Potential Titles: Heaven
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somethingdarkerHer privilege of song at heaven's gate - H.J.A. "To a Lyre-Bird" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
No fond tears but those of heaven - W.E.A. "The Old Scottish Cavalier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLVI, v.LVI, Aug. 1844]
A million-dollar god with a two-cent heaven - Hanif Abdurraqib "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This"
Bombarding Earth with heavenly debris - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Mediator between Heaven and Earth - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Used the heavens as a crystal ball - Julia Alvarez "Looking Up"
Walks between the stars of Heaven - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIII--Moonlight on Land"
That leaps raging from the heavens - Maya Angelou "Ain't That Bad?"
My screams searched the heavens - Maya Angelou "Just Like Job"
Earth had doors to heaven once, wide on golden hinges - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]
That single fiery rift of heaven - Joseph Auslander "Is This the Lark!"
See a heaven worth having - Ruth Awad "In the gloaming, in the roiling night"
Profaning heaven's own air with words unclean - A.B. "Sonnet to Clarkson" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
Ambrosial flowers of heavenly song - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
The neon highway to heaven - Mary Jo Bang "The Crowd Closes In"
Stars marvel in a heaven of now - Mary Jo Bang "In the Garden Behind the Master's House"
A knife draws a line between heaven and earth - Mary Jo Bang "Nothing Compares to Daphne in Green"
Stranding me between heaven and earth - Mary Jo Bang "Reign of Unreason"
Wearing the very heavens - Devan Barlow "Dear Charles Perrault"
Reclining love will make the heavens dance - Natalie Clifford Barney "A Parisian Roof Garden in 1918"
Longs to soar to heaven - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Flower's Prayer for Immortality"
No greater in the heavens - Ardelia Maria Barton "A Prayer"
Watch the birth of stars in heaven - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited
Hurling to heaven their awful caterwaul - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Conquered heaven in spirals of pride - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien
Until the broken heavens streamed apart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Tall as the ghosts of Heaven's battlements - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Blake knew how deep is Hell, and Heaven how high - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
In the heavenly wilds of all the passions - William Rose Benét "The Tamer of Steeds"
To-night the heavens bend a little nearer - Stella Benson "New Year, 1918"
Into heaven's cold uncertain light - Paul Bernstein "The Commuters"
Tinting heaven to an emerald dream - Paul Bernstein "The Withering Elms and I"
Misled by glamour from heaven - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Chaco and Olivia"
A ladder of branches and leaves into heaven - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Loom"
Touch inner space with heaven - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Scalar"
While soaring high on heaven's breath - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
Builds a heaven in hell's despair - William Blake "The Clod and the Pebble"
Puts all Heaven in a rage - William Blake "Three Things to Remember"
A heaven taken by storm - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "The Desolate City"
To pray for new heavens - Robert Bly "Meditations on the Insatiable Soul"
The thirst for the dark heavens - Robert Bly "Waiting for the Stars"
And dropped its sightless heaven - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"
Suspect of easy heavens - William Brewer "Ode to Suboxone"
The hum of a false heaven - William Brewer "West Virginia"
Heavenly blessings without number - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
Sought to rend the stars from Heaven - Vera M. Brittain "To a Fallen Idol"
While heaven and earth are whispering - Emily Bronte "How Clear She Shines"
Transient voyager of heaven - Emily Bronte "To a Wreath of Snow"
Purge my heart with Heaven's healing dew - Evelyn Gage Browne "Invocation to the Sky"
If heaven sent no supplies - William Browne "The Rose"
By the memory of heaven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
From my heart to heaven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
No vacant thrones in heaven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Some monopoly in heaven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Heaven's own shining floor - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Never to see my heaven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
From heaven's burning rim - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
That fills the wall of the crystal heaven - William Cullen Bryant "The Hurricane"
Wrenched of every stay but Heaven - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"
Like the thief of fire from heaven - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
I'd strike to the lightning of Heaven - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan "The Convict of Clonmell"
All things named of earth or heaven - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Heaven's gracious radiance smiled - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall
Flay the very heavens with its raging - Giosue Carducci "Old Figurines" transl. by Frank Sewall
Snow-flakes fall through the ashen heavens - Giosue Carducci "Snowed Under" transl. by Frank Sewall
An awful flash in heaven burning - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall
Ere the morning star mounts in the moonlit heavens - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
All the heavenly limits he could mark - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"
Under the dark tent of heaven - Willa Cather "Macon Prairie"
Every star in heaven was burning - Willa Cather "The Star Dial"
Kind hints from heaven - George Spencer Cautley "Heaven Lights and Home Lights"
Heaven as bright as this be mirror'd in its deep - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
The late patter of heaven - Wo Chan "the shoes"
And set the prisoned light of heaven free - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
For what is heaven but the earth grown full - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Beyond the Verge of Time"
Wherein the destiny of heaven is wrought - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Beyond the Verge of Time"
Only heaven and earth have remained - Chen Tzu-ang "Before and After" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Keyholes of heaven and hell - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Whom the heavens loved in vain - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Red hells and golden heavens - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
In the red heavens of hell - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
The seven heavens came roaring down - G.K. Chesterton "Wine and Water"
The king's knock right at heaven's door - May Chong "Catering"
The ninth heaven as witness - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Heaven's season frowns on us - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Those Who Died for Their Country" transl. by Burton Watson
Unbelief is you with a gun in heaven - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
A heavy blight came down from heaven - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
The chains are gone from heaven - Leonard Cohen "Samson in New Orleans"
Glorious at the gates of Heaven - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"
Millions fleck the face of Heaven - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cirrus. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
From every circle under heaven - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
To reach the portals of the heavenly world - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
Celandines as heavenly crowns - Frances Cornford "The Old Witch in the Copse"
A Heaven ringed round with Hell - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Where the rock runs up to Heaven - James H. Cousins "Schakhe"
How near the heavens lie - Adelaide Crapsey "My Birds that Fly No Longer"
Under seven heavens bright - George Cronyn "Song [A cup full of star-shine]"
Spies on Heaven's work - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
The warring winds of heaven - Rev. William Crowe "Midnight Devotion. Written in the Great Storm, 1822"
All its heavenly ardours quelled - Olive Custance "The Kingdom of Heaven"
Heavenly toxic fumes - Jim Daniels "Foundation"
As heavenly seed are sown - Sir William Davenant "The Christian's Reply to the Philosopher"
Conjure Heaven from surrounding Hell - Geoffrey Dearmer "We Poets of the Proud Old Lineage"
Straight lines straddling heaven and hell - Diane DeCillis "Fugitive Laughter"
Puncturing a flap of heaven - Kendra DeColo "Seville"
Alone enchant the heaven - "Deirdre's Lament for the Sons of Usnach" (Translated by Sir Samuel Ferguson)
That pave heaven's highway with their bright and burning forms - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
Living in sight of Heaven made Earth a Hell - Delta "The Message of Seth: An Oriental Tradition" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
Calls out from heaven the earliest star - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
Ascended into heaven's oxygen-deprived morgue - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
And sigh for lack of heaven - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love VI"
I know nothing of heaven - Chelsea Dingman "Snow Fugue"
On heaven's scroll with burning letters write - Irving Sidney Dix "The Comet"
Too brief that span of heaven - James B. Dollard "The Soul of Karnaghan Buidhe"
The glow of heaven's serenest star - Eleanor C. Donnelly "Mary Immaculate"
Cyclamens in heaven roots growing among the clouds - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
Dreamed in heaven and on the whispering sea - Edward Dowden "Aboard the 'Sea-Swallow'"
Melts from the mid spheres of heaven - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"
To the underworld from heaven - Edward Dowden "The Drops of Nectar, 1789"
Hell confuses Heaven, and night, the day - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"
Filled the heaven like brass - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
In heaven an oath memorial - Edward Dowden "Life's Gain"
For gracious heavenly dowers - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"
Old laws of heaven and earth - Edward Dowden "Millet's 'The Sower'"
Betwixt the gates of steepest heaven - Edward Dowden "The Morning Star"
The rain of heavenly laughters - Edward Dowden "Musicians"
In your wings the central winds of heaven - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"
Essay the vain assault on heaven - Edward Dowden "Watershed"
When the vesper dew of heaven descends - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"
The tears of Heaven flooding Earth's floor - John William Draper "The Will o' the Wisp"
Lip-read the heavens talking on in light, syllabic stars - Carol Ann Duffy "New Year"
The enchanted hills of heaven burn for joy - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Divine Vision"
The waters hold all heaven within their heart - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"
When heaven and earth their concord break - 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]
Through heaven's rolled, impersonal blue - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
Every hill that under heaven expands - Ebenezer Elliot "Spring"
Think of the heavenly prize in view - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Morning"
The sparrow's note from heaven - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Each and All"
Dear to the Eumenides, and to all the heavenly brood - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"
Who reaps the powers of heaven and earth - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Brought down from heaven's heart - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle
Your scepter reaches heaven - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 37. E-Ablua, the Temple of Nanna in Urum" transl. by Sophus Helle
The midwife of heaven and earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 39. E-Hursang, the Temple of Ninhursanga" transl. by Sophus Helle
Measures the heavens and outlines the earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 42. E-Zagin, the Temple of Nisaba in Eresh" transl. by Sophus Helle
Till the stars of Heaven fell - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"
Outfly the rocket of heaven - The Ettrick Shepherd (James Hogg) "A Witch's Chant"
A heaven that vexes me - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"
Joined in the heavenly melody - R.O. Fenwick "The Goblin Groom"
Indifferent to heaven and hell - Michael Field "[It was deep April, and the morn]"
our slow glissage into the tears of heaven - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"
Towering to the brassy vault of heaven - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
And my flame made a pinnacle to heaven - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"
Dream upon the night-hawks peopling heaven - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
From heaven on a slim silver chain - Rose Fyleman "Fairies in Autumn"
Into your heaven of hesitation - James Galvin "Alpenrose Growing by the Door"
While heaven wonders - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"
Heaven is in the other direction - Andrea Gibson "Living Proof"
A vaster heaven of unrevealed stars - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"
Traveled the twelve Houses of the Heavens - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"
Heaven a crystal magnificence of stars - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
A lord in heaven called the sun - Louise Gluck "The Red Poppy"
Cut out the yellow heart of heaven - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Mortui Vivos Docent"
Trapdoors in the tiers of heaven - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
Born of the light of heavenly mansions - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Larks to heaven's vault exalt - Alfred Perceval Graves "Lough Leane"
The stars in heaven's hollow - Alfred Perceval Graves "The Sea Singer"
Till the heavens began to frown - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [My first is often caught in church]"
The richest flowers of heaven bloom on the brink of darkness - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Catch heaven's brightness on their waves - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
In heaven to be called upon - Linda Gregerson "My Father Comes Back from the Grave"
And heaven has its discards - Linda Gregerson "Pass Over"
But winter scorched by heaven's high contempt - Linda Gregerson "The Turning"
Heaven's swift sparkling fire lash - James Roane Gregory "Storm Lights"
Half full of heaven - Kimberly Grey "Of Largeness"
Wind from heaven's memorial sphere - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
Through the cloudless salt-seeped heavens - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"
To heaven's gate uprisen - Ivor Gurney "'Hark, Hark, the Lark'"
From Heaven distilled a clemency - Thomas Hardy "And There Was a Great Calm"
Blackbirds in a heaven of blackbirds - Joy Harjo "Desire"
Whilst the blades of Heaven flash round her - Gladys May Casely Hayford "Rainy Season Love Song" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The heaven's weight lifts up off Atlas - Seamus Heaney "Anything Can Happen"
Where whiten'd Cain the curse of heaven defies - Reginald Heber "The Whippiad: A Satirical Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
Heaven blesses true lovers so fairly - "Heigh-Ho!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]
The rich evening of a southern heaven - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
The tears of heaven descend in balm - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Streaming to the winds of heaven - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"
Though the orbs of heaven expire - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
The door shut on our heaven - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--I Will Forget"
Fills the wall of the crystal heavens - José María Heredia "The Hurricane" transl. by William Cullen Bryant
No blast from Heaven can destroy - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: March"
To the heaven of messy souls - Brenda Hillman "Split Tractate"
A heavenly light who created havoc for the hell of it - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"
Our cataloged vanishing unfinished heaven - Jane Hirschfield "Ledger"
To get even and humble proud heaven - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"
A chill breath from heaven came - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"
As by Heaven's fierce lightnings hurled - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
In the day when heaven was falling - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXVII: Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries"
From Clee to heaven the beacon burns - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad I"
Invisible in temporary heaven - Andrew Hudgins "In"
The jewelled heaven of the grasses - Aldous Huxley "Inspiration"
Cloudy stairs over the heaven's wide arch - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Lent heaven's own fire to generous wine - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
And the heavens beam serene with peace - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
As heaven's high twins - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part I."
No rain left in heaven - Jean Ingelow "Songs of Seven: Seven Times One. Exultation"
Offer trips to heaven at tourist's rates - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
The things made for the heavens - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Witness the wondrous sights in heaven - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Golden gates to an unforeseen heaven - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"
Winds that walk the stair of heaven - Elinor Jenkins "The Letter"
Has driven her chariot to Heaven - Fenton Johnson "Aunt Jane Allen"
Open up a window of heaven - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"
I shoulder my way into a crowded heaven - Ashley M. Jones "Song of My Muhammad"
To no one out of heaven - Ebenezer Jones "The Hand"
When stars kneeled from the heavens - Lois P. Jones "Between Fulmination and Adoration"
Prince of pure heaven's fire - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"
Blue heaven has many an excellent fair wind - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: IX: Colonisation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
Made of everything that has fallen from Heaven - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"
Against the door to heaven - Mary Karr "The Pallbearer"
Before the crystal heavens darken - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
The fair and open face of heaven - John Keats "Sonnet X [To one who has been long in city pent]"
Drunk with heaven's tears - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"
How the heavens stoop and gloom - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Art thou already weary of the way?]"
Shall teem with heavenly harvests - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Blaspheme not thou thy sacred life, nor turn]"
How winter razes the shoals of heaven - Adele Kenny "Survivor"
Up to Heav'n's unopening Door - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Naked on the Air of Heaven ride - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Our Priests of Heavenly Pastures - Anne Killigrew "A Pastoral Dialogue"
Now decks the lawns of Heaven - Joyce Kilmer "The Grass in Madison Square"
Twining wreaths of Heaven - Joyce Kilmer "Wayfarers"
When I ruled the anarchy of Heaven - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Not to meet until heaven - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"
Piercing the cerulean vault of heaven - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"
The grand revolving spheres of heaven - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
The economy of Heaven is dark - Charles Lamb "On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born"
In the glorious chart of heaven - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"
Made my heart a heaven - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"
Over heaven's liquid light - Archibald Lampman "April in the Hills"
New moon in midheaven - Sade LaNay "Entry 003 from I love you and I'm not dead"
Not a star lit any side of heaven - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Beyond Utterance"
Knotted in heaven upon the fine light - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"
Heaven and earth and hellish stream - DH Lawrence "Autumn Sunshine"
Even stars are not safe in heaven - D.H. Lawrence "In a Boat"
Your particular heavens - D.H. Lawrence "The Revolutionary"
Like a lark at heaven's gate - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
Has heaven's strength to dread - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"
Heaven and earth our quilt and pillow - Li Po "A Night with a Friend" transl. by Burton Watson
The moon floats bright over heaven's mountain - Li Po "Waiting on the Tower" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
By heav'ns just vengeance soon to fall - "The Life and Death of Tom Careless"
Found north to be in the heavens - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
Hover between the earth and furthest heaven - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"
Heaven's lamps renew their lustre - James Russell Lowell "Absence"
Fluorescent truant of heaven - Mina Loy "Moreover, the Moon--"
Ancient, eternal even, in our heavenly bodies - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"
At heaven's gate she claps her wings - John Lyly "The Spring"
Come down the heavenly stair - George MacDonald "The Christmas Child"
Heaven's glory in the grass - George MacDonald "A Christmas Prayer"
How near and kind the heavens - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Dead Bride"
A heaven so instant and near - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Little Brown Bird"
The shipless seas of heaven - Douglas Malloch "March"
When there's fire in heaven - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
And search the heavens for power - Edwin Markham "The Man with the Hoe"
Fixed in the whirling heavens - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"
A gleam of heaven wasted - George Martin "Celestine"
All melodies of earth and heaven - George Martin "Keats"
Watchers that wait upon heaven - George Martin "Street Waif"
Heaven's host in dance reflected in an eightfold radiance - Harry Martinson "Aniara 36" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Sent the heavens to the heart's abode - Harry Martinson "Aniara 48" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
All struggling for heaven is a struggling for joy - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Unless the giddy Heaven fall - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"
The burning heavens felt the thrill - John Masefield "Christmas Eve at Sea"
Licking the moons from heaven - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Even the devil gets a peep at heaven - John Masefield "The Return"
No heaven of golden air - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"
Grow sick of heaven's height - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"
Where heaven is poured full by the sun - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
Narrowly conquering death at the expense of glimpsing any heaven - Wes Matthews "Immortality"
The seven deeps of heaven - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"
Given an attic in His storied heaven - Theodore Maynard "Gratitude"
With half the host of heaven - Theodore Maynard "Pride"
The thick veil upon Heaven's heart - Theodore Maynard "A Reply"
After the shattered heavens and the thunder - Theodore Maynard "The Return"
A heaven in their sevenfold hells - Theodore Maynard "The Soil of Solace"
The heavens hung like brass above - Theodore Maynard "To Any Saint"
Which enters every color under heaven - E.L. Mayo "Letter to My Grandfather's Picture"
Sails to heaven above the storm - James E. McGirt "The Spirit of the Oak"
Into a heaven of blood waltzes - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"
Grass rebelliously advancing to heaven - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
Reflecting heaven in clearness - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Makes the house of heaven splendid - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
Brings heaven to the flower - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
Laughs looking at the heavens - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
To be alone with heaven - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Heavenly Rose to swelling sea - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"
The dreary night hath stars to deck the heaven - Nicholas Michell "The Oases of Libya" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.431, 3 April 1852]
On the windless hills of heaven - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"
Hangs by a bowstring from heaven's vault - Andy Miller "Diana"
Through the mines of Heaven - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"
November sky mimes heaven - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"
The eclipse of Heaven's brightness - "The Misanthrope"
To make peace at the foot of heaven - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Catskills Retreat"
What a heaven of bliss was ours - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Wheels of heaven dizzily spinning - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
The bookshelves connected heaven and earth - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"
Planted in it the seeds of heaven - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (11)" transl. by Dennis Daly
To eat his fill of heaven - Pablo Neruda "To the Dead Poor Man" transl. by Alastair Reid
In search of heavenly waters - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Of heavenly bread the accepted leaven - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"
Flung toward heaven's toppling rage - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath III. Thanksgiving"
Soft prayers to heaven stealing - Meredith Nicholson "Down the Aisles"
Sail kisses to heaven or row to a heart's shore - Margaret Noodin "Fireflies" transl. by the author
The Road of Ghosts is blue in the heavens - Margaret Noodin "They Arrive" transl. by the author
Between me and the midnight heaven - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"
A ladder of life to heaven - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"
Build his own stairs to heaven - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"
It takes the might of heaven and hell - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"
And girt afar with Heaven's Promethean fire - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]
This side of the heavens' spheres - Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C. "The Dead Musicians"
Have fulfilled my debt to Heaven - "Oghuzname Epic" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken
Weeping larks falling all over the heavens - Frank O'Hara "Aus Einem April"
The flood-gates of the rivers of heaven - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Uplifted to the blackened heavens - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Under the heavens of the machines - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda"
Down from the heaven of leaves - Mary Oliver "At Black River"
Of the inexplicable beauty of heaven - Mary Oliver "Red Bird Explains Himself"
From the depths of the heavens - James Oppenheim "We Dead"
Which binds the whole to heaven - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Thoughts"
Built to penetrate heaven - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"
Our human fists against heaven - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "The Glory of Cities"
Even a heaven with doors so chained - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"
All the amplitude of heaven - John Oxenham "Tamate"
Sapphire in Heaven's floor inlaid - Conde Benoist Pallen "Maria Immaculata"
The pirate fleets of Heaven sweep forth - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
To match the gleams of heaven's night - Arthur Caswell Parker "Faith"
The symphonies of heaven sing - John Payne "Chant Royal of the God of Love"
Heaven's fire in dark-browed storms - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Opens heaven's lattice wide - Charles Phillips "Music"
Patterns from heaven to be woven by human hands - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
The winged seraphs of heaven coveted her and me - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
Not half so happy in heaven - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
Neither the angels in heaven above nor the demons down under the sea - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
The heaven above smiles tenderly - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"
Would exhaust the lavender of heaven - E.J. Pratt "Flashlights and Echoes"
And catch heaven's crystal shimmer - Margaret J. Preston "Francesca's Worship" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]
Estranged and cold in heaven - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Beyond"
Half-full of heaven's gold - Theodore H. Rand "In City Streets"
This sea and pool of heaven - Theodore H. Rand "The Old Fisher's Song"
March to the signs of heaven - Theodore H. Rand "The Tireless Sea"
Jewels dropped from heaven - Herbert Randall "A Garland"
A haze of waste whose brightness rivals heaven - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
Though heaven alone records the tear - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Brave at Home"
That bard of heaven, earth, chaos, and perdition - "Rhyming Ruminations on Old London Bridge" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20, no.557, 14 July 1832]
While the sun shines in one quarter of heaven - Adrienne Rich "Peace"
A trestle between earth and heaven - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
The down-rushing arc of heaven - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Against the dimmer arc of heaven - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 1: Mary of Magdala"
My spirit so high it was all over the heavens - Rihaku "Exile's Letter" transl. by Ezra Pound
Distant gardens withered in the heavens - Rainer Maria Rilke "Autumn" transl. by Jessie Lemont
All heaven in a windless pool - Charles G.D. Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"
And winds beyond the heavens are dancing in the light - Lloyd Roberts "Spring Madness"
A few still minutes between heaven and earth - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
When heaven's great scroll is spread before us - Fayette Robinson "Supplication.--Two Sonnets" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Which Summer from the heaven of August flings - H.W. Rockwell "Mohawk" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
From the measureless heavens above - Alice Wellington Rollins "Love Song"
Free as breeze from heaven - Alice Wellington Rollins "Love Will Find Out a Way"
With the tears of heaven wet - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"
Woo all the stars from heaven's blue deep - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Heaven cannot hold Him nor earth sustain - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [In the bleak mid-winter]"
The heavenly host who neither tire nor sleep - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [The Shepherds had an Angel]"
Exalted above earth and heaven - Rumi "The Heart of the Harper" transl. by E.H. Whinfield
Every bitter wind of heaven - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"
Rommel was kissing heaven's dainty hands - Tomaž Šalamun "We Build a Barn and Read Reader's Digest"
Heaven with its multitude of angels - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Rapt Isaiah strikes the heavenly lyre - George Santayana "King's College Chapel"
Is my proof of heaven - George Santayana "Sonnet XLIV [For Thee the Sun Doth Daily Rise, and Set]"
I go to quench hell, and then to burn heaven - Epes Sargent "The Dream of St. Theresa" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, no.33, Nov. 1877]
Soared to the portals of Heaven - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"
No harp on the heavenly plains - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"
The ceiling of rotating heaven - Jennifer Scappettone "Syrinx Spring"
New constellations gleam on the thrones of the heavens - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
That still unhindered range through Heaven - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Remnants of the heavens we both once were - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #40"
Heaven shield the brave Gallant - Sir Walter Scott "Cavalier Song"
Glimpses of a banished Heaven - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems I"
To quicken earthly dust with heavenly fire - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]
The vast pool of heaven star-spawned - Robert W. Service "The Land of Beyond"
Soaring up to heaven as a symbol and a sign - Robert W. Service "The Song of the Camp-Fire"
Heaven is too much a metaphor - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"
Too hot the eye of heaven shines - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVIII"
Heaven itself for ornament - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXI"
Gold candles fix'd in heaven's air - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXI"
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIII"
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXX"
The varying roof of heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
As ocean's moon looks on the moon in heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Kiss high heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"
The winds of Heaven mix - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"
Weariness of climbing heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "To the Moon"
Separately go to our dreams of opened heaven - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: V. A Song in August"
A breath of Heaven's faithfulness - Dora Sigerson Shorter "For Ever"
Lock with keys of Heaven - Dora Sigerson Shorter "An Imperfect Revolution"
Disturbed my trust in Heaven - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Little Dog"
Praise the heavenly scorch of heat - Terisa Siagatonu "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"
Venting in the pit of heaven - Cedar Sigo "Panels for the Walls"
That flow from heaven to the sea - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Becomes an Assassin"
Avenging heaven will long in wrath pursue - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
Slipped down from starry heavens to walk in other step - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
The weary, grey, forgetful heavens - Clark Ashton Smith "In November"
A bloody lance of heaven's displeasure - Emily Smith "Such Monstrous Births"
Starry lamps in heaven's blue hall - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"
Make one song and Heaven takes it - Anne Spencer "Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The sun that measures heaven all day long - Spenser "Rest" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Because the heavens cease to smile - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
The lens by which he took the heavens - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
The voice of Heaven's whitest star - George Sterling "Duandon"
Based on heaven's blue - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
With Heaven a golden mist beyond - George Sterling "Hesperia"
Clinging fire from Heaven's arsenal - George Sterling "The Swoon"
On heavens and hearts that dream - George Sterling "The Yellow Rose"
The geese have their heaven - Gerald Stern "Grass and Water"
In the temperature of heaven - Wallace Stevens "The Hermitage at the Centre"
And from the nave build haunted heaven - Wallace Stevens "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman"
In the tomb of heaven - Wallace Stevens "Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb"
On the threshold of heaven - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
Through empty heaven without repose - Robert Lewis Stevenson "Summer Sun"
That sings in the sun to the brink of Heaven - Arthur Stringer "The Veil"
To challenge my path in the heavens - L.A.G. Strong "Dallington"
Heaven has sent me a dipper of water - Su Tung-p'o "White Crane Hill" transl. by Burton Watson
Bright as heaven's bare brow - Algernon Swinburne "Change"
Divided from heaven and derided of dreams - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
A vision of heaven from the hollows of ocean - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"
Whose guard secures the heavenly bay - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
The iron hollow of doubtful heaven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Heaven's motes sift to salt-white - Dorothea Tanning "Sequestrienne"
As they pace the crystal walls of Heaven - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Haughty acolytes of heavenly sorrows - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta IV: Statues"
Passed the door of heaven - Sara Teasdale "Chance"
Gave me heaven for an hour - Sara Teasdale "I Have Loved Hours at Sea"
Up heaven's broad blue stair - Sara Teasdale "I Know the Stars"
In the fragrant gardens of heaven - Sara Teasdale "Those Who Love"
Burns all the heavens bare - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"
Heaven is higher nor the tree - "There Was a Knight"
A hollow land as vast as heaven - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"
Nor to use heaven's champaign - Francis Thompson "All Flesh"
Grapes of the heaven's star-loaden vine - Francis Thompson "The Dread of Height"
When earth and heaven lay down their veil - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
Fills the earth and thrills the heavens - Maurice Thompson "The Final Thought"
In that fair borderland of earth and heaven - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XII. Sunday.--The Hill-Top"
But snatched from heaven Promethean fire - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
And ten thousand sleepy heavens - Edwin Torres "Not so Fast Food"
And the winds of heaven are silent - "Treasure-Trove" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
Only the half-spoken promises of Heaven - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"
Will be a refugee forever in heaven - Adil Tunyaz "The World in the City of Kashgar" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Where the heath laughed to heaven in robe of green - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]
In the nurseries of Heaven - Katherine Tynan "The Little Ghost"
The soul informed with heavenly flame - Johann Ludwig Uhland "The Minstrel's Curse" transl. by A. Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXX, v.LX, Aug. 1846]
Pity him his lonely heaven - Louis Untermeyer "The Heretic: Blasphemy"
Lay on the shore of heaven - Louis Untermeyer "Leaving the Harbor"
The comfortable heaven or your breast - Louis Untermeyer "Sunday Night"
The me that made this heavenless night - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"
No more broken bottles in heaven - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"
Change their idea of heaven - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"
With the wind of heaven blowing - D.A.E. Wallace "The Beggar-Maiden"
A silvered chord [sic] attached to heaven's dome - Mary Alice Walton "The Photograph"
Heaven's loom of origins unfurling - Wang An-Shih "After Elder-Ease's Poem Buddha-Wind Ch'in" transl. by David Hinton
A colt come from heaven's stable - Wang An-Shih "Death of My Horse" transl. by David Hinton
Infused with elemental heaven's flourishing - Wang An-Shih "A Lone Kindred-Tree" transl. by David Hinton
Spirit creatures ascending heaven - Wang An-Shih "Spirit creatures" transl. by David Hinton
Heaven endures forever and the earth is eternal - "The Way of Virtue: Eternity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
All the autumn heaven ripe with stars - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Come not trumpet-tongued from Heaven - Edith Wharton "Opportunities"
While the heaven of night grows - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
Trembling on heaven's pinnacles - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
The passion of heaven spent - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
The exhausted heaven of twilight - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
The large hollow of eternal heaven - John Hall Wheelock "Immensity"
The vast veil over heaven - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"
Till heaven yield her sceptre - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"
The heaven of evening burning - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
Intimate connections between our world and heaven - "Where Is the Spirit World?" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
With the host of heaven came - Blanco White "Night and Death"
Hangs heaven's echoes round her footsteps - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"
Converse with the steeps of starry heaven - Helen Hay Whitney "The Dead Night"
And watch a lark in heaven stand - Iolo Aneurin Williams "From a Flemish Graveyard"
An injured Juno roused against Heaven's King - William Carlos Williams "Immortal"
There is hunting in heaven - William Carlos Williams "Peace on Earth"
Overstayed our party in the heavenly city - Elizabeth Willis "The Steam Engine"
And ghosts of rapture in a ghost of heaven - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"
A door to dreams, a little road to heaven - Humbert Wolfe "Gabriel"
Broken images of patterns laid-up in heaven - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"
The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
Virgo halfway across the heavens - Charles Wright "Double Salt"
And their mirrored pieces of heaven - Charles Wright "Our Days Are Political, but Birds Are Something Else"
Clouds upholding the sour light of heaven - Charles Wright "Time Is a Child-Biting Dog"
The heavens' embroidered cloths - W.B. Yeats "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
Would clouds rain down nails from the heavens? - James F. Yockey "What If"
On their way to a stainless heaven - Jane Yolen "Here Where the Path of Healing Starts"
Her pencil is dipped in heaven - Pamelia Vining Yule "The Beautiful Artist"
Heaven's geometry is hesitation's proof - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Wild violets shy and Heaven-mounting dreams - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Sonnet [I had no thought of violets of late]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
With fearless foot and heaven-turned eye - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
That heavenward flashed its ray - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"
These heavenward birds to snare - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Heavenward on hopeful wings - George Martin "Marguerite"
Take the palace escalator heavenward - Jackie Wang "Life is a Place Where it's Forbidden to Live"
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No fond tears but those of heaven - W.E.A. "The Old Scottish Cavalier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLVI, v.LVI, Aug. 1844]
A million-dollar god with a two-cent heaven - Hanif Abdurraqib "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This"
Bombarding Earth with heavenly debris - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Mediator between Heaven and Earth - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Used the heavens as a crystal ball - Julia Alvarez "Looking Up"
Walks between the stars of Heaven - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIII--Moonlight on Land"
That leaps raging from the heavens - Maya Angelou "Ain't That Bad?"
My screams searched the heavens - Maya Angelou "Just Like Job"
Earth had doors to heaven once, wide on golden hinges - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]
That single fiery rift of heaven - Joseph Auslander "Is This the Lark!"
See a heaven worth having - Ruth Awad "In the gloaming, in the roiling night"
Profaning heaven's own air with words unclean - A.B. "Sonnet to Clarkson" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
Ambrosial flowers of heavenly song - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
The neon highway to heaven - Mary Jo Bang "The Crowd Closes In"
Stars marvel in a heaven of now - Mary Jo Bang "In the Garden Behind the Master's House"
A knife draws a line between heaven and earth - Mary Jo Bang "Nothing Compares to Daphne in Green"
Stranding me between heaven and earth - Mary Jo Bang "Reign of Unreason"
Wearing the very heavens - Devan Barlow "Dear Charles Perrault"
Reclining love will make the heavens dance - Natalie Clifford Barney "A Parisian Roof Garden in 1918"
Longs to soar to heaven - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Flower's Prayer for Immortality"
No greater in the heavens - Ardelia Maria Barton "A Prayer"
Watch the birth of stars in heaven - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited
Hurling to heaven their awful caterwaul - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Conquered heaven in spirals of pride - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien
Until the broken heavens streamed apart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Tall as the ghosts of Heaven's battlements - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Blake knew how deep is Hell, and Heaven how high - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
In the heavenly wilds of all the passions - William Rose Benét "The Tamer of Steeds"
To-night the heavens bend a little nearer - Stella Benson "New Year, 1918"
Into heaven's cold uncertain light - Paul Bernstein "The Commuters"
Tinting heaven to an emerald dream - Paul Bernstein "The Withering Elms and I"
Misled by glamour from heaven - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Chaco and Olivia"
A ladder of branches and leaves into heaven - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Loom"
Touch inner space with heaven - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Scalar"
While soaring high on heaven's breath - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
Builds a heaven in hell's despair - William Blake "The Clod and the Pebble"
Puts all Heaven in a rage - William Blake "Three Things to Remember"
A heaven taken by storm - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "The Desolate City"
To pray for new heavens - Robert Bly "Meditations on the Insatiable Soul"
The thirst for the dark heavens - Robert Bly "Waiting for the Stars"
And dropped its sightless heaven - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"
Suspect of easy heavens - William Brewer "Ode to Suboxone"
The hum of a false heaven - William Brewer "West Virginia"
Heavenly blessings without number - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
Sought to rend the stars from Heaven - Vera M. Brittain "To a Fallen Idol"
While heaven and earth are whispering - Emily Bronte "How Clear She Shines"
Transient voyager of heaven - Emily Bronte "To a Wreath of Snow"
Purge my heart with Heaven's healing dew - Evelyn Gage Browne "Invocation to the Sky"
If heaven sent no supplies - William Browne "The Rose"
By the memory of heaven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
From my heart to heaven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
No vacant thrones in heaven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Some monopoly in heaven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Heaven's own shining floor - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Never to see my heaven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
From heaven's burning rim - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
That fills the wall of the crystal heaven - William Cullen Bryant "The Hurricane"
Wrenched of every stay but Heaven - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"
Like the thief of fire from heaven - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
I'd strike to the lightning of Heaven - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan "The Convict of Clonmell"
All things named of earth or heaven - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Heaven's gracious radiance smiled - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall
Flay the very heavens with its raging - Giosue Carducci "Old Figurines" transl. by Frank Sewall
Snow-flakes fall through the ashen heavens - Giosue Carducci "Snowed Under" transl. by Frank Sewall
An awful flash in heaven burning - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall
Ere the morning star mounts in the moonlit heavens - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
All the heavenly limits he could mark - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"
Under the dark tent of heaven - Willa Cather "Macon Prairie"
Every star in heaven was burning - Willa Cather "The Star Dial"
Kind hints from heaven - George Spencer Cautley "Heaven Lights and Home Lights"
Heaven as bright as this be mirror'd in its deep - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
The late patter of heaven - Wo Chan "the shoes"
And set the prisoned light of heaven free - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
For what is heaven but the earth grown full - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Beyond the Verge of Time"
Wherein the destiny of heaven is wrought - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Beyond the Verge of Time"
Only heaven and earth have remained - Chen Tzu-ang "Before and After" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Keyholes of heaven and hell - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
Whom the heavens loved in vain - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Red hells and golden heavens - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
In the red heavens of hell - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
The seven heavens came roaring down - G.K. Chesterton "Wine and Water"
The king's knock right at heaven's door - May Chong "Catering"
The ninth heaven as witness - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Heaven's season frowns on us - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Those Who Died for Their Country" transl. by Burton Watson
Unbelief is you with a gun in heaven - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
A heavy blight came down from heaven - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
The chains are gone from heaven - Leonard Cohen "Samson in New Orleans"
Glorious at the gates of Heaven - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"
Millions fleck the face of Heaven - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cirrus. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
From every circle under heaven - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
To reach the portals of the heavenly world - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
Celandines as heavenly crowns - Frances Cornford "The Old Witch in the Copse"
A Heaven ringed round with Hell - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Where the rock runs up to Heaven - James H. Cousins "Schakhe"
How near the heavens lie - Adelaide Crapsey "My Birds that Fly No Longer"
Under seven heavens bright - George Cronyn "Song [A cup full of star-shine]"
Spies on Heaven's work - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
The warring winds of heaven - Rev. William Crowe "Midnight Devotion. Written in the Great Storm, 1822"
All its heavenly ardours quelled - Olive Custance "The Kingdom of Heaven"
Heavenly toxic fumes - Jim Daniels "Foundation"
As heavenly seed are sown - Sir William Davenant "The Christian's Reply to the Philosopher"
Conjure Heaven from surrounding Hell - Geoffrey Dearmer "We Poets of the Proud Old Lineage"
Straight lines straddling heaven and hell - Diane DeCillis "Fugitive Laughter"
Puncturing a flap of heaven - Kendra DeColo "Seville"
Alone enchant the heaven - "Deirdre's Lament for the Sons of Usnach" (Translated by Sir Samuel Ferguson)
That pave heaven's highway with their bright and burning forms - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
Living in sight of Heaven made Earth a Hell - Delta "The Message of Seth: An Oriental Tradition" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
Calls out from heaven the earliest star - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
Ascended into heaven's oxygen-deprived morgue - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
And sigh for lack of heaven - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love VI"
I know nothing of heaven - Chelsea Dingman "Snow Fugue"
On heaven's scroll with burning letters write - Irving Sidney Dix "The Comet"
Too brief that span of heaven - James B. Dollard "The Soul of Karnaghan Buidhe"
The glow of heaven's serenest star - Eleanor C. Donnelly "Mary Immaculate"
Cyclamens in heaven roots growing among the clouds - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
Dreamed in heaven and on the whispering sea - Edward Dowden "Aboard the 'Sea-Swallow'"
Melts from the mid spheres of heaven - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"
To the underworld from heaven - Edward Dowden "The Drops of Nectar, 1789"
Hell confuses Heaven, and night, the day - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"
Filled the heaven like brass - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
In heaven an oath memorial - Edward Dowden "Life's Gain"
For gracious heavenly dowers - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel VI: Ascetic Nature"
Old laws of heaven and earth - Edward Dowden "Millet's 'The Sower'"
Betwixt the gates of steepest heaven - Edward Dowden "The Morning Star"
The rain of heavenly laughters - Edward Dowden "Musicians"
In your wings the central winds of heaven - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"
Essay the vain assault on heaven - Edward Dowden "Watershed"
When the vesper dew of heaven descends - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"
The tears of Heaven flooding Earth's floor - John William Draper "The Will o' the Wisp"
Lip-read the heavens talking on in light, syllabic stars - Carol Ann Duffy "New Year"
The enchanted hills of heaven burn for joy - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Divine Vision"
The waters hold all heaven within their heart - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"
When heaven and earth their concord break - 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]
Through heaven's rolled, impersonal blue - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
Every hill that under heaven expands - Ebenezer Elliot "Spring"
Think of the heavenly prize in view - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Morning"
The sparrow's note from heaven - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Each and All"
Dear to the Eumenides, and to all the heavenly brood - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"
Who reaps the powers of heaven and earth - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Brought down from heaven's heart - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle
Your scepter reaches heaven - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 37. E-Ablua, the Temple of Nanna in Urum" transl. by Sophus Helle
The midwife of heaven and earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 39. E-Hursang, the Temple of Ninhursanga" transl. by Sophus Helle
Measures the heavens and outlines the earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 42. E-Zagin, the Temple of Nisaba in Eresh" transl. by Sophus Helle
Till the stars of Heaven fell - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"
Outfly the rocket of heaven - The Ettrick Shepherd (James Hogg) "A Witch's Chant"
A heaven that vexes me - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"
Joined in the heavenly melody - R.O. Fenwick "The Goblin Groom"
Indifferent to heaven and hell - Michael Field "[It was deep April, and the morn]"
our slow glissage into the tears of heaven - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"
Towering to the brassy vault of heaven - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
And my flame made a pinnacle to heaven - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"
Dream upon the night-hawks peopling heaven - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
From heaven on a slim silver chain - Rose Fyleman "Fairies in Autumn"
Into your heaven of hesitation - James Galvin "Alpenrose Growing by the Door"
While heaven wonders - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"
Heaven is in the other direction - Andrea Gibson "Living Proof"
A vaster heaven of unrevealed stars - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"
Traveled the twelve Houses of the Heavens - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"
Heaven a crystal magnificence of stars - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
A lord in heaven called the sun - Louise Gluck "The Red Poppy"
Cut out the yellow heart of heaven - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Mortui Vivos Docent"
Trapdoors in the tiers of heaven - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
Born of the light of heavenly mansions - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Larks to heaven's vault exalt - Alfred Perceval Graves "Lough Leane"
The stars in heaven's hollow - Alfred Perceval Graves "The Sea Singer"
Till the heavens began to frown - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [My first is often caught in church]"
The richest flowers of heaven bloom on the brink of darkness - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Catch heaven's brightness on their waves - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
In heaven to be called upon - Linda Gregerson "My Father Comes Back from the Grave"
And heaven has its discards - Linda Gregerson "Pass Over"
But winter scorched by heaven's high contempt - Linda Gregerson "The Turning"
Heaven's swift sparkling fire lash - James Roane Gregory "Storm Lights"
Half full of heaven - Kimberly Grey "Of Largeness"
Wind from heaven's memorial sphere - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
Through the cloudless salt-seeped heavens - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"
To heaven's gate uprisen - Ivor Gurney "'Hark, Hark, the Lark'"
From Heaven distilled a clemency - Thomas Hardy "And There Was a Great Calm"
Blackbirds in a heaven of blackbirds - Joy Harjo "Desire"
Whilst the blades of Heaven flash round her - Gladys May Casely Hayford "Rainy Season Love Song" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The heaven's weight lifts up off Atlas - Seamus Heaney "Anything Can Happen"
Where whiten'd Cain the curse of heaven defies - Reginald Heber "The Whippiad: A Satirical Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
Heaven blesses true lovers so fairly - "Heigh-Ho!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]
The rich evening of a southern heaven - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
The tears of heaven descend in balm - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Streaming to the winds of heaven - Felicia Hemans "The Ruin and its Flowers"
Though the orbs of heaven expire - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
The door shut on our heaven - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Rondeau.--I Will Forget"
Fills the wall of the crystal heavens - José María Heredia "The Hurricane" transl. by William Cullen Bryant
No blast from Heaven can destroy - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: March"
To the heaven of messy souls - Brenda Hillman "Split Tractate"
A heavenly light who created havoc for the hell of it - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"
Our cataloged vanishing unfinished heaven - Jane Hirschfield "Ledger"
To get even and humble proud heaven - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"
A chill breath from heaven came - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"
As by Heaven's fierce lightnings hurled - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
In the day when heaven was falling - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXVII: Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries"
From Clee to heaven the beacon burns - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad I"
Invisible in temporary heaven - Andrew Hudgins "In"
The jewelled heaven of the grasses - Aldous Huxley "Inspiration"
Cloudy stairs over the heaven's wide arch - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Lent heaven's own fire to generous wine - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
And the heavens beam serene with peace - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
As heaven's high twins - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part I."
No rain left in heaven - Jean Ingelow "Songs of Seven: Seven Times One. Exultation"
Offer trips to heaven at tourist's rates - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
The things made for the heavens - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Witness the wondrous sights in heaven - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Golden gates to an unforeseen heaven - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"
Winds that walk the stair of heaven - Elinor Jenkins "The Letter"
Has driven her chariot to Heaven - Fenton Johnson "Aunt Jane Allen"
Open up a window of heaven - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"
I shoulder my way into a crowded heaven - Ashley M. Jones "Song of My Muhammad"
To no one out of heaven - Ebenezer Jones "The Hand"
When stars kneeled from the heavens - Lois P. Jones "Between Fulmination and Adoration"
Prince of pure heaven's fire - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"
Blue heaven has many an excellent fair wind - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: IX: Colonisation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
Made of everything that has fallen from Heaven - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"
Against the door to heaven - Mary Karr "The Pallbearer"
Before the crystal heavens darken - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
The fair and open face of heaven - John Keats "Sonnet X [To one who has been long in city pent]"
Drunk with heaven's tears - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"
How the heavens stoop and gloom - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Art thou already weary of the way?]"
Shall teem with heavenly harvests - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Blaspheme not thou thy sacred life, nor turn]"
How winter razes the shoals of heaven - Adele Kenny "Survivor"
Up to Heav'n's unopening Door - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Naked on the Air of Heaven ride - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Our Priests of Heavenly Pastures - Anne Killigrew "A Pastoral Dialogue"
Now decks the lawns of Heaven - Joyce Kilmer "The Grass in Madison Square"
Twining wreaths of Heaven - Joyce Kilmer "Wayfarers"
When I ruled the anarchy of Heaven - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Not to meet until heaven - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"
Piercing the cerulean vault of heaven - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"
The grand revolving spheres of heaven - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
The economy of Heaven is dark - Charles Lamb "On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born"
In the glorious chart of heaven - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"
Made my heart a heaven - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"
Over heaven's liquid light - Archibald Lampman "April in the Hills"
New moon in midheaven - Sade LaNay "Entry 003 from I love you and I'm not dead"
Not a star lit any side of heaven - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Beyond Utterance"
Knotted in heaven upon the fine light - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"
Heaven and earth and hellish stream - DH Lawrence "Autumn Sunshine"
Even stars are not safe in heaven - D.H. Lawrence "In a Boat"
Your particular heavens - D.H. Lawrence "The Revolutionary"
Like a lark at heaven's gate - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
Has heaven's strength to dread - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"
Heaven and earth our quilt and pillow - Li Po "A Night with a Friend" transl. by Burton Watson
The moon floats bright over heaven's mountain - Li Po "Waiting on the Tower" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
By heav'ns just vengeance soon to fall - "The Life and Death of Tom Careless"
Found north to be in the heavens - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
Hover between the earth and furthest heaven - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"
Heaven's lamps renew their lustre - James Russell Lowell "Absence"
Fluorescent truant of heaven - Mina Loy "Moreover, the Moon--"
Ancient, eternal even, in our heavenly bodies - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"
At heaven's gate she claps her wings - John Lyly "The Spring"
Come down the heavenly stair - George MacDonald "The Christmas Child"
Heaven's glory in the grass - George MacDonald "A Christmas Prayer"
How near and kind the heavens - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Dead Bride"
A heaven so instant and near - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Little Brown Bird"
The shipless seas of heaven - Douglas Malloch "March"
When there's fire in heaven - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
And search the heavens for power - Edwin Markham "The Man with the Hoe"
Fixed in the whirling heavens - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"
A gleam of heaven wasted - George Martin "Celestine"
All melodies of earth and heaven - George Martin "Keats"
Watchers that wait upon heaven - George Martin "Street Waif"
Heaven's host in dance reflected in an eightfold radiance - Harry Martinson "Aniara 36" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Sent the heavens to the heart's abode - Harry Martinson "Aniara 48" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
All struggling for heaven is a struggling for joy - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Unless the giddy Heaven fall - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"
The burning heavens felt the thrill - John Masefield "Christmas Eve at Sea"
Licking the moons from heaven - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Even the devil gets a peep at heaven - John Masefield "The Return"
No heaven of golden air - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"
Grow sick of heaven's height - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"
Where heaven is poured full by the sun - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
Narrowly conquering death at the expense of glimpsing any heaven - Wes Matthews "Immortality"
The seven deeps of heaven - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"
Given an attic in His storied heaven - Theodore Maynard "Gratitude"
With half the host of heaven - Theodore Maynard "Pride"
The thick veil upon Heaven's heart - Theodore Maynard "A Reply"
After the shattered heavens and the thunder - Theodore Maynard "The Return"
A heaven in their sevenfold hells - Theodore Maynard "The Soil of Solace"
The heavens hung like brass above - Theodore Maynard "To Any Saint"
Which enters every color under heaven - E.L. Mayo "Letter to My Grandfather's Picture"
Sails to heaven above the storm - James E. McGirt "The Spirit of the Oak"
Into a heaven of blood waltzes - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"
Grass rebelliously advancing to heaven - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
Reflecting heaven in clearness - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Makes the house of heaven splendid - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
Brings heaven to the flower - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
Laughs looking at the heavens - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
To be alone with heaven - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Heavenly Rose to swelling sea - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"
The dreary night hath stars to deck the heaven - Nicholas Michell "The Oases of Libya" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.431, 3 April 1852]
On the windless hills of heaven - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"
Hangs by a bowstring from heaven's vault - Andy Miller "Diana"
Through the mines of Heaven - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"
November sky mimes heaven - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"
The eclipse of Heaven's brightness - "The Misanthrope"
To make peace at the foot of heaven - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Catskills Retreat"
What a heaven of bliss was ours - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Wheels of heaven dizzily spinning - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
The bookshelves connected heaven and earth - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"
Planted in it the seeds of heaven - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (11)" transl. by Dennis Daly
To eat his fill of heaven - Pablo Neruda "To the Dead Poor Man" transl. by Alastair Reid
In search of heavenly waters - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Of heavenly bread the accepted leaven - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"
Flung toward heaven's toppling rage - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath III. Thanksgiving"
Soft prayers to heaven stealing - Meredith Nicholson "Down the Aisles"
Sail kisses to heaven or row to a heart's shore - Margaret Noodin "Fireflies" transl. by the author
The Road of Ghosts is blue in the heavens - Margaret Noodin "They Arrive" transl. by the author
Between me and the midnight heaven - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"
A ladder of life to heaven - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"
Build his own stairs to heaven - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"
It takes the might of heaven and hell - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"
And girt afar with Heaven's Promethean fire - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]
This side of the heavens' spheres - Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C. "The Dead Musicians"
Have fulfilled my debt to Heaven - "Oghuzname Epic" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken
Weeping larks falling all over the heavens - Frank O'Hara "Aus Einem April"
The flood-gates of the rivers of heaven - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Uplifted to the blackened heavens - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
Under the heavens of the machines - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda"
Down from the heaven of leaves - Mary Oliver "At Black River"
Of the inexplicable beauty of heaven - Mary Oliver "Red Bird Explains Himself"
From the depths of the heavens - James Oppenheim "We Dead"
Which binds the whole to heaven - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Thoughts"
Built to penetrate heaven - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"
Our human fists against heaven - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "The Glory of Cities"
Even a heaven with doors so chained - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"
All the amplitude of heaven - John Oxenham "Tamate"
Sapphire in Heaven's floor inlaid - Conde Benoist Pallen "Maria Immaculata"
The pirate fleets of Heaven sweep forth - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
To match the gleams of heaven's night - Arthur Caswell Parker "Faith"
The symphonies of heaven sing - John Payne "Chant Royal of the God of Love"
Heaven's fire in dark-browed storms - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Opens heaven's lattice wide - Charles Phillips "Music"
Patterns from heaven to be woven by human hands - Po Chu'i "Liao-ling" transl. by Burton Watson
The winged seraphs of heaven coveted her and me - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
Not half so happy in heaven - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
Neither the angels in heaven above nor the demons down under the sea - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
The heaven above smiles tenderly - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"
Would exhaust the lavender of heaven - E.J. Pratt "Flashlights and Echoes"
And catch heaven's crystal shimmer - Margaret J. Preston "Francesca's Worship" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]
Estranged and cold in heaven - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Beyond"
Half-full of heaven's gold - Theodore H. Rand "In City Streets"
This sea and pool of heaven - Theodore H. Rand "The Old Fisher's Song"
March to the signs of heaven - Theodore H. Rand "The Tireless Sea"
Jewels dropped from heaven - Herbert Randall "A Garland"
A haze of waste whose brightness rivals heaven - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
Though heaven alone records the tear - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Brave at Home"
That bard of heaven, earth, chaos, and perdition - "Rhyming Ruminations on Old London Bridge" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20, no.557, 14 July 1832]
While the sun shines in one quarter of heaven - Adrienne Rich "Peace"
A trestle between earth and heaven - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
The down-rushing arc of heaven - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Against the dimmer arc of heaven - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 1: Mary of Magdala"
My spirit so high it was all over the heavens - Rihaku "Exile's Letter" transl. by Ezra Pound
Distant gardens withered in the heavens - Rainer Maria Rilke "Autumn" transl. by Jessie Lemont
All heaven in a windless pool - Charles G.D. Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"
And winds beyond the heavens are dancing in the light - Lloyd Roberts "Spring Madness"
A few still minutes between heaven and earth - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
When heaven's great scroll is spread before us - Fayette Robinson "Supplication.--Two Sonnets" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Which Summer from the heaven of August flings - H.W. Rockwell "Mohawk" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
From the measureless heavens above - Alice Wellington Rollins "Love Song"
Free as breeze from heaven - Alice Wellington Rollins "Love Will Find Out a Way"
With the tears of heaven wet - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"
Woo all the stars from heaven's blue deep - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
Heaven cannot hold Him nor earth sustain - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [In the bleak mid-winter]"
The heavenly host who neither tire nor sleep - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [The Shepherds had an Angel]"
Exalted above earth and heaven - Rumi "The Heart of the Harper" transl. by E.H. Whinfield
Every bitter wind of heaven - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"
Rommel was kissing heaven's dainty hands - Tomaž Šalamun "We Build a Barn and Read Reader's Digest"
Heaven with its multitude of angels - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Rapt Isaiah strikes the heavenly lyre - George Santayana "King's College Chapel"
Is my proof of heaven - George Santayana "Sonnet XLIV [For Thee the Sun Doth Daily Rise, and Set]"
I go to quench hell, and then to burn heaven - Epes Sargent "The Dream of St. Theresa" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, no.33, Nov. 1877]
Soared to the portals of Heaven - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"
No harp on the heavenly plains - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"
The ceiling of rotating heaven - Jennifer Scappettone "Syrinx Spring"
New constellations gleam on the thrones of the heavens - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
That still unhindered range through Heaven - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Remnants of the heavens we both once were - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #40"
Heaven shield the brave Gallant - Sir Walter Scott "Cavalier Song"
Glimpses of a banished Heaven - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems I"
To quicken earthly dust with heavenly fire - "The Second Pandora" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]
The vast pool of heaven star-spawned - Robert W. Service "The Land of Beyond"
Soaring up to heaven as a symbol and a sign - Robert W. Service "The Song of the Camp-Fire"
Heaven is too much a metaphor - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"
Too hot the eye of heaven shines - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVIII"
Heaven itself for ornament - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXI"
Gold candles fix'd in heaven's air - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXI"
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIII"
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXX"
The varying roof of heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
As ocean's moon looks on the moon in heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Kiss high heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"
The winds of Heaven mix - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"
Weariness of climbing heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "To the Moon"
Separately go to our dreams of opened heaven - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: V. A Song in August"
A breath of Heaven's faithfulness - Dora Sigerson Shorter "For Ever"
Lock with keys of Heaven - Dora Sigerson Shorter "An Imperfect Revolution"
Disturbed my trust in Heaven - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Little Dog"
Praise the heavenly scorch of heat - Terisa Siagatonu "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"
Venting in the pit of heaven - Cedar Sigo "Panels for the Walls"
That flow from heaven to the sea - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Becomes an Assassin"
Avenging heaven will long in wrath pursue - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
Slipped down from starry heavens to walk in other step - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
The weary, grey, forgetful heavens - Clark Ashton Smith "In November"
A bloody lance of heaven's displeasure - Emily Smith "Such Monstrous Births"
Starry lamps in heaven's blue hall - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"
Make one song and Heaven takes it - Anne Spencer "Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The sun that measures heaven all day long - Spenser "Rest" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Because the heavens cease to smile - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
The lens by which he took the heavens - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
The voice of Heaven's whitest star - George Sterling "Duandon"
Based on heaven's blue - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
With Heaven a golden mist beyond - George Sterling "Hesperia"
Clinging fire from Heaven's arsenal - George Sterling "The Swoon"
On heavens and hearts that dream - George Sterling "The Yellow Rose"
The geese have their heaven - Gerald Stern "Grass and Water"
In the temperature of heaven - Wallace Stevens "The Hermitage at the Centre"
And from the nave build haunted heaven - Wallace Stevens "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman"
In the tomb of heaven - Wallace Stevens "Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb"
On the threshold of heaven - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
Through empty heaven without repose - Robert Lewis Stevenson "Summer Sun"
That sings in the sun to the brink of Heaven - Arthur Stringer "The Veil"
To challenge my path in the heavens - L.A.G. Strong "Dallington"
Heaven has sent me a dipper of water - Su Tung-p'o "White Crane Hill" transl. by Burton Watson
Bright as heaven's bare brow - Algernon Swinburne "Change"
Divided from heaven and derided of dreams - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
A vision of heaven from the hollows of ocean - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"
Whose guard secures the heavenly bay - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
The iron hollow of doubtful heaven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Heaven's motes sift to salt-white - Dorothea Tanning "Sequestrienne"
As they pace the crystal walls of Heaven - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Haughty acolytes of heavenly sorrows - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta IV: Statues"
Passed the door of heaven - Sara Teasdale "Chance"
Gave me heaven for an hour - Sara Teasdale "I Have Loved Hours at Sea"
Up heaven's broad blue stair - Sara Teasdale "I Know the Stars"
In the fragrant gardens of heaven - Sara Teasdale "Those Who Love"
Burns all the heavens bare - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"
Heaven is higher nor the tree - "There Was a Knight"
A hollow land as vast as heaven - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"
Nor to use heaven's champaign - Francis Thompson "All Flesh"
Grapes of the heaven's star-loaden vine - Francis Thompson "The Dread of Height"
When earth and heaven lay down their veil - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
Fills the earth and thrills the heavens - Maurice Thompson "The Final Thought"
In that fair borderland of earth and heaven - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XII. Sunday.--The Hill-Top"
But snatched from heaven Promethean fire - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
And ten thousand sleepy heavens - Edwin Torres "Not so Fast Food"
And the winds of heaven are silent - "Treasure-Trove" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
Only the half-spoken promises of Heaven - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"
Will be a refugee forever in heaven - Adil Tunyaz "The World in the City of Kashgar" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Where the heath laughed to heaven in robe of green - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]
In the nurseries of Heaven - Katherine Tynan "The Little Ghost"
The soul informed with heavenly flame - Johann Ludwig Uhland "The Minstrel's Curse" transl. by A. Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXX, v.LX, Aug. 1846]
Pity him his lonely heaven - Louis Untermeyer "The Heretic: Blasphemy"
Lay on the shore of heaven - Louis Untermeyer "Leaving the Harbor"
The comfortable heaven or your breast - Louis Untermeyer "Sunday Night"
The me that made this heavenless night - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"
No more broken bottles in heaven - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"
Change their idea of heaven - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"
With the wind of heaven blowing - D.A.E. Wallace "The Beggar-Maiden"
A silvered chord [sic] attached to heaven's dome - Mary Alice Walton "The Photograph"
Heaven's loom of origins unfurling - Wang An-Shih "After Elder-Ease's Poem Buddha-Wind Ch'in" transl. by David Hinton
A colt come from heaven's stable - Wang An-Shih "Death of My Horse" transl. by David Hinton
Infused with elemental heaven's flourishing - Wang An-Shih "A Lone Kindred-Tree" transl. by David Hinton
Spirit creatures ascending heaven - Wang An-Shih "Spirit creatures" transl. by David Hinton
Heaven endures forever and the earth is eternal - "The Way of Virtue: Eternity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
All the autumn heaven ripe with stars - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Come not trumpet-tongued from Heaven - Edith Wharton "Opportunities"
While the heaven of night grows - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
Trembling on heaven's pinnacles - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
The passion of heaven spent - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
The exhausted heaven of twilight - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
The large hollow of eternal heaven - John Hall Wheelock "Immensity"
The vast veil over heaven - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"
Till heaven yield her sceptre - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"
The heaven of evening burning - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
Intimate connections between our world and heaven - "Where Is the Spirit World?" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
With the host of heaven came - Blanco White "Night and Death"
Hangs heaven's echoes round her footsteps - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"
Converse with the steeps of starry heaven - Helen Hay Whitney "The Dead Night"
And watch a lark in heaven stand - Iolo Aneurin Williams "From a Flemish Graveyard"
An injured Juno roused against Heaven's King - William Carlos Williams "Immortal"
There is hunting in heaven - William Carlos Williams "Peace on Earth"
Overstayed our party in the heavenly city - Elizabeth Willis "The Steam Engine"
And ghosts of rapture in a ghost of heaven - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"
A door to dreams, a little road to heaven - Humbert Wolfe "Gabriel"
Broken images of patterns laid-up in heaven - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"
The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
Virgo halfway across the heavens - Charles Wright "Double Salt"
And their mirrored pieces of heaven - Charles Wright "Our Days Are Political, but Birds Are Something Else"
Clouds upholding the sour light of heaven - Charles Wright "Time Is a Child-Biting Dog"
The heavens' embroidered cloths - W.B. Yeats "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
Would clouds rain down nails from the heavens? - James F. Yockey "What If"
On their way to a stainless heaven - Jane Yolen "Here Where the Path of Healing Starts"
Her pencil is dipped in heaven - Pamelia Vining Yule "The Beautiful Artist"
Heaven's geometry is hesitation's proof - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Wild violets shy and Heaven-mounting dreams - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Sonnet [I had no thought of violets of late]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
With fearless foot and heaven-turned eye - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
That heavenward flashed its ray - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"
These heavenward birds to snare - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Heavenward on hopeful wings - George Martin "Marguerite"
Take the palace escalator heavenward - Jackie Wang "Life is a Place Where it's Forbidden to Live"
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