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Winds, rushing from their caves - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"

To madden in many a midnight cave - Aion "The Priest's Burial" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]

Ragged reefs and salty caves - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861] (other versions of the poem use 'mossy reefs')

Towards the cave where you must descend - Margaret Atwood "Variation on the Word Sleep"

Hollow caves of quiet - Ellen Bass "Ode to Zeke"

Only one rainy cave of hollow gloom - Charles Baudelaire "The Remorse of the Dead" transl. not credited

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

Slow-rising from the deep caves of his heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

Draws my dark being up from its secret caves - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: Prelude"

Up from their craters and their moon caves - Bruce Boston "Origami Rockets"

A cave beneath the throne of grace - Francis Burrows "The Unforgotten"

Dormant in its roaring cave - Scott Cairns "Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous"

A drum echoing through a crowded cave - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"

Hidden in caves and coral glooms - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

Lost in the echoes of the cave - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Second Voice"

Like a bouquet in a cave of bone - Leonard Cohen "This Is for You"

Taken flight unto the deepest caves of night - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Kites"

Nereids who dwell in wet caves - H.D. "Acon"

In basaltic caves imprison'd deep - Erasmus Darwin "The Botanic Garden part 1: The Economy of Vegetation canto I"

And all the caves are filled with mourning - Dulcie Deamer "The Dreamer"

In the waver and echo of your caves - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"

In forgotten caves and expensive facilities - Holly Easton "In the Age of Dreams" [Strange Horizons 21 July 2025]

So shall the cave be fit for his reception - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Through the mystic caves of glass - Anthony Euwer "The River"

And cave deep into the marble snow - Annie Finch "Frozen In"

The mind split into its caves and plinth - Katie Ford "Colosseum"

Drew delightful Mammoths on the borders of his cave - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Similar Cases"

Never in crevice or cave or chasm - Louis Golding "The Quest"

Dark unfathomed caves of ocean - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Mist-wrapped vines and rocky caves - Han-Shan "[As for me, I delight in the everyday Way]" transl. by Burton Watson

Listen to the caves sing silently - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"

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

The rude whirlwind rushes from its cave - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

A cave of cut-throat thoughts and villainous dreams - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"

And showed its yawning caves beneath me - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne

All night she dreams in ocean caves - Oliver Herford "The Mermaid"

Through the deep caves of thought - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"

Stars afraid to leave the safety of their caves - David Hornibrook "Transgression"

Caves beneath the libraries and parlours of the mind - Aldous Huxley "Soles Occidere et Redire Possunt"

Scarce stirred within their azure caves - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

In frozen caves beneath the purple lights - H.G.K. "The Wanderer" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXXIV, no.CCCCLVI, Oct. 1853]

Thro' the sad echoes of pale Memory's cave - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Thunder that fills the fog-hidden caves of the west - Henry Kendall "By the Cliffs of the Sea"

The crows mournful at the mouth of the cave - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Left Behind"

Made cold prisons of my faery caves - Chaman Lall "'Thirty Years After'"

A slave to work in Mammon's cave - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]

Memory with her deep caves - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"

The caves where all is mute - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Seek out the cubs in the tiger's cave - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson

Rockstrewn caves where dragonfish evolve - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"

Better than a life of caves - James Russell Lowell "Pessimoptimism"

In whose dismal cave the genie of the lamp died - Harry Martinson "Aniara 77" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The full moon comes swimming from her cave - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Blind cave cricket dream - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

The cave of the dragon's seed - W.S. Merwin "Suite in the Key of Forgetting"

Blent with echoes of far distant caves - George Logan Moore "Love's Watch" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.1-v.I, 5 Jan. 1884]

Caves lashed by the tails of somber lizards - Pablo Neruda "The Blind Statue" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Iron rust countries with caves of diamonds - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XX" transl. by William O'Daly

Searching for the truth in caves and under the Northern Lights - Margaret Noodin "I Am Undefeated" transl. by the author

Spoke from the far cave of fair Calypso - Kostes Palamas "The Answer" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

Old caves of calcium icicles - Sylvia Plath "Nick and the Candlestick"

I have hung our cave with roses - Sylvia Plath "Nick and the Candlestick"

Who else might make Hell's caves their last lone bed - William Stephen Pryer "Rowena's Lonely Vigil"

Notes that resound in the caves of Sacromonte - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"

The adagio echoes in that whitewashed cave - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"

The strong wind whistles in his desert caves - S.S. "Rejoice" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.4, Oct. 1842]

The Delphic sibyl in her cave - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"

Nor tomb them in my hollow caves of pain - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

The cave mouth's event horizon breath - Ann K. Schwader "Alien Machines"

Slow through the cave of my veins - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"

By fading firelight in the caves of winter - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

Thunderous caves of storm - Clinton Scollard "Autumn by the Sea"

Whose trumpet voice can shake the shuddering echoes of the cave - Alan Sullivan "A Question"

The spitting foam and the ice-fanged caves - Marian Thanhouser "Home"

The stars flew by the cave's wide door - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"

Within the secret caves of Mind - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

The icy spill of moonlight so close to her cave - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]

The deep mysterious caves forget the distant night - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"

Of rare Aladdin's wondrous cave - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Music prisoned in her cave - Oscar Wilde "The New Remorse"

A white well in a black cave - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"

Hangs for an hour in the blue cave of night - Elinor Wylie "Silver Filigree"

The blue cave of night - Elinor Wylie "Silver Filigree"


golden butterfly against the cave-dark - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"


Lead me through a cavern of longing - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"

In lost pagan caverns dark and deep - Charles Baudelaire "The Accursed" transl. not credited

A strangling cavern wall - Charles Baudelaire "The Sky" transl. not credited

In his root's deep cavern housed - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"

A cavern that refuses to be filled - Marianne Chan "The Lives of Saints"

Through gloomy caverns threads his way - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto II"

From dark and icy caverns called - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

Cavern'd shapes that Typhon bled - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"

Yawning caverns cold and bleak - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"

The deepest caverns of my soul - San Juan de la Cruz (translated by Roy Campbell) "Song of the soul in intimate communication and union with the love of God"

Paint me a cavernous waste shore - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Erect"

Came to your caverns from our anchored bark - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull

The caverns of that land with silver mines abounding - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull

From a billion blue-gold caverns of air - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"

Hollow caverns of cool blue shadow - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

After your heart mines a cavern in your chest - Diamond Forde "Rememory"

A caverned ark ever unopened - Thomas Hardy "On a Discovered Curl of Hair"

No directions printed on the cavern walls - David Hornibrook "Pony"

Though driven for refuge to cavern and den - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Sunset-panthers past her run to caverns of the Sun - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

In Misery's darkest cavern known - Samuel Johnson "On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet"

Underground caverns of salt hardening - Lawrence Joseph "Fog"

Toiling in these caverns dread - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

Caverns crammed with many a muffled breeze - Henry Kendall "Bells Beyond the Forest"

Locked in his glimmering caverns of the Past - Richard Le Gallienne "To Irma All the Way"

His chest a cavern of hollow sound - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"

Asleep in the depth of a poisonous cavern - Maurice Maeterlinck "Bell-Glasses" transl. by Bernard Miall

All the winding caverns of my sleep - Theodore Maynard "Viaticum"

In the sinister caverns of howling prehistory - Pablo Neruda "Election in Chimborongo (1947)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Carpeting the caverns of air and water - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XIII" transl. by James Nolan

Winds sleep in the rocky caverns - "Nurse's Song" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Makes dismal dens and caverns to resound - Miss A.C. Pratt "The Power of Religion" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.4, Oct. 1842]

Taproots growing down through treasure caverns - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Nidhigg"

From the dark caverns of the past - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

In caverns deep where sulphur waters boil - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Ballad of a Bugaboo"

And caverns resounding in solitude - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"

Linger at the cavern entrance to nothingness - Ann K. Schwader "Cave Bear Dreams"

This cavern sanctified by screams & sacrifice - Ann K. Schwader "Fiesta of Our Lady"

Pursued the windings of the cavern - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Ancient arches dim with caverned twilight - Odell Shepard "Laus Mariae"

Through limestone caverns of mistakes - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"

In a cavern where no sound is - Arthur Stringer "Sappho's Tomb"

Fiberglass caverns lit by crystal clouds - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"

To build a marvelous cavernous boat - Elizabeth Theriot "Self-Portrait as Self-Care Mantra" [Sugar House Review issue 22, 2021]

The Nymph's caverned cell - M.B.M. Toland "Aegle"

In my brain's cavern seven cubits span - George Sylvester Viereck "The Three Sphinxes"

At the end of the cavern's crawl - Evan Williams "Yours, Stalagmite"

The caverns of mysterious thought - Joseph R. Wilson "Mystery"

And filled the empty caverns of the air - Humbert Wolfe "The Sicilian Expedition"

Strong as a cavern of stone - "XV: Tezozomoctli ic Motecpac | The Reign of Tezozomoctli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton



That swirls in cavernous black - May Byron "Sea-Ghosts"

To look adown the cavernous abyss - Claude Halcro "Niagara"

The cavernous abyss that yawns beneath - Claude Halcro "Niagara"

Cowering in cavernous burrows - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "I'd Had a Lot of Rum, but Still..."

The cavernous spaces of her mind - Haesong Kwon "Thank God for Hard Feelings"


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