Potential Titles: Light
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Shadows mark the brightest light - A.L.O.E. "Blanche"
Inscribed in characters of light - A.L.O.E. "The Supplicant"
Find some flint in the heart left to light - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"
In an empire awash with light - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"
Light in the sinning hours - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"
The light retreats and is generous - Aria Aber "Waiting for Your Call"
Blessing the air with light - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
With the flesh made of a golden light - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Light comes not but shadow comes - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
To protect the words gathered by light - Elmaz Abinader "Losing Words Fast"
Weaving light and electromagnetic chatter - Duane Ackerson "Black Hole Hunter's Guide"
Someone scattering seeds of light that will blossom into faces - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"
A buried light cutting its path through ink - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"
Wrapped in a notebook leaking light - Duane Ackerson "Taking Back the Moon"
Faint stunned strands of light - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"
Sprayed with broken light - Harold Acton "Trepak"
Light glinting in a headdress of water - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"
Primordial mist revealed in spots of soft light - Linda Addison "Evolving"
With pure spirits in regions of light - "Addressed to a Friend"
Let the blue light wash away the blood - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Telling the light to stay outside - Etel Adnan "Night"
The shining flood of light I pour - Joan Aiken "Π in the Sky"
Forced to craft my own light, my own hope - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"
The light in their eyes steers my course - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"
Plunging from the brink of light and being - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
No time to shame the night with light - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger
This pinprick emits no light - Rosa Alcala "You Rode a Loop"
Filtered nets of light weaving - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"
Light through deeds of suffering - Daisy Aldan "Women at Windows"
The light beyond the worlds of space - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Light lost in the upper ether - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Daily, in light and in dreams - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"
Light as an empty hive - Elizabeth Alexander "Equinox"
Casts a widening pool of light - Elizabeth Alexander "Praise Song for the Day"
Rimmed with light, shaded with night - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Quiet Jews robed in earth and light - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Formed of sunset light, of fleeting umbral fire - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
Cannot be hired in noonday light - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"
The webbing of her mind filled with tangles of light - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"
Some flashed away in ships of light - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"
Undying faithful to light torches in the catacombs - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"
Flash forth in rays of silvery light - Willis Boyd Allen "The Fourth Watch"
The light as it first shone on Adam - Julia Alvarez "Addison's Vision"
Catching the light at day's end - Julia Alvarez "Small Portions"
A pincushion of flickering lights - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"
Silver flakes of tremulous light - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Brook"
The winds tread light upon the grass - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]
Rose-tinted shadows of beauty and light - S.D. Anderson "A May Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
That lights the sorrowing sinner back - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IV--The Sunbeam"
No rivers clothed in light - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
Fresh from the hearthstone's light - "The Angels of War" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
The moving lights of trouble shine - Auguste Angellier "Eyes and Lips" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Light as winter sunshine - Maya Angelou "To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough"
A light as subtle as your hands - Maya Angelou "A Zorro Man"
To leave behind a legacy of light - Diannely Antigua "We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers"
Turn off the light to occupy the dark - William Archila "Childhood"
Sings the song of light - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel from beyond the twilight"
Mistaken for the light - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel to its mother"
Faced with the flower of light - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Angels and birds"
Confuse light with love - Rae Armantrout "The Light"
Then hunger invented light - Rae Armantrout "Operations"
Carried by light - Rae Armantrout "Outer"
The light gleams and is gone - Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"
Each ancestor who lights your past - Fatimah Asghar "Ghareeb"
The timeless light banished time and sorrow - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]
In the light of the dark that swallowed me - A.H. Jerriod Avant "Who Can Govern Themselves Out of Governance?"
A bowl of bruised light - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Faggot Poetics"
Turn off the light to occupy the dark - William Archila "Childhood"
The cottage lights a hundred starlights follow - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Nantucket Windows"
Who walked with Science to mark the lights along dark ways - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Pathmaker (To Maria Mitchell)"
An open door full of light - Julie Babcock "Driving at Midnight"
Stand in the net of light together - Julie Babcock "Wolfwoman"
Drown with open eyes in light - Ingeborg Bachmann "The Great Freight" transl. by Bill Crisman
Wreathes with a light ineffable - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Dispels the clouds of falsehood by her light - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
They tambourine the light on the wall - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"
What's ghostlier than gray morning winter light? - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"
The way memory deepens with light - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"
With the queer light of a star's final gasp - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Light the mazes of the wind - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"
Wreaths of incense light - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"
then in the arbor of sudden light - Lee Ballentine "The Whole Atom"
Dieted down to twelve hours of light - Mary Jo Bang "The Beauties of Nature"
Light at the end of a harrowed day - Mary Jo Bang "I as in Justice"
Light furrowed the future - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"
Light unhinges air from rock - Mary Jo Bang "A Tour of the March Equinox"
Stark against the light box of servitude - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"
Burnished by expandable light - Mary Jo Bang "What Is so Frightening"
Swing lights in the closet of night - Mary Jo Bang "You Could Say She Was Willful, but Compared to What?"
Left in its course a track of light behind - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Light a mourner's candle - Rachel Barenblat "Yahrzeit"
A hidden sanctuary of fire and light - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"
Try with bonds to bind the morning light - William Francis Barnard "To the Enemies of Free Speech"
With a glimmer of light between - Djuna Barnes "Call of the Night"
Past language into anachronistic light - Catherine Barnett "The Specious Present"
In waves of light upon the far, dim shades of night - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
only the light of dreams - Elizabeth Bartlett "black sun"
The eye of light opens - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
Inevitable as air and light - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"
A slow companion to the light - Elizabeth Bartlett "I Would Remember"
Astral honey and blossoms of light - Elizabeth Bartlett "Landscape: With Bread"
Light destroyed in minds - Elizabeth Bartlett "Notes for the Future"
Glide down vertical waves of light - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sleepwalkers"
Tides set in motion by light - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Trap"
At a distance travelled by light - Elizabeth Bartlett "World of Tomorrow"
Lighting fires in the empty rooms - Ellen Bass "Not Dead Yet"
Light in the dark house - Ellen Bass "Ode to Zeke"
Strip each rib down to light - Ellen Bass "Wilderness"
Let glory light my face - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"
The world falling asleep in a warm light - Charles Baudelaire "Invitation to the Voyage" transl. by Keith Waldrop
A song of love and light divine - Charles Baudelaire "The Soul of Wine" transl. not credited
Wordless light - Dan Beachy-Quick "Some Consequences of the Made Thing"
Math made of light and loss - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
The lingering light decays - James Beattie "Retirement"
Bathed in broken light - Zeina Hashem Beck "There, There, Grieving"
Light spilling around your edges - J. M. Bédard "Hatch"
White lights in the mimosa trees - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"
Lazy paws of light claw idly up and down - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"
A golden horn of light - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Light heavy with drowning stars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
Light towards the dark secret heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
A slender javelin tipped with light, hurled at the gods - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Save in its moments of bewildering light - William Rose Benét "The City"
Into heaven's cold uncertain light - Paul Bernstein "The Commuters"
My head is full of this insomniac light - Emily Berry "Arlene and Esme"
A more subtly structured fullness of light - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
Intersecting light from every star - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
In light and dark, a zero sum - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
Our star's extravagant giveaway of light - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
Even darkness generates light - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
Streams out in ribbons of light - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Heart"
Connect by their light entering our eyes - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Pegasus"
To receive their reflected light - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"
Light in the minerals of their eyes - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Till the body rusts away from the light - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
Floating in light from windows - Terry Blackhawk "At the National Gallery of Art: Memorial View"
Shatter into triangles of mosaic light - Kimberly Blaeser "Unlawful Assembly"
High sparkling fountains catch a rainbow light - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
Then the dreadful light shall break - William Blake "A Cradle Song"
Light of heart and light of heel - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
The wild deer dancing light - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"
Dressed in nothing but the archive's bleached light - Tommye Blount "Karl Lagerfeld's line of beauty"
Love's rich and trusting light - Edmund Blunden "The South-West Wind"
Turning all desire into light - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Blue-Bird"
The nimble light of contemplations - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
Sleek suns dipped in sleepy light - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"
Immune to light and time - Maxwell Bodenheim "When Fools Dispute"
With jests that light its troubled hands - Maxwell Bodenheim "Young Poet"
Relief from the flawed light of love and grief - Louise Bogan "The Alchemist"
A long shadow and a light sound - Louise Bogan "Knowledge"
Bits of shock and light - Marianne Boruch "There Ought to Be a Law Against Henry"
Hydrogen bubbles exploding into light and energy - Bruce Boston "The Would-Be Gods of Sonofusion"
Light beyond the storms of Time - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"
The light that lifts from a black mere - Thomas Boyd "The King's Son"
Built like stags of light - Ana Bozicevic "Intervals of Please"
Robs all the brilliant light of the universe - Russell Brakefield "Florist's Apprentice, Age 19"
New light waiting just out of reach - Russell Brakefield "Myth"
Other prey too shudders with the light - Russell Brakefield "Pardon, Trout Farm"
Tumbling along bubbles of light - Shannon Bramer "Climbing Shadows"
Begetting the absence of light - William Brewer "Clean Days in Oxyana"
That slaughterhouse of light - William Brewer "The Messenger of Oxyana"
So altered by light - William Brewer "Overdose Psalm"
All that light bursting in - William Brewer "Resolution"
The hidden moon shed thievish light - Robert Bridges "I Never Shall Love the Snow Again"
Prophecy is no light work - Antoinette Brim-Bell "Duplex: Black Mamas Praying"
Life's mingled lights and shadows - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
Ropes of fraying light - Geoffrey Brock "Orpheus Variations. 2 In Which He Turns Inward"
Not the bearable light - Lucie Brock-Broido "Self-Portrait as Kaspar Hauser"
Trip through the light - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Songs of the Spavinaw"
Flaming gleams of pointed light - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)"
Of light and hope bereft - Anne Bronte "Fluctuations"
Light cannot fill the craving eye - Anne Bronte "Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas"
On his path a secret light - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"
Beneath her guardian light - Emily Bronte "How Clear She Shines"
And hide me from the hostile light - Emily Bronte "Stars"
A flood of trembling light - Patrick Bronte "The Happy Cottagers"
With the lessened light and darkened days - Caris Brooke "Before Parting"
A restless presence stirring with the light - Caris Brooke "March Violets"
The amazing lights of heart and eye - Rupert Brooke "Sonnet Reversed"
Quit light for the midnight - Gwendolyn Brooks "Gay Chaps at the Bar"
Light in my jaundiced mouth - Jericho Brown "Flower"
What light Saturday sent - Jericho Brown "Labor"
Spent what light Saturday sent - Jericho Brown "Odd Jobs"
Navigate by lantern light and dust - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"
Light dripping upon forlorn gossamer - Paul Cameron Brown "Gossamer Threads"
With lurid lights of intermittent hope - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Melt in tender light - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Distrusting every light - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XXXVI in Sonnets from the Portuguese"
Amaze the place with holier light - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "To George Sand: A Desire"
Light under his eyelids - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
As the long-toiling light fades - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Death of the Laureate"
The day's departing light - William Cullen Bryant "Upon the Mountain's Distant Head"
Amid the mild and mellow light - William Cullen Bryant "A Walk at Sunset"
Awakes the painted tribes of light - William Cullen Bryant "The Yellow Violet"
The old failing circling in the moth-spattered light - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
The tide with the grainy underbelly of industrial light - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
No intention but the possibility of light returning - Sue Budin "Reclamation"
In the silken light - Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and Tony Lopez "Sea Holly"
To give it record of the former light - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"
The darkened light ecstatic - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"
Words bending thoughts like light - Anthony Butts "Mist and Fog"
The Goddess of Numbers multiplying into dawn's light - Anthony Butts "Song of Starry-Eyed Children"
A dimestore magic trick in legendary light - Regie Cabico "In a Legendary Light"
In such light the road already beckons - Scott Cairns "Dawn at Saint Anna's Skete"
Light should be unforgiving - Scott Cairns "Embalming"
Grant in this obscurity a little light - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalm 12"
Resplendent guardians of crimson light - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]
Or veil themselves in purple light - F. O. Call "A River Sunset"
And doubt's dark shadows veil the light - Frank Oliver Call "Through a Long Cloister"
To her maidens the light dance is dear - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan "Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear"
When the glowworm lights her torch - C.S. Calverley "Arcades Ambo"
Leap inside the morning light - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "Homecoming Cistern Alien Vessel"
Buildings that bleed no natural light - Isha Camara "The Hills are Writing"
Ladders leading up to light - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Blossoms of sweet and sour light - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
Until I was overflowing with light - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
That pray to the Dragon that preys on the light of the Sun - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"
The dawning light of sorrow and scorn - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"
With knives of light - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"
Light a flame on every strand - Roger Casement "The Triumph of Hugh O'Neill"
Into newfound pledges and particles of light - Cyrus Cassells "The World That the Shooter Left Us"
By the light of unvarnish'd truth - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
Through the secret light - Charles Causley "The Swan"
When Light rose, earthquake shod - Madison Cawein "The Miracle of Dawn"
In a frozen sprint of light - Andres Cerpa "Parkinson's Disease: Autumn"
Have known misgivings of light - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"
The sky spitting dust and light - Tina Chang "Celestial"
Separating material from light - Tina Chang "Infinite and Plausible"
Past the pinnacle of scoured light - Tina Chang "Revolutionary Kiss"
Pure and cold and never seeing light - Michael Chant "In the Shade of the Tree of Knowledge"
Within a craft of pearl and crystal light - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
And set the prisoned light of heaven free - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
The tides of light and bird-song mingled - Thomas S. Chard "The Blessed Vale"
our bones of calcified light - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"
Meet for your orchards of light - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Fire"
First light, last scent, lost country - Chen Chen "First Light"
The growing light rearranging your voice - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"
How to light my name under their skin - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"
Disintegrating at the barest brush of light - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"
Lights dancing to the beat of the ground - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"
Lights of sacrilege and scorn - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Shall know a new light in the mind - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
When Robert's snowy woods glow with an unearthly light - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [Robert Frost]
Standing alone in the light - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"
where is the light of one leaf falling? - Lucille Clifton "consulting the book of changes: radiation"
latticed against all light - Lucille Clifton "11/10 again"
To use the undistorted light - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Loose of tongue and light - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene IV"
Where the light and the darkness divide - Leonard Cohen "Ballad of the Absent Mare"
Pain cannot compromise this light - Leonard Cohen "Hydra 1960"
The light of the seamless sky - Leonard Cohen "Roshi's Poem"
Thin anonymous light - Aaron Coleman "The Broken Man's Permission"
Light shall be dark and darkness shine - Mary Coleridge "Wither Away?"
Bisected by a horizon line of yellow light - Michael Collier "Goat on a Pile of Scrap Lumber"
Their diet of unfiltered divine light - Billy Collins "Questions About Angels"
In slanting piers of light - Arthur Colton "Faustine"
The light every shade of gold - Katie Condon "Big with Dawn"
With the light of infinite knowledge - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
Light in my cup - Hilda Conkling "Rose-Moss"
To see the pearl of light - Hilda Conkling "Seagarde"
Terrors of night and delay of light - Katherine Eleanor Conway "Saturninus"
Bright with reflex of light - Katherine Eleanor Conway "Saturninus"
Light in the bosom of darkness has birth - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Lifting strange columns of light - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Maddened with light from Beauty's sun - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Bursts the rose of light - Susan Coolidge "On the Shore"
to have a light escape from inside you - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"
Alone in the light of my magnificence - Cynthia Cotten "Resistance"
The stars of night grew pale before the morning's light - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"
Were in some manner brought to light - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"
Morning light soon came to chase - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"
Tangled braids of ever-changing light - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
And always my eyes ached for the light - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
A flickering light near spent - Adelaide Crapsey "Angelique"
Catching the light, spinning it into gold - James Crews "Here with You"
Goblin lights and magic tide - George Cronyn "The Derelict"
Waited in the light of our thousand-flower sun - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
The sun devoured them, and they became the light - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
Eternal shapes of shadowly light - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"
Find forgiveness in the ancient light - Shutta Crum "Everything is Far"
Dreams of light eclipsed in shade - Countee Cullen "Harsh World That Lashest Me"
Love, leave me like the light - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
The busy needle of her light to bring - E. E. Cummings "Sunset"
Glittering veils of light about her - Olive Custance "The Autumn Day"
That wither in the hands of light - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"
Written of brightness and light - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)
Shake white light in whiter water - H.D. "Fragment Thirty-six"
Rift on rift of rose and scattered light - H.D. "Fragment Thirty-six"
Tears dried in the light of revolt - Noemia da Sousa "Poem of Distant Childhood" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver
Lap us in light and cooling fleece - Danske Dandridge "Silence"
In morning's definite light - Jim Daniels "The Dark Miracle"
By the light of his pure joy - Jim Daniels "I Dreamt I Wrote a Poem About Jazz"
Smile crooked in drunk light - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"
All light to darkness turning - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"
Light in all the city tarried - John Davidson "London"
Which curls the lip, which lights the eye - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Which lights the void which reason leaves - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Which lights the weary to the tomb - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Sweet to a heart unentangled and light - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"
While joy gave clouds the light of stars - William H. Davies "The Villain"
The light of his laughter - Geffrey Davis "Hear the Light"
Pillars of blue light rising from its waves - Deborah L. Davitt "Drowning in this Sunken City"
Covered in light and shadow - Kwame Dawes "At Anchor: The Real Situation"
In the sudden white light of noon - Kwame Dawes "Shook Foil"
Lights and shadows sweep across his brow - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
Its song a staff of light - Meg Day "10 AM is When You Come to Me"
Mirrors holding themselves toward the light - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"
Light turned into a sleeve of blades - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"
mind filled with a light returning - Tyree Daye "The Lord's Corner"
Regents of the spheres of light - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
The inner flame which lights the mind - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
The wild fires of frost shall light - Walter de la Mare "The Little Salamander"
The way his face yields to the light - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"
Light from the moon she nurtures - Diane DeCillis "Creation of Birds -- after the painting by Remedios Varo"
A light at the end of the big bang tunnel - Diane DeCillis "Thinking about What Matters"
On this plain of light, gas & dust - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Her legs filaments of light - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"
Reread Aristotle by waning light - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Human Habitat"
Accused of darkness by my inner light - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"
Light split by the glacier - Steve Denehan "The Crevasse"
Conserved light by walking in darkness - Toi Derricotte "St. Peter Claver"
A light along the edge of responsibility - Jay Deshpande "Actually Very Simple"
Two moths dust the same screen for remembered light - Jay Deshpande "On Speaking Quietly with My Brother"
Blackberries enough to light the brain - Dante Di Stefano "Green Burial Unsonnet"
Curled ribbons of fried light - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
Because the light called - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
The light of unanointed blaze - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life VII: The White Heat"
Between the planets' pewter light - Chris Dombrowski "Boreal"
The works and sufferings of light - Chris Dombrowski "Going Home"
Beneath this burial of light - Chris Dombrowski "October Suite"
No less important than the light - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
The valley's light lapidary in the canyon creases - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
Fills the ages with its light - Eleanor C. Donnelly "Mary Immaculate"
Melts the red light of the sun - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Assembled in light of earliest birds - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"
Turning the light from their wings - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"
In the clean white light of the market - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"
The dark seeps in faster underneath the lights - Kaily Dorfman "The Wolf"
A ruby tremulous on a streak of light - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
The birth of dreadful light - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"
Your gift of dews and light - Edward Dowden "Flowers from the South of France"
The light of strange discovered skies - Edward Dowden "If it Might Be"
A calm retreat of tempered light - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"
The faultless flower of light - Edward Dowden "Musicians"
The light which bites and blights - Edward Dowden "Song and Silence"
In my eyes the vanished light - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"
Pale from light obscure - Edward Dowden "To a Child Dead as Soon as Born"
The darkness your light supports - Boris Dralyuk "The Bureau of Street Lighting"
Drawn back to their lairs of light - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"
Chiron in broken bathroom light - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"
Reliquary for the off-white light of January - Michael Dumanis "Joseph Cornell, with Box"
When you bring us this light - Cheryl Dumesnil "Ode to October"
Myriad lights and wondrous mysteries - Paul Laurence Dunbar "By the Stream"
Resuscitate their small portion of the light - Camille T. Dungy "How Great the Gardens When They Arrive"
Burst rose of sharded light - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Wind-Whipped: 4. Catechism"
A voice written in light - Rebecca Dunham "Field Note, 2011"
Coveting little pieces of light - Stephen Dunn "A Concise History of the Future"
The cheery light forsake the day - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"
Through treachery of light - Marcella Durand "from The Prospect"
That bloom in the Eden of light - A.E. "Love"
Full-veiled in peerless robes of light - 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]
The light's full grace - Helen Parry Eden "The Distraction"
Light one sombre pyramid - Helen Parry Eden "Trees"
Within a realm of filtered light - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"
Weaver of the etherial light - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"
When light and love within her eyes were one - George Eliot "Self and Life"
Looking into the heart of light - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land I: The Burial of the Dead"
No shadow in that light - Claudia Emerson "Leave No Trace"
Voyager of light and noon - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Humble-Bee"
Bandages of purple light - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"
The glow-worm being hired the highways to light - "The Emperor's Rout"
Woman wrapped in frightful light - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Wrapped in a great, frightful light - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 4. E-Melemhush, the Temple of Nuska in Nippur" transl. by Sophus Helle
Your heart is strewn with frightful light - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 29. E-Mah, the Temple of Ninhursanga and Asghi in Adab" transl. by Sophus Helle
Plant my syllables in light - Elaine Equi "Reset"
Alone with the gold last light - Heid E. Erdich "Stung"
Light and absence in identical seams - Louise Erdrich "Ninth Month"
So their light startles your eyes - Martin Espada "The Sinking of the San Jacinto"
Some light that wants to watch me survive - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Autopainophile"
Tortuous tunnels walled with light - Anthony Euwer "The Caves of Josephine"
Colors bathed in mellow lights - Anthony Euwer "The Caves of Josephine"
In the race for light - Anthony Euwer "The Douglas Fir"
Cast a ray to light lone Tasso's gloom - Marie J. Ewen "Corinna at the Capitol" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.449, 7 Aug. 1852]
In this insomniac light - Tarfia Faizullah "Register of Eliminated Villages"
Smudge the marrow of myself into light - Tarfia Faizullah "Self-Portrait as Artemis"
Swifter than the course of light - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
Rains down light like argent snows - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"
The pale green light of distant moons - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"
The million lights of the polar-star - Eleanor Farjeon "A Sheaf of Nature-Songs III"
The light of change is bitter - Joseph Fasano "Testimony"
A ceiling of light heaving like molten glass - Susan Fawcett "Black Water Diving"
a blessed light came disrupting the blindfold - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"
Back into rash light, dust, and air - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"
Balancing on orbs and light - Camonghne Felix "Statement on Being Lonely vs. Alone"
The diamond light of Greece - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "To the Oracle at Delphi"
Forever amid these lights - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Call me with fierce lights - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
A beautiful web of silver light - Eugene Field "Heigho, My Dearie"
On a river of crystal light - Eugene Field "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"
Ruby lights and devil's wine - George Blackstone Field "The Bonnets"
Follow us through squares of light - Annie Finch "Frozen In"
Green spores carried on green light - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"
lights pinning red over white snow - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"
twists and rises into the tube of light - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"
The curlew swift as light - "The Fisherman's Keen, or the Lamentation of O'Donoghue of Affadown ('Roaring Water'), in the west of Co. Cork, for his three sons and his son-in-law, who were drowned" transl. by Anonymous
Windy odors light as thistledown - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"
Planes of light and shadow - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
The light wind upon the poplars - F.S. Flint "Lunch"
The last track of parting light - "Flora: a Vision"
Dismantled ribs of light - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen j"
The author of time's bewildering light - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 12"
Who opens in autumn under stolen light - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XIV"
Open to honeyed light - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Resurrection"
Light of love and mercy shine - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"
No rites we need that shun the light - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Her stained windows reared between them and the light - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Veins of wind light up - Carolyn Forche "Barley Field"
Box of world and light - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"
What fragmentary light - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"
What runs through the many-gated light - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
The small lights of winter campfires - Katie Ford "All I Ever Wanted"
Hailstorms and diffracted confusions of light - Katie Ford "Colosseum"
Made of bronze light and snow - Katie Ford "Song After Sadness"
Like a diadem of light - Mary Weston Fordham "For Who?"
Strewn with blossoms and flecked with light - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]
The new gleam of that celestial light - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
Always late with its light - Ariel Francisco "Insomniami"
By guesswork with a failing torch for light - Gilbert Frankau "Gun-Teams"
The last light that leaps the night - Gilbert Frankau "The Observers"
violent stabs incantations of light - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"
The slow crawling light - Santee Frazier "Hyperacusis"
Her light streamed through the years - John Freeman "The Body"
Pouring strange light on things more strange - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
The fair stars trembling in their light - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
When from the window poured pale light - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
An arrow of light down the Milky Way - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "Wee Willie Winkie"
Walked so light on air in heavy shoes - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"
Behind light words that tease and flout - Robert Frost "Revelation"
Breathed as light as a lady's fan - Robert Frost "Unharvested"
The opposing lights of the hour - Robert Frost "Waiting Afield at Dusk"
Dream upon the opposing lights of the hour - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
Where light without a shadow lies - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]
Unveiled before the light was spent - Zona Gale "By My Side All Day Another Went"
Faced with joy the lottery of light - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Speaks a word like burning light - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
Touch the texture of the light - Zona Gale "Light"
Breathe for our breath his light - Zona Gale "Light"
The last light of each favorite tree - Tess Gallagher "Reading the Waterfall"
My genes in the sharp light of the celestial - Suzi F. Garcia "A Modified Villanelle for My Childhood (with some help from Ahmad)"
Whose light is faint as the moon in a cloudy night - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Leaping light by cliff and cairn - William Gardiner "Bonnie Dryfe" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no. 107-v.III, 16 Jan. 1886]
Proceeded backward into the light - Deborah Garrison "A Friendship Enters Phase II"
And a star-tipped wand for light - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "The Fairies' Ball"
Orange, and red, all fringed with golden light - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "The Fairies' Ball"
With clouds that steal across her light - Emanuel Geibel "[Mien Pferd geht langsam durch die nacht]" transl. by Edith Wharton
While searching for light - Alimjan Metqasim Ghemnaki "The Monument of Betrayal" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The final stroke of everlasting light - Charles Ghigna "Early Evening"
Tip the scales in light's direction - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"
Kindling with a sudden light - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Lilac Tree"
The miraculous day and the singular light - Nikita Gill "Chaos to Nyx, Goddes of the Night"
When a new sun clothes us in light - Dana Gioia "After a Line of Neruda"
Outwalked the furthest city light - Dana Gioia "Three Drunk Poets"
Dull, bitter light - C.S. Giscombe "First Dream"
Bursting with light from beyond - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
Like a bright light passing through - Louise Gluck "Faithful and Virtuous Night"
The massive argument of light - Louise Gluck "Lamentations"
The vine has a dream of light - Louise Gluck "Parable of the Trellis"
The nature of light was incompleteness - Louise Gluck "The Story of a Day"
Where water-flags upreared their banners light - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Clear darkness, sheer light - Louis Golding "Wind of Black Night"
Tied together with bows of light - Maxwell I. Gold "Where the Moon Smiles"
Light stuck in shambles - Golden "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"
Her name means Light To Me - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
Whose gown cascades with light - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
A flower that blossoms without light - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
The scorn of tumbleweed and light - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Senorita Juarez"
Where every move becomes a function of light - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
Denser shadows veil the light - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Podas Okus"
Its edge in time and light - Rae Gouirand "Stanzas to Those Just Arriving"
Then infinite scansion in the light - Mona Gould "Powder Room"
Golden light to make a flight of dreams - Mona Gould "Sherry"
Born of the light of heavenly mansions - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Lucid in the light of ancient song - David Gray "The Luggie III [sonnet]"
In small vaults of light - Leah Naomi Green "Carrot"
The light that's waited all day - Leah Naomi Green "Seeds and Fugue"
Come down from the light that blinds - Scott E. Green "Killers from the Light, Killers from the Heat"
Buried light in laughter and hay forever - Dora Greenwell "Haymaking" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Where Hope's signal lights the night - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
The light and shadow so disposed - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"
For your brief life's faded light - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
It takes a stalwart soul to find the light - John Grey "Skywatching"
Light's potential to change us - Kimberly Grey "Conjugating"
A drop of blue light - Kimberly Grey "Modern Sentences"
Some translated light - Kimberly Grey "Somehow, We Are a We"
Everything electrical is not light - Kimberly Grey "Somehow, We Are a We"
Palmed within an arc of light - Lucy Griffith "Attention"
A hidden house of light - Pamela Gross "The Hive"
Hauling remnants of light from these daystars - Pamela Gross "The Hive"
Luminous with planets to light the rain - Margherita Guidacci "All Saints' Day" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
The fragrant shadows scarred with light - Louise Imogen Guiney "Spring"
Dips for an instant of light - Arthur Guiterman "In the Hospital"
Pour out your light - Ivor Gurney "Requiem"
Floods of light rich with all hues - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Attention fraying in late afternoon light - Marilyn Hacker "Interval"
The sun which lights the sphere - Hafiz "The Divan XLII" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Roadways of rock and canyons full of light - Katherine Hale "Going North IV: Painted Rock"
With hearts as light as snow-flakes fall - Ellyn Hall "Bringing home the holly" [Laugh and Play, no date, Project Gutenberg]
The way a heart can light a world - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"
With hardly a glimmer of light or life - Kerry Hardie "Acceptance"
Lifting me into cloying light - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"
Gilt over by the light I bore - Thomas Hardy "A Wet August"
Or its consequence of light - Joy Harjo "The Creation Story"
Unless this light becomes a bayonet of sound - Joy Harjo "Mercy"
Within a crescendo of abalone light - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
Guards a piece of light - Joy Harjo "Transformations"
Vineyards that drink the golden light - Frances E.W. Harper "Go Work in My Vineyard"
The city of gems and pearls of light - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"
And shape dissent from light - Janice N. Harrington "Burn"
Light gets afraid of tomorrow - francine j. harris "feeder"
Fresh from the realms of light - Geo. W.H. Harrison "A Prison Vision"
To gather a rose by the light of stars - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"
Stars that shower swift-winged light - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"
The warp of shade, the weft of light - Alfred Hayes "My Study"
The light grazing my teeth - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"
Turned to ash in the brutal light - Terrance Hayes "Cocktails with Orpheus"
Birches inheriting the last light - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"
Never veil that world of light - "Heaven" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]
May veil Apollo's light - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
To light's unclouded throne - Felicia Hemans "Lines Written in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Smith"
Would beam with softer light - Felicia Hemans "To My Mother"
A tangle of silver gleams and dusky lights - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
Shares in the universal alms of light - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
The hangman wind that tortures temper and light - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
Naught but a second-hand dealer in Light - Oliver Herford "A Little Book of Bores"
Light imperious talk of water freed - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "January Thaw"
Hovering like a bowl of light - Faylita Hicks "Lazarus"
With waves of dark light & star dust - Faylita Hicks "Letter to Black Girls"
The river will bring new lights - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk
Turned on a lathe of light - Conrad Hilberry "Egg"
A loosened sheaf of light - Geo. Canning Hill "Theodora: a Ballad of the Woods"
A cheerful light to those forlorn - Jennie Earngey Hill "Life's Day"
Light in the hour of lemon & water - Brenda Hillman "The Late Cold War"
Scholar of trapped light - Brenda Hillman "Micro-minutes on Your Way to Work"
Children of light & flesh - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
Form & light, extra space in the ampersand - Brenda Hillman "Unendangered Moths of the Mid-Twentieth Century"
Take heart in the pale light - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
A heavenly light who created havoc for the hell of it - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"
That sweet blue light spun out of nothingness - Edward Hirsch "Cotton Candy"
In the harsh inner light of an all-night diner - Edward Hirsch "The Task"
Climbed a hill as light fell short - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
A pair of stars, faint pins of light - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Light in fitful rays and tiniest needles - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Where pollen is now the light - Linda Hogan "Home in the Woods"
Back to your lands of light - Norah M. Holland "O Littlest Hands and Dearest"
Watch the light forget the mountains - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"
Sprinkled with starry light - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"
Those flowers made of light - Thomas Hood "I Remember"
Clasped by the golden light - Thomas Hood "Ruth"
Shot fierce light against the stars - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
A fairy ring wrought of the silver light - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
And find the uncreated light - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Habit of Perfection"
False the light ambition burns - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
I stood amid the forms of light - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
That fled with the monarch of light - Mary Gardiner Horsford "Pleurs"
Holed and cribbed with light - Joan Houllihan "RAG SMELL. FIRE"
Faint streaks of doubtful light - "Hours of Childhood"
Bring the immortal seed to light - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIII: The Immortal Part"
With a thousand minstrels comes the light - William D. Howells "The Long Days"
Clear light that makes men joyful - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Written on the Lake, Returning from the Retreat at Stone Cliff" transl. by Burton Watson
The light of our own dreaming - Andrew Hudgins "Two Strangers Enter Sodom"
Into a thousand lights of sun - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"
Take the neon lights and make a crown - Langston Hughes "Juke Box Love Song"
To Ruth the eyes of Boaz shone clear light - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
Deep from light and air, until the day of doom - Victor Hugo "The Tomb and the Rose" transl. by A.J.M. [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.694, 14 April 1877]
Reflecting scarred light - Ishion Hutchinson "Roof Nightclub"
Pours its avalanche of Light - Aldous Huxley "Inspiration"
The strip of light between the slats - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"
Where its light was last seen - Luisa A. Igloria "Orchard"
The light from buried eyes - Jean Ingelow "A Dead Year"
That was satisfied with light - Jean Ingelow "Laurance"
In the trance of light - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: The Nightingale Heard by the Unsatisfied Heart"
Their eyes carrying late rooms of light - Mark Irwin "Dear Red"
A salamander shaking off light - Mark Irwin "Threshold"
Expanding till I am light - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"
Dark melting orbs of liquid light - G.C.J. "En Passant" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.35-v.I, 30 Aug. 1884]
Stealing light from a flash in the sky - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"
Reemerged out of the murder of light - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"
A lampshade exhausted by light - John James "Catalogue Beginning with a Line by Plato"
Light slowed to the pace of material transfer - John James "Forget the Song"
The light a thin space to crawl into - John James "Materia"
Throwing cold light through the black matter - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"
Dreams of salt and light - John James "Scarecrow"
I bask in eddies of unseasonable light - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
Such is the promise of light - Omotara James "Pier 52"
What they buy is light rolled in a wave - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
The way a trellis shadow cages light - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Our hearts filled by the light of crashing down - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
In the beginning before light began - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Flashed and will flame terror and light - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Fickle light on barren blossoms - Elinor Jenkins "April Nights"
Spilling the light of memory - Allison Eir Jenks "The Burial of Two Strangers"
A haze of raw light - Allison Eir Jenks "Transfiguration of the Golden Bird"
Light your pipe on a fasting heart - Johannes V. Jensen "At Memphis Station" transl. by S. Foster Damon
place the world inside the light and look - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Light of the World"
moving world inside the light - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Light of the World"
Light locked against us - Amanda Jernigan "Years, Months, and Days"
The starry light upon your forehead dims - "John Bull to Jonathan" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Seeing some unexperienced light - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
Twin pools of mystic light - James Weldon Johnson "Her Eyes Twin Pools"
Light the valley of lone fears - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Long, terraced lines of circling light - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
The annulling light of any pitiless dawn - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Pleasure made into light - Taylor Johnson "W 177th & Broadway"
True light of Freedom's dome - Edward Smyth Jones "Flag of the Free"
The myriad gleams that light the night - Joshua Henry Jones "The Universe"
From shadows into a locus of light - Patricia Spears Jones "Defiant"
A garden gated in April light - Saeed Jones "Eclipse of My Third Life"
Clogged arteries of light - Saeed Jones "Lower Ninth"
in the divine light of anticipation - Tanque R. Jones "Heaven"
In winter's spider-eyed light - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
The burned light of his own country - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
Through the darkness with his own becoming light - June Jordan "July 4, 1974"
The sky uncurling to the light - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"
Washed by spacious light - Lawrence Joseph "Water Street"
Art and ashes of light - Fady Joudah "Gemini"
Light isn't refused - Fady Joudah "Unacknowledged Pollinators"
Inhabitant of glory clothed in light - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"
Chalice that unearthly light - A.M. Juster "Behold"
A light steals half my mind - Fredoon Kabraji "A Blue Dream"
Quenched by the conquering light - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fourth: Rati's Lament" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Skewered with light - Ilya Kaminsky "Firing Squad"
How ferocious that shock of light - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"
Sat unmoving and alert amid devouring light - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
Rise to your unfamiliar light - Mary Karr "The Last of the Brooding Miserables"
The spluttering light of this specific flame - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"
Pink lights blinking off and on - Laura Kasischke "Recall the Carousel"
When he falls asleep, does light fade? - Janet Kauffman "Cut the Lure"
With distant arrivals of light - Janet Kauffman "Decaying to More"
An orbed drop of light - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Light-winged Dryad of the trees - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
Madly follow that bright path of light - John Keats "Specimen of an Induction to a Poem"
Framer of the light and dark - John Keble "Evening"
Petals of light upon darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
This half-remembered light - Donika Kelly "Brood"
Hills of fire gave back the light - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"
Shake the fading stars from her robes of light - Fanny Kemble "A Farewell"
The last glance of his vanishing light - Fanny Kemble "The Minstrel's Grave"
Into the fountains of eternal light - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Away, away! bear me away, away]"
The stormy light of his fierce lurid eyes - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [I hear a voice low in the sunset woods]"
Bright flood of burning light - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Lady, whom my beloved loves so well!]"
A thousand germs of light and beauty - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
Every shadow thrown by flickering light - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"
Never faultless light or perfect rest - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"
In my pillar of light - Jane Kenyon "On the Aisle"
Made gathers of light inside itself - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"
To light me quick as a fickle flame - Vandana Khanna "Name Calling"
Hair in needles of light and heat - Vandana Khanna "Self-Portrait as Goddess after the Fire"
A body that hums in contrary light - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"
In a Noose of Light - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Roses made of crimson light - Joyce Kilmer "A Valentine"
In the light of saints - Kim Unsong "Worldly Taints"
Split with blue light - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"
Whose blue light rattles sky - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"
In the cobweb of light and dark - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"
Unable to keep the lights on - Merie Kirby "Mother"
All of us want our share of light - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"
Leave all the lights on in my head - Elizabeth Knapp "Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak"
The star yielded to light - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"
Nothing but a street light - Jennifer L. Knox "Name That Tune"
Until light is the holy word - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"
Trying to hold too much light - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Firing bullets of wet light - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Depending on the light to make a difference - Yusef Komunyakaa "Facing It"
To make the light pivot - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Helmet"
Pacing off light hidden in darkness - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"
Blue jays & redbirds wove light through leaves - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Some version of dwindling light - Christopher Kondrich "Object Permanence"
Light spilled over her fingers - Ted Kooser "Zenith"
Having come from Mithraic light - Stephen Kuusisto "Dark Joys 18"
Deflecting horizonless depthless light - Philip Lamantia "Untitled [To see this evil from its core]"
A young probationer of light - Charles Lamb "Lines Written in My Own Album"
Be soft with the light inside you - Alfred K. LaMotte "Gentle"
Over heaven's liquid light - Archibald Lampman "April in the Hills"
Two flowers that love the light - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
From the vintage of gold and of light - Archibald Lampman "The Sun Cup"
The sweet gift of light and air - Archibald Lampman "Vivia Perpetua"
Who live at the light's limit - Andrew Lang "The Seekers for Phaeacia"
Light my love's eyes to read my soul - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "God-Made"
A shadowed form before the light - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"
Search for a former light - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"
As light razors into dark - Michael Lauchlan "Mementos"
Light breaks over all Eyes - Rickey Laurentiis "Hermaphrodite"
Morning light sliding down - Dorianne Laux "I Never Wanted to Die"
In those light and frolic days - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes II: The Gamblers"
Streaked with no ray of light - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway I: The Shadow on the Shore"
Gathered all that grey and moony light - Emily Lawless "From the Burren X: A Garden"
In lines of dancing light - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Hailing all the light and glory - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
Knotted in heaven upon the fine light - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"
With the dim light of full, healthy life - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
Arches where light pushes through - D.H. Lawrence "Bat"
As a prism breaks light into jewels - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
On the inaccessible pinnacle of light - D.H. Lawrence "St Mark"
Memory of light - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"
Blind Milton's memory of light - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"
In this new world of light - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"
Harvest-feeding dews, fine-winnowed light - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"
And the world's light went out - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"
Applied science of the abstract light - Aimee Le "So the Love Story Started"
Fair flame of sacrificial light - Richard Le Gallienne "In the Night"
A sponge of living light - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
In the light, the glowing splinters - Joseph Lease "Free Again [excerpt]"
Change is that rarest light - Ruth Lechlitner "Change Must Be Served"
Light beyond the netted stars - Ruth Lechlitner "Change Must Be Served"
By that light the living are befriended - Ruth Lechlitner "Change Must Be Served"
The false light sterile upon our eyelids - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"
The tombed light in this design for dying - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"
Kingfishers dazzling the light of the sun - Ida Lee "The Forest King's Lament"
The light of a joint and fragile keeping - Li-Young Lee "To Hold"
Smeared in crimson light - Lee Young-ju "Roommate, Woman" transl. by Jae Kim
Heralds of tempest, over the light - Henry S. Leigh "The Moonlight Sonata"
Tango in the hot, ochered light - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"
All gleams in glory's golden light - Charles G. Leland "Thank God for All" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
First memories of light - R.B. Lemberg "Ranra's Unbalancing"
Stone and mortar to imbue with light - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"
As the carousel twirled its crown of lights - Keith Leonard "Museum"
Drinking light from the vanished sun - Denise Levertov "In California: Morning, Evening, Late January"
Tinder for primal light - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"
Gleamed with the warm light of an absent star - Philip Levine "Breath"
The traffic light stuck on yellow - Philip Levine "Homecoming"
Or how light changed nothing - Philip Levine "Photography 2"
The light overflowing with smoke - Philip Levine "Smoke"
Watch the light turning the room every color - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"
From the gates of light had drifted - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
A mist of light stains the willows - Li Ching-chao "Tune: Endless Union" transl. by C. H. Kwock and Vincent McHugh
Lights up the mauve of three - Li Ho "The Northland in Cold" transl. by Burton Watson
Hold the progress of your light - Li Po "The Sun" transl. by Arthur Waley
Drawn to the hazy sprout of light - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
Shedding light like feathers - Ada Limon "The Bird Knows He Is Going to Die and Wishes Not To"
Engines and navigating lights of redemption - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
How they divide light from the road - Marisa Lin "Tiananmen Square, 1989"
Fire-winged cats that light the nights - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
A pinprick of light just out of reach - Angela Liu "The Subway Is Another Place to Die"
With a wand of living light - Mrs. M.A. Livermore "The Snow-Drop" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]
Artist working only with light and stone - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"
His feet on a ladder of light - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Sandalphon"
At home in this echoless light - Audre Lorde "Syracuse Airport"
My steps fall ringed with light - Amy Lowell "Apology"
The light and shadow of all springs - Amy Lowell "Lilacs"
A full light wind of lilac - Amy Lowell "Lilacs"
The moon writes her legends in light - Amy Lowell "Loon Point"
Mock with a light of long dead years - Amy Lowell "To Elizabeth Ward Perkins"
Enchantment lights Venus's cheek - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"
Never saw god written in neon lights - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
For all the light I drink - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria de Lourdes Song of Plenty"
Whose body is shadow and light - Alessandra Lynch "[The lamp is like a capsized ship]: Two Voices Muse over the Speaker"
The way the loss of light proceeds - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"
What light on his sunless path had burst - Francis J. Lys "A Summer's Poems: V. [actual title in Greek?]"
Dropped a veil of changing light - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Shelter and Fellowship"
Lights the deepening sky of Time - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"
Shrinking from the spear of light - Thomas MacDonagh "Inscription on a Ruin"
Fashioned the light in His lyric hands - Wilson MacDonald "The Miracle Songs of Jesus"
Light that sports on frozen streams - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things I" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Bright blackberries where the light falls - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "bramble"
Soon the shadows will claim the light - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "silver birch"
Citrus curling up the light - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"
Vanishing in broken light - Dorothea Mackellar "Bathing Rhyme"
Took my soul to light a shrine - Archibald MacLeish "Charity"
And life be filled with light - Fiona MacLeod "The Sorrow of Delight"
Solar wind strokes the ice-wall into light - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"
My love in the light of steel - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: IV: Connal, Crimora"
Give me those arms of light - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: IV: Connal, Crimora"
Into a limitless expanse of light - Naomi Long Madgett "Afterthought"
The absence of a planet's borrowed light - Naomi Long Madgett "Without"
Seem a rebuke to the light - Anthony Madrid "Quinceanera"
Cloud shadows in the failing light - Trebor Mai "The Shepherd's Love" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
A light from worlds before and after - Edwin Markham "Poetry"
Wrapped in mysteries of light - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
Touched with racing light - Jeannette Marks "Only Your Name"
Wrinkling the light of a drowsy star - Jeannette Marks "Oriole's Nest"
Shaken light burns in the memory - Jeannette Marks "Proem"
Banded with loops of light - Don Marquis "From the Bridge"
Dimmed lights adrift from nobler dreams - Don Marquis "Proem"
Voices fly light light - José Martí "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
As radiant beams in a luminous shower of light - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
Without wings to block out the light - Dawn Lundy Martin "Nothingness"
While the waning light burns - George Martin "Eudora"
Amaranth ash spread across the light - J. Michael Martinez "White"
As light shaped by trajectory - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"
When light enters the lung - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"
Particular as light - Joseph Massey "Early Fall"
Sheds her light with a more bewitching cheer - D.M. Matheson "Indian Summer"
Broad light at the end of the world - Louise Mathias "Quandary"
When the lights first appeared in the sky - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"
Seeking light from earth's core - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
Light refracts my name in dialect only moths comprehend - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"
As if light were the remedy - Airea D. Matthews "Sekhmet's Conceit"
Turns on his wheel of light - Philip Matthews "The Morning Star"
Its iambic pulse of light - Jamaal May "Better Devices"
Light parted by shadow-dance - Jamaal May "There Are Birds Here"
Weave for thee a cloak of light - Theodore Maynard "The Universal Mother"
A fractured memory of light - Shara McCallum "Ghazal"
Where tourists walk by camera light - John McCarthy "On and Off Route 130, Collinsville, Illinois"
Sheds floods of light - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"
Eyes that shamed the light - John McCrae "The Hope of My Heart"
Capturing inextinguishable light - Michael McGriff "Men Keep on Dying"
With an internal scattering of light - Medbh McGuckian "Painting by Moonlight"
For the snow's weird light - Claude McKay "Morning Joy"
Before thy blazing light - Claude McKay "Poetry"
Underneath a spell of heat and light - Claude McKay "To One Coming North"
We follow seductions of light - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
Sleeping in the cold blue light - Erika Meitner "Untitled [and the moon once it stopped was sleeping]"
Pushing it aside to reach the light - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
Time's onward stream may flow before the aching light - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
In the light from dust to night - Celeste Guzman Mendoza "Man Praying--Encroachment"
When light has birth - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Our high light pursue - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Priming our world with light - George Meredith "Grace and Love"
Grave eyes craving light - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Meet the light invoked - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Splintered with a new light - W.S. Merwin "A Broken Glass"
Some far light in the zodiac - W.S. Merwin "The Chinese Mountain Fox"
And the light is old again - W.S. Merwin "The Nomad Flute"
Like a light innocent of measure - W.S. Merwin "Note"
Deep snow from which the light comes - W.S. Merwin "Paper"
In the light of finished stars - M.S. Merwin "Returning Season"
Keeping time with the thread of light - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"
While reflected lights flowed backward - W.S. Merwin "227 Waverly Place"
With lights breaking in their tongues - M.S. Merwin "White Morning"
A place with the lights gone out - Charlotte Mew "I Have Been Through the Gates"
Single and spiritual notes of light - Alice Meynell "A Thrush Before Dawn"
The light from common water - Edna St Vincent Millay "Elegy Before Death"
Confused with light - Edna St Vincent Millay "Exiled"
Ghosts in relict summer light - Claire Millikin "Coke-bottle Barbie-doll"
Shatter the room with light - Claire Millikin "Fire"
Consider how my light is spent - John Milton "Service"
Follow the light to nowhere - Matthew Minicucci "Nostalgia"
Fold the lights of the night sky - Anis Mojgani "Leda"
Like a graveyard or unbearable light - Jenny Molberg "Civilization"
Stepping back from the light - Jenny Molberg "Our Lady of the Rio Grande"
Skies radiant with crystal light - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
In a blue surround of celestial light - N. Scott Momaday "Jornada del Muerto"
Enweaves the light in woof as bright - Harriet Monroe "Love Song"
Dissolving with a feverish glow of light - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Elysian creatures robed in fleecy light - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Heaven" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Found some undreamt light of tenderness - George Logan Moore "Love's Transfiguration" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.1-v.I, 6 Jan. 1884]
The equable sapphire light - Marianne Moore "Black Earth"
Fond memory brings the light of other days - Thomas Moore "Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)"
Not to dream but to seek the light again - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
Light moves on your turning shoulders - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan "Without a Philosophy"
Under the bright lights of this metaphor - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"
How coldly bright the memory of their parted light - Morna "Ianthe"
The fitful beacon's light - Lewis Morris "Look Out, O Love"
That light where honey tightens - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
What light cannot repair - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
[Light opening against my back - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"]
Under the spell of dazzling kaleidoscopic lights - Emma E. Murray "Drowning Machine"
Float like light between - "My Dark Rosaleen" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
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]
In the accumulated spray of the antarctic light - Pablo Neruda "Amor America (1400)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
An animal of light corralled - Pablo Neruda "Animal of Light" transl. by William O'Daly
And hardens its slow liquid light - Pablo Neruda "Atacama" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Light dancers of gold and air - Pablo Neruda "Caribbean Birds" transl. by Miguel Algarin
Gloved fingers of light - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Raising hours to the light - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Help yourself to a glass of light - Pablo Neruda "Goodbye to the Snow" transl. by Alastair Reid
Go out to sell light on the roads - Pablo Neruda "How Much Happens in a Day" transl. by Alastair Reid
Treading light and gunpowder - Pablo Neruda "I Want to Return to the South (1941)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
By the electric hazel tree's light - Pablo Neruda "I Want to Return to the South (1941)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
In the light storming through the foam - Pablo Neruda "I Will Return" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Inventing wolves to defend the light - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
My light and my spoon - Pablo Neruda "Love Song" transl. by William O'Daly
Changed forever by the light of blood - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1936)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Only your light against extinction - Pablo Neruda "Night XC" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Restored them to primeval light - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Earth" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
January's light will consume my entire heart - Pablo Neruda "One Hundred Love Sonnets: LXVI" transl. by Rafael Campo
The living poppy above the broken light - Pablo Neruda "Song on the Death and Resurrection of Luis Companys" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The light of hidden flowers - Pablo Neruda "Sonnet XXV"
Light which unwinds the air - Pablo Neruda "Spring" transl. by Alastair Reid
On a morning mortal with light - Pablo Neruda "Standard Oil Co." transl. by Jack Schmitt
The days of unraveled light - Pablo Neruda "Stone Within Stone" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Quartered the light of the implacable dawn - Pablo Neruda "Tupac Amaru (1781)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Light the tulip lanterns - E. Nesbit "The Maiden's Prayer"
Dragons flying in a red light - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"
Gave her eyes a sacred light - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
With the scarce, reflected light - Tim Newcomb "Dawn from Sentinel Dome, Yosemite Park"
Outside the reach of light - Tim Newcomb "Unlight"
Rushing on the wings of light - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Fire without its light - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
As the firefly lights the night - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"
Making a morning path to the light - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"
To smile for a light to come - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"
Pensive light and wistful sound - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"
Whatever small light bees bestow on fallen leaves - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"
Dashing the red gourd of light - Hoa Nguyen "She Leads with Flower Wands"
The fake lights confuse us - Hoa Nguyen "Swell"
And showed me rivers of light - Susan Nguyen "The Body as a Series of Questions"
Memory is the light you swallow - Susan Nguyen "Letter to the Diaspora" p.14
In tossing leagues of light - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons I. To--"
Many another whose heart holds no light - Robert Nichols "The Full Heart"
Flashed light upon the cosmos - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
A shadow in the light - Bruce Nugent "Shadow"
Dreaming of light arriving - Naomi Shihab Nye "Elementary"
In the slim envelope of light - Naomi Shihab Nye "Feather"
Water of light poured freely - Naomi Shihab Nye "Peace"
Absorbs this pliable light - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"
Words of Light alone our javelins hurled - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]
To shield your eyes from the lantern light - Achy Obejas "The Man in White"
And you don't like standing in its light - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"
Wanted to see through your light - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Your light is a memory of the future - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
A shadow wandering at the boundary of light - Omodero David Oghenekaro "Questions for the Fallen"
That leaves the river for the light - John Myers O'Hara "Ablution"
Look, how your flowers light the world - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"
Born of spruce and fading light - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Portrait of My Father as a Pianist"
How the distances light up - Mary Oliver "Bear"
In the rainfall of light - Mary Oliver "Gravel"
A needle in a haystack of light - Mary Oliver "Mindful"
An unforgettable fury of light - Mary Oliver "Sunrise"
Where the stars are dressed in light - Mary Oliver "That Tall Distance"
If light had a mouth and a tongue - Mary Oliver "West Wind 3"
Hold us in the great hands of light - Mary Oliver "Why I Wake Early"
The sea a carnival of light - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Void behind the twin masks of light and dark - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
So narrow and light and possible - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"
Shiny with its afterbirth of light - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"
Treasure every eloquent ray of golden light - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
In the sky's great shroud of light - Ekhmetjan Osman "My Love" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
safe in an inoculation of light - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Ending only in the realms of light - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Verses"
Steals the light of Love's secret - James F. Otis "To the New Moon"
A land of lights and shadows - John Oxenham "India"
In the moment when the light fails - John Oxenham "Wakening"
Add light to Phoebus' eyes - Anonymous "A Pagan Epitaph"
Under the light of that unwanted dawn - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"
Light with folded hands - Marigloria Palma "Twilight" (translated by Carina del Valle Schorske)
Danced in clinging robes of Light - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
The pixels of light depicting the world - Gregory Pardlo "Atlantic City Sunday Morning"
Light your tinsel moon - Dorothy Parker "August"
Their candle gives a single light - Dorothy Parker "Interview"
Dread the dawn's recurrent light - Dorothy Parker "Symptom Recital"
Whose greens vary according to light and wind - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"
Find the pure center of light - Linda Pastan "It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank"
For an eternity of traveling light - Linda Pastan "Traveling Light"
leaves elevated to eat blue light - Shailja Patel "Solstice Re-pot"
The hard edge of historical light - Ed Pavlic "from "all along it was a fever: a what poem""
As the Sea weaves her path before the light - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"
Unearthly lights on everything - Josephine Preston Peabody "Gladness"
To ward and worship all the light it sends - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"
That final strip of light on the horizon - Cynthia Pelayo "Afterglow"
As the light gave way to another endless night - Andre F. Peltier "Petoskey Sun Set, 4 July 2010"
Habited in robes of light - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
From the steadfast light of a star - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
And logical as light - Walter S. Percy "Hope"
And lilies turned to light - Walter S. Percy "Two Frames"
Your body sealed shut in the light - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"
Remember how light dawned in chapters - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
In the light of a contented sky - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"
Water in the aftermath of light - Hai-Dang Phan "River to River"
When there's only starshine for a light to go by - Carl Phillips "On Why I Cannot Promise"
Who makes his heavy burden weigh more light - Philo "The Tribute"
Before we struggled to hold light - Jon Pineda "Delayed Harvest"
Light's unshakeable escort - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"
The way light includes everything - Carl Phillips "To a Legend"
The light breaks like a rough sea - Carl Phillips "What They Did, Who They Did it With"
So little different from the light - Carl Phillips "What They Did, Who They Did it With"
The creases between the red light and the green - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Cold, reflected light just wishing to hang on - Marisca Pichette "Waning, Waning"
One daughter of light be indulged in her flight - John Pierpont "E Pluribus Unum" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
How did you explain the light - Maya C. Popa "Letter to Noah's Wife"
Knowledge of the light - Emilio Porta "Circle"
Filled with shattered beams of light - Alexander Posey "On the Hills of Dawn"
The dogwood blossoms cast a light - Alexander Posey "Spring in Tulwa Thloco"
Sing on till light and shadow meet - Alexander Posey "To a Morning Warbler"
That flash defiance back at light - Alexander Posey "To the Crow"
For the glad diffusion of wisdom's light - "Potential Moods" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Flowers of light all shining and blossoming - Miriam Clark Potter "The Candle Tree"
When the sunset light glows red between the trees - Miriam Clark Potter "The Cuddle-de-wees"
Standing on the hill-top, he can light the farthest star - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Lighter"
Touched them with his magic torch of light - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Lighter"
Their light trembles down on my face - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Ships"
Full of faint light but golden - Ezra Pound "The Coming of War: Actaeon"
Alloys of lace and light - Lynn Powell "At the Equinox"
Serving cups of broken light - Ken Poyner "Ineffective"
Lights the dark vale of sorrow - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"
Dead stars who still sent light - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Telling a Bedtime Story"
Squeezing light out of a rock - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Telling a Bedtime Story"
Through the murmur of the light - Punch "Ballad of Bedlam"
Despise starry isles in light embosomed - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
The plagues that are in hell light on the fruit - "The Queen of Elfland"
Ending in decayed light - Khadijah Queen "Monologue for Personae"
Float toward a tulip light - Sina Queyras "Tulips"
Grim in the light of dawn - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Cloud and the Mountain"
Underneath a hailstorm of light - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"
Could starve in this impoverished light - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"
A line of brake lights blazing - Charles Rafferty "Daylight Moon"
Sparred the light for windows and won - Gaia Rajan "Dent"
On its clouds a soul-reflected light - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Shuttles of shadow and light - Theodore H. Rand "Fairy Glen"
The news of light and love - Theodore H. Rand "Marie Depure"
An ashen light serene - Theodore H. Rand "Song-Waves"
To tune their harps of light - Herbert Randall "The Angelus of Plymouth Woods"
A bit of rosemary, swept through with light - Herbert Randall "Foreword"
Mingle with the everlasting light - Herbert Randall "To My Pilgrim Mother"
From parapets of light - Herbert Randall "To the Standish Guards of the Old Colony"
A valley the light sags through - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"
The bride of my own sad light - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"
To bask in the light of a loftier fate - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
Coal gouged out to fuel the light in other places - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
With the lights of their ribs - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"
Across the sidewalk's light upheavals - Diane Raptosh "World Upside Down"
Melting aisles of liquid light - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "Aspiration"
Brief but brilliant light - G.A. Raybold "The Joys of Former Years Have Fled"
That shakes at touch of light - John Reade "Kings of Men"
From the past no closing light can borrow - Rebecca "The Heiress" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Stains all its light touches - William Reichard "In the Evening"
With that light seeming which deceit can give - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Feverish light flung hard upon their faces - Paisley Rekdal "Bats"
And serves to light our solemn way - A.J. Requier "Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Bent as light, as wind - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Has Walked Into the Wild, Palms Open"
Grateful for the light - Jordan Rice "Vanishment"
Ancient hour between light and dark - Adrienne Rich "Darklight"
Your footprints of light - Adrienne Rich "Modotti"
Art is a register of light - Adrienne Rich "Plaza Street and Flatbush"
In their outraged light - Adrienne Rich "Through Cottalitos Under Rolls of Cloud"
In the light of the weapons we wield - Henry Scott Riddell "The Grecian War Song"
With her fingers of shadowy light - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"
Goaded by soliciting light - Lola Ridge "After the Recital (To Roland Hayes)"
Envious of the light it cannot hold - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Jaded with monotony of lights - Lola Ridge "East River"
Compounded of light and air - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
The mask of light that pressed his face - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
Admitted to the cabalas of the light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
The bugles of the light are blowing - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Light that was its shining currency - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 1: Flower of Silver"
Hanging by a thread of light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 2: Madness in the Field"
That took the light like ivory - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Beheld the paradigm of light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 3: The Ray II"
Light glimpsed upon the rims of vision - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Made terrible with too much light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 2: The Unborn"
Shapes of foam that banner in the light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
Amid the plumbless jasmine of the light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"
Had no hunger for the light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"
Sweet inquisition of light - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"
The glow of darkened lights - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
The waste light of stars - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Burning spires in aureoles of light - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Light fine as a wasp's sting - Lola Ridge "In Harness"
Innumberable ions of light - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Light that jingles like anklet chains - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Captive light in the goblets quivering - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Infinite bubbles of light - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
The faint gold light of evening - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Carrying light like sunsets upon wings - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Punctured by needle lights - Lola Ridge "Nocturne"
Swarming particles of light - Lola Ridge "Saint's Bridge"
Light spinning a gossamer trestle - Lola Ridge "Saint's Bridge"
Clings as light might to a crocus - Lola Ridge "Still Water (To D.L.)"
Light on the underside of leaves - Jack Ridl "It Was Last Night, I Think"
But the exit is never to see light - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
The light of the laughing stars - James Whitcombe Riley "Leonanie"
A realm of light and shadow mystical - James Whitcombe Riley "Three Singing Friends"
Light from every edge - Rainer Maria Rilke "Archaic Torso of Apollo" (translated by Robert Bly)
Tailors of the light - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"
Iron and paper and light and salt - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"
Lights that sound the sunset - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
That veiled light of paradise - Charles G.D. Roberts "From the High Window of Your Room"
Lights the cradle and runs dark along the rafter - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"
And winds beyond the heavens are dancing in the light - Lloyd Roberts "Spring Madness"
Waves of vanishing light - Valencia Robin "Story of My Life"
Seen for us the devastating light - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Discovery"
By the one light of his one thought - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Flying Dutchman"
While we are deep in dreaming the light - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
From a gloom of a world forgotten to the light of a world to be - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
And one star waits for the dawning light - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"
With no light of the sun to guide - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Bathed in earth's lesser light - Alice Wellington Rollins "Indian Summer"
Shattered by the light from out those darkened eyes - Madeleine Caron Rock "He Is the Lonely Greatness"
Flashing light of jeweled fire - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
A sad thought buried in light - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"
Burst on the peaks of light - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
More secret than desert light - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
Grew pale beneath its light - Joshua Ross "My Ruling Star"
When passing clouds obscured its light - Joshua Ross "My Ruling Star"
In smiles of sparkling light - Joshua Ross "My Ruling Star"
Their brilliant light surpasses far - Joshua Ross "On a Lady's Eyes"
Will call to light the chastening light - Joshua Ross "On a Lady's Eyes"
Among the lilies lapped in the tender light - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
To the deep wells of light - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"
Love's light Hand is knocking at the door - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
In the Light is our sleeping and waking - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse
In the midst of this unending Light - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse
Without tapers they may give a light - "A Royal Guest"
Out hunting in the early light - Muriel Rukeyser "Painters"
A tongue of light describing a refuge - Rumi "A Just-Finished Candle" transl. by Coleman Barks
Reflects that borrowed light - Rumi "Love the Source of Light Rather than Vanishing Form" transl. by E.H. Whinfield
Ceased to look on light - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems IV: Revoke Not"
A new enchantment lights the ancient skies - George William Russell "Divine Visitation"
Lights of infinite pity star the grey dusk - George William Russell "Immortality"
And quench her light in the dark stream of death - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
my voice travels faster than light - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"
Coursing blood instead of light - R.S. Saha "Kin"
The most extravagant light is Venetian - David St. John "Venetian Farewells"
light that fell against the prison floor - C.T. Salazar "River"
No relief from the unbearable thin light - David Salisbury "On Mars"
Met to watch the lights and shadows quiver - Arthur L. Salmon "By the River" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.127-v.III, 5 June 1886]
Forever confused by the mysteries of light - Erika L. Sanchez "Hyacinth"
Sisters of silver creators of light - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"
Broken across with slashes of light - Carl Sandburg "Window"
Peace kiss and blot their tarnished light - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Pouring crystalline melody from thrones of Light - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Knowing what light shall burst from dark - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Suns from out their orbs of light - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
Make haste to bring your wares to light - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
And to fill with light the thirsty - Fritz Schnack "Evening Gift" transl. by William Saphier
Inside this labyrinth of hot light - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Four"
In the burned places where light is ash - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"
Beyond the fragile light that marks our star - Ann K. Schwader "A Voyage(r) Too Far"
Like a star behind the polar lights - Frederick George Scott "Columbus"
Sail beyond the solar light - Frederick George Scott "My Lattice"
Rivers leaping into dazzling light - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems V"
Faint tints of long delicious light - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems V"
Questions as old as light - Nicole Sealey "cento for the night i said, 'i love you'"
Like dawn indebted to light - Nicole Sealey "object permanence"
Reading circular augurs of light - Tobias Seamon "Halos"
Eyes imprisoned behind crimson bars of light - Tobias Seamon "Halos"
Were created not with light but clay - Tobias Seamon "Halos"
Flowing down like lingering light - Alexandra Seidel "The Honey Man"
Drowned in electric lights - Marjorie Seiffert "The Picnic"
And the light of hell-fire flows - Robert W. Service "The Heart of the Sourdough"
Light's flame with self-substantial fuel - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"
The gracious light lifts up his burning head - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VII"
Drowns the piping cries of light - Clara Shanafelt "Interlude"
The last few drops of light drain silently - Edward Shanks "A Night-Piece"
Saw beauty in a scrap of its light - Prageeta Sharma "Glacier National Park and the Elegy"
Gushes sour light across the sheets - Betsy Sharp "Alarm"
Imperial light wakes love to life - "She Sits Alone" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
Light garments brush against the dark - Virna Sheard "Before the Dawn"
Hidden in the light of thought - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
Like light dissolved in star-showers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples"
Light in the dust lies dead - Shelley "When the Lamp Is Shattered"
The liquid light of silver moons - Nathaniel G. Shepherd "A Summer Reminiscence"
Strange lights shall open as we pass - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: III. The Landsman"
Lost in the golden labyrinth of light - Frank Dempster Sherman "Song at Daybreak"
A cold jail cell flooded with light - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
Rejoice in its gladdening light - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
The virtue of this light - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
quick light flowing down the back of my throat - Evie Shockley "black love"
Our ship through light and darkness - Joyce Sidman "Always at Home"
Our light in our vast, brilliant constellations - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"
Last breath, last sight of light - Joyce Sidman "Into the Mud"
And spin into whorls of light - Joyce Sidman "Snail at Moonrise"
Standing in a constant cone of light - Richard Siken "Seaside Improvisation"
Light of some other evening - Charles Simic "Evening Walk"
thorns in the inches of light sunsets have - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"
For the light that shines there, waiting - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
The linnet twitters in the darkling light - "The Sleep-Song of Grainne Over Dermuid" transl. by Eleanor Hull
A cloud of granite and marble light - Tom Sleigh "The Parallel Cathedral"
Light scratches into all the surfaces - Bruce Smith "Ferment"
With versions of gravity and light - Bruce Smith "What Are They Doing in the Next Room"
With light in the night of infinitude - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"
A hueless warp of light - Clark Ashton Smith "Crepuscle"
White hells of light and clamour - Clark Ashton Smith "Inferno"
Splendours that inform the light - Clark Ashton Smith "Inheritance"
Strength obtained from light that failed - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Pluck out the light of stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
Until light outweighs us - Danez Smith "it won't be a bullet"
With trembling light - Effie Waller Smith "At the Grave of the Forgotten"
Lights earth's tears - Effie Waller Smith "The Rainbow"
Agony lights up the darkness - L. Virginia Smith "Bless the Homestead Law"
Liquid with the light of youth - Mrs. Seba Smith "To Fanny H***" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Pierced suddenly by pillars of heavy light - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"
Cast no discernible light - Karen Solie "The Trees in Riverdale Park"
The stars squeezing their icy light - Gary Soto "Professional Goals"
And light my worldly path no more - T.G. Spear "I Cling to Thee"
But a faint shadow of uncertain light - Edmund Spenser "The House of Richesse"
As the oboe lights the pure torch - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"
Light as an exile's suitcase - A.E. Stallings "Two Violins"
A heart light as her smile - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
See the light of azure skies - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
Folds the systems in a flood of light - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
And love offended lights a fire - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"
Brim with light the blue estates - George Sterling "Aldebaran at Dusk"
Between blazing cliffs of light - George Sterling "Ballad of the Bells"
With tears of bitter light - George Sterling "Beauty and Truth"
Like a bead along the thread of light - George Sterling "The Glass of Time"
With witness of a light - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
Take their symbol from the light - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
Mutations of arrested light - George Sterling "Morning in the Pines"
Reserves and urgencies of light - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Whose light is not in the refusing dawn - George Sterling "Thy Laughing Loveliness"
Endure the light which is the truth - George Sterling "To Ambrose Bierce"
Where light and roses stir - George Sterling "To My Sister"
Are loyal to that alien light - George Sterling "To One Self-Slain"
A bubble lifting from enchanted light - George Sterling "Under the Rainbow"
And Moses alone was the light - Gerald Stern "Samaritans"
An indigence of the light - Wallace Stevens "Lebensweisheitspielerei"
Wicked in her dead light - Wallace Stevens "Madame la Fleurie"
Establishments of wind and light and cloud - Wallace Stevens "One of the Inhabitants of the West"
Out of the drifting leaf and the dying light - Arthur Stringer "The Passing"
That had sighed to her light of old - Arthur Stringer "A Summer Night"
A ragged ache of light sifts through - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"
A hurt beast flinching at the light - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Spellbound, silent, down a shimmering track of light - Alan Sullivan "The Widower's Lullaby"
An owl dazzled by a brilliant light - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 60: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Your skull is a cup hungry for light - Jacqueline Suskin "How to Fall in Love with Yourself"
Mysterious promises of future light - Howard V. Sutherland "The Unassuageable"
One touch of the present dissolves the light dream - Miss Caroline E. Sutton "The Past" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Into the lemon light of morning - Alison Swan "Aubade"
Bludgeons of light to force your seams - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"
Unclasp a restless froth of light - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"
In a carousel of staring light - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"
The light from either's memory shed - Algernon Swinburne "Discord"
Night outspeeding light - Algernon Swinburne "One of Twain"
Clothed with the light of the sun - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
That leaf may be eternal by the light - Carmen Sylva "The Glowworm"
When I have just put out the light - "Sympathy" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Then to be only that light - Mary Szybist "In the Beginning God Said Light"
Light laughter to ease our brimming hearts - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]
The road the sun lays down in light - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"
A stroke of light in my consciousness - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Will rustle under painful light - Mutsuo Takahashi "Dead Boy" transl. by Jeffrey Angles
For light as space for shadow - Mutsuo Takahashi "Dead Boy" transl. by Jeffrey Angles
Blue light not sent from the moon - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Still, light rises all night long - Keith Taylor "After the Holidays"
Among things quick and shimmering in the light - Keith Taylor "The Biblical Allotment"
Alive again under fragile light - Keith Taylor "In the Presence of Large Predators"
A student in the landscapes of light - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Light builds a monument to its passing - Tess Taylor "Solstice"
Beneath the fever of the light - Sara Teasdale "In a Restaurant"
Whistling in silver light - Sara Teasdale "Meadowlarks"
Like petals of light fallen - Sara Teasdale "Old Tunes"
Lights like sunken swords - Sara Teasdale "Spring Night"
Hour of wind and light - Sara Teasdale "Swallow Flight"
These orbs of light and shade - Tennyson "In Memoriam"
Sphere all your lights around - Tennyson "In Memoriam"
Long light shakes across the lakes - Tennyson "The Splendour Falls"
Spun by light and dropped into shadow - Amber Flora Thomas "Damaged Photos"
Down the rivers of the windfall light - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
After the birth of the simple light - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
The light of this pale choked day - Edward Thomas "After Rain"
Lights and shades hid what has never been - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"
Actors and audience and lights all gone - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
Hang stars like seeds of light - Edward Thomas "The Dark Forest"
An ambuscade of lights - Francis Thompson "New Year's Chimes"
Gray light on an unmade bed - Matthew Thorburn "Gray Light on an Unmade Bed"
Frail light still burning - Matthew Thorburn "These Days"
Chequers the shade with her forerunning light - Henry David Thoreau "Greece"
Moving light spreads round earth a mantle bright - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
The magic light that hill sends on to hill - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XII. Sunday.--The Hill-Top"
Sweet voices come to me like light - Eunice Tietjens "To S"
Wrapped in their ashen light - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"
Sentinel of the morning light - "To the Lark"
Sank amid ripples of light - M.B.M. Toland "Aegle"
Vanished like flashes of light - M.B.M. Toland "Aegle"
Prepare this house to receive light - TC Tolbert "Nine Haiku"
Light is dead within my heart - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut
Under the morning light's weight - Z.G. Tomaszewski "First Evening, Mooselung Pond"
Casts its inner light outward - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Manifest"
Pinch light from a darkness - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Manifest"
Through a mask of light - Edwin Torres "Bit by Bite"
To stand apart from perspective and light - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
my static charge of light and dusk - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"
The jesters of light and magic - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
To passers of light and dusk - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
The smiling bright light lure over the maw of the abyss - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"
Fur holding the light of a whole moon - Kristen Tracy "Taming the Dog"
In the light cast by the dark - Paul Tran "Terroir"
That glance and sparkle in the hush of the lingering light - "Treasure-Trove" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
Flings her light despairing - Iris Tree "[Lulled are the dazzling colours of the day]"
My face without the conquering light - Iris Tree "[Sometimes I look into the glass]"
Spill the wind of light into our gloom - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"
The mud gleams with malicious light - Iris Tree "[Washed at my feet by the curded foam of sluggish waves]"
The pallid glints of stolen light - Iris Tree "[Winding down the streets in wearied gaiety]"
Light and its beautiful doom - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
Feeds her golden flocks with light - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"
Sisters linked in love and light - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"
Breaking into isles of light - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"
Glowing like bottled light - Natasha Trethewey "Cameo"
Take what we need of light - Natasha Trethewey "Gathering"
Distilling light from volatile darkness - Natasha Trethewey "Give and Take"
Dust that dances in the light with all other dust - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Belonging"
A shimmering glory of light and hue - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
The holy light deserting her - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Share the light of this lamp - Tu Fu "Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement" transl. by Burton Watson
Where worlds of circling light arise and fade - W.J. Turner "Death"
The darkness cannot light the street - Perhat Tursun "The Night" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Soundless in the flaming light - Katherine Tynan "The Riders"
Freedom lights anew her waning fires - "The Union Marseillaise" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Startled by the light - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"
By the light of dying gods - John Updike "The Old Bills"
A vein of naked light - John Updike "Thunderstorm in Dorset, Vermont"
Singing my light in a universe of endless stars - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Starry Night"
Saw the light of fires along a distant shore - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"
No doubt the trees eat light - Emily van Kley "Fall Color"
Worships water over light - Emily van Kley "Sarracenia, Purpurea"
Stepping light as snowfall - Emily van Kley "Ways to Hunt Deer"
Shoot from their orbits in a maddening light - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Toward that distance of eddying light - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Toward the wrong lights - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Beto, Sheep of Heaven"
Buried each slow light - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"
As you emerge from the light - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "To Hide a Goddess"
Ripples flow across the cosmic lights - Dawn Vogel "The Whale Shark's Stars"
A light says why - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
No man's borrowed light - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
Enough light to drown in - Ocean Vuong "Deto(nation)"
This amber light whittled down - Ocean Vuong "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"
The light of his strange calling - Derek Walcott "Eulogy to W.H. Auden"
The light behind your veins - Derek Walcott "For Adrian"
Missing in the reflected light - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"
Because light finds a place to fall - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: Preconceptions Without Delay"
In light angled by your mother's anger - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"
Whose light depends not on sun and moon - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist
Bring the light clasped round you - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
That you'd come cloaked in light - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
And pearls of light rained down on me - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
The sulphurous clouds of war dyed red in lurid light - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
The light you remember - Michael Wasson "Countdown as Slow Kisses"
Wild light at golden intervals - William Watson "The Empty Nest"
One last light of rapture give - William Watson "The Flight of Youth"
Fairies light who danced at night - F.E. Weatherly "The Old Picture-Book"
Its mystery of fire and the light - Afaa Michael Weaver "This Morning, This First Poem"
Bend light into new angles - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Come Shaker Life"
The air, the light, the whole enormous chance - John Moncure Wettarau "Morning, Maine Honolulu"
Unless you want the wrath of their light - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"
Made of smokeless flame and shadowless light - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"
The long light that Beauty leaves up her fallen veils - Edith Wharton "Mistral in the Maquis"
Hidden thoughts await the light - Kate Louise Wheeler "Hidden Treasures"
Dreams in the dull light - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
Crowns his defeat with light - John Hall Wheelock "Disdainful Beauty"
Dim world of lonely light - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
And faded in the crumbling light - John Hall Wheelock "The Fish-Hawk"
Shifting light and overshadowing cloud - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
His trophies bright are truth and light - C.L. Wheler "The Song of the Axe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Until my face comes into the light - Dave Whippman "Gothic Romance"
Glorious canopy of light and blue - Blanco White "Night and Death"
A lasting light along her pathway shed - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"
A sullen bar of light athwart the darkness - Helen Hay Whitney "The Days"
Though her searching steps be light and fleet - Helen Hay Whitney "Spring and Autumn"
If the eye must fail of light - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"
A sadder light than waning moon - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Before the light went by - Margaret Widdemer "The Factories"
Unnamed light that floods the world with splendour - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Green light burning in the stars - Dana Wilde "Abductions"
A glare of lights appears and strobes - Dana Wilde "Abductions"
No shadows in the gauzy light - Dana Wilde "Abductions"
Nor dawn nor eventide nor any light we know - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"
Every absence of light - C. K. Williams "And Fear"
Light withdrawing its tattered shreds - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"
To let the light in means exposure - Katie Willingham "Terrifying Robot Update"
Against the boundless curb of light - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
And catch the light of the right star - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"
That travels like light upon her sails - "The Wives of Brixham"
A polished pearl of light above - Allan Wolf "Venus: Come Live with Me and Be My Lunch"
The struggling moonbeam's misty light - Charles Wolfe "The Burial of Sir John Moore"
Holding converse with pale lunar light - Adolf Wolff "Excuse Me, Muse"
Give the light and warmth to solar systems - Adolf Wolff "Lines Inspired on Meeting a Lady: To A. L."
As the vermin shunning light - Adolf Wolff "Our Lady of Infinite Mercy"
Afraid to even hold the memory of light - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
Copper light resumes ceremony from absence - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"
And fade into the light of common day - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
Pulled by invisible strings toward light - Charles Wright "Anniversary II"
Where we know the light will never reach us - Charles Wright "April Evening"
Bystanders back from the river of light - Charles Wright "I've Been Sitting Here Thinking Back Over My Life..."
Where nothing is visible but light - Charles Wright "L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle"
Beyond the boundaries of light and dark - Charles Wright "Like the New Moon, My Mother Drifts Through the Night Sky"
How the light splays after the storm - Charles Wright "Outscape"
Tell them that light is never a metaphor - Charles Wright "Shadow and Smoke"
With the light knifing low from right to left - Charles Wright "Stiletto"
Clouds upholding the sour light of heaven - Charles Wright "Time Is a Child-Biting Dog"
A whitish light edging the earth's offerings - Charles Wright "Yellow Wings"
This is the lost, impermanent light - Charles Wright "Yellow Wings"
No replenishment of unmarked light - Jay Wright "Kumu"
What lives on that map never sees the light - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
In the shadows of city lights - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"
A shadow you walk in to avoid the light - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"
Criss-crossing in that golden light - Lynn Xu "[Sun-messenger]"
The light retires to the lamp - Yao Feng (aka Yao Jingming) "Searching for Light" transl. by Julia Sanches
lift the light free of its verticals - Monica Youn "Whiteacre"
Fractured lines of light - C. Dale Young "Eclipse"
The iron road agleam with splintered light - Francis Brett Young "February"
Into my circled light they came - Francis Brett Young "Moths"
Down through my circle of light - Francis Brett Young "Moths"
Spray the cherry-boughs with light - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"
His many-splintered arrows of light - Francis Brett Young "Phthonos"
Dispersing its giant crowd of light - Kevin Young "Nightstick [A Mural for Michael Brown]"
Through its testament of cold light - Ray Young Bear "Four Hinterland Abstractions"
Of light awaiting nothing - Matthew Zapruder "As I Cross the Heliopause at Midnight, I Think of My Mission"
Some quality of the disintegrated light - Matthew Zapruder "Starry Wizards"
Dark sobbing into the light - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
Under the immutable light - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver
Late November's agate-light - Chris Dombrowski "The Roofers Listen to Heart's "Crazy on You" as They Work"
Beacon-lights of ages fled - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Switched on a black light in the sky - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"
Candlelight.
Myriad corpse-lights glimmer on their way - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
Leaving a corpselight burning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Daylight.
The crimson death-lights dance - Virna Sheard "Crosses"
Firelight.
Flashlight.
The moon's floodlights burning - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"
spilled past the footlights - Leah Bobet "Notable Escapes"
Watch an entire reel of gaslight unfold - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"
At night when her gold-light is spent - Charles Swain "The Ship 'Extravagance'" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]
An oceanic circus of gray-light - Jonah Mixon-Webster "Territory"
Dusk-airs and breaths of half-light - Ivor Gurney "De Profundis"
Tapers burning in the dim half-light - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
Quickly shifting puddles of purpler half-light - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Headlight.
Highlighted lessons and dog-eared parables - Camille T. Dungy "One to Watch, and One to Pray"
Highlights the potential for interruption - Elizabeth Torres "The Play"
Leave the highlights for last - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"
Lamplight.
River sends her laughter-lights - Miriam Clark Potter "Bubbles"
Flip off this lightbox and its scroll of dread - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
Lightbulb.
A lighted chandelier in a fog - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"
Candles lighted at full noon - Charles Baudelaire "The Living Flame" transl. not credited
And lighted alone by the firefly's lamp - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
The lighted candles lent their gold - Scott Cairns "Draw Near"
In a powder-mill with a lighted match - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Upon the lighted roofs of Nineveh - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"
Lighted with lamps of hope - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
The long train is lighted that shall burn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
The dark side lighted only by the cycles of the moon - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"
A stage lighted and waiting for your step - May Swenson "Earth Your Dancing Place"
Lighten.
Lighter.
Lightest.
Light-Footed.
Gliding over sheets of light-glazed silver - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"
Lighthouse.
Lighting.
Lightless.
Lightly.
In lightness of wonder rise higher - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Possesses the pleasant lightness of tea - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"
Not always in lightness, however - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."
The jasmine lightness of the moon - William Carlos Williams "To a Solitary Disciple"
The boortree and the lightsome ash across the portal grow - William Allingham "Abbey Asaroe"
What is born massless at light speed - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"
That scale the speed of light - Elizabeth Bartlett "City Game: Marbles"
Before accelerating toward the speed of light - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"
As if it were penicillin or the speed of light - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"
The first lightspray of detonated creation - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
Light Year.
Kicked at cardboard, gaped at red limelight - Aldous Huxley "The Ideal Found Wanting"
the limelight not meant for you - Megan Johnson "How it comes to pass"
Bruised by the stone glare of the limelight - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"
Tinged her eyes with love-light's dawning - F. Rochat "My Baby" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.710, 4 Aug. 1877]
these jangling night lights fixed to a spirit pleading - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"
Nightlights going unused in the swinging forests - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
When the Northlights shake their spears - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
By the flamethrower's pilot light - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"
An angel lit by a red-light district - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
Can afford to burn a rushlight - Henry S. Leigh "An Old Cynic"
Searchlight.
Read poems by snow-light - Hilda Conkling "Poems"
Spotlight.
Streetlight.
Ajax stands in the Trojan torchlight - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
By torch-light and alone - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"
The eaves of the unlighted hall - J.R. Lowell "Ballad"
And the dead planets race unlighted - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"
Unlighted through blind space - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"
Forlorn as that unlighted chamber - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Watchful as window-light - Tarfia Faizullah "Acolyte"
Witch-lights of laughter - Clinton Dangerfield "Autumn"
The winterlight consumes the field - Taylor Johnson "Art Movie"
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Shadows mark the brightest light - A.L.O.E. "Blanche"
Inscribed in characters of light - A.L.O.E. "The Supplicant"
Find some flint in the heart left to light - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"
In an empire awash with light - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"
Light in the sinning hours - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"
The light retreats and is generous - Aria Aber "Waiting for Your Call"
Blessing the air with light - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
With the flesh made of a golden light - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
Light comes not but shadow comes - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"
To protect the words gathered by light - Elmaz Abinader "Losing Words Fast"
Weaving light and electromagnetic chatter - Duane Ackerson "Black Hole Hunter's Guide"
Someone scattering seeds of light that will blossom into faces - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"
A buried light cutting its path through ink - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"
Wrapped in a notebook leaking light - Duane Ackerson "Taking Back the Moon"
Faint stunned strands of light - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"
Sprayed with broken light - Harold Acton "Trepak"
Light glinting in a headdress of water - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"
Primordial mist revealed in spots of soft light - Linda Addison "Evolving"
With pure spirits in regions of light - "Addressed to a Friend"
Let the blue light wash away the blood - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Telling the light to stay outside - Etel Adnan "Night"
The shining flood of light I pour - Joan Aiken "Π in the Sky"
Forced to craft my own light, my own hope - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"
The light in their eyes steers my course - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"
Plunging from the brink of light and being - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
No time to shame the night with light - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger
This pinprick emits no light - Rosa Alcala "You Rode a Loop"
Filtered nets of light weaving - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"
Light through deeds of suffering - Daisy Aldan "Women at Windows"
The light beyond the worlds of space - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Light lost in the upper ether - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Daily, in light and in dreams - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"
Light as an empty hive - Elizabeth Alexander "Equinox"
Casts a widening pool of light - Elizabeth Alexander "Praise Song for the Day"
Rimmed with light, shaded with night - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
Quiet Jews robed in earth and light - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Formed of sunset light, of fleeting umbral fire - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
Cannot be hired in noonday light - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"
The webbing of her mind filled with tangles of light - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"
Some flashed away in ships of light - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"
Undying faithful to light torches in the catacombs - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"
Flash forth in rays of silvery light - Willis Boyd Allen "The Fourth Watch"
The light as it first shone on Adam - Julia Alvarez "Addison's Vision"
Catching the light at day's end - Julia Alvarez "Small Portions"
A pincushion of flickering lights - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"
Silver flakes of tremulous light - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Brook"
The winds tread light upon the grass - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]
Rose-tinted shadows of beauty and light - S.D. Anderson "A May Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
That lights the sorrowing sinner back - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.IV--The Sunbeam"
No rivers clothed in light - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
Fresh from the hearthstone's light - "The Angels of War" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
The moving lights of trouble shine - Auguste Angellier "Eyes and Lips" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Light as winter sunshine - Maya Angelou "To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough"
A light as subtle as your hands - Maya Angelou "A Zorro Man"
To leave behind a legacy of light - Diannely Antigua "We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers"
Turn off the light to occupy the dark - William Archila "Childhood"
Sings the song of light - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel from beyond the twilight"
Mistaken for the light - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel to its mother"
Faced with the flower of light - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Angels and birds"
Confuse light with love - Rae Armantrout "The Light"
Then hunger invented light - Rae Armantrout "Operations"
Carried by light - Rae Armantrout "Outer"
The light gleams and is gone - Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"
Each ancestor who lights your past - Fatimah Asghar "Ghareeb"
The timeless light banished time and sorrow - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]
In the light of the dark that swallowed me - A.H. Jerriod Avant "Who Can Govern Themselves Out of Governance?"
A bowl of bruised light - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Faggot Poetics"
Turn off the light to occupy the dark - William Archila "Childhood"
The cottage lights a hundred starlights follow - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Nantucket Windows"
Who walked with Science to mark the lights along dark ways - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Pathmaker (To Maria Mitchell)"
An open door full of light - Julie Babcock "Driving at Midnight"
Stand in the net of light together - Julie Babcock "Wolfwoman"
Drown with open eyes in light - Ingeborg Bachmann "The Great Freight" transl. by Bill Crisman
Wreathes with a light ineffable - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Dispels the clouds of falsehood by her light - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
They tambourine the light on the wall - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"
What's ghostlier than gray morning winter light? - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"
The way memory deepens with light - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"
With the queer light of a star's final gasp - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Light the mazes of the wind - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"
Wreaths of incense light - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"
then in the arbor of sudden light - Lee Ballentine "The Whole Atom"
Dieted down to twelve hours of light - Mary Jo Bang "The Beauties of Nature"
Light at the end of a harrowed day - Mary Jo Bang "I as in Justice"
Light furrowed the future - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"
Light unhinges air from rock - Mary Jo Bang "A Tour of the March Equinox"
Stark against the light box of servitude - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"
Burnished by expandable light - Mary Jo Bang "What Is so Frightening"
Swing lights in the closet of night - Mary Jo Bang "You Could Say She Was Willful, but Compared to What?"
Left in its course a track of light behind - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Light a mourner's candle - Rachel Barenblat "Yahrzeit"
A hidden sanctuary of fire and light - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"
Try with bonds to bind the morning light - William Francis Barnard "To the Enemies of Free Speech"
With a glimmer of light between - Djuna Barnes "Call of the Night"
Past language into anachronistic light - Catherine Barnett "The Specious Present"
In waves of light upon the far, dim shades of night - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
only the light of dreams - Elizabeth Bartlett "black sun"
The eye of light opens - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
Inevitable as air and light - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"
A slow companion to the light - Elizabeth Bartlett "I Would Remember"
Astral honey and blossoms of light - Elizabeth Bartlett "Landscape: With Bread"
Light destroyed in minds - Elizabeth Bartlett "Notes for the Future"
Glide down vertical waves of light - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sleepwalkers"
Tides set in motion by light - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Trap"
At a distance travelled by light - Elizabeth Bartlett "World of Tomorrow"
Lighting fires in the empty rooms - Ellen Bass "Not Dead Yet"
Light in the dark house - Ellen Bass "Ode to Zeke"
Strip each rib down to light - Ellen Bass "Wilderness"
Let glory light my face - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"
The world falling asleep in a warm light - Charles Baudelaire "Invitation to the Voyage" transl. by Keith Waldrop
A song of love and light divine - Charles Baudelaire "The Soul of Wine" transl. not credited
Wordless light - Dan Beachy-Quick "Some Consequences of the Made Thing"
Math made of light and loss - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"
The lingering light decays - James Beattie "Retirement"
Bathed in broken light - Zeina Hashem Beck "There, There, Grieving"
Light spilling around your edges - J. M. Bédard "Hatch"
White lights in the mimosa trees - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"
Lazy paws of light claw idly up and down - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"
A golden horn of light - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Light heavy with drowning stars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
Light towards the dark secret heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
A slender javelin tipped with light, hurled at the gods - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Save in its moments of bewildering light - William Rose Benét "The City"
Into heaven's cold uncertain light - Paul Bernstein "The Commuters"
My head is full of this insomniac light - Emily Berry "Arlene and Esme"
A more subtly structured fullness of light - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
Intersecting light from every star - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
In light and dark, a zero sum - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
Our star's extravagant giveaway of light - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
Even darkness generates light - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
Streams out in ribbons of light - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Heart"
Connect by their light entering our eyes - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Pegasus"
To receive their reflected light - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"
Light in the minerals of their eyes - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Till the body rusts away from the light - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
Floating in light from windows - Terry Blackhawk "At the National Gallery of Art: Memorial View"
Shatter into triangles of mosaic light - Kimberly Blaeser "Unlawful Assembly"
High sparkling fountains catch a rainbow light - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
Then the dreadful light shall break - William Blake "A Cradle Song"
Light of heart and light of heel - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
The wild deer dancing light - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"
Dressed in nothing but the archive's bleached light - Tommye Blount "Karl Lagerfeld's line of beauty"
Love's rich and trusting light - Edmund Blunden "The South-West Wind"
Turning all desire into light - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Blue-Bird"
The nimble light of contemplations - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
Sleek suns dipped in sleepy light - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"
Immune to light and time - Maxwell Bodenheim "When Fools Dispute"
With jests that light its troubled hands - Maxwell Bodenheim "Young Poet"
Relief from the flawed light of love and grief - Louise Bogan "The Alchemist"
A long shadow and a light sound - Louise Bogan "Knowledge"
Bits of shock and light - Marianne Boruch "There Ought to Be a Law Against Henry"
Hydrogen bubbles exploding into light and energy - Bruce Boston "The Would-Be Gods of Sonofusion"
Light beyond the storms of Time - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"
The light that lifts from a black mere - Thomas Boyd "The King's Son"
Built like stags of light - Ana Bozicevic "Intervals of Please"
Robs all the brilliant light of the universe - Russell Brakefield "Florist's Apprentice, Age 19"
New light waiting just out of reach - Russell Brakefield "Myth"
Other prey too shudders with the light - Russell Brakefield "Pardon, Trout Farm"
Tumbling along bubbles of light - Shannon Bramer "Climbing Shadows"
Begetting the absence of light - William Brewer "Clean Days in Oxyana"
That slaughterhouse of light - William Brewer "The Messenger of Oxyana"
So altered by light - William Brewer "Overdose Psalm"
All that light bursting in - William Brewer "Resolution"
The hidden moon shed thievish light - Robert Bridges "I Never Shall Love the Snow Again"
Prophecy is no light work - Antoinette Brim-Bell "Duplex: Black Mamas Praying"
Life's mingled lights and shadows - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
Ropes of fraying light - Geoffrey Brock "Orpheus Variations. 2 In Which He Turns Inward"
Not the bearable light - Lucie Brock-Broido "Self-Portrait as Kaspar Hauser"
Trip through the light - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Songs of the Spavinaw"
Flaming gleams of pointed light - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)"
Of light and hope bereft - Anne Bronte "Fluctuations"
Light cannot fill the craving eye - Anne Bronte "Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas"
On his path a secret light - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"
Beneath her guardian light - Emily Bronte "How Clear She Shines"
And hide me from the hostile light - Emily Bronte "Stars"
A flood of trembling light - Patrick Bronte "The Happy Cottagers"
With the lessened light and darkened days - Caris Brooke "Before Parting"
A restless presence stirring with the light - Caris Brooke "March Violets"
The amazing lights of heart and eye - Rupert Brooke "Sonnet Reversed"
Quit light for the midnight - Gwendolyn Brooks "Gay Chaps at the Bar"
Light in my jaundiced mouth - Jericho Brown "Flower"
What light Saturday sent - Jericho Brown "Labor"
Spent what light Saturday sent - Jericho Brown "Odd Jobs"
Navigate by lantern light and dust - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"
Light dripping upon forlorn gossamer - Paul Cameron Brown "Gossamer Threads"
With lurid lights of intermittent hope - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Melt in tender light - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Distrusting every light - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XXXVI in Sonnets from the Portuguese"
Amaze the place with holier light - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "To George Sand: A Desire"
Light under his eyelids - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
As the long-toiling light fades - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Death of the Laureate"
The day's departing light - William Cullen Bryant "Upon the Mountain's Distant Head"
Amid the mild and mellow light - William Cullen Bryant "A Walk at Sunset"
Awakes the painted tribes of light - William Cullen Bryant "The Yellow Violet"
The old failing circling in the moth-spattered light - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
The tide with the grainy underbelly of industrial light - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
No intention but the possibility of light returning - Sue Budin "Reclamation"
In the silken light - Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and Tony Lopez "Sea Holly"
To give it record of the former light - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"
The darkened light ecstatic - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"
Words bending thoughts like light - Anthony Butts "Mist and Fog"
The Goddess of Numbers multiplying into dawn's light - Anthony Butts "Song of Starry-Eyed Children"
A dimestore magic trick in legendary light - Regie Cabico "In a Legendary Light"
In such light the road already beckons - Scott Cairns "Dawn at Saint Anna's Skete"
Light should be unforgiving - Scott Cairns "Embalming"
Grant in this obscurity a little light - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalm 12"
Resplendent guardians of crimson light - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]
Or veil themselves in purple light - F. O. Call "A River Sunset"
And doubt's dark shadows veil the light - Frank Oliver Call "Through a Long Cloister"
To her maidens the light dance is dear - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan "Dirge of O'Sullivan Bear"
When the glowworm lights her torch - C.S. Calverley "Arcades Ambo"
Leap inside the morning light - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "Homecoming Cistern Alien Vessel"
Buildings that bleed no natural light - Isha Camara "The Hills are Writing"
Ladders leading up to light - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Blossoms of sweet and sour light - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
Until I was overflowing with light - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
That pray to the Dragon that preys on the light of the Sun - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"
The dawning light of sorrow and scorn - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"
With knives of light - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"
Light a flame on every strand - Roger Casement "The Triumph of Hugh O'Neill"
Into newfound pledges and particles of light - Cyrus Cassells "The World That the Shooter Left Us"
By the light of unvarnish'd truth - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
Through the secret light - Charles Causley "The Swan"
When Light rose, earthquake shod - Madison Cawein "The Miracle of Dawn"
In a frozen sprint of light - Andres Cerpa "Parkinson's Disease: Autumn"
Have known misgivings of light - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"
The sky spitting dust and light - Tina Chang "Celestial"
Separating material from light - Tina Chang "Infinite and Plausible"
Past the pinnacle of scoured light - Tina Chang "Revolutionary Kiss"
Pure and cold and never seeing light - Michael Chant "In the Shade of the Tree of Knowledge"
Within a craft of pearl and crystal light - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
And set the prisoned light of heaven free - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
The tides of light and bird-song mingled - Thomas S. Chard "The Blessed Vale"
our bones of calcified light - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"
Meet for your orchards of light - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Fire"
First light, last scent, lost country - Chen Chen "First Light"
The growing light rearranging your voice - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"
How to light my name under their skin - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"
Disintegrating at the barest brush of light - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"
Lights dancing to the beat of the ground - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"
Lights of sacrilege and scorn - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Shall know a new light in the mind - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
When Robert's snowy woods glow with an unearthly light - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [Robert Frost]
Standing alone in the light - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"
where is the light of one leaf falling? - Lucille Clifton "consulting the book of changes: radiation"
latticed against all light - Lucille Clifton "11/10 again"
To use the undistorted light - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Loose of tongue and light - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene IV"
Where the light and the darkness divide - Leonard Cohen "Ballad of the Absent Mare"
Pain cannot compromise this light - Leonard Cohen "Hydra 1960"
The light of the seamless sky - Leonard Cohen "Roshi's Poem"
Thin anonymous light - Aaron Coleman "The Broken Man's Permission"
Light shall be dark and darkness shine - Mary Coleridge "Wither Away?"
Bisected by a horizon line of yellow light - Michael Collier "Goat on a Pile of Scrap Lumber"
Their diet of unfiltered divine light - Billy Collins "Questions About Angels"
In slanting piers of light - Arthur Colton "Faustine"
The light every shade of gold - Katie Condon "Big with Dawn"
With the light of infinite knowledge - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"
Light in my cup - Hilda Conkling "Rose-Moss"
To see the pearl of light - Hilda Conkling "Seagarde"
Terrors of night and delay of light - Katherine Eleanor Conway "Saturninus"
Bright with reflex of light - Katherine Eleanor Conway "Saturninus"
Light in the bosom of darkness has birth - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Lifting strange columns of light - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Maddened with light from Beauty's sun - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Bursts the rose of light - Susan Coolidge "On the Shore"
to have a light escape from inside you - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"
Alone in the light of my magnificence - Cynthia Cotten "Resistance"
The stars of night grew pale before the morning's light - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"
Were in some manner brought to light - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"
Morning light soon came to chase - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"
Tangled braids of ever-changing light - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
And always my eyes ached for the light - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
A flickering light near spent - Adelaide Crapsey "Angelique"
Catching the light, spinning it into gold - James Crews "Here with You"
Goblin lights and magic tide - George Cronyn "The Derelict"
Waited in the light of our thousand-flower sun - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
The sun devoured them, and they became the light - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
Eternal shapes of shadowly light - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"
Find forgiveness in the ancient light - Shutta Crum "Everything is Far"
Dreams of light eclipsed in shade - Countee Cullen "Harsh World That Lashest Me"
Love, leave me like the light - Countee Cullen "If You Should Go"
The busy needle of her light to bring - E. E. Cummings "Sunset"
Glittering veils of light about her - Olive Custance "The Autumn Day"
That wither in the hands of light - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"
Written of brightness and light - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)
Shake white light in whiter water - H.D. "Fragment Thirty-six"
Rift on rift of rose and scattered light - H.D. "Fragment Thirty-six"
Tears dried in the light of revolt - Noemia da Sousa "Poem of Distant Childhood" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver
Lap us in light and cooling fleece - Danske Dandridge "Silence"
In morning's definite light - Jim Daniels "The Dark Miracle"
By the light of his pure joy - Jim Daniels "I Dreamt I Wrote a Poem About Jazz"
Smile crooked in drunk light - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"
All light to darkness turning - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"
Light in all the city tarried - John Davidson "London"
Which curls the lip, which lights the eye - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Which lights the void which reason leaves - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Which lights the weary to the tomb - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Sweet to a heart unentangled and light - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"
While joy gave clouds the light of stars - William H. Davies "The Villain"
The light of his laughter - Geffrey Davis "Hear the Light"
Pillars of blue light rising from its waves - Deborah L. Davitt "Drowning in this Sunken City"
Covered in light and shadow - Kwame Dawes "At Anchor: The Real Situation"
In the sudden white light of noon - Kwame Dawes "Shook Foil"
Lights and shadows sweep across his brow - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
Its song a staff of light - Meg Day "10 AM is When You Come to Me"
Mirrors holding themselves toward the light - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"
Light turned into a sleeve of blades - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"
mind filled with a light returning - Tyree Daye "The Lord's Corner"
Regents of the spheres of light - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
The inner flame which lights the mind - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
The wild fires of frost shall light - Walter de la Mare "The Little Salamander"
The way his face yields to the light - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"
Light from the moon she nurtures - Diane DeCillis "Creation of Birds -- after the painting by Remedios Varo"
A light at the end of the big bang tunnel - Diane DeCillis "Thinking about What Matters"
On this plain of light, gas & dust - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Her legs filaments of light - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"
Reread Aristotle by waning light - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Human Habitat"
Accused of darkness by my inner light - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"
Light split by the glacier - Steve Denehan "The Crevasse"
Conserved light by walking in darkness - Toi Derricotte "St. Peter Claver"
A light along the edge of responsibility - Jay Deshpande "Actually Very Simple"
Two moths dust the same screen for remembered light - Jay Deshpande "On Speaking Quietly with My Brother"
Blackberries enough to light the brain - Dante Di Stefano "Green Burial Unsonnet"
Curled ribbons of fried light - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
Because the light called - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
The light of unanointed blaze - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life VII: The White Heat"
Between the planets' pewter light - Chris Dombrowski "Boreal"
The works and sufferings of light - Chris Dombrowski "Going Home"
Beneath this burial of light - Chris Dombrowski "October Suite"
No less important than the light - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
The valley's light lapidary in the canyon creases - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
Fills the ages with its light - Eleanor C. Donnelly "Mary Immaculate"
Melts the red light of the sun - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Assembled in light of earliest birds - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"
Turning the light from their wings - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"
In the clean white light of the market - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"
The dark seeps in faster underneath the lights - Kaily Dorfman "The Wolf"
A ruby tremulous on a streak of light - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
The birth of dreadful light - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"
Your gift of dews and light - Edward Dowden "Flowers from the South of France"
The light of strange discovered skies - Edward Dowden "If it Might Be"
A calm retreat of tempered light - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"
The faultless flower of light - Edward Dowden "Musicians"
The light which bites and blights - Edward Dowden "Song and Silence"
In my eyes the vanished light - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"
Pale from light obscure - Edward Dowden "To a Child Dead as Soon as Born"
The darkness your light supports - Boris Dralyuk "The Bureau of Street Lighting"
Drawn back to their lairs of light - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"
Chiron in broken bathroom light - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"
Reliquary for the off-white light of January - Michael Dumanis "Joseph Cornell, with Box"
When you bring us this light - Cheryl Dumesnil "Ode to October"
Myriad lights and wondrous mysteries - Paul Laurence Dunbar "By the Stream"
Resuscitate their small portion of the light - Camille T. Dungy "How Great the Gardens When They Arrive"
Burst rose of sharded light - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Wind-Whipped: 4. Catechism"
A voice written in light - Rebecca Dunham "Field Note, 2011"
Coveting little pieces of light - Stephen Dunn "A Concise History of the Future"
The cheery light forsake the day - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"
Through treachery of light - Marcella Durand "from The Prospect"
That bloom in the Eden of light - A.E. "Love"
Full-veiled in peerless robes of light - 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]
The light's full grace - Helen Parry Eden "The Distraction"
Light one sombre pyramid - Helen Parry Eden "Trees"
Within a realm of filtered light - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"
Weaver of the etherial light - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"
When light and love within her eyes were one - George Eliot "Self and Life"
Looking into the heart of light - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land I: The Burial of the Dead"
No shadow in that light - Claudia Emerson "Leave No Trace"
Voyager of light and noon - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Humble-Bee"
Bandages of purple light - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"
The glow-worm being hired the highways to light - "The Emperor's Rout"
Woman wrapped in frightful light - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Wrapped in a great, frightful light - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 4. E-Melemhush, the Temple of Nuska in Nippur" transl. by Sophus Helle
Your heart is strewn with frightful light - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 29. E-Mah, the Temple of Ninhursanga and Asghi in Adab" transl. by Sophus Helle
Plant my syllables in light - Elaine Equi "Reset"
Alone with the gold last light - Heid E. Erdich "Stung"
Light and absence in identical seams - Louise Erdrich "Ninth Month"
So their light startles your eyes - Martin Espada "The Sinking of the San Jacinto"
Some light that wants to watch me survive - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Autopainophile"
Tortuous tunnels walled with light - Anthony Euwer "The Caves of Josephine"
Colors bathed in mellow lights - Anthony Euwer "The Caves of Josephine"
In the race for light - Anthony Euwer "The Douglas Fir"
Cast a ray to light lone Tasso's gloom - Marie J. Ewen "Corinna at the Capitol" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.449, 7 Aug. 1852]
In this insomniac light - Tarfia Faizullah "Register of Eliminated Villages"
Smudge the marrow of myself into light - Tarfia Faizullah "Self-Portrait as Artemis"
Swifter than the course of light - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
Rains down light like argent snows - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"
The pale green light of distant moons - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"
The million lights of the polar-star - Eleanor Farjeon "A Sheaf of Nature-Songs III"
The light of change is bitter - Joseph Fasano "Testimony"
A ceiling of light heaving like molten glass - Susan Fawcett "Black Water Diving"
a blessed light came disrupting the blindfold - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"
Back into rash light, dust, and air - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"
Balancing on orbs and light - Camonghne Felix "Statement on Being Lonely vs. Alone"
The diamond light of Greece - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "To the Oracle at Delphi"
Forever amid these lights - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Call me with fierce lights - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
A beautiful web of silver light - Eugene Field "Heigho, My Dearie"
On a river of crystal light - Eugene Field "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"
Ruby lights and devil's wine - George Blackstone Field "The Bonnets"
Follow us through squares of light - Annie Finch "Frozen In"
Green spores carried on green light - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"
lights pinning red over white snow - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"
twists and rises into the tube of light - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"
The curlew swift as light - "The Fisherman's Keen, or the Lamentation of O'Donoghue of Affadown ('Roaring Water'), in the west of Co. Cork, for his three sons and his son-in-law, who were drowned" transl. by Anonymous
Windy odors light as thistledown - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"
Planes of light and shadow - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
The light wind upon the poplars - F.S. Flint "Lunch"
The last track of parting light - "Flora: a Vision"
Dismantled ribs of light - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen j"
The author of time's bewildering light - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 12"
Who opens in autumn under stolen light - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XIV"
Open to honeyed light - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Resurrection"
Light of love and mercy shine - James W. Foley "A Christmas Prayer"
No rites we need that shun the light - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Her stained windows reared between them and the light - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Veins of wind light up - Carolyn Forche "Barley Field"
Box of world and light - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"
What fragmentary light - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"
What runs through the many-gated light - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
The small lights of winter campfires - Katie Ford "All I Ever Wanted"
Hailstorms and diffracted confusions of light - Katie Ford "Colosseum"
Made of bronze light and snow - Katie Ford "Song After Sadness"
Like a diadem of light - Mary Weston Fordham "For Who?"
Strewn with blossoms and flecked with light - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]
The new gleam of that celestial light - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
Always late with its light - Ariel Francisco "Insomniami"
By guesswork with a failing torch for light - Gilbert Frankau "Gun-Teams"
The last light that leaps the night - Gilbert Frankau "The Observers"
violent stabs incantations of light - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"
The slow crawling light - Santee Frazier "Hyperacusis"
Her light streamed through the years - John Freeman "The Body"
Pouring strange light on things more strange - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
The fair stars trembling in their light - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
When from the window poured pale light - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
An arrow of light down the Milky Way - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "Wee Willie Winkie"
Walked so light on air in heavy shoes - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"
Behind light words that tease and flout - Robert Frost "Revelation"
Breathed as light as a lady's fan - Robert Frost "Unharvested"
The opposing lights of the hour - Robert Frost "Waiting Afield at Dusk"
Dream upon the opposing lights of the hour - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
Where light without a shadow lies - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]
Unveiled before the light was spent - Zona Gale "By My Side All Day Another Went"
Faced with joy the lottery of light - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Speaks a word like burning light - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
Touch the texture of the light - Zona Gale "Light"
Breathe for our breath his light - Zona Gale "Light"
The last light of each favorite tree - Tess Gallagher "Reading the Waterfall"
My genes in the sharp light of the celestial - Suzi F. Garcia "A Modified Villanelle for My Childhood (with some help from Ahmad)"
Whose light is faint as the moon in a cloudy night - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Leaping light by cliff and cairn - William Gardiner "Bonnie Dryfe" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no. 107-v.III, 16 Jan. 1886]
Proceeded backward into the light - Deborah Garrison "A Friendship Enters Phase II"
And a star-tipped wand for light - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "The Fairies' Ball"
Orange, and red, all fringed with golden light - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "The Fairies' Ball"
With clouds that steal across her light - Emanuel Geibel "[Mien Pferd geht langsam durch die nacht]" transl. by Edith Wharton
While searching for light - Alimjan Metqasim Ghemnaki "The Monument of Betrayal" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The final stroke of everlasting light - Charles Ghigna "Early Evening"
Tip the scales in light's direction - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"
Kindling with a sudden light - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Lilac Tree"
The miraculous day and the singular light - Nikita Gill "Chaos to Nyx, Goddes of the Night"
When a new sun clothes us in light - Dana Gioia "After a Line of Neruda"
Outwalked the furthest city light - Dana Gioia "Three Drunk Poets"
Dull, bitter light - C.S. Giscombe "First Dream"
Bursting with light from beyond - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
Like a bright light passing through - Louise Gluck "Faithful and Virtuous Night"
The massive argument of light - Louise Gluck "Lamentations"
The vine has a dream of light - Louise Gluck "Parable of the Trellis"
The nature of light was incompleteness - Louise Gluck "The Story of a Day"
Where water-flags upreared their banners light - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Clear darkness, sheer light - Louis Golding "Wind of Black Night"
Tied together with bows of light - Maxwell I. Gold "Where the Moon Smiles"
Light stuck in shambles - Golden "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"
Her name means Light To Me - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
Whose gown cascades with light - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
A flower that blossoms without light - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
The scorn of tumbleweed and light - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Senorita Juarez"
Where every move becomes a function of light - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
Denser shadows veil the light - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Podas Okus"
Its edge in time and light - Rae Gouirand "Stanzas to Those Just Arriving"
Then infinite scansion in the light - Mona Gould "Powder Room"
Golden light to make a flight of dreams - Mona Gould "Sherry"
Born of the light of heavenly mansions - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
Lucid in the light of ancient song - David Gray "The Luggie III [sonnet]"
In small vaults of light - Leah Naomi Green "Carrot"
The light that's waited all day - Leah Naomi Green "Seeds and Fugue"
Come down from the light that blinds - Scott E. Green "Killers from the Light, Killers from the Heat"
Buried light in laughter and hay forever - Dora Greenwell "Haymaking" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Where Hope's signal lights the night - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
The light and shadow so disposed - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"
For your brief life's faded light - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
It takes a stalwart soul to find the light - John Grey "Skywatching"
Light's potential to change us - Kimberly Grey "Conjugating"
A drop of blue light - Kimberly Grey "Modern Sentences"
Some translated light - Kimberly Grey "Somehow, We Are a We"
Everything electrical is not light - Kimberly Grey "Somehow, We Are a We"
Palmed within an arc of light - Lucy Griffith "Attention"
A hidden house of light - Pamela Gross "The Hive"
Hauling remnants of light from these daystars - Pamela Gross "The Hive"
Luminous with planets to light the rain - Margherita Guidacci "All Saints' Day" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
The fragrant shadows scarred with light - Louise Imogen Guiney "Spring"
Dips for an instant of light - Arthur Guiterman "In the Hospital"
Pour out your light - Ivor Gurney "Requiem"
Floods of light rich with all hues - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Attention fraying in late afternoon light - Marilyn Hacker "Interval"
The sun which lights the sphere - Hafiz "The Divan XLII" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Roadways of rock and canyons full of light - Katherine Hale "Going North IV: Painted Rock"
With hearts as light as snow-flakes fall - Ellyn Hall "Bringing home the holly" [Laugh and Play, no date, Project Gutenberg]
The way a heart can light a world - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"
With hardly a glimmer of light or life - Kerry Hardie "Acceptance"
Lifting me into cloying light - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"
Gilt over by the light I bore - Thomas Hardy "A Wet August"
Or its consequence of light - Joy Harjo "The Creation Story"
Unless this light becomes a bayonet of sound - Joy Harjo "Mercy"
Within a crescendo of abalone light - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
Guards a piece of light - Joy Harjo "Transformations"
Vineyards that drink the golden light - Frances E.W. Harper "Go Work in My Vineyard"
The city of gems and pearls of light - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"
And shape dissent from light - Janice N. Harrington "Burn"
Light gets afraid of tomorrow - francine j. harris "feeder"
Fresh from the realms of light - Geo. W.H. Harrison "A Prison Vision"
To gather a rose by the light of stars - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"
Stars that shower swift-winged light - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"
The warp of shade, the weft of light - Alfred Hayes "My Study"
The light grazing my teeth - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"
Turned to ash in the brutal light - Terrance Hayes "Cocktails with Orpheus"
Birches inheriting the last light - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"
Never veil that world of light - "Heaven" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]
May veil Apollo's light - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
To light's unclouded throne - Felicia Hemans "Lines Written in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Smith"
Would beam with softer light - Felicia Hemans "To My Mother"
A tangle of silver gleams and dusky lights - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
Shares in the universal alms of light - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
The hangman wind that tortures temper and light - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
Naught but a second-hand dealer in Light - Oliver Herford "A Little Book of Bores"
Light imperious talk of water freed - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "January Thaw"
Hovering like a bowl of light - Faylita Hicks "Lazarus"
With waves of dark light & star dust - Faylita Hicks "Letter to Black Girls"
The river will bring new lights - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk
Turned on a lathe of light - Conrad Hilberry "Egg"
A loosened sheaf of light - Geo. Canning Hill "Theodora: a Ballad of the Woods"
A cheerful light to those forlorn - Jennie Earngey Hill "Life's Day"
Light in the hour of lemon & water - Brenda Hillman "The Late Cold War"
Scholar of trapped light - Brenda Hillman "Micro-minutes on Your Way to Work"
Children of light & flesh - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
Form & light, extra space in the ampersand - Brenda Hillman "Unendangered Moths of the Mid-Twentieth Century"
Take heart in the pale light - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
A heavenly light who created havoc for the hell of it - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"
That sweet blue light spun out of nothingness - Edward Hirsch "Cotton Candy"
In the harsh inner light of an all-night diner - Edward Hirsch "The Task"
Climbed a hill as light fell short - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
A pair of stars, faint pins of light - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Light in fitful rays and tiniest needles - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Where pollen is now the light - Linda Hogan "Home in the Woods"
Back to your lands of light - Norah M. Holland "O Littlest Hands and Dearest"
Watch the light forget the mountains - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"
Sprinkled with starry light - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"
Those flowers made of light - Thomas Hood "I Remember"
Clasped by the golden light - Thomas Hood "Ruth"
Shot fierce light against the stars - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
A fairy ring wrought of the silver light - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
And find the uncreated light - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Habit of Perfection"
False the light ambition burns - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
I stood amid the forms of light - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
That fled with the monarch of light - Mary Gardiner Horsford "Pleurs"
Holed and cribbed with light - Joan Houllihan "RAG SMELL. FIRE"
Faint streaks of doubtful light - "Hours of Childhood"
Bring the immortal seed to light - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIII: The Immortal Part"
With a thousand minstrels comes the light - William D. Howells "The Long Days"
Clear light that makes men joyful - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Written on the Lake, Returning from the Retreat at Stone Cliff" transl. by Burton Watson
The light of our own dreaming - Andrew Hudgins "Two Strangers Enter Sodom"
Into a thousand lights of sun - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"
Take the neon lights and make a crown - Langston Hughes "Juke Box Love Song"
To Ruth the eyes of Boaz shone clear light - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
Deep from light and air, until the day of doom - Victor Hugo "The Tomb and the Rose" transl. by A.J.M. [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.694, 14 April 1877]
Reflecting scarred light - Ishion Hutchinson "Roof Nightclub"
Pours its avalanche of Light - Aldous Huxley "Inspiration"
The strip of light between the slats - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"
Where its light was last seen - Luisa A. Igloria "Orchard"
The light from buried eyes - Jean Ingelow "A Dead Year"
That was satisfied with light - Jean Ingelow "Laurance"
In the trance of light - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: The Nightingale Heard by the Unsatisfied Heart"
Their eyes carrying late rooms of light - Mark Irwin "Dear Red"
A salamander shaking off light - Mark Irwin "Threshold"
Expanding till I am light - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"
Dark melting orbs of liquid light - G.C.J. "En Passant" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.35-v.I, 30 Aug. 1884]
Stealing light from a flash in the sky - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"
Reemerged out of the murder of light - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"
A lampshade exhausted by light - John James "Catalogue Beginning with a Line by Plato"
Light slowed to the pace of material transfer - John James "Forget the Song"
The light a thin space to crawl into - John James "Materia"
Throwing cold light through the black matter - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"
Dreams of salt and light - John James "Scarecrow"
I bask in eddies of unseasonable light - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
Such is the promise of light - Omotara James "Pier 52"
What they buy is light rolled in a wave - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
The way a trellis shadow cages light - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Our hearts filled by the light of crashing down - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
In the beginning before light began - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Flashed and will flame terror and light - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Fickle light on barren blossoms - Elinor Jenkins "April Nights"
Spilling the light of memory - Allison Eir Jenks "The Burial of Two Strangers"
A haze of raw light - Allison Eir Jenks "Transfiguration of the Golden Bird"
Light your pipe on a fasting heart - Johannes V. Jensen "At Memphis Station" transl. by S. Foster Damon
place the world inside the light and look - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Light of the World"
moving world inside the light - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Light of the World"
Light locked against us - Amanda Jernigan "Years, Months, and Days"
The starry light upon your forehead dims - "John Bull to Jonathan" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Seeing some unexperienced light - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
Twin pools of mystic light - James Weldon Johnson "Her Eyes Twin Pools"
Light the valley of lone fears - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Long, terraced lines of circling light - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
The annulling light of any pitiless dawn - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Pleasure made into light - Taylor Johnson "W 177th & Broadway"
True light of Freedom's dome - Edward Smyth Jones "Flag of the Free"
The myriad gleams that light the night - Joshua Henry Jones "The Universe"
From shadows into a locus of light - Patricia Spears Jones "Defiant"
A garden gated in April light - Saeed Jones "Eclipse of My Third Life"
Clogged arteries of light - Saeed Jones "Lower Ninth"
in the divine light of anticipation - Tanque R. Jones "Heaven"
In winter's spider-eyed light - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
The burned light of his own country - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
Through the darkness with his own becoming light - June Jordan "July 4, 1974"
The sky uncurling to the light - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"
Washed by spacious light - Lawrence Joseph "Water Street"
Art and ashes of light - Fady Joudah "Gemini"
Light isn't refused - Fady Joudah "Unacknowledged Pollinators"
Inhabitant of glory clothed in light - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"
Chalice that unearthly light - A.M. Juster "Behold"
A light steals half my mind - Fredoon Kabraji "A Blue Dream"
Quenched by the conquering light - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fourth: Rati's Lament" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Skewered with light - Ilya Kaminsky "Firing Squad"
How ferocious that shock of light - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"
Sat unmoving and alert amid devouring light - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
Rise to your unfamiliar light - Mary Karr "The Last of the Brooding Miserables"
The spluttering light of this specific flame - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"
Pink lights blinking off and on - Laura Kasischke "Recall the Carousel"
When he falls asleep, does light fade? - Janet Kauffman "Cut the Lure"
With distant arrivals of light - Janet Kauffman "Decaying to More"
An orbed drop of light - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Light-winged Dryad of the trees - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
Madly follow that bright path of light - John Keats "Specimen of an Induction to a Poem"
Framer of the light and dark - John Keble "Evening"
Petals of light upon darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
This half-remembered light - Donika Kelly "Brood"
Hills of fire gave back the light - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"
Shake the fading stars from her robes of light - Fanny Kemble "A Farewell"
The last glance of his vanishing light - Fanny Kemble "The Minstrel's Grave"
Into the fountains of eternal light - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Away, away! bear me away, away]"
The stormy light of his fierce lurid eyes - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [I hear a voice low in the sunset woods]"
Bright flood of burning light - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Lady, whom my beloved loves so well!]"
A thousand germs of light and beauty - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
Every shadow thrown by flickering light - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"
Never faultless light or perfect rest - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"
In my pillar of light - Jane Kenyon "On the Aisle"
Made gathers of light inside itself - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"
To light me quick as a fickle flame - Vandana Khanna "Name Calling"
Hair in needles of light and heat - Vandana Khanna "Self-Portrait as Goddess after the Fire"
A body that hums in contrary light - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"
In a Noose of Light - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Roses made of crimson light - Joyce Kilmer "A Valentine"
In the light of saints - Kim Unsong "Worldly Taints"
Split with blue light - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"
Whose blue light rattles sky - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"
In the cobweb of light and dark - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"
Unable to keep the lights on - Merie Kirby "Mother"
All of us want our share of light - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"
Leave all the lights on in my head - Elizabeth Knapp "Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak"
The star yielded to light - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"
Nothing but a street light - Jennifer L. Knox "Name That Tune"
Until light is the holy word - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"
Trying to hold too much light - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Firing bullets of wet light - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Depending on the light to make a difference - Yusef Komunyakaa "Facing It"
To make the light pivot - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Helmet"
Pacing off light hidden in darkness - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"
Blue jays & redbirds wove light through leaves - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Some version of dwindling light - Christopher Kondrich "Object Permanence"
Light spilled over her fingers - Ted Kooser "Zenith"
Having come from Mithraic light - Stephen Kuusisto "Dark Joys 18"
Deflecting horizonless depthless light - Philip Lamantia "Untitled [To see this evil from its core]"
A young probationer of light - Charles Lamb "Lines Written in My Own Album"
Be soft with the light inside you - Alfred K. LaMotte "Gentle"
Over heaven's liquid light - Archibald Lampman "April in the Hills"
Two flowers that love the light - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
From the vintage of gold and of light - Archibald Lampman "The Sun Cup"
The sweet gift of light and air - Archibald Lampman "Vivia Perpetua"
Who live at the light's limit - Andrew Lang "The Seekers for Phaeacia"
Light my love's eyes to read my soul - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "God-Made"
A shadowed form before the light - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"
Search for a former light - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"
As light razors into dark - Michael Lauchlan "Mementos"
Light breaks over all Eyes - Rickey Laurentiis "Hermaphrodite"
Morning light sliding down - Dorianne Laux "I Never Wanted to Die"
In those light and frolic days - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes II: The Gamblers"
Streaked with no ray of light - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway I: The Shadow on the Shore"
Gathered all that grey and moony light - Emily Lawless "From the Burren X: A Garden"
In lines of dancing light - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Hailing all the light and glory - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
Knotted in heaven upon the fine light - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"
With the dim light of full, healthy life - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
Arches where light pushes through - D.H. Lawrence "Bat"
As a prism breaks light into jewels - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
On the inaccessible pinnacle of light - D.H. Lawrence "St Mark"
Memory of light - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"
Blind Milton's memory of light - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"
In this new world of light - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"
Harvest-feeding dews, fine-winnowed light - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"
And the world's light went out - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"
Applied science of the abstract light - Aimee Le "So the Love Story Started"
Fair flame of sacrificial light - Richard Le Gallienne "In the Night"
A sponge of living light - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
In the light, the glowing splinters - Joseph Lease "Free Again [excerpt]"
Change is that rarest light - Ruth Lechlitner "Change Must Be Served"
Light beyond the netted stars - Ruth Lechlitner "Change Must Be Served"
By that light the living are befriended - Ruth Lechlitner "Change Must Be Served"
The false light sterile upon our eyelids - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"
The tombed light in this design for dying - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"
Kingfishers dazzling the light of the sun - Ida Lee "The Forest King's Lament"
The light of a joint and fragile keeping - Li-Young Lee "To Hold"
Smeared in crimson light - Lee Young-ju "Roommate, Woman" transl. by Jae Kim
Heralds of tempest, over the light - Henry S. Leigh "The Moonlight Sonata"
Tango in the hot, ochered light - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"
All gleams in glory's golden light - Charles G. Leland "Thank God for All" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
First memories of light - R.B. Lemberg "Ranra's Unbalancing"
Stone and mortar to imbue with light - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"
As the carousel twirled its crown of lights - Keith Leonard "Museum"
Drinking light from the vanished sun - Denise Levertov "In California: Morning, Evening, Late January"
Tinder for primal light - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"
Gleamed with the warm light of an absent star - Philip Levine "Breath"
The traffic light stuck on yellow - Philip Levine "Homecoming"
Or how light changed nothing - Philip Levine "Photography 2"
The light overflowing with smoke - Philip Levine "Smoke"
Watch the light turning the room every color - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"
From the gates of light had drifted - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
A mist of light stains the willows - Li Ching-chao "Tune: Endless Union" transl. by C. H. Kwock and Vincent McHugh
Lights up the mauve of three - Li Ho "The Northland in Cold" transl. by Burton Watson
Hold the progress of your light - Li Po "The Sun" transl. by Arthur Waley
Drawn to the hazy sprout of light - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
Shedding light like feathers - Ada Limon "The Bird Knows He Is Going to Die and Wishes Not To"
Engines and navigating lights of redemption - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
How they divide light from the road - Marisa Lin "Tiananmen Square, 1989"
Fire-winged cats that light the nights - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
A pinprick of light just out of reach - Angela Liu "The Subway Is Another Place to Die"
With a wand of living light - Mrs. M.A. Livermore "The Snow-Drop" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]
Artist working only with light and stone - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"
His feet on a ladder of light - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Sandalphon"
At home in this echoless light - Audre Lorde "Syracuse Airport"
My steps fall ringed with light - Amy Lowell "Apology"
The light and shadow of all springs - Amy Lowell "Lilacs"
A full light wind of lilac - Amy Lowell "Lilacs"
The moon writes her legends in light - Amy Lowell "Loon Point"
Mock with a light of long dead years - Amy Lowell "To Elizabeth Ward Perkins"
Enchantment lights Venus's cheek - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"
Never saw god written in neon lights - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
For all the light I drink - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria de Lourdes Song of Plenty"
Whose body is shadow and light - Alessandra Lynch "[The lamp is like a capsized ship]: Two Voices Muse over the Speaker"
The way the loss of light proceeds - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"
What light on his sunless path had burst - Francis J. Lys "A Summer's Poems: V. [actual title in Greek?]"
Dropped a veil of changing light - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Shelter and Fellowship"
Lights the deepening sky of Time - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"
Shrinking from the spear of light - Thomas MacDonagh "Inscription on a Ruin"
Fashioned the light in His lyric hands - Wilson MacDonald "The Miracle Songs of Jesus"
Light that sports on frozen streams - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things I" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Bright blackberries where the light falls - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "bramble"
Soon the shadows will claim the light - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "silver birch"
Citrus curling up the light - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"
Vanishing in broken light - Dorothea Mackellar "Bathing Rhyme"
Took my soul to light a shrine - Archibald MacLeish "Charity"
And life be filled with light - Fiona MacLeod "The Sorrow of Delight"
Solar wind strokes the ice-wall into light - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"
My love in the light of steel - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: IV: Connal, Crimora"
Give me those arms of light - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: IV: Connal, Crimora"
Into a limitless expanse of light - Naomi Long Madgett "Afterthought"
The absence of a planet's borrowed light - Naomi Long Madgett "Without"
Seem a rebuke to the light - Anthony Madrid "Quinceanera"
Cloud shadows in the failing light - Trebor Mai "The Shepherd's Love" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
A light from worlds before and after - Edwin Markham "Poetry"
Wrapped in mysteries of light - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
Touched with racing light - Jeannette Marks "Only Your Name"
Wrinkling the light of a drowsy star - Jeannette Marks "Oriole's Nest"
Shaken light burns in the memory - Jeannette Marks "Proem"
Banded with loops of light - Don Marquis "From the Bridge"
Dimmed lights adrift from nobler dreams - Don Marquis "Proem"
Voices fly light light - José Martí "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
As radiant beams in a luminous shower of light - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
Without wings to block out the light - Dawn Lundy Martin "Nothingness"
While the waning light burns - George Martin "Eudora"
Amaranth ash spread across the light - J. Michael Martinez "White"
As light shaped by trajectory - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"
When light enters the lung - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"
Particular as light - Joseph Massey "Early Fall"
Sheds her light with a more bewitching cheer - D.M. Matheson "Indian Summer"
Broad light at the end of the world - Louise Mathias "Quandary"
When the lights first appeared in the sky - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"
Seeking light from earth's core - Khaled Mattawa "Shikwah"
Light refracts my name in dialect only moths comprehend - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"
As if light were the remedy - Airea D. Matthews "Sekhmet's Conceit"
Turns on his wheel of light - Philip Matthews "The Morning Star"
Its iambic pulse of light - Jamaal May "Better Devices"
Light parted by shadow-dance - Jamaal May "There Are Birds Here"
Weave for thee a cloak of light - Theodore Maynard "The Universal Mother"
A fractured memory of light - Shara McCallum "Ghazal"
Where tourists walk by camera light - John McCarthy "On and Off Route 130, Collinsville, Illinois"
Sheds floods of light - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"
Eyes that shamed the light - John McCrae "The Hope of My Heart"
Capturing inextinguishable light - Michael McGriff "Men Keep on Dying"
With an internal scattering of light - Medbh McGuckian "Painting by Moonlight"
For the snow's weird light - Claude McKay "Morning Joy"
Before thy blazing light - Claude McKay "Poetry"
Underneath a spell of heat and light - Claude McKay "To One Coming North"
We follow seductions of light - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
Sleeping in the cold blue light - Erika Meitner "Untitled [and the moon once it stopped was sleeping]"
Pushing it aside to reach the light - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
Time's onward stream may flow before the aching light - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
In the light from dust to night - Celeste Guzman Mendoza "Man Praying--Encroachment"
When light has birth - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Our high light pursue - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Priming our world with light - George Meredith "Grace and Love"
Grave eyes craving light - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"
Meet the light invoked - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Splintered with a new light - W.S. Merwin "A Broken Glass"
Some far light in the zodiac - W.S. Merwin "The Chinese Mountain Fox"
And the light is old again - W.S. Merwin "The Nomad Flute"
Like a light innocent of measure - W.S. Merwin "Note"
Deep snow from which the light comes - W.S. Merwin "Paper"
In the light of finished stars - M.S. Merwin "Returning Season"
Keeping time with the thread of light - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"
While reflected lights flowed backward - W.S. Merwin "227 Waverly Place"
With lights breaking in their tongues - M.S. Merwin "White Morning"
A place with the lights gone out - Charlotte Mew "I Have Been Through the Gates"
Single and spiritual notes of light - Alice Meynell "A Thrush Before Dawn"
The light from common water - Edna St Vincent Millay "Elegy Before Death"
Confused with light - Edna St Vincent Millay "Exiled"
Ghosts in relict summer light - Claire Millikin "Coke-bottle Barbie-doll"
Shatter the room with light - Claire Millikin "Fire"
Consider how my light is spent - John Milton "Service"
Follow the light to nowhere - Matthew Minicucci "Nostalgia"
Fold the lights of the night sky - Anis Mojgani "Leda"
Like a graveyard or unbearable light - Jenny Molberg "Civilization"
Stepping back from the light - Jenny Molberg "Our Lady of the Rio Grande"
Skies radiant with crystal light - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
In a blue surround of celestial light - N. Scott Momaday "Jornada del Muerto"
Enweaves the light in woof as bright - Harriet Monroe "Love Song"
Dissolving with a feverish glow of light - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Elysian creatures robed in fleecy light - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Heaven" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Found some undreamt light of tenderness - George Logan Moore "Love's Transfiguration" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.1-v.I, 6 Jan. 1884]
The equable sapphire light - Marianne Moore "Black Earth"
Fond memory brings the light of other days - Thomas Moore "Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)"
Not to dream but to seek the light again - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
Light moves on your turning shoulders - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan "Without a Philosophy"
Under the bright lights of this metaphor - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"
How coldly bright the memory of their parted light - Morna "Ianthe"
The fitful beacon's light - Lewis Morris "Look Out, O Love"
That light where honey tightens - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
What light cannot repair - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
[Light opening against my back - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"]
Under the spell of dazzling kaleidoscopic lights - Emma E. Murray "Drowning Machine"
Float like light between - "My Dark Rosaleen" transl. by James Clarence Mangan
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]
In the accumulated spray of the antarctic light - Pablo Neruda "Amor America (1400)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
An animal of light corralled - Pablo Neruda "Animal of Light" transl. by William O'Daly
And hardens its slow liquid light - Pablo Neruda "Atacama" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Light dancers of gold and air - Pablo Neruda "Caribbean Birds" transl. by Miguel Algarin
Gloved fingers of light - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Raising hours to the light - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Help yourself to a glass of light - Pablo Neruda "Goodbye to the Snow" transl. by Alastair Reid
Go out to sell light on the roads - Pablo Neruda "How Much Happens in a Day" transl. by Alastair Reid
Treading light and gunpowder - Pablo Neruda "I Want to Return to the South (1941)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
By the electric hazel tree's light - Pablo Neruda "I Want to Return to the South (1941)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
In the light storming through the foam - Pablo Neruda "I Will Return" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Inventing wolves to defend the light - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
My light and my spoon - Pablo Neruda "Love Song" transl. by William O'Daly
Changed forever by the light of blood - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1936)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Only your light against extinction - Pablo Neruda "Night XC" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Restored them to primeval light - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Earth" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
January's light will consume my entire heart - Pablo Neruda "One Hundred Love Sonnets: LXVI" transl. by Rafael Campo
The living poppy above the broken light - Pablo Neruda "Song on the Death and Resurrection of Luis Companys" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The light of hidden flowers - Pablo Neruda "Sonnet XXV"
Light which unwinds the air - Pablo Neruda "Spring" transl. by Alastair Reid
On a morning mortal with light - Pablo Neruda "Standard Oil Co." transl. by Jack Schmitt
The days of unraveled light - Pablo Neruda "Stone Within Stone" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Quartered the light of the implacable dawn - Pablo Neruda "Tupac Amaru (1781)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Light the tulip lanterns - E. Nesbit "The Maiden's Prayer"
Dragons flying in a red light - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"
Gave her eyes a sacred light - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
With the scarce, reflected light - Tim Newcomb "Dawn from Sentinel Dome, Yosemite Park"
Outside the reach of light - Tim Newcomb "Unlight"
Rushing on the wings of light - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Fire without its light - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
As the firefly lights the night - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"
Making a morning path to the light - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"
To smile for a light to come - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"
Pensive light and wistful sound - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"
Whatever small light bees bestow on fallen leaves - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"
Dashing the red gourd of light - Hoa Nguyen "She Leads with Flower Wands"
The fake lights confuse us - Hoa Nguyen "Swell"
And showed me rivers of light - Susan Nguyen "The Body as a Series of Questions"
Memory is the light you swallow - Susan Nguyen "Letter to the Diaspora" p.14
In tossing leagues of light - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons I. To--"
Many another whose heart holds no light - Robert Nichols "The Full Heart"
Flashed light upon the cosmos - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
A shadow in the light - Bruce Nugent "Shadow"
Dreaming of light arriving - Naomi Shihab Nye "Elementary"
In the slim envelope of light - Naomi Shihab Nye "Feather"
Water of light poured freely - Naomi Shihab Nye "Peace"
Absorbs this pliable light - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"
Words of Light alone our javelins hurled - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]
To shield your eyes from the lantern light - Achy Obejas "The Man in White"
And you don't like standing in its light - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"
Wanted to see through your light - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Your light is a memory of the future - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
A shadow wandering at the boundary of light - Omodero David Oghenekaro "Questions for the Fallen"
That leaves the river for the light - John Myers O'Hara "Ablution"
Look, how your flowers light the world - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"
Born of spruce and fading light - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Portrait of My Father as a Pianist"
How the distances light up - Mary Oliver "Bear"
In the rainfall of light - Mary Oliver "Gravel"
A needle in a haystack of light - Mary Oliver "Mindful"
An unforgettable fury of light - Mary Oliver "Sunrise"
Where the stars are dressed in light - Mary Oliver "That Tall Distance"
If light had a mouth and a tongue - Mary Oliver "West Wind 3"
Hold us in the great hands of light - Mary Oliver "Why I Wake Early"
The sea a carnival of light - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Void behind the twin masks of light and dark - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
So narrow and light and possible - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"
Shiny with its afterbirth of light - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"
Treasure every eloquent ray of golden light - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
In the sky's great shroud of light - Ekhmetjan Osman "My Love" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
safe in an inoculation of light - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Ending only in the realms of light - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Verses"
Steals the light of Love's secret - James F. Otis "To the New Moon"
A land of lights and shadows - John Oxenham "India"
In the moment when the light fails - John Oxenham "Wakening"
Add light to Phoebus' eyes - Anonymous "A Pagan Epitaph"
Under the light of that unwanted dawn - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"
Light with folded hands - Marigloria Palma "Twilight" (translated by Carina del Valle Schorske)
Danced in clinging robes of Light - Herbert E. Palmer "Two Fishers"
The pixels of light depicting the world - Gregory Pardlo "Atlantic City Sunday Morning"
Light your tinsel moon - Dorothy Parker "August"
Their candle gives a single light - Dorothy Parker "Interview"
Dread the dawn's recurrent light - Dorothy Parker "Symptom Recital"
Whose greens vary according to light and wind - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"
Find the pure center of light - Linda Pastan "It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank"
For an eternity of traveling light - Linda Pastan "Traveling Light"
leaves elevated to eat blue light - Shailja Patel "Solstice Re-pot"
The hard edge of historical light - Ed Pavlic "from "all along it was a fever: a what poem""
As the Sea weaves her path before the light - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"
Unearthly lights on everything - Josephine Preston Peabody "Gladness"
To ward and worship all the light it sends - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"
That final strip of light on the horizon - Cynthia Pelayo "Afterglow"
As the light gave way to another endless night - Andre F. Peltier "Petoskey Sun Set, 4 July 2010"
Habited in robes of light - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
From the steadfast light of a star - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
And logical as light - Walter S. Percy "Hope"
And lilies turned to light - Walter S. Percy "Two Frames"
Your body sealed shut in the light - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"
Remember how light dawned in chapters - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
In the light of a contented sky - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"
Water in the aftermath of light - Hai-Dang Phan "River to River"
When there's only starshine for a light to go by - Carl Phillips "On Why I Cannot Promise"
Who makes his heavy burden weigh more light - Philo "The Tribute"
Before we struggled to hold light - Jon Pineda "Delayed Harvest"
Light's unshakeable escort - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"
The way light includes everything - Carl Phillips "To a Legend"
The light breaks like a rough sea - Carl Phillips "What They Did, Who They Did it With"
So little different from the light - Carl Phillips "What They Did, Who They Did it With"
The creases between the red light and the green - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Cold, reflected light just wishing to hang on - Marisca Pichette "Waning, Waning"
One daughter of light be indulged in her flight - John Pierpont "E Pluribus Unum" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
How did you explain the light - Maya C. Popa "Letter to Noah's Wife"
Knowledge of the light - Emilio Porta "Circle"
Filled with shattered beams of light - Alexander Posey "On the Hills of Dawn"
The dogwood blossoms cast a light - Alexander Posey "Spring in Tulwa Thloco"
Sing on till light and shadow meet - Alexander Posey "To a Morning Warbler"
That flash defiance back at light - Alexander Posey "To the Crow"
For the glad diffusion of wisdom's light - "Potential Moods" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Flowers of light all shining and blossoming - Miriam Clark Potter "The Candle Tree"
When the sunset light glows red between the trees - Miriam Clark Potter "The Cuddle-de-wees"
Standing on the hill-top, he can light the farthest star - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Lighter"
Touched them with his magic torch of light - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Lighter"
Their light trembles down on my face - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Ships"
Full of faint light but golden - Ezra Pound "The Coming of War: Actaeon"
Alloys of lace and light - Lynn Powell "At the Equinox"
Serving cups of broken light - Ken Poyner "Ineffective"
Lights the dark vale of sorrow - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"
Dead stars who still sent light - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Telling a Bedtime Story"
Squeezing light out of a rock - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Telling a Bedtime Story"
Through the murmur of the light - Punch "Ballad of Bedlam"
Despise starry isles in light embosomed - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
The plagues that are in hell light on the fruit - "The Queen of Elfland"
Ending in decayed light - Khadijah Queen "Monologue for Personae"
Float toward a tulip light - Sina Queyras "Tulips"
Grim in the light of dawn - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Cloud and the Mountain"
Underneath a hailstorm of light - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"
Could starve in this impoverished light - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"
A line of brake lights blazing - Charles Rafferty "Daylight Moon"
Sparred the light for windows and won - Gaia Rajan "Dent"
On its clouds a soul-reflected light - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Shuttles of shadow and light - Theodore H. Rand "Fairy Glen"
The news of light and love - Theodore H. Rand "Marie Depure"
An ashen light serene - Theodore H. Rand "Song-Waves"
To tune their harps of light - Herbert Randall "The Angelus of Plymouth Woods"
A bit of rosemary, swept through with light - Herbert Randall "Foreword"
Mingle with the everlasting light - Herbert Randall "To My Pilgrim Mother"
From parapets of light - Herbert Randall "To the Standish Guards of the Old Colony"
A valley the light sags through - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"
The bride of my own sad light - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"
To bask in the light of a loftier fate - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
Coal gouged out to fuel the light in other places - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
With the lights of their ribs - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"
Across the sidewalk's light upheavals - Diane Raptosh "World Upside Down"
Melting aisles of liquid light - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "Aspiration"
Brief but brilliant light - G.A. Raybold "The Joys of Former Years Have Fled"
That shakes at touch of light - John Reade "Kings of Men"
From the past no closing light can borrow - Rebecca "The Heiress" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Stains all its light touches - William Reichard "In the Evening"
With that light seeming which deceit can give - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Feverish light flung hard upon their faces - Paisley Rekdal "Bats"
And serves to light our solemn way - A.J. Requier "Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Bent as light, as wind - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Has Walked Into the Wild, Palms Open"
Grateful for the light - Jordan Rice "Vanishment"
Ancient hour between light and dark - Adrienne Rich "Darklight"
Your footprints of light - Adrienne Rich "Modotti"
Art is a register of light - Adrienne Rich "Plaza Street and Flatbush"
In their outraged light - Adrienne Rich "Through Cottalitos Under Rolls of Cloud"
In the light of the weapons we wield - Henry Scott Riddell "The Grecian War Song"
With her fingers of shadowy light - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"
Goaded by soliciting light - Lola Ridge "After the Recital (To Roland Hayes)"
Envious of the light it cannot hold - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Jaded with monotony of lights - Lola Ridge "East River"
Compounded of light and air - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
The mask of light that pressed his face - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
Admitted to the cabalas of the light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
The bugles of the light are blowing - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Light that was its shining currency - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 1: Flower of Silver"
Hanging by a thread of light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 2: Madness in the Field"
That took the light like ivory - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Beheld the paradigm of light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 3: The Ray II"
Light glimpsed upon the rims of vision - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Made terrible with too much light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 2: The Unborn"
Shapes of foam that banner in the light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
Amid the plumbless jasmine of the light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"
Had no hunger for the light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"
Sweet inquisition of light - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"
The glow of darkened lights - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
The waste light of stars - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Burning spires in aureoles of light - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Light fine as a wasp's sting - Lola Ridge "In Harness"
Innumberable ions of light - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Light that jingles like anklet chains - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Captive light in the goblets quivering - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Infinite bubbles of light - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
The faint gold light of evening - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Carrying light like sunsets upon wings - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Punctured by needle lights - Lola Ridge "Nocturne"
Swarming particles of light - Lola Ridge "Saint's Bridge"
Light spinning a gossamer trestle - Lola Ridge "Saint's Bridge"
Clings as light might to a crocus - Lola Ridge "Still Water (To D.L.)"
Light on the underside of leaves - Jack Ridl "It Was Last Night, I Think"
But the exit is never to see light - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
The light of the laughing stars - James Whitcombe Riley "Leonanie"
A realm of light and shadow mystical - James Whitcombe Riley "Three Singing Friends"
Light from every edge - Rainer Maria Rilke "Archaic Torso of Apollo" (translated by Robert Bly)
Tailors of the light - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"
Iron and paper and light and salt - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"
Lights that sound the sunset - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"
That veiled light of paradise - Charles G.D. Roberts "From the High Window of Your Room"
Lights the cradle and runs dark along the rafter - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"
And winds beyond the heavens are dancing in the light - Lloyd Roberts "Spring Madness"
Waves of vanishing light - Valencia Robin "Story of My Life"
Seen for us the devastating light - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Discovery"
By the one light of his one thought - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Flying Dutchman"
While we are deep in dreaming the light - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
From a gloom of a world forgotten to the light of a world to be - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
And one star waits for the dawning light - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"
With no light of the sun to guide - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Bathed in earth's lesser light - Alice Wellington Rollins "Indian Summer"
Shattered by the light from out those darkened eyes - Madeleine Caron Rock "He Is the Lonely Greatness"
Flashing light of jeweled fire - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
A sad thought buried in light - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"
Burst on the peaks of light - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
More secret than desert light - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
Grew pale beneath its light - Joshua Ross "My Ruling Star"
When passing clouds obscured its light - Joshua Ross "My Ruling Star"
In smiles of sparkling light - Joshua Ross "My Ruling Star"
Their brilliant light surpasses far - Joshua Ross "On a Lady's Eyes"
Will call to light the chastening light - Joshua Ross "On a Lady's Eyes"
Among the lilies lapped in the tender light - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
To the deep wells of light - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"
Love's light Hand is knocking at the door - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
In the Light is our sleeping and waking - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse
In the midst of this unending Light - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse
Without tapers they may give a light - "A Royal Guest"
Out hunting in the early light - Muriel Rukeyser "Painters"
A tongue of light describing a refuge - Rumi "A Just-Finished Candle" transl. by Coleman Barks
Reflects that borrowed light - Rumi "Love the Source of Light Rather than Vanishing Form" transl. by E.H. Whinfield
Ceased to look on light - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems IV: Revoke Not"
A new enchantment lights the ancient skies - George William Russell "Divine Visitation"
Lights of infinite pity star the grey dusk - George William Russell "Immortality"
And quench her light in the dark stream of death - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
my voice travels faster than light - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"
Coursing blood instead of light - R.S. Saha "Kin"
The most extravagant light is Venetian - David St. John "Venetian Farewells"
light that fell against the prison floor - C.T. Salazar "River"
No relief from the unbearable thin light - David Salisbury "On Mars"
Met to watch the lights and shadows quiver - Arthur L. Salmon "By the River" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.127-v.III, 5 June 1886]
Forever confused by the mysteries of light - Erika L. Sanchez "Hyacinth"
Sisters of silver creators of light - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"
Broken across with slashes of light - Carl Sandburg "Window"
Peace kiss and blot their tarnished light - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Pouring crystalline melody from thrones of Light - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Knowing what light shall burst from dark - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Suns from out their orbs of light - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
Make haste to bring your wares to light - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
And to fill with light the thirsty - Fritz Schnack "Evening Gift" transl. by William Saphier
Inside this labyrinth of hot light - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Four"
In the burned places where light is ash - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"
Beyond the fragile light that marks our star - Ann K. Schwader "A Voyage(r) Too Far"
Like a star behind the polar lights - Frederick George Scott "Columbus"
Sail beyond the solar light - Frederick George Scott "My Lattice"
Rivers leaping into dazzling light - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems V"
Faint tints of long delicious light - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems V"
Questions as old as light - Nicole Sealey "cento for the night i said, 'i love you'"
Like dawn indebted to light - Nicole Sealey "object permanence"
Reading circular augurs of light - Tobias Seamon "Halos"
Eyes imprisoned behind crimson bars of light - Tobias Seamon "Halos"
Were created not with light but clay - Tobias Seamon "Halos"
Flowing down like lingering light - Alexandra Seidel "The Honey Man"
Drowned in electric lights - Marjorie Seiffert "The Picnic"
And the light of hell-fire flows - Robert W. Service "The Heart of the Sourdough"
Light's flame with self-substantial fuel - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"
The gracious light lifts up his burning head - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VII"
Drowns the piping cries of light - Clara Shanafelt "Interlude"
The last few drops of light drain silently - Edward Shanks "A Night-Piece"
Saw beauty in a scrap of its light - Prageeta Sharma "Glacier National Park and the Elegy"
Gushes sour light across the sheets - Betsy Sharp "Alarm"
Imperial light wakes love to life - "She Sits Alone" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
Light garments brush against the dark - Virna Sheard "Before the Dawn"
Hidden in the light of thought - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
Like light dissolved in star-showers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples"
Light in the dust lies dead - Shelley "When the Lamp Is Shattered"
The liquid light of silver moons - Nathaniel G. Shepherd "A Summer Reminiscence"
Strange lights shall open as we pass - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: III. The Landsman"
Lost in the golden labyrinth of light - Frank Dempster Sherman "Song at Daybreak"
A cold jail cell flooded with light - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
Rejoice in its gladdening light - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
The virtue of this light - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
quick light flowing down the back of my throat - Evie Shockley "black love"
Our ship through light and darkness - Joyce Sidman "Always at Home"
Our light in our vast, brilliant constellations - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"
Last breath, last sight of light - Joyce Sidman "Into the Mud"
And spin into whorls of light - Joyce Sidman "Snail at Moonrise"
Standing in a constant cone of light - Richard Siken "Seaside Improvisation"
Light of some other evening - Charles Simic "Evening Walk"
thorns in the inches of light sunsets have - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"
For the light that shines there, waiting - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
The linnet twitters in the darkling light - "The Sleep-Song of Grainne Over Dermuid" transl. by Eleanor Hull
A cloud of granite and marble light - Tom Sleigh "The Parallel Cathedral"
Light scratches into all the surfaces - Bruce Smith "Ferment"
With versions of gravity and light - Bruce Smith "What Are They Doing in the Next Room"
With light in the night of infinitude - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"
A hueless warp of light - Clark Ashton Smith "Crepuscle"
White hells of light and clamour - Clark Ashton Smith "Inferno"
Splendours that inform the light - Clark Ashton Smith "Inheritance"
Strength obtained from light that failed - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
Pluck out the light of stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"
Until light outweighs us - Danez Smith "it won't be a bullet"
With trembling light - Effie Waller Smith "At the Grave of the Forgotten"
Lights earth's tears - Effie Waller Smith "The Rainbow"
Agony lights up the darkness - L. Virginia Smith "Bless the Homestead Law"
Liquid with the light of youth - Mrs. Seba Smith "To Fanny H***" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Pierced suddenly by pillars of heavy light - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"
Cast no discernible light - Karen Solie "The Trees in Riverdale Park"
The stars squeezing their icy light - Gary Soto "Professional Goals"
And light my worldly path no more - T.G. Spear "I Cling to Thee"
But a faint shadow of uncertain light - Edmund Spenser "The House of Richesse"
As the oboe lights the pure torch - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"
Light as an exile's suitcase - A.E. Stallings "Two Violins"
A heart light as her smile - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
See the light of azure skies - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
Folds the systems in a flood of light - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
And love offended lights a fire - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"
Brim with light the blue estates - George Sterling "Aldebaran at Dusk"
Between blazing cliffs of light - George Sterling "Ballad of the Bells"
With tears of bitter light - George Sterling "Beauty and Truth"
Like a bead along the thread of light - George Sterling "The Glass of Time"
With witness of a light - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
Take their symbol from the light - George Sterling "The Guerdon of the Sun"
Mutations of arrested light - George Sterling "Morning in the Pines"
Reserves and urgencies of light - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
Whose light is not in the refusing dawn - George Sterling "Thy Laughing Loveliness"
Endure the light which is the truth - George Sterling "To Ambrose Bierce"
Where light and roses stir - George Sterling "To My Sister"
Are loyal to that alien light - George Sterling "To One Self-Slain"
A bubble lifting from enchanted light - George Sterling "Under the Rainbow"
And Moses alone was the light - Gerald Stern "Samaritans"
An indigence of the light - Wallace Stevens "Lebensweisheitspielerei"
Wicked in her dead light - Wallace Stevens "Madame la Fleurie"
Establishments of wind and light and cloud - Wallace Stevens "One of the Inhabitants of the West"
Out of the drifting leaf and the dying light - Arthur Stringer "The Passing"
That had sighed to her light of old - Arthur Stringer "A Summer Night"
A ragged ache of light sifts through - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"
A hurt beast flinching at the light - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Spellbound, silent, down a shimmering track of light - Alan Sullivan "The Widower's Lullaby"
An owl dazzled by a brilliant light - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 60: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Your skull is a cup hungry for light - Jacqueline Suskin "How to Fall in Love with Yourself"
Mysterious promises of future light - Howard V. Sutherland "The Unassuageable"
One touch of the present dissolves the light dream - Miss Caroline E. Sutton "The Past" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Into the lemon light of morning - Alison Swan "Aubade"
Bludgeons of light to force your seams - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"
Unclasp a restless froth of light - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"
In a carousel of staring light - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"
The light from either's memory shed - Algernon Swinburne "Discord"
Night outspeeding light - Algernon Swinburne "One of Twain"
Clothed with the light of the sun - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
That leaf may be eternal by the light - Carmen Sylva "The Glowworm"
When I have just put out the light - "Sympathy" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Then to be only that light - Mary Szybist "In the Beginning God Said Light"
Light laughter to ease our brimming hearts - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]
The road the sun lays down in light - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"
A stroke of light in my consciousness - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Will rustle under painful light - Mutsuo Takahashi "Dead Boy" transl. by Jeffrey Angles
For light as space for shadow - Mutsuo Takahashi "Dead Boy" transl. by Jeffrey Angles
Blue light not sent from the moon - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Still, light rises all night long - Keith Taylor "After the Holidays"
Among things quick and shimmering in the light - Keith Taylor "The Biblical Allotment"
Alive again under fragile light - Keith Taylor "In the Presence of Large Predators"
A student in the landscapes of light - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Light builds a monument to its passing - Tess Taylor "Solstice"
Beneath the fever of the light - Sara Teasdale "In a Restaurant"
Whistling in silver light - Sara Teasdale "Meadowlarks"
Like petals of light fallen - Sara Teasdale "Old Tunes"
Lights like sunken swords - Sara Teasdale "Spring Night"
Hour of wind and light - Sara Teasdale "Swallow Flight"
These orbs of light and shade - Tennyson "In Memoriam"
Sphere all your lights around - Tennyson "In Memoriam"
Long light shakes across the lakes - Tennyson "The Splendour Falls"
Spun by light and dropped into shadow - Amber Flora Thomas "Damaged Photos"
Down the rivers of the windfall light - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
After the birth of the simple light - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
The light of this pale choked day - Edward Thomas "After Rain"
Lights and shades hid what has never been - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"
Actors and audience and lights all gone - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
Hang stars like seeds of light - Edward Thomas "The Dark Forest"
An ambuscade of lights - Francis Thompson "New Year's Chimes"
Gray light on an unmade bed - Matthew Thorburn "Gray Light on an Unmade Bed"
Frail light still burning - Matthew Thorburn "These Days"
Chequers the shade with her forerunning light - Henry David Thoreau "Greece"
Moving light spreads round earth a mantle bright - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
The magic light that hill sends on to hill - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XII. Sunday.--The Hill-Top"
Sweet voices come to me like light - Eunice Tietjens "To S"
Wrapped in their ashen light - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"
Sentinel of the morning light - "To the Lark"
Sank amid ripples of light - M.B.M. Toland "Aegle"
Vanished like flashes of light - M.B.M. Toland "Aegle"
Prepare this house to receive light - TC Tolbert "Nine Haiku"
Light is dead within my heart - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut
Under the morning light's weight - Z.G. Tomaszewski "First Evening, Mooselung Pond"
Casts its inner light outward - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Manifest"
Pinch light from a darkness - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Manifest"
Through a mask of light - Edwin Torres "Bit by Bite"
To stand apart from perspective and light - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
my static charge of light and dusk - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"
The jesters of light and magic - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
To passers of light and dusk - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
The smiling bright light lure over the maw of the abyss - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"
Fur holding the light of a whole moon - Kristen Tracy "Taming the Dog"
In the light cast by the dark - Paul Tran "Terroir"
That glance and sparkle in the hush of the lingering light - "Treasure-Trove" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
Flings her light despairing - Iris Tree "[Lulled are the dazzling colours of the day]"
My face without the conquering light - Iris Tree "[Sometimes I look into the glass]"
Spill the wind of light into our gloom - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"
The mud gleams with malicious light - Iris Tree "[Washed at my feet by the curded foam of sluggish waves]"
The pallid glints of stolen light - Iris Tree "[Winding down the streets in wearied gaiety]"
Light and its beautiful doom - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
Feeds her golden flocks with light - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"
Sisters linked in love and light - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"
Breaking into isles of light - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"
Glowing like bottled light - Natasha Trethewey "Cameo"
Take what we need of light - Natasha Trethewey "Gathering"
Distilling light from volatile darkness - Natasha Trethewey "Give and Take"
Dust that dances in the light with all other dust - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Belonging"
A shimmering glory of light and hue - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
The holy light deserting her - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Share the light of this lamp - Tu Fu "Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement" transl. by Burton Watson
Where worlds of circling light arise and fade - W.J. Turner "Death"
The darkness cannot light the street - Perhat Tursun "The Night" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Soundless in the flaming light - Katherine Tynan "The Riders"
Freedom lights anew her waning fires - "The Union Marseillaise" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Startled by the light - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"
By the light of dying gods - John Updike "The Old Bills"
A vein of naked light - John Updike "Thunderstorm in Dorset, Vermont"
Singing my light in a universe of endless stars - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Starry Night"
Saw the light of fires along a distant shore - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"
No doubt the trees eat light - Emily van Kley "Fall Color"
Worships water over light - Emily van Kley "Sarracenia, Purpurea"
Stepping light as snowfall - Emily van Kley "Ways to Hunt Deer"
Shoot from their orbits in a maddening light - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Toward that distance of eddying light - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Toward the wrong lights - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Beto, Sheep of Heaven"
Buried each slow light - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"
As you emerge from the light - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "To Hide a Goddess"
Ripples flow across the cosmic lights - Dawn Vogel "The Whale Shark's Stars"
A light says why - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
No man's borrowed light - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"
Enough light to drown in - Ocean Vuong "Deto(nation)"
This amber light whittled down - Ocean Vuong "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"
The light of his strange calling - Derek Walcott "Eulogy to W.H. Auden"
The light behind your veins - Derek Walcott "For Adrian"
Missing in the reflected light - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"
Because light finds a place to fall - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: Preconceptions Without Delay"
In light angled by your mother's anger - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"
Whose light depends not on sun and moon - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist
Bring the light clasped round you - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
That you'd come cloaked in light - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
And pearls of light rained down on me - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
The sulphurous clouds of war dyed red in lurid light - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
The light you remember - Michael Wasson "Countdown as Slow Kisses"
Wild light at golden intervals - William Watson "The Empty Nest"
One last light of rapture give - William Watson "The Flight of Youth"
Fairies light who danced at night - F.E. Weatherly "The Old Picture-Book"
Its mystery of fire and the light - Afaa Michael Weaver "This Morning, This First Poem"
Bend light into new angles - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Come Shaker Life"
The air, the light, the whole enormous chance - John Moncure Wettarau "Morning, Maine Honolulu"
Unless you want the wrath of their light - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"
Made of smokeless flame and shadowless light - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"
The long light that Beauty leaves up her fallen veils - Edith Wharton "Mistral in the Maquis"
Hidden thoughts await the light - Kate Louise Wheeler "Hidden Treasures"
Dreams in the dull light - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
Crowns his defeat with light - John Hall Wheelock "Disdainful Beauty"
Dim world of lonely light - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
And faded in the crumbling light - John Hall Wheelock "The Fish-Hawk"
Shifting light and overshadowing cloud - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
His trophies bright are truth and light - C.L. Wheler "The Song of the Axe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Until my face comes into the light - Dave Whippman "Gothic Romance"
Glorious canopy of light and blue - Blanco White "Night and Death"
A lasting light along her pathway shed - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"
A sullen bar of light athwart the darkness - Helen Hay Whitney "The Days"
Though her searching steps be light and fleet - Helen Hay Whitney "Spring and Autumn"
If the eye must fail of light - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"
A sadder light than waning moon - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Before the light went by - Margaret Widdemer "The Factories"
Unnamed light that floods the world with splendour - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
Green light burning in the stars - Dana Wilde "Abductions"
A glare of lights appears and strobes - Dana Wilde "Abductions"
No shadows in the gauzy light - Dana Wilde "Abductions"
Nor dawn nor eventide nor any light we know - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"
Every absence of light - C. K. Williams "And Fear"
Light withdrawing its tattered shreds - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"
To let the light in means exposure - Katie Willingham "Terrifying Robot Update"
Against the boundless curb of light - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
And catch the light of the right star - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"
That travels like light upon her sails - "The Wives of Brixham"
A polished pearl of light above - Allan Wolf "Venus: Come Live with Me and Be My Lunch"
The struggling moonbeam's misty light - Charles Wolfe "The Burial of Sir John Moore"
Holding converse with pale lunar light - Adolf Wolff "Excuse Me, Muse"
Give the light and warmth to solar systems - Adolf Wolff "Lines Inspired on Meeting a Lady: To A. L."
As the vermin shunning light - Adolf Wolff "Our Lady of Infinite Mercy"
Afraid to even hold the memory of light - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
Copper light resumes ceremony from absence - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"
And fade into the light of common day - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
Pulled by invisible strings toward light - Charles Wright "Anniversary II"
Where we know the light will never reach us - Charles Wright "April Evening"
Bystanders back from the river of light - Charles Wright "I've Been Sitting Here Thinking Back Over My Life..."
Where nothing is visible but light - Charles Wright "L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle"
Beyond the boundaries of light and dark - Charles Wright "Like the New Moon, My Mother Drifts Through the Night Sky"
How the light splays after the storm - Charles Wright "Outscape"
Tell them that light is never a metaphor - Charles Wright "Shadow and Smoke"
With the light knifing low from right to left - Charles Wright "Stiletto"
Clouds upholding the sour light of heaven - Charles Wright "Time Is a Child-Biting Dog"
A whitish light edging the earth's offerings - Charles Wright "Yellow Wings"
This is the lost, impermanent light - Charles Wright "Yellow Wings"
No replenishment of unmarked light - Jay Wright "Kumu"
What lives on that map never sees the light - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
In the shadows of city lights - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"
A shadow you walk in to avoid the light - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"
Criss-crossing in that golden light - Lynn Xu "[Sun-messenger]"
The light retires to the lamp - Yao Feng (aka Yao Jingming) "Searching for Light" transl. by Julia Sanches
lift the light free of its verticals - Monica Youn "Whiteacre"
Fractured lines of light - C. Dale Young "Eclipse"
The iron road agleam with splintered light - Francis Brett Young "February"
Into my circled light they came - Francis Brett Young "Moths"
Down through my circle of light - Francis Brett Young "Moths"
Spray the cherry-boughs with light - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"
His many-splintered arrows of light - Francis Brett Young "Phthonos"
Dispersing its giant crowd of light - Kevin Young "Nightstick [A Mural for Michael Brown]"
Through its testament of cold light - Ray Young Bear "Four Hinterland Abstractions"
Of light awaiting nothing - Matthew Zapruder "As I Cross the Heliopause at Midnight, I Think of My Mission"
Some quality of the disintegrated light - Matthew Zapruder "Starry Wizards"
Dark sobbing into the light - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
Under the immutable light - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver
Late November's agate-light - Chris Dombrowski "The Roofers Listen to Heart's "Crazy on You" as They Work"
Beacon-lights of ages fled - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Switched on a black light in the sky - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"
Candlelight.
Myriad corpse-lights glimmer on their way - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
Leaving a corpselight burning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Daylight.
The crimson death-lights dance - Virna Sheard "Crosses"
Firelight.
Flashlight.
The moon's floodlights burning - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"
spilled past the footlights - Leah Bobet "Notable Escapes"
Watch an entire reel of gaslight unfold - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"
At night when her gold-light is spent - Charles Swain "The Ship 'Extravagance'" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]
An oceanic circus of gray-light - Jonah Mixon-Webster "Territory"
Dusk-airs and breaths of half-light - Ivor Gurney "De Profundis"
Tapers burning in the dim half-light - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
Quickly shifting puddles of purpler half-light - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Headlight.
Highlighted lessons and dog-eared parables - Camille T. Dungy "One to Watch, and One to Pray"
Highlights the potential for interruption - Elizabeth Torres "The Play"
Leave the highlights for last - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"
Lamplight.
River sends her laughter-lights - Miriam Clark Potter "Bubbles"
Flip off this lightbox and its scroll of dread - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
Lightbulb.
A lighted chandelier in a fog - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"
Candles lighted at full noon - Charles Baudelaire "The Living Flame" transl. not credited
And lighted alone by the firefly's lamp - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
The lighted candles lent their gold - Scott Cairns "Draw Near"
In a powder-mill with a lighted match - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Upon the lighted roofs of Nineveh - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"
Lighted with lamps of hope - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
The long train is lighted that shall burn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
The dark side lighted only by the cycles of the moon - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"
A stage lighted and waiting for your step - May Swenson "Earth Your Dancing Place"
Lighten.
Lighter.
Lightest.
Light-Footed.
Gliding over sheets of light-glazed silver - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"
Lighthouse.
Lighting.
Lightless.
Lightly.
In lightness of wonder rise higher - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Possesses the pleasant lightness of tea - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"
Not always in lightness, however - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."
The jasmine lightness of the moon - William Carlos Williams "To a Solitary Disciple"
The boortree and the lightsome ash across the portal grow - William Allingham "Abbey Asaroe"
What is born massless at light speed - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"
That scale the speed of light - Elizabeth Bartlett "City Game: Marbles"
Before accelerating toward the speed of light - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"
As if it were penicillin or the speed of light - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"
The first lightspray of detonated creation - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
Light Year.
Kicked at cardboard, gaped at red limelight - Aldous Huxley "The Ideal Found Wanting"
the limelight not meant for you - Megan Johnson "How it comes to pass"
Bruised by the stone glare of the limelight - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"
Tinged her eyes with love-light's dawning - F. Rochat "My Baby" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.710, 4 Aug. 1877]
these jangling night lights fixed to a spirit pleading - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"
Nightlights going unused in the swinging forests - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
When the Northlights shake their spears - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
By the flamethrower's pilot light - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"
An angel lit by a red-light district - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
Can afford to burn a rushlight - Henry S. Leigh "An Old Cynic"
Searchlight.
Read poems by snow-light - Hilda Conkling "Poems"
Spotlight.
Streetlight.
Ajax stands in the Trojan torchlight - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
By torch-light and alone - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"
The eaves of the unlighted hall - J.R. Lowell "Ballad"
And the dead planets race unlighted - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"
Unlighted through blind space - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"
Forlorn as that unlighted chamber - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Watchful as window-light - Tarfia Faizullah "Acolyte"
Witch-lights of laughter - Clinton Dangerfield "Autumn"
The winterlight consumes the field - Taylor Johnson "Art Movie"
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