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"
Destiny will bring the bowl of sleep - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan I" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
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"
Where all the hopes are sleeping - Effie Afton "Ellen"
From the starless waters of sleep - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"
In sleep we lapse and lose ourselves - Thomas Aird "An Evening Walk" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXVII, May 1851, v.LXIX]
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"
Hush of motion and a sleep of will - Charlotte F. Bates "Rest" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.102, June 1876]
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 waking or sleeping the same - Samuel Alfred Beadle "Alice"
In solemn silence sleeping - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"
The keys of all the doors of sleep - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"
the war has slept next to me in bed - Nisrine Mbarki Ben-Ayad "war" transl. by Michele Hutchinson
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"
Stained with the odors of sleeping wine-songs - Maxwell Bodenheim "Myself: Meeting"
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"
While they slept the clock stopt newly wound - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
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')"
Cutting sleep & dream with light & heat - F. Douglas Brown "Aubade with Edits"
Sleeping and waking when apart not separate - Lee Ann Brown "Sustain Petal"
Sleep bestowing her favours illicitly - Paul Cameron Brown "Desire"
In the sleep of ocean's azure gulfs - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
Has sleep conquered love? - [Annie Winifred Ellerman] Bryher "In Exile"
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
Where sleep and storm will set their bar - Bliss Carman "At the Voice of a Bird"
Dust and shadow and forgetting, frost and reverie and sleep - Bliss Carman "Pulvis et Umbra"
Ash of ruined days and sleep - Bliss Carman "Pulvis et Umbra"
Where the wind sleeps in the cradle of the foam - Bliss Carman "Wayfaring"
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"
Upon the sleeping echoes of the night - Lewis Carroll "The Path of Roses"
Sunk in honeyed sleep - Willa Cather "Autumn Melody"
Once smelled a rose in sleep - Willa Cather "Thou Art the Pearl"
Sleep while the storm-winds blow - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XL"
Sleep till the foes of God and goodness tire - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XL"
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"
The cables of our sleep so swiftly filed - Hart Crane "Voyages V"
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)"
Pharaohs and their armies sleep there - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A song that sleeps, and waits a singer - Olive Custance "Twilight" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
Sleeps on the stones of Delphi - H.D. "Demeter"
We no longer sleep in the wind - H.D. "The Wind Sleepers"
Reluctant fires in dread suspension sleep - Erasmus Darwin "The Botanic Garden part 1: The Economy of Vegetation canto I"
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
Vanished at the hurrying touch of sleep - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
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"
Moving through the dark while the world sleeps on - Rita Dove "Insomnia Etiquette"
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"
Tread with sleep filled hearts on drowsy feet - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"
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"
While strengthening sleep is given - Charlotte Elliott "Saturday Evening"
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"
When overcome by Bacchus' gifts he sleeps - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
While the degenerate sleep to wake no more - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
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"
At night I sleep under a vast epiphany - Monica Ferrell "Subclinical"
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"
From sleeping leagues of orange bloom - Nora May French "The Spanish Girl"
Nor knew they passed like wraiths of sleep - Nora May French "The Spanish Girl"
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"
And sleep the time out in dependence - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
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"
That one word through my sleep - Robert Graves "A Child's Nightmare"
Hungry hours when the gods sleep and snore - Robert Graves "Retrospect: The Jests of the Clock"
In the dark between Forever Sleep and trajectory - Lora Gray "Jupiter of Jupiter" [Strange Horizons 6 June 2016]
Between Forever Sleep and trajectory - Lora Gray "Jupiter of Jupiter"
A tough sea of sightless eyes and murdered sleep - Nicolás Guillén "Exile" transl. by Roberto Marquez and David Arthur McMurray
The dream of childhood sleeps - Louise Imogen Guiney "Cyclamen"
A dark sleep, or sleep that held one dream - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"
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"
Where rests the mighty one in sleep - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel [Judah Halevi] "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
That other dreamless sleep of rest - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Sleeping in the mind of the snake - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
The fog steals our children while we sleep - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
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"
Night will spill sleep in your day weary eye - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Nocturne" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The shape of deep sleep - Anne Hebert "Bread Is Born"
The topaz breath of the sleeping sun - Ben Hecht "Three Flesh-tints: A Nude" [The Little Review, May 1916, v.3, no.3]
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"
Pour a glass of sleep to take - Aileen Cleveland Higgins "An Appeal to Science"
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,]"
Sleep descends on a soft Storm of Light - David Hornibrook "Vespers"
When the trump shall wake the sleeping - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
That in the cell of hoarding memory long had slept - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "Song [She knew me not, although her breast]" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.4, Oct. 1852]
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
Stirred in their nightmare sleep - Aldous Huxley "Leda"
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"
These dreams sleep like palimpsests in ancient manuscripts - Richard Jackson "String Theory"
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"
For passion sleeps alas and keeps no vigil with the years - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Recessional" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
With Sappho sleep like the stars at dawn - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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"
Where the black pools sleep in shadow - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
A fevered sleep with vague and unintelligible dreams - H.G.K. "The Wanderer" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXXIV, no.CCCCLVI, Oct. 1853]
Sleepy creatures of blood & fog - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"
Sleep like brides in violets - Laura Kasischke "Daysleep"
The last redemption of a long, long sleep - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"
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"
A land where the strange forests sleep - Henry Kendall "The Barcoo"
Famine of sleep in his eyes - T.M. Kettle "Ennui"
Paying the price of the dreams that cannot sleep - T.M. Kettle "A Nation's Freedom"
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"
Till Armageddon break our sleep - Rudyard Kipling "Song of the Old Guard"
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"
My sleeping baby hangs upon my life - D.H. Lawrence "A Baby Asleep After Pain"
Everything shut up and gone to sleep - D.H. Lawrence "Bei Hennef"
Till the grey downs dulled to sleep - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"
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"
Drugged dense in the sleep of the wheel - D.H. Lawrence "The North Country"
Where the bat hangs sleeping - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
Above the sleeping eyelids of the senses - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Fame blows his silver trumpet o'er thy sleep - Richard Le Gallienne "Alfred Tennyson"
The mouth still full of sleeping song - Richard Le Gallienne "Alfred Tennyson"
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"
Arthur sleeps far hence in Avalon - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: IV. Victory"
In hours I stole from sleep - E. Anna Lewis "The Last Hour of Sappho" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.4, Oct. 1852]
After three nights of not sleeping, three nights of listening - Robin Coste Lewis "Reason"
When the sick world cries, how can he sleep? - Vachel Lindsay "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
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"
Sleeps in a cemetery of rusted cars - Angela Liu "The Church at the Edge of Time" [Strange Horizons 14 April 2025]
A lurch of earth on the edge of sleep - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"
With silence-sandalled Sleep - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"
No lagging pulse impedes our sleep - George Lunt "Skating" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.2, Feb. 1841]
And sleeping men to discontent shall tease - Annie Macdonell "Reiselust" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
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"
And Nehemiah in sleep embraced below - Herman Melville "Clarel" [excerpt - The Inscription]
The spell that charms your sleep - Herman Melville "John Marr and Other Sailors"
Sleeping on a stone bed of lichen and moss - Meng Hao-jan "Climbing Deer-Gate Mountain, Thoughts of Ancient Times" transl. by David Hinton
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"
Younger sister of stern Death and Sleep - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Sonnet to Nemesis, Goddess of Remorse"
A pilot light inside your sleep - Wayne Miller "Mind-Body Problem"
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"
When an ecstasy of starry silence sleeps - Sarojini Naidu "The Poet's Love-Song"
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
A field could show how to sleep without walls - Naomi Shihab Nye "Yellow Glove"
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"
Till on my brain Sleep's filmy finger falls - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
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"
Sleepy cows aroused by sauntering flies - Louisa Frances Poulter "Imagination, a poem in two parts" [Excerpted in a review in Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]
Needs no sleep - Jack Prelutsky "The Wizard"
Imaged in the sleeping stream - Geo. D. Prentiss "Lines [The Sunset's sweet and holy blush]"
The river stirs only to sing you to sleep - Mary N. Prescott "Rock-a-bye" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.7, May 1886]
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"
And kiss upon the Borderland of Sleep - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe "Song of Good-bye"
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"
Launched on a sea of sleep - J.B.S. [James Brown per the poet's bio at the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry site.] "The Two Seas" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.155, v.III, 18 Dec. 1886]
Whether our sleep be the first or last - J.B.S. [James Brown per the poet's bio at the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry site.] "The Two Seas" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.155, v.III, 18 Dec. 1886]
Have you woken the sleeping thunder and taken it unaware? - Vita Sackville-West "Ad Astra"
Dreams travel at night in the sleep of seas - Rodney Saint-Éloi "Chant in the Country of Shadows" [excerpt] transl. by Nathalie Handal
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"
And leave them bleak in sleep - Evelyn Scott "Manhattan the Unpeopled City: Snow Dance"
Sought to borrow sleep from sorrow - Frederick George Scott "Sorrow's Waking"
When thy sleep shall be broken by trumpet and drum - Sir Walter Scott "Lullaby of an Infant Chief"
Sleeping peacefully in the starlight - Marjorie Seiffert "The Picnic"
Dimly-glowing bells of sleeping sea-anemones - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"
While Endymion sleeps on Latmos top alone - Edward Shanks "Song for an Unwritten Play"
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"
All the sheeted lake of sleeping silences - Odell Shepard "Birds of Passage"
Sleep with a sharp blade clutched in my fists - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beastly"
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"
The meek cowslips still folded in sleep - B. Simmons "To a Caged Skylark, Regent's Circus, Piccadilly" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCV, v.LXIV, Sept. 1848]
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"
What first your sleeping wrath awoke? - Charles Sprague "An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City"
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"
All the waste of sea, that slept in wizard slumber - Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro "Agathè--A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras II" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]
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"
While our boat beneath the willows sleeps - Mrs. J.H. Thomas "Hours in August" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.6, Dec. 1852]
Myriad happy islands sleeping on the tide - Mrs. J.H. Thomas "Hours in August" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.6, Dec. 1852]
The crimson beds of sleeping airs - Hugh Miller Thompson "Sleeping" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Blown through the still regions of sleep - James Maurice Thompson "The Song-Wind" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.89, May 1875]
Stir the sleeping soil to effort - Maurice Thompson "Blooming" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.102, June 1876]
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"
Slept on unknowing in that early dawn - Tsiang-Tien "To the Dancing-Girl Siao-Ling" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
And go out to sleep among the bamboos - Tu Fu "The Blue Robe" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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
Leap forth in terror from their haunted sleep - George Sylvester Viereck "The Buried City"
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"
With things the river whispers in its sleep - Kathleen Montgomery Wallace "Walnut-Tree Court"
Slept nights beneath my east window - Wang An-Shih "Death of My Horse" transl. by David Hinton
Offer comforting darkness of sleep - Wang An-Shih "On the Terrace, for Mind-Source" transl. by David Hinton
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"
Love release your sleeping memories - Theodore Wratislaw "To Salomé at St. James's" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
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"
A name to wake into and music to sleep through - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]
Can sleep into afternoon and still wake soaring - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]
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!"
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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"
Destiny will bring the bowl of sleep - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan I" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
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"
Where all the hopes are sleeping - Effie Afton "Ellen"
From the starless waters of sleep - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"
In sleep we lapse and lose ourselves - Thomas Aird "An Evening Walk" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXVII, May 1851, v.LXIX]
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"
Hush of motion and a sleep of will - Charlotte F. Bates "Rest" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.102, June 1876]
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 waking or sleeping the same - Samuel Alfred Beadle "Alice"
In solemn silence sleeping - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"
The keys of all the doors of sleep - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"
the war has slept next to me in bed - Nisrine Mbarki Ben-Ayad "war" transl. by Michele Hutchinson
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"
Stained with the odors of sleeping wine-songs - Maxwell Bodenheim "Myself: Meeting"
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"
While they slept the clock stopt newly wound - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
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')"
Cutting sleep & dream with light & heat - F. Douglas Brown "Aubade with Edits"
Sleeping and waking when apart not separate - Lee Ann Brown "Sustain Petal"
Sleep bestowing her favours illicitly - Paul Cameron Brown "Desire"
In the sleep of ocean's azure gulfs - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
Has sleep conquered love? - [Annie Winifred Ellerman] Bryher "In Exile"
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
Where sleep and storm will set their bar - Bliss Carman "At the Voice of a Bird"
Dust and shadow and forgetting, frost and reverie and sleep - Bliss Carman "Pulvis et Umbra"
Ash of ruined days and sleep - Bliss Carman "Pulvis et Umbra"
Where the wind sleeps in the cradle of the foam - Bliss Carman "Wayfaring"
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"
Upon the sleeping echoes of the night - Lewis Carroll "The Path of Roses"
Sunk in honeyed sleep - Willa Cather "Autumn Melody"
Once smelled a rose in sleep - Willa Cather "Thou Art the Pearl"
Sleep while the storm-winds blow - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XL"
Sleep till the foes of God and goodness tire - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XL"
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"
The cables of our sleep so swiftly filed - Hart Crane "Voyages V"
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)"
Pharaohs and their armies sleep there - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A song that sleeps, and waits a singer - Olive Custance "Twilight" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
Sleeps on the stones of Delphi - H.D. "Demeter"
We no longer sleep in the wind - H.D. "The Wind Sleepers"
Reluctant fires in dread suspension sleep - Erasmus Darwin "The Botanic Garden part 1: The Economy of Vegetation canto I"
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
Vanished at the hurrying touch of sleep - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
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"
Moving through the dark while the world sleeps on - Rita Dove "Insomnia Etiquette"
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"
Tread with sleep filled hearts on drowsy feet - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"
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"
While strengthening sleep is given - Charlotte Elliott "Saturday Evening"
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"
When overcome by Bacchus' gifts he sleeps - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
While the degenerate sleep to wake no more - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
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"
At night I sleep under a vast epiphany - Monica Ferrell "Subclinical"
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"
From sleeping leagues of orange bloom - Nora May French "The Spanish Girl"
Nor knew they passed like wraiths of sleep - Nora May French "The Spanish Girl"
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"
And sleep the time out in dependence - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
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"
That one word through my sleep - Robert Graves "A Child's Nightmare"
Hungry hours when the gods sleep and snore - Robert Graves "Retrospect: The Jests of the Clock"
In the dark between Forever Sleep and trajectory - Lora Gray "Jupiter of Jupiter" [Strange Horizons 6 June 2016]
Between Forever Sleep and trajectory - Lora Gray "Jupiter of Jupiter"
A tough sea of sightless eyes and murdered sleep - Nicolás Guillén "Exile" transl. by Roberto Marquez and David Arthur McMurray
The dream of childhood sleeps - Louise Imogen Guiney "Cyclamen"
A dark sleep, or sleep that held one dream - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"
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"
Where rests the mighty one in sleep - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel [Judah Halevi] "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
That other dreamless sleep of rest - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Sleeping in the mind of the snake - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
The fog steals our children while we sleep - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
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"
Night will spill sleep in your day weary eye - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Nocturne" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The shape of deep sleep - Anne Hebert "Bread Is Born"
The topaz breath of the sleeping sun - Ben Hecht "Three Flesh-tints: A Nude" [The Little Review, May 1916, v.3, no.3]
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"
Pour a glass of sleep to take - Aileen Cleveland Higgins "An Appeal to Science"
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,]"
Sleep descends on a soft Storm of Light - David Hornibrook "Vespers"
When the trump shall wake the sleeping - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
That in the cell of hoarding memory long had slept - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "Song [She knew me not, although her breast]" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.4, Oct. 1852]
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
Stirred in their nightmare sleep - Aldous Huxley "Leda"
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"
These dreams sleep like palimpsests in ancient manuscripts - Richard Jackson "String Theory"
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"
For passion sleeps alas and keeps no vigil with the years - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Recessional" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
With Sappho sleep like the stars at dawn - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
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"
Where the black pools sleep in shadow - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]
A fevered sleep with vague and unintelligible dreams - H.G.K. "The Wanderer" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXXIV, no.CCCCLVI, Oct. 1853]
Sleepy creatures of blood & fog - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"
Sleep like brides in violets - Laura Kasischke "Daysleep"
The last redemption of a long, long sleep - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"
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"
A land where the strange forests sleep - Henry Kendall "The Barcoo"
Famine of sleep in his eyes - T.M. Kettle "Ennui"
Paying the price of the dreams that cannot sleep - T.M. Kettle "A Nation's Freedom"
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"
Till Armageddon break our sleep - Rudyard Kipling "Song of the Old Guard"
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"
My sleeping baby hangs upon my life - D.H. Lawrence "A Baby Asleep After Pain"
Everything shut up and gone to sleep - D.H. Lawrence "Bei Hennef"
Till the grey downs dulled to sleep - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"
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"
Drugged dense in the sleep of the wheel - D.H. Lawrence "The North Country"
Where the bat hangs sleeping - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
Above the sleeping eyelids of the senses - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Fame blows his silver trumpet o'er thy sleep - Richard Le Gallienne "Alfred Tennyson"
The mouth still full of sleeping song - Richard Le Gallienne "Alfred Tennyson"
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"
Arthur sleeps far hence in Avalon - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: IV. Victory"
In hours I stole from sleep - E. Anna Lewis "The Last Hour of Sappho" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.4, Oct. 1852]
After three nights of not sleeping, three nights of listening - Robin Coste Lewis "Reason"
When the sick world cries, how can he sleep? - Vachel Lindsay "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
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"
Sleeps in a cemetery of rusted cars - Angela Liu "The Church at the Edge of Time" [Strange Horizons 14 April 2025]
A lurch of earth on the edge of sleep - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"
With silence-sandalled Sleep - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"
No lagging pulse impedes our sleep - George Lunt "Skating" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.2, Feb. 1841]
And sleeping men to discontent shall tease - Annie Macdonell "Reiselust" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
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"
And Nehemiah in sleep embraced below - Herman Melville "Clarel" [excerpt - The Inscription]
The spell that charms your sleep - Herman Melville "John Marr and Other Sailors"
Sleeping on a stone bed of lichen and moss - Meng Hao-jan "Climbing Deer-Gate Mountain, Thoughts of Ancient Times" transl. by David Hinton
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"
Younger sister of stern Death and Sleep - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Sonnet to Nemesis, Goddess of Remorse"
A pilot light inside your sleep - Wayne Miller "Mind-Body Problem"
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"
When an ecstasy of starry silence sleeps - Sarojini Naidu "The Poet's Love-Song"
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
A field could show how to sleep without walls - Naomi Shihab Nye "Yellow Glove"
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"
Till on my brain Sleep's filmy finger falls - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
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"
Sleepy cows aroused by sauntering flies - Louisa Frances Poulter "Imagination, a poem in two parts" [Excerpted in a review in Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]
Needs no sleep - Jack Prelutsky "The Wizard"
Imaged in the sleeping stream - Geo. D. Prentiss "Lines [The Sunset's sweet and holy blush]"
The river stirs only to sing you to sleep - Mary N. Prescott "Rock-a-bye" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.7, May 1886]
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"
And kiss upon the Borderland of Sleep - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe "Song of Good-bye"
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"
Launched on a sea of sleep - J.B.S. [James Brown per the poet's bio at the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry site.] "The Two Seas" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.155, v.III, 18 Dec. 1886]
Whether our sleep be the first or last - J.B.S. [James Brown per the poet's bio at the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry site.] "The Two Seas" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.155, v.III, 18 Dec. 1886]
Have you woken the sleeping thunder and taken it unaware? - Vita Sackville-West "Ad Astra"
Dreams travel at night in the sleep of seas - Rodney Saint-Éloi "Chant in the Country of Shadows" [excerpt] transl. by Nathalie Handal
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"
And leave them bleak in sleep - Evelyn Scott "Manhattan the Unpeopled City: Snow Dance"
Sought to borrow sleep from sorrow - Frederick George Scott "Sorrow's Waking"
When thy sleep shall be broken by trumpet and drum - Sir Walter Scott "Lullaby of an Infant Chief"
Sleeping peacefully in the starlight - Marjorie Seiffert "The Picnic"
Dimly-glowing bells of sleeping sea-anemones - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"
While Endymion sleeps on Latmos top alone - Edward Shanks "Song for an Unwritten Play"
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"
All the sheeted lake of sleeping silences - Odell Shepard "Birds of Passage"
Sleep with a sharp blade clutched in my fists - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beastly"
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"
The meek cowslips still folded in sleep - B. Simmons "To a Caged Skylark, Regent's Circus, Piccadilly" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCV, v.LXIV, Sept. 1848]
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"
What first your sleeping wrath awoke? - Charles Sprague "An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City"
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"
All the waste of sea, that slept in wizard slumber - Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro "Agathè--A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras II" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]
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"
While our boat beneath the willows sleeps - Mrs. J.H. Thomas "Hours in August" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.6, Dec. 1852]
Myriad happy islands sleeping on the tide - Mrs. J.H. Thomas "Hours in August" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.6, Dec. 1852]
The crimson beds of sleeping airs - Hugh Miller Thompson "Sleeping" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Blown through the still regions of sleep - James Maurice Thompson "The Song-Wind" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.89, May 1875]
Stir the sleeping soil to effort - Maurice Thompson "Blooming" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.102, June 1876]
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"
Slept on unknowing in that early dawn - Tsiang-Tien "To the Dancing-Girl Siao-Ling" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
And go out to sleep among the bamboos - Tu Fu "The Blue Robe" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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
Leap forth in terror from their haunted sleep - George Sylvester Viereck "The Buried City"
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"
With things the river whispers in its sleep - Kathleen Montgomery Wallace "Walnut-Tree Court"
Slept nights beneath my east window - Wang An-Shih "Death of My Horse" transl. by David Hinton
Offer comforting darkness of sleep - Wang An-Shih "On the Terrace, for Mind-Source" transl. by David Hinton
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"
Love release your sleeping memories - Theodore Wratislaw "To Salomé at St. James's" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
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"
A name to wake into and music to sleep through - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]
Can sleep into afternoon and still wake soaring - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]
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!"
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