Potential Titles: High
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somethingdarkerIn lightness of wonder rise higher - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Turning the brittle edge of one high wave - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"
Moulded the court's high atmosphere to breath - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
Your demon words borne high on wings of song - Mike Allen "Ascending"
My rooms slip in and out of higher dimensions - Mike Allen "Space War"
High pyramids of stone and question - Maya Angelou "For Us, Who Dare Not Dare"
The falcon soars both far and high - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XVI: The Falcon" transl. by Sir John Bowring
But the fortress gates are higher - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXLIII: Angela as Watchman" transl. by Dr. B. Stevenson Stanoyevich
We can wait at high speed - Rae Armantrout "Custom"
They sit high in unreachable trees - Julie Babcock "Philomel"
Absorbed in high and holy dreams - George A. Baker "A Rosebud in Lent"
The high-browed kings of thought - Benjamin West Ball "Love's Labor Lost"
The highest ideal of unwelcome - Mary Jo Bang "Ham Paints a Picture to Illustrate an Early Lesson: O Trauma!"
Building sweet music high above - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
When thirty hawks are high - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"
whips the dull season high - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"
Where all is high and vast - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"
By the high decree of powers supreme - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited
Through mazes to higher ground - Clive Bell "To A.V.S. with a Book"
Dawn held the frozen flame an instant high - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
Blake knew how deep is Hell, and Heaven how high - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
While soaring high on heaven's breath - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
Not high enough to palm the moon - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
High sparkling fountains catch a rainbow light - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
Clothed in high chastity - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "How Shall I Build"
High above your winter face - Robert Bly "A Dream of the Blacksmith's Room"
Still on the high roofs of the mind - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"
And raised my suppliant hands on high - Anne Bronte "Despondency"
Where the tall turret rises high - Charlotte Bronte "Mementos"
From high pedastels toppled - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"
Airy dreams of high ambition - Marie Hedderwick Browne "At Last"
Tread high as angels - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Whose high work remains unknown - Michelangelo Buonarroti "I. On Dante Alighieri" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Holds cruel sway in Love's high house - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVI. Love Misinterpreted" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Keep their high and rigorous distinction - Stephanie Burt "Silt"
The informer's pay was high - "By Memory Inspired" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Our high Star and true Apostle - "By Memory Inspired" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Taking his high inheritance - Witter Bynner "The New World V"
the cattails grew so high that the longing nearly subsided - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"
Of higher hopes and prouder promise told - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
June's high-tide on bank and bower - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Humming Bee"
Here to serve a high occasion - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
High prices profit those who sell - Lewis Carroll "Tema con Variazioni"
Built strong walls and high - C.P. Cavafy "Walls" transl. from modern Greek by John Cavafy
To claim in higher spheres a refuge - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Stand to-day on higher ground - Joseph Horatio Chant "Aspiration"
Establish your mind on the highest cliff - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"
And these ride high in history - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
To the highest key of ancient Rome - John Cleveland "To the Memory of Ben Jonson"
My heart swells high with scorn and hate - "Cloud and Sunshine" [The Continental Monthly v.III - June, 1863 - no.VI]
High triumphs of convictions wrought - Arthur Hugh Clough "Blessed Are They that Have Not Seen!"
Stand in high aspiring pride - Arthur Hugh Clough "High and Low"
The sentry of his high religious mood - Leonard Cohen "Death of a Lady's Man"
High and fathomless above us - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Rearing dizzy forms on high - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
All the fervor of high noon - Susan Coolidge "A Blind Singer"
Whilst the forest-king strikes high and deep - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
The high splendor of his spirit- Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"
Their reign of high delights - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
To the moon's high mandate move - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Gods and Heroes of the Gael"
Tidings of high daring - "The Cruiskeen Lawn" transl. by George Sigerson
To Fame's high temple climb - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Since aspiring to a life more high - Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada "The Soul's Desire" transl. by the Benedictines of Stanbrook
Our high destiny should hold in scorn - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Jericho still has her high wall - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"
Waves as high as ziggurats - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Sailed my name up high and free - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Wishes"
Infidels of our own high mysteries - Edward Dowden "By the Window"
Sense of conquest stern and high - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
Climb to Joy's high limit - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"
With the soul's high invention - Edward Dowden "Michelangelesque"
And higher the keen stars - Edward Dowden "Prometheus Unbound"
High ritual and a holy day - Edward Dowden "Ritualism"
The seven flames that are raised high - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle
Pays a high price for discarded gods - Donald Evans "En Monocle"
Four high gates to the garden - Eleanor Farjeon "King Laurin's Garden"
Your passion high and proud - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"
Bask in the sunlight of a love so high - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming "Come Let Us Be Friends"
Paintings of high art along the wall - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 3"
From the moon's high loom - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Calls the lightning from its throne on high - Miss Mary Gardiner "The Deity" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)
Daring spirit and purpose high - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
The slave of the high tide and the ebb tide - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
The high leading of her soul - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping"
High o'er the abyss of ruin - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
But winter scorched by heaven's high contempt - Linda Gregerson "The Turning"
Darkening the vast expanse on high - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Starry abysses so high and so impossible - Wendy Guerra "Vertigo Over the Niagara" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
High stakes the purpose of my throw - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"
At the miracle hanging high - Ivor Gurney "After-Glow"
High over to banishment - Ivor Gurney "Day-Boys and Choristers"
With blood of some high-making passion - Ivor Gurney "The Day of Victory"
Your spirits high in honour - Ivor Gurney "To Certain Comrades"
Insomniac for a high noon called midnight - Raquel Gutiérrez "Would It Kill Me to Be a Nicer Guy?"
Slow shadow, sailing far on high - G.H. "The Blue Bird" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Vigorous thought, unconquerable hope, and high endeavor - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Memories far high reaching as yon palled star - Paul Hamilton Hayne "Pre-Existence"
Those in high places daunted - Seamus Heaney "Anything Can Happen"
High spirit of ascendant worth - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"
Waved on high the sword of fate - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Bereft of that high hope - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
That high soul's ascendant star - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
To the high sanctity of song - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
On my high noon journey - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed Hendan "He Was Taken Away" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
Interlocking directorates of high art - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
High in the horror of dawn - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender III"
And pile them high like football fiends - Jennie Earngey Hill "Nature's Game"
Receive the verdict from on high - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
Kite now a little higher on gold air - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
Full hot and high the sea would boil - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Comet"
Left its ruby throne on high - Mary Gardiner Horsford "The Lost Pleiad"
The meed of high and shadowless renown - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
A house bigger than the moon and higher - "I Saw a Peacock"
As heaven's high twins - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part I."
High in the forest of the sky - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Building seawalls higher and higher - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Seawall soliloquy number two: she built a seawall"
Across that high court of the skull - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "What Spells Trouble"
Wings to waft me higher - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Airs of high memory - Lionel Johnson "A Friend"
Our days upon the high winds - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"
A heart high-sorrowful and cloyed - John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
High as the eternal Throne - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"
Having learnt from sources pure and high - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"
The hymn of water and the gale's high tone - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"
As your vision clears through higher dimensions - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"
High and clear as a flock of blackbirds - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
High throned on power - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
High road to bewitchment - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
Determined to stand on the highest peak - D.H. Lawrence "He-Goat"
Through the lattice high in yon dead wall - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
High above flood and fire - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"
Lifted high on our victorious shields - Richard Le Gallienne "To Belgium"
A sickle dropped in high grass - Hailey Leithauser "Guillotine"
The highest etched mark of his eyes - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"
A high thin note trilling the frozen air - Philip Levine "Another Song"
In a high room between two rivers - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
As the high Fates directed - Amy Levy "Medea"
Must strive for higher fruits - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"
My high thoughts, and my golden dreams - Amy Levy "Xantippe"
Holding high his retrospective lamp - Amy Levy "Xantippe"
A brave hawk on high wings soaring - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson
The soft, high bed of Peace - Li T'ai-Po "Songs of the Marches" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
High tide's wet letters - M.L. Liebler "This Atlantic Language"
So high the crows are dizzy - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"
High above that tiger on parade - Vachel Lindsay "The Tiger on Parade"
To slay their foes and lift them high - George MacDonald "That Holy King"
Whirling high, from the Clock Tower to the sky - William Manning "A Child's Dream of the Zoo"
Marked in the shells of high seas - Herbert Woodward Martin "Translucent Fish Scales"
With our high neglected dreams - Furnley Maurice "Barter"
Keep your crested courage high - Theodore Maynard "To a Good Atheist"
A high branch of broken promises - J.D. McClatchy "Wolf's Tree"
With firmer trusts, and higher faith - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"
Our high light pursue - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
An unfamiliar name under a few high clouds - W.S. Merwin "Mementos"
To the high seat of laughing gods - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Step forth from the high hall - Miu Hsi "Poem in the Form of a Coffin-Puller's Song" transl. by Burton Watson
Hoped the chains could not climb this high - Anis Mojgani "Sock Hop"
With their fifty chimneys close and high - Harold Monro "Journey"
That stretch high beyond sight - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"
The siren voice of high adventure - Lewis Morris "Saint Christopher"
That burns in Fame's high temple - Robert Morris "The Student's Dream of Fame"
High on your treacherous scaffolding - Pablo Neruda "Arise to Birth" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Your high-minded acrobatics - Pablo Neruda "Elegy: XIV" transl. by Ilan Stavans
Kings six cubits high with gryphon's wings - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Rose higher than a prayer ignored - Dante Novario "The Great Missouri Tornado of 1882"
Whose highest kindness was to say nothing - Miller Oberman "Taharah"
The watchful hawk on high - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"
To all the soul builds high - Thomas O'Hagan "Giotto's Campanile"
Search her high cross-roads in vain - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The cranes crying out in the high clouds - Mary Oliver "Her Grave"
Which justly makes the highest claim - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"
The high road of my joy - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Flushed with high resolve - Walter S. Percy "The Singing Death"
High time to consider beginning - Kiki Petrosino "Ought"
Assailed the monarch's high estate - Edgar Allan Poe "The Haunted Palace"
Held imagination's candle high - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"
High in the solitude of air - Alexander Posey "My Hermitage"
Dusted with air of high June - Andrea Potos "Crocheting in December"
The old new moon hung high - Herbert Randall "The Old Bush Pasture"
While dead men's cups brim high - Herbert Randall "Twin Lights"
High heaped above the hunting grounds - "The Red Man's Plea: Almost Literally the Reply of 'Red Iron to Governor Ramsey" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
Through the high grass of dream - Victoria Redel "The Pact"
High with the fate of game - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Who have scaled high sunsets - Lola Ridge "Eyrie (To E.A.R.)"
A tiny silver mirror held to the high stars - Lola Ridge "Fame"
Withdrawn into the lone high eyries - Lola Ridge "Thermopylae"
And the high stars trail their heads - James Whitcombe Riley "The Frog"
Like stars poised high and still - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
With her tearful eyes raised high - Alice Wellington Rollins "Dreamers"
High converse of diviner things - Alice Wellington Rollins "Indian Summer"
To wear so high a mood - Alice Wellington Rollins "October"
Mix the high howls of your dancing - Carl Sandburg "Fins"
Slides by on a high wind calling - Carl Sandburg "Potomac Town in February"
Too high for honouring mirth - George Santayana "Athletic Ode"
While shining so brilliant on high - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"
The pitted pillars of our last and highest cities - Ann K. Schwader "Aurelia Aurita"
Roots clasping the high hill's edge - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Risen high above the star - Thomas Hall Shastid "Christmas Night"
Trod the paths of high intent - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"
Kiss high heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"
As the storm rocks the ravens on high - Shelley "When the Lamp Is Shattered"
To Caesar's high-exalted throne - Taras Shevchenko "To the Circassians" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Bandy high words with an insolent dragon - Frank E. Smedley "Ye Right Ancient Ballad of ye Combat of King Tidrich with ye Dragon"
High and moon-suspended fountains - Clark Ashton Smith "Artemis"
Broken dreams of higher worlds unfound - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
Bold across its high borders - "Song of the Sea" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Arachne high did lift her cunning web - Edmund Spenser "The House of Richesse"
Cloud-haunted turrets pointing high - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Amavi"
The heart's high memories unaware - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
How high that highest candle - Wallace Stevens "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
Bronze shadows heaped on high horizons - Wallace Stevens "The Idea of Order at Key West"
High festival I need not miss - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
A memory of high noon's glories - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"
Through high hedges of the green rain - May Swenson "Earth Your Dancing Place"
Hope at highest and all her fruit - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Seeping from each step of our high ground - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
Sixteen clumps of sticks woven high into the oaks - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"
Heaven is higher nor the tree - "There Was a Knight"
Raced through the house of high hay - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
Plunging earthward, tossing high - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"
That then the last high trumpet pours - Herbert Trench "I Heard a Soldier"
Ideals higher than the piled-up clouds - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson
Frozen monuments of high desires - H.T. Tuckerman "Luna.--An Ode" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
A ribbon of geese drifts high above - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
To heave their shadows far and high - Mark Van Doren "Midwife Cat"
To rest in the lee of the high hill land - Henry van Dyke "Turn o' the Tide"
Supportive of their high and lonely destiny - Ursula Vernon "It Was a Day"
Exposed to the high exacting sun - Asiya Wadud "Syncope"
High carrion frigates - Derek Walcott "The Whelk Gatherers"
The thistle grew broader and higher - Isaac Watts "The Sluggard"
Where high walls shade the steep old streets - Mary Webb "Market Day"
Sublime faiths and high fortitudes - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
With such high and dreadful peace - John Hall Wheelock "In the Dark City"
Spray dashed thirty feet high - William Carlos Williams "A Goodnight"
A mighty junk-heap rising high - Adolf Wolff "The Great Discard"
Stand high on the yellow rushes - "XXI: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of the Huexotzincos" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Told and retold to a highest bidder - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"
A highball of history and radio - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Skipping high-heeled flames courtesied before my eyes - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"
Highlighted lessons and dog-eared parables - Camille T. Dungy "One to Watch, and One to Pray"
The world before highlighter's applied - Carol Moldaw "Meditation on the Veranda"
Highlights the potential for interruption - Elizabeth Torres "The Play"
Leave the highlights for last - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"
Insomniac for a high noon called midnight - Raquel Gutiérrez "Would It Kill Me to Be a Nicer Guy?"
Twelve hundred high-piled years - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Born of high-souled hope - Algernon Swinburne "To Dora Dorian"
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Turning the brittle edge of one high wave - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"
Moulded the court's high atmosphere to breath - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
Your demon words borne high on wings of song - Mike Allen "Ascending"
My rooms slip in and out of higher dimensions - Mike Allen "Space War"
High pyramids of stone and question - Maya Angelou "For Us, Who Dare Not Dare"
The falcon soars both far and high - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XVI: The Falcon" transl. by Sir John Bowring
But the fortress gates are higher - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXLIII: Angela as Watchman" transl. by Dr. B. Stevenson Stanoyevich
We can wait at high speed - Rae Armantrout "Custom"
They sit high in unreachable trees - Julie Babcock "Philomel"
Absorbed in high and holy dreams - George A. Baker "A Rosebud in Lent"
The high-browed kings of thought - Benjamin West Ball "Love's Labor Lost"
The highest ideal of unwelcome - Mary Jo Bang "Ham Paints a Picture to Illustrate an Early Lesson: O Trauma!"
Building sweet music high above - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
When thirty hawks are high - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"
whips the dull season high - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"
Where all is high and vast - Charlotte Fiske Bates "On a Noble Character Marred by Littleness"
By the high decree of powers supreme - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited
Through mazes to higher ground - Clive Bell "To A.V.S. with a Book"
Dawn held the frozen flame an instant high - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
Blake knew how deep is Hell, and Heaven how high - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
While soaring high on heaven's breath - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
Not high enough to palm the moon - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
High sparkling fountains catch a rainbow light - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
Clothed in high chastity - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "How Shall I Build"
High above your winter face - Robert Bly "A Dream of the Blacksmith's Room"
Still on the high roofs of the mind - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"
And raised my suppliant hands on high - Anne Bronte "Despondency"
Where the tall turret rises high - Charlotte Bronte "Mementos"
From high pedastels toppled - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"
Airy dreams of high ambition - Marie Hedderwick Browne "At Last"
Tread high as angels - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Whose high work remains unknown - Michelangelo Buonarroti "I. On Dante Alighieri" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Holds cruel sway in Love's high house - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVI. Love Misinterpreted" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Keep their high and rigorous distinction - Stephanie Burt "Silt"
The informer's pay was high - "By Memory Inspired" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Our high Star and true Apostle - "By Memory Inspired" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Taking his high inheritance - Witter Bynner "The New World V"
the cattails grew so high that the longing nearly subsided - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"
Of higher hopes and prouder promise told - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
June's high-tide on bank and bower - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Humming Bee"
Here to serve a high occasion - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
High prices profit those who sell - Lewis Carroll "Tema con Variazioni"
Built strong walls and high - C.P. Cavafy "Walls" transl. from modern Greek by John Cavafy
To claim in higher spheres a refuge - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Stand to-day on higher ground - Joseph Horatio Chant "Aspiration"
Establish your mind on the highest cliff - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"
And these ride high in history - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
To the highest key of ancient Rome - John Cleveland "To the Memory of Ben Jonson"
My heart swells high with scorn and hate - "Cloud and Sunshine" [The Continental Monthly v.III - June, 1863 - no.VI]
High triumphs of convictions wrought - Arthur Hugh Clough "Blessed Are They that Have Not Seen!"
Stand in high aspiring pride - Arthur Hugh Clough "High and Low"
The sentry of his high religious mood - Leonard Cohen "Death of a Lady's Man"
High and fathomless above us - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Rearing dizzy forms on high - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
All the fervor of high noon - Susan Coolidge "A Blind Singer"
Whilst the forest-king strikes high and deep - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
The high splendor of his spirit- Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"
Their reign of high delights - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
To the moon's high mandate move - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Gods and Heroes of the Gael"
Tidings of high daring - "The Cruiskeen Lawn" transl. by George Sigerson
To Fame's high temple climb - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Since aspiring to a life more high - Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada "The Soul's Desire" transl. by the Benedictines of Stanbrook
Our high destiny should hold in scorn - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Jericho still has her high wall - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"
Waves as high as ziggurats - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Sailed my name up high and free - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Wishes"
Infidels of our own high mysteries - Edward Dowden "By the Window"
Sense of conquest stern and high - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
Climb to Joy's high limit - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"
With the soul's high invention - Edward Dowden "Michelangelesque"
And higher the keen stars - Edward Dowden "Prometheus Unbound"
High ritual and a holy day - Edward Dowden "Ritualism"
The seven flames that are raised high - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle
Pays a high price for discarded gods - Donald Evans "En Monocle"
Four high gates to the garden - Eleanor Farjeon "King Laurin's Garden"
Your passion high and proud - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"
Bask in the sunlight of a love so high - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming "Come Let Us Be Friends"
Paintings of high art along the wall - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 3"
From the moon's high loom - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Calls the lightning from its throne on high - Miss Mary Gardiner "The Deity" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)
Daring spirit and purpose high - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
The slave of the high tide and the ebb tide - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
The high leading of her soul - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping"
High o'er the abyss of ruin - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
But winter scorched by heaven's high contempt - Linda Gregerson "The Turning"
Darkening the vast expanse on high - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Starry abysses so high and so impossible - Wendy Guerra "Vertigo Over the Niagara" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
High stakes the purpose of my throw - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"
At the miracle hanging high - Ivor Gurney "After-Glow"
High over to banishment - Ivor Gurney "Day-Boys and Choristers"
With blood of some high-making passion - Ivor Gurney "The Day of Victory"
Your spirits high in honour - Ivor Gurney "To Certain Comrades"
Insomniac for a high noon called midnight - Raquel Gutiérrez "Would It Kill Me to Be a Nicer Guy?"
Slow shadow, sailing far on high - G.H. "The Blue Bird" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Vigorous thought, unconquerable hope, and high endeavor - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Memories far high reaching as yon palled star - Paul Hamilton Hayne "Pre-Existence"
Those in high places daunted - Seamus Heaney "Anything Can Happen"
High spirit of ascendant worth - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"
Waved on high the sword of fate - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
Bereft of that high hope - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
That high soul's ascendant star - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
To the high sanctity of song - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
On my high noon journey - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed Hendan "He Was Taken Away" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
Interlocking directorates of high art - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
High in the horror of dawn - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender III"
And pile them high like football fiends - Jennie Earngey Hill "Nature's Game"
Receive the verdict from on high - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
Kite now a little higher on gold air - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
Full hot and high the sea would boil - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Comet"
Left its ruby throne on high - Mary Gardiner Horsford "The Lost Pleiad"
The meed of high and shadowless renown - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
A house bigger than the moon and higher - "I Saw a Peacock"
As heaven's high twins - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part I."
High in the forest of the sky - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Building seawalls higher and higher - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Seawall soliloquy number two: she built a seawall"
Across that high court of the skull - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "What Spells Trouble"
Wings to waft me higher - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Airs of high memory - Lionel Johnson "A Friend"
Our days upon the high winds - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"
A heart high-sorrowful and cloyed - John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
High as the eternal Throne - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"
Having learnt from sources pure and high - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"
The hymn of water and the gale's high tone - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"
As your vision clears through higher dimensions - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"
High and clear as a flock of blackbirds - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
High throned on power - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
High road to bewitchment - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
Determined to stand on the highest peak - D.H. Lawrence "He-Goat"
Through the lattice high in yon dead wall - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
High above flood and fire - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"
Lifted high on our victorious shields - Richard Le Gallienne "To Belgium"
A sickle dropped in high grass - Hailey Leithauser "Guillotine"
The highest etched mark of his eyes - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"
A high thin note trilling the frozen air - Philip Levine "Another Song"
In a high room between two rivers - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
As the high Fates directed - Amy Levy "Medea"
Must strive for higher fruits - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"
My high thoughts, and my golden dreams - Amy Levy "Xantippe"
Holding high his retrospective lamp - Amy Levy "Xantippe"
A brave hawk on high wings soaring - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson
The soft, high bed of Peace - Li T'ai-Po "Songs of the Marches" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
High tide's wet letters - M.L. Liebler "This Atlantic Language"
So high the crows are dizzy - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"
High above that tiger on parade - Vachel Lindsay "The Tiger on Parade"
To slay their foes and lift them high - George MacDonald "That Holy King"
Whirling high, from the Clock Tower to the sky - William Manning "A Child's Dream of the Zoo"
Marked in the shells of high seas - Herbert Woodward Martin "Translucent Fish Scales"
With our high neglected dreams - Furnley Maurice "Barter"
Keep your crested courage high - Theodore Maynard "To a Good Atheist"
A high branch of broken promises - J.D. McClatchy "Wolf's Tree"
With firmer trusts, and higher faith - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"
Our high light pursue - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
An unfamiliar name under a few high clouds - W.S. Merwin "Mementos"
To the high seat of laughing gods - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Step forth from the high hall - Miu Hsi "Poem in the Form of a Coffin-Puller's Song" transl. by Burton Watson
Hoped the chains could not climb this high - Anis Mojgani "Sock Hop"
With their fifty chimneys close and high - Harold Monro "Journey"
That stretch high beyond sight - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"
The siren voice of high adventure - Lewis Morris "Saint Christopher"
That burns in Fame's high temple - Robert Morris "The Student's Dream of Fame"
High on your treacherous scaffolding - Pablo Neruda "Arise to Birth" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Your high-minded acrobatics - Pablo Neruda "Elegy: XIV" transl. by Ilan Stavans
Kings six cubits high with gryphon's wings - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Rose higher than a prayer ignored - Dante Novario "The Great Missouri Tornado of 1882"
Whose highest kindness was to say nothing - Miller Oberman "Taharah"
The watchful hawk on high - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"
To all the soul builds high - Thomas O'Hagan "Giotto's Campanile"
Search her high cross-roads in vain - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The cranes crying out in the high clouds - Mary Oliver "Her Grave"
Which justly makes the highest claim - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"
The high road of my joy - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Flushed with high resolve - Walter S. Percy "The Singing Death"
High time to consider beginning - Kiki Petrosino "Ought"
Assailed the monarch's high estate - Edgar Allan Poe "The Haunted Palace"
Held imagination's candle high - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"
High in the solitude of air - Alexander Posey "My Hermitage"
Dusted with air of high June - Andrea Potos "Crocheting in December"
The old new moon hung high - Herbert Randall "The Old Bush Pasture"
While dead men's cups brim high - Herbert Randall "Twin Lights"
High heaped above the hunting grounds - "The Red Man's Plea: Almost Literally the Reply of 'Red Iron to Governor Ramsey" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
Through the high grass of dream - Victoria Redel "The Pact"
High with the fate of game - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Who have scaled high sunsets - Lola Ridge "Eyrie (To E.A.R.)"
A tiny silver mirror held to the high stars - Lola Ridge "Fame"
Withdrawn into the lone high eyries - Lola Ridge "Thermopylae"
And the high stars trail their heads - James Whitcombe Riley "The Frog"
Like stars poised high and still - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
With her tearful eyes raised high - Alice Wellington Rollins "Dreamers"
High converse of diviner things - Alice Wellington Rollins "Indian Summer"
To wear so high a mood - Alice Wellington Rollins "October"
Mix the high howls of your dancing - Carl Sandburg "Fins"
Slides by on a high wind calling - Carl Sandburg "Potomac Town in February"
Too high for honouring mirth - George Santayana "Athletic Ode"
While shining so brilliant on high - Miss M. Sawin "Jenny Lind"
The pitted pillars of our last and highest cities - Ann K. Schwader "Aurelia Aurita"
Roots clasping the high hill's edge - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
Risen high above the star - Thomas Hall Shastid "Christmas Night"
Trod the paths of high intent - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"
Kiss high heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"
As the storm rocks the ravens on high - Shelley "When the Lamp Is Shattered"
To Caesar's high-exalted throne - Taras Shevchenko "To the Circassians" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Bandy high words with an insolent dragon - Frank E. Smedley "Ye Right Ancient Ballad of ye Combat of King Tidrich with ye Dragon"
High and moon-suspended fountains - Clark Ashton Smith "Artemis"
Broken dreams of higher worlds unfound - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
Bold across its high borders - "Song of the Sea" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Arachne high did lift her cunning web - Edmund Spenser "The House of Richesse"
Cloud-haunted turrets pointing high - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Amavi"
The heart's high memories unaware - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
How high that highest candle - Wallace Stevens "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
Bronze shadows heaped on high horizons - Wallace Stevens "The Idea of Order at Key West"
High festival I need not miss - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
A memory of high noon's glories - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"
Through high hedges of the green rain - May Swenson "Earth Your Dancing Place"
Hope at highest and all her fruit - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
Seeping from each step of our high ground - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
Sixteen clumps of sticks woven high into the oaks - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"
Heaven is higher nor the tree - "There Was a Knight"
Raced through the house of high hay - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
Plunging earthward, tossing high - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"
That then the last high trumpet pours - Herbert Trench "I Heard a Soldier"
Ideals higher than the piled-up clouds - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson
Frozen monuments of high desires - H.T. Tuckerman "Luna.--An Ode" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
A ribbon of geese drifts high above - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
To heave their shadows far and high - Mark Van Doren "Midwife Cat"
To rest in the lee of the high hill land - Henry van Dyke "Turn o' the Tide"
Supportive of their high and lonely destiny - Ursula Vernon "It Was a Day"
Exposed to the high exacting sun - Asiya Wadud "Syncope"
High carrion frigates - Derek Walcott "The Whelk Gatherers"
The thistle grew broader and higher - Isaac Watts "The Sluggard"
Where high walls shade the steep old streets - Mary Webb "Market Day"
Sublime faiths and high fortitudes - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
With such high and dreadful peace - John Hall Wheelock "In the Dark City"
Spray dashed thirty feet high - William Carlos Williams "A Goodnight"
A mighty junk-heap rising high - Adolf Wolff "The Great Discard"
Stand high on the yellow rushes - "XXI: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of the Huexotzincos" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Told and retold to a highest bidder - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"
A highball of history and radio - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Skipping high-heeled flames courtesied before my eyes - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"
Highlighted lessons and dog-eared parables - Camille T. Dungy "One to Watch, and One to Pray"
The world before highlighter's applied - Carol Moldaw "Meditation on the Veranda"
Highlights the potential for interruption - Elizabeth Torres "The Play"
Leave the highlights for last - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"
Insomniac for a high noon called midnight - Raquel Gutiérrez "Would It Kill Me to Be a Nicer Guy?"
Twelve hundred high-piled years - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Born of high-souled hope - Algernon Swinburne "To Dora Dorian"
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