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Potential Titles: Leave (not botanical)
The residue we leave behind - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of ash"
Leaves sulfur on your tongue - Elmaz Abinader "After Breakfast"
Fruit you'll leave for the squirrels - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Bighead"
Yet can they leave one sure delight - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle
Visions leave us silent-hearted - Lennox Amott "Bright Scenes Must All Depart"
To leave behind a legacy of light - Diannely Antigua "We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers"
We leave behind our unicorns - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Never leave the reservation - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Whose freshness Time leaves blooming - Benjamin West Ball "To D.S.H."
Boredom leaves crumbs on the table - Mary Jo Bang "The School of Knowledge"
Waiting for winter to leave me alone - Mary Jo Bang "When I Was an Inanimate Object"
Leaving today on the floor - Mary Jo Bang "Y Is for Year's Mind"
Leaving the valiant envious - Maurice Baring "Icarus"
And leave me eyes with which to weep - Elizabeth Bartlett "Convert"
Warned how these solar winds would leave - Samiya Bashir "Second Law"
Biting open one thing to leave another - Jan Beatty "I'll Write the Girl"
When the law leaves a dream gutted - Joshua Bennett "On Blueness"
The shadow blood leaves - Tommye Blount "Then Practice Losing Farther; Losing Faster"
Drop the axe and leave the timber - Arna Bontemps "Close Your Eyes!"
Leave ourselves available to surprise - Jericho Brown "Deliverance"
Absent as what fire leaves behind - Jericho Brown "The Interrogation"
And leave me to the earth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Ghosts that leave smudges on the walls - Sue Budin "Totality"
Accomplished patterns of leaving - CM Burroughs "Some Young Woman"
I can come without your leave - Witter Bynner "Romance"
Leaves no rest to the heart - Witter Bynner "Young Eden"
Leave toys and playthings to the crowd - Tommaso Campanella "LVII. To Ridolfo di Bina" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Leave to remain vagrant - Christian Campbell "Sculpture With Fragments of Stuart Hall"
Hybrid forms leave fences open - Tina Chang "Hybrida: A Zuihitsu"
And leave me to the empty ways of earth - Thomas S. Chard "The Blessed Vale"
leaving the edges of me - Lucille Clifton "the death of fred clifton"
Leave my own buried roots - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Hidden Love"
The girl tattooed with leaving - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"
As the mist leaves no scar - Leonard Cohen "The Mist"
Leave us to our winter and our rue - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"
Leave him to the air and liberty - Carolina Coronado "The Lost Bird" transl. by William Cullen Bryant
Leaving a scent of lilies on the air - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
To leave the frowning forts behind - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Yacht-Race"
Roll away, leaving black terror, limitless night - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Leaving unsung its argument - Rev. William Crowe "The World: Intended as an Apology for Not Writing: By a Lady"
Love, leave me like the light - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
But leave the stark core of the rose - H.D. "Night"
And leave all cold the radiance - Russell W. Davenport "Poems XI"
Which lights the void which reason leaves - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Of the rosemary we leave to freeze - Geffrey Davis "The Epistemology of Rosemary"
But leave the world more kind - Coningsby Dawson "Abandon"
And the horned snail leaves home - Walter de la Mare "The Little Green Orchard"
A fever and a hunger that never leaves - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"
And leaving first is a form of loss - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
My name is leaving and my name is gone - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
The memory of a leaving song - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
No one has learned the leaving song - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Leave me Ecstasy - Emily Dickinson "Take All Away from Me, but Leave Me Ecstasy"
The sky & what it leaves behind - Chelsea Dingman "Notes on Inheritance"
Leaving unbroken all their blossoming bows - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
Leave it glimmering on the glass - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"
Leaving the flower to droop unseen - 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]
Celestial leavings of the rain - Helen Parry Eden "The Snare"
Leave the tram-car's jarring jangle - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Pink seafoam leaves odd gifts - Lupita Eyde-Tucker "Beachcomber Nocturne"
I've been leaving the doors open too - Tarfia Faizullah "Wait Until It Grows Roots"
leave more than these verses in the wind - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"
To old haunts I leave forlorn - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
Gives them leave to move through the wind - Annie Finch "Samhain"
And leave a metal grace, a graven joy - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"
And drive away the rose to leave a shell - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"
Leave behind the breaking of curses - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Leaving behind flames & rage - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
The various ways to leave - Carolyn Forche "Selective Service"
Would leave their shadows for dead - Vievee Francis "Three Hundred and Seventy-Two Miles from Home: Chihuahua, 1849"
Leave us so to the way we took - Robert Frost "In Neglect"
Melt the glass and leave the sticks - Robert Frost "To the Thawing Wind"
As it leaves his lips, the sigh becomes a song - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]
leaving sigils in lipstick on the bathroom mirrors - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
The smells a ghost leaves behind - Hafizah Augustus Geter "Praise Song"
Because the ashes didn't leave my mouth - Nikita Gill "House of Hyperion, Titan of Light"
Leave behind to conquer time - Goethe "Haste Not, Rest Not"
Don't leave this dooming feeling - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
A world of always leaving - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Cage"
To leave this widening night - Peter Grandbois "When your son abandons the lawnmower for the second time in as many days"
As the berry leaves the holly - Robert Graves "The Dying Knight and the Fauns"
Because leaving is the hardest way to travel - Kimberly Grey "Heroic Sentences"
Learn to leave and return - Kimberly Grey "Invention"
Things to teach us leaving - Kimberly Grey "What We Have Lost"
Leave those dreams bleeding - Nikki Grimes "Jabari Unmasked"
Leaves a scratch upon the soul - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"
Learn how to leave - Nathalie Handal "Elsie"
Waving at the last train to leave - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"
Leaves the iron gate open - francine j. harris "roommates"
Knows when to leave her imaginings - Yona Harvey "But for now the music swings from her lacquered radio"
Leaving the worlds of ocean - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Leaves her bonds of clay - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
A precious pearl that will not leave the oyster - Oliver Herford "The Bachelor Girl"
Leaving that to wind and rain - Bob Hicok "No Stones"
A metaphor for what we leave unsaid - Conrad Hilberry "Silence"
I would pack my fragments and leave - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"
Taking leave at the western river - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Replying to a Poem from My Cousin Hui-lien" transl. by Burton Watson
Leaves them on the willows hung - George Moses Horton "Memory"
The beautiful berry leaves a dark stain on the tongue - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"
Leave the place of night and clouds - "III: Occe al Mismo Tono Tlamelauhcayotl | Another Plain Song, to the Same Tune" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Leaving the field of time - Mark Irwin "Open"
And leave a blaze of fireworks in your wake - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
To leave dog's noses no evidence - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
Leaving again for points north and east - Mark Jarman "The Supremes"
With thread and the threat of leaving - Marlin M. Jenkins "Self Portrait as Fear of the Dark"
everything that remains in the world you leave behind - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Puppeteer Poetica"
Leaving behind nothing but amber - Emily Jiang "Salamander Song"
where every fantasy i try leaves me dead - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
Leaving the lightning's flash behind - James Weldon Johnson "Go Down Death--A Funeral Sermon"
No desire to leave the valley - Patricia Spears Jones "Autumn, New York, 1999"
Leaving a streak of fluorescence in your hair - Quincy Scott Jones "Why Wake Up Happy"
Until the meanings leave - Rodney Jones "The Watergate"
Leave me a feather to dream on - Zilka Joseph "For the Birds"
Leaving the meadow wet with tears - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"
Blamed us for leaving the garden - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"
Leave his name upon the harp-string - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Does not leave us comfortless - Jane Kenyon "Let Evening Come"
Leave alike both grief and joy - Khushal Khan Khattak "[Know thou well this world its state...]" transl. by C.E. Biddulph
I cannot leave my fatal conquest - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Each leaving behind its print - Galway Kinnell "The Frog Pond"
Dare not leave a place for her - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"
Leave all the lights on in my head - Elizabeth Knapp "Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak"
Leaving first is a form of loss - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
My name is leaving and my name is gone - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
The memory of a leaving song - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Yet leave them no less dead - Maxine Kumin "The Burners, the Buriers"
Leave you to the miracle of your own misfortune - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
Leave it close wrapped in silence - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Leave off my wings of the spirit - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
In the old woods leave the mistletoe - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"
The galaxy of night which leaves nothing - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"
If you insist upon leaving - Mary Soon Lee "Advice for Time Travelers"
That leaves no room for hope - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
An alert cat leaving nothing to chance - Philip Levine "A Theory of Prosody"
Leaving nothing to tell me who they are - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
Two motes laughing as they leave - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"
Leaving most of the world unturned - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Leave your arms loose in the hour - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"
Whatever of ourselves we leave bare - Anni Liu "Lake of Isles"
Till we've consumed enough to leave - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Phragmites"
Teach me to leave dreams alone - Audre Lorde "Change"
Taking leave in roars of jade - Audre Lorde "Parting"
Leave this shifting life of tents - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
Better to leave them for the silverfish to eat - Lu Yu "Harp Song--To Send to Chi-ch'ang Shao-ch'ing" transl. by Burton Watson
Where footprints leave no marks - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Ascension Crater of Solitude"
Wheeling through the universe without leaving - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"
Who leaves golden footprints in the marsh - Alessandra Lynch "[The lamp is like a capsized ship]: Two Voices Muse over the Speaker"
Her wickedness leaves me breathless - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"
Leaving but an antler's glance - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Turn away and leave it crying on the doorstep - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
Why should we leave good things broken? - Maya Marshall "The Field of Blood"
Yield and leave us to restful dreams - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
Leaving that place of daffodils - John Masefield "The Return"
Bade him leave his Fisher's net - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "On Lomonossoef" transl. by John Pollen
The headlight feeling of leaving - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Leave our shadows under pillows - John McCarthy "Toughness"
You'd better leave your plaid suitcase - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"
Leaving manmade dreams behind - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
When the Goths were leaving - W.S. Merwin "The Causeway"
Who know our need and leave us in the dark - Alice Meynell "In Sleep"
Why don't you leave the past behind you? - Andy Miller "Diana"
And leave her dolorous mansions - John Milton "Verses from the Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity"
sticks and stains and leaves its undefeatable marks - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"
Best leave a constellation out again tomorrow - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"
Unable to shake the sounds of leaving - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Initiation"
Leave those vaults of pain and sorrow - Dugald Moore "Rise, My Love"
Leaving its wasp-nest flaws - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"
Leaving a poison deeper than the asp - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
And leaves the debt unsatisfied - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"
Such leave is a free man's due - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Never a vassal should leave his lord - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
To hold the time that kept leaving - Naomi Shihab Nye "Music"
Our tracks which disappear the moment we leave - Naomi Shihab Nye "Prayer in My Boot"
Their feet never leaving the ground - Achy Obejas "The Land of Regal Elephants"
That leaves the river for the light - John Myers O'Hara "Ablution"
Leaving to coming generations a record - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Leaving Eden was not grief - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Love"
And leaves with me the rest of the unsleeping sea - Ae.P. "Love Unsung" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.742, 16 March 1878]
Leaving a trail of stories unwinding - Lauren Parker "Miranda"
And leave an echo floating by - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
A purer correspondence with the radiance of leaves - Mahealani Perez-Wendt "Lei Kukui, Lei Kuahu"
Must only look like leaving - Carl Phillips "Civilization"
The exit wounds memory leaves - Carl Phillips "Givingly"
The desire to leave loneliness behind - Carl Phillips "On Mistaking the Sound of Spurs for Bells Approaching"
Touched me without leaving fingerprints - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 411"
Leave the mirror stored in its box - Po Chu'i "Feelings Wakened by a Mirror" transl. by Burton Watson
And leave you there with the rudder in your hand - Miriam Clark Potter "The Pilot Wind"
Loveliest of what I leave - Praxilla "Adonis, Dying" (transl. by John Dillon)
To the eagle leave the sky - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"
And leave no grain for tomorrow - Amrita Pritam "Daily Wages" transl. by Charles Brasch with Amrita Pritam
We leave our intentions in the distance - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "An infinite outing; or the cemetery"
Leave it in your place and depart - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"
Unzip my skin and leave it elsewhere - Sina Queyras "Years"
And leave a palace of coral - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "House Hunting"
Leave hope and learn your song - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"
Leaving nothing but the silence and the absence - Mark Rich "To Sleep"
Leaving a corpselight burning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Leaving the eye uncertain of their shining - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
When may we leave for Babylon? - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
But leave the truth untested - Christina Rossetti "Winter: My Secret"
As champagne leaves the flute - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"
But where leaves the vows of Yesterday - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
Leaves a hole in the possible - Kay Ryan "The Material"
leaves petrichor as aftertaste - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"
Leave this house of vagabonds - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
Leave me a little love - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"
we leave our objects behind us - Sam Sax "Objectophile"
collect our dead's leavings & listen - Sam Sax "Objectophile"
The fissure of the lightning leaves it unwounded - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Leaving us little but bitter ashes - Ann K. Schwader "If Cold Is a War"
Each question leaves a scar - Ann K. Schwader "Wolves of Mars"
Can take no bitter leaving - Robert W. Service "The Lure of Little Voices"
Leave answers to forgotten questions - Marge Simon "The Holes Through which the Scarabs Come"
Leave the chicory where it stands - Leonora Speyer "Bavarian Roadside"
Feeds on what the finches leave behind - Elizabeth Spires "Moment Vanishing"
Quiet minutes that leave only thoughts of rain - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"
Leave my eager foot-prints on the shore - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
Illumination leaves its shadow in our care - Patricia Omozele Sukore "Where Did the Cockerel Story Start?"
Leave only remorse in your hands - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 207: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Leave your book to the grasshopper - Edward Thomas "The Child on the Cliffs"
To go into the unknown I must enter and leave alone - Edward Thomas "Lights Out"
Her young disciples leaves behind - Henry David Thoreau "A River Scene"
Leaving shore to charm the moon - Jean Toomer "Evening Song"
Leaving the pit with their mascara still immaculate - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
each grain of rice leaving a scar on our skin - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges
leave room for levitation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
Leave the highlights for last - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"
Leave the heart an unlit sea - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
For the ache your absence leaves - William Watson "The Empty Nest"
Leave the clanging cockroach cold behind - John Moncure Wettarau "On Looking at a Mediocre Painting"
Leaving behind nameless voids - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"
Leaves the doors between them open wide - Edith Wharton "Heaven"
The long light that Beauty leaves up her fallen veils - Edith Wharton "Mistral in the Maquis"
And leave no gifts but bitterness - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"
Leave the beaches of my heart - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"
Leaving the scene in thrall to silence - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"
Crushes my house and leaves me - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"
Eyes alone leave no trace - Katie Willingham "Terrifying Robot Update"
Leaving a country of rain - Cecilia Woloch "Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea"
Leaving the ancient, the angry and the slow - Mark Wunderlich "My Local Dead"
Over the endless sea of my leaving - Jane Yolen "Washing Away the Filth"
And countless feelings leave no trace - Yu T'ung "Autumn Night" (translated by A.M. Juster)
A bend is a way of leaving - Jordan Zandi "A Lesson in Botany"
Leaves us to eat with our eyes - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 9" transl. by Katherine Silver
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Leaves sulfur on your tongue - Elmaz Abinader "After Breakfast"
Fruit you'll leave for the squirrels - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Bighead"
Yet can they leave one sure delight - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle
Visions leave us silent-hearted - Lennox Amott "Bright Scenes Must All Depart"
To leave behind a legacy of light - Diannely Antigua "We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers"
We leave behind our unicorns - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Never leave the reservation - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Whose freshness Time leaves blooming - Benjamin West Ball "To D.S.H."
Boredom leaves crumbs on the table - Mary Jo Bang "The School of Knowledge"
Waiting for winter to leave me alone - Mary Jo Bang "When I Was an Inanimate Object"
Leaving today on the floor - Mary Jo Bang "Y Is for Year's Mind"
Leaving the valiant envious - Maurice Baring "Icarus"
And leave me eyes with which to weep - Elizabeth Bartlett "Convert"
Warned how these solar winds would leave - Samiya Bashir "Second Law"
Biting open one thing to leave another - Jan Beatty "I'll Write the Girl"
When the law leaves a dream gutted - Joshua Bennett "On Blueness"
The shadow blood leaves - Tommye Blount "Then Practice Losing Farther; Losing Faster"
Drop the axe and leave the timber - Arna Bontemps "Close Your Eyes!"
Leave ourselves available to surprise - Jericho Brown "Deliverance"
Absent as what fire leaves behind - Jericho Brown "The Interrogation"
And leave me to the earth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Ghosts that leave smudges on the walls - Sue Budin "Totality"
Accomplished patterns of leaving - CM Burroughs "Some Young Woman"
I can come without your leave - Witter Bynner "Romance"
Leaves no rest to the heart - Witter Bynner "Young Eden"
Leave toys and playthings to the crowd - Tommaso Campanella "LVII. To Ridolfo di Bina" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Leave to remain vagrant - Christian Campbell "Sculpture With Fragments of Stuart Hall"
Hybrid forms leave fences open - Tina Chang "Hybrida: A Zuihitsu"
And leave me to the empty ways of earth - Thomas S. Chard "The Blessed Vale"
leaving the edges of me - Lucille Clifton "the death of fred clifton"
Leave my own buried roots - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Hidden Love"
The girl tattooed with leaving - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"
As the mist leaves no scar - Leonard Cohen "The Mist"
Leave us to our winter and our rue - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"
Leave him to the air and liberty - Carolina Coronado "The Lost Bird" transl. by William Cullen Bryant
Leaving a scent of lilies on the air - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
To leave the frowning forts behind - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Yacht-Race"
Roll away, leaving black terror, limitless night - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Leaving unsung its argument - Rev. William Crowe "The World: Intended as an Apology for Not Writing: By a Lady"
Love, leave me like the light - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
But leave the stark core of the rose - H.D. "Night"
And leave all cold the radiance - Russell W. Davenport "Poems XI"
Which lights the void which reason leaves - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Of the rosemary we leave to freeze - Geffrey Davis "The Epistemology of Rosemary"
But leave the world more kind - Coningsby Dawson "Abandon"
And the horned snail leaves home - Walter de la Mare "The Little Green Orchard"
A fever and a hunger that never leaves - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"
And leaving first is a form of loss - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
My name is leaving and my name is gone - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
The memory of a leaving song - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
No one has learned the leaving song - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Leave me Ecstasy - Emily Dickinson "Take All Away from Me, but Leave Me Ecstasy"
The sky & what it leaves behind - Chelsea Dingman "Notes on Inheritance"
Leaving unbroken all their blossoming bows - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
Leave it glimmering on the glass - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"
Leaving the flower to droop unseen - 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]
Celestial leavings of the rain - Helen Parry Eden "The Snare"
Leave the tram-car's jarring jangle - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Pink seafoam leaves odd gifts - Lupita Eyde-Tucker "Beachcomber Nocturne"
I've been leaving the doors open too - Tarfia Faizullah "Wait Until It Grows Roots"
leave more than these verses in the wind - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"
To old haunts I leave forlorn - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
Gives them leave to move through the wind - Annie Finch "Samhain"
And leave a metal grace, a graven joy - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"
And drive away the rose to leave a shell - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"
Leave behind the breaking of curses - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Leaving behind flames & rage - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
The various ways to leave - Carolyn Forche "Selective Service"
Would leave their shadows for dead - Vievee Francis "Three Hundred and Seventy-Two Miles from Home: Chihuahua, 1849"
Leave us so to the way we took - Robert Frost "In Neglect"
Melt the glass and leave the sticks - Robert Frost "To the Thawing Wind"
As it leaves his lips, the sigh becomes a song - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]
leaving sigils in lipstick on the bathroom mirrors - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
The smells a ghost leaves behind - Hafizah Augustus Geter "Praise Song"
Because the ashes didn't leave my mouth - Nikita Gill "House of Hyperion, Titan of Light"
Leave behind to conquer time - Goethe "Haste Not, Rest Not"
Don't leave this dooming feeling - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
A world of always leaving - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Cage"
To leave this widening night - Peter Grandbois "When your son abandons the lawnmower for the second time in as many days"
As the berry leaves the holly - Robert Graves "The Dying Knight and the Fauns"
Because leaving is the hardest way to travel - Kimberly Grey "Heroic Sentences"
Learn to leave and return - Kimberly Grey "Invention"
Things to teach us leaving - Kimberly Grey "What We Have Lost"
Leave those dreams bleeding - Nikki Grimes "Jabari Unmasked"
Leaves a scratch upon the soul - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"
Learn how to leave - Nathalie Handal "Elsie"
Waving at the last train to leave - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"
Leaves the iron gate open - francine j. harris "roommates"
Knows when to leave her imaginings - Yona Harvey "But for now the music swings from her lacquered radio"
Leaving the worlds of ocean - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
Leaves her bonds of clay - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
A precious pearl that will not leave the oyster - Oliver Herford "The Bachelor Girl"
Leaving that to wind and rain - Bob Hicok "No Stones"
A metaphor for what we leave unsaid - Conrad Hilberry "Silence"
I would pack my fragments and leave - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"
Taking leave at the western river - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Replying to a Poem from My Cousin Hui-lien" transl. by Burton Watson
Leaves them on the willows hung - George Moses Horton "Memory"
The beautiful berry leaves a dark stain on the tongue - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"
Leave the place of night and clouds - "III: Occe al Mismo Tono Tlamelauhcayotl | Another Plain Song, to the Same Tune" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Leaving the field of time - Mark Irwin "Open"
And leave a blaze of fireworks in your wake - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
To leave dog's noses no evidence - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
Leaving again for points north and east - Mark Jarman "The Supremes"
With thread and the threat of leaving - Marlin M. Jenkins "Self Portrait as Fear of the Dark"
everything that remains in the world you leave behind - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Puppeteer Poetica"
Leaving behind nothing but amber - Emily Jiang "Salamander Song"
where every fantasy i try leaves me dead - Jzl Jmz "Exhibition"
Leaving the lightning's flash behind - James Weldon Johnson "Go Down Death--A Funeral Sermon"
No desire to leave the valley - Patricia Spears Jones "Autumn, New York, 1999"
Leaving a streak of fluorescence in your hair - Quincy Scott Jones "Why Wake Up Happy"
Until the meanings leave - Rodney Jones "The Watergate"
Leave me a feather to dream on - Zilka Joseph "For the Birds"
Leaving the meadow wet with tears - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"
Blamed us for leaving the garden - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"
Leave his name upon the harp-string - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Does not leave us comfortless - Jane Kenyon "Let Evening Come"
Leave alike both grief and joy - Khushal Khan Khattak "[Know thou well this world its state...]" transl. by C.E. Biddulph
I cannot leave my fatal conquest - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Each leaving behind its print - Galway Kinnell "The Frog Pond"
Dare not leave a place for her - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"
Leave all the lights on in my head - Elizabeth Knapp "Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak"
Leaving first is a form of loss - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
My name is leaving and my name is gone - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
The memory of a leaving song - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Yet leave them no less dead - Maxine Kumin "The Burners, the Buriers"
Leave you to the miracle of your own misfortune - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
Leave it close wrapped in silence - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Leave off my wings of the spirit - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
In the old woods leave the mistletoe - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"
The galaxy of night which leaves nothing - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"
If you insist upon leaving - Mary Soon Lee "Advice for Time Travelers"
That leaves no room for hope - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
An alert cat leaving nothing to chance - Philip Levine "A Theory of Prosody"
Leaving nothing to tell me who they are - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
Two motes laughing as they leave - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"
Leaving most of the world unturned - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Leave your arms loose in the hour - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"
Whatever of ourselves we leave bare - Anni Liu "Lake of Isles"
Till we've consumed enough to leave - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Phragmites"
Teach me to leave dreams alone - Audre Lorde "Change"
Taking leave in roars of jade - Audre Lorde "Parting"
Leave this shifting life of tents - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
Better to leave them for the silverfish to eat - Lu Yu "Harp Song--To Send to Chi-ch'ang Shao-ch'ing" transl. by Burton Watson
Where footprints leave no marks - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Ascension Crater of Solitude"
Wheeling through the universe without leaving - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"
Who leaves golden footprints in the marsh - Alessandra Lynch "[The lamp is like a capsized ship]: Two Voices Muse over the Speaker"
Her wickedness leaves me breathless - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"
Leaving but an antler's glance - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Turn away and leave it crying on the doorstep - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
Why should we leave good things broken? - Maya Marshall "The Field of Blood"
Yield and leave us to restful dreams - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
Leaving that place of daffodils - John Masefield "The Return"
Bade him leave his Fisher's net - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "On Lomonossoef" transl. by John Pollen
The headlight feeling of leaving - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Leave our shadows under pillows - John McCarthy "Toughness"
You'd better leave your plaid suitcase - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"
Leaving manmade dreams behind - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
When the Goths were leaving - W.S. Merwin "The Causeway"
Who know our need and leave us in the dark - Alice Meynell "In Sleep"
Why don't you leave the past behind you? - Andy Miller "Diana"
And leave her dolorous mansions - John Milton "Verses from the Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity"
sticks and stains and leaves its undefeatable marks - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"
Best leave a constellation out again tomorrow - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"
Unable to shake the sounds of leaving - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Initiation"
Leave those vaults of pain and sorrow - Dugald Moore "Rise, My Love"
Leaving its wasp-nest flaws - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"
Leaving a poison deeper than the asp - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
And leaves the debt unsatisfied - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"
Such leave is a free man's due - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Never a vassal should leave his lord - "Niels Ebbeson, 1340" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
To hold the time that kept leaving - Naomi Shihab Nye "Music"
Our tracks which disappear the moment we leave - Naomi Shihab Nye "Prayer in My Boot"
Their feet never leaving the ground - Achy Obejas "The Land of Regal Elephants"
That leaves the river for the light - John Myers O'Hara "Ablution"
Leaving to coming generations a record - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Leaving Eden was not grief - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Love"
And leaves with me the rest of the unsleeping sea - Ae.P. "Love Unsung" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.742, 16 March 1878]
Leaving a trail of stories unwinding - Lauren Parker "Miranda"
And leave an echo floating by - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
A purer correspondence with the radiance of leaves - Mahealani Perez-Wendt "Lei Kukui, Lei Kuahu"
Must only look like leaving - Carl Phillips "Civilization"
The exit wounds memory leaves - Carl Phillips "Givingly"
The desire to leave loneliness behind - Carl Phillips "On Mistaking the Sound of Spurs for Bells Approaching"
Touched me without leaving fingerprints - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 411"
Leave the mirror stored in its box - Po Chu'i "Feelings Wakened by a Mirror" transl. by Burton Watson
And leave you there with the rudder in your hand - Miriam Clark Potter "The Pilot Wind"
Loveliest of what I leave - Praxilla "Adonis, Dying" (transl. by John Dillon)
To the eagle leave the sky - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"
And leave no grain for tomorrow - Amrita Pritam "Daily Wages" transl. by Charles Brasch with Amrita Pritam
We leave our intentions in the distance - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "An infinite outing; or the cemetery"
Leave it in your place and depart - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"
Unzip my skin and leave it elsewhere - Sina Queyras "Years"
And leave a palace of coral - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "House Hunting"
Leave hope and learn your song - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"
Leaving nothing but the silence and the absence - Mark Rich "To Sleep"
Leaving a corpselight burning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Leaving the eye uncertain of their shining - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
When may we leave for Babylon? - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
But leave the truth untested - Christina Rossetti "Winter: My Secret"
As champagne leaves the flute - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"
But where leaves the vows of Yesterday - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
Leaves a hole in the possible - Kay Ryan "The Material"
leaves petrichor as aftertaste - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"
Leave this house of vagabonds - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
Leave me a little love - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"
we leave our objects behind us - Sam Sax "Objectophile"
collect our dead's leavings & listen - Sam Sax "Objectophile"
The fissure of the lightning leaves it unwounded - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Leaving us little but bitter ashes - Ann K. Schwader "If Cold Is a War"
Each question leaves a scar - Ann K. Schwader "Wolves of Mars"
Can take no bitter leaving - Robert W. Service "The Lure of Little Voices"
Leave answers to forgotten questions - Marge Simon "The Holes Through which the Scarabs Come"
Leave the chicory where it stands - Leonora Speyer "Bavarian Roadside"
Feeds on what the finches leave behind - Elizabeth Spires "Moment Vanishing"
Quiet minutes that leave only thoughts of rain - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"
Leave my eager foot-prints on the shore - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
Illumination leaves its shadow in our care - Patricia Omozele Sukore "Where Did the Cockerel Story Start?"
Leave only remorse in your hands - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 207: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Leave your book to the grasshopper - Edward Thomas "The Child on the Cliffs"
To go into the unknown I must enter and leave alone - Edward Thomas "Lights Out"
Her young disciples leaves behind - Henry David Thoreau "A River Scene"
Leaving shore to charm the moon - Jean Toomer "Evening Song"
Leaving the pit with their mascara still immaculate - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
each grain of rice leaving a scar on our skin - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges
leave room for levitation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
Leave the highlights for last - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"
Leave the heart an unlit sea - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
For the ache your absence leaves - William Watson "The Empty Nest"
Leave the clanging cockroach cold behind - John Moncure Wettarau "On Looking at a Mediocre Painting"
Leaving behind nameless voids - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"
Leaves the doors between them open wide - Edith Wharton "Heaven"
The long light that Beauty leaves up her fallen veils - Edith Wharton "Mistral in the Maquis"
And leave no gifts but bitterness - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"
Leave the beaches of my heart - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"
Leaving the scene in thrall to silence - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"
Crushes my house and leaves me - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"
Eyes alone leave no trace - Katie Willingham "Terrifying Robot Update"
Leaving a country of rain - Cecilia Woloch "Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea"
Leaving the ancient, the angry and the slow - Mark Wunderlich "My Local Dead"
Over the endless sea of my leaving - Jane Yolen "Washing Away the Filth"
And countless feelings leave no trace - Yu T'ung "Autumn Night" (translated by A.M. Juster)
A bend is a way of leaving - Jordan Zandi "A Lesson in Botany"
Leaves us to eat with our eyes - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 9" transl. by Katherine Silver
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