Potential Titles: Give/Gave
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somethingdarkerGive grief her rooms to stalk - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"
And give the earth her green again - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
To give us knowledge of achieved desire - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Fails to give the gnomes sufficient credit - Duane Ackerson "The Great Gnome Escape"
Give zest to the cheer - "Address to St. Andrews"
Give up my name three times - Mary Alexandra Agner "So Many Lullabies"
Gave back the light from many a burnished point - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
To be given detectable villains - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Bighead"
Give a queenly air to this crimson robe of mine - Louisa May Alcott "The Flower's Lesson"
I return the bitterness which you gave me - Lewis Alexander "Transformation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
I'd give the world if I might but cry - William Allingham "The Girl's Lamentation"
Gave the strain to wild despair - "The Alter'd Lay"
What praise can we give with bound hands - Afua Ansong "what we did while waiting for the rain"
And to the sun God gave a speedy answer - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XIV: The Maiden and the Sun" transl. by Sir John Bowring
For food they gave him honey sweet - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXIV: Brotherless Sisters" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Have given a child to this world of woe - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXXIX: Reminiscences" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
You give language to black roosters & fossil bones - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
I give you the archaeology of my words - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Giving to each moment - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel of names"
Give me only the moon - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
He gave him steel of proof and price - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Gives a nod to flavors in hiding - Zeina Azzam "Nine Spice Mix"
Nor might they give his star eclipse - J.S.B. "Caesar" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXII, v.LXII, Aug. 1847]
Give the guests a fair reception - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
Give me a crown that will never rust - Albion Fellows Bacon "At Last"
The twine that gives totality its name - Mary Jo Bang "Catastrophe Theory III"
Living with the ruin we were given - Mary Jo Bang "Our Evening Is Over Us"
A tin voice giving the overview - Mary Jo Bang "You Could Say She Was Willful, but Compared to What?"
Gave him half her dripping heart - Ashley Bao "Secrets from a Telepath"
Gives voice to sobbing melodies - Maurice Baring "Phedre"
Gave image its own reflection - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
No rare jewels to give thee - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Offering"
Had given a hundredfold return - Charles Baudelaire "The Corpse" transl. not credited
Never gave consent to those red days of massacre - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Banquet"
Give us drink for our bitter thirst - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Gave her youth like a burning rose - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
Give myself away in shards - Joshua Bennett "First Date"
Giving out buckets as a kind of spiritual practice - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"
Now, since you gave me the key - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"
Gave poppies to the dragon - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"
Give us the shelter of strand or rock - "The Boatman's Hymn" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson
Pain's derisive hand had given me rest - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"
From the night giving off flames, and the dark renewing - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"
Gives zest to every toiler - Sarah Knowles Bolton "The Inevitable"
As the devil's flowers do not give birth to seeds - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 1: Temptation"
Give her back her time-thorned flesh - Bruce Boston "The Lesions of Genetic Sin"
Gave out petals inked with curses - William Brewer "Daedalus in Oxyana"
We'll take a yard since you gave us an inch - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Give me back my barren hills - Anne Bronte "Home"
Give me back my dirty claws and blood-warm horns - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
Marooned in the Land God gave Cain - Paul Cameron Brown "Helluland"
Gave the rein to his steed and his thoughts - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
Brain and hand unite to give - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XIV. Second Reading. To Vittoria Colonna. The Model and the Statue" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Given a prey for burning beauty to devour - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Let earth give back the footprints - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVIII. Love's Vain Expense" transl. by John Addington Symonds
To give it record of the former light - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"
Given our so far narrow history - Scott Cairns "Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous"
That give green thoughts in sunshine and bright hopes in gloom - Calder Campbell "Under the Palms" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.455, 18 Sept. 1852]
Gives no triumphs her name - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Lazarus of Empires"
Sweet life given to a soul in bitterness clad - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"
To give least resistance - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"
Given for love and sold for utter anguish - Willa Cather "A Silver Cup"
Give faint visions of a paradise within - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Where Time dispels the hopes that Fancy gave - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"
Infinite reasons I could give for gladness - Johnson Cheu "Wail"
Give twopence for the chance - John Clare "The Woodman"
Given up as soon as tasted - Arthur Hugh Clough "Χρυσέα κλῄς ἐπὶ γλώσσᾳ."
Gave the wind my wedding ring - Leonard Cohen "By the Rivers Dark"
Who gives her soul an empty room - Leonard Cohen "Death of a Lady's Man"
Gave my heart to a mountain - Leonard Cohen "No One After You"
A dove gave me the news - Leonard Cohen "Nothing I Can Lose"
Darkness will give you back - Henri Cole "To Sleep"
because the universe gives us no choice - Gerald L. Coleman "Age of Villains" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]
When hope and patience both give up - Rev. C.C. Colton "Old Age" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Words which give the true metallic ring - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Faith to saints and sages given - Benjamin Copeland "The Coronation"
Prize every moment given - Benjamin Copeland "Let in the Light"
Give a verse of baptism to life - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Which to give back by the end of the month - Gabriel Cortez "Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale"
The curlews' call gave token - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
No tempest gave the shock - W. Cowper "Loss of the Royal George"
Gave up their bass and speckled trout - Palmer Cox "The Brownies Fishing"
Giving back a scattered chapter - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"
Except it finds a place given - Robert Creeley "Here Only"
We grieved like the shadow that gives birth to worlds - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
Giving a false alarm in jest - Rev. William Crowe "On F.W. the King of Prussia's Ineffectual Attempt on Warsaw"
The hemlock which you give for wine - Countee Cullen "Harsh World That Lashest Me"
And dish water gives back no images - Waring Cuney "No Images" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
To whom glory I gave - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)
And give a touch of what should not have been - Daniell "Pleasure" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
While joy gave clouds the light of stars - William H. Davies "The Villain"
Consume half of everything it gives - Geffrey Davis "King County Metro"
Giving you a palm full of wasps - Kwame Dawes "Purple"
Gray which gives to Weariness unrest - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
And give new triumphs to immortal song - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Th' immutable decrees of fate are given - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
If to Bacchus and to Ceres given - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Gave everyone a chance at forgiveness - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"
Never to give the sword its sheath - Delta "The Covenanters' Night-Hymn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCC, v.LXV, Feb. 1849]
If we gave ourselves more often - Carl Dennis "A Landscape"
Give balm to giants - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life IX: The Test"
Give us a crumb from that loaf - Dom "Crumb, Iceberg and Glimmer"
Until the offending dream gave way - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"
I do not want to give sorrow - Jeanne d'Orge "The Interpreter (Sixteen Years)"
Cancel half a line to give a Man excuse - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"
This permission I give myself - Meghan Dunn "Ode to Butter"
Give permission to the dark - Stephen Dunn "Backyard"
Takes every burning kiss we give - George William Russell aka A.E. "Blindness"
Gave upon my night of lonely grief - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]
Giving a gull a sack of gold - Cornelius Eady "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"
Has given me a poisoned heart - Cornelius Eady "My Heart"
That the giving famishes the craving - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
And the dead tree gives no shelter - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land I: The Burial of the Dead"
No honour half so great is given - Charlotte Elliott "Saturday Morning"
While strengthening sleep is given - Charlotte Elliott "Saturday Evening"
Give him beauty for rags - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"
Give my dust their funeral shade - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"
Who give the storm its strength - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Your vault gives shelter - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 17. E-Mush, the Temple of Dumuzi in Badtibira" transl. by Sophus Helle
Giving rain to grain and flax - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 27. E-Ugalgala, the Temple of Ishkur in Karkara" transl. by Sophus Helle
After the tides have given up - Nava EtShalom "Proposal"
And giving death the laugh - Anthony Euwer "The Juggler"
Gave a charm to solitude - "Extract from an Unpublished Poem by the Author of Howard Pinckney, Etc."
The giver of every single thing - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"
To give their magics to thy hand - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
May give kingdoms with its touch - Michael Field "Sicut Parvuli"
Decades of ill given advice - Ashanti Files "Ripples"
And the feet give up the gray walk - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"
Gives them leave to move through the wind - Annie Finch "Samhain"
The power to Midas given of old - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"
Gave birth to the tiniest of errors - Sandy Florian "But This Is Ambiguous"
I build a marble Rome, I give it to the wind - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
With the attention the wind gives - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"
Giving onto emptiness - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"
Let pomp and pride and the treasures of earth be given - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]
Giving us orange and yellow and sometimes green - JD Fox "Coloring the Sun You Know"
Gave them back their shade - Robert Frost "The Exposed Nest"
Gives our wish for blue a whet - Robert Frost "Fragmentary Blue"
Give a heart to the hopeless fight - Robert Frost "In Equal Sacrifice"
Give the buried flower a dream - Robert Frost "To the Thawing Wind"
The larch-tree gives them needles - Rose Fyleman "Trees and Fairies"
The sycamore gives them wings - Rose Fyleman "Trees and Fairies"
The chestnut gives them candles - Rose Fyleman "Trees and Fairies"
The love that I give the green - Zona Gale "Wraiths"
a universe that gave birth to itself - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"
In sign of coming give a shout - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
Give sorrow to the winds that blow - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
You must give it all again - "Go In and Win" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
And the rocks gave back the song - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The Convert" (transl. by Edgar Alfred Bowring)
Deceit and violence gave the rule of life - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
And only give to view the tops of things - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Stars to give his furnace food - Louis Golding "The Singer of High State"
What gravity gives birth to a father? - Carlos Andrés Gómez "Ghazal Circling Fatherhood"
The things your mother did not give you - Theodora Goss "The Clever Serving-Maid"
He could never give up desire - Theodora Goss "The Red Shoes"
To give that rapier lightning turn - Mona Gould "Sung in High Dudgeon!"
Three times I gave clear warning - Robert Graves "The Coronation Murder in Four Parts"
And give to rapture all thy trembling - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
The moon will give you her shoes - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Eight: Mitosis"
And give you kisses by the dozen - Grace Greenwood "Babie Annie to Cousin J--, acknowledging the Christmas-gift of a chain"
Who do not give a thought to fairness - Linda Gregerson "Prodigal"
And gives my doomed hands a soft task - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
According to the hints that hopes give out - Thom Gunn "A Plan of Self Subjection"
Gave me his promise of changeless truth - J.C.H. "Long Ago" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.736, 2 Feb. 1878]
Whose triumphant notes are given freely - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel [Judah Halevi] "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
The sentence God never gave us - Nathalie Handal "Glory"
Have given myself to the linear - Myronn Hardy "To the Linear"
As if time were mine to give - Joy Harjo "By the Way"
Giving away to night - Joy Harjo "Remember"
Sunbeams gave them welcome - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "The Crocuses"
Give shout-outs in code - francine j. harris "would like to first thank god"
I gave you my eyes - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
Can give without gain - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"
Nor give the credit to the disappearing sun - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "The Poet"
Gives off stillness to the air - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"
Till bold revenge shall give the blow - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
Yet gave the heart one final thrill - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
Give us no relieving shade - Robert Hayden "Zeus Over Redeye"
Strike the harp to Milton given - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Give back in beauty the dread and the anguish - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
All I could give was silence - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "A Death Blow"
Kind enough to give of roses - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "My Neighbor's Roses"
Must to the giver come again - Oliver Herford "William Dean Howells"
Give itself to squirrels and roaches - Conrad Hilberry "Poker"
No twenty-fifth hour will be given - Jane Hirshfield "Ledger"
Give my suffering a name - Jackson Holbert "January"
Give up on those errant habits - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"
And give her to the god of storms - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Old Ironsides"
Whose sordid views to earth alone are given - "Hope" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
The mirror gave me back a form - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Whose tide to a black-crested viper gave birth - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Relief when the world gave none - Marie Howe "My Dead Friends"
Through trial sent and victory given - William D. Howells "Saint Christopher"
Gave ourselves to fragrance - Andrew Hudgins "The Chinaberry Trees"
Gave darkness an echo of control - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"
Give me an ancient grove and a conversation by a creek - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"
Their smiles have given me freedom - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"
Whose stalks will soon give way to a harvester's blade - Major Jackson "Thinking of Frost"
The blade, alone & unafraid gives nothing of itself - Geoffrey Jacques "Of"
Try to give up the certainty - Brionne Janae "Child's Pose"
The distant bark of sea lions gives nothing away - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Gasping and giving up a ghost of spray - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Gave me a new word to say for home - Mark Jarman "The Mermaid"
And strangers could give no relief - Charles Jefferys "Let Me Rest in the Land of My Birth"
The space love doesn't give us - Allison Eir Jenks "Heaven"
Gave his motherboard its own mirror - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Give thanks for the persistent, the genuine - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"
Gives song a nightless day - Charles Bertram Johnson "Negro Poets"
Give not to them the lotus leaf - Fenton Johnson "Harlem: The Black City"
Has nothing more to ask and nothing more to give - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I Want to Die While You Love Me" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Gave forth no presage of the coming wrath - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Like the little gifts shame gives us - Courtney Kampa "Confiteor"
Gave them my house as home - Holly Karapetkova "Genesis"
The sacred contagion of pity, of giving, of loss - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"
If I give up on consequences - Tobi Kassim "A Blind Spot, Awash"
Give Harlem's king one spoon - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"
we have given up on knocking - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"
Rain-scented eglantine gave temperate sweets - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Hills of fire gave back the light - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"
Give welcome to my silent feet - Joyce Kilmer "Madness"
And we never gave her fuel - Natasha King "The First Perpetual Motion Machine"
Gave the Hyssop and Cedar their place - Rudyard Kipling "Banquet Night"
Many anchors gave us - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"
Giving head to your shadow - Elizabeth Knapp "My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard"
Refusing to give up the sky - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
Would give you whole fields of wild perfume - Ted Kooser "The Bluet"
We will know when we give it a Turing test - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Raised by Wolves"
Where flickering presences gave me right of passage - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
Past copperhead ledge, where the ferns gave foothold - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
The dry universe gives up its fruit - Stephen Kuusisto "Learning Braille at Thirty-Nine"
Give the simple poet gold - Archibald Lampman "What Do Poets Want with Gold?"
Giving off hues of life - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
Given a needle's eye of egress - D.H. Lawrence "He-Goat"
Giving your last allegiance - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
The bliss that Odin give to men who nobly die - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
Gave his dying blessing unto me and mine - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
Is given over to the cruel sons of Cain - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"
Give me a lantern for my hurts - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Gave her the better of the fray - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
Give me refuge in thy breast - Lermontoff "Gifts of Térek" transl. by T.B. Shaw [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXVIII, v.LIV, Dec. 1843]
Gave back the last hard breath - Philip Levine "Joe Gould's Pen"
Gave names in any known language - Robin Coste Lewis "Self-Portrait as the Bootblack in Daguerre's Boulevard du Temple"
We must accept the cage we are given - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
Give us Darwin's eyes - Vachel Lindsay "The Scientific Aspiration"
Who gave me a borrowed tongue - Nabila Lovelace "By Inch-Meal a Disease"
May give us hopes that sweeten Darwin - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
In trances such as poppies give - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"
As it is given to her to be - Mina Loy "Cafe du Neant"
To which the lip alone gave birth - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things I" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
The trees give place to bushes - Dorothea Mackellar "High Places"
Give me those arms of light - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: IV: Connal, Crimora"
Give your shadow a name - Cynthia Manick "Things I Will Tell My Children About Destiny"
Gave him passion's lily cup - Jeannette Marks "'When Spring'"
Gave her thistles three - Jeannette Marks "'When Spring'"
Time only can the answer give - Gwilym Marles aka William Thomas "Who in this new God's acre?" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Shall give the next Prometheus birth - Don Marquis "At Last"
Fantasy laughs and gives chase - Don Marquis "This Earth, It Is Also a Star"
That gave the gods their wings - Don Marquis "Unrest"
Gave wildest wings to desperate prayer - George Martin "Marguerite"
Dandelions giving shape to the wind - Herbert Woodward Martin "Blue"
To give us everything that mirrors can - Harry Martinson "Aniara 36" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Giving nothing to us but their blankness - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Who in bounty gives in wisdom takes - John Masefield "Philip the King"
Giving me flashes of your life without words - Wes Matthews "Immortality"
Given an attic in His storied heaven - Theodore Maynard "Gratitude"
Gave me all my joy of verse - Theodore Maynard "Vocation"
When gold can give it aid - James E. McGirt "A Test of Love"
The one lesson hope has to give - Wesley McNair "The Future"
Canyons that gave back my laughter - D'Arcy McNickle "The Mountains"
For giving their one spirit voice - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"
Nor ask the silent to give sound - George Meredith "Woodland Peace"
Gives up boyhood scars and birthmarks - Lauren Mesa "The Years We Will Know Them" [Poetry, January 1988]
Who gave so many dead unto the journeying wave - Alice Meynell "Parentage"
When night gives pause to the long watch I keep - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"
Giving the bud I give the flower - Alice Meynell "The Young Neophyte"
To polar snows the Aurora-fires are given - Nicholas Michell "The Oases of Libya" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.431, 3 April 1852]
Time now to give up the chase - Andy Miller "Diana"
Who gives me widest room my strength to prove - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Two Monologues I: The Nietzsche Man"
Giving Trouble the once over - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fibroids"
The sea has nothing to give - Marianne Moore "A Grave"
Give back to sorrow's touch a token - Morna "Ianthe"
We gave the clock a face - Lisel Mueller "Things"
Give your twilight rest - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Give the sum total of infinity - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Numbers" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
A name you can only give too late - Caroline Harper New "The Sargassum Fish"
Gave her eyes a sacred light - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
The force that gave it birth - Meredith Nicholson "Cardinal Newman"
Gave their secrets to his own heart's keeping - Meredith Nicholson "Three Friends"
Lives on the sweet the iris gives - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Dragon-fly"
Gave so large a sanctuary - Alfred Noyes "Darwin II: The Voyage"
Giving the distance to each other - D. Nurkse "Interior Highway"
Give me the whole horizon - Naomi Shihab Nye "Better Vision"
I gave him the names of the devil - Naomi Shihab Nye "Hello"
Something our lives forgot to give us - Naomi Shihab Nye "Jerusalem"
To us the shadow of the earth is given - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]
Our birth was given up to screaming - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"
Given only so many mornings - Mary Oliver "The Deer"
Their candle gives a single light - Dorothy Parker "Interview"
And give my smiles for sighs - Dorothy Parker "Song of Perfect Propriety"
Stones they gave you for your bread - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"
As the light gave way to another endless night - Andre F. Peltier "Petoskey Sun Set, 4 July 2010"
Given to be a bright interpreter - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
Giving trust a thousand reasons - Walter S. Percy "The Shut and Open Hand: The Open Hand"
Fear given consciousness - Carl Phillips "Heaven and Earth"
Gives unto my famished soul - Charles Phillips "Music"
For no reason they were willing to give - Carl Phillips "Scattered Snows, to the North"
The hands that gave them bread - J. Rheyn Piksohn "A Contrasted Picture: from 'Passion Ode,' an Unpublished Poem" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Give him whatever he takes - Iain Haley Pollock "the smoke of the country went up"
Whose vastness could only give space to despair - Annie Porter "Selim" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Dec. 1877]
The shadows gathered, and dancing lessons gave - Miriam Clark Potter "Little Sister of the Moon"
Give the echo to your dancing words - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"
Where sandy ground gives way to water - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"
Give rather back the old hallucinations - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)
Make bright music give forth a sound of pain - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Murmurs" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
Give us salinity to float in the betweens - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"
Our quest for the good that Fate has given - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Time gives birth to nothing - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The camp is time"
Both living and dying require giving up - Khadijah Queen "Tower"
Giver and taker of dreams - Sina Queyras "Mummy"
Give me the deep-rooted weeds - Charles Rafferty "The Problem with African Violets"
A tear counts the choices given - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Pro Choice"
Given courage of a flying star - Herbert Randall "My Faith"
With that light seeming which deceit can give - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
gives you her strength in your sleepless dreams - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
you have given birth to daytime visions - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
Today as ever, she gives me but silence - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"
Who suffered giving everything unto everyone - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Creed"
Given us Your laws for an inheritance - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"
Where Time gives Immortality the helm - Cale Young Rice "All's Well"
Tears and strife to give him worth - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"
Till the mountains give back the far sounds - Henry Scott Riddell "The Grecian War Song"
Because giving has changed us - Alberto Rios "When Giving Is All We Have"
Giving has many faces - Alberto Rios "When Giving Is All We Have"
What the dawn of one more day shall give them - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
Not given to know the riper fruit that waits - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
A blankness giving way to sky - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Her Mother dying of the gift she gave - Samuel Rogers "Ginevra"
Plucked bitterest fruit to give - Christina Rossetti "Eve"
And gives my sense her rest - Richard Rowlands "Lullaby"
Without tapers they may give a light - "A Royal Guest"
In the love that gives us ourselves - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
Of my night I give to you the stars - George William Russell "[I thought, beloved, to have brought to you]"
And in such rich abundance given - E.C.S. "The Encaged Bird to His Mistress" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Sparkle lost along with his given name - R.S. Saha "Kin"
Stalwarts given to the joys of God - David St. John "Francesco and Clare"
Give alms to my best sins - Erika L. Sanchez "A Woman Runs on the First Day of Spring"
That sit and give the world its orders - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"
Because the wilderness gave it to me - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"
I'll take whatever prize sage Clotho gives - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
Until the ravaged earth gave way - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"
Given myself as an unasked weapon - Ann K. Schwader "Medusa, Becoming"
Gives the shuddering heart no peace - Clinton Scollard "Night Song by the Sea"
And even the goldfinches have given up - Teresa J. Scollon "Untitled"
Gave you a mug of warm wine - Richard Scott "dem bones"
Give your gold no acid test - Robert W. Service "Dreams Are Best"
Nature's bequest gives nothing - William Shakespeare "Sonnet IV"
Sour leisure gave sweet leave - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIX"
Whose worthiness gives scope - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LII"
The surly sullen bell give warning - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXI"
Given grace a double majesty - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVIII"
For that deep wound it gives - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXIII"
Give ear to the march of Time - Gilbert Sheldon "St. Anthony's Township"
Who has the fairest gifts of all the earth to give - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
With single heart give praises - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
Finally ready to give that old life away - Joyce Sidman "Lament for My Old Life"
Gave birth to deeds that language fails to name - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
Gives the name of slaughter, and of misery - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Victory"
The Law once given in fire - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
That ever Mirth gave to be rear'd by Sorrow - B. Simmons "Stanzas to the Memory of Thomas Hood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
To give her July for breakfast - Marilyn Singer "Cooking for Mom"
Give strength to hearts unborn - Effie Smith "When a Hundred Years Have Passed"
Gives us the keys to the kingdom of death - Edith Sodergran "Pain" transl. by Jaakko A. Ahokas
Songs that gave us bad idea - Karen Solie "The Trees in Riverdale Park"
Or the fount gave its force to the fruit - "Song [A philosopher once, to the mountain]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Give the pinion of passion free play - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
Gave to the clowns a free hand - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger
Who vowed to give them good care - Marin Sorescu "Thieves" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea
And gave to the wind to carry - Marin Sorescu "To the Sea" transl. by Michael Hamburger
Give your gladness to earth keeping - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"
Lurking shapes that give no sign of rising - Leonora Speyer "Deep Sea Fishing"
The boon that gives and then rescinds - A.E. Stallings "The Mother's Loathing of Balloons"
To give thy mouth its flame - George Sterling "Atthan Dances"
That gave her heart to dust - George Sterling "A Legend of the Dove"
Gives Hope her haven - George Sterling "October"
Giving too freely of the fountaining sap - Arthur Stringer "Before Renewal"
And so I give you but the hollow lute - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"
The lamp I give, but not the glimmering flame - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"
Give me no coil of daemon flowers - Muriel Stuart "The Cloudberry"
Give me wild things of moss and peat - Muriel Stuart "The Cloudberry"
Have given the jackal wings - Muriel Stuart "Words"
Gave their last blood to birds - Alison Swan "After Reading The Late, Great Lakes"
Sure as spring gives warning - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
And gave us never yet a ray of satisfaction - Carmen Sylva "Out of the Deep"
The angel's giving her a little piece of honeycomb to eat - Mary Szybist "Girls Overheard While Assembling a Puzzle"
Gave my whole heart to my lute - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson
Gave me heaven for an hour - Sara Teasdale "I Have Loved Hours at Sea"
How can I give silence - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"
Giver of golden days - Francis Thompson "To My Godchild--Francis M. W. M."
Because it gives some sense of power and passion - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Each tendril the old welcome gives - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VIII. The Lery"
And give sweetness back - Natasha Trethewey "Gathering"
Taking whatever his hands will give - Natasha Trethewey "His Hands"
And gives to Evil all its direst charms - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]
Gives birth to another police procedural - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"
The giving was revelation was destination - Leah Umansky "Unleashed" [Poetry Nov. 2020]
giving parables in answer to every mathematical equation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
The fallen stones give shape to a new structure - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker
The clouds which there a tempest gave - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
Scripture an ocean gave me - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"
To burn and give birth in the same vocal gesture - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Know how to give forgotten compliments - Emilio Villa "What's New" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
That gave such sweetness to the hours - B.T.W. "The Coming of Winter" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
And silent witness give that love shall last - E.G.W. "To a Lady" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.145-v.III, 9 Oct. 1886]
Give rein to all their sorrows - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"
Though given the same pain - Rosemarie Waldrop "Not a Description"
Give you each point of fissure and break - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"
Give me back my bended bow - William Walker, Jr. "[Oh, give me back my bended bow]"
One last light of rapture give - William Watson "The Flight of Youth"
To give their mighty spirits greeting - Mrs J. Webb "Lines to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:2, Feb. 1844)
That gives its world of azure - Mrs. Amelia B. Welby "The Brother's Lament"
Give subtle grace to frescoed ceilings - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"
Aware of the fresh free giver - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
And give my rage a brother - Oscar Wilde "Sonnet to Liberty"
The only haven he thought to give a name - Phillip B. Williams "And Now Upon My Head the Crown"
A strange courage you give me - William Carlos Williams "El Hombre"
The sky has given over its bitterness - William Carlos Williams "Spring Storm"
Too tender to be given or be lent - Humbert Wolfe "Heine's Last Song"
Rejoice to give them honey - Adolf Wolff "The Artists"
Give me the death of Tristan and Isolde - Adolf Wolff "The Call of Sex"
Give the light and warmth to solar systems - Adolf Wolff "Lines Inspired on Meeting a Lady: To A. L."
Given strength at dawn - Nancy Wood "Beginning Time"
Give back the precious dust - Miss H.J. Woodman "The Maiden's Burial"
Give me roses to remember - Margaret L. Woods "Gaudeamus Igitur"
A timely utterance gave that thought relief - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
When we had given our bodies to the wind - William Wordsworth "Skating"
How deepest wounds are given by praise - Sir N. Wotton "Character of a Happy Life"
Give us their incandescent fingerbones - Charles Wright "Detour"
Give us our unrequited, forsaken nights - Charles Wright "Detour"
Give me abundance of turquoises - "XXVI" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Give three things back - W.B. Yeats "Three Things"
The muscle gives back the bone - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
An impasse that gave us the weather - Ray Young Bear "The Aura of the Blue Flower That is a Goddess"
Give wings to the children of earth below - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa
Our star's extravagant giveaway of light - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
Pointing to the life-giving water - William Carlos Williams "The Motor-Barge"
Misgiving.
A hoard of never-given gifts - Edward Dowden "First Love"
The earth, still cold, still silent, still ungiving - Philip Levine "Gospel"
Hoping for a gift that stays ungiven - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"
The burden of love ungiven - Grace Fallow Norton "Oh, the Burden, the Burden of Love Ungiven"
Through sealed, ungiven tears - George Sterling "Good-bye!"
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And give the earth her green again - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
To give us knowledge of achieved desire - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Fails to give the gnomes sufficient credit - Duane Ackerson "The Great Gnome Escape"
Give zest to the cheer - "Address to St. Andrews"
Give up my name three times - Mary Alexandra Agner "So Many Lullabies"
Gave back the light from many a burnished point - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
To be given detectable villains - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Bighead"
Give a queenly air to this crimson robe of mine - Louisa May Alcott "The Flower's Lesson"
I return the bitterness which you gave me - Lewis Alexander "Transformation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
I'd give the world if I might but cry - William Allingham "The Girl's Lamentation"
Gave the strain to wild despair - "The Alter'd Lay"
What praise can we give with bound hands - Afua Ansong "what we did while waiting for the rain"
And to the sun God gave a speedy answer - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XIV: The Maiden and the Sun" transl. by Sir John Bowring
For food they gave him honey sweet - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXIV: Brotherless Sisters" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Have given a child to this world of woe - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXXIX: Reminiscences" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
You give language to black roosters & fossil bones - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
I give you the archaeology of my words - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Giving to each moment - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel of names"
Give me only the moon - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
He gave him steel of proof and price - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Gives a nod to flavors in hiding - Zeina Azzam "Nine Spice Mix"
Nor might they give his star eclipse - J.S.B. "Caesar" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXII, v.LXII, Aug. 1847]
Give the guests a fair reception - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
Give me a crown that will never rust - Albion Fellows Bacon "At Last"
The twine that gives totality its name - Mary Jo Bang "Catastrophe Theory III"
Living with the ruin we were given - Mary Jo Bang "Our Evening Is Over Us"
A tin voice giving the overview - Mary Jo Bang "You Could Say She Was Willful, but Compared to What?"
Gave him half her dripping heart - Ashley Bao "Secrets from a Telepath"
Gives voice to sobbing melodies - Maurice Baring "Phedre"
Gave image its own reflection - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
No rare jewels to give thee - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Offering"
Had given a hundredfold return - Charles Baudelaire "The Corpse" transl. not credited
Never gave consent to those red days of massacre - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Banquet"
Give us drink for our bitter thirst - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Gave her youth like a burning rose - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
Give myself away in shards - Joshua Bennett "First Date"
Giving out buckets as a kind of spiritual practice - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"
Now, since you gave me the key - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"
Gave poppies to the dragon - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"
Give us the shelter of strand or rock - "The Boatman's Hymn" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson
Pain's derisive hand had given me rest - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"
From the night giving off flames, and the dark renewing - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"
Gives zest to every toiler - Sarah Knowles Bolton "The Inevitable"
As the devil's flowers do not give birth to seeds - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 1: Temptation"
Give her back her time-thorned flesh - Bruce Boston "The Lesions of Genetic Sin"
Gave out petals inked with curses - William Brewer "Daedalus in Oxyana"
We'll take a yard since you gave us an inch - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Give me back my barren hills - Anne Bronte "Home"
Give me back my dirty claws and blood-warm horns - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
Marooned in the Land God gave Cain - Paul Cameron Brown "Helluland"
Gave the rein to his steed and his thoughts - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
Brain and hand unite to give - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XIV. Second Reading. To Vittoria Colonna. The Model and the Statue" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Given a prey for burning beauty to devour - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Let earth give back the footprints - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVIII. Love's Vain Expense" transl. by John Addington Symonds
To give it record of the former light - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"
Given our so far narrow history - Scott Cairns "Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous"
That give green thoughts in sunshine and bright hopes in gloom - Calder Campbell "Under the Palms" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.455, 18 Sept. 1852]
Gives no triumphs her name - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Lazarus of Empires"
Sweet life given to a soul in bitterness clad - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"
To give least resistance - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"
Given for love and sold for utter anguish - Willa Cather "A Silver Cup"
Give faint visions of a paradise within - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Where Time dispels the hopes that Fancy gave - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"
Infinite reasons I could give for gladness - Johnson Cheu "Wail"
Give twopence for the chance - John Clare "The Woodman"
Given up as soon as tasted - Arthur Hugh Clough "Χρυσέα κλῄς ἐπὶ γλώσσᾳ."
Gave the wind my wedding ring - Leonard Cohen "By the Rivers Dark"
Who gives her soul an empty room - Leonard Cohen "Death of a Lady's Man"
Gave my heart to a mountain - Leonard Cohen "No One After You"
A dove gave me the news - Leonard Cohen "Nothing I Can Lose"
Darkness will give you back - Henri Cole "To Sleep"
because the universe gives us no choice - Gerald L. Coleman "Age of Villains" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]
When hope and patience both give up - Rev. C.C. Colton "Old Age" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Words which give the true metallic ring - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Faith to saints and sages given - Benjamin Copeland "The Coronation"
Prize every moment given - Benjamin Copeland "Let in the Light"
Give a verse of baptism to life - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Which to give back by the end of the month - Gabriel Cortez "Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale"
The curlews' call gave token - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
No tempest gave the shock - W. Cowper "Loss of the Royal George"
Gave up their bass and speckled trout - Palmer Cox "The Brownies Fishing"
Giving back a scattered chapter - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"
Except it finds a place given - Robert Creeley "Here Only"
We grieved like the shadow that gives birth to worlds - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
Giving a false alarm in jest - Rev. William Crowe "On F.W. the King of Prussia's Ineffectual Attempt on Warsaw"
The hemlock which you give for wine - Countee Cullen "Harsh World That Lashest Me"
And dish water gives back no images - Waring Cuney "No Images" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
To whom glory I gave - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)
And give a touch of what should not have been - Daniell "Pleasure" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
While joy gave clouds the light of stars - William H. Davies "The Villain"
Consume half of everything it gives - Geffrey Davis "King County Metro"
Giving you a palm full of wasps - Kwame Dawes "Purple"
Gray which gives to Weariness unrest - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
And give new triumphs to immortal song - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Th' immutable decrees of fate are given - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
If to Bacchus and to Ceres given - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Gave everyone a chance at forgiveness - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"
Never to give the sword its sheath - Delta "The Covenanters' Night-Hymn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCC, v.LXV, Feb. 1849]
If we gave ourselves more often - Carl Dennis "A Landscape"
Give balm to giants - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life IX: The Test"
Give us a crumb from that loaf - Dom "Crumb, Iceberg and Glimmer"
Until the offending dream gave way - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"
I do not want to give sorrow - Jeanne d'Orge "The Interpreter (Sixteen Years)"
Cancel half a line to give a Man excuse - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"
This permission I give myself - Meghan Dunn "Ode to Butter"
Give permission to the dark - Stephen Dunn "Backyard"
Takes every burning kiss we give - George William Russell aka A.E. "Blindness"
Gave upon my night of lonely grief - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]
Giving a gull a sack of gold - Cornelius Eady "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"
Has given me a poisoned heart - Cornelius Eady "My Heart"
That the giving famishes the craving - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
And the dead tree gives no shelter - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land I: The Burial of the Dead"
No honour half so great is given - Charlotte Elliott "Saturday Morning"
While strengthening sleep is given - Charlotte Elliott "Saturday Evening"
Give him beauty for rags - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"
Give my dust their funeral shade - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"
Who give the storm its strength - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Your vault gives shelter - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 17. E-Mush, the Temple of Dumuzi in Badtibira" transl. by Sophus Helle
Giving rain to grain and flax - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 27. E-Ugalgala, the Temple of Ishkur in Karkara" transl. by Sophus Helle
After the tides have given up - Nava EtShalom "Proposal"
And giving death the laugh - Anthony Euwer "The Juggler"
Gave a charm to solitude - "Extract from an Unpublished Poem by the Author of Howard Pinckney, Etc."
The giver of every single thing - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"
To give their magics to thy hand - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
May give kingdoms with its touch - Michael Field "Sicut Parvuli"
Decades of ill given advice - Ashanti Files "Ripples"
And the feet give up the gray walk - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"
Gives them leave to move through the wind - Annie Finch "Samhain"
The power to Midas given of old - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"
Gave birth to the tiniest of errors - Sandy Florian "But This Is Ambiguous"
I build a marble Rome, I give it to the wind - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
With the attention the wind gives - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"
Giving onto emptiness - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"
Let pomp and pride and the treasures of earth be given - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]
Giving us orange and yellow and sometimes green - JD Fox "Coloring the Sun You Know"
Gave them back their shade - Robert Frost "The Exposed Nest"
Gives our wish for blue a whet - Robert Frost "Fragmentary Blue"
Give a heart to the hopeless fight - Robert Frost "In Equal Sacrifice"
Give the buried flower a dream - Robert Frost "To the Thawing Wind"
The larch-tree gives them needles - Rose Fyleman "Trees and Fairies"
The sycamore gives them wings - Rose Fyleman "Trees and Fairies"
The chestnut gives them candles - Rose Fyleman "Trees and Fairies"
The love that I give the green - Zona Gale "Wraiths"
a universe that gave birth to itself - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"
In sign of coming give a shout - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
Give sorrow to the winds that blow - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
You must give it all again - "Go In and Win" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
And the rocks gave back the song - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The Convert" (transl. by Edgar Alfred Bowring)
Deceit and violence gave the rule of life - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
And only give to view the tops of things - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Stars to give his furnace food - Louis Golding "The Singer of High State"
What gravity gives birth to a father? - Carlos Andrés Gómez "Ghazal Circling Fatherhood"
The things your mother did not give you - Theodora Goss "The Clever Serving-Maid"
He could never give up desire - Theodora Goss "The Red Shoes"
To give that rapier lightning turn - Mona Gould "Sung in High Dudgeon!"
Three times I gave clear warning - Robert Graves "The Coronation Murder in Four Parts"
And give to rapture all thy trembling - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
The moon will give you her shoes - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Eight: Mitosis"
And give you kisses by the dozen - Grace Greenwood "Babie Annie to Cousin J--, acknowledging the Christmas-gift of a chain"
Who do not give a thought to fairness - Linda Gregerson "Prodigal"
And gives my doomed hands a soft task - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
According to the hints that hopes give out - Thom Gunn "A Plan of Self Subjection"
Gave me his promise of changeless truth - J.C.H. "Long Ago" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.736, 2 Feb. 1878]
Whose triumphant notes are given freely - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel [Judah Halevi] "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
The sentence God never gave us - Nathalie Handal "Glory"
Have given myself to the linear - Myronn Hardy "To the Linear"
As if time were mine to give - Joy Harjo "By the Way"
Giving away to night - Joy Harjo "Remember"
Sunbeams gave them welcome - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "The Crocuses"
Give shout-outs in code - francine j. harris "would like to first thank god"
I gave you my eyes - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"
Can give without gain - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XVI"
Nor give the credit to the disappearing sun - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "The Poet"
Gives off stillness to the air - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"
Till bold revenge shall give the blow - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
Yet gave the heart one final thrill - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
Give us no relieving shade - Robert Hayden "Zeus Over Redeye"
Strike the harp to Milton given - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Give back in beauty the dread and the anguish - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"
All I could give was silence - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "A Death Blow"
Kind enough to give of roses - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "My Neighbor's Roses"
Must to the giver come again - Oliver Herford "William Dean Howells"
Give itself to squirrels and roaches - Conrad Hilberry "Poker"
No twenty-fifth hour will be given - Jane Hirshfield "Ledger"
Give my suffering a name - Jackson Holbert "January"
Give up on those errant habits - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"
And give her to the god of storms - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Old Ironsides"
Whose sordid views to earth alone are given - "Hope" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
The mirror gave me back a form - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Whose tide to a black-crested viper gave birth - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Relief when the world gave none - Marie Howe "My Dead Friends"
Through trial sent and victory given - William D. Howells "Saint Christopher"
Gave ourselves to fragrance - Andrew Hudgins "The Chinaberry Trees"
Gave darkness an echo of control - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"
Give me an ancient grove and a conversation by a creek - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"
Their smiles have given me freedom - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"
Whose stalks will soon give way to a harvester's blade - Major Jackson "Thinking of Frost"
The blade, alone & unafraid gives nothing of itself - Geoffrey Jacques "Of"
Try to give up the certainty - Brionne Janae "Child's Pose"
The distant bark of sea lions gives nothing away - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Gasping and giving up a ghost of spray - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Gave me a new word to say for home - Mark Jarman "The Mermaid"
And strangers could give no relief - Charles Jefferys "Let Me Rest in the Land of My Birth"
The space love doesn't give us - Allison Eir Jenks "Heaven"
Gave his motherboard its own mirror - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Give thanks for the persistent, the genuine - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"
Gives song a nightless day - Charles Bertram Johnson "Negro Poets"
Give not to them the lotus leaf - Fenton Johnson "Harlem: The Black City"
Has nothing more to ask and nothing more to give - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I Want to Die While You Love Me" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Gave forth no presage of the coming wrath - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Like the little gifts shame gives us - Courtney Kampa "Confiteor"
Gave them my house as home - Holly Karapetkova "Genesis"
The sacred contagion of pity, of giving, of loss - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"
If I give up on consequences - Tobi Kassim "A Blind Spot, Awash"
Give Harlem's king one spoon - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"
we have given up on knocking - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"
Rain-scented eglantine gave temperate sweets - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Hills of fire gave back the light - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"
Give welcome to my silent feet - Joyce Kilmer "Madness"
And we never gave her fuel - Natasha King "The First Perpetual Motion Machine"
Gave the Hyssop and Cedar their place - Rudyard Kipling "Banquet Night"
Many anchors gave us - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"
Giving head to your shadow - Elizabeth Knapp "My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard"
Refusing to give up the sky - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
Would give you whole fields of wild perfume - Ted Kooser "The Bluet"
We will know when we give it a Turing test - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Raised by Wolves"
Where flickering presences gave me right of passage - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
Past copperhead ledge, where the ferns gave foothold - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
The dry universe gives up its fruit - Stephen Kuusisto "Learning Braille at Thirty-Nine"
Give the simple poet gold - Archibald Lampman "What Do Poets Want with Gold?"
Giving off hues of life - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
Given a needle's eye of egress - D.H. Lawrence "He-Goat"
Giving your last allegiance - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
The bliss that Odin give to men who nobly die - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
Gave his dying blessing unto me and mine - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
Is given over to the cruel sons of Cain - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"
Give me a lantern for my hurts - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Gave her the better of the fray - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
Give me refuge in thy breast - Lermontoff "Gifts of Térek" transl. by T.B. Shaw [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXVIII, v.LIV, Dec. 1843]
Gave back the last hard breath - Philip Levine "Joe Gould's Pen"
Gave names in any known language - Robin Coste Lewis "Self-Portrait as the Bootblack in Daguerre's Boulevard du Temple"
We must accept the cage we are given - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
Give us Darwin's eyes - Vachel Lindsay "The Scientific Aspiration"
Who gave me a borrowed tongue - Nabila Lovelace "By Inch-Meal a Disease"
May give us hopes that sweeten Darwin - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
In trances such as poppies give - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"
As it is given to her to be - Mina Loy "Cafe du Neant"
To which the lip alone gave birth - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things I" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
The trees give place to bushes - Dorothea Mackellar "High Places"
Give me those arms of light - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: IV: Connal, Crimora"
Give your shadow a name - Cynthia Manick "Things I Will Tell My Children About Destiny"
Gave him passion's lily cup - Jeannette Marks "'When Spring'"
Gave her thistles three - Jeannette Marks "'When Spring'"
Time only can the answer give - Gwilym Marles aka William Thomas "Who in this new God's acre?" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Shall give the next Prometheus birth - Don Marquis "At Last"
Fantasy laughs and gives chase - Don Marquis "This Earth, It Is Also a Star"
That gave the gods their wings - Don Marquis "Unrest"
Gave wildest wings to desperate prayer - George Martin "Marguerite"
Dandelions giving shape to the wind - Herbert Woodward Martin "Blue"
To give us everything that mirrors can - Harry Martinson "Aniara 36" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Giving nothing to us but their blankness - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Who in bounty gives in wisdom takes - John Masefield "Philip the King"
Giving me flashes of your life without words - Wes Matthews "Immortality"
Given an attic in His storied heaven - Theodore Maynard "Gratitude"
Gave me all my joy of verse - Theodore Maynard "Vocation"
When gold can give it aid - James E. McGirt "A Test of Love"
The one lesson hope has to give - Wesley McNair "The Future"
Canyons that gave back my laughter - D'Arcy McNickle "The Mountains"
For giving their one spirit voice - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"
Nor ask the silent to give sound - George Meredith "Woodland Peace"
Gives up boyhood scars and birthmarks - Lauren Mesa "The Years We Will Know Them" [Poetry, January 1988]
Who gave so many dead unto the journeying wave - Alice Meynell "Parentage"
When night gives pause to the long watch I keep - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"
Giving the bud I give the flower - Alice Meynell "The Young Neophyte"
To polar snows the Aurora-fires are given - Nicholas Michell "The Oases of Libya" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.431, 3 April 1852]
Time now to give up the chase - Andy Miller "Diana"
Who gives me widest room my strength to prove - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Two Monologues I: The Nietzsche Man"
Giving Trouble the once over - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fibroids"
The sea has nothing to give - Marianne Moore "A Grave"
Give back to sorrow's touch a token - Morna "Ianthe"
We gave the clock a face - Lisel Mueller "Things"
Give your twilight rest - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Give the sum total of infinity - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Numbers" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
A name you can only give too late - Caroline Harper New "The Sargassum Fish"
Gave her eyes a sacred light - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
The force that gave it birth - Meredith Nicholson "Cardinal Newman"
Gave their secrets to his own heart's keeping - Meredith Nicholson "Three Friends"
Lives on the sweet the iris gives - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Dragon-fly"
Gave so large a sanctuary - Alfred Noyes "Darwin II: The Voyage"
Giving the distance to each other - D. Nurkse "Interior Highway"
Give me the whole horizon - Naomi Shihab Nye "Better Vision"
I gave him the names of the devil - Naomi Shihab Nye "Hello"
Something our lives forgot to give us - Naomi Shihab Nye "Jerusalem"
To us the shadow of the earth is given - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]
Our birth was given up to screaming - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"
Given only so many mornings - Mary Oliver "The Deer"
Their candle gives a single light - Dorothy Parker "Interview"
And give my smiles for sighs - Dorothy Parker "Song of Perfect Propriety"
Stones they gave you for your bread - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"
As the light gave way to another endless night - Andre F. Peltier "Petoskey Sun Set, 4 July 2010"
Given to be a bright interpreter - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
Giving trust a thousand reasons - Walter S. Percy "The Shut and Open Hand: The Open Hand"
Fear given consciousness - Carl Phillips "Heaven and Earth"
Gives unto my famished soul - Charles Phillips "Music"
For no reason they were willing to give - Carl Phillips "Scattered Snows, to the North"
The hands that gave them bread - J. Rheyn Piksohn "A Contrasted Picture: from 'Passion Ode,' an Unpublished Poem" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Give him whatever he takes - Iain Haley Pollock "the smoke of the country went up"
Whose vastness could only give space to despair - Annie Porter "Selim" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Dec. 1877]
The shadows gathered, and dancing lessons gave - Miriam Clark Potter "Little Sister of the Moon"
Give the echo to your dancing words - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"
Where sandy ground gives way to water - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"
Give rather back the old hallucinations - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)
Make bright music give forth a sound of pain - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Murmurs" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
Give us salinity to float in the betweens - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"
Our quest for the good that Fate has given - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Time gives birth to nothing - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The camp is time"
Both living and dying require giving up - Khadijah Queen "Tower"
Giver and taker of dreams - Sina Queyras "Mummy"
Give me the deep-rooted weeds - Charles Rafferty "The Problem with African Violets"
A tear counts the choices given - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Pro Choice"
Given courage of a flying star - Herbert Randall "My Faith"
With that light seeming which deceit can give - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
gives you her strength in your sleepless dreams - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
you have given birth to daytime visions - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
Today as ever, she gives me but silence - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"
Who suffered giving everything unto everyone - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Creed"
Given us Your laws for an inheritance - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"
Where Time gives Immortality the helm - Cale Young Rice "All's Well"
Tears and strife to give him worth - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"
Till the mountains give back the far sounds - Henry Scott Riddell "The Grecian War Song"
Because giving has changed us - Alberto Rios "When Giving Is All We Have"
Giving has many faces - Alberto Rios "When Giving Is All We Have"
What the dawn of one more day shall give them - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
Not given to know the riper fruit that waits - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
A blankness giving way to sky - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Her Mother dying of the gift she gave - Samuel Rogers "Ginevra"
Plucked bitterest fruit to give - Christina Rossetti "Eve"
And gives my sense her rest - Richard Rowlands "Lullaby"
Without tapers they may give a light - "A Royal Guest"
In the love that gives us ourselves - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
Of my night I give to you the stars - George William Russell "[I thought, beloved, to have brought to you]"
And in such rich abundance given - E.C.S. "The Encaged Bird to His Mistress" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Sparkle lost along with his given name - R.S. Saha "Kin"
Stalwarts given to the joys of God - David St. John "Francesco and Clare"
Give alms to my best sins - Erika L. Sanchez "A Woman Runs on the First Day of Spring"
That sit and give the world its orders - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"
Because the wilderness gave it to me - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"
I'll take whatever prize sage Clotho gives - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
Until the ravaged earth gave way - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"
Given myself as an unasked weapon - Ann K. Schwader "Medusa, Becoming"
Gives the shuddering heart no peace - Clinton Scollard "Night Song by the Sea"
And even the goldfinches have given up - Teresa J. Scollon "Untitled"
Gave you a mug of warm wine - Richard Scott "dem bones"
Give your gold no acid test - Robert W. Service "Dreams Are Best"
Nature's bequest gives nothing - William Shakespeare "Sonnet IV"
Sour leisure gave sweet leave - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIX"
Whose worthiness gives scope - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LII"
The surly sullen bell give warning - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXI"
Given grace a double majesty - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVIII"
For that deep wound it gives - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXIII"
Give ear to the march of Time - Gilbert Sheldon "St. Anthony's Township"
Who has the fairest gifts of all the earth to give - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
With single heart give praises - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
Finally ready to give that old life away - Joyce Sidman "Lament for My Old Life"
Gave birth to deeds that language fails to name - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"
Gives the name of slaughter, and of misery - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Victory"
The Law once given in fire - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
That ever Mirth gave to be rear'd by Sorrow - B. Simmons "Stanzas to the Memory of Thomas Hood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
To give her July for breakfast - Marilyn Singer "Cooking for Mom"
Give strength to hearts unborn - Effie Smith "When a Hundred Years Have Passed"
Gives us the keys to the kingdom of death - Edith Sodergran "Pain" transl. by Jaakko A. Ahokas
Songs that gave us bad idea - Karen Solie "The Trees in Riverdale Park"
Or the fount gave its force to the fruit - "Song [A philosopher once, to the mountain]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Give the pinion of passion free play - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
Gave to the clowns a free hand - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger
Who vowed to give them good care - Marin Sorescu "Thieves" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea
And gave to the wind to carry - Marin Sorescu "To the Sea" transl. by Michael Hamburger
Give your gladness to earth keeping - C.H. Sorley "All the Hills and Vales"
Lurking shapes that give no sign of rising - Leonora Speyer "Deep Sea Fishing"
The boon that gives and then rescinds - A.E. Stallings "The Mother's Loathing of Balloons"
To give thy mouth its flame - George Sterling "Atthan Dances"
That gave her heart to dust - George Sterling "A Legend of the Dove"
Gives Hope her haven - George Sterling "October"
Giving too freely of the fountaining sap - Arthur Stringer "Before Renewal"
And so I give you but the hollow lute - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"
The lamp I give, but not the glimmering flame - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"
Give me no coil of daemon flowers - Muriel Stuart "The Cloudberry"
Give me wild things of moss and peat - Muriel Stuart "The Cloudberry"
Have given the jackal wings - Muriel Stuart "Words"
Gave their last blood to birds - Alison Swan "After Reading The Late, Great Lakes"
Sure as spring gives warning - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
And gave us never yet a ray of satisfaction - Carmen Sylva "Out of the Deep"
The angel's giving her a little piece of honeycomb to eat - Mary Szybist "Girls Overheard While Assembling a Puzzle"
Gave my whole heart to my lute - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson
Gave me heaven for an hour - Sara Teasdale "I Have Loved Hours at Sea"
How can I give silence - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"
Giver of golden days - Francis Thompson "To My Godchild--Francis M. W. M."
Because it gives some sense of power and passion - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Each tendril the old welcome gives - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VIII. The Lery"
And give sweetness back - Natasha Trethewey "Gathering"
Taking whatever his hands will give - Natasha Trethewey "His Hands"
And gives to Evil all its direst charms - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]
Gives birth to another police procedural - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"
The giving was revelation was destination - Leah Umansky "Unleashed" [Poetry Nov. 2020]
giving parables in answer to every mathematical equation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
The fallen stones give shape to a new structure - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker
The clouds which there a tempest gave - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
Scripture an ocean gave me - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"
To burn and give birth in the same vocal gesture - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Know how to give forgotten compliments - Emilio Villa "What's New" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
That gave such sweetness to the hours - B.T.W. "The Coming of Winter" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
And silent witness give that love shall last - E.G.W. "To a Lady" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.145-v.III, 9 Oct. 1886]
Give rein to all their sorrows - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"
Though given the same pain - Rosemarie Waldrop "Not a Description"
Give you each point of fissure and break - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"
Give me back my bended bow - William Walker, Jr. "[Oh, give me back my bended bow]"
One last light of rapture give - William Watson "The Flight of Youth"
To give their mighty spirits greeting - Mrs J. Webb "Lines to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:2, Feb. 1844)
That gives its world of azure - Mrs. Amelia B. Welby "The Brother's Lament"
Give subtle grace to frescoed ceilings - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"
Aware of the fresh free giver - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
And give my rage a brother - Oscar Wilde "Sonnet to Liberty"
The only haven he thought to give a name - Phillip B. Williams "And Now Upon My Head the Crown"
A strange courage you give me - William Carlos Williams "El Hombre"
The sky has given over its bitterness - William Carlos Williams "Spring Storm"
Too tender to be given or be lent - Humbert Wolfe "Heine's Last Song"
Rejoice to give them honey - Adolf Wolff "The Artists"
Give me the death of Tristan and Isolde - Adolf Wolff "The Call of Sex"
Give the light and warmth to solar systems - Adolf Wolff "Lines Inspired on Meeting a Lady: To A. L."
Given strength at dawn - Nancy Wood "Beginning Time"
Give back the precious dust - Miss H.J. Woodman "The Maiden's Burial"
Give me roses to remember - Margaret L. Woods "Gaudeamus Igitur"
A timely utterance gave that thought relief - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
When we had given our bodies to the wind - William Wordsworth "Skating"
How deepest wounds are given by praise - Sir N. Wotton "Character of a Happy Life"
Give us their incandescent fingerbones - Charles Wright "Detour"
Give us our unrequited, forsaken nights - Charles Wright "Detour"
Give me abundance of turquoises - "XXVI" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Give three things back - W.B. Yeats "Three Things"
The muscle gives back the bone - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
An impasse that gave us the weather - Ray Young Bear "The Aura of the Blue Flower That is a Goddess"
Give wings to the children of earth below - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa
Our star's extravagant giveaway of light - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
Pointing to the life-giving water - William Carlos Williams "The Motor-Barge"
Misgiving.
A hoard of never-given gifts - Edward Dowden "First Love"
The earth, still cold, still silent, still ungiving - Philip Levine "Gospel"
Hoping for a gift that stays ungiven - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"
The burden of love ungiven - Grace Fallow Norton "Oh, the Burden, the Burden of Love Ungiven"
Through sealed, ungiven tears - George Sterling "Good-bye!"
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