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somethingdarker) wrote2010-05-23 06:28 pm
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Potential Titles: Every
Every shelf complicity among the ruins - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"
The thorn of you in every joint - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"
Every wildflower of your mouth’s meadow - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"
My every smile an endless debt - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The fraction of a dream behind every door - Hanif Abdurraqib "Glamor on the West Streets/Silver Over Everything"
Every mode of unfulfilled promise - Hanif Abdurraqib "Glamor on the West Streets/Silver Over Everything"
For every hour of sky - Leonie Adams "Never Enough of Living"
The first letter of every alphabet - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"
At every dream of danger - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Every evening at the same hour - Daisy Aldan "Women at Windows"
That shape every movement forward - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"
The serpent who gifted her with feathers of every color - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Unseen trains shake the ground every day at 5 - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
We need every bit of luck we can hold onto - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Every landing a new abyss - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Every simple square a shout of joy - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Every treacherous step leading elsewhere - Mike Allen "Space War"
Panned the contents for every nugget of twinkling hope - Mike Allen "The Strip Search"
Every injury that was dealt to him - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
Dance near every edge - Threa Almontaser "And That Fast, You're Thinking About Their Bodies"
You were every streetlamp that winter - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"
Where every footstep created mocking acoustics - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"
That snatched up every breath I could spare - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"
Through every step of life's endurance parade - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"
Eyes blinking in every direction - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"
Every painstaking sound I utter - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Unstoppable beats fiery impact every time - Rae Armantrout "Lie"
Dead to every gain but gold - "An Army Contractor" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Which in every wind is blown - Matthew Arnold "Quiet Work"
I reached the border of every word - Jarid Arraes "Movement"
Has failed every immigrant - Fatimah Asghar "A Starless Sky Is A Joy Too"
Every whirling, passionate star sings melodies - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Perfect fading wish of every shooting star - Atticus "Magic in Stars"
And swell the blast of fame through ev'ry age - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Passion at every turning - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Grieve every word lost - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Every peril paired with its opposite - Mary Jo Bang "The Raven Feeds Reynard"
Every outline is a cage - Mary Jo Bang "Untitled"
By every tie that binds the soul endeared - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Every flower brings bitter meed - Maurice Baring "Diffugere Nives, 1917"
every flame that brightened the illusion - Elizabeth Bartlett "life I love"
for every year my dust shall rise - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"
Brimming every traveller's eyes - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"
From every sin the terror lift - Charles Baudelaire "An Allegory" transl. not credited
Every fiery orb and planet sung - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
Every step shifts the surface - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
And every tree became an elf - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Breaking Point"
Where every day brings forth a fresh revolt - Stephen Vincent Benet "De Bellow Civili"
For every pageant of my foes - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Every immortal must put on dust - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
Small and obvious life fogged every wonder - William Rose Benét "The City"
Every illustrious hue of the earliest sunset's tapestry - William Rose Benét "Imagination"
The chords on every bending bough - Park Benjamin "Sonnet [Loved of my soul! I seek in vain for thee]"
Every algorithm's heartbeat - Joshua Bennett "X"
Empty grows every bed - John Berryman "Dream Song 1"
Intersecting light from every star - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
From every star in our regard - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
At every shut door in the stirring city - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
If a door exists in every story - Terry Blackhawk "A Peaceable Kingdom"
A window in every dream - Terry Blackhawk "A Peaceable Kingdom"
Every time the moon rises full - Terry Blackhawk "Query"
Whose every day was made of melody - Robert Blair "The Grave"
The fibrous roots of every heart - William Blake "The Book of Thel"
Every outpost a starry capital - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"
Missed every night of the opera - Jaswinder Bolina "Sunday, Sunday"
Gives zest to every toiler - Sarah Knowles Bolton "The Inevitable"
Every face you ever loved forget - Arna Bontemps "Close Your Eyes!"
To cover every land and dream of afterwhile - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
A clock that makes a different noise every hour - Bruce Boston "Surreal Domestic"
Every acre I cross a pearl in my mouth - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"
And every star seemed listening - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
Splendid strength for every test - Alpha Angela Bratton "Slumber Song"
The image every portrait mourns - William Brewer "My Somniloquist"
A path through every tangled wood - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"
Mountains circling every side - Emily Bronte "I [A little while, a little while]"
A giraffe beats a lion's ass every day - Jericho Brown "Aerial View"
Every last word is contagious - Jericho Brown "Heartland"
Every goodbye a lie - Jericho Brown "Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park"
Those long-frayed endings of every nerve tingling - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
Distrusting every light - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XXXVI in Sonnets from the Portuguese"
With a thrill in every vein - William Cullen Bryant "The Hurricane"
Hunger still in every bite - Sue Budin "Argyria"
Lost to hope and chilled in every vein - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXVI. Joy May Kill" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Hangs the dew in every nodding cup - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Wrenched of every stay but Heaven - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"
With every twig and twist of Spring - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"
Release from every petty debt - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"
With every mortal token of our trust - Witter Bynner "Surety"
Watch every minute lest danger arise - Isabel C. Byrum "The Troubles of Biddy"
As it festers every August in Brooklyn - Nicole Callihan "Summer Elegy"
Twine ten dollars into every stitch - Will Carleton "Wealth"
Pilfers from every port of the wind - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A More Ancient Mariner"
Every bay a changing alchemy of colors - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
Light a flame on every strand - Roger Casement "The Triumph of Hugh O'Neill"
Every lover is a corsair seeking glory - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"
The suns and every listless star - Willa Cather "Evening Song"
And watch from every star - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
Golden in every starry glade - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
Every golden star that passed - Willa Cather "The Star Dial"
Every star in heaven was burning - Willa Cather "The Star Dial"
Horror relived in every iteration - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"
Orchestrating every movement of a proper family - Chen Chen "I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party"
Blooming in every crevice of my palms - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"
For every candle lit in my name - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
A sea of tears and every soul a wave - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
An angel on every garbage can - John Ciardi "Abundance"
A guest to every heart's desire - John Clare "The Old Year"
Intent on draining you of every last drop - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
mourn every necessary bit - Lucille Clifton "in the same week"
the fox came every evening - Lucille Clifton "telling our stories"
Calling from every mirrored thing - Lucille Clifton [untitled]
Balm for every wounded heart - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XI"
Though every thread is torn - Leonard Cohen "Dance Me to the End of Love"
Steal my breath tonight and every night - Aaron Coleman "Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)"
Making every moment important - Wanda Coleman "Dear Mama (4)"
Every merciful and smiling lie - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
And suffered every civilization's fate - S. R. Compton "To Atlantis"
The light every shade of gold - Katie Condon "Big with Dawn"
Lilies on every doorstep - Hilda Conkling "Easter"
Every night of clearness - Hilda Conkling "Morning"
He saw the devil in every room - C. A. Conrad "From FRANK" (Nov. 2003)
With every shaft electric flash - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cirrus. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Every moment fraught with change - 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]
Every generous thought is scandal - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "Ethel: Fitz Fashion's Wife" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]
Built from the salt sands of her every day - Susan Coolidge "Conqueror"
Prize every moment given - Benjamin Copeland "Let in the Light"
Eat from every plant except for the bitter one - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Caught in every wanton snare - Charles Cotton "Contentation"
Heir of every hour - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"
Every nerve and sinew tell on ages - Arthur Cleveland Coxe "Onward"
A meat for every mind - George Crabbe "Parish Register: Part I. Baptisms"
own a debt from every man - jason b crawford "Untitled 1975-86"
With every finger on a star - George Cronyn "Clouds"
Wrought every nerve to ecstasy - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Match you every coin you flip - Countee Cullen "To My Fairer Brethren"
for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VII)"
In every danger my course I've run - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"
Every atom of my existence faded - Michelle Dang "Calculating U"
Where scent comes forth in every breeze - W.H. Davies "Sweet Stay-at-Home"
Every green reason to wait - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"
Every drop is as wise as Solomon - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"
Three that would go into every conflict - "Deirdre's Lament" transl. by Kuno Meyer
I've lost myself in every lifetime but this one - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Every flower smells the song of memory - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Every insect was a chalk outline of agony - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"
Examining every curve in the mirror - Toi Derricotte "The blue nightgown"
So that every part will be of service - Toi Derricotte "Not Forgotten"
Unable to carry every inch of an idea - Jay Deshpande "Wanting a Child"
The robin in every human soul - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature II: May-Flower"
Chained dogs on every house corner - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"
Every building wears a milk-white dome - Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond "After a Snow Storm"
Every effort botched in its own wrong way - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"
My cities rose in every land - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"
Bid every shadow dance - Edward Dowden "The Winnower to the Winds"
Every pearl in the world releases its oyster - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #4"
On his breath of every color - Max Early "Deer's Breath of Every Color"
With love in every running crest - Max Eastman "Sea-Shore"
Living to the tip of every bone - Max Eastman "X Rays"
Must borrow every changing shape - T.S. Eliot "Portrait of a Lady"
Every hill that under heaven expands - Ebenezer Elliot "Spring"
Breathe them both with every fevered breath - J. Hal. Elliot "What Then?" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Snares he set on every path - "The Enchanted Maiden" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Renames itself with every ripple - Heid E. Erdich "Kennewick man Swims Laps"
Every path the prophets trod - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"
Every promise seems gilded with truth - C.H.W. Esling "The Mother's Pride"
Death with every decision - Aaron Fagan "The Good Light"
Combat every hostile wind - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
New proof uncovered on every return - Summer Farah "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural"
The giver of every single thing - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"
Rules every power in oak and olive-trunk - Michael Field "In Monte Fanno"
When every brighter line is vain - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Lost every alternate route - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"
Every fleck of russet showing clear - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"
Smell of burning on every plume - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"
And whispers into every next- Rose Fyleman "The Cuckoo"
Every stone becomes a church - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Post-Apocalypse Postcard with Love Note"
Shall be true of every flower - Zona Gale "Roses"
And well he will reckon up every cheat - "The Game of Fate" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
every dead-ash sun a crumbled cipher - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"
Make every dark wish lie down - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"
Every answer is a grave - Andrea Gibson "The Day You Died Because You Wanted To"
Thrown in every direction but home - Andrea Gibson "Dear Tinder,"
Until every ghost is hunted out - Andrea Gibson "Fight for Love"
And every ivory bone defeated - Nikita Gill "Lamia to Scylla"
Immune to every kind of poison - Nikita Gill "The Making of a God-Queen (How Hera Survived Trauma)"
Every flavour of a star bursting - Nikita Gill "Pallas and Athena"
Taxes every power you know - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Heroism"
Every splinter spoken for - Carmen Gimenez "Be Recorder"
He remembers the name of every ghost - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"
Every morsel in my kitchen - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"
Walk the length of every sand - Louis Golding "Down Tottenham Court Road"
Every breath was a soldier word - Rigoberto Gonzalez "The Soldier of Mictlan"
That covets every flame - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
Where every move becomes a function of light - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
What every hour is free to learn - Gerald Gould "Oxford"
Every flower faces away - Leah Naomi Green "Week Ten: Plum"
Till every heart-string thrills and glows - Grace Greenwood "A Lay" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
I would call back every hope and fear - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
A world with sky in every direction - Kimberly Grey "The First Marriage"
Every horror story has a sin and a monster - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"
Every soul that furls its pinions - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
The tasks which every morning brings - Edgar A. Guest "The Simple Things"
Hearts resolved to every sacrifice - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, 1917"
Every heart sets up its separate Dagon - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
A little more grief every day - Marilyn Hacker "Ghazal (Ya Lateef!)"
Every power that bids the leaf be green - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"
Every sound moves memories - Thomas Hardy "A Duettist to Her Pianoforte: Song of Silence"
Every street with snares is spread - Frances E.W. Harper "Save the Boys"
Every ghost you thought had fled - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Making Home"
Count my every blink - Matthea Harvey "Robber Sentenced to Reflection"
A full reward for every danger past - William Hayley "On the Fear of Death: an Epistle to a Lady 1768"
A dark that evaporates from every threshold - Ava Leavell Haymon "Festival of Lights"
The oven as it opens every afternoon - Ava Leavell Haymon "The Witch Has Told You a Story"
Glow and dance in every vein - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Sorrow swells in every gale - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
Strike every thrilling chord - Felicia Hemans "Christmas Carol"
Freed from every thorn - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
And mellows every tint of Time - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"
A rose grows sweeter every time it rains - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
Let Joy sear every inch - Faylita Hicks "Black Escapism"
Every year hath its winter - Ella Higginson "When the Birds Go North Again"
The math-prone leaves of every rhododendron - Conrad Hilberry "Subtract the Digits"
From every lure of old delight - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"
Every week for about a decade - Brenda Hillman "Crypto-animist Introvert Activism"
In every key from soft to shrill - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
That wells and flows from every leopard, lark and rose - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Every note of every lung and tongue and throat - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Every chanting sprite that lit the sky - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Every color backed away into the past - Jackson Holbert "Unsent Letter to Jakob"
And quench the sting of every fear - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"
Which embittered every cup - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
Two petals more on every flower - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
With every word that held a lie - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"
Concentrate on every play - Lee Bennett Hopkins "Endgame"
A net of every name lost in the throat of a storm - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"
Reach every state mortals desire - John James Ingalls "Opportunity"
Every curve of forgetting - Carly Inghram "Of No Specific Light"
Fire from every glowing string shall mingle - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Ev'ry leaf has been nipped by a blight - Alex A. Irvine "The Withered Rose" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]
Throw seed to every wind - Washington Irving "Written in the Deepdene Album"
A mouse who gets eaten every night - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"
To want to patch every heart - Jordan Jace "I Want"
Destroy every system that has ever left us broken - Jordan Jace "I Want"
That marks every mile devotion - Gary Jackson "Kansas"
Well barred by every chain - Helen Hunt Jackson "Dreams"
Every thought was delusion - Alexander Jamieson "A Sigh and a Smile"
Whose couriers knocked on every heart - Elinor Jenkins "The Last Evening"
Washed of every crimson stain - Fenton Johnson "The Vision of Lazarus"
Knocked at every door - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Quest"
Have mounted every step of ice - G.H. Johnstone "Ipse Ego..."
bruising the bones of every certainty - Camisha L. Jones "The Law of Motion"
My veins in every leaf - Saeed Jones "Eclipse of My Third Life"
Every empty hour is wrought of gold - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "As a Still Brook"
Demanding every shout - Allison Joseph "Untethered"
Dawning charm of every infant grace - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Who takes the bite out of every bark - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"
Over every awful kind of love - Courtney Kampa "Ars Balletica"
Erasing the edges of herself every day - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
Every shot-through winter scene - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"
Every architecture shatters sometime - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"
He goes into every factory at night - Janet Kauffman "In His Arms"
In every place where infant Orpheus slept - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Who counted every stone blessed - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Every step more near the end - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Art thou already weary of the way?]"
Every sound of war triumphant - Fanny Kemble "The Vision of Life"
Every shadow thrown by flickering light - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"
Skip every lunch for an eternity - Vandana Khanna "Self-Portrait as a Girl Conceding"
Every Hyacinth the Garden wears - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
From every rose a spider - Joyce Kilmer "The Ballade of Butterflies"
And every daisy dies - Joyce Kilmer "Theology"
And every goose a swan - Charles Kingsley "Young and Old"
By every ancient mark our fathers used - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"
I've lost myself in every lifetime - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Every song smells the song of memory - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Every zero wraps around like an echo - Christopher Kondrich "Degree of Nothing"
Who occupied every planet worth having - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Wise and Now-Departed Uncles"
Every aching word we whispered - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"
Every acorn has to drop - "The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare" transl. by Kuno Meyer
At every hour the wind awoke - Archibald Lampman "After Rain"
And every brooded bitterness - Archibald Lampman "Favorites of Pan"
Every bliss is built this way - Deborah Landau "Flesh"
Every black tree blossomed outright - D.H. Lawrence "The Attack"
In every shaken morsel I see our shadow tremble - D.H. Lawrence "Shades"
Every kind of uncomfortable - Aimee Le "Analogies, or, Twinkie Is to Egg As"
Every soul in the company snoring - Henry S. Leigh "The Compact"
Ev'ry soft-hearted sinner contributes and cries - Henry S. Leigh "The Gift of the Gab"
Expects a grin at every word - Henry S. Leigh "Men I Dislike"
Electrical currents across your every horizon - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"
Every second is stolen - Robin Coste Lewis "Math"
Every verb desires to be a noun - Kate Light "There Comes the Strangest Moment"
Every one of us with a bear inside - Ada Limon "Territory"
And every rumor known to time - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
Every bone in the snake is the hipbone - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
Every single word my mother could not whisper - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"
And opinions jostle on every side - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"
Days endeared to every Muse - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
Beset by doubts of every breed - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
Whose every atom is self-willed - James Russell Lowell "Pessimoptimism"
Adventure calls with every dawn - Sidney Royse Lysaght "New Horizons"
Rise victorious from every worldly strife - E.M. "Part VI. The Apologia"
Wove in red for every deed - Alice C. MacDonell "The Weaving of the Tartan"
A lighthouse keeper for every weather - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"
Brilliant with every cosmic hue - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"
Into silent depths of every heart - Edwin Markham "Infinite Depths"
Every song a flight home to you - Jeannette Marks "Cross Roads"
The exotic names of every flower and leaf - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
Every one of the unconcerned streetlamps - Adrian Matejka "Mural with HUD Housing & School Bus (1980)"
Mischief in every filibuster of sun - Ted Mathys "The National Interest"
Protect every laugh inside - Jamaal May "FBI Questioning During the 2009 Presidential Inauguration"
May every ghost find you - Jamaal May "To Detroiters I Too May Have Called by the Wrong Names"
The smoke of every sullen street - Theodore Maynard "Cecidit, Cecidit Babylon Magna!"
Which enters every color under heaven - E.L. Mayo "Letter to My Grandfather's Picture"
Applause with every breeze - Marilyn McCabe "Web"
Descending the slopes of every mountain - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Alchemy expelling every parasitic thing - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Every bankrupt idea - Maureen N. McLane "OK Let's Go"
Looked every bit as real as the deuterium - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "Ice Magic"
We are Starseeds every one of us - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"
Singular in every breath - Orlando Ricardo Menes "El Rastro"
Digging his own grave with every breath - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"
Discover an enigma on every leaf - Helen M. Merrill "The Blue Flower"
An icy message to every wave and rill - Viola Meynell "The Frozen Ocean"
Paused at every grievous door - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Ode to Silence"
The weight of every brooded wrong - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Renascence"
Every breeze that blows between - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"
Every word a path through darkness - Claire Millikin "The Hunt"
Every herb that sips the dew - John Milton "Il Penseroso"
Lived on every kind of shortage - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"
Every wind an open gate - T. Sturge Moore "The Sea is Kind"
Every thought washed of color - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
Hymned by every balmy wind - Lewis Morris "Suffrages"
To create an echoing hollow inside every word - Rusty Morrison "To measure internal activity while it turns all I know to rubble"
Singing every song that came to them - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"
Where you taste every horizon - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Every ache you've earned - John Murillo "Poem Ending and Beginning on Lines by Larry Levis"
Every struck chime unanswering - Jerome Ellison Murphy "Hanging"
Every morsel with nerve enough to be - Angel Nafis "Angel's Heart Clowns the Ocean"
The bee that every honey sips - Francis Neilson "The Keeper of the Kisses"
Every breeze sings lamentation - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"
The teeth of every dawn - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Cutting every gold thing I find - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
I have nightmares every time I fall in love - Caroline Harper New "The Bioluminescent Bays of Vieques"
Every inch of what could burn - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"
As the night mutes every color - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"
Every obligation of home - Tim Newcomb "Family"
In every rainbow's glittering drop - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VII. Sonnet: Our Dead"
In every cloud of wind-blown dust - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"
Ten enemies for every truth - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"
Every crooked flash of irony - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"
Through every act and atom - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
Memorized in every key - D. Nurkse "Dominant Harmony"
You reside in every dream - Naomi Shihab Nye "On the Old Black Canal Road by the International Hotel, Guangzhou"
Because every life needs a hidden place - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stone House"
In intuition of every day to come - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May"
And every day further apart - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Every note is charged with memory - Thomas O'Hagan "The Song My Mother Sings"
In every trying terminal breath - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"
Confused every skyline for another - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"
Every night we baited nine traps - Christina Olivares "Preserving an Ecosystem"
Adored every blossom - Mary Oliver "Luke"
Lament every transient second - Matthew Olzmann "Build, Now, a Monument"
Barren of every glorious theme - Anon. "On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America"
And substance for every comfort - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"
Treasure every eloquent ray of golden light - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
every other element implicit - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"
To every weaver one golden strand - John Oxenham "Weavers All"
Every foe is faithful till I die - Dorothy Parker "The Leal"
Every fragile thing shall rust - Dorothy Parker "Rainy Night"
Blessed beginner of every grace - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Every atom belonging to me as good - Andre F. Peltier "Ishirou Honda to the Edge of Panic"
Every bud of thought display - Ambrose Philips "To Miss Georgiana Carteret"
Sought every means which wisdom can suggest - Philo "The Tribute"
Every bush and slender sapling - Lydia Jane Pierson "A Winter Scene"
Twined with every thorn - Joseph Mary Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"
Patterns to be seen from every angle - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
Scattering joy on every hand - Josephine Pollard "The Send Off"
Her tea tastes more like dust every day - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
A scorpion under every stone - Praxilla "Adonis, Dying" (transl. by John Dillon)
Every rim of promise - Walter S. Percy "The Old Moon in the Arms of the New"
Whose every shadow is memory - Carl Phillips "Civilization"
Swallow a key for every year - Xan Forest Phillips "Angola Penitentiary"
Built to hold every gaze - Xan Forest Phillips "Splay My Country"
Every fairy tale requires a bridge - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Telling a Bedtime Story"
My eyes trespassing in every void and flesh - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"
Loose every captive from his irons - "Queen Dagmar's Bridal, 1205" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
The violence of language in every space - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"
In every burst of agreement - Khadijah Queen "Retreat"
Found bitter drops in every cup - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
And every puddle repeats it - Charles Rafferty "Two Pianos"
Smooth over every jagged edge - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Bomba"
Every room in the palace of my memory - Molly Raynor "Yamim Noraim///Days of A W E"
Turn every head into a cautious metronome - Roger Reeves "Brazil"
Every hope more vague and undefined - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Heard myself in every cell - Ariana Reines "The Rose"
To swallow whole every holy thing - Jason Reynolds "Match"
In every clod or clot of human woe - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"
The moon ablaze in every quarter - Adrienne Rich "Char"
Missing Every Other Point - Adrienne Rich "Shooting Script 12"
When every other source of joy has fled - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
Burnt in every cusp of brass - Lola Ridge "Czar's Watch"
Light from every edge - Rainer Maria Rilke "Archaic Torso of Apollo" (translated by Robert Bly)
Pounced on every joy - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Sings every crust of golden gleams - Arthur Rimbaud "Waifs and Strays" transl. not credited
Every roof has a broken tile - Alberto Rios "The Broken"
The warning blown back on every wind - Rennell Rodd "Disillusion"
Precision in every coordinate - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Horns of every pitch and color - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
For every need of my love's craving - Alice Wellington Rollins "I Know Myself the Best-Beloved of All"
A loss for every other drop of rain - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"
Heighten every dazzling charm - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Wild flowers spangling every green - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Enamelled bright with flowers of every sort - anonymous? "The Royal Court"
In every thorn-bush are thousands slain - Rumi "The Call of the Beloved" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
Every bitter wind of heaven - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"
Every eddying vacancy of Earth - Kay Ryan "Repulsive Theory"
Fond idolator at every shrine where beauty lingers - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
A hundred melodies for every wing - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Every night I dream of scissors - Erika L. Sanchez "On the Eve of the Tepehuan Revolt"
A smut on every human blossom - Carl Sandburg "Billy Sunday"
And the Armada went to every wind - Friedrich Schiller "The Invincible Armada" transl. not credited
Beauty blooms on every threshold - Fritz Schnack "One Morning" transl. by William Saphier
Every specter laid by tattered saffron - Ann K. Schwader "At the Last of Carcosa"
Shall welcome every child of Hydra's race - Ann K. Schwader "Mother's Night"
Knew the name of every sheep - Duncan Campbell Scott "A Flock of Sheep"
Watch me grow younger every year - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"
Plighted faith renewed with every kiss - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"
Every single day till the end of your line - Salik Shah "The Last Scan"
The prey of every vulgar thief - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVIII"
And you in every blessed shape - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIII"
Every hymn that able spirit affords - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXV"
The star to every wandering bark - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"
Every one of my gestures symbolic - Brenda Shaughnessy "Nachtraglichkeit"
Poppies, by every wind undone - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Pansies, that laugh in every face - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
The haunt of every gentle wind - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Soothed by every azure breath - Shelley "The Recollections"
Gems I held from every land - Frank Dempster Sherman "Pebbles"
Owning every foot on which we stand - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"
And every tear would turn a mill - "Shule Aroon" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Savored every second sickly sweet - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"
We are waiting for every last tear - Joyce Sidman "Illness: A Conversation"
When every bird was on his wing - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"
With every breath of underground - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
water and sun race every infinite evening - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"
The funeral pyre of every hope - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"
Croon in every screeching hue - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Thursday, August 25, 2005"
Risk lurks in every inch of soil - Patricia Smith "To Little Black Girls, Risking Flower"
Every name on the edge of being gone - Brian Sneeden "Memory is Blood Soluble"
Every bird calls your name - Richard Solomon "Heaven's Gate"
Every spirit all treason despising - "Song of Union" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
A museum of appliances on every porch - Analicia Sotelo "Eating the Moon in Cotulla, TX"
Every word a newer sadness - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Hope Deferred"
Every galleon of the air - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"
The crooked paths go every way - James Stephens "The Goat Paths"
Regret for every fallen leaf - George Sterling "Discord"
Spread hallucinations on every leaf - Wallace Stevens "St. Armorer's Church from the Outside"
Every fairy wheel and thread - Robert Louis Stevenson "The House Beautiful"
In every tongue and meaning - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Song of Rahero: To Ori a Ori"
The whistling mane of every wind - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"
Green bursts out of every herb - "Summer Has Come" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Fathom that mine of every bliss - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 54: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
To every compass point and corner - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 200: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Every nuance hidden deep within - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 219: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Every kind of self that can be - Mary Szybist "In the Beginning God Said Light"
Every suitcase in the ghost stations - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"
Emptied my heart with the absence of every tick - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"
Satellites have plotted every wave - Keith Taylor "Castle, Nowhere"
Have mapped every centimeter and shipwreck - Keith Taylor "Castle, Nowhere"
Reaching through the face of every forest - TC Tolbert "This Is What You Are"
Every home a refuge from distress - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"
This universal solvent swallows every hill - Angela Narciso Torres "Self-Portrait as Water"
Lose every bit of my time - Edwin Torres "Temporality at 5 a.m."
One day for every particle of sand - Edwin Torres "When Does the Game Begin"
Where every romance had fangs - Kristen Tracy "Vampires Today"
Every shy and cloistered sense - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"
A silver bullet against every demon you fashioned - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
When every night turns into a dream - Perhat Tursun "The Heart" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
And every weed grow proud - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"
Every tree is a silent brother - Louis Untermeyer "Summer Night--Broadway"
The groping faith of every root - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
Every muffled drum and grieving bugle - Louis Untermeyer "Two Funerals"
every hieroglyph hidden deep - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"
giving parables in answer to every mathematical equation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
every conversation meant as embrace - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
At every seam red gold shone through - "Valdemar and Tove (A)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Every illusion of separateness - Jean Valentine "Margaret, d. 1985"
Jump in front of every storm - Edward van de Vendel "Ski Jumpers"
When every twig and star is dead - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"
The leaves that every autumn drives before - Mark Van Doren "Waterfall Sound"
Away from every careful sorrow - Henry van Dyke "Wings of a Dove"
Every word I spoke to the wind - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"
Every era of hibernation - Mai Der Vang "Out of Research Into Reveries"
Graves in every corner yawn - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell
And every dwelling weeps - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: Rain" transl. by Alma Strettell
Stacked immense against every fact - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"
With every rib humming - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"
The exit wounds of every misfired word - Ocean Vuong "To My Father/To My Future Son"
Haunt every solitude known - Charles William Wallace "Lonely!"
Where every child can steal them - Arthur Waugh "The Friendly Hen"
every second I become something new - M. Darusha Wehm "The Chrononaut"
So every day starts with you - The Cyborg Jillian Weise "I Want Your Fax"
Beyond the humble reach of every day - Edith Wharton "Heaven"
New promise every day of sweetness - Edith Wharton "Spring Song"
Infinite tenderness on every side - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
Every sense and scene of joy - "Where Is the Spirit World?" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Every atom of my blood - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
When every little gosling sings - A.D.T. Whitney "Brahmic"
Of every silver ripple meet the trees - Helen Hay Whitney "My Brook"
Every sober clam below her - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
Every absence of light - C. K. Williams "And Fear"
Every unheard whisper - C. K. Williams "And Fear"
Every ocean has its mouth - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"
Trumpets heard on every shore - Joseph R. Wilson "Napoleon's Tomb"
A cost to every prize - Allan Wolf "For Those Who Light the Candle"
Something invisible blocks every road - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Cannot illuminate every dark corner - C. Dale Young "What Is Revealed"
And every molecule sequined - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks VIII: Talking About It"
Every moment's a time bomb - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History IV: At Home"
Every breath disturbs the dreaming portraits - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Every departure's an elopement - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Every coordinate a golden fiber - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"
Demons for every form of desire - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #2: The Rec' Room" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Every moment is not yet - Rachel Zucker "Long Lines to Stave Off Suicide"
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The thorn of you in every joint - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"
Every wildflower of your mouth’s meadow - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"
My every smile an endless debt - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The fraction of a dream behind every door - Hanif Abdurraqib "Glamor on the West Streets/Silver Over Everything"
Every mode of unfulfilled promise - Hanif Abdurraqib "Glamor on the West Streets/Silver Over Everything"
For every hour of sky - Leonie Adams "Never Enough of Living"
The first letter of every alphabet - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"
At every dream of danger - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Every evening at the same hour - Daisy Aldan "Women at Windows"
That shape every movement forward - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"
The serpent who gifted her with feathers of every color - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Unseen trains shake the ground every day at 5 - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
We need every bit of luck we can hold onto - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Every landing a new abyss - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Every simple square a shout of joy - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Every treacherous step leading elsewhere - Mike Allen "Space War"
Panned the contents for every nugget of twinkling hope - Mike Allen "The Strip Search"
Every injury that was dealt to him - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
Dance near every edge - Threa Almontaser "And That Fast, You're Thinking About Their Bodies"
You were every streetlamp that winter - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"
Where every footstep created mocking acoustics - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"
That snatched up every breath I could spare - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"
Through every step of life's endurance parade - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"
Eyes blinking in every direction - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"
Every painstaking sound I utter - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Unstoppable beats fiery impact every time - Rae Armantrout "Lie"
Dead to every gain but gold - "An Army Contractor" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Which in every wind is blown - Matthew Arnold "Quiet Work"
I reached the border of every word - Jarid Arraes "Movement"
Has failed every immigrant - Fatimah Asghar "A Starless Sky Is A Joy Too"
Every whirling, passionate star sings melodies - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Perfect fading wish of every shooting star - Atticus "Magic in Stars"
And swell the blast of fame through ev'ry age - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Passion at every turning - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Grieve every word lost - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Every peril paired with its opposite - Mary Jo Bang "The Raven Feeds Reynard"
Every outline is a cage - Mary Jo Bang "Untitled"
By every tie that binds the soul endeared - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Every flower brings bitter meed - Maurice Baring "Diffugere Nives, 1917"
every flame that brightened the illusion - Elizabeth Bartlett "life I love"
for every year my dust shall rise - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"
Brimming every traveller's eyes - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"
From every sin the terror lift - Charles Baudelaire "An Allegory" transl. not credited
Every fiery orb and planet sung - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"
Every step shifts the surface - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
And every tree became an elf - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Breaking Point"
Where every day brings forth a fresh revolt - Stephen Vincent Benet "De Bellow Civili"
For every pageant of my foes - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Every immortal must put on dust - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
Small and obvious life fogged every wonder - William Rose Benét "The City"
Every illustrious hue of the earliest sunset's tapestry - William Rose Benét "Imagination"
The chords on every bending bough - Park Benjamin "Sonnet [Loved of my soul! I seek in vain for thee]"
Every algorithm's heartbeat - Joshua Bennett "X"
Empty grows every bed - John Berryman "Dream Song 1"
Intersecting light from every star - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
From every star in our regard - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
At every shut door in the stirring city - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
If a door exists in every story - Terry Blackhawk "A Peaceable Kingdom"
A window in every dream - Terry Blackhawk "A Peaceable Kingdom"
Every time the moon rises full - Terry Blackhawk "Query"
Whose every day was made of melody - Robert Blair "The Grave"
The fibrous roots of every heart - William Blake "The Book of Thel"
Every outpost a starry capital - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"
Missed every night of the opera - Jaswinder Bolina "Sunday, Sunday"
Gives zest to every toiler - Sarah Knowles Bolton "The Inevitable"
Every face you ever loved forget - Arna Bontemps "Close Your Eyes!"
To cover every land and dream of afterwhile - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
A clock that makes a different noise every hour - Bruce Boston "Surreal Domestic"
Every acre I cross a pearl in my mouth - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"
And every star seemed listening - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
Splendid strength for every test - Alpha Angela Bratton "Slumber Song"
The image every portrait mourns - William Brewer "My Somniloquist"
A path through every tangled wood - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"
Mountains circling every side - Emily Bronte "I [A little while, a little while]"
A giraffe beats a lion's ass every day - Jericho Brown "Aerial View"
Every last word is contagious - Jericho Brown "Heartland"
Every goodbye a lie - Jericho Brown "Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park"
Those long-frayed endings of every nerve tingling - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
Distrusting every light - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XXXVI in Sonnets from the Portuguese"
With a thrill in every vein - William Cullen Bryant "The Hurricane"
Hunger still in every bite - Sue Budin "Argyria"
Lost to hope and chilled in every vein - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXVI. Joy May Kill" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Hangs the dew in every nodding cup - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Wrenched of every stay but Heaven - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"
With every twig and twist of Spring - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"
Release from every petty debt - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"
With every mortal token of our trust - Witter Bynner "Surety"
Watch every minute lest danger arise - Isabel C. Byrum "The Troubles of Biddy"
As it festers every August in Brooklyn - Nicole Callihan "Summer Elegy"
Twine ten dollars into every stitch - Will Carleton "Wealth"
Pilfers from every port of the wind - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A More Ancient Mariner"
Every bay a changing alchemy of colors - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
Light a flame on every strand - Roger Casement "The Triumph of Hugh O'Neill"
Every lover is a corsair seeking glory - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"
The suns and every listless star - Willa Cather "Evening Song"
And watch from every star - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
Golden in every starry glade - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"
Every golden star that passed - Willa Cather "The Star Dial"
Every star in heaven was burning - Willa Cather "The Star Dial"
Horror relived in every iteration - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"
Orchestrating every movement of a proper family - Chen Chen "I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party"
Blooming in every crevice of my palms - Laurel Chen "Greensickness"
For every candle lit in my name - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
A sea of tears and every soul a wave - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
An angel on every garbage can - John Ciardi "Abundance"
A guest to every heart's desire - John Clare "The Old Year"
Intent on draining you of every last drop - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
mourn every necessary bit - Lucille Clifton "in the same week"
the fox came every evening - Lucille Clifton "telling our stories"
Calling from every mirrored thing - Lucille Clifton [untitled]
Balm for every wounded heart - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XI"
Though every thread is torn - Leonard Cohen "Dance Me to the End of Love"
Steal my breath tonight and every night - Aaron Coleman "Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)"
Making every moment important - Wanda Coleman "Dear Mama (4)"
Every merciful and smiling lie - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
And suffered every civilization's fate - S. R. Compton "To Atlantis"
The light every shade of gold - Katie Condon "Big with Dawn"
Lilies on every doorstep - Hilda Conkling "Easter"
Every night of clearness - Hilda Conkling "Morning"
He saw the devil in every room - C. A. Conrad "From FRANK" (Nov. 2003)
With every shaft electric flash - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cirrus. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Every moment fraught with change - 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]
Every generous thought is scandal - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "Ethel: Fitz Fashion's Wife" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]
Built from the salt sands of her every day - Susan Coolidge "Conqueror"
Prize every moment given - Benjamin Copeland "Let in the Light"
Eat from every plant except for the bitter one - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Caught in every wanton snare - Charles Cotton "Contentation"
Heir of every hour - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"
Every nerve and sinew tell on ages - Arthur Cleveland Coxe "Onward"
A meat for every mind - George Crabbe "Parish Register: Part I. Baptisms"
own a debt from every man - jason b crawford "Untitled 1975-86"
With every finger on a star - George Cronyn "Clouds"
Wrought every nerve to ecstasy - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Match you every coin you flip - Countee Cullen "To My Fairer Brethren"
for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VII)"
In every danger my course I've run - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"
Every atom of my existence faded - Michelle Dang "Calculating U"
Where scent comes forth in every breeze - W.H. Davies "Sweet Stay-at-Home"
Every green reason to wait - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"
Every drop is as wise as Solomon - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"
Three that would go into every conflict - "Deirdre's Lament" transl. by Kuno Meyer
I've lost myself in every lifetime but this one - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Every flower smells the song of memory - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Every insect was a chalk outline of agony - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"
Examining every curve in the mirror - Toi Derricotte "The blue nightgown"
So that every part will be of service - Toi Derricotte "Not Forgotten"
Unable to carry every inch of an idea - Jay Deshpande "Wanting a Child"
The robin in every human soul - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature II: May-Flower"
Chained dogs on every house corner - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"
Every building wears a milk-white dome - Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond "After a Snow Storm"
Every effort botched in its own wrong way - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"
My cities rose in every land - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"
Bid every shadow dance - Edward Dowden "The Winnower to the Winds"
Every pearl in the world releases its oyster - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #4"
On his breath of every color - Max Early "Deer's Breath of Every Color"
With love in every running crest - Max Eastman "Sea-Shore"
Living to the tip of every bone - Max Eastman "X Rays"
Must borrow every changing shape - T.S. Eliot "Portrait of a Lady"
Every hill that under heaven expands - Ebenezer Elliot "Spring"
Breathe them both with every fevered breath - J. Hal. Elliot "What Then?" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Snares he set on every path - "The Enchanted Maiden" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Renames itself with every ripple - Heid E. Erdich "Kennewick man Swims Laps"
Every path the prophets trod - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"
Every promise seems gilded with truth - C.H.W. Esling "The Mother's Pride"
Death with every decision - Aaron Fagan "The Good Light"
Combat every hostile wind - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
New proof uncovered on every return - Summer Farah "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural"
The giver of every single thing - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"
Rules every power in oak and olive-trunk - Michael Field "In Monte Fanno"
When every brighter line is vain - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Lost every alternate route - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"
Every fleck of russet showing clear - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"
Smell of burning on every plume - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"
And whispers into every next- Rose Fyleman "The Cuckoo"
Every stone becomes a church - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Post-Apocalypse Postcard with Love Note"
Shall be true of every flower - Zona Gale "Roses"
And well he will reckon up every cheat - "The Game of Fate" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
every dead-ash sun a crumbled cipher - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"
Make every dark wish lie down - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"
Every answer is a grave - Andrea Gibson "The Day You Died Because You Wanted To"
Thrown in every direction but home - Andrea Gibson "Dear Tinder,"
Until every ghost is hunted out - Andrea Gibson "Fight for Love"
And every ivory bone defeated - Nikita Gill "Lamia to Scylla"
Immune to every kind of poison - Nikita Gill "The Making of a God-Queen (How Hera Survived Trauma)"
Every flavour of a star bursting - Nikita Gill "Pallas and Athena"
Taxes every power you know - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Heroism"
Every splinter spoken for - Carmen Gimenez "Be Recorder"
He remembers the name of every ghost - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"
Every morsel in my kitchen - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"
Walk the length of every sand - Louis Golding "Down Tottenham Court Road"
Every breath was a soldier word - Rigoberto Gonzalez "The Soldier of Mictlan"
That covets every flame - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
Where every move becomes a function of light - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
What every hour is free to learn - Gerald Gould "Oxford"
Every flower faces away - Leah Naomi Green "Week Ten: Plum"
Till every heart-string thrills and glows - Grace Greenwood "A Lay" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
I would call back every hope and fear - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
A world with sky in every direction - Kimberly Grey "The First Marriage"
Every horror story has a sin and a monster - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"
Every soul that furls its pinions - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
The tasks which every morning brings - Edgar A. Guest "The Simple Things"
Hearts resolved to every sacrifice - Ivor Gurney "Spring. Rouen, 1917"
Every heart sets up its separate Dagon - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
A little more grief every day - Marilyn Hacker "Ghazal (Ya Lateef!)"
Every power that bids the leaf be green - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"
Every sound moves memories - Thomas Hardy "A Duettist to Her Pianoforte: Song of Silence"
Every street with snares is spread - Frances E.W. Harper "Save the Boys"
Every ghost you thought had fled - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Making Home"
Count my every blink - Matthea Harvey "Robber Sentenced to Reflection"
A full reward for every danger past - William Hayley "On the Fear of Death: an Epistle to a Lady 1768"
A dark that evaporates from every threshold - Ava Leavell Haymon "Festival of Lights"
The oven as it opens every afternoon - Ava Leavell Haymon "The Witch Has Told You a Story"
Glow and dance in every vein - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Sorrow swells in every gale - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
Strike every thrilling chord - Felicia Hemans "Christmas Carol"
Freed from every thorn - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
And mellows every tint of Time - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"
A rose grows sweeter every time it rains - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
Let Joy sear every inch - Faylita Hicks "Black Escapism"
Every year hath its winter - Ella Higginson "When the Birds Go North Again"
The math-prone leaves of every rhododendron - Conrad Hilberry "Subtract the Digits"
From every lure of old delight - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"
Every week for about a decade - Brenda Hillman "Crypto-animist Introvert Activism"
In every key from soft to shrill - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
That wells and flows from every leopard, lark and rose - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Every note of every lung and tongue and throat - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Every chanting sprite that lit the sky - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Every color backed away into the past - Jackson Holbert "Unsent Letter to Jakob"
And quench the sting of every fear - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"
Which embittered every cup - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
Two petals more on every flower - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
With every word that held a lie - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"
Concentrate on every play - Lee Bennett Hopkins "Endgame"
A net of every name lost in the throat of a storm - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"
Reach every state mortals desire - John James Ingalls "Opportunity"
Every curve of forgetting - Carly Inghram "Of No Specific Light"
Fire from every glowing string shall mingle - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Ev'ry leaf has been nipped by a blight - Alex A. Irvine "The Withered Rose" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]
Throw seed to every wind - Washington Irving "Written in the Deepdene Album"
A mouse who gets eaten every night - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"
To want to patch every heart - Jordan Jace "I Want"
Destroy every system that has ever left us broken - Jordan Jace "I Want"
That marks every mile devotion - Gary Jackson "Kansas"
Well barred by every chain - Helen Hunt Jackson "Dreams"
Every thought was delusion - Alexander Jamieson "A Sigh and a Smile"
Whose couriers knocked on every heart - Elinor Jenkins "The Last Evening"
Washed of every crimson stain - Fenton Johnson "The Vision of Lazarus"
Knocked at every door - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Quest"
Have mounted every step of ice - G.H. Johnstone "Ipse Ego..."
bruising the bones of every certainty - Camisha L. Jones "The Law of Motion"
My veins in every leaf - Saeed Jones "Eclipse of My Third Life"
Every empty hour is wrought of gold - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "As a Still Brook"
Demanding every shout - Allison Joseph "Untethered"
Dawning charm of every infant grace - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Who takes the bite out of every bark - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"
Over every awful kind of love - Courtney Kampa "Ars Balletica"
Erasing the edges of herself every day - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
Every shot-through winter scene - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"
Every architecture shatters sometime - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"
He goes into every factory at night - Janet Kauffman "In His Arms"
In every place where infant Orpheus slept - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Who counted every stone blessed - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Every step more near the end - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Art thou already weary of the way?]"
Every sound of war triumphant - Fanny Kemble "The Vision of Life"
Every shadow thrown by flickering light - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"
Skip every lunch for an eternity - Vandana Khanna "Self-Portrait as a Girl Conceding"
Every Hyacinth the Garden wears - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
From every rose a spider - Joyce Kilmer "The Ballade of Butterflies"
And every daisy dies - Joyce Kilmer "Theology"
And every goose a swan - Charles Kingsley "Young and Old"
By every ancient mark our fathers used - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"
I've lost myself in every lifetime - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Every song smells the song of memory - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Every zero wraps around like an echo - Christopher Kondrich "Degree of Nothing"
Who occupied every planet worth having - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Wise and Now-Departed Uncles"
Every aching word we whispered - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"
Every acorn has to drop - "The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare" transl. by Kuno Meyer
At every hour the wind awoke - Archibald Lampman "After Rain"
And every brooded bitterness - Archibald Lampman "Favorites of Pan"
Every bliss is built this way - Deborah Landau "Flesh"
Every black tree blossomed outright - D.H. Lawrence "The Attack"
In every shaken morsel I see our shadow tremble - D.H. Lawrence "Shades"
Every kind of uncomfortable - Aimee Le "Analogies, or, Twinkie Is to Egg As"
Every soul in the company snoring - Henry S. Leigh "The Compact"
Ev'ry soft-hearted sinner contributes and cries - Henry S. Leigh "The Gift of the Gab"
Expects a grin at every word - Henry S. Leigh "Men I Dislike"
Electrical currents across your every horizon - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"
Every second is stolen - Robin Coste Lewis "Math"
Every verb desires to be a noun - Kate Light "There Comes the Strangest Moment"
Every one of us with a bear inside - Ada Limon "Territory"
And every rumor known to time - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
Every bone in the snake is the hipbone - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
Every single word my mother could not whisper - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"
And opinions jostle on every side - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"
Days endeared to every Muse - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
Beset by doubts of every breed - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
Whose every atom is self-willed - James Russell Lowell "Pessimoptimism"
Adventure calls with every dawn - Sidney Royse Lysaght "New Horizons"
Rise victorious from every worldly strife - E.M. "Part VI. The Apologia"
Wove in red for every deed - Alice C. MacDonell "The Weaving of the Tartan"
A lighthouse keeper for every weather - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"
Brilliant with every cosmic hue - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"
Into silent depths of every heart - Edwin Markham "Infinite Depths"
Every song a flight home to you - Jeannette Marks "Cross Roads"
The exotic names of every flower and leaf - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
Every one of the unconcerned streetlamps - Adrian Matejka "Mural with HUD Housing & School Bus (1980)"
Mischief in every filibuster of sun - Ted Mathys "The National Interest"
Protect every laugh inside - Jamaal May "FBI Questioning During the 2009 Presidential Inauguration"
May every ghost find you - Jamaal May "To Detroiters I Too May Have Called by the Wrong Names"
The smoke of every sullen street - Theodore Maynard "Cecidit, Cecidit Babylon Magna!"
Which enters every color under heaven - E.L. Mayo "Letter to My Grandfather's Picture"
Applause with every breeze - Marilyn McCabe "Web"
Descending the slopes of every mountain - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Alchemy expelling every parasitic thing - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Every bankrupt idea - Maureen N. McLane "OK Let's Go"
Looked every bit as real as the deuterium - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "Ice Magic"
We are Starseeds every one of us - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"
Singular in every breath - Orlando Ricardo Menes "El Rastro"
Digging his own grave with every breath - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"
Discover an enigma on every leaf - Helen M. Merrill "The Blue Flower"
An icy message to every wave and rill - Viola Meynell "The Frozen Ocean"
Paused at every grievous door - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Ode to Silence"
The weight of every brooded wrong - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Renascence"
Every breeze that blows between - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"
Every word a path through darkness - Claire Millikin "The Hunt"
Every herb that sips the dew - John Milton "Il Penseroso"
Lived on every kind of shortage - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"
Every wind an open gate - T. Sturge Moore "The Sea is Kind"
Every thought washed of color - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
Hymned by every balmy wind - Lewis Morris "Suffrages"
To create an echoing hollow inside every word - Rusty Morrison "To measure internal activity while it turns all I know to rubble"
Singing every song that came to them - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"
Where you taste every horizon - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Every ache you've earned - John Murillo "Poem Ending and Beginning on Lines by Larry Levis"
Every struck chime unanswering - Jerome Ellison Murphy "Hanging"
Every morsel with nerve enough to be - Angel Nafis "Angel's Heart Clowns the Ocean"
The bee that every honey sips - Francis Neilson "The Keeper of the Kisses"
Every breeze sings lamentation - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"
The teeth of every dawn - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Cutting every gold thing I find - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
I have nightmares every time I fall in love - Caroline Harper New "The Bioluminescent Bays of Vieques"
Every inch of what could burn - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"
As the night mutes every color - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"
Every obligation of home - Tim Newcomb "Family"
In every rainbow's glittering drop - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VII. Sonnet: Our Dead"
In every cloud of wind-blown dust - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"
Ten enemies for every truth - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"
Every crooked flash of irony - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"
Through every act and atom - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
Memorized in every key - D. Nurkse "Dominant Harmony"
You reside in every dream - Naomi Shihab Nye "On the Old Black Canal Road by the International Hotel, Guangzhou"
Because every life needs a hidden place - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stone House"
In intuition of every day to come - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May"
And every day further apart - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Every note is charged with memory - Thomas O'Hagan "The Song My Mother Sings"
In every trying terminal breath - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"
Confused every skyline for another - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"
Every night we baited nine traps - Christina Olivares "Preserving an Ecosystem"
Adored every blossom - Mary Oliver "Luke"
Lament every transient second - Matthew Olzmann "Build, Now, a Monument"
Barren of every glorious theme - Anon. "On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America"
And substance for every comfort - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"
Treasure every eloquent ray of golden light - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
every other element implicit - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"
To every weaver one golden strand - John Oxenham "Weavers All"
Every foe is faithful till I die - Dorothy Parker "The Leal"
Every fragile thing shall rust - Dorothy Parker "Rainy Night"
Blessed beginner of every grace - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Every atom belonging to me as good - Andre F. Peltier "Ishirou Honda to the Edge of Panic"
Every bud of thought display - Ambrose Philips "To Miss Georgiana Carteret"
Sought every means which wisdom can suggest - Philo "The Tribute"
Every bush and slender sapling - Lydia Jane Pierson "A Winter Scene"
Twined with every thorn - Joseph Mary Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"
Patterns to be seen from every angle - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
Scattering joy on every hand - Josephine Pollard "The Send Off"
Her tea tastes more like dust every day - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
A scorpion under every stone - Praxilla "Adonis, Dying" (transl. by John Dillon)
Every rim of promise - Walter S. Percy "The Old Moon in the Arms of the New"
Whose every shadow is memory - Carl Phillips "Civilization"
Swallow a key for every year - Xan Forest Phillips "Angola Penitentiary"
Built to hold every gaze - Xan Forest Phillips "Splay My Country"
Every fairy tale requires a bridge - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Telling a Bedtime Story"
My eyes trespassing in every void and flesh - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"
Loose every captive from his irons - "Queen Dagmar's Bridal, 1205" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
The violence of language in every space - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"
In every burst of agreement - Khadijah Queen "Retreat"
Found bitter drops in every cup - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
And every puddle repeats it - Charles Rafferty "Two Pianos"
Smooth over every jagged edge - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Bomba"
Every room in the palace of my memory - Molly Raynor "Yamim Noraim///Days of A W E"
Turn every head into a cautious metronome - Roger Reeves "Brazil"
Every hope more vague and undefined - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Heard myself in every cell - Ariana Reines "The Rose"
To swallow whole every holy thing - Jason Reynolds "Match"
In every clod or clot of human woe - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"
The moon ablaze in every quarter - Adrienne Rich "Char"
Missing Every Other Point - Adrienne Rich "Shooting Script 12"
When every other source of joy has fled - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
Burnt in every cusp of brass - Lola Ridge "Czar's Watch"
Light from every edge - Rainer Maria Rilke "Archaic Torso of Apollo" (translated by Robert Bly)
Pounced on every joy - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Sings every crust of golden gleams - Arthur Rimbaud "Waifs and Strays" transl. not credited
Every roof has a broken tile - Alberto Rios "The Broken"
The warning blown back on every wind - Rennell Rodd "Disillusion"
Precision in every coordinate - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Horns of every pitch and color - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
For every need of my love's craving - Alice Wellington Rollins "I Know Myself the Best-Beloved of All"
A loss for every other drop of rain - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"
Heighten every dazzling charm - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Wild flowers spangling every green - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Enamelled bright with flowers of every sort - anonymous? "The Royal Court"
In every thorn-bush are thousands slain - Rumi "The Call of the Beloved" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
Every bitter wind of heaven - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"
Every eddying vacancy of Earth - Kay Ryan "Repulsive Theory"
Fond idolator at every shrine where beauty lingers - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
A hundred melodies for every wing - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Every night I dream of scissors - Erika L. Sanchez "On the Eve of the Tepehuan Revolt"
A smut on every human blossom - Carl Sandburg "Billy Sunday"
And the Armada went to every wind - Friedrich Schiller "The Invincible Armada" transl. not credited
Beauty blooms on every threshold - Fritz Schnack "One Morning" transl. by William Saphier
Every specter laid by tattered saffron - Ann K. Schwader "At the Last of Carcosa"
Shall welcome every child of Hydra's race - Ann K. Schwader "Mother's Night"
Knew the name of every sheep - Duncan Campbell Scott "A Flock of Sheep"
Watch me grow younger every year - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"
Plighted faith renewed with every kiss - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"
Every single day till the end of your line - Salik Shah "The Last Scan"
The prey of every vulgar thief - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVIII"
And you in every blessed shape - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIII"
Every hymn that able spirit affords - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXV"
The star to every wandering bark - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"
Every one of my gestures symbolic - Brenda Shaughnessy "Nachtraglichkeit"
Poppies, by every wind undone - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Pansies, that laugh in every face - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
The haunt of every gentle wind - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Soothed by every azure breath - Shelley "The Recollections"
Gems I held from every land - Frank Dempster Sherman "Pebbles"
Owning every foot on which we stand - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"
And every tear would turn a mill - "Shule Aroon" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Savored every second sickly sweet - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"
We are waiting for every last tear - Joyce Sidman "Illness: A Conversation"
When every bird was on his wing - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"
With every breath of underground - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
water and sun race every infinite evening - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"
The funeral pyre of every hope - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"
Croon in every screeching hue - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Thursday, August 25, 2005"
Risk lurks in every inch of soil - Patricia Smith "To Little Black Girls, Risking Flower"
Every name on the edge of being gone - Brian Sneeden "Memory is Blood Soluble"
Every bird calls your name - Richard Solomon "Heaven's Gate"
Every spirit all treason despising - "Song of Union" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
A museum of appliances on every porch - Analicia Sotelo "Eating the Moon in Cotulla, TX"
Every word a newer sadness - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Hope Deferred"
Every galleon of the air - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"
The crooked paths go every way - James Stephens "The Goat Paths"
Regret for every fallen leaf - George Sterling "Discord"
Spread hallucinations on every leaf - Wallace Stevens "St. Armorer's Church from the Outside"
Every fairy wheel and thread - Robert Louis Stevenson "The House Beautiful"
In every tongue and meaning - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Song of Rahero: To Ori a Ori"
The whistling mane of every wind - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"
Green bursts out of every herb - "Summer Has Come" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Fathom that mine of every bliss - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 54: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
To every compass point and corner - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 200: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Every nuance hidden deep within - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 219: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Every kind of self that can be - Mary Szybist "In the Beginning God Said Light"
Every suitcase in the ghost stations - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"
Emptied my heart with the absence of every tick - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"
Satellites have plotted every wave - Keith Taylor "Castle, Nowhere"
Have mapped every centimeter and shipwreck - Keith Taylor "Castle, Nowhere"
Reaching through the face of every forest - TC Tolbert "This Is What You Are"
Every home a refuge from distress - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"
This universal solvent swallows every hill - Angela Narciso Torres "Self-Portrait as Water"
Lose every bit of my time - Edwin Torres "Temporality at 5 a.m."
One day for every particle of sand - Edwin Torres "When Does the Game Begin"
Where every romance had fangs - Kristen Tracy "Vampires Today"
Every shy and cloistered sense - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"
A silver bullet against every demon you fashioned - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
When every night turns into a dream - Perhat Tursun "The Heart" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
And every weed grow proud - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"
Every tree is a silent brother - Louis Untermeyer "Summer Night--Broadway"
The groping faith of every root - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
Every muffled drum and grieving bugle - Louis Untermeyer "Two Funerals"
every hieroglyph hidden deep - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"
giving parables in answer to every mathematical equation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
every conversation meant as embrace - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
At every seam red gold shone through - "Valdemar and Tove (A)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Every illusion of separateness - Jean Valentine "Margaret, d. 1985"
Jump in front of every storm - Edward van de Vendel "Ski Jumpers"
When every twig and star is dead - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"
The leaves that every autumn drives before - Mark Van Doren "Waterfall Sound"
Away from every careful sorrow - Henry van Dyke "Wings of a Dove"
Every word I spoke to the wind - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"
Every era of hibernation - Mai Der Vang "Out of Research Into Reveries"
Graves in every corner yawn - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell
And every dwelling weeps - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: Rain" transl. by Alma Strettell
Stacked immense against every fact - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"
With every rib humming - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"
The exit wounds of every misfired word - Ocean Vuong "To My Father/To My Future Son"
Haunt every solitude known - Charles William Wallace "Lonely!"
Where every child can steal them - Arthur Waugh "The Friendly Hen"
every second I become something new - M. Darusha Wehm "The Chrononaut"
So every day starts with you - The Cyborg Jillian Weise "I Want Your Fax"
Beyond the humble reach of every day - Edith Wharton "Heaven"
New promise every day of sweetness - Edith Wharton "Spring Song"
Infinite tenderness on every side - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
Every sense and scene of joy - "Where Is the Spirit World?" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Every atom of my blood - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
When every little gosling sings - A.D.T. Whitney "Brahmic"
Of every silver ripple meet the trees - Helen Hay Whitney "My Brook"
Every sober clam below her - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
Every absence of light - C. K. Williams "And Fear"
Every unheard whisper - C. K. Williams "And Fear"
Every ocean has its mouth - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"
Trumpets heard on every shore - Joseph R. Wilson "Napoleon's Tomb"
A cost to every prize - Allan Wolf "For Those Who Light the Candle"
Something invisible blocks every road - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Cannot illuminate every dark corner - C. Dale Young "What Is Revealed"
And every molecule sequined - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks VIII: Talking About It"
Every moment's a time bomb - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History IV: At Home"
Every breath disturbs the dreaming portraits - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Every departure's an elopement - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Every coordinate a golden fiber - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"
Demons for every form of desire - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #2: The Rec' Room" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Every moment is not yet - Rachel Zucker "Long Lines to Stave Off Suicide"
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