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Vacancy.


Turn to speak and find a vacant chair - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"

The vacant nest and silent song - Emily Bronte "Death"

Vacant of all but its bones - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

No vacant thrones in heaven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Holding a vacant nest in her hands - R.S. Chilton "The Little Peasant"

The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Across the vain and vacant void - Coningsby Dawson "Masterless"

Within her Hand a vacant String - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"

Vacant shuttles weave the wind - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"

Gathering fuel in vacant lots - T.S. Eliot "Preludes"

The vacant eye by mind deserted - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Even our own stories feel vacant - Gabriel Jesiolowski "Entry for Not an Island"

A vacant hour before the sun - Devin Johnston "Aubade"

Porches lit like vacant stairwells - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"

Cursed too by no mere vacant breath - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

Your barns show vacant floors - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

We squat in vacant rooms - Aimee Le "Theft"

Vacant parking lots like dark hallways - Claire Millikin "Bright Shadows"

Heard the cry subside in vacant skies - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"

Empty eyes in vacant sockets - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"

The sounds empty makes inside a vacant house - Nicole Sealey "unfurnished"

When we struggle for our vacant thrones - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]

Voiceless earth and vacant air - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Surveyed our vacant outpost - May Swenson "First Walk on the Moon"

Vacant chaff well meant for grain - Tennyson "In Memoriam"

Your chest vacant and clockless - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

Grows vacant as a memory - John Hall Wheelock "October Moonlight"


Vacated a region within himself - Edward Hirsch "Idea of the Holy"

All vacating this scrap of sky - Ann K. Schwader "On Any Given Midnight"


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