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Potential Titles: Midnight
Dashed back into a midnight ocean - Daisy Aldan "The Little Mermaid"
What august Shade at midnight here convene - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "In Westminster Abbey"
At midnight with a broken heart - Julia Alvarez "Did I Redeem Myself?"
Such as only fall at midnight - Albion Fellows Bacon "The Prophet"
In the midnight weird and holy - Benjamin West Ball "To the Cricket"
Measured by his steady midnight breathing - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Like a midnight in August - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Outraced the latest hour of midnight - Mary Jo Bang "The Head of a Dancer"
Midnight boundaries lost - Mary Jo Bang "Let's Say Yes: 1. Scene After Scene"
With midnight visions burn - Charles Baudelaire "The Sick Muse" transl. not credited
Through the midnight of their mind - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
Ink stretches under midnight - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"
Who crossed waters to follow midnights - Margo Berdeshevsky "Somewhere Everywhere"
Morning is a gown put on at midnight - Emily Berry "Allegiances"
Upon my midnight quest - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"
A thief at darkest midnight - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"
Midnight visits and a wing's caress - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
Walk alone through a midnight graveyard - Terry Blackhawk "A Blessing of Scallops: Eastern Market, Detroit"
Midnight darkness, crimes, and blood - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
Born in the stirring midnight's sigh - Edmund Blunden "The Watermill"
Where dawn and midnight mingled - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
More closely press upon that midnight air - Gordon Bottomley "New Year's Eve, 1913"
Velvet fingers at midnight's hush - John Philip Bourke "Till Day Is Done"
Walked invisible through a human midnight - William Brewer "The Good News"
Midnight rest may still be sweet - Emily Bronte "Self-Interrogation"
Quit light for the midnight - Gwendolyn Brooks "Gay Chaps at the Bar"
Steadfast as midnight leaves - Anthony Butts "Embers"
October like midnight of the mind - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"
In a midnight turn of the bottle - Paul Cameron Brown "Bravura"
Midnight in the silence - Robert Browning "Epilogue"
The time of the midnight dead - W. Wilfred Campbell "Peniel"
Midnights of revel, and noondays of song - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Vagabondia"
Briar's rose and midnight owls - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"
A midnight witch, Titania bold - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"
Snatch a skull for midnight wine - Leonard Cohen "It Uses Us!"
Have torn blue midnight air - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
And beggared midnight winds - Arthur Colton "Let Me No More a Mendicant"
Your midnight croaking - Flower Conroy "Frog"
Which strews our midnight thick with stars - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
The silent midnight waters - James H. Cousins "The Southern Cross"
Whose bloom has faded in the midnight watch - Lucretia Maria Davidson "To My Mother"
Strange midnight lands adorning - Coningsby Dawson "Dreamland Love"
Make magic under midnight moons - Tyree Daye "what the angels eat"
Mists to muffle midnight tide - Walter de la Mare "The Quiet Enemy"
We painted dawn into midnight - Desdamona "Once and Future"
Unaccountable acorns, midnight loam, overgrown meadows - Dante Di Stefano "Green Burial Unsonnet"
Strum a November midnight - Chris Dombrowski "Nostrums (Bill Monroe)"
With a million midnight spots - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Pepper Shaker"
A voice falling on the midnight sea - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
In the crook of midnight's arm - Carol Ann Duffy "A Dreaming Week"
Still amaze the troubled midnight - T. S. Eliot "La Figlia Che Piange"
At midnight in the ancient language of bronze - Martin Espada "Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World"
The midnight path explored - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Unlock the witches' midnight spell - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
The brief renascence of the midnight hour - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Strange altars of the midnight - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
The midnight feast in the clover bloom - Eugene Field "Fairy and Child"
To enshroud the midnight sky - Darrell Figgis "[Friends vanish at my face]"
In the midnight of his hope - John Gould Fletcher "The Future"
Welcome as blue to the midnight skies - G.G. Foster "Song of Sleep" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Because a sorrow on dark midnight lies - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Returning from the midnight festival - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
By midnight moons - Philip Freneau "The Indian Burying Ground"
To roll the clouds of midnight from your hearts - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
The star that shines in the midnight sky - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"
Midnight in a sleeping house - Nikita Gill "Papa"
Inhale the spices of the midnight air - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"
Some chance on the midnight cities - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"
Battalions of the midnight pause - Louis Golding "The Singer of High State"
Close tighter than midnight knows - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
A cloud furled like midnight - Mona Gould "This Bitter Brew"
Their caress in the heat of midnight - Robert Graves "Children of Darkness"
Interstellar agonies of midnight - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
Insomniac for a high noon called midnight - Raquel Gutiérrez "Would It Kill Me to Be a Nicer Guy?"
A wrong number at midnight - Marilyn Hacker "Nearly a Valediction"
A problem for your midnight toil - Tom Hall "A Problem"
A moonbeam in the midnight cloud - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Twilight"
Rang midnight within - Thomas Hardy "Before Marching, and After"
Time ticking hard on midnight - Thomas Hardy "The Collector Cleans His Picture"
A season of false midnights - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Disappear in a paradise of midnight - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
In search of midnight roses - Derrick Harriell "Underground King"
Breaking at the edge of midnight - Yona Harvey "Hickory Street, New Orleans"
My midnight lamp and candle - Alfred Hayes "My Study"
Fearful sound, at midnight deep - Felicia Hemans "Alaric in Italy"
The slain tears of midnight - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
The fiat of that midnight hour - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Illuming all the midnight scene - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
Let midnight gather up the wind - Conrad Hilberry "Christmas Night"
Swim the midnight flux of dream - Conrad Hilberry "Midnight"
Confessions in tears at midnight - Edward Hirsch "Gertrude Stein"
In the very noon of solemn midnight - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
A wilder wail is uttered by the midnight gale - William H.C. Hosmer "Requiem" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The sobs and cries of midnight storms - William Dean Howells "Forlorn"
Letting midnight out on bail - Langston Hughes "Jam Session"
Ecstatic as midnight departure - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Always the forest at midnight - Mark Irwin "How to Gather It All Up"
Which midnight studies teach - Islwyn "The Poets of Wales" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Long after midnight, swaddled in dreams - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Bison lurking on her midnight trails - Emily Pauline Johnson "Calgary"
Echo through the midnight forest - Emily Pauline Johnson "Dawendine"
The wandering stars of midnight - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
The fairest gems of midnight's store - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
With its wild midnight orgies overworn - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Entranced by calm of midnight hours - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"
Some midnight spirit nurse - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Prophesyings of the midnight lamp - John Keats "Hyperion"
A moan upon the midnight hours - John Keats "Psyche"
Soft embalmer of the still midnight - John Keats "To Sleep"
From her midnight throne of ether - Fanny Kemble "Lines Written at Night"
Eclipse the midnight moon's soft ray - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."
The full chorus of their midnight song - Fanny Kemble "The Wind"
With the beat of midnight bells - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
The pounding cataracts of midnight streams - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"
With whirlwinds dipped in midnight - Archibald Lampman "An Ode to the Hills"
The midnight bright and bare - Archibald Lampman "The Poet's Song"
Always on the ninth midnight - Andrew Lang "The Milk White Doe"
Wild storms at midnight - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway VII: Memories"
Though the sky be dark as midnight - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
When midnight dozes into dawn - J. Patrick Lewis "The Repast of the Lion"
At midnight in the sod huts of lost hope - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"
Like midnight poppies - Vachel Lindsay "The Firemen's Ball"
Heart of a hundred midnights - Vachel Lindsay "In Praise of Johnny Appleseed"
Piercing through his midnight sleep - Vachel Lindsay "To Eve, Man's Dream of Wifehood as Described by Milton"
Splintery shovels and midnight gunshots - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"
Through travail of ignoble midnight streets - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"
Shrill thunder blares at midnight - Lu Chi "Two Poems Presented to the Gentleman in the Office of Palace Writers Ku Yen-hsien" transl. by Burton Watson
Still her woes at midnight rise - John Lyly "The Spring"
Wrung them from startled velvet midnights - Naomi Long Madgett "If There Were Songs to Sing"
Midnight streetlights beckon - Naomi Long Madgett "Nocturne II: Still"
So ghosts can't dial me at midnight - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
At midnight with the hunger of hunters - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
Midnight splits the darkness in two - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize
Midnight has dreams of snow - Herbert Woodward Martin "Contemplations on Snow"
Let it be midnight here - John Masefield "A Dramatic Poem: Madman"
On the wilds of midnight waters - Herman Melville "John Marr and Other Sailors"
And midnights of invisible rain - Alice Meynell "A Thrush Before Dawn"
Will turn to me at midnight - Edna St Vincent Millay "What lips my lips have kissed (Sonnet XLIII)"
Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born - John Milton "L'Allegro"
Against eternal midnight lit - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Still Life as Rocket: 42"
Walks the glowing paths of the midnight garden - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"
Like a midnight mockingbird - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Never sped the midnight deer - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
A comet's loveliness shaken across the midnight sky - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Ghost in sheet risen at midnight bell - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Between me and the midnight heaven - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"
But midnight fades to dawn - Bruce Nugent "My Love"
But we drink midnight too - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Mind of Squash"
I have died so many midnight moons - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
Puddled in lamplight at your midnight desk - Mary Oliver "West Wind 6"
So in midnight does happiness capture us - Dorothy Parker "Lullaby"
Where we sang with midnight - W. Theodore Parkes "Bohemians, Hail!"
That each recurring midnight brings - Thomas W. Parsons "Stanzas"
Midnight seeps from the cracks - Kiki Petrosino "Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1770-1863"
Tasted midnights and dawns, delayed twilight - Marisca Pichette "Waning, Waning"
Pierce far away the midnight gloom - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
Rises at midnight and looks back - Po-Chu-i "On the Way to Hangchow: Anchored on the River at Night" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Far in the midnight sky - Alexander Posey "My Hermitage"
Silence settle from the midnight sky - Alexander Posey "On Viewing the Skull and Bones of a Wolf"
In the moonless octave below midnight - Lynn Powell "Kind of Blue"
Meteors through the midnight skies - G.A. Raybold "The Joys of Former Years Have Fled"
dreams wash spirits in midnight waters - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
midnight dreams a dim reflection of a lifetime - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
spirits washed in midnight waters - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
With midnight dust - Luis J. Rodriguez "Words"
Makes bright the midnight gloom - Alice Wellington Rollins "Baby-Hood"
Thy star my midnight guide - John Jerome Rooney "Ave Maria"
Missing shoes and midnight chimes - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"
Mystery and fury of a midnight street - Muriel Rukeyser "Reading Time: 1 Minute 26 Seconds"
Turning out for tea at midnight - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"
Swimming in midnights of coal mines - Carl Sandburg "River Roads"
Ghosts on the midnight skies - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"
Lifted her past midnight into truth - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
Tongues of fire across our midnight sky - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
Midnight feast and famished dawn - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"
In the flush of my midnight skies - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"
Golden letters on the midnight sky - Virna Sheard "The Young Knights"
The elves upon their midnight way - Clark Ashton Smith "Fairy Lanterns"
Falling out of a tree at midnight - Frank Stanford "Watching a Woman Die"
In midnight's deepest sapphire - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"
Hewn in midnight's deepest sapphire - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"
The shaken stars of midnight stir - George Sterling "Nora May French"
Where midnight merges to infinity - George Sterling "Shelley at Spezia"
My Grail is blood at midnight - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Might melt with midnight into cold air - Sonya Taaffe "Teinds"
Shadowy form of midnight vision - Henry David Thoreau "Smoke"
Sighs mournfully under the midnight moon - "The Tide" [The Continental Monthly v.II - Nov., 1862 - no.VI]
Through the midnight of despair - John Todhunter "The Sunburst"
Tread out the ashes of midnight - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"
Where Folly is king of midnight - Iris Tree "[When at a masquerade I meet thee]"
Of midnight in gunpowder and oil - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"
At midnight there are no voices - "Tzu-yeh Songs" transl. by Burton Watson
A glowing ember in a desert campfire at midnight - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Red Shawl"
So hard and harsh the midnights chime - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Fishermen" transl. by Alma Strettell
The midnights harsh of autumn time - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Fishermen" transl. by Alma Strettell
It's only midnight for a second - Ocean Vuong "Beautiful Short Loser"
Midnight's neon parking lot - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"
Until the stooping midnight covers - D.E.A. Wallace "Life and I"
Midnight hymn from chords of gold - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
Passed at midnight from her portal - William Watson "The Lute-Player"
Veins of midnight flaw the morn - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"
Creeping down by waterless defiles under an iron midnight - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
The fear that thrilled the midnight - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
Many a midnight of disdain - John Hall Wheelock "The Poet Tells of His Love"
Midnight seas that never sleep - Helen Hay Whitney "To B.D."
There is silence in the midnight - Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde "The Brothers: A Scene from '98"
The troubled plumes of midnight - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
At the winter's midnight - William Carlos Williams "Burning the Christmas Greens"
A frozen road past midnight - William Carlos Williams "Complaint"
To reset eternity's clock to the far side of midnight - Charles Wright "Little Elegy for an Old Friend"
Knowing the me only midnight sees - Kevin Young "Hurricane Song"
The dead have quit their midnight visits - Kevin Young "Snapdragon"
Her night will kisses that midnight sun - W.E. Christian "Weaning Time"
Mistook him for the midnight sun - Oliver Herford "Henrik Ibsen"
The setting midnight sun - J. Patrick Lewis "The European City Song"
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What august Shade at midnight here convene - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "In Westminster Abbey"
At midnight with a broken heart - Julia Alvarez "Did I Redeem Myself?"
Such as only fall at midnight - Albion Fellows Bacon "The Prophet"
In the midnight weird and holy - Benjamin West Ball "To the Cricket"
Measured by his steady midnight breathing - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Like a midnight in August - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Outraced the latest hour of midnight - Mary Jo Bang "The Head of a Dancer"
Midnight boundaries lost - Mary Jo Bang "Let's Say Yes: 1. Scene After Scene"
With midnight visions burn - Charles Baudelaire "The Sick Muse" transl. not credited
Through the midnight of their mind - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
Ink stretches under midnight - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"
Who crossed waters to follow midnights - Margo Berdeshevsky "Somewhere Everywhere"
Morning is a gown put on at midnight - Emily Berry "Allegiances"
Upon my midnight quest - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"
A thief at darkest midnight - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"
Midnight visits and a wing's caress - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
Walk alone through a midnight graveyard - Terry Blackhawk "A Blessing of Scallops: Eastern Market, Detroit"
Midnight darkness, crimes, and blood - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
Born in the stirring midnight's sigh - Edmund Blunden "The Watermill"
Where dawn and midnight mingled - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
More closely press upon that midnight air - Gordon Bottomley "New Year's Eve, 1913"
Velvet fingers at midnight's hush - John Philip Bourke "Till Day Is Done"
Walked invisible through a human midnight - William Brewer "The Good News"
Midnight rest may still be sweet - Emily Bronte "Self-Interrogation"
Quit light for the midnight - Gwendolyn Brooks "Gay Chaps at the Bar"
Steadfast as midnight leaves - Anthony Butts "Embers"
October like midnight of the mind - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"
In a midnight turn of the bottle - Paul Cameron Brown "Bravura"
Midnight in the silence - Robert Browning "Epilogue"
The time of the midnight dead - W. Wilfred Campbell "Peniel"
Midnights of revel, and noondays of song - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Vagabondia"
Briar's rose and midnight owls - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"
A midnight witch, Titania bold - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"
Snatch a skull for midnight wine - Leonard Cohen "It Uses Us!"
Have torn blue midnight air - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
And beggared midnight winds - Arthur Colton "Let Me No More a Mendicant"
Your midnight croaking - Flower Conroy "Frog"
Which strews our midnight thick with stars - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
The silent midnight waters - James H. Cousins "The Southern Cross"
Whose bloom has faded in the midnight watch - Lucretia Maria Davidson "To My Mother"
Strange midnight lands adorning - Coningsby Dawson "Dreamland Love"
Make magic under midnight moons - Tyree Daye "what the angels eat"
Mists to muffle midnight tide - Walter de la Mare "The Quiet Enemy"
We painted dawn into midnight - Desdamona "Once and Future"
Unaccountable acorns, midnight loam, overgrown meadows - Dante Di Stefano "Green Burial Unsonnet"
Strum a November midnight - Chris Dombrowski "Nostrums (Bill Monroe)"
With a million midnight spots - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Pepper Shaker"
A voice falling on the midnight sea - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
In the crook of midnight's arm - Carol Ann Duffy "A Dreaming Week"
Still amaze the troubled midnight - T. S. Eliot "La Figlia Che Piange"
At midnight in the ancient language of bronze - Martin Espada "Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World"
The midnight path explored - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Unlock the witches' midnight spell - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
The brief renascence of the midnight hour - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Strange altars of the midnight - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
The midnight feast in the clover bloom - Eugene Field "Fairy and Child"
To enshroud the midnight sky - Darrell Figgis "[Friends vanish at my face]"
In the midnight of his hope - John Gould Fletcher "The Future"
Welcome as blue to the midnight skies - G.G. Foster "Song of Sleep" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Because a sorrow on dark midnight lies - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Returning from the midnight festival - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
By midnight moons - Philip Freneau "The Indian Burying Ground"
To roll the clouds of midnight from your hearts - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
The star that shines in the midnight sky - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"
Midnight in a sleeping house - Nikita Gill "Papa"
Inhale the spices of the midnight air - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"
Some chance on the midnight cities - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"
Battalions of the midnight pause - Louis Golding "The Singer of High State"
Close tighter than midnight knows - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
A cloud furled like midnight - Mona Gould "This Bitter Brew"
Their caress in the heat of midnight - Robert Graves "Children of Darkness"
Interstellar agonies of midnight - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
Insomniac for a high noon called midnight - Raquel Gutiérrez "Would It Kill Me to Be a Nicer Guy?"
A wrong number at midnight - Marilyn Hacker "Nearly a Valediction"
A problem for your midnight toil - Tom Hall "A Problem"
A moonbeam in the midnight cloud - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Twilight"
Rang midnight within - Thomas Hardy "Before Marching, and After"
Time ticking hard on midnight - Thomas Hardy "The Collector Cleans His Picture"
A season of false midnights - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Disappear in a paradise of midnight - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
In search of midnight roses - Derrick Harriell "Underground King"
Breaking at the edge of midnight - Yona Harvey "Hickory Street, New Orleans"
My midnight lamp and candle - Alfred Hayes "My Study"
Fearful sound, at midnight deep - Felicia Hemans "Alaric in Italy"
The slain tears of midnight - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
The fiat of that midnight hour - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Illuming all the midnight scene - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
Let midnight gather up the wind - Conrad Hilberry "Christmas Night"
Swim the midnight flux of dream - Conrad Hilberry "Midnight"
Confessions in tears at midnight - Edward Hirsch "Gertrude Stein"
In the very noon of solemn midnight - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
A wilder wail is uttered by the midnight gale - William H.C. Hosmer "Requiem" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The sobs and cries of midnight storms - William Dean Howells "Forlorn"
Letting midnight out on bail - Langston Hughes "Jam Session"
Ecstatic as midnight departure - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Always the forest at midnight - Mark Irwin "How to Gather It All Up"
Which midnight studies teach - Islwyn "The Poets of Wales" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Long after midnight, swaddled in dreams - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Bison lurking on her midnight trails - Emily Pauline Johnson "Calgary"
Echo through the midnight forest - Emily Pauline Johnson "Dawendine"
The wandering stars of midnight - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
The fairest gems of midnight's store - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
With its wild midnight orgies overworn - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Entranced by calm of midnight hours - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"
Some midnight spirit nurse - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Prophesyings of the midnight lamp - John Keats "Hyperion"
A moan upon the midnight hours - John Keats "Psyche"
Soft embalmer of the still midnight - John Keats "To Sleep"
From her midnight throne of ether - Fanny Kemble "Lines Written at Night"
Eclipse the midnight moon's soft ray - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."
The full chorus of their midnight song - Fanny Kemble "The Wind"
With the beat of midnight bells - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
The pounding cataracts of midnight streams - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"
With whirlwinds dipped in midnight - Archibald Lampman "An Ode to the Hills"
The midnight bright and bare - Archibald Lampman "The Poet's Song"
Always on the ninth midnight - Andrew Lang "The Milk White Doe"
Wild storms at midnight - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway VII: Memories"
Though the sky be dark as midnight - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
When midnight dozes into dawn - J. Patrick Lewis "The Repast of the Lion"
At midnight in the sod huts of lost hope - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"
Like midnight poppies - Vachel Lindsay "The Firemen's Ball"
Heart of a hundred midnights - Vachel Lindsay "In Praise of Johnny Appleseed"
Piercing through his midnight sleep - Vachel Lindsay "To Eve, Man's Dream of Wifehood as Described by Milton"
Splintery shovels and midnight gunshots - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"
Through travail of ignoble midnight streets - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"
Shrill thunder blares at midnight - Lu Chi "Two Poems Presented to the Gentleman in the Office of Palace Writers Ku Yen-hsien" transl. by Burton Watson
Still her woes at midnight rise - John Lyly "The Spring"
Wrung them from startled velvet midnights - Naomi Long Madgett "If There Were Songs to Sing"
Midnight streetlights beckon - Naomi Long Madgett "Nocturne II: Still"
So ghosts can't dial me at midnight - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
At midnight with the hunger of hunters - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
Midnight splits the darkness in two - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize
Midnight has dreams of snow - Herbert Woodward Martin "Contemplations on Snow"
Let it be midnight here - John Masefield "A Dramatic Poem: Madman"
On the wilds of midnight waters - Herman Melville "John Marr and Other Sailors"
And midnights of invisible rain - Alice Meynell "A Thrush Before Dawn"
Will turn to me at midnight - Edna St Vincent Millay "What lips my lips have kissed (Sonnet XLIII)"
Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born - John Milton "L'Allegro"
Against eternal midnight lit - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Still Life as Rocket: 42"
Walks the glowing paths of the midnight garden - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"
Like a midnight mockingbird - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Never sped the midnight deer - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
A comet's loveliness shaken across the midnight sky - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Ghost in sheet risen at midnight bell - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Between me and the midnight heaven - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"
But midnight fades to dawn - Bruce Nugent "My Love"
But we drink midnight too - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Mind of Squash"
I have died so many midnight moons - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
Puddled in lamplight at your midnight desk - Mary Oliver "West Wind 6"
So in midnight does happiness capture us - Dorothy Parker "Lullaby"
Where we sang with midnight - W. Theodore Parkes "Bohemians, Hail!"
That each recurring midnight brings - Thomas W. Parsons "Stanzas"
Midnight seeps from the cracks - Kiki Petrosino "Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1770-1863"
Tasted midnights and dawns, delayed twilight - Marisca Pichette "Waning, Waning"
Pierce far away the midnight gloom - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
Rises at midnight and looks back - Po-Chu-i "On the Way to Hangchow: Anchored on the River at Night" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Far in the midnight sky - Alexander Posey "My Hermitage"
Silence settle from the midnight sky - Alexander Posey "On Viewing the Skull and Bones of a Wolf"
In the moonless octave below midnight - Lynn Powell "Kind of Blue"
Meteors through the midnight skies - G.A. Raybold "The Joys of Former Years Have Fled"
dreams wash spirits in midnight waters - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
midnight dreams a dim reflection of a lifetime - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
spirits washed in midnight waters - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
With midnight dust - Luis J. Rodriguez "Words"
Makes bright the midnight gloom - Alice Wellington Rollins "Baby-Hood"
Thy star my midnight guide - John Jerome Rooney "Ave Maria"
Missing shoes and midnight chimes - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"
Mystery and fury of a midnight street - Muriel Rukeyser "Reading Time: 1 Minute 26 Seconds"
Turning out for tea at midnight - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"
Swimming in midnights of coal mines - Carl Sandburg "River Roads"
Ghosts on the midnight skies - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"
Lifted her past midnight into truth - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
Tongues of fire across our midnight sky - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
Midnight feast and famished dawn - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"
In the flush of my midnight skies - Robert W. Service "The Law of the Yukon"
Golden letters on the midnight sky - Virna Sheard "The Young Knights"
The elves upon their midnight way - Clark Ashton Smith "Fairy Lanterns"
Falling out of a tree at midnight - Frank Stanford "Watching a Woman Die"
In midnight's deepest sapphire - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"
Hewn in midnight's deepest sapphire - George Sterling "The Huntress of Stars"
The shaken stars of midnight stir - George Sterling "Nora May French"
Where midnight merges to infinity - George Sterling "Shelley at Spezia"
My Grail is blood at midnight - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Might melt with midnight into cold air - Sonya Taaffe "Teinds"
Shadowy form of midnight vision - Henry David Thoreau "Smoke"
Sighs mournfully under the midnight moon - "The Tide" [The Continental Monthly v.II - Nov., 1862 - no.VI]
Through the midnight of despair - John Todhunter "The Sunburst"
Tread out the ashes of midnight - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"
Where Folly is king of midnight - Iris Tree "[When at a masquerade I meet thee]"
Of midnight in gunpowder and oil - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"
At midnight there are no voices - "Tzu-yeh Songs" transl. by Burton Watson
A glowing ember in a desert campfire at midnight - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Red Shawl"
So hard and harsh the midnights chime - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Fishermen" transl. by Alma Strettell
The midnights harsh of autumn time - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Fishermen" transl. by Alma Strettell
It's only midnight for a second - Ocean Vuong "Beautiful Short Loser"
Midnight's neon parking lot - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"
Until the stooping midnight covers - D.E.A. Wallace "Life and I"
Midnight hymn from chords of gold - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
Passed at midnight from her portal - William Watson "The Lute-Player"
Veins of midnight flaw the morn - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"
Creeping down by waterless defiles under an iron midnight - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
The fear that thrilled the midnight - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
Many a midnight of disdain - John Hall Wheelock "The Poet Tells of His Love"
Midnight seas that never sleep - Helen Hay Whitney "To B.D."
There is silence in the midnight - Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde "The Brothers: A Scene from '98"
The troubled plumes of midnight - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
At the winter's midnight - William Carlos Williams "Burning the Christmas Greens"
A frozen road past midnight - William Carlos Williams "Complaint"
To reset eternity's clock to the far side of midnight - Charles Wright "Little Elegy for an Old Friend"
Knowing the me only midnight sees - Kevin Young "Hurricane Song"
The dead have quit their midnight visits - Kevin Young "Snapdragon"
Her night will kisses that midnight sun - W.E. Christian "Weaning Time"
Mistook him for the midnight sun - Oliver Herford "Henrik Ibsen"
The setting midnight sun - J. Patrick Lewis "The European City Song"
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