Potential Titles: Above
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somethingdarkerA red star above the deep - A.L.O.E. "The Beacon"
Wildly danced above the gulf of ruin - A.L.O.E. "The Second Advent"
Flowers above and thorns below - A.L.O.E. "The Sinners' Portion"
Above the ground for another cluster of hours - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"
What torches shall we lift above the crowd - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
The casements hold essential day above each sill - Léonie Adams "Early Waking"
Place me above the carnivorous sea - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Dead winds above us stir - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"
A honey moonlight hovered far above - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"
Above the weeds of death - Maya Angelou "Elegy"
Above the whim of time - Maya Angelou "In Retrospect"
Lift the nothingness of me above my head - Ameen Animashaun "The Dance of the Lambs and the Birds"
Gloating above the sphinx - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"
Building sweet music high above - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
Build above the stars - Ardelia Maria Barton "Let Us Build Above the Stars"
Painted peace upon the sky above - Stella Benson "The Secret Day"
Above me the day-blind stars waiting - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"
To stoop above her easel's frame - Marguerite, Countess of Blessington "The Belle of a Season"
High above your winter face - Robert Bly "A Dream of the Blacksmith's Room"
Above the place where I lie desolate - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Far above the antics of such childlike games - Bruce Boston "Marble People"
Green above and fire beneath - Ana Bozicevic "About Mayakovsky"
Evening hangs above her sombre shades - J. Huntington Bright "Nahant" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Above the world forlorn - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XXV in Sonnets from the Portuguese"
Miraculous thunder ran above the applauded circus - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "To George Sand: A Desire"
Where Arthur's castle looms above - W. Wilfred Campbell "The World-Mother"
When morning rose above the rain - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"
A vortex above the leading edge - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"
Above the spot the willows weep - Ceiriog "The White Stone" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Above the Flower's mystic heart of light - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XVI"
Blazes bright above the cup - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
My spleen's above the power of words - "The Chosen One" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no.377, June 27, 1829, credited London Magazine]
Hand your woes to the sky above - Chung-Ch'ang T'ung "Speaking My Mind" transl. by Burton Watson
To the broken Heart above - Leonard Cohen "Come Healing"
With the far stars pale above them - Henry Rutgers Conger "The Purple Hills"
Like a tree above my head - Hilda Conkling "Blue Grass"
On air above the garden - Hilda Conkling "Humming-Bird"
Bend down from starry heights above - Hugh Conway "The Mother's Vigil" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.110-v.III, 6 Feb. 1886]
High and fathomless above us - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
The clouds that hang above our coming years - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Above the heights of immemorial hills - E. E. Cummings "Summer Silence"
Iris-flowers above the waves - H.D. "Sea Iris"
Suspended above all eternity - Russell W. Davenport "Poems XV"
Above their crests the moon arose - John Davidson "A Ballad of a Nun" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
No sound flowers above please - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"
Lifts up my heart above all thought of pride - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [My lady, and my sovereign, flower most rare]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Where the star burns above the vapour-wreath - Dulcie Deamer "The Dreamer"
The years in the crescent above - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity IV"
Dear birds of the tangled ceiling above - Chris Dombrowski "Hammock Poem"
All gifts of earth above - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Wife's Last Gift"
Above the Alps' eternal snows - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"
Rich with Immortal Green above - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"
The banquet, wont to charm both gods above and men below - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
An errant eagle perched in the branches above - Kendall Evans "This, a Kind of Prayer"
A cloud of smoke that rose above the city - Blas Falconer "Use Your Words"
Rose above the shadows their names cast - Andrew Feld "Great Hill Lyric"
Nailed it as a motto above my door - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: II. The Prudent Lover"
Wild geese soar above the marshes in downward flight - Arthur Davison Ficke "Three Japanese Paintings: I. Dream of a Chinese Landscape (A Screen by Soga Shunbun)" [The Little Review, May 1916, v.3, no.3]
In terrace beyond terrace, pinnacle above pinnacle - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Gold fish far above the black arches - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
But lifted far above mortality - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"
Set far above the sphere of accidents - Robin Flower "Sonnet 5 [The stars are throbbing in the lucid sky]"
A cluster of lanterns blowing out above us - Katie Ford "Koi"
Above the panic throng my torches' crimson flare - Nora May French "San Francisco New Year's 1907"
Above the path where you will come no more - Nora May French "When Plaintively and Near the Cricket Sings"
Try the breeze above this human mart - Morton Fullerton "George Meredith" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
Above the fadeless stars on high - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]
And the octaves of blue above us - Sarah Gambito "Grace"
The ghost moon lifts above the bush - Crosbie Garstin "Nocturne"
Above the firmament of man's uncertain strife - Charles Gibson "Sonnets X"
Paused above Infinity's abyss - Ellen Glasgow "The Vision of Hell"
Epitaph above the grave of human hopes - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
In her eyrie above the dark street - Mona Gould "The Old Lady and the Cat!"
Rise clear above the traffic's hum - Harry Graham "The Cries of London"
Star-strewn above the new moon - Alfred Perceval Graves "The Sea Singer"
The killers of the terrible heat above - Scott E. Green "Killers from the Light, Killers from the Heat"
An offering above the sleeping sunset - Wendy Guerra "Closed Sunset on Manatees" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
Belonging to the common ground above - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"
Above the scent of raw water - Jim Harrison "The Golden Window"
Above sprocket-punctured skylines - Yona Harvey "Dark and Lovely After Take-Off (A Future)"
Clouds above each other's dreams - Terrance Hayes "Arbor for Butch"
Above earth's petty things - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
Have learned to prize peace above passion - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "Content"
Above the ceaseless strife of armed ambitions - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "Content"
A call above the spell of love, a crying and a need - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
Above the crown of oak and elm - Conrad Hilberry "March Birthday"
Above a blaze of rhizomes - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"
Above that dark and desolate wave - Henry B. Hirst "Lethe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
Crowned queen above the lilies - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Hang a ribbon above the water - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"
Bled together in the sky above the disappearing city - David Hornibrook "Damn Good Living"
Wet trees hang above the walks - William D. Howells (uncredited) "The Old Homestead" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
When a brass sun staggers above the sky - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"
Above all, I live forever - Ishion Hutchinson "Roof Nightclub"
Above me the clouds are paralyzed - Richard Jackson "About this Poem"
Above base dreams of vengeance - Roscoe Conkling Jamison "The Negro Soldiers"
Murky cloud above me whirling - Charles Albert Janvier "To My Cigar" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.5, Nov. 1852]
The last coast above the not-to-be colonized ocean - Robinson Jeffers "The Loving Shepherdess" [excerpt]
Seagulls swirl in pixels above - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"
Above your splendid sunburnt throat - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Idlers"
The mountain's peak like a blade above - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"
The Lark was above like a star of song - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
Hung above the brink of winter - Holly Karapetkova "Holiday"
The fiery gate which stands above the stars - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Ballad of Divine Compassion"
Dim planets hung above the trembling trees - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"
Serene above springs - Jane Kenyon "Spring Snow"
And cypress wreaths above thy head - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"
Azrael's eyes upon her, Raphael's wings above - Rudyard Kipling "Jane's Marriage"
Seven, set on rocks, above the wrath of any flood - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of Seven Cities"
Ladders into the bright haven above our heads - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
Above the world's dark border - Archibald Lampman "April Night"
Time's clashing hosts above - Archibald Lampman "We Too Shall Sleep"
Above mosaics of tinted moss - Lucy Larcom "November"
To conduct us to the heights above - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes I: The Awaited Leader"
Above your brown floods rise - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway II: A Bog-Filled Valley"
Bridges above intertwined plasm - D.H. Lawrence "Embankment at Night, Before the War"
Above the sleeping eyelids of the senses - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
High above flood and fire - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"
A bough of song above a sea of sleep - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love I: 1"
Flames in her love from the fires above - Henry S. Leigh "The Seasons"
The cloud that formed above the rivers of our blood - Philip Levine "Picture Postcard from the Other World"
Hung motionless above the changing winds - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
And all these signs arrayed above you - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XIII. Satan Speaks"
The Grail above your head in splendor - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"
High above that tiger on parade - Vachel Lindsay "The Tiger on Parade"
Above me in a wheel of roses - Amy Lowell "Granadilla"
A hot, white sky above it - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Wet Weather"
Above the far horizon's hem - Douglas Malloch "When the Geese Come North"
That lives above the ceiling - Furnley Maurice "The Soldier Band"
Above each little cloistered field - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of Sheep Bells"
Who towers above the reeling stars - Theodore Maynard "Laughter"
A square stone above my dreamless head - Theodore Maynard "Requiem"
The heavens hung like brass above - Theodore Maynard "To Any Saint"
Sails to heaven above the storm - James E. McGirt "The Spirit of the Oak"
Above the short brown grass asleep - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
What's that in curve contained above the stars? - Herman Melville "Clarel" [excerpt - The Inscription]
Some swarming whispers above - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
My last above the daisies - George Meredith "Juggling Jerry"
The lark above the flowers - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Two owls above the meeting - Claire Meuschke "Caught Sight"
In thought-spheres far above us - S. Weir Mitchell "The Marsh" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]
And let the kite go flying above tears and treetops - Susan Mitchell "Wolf Moon"
Through the starry fields above - Dugald Moore "Rise, My Love"
Air above mountains, buildings in our hands - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"
A sword above the highways - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]" transl. by Robert Bly
The living poppy above the broken light - Pablo Neruda "Song on the Death and Resurrection of Luis Companys" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Bliss hovering above the void - Precious Okoyomon "The animal that is most vulnerable is usually the most cruel / It is impossible to separate it from what it remembers"
In the slipstream above the stratosphere - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Above the throne of thought - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Thoughts"
If thus she weep above the guilty dead - C.L.P. "Tidings of Victory" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Above the wall that shows no gate - R.O.P. "Malanoth (To Clark Ashton Smith)" [Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.3, Nov. 1934]
With roots beneath and wings above - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
To the kiss of the winds above - Conde Benoist Pallen "The Raising of the Flag"
Cradled above unfathomable doom - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"
Sang above the vineyards of the world - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Unfurled triumphing green above the barren lands - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Above the thickness of water - Rowan Ricardo Phillips "Who Is Less Than a Vapor?"
Neither the angels in heaven above nor the demons down under the sea - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
sidewinds out of the dark hurtling above or around - Iain Haley Pollock "[And I return to the field]"
The heaven above smiles tenderly - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"
A beacon light more true than stars above - William Stephen Pryer "Rowena's Lonely Vigil"
Above the pillar of Napoleon's pride - Alexander Pushkin "A Monument" transl. by John Pollen
Above the nearest summit's crest - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Before Dawn: Malvern"
Stretching above the silent palisade - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Silent Places"
The whip-poor-will above the pines - Herbert Randall "The Old Bush Pasture"
Their ghosts gossiping above me - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"
High heaped above the hunting grounds - "The Red Man's Plea: Almost Literally the Reply of 'Red Iron to Governor Ramsey" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
The deep waters below me and shallow waters above - Tennessee Reed "Fantasy"
Hover your hand above a flame - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Five American Sentences"
Above this portal shall no monarch thunder - W.H. Rhodes "The Merchant's Exchange"
To lift above loyalty - Adrienne Rich "Olivia"
The sea that kneels above us - Lola Ridge "The Everlasting Return"
Blazoning his face above the mountains - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Her hydra heads above the avenues - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Throned in joy above - John Rollin Ridge "False, but Beautiful"
Far away above the golden haze - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"
With three years' dust above the mellow wine - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"
We shall stand above the thunder - Rennell Rodd "When I Am Dead"
From the measureless heavens above - Alice Wellington Rollins "Love Song"
I struggle not to drown in the air above you - Hester J. Rook "Under Silver Waves"
A bridge above a river of thunderings - Purbasha Roy "Everyone Dies" [Strange Horizons 31 March 2025]
Exalted above earth and heaven - Rumi "The Heart of the Harper" transl. by E.H. Whinfield
Hovers above the ground as the world turns - Nicky Russell "The World Is a Curio"
Above a war we hope mattered - Kay Ryan "The Material"
A world above the moment's misty sea - J.S. "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
The mass of the pulsing foliage above - David St. John "The Park"
Above the wind's low laughter - Margaret E. Sangster "At Dawn: II. The Pioneer"
High above the aged Solar Universe - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Sirens above a blasted blameless graveyard - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"
Held above the gulfs of chaos - Frederick George Scott "The Everlasting Father"
Above life's troubled currents shine - Frederick George Scott "To My Wife"
In moons above the velvet of my trembling fear - M. Bartley Seigel "Before the Fall"
Risen high above the star - Thomas Hall Shastid "Christmas Night"
Which scattered from above the sun - Shelley "The Recollections"
The twilight star hangs above the hidden hills - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: IX. The Seekers"
Show me a fairer sky above - Frank Dempster Sherman "At Her Window"
moonlight perched above the town - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"
Reigns above the fallen noon - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"
Above a chaos of extinguished suns - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Set as guards above the prison - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Above the prison of the captive Titan-god - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Could shine above hurting - Patricia Smith "Listening at the Door"
Scraps of smoke flying above your roof - Cathy Song "Waialua"
A lamp above the incorruptible table - Maria Luisa Spaziani transl. by Lynne Lawner
A horse-shoe rusts above the door - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"
Above the darkening drawbridge - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Sinking of the Titanic"
Huge beams from broken dams above - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
Who craves the brightest star above - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Montagu"
Above the caldrons of the storm - George Sterling "The Black Vulture"
Twin stars above those azure ways - George Sterling "Duandon"
Above the rising sea of human tears - George Sterling "Remorse"
Drought that wrings its leather hands above the world - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"
Above the city's cold twilight - Trumbull Stickney "Six O'Clock"
Above the reach of vulgar flight - Benjamin Stillingfleet "Sonnet"
Above my head the stars rejoice - Richard H. Stoddard "Shakespeare" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Heartbreak above the river - Su Tung-p'o "Inscribed on a Painting in Wang Ting-kuo's Collection Entitled Misty River and Crowded Peaks" transl. by David Hinton
Crows and hawks wheeling above - Su Tung-p'o "[Throw on rouge and powder]" transl. by Burton Watson
Stars above us, depths beneath us - Alan Sullivan "The Widower's Lullaby"
Who stood above the dust and blood and thrones and troubles - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Song of Italy"
Above yawning gulf and raging whirlpool - Carmen Sylva "Roused"
Measured by an eye that's hidden above - Keith Taylor "Landscape of Fear"
Fleeing night creatures undoing themselves above the streetlights - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
As curving skies above - Sara Teasdale "To E"
Above the rude gang that he governs - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"
A starry sky above the pyramids - Matthew Thorburn "Like Hours of Rain on Piles of Brown Leaves"
Lifted high in hope and heart above the glen - John Tomlin "Isola" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
Ambition climbed above the waves - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"
The legion of clouds above - Edwin Torres "This Is Not the Conversation That I Started the Conversation With"
Just above the noise - Natasha Trethewey "Self-Employment, 1970"
But all I can see are stars above it - Tu Fu "Captivity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
A layer of clouds above our heads - Tu Fu "The Excursion" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Perched above the ruins of another woman's home - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha "Dialogic"
The way that spark sat above me - Leah Umansky "Unleashed" [Poetry Nov. 2020]
Bursting into itself as night draped above - Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca "Had Been There"
Above the sordidness of all deceit - Rudolph Valentino "Cremation (To G.S.)"
A ribbon of geese drifts high above - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
Not hope to climb above the level commonplace - "La Vie Poetique" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
As cypress above pliant osier towers - Virgil "Eclogues I" (transl. not identified)
The heart puts love above it all - Derek Walcott "Summer Elegies II"
Raised above the Morning's eye - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
See the pink of fruit above us - Charles William Wallace "The Old Benoni Tree"
Above me the sky was a lake of blue fire - Noah Warren "Wind"
Around us and above day's flambeaux burn - William Watson "Tell me not Now" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
Thunder pealed above the tide - Mrs. Alaric Watts "The Ship's First Voyage" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.452, 28 Aug. 1852]
Whose virtues are whispered above - Kate Louise Wheeler "Mother"
From deep to height above - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
Bearing our lost through the starlight above - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Silken mists above shining trees - William Carlos Williams "Danse Russe"
No head above the head of a serpent - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 25" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
A polished pearl of light above - Allan Wolf "Venus: Come Live with Me and Be My Lunch"
I teach above the stars to fly - Wyat "Virtue" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
The indifferent stars above - W.B. Yeats "A Dream of Death"
Above the tide of hours- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Boot lifted above a rainbow puddle - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
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Wildly danced above the gulf of ruin - A.L.O.E. "The Second Advent"
Flowers above and thorns below - A.L.O.E. "The Sinners' Portion"
Above the ground for another cluster of hours - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"
What torches shall we lift above the crowd - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
The casements hold essential day above each sill - Léonie Adams "Early Waking"
Place me above the carnivorous sea - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Dead winds above us stir - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"
A honey moonlight hovered far above - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"
Above the weeds of death - Maya Angelou "Elegy"
Above the whim of time - Maya Angelou "In Retrospect"
Lift the nothingness of me above my head - Ameen Animashaun "The Dance of the Lambs and the Birds"
Gloating above the sphinx - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"
Building sweet music high above - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
Build above the stars - Ardelia Maria Barton "Let Us Build Above the Stars"
Painted peace upon the sky above - Stella Benson "The Secret Day"
Above me the day-blind stars waiting - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"
To stoop above her easel's frame - Marguerite, Countess of Blessington "The Belle of a Season"
High above your winter face - Robert Bly "A Dream of the Blacksmith's Room"
Above the place where I lie desolate - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Far above the antics of such childlike games - Bruce Boston "Marble People"
Green above and fire beneath - Ana Bozicevic "About Mayakovsky"
Evening hangs above her sombre shades - J. Huntington Bright "Nahant" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Above the world forlorn - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XXV in Sonnets from the Portuguese"
Miraculous thunder ran above the applauded circus - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "To George Sand: A Desire"
Where Arthur's castle looms above - W. Wilfred Campbell "The World-Mother"
When morning rose above the rain - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"
A vortex above the leading edge - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"
Above the spot the willows weep - Ceiriog "The White Stone" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Above the Flower's mystic heart of light - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XVI"
Blazes bright above the cup - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
My spleen's above the power of words - "The Chosen One" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no.377, June 27, 1829, credited London Magazine]
Hand your woes to the sky above - Chung-Ch'ang T'ung "Speaking My Mind" transl. by Burton Watson
To the broken Heart above - Leonard Cohen "Come Healing"
With the far stars pale above them - Henry Rutgers Conger "The Purple Hills"
Like a tree above my head - Hilda Conkling "Blue Grass"
On air above the garden - Hilda Conkling "Humming-Bird"
Bend down from starry heights above - Hugh Conway "The Mother's Vigil" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.110-v.III, 6 Feb. 1886]
High and fathomless above us - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
The clouds that hang above our coming years - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Above the heights of immemorial hills - E. E. Cummings "Summer Silence"
Iris-flowers above the waves - H.D. "Sea Iris"
Suspended above all eternity - Russell W. Davenport "Poems XV"
Above their crests the moon arose - John Davidson "A Ballad of a Nun" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
No sound flowers above please - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"
Lifts up my heart above all thought of pride - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [My lady, and my sovereign, flower most rare]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Where the star burns above the vapour-wreath - Dulcie Deamer "The Dreamer"
The years in the crescent above - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity IV"
Dear birds of the tangled ceiling above - Chris Dombrowski "Hammock Poem"
All gifts of earth above - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Wife's Last Gift"
Above the Alps' eternal snows - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"
Rich with Immortal Green above - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"
The banquet, wont to charm both gods above and men below - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
An errant eagle perched in the branches above - Kendall Evans "This, a Kind of Prayer"
A cloud of smoke that rose above the city - Blas Falconer "Use Your Words"
Rose above the shadows their names cast - Andrew Feld "Great Hill Lyric"
Nailed it as a motto above my door - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: II. The Prudent Lover"
Wild geese soar above the marshes in downward flight - Arthur Davison Ficke "Three Japanese Paintings: I. Dream of a Chinese Landscape (A Screen by Soga Shunbun)" [The Little Review, May 1916, v.3, no.3]
In terrace beyond terrace, pinnacle above pinnacle - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Gold fish far above the black arches - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
But lifted far above mortality - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"
Set far above the sphere of accidents - Robin Flower "Sonnet 5 [The stars are throbbing in the lucid sky]"
A cluster of lanterns blowing out above us - Katie Ford "Koi"
Above the panic throng my torches' crimson flare - Nora May French "San Francisco New Year's 1907"
Above the path where you will come no more - Nora May French "When Plaintively and Near the Cricket Sings"
Try the breeze above this human mart - Morton Fullerton "George Meredith" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
Above the fadeless stars on high - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]
And the octaves of blue above us - Sarah Gambito "Grace"
The ghost moon lifts above the bush - Crosbie Garstin "Nocturne"
Above the firmament of man's uncertain strife - Charles Gibson "Sonnets X"
Paused above Infinity's abyss - Ellen Glasgow "The Vision of Hell"
Epitaph above the grave of human hopes - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
In her eyrie above the dark street - Mona Gould "The Old Lady and the Cat!"
Rise clear above the traffic's hum - Harry Graham "The Cries of London"
Star-strewn above the new moon - Alfred Perceval Graves "The Sea Singer"
The killers of the terrible heat above - Scott E. Green "Killers from the Light, Killers from the Heat"
An offering above the sleeping sunset - Wendy Guerra "Closed Sunset on Manatees" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
Belonging to the common ground above - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"
Above the scent of raw water - Jim Harrison "The Golden Window"
Above sprocket-punctured skylines - Yona Harvey "Dark and Lovely After Take-Off (A Future)"
Clouds above each other's dreams - Terrance Hayes "Arbor for Butch"
Above earth's petty things - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
Have learned to prize peace above passion - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "Content"
Above the ceaseless strife of armed ambitions - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "Content"
A call above the spell of love, a crying and a need - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
Above the crown of oak and elm - Conrad Hilberry "March Birthday"
Above a blaze of rhizomes - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"
Above that dark and desolate wave - Henry B. Hirst "Lethe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
Crowned queen above the lilies - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Hang a ribbon above the water - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"
Bled together in the sky above the disappearing city - David Hornibrook "Damn Good Living"
Wet trees hang above the walks - William D. Howells (uncredited) "The Old Homestead" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
When a brass sun staggers above the sky - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"
Above all, I live forever - Ishion Hutchinson "Roof Nightclub"
Above me the clouds are paralyzed - Richard Jackson "About this Poem"
Above base dreams of vengeance - Roscoe Conkling Jamison "The Negro Soldiers"
Murky cloud above me whirling - Charles Albert Janvier "To My Cigar" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.5, Nov. 1852]
The last coast above the not-to-be colonized ocean - Robinson Jeffers "The Loving Shepherdess" [excerpt]
Seagulls swirl in pixels above - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"
Above your splendid sunburnt throat - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Idlers"
The mountain's peak like a blade above - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"
The Lark was above like a star of song - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
Hung above the brink of winter - Holly Karapetkova "Holiday"
The fiery gate which stands above the stars - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Ballad of Divine Compassion"
Dim planets hung above the trembling trees - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"
Serene above springs - Jane Kenyon "Spring Snow"
And cypress wreaths above thy head - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"
Azrael's eyes upon her, Raphael's wings above - Rudyard Kipling "Jane's Marriage"
Seven, set on rocks, above the wrath of any flood - Rudyard Kipling "The Song of Seven Cities"
Ladders into the bright haven above our heads - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
Above the world's dark border - Archibald Lampman "April Night"
Time's clashing hosts above - Archibald Lampman "We Too Shall Sleep"
Above mosaics of tinted moss - Lucy Larcom "November"
To conduct us to the heights above - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes I: The Awaited Leader"
Above your brown floods rise - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway II: A Bog-Filled Valley"
Bridges above intertwined plasm - D.H. Lawrence "Embankment at Night, Before the War"
Above the sleeping eyelids of the senses - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
High above flood and fire - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"
A bough of song above a sea of sleep - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love I: 1"
Flames in her love from the fires above - Henry S. Leigh "The Seasons"
The cloud that formed above the rivers of our blood - Philip Levine "Picture Postcard from the Other World"
Hung motionless above the changing winds - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
And all these signs arrayed above you - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XIII. Satan Speaks"
The Grail above your head in splendor - Vachel Lindsay "A Kind of Scorn"
High above that tiger on parade - Vachel Lindsay "The Tiger on Parade"
Above me in a wheel of roses - Amy Lowell "Granadilla"
A hot, white sky above it - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Wet Weather"
Above the far horizon's hem - Douglas Malloch "When the Geese Come North"
That lives above the ceiling - Furnley Maurice "The Soldier Band"
Above each little cloistered field - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of Sheep Bells"
Who towers above the reeling stars - Theodore Maynard "Laughter"
A square stone above my dreamless head - Theodore Maynard "Requiem"
The heavens hung like brass above - Theodore Maynard "To Any Saint"
Sails to heaven above the storm - James E. McGirt "The Spirit of the Oak"
Above the short brown grass asleep - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"
What's that in curve contained above the stars? - Herman Melville "Clarel" [excerpt - The Inscription]
Some swarming whispers above - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
My last above the daisies - George Meredith "Juggling Jerry"
The lark above the flowers - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Two owls above the meeting - Claire Meuschke "Caught Sight"
In thought-spheres far above us - S. Weir Mitchell "The Marsh" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]
And let the kite go flying above tears and treetops - Susan Mitchell "Wolf Moon"
Through the starry fields above - Dugald Moore "Rise, My Love"
Air above mountains, buildings in our hands - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"
A sword above the highways - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]" transl. by Robert Bly
The living poppy above the broken light - Pablo Neruda "Song on the Death and Resurrection of Luis Companys" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Bliss hovering above the void - Precious Okoyomon "The animal that is most vulnerable is usually the most cruel / It is impossible to separate it from what it remembers"
In the slipstream above the stratosphere - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Above the throne of thought - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Thoughts"
If thus she weep above the guilty dead - C.L.P. "Tidings of Victory" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Above the wall that shows no gate - R.O.P. "Malanoth (To Clark Ashton Smith)" [Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.3, Nov. 1934]
With roots beneath and wings above - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
To the kiss of the winds above - Conde Benoist Pallen "The Raising of the Flag"
Cradled above unfathomable doom - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"
Sang above the vineyards of the world - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Unfurled triumphing green above the barren lands - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Above the thickness of water - Rowan Ricardo Phillips "Who Is Less Than a Vapor?"
Neither the angels in heaven above nor the demons down under the sea - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
sidewinds out of the dark hurtling above or around - Iain Haley Pollock "[And I return to the field]"
The heaven above smiles tenderly - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"
A beacon light more true than stars above - William Stephen Pryer "Rowena's Lonely Vigil"
Above the pillar of Napoleon's pride - Alexander Pushkin "A Monument" transl. by John Pollen
Above the nearest summit's crest - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Before Dawn: Malvern"
Stretching above the silent palisade - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Silent Places"
The whip-poor-will above the pines - Herbert Randall "The Old Bush Pasture"
Their ghosts gossiping above me - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"
High heaped above the hunting grounds - "The Red Man's Plea: Almost Literally the Reply of 'Red Iron to Governor Ramsey" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
The deep waters below me and shallow waters above - Tennessee Reed "Fantasy"
Hover your hand above a flame - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Five American Sentences"
Above this portal shall no monarch thunder - W.H. Rhodes "The Merchant's Exchange"
To lift above loyalty - Adrienne Rich "Olivia"
The sea that kneels above us - Lola Ridge "The Everlasting Return"
Blazoning his face above the mountains - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Her hydra heads above the avenues - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Throned in joy above - John Rollin Ridge "False, but Beautiful"
Far away above the golden haze - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"
With three years' dust above the mellow wine - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"
We shall stand above the thunder - Rennell Rodd "When I Am Dead"
From the measureless heavens above - Alice Wellington Rollins "Love Song"
I struggle not to drown in the air above you - Hester J. Rook "Under Silver Waves"
A bridge above a river of thunderings - Purbasha Roy "Everyone Dies" [Strange Horizons 31 March 2025]
Exalted above earth and heaven - Rumi "The Heart of the Harper" transl. by E.H. Whinfield
Hovers above the ground as the world turns - Nicky Russell "The World Is a Curio"
Above a war we hope mattered - Kay Ryan "The Material"
A world above the moment's misty sea - J.S. "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
The mass of the pulsing foliage above - David St. John "The Park"
Above the wind's low laughter - Margaret E. Sangster "At Dawn: II. The Pioneer"
High above the aged Solar Universe - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Sirens above a blasted blameless graveyard - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"
Held above the gulfs of chaos - Frederick George Scott "The Everlasting Father"
Above life's troubled currents shine - Frederick George Scott "To My Wife"
In moons above the velvet of my trembling fear - M. Bartley Seigel "Before the Fall"
Risen high above the star - Thomas Hall Shastid "Christmas Night"
Which scattered from above the sun - Shelley "The Recollections"
The twilight star hangs above the hidden hills - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: IX. The Seekers"
Show me a fairer sky above - Frank Dempster Sherman "At Her Window"
moonlight perched above the town - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"
Reigns above the fallen noon - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"
Above a chaos of extinguished suns - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Set as guards above the prison - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Above the prison of the captive Titan-god - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Could shine above hurting - Patricia Smith "Listening at the Door"
Scraps of smoke flying above your roof - Cathy Song "Waialua"
A lamp above the incorruptible table - Maria Luisa Spaziani transl. by Lynne Lawner
A horse-shoe rusts above the door - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"
Above the darkening drawbridge - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Sinking of the Titanic"
Huge beams from broken dams above - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
Who craves the brightest star above - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Montagu"
Above the caldrons of the storm - George Sterling "The Black Vulture"
Twin stars above those azure ways - George Sterling "Duandon"
Above the rising sea of human tears - George Sterling "Remorse"
Drought that wrings its leather hands above the world - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"
Above the city's cold twilight - Trumbull Stickney "Six O'Clock"
Above the reach of vulgar flight - Benjamin Stillingfleet "Sonnet"
Above my head the stars rejoice - Richard H. Stoddard "Shakespeare" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Heartbreak above the river - Su Tung-p'o "Inscribed on a Painting in Wang Ting-kuo's Collection Entitled Misty River and Crowded Peaks" transl. by David Hinton
Crows and hawks wheeling above - Su Tung-p'o "[Throw on rouge and powder]" transl. by Burton Watson
Stars above us, depths beneath us - Alan Sullivan "The Widower's Lullaby"
Who stood above the dust and blood and thrones and troubles - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Song of Italy"
Above yawning gulf and raging whirlpool - Carmen Sylva "Roused"
Measured by an eye that's hidden above - Keith Taylor "Landscape of Fear"
Fleeing night creatures undoing themselves above the streetlights - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
As curving skies above - Sara Teasdale "To E"
Above the rude gang that he governs - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"
A starry sky above the pyramids - Matthew Thorburn "Like Hours of Rain on Piles of Brown Leaves"
Lifted high in hope and heart above the glen - John Tomlin "Isola" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
Ambition climbed above the waves - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"
The legion of clouds above - Edwin Torres "This Is Not the Conversation That I Started the Conversation With"
Just above the noise - Natasha Trethewey "Self-Employment, 1970"
But all I can see are stars above it - Tu Fu "Captivity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
A layer of clouds above our heads - Tu Fu "The Excursion" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Perched above the ruins of another woman's home - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha "Dialogic"
The way that spark sat above me - Leah Umansky "Unleashed" [Poetry Nov. 2020]
Bursting into itself as night draped above - Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca "Had Been There"
Above the sordidness of all deceit - Rudolph Valentino "Cremation (To G.S.)"
A ribbon of geese drifts high above - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
Not hope to climb above the level commonplace - "La Vie Poetique" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
As cypress above pliant osier towers - Virgil "Eclogues I" (transl. not identified)
The heart puts love above it all - Derek Walcott "Summer Elegies II"
Raised above the Morning's eye - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
See the pink of fruit above us - Charles William Wallace "The Old Benoni Tree"
Above me the sky was a lake of blue fire - Noah Warren "Wind"
Around us and above day's flambeaux burn - William Watson "Tell me not Now" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
Thunder pealed above the tide - Mrs. Alaric Watts "The Ship's First Voyage" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.452, 28 Aug. 1852]
Whose virtues are whispered above - Kate Louise Wheeler "Mother"
From deep to height above - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
Bearing our lost through the starlight above - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Silken mists above shining trees - William Carlos Williams "Danse Russe"
No head above the head of a serpent - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 25" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
A polished pearl of light above - Allan Wolf "Venus: Come Live with Me and Be My Lunch"
I teach above the stars to fly - Wyat "Virtue" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
The indifferent stars above - W.B. Yeats "A Dream of Death"
Above the tide of hours- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Boot lifted above a rainbow puddle - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
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