Potential Titles: Go/Goes/Going/Gone

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I go to your grave and find nothing - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

Go to my brother's grave and find a well - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

Go to the land and find relief - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

Go hence bearing a talisman - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"

Go down in mortal conflict - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"

When you let go of a debt - Mary Jo Bang "From the Edge"

Found a way to go to the bottom of the world - Mary Jo Bang "On the Nature of Hardwiring"

Off to where a dog wants to go - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Who Is God? So Asked Our Dog"

Windless you go and rainless - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"

before the old leaves go - Elizabeth Bartlett "tropic time"

Inhabiting space that could go empty - Ellen Bass "I look over and there she is"

Go ask the sphinx, perhaps she knows - Ardelia Maria Barton "What Is the Future of the Race?"

Where all the freezing stars go round - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

Where men go mad with craving - Reginald Dwayne Betts "Legacy"

Where my Sunflower wishes to go - William Blake "Ah, Sunflower"

The time we didn't go to Topeka - Jaswinder Bolina "Aviary"

Go through the gates with closed eyes - Arna Bontemps "Close Your Eyes!"

Fragrant stream where thirsty creatures go - Arna Bontemps "Homing"

The flame will go down in the flower - Arna Bontemps "Length of Moon"

Let us go back and search the tangled dream - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

The years go back with an iron clank - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"

Longer far has my heart to go - William Stanley Braithwaite "It's a Long Way"

Go out and gather the oldest fires of the universe - Russell Brakefield "The Perseids"

See the hare go stealing by - Nicholas Breton "The Happy Countryman"

Thy sorrow too shall go - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 32"

Let my ears go secret agent - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

Brambles where wasps go - Paul Cameron Brown "Fire Bush"

Go their way like withered dreams - Gerald Bullett "The strength, the mellow music, and the laughter"

I had nowhere to go but inside - Nicole Callihan "dwelling"

Go to meet the hydra-headed day - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"

Go to meet the maelstrom - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"

Go by the speed of queer zest - Chen Chen "i love you to the moon &"

Our monks go robed in rain and snow - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

Go clothed in feasts and flames - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

When by untrodden paths I go - Jose Santos Chocano "A Song of the Road" transl. by John Pierrepont Rice

The black that black can go - Leonard Cohen "Teachers"

Prayer to go unchanged within this water - Aaron Coleman "The Broken Man's Permission"

The gone did not go - Rasheed Copeland "to be considered before inviting everyone to The Cookout TM"

Go to lecture with the wind - Frances Cornford "Autumn Morning at Cambridge"

Where the rabbits flash and go - James H. Cousins "The Railway Arch"

Those Autumn ghosts go free - Arthur Shearly Cripps "A Lyke-Wake Carol"

Go, seek the stars and count them - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"

for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VII)"

Let us be merry before we go - John Philpot Curran "The Deserter's Meditation"

There's no letting go of a crab - Kurt Cyrus "Hotel Deep"

Who wants to go back to zero again? - Monica de la Torre "View from a Dodo Chair"

Three that would go into every conflict - "Deirdre's Lament" transl. by Kuno Meyer

I'm afraid I won't go far enough - Diana Marie Delgado "And So Many Are Dear"

Then I remember: when you're called, you go - Diana Marie Delgado "And So Many Are Dear"

Go back to an electric life - Jay Deshpande "Actually Very Simple"

Letting go without drowning - Dom "Seaside Sunrise: Happiness when it Comes"

And love shall now go desolate - John Drinkwater "Plough"

Go as the dove from the ark - A.E. "Love"

Barricading places I won't go - Katherine Edgren "How to Form a Perfect Callus"

Both go alone into the dark - J. Hal. Elliot "What Then?" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Go to the great house of grief - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Go brightly on without me - Nava EtShalom "Conduct"

go careening into the sun - Eve L. Ewing "eschatology"

To go see Anne Frank - Megan Fernandes "Amsterdam"

We shall go always a little further - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Go unto that perilous throne - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 4 (February 1923)"

Go straight for an inaccuracy - Tonya M. Foster "Preamble"

And the Hounds all after him go - "The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate"

When you have to go there, they have to take you in - Robert Frost "The Death of the Hired Man"

We keep the wall between us as we go - Robert Frost "Mending Wall"

That I need learn to let go with the heart - Robert Frost "Wild Grapes"

That go blindly pouring past - Robert Frost [untitled]

That we must forth to warfare go - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"

I shall not weep when you go but don a scarlet dress - Mona Gould "Promise"

My questing thoughts go backward - Herbert H. Gowen "The Quest for the Christ"

To go unseen in a dark wood - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"

Go to the factory to flirt with the specters of labor - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

Night at the gates where a soul would go - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Iter Supremum"

Should go with him in the gloom - Thomas Hardy "The Oxen"

One more Toast before we go - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"

Go to baptize the plants - Sy Hoahwah "Church for the Disliked"

Cranes and gaudy parrots go up and down - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

Go up and down the burning sky - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

There you go, right through the pavement - Sarah Jackson "The Time Bureau Came to Careers Day"

I go to the land of the Stranger - Charles Jefferys "Let Me Rest in the Land of My Birth"

Go up to a tearless sky - James Weldon Johnson "The Greatest of These Is War"

Go dancing through my veins - James Weldon Johnson "The Poet's Heart"

Letting reason go up in smoke - Camisha L. Jones "Accommodation"

Things with wheels that go nowhere - Camisha L. Jones "Haunted"

Another acre gone to hell - Saeed Jones "Meridian"

We can go everywhere after - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"

And let the law go whistle - Ilya Kaminsky "Townspeople Speak of Galya on Her Green Bicycle"

The clouds go trooping through - Fanny Kemble "A Lament for the Wissahiccon"

From Hope's intense desire go - Fanny Kemble "Lines for Music [Good night! from music's softest spell]"

The pageant wild go dancing by - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

Go free in detachment - Kim Unsong "Detachment"

Nowhere the dead want to go - Ted Kooser "Old Cemetery"

A few thousand more stars to go - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

Go ahead, partake of the garden, and eat of it - Danusha Laméris "Service Station"

Saw the echoing hours go by - Archibald Lampman "The Frogs"

Stone by stone go singing - Archibald Lampman "To the Prophetic Soul"

Amid the dwellings where dreams go - John Langdon-Davies "Quits!"

Go into my vision of time - Aimee Le "Movies I"

Go slowly blue in chemical loops - Aimee Le "My Winter of Acid"

How much I go on losing - Li-Young Lee "Spoken For"

In memory where all our secrets go - Stephen Leggett "Flywheels"

Let the braggarts go sleep in the gutter - Henry S. Leigh "Anacreontic (for a Cavalier Tea-Party)"

Shall go down to future ages as heroes - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

Go on with this mortal vision - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"

Go on two legs down the stairs and out - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

Even in dreams it's hard to go home - Li Yu "[Since we parted, spring half over]" transl. by Burton Watson

Wild geese go south again - Liu Ch'e, Emperor Wu of the Han (157-87 B.C.E.) "Song of the Autumn Wind" transl. by Burton Watson

Along the dizzy verge to go - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"

Mountain-firm vows go on forever - Lu Yu "[Pink tender hand]" transl. by Burton Watson

Had to go to get nowhere - Thomas Lynch "Argyle in Vapors"

Go berserk with silence - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"

All my thoughts go fluttering gray-winged - Jeannette Marks "Proem"

None but the wicked and the mad go free - John Masefield "The Haunted"

Heard the owl go hunting by - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"

The roads go out to Macedon - Furnley Maurice "Little Boys"

To find whatever mainspring made things go - E.L. Mayo "Letter to My Grandfather's Picture"

Go forth at haggard dawn - John McCrae "The Harvest of the Sea"

Into the furnace let me go - Claude McKay "Baptism"

While happy winds go laughing - Claude McKay "Spring in New Hampshire"

Go where the busy throng all onward press - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

The moment when the ghosts go home - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"

The waves go on overflowing - W.S. Merwin "Mementos"

The gallant day go out in storm - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

Go among the tracks of the bear - N. Scott Momaday "In the Forest"

Go to explore each other's destinies - Harold Monro "Journey"

You will never go outside the lines - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"

Go out to count the dead - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Go out to sell light on the roads - Pablo Neruda "How Much Happens in a Day" transl. by Alastair Reid

And Thursday would go on all year - Pablo Neruda "The Long Day Called Thursday" transl. by Alastair Reid

Go back to your amber throne - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (II)" transl. by Alastair Reid

Go back south with your umbrella - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Sadness" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Go back north with your serpent's teeth - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Sadness" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

And go back to the time before blame - Caroline Harper New "Garden of Eve"

Never veered from the path where he meant to go - Sarah Noble-Ives "Horse-Back"

And the weary may go home - Roden Noel "The Old"

Let go of the wrists of idleness - Mary Oliver "Black Oaks"

Would go on admiring crows - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "The Common Crow Fibonacci"

Only the old dead dreams a-fluttering go - Seumas O'Sullivan "The Twilight People"

Wantons go in bright brocades - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"

Go and curse your star - Dorothy Parker "To a Much Too Unfortunate Lady"

Go on without really moving - G.E. Patterson "The Keeping Room"

Had to go hunting for scraps - Simone Person "Awkwafina Clarifies That She's Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)"

To at least go down singing - Carl Phillips "After Learning that the Spell Is Irreversible"

Wherever in the mind things go to be forgotten - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"

When there's only starshine for a light to go by - Carl Phillips "On Why I Cannot Promise"

Mist is the first thing to go - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"

Manifestation of letting go - Carl Phillips "A Summer"

Don't go climbing up to blue clouds - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

Don't go into the realm of red dust - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

To the huntsman let him go - "Poor Old Horse"

To let forbidden thoughts go free - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"

I will go out in a blast of glory - Jessy Randall "Cassini's Mini-Packets Home"

All wickedness shall go in smoke - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"

Go veiled on secret silver thresholds - Lola Ridge "Eyrie (To E.A.R.)"

Has not a school where we may go for wisdom - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Discovery"

Suns go down beyond the windy seas - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"

And pass where whirlwinds go - Rennell Rodd "When I Am Dead"

And go, thrice-armored for the fight - John Jerome Rooney "Ave Maria"

Go with chambers broken open - Kay Ryan "Still Start"

Until we go faultless in our turn - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: IV. The Fall and Explulsion from Paradise" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Go by and come back - Carl Sandburg "Clouds"

Too many doors to go in and out - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"

How lucky am I to go unnoticed - Nicole Sealey "heretofore unuttered"

Travelers with a long road to go - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

Take the torch and go wandering - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

Among the wastes of time must go - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XII"

A lone crane go over to its inland nest - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: V. A Song in August"

Separately go to our dreams of opened heaven - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: V. A Song in August"

Go for the foul with thirty seconds left - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

Where the ruining roses go - Clark Ashton Smith "Quest"

Telling me to go toward myself - Danez Smith "it won't be a bullet"

The sun that will not go down again - Marin Sorescu "Seneca" transl. by Michael Hamburger

And corners of the room go prismed - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"

Let all men go apart and mourn together - James Stephens "Deirdre"

The crooked paths go every way - James Stephens "The Goat Paths"

On the ways of dream I go - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"

Go winged with crystal fire - George Sterling "The Common Cult"

In solitude go free - George Sterling "The Gulls"

Awaiting his summons to go - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

Go hence with flowers and weeds - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"

Go hence together without fear - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"

But Fate is careless and will let us go - Carmen Sylva "The Gnat"

Let their cats go out hunting at night - Amber Tamblyn "Epilogue"

Go where the battle clarions blare - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Took the wind and let it go - Sara Teasdale "Places III: Winter Sun (Lenox)"

Go on to their haven under the hill - Tennyson "Break, Break, Break"

To go into the unknown I must enter and leave alone - Edward Thomas "Lights Out"

Roads go on while we forget - Edward Thomas "Roads"

Through infinite changes yet shall I go on - Maurice Thompson "The Final Thought"

Go into the places of trade - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Possession"

Go into the smiling country - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Possession"

How to Go Unscorched - John Updike "Outliving One's Father"

A thousand bells go chiming after her - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets: 3. Moving Bells"

And timid breaths of vernal air go wandering - Henry van Dyke "When Tulips Bloom"

Would never go unseen - A. Van Jordan "A Tempest in a Teacup"

Could go nowhere that required a street - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: ii) Godzilla in Shakespeare"

Go down to the grotto with your headlamp and crowbar - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"

No one watched the years go by - Humbert Wolfe "Envoi [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"

When for us the stars go down - Humbert Wolfe "V.D.F. (Ave atque Vale.)"

A mill that will go without water or wind - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"

When the waters go down on their knees - Charles Wright "Time and the Centipedes of Night"

The years go by in single file - Elinor Wylie "Let No Charitable Hope"

The squirrels go to stir up their old quarrels - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

The wind won't go away so easily - Kevin Young "Dog Star"

How to go on without you - Kevin Young "Ledge"

Can't go back and return - Javier Zamora "To Abuelita Neli"

Go elsewhere to be free - Matthew Zapruder "This Handwriting"

Let me go from here to anywhere - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

Go back before the first hydrogen - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"


Will they warn her if her next step goes awry? - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Goes twenty miles further than possible - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

Its soul goes forth in anthems - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Flower's Prayer for Immortality"

Reeds when fire goes over the fen - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

While the beetle goes his round - William Blake "A Dream"

And life's June goes for ever - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A June Memory"

And goes with eyes to see the sun - Francis Burrows "Life"

Goes pulling the moon - Hilda Conkling "Moon Song"

The gulf goes down to Hell - James H. Cousins "Schakhe"

for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine - E. E. Cummings "Songs (VII)"

In victor glory goes she forth - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

Liquid life goes on - Jim Daniels "Hit and Run"

Before me goes a shield to guard - Mary Carolyn Davies "Love Song"

And wit goes hunting wisdom - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

The sap goes beating to the sun - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

The name goes ahead to prepare you - JJJJJerome Ellis "Before Stuttering"

The lexicon of wilds goes on - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"

Goes down burning into the gulf below - Robert Frost "Acceptance"

A tarnish that goes at the touch of a hand - Robert Frost "Blueberries"

So dawn goes down to day - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

Dark glimmers and goes out - Zona Gale "Beloved, It Is Daybreak on the Hills"

But ever the terrible game goes on - "The Game of Fate" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

That goes in defiance of danger and scars - "The Harp of Old Erin and Banner of Stars" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

To pawn his soul the sinner goes - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"

Till fire runs in the maples and ice goes out - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "January Thaw"

A cello forgiving one note as it goes - Jane Hirshfield "Zero Plus Anything Is a World"

Where your name goes missing in the wind - Carlie Hoffman "The Year Made Out of a Cut in Your Civilization"

The restaurant no one goes to anymore - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"

He goes into every factory at night - Janet Kauffman "In His Arms"

A lit candle saved for when the power goes out - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"

Goes ahead burning the little candle of his breath - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"

Goes out by the scented stairs - Li Yu "[Blossoms bright, the moon dark]" transl. by Burton Watson

Even as the sober crow goes - Ada Limon "Overjoyed"

Goes out alone on seas unknown - John Masefield "Truth"

The crew making sure nothing goes awry - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "Ice Magic"

Before it all goes up in flames - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"

Right to the heart of violets goes - E. Nesbit "March Violets"

If such an hour goes by with all the rest - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"

As one who goes to try a Mystery - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"

For all that goes blank in a lifetime - Idra Novey "Value City"

That goes precisely nowhere - Matthew Olzmann "My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency"

Until my heart goes out - Hannah Sanghee Park "The One Mockingbird Only Sings at Night"

The moon goes on relentless - Linda Pastan "Ash"

Silence goes unlistened to - Walter Pavlich "Awareness"

When the dream goes out in silence - Marjorie L.C. Pickthall "Mary Shepherdess"

And goes to live in memory alone - Thomas Buchanan Read "Lines, Suggested by Rogers' Statue of Ruth"

Goes onward with resistless might - "Resurgamus" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]

The last gray feather to southward goes - Lloyd Roberts "At the Year's End"

Where the sun goes down without a scratch - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Archibald's Example"

A wish after it goes unfulfilled - Purbasha Roy "A Thought for Wishes"

Goes down to eat ashes - Carl Sandburg "At the Gates of Tombs"

No one goes back to before - Reg Saner "What Wilderness Tells You"

When the wheel of time goes round - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

The past, that place where everything goes - Jason Schneiderman "House with a Hot Tub and Pool"

The wraith of the mist goes creeping - Clinton Scollard "A Song for Joyce's Country"

There goes my honey and fog - Brenda Shaughnessy "Identity & Community (There is no 'I' in 'Sea')"

A wizard wind goes crying - Clark Ashton Smith "The Eldritch Dark"

Goes forth on scarlet thresholds - George Sterling "Yosemite"

That goes unbridled to the depths of Hell - Arthur Stringer "The Veil"

Wind goes shivering - Sara Teasdale "November"

Priestess and poisoner she goes - Iris Tree "[The sun is lord of life and colour]"

Eating olives as the sun goes down - Chase Twichell "Never"

Appears, crosses the hollow place, and goes again - Mark Van Doren "River Snow"

No carriage goes that does not follow the rut - Wang Seng-Ta "To Match the Prince of Lang-yeh's Poem in the Old Style" transl. by Burton Watson

When the Devil goes blind - anonymous song title "We'll All Go To Heaven When the Devil Goes Blind"

Where the water seldom goes - Afaa Michael Weaver "The Silver Thread"

And whose narrative goes nowhere - Charles Wright "Next"

As Scorpio rises, Orion goes down - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"


The heart going up in flames - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

Of foot going faster than thought - Elizabeth Bartlett "O To Be an Ostrich"

One death and I'm not going to ruin it - Josh Bell "The War Against Birthdays"

Hollow nor height his going bars - Thomas Boyd "The King's Son"

Witch hazel going wild along the walkway - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"

Going home without my sorrow - Leonard Cohen "Going Home"

Going ridiculous voyages, making quaint progress - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Going forward from the gate - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Thinking you've found the trick for going mad - Annie Finch "In Cities, Be Alert"

Into oblivion going nowhere - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen J"

Forever going through their changes - Carrie Fountain "[You Belong to the World]"

Rejects its usual pomp in going - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Evening"

A basket going hungry - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Unpeopled Eden"

An immersion in going away - Gordon Henry "It Was Snowing on the Monuments"

The road that has forgotten where it's going - Bob Hicok "No Stones"

If going back was what we wanted - Conrad Hilberry "Finding the Way"

Assertions going beyond the evidence - Conrad Hilberry "Paros in the Rain"

Tastes like ash going down - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"

This time, we're going to let kudzu have a shot - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Last Time, We Trust"

How odd the way a watch keeps going - Danusha Laméris "The Watch"

Rise to mock the going day - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"

With so much stubborn weight of our going - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

The sun isn't going anywhere - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"

To breathe in the song of a curious sun god going dark - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"

That old familiar sense of going nowhere - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"

The thrushes were going berserk - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"

That bitter curtain going up - Pablo Neruda "First Travelings" transl. by Alastair Reid

The moon and sun going down together - Sharon Olds "Suddenly"

The one who's going nowhere - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"

Who believes in going back - Ben Purkert "The Past Suffers Too"

Going where the devil drives - "The Rakes of Mallow" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Going into town after Set - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

Truth isn't going anywhere - Sahar Romani "Sign"

Handle dust going to a long country - Carl Sandburg "To Certain Journeymen"

No victory in going swift to ground - Ann K. Schwader "Gone to Ground"

The prayer of going nowhere - Richard Siken "The Torn-Up Road"

I only recognize her going - A.E. Stallings "Momentary"

The abrupt language of her going - Pamela Uschuk "Green Flame"

What you don't know is going to break you - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Under sealed orders going - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

Deer going by fields of goldenrod - William Carlos Williams "To Elsie"

Nightlights going unused in the swinging forests - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"

Going into the deep desire of distance - Charles Wright "Waterfalls"

Going, we share the very same dust - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson

Going out and never into - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"


My prayer for what is gone - Aria Aber "Waiting for Your Call"

Driven off by the smell of licorice gone bad - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"

As though we had not gone before them - Mary Alexandra Agner "Children of Breath"

My skillet has gone to war - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"

The light gleams and is gone - Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"

Gone with the roses and dew - Libbie C. Baer "When My Soul Findeth Wings"

Gone the ivory house of pleasure - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

The springless January of his beginning to be gone - Mary Jo Bang "No Exit"

Laid out like a beach ball gone airless - Mary Jo Bang "You Know"

A warm chat with friends gone sour - Willis Barnstone "At My Funeral"

fill it with maple trees gone gaudy - Samiya Bashir "Field Theories"

Gone to seed oblivion's oath - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"

And in splinters of foam was gone - Stephen Vincent Benet "Flood-Tide"

Gone like vapor in the dark - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

A world of books gone flat - Elizabeth Bishop "Visits to St. Elizabeths"

From our hearts is gone - Anne Bronte "Domestic Peace"

When Gorgon-headed Night was gone - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"

Four autumn suns gone by - Mrs. E.W. Caswell "My Bird Has Flown" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Gone to barbarian dust - Ch'en Tao "Song of Lung-hsi" transl. by Burton Watson

Of great limbs gone to chaos - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

Grey fields gone behind the set of sun - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

Gone away to nothingness and night - John Clare "The Old Year"

opened once and was gone - Lucille Clifton "jasper texas 1998"

By the truth unsaid and the blessing gone - Leonard Cohen "By the Rivers Dark"

When the witnesses are gone - Leonard Cohen "Dance Me to the End of Love"

The chains are gone from heaven - Leonard Cohen "Samson in New Orleans"

The gone did not go - Rasheed Copeland "to be considered before inviting everyone to The Cookout TM"

Would not tarry if I could be gone - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr "Sonnet [I would not tarry if I could be gone]"

Till this stormy night be gone - Richard Crashaw "An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife, Who Died and Were Buried Together"

All inside gone out - Robert Creeley "My New Mexico"

If they have gone too far to recall their stolen lives - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Where ancient suns have gone - Russell W. Davenport "Poems I"

All but the silence gone - Walter de la Mare "The Little Green Orchard"

My name is leaving and my name is gone - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"

As lowly spices gone to sleep - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature IX: The Grass"

the golden age of gone traditions swept away - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"

Reflections of honeysuckle gone to seed - Chris Dombrowski "Bull Elk in October River"

Voices of the lost and gone - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Gone forth and shut the gates - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"

Miss myself most when I'm gone - Camonghne Felix "Born. Living. Will. Die."

And the earth trembled when the stars were gone - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

When the desire of song had gone - John Freeman "Waiting"

The dawn stayed till the last had gone - Theodosia Garrison "The Neighbors"

Gone down into the night - Ivor Gurney "Hail and Farewell"

An unspent vision gone - Hazel Hall "The Circle"

A thousand songs in days gone by - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

A dirge for empires gone - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius II"

Gone with the old world to the grave - William Ernest Henley "Or Ever the Knightly Years Were Gone"

Already in the broken gone - Gordon Henry "It Was Snowing on the Monuments"

The snake had gone back to the hills - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

Taken my blues and gone - Langston Hughes "Note on Commercial Theatre"

A road our dearest friends have gone - Leigh Hunt "Death" [International Weekly Miscellany v. 1 no.2, July 1850]

Gone hunting to bring his deer to bay - "The Hunt Is Up"

Fabric gone threadbare about him - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Black Dragons"

One alto note of joy is gone - Annie Fellows Johnston "October"

Minstrel memories of times gone by - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

These dark days be once gone by - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

Wild requiems for the summer that is gone - Fanny Kemble "To --- [I would I might be with thee, when the year]"

Wish the staring sunlight gone - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"

Sad disciple of a shining band now gone - Henry Kendall "Adam Lindsay Gordon"

With long Oblivion is gone dry - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

My name is leaving and my name is gone - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

Gone dry from stories - Ted Kooser "Ice Cave"

The treasure of hours gone - Archibald Lampman "Winter Hues Recalled"

From a world gone quiet - Michael Lauchlan "Slab"

Never utterly gone from reach - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VI: Is It Love? Is It Hate?"

All her luminous garments gone - D.H. Lawrence "Town"

Gone to join the shadows - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

Never home till the crows have gone to rest - Lu Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

Gone to the Hades of dead loves - George MacDonald "Within and Without"

The bridge across the silent river gone - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"

To run forever at the quarry gone - John Masefield "Animula"

Granted then gone - Donna Masini "A Gate"

All his triumphs gone down in doom - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"

The breath of those gone before - Shara McCallum "Fury"

Gone with his gods of yesterday - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Angry Gallery First-Nighters"

Castles gone to decay - Frank J. Medina "Life's Reality"

With this sky gone - W.S. Merwin "At the Same Time"

A place with the lights gone out - Charlotte Mew "I Have Been Through the Gates"

Posturing kisses gone astray for scattered sweets - Alice Meynell "The Fold"

And the breath gone out of beauty - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: IV"

The dusk has gone with the Evening Star - William Moore "Dusk Song"

Do not know that I am gone - Lauren Moseley "Song for the Woolly Mammoth"

Gone to their white lairs - Francis Neilson "Let Us Make a Garden"

In present hours as in the years gone by - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "Love Not"

All of the tinsel we imagined has gone rotten - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"

The fledglings of my care are gone - Thomas O'Hagan "Ripened Fruit"

Flashes like a star and is gone - Mary Oliver "Pilot Snake"

Like individual notes gone mad - Linda Pastan "The Blackbirds"

Gone steep with twilight - Carl Phillips "Sky Coming Forward"

The lurid flame of mobs gone out - Alexander Posey "Ye Men of Dawes"

Till seven years were past and gone - "The Queen of Elfland"

Gone west with a new wish - Camille Rankine "Ways to Disappear"

Gone still in the heart - Camille Rankine "Ways to Disappear"

Where the land that was once gone is ours now back - m.s. RedCherries "this is what kafka really meant when he wished to be a red indian"

Dreaming of the bright ones that are gone - "RÊVES ET SOUVENIRS" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)

Some cosmic urgence gone distraught - Cale Young Rice "Submarine Mountains"

When the stars have gone inside - Lola Ridge "Betty"

Gone with the autumn - Ameen Rihani "Gone with the Swallows"

Gone with the swallows - Ameen Rihani "Gone with the Swallows"

A ghost of sorrows gone - Charles G.D. Roberts "In a City Room"

Love gone down with song - Muriel Rukeyser "The Poem as Mask"

A red poppy gone up to the sky - Reg Saner "The Red Poppy"

To the devil gone at last - Friedrich Schiller "Bacchus in the Pillory"

When these quicker elements are gone - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"

Gone sour in the sun - Brenda Shaughnessy "Artless"

Every name on the edge of being gone - Brian Sneeden "Memory is Blood Soluble"

Music of a thousand ages gone - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

Gone somewhat within the veil - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

Gone like the shadow of a vanished cloud - George Sterling "Duandon"

Gone forth to Time's transmuting storms - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"

Gone wandering with my eyes - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 56: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

What tortured nights have gone before - Carmen Sylva "A Debtor"

When the sparks are upward gone - John B. Tabb "Chimney Stacks"

Actors and audience and lights all gone - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"

Gone out of most memories - Edward Thomas "Under the Woods"

Nightmare billboards of horizontal gone wrong - Russell Thorburn "The TV Guide as the Book of Job"

Gone beyond the eternal wave - Too-qua-stee "Truth Is Mortal"

Five sons gone to distant battle - Tso Yen-Nien "Call to Arms" transl. by Burton Watson

The barbed berry-vines gone haywire - Chase Twichell "Inland"

Gone was the bitter day - Katherine Tynan "The Little Ghost"

Glories gone but never dead - Louis Untermeyer "Protests"

Gone where nothing joins - Jean Valentine "They lead me"

A frown would have gone better - Mark Van Doren "To a Great Lady in My Small House"

Thunder-gone waiting - Derek Walcott "Storm Figure"

We'll not mourn for the faded and gone - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Spring is gone down in purple - William Carlos Williams "Daisy"

A fling of crows disperses and is gone - Christian Wiman "Hard Night"

And all the stars are gone in Babylon - Humbert Wolfe "The Crowder's Tune"

Four or five mountains gone rust in twilight - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie VI"

Tell them the shadows are already gone - Charles Wright "Shadow and Smoke"

Of a song gone sour - Jay Wright "Imule"

If time were but gone - W.B. Yeats "Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment"

Came and were gone - William Butler Yeats "Cuchulain Comforted"

Whatever I forget is gone - Jane Yolen "Never Look Back"

A relic from a gone civilization - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

All gone into yesterday - Jordan Zandi "Last Beach Motel"


End their rule and begone - "The Cruiskeen Lawn" transl. by George Sigerson


Bygone.


Who come and go with fertile stardust - Charlie Espinosa "Sunflower Astronaut"

While artful shadows come and go - Jennie Earngey Hill "Distance"

That come and go with silent feet - John McCrae "Slumber Songs"

To live in the come-and-go of things - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie II"


Forego your redolent draughts of rare Pekoe - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

Friend of hopes foregone - Algernon Swinburne "A Dead Friend"

The dream foregone and the deed forborne - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Forgoing palaces for catacombs - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"


As an ongoing address to emptiness - Mary Jo Bang "The Icon in the Hands of the Enemy"

A repository, a consequence, a long sentence, an ongoing story - Ari Banias "Fountain"

Ongoing interest in their old adversary - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"


Against the outgoing sea of ebbing mystery - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"


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