Potential Titles: Thing
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We shouldn't touch things we can't keep - Anne Carly Abad "Where the Waves Meet"
In this wilderness the feral things name me - Elizabeth Acevedo "Self-Portrait as Lilith"
The general puzzle of ordinary things - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Mirror Man"
The course of things external - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Some stubborn dissonance of things - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Wishing for the same thing - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"
Repairing the things in need of repair - Elizabeth Alexander "Praise Song for the Day"
A silent, mammoth thing that overwhelmed me - Elizabeth Alexander "Tending"
Held just one thing back - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
All things freed of black and white - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Some things are better off unnamed - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
Things I like about heartbreak - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"
In calling one thing by another's name - Rae Armantrout "Scumble"
The things I came here to find - Simon Armitage "The Present"
A thousand foolish things to do - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
To join the mute divinity of things - Cameron Awkward-Rich "The Little Girl Is Not Certain About Ontology"
Mice in the midst of things - Mary Jo Bang "Can the Individual Experience Tragic Consequences?"
To pretend to find ten thousands things - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
things i won't be answering - Samiya Bashir "i traveled the world. it was fine."
Deft carriers of mysterious things - Cora C. Bass "Ours Is the Choice"
The expansion of things infinite - Charles Baudelaire "Correspondences" transl. not credited
Biting open one thing to leave another - Jan Beatty "I'll Write the Girl"
Ageless things in awakened woods - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"
A lost thing could I never find - Hilaire Belloc "The South Country"
Nor a broken thing mend - Hilaire Belloc "The South Country"
The things I built are shattered now - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Banquet"
The things are broken to which I aspired - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Banquet"
Half-shadowings of the thing I meant - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Original Impulse"
And all things robed in shadow - Park Benjamin "Sonnet [Loved of my soul! I seek in vain for thee]"
Some modest, luminous thing - Robert Bly "The Threshing Machine"
A thing foredoomed to limits - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
And echoes through all things - Thomas Boyd "To the Lianhaun Shee"
Things beautiful and slow - Kay Boyle "Monody to the Sound of Zithers"
The last things we all agreed on - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
All things within this fading world - Anne Bradstreet "Before the Birth of One of Her Children"
a very black thing at the edge of a sward - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]
The foolish broken things we knew - Rupert Brooke "Tiare Tahiti"
From the ashes of the next-best-thing - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"
Only one thing worth hearing - Nickole Brown "Parable"
Beauty can kill more beautiful things - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"
Remember there are things apart - C. Burchardt "Complaint"
With wonder at common things - James Alpheus Butler, Jr. "Common Things"
On things of earth is by a pointed diamond writ - W.G.C. "Yesterday" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Tell me fifty thousand things - C.S. Calverley "Lines on Hearing the Organ"
All things named of earth or heaven - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
In the midst of secret things - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall
Whispering things nobody knows - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"
How not to utter the ungrateful thing - Mary Jean Chan "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter"
Never having lived among things - Jos Charles "A Note on Form"
Doubt all things invisible - Ken Chen "Brief Lives: Descartes in Love" [excerpts]
Doubt all things visible - Ken Chen "Brief Lives: Descartes in Love" [excerpts]
What wicked things are written on the sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
The wild thing went from left to right - G.K. Chesterton "The Rolling English Road"
All the things which make real the world - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
Calling from every mirrored thing - Lucille Clifton [untitled]
In religious as profane things - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
That lull us out of old things - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XII"
Dark things know the delving - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"
Dark things know what we hide and the why - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"
A little silt of golden things forgotten - Arthur Colton "Who May with the Shrewd Hours Strive?"
Things I cannot mention - Hilda Conkling "Rambler Rose"
Tell me quiet things - Hilda Conkling "Tell Me"
Whisper of things beyond the Present's reach - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Forgive me for an echo of these things - Hart Crane "Recitative"
The rich things stolen from the earth - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
Follow a sequin thread of dead things - Cynthia Cruz "Final Performance"
All sweet things that flourish - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
the passing of all shining things - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VIII)"
Make early flowers of all things - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IV)"
Out of the shadows of immortal things - Olive Custance "The Magic Mirrors"
All echoing ancient things - Fannie Stearns Davis "Wind"
The promise of forgetting all thing - Kwame Dawes "New Year's Eve in Addis"
Our tendency to ruin things - Monica de la Torre "Remote Disjunctions"
Just another episode of things that never happened - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"
Prayed to all the living things - Desdamona "Once and Future"
Jericho is on the inside of the things the world likes - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"
All things grieve her - Mary Mapes Dodge "Ten Kinds"
Those things uttered by the seven tongues - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
That green might mean so many things - Matt Donovan "Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More"
Render freedom to things bound - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"
Unallied to bitter things or barren - Edward Dowden "In the Galleries: II. The Venus of Melos"
All wild things unpent - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
Things created by the eternal mind - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"
Breaking the broken things - Cheryl Dumesnil "Breaking the Broken Things"
This whirling shadow of invisible things - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"
Filling its darkness with bright things - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
No release from little things - Amelia Earhart "Courage"
For you all things endure - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 23. E-Abshagala, the Temple of Ninmarki in Guaba" transl. by Sophus Helle
Stubborn things that grow beyond of time - Fatihah Quadri Eniola "Down-Streaming"
Turning things into thoughts - Elaine Equi "The Objects in Fairy Tales"
Things exist long after - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Things Haunt"
The end of things beloved - Eve L. Ewing "The Discount Mega Mall (in memorium)"
Each thing learned in mercy - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"
While the ancient things are woken - Joseph Fasano "The Moon"
The common things he had forgotten - Joseph Fasano "Odysseus"
This dead and leaden thing - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Dead Fires"
To forget things that are, for things not yet - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"
The giver of every single thing - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"
Simple things and dear - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
The edge of a thing called life - George Blackstone Field "The Answer"
Fix the thing upon a spinning cylinder - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
In the world of tiny shifting things - Laura Foley "Lost and Found"
The weeping heart of all things - Vievee Francis "Clarity"
Pouring strange light on things more strange - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
If design govern in a thing so small - Robert Frost "Design"
To stitch their gossamer things - Rose Fyleman "Trees and Fairies"
With many red and golden fluttering things - Zona Gale "Ballade of Old Perfumes"
All things sweet and bitter meet - Theodosia Garrison "The Gifts of Gold"
Things I haven't survived - Andrea Gibson "Boomerang Valentine"
Creator of fragile, fluid things - Nikita Gill "Gaia"
Like all things that are perishable - Nikita Gill "Reminders About Healing"
Precious things on hidden shelves - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Lesson of Death"
A thing that was once wild is never tame - Theodora Goss "The Fox Wife"
Or any single thing to break this tenuous leash - Mona Gould "Autumn Is Unfair"
Hands have a way of betraying things - Mona Gould "Hands"
Carry your candles like holy things - Mona Gould "Small Christmas Tree (For F.G.)"
And all things else are out of mind - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"
Things to teach us leaving - Kimberly Grey "What We Have Lost"
And she mocks the thing you ask - Viscountess Grey "Echo"
Of shy things at night - Angelina Weld Grimke "To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimke"
When voiceless things have found a tone - Eliza Paul Gurney "The Alpine Horn"
Of things grown magic in the mind - Ivor Gurney "Winter Beauty"
Employ no sorrowful thing - F.W. Harvey "Happy Singing"
Not afraid of breaking things - Yona Harvey "You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love"
Above earth's petty things - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
All things that make the rose - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender XVI"
The protoplasmic source of all things - Mary Hickman "Still Life with Rayfish"
Our endless desire to grasp things - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk
Our Cressy's too have dwindled since to penny things - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
These things nature furnishes - Helen Hoyt "Cheap"
The things made for the heavens - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Many things hid from thy mind's dazzled sight - Imogene "Mother and Child" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Taste the whirling of all things visible - Mark Irwin "And Now"
To move like all things green - Mark Irwin "In Autumn"
The things that fetter me - Georgia Douglas Johnson "When I Rise Up"
New things in an old language - James Weldon Johnson "A Poet to His Baby Son"
Just one true thing about the soul - Kate Knapp Johnson "The Meadow"
Bold converse with things rare - Lionel Johnson "Plato in London"
Things the earth cannot swallow - Fred L. Joiner "Consume/d"
Things with wheels that go nowhere - Camisha L. Jones "Haunted"
Things that I do in the dark - June Jordan "These Poems"
The law of broken things - Rodger Kamenetz "The Broken Tablets"
As memory preserves the pattern of broken things - Rodger Kamenetz "The Broken Tablets"
Unseen things are still there - Kaneko Misuzu "Stars and Dandelions" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi
The singed fume of things beautiful, noble, and wrong - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"
Pause in the transience of all things - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"
The permanent transience of all things - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"
Better things than picking lentils out of the hearth - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
And claim all things feather, skin, scale - Janet Kauffman "Instead of Flying in Water"
Maybe one or two things not quite right - Janet Kauffman "Keratella Offshore"
Just because one thing follows another - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time"
A glowing thing learning - Sarah Kay "Jakarta, January"
Perplexed her with a thousand things - John Keats "The Eve of Saint Mark"
A thing of soft misnomers - John Keats "Modern Love"
Divine things lie concealed - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
All fair things had passed away - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"
Can never remake the thing I have destroyed - Aline Murray Kilmer "Shards"
List of things to banish - Mia King "Abracadabra"
When night was a new thing - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"
Bury my dreams first thing in the morning - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"
Having related one thing to another - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"
Things of drift and shadow - Archibald Lampman "White Pansies"
Loud noise of passing things - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
The simplest thing that memory endears - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Surpassing all things known - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"
A thing made all of rattling bone - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"
Abysmal ground of all things - Li-Young Lee "Spoken For"
All things ancient, vast, towering - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"
All things skewed or misunderstood - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"
Crooning of love and of manifold things - Henry S. Leigh "Chivalry for the Cradle No. 2--A Legend of Banbury-Cross"
A common thing to turn to gold when one is able - Henry S. Leigh "Midas"
All dainty things of earth and sky - Henry S. Leigh "Not Quite Fair"
So decided a taste for that kind of thing - Henry S. Leigh "Wanted, a Singer"
A thousand things more nice than true - Henry S. Leigh "Wisdom and Water"
Except the stubbornness of things - Philip Levine "The Return"
The comfort things could bring - Philip Levine "These Words"
Nor wild thing nor tame - Amy Levy "Captivity"
All things I can endure - Amy Levy "Magdalen"
Having lost a bet about a minor thing - Ada Limon "The Great Erector of Invisible Pets"
Unsure of the usefulness of inevitable things - Ada Limon "A Little Distantly, As One Should"
Dropping beneath the usual swing of things - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Cannot be replaced by a bruisable thing - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
Only things that are consumed endure - Tan Lin "RPT MC-60 00.27 8"
To the dark center of things - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"
And essay to be the thing we dream - Amy Lowell "In Darkness"
Take on the semblances of finite things - Amy Lowell "Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H."
All things alter in the seed - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"
Purpose at the heart of things - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
The wild things from without passed through - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"
Things the sequel never brought - Thomas MacDonagh "Wishes for My Son"
Heirs of all things near and far - George MacDonald "Christmas Day and Every Day"
Hold this thing that lives in your bones - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
Laughed the slow sad sound of broken things - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
Across the waste of mortal things - Edwin Markham "The Poets"
With dower of many idler things - Don Marquis "The Awakening"
The leagued might of futile things - Don Marquis "The Singer"
Why should we leave good things broken? - Maya Marshall "The Field of Blood"
Observation of external things - George Martin "The Blind Minstrel of the Market Place"
A jungle of wild winged things - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Time for Bees"
Could show me so divine a thing - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"
From dead things striking fire - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
A thing of memory and of prophecy - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
Three fragile, sacramental things - Theodore Maynard "Cecidit, Cecidit Babylon Magna!"
Things unrelated to my need - Theodore Maynard "Faith's Difficulty"
To find whatever mainspring made things go - E.L. Mayo "Letter to My Grandfather's Picture"
Alchemy expelling every parasitic thing - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Use it to mar the surface of things - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"
Things that breathe air or fire - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"
His arms are full of broken things - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Rushes on my mortal guess with immortal things- Alice Meynell "West Wind in Winter"
Devours all lovely things - Edna St Vincent Millay "Passer Mortuus Est"
Things you said in spite - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Souvenir"
Among familiar things grown strange - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]
The sleep of blessed things - Edna St Vincent Millay "Weeds"
The immensity of existing things - Czeslaw Milosz "Esse"
We shall in all things consult our ease - "Monroe to Farragut" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
In the music of all things - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Initiation"
To be a good thing again - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Prodigal Daughter"
an antecedent of many things - Tajudeen Muadh "In a Goverment Class, I Discuss My Home"
The things she keeps invisible - Ilze Mueller "Invisibility Poem: Lesbian"
The things sequestered from the world - Howard Nemerov "Pockets"
Breaking abandoned things - Pablo Neruda "Sexual Water" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Cutting every gold thing I find - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
Dead things left by living things - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
Brown has mighty things to do - Effie Lee Newsome "The Bronze Legacy"
Can't remember a single right thing - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay Afloat"
Bear all things evidence - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson
Precious things of price displayed - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Conceals things I can't change - dg nanouk okpik "Spring Thaw"
The iron thing they carried - Mary Oliver "Flare"
In the gallery of important things - Mary Oliver "Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard"
And contemplate things that are endless - Matthew Olzmann "Astronomers Locate a New Planet"
This thing, so frail and alien - Gregory Orr "A House in the Country"
That mirror of things infinite - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Seraphitus"
To the things of Time - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Meditations"
Cleaves through the husk of things - John Oxenham "Don't Worry"
The reminders in mute things - Stephanos Papadopoulos "The Station"
Every fragile thing shall rust - Dorothy Parker "Rainy Night"
Never a prudent thing - Padraic H. Pearse "The Fool"
In attempting impossible things - Padraic H. Pearse "The Fool"
Among the bulks of actual things - Padraic H. Pearse "The Fool"
Countless little charming things - Walter S. Percy "A Vision"
Across all things divine - Carl Phillips "And Love You Too"
Built from things too difficult to speak of - Carl Phillips "Fist and Palm"
Wherever in the mind things go to be forgotten - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"
Mist is the first thing to go - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"
A thing of stars burnt into hooves - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"
Mute parliament of each thing - Robert Pinsky "The Dig"
The law of things falling - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
A thing of smoking arms and ember eyes - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Trusting less to earthly things - Adelaide A. Proctor "Judge Not"
Things they see with their eyes shut - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Time"
Have vanished with the things that were - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Strange craving for forgotten things - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "One Evening Near Nice"
Quenched by simple things - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Summer Thought"
Rooted in the things unknown but longed for - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Mano"
To swallow whole every holy thing - Jason Reynolds "Match"
In which elemental things achieve volition - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Pliant with the strength of rooted things - Lola Ridge "Kerensky"
Turning harsh things to beauty - Lola Ridge "Mother"
Hold no shining thing to juggle - Lola Ridge "Unburnt Offering"
From the graves of all things fair - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
Saying the same thing they said last night - Lynn Riggs "A Letter"
Prove a thing, then doubt it - James Whitcombe Riley "Natural Perversities"
The vast, heavy burden of all things - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Neighbour" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Knowing that most things break - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"
Through death to knowledge of all things - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"
All things blend in the world's great harmony - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
Among the things forgotten and untold - Rennell Rodd "Une Heure Viendra Qui Tout Paiera"
High converse of diviner things - Alice Wellington Rollins "Indian Summer"
Martyrdoms of uncreated things - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
At the cost of all things here - Christina Rossetti "At Last"
Not all things are blest - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
But the seeds of all things are blest - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
Dry things letting us drink - Kay Ryan "Dry Things"
Of things by the world's crowd unnoticed - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Treasured up earth's glorious things - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
The only thing whispering darkness into my mother's eyes - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"
A name is a cheap thing - Carl Sandburg "Blacklisted"
Dead things are not my science - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"
All things betrayed to the initiate eye - Friedrich Schiller "The Gods of Greece" transl. not credited
Guide you from the edge of hard things - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"
Brittle, transitory things already lost - Ann K. Schwader "Fatal Constellations"
Some broken things don't heal - Ann K. Schwader "Goodnight Aileen"
The twisted bones of things revealed - Ann K. Schwader "Wind Shift"
This lapidary of broken things - Richard Scott "Peridot"
Nothing at all except Time which owns all things - Tobias Seamon "Halos"
Roads and terrible things in dark turnings - Tobias Seamon "Near Life Experience"
The lure of the timeless things - Robert W. Service "The Heart of the Sourdough"
By adding one thing to my purpose - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XX"
Dreaming on things to come - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVII"
The grand gesture of a thing once known - Matthew Shenoda "Traces"
I had not learned all things must die - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"
Ask some tremendous thing to prove her - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
That the ancient things I loved would comfort you - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
The one thing they cannot make their own - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Building things that don't need to last - Joyce Sidman "Invocation for Sandcastles"
Bring forth all galloping things - Joyce Sidman "Time Spells: I. (To Speed Up)"
Remember the things spirited away - Bruce Smith "Ferment"
To thy realm all hidden things belong - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
Dawdling flocks of brilliant things - Jean M. Snyder "Guests"
Where things can be reinvented no longer - A.E. Stallings "Eurydice's Footnote"
The immortal gladness of inanimate things - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Never tell of sorrowed things - George Sterling "The Peace of the Hills"
May teach a thousand things unsaid - George Sterling "Revelation"
Conscious of the thing foretold - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"
Out of a storm of secondary things - Wallace Stevens "Man Carrying Thing"
Molten mixings of related things - Wallace Stevens "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together"
Spouting breakers were the only thing a-lee - Robert Louis Stevenson "Christmas at Sea"
Give me wild things of moss and peat - Muriel Stuart "The Cloudberry"
The bitter thing that treachery is - Muriel Stuart "Shrift"
If such sweet and bitter things be done - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Out of the silence of things unknown - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"
Over all old things and all things dear - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"
But you just borrow these things - Arthur Sze "First Snow"
Only the things he used remain - Tao Yuanming "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Arthur Waley
Among things quick and shimmering in the light - Keith Taylor "The Biblical Allotment"
Two more datapoints to prove some things last - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"
The thing that motivated Odysseus - Keith Taylor "The Sickness That Comes from the Longing for Home"
Beautiful and splendid things - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
No envy of immortal things - Sara Teasdale "The Wind in the Hemlock"
The king of water and fish and things - Gretchen Tessmer "Hey Man, Nice Shot"
Two million things for me to learn - Edward Thomas "The Child in the Orchard"
All things by immortal power - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
All my life I swung the wrong things - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"
To walk in the telling of things - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
The only thing trapped was forever - Edwin Torres "A Minotaur Sleeps on Shelter Island"
How bright were all things here - Thomas Traherne "Wonder"
As of a thing too winsome to decay - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Compromise and things half-done - Louis Untermeyer "Prayer"
A thing too great for tears - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
A gallery of things to be cracked open - Jesus I. Valles "Barnes & Noble, 1999"
In search of things to ponder - Edward van de Vendel "The Bottommest"
May well outweigh all false-born things - "Vates" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
But we don't trust in things two-sided - "Victory's Band" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
A thing hanging in the air at night - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
There seemed no end to the pretty things - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"
The drift and change of things - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"
The heart of wonder in familiar things - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
In the midst of irrational things - Walt Whitman "Me Imperturbe"
Winged things may stoop to any door - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"
That breaks the thing it frees - Helen Hay Whitney "The Golden Fruit"
The vascular system of flowering things - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"
An easy thing to walk apart - Margaret Widdemer "The Old Suffragist"
The doing of old things - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"
One thing braver than all flowers - William Carlos Williams "Immortal"
A finished thing guarding its secret - William Carlos Williams "It Is a Small Plant"
To be exact with the price of a thing - Nicholas Wong "101, Taipei"
That long had slumbered with forgotten things - Miss J. Woodman "Stanzas Suggested by Gliddon's Lectures on the Antiquities of Egypt" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Kill the thing which haunts you - G.E. Woods "How to Skin Your Wolf"
To live in the come-and-go of things - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie II"
The hour of disappearing things - Charles Wright "Four Dog Night"
All things in the end are bittersweet - Charles Wright "Future Tense"
And live at the edge of things - Charles Wright "With Horace, Sitting on the Platform, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"
Alembics turn to stranger things - Elinor Wylie "Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water--on Turning Latin into English"
All things unclose their portions - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]
All things longing for rest - W.B. Yeats "The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods"
Give three things back - W.B. Yeats "Three Things"
Carrying too many things - Cynthia Zarin "Flowers"
To all things waiting to happen - Rachel Zucker "Nice Arse Poetica"
To seed the severed world of object-things - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
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We shouldn't touch things we can't keep - Anne Carly Abad "Where the Waves Meet"
In this wilderness the feral things name me - Elizabeth Acevedo "Self-Portrait as Lilith"
The general puzzle of ordinary things - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Mirror Man"
The course of things external - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Some stubborn dissonance of things - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Wishing for the same thing - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"
Repairing the things in need of repair - Elizabeth Alexander "Praise Song for the Day"
A silent, mammoth thing that overwhelmed me - Elizabeth Alexander "Tending"
Held just one thing back - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
All things freed of black and white - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Some things are better off unnamed - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
Things I like about heartbreak - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"
In calling one thing by another's name - Rae Armantrout "Scumble"
The things I came here to find - Simon Armitage "The Present"
A thousand foolish things to do - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
To join the mute divinity of things - Cameron Awkward-Rich "The Little Girl Is Not Certain About Ontology"
Mice in the midst of things - Mary Jo Bang "Can the Individual Experience Tragic Consequences?"
To pretend to find ten thousands things - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
things i won't be answering - Samiya Bashir "i traveled the world. it was fine."
Deft carriers of mysterious things - Cora C. Bass "Ours Is the Choice"
The expansion of things infinite - Charles Baudelaire "Correspondences" transl. not credited
Biting open one thing to leave another - Jan Beatty "I'll Write the Girl"
Ageless things in awakened woods - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"
A lost thing could I never find - Hilaire Belloc "The South Country"
Nor a broken thing mend - Hilaire Belloc "The South Country"
The things I built are shattered now - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Banquet"
The things are broken to which I aspired - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Banquet"
Half-shadowings of the thing I meant - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Original Impulse"
And all things robed in shadow - Park Benjamin "Sonnet [Loved of my soul! I seek in vain for thee]"
Some modest, luminous thing - Robert Bly "The Threshing Machine"
A thing foredoomed to limits - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
And echoes through all things - Thomas Boyd "To the Lianhaun Shee"
Things beautiful and slow - Kay Boyle "Monody to the Sound of Zithers"
The last things we all agreed on - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
All things within this fading world - Anne Bradstreet "Before the Birth of One of Her Children"
a very black thing at the edge of a sward - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]
The foolish broken things we knew - Rupert Brooke "Tiare Tahiti"
From the ashes of the next-best-thing - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"
Only one thing worth hearing - Nickole Brown "Parable"
Beauty can kill more beautiful things - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"
Remember there are things apart - C. Burchardt "Complaint"
With wonder at common things - James Alpheus Butler, Jr. "Common Things"
On things of earth is by a pointed diamond writ - W.G.C. "Yesterday" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Tell me fifty thousand things - C.S. Calverley "Lines on Hearing the Organ"
All things named of earth or heaven - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
In the midst of secret things - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall
Whispering things nobody knows - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"
How not to utter the ungrateful thing - Mary Jean Chan "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter"
Never having lived among things - Jos Charles "A Note on Form"
Doubt all things invisible - Ken Chen "Brief Lives: Descartes in Love" [excerpts]
Doubt all things visible - Ken Chen "Brief Lives: Descartes in Love" [excerpts]
What wicked things are written on the sky - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"
The wild thing went from left to right - G.K. Chesterton "The Rolling English Road"
All the things which make real the world - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
Calling from every mirrored thing - Lucille Clifton [untitled]
In religious as profane things - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
That lull us out of old things - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XII"
Dark things know the delving - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"
Dark things know what we hide and the why - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"
A little silt of golden things forgotten - Arthur Colton "Who May with the Shrewd Hours Strive?"
Things I cannot mention - Hilda Conkling "Rambler Rose"
Tell me quiet things - Hilda Conkling "Tell Me"
Whisper of things beyond the Present's reach - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Forgive me for an echo of these things - Hart Crane "Recitative"
The rich things stolen from the earth - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
Follow a sequin thread of dead things - Cynthia Cruz "Final Performance"
All sweet things that flourish - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
the passing of all shining things - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VIII)"
Make early flowers of all things - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IV)"
Out of the shadows of immortal things - Olive Custance "The Magic Mirrors"
All echoing ancient things - Fannie Stearns Davis "Wind"
The promise of forgetting all thing - Kwame Dawes "New Year's Eve in Addis"
Our tendency to ruin things - Monica de la Torre "Remote Disjunctions"
Just another episode of things that never happened - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"
Prayed to all the living things - Desdamona "Once and Future"
Jericho is on the inside of the things the world likes - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"
All things grieve her - Mary Mapes Dodge "Ten Kinds"
Those things uttered by the seven tongues - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
That green might mean so many things - Matt Donovan "Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More"
Render freedom to things bound - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"
Unallied to bitter things or barren - Edward Dowden "In the Galleries: II. The Venus of Melos"
All wild things unpent - Eleanor Downing "Mary"
Things created by the eternal mind - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"
Breaking the broken things - Cheryl Dumesnil "Breaking the Broken Things"
This whirling shadow of invisible things - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"
Filling its darkness with bright things - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
No release from little things - Amelia Earhart "Courage"
For you all things endure - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 23. E-Abshagala, the Temple of Ninmarki in Guaba" transl. by Sophus Helle
Stubborn things that grow beyond of time - Fatihah Quadri Eniola "Down-Streaming"
Turning things into thoughts - Elaine Equi "The Objects in Fairy Tales"
Things exist long after - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Things Haunt"
The end of things beloved - Eve L. Ewing "The Discount Mega Mall (in memorium)"
Each thing learned in mercy - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"
While the ancient things are woken - Joseph Fasano "The Moon"
The common things he had forgotten - Joseph Fasano "Odysseus"
This dead and leaden thing - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Dead Fires"
To forget things that are, for things not yet - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"
The giver of every single thing - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"
Simple things and dear - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
The edge of a thing called life - George Blackstone Field "The Answer"
Fix the thing upon a spinning cylinder - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
In the world of tiny shifting things - Laura Foley "Lost and Found"
The weeping heart of all things - Vievee Francis "Clarity"
Pouring strange light on things more strange - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
If design govern in a thing so small - Robert Frost "Design"
To stitch their gossamer things - Rose Fyleman "Trees and Fairies"
With many red and golden fluttering things - Zona Gale "Ballade of Old Perfumes"
All things sweet and bitter meet - Theodosia Garrison "The Gifts of Gold"
Things I haven't survived - Andrea Gibson "Boomerang Valentine"
Creator of fragile, fluid things - Nikita Gill "Gaia"
Like all things that are perishable - Nikita Gill "Reminders About Healing"
Precious things on hidden shelves - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Lesson of Death"
A thing that was once wild is never tame - Theodora Goss "The Fox Wife"
Or any single thing to break this tenuous leash - Mona Gould "Autumn Is Unfair"
Hands have a way of betraying things - Mona Gould "Hands"
Carry your candles like holy things - Mona Gould "Small Christmas Tree (For F.G.)"
And all things else are out of mind - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"
Things to teach us leaving - Kimberly Grey "What We Have Lost"
And she mocks the thing you ask - Viscountess Grey "Echo"
Of shy things at night - Angelina Weld Grimke "To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimke"
When voiceless things have found a tone - Eliza Paul Gurney "The Alpine Horn"
Of things grown magic in the mind - Ivor Gurney "Winter Beauty"
Employ no sorrowful thing - F.W. Harvey "Happy Singing"
Not afraid of breaking things - Yona Harvey "You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love"
Above earth's petty things - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
All things that make the rose - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender XVI"
The protoplasmic source of all things - Mary Hickman "Still Life with Rayfish"
Our endless desire to grasp things - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk
Our Cressy's too have dwindled since to penny things - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
These things nature furnishes - Helen Hoyt "Cheap"
The things made for the heavens - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Many things hid from thy mind's dazzled sight - Imogene "Mother and Child" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Taste the whirling of all things visible - Mark Irwin "And Now"
To move like all things green - Mark Irwin "In Autumn"
The things that fetter me - Georgia Douglas Johnson "When I Rise Up"
New things in an old language - James Weldon Johnson "A Poet to His Baby Son"
Just one true thing about the soul - Kate Knapp Johnson "The Meadow"
Bold converse with things rare - Lionel Johnson "Plato in London"
Things the earth cannot swallow - Fred L. Joiner "Consume/d"
Things with wheels that go nowhere - Camisha L. Jones "Haunted"
Things that I do in the dark - June Jordan "These Poems"
The law of broken things - Rodger Kamenetz "The Broken Tablets"
As memory preserves the pattern of broken things - Rodger Kamenetz "The Broken Tablets"
Unseen things are still there - Kaneko Misuzu "Stars and Dandelions" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi
The singed fume of things beautiful, noble, and wrong - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"
Pause in the transience of all things - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"
The permanent transience of all things - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"
Better things than picking lentils out of the hearth - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
And claim all things feather, skin, scale - Janet Kauffman "Instead of Flying in Water"
Maybe one or two things not quite right - Janet Kauffman "Keratella Offshore"
Just because one thing follows another - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time"
A glowing thing learning - Sarah Kay "Jakarta, January"
Perplexed her with a thousand things - John Keats "The Eve of Saint Mark"
A thing of soft misnomers - John Keats "Modern Love"
Divine things lie concealed - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
All fair things had passed away - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"
Can never remake the thing I have destroyed - Aline Murray Kilmer "Shards"
List of things to banish - Mia King "Abracadabra"
When night was a new thing - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"
Bury my dreams first thing in the morning - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"
Having related one thing to another - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"
Things of drift and shadow - Archibald Lampman "White Pansies"
Loud noise of passing things - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
The simplest thing that memory endears - Miss Mary L. Lawson "The Haunted Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Surpassing all things known - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"
A thing made all of rattling bone - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"
Abysmal ground of all things - Li-Young Lee "Spoken For"
All things ancient, vast, towering - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"
All things skewed or misunderstood - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"
Crooning of love and of manifold things - Henry S. Leigh "Chivalry for the Cradle No. 2--A Legend of Banbury-Cross"
A common thing to turn to gold when one is able - Henry S. Leigh "Midas"
All dainty things of earth and sky - Henry S. Leigh "Not Quite Fair"
So decided a taste for that kind of thing - Henry S. Leigh "Wanted, a Singer"
A thousand things more nice than true - Henry S. Leigh "Wisdom and Water"
Except the stubbornness of things - Philip Levine "The Return"
The comfort things could bring - Philip Levine "These Words"
Nor wild thing nor tame - Amy Levy "Captivity"
All things I can endure - Amy Levy "Magdalen"
Having lost a bet about a minor thing - Ada Limon "The Great Erector of Invisible Pets"
Unsure of the usefulness of inevitable things - Ada Limon "A Little Distantly, As One Should"
Dropping beneath the usual swing of things - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Cannot be replaced by a bruisable thing - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
Only things that are consumed endure - Tan Lin "RPT MC-60 00.27 8"
To the dark center of things - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"
And essay to be the thing we dream - Amy Lowell "In Darkness"
Take on the semblances of finite things - Amy Lowell "Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H."
All things alter in the seed - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"
Purpose at the heart of things - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
The wild things from without passed through - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"
Things the sequel never brought - Thomas MacDonagh "Wishes for My Son"
Heirs of all things near and far - George MacDonald "Christmas Day and Every Day"
Hold this thing that lives in your bones - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
Laughed the slow sad sound of broken things - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
Across the waste of mortal things - Edwin Markham "The Poets"
With dower of many idler things - Don Marquis "The Awakening"
The leagued might of futile things - Don Marquis "The Singer"
Why should we leave good things broken? - Maya Marshall "The Field of Blood"
Observation of external things - George Martin "The Blind Minstrel of the Market Place"
A jungle of wild winged things - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Time for Bees"
Could show me so divine a thing - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"
From dead things striking fire - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
A thing of memory and of prophecy - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
Three fragile, sacramental things - Theodore Maynard "Cecidit, Cecidit Babylon Magna!"
Things unrelated to my need - Theodore Maynard "Faith's Difficulty"
To find whatever mainspring made things go - E.L. Mayo "Letter to My Grandfather's Picture"
Alchemy expelling every parasitic thing - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Use it to mar the surface of things - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"
Things that breathe air or fire - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"
His arms are full of broken things - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Rushes on my mortal guess with immortal things- Alice Meynell "West Wind in Winter"
Devours all lovely things - Edna St Vincent Millay "Passer Mortuus Est"
Things you said in spite - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Souvenir"
Among familiar things grown strange - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]
The sleep of blessed things - Edna St Vincent Millay "Weeds"
The immensity of existing things - Czeslaw Milosz "Esse"
We shall in all things consult our ease - "Monroe to Farragut" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
In the music of all things - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Initiation"
To be a good thing again - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Prodigal Daughter"
an antecedent of many things - Tajudeen Muadh "In a Goverment Class, I Discuss My Home"
The things she keeps invisible - Ilze Mueller "Invisibility Poem: Lesbian"
The things sequestered from the world - Howard Nemerov "Pockets"
Breaking abandoned things - Pablo Neruda "Sexual Water" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Cutting every gold thing I find - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
Dead things left by living things - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
Brown has mighty things to do - Effie Lee Newsome "The Bronze Legacy"
Can't remember a single right thing - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay Afloat"
Bear all things evidence - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson
Precious things of price displayed - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Conceals things I can't change - dg nanouk okpik "Spring Thaw"
The iron thing they carried - Mary Oliver "Flare"
In the gallery of important things - Mary Oliver "Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard"
And contemplate things that are endless - Matthew Olzmann "Astronomers Locate a New Planet"
This thing, so frail and alien - Gregory Orr "A House in the Country"
That mirror of things infinite - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Seraphitus"
To the things of Time - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Meditations"
Cleaves through the husk of things - John Oxenham "Don't Worry"
The reminders in mute things - Stephanos Papadopoulos "The Station"
Every fragile thing shall rust - Dorothy Parker "Rainy Night"
Never a prudent thing - Padraic H. Pearse "The Fool"
In attempting impossible things - Padraic H. Pearse "The Fool"
Among the bulks of actual things - Padraic H. Pearse "The Fool"
Countless little charming things - Walter S. Percy "A Vision"
Across all things divine - Carl Phillips "And Love You Too"
Built from things too difficult to speak of - Carl Phillips "Fist and Palm"
Wherever in the mind things go to be forgotten - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"
Mist is the first thing to go - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"
A thing of stars burnt into hooves - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"
Mute parliament of each thing - Robert Pinsky "The Dig"
The law of things falling - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
A thing of smoking arms and ember eyes - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Trusting less to earthly things - Adelaide A. Proctor "Judge Not"
Things they see with their eyes shut - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Time"
Have vanished with the things that were - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Strange craving for forgotten things - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "One Evening Near Nice"
Quenched by simple things - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Summer Thought"
Rooted in the things unknown but longed for - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Mano"
To swallow whole every holy thing - Jason Reynolds "Match"
In which elemental things achieve volition - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Pliant with the strength of rooted things - Lola Ridge "Kerensky"
Turning harsh things to beauty - Lola Ridge "Mother"
Hold no shining thing to juggle - Lola Ridge "Unburnt Offering"
From the graves of all things fair - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
Saying the same thing they said last night - Lynn Riggs "A Letter"
Prove a thing, then doubt it - James Whitcombe Riley "Natural Perversities"
The vast, heavy burden of all things - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Neighbour" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Knowing that most things break - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"
Through death to knowledge of all things - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"
All things blend in the world's great harmony - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
Among the things forgotten and untold - Rennell Rodd "Une Heure Viendra Qui Tout Paiera"
High converse of diviner things - Alice Wellington Rollins "Indian Summer"
Martyrdoms of uncreated things - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
At the cost of all things here - Christina Rossetti "At Last"
Not all things are blest - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
But the seeds of all things are blest - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
Dry things letting us drink - Kay Ryan "Dry Things"
Of things by the world's crowd unnoticed - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Treasured up earth's glorious things - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
The only thing whispering darkness into my mother's eyes - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"
A name is a cheap thing - Carl Sandburg "Blacklisted"
Dead things are not my science - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"
All things betrayed to the initiate eye - Friedrich Schiller "The Gods of Greece" transl. not credited
Guide you from the edge of hard things - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"
Brittle, transitory things already lost - Ann K. Schwader "Fatal Constellations"
Some broken things don't heal - Ann K. Schwader "Goodnight Aileen"
The twisted bones of things revealed - Ann K. Schwader "Wind Shift"
This lapidary of broken things - Richard Scott "Peridot"
Nothing at all except Time which owns all things - Tobias Seamon "Halos"
Roads and terrible things in dark turnings - Tobias Seamon "Near Life Experience"
The lure of the timeless things - Robert W. Service "The Heart of the Sourdough"
By adding one thing to my purpose - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XX"
Dreaming on things to come - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVII"
The grand gesture of a thing once known - Matthew Shenoda "Traces"
I had not learned all things must die - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"
Ask some tremendous thing to prove her - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
That the ancient things I loved would comfort you - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"
The one thing they cannot make their own - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Building things that don't need to last - Joyce Sidman "Invocation for Sandcastles"
Bring forth all galloping things - Joyce Sidman "Time Spells: I. (To Speed Up)"
Remember the things spirited away - Bruce Smith "Ferment"
To thy realm all hidden things belong - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
Dawdling flocks of brilliant things - Jean M. Snyder "Guests"
Where things can be reinvented no longer - A.E. Stallings "Eurydice's Footnote"
The immortal gladness of inanimate things - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Never tell of sorrowed things - George Sterling "The Peace of the Hills"
May teach a thousand things unsaid - George Sterling "Revelation"
Conscious of the thing foretold - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"
Out of a storm of secondary things - Wallace Stevens "Man Carrying Thing"
Molten mixings of related things - Wallace Stevens "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together"
Spouting breakers were the only thing a-lee - Robert Louis Stevenson "Christmas at Sea"
Give me wild things of moss and peat - Muriel Stuart "The Cloudberry"
The bitter thing that treachery is - Muriel Stuart "Shrift"
If such sweet and bitter things be done - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Out of the silence of things unknown - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"
Over all old things and all things dear - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"
But you just borrow these things - Arthur Sze "First Snow"
Only the things he used remain - Tao Yuanming "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Arthur Waley
Among things quick and shimmering in the light - Keith Taylor "The Biblical Allotment"
Two more datapoints to prove some things last - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"
The thing that motivated Odysseus - Keith Taylor "The Sickness That Comes from the Longing for Home"
Beautiful and splendid things - Sara Teasdale "Barter"
No envy of immortal things - Sara Teasdale "The Wind in the Hemlock"
The king of water and fish and things - Gretchen Tessmer "Hey Man, Nice Shot"
Two million things for me to learn - Edward Thomas "The Child in the Orchard"
All things by immortal power - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
All my life I swung the wrong things - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"
To walk in the telling of things - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
The only thing trapped was forever - Edwin Torres "A Minotaur Sleeps on Shelter Island"
How bright were all things here - Thomas Traherne "Wonder"
As of a thing too winsome to decay - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Compromise and things half-done - Louis Untermeyer "Prayer"
A thing too great for tears - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
A gallery of things to be cracked open - Jesus I. Valles "Barnes & Noble, 1999"
In search of things to ponder - Edward van de Vendel "The Bottommest"
May well outweigh all false-born things - "Vates" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
But we don't trust in things two-sided - "Victory's Band" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
A thing hanging in the air at night - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
There seemed no end to the pretty things - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"
The drift and change of things - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"
The heart of wonder in familiar things - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
In the midst of irrational things - Walt Whitman "Me Imperturbe"
Winged things may stoop to any door - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"
That breaks the thing it frees - Helen Hay Whitney "The Golden Fruit"
The vascular system of flowering things - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"
An easy thing to walk apart - Margaret Widdemer "The Old Suffragist"
The doing of old things - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"
One thing braver than all flowers - William Carlos Williams "Immortal"
A finished thing guarding its secret - William Carlos Williams "It Is a Small Plant"
To be exact with the price of a thing - Nicholas Wong "101, Taipei"
That long had slumbered with forgotten things - Miss J. Woodman "Stanzas Suggested by Gliddon's Lectures on the Antiquities of Egypt" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Kill the thing which haunts you - G.E. Woods "How to Skin Your Wolf"
To live in the come-and-go of things - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie II"
The hour of disappearing things - Charles Wright "Four Dog Night"
All things in the end are bittersweet - Charles Wright "Future Tense"
And live at the edge of things - Charles Wright "With Horace, Sitting on the Platform, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"
Alembics turn to stranger things - Elinor Wylie "Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water--on Turning Latin into English"
All things unclose their portions - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]
All things longing for rest - W.B. Yeats "The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods"
Give three things back - W.B. Yeats "Three Things"
Carrying too many things - Cynthia Zarin "Flowers"
To all things waiting to happen - Rachel Zucker "Nice Arse Poetica"
To seed the severed world of object-things - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
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