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The clusters of her eyes pressed shut - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"

Gather wormwood into boiling water press its bitters - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXX: Youth and Age" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Fear pressed against stone - Mary Jo Bang "The Clairvoyant"

An ocean of grief pressed into ovals - Mary Jo Bang "This Morning"

And now your press in thunder tones - "The Black Flag" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]

More closely press upon that midnight air - Gordon Bottomley "New Year's Eve, 1913"

Presses down my shrinking heart - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

While their footsteps press the clay - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

Prepared to press your luck - Gabrielle Civil "Three of Cups"

To press the stirrup in fearlessness and glee - William Cory "Amaturus"

My winged shadow pressed against their windows - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"

When feeling pressed like thunder - William H. Davies "Days that Have Been"

By legioned shadows pressed - Coningsby Dawson "Daybreak"

Pressed sage into a bed - Chris Dombrowski "Epithalamium"

Pressed upon the daily custom of the sky - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

Press their lips to the dust beneath you - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Yet some backward longings press - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"

Zigzagging pressed sound - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen F"

A forehead pressed into paradox - Tess Gallagher "Reading the Waterfall"

Presses his cup to lips of human wo [sic] - Edmund Brewster Green "The Season of Death" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Presses my pinched heart - Anna Grossnickle Hines "Weightless"

Pressed to my lips a stone - Frances E.W. Harper "A Double Standard"

And pressing blindly sunwards - Nora Hopper "April in Ireland"

Pressed in a rock of mined coal - John James "End"

The press of an unnamed delight - Archibald Lampman "Favorites of Pan"

Onward still pressing undaunted - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

When the storm of misfortune around them did press - E. Anna Lewis "The Orphan's Hymn"

Too tightly pressed for curses - Edgar Lee Masters "Victor Rafolski on Art"

The legions pressing on - John McCrae "The Anxious Dead"

Pressing the entirety of a universe into a shell - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Pō"

The sweet knees of oxen have pressed a path - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"

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"

In the press of flag and spear - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

What a torturer wears to a press conference - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"

And press your heart against the ground - Harold Monro "The Fresh Air"

Our backs pressed into chalky dust - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"

In the press of blazing electricity - Mary Oliver "That Sweet Flute John Clare"

Pressing their hundred eyes - Kiki Petrosino "Little Gals"

Pressed up against that which we cannot control - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"

Hands pressing pinpointed targets - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"

Too much pressed into bones - Khadijah Queen "X"

Pressed like petals between the pages of history - Jacques J. Rancourt "As Weather"

Pressed its exile to our eye - Roger Reeves "Beneath the Perseids"

How the unsaid presses down on our human bodies - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"

The mask of light that pressed his face - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

Pressed to the window of everything - Valencia Robin "There"

And the press of time running into centuries - Carl Sandburg "Skyscraper"

In the guise of two pressed thumbs - Holly J. Schaeffer-Raymond "Excerpts from Sign & Grudge"

And press the rue for wine - Sir Walter Scott "A Weary Lot Is Thine"

Do not press my tongue-tied patience - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXL"

Where creeping doubts and dumb, dull sorrows press - Edward Shanks "The Return"

Press gently on a loveliness - Marion Strobel "Little Things"

A volume of pressed flowers - Iris Tree "[My devotion kneels to you]"

Pressed new courage in my heart - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

The wine of consolation pressed from sorrows - John Greenleaf Whittier "A Legacy"

Pressed against the still silver sky - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Letter in Fog"


The wine-press of the Wrath of God - Rudyard Kipling "The Vineyard"


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