Potential Titles: Sleep

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When our children sleep in dust - A.L.O.E. "The House Not Made with Hands"

Awakes the flowers that long had slept - A.L.O.E. "Song of Joy"

Since I slept in the centre of violence - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

Emerges from sleep in the mirror - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"

Sleep on couch of twisted gold - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

The abyss we sleep under - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"

From the starless waters of sleep - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

The night-wind rocks the sleeping flowers - Louisa May Alcott "Fairy Song"

And wakened the sleeping rose - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"

Our factories sleep with one eye open - Alise Alousi "Detroit 1998, a reminiscence"

Tiger sleeping in the sun - Alise Alousi "Password"

Still and softly sleeping - Alun "Song of the Fisherman's Wife" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Sleep's mellow horns are faintly calling - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Sleep's Serenade"

Beyond where you sleep in hiding - Aldo Amparan "Aubade at the City of Change"

The deep adventure of sleep - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"

Nights when sleep plays coy - Maya Angelou "Insomniac"

Evicted from sleep's mute palace - Maya Angelou "Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?"

And no sleep renew his strength to bear it - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry X: Salutation of the Morning Star" transl. by Sir John Bowring

The sleep of a sunken log at the river's bottom - William Archila "Childhood"

Opens up a secret that slept - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "About the angels"

To hang over Endymion's sleep - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"

Into the dusk of her sleeping - F.D. Ashburn "Song [You roses that lean away]"

Sleeping now in a still and holy ark - Reginald Augustine "Dreams" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no 372, May 30 1829]

The spell of sleep to break - Albion Fellows Bacon "Silent Keys"

Whose sleep is blank with terror - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Forget in sleep my weariness - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"

Enter through the gates of sleep - Benjamin West Ball "Dreams"

Sleep, thy mild dejected twin - Benjamin West Ball "Invocation"

Receiving the silk drip of sleep - Mary Jo Bang "And No Signs Will Mark the Midpoint's Passing"

Sleeping in a state of detachment - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"

Divide me from my sleep - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 I"

Toss you on the silver sands of sleep - Natalie Clifford Barney "How to Write the Beat of Love"

A root from the sleeping earth - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

let silence sleep between us - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"

Being witness to my sleep - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

sleep dresses itself and wakes - Elizabeth Bartlett "measured interval"

Where the waves still breathe of sleep - Elizabeth Bartlett "On a Rock of Atlantis"

Burn a path through timeless sleep - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Test"

And everything moves like sleep - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"

connecting sleep with sleep - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

A sleeping avalanche beneath - Cora C. Bass "'Mid Eternal Snow"

Winter's sleep on gauzy wing - Cora C. Bass "Spring"

Where water sleeps at night - Charles Baudelaire "The Little Old Women" transl. not credited

And rock our griefs to sleep - Charles Baudelaire "Mist and Rain" transl. not credited

Cities of enchanted sleep - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Sleepy poison in the cup - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

In solemn silence sleeping - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

The keys of all the doors of sleep - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"

Roused my rebels from their sleep - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

Her eyes are seas more quiet than sleep - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Through sleep's first quarter - Yahya Kemal Beyath "Night" (translated by Roger Finch)

Sleeps in pools of gold - Laurence Binyon "The Belfry"

And linger at the gate of Sleep - Laurence Binyon "Psyche"

War's trumpet sleeps unblown - Edward Blackadder "Annapolis Royal"

Chisels into the marrow of your sleep - Terry Blackhawk "A Peaceable Kingdom"

Sleek suns dipped in sleepy light - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"

Retained from those lost nights our fathers slept - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

Sleep safe in the shade of civilization - Bruce Boston "Children of the Mutant Rain Forest"

Tear our sleep to tatters - Rita Boumi-Pappas "The Crow" transl. by Kimon Friar

Who has slept four thousand years - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

A rumor of sleep stampedes through - William Brewer "Withdrawal Dream Amongst Spring Acreage"

Will not sleep, for fear of dreams - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"

Silent sunlight dreams of sleep - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

In the sleep of ocean's azure gulfs - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

Giants sleeping in their shrouds - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Stop my sleeping and sour my mind - Stephanie Burt "Hank McCoy's Complaint Against the Danger Room"

Of another language in his sleep - Denver Butson "My Brother"

The eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly - Lord Byron "The Destruction of Sennacherib"

Sleep by the sweet wild twist of her song - Jeremiah John Callanan "The Outlaw of Loch Lene"

Passionate as the rose of sleep - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

Like a serpent curled in sleep - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

Velvet-winged spirits of sleep - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"

Protects the mastiff's sleep - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Hovel" transl. by Frank Sewall

Muttered of freedom in their sleep - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"

Ere dawn visits the vale of sleep - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"

Sunk in honeyed sleep - Willa Cather "Autumn Melody"

Once smelled a rose in sleep - Willa Cather "Thou Art the Pearl"

Old films you watched without sleep - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"

Words to ward off sleep - Franny Choi "We Used Our Words We Used What Words We Had"

habitually quenching itself on my sleep - May Chong "Bunian Laundry"

Fresh from the seas of sleep - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

The wish but sleeps - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

In visions of a deeper sleep - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Song of Lamech"

Sleep beneath a golden hill - Leonard Cohen "Avalanche"

The webs of my sleeping spirit - Leonard Cohen "O Wife Unmasked"

The dahlia rooted in Egyptian sleep - Mary E. Coleridge "Chillingham"

How sleep the brave - William Collins "Ode: Written in the Year 1746"

Veiled in grey ashes sleeps - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"

Muses while the shadows sleep - Arthur Colton "Faustine"

The rose in its fragrance sleeps - Arthur Colton "Without the Gate"

Sleeping boys and drowsy roses - Hilda Conkling "Land of Nod"

Sleeping doves and silvery girls - Hilda Conkling "Land of Nod"

Like the Dream-ladder Jacob slept by - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Sleep in hidden corners curled - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Zeal sleeps soundly by the foes she fought - George Crabbe "The Library"

Hermit crabs in shells just the size for sleep - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Becomes Our Mother"

Had roused some charmed castle from the sleep - Albert Francis Cross "Let There Be Light" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.118-v.III, 3 April 1886]

To sleep adrift in birdsong - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"

Softer be they than slippered sleep - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

Sleeps on the stones of Delphi - H.D. "Demeter"

We no longer sleep in the wind - H.D. "The Wind Sleepers"

Nothing more than a passing dream in his eternal sleep - Najwan Darwish "Near the Shrine of Saint Naum" transl. by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

In sleep's soft fetters bound - Sir William Davenant "The Dream"

Nightingales wasted their passion on my sleep - William H. Davies "Wasted Hours"

Needing the succor of sleep - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Crescendo"

Lost in the full hush of sleep - Edward L. Davison "Nocturne"

Nor sleeps the vengeance of the victor here - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

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

Whose seeds had slept 30 millennia - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

What fossils still sleep underground? - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Curiosity"

False flutes sigh before the gates of sleep - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

Trampled on the sleeping Czars - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

To lull a fretted heart to sleep - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"

Quiet peace of sleep at night - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"

To spend a while in sleep - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Slow through the Dark"

In the lawlessness of sleep - Stephen Dunn "I Caught Myself Thinking the Horizon"

Bargaining for sleep - Cornelius Eady "Interrogation"

Ghosts of sleeping battle-cruisers - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"

Question the allure of sleep - Helen Parry Eden "Coal and Candlelight"

The violet is sleeping yet - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

And even the sleeping flowers - George Allan England "One Summer Night"

A color I can sleep in - Elaine Equi "Asking for a Raise"

Sleeping in the richness of those petals - Heid E. Erdich "Stung"

A good night's sleep before deadly fame - Hazem Fahmy "Interrogation of an Alternate Timeline"

Floating upon the tides of sleep - Eleanor Farjeon "Dream-Ships"

Haven upon the tides of sleep - Eleanor Farjeon "Dream-Ships"

Warp of sleep and woof of love - Eleanor Farjeon "From an Old Garden"

In halls of sleep you wandered - Arthur Davison Ficke "Among Shadows"

Waking eternity's sleep - George Blackstone Field "Men of the Line"

Dreamer of yesterday, sleep - George Blackstone Field "Unforgotten"

Not a soul would dare to sleep - J.T. Fields "The Captain's Daughter" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

From the unquiet realms of sleep - Darrell Figgis "Exile"

Sleeping gentle over steel bones - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

Lured young Achilles from his haunted sleep - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"

Branches scratch against my sleep - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Other Side"

Scratch against my sleep - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Other Side"

A branch in my sleep - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Other Side"

Black winds tunneled to her sleep - Carolyn Forche "Alfansa"

A fatigue no sleep could relieve - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"

Cup of sleep - Carolyn Forche "Curfew"

Even sleep is taken - Carolyn Forche "Curfew"

sleep amidst a barricade of trees - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"

Sleep to the sound of it - Vievee Francis "Given to Rust"

Deepest sleeper in our evolving genomics - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"

Lying beneath a hundred seas of sleep - John Freeman "Waking"

A sleep so dark and so bewilderingly deep - John Freeman "Waking"

Sleep upon enchanted earth - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Nature will gather like sleeping poppies - Carol Frost "Circus City"

What will trouble this sleep of mine - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"

Out beyond the sleeping town - Rose Fyleman "This Island"

In sleep and in the solitary dusk - Zona Gale "Light"

Milder at the end than sleep - Tess Gallagher "Sad Moments"

Sleep comes dreamless, undefiled - Crosbie Garstin "Nocturne"

Midnight in a sleeping house - Nikita Gill "Papa"

Where time was also sleeping - Louise Gluck "A Summer Garden"

To let the heart sleep lightly - Mona Gould "Autumn Is Unfair"

Pity sleep in the curve of her palms - Mona Gould "Ballet Moment"

Between Forever Sleep and trajectory - Lora Gray "Jupiter of Jupiter"

The dream of childhood sleeps - Louise Imogen Guiney "Cyclamen"

Aquarius is skewered by a sliver of sleep - John Grey "Skywatching"

The sleep of skyscrapers - Kimberly Grey "Of Largeness"

To stir the sleeping fountain - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"

An offering above the sleeping sunset - Wendy Guerra "Closed Sunset on Manatees" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

Keen as the ancient drift of sleep - Louise Imogen Guiney "Borderlands"

Abstain from sleep and food - Hafiz "The Divan XLII" (translated by H. Bicknell)

The vagrant dreams of new sleep - Hazel Hall "The Circle"

That other dreamless sleep of rest - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

Sleeping in the mind of the snake - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"

With their hearts of sleeping volcanoes - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: V. Explosion"

Fences yield to sleep - francine j. harris "senses"

Didn't sleep on my bright side - francine j. harris "Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monstitch Past 45"

Where the rattlesnakes will also sleep - Jim Harrison "The Golden Window"

Dismantled sleep - Leslie Noyes Harrison "The Four Elements"

The shape of deep sleep - Anne Hebert "Bread Is Born"

Patrols the edges of sleep - Stephanie Heit "Window Dressing"

The blank pools at sleep's bottom - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"

Falls on the placid brow of sleep - Felicia Hemans "Invocation"

Umbrellas fold their wings and sleep - Oliver Herford "In Darkest Africa"
Nor shall it break my sleep - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"

Cracks the shell of our sleep - Conrad Hilberry "Explosions at 4:00 A.M."

My seeds are sleeping there - Conrad Hilberry "Garlic Mustard"

When the first sleep staggers into dream - Conrad Hilberry "Waning Moon"

Doubt in sleep all cast asunder - Jennie Earngey Hill "Dreaming"

Would never abandon the puzzle sleeping in the next room - Edward Hirsch "Gabriel" [excerpt]

Calm and peaceful sleeps the tide - Robert Hogg "A Wish Burst"

From the silent sleep of years - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"

An enormous golden lion calm and sleeping - Bill Holm "Wedding Poem For Schele and Phil"

Speckled in splashes of sleep - Garrett Hongo 'On "Phantasmagorique #15," a Painting'

The heat a ladder into sleep - Chloe Honum "At a Days Inn in Barstow, California"

A ladder into sleep - Chloe Honum "At a Days Inn in Barstow, California"

Each day dies with sleep - Gerard Manley Hopkins "41 [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,]"

When the trump shall wake the sleeping - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Who would not sleep with the brave? - A.E. Housman "Last Poems VI: Lancer"

Put to sleep my mother's curse - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXVIII"

The sleepy seals aground - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"

Sleep, like a messenger of great import - Richard Hughes "Vagrancy"

Slept among the bushels of threshed wheat - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

Not satisfied with sleep - Jean Ingelow "Songs of the Night Watches, The Morning Watch: The Coming in of the 'Mermaiden'"

Washed away sleep from the eye of the narcissus - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

Prone he lies in Warp of dreamless Sleep - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

As sleeps the patient rose - Helen Hunt Jackson "January"

Haloes of ash around her sleeping eyes - John James "Erosion"

In the room where she never sleeps - John James "Forget the Song"

they haunt their houses while sleeping - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"

A nightly spell of sleep falls heavy - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

The dream that mocks our sleep - Edwin R. Johnson "Who Knows?" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Sleep will bring a thrice-distilled release - Emily Pauline Johnson "Fasting"

In a liquid mass of rubies sleeps - Emily Pauline Johnson "Under Canvas"

On sleep's faint-beating wings - James Weldon Johnson "Blessed Sleep"

The silent house of sleep - Lionel Johnson "Bronte"

Sleep beneath her sweetest airs - Lionel Johnson "Laleham"

Sleep softly waved her opiate rod - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Tiptoed into darkened rooms of sleep - Richard Jones "Rest"

A sleeping swarm of locusts - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Whalebone Corset"

Sleeps in broken buildings - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Drawn to the easy sound of sleep - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Never sleeping when the storm hit - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

The noble civil war of sleep - Fady Joudah "Libra"

Sleepy creatures of blood & fog - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"

Sleep like brides in violets - Laura Kasischke "Daysleep"

That sing to sleep the playful twilight - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"

A sleep full of sweet dreams - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

In every place where infant Orpheus slept - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Visions, dreams, and fitful whims of sleep - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Young buds sleep in the root's white core - John Keats "Faery Song"

Fierce breath against the sleepy portals - John Keats "Hyperion"

sandpaper erasures that smooth it to sleep - Kaie Kellough "if who"

Sleeping woods and sheltering mountains - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

Many a giant oak is sleeping - Fanny Kemble "Fragment from an epistle written when the thermometer stood at 98 in the shade"

Sealed by the soft hand of sleep - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

When sleep and silence keep their watch - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [In the dark, lonely night]"

When sleep and darkness follow - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"

That in the womb of Time yet sleep - Fanny Kemble "The Vision of Life"

And sleep on a pillow of strife - Henry Kendall "Australia Vindex"

But cannot break his Sleep - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

The grateful armistice of sleep - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

Dreamless sleep your share - Joyce Kilmer "The Use of Night"

What sleep would be like - Galway Kinnell "Middle of the Night"

Sleep beneath leaves curling like ribbons - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"

Till the gods cried out in someone's sleep - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

And the fish crawled into stones to sleep - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Could stand the shadow of your sleeping face - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

Scars laid while I slept - Keetje Kuipers "Emesis"

The creeping nets of sleep - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"

Looming nets of sleep - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"

And cannot sleep for sighs - Archibald Lampman "June"

Patched with pale water sleeping - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"

Sweet sleep in carven stone - Archibald Lampman "Sleep"

Whom sleep captured by surprise - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"

Eros sleeps with the windows open - Deborah Landau "Flesh"

A sweet elixir tendering me to sleep - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

In sleep have equal fortune - Andrew Lang "Dreams"

Where sleeps a shadow - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway I: The Shadow on the Shore"

The mountains unmake them in their sleep - D.H. Lawrence "Men in New Mexico"

Soundless in the paralysis of sleep - D.H. Lawrence "Men in New Mexico"

Where the bat hangs sleeping - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"

Above the sleeping eyelids of the senses - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Through the sleeping dryad dreams - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

A bough of song above a sea of sleep - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love I: 1"

Promise me the rich can't sleep - Joseph Lease "Free Again [excerpt]"

Under elms shaped for sleep - Ruth Lechlitner "Connecticut Countryside"

In whose limbs the parrots sleep - Ida Lee "The Bush Fire"

Quiet winter grinding like teeth set in sleep - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"

Where innumerable sleeps flow - Lee Young-ju "Pillow" transl. by Jae Kim

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

A doll that sleeps with nothing to touch the springs - Henry S. Leigh "A Child's Twilight"

But neither sleep nor vision came - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"

Duty bade him sleep and dream - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"

The name of the angel who guards my sleep - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"

Softened to the usual shades of rain, night, sleep - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Dreaming in a troubled sleep - Amy Levy "Xantippe"

After three nights of not sleeping, three nights of listening - Robin Coste Lewis "Reason"

A giant hound that never sleeps - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Piercing through his midnight sleep - Vachel Lindsay "To Eve, Man's Dream of Wifehood as Described by Milton"

A lurch of earth on the edge of sleep - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"

With silence-sandalled Sleep - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

When the mermaid sleeps in her ocean hall - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things I" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Within the water where the willows sleep - Archibald MacLeish "Imagery"

A bell's intrusion upon sleep - Naomi Long Madgett "Arrival"

The horn wherein the thunders sleep - Edwin Markham "To High-born Poets"

On the wharves of sleep - Edwin Markham "The Wharf of Dreams"

Music at our lips and sleep - Jeannette Marks "Lost Love"

Sleep for aching eyes - John Masefield "The West Wind"

Of that eternity which comes in sleep - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"

A land of too much sleep - Jamaal May "To Detroiters I Too May Have Called by the Wrong Names"

Deep silence and a deeper sleep - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"

Wild passions sleeping like oblivious kings - Theodore Maynard "Dawn"

All the winding caverns of my sleep - Theodore Maynard "Viaticum"

The secret of the woodland's sleep - Theodore Maynard "Wed"

Lulls our burning brain to sleep - Claude McKay "Flower of Love"

Sighs of enchanted sleep - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"

While the passengers sleep in crygenic tanks - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "Ice Magic"

Densities of opal within sleep's portico - Cecilia Meireles "The Dead Horse" transl. by James Merrill

Sleeping in the cold blue light - Erika Meitner "Untitled [and the moon once it stopped was sleeping]"

Where vanished empires sleep - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"

The spell that charms your sleep - Herman Melville "John Marr and Other Sailors"

Soft as winnowing plumes of sleep - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Roads written in sleep - W.S. Merwin "Long Afternoon Light"

Hidden behind our sleepy eyes - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

The good nights are not made for sleep - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

When sleep comes to close each difficult day - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"

Who sleeps in the curl of a crescent moon - Lincoln Michel "Another Tuesday Afternoon"

Cradled under me the thunders sleep - Adam Mickiewicz "Mountains from the Keslov Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

With sleep's dull knife - Edna St Vincent Millay "Midnight Oil"

The sleep of blessed things - Edna St Vincent Millay "Weeds"

Sleeping like butter in the sun - Jane Miller "A Young Poet"

The stillness of sleep attends them - Claire Millikin "The Mannequins"

Turnstiles for their immaterial sleep - Claire Millikin "Medicine for Broken Dolls"

The partridge sleeps in the wheat - Gabriela Mistral "Sleep Close to Me" transl. by D.M. Peeinella

Sleep in pods of darkness - David Mook "Milkweed"

Like space in darkness slept - Dugald Moore "The First Ship"

Which penned in Proteus' wizard circle sleep - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."

I do not care for sleep - William Moore "Expectancy"

Teeth on the edges of sleep - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

The cinema of sleep - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Sleep in threadbare night - Jaye Nasir "November"

The calcium's sleeping feet - Pablo Neruda "Atacama" transl. by Jack Schmitt

That has slept long years within the bells - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Returns" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The day waking from sleep like a ghost - Pablo Neruda "The Egoist" transl. by William O'Daly

Within a sleep of sulfur - Pablo Neruda "From Air to Air" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

And slept again in their abyss - Pablo Neruda "I Recall the Sea" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Sleeps in clothing of tin - Pablo Neruda "Minerals" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Sleep with the dream of a seed - Pablo Neruda "Minerals" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Not one single drop of sleep - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Double Autumn" transl. by Mark Eisner

Just before they crawl into a honey-hungry sleep - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

The town where history sleeps - Grace Nichols "Lewes Night Out"

The first flux of tidal sleep - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

The Sun was sleeping in the grass - Sarah Noble-Ives "An Early Start"

That withering care sleeps not beneath - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Winds sleep in the rocky caverns - "Nurse's Song" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Stars sleep on their pillows of clouds - "Nurse's Song" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Can spare myself little sleep - Frank O'Hara "Meditations in an Emergency"

The kind of terror found in sleep - Akilah Oliver "In Aporia"

Safe in their rafts of sleep - Mary Oliver "Straight Talk from Fox"

A child sleeping on a nest of bones - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Five"

Curl up in the top branches and sleep - Gregory Orr "A Life"

Kissing the Old World, softly to sleep - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"

Spoke worn words to hallow my sleep - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"

The green jungle of our sleep - Linda Pastan "Domestic Animals"

Where life's total sum is sleep - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "An Idyll of Dandaloo"

Wake and watch while others sleep - Coventry Patmore "The Shadow of Night"

Through my mirth and underneath my sleep - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

Swallow clay and sleeping sense - Walter S. Percy "Dust to Dust"

In the sleepy night's embrace - Walter S. Percy "A Lullaby"

When the egg of sleep will not break - Kiki Petrosino "This Is How We Feed the Animals"

Thought sleep meant rescue - Carl Phillips "So the Edge of the World"

Where it sleeps in green velvet - Patrick Phillips "The Guitar"

To sleep without a star - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"

One sleeping self inside a woken self - Sasha Pimentel "Lament of Submerged Persons"

Honor this costume of sleep - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 11PM"

In quiet action sleep - Ann Plato "Forget Me Not"

All through the pasture bars of sleep - Miriam Clark Potter "The Flock of Dreams"

The road wound upward, to the hill of sleep - Miriam Clark Potter "Little Sister of the Moon"

When the little night wing finds her sleeping - Miriam Clark Potter "The Moon in the Pool"

Needs no sleep - Jack Prelutsky "The Wizard"

Imaged in the sleeping stream - Geo. D. Prentiss "Lines [The Sunset's sweet and holy blush]"

As pronounced by the sleeping and the mad - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The camp -- is it possible?"

Swallow a hole where sleep glints - Sina Queyras "I Am No Lady, Lazarus"

The luxury of good sleep - Sina Queyras "Years"

Seaweed gardens where moonbeams sleep - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "House Hunting"

Kindles the holy fires that sleep - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Prayer"

And chants the tide to sleep - Theodore H. Rand "The Old Fisher's Song"

To taste the wells of sleep - Theodore H. Rand "Under the Beeches"

When stars stare at sleeping steer - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

The exhausted theatre of of your sleep - Adrienne Rich "Olivia"

Better than this sudden sleep - Mark Rich "To Sleep"

Of an unbearable surrender to sleep - Mark Rich "To Sleep"

Where the wild daisies sleep - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Glen All Is Still"

Breaks the sleep of the silence - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"

That sleeps within a harp - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Together in a common bed must sleep - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Sleep in a nest of flames - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

The hollow hand of sleep - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Origins"

Sleeps unstirred by any storm - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Stream"

The ancient hills commune with sleep - Charles George Douglas Roberts "The Train Among the Hills"

A question that will not sleep in history - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Where the numberless dead cities sleep - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"

Than the dreamiest depths of sleep - Alice Wellington Rollins "Indian Summer"

Rainbows sleeping in the green - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)

In that limbo of dreamless sleep - Isaac Rosenberg "The Blind God"

The sleep of Circe's swine - Isaac Rosenberg "Girl to Soldier on Leave"

Dark music blown from Sleep's trumpet - Isaac Rosenberg "Louse Hunting"

In dreamless sleep locked fast - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"

To sleep with rest and spice and balm - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"

The heavenly host who neither tire nor sleep - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [The Shepherds had an Angel]"

In the Light is our sleeping and waking - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse

Radiance showers from the jewel-heart of sleep - George William Russell "Alter Ego"

The dim edge of sleep - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"

All broken hearts, empty hands, sleeping soldiers - Carl Sandburg "Fire Dreams"

Stone and steel of your sleeping numbers - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

Where the hammers and shovels sleep in corners - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"

Sleep is the first and last and best of all - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"

If sleeping roots dream - Reg Saner "Spring Song"

A silence that is kin to sleep - Margaret E. Sangster "Preface"

For there are snares in sleep - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"

The eloquence of his sleep - May Sarton "Luxury"

Soaring and quivering in the wings of sleep - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"

I shall sleep equal with her in death - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Creep beyond the subtle borderline of sleep - Ann K. Schwader "Darkest Anodyne"

Creep into their sorceries of sleep - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"

Our souls shall taste nirvana in such sleep - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"

Purple as the gulfs of sleep - Clinton Scollard "The Glen of Castlemaine"

Her golden memory may not sleep - Clinton Scollard "The Hill of Maeve"

As soft as the feet of sleep - Clinton Scollard "A Song for Joyce's Country"

Sought to borrow sleep from sorrow - Frederick George Scott "Sorrow's Waking"

Sleeping peacefully in the starlight - Marjorie Seiffert "The Picnic"

Dimly-glowing bells of sleeping sea-anemones - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"

Sleep in a dream of savage gold - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"

The wide pathless desert of dim sleep - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Saw in sleep old palaces and towers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"

In his garden I was sleeping - Mary Dana Shindler "Chastening, a Proof of Love"

That burning Moscow's memory there may sleep - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"

Old foundations where the baleful passions sleep - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Ploughing of the Sword"

If you let those sleepy eyes stay closed - Mrs. L.L. Sloanaker "The Birds' Concert" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

So is the hope of sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Anticipation"

Of sleep beyond forsaking - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"

Drawn outward by the vampire-lips of Sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"

The crystal of unquestioned sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "The Sorrow of the Winds"

Grateful for the sleeping sun - Patricia Smith "Mississippi's Legs"

Where maple shadows sleep - William Wye Smith "The Canadians on the Nile"

These are arrows that murder sleep - "The Song of Crede, Daughter of Guare" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Full of isolated sleep and dreaming - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"

And sleep secure from Spoilers Swords - John Spateman "War"

The warm, white oblivion of sleep - A.E. Stallings "Two Nursery Rhymes: Lullaby and Rebuttal"

Awake from the region of sleep, alone - Albert E. Stembridge "Serenade" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.18-v.I, 3 May 1884]

Like ghosts that never slept - Riccardo Stephens "A Ballad"

Taken in the toils of Sleep - George Sterling "The Music of Sleep"

That sleep in the barrows of oblivion - George Sterling "The Pathfinders"

Tender as sleep to old regret - George Sterling "The Strange Bird"

With the sleepiness of the moon - Wallace Stevens "Madame la Fleurie"

Sleep's faded papier-mache - Wallace Stevens "Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself"

The intelligence of our sleep - Wallace Stevens "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together"

In the distances of sleep - Wallace Stevens "To the Roaring Wind"

Sleep beneath a thorn - M. Letitia Stockett "Free"

Slid into the sea of sleep - M. Letitia Stockett "Sleep"

That grey, ancient sea of sleep - M. Letitia Stockett "Sleep"

Steal the odors of the sleeping flowers - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"

This haunted room where Sorrow and I have slept - Arthur Stringer "The House of Life"

Invades even my dreams and wounds me in sleep - Arthur Stringer "Ultimata"

The sleep of mollusks - Alison Swan "Report from the End of the Twentieth Century"

Sleep with the world's eldest dead - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

Where my mother's seven guitars sleep - Amber Tamblyn "Epilogue"

Storm-worried Argo slept - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"

To hide the wolves of sleep - Dylan Thomas "Poem [Your breath was shed]"

I have come to the borders of sleep - Edward Thomas "Lights Out"

Sheep on the mountains of sleep - Edward Thomas "Roads"

The crimson beds of sleeping airs - Hugh Miller Thompson "Sleeping" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

Hushes the rocks to sleep - "'Tis Sweet to Roam"

Not stirred from sleep - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Bear"

And ten thousand sleepy heavens - Edwin Torres "Not so Fast Food"

Never sleeps afraid - Edwin Torres "Under Venus's Hair"

Pilgrim souls that will not sleep - Iris Tree "Bahama Islands I"

My soul is a sleeping gondola - Iris Tree "[I should like to say to the world]"

No scarves of sleep and silence - Iris Tree "Streets"

Where lethe laps the wharf of sleeping streams - Iris Tree "[Winding down the streets in wearied gaiety]"

The sleep of the young and unknowing - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"

Carry his doom to sleep - Natasha Trethewey "Mythmaker"

Shall not even yield to sleep - Louis Untermeyer "The Great Carousal"

Among sleep's tranced citizenry - John Updike "Song of Myself"

To brood upon the sleeping silences - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours IV" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

The hills never turned in their sleep - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament IV"

A candle will guard his sleep - Derek Walcott "Roman Peace"

With a patience full of sleep - Margaret Walker "The Struggle Staggers Us"

Losing language in my sleep - Valerie Welaufer "I do not remember my own name"

Have made a secret pact with Sleep - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Midnight seas that never sleep - Helen Hay Whitney "To B.D."

Egypt's Amun roused from sleep - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Great mother of eternal sleep - Oscar Wilde "The Grave of Shelley"

Churning out valleys in her sleep - "Wildlife Encounter"

Stood and loved you while you slept - Miller Williams "A Poem for Emily"

Cutting my life with sleep - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"

Wise trees stand sleeping in the cold - William Carlos Williams "Winter Trees"

Better a cluster of stars than another bad sleep - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"

His eyes a web of sleep - Yvor Winters "The Moonlight"

When holy twilight reaches the sleeping cedar - Humbert Wolfe "V.D.F. (Ave atque Vale.)"

Winds come to me from the fields of sleep - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"

To celebrate an indefensible sleep - Jay Wright "Sasa"

Through an opening in my sleep - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season"

I've slept away the sun - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"

Make their living out of sleep - Jane Yolen "Winter Song of the Weasel"

My favorite room for sleep - Emily Jungmin Yoon "American Dream"

The pillared halls of sleep - Francis Brett Young "Invocation"

Sleep echoed my ghostly tread - Francis Brett Young "Invocation"

To doubt his sleep - Matthew Zapruder "There Is a Light"

The ones that sleep in their ink - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 3" transl. by Katherine Silver

The stunned and sleeping landscape - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 8" transl. by Katherine Silver


Their bones are coldsleep coral now - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"


Counting's hard in half-sleep - Jenny Xie "Rootless"


The nightmare-sleep of nations - James Clarence Mangan "Hymn for Pentecost"


Like frost that had over-slept - Edmond McKenna "Prelude"


In the Seven Sleepers' den - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"


Shapeshifting sleeper agents hiding in plain sight - Adam Ford "Arrival!"


Sleepless.


Sleepwalk.


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