Potential Titles: Upon
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somethingdarkerStanding upon the awful brink - A.L.O.E. "Death-Bed Hymn"
Bears upon its rapid wing - A.L.O.E. "Never Forsaken"
Relies upon time and erosions - Elmaz Abinader "Lines of Demarcation"
Are banqueted upon a thunderstorm - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XXXII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
Swinging upon Time's parachute - Harold Acton "Invocation"
Once upon a second time - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"
Looked upon the compass of his soul - A.C. Ainsworth "The Meeting at Sea"
Could stay their fiery steeds upon the way - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
The earth that rides upon his neck - "Alexander the Great"
Upon the whitened walls of Jericho - Willis Boyd Allen "Blind"
A ruined mass upon the hearth - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"
Smote and beat upon by clutch and strain - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]
The winds tread light upon the grass - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]
Upon the mirror of the mind - Auguste Angellier "Tranquil Habit" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Better dwell with youth upon the mountains - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXX: Youth and Age" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Stars keep great guard upon you - T.H.W. Armstrong "Watching"
Borne upon the steam-ploughed current - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
Breathes upon a seraph's lyre - William Thompson Bacon "Pen and Ink"
Upon the forehead of the firmament - Benjamin West Ball "Cymindis"
That float upon the Elfin breeze - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Could run upon the breeze - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
A valiant guard upon her right - Mrs. Sale Barker "The Fairy Queen"
Bestow a few crumbs upon us to-day - Mrs. Sale Barker "The Robin's Song"
To lay your hands upon the sun - William Francis Barnard "To the Enemies of Free Speech"
The mortal fruit upon the bough - Djuna Barnes "First Communion"
In waves of light upon the far, dim shades of night - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The strife that ever waits upon the race for gold - Charles H. Barstow "On the Coast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.34-v.I, 23 Aug. 1884]
Upon the spokes of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "In His Image"
Swing upon circles of darkness - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
Upon the altar stone of truth - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Song"
Upon the dappled curtain of the sky - Cora C. Bass "'Mid Eternal Snow"
Flee upon the pinions of a song - Cora C. Bass "Old Year, Adieu"
Upon a good foundation based - Cora C. Bass "Press On"
Herds at rest upon the sands - Charles Baudelaire "The Accursed" transl. not credited
Moths upon the wings of chance - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited
Upon his back an enormous Chimaera - Charles Baudelaire "Every Man His Chimaera" transl. not credited
Sad sand upon the desert's verge - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited
Brought alms in floods upon his head - Charles Baudelaire "The Seven Old Men" transl. not credited
Embark upon the Shadowy Sea - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Set upon the scented Lotus flower - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Used the name we had agreed upon - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"
Upon her Seven Hills Rome rules the seas and tides - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
Broke upon them like a million swords - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
Burns like snow upon the mind - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"
Settling well his harp upon his back - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two at the Crossroads"
Space's Pandora-box loosed its wonders upon him - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
Inscribed upon their leaves the words - Park Benjamin "Lines Sent with a Bouquet"
Memory will lay its hands upon your breast - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Hatred" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
An entire career built upon leapfrogging elephants - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"
Writing magic things in flame, upon the wall of night - Stella Benson "The Inevitable"
To-morrow comes and beats upon the door - Stella Benson "The Secret Day"
Built the towers of cliffs upon the sands - Stella Benson "The Secret Day"
Painted peace upon the sky above - Stella Benson "The Secret Day"
A house upon the brink of high and twisted cliffs - Stella Benson "The Secret Day"
And scorch to death upon a bank of stars - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"
The clutch of God's great rocks upon my keel - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"
Upon the beach the traces of my dancing - Stella Benson "Song [There is the track my feet have worn]"
Heap wood upon the fire to banish shadow - John Berryman "The Possessed"
Upon the vision of October days - Paul Bewsher "Dreams of Autumn"
Upon my midnight quest - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"
Bearing up the balm upon their beating wings - "The Birth of the Lily" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.2, Sept. 1863]
While treading upon barren shores - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
A single rose upon a wand - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
Walk upon the unwalked - Robert Bly "Gratitude to Old Teachers"
Pressed upon a slippery, dodging ghost - Max Bodenheim "Definitions"
Upon the blue tomb of the air - Maxwell Bodenheim "Minna (IX)"
Upon the last edges of thought - Maxwell Bodenheim "Psychic Clowns"
Upon the plodding, emaciated days - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"
Night will lean upon them - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"
The trampled blasphemy upon her - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"
Night has broken her heart upon him - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"
That made a nest upon a currant bush - John R. Bolles "Lullaby [There, lullaby, and I will sing to you]"
Wash me with a wave of wind upon the barley - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Held a rich full moon upon your heart - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Upon a mountain stirring a surmise of floods - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
The sky was come upon the earth at last - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"
More closely press upon that midnight air - Gordon Bottomley "New Year's Eve, 1913"
Painted upon that fluttering kite - Louise Morey Bowman "The Birth-Night"
Powder of diamond upon a silver birch - Louise Morey Bowman "Deep Snow"
Settled awhile upon the mast - Richard Bowen "Genius" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
A kiss in youth upon a dead man's brow - William Stanley Braithwaite "Scintilla" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
My head upon the breast of time - Roscoe W. Brink "Helen Is Ill"
Nothing else for pain to feast upon - Ruth Margaret Muskrat [Bronson] "Nunih Waiyah"
Till dawn upon the hills shall smile - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"
Chance upon dark laughter - Paul Cameron Brown "Chance Upon"
The transient wrappings upon our lives - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"
A spark upon which minnows play - Paul Cameron Brown "The Gingham Dream Utterance"
Light dripping upon forlorn gossamer - Paul Cameron Brown "Gossamer Threads"
Look out upon further marvels - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"
Chess pieces resting upon the jade mantle - Paul Cameron Brown "Pondicherry"
Quench the fire upon my hearth of trust - Evelyn Gage Browne "The Open Door"
Upon the threshold of my lips - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Revealed--Not Spoken"
Muse upon eternity's constraint - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Cheerfulness Taught by Reason"
Lie still upon his heart--which breaks below thee - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Dead Rose"
Infinite upon his finite soul - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"
Left flat upon a dismal shore - Elizabeth Barrett Barrett [Browning] "A Reed" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXII, v.LX, Oct. 1846]
Sings upon the earth grave-riven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraph and Poet"
Upon their burning lips a thought - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Wild hymns upon the scented air - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
Cast then upon me unillumined night - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"
Hoops through which to leap upon meanings - Witter Bynner "Horses"
That spell upon the minds of men - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
In loitering mood upon the sand - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
To prevent the body's claim upon the heart - Scott Cairns "Loves"
The damage Greek has wrought upon your tongue - Scott Cairns "Loves"
Pearl ships upon a sapphire sea - F. O. Call "The Answer"
Upon whose tide we drift into the night - Frank Oliver Call "Eternity"
Nothing remains upon this barren core - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]
Count the living stars upon the walls - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"
Earth's host upon its iron power - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
Fortune smile upon the young - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall
Disappear upon the sorrow-mingled pathway - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Garret" transl. by Frank Sewall
Upon the sleeping echoes of the night - Lewis Carroll "The Path of Roses"
Dashed upon its bed of stone - "The Cascade"
What gladness shines upon them - Willa Cather "Recognition"
Brown upon the woodland leaf - John R. Chamberlain "Lines"
Upon whose blazing path the clouds are dust - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Upon the shore of silver fall asleep - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
The shepherd sun upon his path of gold - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"
And ring upon earth all evil's knell - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"
And figs grew upon the thorn - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"
Love is but an inn upon life's way - Jose Santos Chocano "A Song of the Road" transl. by John Pierrepont Rice
Bear a load of snow upon their backs - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"
Ruin like a biting frost upon the country fell - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
The peasant's curse upon his head - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
and honey was heaped upon my head - Lucille Clifton "beloved"
The liar's curse upon my head - Arthur Hugh Clough "Blank Misgivings of a Creature moving about in Worlds not realized"
Play no tricks upon thy soul - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Heroism upon historic sand - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Turn with sharp stings upon itself - Arthur Hugh Clough "τὸ καλόν."
With such upon her tide, freedom can't reign - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"
Existentialism is imposed upon me - Jie Cohen "Venus Limbs"
To summon owls and bats upon the wing - Mary Coleridge "In Dispraise of the Moon"
Age came upon us, grey and sad - Arthur Colton "The Roman Way"
Heaped-up sods upon the fire - Padraic Colum "An Old Woman of the Roads"
A ruined wreck adrift upon a surging sea - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Lay my heart upon his path - Susan Coolidge "Two Ways to Love. II"
Upon life's stormy sea every ship come in - George Cooper "Sailing the Boats" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
A lonely man upon a lonely shore - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Of time upon the ocean's bed - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
To gaze upon their work and smile - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"
Shaken pears came tumbling in showers upon the ground - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"
Mile upon mile of snow, ice, burning sand - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Shed no beams upon my weak heart - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Built a huge ball of masonry upon a mountain-top - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Burned my hands upon a star - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Mirth was a crown upon his head - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Upon this pale and passion-frozen star - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Floating hands were laid upon me - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"
the breaking of your soul upon my lips - E. E. Cummings "Amores (V)"
Crowd gaily upon oblivion - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
whose white voices pass upon forgetting - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
And stitch, and stitch, upon the dead day's shroud - E. E. Cummings "Sunset"
Without a falter moves upon its way - Wesley Curtwright "The Close of Day" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And call upon the unknown Gods - Olive Custance "The Magic Mirrors"
Intent upon the dusky book of fate - Olive Custance "St. Anthony (The Engraving by Durer)"
Perishes upon burnt grass - H.D. "Acon"
Still bearest immortality upon thy brow - J.D. [Julia Day] "A Meditation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
That falls upon the heart like blight - J.D. [Julia Day] "To a Blind Girl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Nor trace upon the column gray the mildew stain - J.D. [Julia Day] "To a Blind Girl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Breathless upon this birth - T.A. Daly "To a Thrush"
Upon the old roots of an oak - Danske Dandridge "The Night Watch"
And build philosophy upon old schools - Russell W. Davenport "Poem"
Upon their brightest list enroll - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Weave upon the mind's swift loom - Coningsby Dawson "Hallowe'en"
Speed upon plumes of thought - Luis de Camoes "Sonnet VIII" transl. by Viscount Strangford
The Earth upon her diamond axle swayed - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
All to stand upon the turning of a die - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Upon hills of thyme and heather - Walter de la Mare "Happy, Happy It Is To Be"
Perched all upon a sweetbriar bush - Walter de la Mare "The Riddlers"
Forged for my fate upon an anvil dire - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
With planted heel upon the lion's head - Delta "Lines Written in the Isle of Bute" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXVIII, v.LIV, Dec. 1843]
When day shuts in upon our hopes - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
Upon the polar hem - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love X: Transplanted"
The name they dropped upon my face - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XIV: Love's Baptism"
A troubadour upon the elm - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature I"
Homesick feet upon a foreign shore - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LII"
The dew upon a dandelion's sleeve - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XIX: By the Sea"
A spur upon the soul - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXVI"
The wealthy fly upon his pane - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love XXI: Longing"
Upon a pile of wind - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature XII"
Weeping upon a haunted hill - Eric Dickinson "The Garden"
Till rust will come upon the screw - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
A pattern scratched upon a pretty stone - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
Upon whose constant intercession I depend - Chris Dombrowski "Bird in My Boot"
Upon earth we're kings - John Donne "The Anniversary"
Earnest language breaks upon my dreaming ear - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Embarks upon a fiercer derangement - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"
Flashing upon the bough of morning - Jeanne D'Orge "Matins"
Wrote my wish upon a kite - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Wishes"
His heart upon the gale of song - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
Briars and dust upon my brow - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"
Pressed upon the daily custom of the sky - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"
The buds upon the hawthorn spread - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Comes upon a bleak oblivion - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Days and nights far out upon the sky's dark sea - Carol Ann Duffy "New Year"
Knelling crashes upon my dreams - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Waiting"
That ocher sun's crumble upon the tongue - Rebecca Dunham "In Which She Opens the Box"
In that hushed dream upon the height - George William Russell aka A.E. "Parting"
Gave upon my night of lonely grief - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]
The cipher that's writ upon our cell - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"
Pour poison upon the enemy - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Stand wide upon the earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 32. E-Igikalama, the Temple of Lugal-Marada in Marada" transl. by Sophus Helle
To land upon this sea of flames - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "The Sunset and the Flowered Tree"
Upon her head a crown of gold - anonymous? "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men"
Floating upon the tides of sleep - Eleanor Farjeon "Dream-Ships"
Haven upon the tides of sleep - Eleanor Farjeon "Dream-Ships"
Upon the muffled boundaries of the world - Eleanor Farjeon "Night-Piece"
Upon the very boundary of the stars - Eleanor Farjeon "Sonnet VII"
And walked upon the beach of hell - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Anchorless upon the ocean - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "The Changing Light"
As pebbles upon a remote shore - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Enamelled domes tumble upon the grass - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Upon the pale lower terraces of my dream - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Unfolding their fiery globes upon the night - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Stars sparkle upon the tips of my fingers - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"
The light wind upon the poplars - F.S. Flint "Lunch"
Graft their gods upon empires - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"
Fix the thing upon a spinning cylinder - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
Athens and Babylon I breathe upon the night - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
Kneel upon your furnace - Nick Flynn "Put the Load on Me"
A bell upon the night-tide - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2"
Beauty pour upon the strangeness - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"
Upon the earthquake's blasting rage - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Sleep upon enchanted earth - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Weak foliage that is blown upon and bent - Robert Frost "Hyla Brook"
Set forth upon my track to overtake me - Robert Frost "Into My Own"
Dream upon the opposing lights of the hour - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
Dream upon the night-hawks peopling heaven - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
After dark upon the attic stairs - Rose Fyleman "There Are No Wolves in England Now"
Green upon waters grey - Rose Fyleman "This Island"
Upon a blue and yellow day - Zona Gale "Credo"
Upon a dreaming lily - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Upon a rainbow drift of weeds - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Lie upon her grave like flowers - Zona Gale "One Dawn She Woke Me--"
When first the dice of gold upon the board did run - "The Game of Dice" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
All night upon my heart - Theodosia Garrison "The Child"
And fish would feed upon the plain - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Old Nick upon his fingers tended - John Gay "Fable XLII: Juggler and Vice" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Tottering upon Ambition's tower - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Democracy and the Devil will soon put all upon one level - John Gay "Fable LXI: The Pack-Horse and the Carrier" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Breaks upon its rocky shore - Alfred C. Gellis "To the Wenem Mame River"
To trust his weight upon poetic wings - Thomas Gent "Poems"
And gazed upon the awful glare - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Slag"
They who walk upon the heights - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
You cannot set a foot upon the ground - Howard Glyndon "The Home of the Gentians" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Sept. 1880]
Or ever cease to think upon its wrongs - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Upon the fatal night before the storm - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
I die of want upon a bed of gold - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Three times I knocked upon the door - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"
Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
May stand upon a dizzy precipice - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
In heaven to be called upon - Linda Gregerson "My Father Comes Back from the Grave"
You bring back a shadow upon it now - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Leaves a scratch upon the soul - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"
Riding upon the Lightning's wing - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Skating upon plunging rivers - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"
Without a chance to blaze upon the unities of a paper scene - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"
Improvised upon your own delight - Thom Gunn "Lament"
As dust upon thy threshold - Hafiz "The Divan V" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Upon a mountain's brow stood Glory - Jesse Hammond "Cross Roads" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10, no.273, 15 Sept. 1827]
To alight upon the wind-warped upland thorn - Thomas Hardy "Afterwards"
Caught upon a buried sky - Avis Harley "Catching a Butterfly (2)"
Upon the silent sea-swept land - Sadakichi Hartmann "Nocturne"
Bright silver upon hard morning - F.W. Harvey "That I May Be Taught the Gesture of Heaven"
When swells thy roar upon the gale - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
Vibrating still upon the air - Robert Hayden "On Lookout Mountain"
How bright upon the mountain - Robert Hayden "On Lookout Mountain"
Strange fire upon his altars burn - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
The torch upon her beacon-tower - Felicia Hemans "Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte"
Bent upon vast beginnings - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
As I gaze upon the hurrying waters - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne
Upon her pyre of maples fanned to flame - Oliver Herford and John Cecil Clay "Cupid's Fair-Weather Booke: October, Scorpio: The Scorpion"
As dust upon the altar - Faylita Hicks "Coded Binaries"
Blown worldward upon the winds' low monotone - Charles L. Hildreth "Mithra" [Lippincott's Magazine, Nov. 1885]
Cold will soon be fast upon us - Jennie Earngey Hill "Bonny Bunny"
That clearer light did shine my flaws upon - F.A. Hillard "Sonnet [If thou didst love me for imagined fame]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
My love but breathed upon the glass - F.A. Hillard "Two Mirrors" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.85, Jan. 1875]
That rides upon the barbed, jagged hills - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
A ring of fairies upon the biggest plate - Florence Hoatson "Fairies in the Cupboard"
Imposed upon desire - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Gaze not upon his shield of jet - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Dilemma"
Set upon sorrow's edge - Nora Hopper "April in Ireland"
Never lit upon common earth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
Worthless weeds upon the shore of Time - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"
Fasten their hands upon their hearts - A.E. Housman "Last Poems X"
My feet upon the moonlit dust pursue the ceaseless way - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXXVI"
Carved from ruin upon ruin - William Dean Howells "The Faithful of the Gonzaga"
Upon the sacred name of Song - William D. Howells "Prelude (to an Early Book of Verse)"
Upon the back of cherubim - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"
Upon the bulwark of its silence - Ishion Hutchinson "Rocksteady"
As flowers upon the sky - Aldous Huxley "Italy"
These treasured things I laid upon the pyre - Aldous Huxley "Misplaced Love"
Scattered upon the lone and dreary moors - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
Strayed upon the pathless wold - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part II."
The words which burn upon my tongue - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Upon the Book of Time the Autocrat has writ - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Strewn upon the night - Elinor Jenkins "April Nights"
The starry light upon your forehead dims - "John Bull to Jonathan" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
A ghost upon the shore - Emily Pauline Johnson "Dawendine"
Beat with timid hands upon life's leaden door - Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Suppliant" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Fall back upon an earth of ashes - James Weldon Johnson "The Greatest of These Is War"
Upon an island speck of time - James Weldon Johnson "Life"
No change upon the deep - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
No change upon the earth - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
Two boats upon a sea of glass - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Derelicts"
A raven feeding upon a quarter - Ben Jonson "The Witches Song"
Your chariot landed upon rough rock - Zilka Joseph "Prophet of the Rock"
Heard his name upon the bugles of the cherubim - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XI"
Hurry over the dark lands and run upon the sea - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XIII"
The leaves lie thick upon the way of memories - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXXII"
An army charging upon the land - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"
And fingers straying upon an instrument - James Joyce "Strings in the Earth and Air"
In a dark night we sailed upon the lake, alone - H.G.K. "The Aged Disciple Comforting" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCLV, v.LXXIV, Sept. 1853]
That border-land whose hills they rest upon - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VI" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
To nourish life upon the fallen leaf - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Holy oil upon the rising flame - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Enthroned upon the lotus flower - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Layer upon layer of land submerged - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"
Our days upon the high winds - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"
Leave his name upon the harp-string - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Upon Saturn's bended neck - John Keats "Hyperion"
Upon the gold clouds metropolitan - John Keats "Hyperion"
Upon the threshold of the west - John Keats "Hyperion"
As Hope upon her anchor leans - John Keats "Hyperion"
The soft wind upon their summer thrones - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
Soft incense hangs upon the boughs - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
A moan upon the midnight hours - John Keats "Psyche"
Leagues upon leagues of sealed history - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Petals of light upon darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Upon my heart lies his first token - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"
Conjured upon the glassy wave - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"
Apollo's smile upon its current - Fanny Kemble "Impromptu"
Upon Time's flinty road - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"
A flood of glory hands upon the world - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [I hear a voice low in the sunset woods]"
Day's chariot-wheels upon th' horizon - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"
Upon the face of this blank earth - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"
Upon the emblazoned leaf of fame - Fanny Kemble "A Wish [Let me not die forever when I'm laid]"
Looking upon the never-resting earth - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"
Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Heaping upon themselves more deep damnation - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Azrael's eyes upon her, Raphael's wings above - Rudyard Kipling "Jane's Marriage"
As the present falls upon the past - Christopher Kondrich "Bellfounding"
Carefully placed upon the future - Ted Kooser "This Paper Boat"
Decisions are made and acted upon - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"
With Edelweiss upon her breast - Alexander Lamont "In a Bernese Valley"
Noises upon listless ears - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"
Still upon the utmost rim - Archibald Lampman "Chione"
And scatter dust upon my hair - Archibald Lampman "Peccavi, Domine"
Upon the star-pranked universal vine - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
As one true soul may smile upon another - Latienne "'76" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
A fox upon the hillside - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes V: Wishes"
Knotted in heaven upon the fine light - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"
My sleeping baby hangs upon my life - D.H. Lawrence "A Baby Asleep After Pain"
A sharp sky brushes upon the myriad glittering chimney-tips - D.H. Lawrence "Bombardment"
With the laughter startled upon your eyes - D.H. Lawrence "Letter from Town: The Almond Tree"
And throw confession of delight upon the wave - D.H. Lawrence "Moonrise"
Bleeding its fires upon the mist - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"
Dazzling sunshine streams upon a newborn world - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
And muse upon the consecrated spot - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"
May poise upon a needle's end - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
Balances uneasily upon its three-pronged roots - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
The false light sterile upon our eyelids - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"
Called upon the tide to come - Albert Lee "My Realm"
The act fingermarked upon the weave - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"
If you insist upon leaving - Mary Soon Lee "Advice for Time Travelers"
Stacks upon stacks of postcards - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"
God's wrath upon the wing - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"
That Jove once prevailed upon Juno - Henry S. Leigh "The Olympic Ball"
Upon horrible crimes and murders ghastly - Henry S. Leigh "Romantic Recollections II"
Look back upon the vanished years - Charles G. Leland "Thank God for All" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
All the multiverses looping upon themselves - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
An anthology of sunsets layered upon each other - R.B. Lemberg "The Rotten Leaf Cantata"
Must rely upon ever new adornments - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Trembled upon a border of gold and earth - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"
When the future collapsed upon them - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"
With dollar signs upon their coats - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon - Mary Wallace Bundy Little "The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband"
Come forth upon the breast of June - Rev. William Livingston "In Cherry Lane"
Folded in upon reflection - Audre Lorde "Domino"
Upon which pain will not falter - Audre Lorde "The Night-Blooming Jasmine"
Set a thousand guards upon her - Anonymous "Love's Enterprise"
Outstretched upon your peace - Amy Lowell "The Giver of Stars"
Cut myself upon the thought of you - Amy Lowell "Granadilla"
And marching upon a blue sky - Amy Lowell "Lilacs"
Withered leaves upon the poplars tall - J.R. Lowell "Ballad"
Who feed upon the wind and stars - Mina Loy "Apology of Genius"
And tempests frown upon the forehead of day - Francis J. Lys "Life's Voyage"
Pictured in fire upon the sacred pages - Francis J. Lys "On Re-reading 'Ruth'"
Whispers float upon the liquid air - Francis J. Lys "To the Muse"
Fall back in dust upon my soul - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Pour her dreary note upon the solemn hour - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things III: Ruins" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Acre upon acre of tiny suns turned skyward - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "daisy"
With the changeful wind upon the changeful sea - A.A. Macnichol "The Sea-Rover" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
A bell's intrusion upon sleep - Naomi Long Madgett "Arrival"
Set upon ancient pools of moonlight - Maurice Maeterlinck "Bell-Glasses" transl. by Bernard Miall
An act of treachery done upon a Sabbath - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Soul" transl. by Bernard Miall
When medals shine upon my breast - Augusta A.L. Magra "The Roll-Call of Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.731, 29 Dec. 1877]
Write their name upon its dome - Douglas Malloch "When the Geese Come North"
Wild memories meet upon the sands - Edwin Markham "The Last Furrow"
Upon the lighted roofs of Nineveh - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"
Whose feet upon good errands run - Edwin Markham [Untitled]
Upon the quilted colors of the autumn hills - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"
And the dust upon our hair was gold - Jeannette Marks "The Railroad Station"
Your youth upon its golden way - Jeannette Marks "Sun-Path"
Beating upon the stars with my gold - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"
Resting in my brown upon earth - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"
Shaken moonlight writhed upon the rocks - Don Marquis "The Struggle"
Hearts that yearn upon my track - Philip Bourke Marston "From Afar" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Oct. 1880]
A ship hurled upon dread quicksand - José Martí "Love in the City" transl. by Esther Allen
A ship hurled upon dread - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
Borne upon the chainless air - George Martin "In Memory of Joseph Guibord"
Watchers that wait upon heaven - George Martin "Street Waif"
To cast an eye upon the only cloud in this cold sky - Harry Martinson "Aniara 17" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Of dreams to live upon in cold and evil years - Harry Martinson "Aniara 26" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A beautiful gold leaf upon a choice branch - Harry Martinson "Aniara 51" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Had met to turn their backs upon death's ocean - Harry Martinson "Aniara 100" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Hung upon the magic numbers - Mrs. S.T. Martyn "To Mrs. E.C.K."
That lift the deep upon their backs - Andrew Marvell "Bermudas"
Begotten by despair upon Impossibility - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"
Gazing back upon the skies - Andrew Marvell "A Drop of Dew"
Upon my mouth do crush their wine - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
Wisdom is life upon the tickle edge - John Masefield "Esther"
Upon the soul a check, an inhibition, a control - John Masefield "The Haunted"
A crown of lead upon my brain - John Masefield "King Cole"
Upon his last moon's granites die - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Before the smile upon the Sphinx was cold - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
The wren upon the tree-stump carolled - John Masefield "The Return"
To glint upon mad water - John Masefield "The 'Wanderer'"
A glance of wrath upon her countenance - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
With my soul upon my lips - Edgar Lee Masters "Francis Turner"
Looks upon embowered darkness - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
Upon a thousand little hills - Theodore Maynard "The Holy Spring"
The thick veil upon Heaven's heart - Theodore Maynard "A Reply"
Homeward borne upon a bloody shield - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
And read a reflex upon earth - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
Dreams upon the eyes of white geraniums - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Paints phantom purple upon ancient snow - Adam Mickiewicz "Alushta By Night" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
With the dust upon her eyes - Edna St Vincent Millay "Epitaph"
No dust upon the wayside thorn - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"
Sends his voice upon the gale - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"
To bind myself upon the wheel - "The Misanthrope"
The hate visited upon me - Jenny Molberg "I Am Not Thine, But Thee"
Upon the glacial face of the sky - N. Scott Momaday "The Great Fillmore Street Buffalo Drive"
This thought crowds upon me - Carlos Montezuma "An Evening's Reverie"
Apart, upon a throne of living fire - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Hell" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
With an elephant to ride upon - Marianne Moore "Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight"
Upon the tablet of the human soul - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
And a new music lived upon the floods - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Memory's tears are cold upon thy face - Sarojini Naidu "Imperial Delhi"
When dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky - Sarojini Naidu "Street Cries"
Dry moon poured upon scars - Pablo Neruda "From Above (1942)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Sweet days upon the oats - Pablo Neruda "The Frontier (1904)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Followed upon the pale jaguars - Pablo Neruda "Guatemala" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Upon the same steps that her gods tread - Pablo Neruda "Men IX" transl. by William O'Daly
The cormorant upon the foam - Pablo Neruda "Not Only the Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Silver stars upon the jasmine's hair - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"
A delicate heart beats upon the snow - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Revolves upon its ready hinge - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Flung out upon the freezing storm - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"
Poured intent upon a sea-anemone - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
A god's bones upon the naked hills - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Flashed light upon the cosmos - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Lay hands upon the wheel of the universe - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"
Frowned upon his aeons - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"
Upon the cheek of sorrow - "Nurse's Song" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Called upon our ancient great aunts and their long slow eyes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Truth Serum"
Upon which these future ghosts will cut astonished rivers - Christina Olivares "Portrait"
A rock upon which your dreams founder - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Gods walk out upon a path of stars - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Beat upon our hearts like showers of frozen hail - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Traced its guilty lines upon the page - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Upon whose silver stair expectant angels wait - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Slow, sure round upon the wheels of time - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Alight upon this beggar leaf - Frances S. Osgood "Lines to an Idea that Wouldn't 'Come'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Upon the timid flickerings of our hope - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines Written in Boston on a Beautiful Autumnal Day"
No leaves upon this muddy stream appear - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"
Return upon the world - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"
Brooding upon the womb of absence - Robert Pack "Big Bang" [Poetry, January 1988]
And strive with Fear upon the heights - Herbert E. Palmer "Courage"
Perching high upon the moon - Herbert E. Palmer "The End"
Tens of thousands upon the tongue - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Study Guide Toward Naturalization of the Mouth"
Who set rich wine upon the lees - Gilbert Parker "Their Waving Hands"
Where peace never falls upon the air - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Long Lane"
Rained wrath upon the streets - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"
Writ upon that crazy neon north - Andre F. Peltier "Northern Lights"
Murmuring sounds of life upon another shore - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
Upon the lonely waters of the world - V. De S. Pinto "Swans"
Nor cast a single shade upon the past - J. Pitman (who died in 1825) "Lines to a Young Lady on Her Birthday" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.743, 23 March 1878]
I see His blood upon the rose - Joseph Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"
Wrought its ghost upon the floor - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
The password of the leaves upon the cottonwood - Alexander Posey "To Wahilla Enhotulle"
Go sprinkle the sea-sand upon their eyes - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"
We drop our stones upon the lake - Miriam Clark Potter "A Warning"
Upon the flux of sand - E.J. Pratt "The Flood Tide"
Acid-etched upon her heart - E.J. Pratt "Magnolia Blossoms"
Long poles upon which spin six hells - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"
Who out upon Fate did call - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"
Lay down your head upon my knee - "The Queen of Elfland"
As he reels upon his awful quest - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Doom of the Esquire Bedell"
Snow-flakes that fall upon fire - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"
Feverish light flung hard upon their faces - Paisley Rekdal "Bats"
as it bursts full flame upon the earth - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
A gleaming stone upon which the skyfolk spilled dark earth - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"
Leaning upon sorrow's outstretched hand - "Rhyming Ruminations on Old London Bridge" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20, no.557, 14 July 1832]
With the noon's weight upon my back - Adrienne Rich "A Mark of Resistance"
And Reason pales upon her throat - John Rollin Ridge "The Harp of Broken Strings"
Upon my heart with rapture chained - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"
Beautiful as gulls upon the water - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Upon the silken silence of his feet - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Catch the sun upon their snouts - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Obliterating sands upon its bones - Lola Ridge [Firehead untitled prologue]
Erect upon her wheeling skies - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
That great flame upon the scrolls - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
The first stammering upon the waters - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Impose upon me a sense of sin - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Upon her tongues of iron - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
In the drop poised upon the thorn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"
Light glimpsed upon the rims of vision - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Upon the withered vine of thought - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
A silvery whisper upon the morning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 2: The Unborn"
Reappear upon its foreseen circle - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
No peg to hang their taunts upon - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Sunrise glimmering upon a gallows - Lola Ridge "'Histrionics'"
Silken slippers upon the pinnacles - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Carrying light like sunsets upon wings - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Shadows lay upon the dials' faces - Rainer Maria Rilke "Autumnal Day" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Love's white hand upon my wrist - Charles G.D. Roberts "My Garden"
That crawls upon the clouded sea - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Night in a Down-Town Street"
His feet upon the mountain and his shadow on the pass - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"
Our sacrifice upon the accursed tree - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet IX"
Fresh tears wet upon the hard cold face - Rennell Rodd "Imperator Augustus"
Hues upon the angel's form - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
That seized upon my trembling heart - Joshua Ross "My Ruling Star"
Perfect moonlight upon a rippling stream - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
Only birds might confidently walk upon - Kay Ryan "Thin"
Hand in hand upon the heights - V. Sackville-West "Song: Let Us Go Back"
With his spell upon her spirit - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]
With his chain upon her hand - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]
Upon her peaks in gulfs of solitude - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Spelling enchantment upon the nether Sea - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
The barriers upon knowledge are o'erthrown - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
Full often thorns upon the thread - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
The net they cast upon the wind - James Marcus Schuyler "April"
Our dreams bleed out upon strange altars - Ann K. Schwader "Alien Machines"
The dust of dynasties upon my lips - Ann K. Schwader "Eating Mummy"
Sand upon the wind's tongue scouring - Ann K. Schwader "Horizon of the Aten"
Pristine as dust upon his chalice - Ann K. Schwader "Yhoundeh Fades"
Upon the stark sand reaches - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Change"
Upon the pebbles of her streets - Frederick George Scott "Dion"
Topple and reel upon my burning blood - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"
Upon the silent face of a dark dial in a sunless place - "The Sea of Death"
To set a form upon desired change - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXIX"
Spend revenge upon myself - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLIX"
Upon that path without obvious company - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"
Rides upon the whirlwind - Virna Sheard "The Shells"
Upon his brow a threefold crown - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Stands immortal upon earth - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
And breathed upon the frozen mountains - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
Strewed flowers upon the barren way - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
Blow upon your pipes of joy - Frank Dempster Sherman "Snow Song"
Closed my hands upon a moth - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Beware"
With beads of pain upon his face - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"
A wretch alone upon the lonely seas - B. Simmons "To Swallows on the Eve of Departure" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]
The elves upon their midnight way - Clark Ashton Smith "Fairy Lanterns"
The corroded moon a dust upon the gulfs - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
With the suns upon their road of awe - Clark Ashton Smith "The Ministers of Law"
And cry in vain upon the strand - Clark Ashton Smith "The Mystic Meaning"
Upon the noon of their lost worlds - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
Their will as reins upon the sun - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Red upon the forefront of the north - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Upon the wind's oblivious woe - Clark Ashton Smith "To Nora May French"
Fail not upon the road of space - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
Upon the apprehension of edges - Richard Solomon "Ice in Formation"
Night, lingering, poured upon the world - Leonora Speyer "A Gift"
Pause upon the threshold's rust - Leonora Speyer "Protest in Passing"
As if to break themselves upon its stillness - Leonora Speyer "Swallows"
Upon the summit of the world - W. Force Stead "The Burden of Babylon"
Will shiver upon the banks of the Styx - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"
Upon the verge of folly - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"
Upon a shore wind-swept and desolate - James Stephens "The Shell"
Upon this iron world - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
The sun upon its crimson pyre - George Sterling "At Sunset"
Thy doom upon the poisoned wind - George Sterling "The Day of Decision (CE)"
A skull that glared upon the stars - George Sterling "The Dream of Wilhelm II"
With her dust upon the twilight winds - George Sterling "The Evanescent City"
That sinks upon a lily's breast - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"
Crowned upon the ashen sun - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
A breath upon her hand muted the night - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"
Deer walk upon our mountains - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
Left my dusty self upon the sand - M. Letitia Stockett "Sleep"
Sunlight drops its gold upon the moss - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
The ocean that thunders upon man's soul - Arthur Stringer "The Surrender"
The present upon the patterns of the past - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"
Upon the ridges of her world - L.A.G. Strong "At Punnet's Town"
Heart breaking hand upon the lute - Muriel Stuart "Leda"
Frost upon the eyes of flowers - Muriel Stuart "Leda"
And love was sold upon your lips - Muriel Stuart "To-- [Between two common days this day was hung]"
Unshed tears that lie like stones upon it - Carmen Sylva "Sadness"
Upon my mind the image of that dream - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
The fogs which night gathers upon the earth - G.P.T. "Sonnet [The moon is gliding on her clear blue way]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Water upon water upon water - Adeeba Shahid Talukder "A Love Note"
Upon the threshold of the mind - Tennyson "In Memoriam"
Do grapes grow on brambles or figs upon thorns? - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"
Upon the germ of my heart's passion thrown - Maurice Thompson "Blooming" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.102, June 1876]
Chant to him your evening song upon the spray - James Thomson "To My Robin Redbreast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.726, 24 Nov. 1877]
While prayers of terror freeze upon his lips - Aleksey Konstantovich Tolstoy "The Wolves" transl. by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
The primal curse upon his head - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Labor"
Shackles fall upon the Judgment Day - Jean Toomer "Cotton Song" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Painting dead carnivals upon a fan - Iris Tree "[Among the crumbling arches of decay]"
Mad musicians upon fretted harps - Iris Tree "[As in the silence the clear moonlight drips]"
Launched upon the loneliness of time - Iris Tree "Islands"
Dust upon the huddled corn - Iris Tree "[Like flocks of tired birds]"
Tightening strings upon our spirit's fiddles - Iris Tree "Nerves"
And shut the fingers of wind upon the rushes - Iris Tree "[Shall we be christened poets]"
Feeding upon each other's isolations - Iris Tree "Streets"
Shutting our lips upon a jest - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: Midnight"
An army fierce upon its own destruction - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 1 A. M."
A ship of travel we must board upon our first breath - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
To mount upon these waxen wings - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Same, Continued"
Upon a dark ball spun in Time - Walter J. Turner "Giraffe and Tree"
Where a thought, doubling upon itself, considers the way - Mark Van Doren "The Hills of Little Cornwall"
Walks all night upon a narrow rafter - Mark Van Doren "Midwife Cat"
A warm still wind upon my face - Mark Van Doren "Possession"
Tumble down and in upon our brains - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"
The impartial sun laughs down upon the battle - Henry van Dyke "The Fall of the Leaves"
Upon them the cooling plash of rain - Henry van Dyke "If All The Skies"
Among the golden fruit upon the wall - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Joy" transl. by Alma Strettell
Folly upon the lees of shame - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: St. George" transl. by Alma Strettell
To brood upon the sleeping silences - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours IV" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
Embers of hope upon the ashen air - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Upon inspiring notes of song - H.K.W. "Song of the Carilloneur" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.682, 20 Jan. 1877]
Upon the listening air your silver spell - H.K.W. "Song of the Carilloneur" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.682, 20 Jan. 1877]
Truth rides upon us - Margaret Walker "Delta"
Threw sweet love upon the winds - Charles William Wallace "The Lone Wayside Wild Rose"
And roll upon our serried lines - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Whose grotto stands upon the topmost rock - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"
Where she reflects upon her own reflection - Arthur Waugh "The Beautiful Swan"
Upon me like a lifting music - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"
Upon the summits void of strife - John Hall Wheelock "Travail"
Her kiss upon the brows of dream - John Hall Wheelock "The Undissuadable Austerity"
That can put the salt upon their tails - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"
Glowing amaranth droops upon its stalk - Helen Hay Whitney "Dear Dead Women"
Upon this alien shore I lean - Helen Hay Whitney "In the Mist"
Upon the altar of my heart's despair - Helen Hay Whitney "The Last Gift"
Upon the scaffold's pole of birch - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
A clank upon the gutter - John Wieners "Forthcoming"
Set a lock upon his lips - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
The weight of the sky is upon them - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
Schooled to weep upon the stage - Charlotte Wilson "The Heart Knoweth"
Ghosts upon the trail - Joseph R. Wilson "The Santa Fe Trail"
God upon a crimson wave - Keith S. Wilson "Impression of a Rib"
Gaze out upon the forms of night - Charles Wilton "The Voice of Nature" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
That travels like light upon her sails - "The Wives of Brixham"
Done with wearing gold words upon my heart - Humbert Wolfe "Dedication [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"
The moon upon her silent spindle - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"
Immediate burn upon discovery of ghosts - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"
Which he forbears again to look upon - William Wordsworth "Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes"
Lie upon the plain and listen - William Wordsworth "To the Cuckoo"
Live upon their praises - William Wordsworth "To the Small Celandine"
Bracken upon my memory - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"
Rub a little dust upon your eyes - Elinor Wylie "The Crooked Stick"
The wind scatters tears upon dust - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Scatters tears upon dust - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Tiers upon tiers of checkpoints - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
Trod upon like paving stones - "XV: Tezozomoctli ic Motecpac | The Reign of Tezozomoctli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
The living song descended upon the drum - "XVII: Xochicuicatl | A Flower Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
To smile upon her stars- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Upon the wharves of sorrow- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
And beat upon the bone - W.B. Yeats "Young Man’s Song"
As great storms upon drought-stricken land - Dean Young "I Said Yes but I Meant No" [Poetry Oct. 2003]
Dew upon the lattice panes - Francis Brett Young "After Action"
Powdered arsenic upon his lips - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
How many beads must I still count upon my string of time? - Yuan Chen "An Elegy" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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Bears upon its rapid wing - A.L.O.E. "Never Forsaken"
Relies upon time and erosions - Elmaz Abinader "Lines of Demarcation"
Are banqueted upon a thunderstorm - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XXXII" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
Swinging upon Time's parachute - Harold Acton "Invocation"
Once upon a second time - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"
Looked upon the compass of his soul - A.C. Ainsworth "The Meeting at Sea"
Could stay their fiery steeds upon the way - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
The earth that rides upon his neck - "Alexander the Great"
Upon the whitened walls of Jericho - Willis Boyd Allen "Blind"
A ruined mass upon the hearth - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"
Smote and beat upon by clutch and strain - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]
The winds tread light upon the grass - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]
Upon the mirror of the mind - Auguste Angellier "Tranquil Habit" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Better dwell with youth upon the mountains - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXX: Youth and Age" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Stars keep great guard upon you - T.H.W. Armstrong "Watching"
Borne upon the steam-ploughed current - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
Breathes upon a seraph's lyre - William Thompson Bacon "Pen and Ink"
Upon the forehead of the firmament - Benjamin West Ball "Cymindis"
That float upon the Elfin breeze - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Could run upon the breeze - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
A valiant guard upon her right - Mrs. Sale Barker "The Fairy Queen"
Bestow a few crumbs upon us to-day - Mrs. Sale Barker "The Robin's Song"
To lay your hands upon the sun - William Francis Barnard "To the Enemies of Free Speech"
The mortal fruit upon the bough - Djuna Barnes "First Communion"
In waves of light upon the far, dim shades of night - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
The strife that ever waits upon the race for gold - Charles H. Barstow "On the Coast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.34-v.I, 23 Aug. 1884]
Upon the spokes of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "In His Image"
Swing upon circles of darkness - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"
Upon the altar stone of truth - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Song"
Upon the dappled curtain of the sky - Cora C. Bass "'Mid Eternal Snow"
Flee upon the pinions of a song - Cora C. Bass "Old Year, Adieu"
Upon a good foundation based - Cora C. Bass "Press On"
Herds at rest upon the sands - Charles Baudelaire "The Accursed" transl. not credited
Moths upon the wings of chance - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited
Upon his back an enormous Chimaera - Charles Baudelaire "Every Man His Chimaera" transl. not credited
Sad sand upon the desert's verge - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited
Brought alms in floods upon his head - Charles Baudelaire "The Seven Old Men" transl. not credited
Embark upon the Shadowy Sea - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Set upon the scented Lotus flower - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Used the name we had agreed upon - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"
Upon her Seven Hills Rome rules the seas and tides - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
Broke upon them like a million swords - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"
Burns like snow upon the mind - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"
Settling well his harp upon his back - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two at the Crossroads"
Space's Pandora-box loosed its wonders upon him - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
Inscribed upon their leaves the words - Park Benjamin "Lines Sent with a Bouquet"
Memory will lay its hands upon your breast - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Hatred" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
An entire career built upon leapfrogging elephants - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"
Writing magic things in flame, upon the wall of night - Stella Benson "The Inevitable"
To-morrow comes and beats upon the door - Stella Benson "The Secret Day"
Built the towers of cliffs upon the sands - Stella Benson "The Secret Day"
Painted peace upon the sky above - Stella Benson "The Secret Day"
A house upon the brink of high and twisted cliffs - Stella Benson "The Secret Day"
And scorch to death upon a bank of stars - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"
The clutch of God's great rocks upon my keel - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"
Upon the beach the traces of my dancing - Stella Benson "Song [There is the track my feet have worn]"
Heap wood upon the fire to banish shadow - John Berryman "The Possessed"
Upon the vision of October days - Paul Bewsher "Dreams of Autumn"
Upon my midnight quest - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"
Bearing up the balm upon their beating wings - "The Birth of the Lily" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.2, Sept. 1863]
While treading upon barren shores - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
A single rose upon a wand - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
Walk upon the unwalked - Robert Bly "Gratitude to Old Teachers"
Pressed upon a slippery, dodging ghost - Max Bodenheim "Definitions"
Upon the blue tomb of the air - Maxwell Bodenheim "Minna (IX)"
Upon the last edges of thought - Maxwell Bodenheim "Psychic Clowns"
Upon the plodding, emaciated days - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"
Night will lean upon them - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"
The trampled blasphemy upon her - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"
Night has broken her heart upon him - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"
That made a nest upon a currant bush - John R. Bolles "Lullaby [There, lullaby, and I will sing to you]"
Wash me with a wave of wind upon the barley - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Held a rich full moon upon your heart - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Upon a mountain stirring a surmise of floods - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
The sky was come upon the earth at last - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"
More closely press upon that midnight air - Gordon Bottomley "New Year's Eve, 1913"
Painted upon that fluttering kite - Louise Morey Bowman "The Birth-Night"
Powder of diamond upon a silver birch - Louise Morey Bowman "Deep Snow"
Settled awhile upon the mast - Richard Bowen "Genius" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
A kiss in youth upon a dead man's brow - William Stanley Braithwaite "Scintilla" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
My head upon the breast of time - Roscoe W. Brink "Helen Is Ill"
Nothing else for pain to feast upon - Ruth Margaret Muskrat [Bronson] "Nunih Waiyah"
Till dawn upon the hills shall smile - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"
Chance upon dark laughter - Paul Cameron Brown "Chance Upon"
The transient wrappings upon our lives - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"
A spark upon which minnows play - Paul Cameron Brown "The Gingham Dream Utterance"
Light dripping upon forlorn gossamer - Paul Cameron Brown "Gossamer Threads"
Look out upon further marvels - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"
Chess pieces resting upon the jade mantle - Paul Cameron Brown "Pondicherry"
Quench the fire upon my hearth of trust - Evelyn Gage Browne "The Open Door"
Upon the threshold of my lips - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Revealed--Not Spoken"
Muse upon eternity's constraint - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Cheerfulness Taught by Reason"
Lie still upon his heart--which breaks below thee - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Dead Rose"
Infinite upon his finite soul - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"
Left flat upon a dismal shore - Elizabeth Barrett Barrett [Browning] "A Reed" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXII, v.LX, Oct. 1846]
Sings upon the earth grave-riven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraph and Poet"
Upon their burning lips a thought - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Wild hymns upon the scented air - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"
Cast then upon me unillumined night - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"
Hoops through which to leap upon meanings - Witter Bynner "Horses"
That spell upon the minds of men - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
In loitering mood upon the sand - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
To prevent the body's claim upon the heart - Scott Cairns "Loves"
The damage Greek has wrought upon your tongue - Scott Cairns "Loves"
Pearl ships upon a sapphire sea - F. O. Call "The Answer"
Upon whose tide we drift into the night - Frank Oliver Call "Eternity"
Nothing remains upon this barren core - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]
Count the living stars upon the walls - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"
Earth's host upon its iron power - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
Fortune smile upon the young - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall
Disappear upon the sorrow-mingled pathway - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Garret" transl. by Frank Sewall
Upon the sleeping echoes of the night - Lewis Carroll "The Path of Roses"
Dashed upon its bed of stone - "The Cascade"
What gladness shines upon them - Willa Cather "Recognition"
Brown upon the woodland leaf - John R. Chamberlain "Lines"
Upon whose blazing path the clouds are dust - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Upon the shore of silver fall asleep - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
The shepherd sun upon his path of gold - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"
And ring upon earth all evil's knell - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"
And figs grew upon the thorn - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"
Love is but an inn upon life's way - Jose Santos Chocano "A Song of the Road" transl. by John Pierrepont Rice
Bear a load of snow upon their backs - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"
Ruin like a biting frost upon the country fell - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
The peasant's curse upon his head - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
and honey was heaped upon my head - Lucille Clifton "beloved"
The liar's curse upon my head - Arthur Hugh Clough "Blank Misgivings of a Creature moving about in Worlds not realized"
Play no tricks upon thy soul - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Heroism upon historic sand - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Turn with sharp stings upon itself - Arthur Hugh Clough "τὸ καλόν."
With such upon her tide, freedom can't reign - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"
Existentialism is imposed upon me - Jie Cohen "Venus Limbs"
To summon owls and bats upon the wing - Mary Coleridge "In Dispraise of the Moon"
Age came upon us, grey and sad - Arthur Colton "The Roman Way"
Heaped-up sods upon the fire - Padraic Colum "An Old Woman of the Roads"
A ruined wreck adrift upon a surging sea - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Lay my heart upon his path - Susan Coolidge "Two Ways to Love. II"
Upon life's stormy sea every ship come in - George Cooper "Sailing the Boats" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
A lonely man upon a lonely shore - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Of time upon the ocean's bed - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
To gaze upon their work and smile - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"
Shaken pears came tumbling in showers upon the ground - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"
Mile upon mile of snow, ice, burning sand - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Shed no beams upon my weak heart - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Built a huge ball of masonry upon a mountain-top - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Burned my hands upon a star - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Mirth was a crown upon his head - Countee Cullen "Four Epitaphs: For Paul Laurence Dunbar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Upon this pale and passion-frozen star - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Floating hands were laid upon me - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"
the breaking of your soul upon my lips - E. E. Cummings "Amores (V)"
Crowd gaily upon oblivion - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
whose white voices pass upon forgetting - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
And stitch, and stitch, upon the dead day's shroud - E. E. Cummings "Sunset"
Without a falter moves upon its way - Wesley Curtwright "The Close of Day" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And call upon the unknown Gods - Olive Custance "The Magic Mirrors"
Intent upon the dusky book of fate - Olive Custance "St. Anthony (The Engraving by Durer)"
Perishes upon burnt grass - H.D. "Acon"
Still bearest immortality upon thy brow - J.D. [Julia Day] "A Meditation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
That falls upon the heart like blight - J.D. [Julia Day] "To a Blind Girl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Nor trace upon the column gray the mildew stain - J.D. [Julia Day] "To a Blind Girl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Breathless upon this birth - T.A. Daly "To a Thrush"
Upon the old roots of an oak - Danske Dandridge "The Night Watch"
And build philosophy upon old schools - Russell W. Davenport "Poem"
Upon their brightest list enroll - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Weave upon the mind's swift loom - Coningsby Dawson "Hallowe'en"
Speed upon plumes of thought - Luis de Camoes "Sonnet VIII" transl. by Viscount Strangford
The Earth upon her diamond axle swayed - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
All to stand upon the turning of a die - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Upon hills of thyme and heather - Walter de la Mare "Happy, Happy It Is To Be"
Perched all upon a sweetbriar bush - Walter de la Mare "The Riddlers"
Forged for my fate upon an anvil dire - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
With planted heel upon the lion's head - Delta "Lines Written in the Isle of Bute" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXVIII, v.LIV, Dec. 1843]
When day shuts in upon our hopes - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
Upon the polar hem - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love X: Transplanted"
The name they dropped upon my face - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XIV: Love's Baptism"
A troubadour upon the elm - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature I"
Homesick feet upon a foreign shore - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LII"
The dew upon a dandelion's sleeve - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XIX: By the Sea"
A spur upon the soul - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXVI"
The wealthy fly upon his pane - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love XXI: Longing"
Upon a pile of wind - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature XII"
Weeping upon a haunted hill - Eric Dickinson "The Garden"
Till rust will come upon the screw - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
A pattern scratched upon a pretty stone - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
Upon whose constant intercession I depend - Chris Dombrowski "Bird in My Boot"
Upon earth we're kings - John Donne "The Anniversary"
Earnest language breaks upon my dreaming ear - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Embarks upon a fiercer derangement - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"
Flashing upon the bough of morning - Jeanne D'Orge "Matins"
Wrote my wish upon a kite - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Wishes"
His heart upon the gale of song - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
Briars and dust upon my brow - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"
Pressed upon the daily custom of the sky - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"
The buds upon the hawthorn spread - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Comes upon a bleak oblivion - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Days and nights far out upon the sky's dark sea - Carol Ann Duffy "New Year"
Knelling crashes upon my dreams - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Waiting"
That ocher sun's crumble upon the tongue - Rebecca Dunham "In Which She Opens the Box"
In that hushed dream upon the height - George William Russell aka A.E. "Parting"
Gave upon my night of lonely grief - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]
The cipher that's writ upon our cell - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"
Pour poison upon the enemy - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Stand wide upon the earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 32. E-Igikalama, the Temple of Lugal-Marada in Marada" transl. by Sophus Helle
To land upon this sea of flames - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "The Sunset and the Flowered Tree"
Upon her head a crown of gold - anonymous? "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men"
Floating upon the tides of sleep - Eleanor Farjeon "Dream-Ships"
Haven upon the tides of sleep - Eleanor Farjeon "Dream-Ships"
Upon the muffled boundaries of the world - Eleanor Farjeon "Night-Piece"
Upon the very boundary of the stars - Eleanor Farjeon "Sonnet VII"
And walked upon the beach of hell - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Anchorless upon the ocean - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "The Changing Light"
As pebbles upon a remote shore - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Enamelled domes tumble upon the grass - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Upon the pale lower terraces of my dream - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Unfolding their fiery globes upon the night - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Stars sparkle upon the tips of my fingers - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"
The light wind upon the poplars - F.S. Flint "Lunch"
Graft their gods upon empires - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"
Fix the thing upon a spinning cylinder - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
Athens and Babylon I breathe upon the night - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
Kneel upon your furnace - Nick Flynn "Put the Load on Me"
A bell upon the night-tide - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2"
Beauty pour upon the strangeness - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"
Upon the earthquake's blasting rage - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Sleep upon enchanted earth - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Weak foliage that is blown upon and bent - Robert Frost "Hyla Brook"
Set forth upon my track to overtake me - Robert Frost "Into My Own"
Dream upon the opposing lights of the hour - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
Dream upon the night-hawks peopling heaven - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
After dark upon the attic stairs - Rose Fyleman "There Are No Wolves in England Now"
Green upon waters grey - Rose Fyleman "This Island"
Upon a blue and yellow day - Zona Gale "Credo"
Upon a dreaming lily - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Upon a rainbow drift of weeds - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
Lie upon her grave like flowers - Zona Gale "One Dawn She Woke Me--"
When first the dice of gold upon the board did run - "The Game of Dice" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
All night upon my heart - Theodosia Garrison "The Child"
And fish would feed upon the plain - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Old Nick upon his fingers tended - John Gay "Fable XLII: Juggler and Vice" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Tottering upon Ambition's tower - John Gay "Fable LVII: The Countryman and Jupiter" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Democracy and the Devil will soon put all upon one level - John Gay "Fable LXI: The Pack-Horse and the Carrier" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Breaks upon its rocky shore - Alfred C. Gellis "To the Wenem Mame River"
To trust his weight upon poetic wings - Thomas Gent "Poems"
And gazed upon the awful glare - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Slag"
They who walk upon the heights - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
You cannot set a foot upon the ground - Howard Glyndon "The Home of the Gentians" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Sept. 1880]
Or ever cease to think upon its wrongs - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Upon the fatal night before the storm - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
I die of want upon a bed of gold - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Three times I knocked upon the door - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"
Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
May stand upon a dizzy precipice - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
In heaven to be called upon - Linda Gregerson "My Father Comes Back from the Grave"
You bring back a shadow upon it now - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Leaves a scratch upon the soul - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"
Riding upon the Lightning's wing - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
Skating upon plunging rivers - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"
Without a chance to blaze upon the unities of a paper scene - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"
Improvised upon your own delight - Thom Gunn "Lament"
As dust upon thy threshold - Hafiz "The Divan V" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Upon a mountain's brow stood Glory - Jesse Hammond "Cross Roads" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10, no.273, 15 Sept. 1827]
To alight upon the wind-warped upland thorn - Thomas Hardy "Afterwards"
Caught upon a buried sky - Avis Harley "Catching a Butterfly (2)"
Upon the silent sea-swept land - Sadakichi Hartmann "Nocturne"
Bright silver upon hard morning - F.W. Harvey "That I May Be Taught the Gesture of Heaven"
When swells thy roar upon the gale - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
Vibrating still upon the air - Robert Hayden "On Lookout Mountain"
How bright upon the mountain - Robert Hayden "On Lookout Mountain"
Strange fire upon his altars burn - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
The torch upon her beacon-tower - Felicia Hemans "Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte"
Bent upon vast beginnings - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
As I gaze upon the hurrying waters - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne
Upon her pyre of maples fanned to flame - Oliver Herford and John Cecil Clay "Cupid's Fair-Weather Booke: October, Scorpio: The Scorpion"
As dust upon the altar - Faylita Hicks "Coded Binaries"
Blown worldward upon the winds' low monotone - Charles L. Hildreth "Mithra" [Lippincott's Magazine, Nov. 1885]
Cold will soon be fast upon us - Jennie Earngey Hill "Bonny Bunny"
That clearer light did shine my flaws upon - F.A. Hillard "Sonnet [If thou didst love me for imagined fame]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
My love but breathed upon the glass - F.A. Hillard "Two Mirrors" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.85, Jan. 1875]
That rides upon the barbed, jagged hills - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
A ring of fairies upon the biggest plate - Florence Hoatson "Fairies in the Cupboard"
Imposed upon desire - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Gaze not upon his shield of jet - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Dilemma"
Set upon sorrow's edge - Nora Hopper "April in Ireland"
Never lit upon common earth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
Worthless weeds upon the shore of Time - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"
Fasten their hands upon their hearts - A.E. Housman "Last Poems X"
My feet upon the moonlit dust pursue the ceaseless way - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXXVI"
Carved from ruin upon ruin - William Dean Howells "The Faithful of the Gonzaga"
Upon the sacred name of Song - William D. Howells "Prelude (to an Early Book of Verse)"
Upon the back of cherubim - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"
Upon the bulwark of its silence - Ishion Hutchinson "Rocksteady"
As flowers upon the sky - Aldous Huxley "Italy"
These treasured things I laid upon the pyre - Aldous Huxley "Misplaced Love"
Scattered upon the lone and dreary moors - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
Strayed upon the pathless wold - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part II."
The words which burn upon my tongue - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Upon the Book of Time the Autocrat has writ - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Strewn upon the night - Elinor Jenkins "April Nights"
The starry light upon your forehead dims - "John Bull to Jonathan" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
A ghost upon the shore - Emily Pauline Johnson "Dawendine"
Beat with timid hands upon life's leaden door - Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Suppliant" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Fall back upon an earth of ashes - James Weldon Johnson "The Greatest of These Is War"
Upon an island speck of time - James Weldon Johnson "Life"
No change upon the deep - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
No change upon the earth - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
Two boats upon a sea of glass - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Derelicts"
A raven feeding upon a quarter - Ben Jonson "The Witches Song"
Your chariot landed upon rough rock - Zilka Joseph "Prophet of the Rock"
Heard his name upon the bugles of the cherubim - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XI"
Hurry over the dark lands and run upon the sea - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XIII"
The leaves lie thick upon the way of memories - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXXII"
An army charging upon the land - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"
And fingers straying upon an instrument - James Joyce "Strings in the Earth and Air"
In a dark night we sailed upon the lake, alone - H.G.K. "The Aged Disciple Comforting" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCLV, v.LXXIV, Sept. 1853]
That border-land whose hills they rest upon - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VI" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
To nourish life upon the fallen leaf - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Holy oil upon the rising flame - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Enthroned upon the lotus flower - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Layer upon layer of land submerged - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"
Our days upon the high winds - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"
Leave his name upon the harp-string - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Upon Saturn's bended neck - John Keats "Hyperion"
Upon the gold clouds metropolitan - John Keats "Hyperion"
Upon the threshold of the west - John Keats "Hyperion"
As Hope upon her anchor leans - John Keats "Hyperion"
The soft wind upon their summer thrones - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
Soft incense hangs upon the boughs - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
A moan upon the midnight hours - John Keats "Psyche"
Leagues upon leagues of sealed history - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Petals of light upon darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Upon my heart lies his first token - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"
Conjured upon the glassy wave - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"
Apollo's smile upon its current - Fanny Kemble "Impromptu"
Upon Time's flinty road - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"
A flood of glory hands upon the world - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [I hear a voice low in the sunset woods]"
Day's chariot-wheels upon th' horizon - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"
Upon the face of this blank earth - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"
Upon the emblazoned leaf of fame - Fanny Kemble "A Wish [Let me not die forever when I'm laid]"
Looking upon the never-resting earth - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"
Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Heaping upon themselves more deep damnation - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Azrael's eyes upon her, Raphael's wings above - Rudyard Kipling "Jane's Marriage"
As the present falls upon the past - Christopher Kondrich "Bellfounding"
Carefully placed upon the future - Ted Kooser "This Paper Boat"
Decisions are made and acted upon - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"
With Edelweiss upon her breast - Alexander Lamont "In a Bernese Valley"
Noises upon listless ears - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"
Still upon the utmost rim - Archibald Lampman "Chione"
And scatter dust upon my hair - Archibald Lampman "Peccavi, Domine"
Upon the star-pranked universal vine - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
As one true soul may smile upon another - Latienne "'76" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]
A fox upon the hillside - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes V: Wishes"
Knotted in heaven upon the fine light - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"
My sleeping baby hangs upon my life - D.H. Lawrence "A Baby Asleep After Pain"
A sharp sky brushes upon the myriad glittering chimney-tips - D.H. Lawrence "Bombardment"
With the laughter startled upon your eyes - D.H. Lawrence "Letter from Town: The Almond Tree"
And throw confession of delight upon the wave - D.H. Lawrence "Moonrise"
Bleeding its fires upon the mist - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"
Dazzling sunshine streams upon a newborn world - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
And muse upon the consecrated spot - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"
May poise upon a needle's end - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"
Balances uneasily upon its three-pronged roots - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
The false light sterile upon our eyelids - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"
Called upon the tide to come - Albert Lee "My Realm"
The act fingermarked upon the weave - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"
If you insist upon leaving - Mary Soon Lee "Advice for Time Travelers"
Stacks upon stacks of postcards - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"
God's wrath upon the wing - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"
That Jove once prevailed upon Juno - Henry S. Leigh "The Olympic Ball"
Upon horrible crimes and murders ghastly - Henry S. Leigh "Romantic Recollections II"
Look back upon the vanished years - Charles G. Leland "Thank God for All" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
All the multiverses looping upon themselves - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
An anthology of sunsets layered upon each other - R.B. Lemberg "The Rotten Leaf Cantata"
Must rely upon ever new adornments - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Trembled upon a border of gold and earth - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"
When the future collapsed upon them - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"
With dollar signs upon their coats - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon - Mary Wallace Bundy Little "The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband"
Come forth upon the breast of June - Rev. William Livingston "In Cherry Lane"
Folded in upon reflection - Audre Lorde "Domino"
Upon which pain will not falter - Audre Lorde "The Night-Blooming Jasmine"
Set a thousand guards upon her - Anonymous "Love's Enterprise"
Outstretched upon your peace - Amy Lowell "The Giver of Stars"
Cut myself upon the thought of you - Amy Lowell "Granadilla"
And marching upon a blue sky - Amy Lowell "Lilacs"
Withered leaves upon the poplars tall - J.R. Lowell "Ballad"
Who feed upon the wind and stars - Mina Loy "Apology of Genius"
And tempests frown upon the forehead of day - Francis J. Lys "Life's Voyage"
Pictured in fire upon the sacred pages - Francis J. Lys "On Re-reading 'Ruth'"
Whispers float upon the liquid air - Francis J. Lys "To the Muse"
Fall back in dust upon my soul - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Pour her dreary note upon the solemn hour - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things III: Ruins" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Acre upon acre of tiny suns turned skyward - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "daisy"
With the changeful wind upon the changeful sea - A.A. Macnichol "The Sea-Rover" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
A bell's intrusion upon sleep - Naomi Long Madgett "Arrival"
Set upon ancient pools of moonlight - Maurice Maeterlinck "Bell-Glasses" transl. by Bernard Miall
An act of treachery done upon a Sabbath - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Soul" transl. by Bernard Miall
When medals shine upon my breast - Augusta A.L. Magra "The Roll-Call of Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.731, 29 Dec. 1877]
Write their name upon its dome - Douglas Malloch "When the Geese Come North"
Wild memories meet upon the sands - Edwin Markham "The Last Furrow"
Upon the lighted roofs of Nineveh - Edwin Markham "A Look into the Gulf"
Whose feet upon good errands run - Edwin Markham [Untitled]
Upon the quilted colors of the autumn hills - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"
And the dust upon our hair was gold - Jeannette Marks "The Railroad Station"
Your youth upon its golden way - Jeannette Marks "Sun-Path"
Beating upon the stars with my gold - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"
Resting in my brown upon earth - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"
Shaken moonlight writhed upon the rocks - Don Marquis "The Struggle"
Hearts that yearn upon my track - Philip Bourke Marston "From Afar" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Oct. 1880]
A ship hurled upon dread quicksand - José Martí "Love in the City" transl. by Esther Allen
A ship hurled upon dread - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
Borne upon the chainless air - George Martin "In Memory of Joseph Guibord"
Watchers that wait upon heaven - George Martin "Street Waif"
To cast an eye upon the only cloud in this cold sky - Harry Martinson "Aniara 17" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Of dreams to live upon in cold and evil years - Harry Martinson "Aniara 26" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A beautiful gold leaf upon a choice branch - Harry Martinson "Aniara 51" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Had met to turn their backs upon death's ocean - Harry Martinson "Aniara 100" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Hung upon the magic numbers - Mrs. S.T. Martyn "To Mrs. E.C.K."
That lift the deep upon their backs - Andrew Marvell "Bermudas"
Begotten by despair upon Impossibility - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"
Gazing back upon the skies - Andrew Marvell "A Drop of Dew"
Upon my mouth do crush their wine - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
Wisdom is life upon the tickle edge - John Masefield "Esther"
Upon the soul a check, an inhibition, a control - John Masefield "The Haunted"
A crown of lead upon my brain - John Masefield "King Cole"
Upon his last moon's granites die - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Before the smile upon the Sphinx was cold - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
The wren upon the tree-stump carolled - John Masefield "The Return"
To glint upon mad water - John Masefield "The 'Wanderer'"
A glance of wrath upon her countenance - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
With my soul upon my lips - Edgar Lee Masters "Francis Turner"
Looks upon embowered darkness - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
Upon a thousand little hills - Theodore Maynard "The Holy Spring"
The thick veil upon Heaven's heart - Theodore Maynard "A Reply"
Homeward borne upon a bloody shield - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
And read a reflex upon earth - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
Dreams upon the eyes of white geraniums - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Paints phantom purple upon ancient snow - Adam Mickiewicz "Alushta By Night" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
With the dust upon her eyes - Edna St Vincent Millay "Epitaph"
No dust upon the wayside thorn - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"
Sends his voice upon the gale - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"
To bind myself upon the wheel - "The Misanthrope"
The hate visited upon me - Jenny Molberg "I Am Not Thine, But Thee"
Upon the glacial face of the sky - N. Scott Momaday "The Great Fillmore Street Buffalo Drive"
This thought crowds upon me - Carlos Montezuma "An Evening's Reverie"
Apart, upon a throne of living fire - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Hell" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
With an elephant to ride upon - Marianne Moore "Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight"
Upon the tablet of the human soul - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
And a new music lived upon the floods - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Memory's tears are cold upon thy face - Sarojini Naidu "Imperial Delhi"
When dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky - Sarojini Naidu "Street Cries"
Dry moon poured upon scars - Pablo Neruda "From Above (1942)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Sweet days upon the oats - Pablo Neruda "The Frontier (1904)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Followed upon the pale jaguars - Pablo Neruda "Guatemala" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Upon the same steps that her gods tread - Pablo Neruda "Men IX" transl. by William O'Daly
The cormorant upon the foam - Pablo Neruda "Not Only the Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Silver stars upon the jasmine's hair - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"
A delicate heart beats upon the snow - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Revolves upon its ready hinge - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Flung out upon the freezing storm - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"
Poured intent upon a sea-anemone - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
A god's bones upon the naked hills - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Flashed light upon the cosmos - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Lay hands upon the wheel of the universe - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"
Frowned upon his aeons - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"
Upon the cheek of sorrow - "Nurse's Song" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Called upon our ancient great aunts and their long slow eyes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Truth Serum"
Upon which these future ghosts will cut astonished rivers - Christina Olivares "Portrait"
A rock upon which your dreams founder - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Gods walk out upon a path of stars - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Beat upon our hearts like showers of frozen hail - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Traced its guilty lines upon the page - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Upon whose silver stair expectant angels wait - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Slow, sure round upon the wheels of time - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Alight upon this beggar leaf - Frances S. Osgood "Lines to an Idea that Wouldn't 'Come'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Upon the timid flickerings of our hope - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines Written in Boston on a Beautiful Autumnal Day"
No leaves upon this muddy stream appear - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"
Return upon the world - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"
Brooding upon the womb of absence - Robert Pack "Big Bang" [Poetry, January 1988]
And strive with Fear upon the heights - Herbert E. Palmer "Courage"
Perching high upon the moon - Herbert E. Palmer "The End"
Tens of thousands upon the tongue - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Study Guide Toward Naturalization of the Mouth"
Who set rich wine upon the lees - Gilbert Parker "Their Waving Hands"
Where peace never falls upon the air - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Long Lane"
Rained wrath upon the streets - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"
Writ upon that crazy neon north - Andre F. Peltier "Northern Lights"
Murmuring sounds of life upon another shore - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
Upon the lonely waters of the world - V. De S. Pinto "Swans"
Nor cast a single shade upon the past - J. Pitman (who died in 1825) "Lines to a Young Lady on Her Birthday" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.743, 23 March 1878]
I see His blood upon the rose - Joseph Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"
Wrought its ghost upon the floor - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
The password of the leaves upon the cottonwood - Alexander Posey "To Wahilla Enhotulle"
Go sprinkle the sea-sand upon their eyes - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"
We drop our stones upon the lake - Miriam Clark Potter "A Warning"
Upon the flux of sand - E.J. Pratt "The Flood Tide"
Acid-etched upon her heart - E.J. Pratt "Magnolia Blossoms"
Long poles upon which spin six hells - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"
Who out upon Fate did call - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"
Lay down your head upon my knee - "The Queen of Elfland"
As he reels upon his awful quest - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Doom of the Esquire Bedell"
Snow-flakes that fall upon fire - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"
Feverish light flung hard upon their faces - Paisley Rekdal "Bats"
as it bursts full flame upon the earth - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
A gleaming stone upon which the skyfolk spilled dark earth - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"
Leaning upon sorrow's outstretched hand - "Rhyming Ruminations on Old London Bridge" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20, no.557, 14 July 1832]
With the noon's weight upon my back - Adrienne Rich "A Mark of Resistance"
And Reason pales upon her throat - John Rollin Ridge "The Harp of Broken Strings"
Upon my heart with rapture chained - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"
Beautiful as gulls upon the water - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Upon the silken silence of his feet - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Catch the sun upon their snouts - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Obliterating sands upon its bones - Lola Ridge [Firehead untitled prologue]
Erect upon her wheeling skies - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
That great flame upon the scrolls - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
The first stammering upon the waters - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Impose upon me a sense of sin - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Upon her tongues of iron - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
In the drop poised upon the thorn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"
Light glimpsed upon the rims of vision - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Upon the withered vine of thought - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
A silvery whisper upon the morning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 2: The Unborn"
Reappear upon its foreseen circle - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
No peg to hang their taunts upon - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Sunrise glimmering upon a gallows - Lola Ridge "'Histrionics'"
Silken slippers upon the pinnacles - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Carrying light like sunsets upon wings - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Shadows lay upon the dials' faces - Rainer Maria Rilke "Autumnal Day" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Love's white hand upon my wrist - Charles G.D. Roberts "My Garden"
That crawls upon the clouded sea - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Night in a Down-Town Street"
His feet upon the mountain and his shadow on the pass - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"
Our sacrifice upon the accursed tree - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet IX"
Fresh tears wet upon the hard cold face - Rennell Rodd "Imperator Augustus"
Hues upon the angel's form - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
That seized upon my trembling heart - Joshua Ross "My Ruling Star"
Perfect moonlight upon a rippling stream - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
Only birds might confidently walk upon - Kay Ryan "Thin"
Hand in hand upon the heights - V. Sackville-West "Song: Let Us Go Back"
With his spell upon her spirit - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]
With his chain upon her hand - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]
Upon her peaks in gulfs of solitude - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Spelling enchantment upon the nether Sea - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
The barriers upon knowledge are o'erthrown - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
Full often thorns upon the thread - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
The net they cast upon the wind - James Marcus Schuyler "April"
Our dreams bleed out upon strange altars - Ann K. Schwader "Alien Machines"
The dust of dynasties upon my lips - Ann K. Schwader "Eating Mummy"
Sand upon the wind's tongue scouring - Ann K. Schwader "Horizon of the Aten"
Pristine as dust upon his chalice - Ann K. Schwader "Yhoundeh Fades"
Upon the stark sand reaches - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Change"
Upon the pebbles of her streets - Frederick George Scott "Dion"
Topple and reel upon my burning blood - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"
Upon the silent face of a dark dial in a sunless place - "The Sea of Death"
To set a form upon desired change - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXIX"
Spend revenge upon myself - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLIX"
Upon that path without obvious company - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"
Rides upon the whirlwind - Virna Sheard "The Shells"
Upon his brow a threefold crown - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
Stands immortal upon earth - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
And breathed upon the frozen mountains - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
Strewed flowers upon the barren way - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
Blow upon your pipes of joy - Frank Dempster Sherman "Snow Song"
Closed my hands upon a moth - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Beware"
With beads of pain upon his face - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"
A wretch alone upon the lonely seas - B. Simmons "To Swallows on the Eve of Departure" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]
The elves upon their midnight way - Clark Ashton Smith "Fairy Lanterns"
The corroded moon a dust upon the gulfs - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
With the suns upon their road of awe - Clark Ashton Smith "The Ministers of Law"
And cry in vain upon the strand - Clark Ashton Smith "The Mystic Meaning"
Upon the noon of their lost worlds - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"
Their will as reins upon the sun - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Red upon the forefront of the north - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Upon the wind's oblivious woe - Clark Ashton Smith "To Nora May French"
Fail not upon the road of space - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Sun"
Upon the apprehension of edges - Richard Solomon "Ice in Formation"
Night, lingering, poured upon the world - Leonora Speyer "A Gift"
Pause upon the threshold's rust - Leonora Speyer "Protest in Passing"
As if to break themselves upon its stillness - Leonora Speyer "Swallows"
Upon the summit of the world - W. Force Stead "The Burden of Babylon"
Will shiver upon the banks of the Styx - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"
Upon the verge of folly - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"
Upon a shore wind-swept and desolate - James Stephens "The Shell"
Upon this iron world - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
The sun upon its crimson pyre - George Sterling "At Sunset"
Thy doom upon the poisoned wind - George Sterling "The Day of Decision (CE)"
A skull that glared upon the stars - George Sterling "The Dream of Wilhelm II"
With her dust upon the twilight winds - George Sterling "The Evanescent City"
That sinks upon a lily's breast - George Sterling "From Dawn to Dawn"
Crowned upon the ashen sun - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
A breath upon her hand muted the night - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"
Deer walk upon our mountains - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
Left my dusty self upon the sand - M. Letitia Stockett "Sleep"
Sunlight drops its gold upon the moss - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
The ocean that thunders upon man's soul - Arthur Stringer "The Surrender"
The present upon the patterns of the past - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"
Upon the ridges of her world - L.A.G. Strong "At Punnet's Town"
Heart breaking hand upon the lute - Muriel Stuart "Leda"
Frost upon the eyes of flowers - Muriel Stuart "Leda"
And love was sold upon your lips - Muriel Stuart "To-- [Between two common days this day was hung]"
Unshed tears that lie like stones upon it - Carmen Sylva "Sadness"
Upon my mind the image of that dream - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
The fogs which night gathers upon the earth - G.P.T. "Sonnet [The moon is gliding on her clear blue way]" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Water upon water upon water - Adeeba Shahid Talukder "A Love Note"
Upon the threshold of the mind - Tennyson "In Memoriam"
Do grapes grow on brambles or figs upon thorns? - Abel C. Thomas writing as Iron Gray "The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom"
Upon the germ of my heart's passion thrown - Maurice Thompson "Blooming" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.102, June 1876]
Chant to him your evening song upon the spray - James Thomson "To My Robin Redbreast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.726, 24 Nov. 1877]
While prayers of terror freeze upon his lips - Aleksey Konstantovich Tolstoy "The Wolves" transl. by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
The primal curse upon his head - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Labor"
Shackles fall upon the Judgment Day - Jean Toomer "Cotton Song" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Painting dead carnivals upon a fan - Iris Tree "[Among the crumbling arches of decay]"
Mad musicians upon fretted harps - Iris Tree "[As in the silence the clear moonlight drips]"
Launched upon the loneliness of time - Iris Tree "Islands"
Dust upon the huddled corn - Iris Tree "[Like flocks of tired birds]"
Tightening strings upon our spirit's fiddles - Iris Tree "Nerves"
And shut the fingers of wind upon the rushes - Iris Tree "[Shall we be christened poets]"
Feeding upon each other's isolations - Iris Tree "Streets"
Shutting our lips upon a jest - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: Midnight"
An army fierce upon its own destruction - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 1 A. M."
A ship of travel we must board upon our first breath - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
To mount upon these waxen wings - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Same, Continued"
Upon a dark ball spun in Time - Walter J. Turner "Giraffe and Tree"
Where a thought, doubling upon itself, considers the way - Mark Van Doren "The Hills of Little Cornwall"
Walks all night upon a narrow rafter - Mark Van Doren "Midwife Cat"
A warm still wind upon my face - Mark Van Doren "Possession"
Tumble down and in upon our brains - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"
The impartial sun laughs down upon the battle - Henry van Dyke "The Fall of the Leaves"
Upon them the cooling plash of rain - Henry van Dyke "If All The Skies"
Among the golden fruit upon the wall - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Joy" transl. by Alma Strettell
Folly upon the lees of shame - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: St. George" transl. by Alma Strettell
To brood upon the sleeping silences - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours IV" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
Embers of hope upon the ashen air - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Upon inspiring notes of song - H.K.W. "Song of the Carilloneur" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.682, 20 Jan. 1877]
Upon the listening air your silver spell - H.K.W. "Song of the Carilloneur" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.682, 20 Jan. 1877]
Truth rides upon us - Margaret Walker "Delta"
Threw sweet love upon the winds - Charles William Wallace "The Lone Wayside Wild Rose"
And roll upon our serried lines - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Whose grotto stands upon the topmost rock - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"
Where she reflects upon her own reflection - Arthur Waugh "The Beautiful Swan"
Upon me like a lifting music - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"
Upon the summits void of strife - John Hall Wheelock "Travail"
Her kiss upon the brows of dream - John Hall Wheelock "The Undissuadable Austerity"
That can put the salt upon their tails - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"
Glowing amaranth droops upon its stalk - Helen Hay Whitney "Dear Dead Women"
Upon this alien shore I lean - Helen Hay Whitney "In the Mist"
Upon the altar of my heart's despair - Helen Hay Whitney "The Last Gift"
Upon the scaffold's pole of birch - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
A clank upon the gutter - John Wieners "Forthcoming"
Set a lock upon his lips - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
The weight of the sky is upon them - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
Schooled to weep upon the stage - Charlotte Wilson "The Heart Knoweth"
Ghosts upon the trail - Joseph R. Wilson "The Santa Fe Trail"
God upon a crimson wave - Keith S. Wilson "Impression of a Rib"
Gaze out upon the forms of night - Charles Wilton "The Voice of Nature" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
That travels like light upon her sails - "The Wives of Brixham"
Done with wearing gold words upon my heart - Humbert Wolfe "Dedication [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"
The moon upon her silent spindle - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"
Immediate burn upon discovery of ghosts - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"
Which he forbears again to look upon - William Wordsworth "Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes"
Lie upon the plain and listen - William Wordsworth "To the Cuckoo"
Live upon their praises - William Wordsworth "To the Small Celandine"
Bracken upon my memory - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"
Rub a little dust upon your eyes - Elinor Wylie "The Crooked Stick"
The wind scatters tears upon dust - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Scatters tears upon dust - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Tiers upon tiers of checkpoints - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
Trod upon like paving stones - "XV: Tezozomoctli ic Motecpac | The Reign of Tezozomoctli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
The living song descended upon the drum - "XVII: Xochicuicatl | A Flower Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
To smile upon her stars- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Upon the wharves of sorrow- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
And beat upon the bone - W.B. Yeats "Young Man’s Song"
As great storms upon drought-stricken land - Dean Young "I Said Yes but I Meant No" [Poetry Oct. 2003]
Dew upon the lattice panes - Francis Brett Young "After Action"
Powdered arsenic upon his lips - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
How many beads must I still count upon my string of time? - Yuan Chen "An Elegy" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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