - N. Scott Momaday "A Darkness Comes"

The measure of the heart's broken pulse - N. Scott Momaday "Remembering Milosz and Esse"

Broken from the world's embrace - N. Scott Momaday "Ultimus"

Silence is scattered like a broken glass - Harold Monro "Solitude"

And broke the dial stone of old Time - Dugald Moore "To the Clyde"

Fragments of a broken alphabet traced in snow - Jim Moore "So Be It"

Wild lament of broken mouths - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Dreams and demons broken with sugars - Maggie Nelson "Proposal"

Abode of broken overtures - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

Crashed down like a broken tower - Pablo Neruda "The First Sea" transl. by Alastair Reid

Opening broken doors to the sea - Pablo Neruda "Fully Empowered" transl. by Alastair Reid

A cyclone of broken hemispheres - Pablo Neruda "Leviathan" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Shaken by a broken rose - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf

Broken screams in the harbor - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Book I [Elemental Odes]" transl. by Edward Hirsch

Which broke the glass of twilight - Pablo Neruda "Oh, My Lost City" transl. by Alastair Reid

The hostile stones broken - Pablo Neruda "The People" transl. by Alastair Reid

Broke loose with the wind - Pablo Neruda "Poetry" transl. by Alastair Reid

Toys broken in dreams - Pablo Neruda "The Seeker" transl. by Ilan Stavans

The coast broken by thunder - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney

The living poppy above the broken light - Pablo Neruda "Song on the Death and Resurrection of Luis Companys" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Broken glass fallen in a bitter street - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid

Proud-eyed Apollo's bow is broken - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

The broken halves of a milky sun - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

The coastline's broken voice - Urayoan Noel "No Longer Ode"

Their broken edges joined - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"

Be broke by the share of the stranger - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

The little murmurs of the broken blossoms - Mary Oliver "Goldenrod, Late Fall"

Sky all broken glass - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"

We catch but broken strokes - John Oxenham "God's Handwriting"

Hatched from a broken law - Gregory Pardlo "Giornata: On Faith"

Broke my brittle heart in two - Dorothy Parker "A Very Short Song"

Sought to mend my broken life - "The Parting of Goll from His Wife"

As a broken star out of the Dark - Josephine Preston Peabody "Gladness"

The thousand broken names and way - Josephine Preston Peabody "Noon at Paestum"

Measure in his broken strength - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

Broken chains, lying cankered with old blood-drops - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Like broken kings - Carl Phillips "Anyone Who Had a Heart"

Promises in their not-yet-broken state - Carl Phillips "Captivity"

The broken laughter of the long abandoned - Carl Phillips "The Way One Animal Trusts Another"

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

Filling the broken compromise - Xan Forest Phillips "I Never Used to Write About Birds"

Birds cawing over the broken earth - Jon Pineda "Cinque Terre"

Glimpse broken halos - Jon Pineda "Delayed Harvest"

A broken bundle of mirrors - Ezra Pound "Near Perigord"

Broken against false knowledge - Ezra Pound "The Rest"

Serving cups of broken light - Ken Poyner "Ineffective"

Beside that broken gate - E.J. Pratt "The Pine Tree"

Lies broken as with centuries - E.J. Pratt "Sea Variations"

A house on the street of broken dreams - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Street of Broken Dreams"

Guarding a house on the street of broken dreams - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Street of Broken Dreams"

We store our dialects in broken hearts - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Necessarily, the camp is the border"

Rivers broke off in my fingers - Paige Quinones "I Dreamed in Spanish Once"

Into that broken glass throat - Jacques J. Rancourt "In the Castro"

Knows not the meaning of a broken crown - Herbert Randall "The Tryst of Nations"

Overlooking the broken cliffs of the moon - Wendy Rathbone "Grief"

There are many ways to be broken - Laura Read "Love Poem with Staples"

Twirls a baton of broken broomstick - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Cachiporrista"

Together they bend and together are broke - A.J. Requier "Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Broke bread with the house-less - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"

The Pleiades broken loose - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Trembling on the broken crust - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

My harp of broken strings - John Rollin Ridge "The Harp of Broken Strings"

And feel its broken melody - John Rollin Ridge "The Harp of Broken Strings"

A broken honeycomb spilling over the waxen edges - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

Foiled by a broken stair - Lola Ridge "The Tidings (Easter 1916)"

Plans constantly broken and repaired - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"

Every roof has a broken tile - Alberto Rios "The Broken"

The broken promise is the one we remember - Alberto Rios "The Broken"

Six warm bowls of porridge and a broken mug or two - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"

The creak of broken rushes and the last snipe's cry - Lloyd Roberts "The Wind Tongues"

With the spell of broken dreams - William Carman Roberts "An Easter Memory"

The dream had not been broken - Rennell Rodd "A Song of Autumn"

Flung from a broken star on its mad race - Amy Redpath Roddick "A Scientific Puzzle"

Builded on broken hearthstones - John Jerome Rooney "The Empire Builder"

Lessons learned and broken wings - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"

Go with chambers broken open - Kay Ryan "Still Start"

By no rebuke is the sweet silence broken - G.S. "Butterflies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 30 March 1878]

Broken snail shells bearing emptiness on their back - Nelly Sachs [Untitled] transl. by Michael Roloff

Broke his anger to a thousand shards - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"

In a field of broken antlers - Erika L. Sanchez "Love Story"

Broken walls of ruin and story - Carl Sandburg "Follies"

The doors are twisted on broken hinges - Carl Sandburg "Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind"

Broken to shape of thought - Carl Sandburg "Languages"

Broken answers of remembrance - Carl Sandburg "Shirt"

Broken across with slashes of light - Carl Sandburg "Window"

Young love and broken life - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: II. The Park Band"

This broken chorus of terror and nest - Jennifer Scappettone "Syrinx Spring"

Devour the suns and slumbers of the broken spheres - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Broken hourglasses and their sands - Lorraine Schein "Merlin"

Some broken things don't heal - Ann K. Schwader "Goodnight Aileen"

Broken daily into shards of shrapnel - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"

This lapidary of broken things - Richard Scott "Peridot"

Leering ruefully at broken promises - Tobias Seamon "A Daybook of Devils"

broke my eyes into lighthouse shards - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"

Truth lays bare the broken bone - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

Beyond the harbour lantern's broken glare - Edward Shanks "Boats at Night"

The hour hand of a broken clock - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"

Strewn with broken umbrellas - Charles Simic "Shelley"

A broken door I struggle with, but cannot open - Marge Simon "Plaster Messiahs"

The harsh, brief sob of broken horns - Clark Ashton Smith "Dissonance"

Less than any broken glass - Clark Ashton Smith "Forgetfulness"

Make a brief and broken wind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

Like a stream of broken stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

Broken constellations strewn like coals - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"

Broken dreams of higher worlds unfound - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"

Her broken circle to restore - Lyman C. Smith "Canada to Columbia"

Picking up the pieces of a broken mirror - Richard Solomon "The Charnel Ground"

And broke their crowded ranks - William Somerville "The Chase"

The hour of broken luck - A.E. Stallings "Country Song"

Broken love-knots, quaintly curled - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"

Huge beams from broken dams above - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

Broke loose to a remoter sky - George Sterling "The Altar Flame"

When that flower of fear had broken - George Sterling "The Hidden Pool"

And like a lily broke - George Sterling "The Rack"

Whose is the blood in thy broken chalice? - George Sterling "You Never Can Tell"

Half of a broken hope - Robert Louis Stevenson "If This Were Faith"

A broken testimony, the history of a world dissolving - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"

Places of perfect order and broken patterns - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"

Bear with them broken promises of Spring - Muriel Stuart "In Memory of Douglas Vernon Cow"

Broke up the roof for kindling - Su Tung-p'o "Lament of the Farm Wife of Wu" transl. by Burton Watson

Never broken by doubt - General Su Wu "To His Wife" (translated by Arthur Waley)

What shall my heart broken profit thee? - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

The clay first broke my heart - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

Their kings a broken brood - Francis Thompson "Lilium Regis"

The faith thrice broken that incurred Columbia's vengeful sword - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

So necessarily broken - Edwin Torres "The Circle at One End"

Torn laces and broken swords - Iris Tree "[I feel in me a manifold desire]"

Waters are deep and bridges broken - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Song on Enduring the Cold" transl. by Burton Watson

A broken lance against iron laws - Louis Untermeyer "He Goads Himself"

Rich in broken glass - John Updike "Chicory"

halfway house for broken history - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Abstrack Africana"

The boulevard of broken glass - Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca "Had Been There"

These broken arches have taught generations to build - Henry van Dyke "The Glory of Ruins"

Except a broken and discouraged note - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"

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

No more broken bottles in heaven - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"

The sand's broken sticks - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"

Fallen like a broken cart - Loretta Diane Walker "Imagining my Neighbor"

Many a fair hope crushed and broken - Mrs J. Webb "Lines to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:2, Feb. 1844)

Our long rope of broken treaties - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Holes"

Moss gentles my broken stones - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Hore Abbey"

Our wings of pride were broken - John Hall Wheelock "Of Day Came Night"

A cadence trailing where broken music falls - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Love is a broken lily]"

Broken bits of time - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Knitting"

Broken against cold winds - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Broke my pretty cage - William Carlos Williams "The Fool's Song"

Touching a grey, broken sky - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"

Because an image was in malice broken - Humbert Wolfe "The Sicilian Expedition"

Broken images of patterns laid-up in heaven - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"

Shards of broken thoughts - Janet S. Wong "Breath"

Roses dead and garlands broken - Margaret L. Woods "Gaudeamus Igitur"

Some casual shout that broke the silent air - William Wordsworth "Mutability"

Over the broken promises of the day - Charles Wright "The Childhood of St. Thomas"

Nor yet a broken bell - Willard Huntington Wright "What of the Night?"

Broken glass, reflecting pain - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"

Broken on the wall of time - Jane Yolen "I See a Bony Hand First"

Winter has broken his windows - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today"

With the broken blossom vanishing - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"

Was builded on that broken city's tears - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

In the roar of broken boulders split - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

You hold the broken in me - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

Only broke the arms of willows - 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



Satisfied before bread-breaking - Mina Loy "The Dead"

Breakdown way more wicked than Noah's flood - Mike Allen "Deluge"

Breaker [water].

Breakless chain, and iron thrall - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

A doorknob statement, a breakneck goodbye - Randall Mann "The Fall of 1992, Gainesville, Florida"

Far beyond the breakpoint - Caroline Harper New "The Sargassum Fish"

Breakwaters of eternity - Ruben Dario "Poets! Towers of God!" (translation by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva)

Broken Heart.

Pity a broken-winged wanderer - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson

This cloud-break that ravels the night - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"

Heartbreak.

Pity's long-broken urn - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

The thyroid and the pancreas joined the outbreak - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"

Respected the pause between lightning and skybreak - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"


In front of an unbreakable mirror - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Evergreen"

my mother becomes unbreakable angles - Caroline Mao "When My Father Reprograms My Mother {"

Become something unbreakable - John Murillo "Poem Ending and Beginning on Lines by Larry Levis"

Unbreakable dawn mounting in your throat - Ocean Vuong "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"


Unbroken.


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