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Potential Titles: Live
Lips touched with living flame - A.L.O.E. "Soldier's Hymn"
To spend the coin of our lives - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"
His fingers catch glimpes of other lives - Duane Ackerson "The Blind Man"
A desert of living bones - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"
Living at the door of reality - Etel Adnan "Night"
Lived this long with a heart full of holes - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"
But now, I live in No-Man's-Land - Mike Allen "Space War"
All the flare and fret of living - Sophie M. Almon-Hensley "Content"
Living is the plot to sing completion - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"
Living on the opposite side of non-existence - Mary Jo Bang "The Disappearance of Amerika: After Kafka"
An undaunted love of lightning and live wire - Mary Jo Bang "Inconsequent Moment"
And live the waiting life - Mary Jo Bang "Masquerade: After Beckmann"
Living with the ruin we were given - Mary Jo Bang "Our Evening Is Over Us"
The demon of the art of living - Mary Jo Bang "September 18"
A live wire runs between us - Lou Barrett "Two Poets and a Physician: 1918"
lived with definite so long - Elizabeth Bartlett "dusk I love"
Tranquil fields in living glory - Cora C. Bass "Even-tide"
Living in a grotto of fear - Ellen Bass "Pushing"
Obeys the living flame - Charles Baudelaire "The Living Flame" transl. not credited
The living water from the rock - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"
And change life's desert to a living green - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Time hoards our lives with gripping care - Stephen Vincent Benet "8:30 A. M. on 32nd Street"
Spared from death to live accursed - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"
Fed the torrents of its living veins - William Rose Benét "The City"
Strange love for the living, strange love for the dead - Emily Berry "The End"
Who do not tax their lives with forethought - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"
Days that drown our lives - MacKnight Black "Corliss Engine"
Perhaps we do well to live with uncertainty - Kimberly Blaeser "After Words"
Each needling each other to live - Tommye Blount "An Act of Love"
In this doll's house lived together - Edmund Blunden "Almswomen"
Trading gold for flesh, lives for legends - Bruce Boston "Ajax Redux"
Trading gold for flesh, lives for legends - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"
I live under the wallpaper of the house that no longer belongs to me - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"
Lived in that box of lightning forever - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Who can live in heart so glad - Nicholas Breton "The Happy Countryman"
The few loved left living - Lucie Brock-Broido "How Can It Be I Am No Longer I"
Lives by noise unstirred - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert I: The Garden"
All the sweet thoughts I live on - Charlotte Bronte "The Teacher's Monologue"
In history a living page - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"
The transient wrappings upon our lives - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"
Colorful living in a world grown dull - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
A math problem divided by no living answer - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"
Where the living water runs - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
The secrets that live inside us - Sue Budin "Totality"
Draw the living water of your love - Gerald Bullett "Rest"
Live in spite of time and death - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVII. The Artist and His Work" transl. by John Addington Symonds
The unmatched phoenix lives anew - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LIX. Love Is a Refiner's Fire" transl. by John Addington Symonds
A name I made by trading lives - Richard Ford Burley "I Fight Monsters"
The living soul of ancient might - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"
Live and roam free as the Carp - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Under time lives silence - Lauren Camp "Original Hope"
Count the living stars upon the walls - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"
Why should the wretched wish to live? - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Held a billion glass lives - Wo Chan "i pissed on a red christmas"
Mastered distance by living too close - Jennifer Chang "Pastoral"
Having to live in a dead person's future - Victoria Chang "OBIT"
Time breaks for the living - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Caretakers]"
The construction of our living inferno - Chia-Lun Chang "Vote Your Way to Hell"
Never having lived among things - Jos Charles "A Note on Form"
The boys living on sulfur - Jos Charles "Seagull, Tiny"
Lived in a house with no walls - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"
Into the living sea of waking dreams - John Clare "I Am!"
Your own incandescent lives - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"
That repels the footstep of the living - Elena Clementelli "Etruscan Notebook" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
Lived a thousand years in one - Leonard Cohen "Half the Perfect World"
Lives with a separate life - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Written During a Temporary Blindness in the Year 1799"
To make my dream-children live - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "A Prayer"
If they have gone too far to recall their stolen lives - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"
Adding the dead, dividing the living, multiplying the sorrows - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"
Lives left at the altar of knowledge - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
Who live in furnished souls - E. E. Cummings "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls"
Trembles in hurricanes and lives - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org
Quench with fire the living coal - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets IV"
Leonardo's paints on canvas live - Russell W. Davenport "Poems IX"
That guard the growth of winged lives - Emily Davis "A Song of Winter (Mrs Pfeiffer)"
The live man meeting his own ghost - Coningsby Dawson "The Hill-Tower"
Living rage beyond the break of the horizon - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"
Wanted to live full tilt with risk - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Human Habitat"
Prayed to all the living things - Desdamona "Once and Future"
Lived where dreams were sown - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life X: In a Library"
to live under an infinite eclipse - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"
Takes a leaf of live-forever - Mary Mapes Dodge Rhymes and Jingles (p.38)
From an urn she poured live fire - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Praise of Shame"
Living shade from beechen branches - Edward Dowden "From April to October: V. The Mill-Race"
An atom of pure and living will - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
Feed on a living sorrow's sacredness - Edward Dowden "Recovery"
When the live flood foams - Edward Dowden "Salome"
Living witness in the chiselled stone - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"
To canoe over Niagara Falls and live - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"
Living to the tip of every bone - Max Eastman "X Rays"
Still singing beyond the kingdom of the living - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"
The disruptive lives of saints - Elaine Equi "Opaque Saints"
From centuries lived on waves - Heid E. Erdich "Dancer Origin Story"
Thought I could live without grief - Tarfia Faizullah "What This Elegy Wants"
Past their eyes where the black night lives - Annie Finch "Frozen In"
That Beauty lives though lilies die - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
An imprint of sandpaper lives - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Watched the Revolution live on TV - Mina Florea "Remember"
Living my life unknown by others - Mina Florea "Remember"
Beasts that live on smoke - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 5"
Live without having survived - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
Living thin wooden years around the aspen - Carolyn Forche "Song Coming Toward Us"
Which lives only four hundred minutes - Katie Ford "Colosseum"
I know the night lives inside you - Rebecca Foust "Abeyance"
Gorgeous pyramids of living flame - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Who lived in turning to fresh tasks - Robert Frost "The Wood-pile"
Lead unconscious lives, old, deep - Zona Gale "There Are Within Us Lives We Never Live"
A host of wild creatures live inside you - Nikita Gill "The Forest"
Read the living text of skin - Dana Gioia "After a Line of Neruda"
The toughest lives are brittle - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Podas Okus"
Each verse of our living needs - Rae Gouirand "At the Rough Table"
In my body lives a flame - Robert Graves "Morning Phoenix"
Our lives held in this gentle cup - Lucy Griffith "Attention"
Laden with borrowed lives - Lesley Hart Gunn "The Exorcism of Icarus"
To live effortlessly - Jin Ha "You Must Not Run In Place" (translated by the author)
Haunted their whole lives by trees - Myronn Hardy "Mosquito"
Into the history of living bone - Joy Harjo "Night Out"
In the terrifying posture of the living - Jim Harrison "The Golden Window"
No map for how to live past this - Leslie Noyes Harrison "The Four Elements"
Lives in the curves of the sand - Sadakichi Hartmann "Why I Love Thee?"
In tameless hearts shall live - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"
Live but in legends wild - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Power pervade the living lyre - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Darkness that lives beneath the leaves - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
She lives in all the mirrors - Faylita Hicks "Photo of X, 2007: HoodWitches"
Live their lives in fragments - Tony Hoagland "Which Would You Prefer, a Story or an Explanation?"
The more evident surfaces of our lives - Jen Hofer "future somatics to-do list"
In webs of living gauze - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Inversnaid"
Cannot live on tomorrow's bread - Langston Hughes "Democracy"
Above all, I live forever - Ishion Hutchinson "Roof Nightclub"
Live oak spirits in dancer's pose - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Lived here in vain illusion - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
With the same grief of living - Gary Jackson "Kansas"
Had no great plans to live happily ever after - Linda Susan Jackson "Nailing Things Down"
Lived without dreams - Allison Eir Jenks "Heaven"
Allow ourselves to live unfinished - Allison Eir Jenks "Night Train from Barcelona"
All of that yearning to live on in burning - Emily Jiang & R.B. Lemberg "Salamander Song"
Lived within a mighty age - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"
Lived within a lattice of time - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
The freedom of the living dead - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
The service of a living pain - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
The ancient hours live yet - Lionel Johnson "Oracles"
Because I live inside his grave - June Jordan "The Bombing of Baghdad"
Words live in the spirit of her face - June Jordan "A Song for Soweto"
Passions that struggle to live in dreams - Fredoon Kabraji "A Blue Dream"
They live without limits - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Places sadness shouldn't live - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
A crime to let a bad man live - Roz Kaveney "The Ballad of the Death and the Maid"
To live stuck between this and that - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"
Teach my drooping hope to live - Fanny Kemble "Absence"
Living indifferent lives - Jane Kenyon "Wash Day"
Make an agreement with the living - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Who intimately lives with rain - Joyce Kilmer "Trees"
In the subtext called our lives - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
Live in a swamp in my heart - Leah Kindler "Why I Write Poetry"
A lively wren from the hazel-bough - "King and Hermit" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Living here in the future - Galway Kinnell "First Day of the Future"
Always intended to live forever - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"
Living always in the same lifetime - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"
Living in the desert of the real - Elizabeth Knapp "My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard"
Lived in a room of mirrors - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
That carves the will to live - Alfred Kreymborg "Credo"
How to live in the after - Youna Kwak "After"
Shall glimmer with living gold - Archibald Lampman "The Woodcutter's Hut"
Astral mysteries script our lives - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"
Who live at the light's limit - Andrew Lang "The Seekers for Phaeacia"
We who drain our cups and live - Michael Lauchlan "Cana Dance"
The live coal wherewith the Seraphim brand the Prophets - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Burrow past sunless lives - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
And all the motley play of lives - Richard Le Gallienne "Ad Cimmerios"
A sponge of living light - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
The balance of living while dreaming - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
live in a burning world - Joseph Lease "Falling"
By that light the living are befriended - Ruth Lechlitner "Change Must Be Served"
Drawn in living fire and dew - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Music drawn in living fire and dew - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Yet live as human memories - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory of the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"
Living blue unconfessed - Li-Young Lee "Spoken For"
Walk through the library of my lives - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"
That lives on the imagination's tongue - Denise Levertov "O Taste and See"
A living candle in the hand of earth - Philip Levine "Bitterness"
A great ocean tasting of salt and our lives - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
This packets of seeds with no soil to live in - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
They live off garbage and luck - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
No one lived here before me - Ada Limon "The Worth of a Thing That Is Not a Thing But a Number"
The viper that swallows us living and whole - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"
To make your lives of sand or granite - James Russell Lowell "For a Bell at Cornell University"
Over orphaned lives a gracious sky - James Russell Lowell "Sonnet: To Fanny Alexander"
Requiems from the dead for the living - Mario Luzi "Las Animas" transl. by Dana Gioia
Dead phantom of a form yet living - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
A living tomb of buried hopes - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things IV: Sonnet" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Hold this thing that lives in your bones - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
Never meant to live in euphemism - Randall Mann "Realtor"
Live between sacrifice and shelter - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
Rush past the bewildered lives before us - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
And live with the knowledge that I am small - Maya Marshall "The Big Water"
Pluck live rabbits from between their lips - John Masefield "King Cole"
The life I neglected to live - Ted Mathys "Fool's Gold"
Enough air to live on - Khaled Mattawa "Season of Migration to the North/Northwest"
Why all fairies live in moons - Furnley Maurice "Neely Lorst"
That lives above the ceiling - Furnley Maurice "The Soldier Band"
Weave you crowns of living laurel - Theodore Maynard "L'Envoi"
Harder even than knowing the living - Maureen N. McLane "They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century"
Down through the days of my living - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"
Live to discover our true names - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
True for all living beings - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"
No longer ply the living water - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"
In one or two lives - Elizabeth Metzger "Won Exit"
Will not live another hour - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"
Cannot ask the living for grace - Claire Millikin "Doll Collectors"
Which, on my living tongue, is dead - Gabriela Mistral "The Teller of Tales" (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
They are living the politics of occupation - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"
Apart, upon a throne of living fire - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Hell" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Living relic of stone - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Eternal Stand"
Can't live upright now - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Samaria Rice, Tamir's Mother"
Within whose soul the fire of the eternal lived - George L. Moore "Keats"
Lived on every kind of shortage - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"
All the dead days I have lived - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
And a new music lived upon the floods - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Living through the ruin - Gala Mukomolova "Return"
Lived quietly among the stars - Harryette Mullen "Black Nikes"
A history to live through - Walter Dean Myers "William Dandridge, 67, Mechanic"
Flickering images of our lives - Walter Dean Myers "William Dandridge, 67, Mechanic"
The nine lives of pathological compulsion - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"
Written in letters of living light - Mary E. Nealy "The Captain of '63 to His Men" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]
But only the heart can live in it - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"
Lived in liberty and dance - Pablo Neruda "Ancient History" transl. by Miguel Argarin
Our lives like empty mollusk shells - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly
Defend the live coal of life - Pablo Neruda "Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas (1949)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
In pursuit of the foam's lives - Pablo Neruda "The Men and the Islands" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The gray links of lives that repeat - Pablo Neruda "Modestly" transl. by William O'Daly
The living poppy above the broken light - Pablo Neruda "Song on the Death and Resurrection of Luis Companys" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Dead things left by living things - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
Forth from the hold while yet we live - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
We live with our battle scars - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"
Lives on the sweet the iris gives - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Dragon-fly"
That echo the rasp of our lives - Margaret Noodin "Babejianjisemigad/Gradual Transformation"
Ascending from one living spiral thread - Alfred Noyes "An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin"
Live inside his old words - Naomi Shihab Nye "Ellipse"
Something our lives forgot to give us - Naomi Shihab Nye "Jerusalem"
Could live inside this rose - Naomi Shihab Nye "Last August Hours Before the Year 2000"
Music lives inside my legs - Naomi Shihab Nye "One Boy Told Me"
Living in the sienna's myriad mazes - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
The long black branches of other lives - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"
Have lived along the hills of redemption - Romeo Oriogun "Griot of Strange Places"
When I die let me live - Meghan O'Rourke "Unforced Error"
Lived with eight sisters in a warm ocean - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"
Lives in a house of black glass - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Five"
Now only lives in my dreams - Abdurehim Parach "On the Boat" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Living for a hating - Dorothy Parker "The dark girl’s rhyme"
Nostalgia and fear of the bomb live in our souls - Andre F. Peltier "Ishirou Honda to the Edge of Panic"
That flutter with a living sound - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
Never quenched a living song - Walter S. Percy "The Good Samaritan"
Each living gesture precarious - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Force Drift (VII)"
Lived with no other thought - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
The decadent ruin where expatriate gods live - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
She makes me live in my head - John Prine
Grief lives a new life as devotion - Khadijah Queen "Tower"
Both living and dying require giving up - Khadijah Queen "Tower"
In everything live a disturbance - Khadijah Queen "X"
Revealing which insects live inside - Paige Quinones "Epithalamium"
Who live, and love, and dying make amends - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Ode to Sappho"
Phantom fists against the plexiglass of the living world - Nen G. Ramirez "Love poem with a dying cat"
Living in the beat of my veins - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Bomba"
Has poured its living gold - Theodore H. Rand "At Minas Basin"
Lest the living flame to ashes turn - Theodore H. Rand "The Nightingale"
Everyone I have to live without - Diane Raptosh "American Amnesiac [The self is a thousand localities]"
And goes to live in memory alone - Thomas Buchanan Read "Lines, Suggested by Rogers' Statue of Ruth"
In which the living sap might burn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 1: Mary of Magdala"
The living tendons of a flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 1: Mary of Magdala"
Your lives like dust in your hands - Lola Ridge "Reveille"
Tasting the turbulent fury of living - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
Because my country has robbed me of living - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
The law whereby our senses live - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
We live in secret cities - Alberto Rios "The Cities Inside Us"
The small town where my memory still lives - Alberto Rios "November 2: Dia de los muertos"
Forever living with the consequences - Valencia Robin "Naming Yourself"
Wave living flower and living leaf - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"
A three-day wish and two days to live - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"
the kind of applause it takes to live - C.T. Salazar "River"
back to some childhood we never got to live - Sam Sax "My Hole. My Whole"
By eating stolen bread her living gets - Friedrich Schiller "The Parallel"
Living in this sea of leaves - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #22"
The knowledge that you have been living without something - Jason Schneiderman "Vocabulary"
Desire and regret live side by side - Philip Schultz "A Moment"
Not less though shorter lived - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [The wind tears up the sun]"
To drown our tattered lives - Ann K. Schwader "Towers of Light"
Built their lives of stone & gold - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"
Rattling the branches of other lives - Teresa J. Scollon "Mid-Life, I'm Lost"
Will live when Death is dead - Frederick George Scott "Andante"
Live with their life on loan - Tim Seibles "All the Time Blues Villanelle"
Even knowing that someone is stealing our lives - Tim Seibles "Faith"
my skin is a mirror of past lives - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"
Their substance still lives sweet - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"
In our lives a separable spite - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXVI"
The living record of your memory - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LV"
Feel the currents of each other's lives - Joyce Sidman "Starting Now"
Our lives part of the elemental clock - Marge Simon "The Astronaut's Return"
Who live on the edge of doubt - Maurya Simon "Angels"
Of death moving among the living - Tom Sleigh "Space Station"
From out the web of former lives - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"
Lived long in a low solstice - Danez Smith "anti poetica"
The miracle of other people's lives - Danez Smith "in lieu of a poem, i'd like to say"
Where my dreaming and my loving live - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"
Seek lives outside of speech - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"
Tired of living with the cold - Richard Solomon "Wormwood (For Linda)"
Ungrateful creatures with their own lives - A.E. Stallings "The Dogdom of the Dead"
In living stars and blazoned bands - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
The grief and music of forgotten lives - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
Have listened to and lived with grasshoppers - Gerald Stern "Mimi"
Have lived in earlier worlds unknown - Arthur Stringer "March Twilight"
A month or twain to live on honeycomb - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"
That live down here in shade - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Before our lives divide for ever - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Petty death where each in other live - Sir P. Sydney "A Kiss" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]
Flame will live, defying Fate's alarm - Carmen Sylva "The Glowworm"
This candle guides none living - Sonya Taaffe "Night Boat"
A quick recognition of my moment in their lives - Keith Taylor "Twenty-Three Nuns on Warren Road"
This moment brief between two lives - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"
A yard or two nearer the living air - Edward Thomas "Digging"
A living veil drops down from the sky - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"
As long as youth breathes living fire - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIV. The Flags"
The beginning of invisible lives - Elizabeth Torres "The Voyage"
Amid the dust of vanished lives - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 3 A. M."
On which affection's heart may live - Richard Chenevix Trench "To E--"
The living surround the dead - Jacqueline Allen Trimble "Walking Beside the Cemetery, Olivia Street, Key West"
Ash dancing among a living flame - Jacqueline Allen Trimble "Walking Beside the Cemetery, Olivia Street, Key West"
Cataracts of seething, living action - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"
A sprawl of other lives - John Updike "Endpoint"
Lived as if within forever - John Updike "Endpoint"
Who build bridges between the dead and the living - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"
From this harvest part of our lives - Diane Wakoski "Snowy Owl Goddess"
While the other half lives in the crypt - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
Learnt from thee to live - Phillis Wheatley "To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works"
Live through a life complete - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
No language ever brought a living word - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"
Beneath their feet a living stepping-stone - Margaret Widdemer "The Old Suffragist"
Before the spectacle of our lives - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]
Or I do not live at all - William Carlos Williams "The Ivy Crown"
Farewell the heart that lives alone - William Wordsworth "Lines Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont"
Live upon their praises - William Wordsworth "To the Small Celandine"
To live in the come-and-go of things - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie II"
We live beyond the metaphysician's fingertips - Charles Wright "Dude"
For we have lived in the wind - Charles Wright "My Old Clinch Mountain Home"
Our lives have been one constant mistake - Charles Wright "Road Warriors"
That tight place where most of us live - Charles Wright "Well, Get Up, Rounder, Let a Working Man Lay Down"
And live at the edge of things - Charles Wright "With Horace, Sitting on the Platform, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"
Speak carefully of the living - Jay Wright "Kumu"
Fugitive lives docking in Halifax - Jay Wright "Somewhere between here and Belen"
What lives on that map never sees the light - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
The living song descended upon the drum - "XVII: Xochicuicatl | A Flower Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
That my fame shall live fresh in memory - "XX" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
While my soul lives by the waters - "XXVI" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
A lithe gnarl of live oak - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
Make their living out of sleep - Jane Yolen "Winter Song of the Weasel"
Uttermost attar of the living rose - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Can only be learned by living - Kevin Young "Ledge"
Live in the hollows of my blood - Matthew Zapruder "Brooklyn with a New Beginning"
Adjust such live-long growth to rules - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
Outlive.
Each knot a way to relive the day - Sue Budin "I Dream About Weaving"
Horror relived in every iteration - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"
The horizon's volume relived as a tremor - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
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To spend the coin of our lives - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"
His fingers catch glimpes of other lives - Duane Ackerson "The Blind Man"
A desert of living bones - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"
Living at the door of reality - Etel Adnan "Night"
Lived this long with a heart full of holes - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"
But now, I live in No-Man's-Land - Mike Allen "Space War"
All the flare and fret of living - Sophie M. Almon-Hensley "Content"
Living is the plot to sing completion - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"
Living on the opposite side of non-existence - Mary Jo Bang "The Disappearance of Amerika: After Kafka"
An undaunted love of lightning and live wire - Mary Jo Bang "Inconsequent Moment"
And live the waiting life - Mary Jo Bang "Masquerade: After Beckmann"
Living with the ruin we were given - Mary Jo Bang "Our Evening Is Over Us"
The demon of the art of living - Mary Jo Bang "September 18"
A live wire runs between us - Lou Barrett "Two Poets and a Physician: 1918"
lived with definite so long - Elizabeth Bartlett "dusk I love"
Tranquil fields in living glory - Cora C. Bass "Even-tide"
Living in a grotto of fear - Ellen Bass "Pushing"
Obeys the living flame - Charles Baudelaire "The Living Flame" transl. not credited
The living water from the rock - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"
And change life's desert to a living green - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Time hoards our lives with gripping care - Stephen Vincent Benet "8:30 A. M. on 32nd Street"
Spared from death to live accursed - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"
Fed the torrents of its living veins - William Rose Benét "The City"
Strange love for the living, strange love for the dead - Emily Berry "The End"
Who do not tax their lives with forethought - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"
Days that drown our lives - MacKnight Black "Corliss Engine"
Perhaps we do well to live with uncertainty - Kimberly Blaeser "After Words"
Each needling each other to live - Tommye Blount "An Act of Love"
In this doll's house lived together - Edmund Blunden "Almswomen"
Trading gold for flesh, lives for legends - Bruce Boston "Ajax Redux"
Trading gold for flesh, lives for legends - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"
I live under the wallpaper of the house that no longer belongs to me - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"
Lived in that box of lightning forever - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Who can live in heart so glad - Nicholas Breton "The Happy Countryman"
The few loved left living - Lucie Brock-Broido "How Can It Be I Am No Longer I"
Lives by noise unstirred - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert I: The Garden"
All the sweet thoughts I live on - Charlotte Bronte "The Teacher's Monologue"
In history a living page - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"
The transient wrappings upon our lives - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"
Colorful living in a world grown dull - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
A math problem divided by no living answer - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"
Where the living water runs - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
The secrets that live inside us - Sue Budin "Totality"
Draw the living water of your love - Gerald Bullett "Rest"
Live in spite of time and death - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVII. The Artist and His Work" transl. by John Addington Symonds
The unmatched phoenix lives anew - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LIX. Love Is a Refiner's Fire" transl. by John Addington Symonds
A name I made by trading lives - Richard Ford Burley "I Fight Monsters"
The living soul of ancient might - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"
Live and roam free as the Carp - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Under time lives silence - Lauren Camp "Original Hope"
Count the living stars upon the walls - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"
Why should the wretched wish to live? - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Held a billion glass lives - Wo Chan "i pissed on a red christmas"
Mastered distance by living too close - Jennifer Chang "Pastoral"
Having to live in a dead person's future - Victoria Chang "OBIT"
Time breaks for the living - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Caretakers]"
The construction of our living inferno - Chia-Lun Chang "Vote Your Way to Hell"
Never having lived among things - Jos Charles "A Note on Form"
The boys living on sulfur - Jos Charles "Seagull, Tiny"
Lived in a house with no walls - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"
Into the living sea of waking dreams - John Clare "I Am!"
Your own incandescent lives - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"
That repels the footstep of the living - Elena Clementelli "Etruscan Notebook" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
Lived a thousand years in one - Leonard Cohen "Half the Perfect World"
Lives with a separate life - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Written During a Temporary Blindness in the Year 1799"
To make my dream-children live - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. "A Prayer"
If they have gone too far to recall their stolen lives - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"
Adding the dead, dividing the living, multiplying the sorrows - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"
Lives left at the altar of knowledge - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
Who live in furnished souls - E. E. Cummings "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls"
Trembles in hurricanes and lives - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org
Quench with fire the living coal - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets IV"
Leonardo's paints on canvas live - Russell W. Davenport "Poems IX"
That guard the growth of winged lives - Emily Davis "A Song of Winter (Mrs Pfeiffer)"
The live man meeting his own ghost - Coningsby Dawson "The Hill-Tower"
Living rage beyond the break of the horizon - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"
Wanted to live full tilt with risk - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Human Habitat"
Prayed to all the living things - Desdamona "Once and Future"
Lived where dreams were sown - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life X: In a Library"
to live under an infinite eclipse - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"
Takes a leaf of live-forever - Mary Mapes Dodge Rhymes and Jingles (p.38)
From an urn she poured live fire - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Praise of Shame"
Living shade from beechen branches - Edward Dowden "From April to October: V. The Mill-Race"
An atom of pure and living will - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
Feed on a living sorrow's sacredness - Edward Dowden "Recovery"
When the live flood foams - Edward Dowden "Salome"
Living witness in the chiselled stone - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"
To canoe over Niagara Falls and live - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"
Living to the tip of every bone - Max Eastman "X Rays"
Still singing beyond the kingdom of the living - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"
The disruptive lives of saints - Elaine Equi "Opaque Saints"
From centuries lived on waves - Heid E. Erdich "Dancer Origin Story"
Thought I could live without grief - Tarfia Faizullah "What This Elegy Wants"
Past their eyes where the black night lives - Annie Finch "Frozen In"
That Beauty lives though lilies die - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
An imprint of sandpaper lives - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Watched the Revolution live on TV - Mina Florea "Remember"
Living my life unknown by others - Mina Florea "Remember"
Beasts that live on smoke - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 5"
Live without having survived - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"
Living thin wooden years around the aspen - Carolyn Forche "Song Coming Toward Us"
Which lives only four hundred minutes - Katie Ford "Colosseum"
I know the night lives inside you - Rebecca Foust "Abeyance"
Gorgeous pyramids of living flame - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Who lived in turning to fresh tasks - Robert Frost "The Wood-pile"
Lead unconscious lives, old, deep - Zona Gale "There Are Within Us Lives We Never Live"
A host of wild creatures live inside you - Nikita Gill "The Forest"
Read the living text of skin - Dana Gioia "After a Line of Neruda"
The toughest lives are brittle - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Podas Okus"
Each verse of our living needs - Rae Gouirand "At the Rough Table"
In my body lives a flame - Robert Graves "Morning Phoenix"
Our lives held in this gentle cup - Lucy Griffith "Attention"
Laden with borrowed lives - Lesley Hart Gunn "The Exorcism of Icarus"
To live effortlessly - Jin Ha "You Must Not Run In Place" (translated by the author)
Haunted their whole lives by trees - Myronn Hardy "Mosquito"
Into the history of living bone - Joy Harjo "Night Out"
In the terrifying posture of the living - Jim Harrison "The Golden Window"
No map for how to live past this - Leslie Noyes Harrison "The Four Elements"
Lives in the curves of the sand - Sadakichi Hartmann "Why I Love Thee?"
In tameless hearts shall live - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"
Live but in legends wild - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Power pervade the living lyre - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Darkness that lives beneath the leaves - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
She lives in all the mirrors - Faylita Hicks "Photo of X, 2007: HoodWitches"
Live their lives in fragments - Tony Hoagland "Which Would You Prefer, a Story or an Explanation?"
The more evident surfaces of our lives - Jen Hofer "future somatics to-do list"
In webs of living gauze - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Inversnaid"
Cannot live on tomorrow's bread - Langston Hughes "Democracy"
Above all, I live forever - Ishion Hutchinson "Roof Nightclub"
Live oak spirits in dancer's pose - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Lived here in vain illusion - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
With the same grief of living - Gary Jackson "Kansas"
Had no great plans to live happily ever after - Linda Susan Jackson "Nailing Things Down"
Lived without dreams - Allison Eir Jenks "Heaven"
Allow ourselves to live unfinished - Allison Eir Jenks "Night Train from Barcelona"
All of that yearning to live on in burning - Emily Jiang & R.B. Lemberg "Salamander Song"
Lived within a mighty age - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"
Lived within a lattice of time - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
The freedom of the living dead - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
The service of a living pain - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
The ancient hours live yet - Lionel Johnson "Oracles"
Because I live inside his grave - June Jordan "The Bombing of Baghdad"
Words live in the spirit of her face - June Jordan "A Song for Soweto"
Passions that struggle to live in dreams - Fredoon Kabraji "A Blue Dream"
They live without limits - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Places sadness shouldn't live - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
A crime to let a bad man live - Roz Kaveney "The Ballad of the Death and the Maid"
To live stuck between this and that - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"
Teach my drooping hope to live - Fanny Kemble "Absence"
Living indifferent lives - Jane Kenyon "Wash Day"
Make an agreement with the living - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Who intimately lives with rain - Joyce Kilmer "Trees"
In the subtext called our lives - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"
Live in a swamp in my heart - Leah Kindler "Why I Write Poetry"
A lively wren from the hazel-bough - "King and Hermit" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Living here in the future - Galway Kinnell "First Day of the Future"
Always intended to live forever - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"
Living always in the same lifetime - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"
Living in the desert of the real - Elizabeth Knapp "My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard"
Lived in a room of mirrors - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
That carves the will to live - Alfred Kreymborg "Credo"
How to live in the after - Youna Kwak "After"
Shall glimmer with living gold - Archibald Lampman "The Woodcutter's Hut"
Astral mysteries script our lives - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"
Who live at the light's limit - Andrew Lang "The Seekers for Phaeacia"
We who drain our cups and live - Michael Lauchlan "Cana Dance"
The live coal wherewith the Seraphim brand the Prophets - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Burrow past sunless lives - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
And all the motley play of lives - Richard Le Gallienne "Ad Cimmerios"
A sponge of living light - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
The balance of living while dreaming - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
live in a burning world - Joseph Lease "Falling"
By that light the living are befriended - Ruth Lechlitner "Change Must Be Served"
Drawn in living fire and dew - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Music drawn in living fire and dew - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Yet live as human memories - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory of the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"
Living blue unconfessed - Li-Young Lee "Spoken For"
Walk through the library of my lives - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"
That lives on the imagination's tongue - Denise Levertov "O Taste and See"
A living candle in the hand of earth - Philip Levine "Bitterness"
A great ocean tasting of salt and our lives - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
This packets of seeds with no soil to live in - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
They live off garbage and luck - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
No one lived here before me - Ada Limon "The Worth of a Thing That Is Not a Thing But a Number"
The viper that swallows us living and whole - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"
To make your lives of sand or granite - James Russell Lowell "For a Bell at Cornell University"
Over orphaned lives a gracious sky - James Russell Lowell "Sonnet: To Fanny Alexander"
Requiems from the dead for the living - Mario Luzi "Las Animas" transl. by Dana Gioia
Dead phantom of a form yet living - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
A living tomb of buried hopes - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things IV: Sonnet" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Hold this thing that lives in your bones - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
Never meant to live in euphemism - Randall Mann "Realtor"
Live between sacrifice and shelter - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
Rush past the bewildered lives before us - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
And live with the knowledge that I am small - Maya Marshall "The Big Water"
Pluck live rabbits from between their lips - John Masefield "King Cole"
The life I neglected to live - Ted Mathys "Fool's Gold"
Enough air to live on - Khaled Mattawa "Season of Migration to the North/Northwest"
Why all fairies live in moons - Furnley Maurice "Neely Lorst"
That lives above the ceiling - Furnley Maurice "The Soldier Band"
Weave you crowns of living laurel - Theodore Maynard "L'Envoi"
Harder even than knowing the living - Maureen N. McLane "They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century"
Down through the days of my living - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"
Live to discover our true names - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
True for all living beings - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"
No longer ply the living water - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"
In one or two lives - Elizabeth Metzger "Won Exit"
Will not live another hour - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"
Cannot ask the living for grace - Claire Millikin "Doll Collectors"
Which, on my living tongue, is dead - Gabriela Mistral "The Teller of Tales" (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
They are living the politics of occupation - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"
Apart, upon a throne of living fire - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Hell" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Living relic of stone - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Eternal Stand"
Can't live upright now - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Samaria Rice, Tamir's Mother"
Within whose soul the fire of the eternal lived - George L. Moore "Keats"
Lived on every kind of shortage - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"
All the dead days I have lived - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
And a new music lived upon the floods - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Living through the ruin - Gala Mukomolova "Return"
Lived quietly among the stars - Harryette Mullen "Black Nikes"
A history to live through - Walter Dean Myers "William Dandridge, 67, Mechanic"
Flickering images of our lives - Walter Dean Myers "William Dandridge, 67, Mechanic"
The nine lives of pathological compulsion - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"
Written in letters of living light - Mary E. Nealy "The Captain of '63 to His Men" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]
But only the heart can live in it - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"
Lived in liberty and dance - Pablo Neruda "Ancient History" transl. by Miguel Argarin
Our lives like empty mollusk shells - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly
Defend the live coal of life - Pablo Neruda "Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas (1949)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
In pursuit of the foam's lives - Pablo Neruda "The Men and the Islands" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The gray links of lives that repeat - Pablo Neruda "Modestly" transl. by William O'Daly
The living poppy above the broken light - Pablo Neruda "Song on the Death and Resurrection of Luis Companys" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Dead things left by living things - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
Forth from the hold while yet we live - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
We live with our battle scars - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"
Lives on the sweet the iris gives - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Dragon-fly"
That echo the rasp of our lives - Margaret Noodin "Babejianjisemigad/Gradual Transformation"
Ascending from one living spiral thread - Alfred Noyes "An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin"
Live inside his old words - Naomi Shihab Nye "Ellipse"
Something our lives forgot to give us - Naomi Shihab Nye "Jerusalem"
Could live inside this rose - Naomi Shihab Nye "Last August Hours Before the Year 2000"
Music lives inside my legs - Naomi Shihab Nye "One Boy Told Me"
Living in the sienna's myriad mazes - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
The long black branches of other lives - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"
Have lived along the hills of redemption - Romeo Oriogun "Griot of Strange Places"
When I die let me live - Meghan O'Rourke "Unforced Error"
Lived with eight sisters in a warm ocean - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"
Lives in a house of black glass - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Five"
Now only lives in my dreams - Abdurehim Parach "On the Boat" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Living for a hating - Dorothy Parker "The dark girl’s rhyme"
Nostalgia and fear of the bomb live in our souls - Andre F. Peltier "Ishirou Honda to the Edge of Panic"
That flutter with a living sound - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
Never quenched a living song - Walter S. Percy "The Good Samaritan"
Each living gesture precarious - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Force Drift (VII)"
Lived with no other thought - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"
The decadent ruin where expatriate gods live - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
She makes me live in my head - John Prine
Grief lives a new life as devotion - Khadijah Queen "Tower"
Both living and dying require giving up - Khadijah Queen "Tower"
In everything live a disturbance - Khadijah Queen "X"
Revealing which insects live inside - Paige Quinones "Epithalamium"
Who live, and love, and dying make amends - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Ode to Sappho"
Phantom fists against the plexiglass of the living world - Nen G. Ramirez "Love poem with a dying cat"
Living in the beat of my veins - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Bomba"
Has poured its living gold - Theodore H. Rand "At Minas Basin"
Lest the living flame to ashes turn - Theodore H. Rand "The Nightingale"
Everyone I have to live without - Diane Raptosh "American Amnesiac [The self is a thousand localities]"
And goes to live in memory alone - Thomas Buchanan Read "Lines, Suggested by Rogers' Statue of Ruth"
In which the living sap might burn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 1: Mary of Magdala"
The living tendons of a flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 1: Mary of Magdala"
Your lives like dust in your hands - Lola Ridge "Reveille"
Tasting the turbulent fury of living - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
Because my country has robbed me of living - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
The law whereby our senses live - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
We live in secret cities - Alberto Rios "The Cities Inside Us"
The small town where my memory still lives - Alberto Rios "November 2: Dia de los muertos"
Forever living with the consequences - Valencia Robin "Naming Yourself"
Wave living flower and living leaf - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"
A three-day wish and two days to live - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"
the kind of applause it takes to live - C.T. Salazar "River"
back to some childhood we never got to live - Sam Sax "My Hole. My Whole"
By eating stolen bread her living gets - Friedrich Schiller "The Parallel"
Living in this sea of leaves - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #22"
The knowledge that you have been living without something - Jason Schneiderman "Vocabulary"
Desire and regret live side by side - Philip Schultz "A Moment"
Not less though shorter lived - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [The wind tears up the sun]"
To drown our tattered lives - Ann K. Schwader "Towers of Light"
Built their lives of stone & gold - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"
Rattling the branches of other lives - Teresa J. Scollon "Mid-Life, I'm Lost"
Will live when Death is dead - Frederick George Scott "Andante"
Live with their life on loan - Tim Seibles "All the Time Blues Villanelle"
Even knowing that someone is stealing our lives - Tim Seibles "Faith"
my skin is a mirror of past lives - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"
Their substance still lives sweet - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"
In our lives a separable spite - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXVI"
The living record of your memory - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LV"
Feel the currents of each other's lives - Joyce Sidman "Starting Now"
Our lives part of the elemental clock - Marge Simon "The Astronaut's Return"
Who live on the edge of doubt - Maurya Simon "Angels"
Of death moving among the living - Tom Sleigh "Space Station"
From out the web of former lives - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"
Lived long in a low solstice - Danez Smith "anti poetica"
The miracle of other people's lives - Danez Smith "in lieu of a poem, i'd like to say"
Where my dreaming and my loving live - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"
Seek lives outside of speech - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"
Tired of living with the cold - Richard Solomon "Wormwood (For Linda)"
Ungrateful creatures with their own lives - A.E. Stallings "The Dogdom of the Dead"
In living stars and blazoned bands - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
The grief and music of forgotten lives - George Sterling "Tasso to Leonora"
Have listened to and lived with grasshoppers - Gerald Stern "Mimi"
Have lived in earlier worlds unknown - Arthur Stringer "March Twilight"
A month or twain to live on honeycomb - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"
That live down here in shade - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Before our lives divide for ever - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Petty death where each in other live - Sir P. Sydney "A Kiss" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]
Flame will live, defying Fate's alarm - Carmen Sylva "The Glowworm"
This candle guides none living - Sonya Taaffe "Night Boat"
A quick recognition of my moment in their lives - Keith Taylor "Twenty-Three Nuns on Warren Road"
This moment brief between two lives - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"
A yard or two nearer the living air - Edward Thomas "Digging"
A living veil drops down from the sky - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"
As long as youth breathes living fire - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIV. The Flags"
The beginning of invisible lives - Elizabeth Torres "The Voyage"
Amid the dust of vanished lives - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 3 A. M."
On which affection's heart may live - Richard Chenevix Trench "To E--"
The living surround the dead - Jacqueline Allen Trimble "Walking Beside the Cemetery, Olivia Street, Key West"
Ash dancing among a living flame - Jacqueline Allen Trimble "Walking Beside the Cemetery, Olivia Street, Key West"
Cataracts of seething, living action - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"
A sprawl of other lives - John Updike "Endpoint"
Lived as if within forever - John Updike "Endpoint"
Who build bridges between the dead and the living - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"
From this harvest part of our lives - Diane Wakoski "Snowy Owl Goddess"
While the other half lives in the crypt - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
Learnt from thee to live - Phillis Wheatley "To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works"
Live through a life complete - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
No language ever brought a living word - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"
Beneath their feet a living stepping-stone - Margaret Widdemer "The Old Suffragist"
Before the spectacle of our lives - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]
Or I do not live at all - William Carlos Williams "The Ivy Crown"
Farewell the heart that lives alone - William Wordsworth "Lines Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont"
Live upon their praises - William Wordsworth "To the Small Celandine"
To live in the come-and-go of things - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie II"
We live beyond the metaphysician's fingertips - Charles Wright "Dude"
For we have lived in the wind - Charles Wright "My Old Clinch Mountain Home"
Our lives have been one constant mistake - Charles Wright "Road Warriors"
That tight place where most of us live - Charles Wright "Well, Get Up, Rounder, Let a Working Man Lay Down"
And live at the edge of things - Charles Wright "With Horace, Sitting on the Platform, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"
Speak carefully of the living - Jay Wright "Kumu"
Fugitive lives docking in Halifax - Jay Wright "Somewhere between here and Belen"
What lives on that map never sees the light - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
The living song descended upon the drum - "XVII: Xochicuicatl | A Flower Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
That my fame shall live fresh in memory - "XX" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
While my soul lives by the waters - "XXVI" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
A lithe gnarl of live oak - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
Make their living out of sleep - Jane Yolen "Winter Song of the Weasel"
Uttermost attar of the living rose - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Can only be learned by living - Kevin Young "Ledge"
Live in the hollows of my blood - Matthew Zapruder "Brooklyn with a New Beginning"
Adjust such live-long growth to rules - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
Outlive.
Each knot a way to relive the day - Sue Budin "I Dream About Weaving"
Horror relived in every iteration - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"
The horizon's volume relived as a tremor - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
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