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Wake up in childhood's crypt - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"

What conjuring stirs up this earth - Elmaz Abinader "Falling into the Ocean"

So we signed up for the duration - Duane Ackerson "The War on Terror"

Small sun caught up in the quicksilver lies - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"

Swimming up the sweet air to reach you - Kim Addonizio "Mermaid Song"

Open up my mouth & swallow the entire sea - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

Give up my name three times - Mary Alexandra Agner "So Many Lullabies"

Hold up these lanterns - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"

A green growing odour seeping up through the floor - Joan Aiken "Down Below"

Heroes, bottle up your tears - Aion "Prudence" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]

Black grass dying up out of this snow - Kaveh Akbar "My Father's Accent"

Herds of triceratops lunge up on their hind legs - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"

Flashing up a path of gold - Ellen Tracy Alden "He Will Come Back"

And up through the chimney hurled them - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Up the winding pathway I hurried on - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Up the electric street - Dorothy Keeley Aldis "Spring"

Drawn up from the lonely abysses - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

Kaleidoscopic hints, to be worked up in farce or tragedy - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]

Made up a language in which to exist - Elizabeth Alexander "Toomer"

His menagerie lined up close behind - Alise Alousi "Back to School"

Walk backward up a flight of stairs - Alise Alousi "Skip"

Growing up in a double tyranny - Julia Alvarez "Did I Redeem Myself?"

Pulling the mind's ladder up behind me - Julia Alvarez "Locust"

A breathless shipwreck crawling up a beach - Julia Alvarez "Meditation"

That snatched up every breath I could spare - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

Two wingless geese flew up the sky - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXVI: Hard to Believe" transl. by J.W. Wiles

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

Ubiquity hasn't turned up here - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel of ubiquity"

Made up of false promises - Rae Armantrout "Djinn"

Gathering up the twisted strands - Frank D. Ashburn "Sonnet"

Wrapped up safe in all my ghosts - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Now drain we up the social cup - "Autumn" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

Lift up the layers of your carbon skeleton - R. Christopher Aversa "Gold Foil Experiment"

Did not offer up parts of me like kindling - Ruth Awad "My Hair Burned Like Berenice" [Poetry Jan/Feb 2024]

Growing up to be a ghost - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Essay on the Appearance of Ghosts"

Float face up in silence - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Filling the New House"

Looked up from my solitary suffering - Cameron Awkward-Rich "My Life Closed Twice"

Who pick up sticks and stones - Nina Bagley "Gathering"

Half a staircase leading up - David Baker "Gravel"

Curled up like scared cats in the reeds - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

In the yard the bittersweet is drying up - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

The heart going up in flames - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

Curl up on the floor of the sun - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Lit up to brilliance by the burnished moon - Grant Balfour "Where Union Dwelt"

Elements that made up the inevitable present - Mary Jo Bang "The Actual Occurences"

Watching the night creep up on the noon - Mary Jo Bang "Don't"

A watch that kept adding up the hours - Mary Jo Bang "Hanging the Curtain"

A banner the wind holds up - Mary Jo Bang "In This One World"

Running up a further lifetime of debt - Mary Jo Bang "The Key"

How the sea keeps beating up the boardwalk - Mary Jo Bang "Think of Jane and the Regency Era"

A bad penny landing same side up - Rachel Barenblat "Chord"

That climb up ancient roads - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

Any fright of stumbling up crooked paths - Elizabeth Bartlett "When Yesterday Comes"

Cannot take up stitches dropped - Ardelia Maria Barton "Meridian"

Up to all kinds of pranks and tricks - Clara Doty Bates "The Three Little Pigs" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]

If you must bring up the past - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"

That add up to more minus than plus - Rosebud Ben-Oni "So They Say-- They Finally Nailed-- the Proton's Size-- & Hope-- Dies--"

The smells of the onions trooped up the stairs together - Stephen Vincent Benet "Boarding-House Hall"

Up from some drowned city - Stephen Vincent Benet "The City Revisited"

Who hung up fruits and flowers - Park Benjamin "Lines Sent with a Bouquet"

Made up of fear and failure, lies and loss - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"

Sang up the mountains of the sea - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"

Their climb up the long ladder of time - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"

Build up no plan, nor any star pursue - Stella Benson "To the Unborn"

Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres - Laurence Binyon "For the Fallen"

Bearing up the balm upon their beating wings - "The Birth of the Lily" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.2, Sept. 1863]

Through the piled up years of his art - Terry Blackhawk "I know it's bad form"

We take up space in their ledgers - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."

Up through the poles of a dead telegraphy - Bruce Boston "The Lesions of Genetic Sin"

Up from their craters and their moon caves - Bruce Boston "Origami Rockets"

Urges the palomino up a burning slope - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"

Knitted up within my mind - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

Braids itself up the woods - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, in winter my camp on the hill becomes"

Bound up with frosts - Anne Bradstreet "Winter"

Hawks hold up the highway - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Climbs up amid the Alpine snows - "The Brave Dog of St. Bernard" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

Sewing up the spaces between seconds - William Brewer "There Is a Gold Light"

Soon to gather up its bitter fruits - J. Huntington Bright "The Dying Boy" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

A dream I treasure up so jealously - Charlotte Bronte "The Teacher's Monologue"

The early winds took up the words - Jonathan Henderson Brooks "The Resurrection" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Stand up high on the dusty shelves - Abbie Farwell Brown "Poor Old Books" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Opens up the American Songbag of his mind - Lee Ann Brown "House of Green Thunder"

Built up soundless overnight - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"

The shape of a man trying to hold up the ceiling - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"

Tunnel up from the dark - Nickole Brown "Parable"

When the wind frenzied up a snow globe of petals - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Firing up the flashlight in the dark - Paul Cameron Brown "Carnival and Lent"

The window is up on the future now - Paul Cameron Brown "Chain Letter"

Served up as horror epics - Paul Cameron Brown "Tussaud's"

Falling up the vertebrae of post-modernist architecture - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

Where pearls of joy keep bubbling up - Marie Hedderwick Browne "The Blackbird"

Binding up their hearts away from breaking - Elizabeth B. Barret [Barrett Browning] "The Cry of the Children" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

Trod sorrow up - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Bringing a lapping tongue of water up over our toes - Sarah Browning "Praisesong"

Came up with nothing but keepsakes of dust - Christopher Buckley "Desire"

Looking up through a vacancy of trees - Christopher Buckley "Desire"

Up where the heavy thunders rolled - George W. Bungay "The Autograph of God" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Ambition soaring up the sky like flame - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"

One hundred up front to kill the loneliness - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"

Who saw Lincoln stand up before the faces of a city - Witter Bynner "This Man"

Decay has dried up realms to deserts - Byron "To the Ocean"

Harsh neglect will smother up the flame - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Ladders leading up to light - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

Alluring up and enticing down - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Joys of the Road"

Morning mounting up the saffron steep - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"

And up from death to glory - Phoebe Cary "Otway"

Brim up Life's chalice - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"

Up from the shadows of gallows trees - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"

Up from death and dreams - Willa Cather "Eurydice"

Garner'd fondly up within its depths of feeling - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

Up through an empty house of stars - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

Up the inhuman steeps of space - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

Piled up small stones to make a town - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"

Welled up in your darkened pupil - Johnson Cheu "Wail"

The sound of my past catching up with yours - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"

To offer up intoxicating ripeness - May Chong "Catering"

I'll make you eat up each ungenerous world - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

Waking up somewhere else - Samantha H. Chung "Time Traveler's Haibun: 2024"

Offering up their gray matter to irrational half truths - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"

Close up clear eyes - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Hidden Love"

Lift up holy hands of prayer - Arthur Hugh Clough "O Thou of Little Faith"

Given up as soon as tasted - Arthur Hugh Clough "Χρυσέα κλῄς ἐπὶ γλώσσᾳ."

Gather up the brokenness - Leonard Cohen "Come Healing"

Where we call up love and family - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"

Once the oceans open up - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "Our Red Road"

When hope and patience both give up - Rev. C.C. Colton "Old Age" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]

Pick up their lonesome songs - Hilda Conkling "Snowflake Song"

Brown shadows leaping up the wall - Frances Cornford "Autumn Evening"

Leading up Insects and Birds to Parnassus - "The Council of Dogs"

Where the rock runs up to Heaven - James H. Cousins "Schakhe"

Gave up their bass and speckled trout - Palmer Cox "The Brownies Fishing"

Red wells too deep to bring up tears - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

All these I summon to rise up and bring fire - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Render up in song your tithes - Countee Cullen "Dialogue"

How the shadows crawl surely up your crumbling wall - Countee Cullen "Lines to Our Elders" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Up with the pale important stars - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"

offered up each fragrant night - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"

Drag up colour from the sand - H.D. "Sea Iris"

The moment the numbers add up - Jim Daniels "Balancing the Checkbook"

Tears do not add up - Jim Daniels "On Tears"

Rise up out of the stone you took - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"

Bubbling back up from the other world - Armen Davoudian "Coming Out of the Shower"

Dream up a conceit for this journey - Kwame Dawes "Shook Foil"

Creep up the tidal river to the quay - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]

Pull the night up over our heads - Meg Day "10 AM is When You Come to Me"

Pinned up sharp in the ghost of a shawl - Walter de la Mare "The Little Creature"

Lifts up my heart above all thought of pride - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [My lady, and my sovereign, flower most rare]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Raise up my strength in death's respite - Christine de Pisan "Roundel [Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

But coral worms combined heave up a reef - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]

Chain up the billows as they roll - Delta "The Snow" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIII, v.LV, May 1844]

Up glory's rugged pathway to aspire - Delta "Stanzas Written After the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B." [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]

Set up exhibits in the cafeteria - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"

Five hundred steel cages lined up - Toi Derricotte "The Minks"

Woke up on an abandoned shore - Jose Hernandez Diaz "The Abandoned Shore"

Risen up from dust, abundant - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

Went up an atmospheric stair - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "That Hill"

And I went crawling up and up - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "That Hill"

Instinct picking up the key - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XLI: The Forgotten Grave"

Whistled up past the Woolworth - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

Up from the shadows of a factory warehouse - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"

Speeding up your orbital velocity - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"

Sailed my name up high and free - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Wishes"

And the pale moon came up silently - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Summer"

And fountains full of lemonade spout up - Marian Douglas "King and Queens"

Wake up with a second chance - Rita Dove "Dawn Revisited"

Slipped and started up again - Rita Dove "The Spring Cricket Repudiates His Parable of Negritude"

That swallowed up the exile's tears - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

Driven up the moon's path - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"

Swallowed up in Intuition - Edward Dowden "The Secret of the Universe: an Ode"

Three times up and three times down - Theodore Dreiser "The Spring Recital"

A bubble blown up in the air - William Drummond "This Life"

Your wrath has burned your judgment up - Paul Laurence Dunbar "After the Quarrel" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Blows up the smouldering sun - Helen Parry Eden "'Sidera Sunt Testes Et Matutina Pruina'"

And dress up nature in your favor - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"

Waking up every morning on a different planet - Elaine Equi "Earth, You Have Returned to Me" [Poetry Dec. 2016]

Their rigid postures using up the sun - Louise Erdrich "The Sacraments"

A dream of swimming up to see the sky - Daniel Errico "Noble Gnarble"

Woke up from the opiate of empire - Martin Espada "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramon Emeterio Betances"

After the tides have given up - Nava EtShalom "Proposal"

To keep up with the brood of Fortune's darlings - Anthony Euwer "The Want-Ad of My Soul"

Took up his trail along the dark - Donald Evans "In the Vices"

after keeping you up late as my youth last night - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"

Washed up onshore like so much driftwood - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

Dance in mirth up the rainbow - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VI. To an Outrageous Person"

Up brighter slopes of day - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: X. Song of a Very Small Devil"

Called up the saints of the ages - George Blackstone Field "The Rodman's Dream"

Up the hill of progress - Carrie Law Morgan Figgs "We are Marching"

And the feet give up the gray walk - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"

Balled up like a stone - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Resurrection"

Veins of wind light up - Carolyn Forche "Barley Field"

Brought wren song up from the branches - Carolyn Forche "The Place That Is Feared I Inhabit"

How he signed up for the cyborg army - Adam Ford "Arrival!"

Up the chimney was forced to fly - "The Fox and the Geese"

As one climbs from water up to land - John Freeman "Waking"

Throwing the sea's harvest up like honey - "From the Vision of Mac Conglinne" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Swallowed up in leaves that blew away - Robert Frost "A Dream Pang"

Up to their shining eyes in snow - Robert Frost "Good Hours"

Up from the tangle of withered weeds - Robert Frost "A Late Walk"

And sing the wildflowers up from root and seed - Robert Frost "Our Singing Strength"

Bound them up with gossamer into a glowing sheaf - Rose Fyleman "The Fairy Tailor"

And string up the tiniest stars I can find - Rose Fyleman "The Goblin to the Fairy Queen"

And well he will reckon up every cheat - "The Game of Fate" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

But the devil always trips up in the end - "The Game of Fate" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

Up the narrow stair of fall - Deborah Garrison "November on Her Way"

Up flew the murmurs of creation - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

That thundering onwards stirs up mud - John Gay "Fable XXV: The Scold and Parrot" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Summons up the fiends of night - John Gay "Fable XXVIII: The Persian, the Sun, and the Cloud" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Time which devours, eats up the demons - John Gay "Fable LXIII: Plutus, Cupid, and Time" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Fear of waking up as Gregor Samsa - Xander Gershberg "Codename Beast: A Sestina"

Sway to keep up with their scuffles - Sarah Getty "Channel 2: Horowitz Playing Mozart"

Blow up a second like a balloon - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"

Waking up to Goddesses - Nikita Gill "The Book"

Held the moon up as a looking-glass - Nikita Gill "Chaos to Nyx, Goddes of the Night"

Summon up some souls - brian g. gilmore "mardi gras in east lansing"

Even the Devil striking up a deal - Dana Gioia "At the Crossroads"

And conjure up vague theories of the past - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]

In Euripides' great wake they are swept up - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Up the surging ladder of grief piled on grief - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Life picks up and goes on but not art - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

Walking up glass mountains in iron shoes - Theodora Goss "The Bear's Wife"

He could never give up desire - Theodora Goss "The Red Shoes"

I hunger up toward dreaming - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"

Lamps up through the larkspur evening - Mona Gould "Rain"

Up to the end of the great QUEEN'S reign - C. L. Graves "Ballade of Free Verse"

So much time piled up inside - Kimberly Grey "Conjugating"

Up the same well-worn path - Angelina Weld Grimke "The Eyes of My Regret"

Wake up with my heart - Paul Guest "Post-Factual Love Poem"

Loom up like a gust in a gale - James Harris Guy "Old Boggy Bottom"

Miasmas steaming up from sunless fens - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Every heart sets up its separate Dagon - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Cut my pattern from a wind, and baste it up with dew - Katherine Hale "I Who Cut Patterns"

Fallen moon rolling up the bone railroad - Joy Harjo "Backwards"

Look up to the brightest white - Joy Harjo "Directions to You"

Flowers of rage spring up in the depression - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"

The sacred world lifts up its head to notice - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"

Lift my head up through the blades - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

Gold can rip up the ground beneath you - francine j. harris "Burden, old story"

And the song of frogs floated up - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Wind in Mexico"

When the song is sung and swallowed up in silence - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "After All" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The heaven's weight lifts up off Atlas - Seamus Heaney "Anything Can Happen"

Up on a midtown metropolis edifice - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"

Now closing up the broken ranks - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Crows"

As we beat up the mile - Cicely Herbert "Horses of Tartary"

Who wear feathers when dressed up to kill - Oliver Herford "The Harpy"

There offered up his golden heart - Mary E. Hewitt "The Hearth of Home"

Inside the honey of our lit up veins - Tiffany Higgins "Dance, Dance, While the Hive Collapses" [Poetry Jan. 2016]

Let midnight gather up the wind - Conrad Hilberry "Christmas Night"

Hoping never to open up the cupboard - Conrad Hilberry "Empty Plate"

An island pulling up its roots - Conrad Hilberry "Jack of Spades"

That sweeps up dolphins and despair - Conrad Hilberry "Music"

Walling up its crystal wealth - Geo. Canning Hill "Theodora: a Ballad of the Woods"

Spiraling up from the ground - Edward Hirsch "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

I got confused and mixed up God and grief - Edward Hirsch "My First Bookstore"

Crammed up in cities grim and grey - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Wind up the wandering breeze - Robert Hogg "Oh, What Are the Chains of Love Made Of?"

Give up on those errant habits - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"

Tune up the poems performed to Marsyas' flute - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"

Our lips sent up so sweet a chime - Elizabeth Curtis Holman "We Pulled a Rose in Summer Time"

That stood on the railing, puffed up with sky - Chloe Honum "Devonport"

In despair to reckon up the bitter cost - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"

Gather up the poor, pale shreds - Margaret Houston "Aftermath"

Whistling while time piles up - Hsieh T'iao "In a Provincial Capital Sick in Bed: Presented to the Shang-shu Shen" transl. by Burton Watson

Lit up with splendor at sunset and sunrise - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen

And the merry horn wakes up the morn - "The Hunt Is Up"

Burns up another set of firsts - Allison Hutchcraft "Though from Here I Can't Smell the Smoke"

Counts up the times of the dead - Jean Ingelow "Songs of the Night Watches, The Middle Watch"

And kicked up rough the same as I - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

And stony hearts can't stand up long - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

Who never neglect to offer up praise - "IX: Otro Tlaocolcuica Otomitl | An Otomi Song of Sadness" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

the calendar packages up time - Didi Jackson "Fall"

Sweeping up my eyes and my tattoos and my metaphors - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

Try to give up the certainty - Brionne Janae "Child's Pose"

Gasping and giving up a ghost of spray - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"

Salmon race up into the freshet - Robinson Jeffers "Salmon-Fishing"

Lighting up a maze of cobwebs - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"

Salt stirs up blood - Allison Eir Jenks "Underwater Grave"

Sail up the silence - Emily Pauline Johnson "Marshlands"

Folding up my little dreams within my heart - Georgia Douglas Johnson "My Little Dreams" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Fill up your throat with laughter - Helene Johnson "Magalu"

And the darkness rolled up on one side - James Weldon Johnson "The Creation" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Go up to a tearless sky - James Weldon Johnson "The Greatest of These Is War"

Open up a window of heaven - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Letting reason go up in smoke - Camisha L. Jones "Accommodation"

Could drown standing up - Parneshia Jones "My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea"

Rise up to meet you in the clouds - Zilka Joseph "Eliyahoo Hanabi"

Heaped up their withering discontents - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]

Who walks up the forever of a wooden staircase - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Floating, floating, up to the North Star - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

How many moons since we first woke up - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

Once our skulls shut up their nasty talk - Mary Karr "Country Fair"

Who stared up into the same punctured sky - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"

Warring factions agreed up the date and final form - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

A mauve vine corkscrewed up from the deep oblivion - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Piled up before her on a banquet table - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"

If I give up on consequences - Tobi Kassim "A Blind Spot, Awash"

And pick up pebbles larger than their heads - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"

Bubbles up fabulous algal paints - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Virtues enumerated add up - Janet Kauffman "Virtues Enumerated Add Up"

we have given up on knocking - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"

From the nadir deep up to the zenith - John Keats "Hyperion"

Gather up whatever is glittering - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"

Lift your heart up out of Acheron - T.M. Kettle "Ballad Autumnal l'Envoi"

Up to Heav'n's unopening Door - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Old virtues drying up - Kim Unsong "Sorry Souls"

Where headstones claw up through the clouds - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

Tied up her sleeves with ribbons of silk - "King Erik and the Scornful Maid" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Can be dreamed up and shot down - Mia King "Abracadabra"

To come up on the future - Galway Kinnell "First Day of the Future"

New ferns snaking fast up the old hosts' throats - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"

Refusing to give up the sky - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Doubt was bandaged up & put to bed - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Wrapped up in a woman's wild colors - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

Rising up into the feeling of horizon - Christopher Kondrich "Orientation"

Sky clear all the way up to the stars - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

a wire picking up missiles on the strip - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

My birthday went up in smoke in a fire at City Hall - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"

The dry universe gives up its fruit - Stephen Kuusisto "Learning Braille at Thirty-Nine"

Where the sun comes up in your chest - Alfred K. LaMotte "Gentle"

Whose griefs were written up in gold - Archibald Lampman "The Moon-Path"

Spicing up my winter quarantine - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

Half the wild ocean rose up to the clouds - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Twenty Bold Mariners"

If we count up the world's mischance - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Why Sad To-day"

Reckoning up their navies - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"

Everything shut up and gone to sleep - D.H. Lawrence "Bei Hennef"

Before the glaciers were gathered up - D.H. Lawrence "Grapes"

Green wine held up in the sun - D.H. Lawrence "Green"

The healing days close up the open darkness - D.H. Lawrence "Scent of Irises"

The silence waiting to take them all up again - D.H. Lawrence "Silence"

End up in a thicket of eyes - Aimee Le "Devil Woman Plus the Luckiest Guy in the World"

Still shall the blackest hell look up and see - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

While gnats keep up a dizzy reel - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love II"

Waking up with seeds in my hands - Angel Leal "A Book Is a Map, a Bed Is a Country"

Twilight ship blown up the tide - Frances Ledwidge "The Lost Ones"

Kept filling up with time - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"

Sucking life up from the acrid marsh - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"

Make a thousand angels gaze up - Stephen Leggett "Making Angels"

Tear up his copy-books to fabricate a kite - Henry S. Leigh "A Nursery Legend"

Joy took me up to the clouds for a holiday - Henry S. Leigh "See-Saw"

Pack'd up my luggage in a hurry - Henry S. Leigh "With Musical Society"

Rise up mindful and consider fire - Hailey Leithauser "Inspiration"

Tap-dancing up a crystal stair - Hailey Leithauser "The Old Woman Gets Drunk with the Moon"

Packed up his traps and stole away - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

Where thousands must yield up their breath - Chas. G. Leland "The Wolf Hunt" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]

The power of earth called up into the ragged air - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

Gathering up the remnants of this year's garden - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

Lights up the mauve of three - Li Ho "The Northland in Cold" transl. by Burton Watson

Rise up with repeated sighs - Li Po "Song of a Dream Visit to T'ien-mu: Farewell to Those I Leave Behind" transl. by Burton Watson

Up to the surface of grace - M.L. Liebler "Last Night Inside My Blood"

If the seeds of the universe dry up - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"

Your own bones will hold you up - Ada Limon "The Commute"

The seed that comes up outside the garden - Ada Limon "The Echo Sounder"

A thousand burnt up years behind - Vachel Lindsay "Harps in Heaven"

Called up the dragons by name - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Lifelines sewed back up with the wrong stitches - Angela Liu "Dark Patterns"

Rise up and disappear - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Summer"

Swallowed up by thundering clouds - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Autumn"

Calcified gravity, built up and broken down - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

Build it up with iron and steel - "London Bridge"

Build it up with wood and clay - "London Bridge"

Build it up with stone so strong - "London Bridge"

As flies run up the window pane - "A Love-Song by a Lunatic"

Night-shade's ugly blue and spotted henbane shall grow up - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Climbing up the starry way - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"

Up before the rooster calls - Lu Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

Grows up hidden in far-off rooms - Lu Yu "In a Boat on a Summer Evening, I Heard the Cry of a Water Bird. It was Very Sad and Seemed to Be Saying, 'Madam Is Cruel!' Moved, I Wrote This Poem" transl. by Burton Watson

Up to the cloud's mouth - Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta "[Untitled]"

Rendering up life for the pleasure of one sweet cup - Francis J. Lys "A Summer's Poems: V. [actual title in Greek?]"

The songs of the young girls binding up the corn - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"

Send a golden harvest up the air - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

bear up beneath the change - Jennifer Mace "Morphology"

The gap that opened up between her breaths - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swallow"

Citrus curling up the light - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"

Up on his steed of grey - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"

Sweep me up with the dust on the floor - Toby MacNutt "When You Read this Debris"

Blew up promises like bright balloons - Naomi Long Madgett "Impressions"

an ancestor telling you to rise up - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"

Rise up to the chatter and creaking - Jan Mandell "Ode to Aging Bodies"

Catching up to the speed of rue and awe - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

Throws white fingers up out of loam - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"

A gray heron battling up against the wind - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"

Up the starrier ways of time - Don Marquis "Hymn (1914)"

And I take up the ballad of cast-iron - Harry Martinson "Aniara 27" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Lifted up into the cosmic field - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Were hung up in oblivions cabinet - Harry Martinson "Aniara 44" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And prison up the brave - John Masefield "King Cole"

Wrapped up in silence - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

Up in the middle of knotted branches - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

Up from shadow water - Airea D. Matthews "HERO(i)N"

Call up a swamp in this desert - Farid Matuk "from 'For a Daughter/No Address'"

Watching lightning open up the sky - John McCarthy "Garnett, Kansas"

Bursting sewers ooze up from below - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Cardinals flying straight up - Diane Mehta "Ode to Patrick Kearns, Funeral Director of the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home, in Queens"

Straight up into that vanishing - Diane Mehta "Ode to Patrick Kearns, Funeral Director of the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home, in Queens"

Velvet near a laced up tree - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"

The moon lights up cold in its twisted pine-branch - Mêng Hai jan "Waiting for You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Electrical poles held up by a neighbor's twine - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

Up the stone like an unmoored flame - W.S. Merwin "One Valley"

Gives up boyhood scars and birthmarks - Lauren Mesa "The Years We Will Know Them" [Poetry, January 1988]

Pace up the weed-grown paths - Charlotte Mew "The Sunlit House"

Time now to give up the chase - Andy Miller "Diana"

Ten thousand cannon took up the song - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

Her plowshare eaten up with rust - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

Hold a mirror up to the clouds - Jenny Molberg "Mirrors"

By running up the staircase once again - Harold Monro "Journey"

Gathers us up and scatters us again - Harold Monro "Journey"

The fretted sun runs rippling up the bay - George Logan Moore "Love's Watch" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.1-v.I, 5 Jan. 1884]

Its blood dried up with treason's fever-taint - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

I take up fear with my chisel - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"

Burned up doubt after doubt - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"

I lift up and button my collar of hope - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"

While Misers hoard up all their store - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]

Flowing up to the moon - Walter Dean Myers "Willie Arnold, 30, Alto Sax Player"

Before it all goes up in flames - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"

Folded up like griffons - Maggie Nelson "Nap"

Straight up a cliff of corn - Maggie Nelson "September 2"

Molten and made up of moods - Maggie Nelson "The World"

Before I woke up wanting - Marilyn Nelson "Texas Protection"

The pigs hold up the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger

Lifts up its thousand-handed face - Pablo Neruda "Born in the Woods" translated by Donald D. Walsh

That bitter curtain going up - Pablo Neruda "First Travelings" transl. by Alastair Reid

The moon caught up in the jasmine - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid

And gather it up in a perpetual cup - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid

A breaking up of foam and quicksand - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid

Divided up the blood and tears - Pablo Neruda "The Red Line" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Uses up his wandering heart - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Showed up too late to a parade - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"

woke up in the overlooked dark - Hoa Nguyen "Autumn Poem 2012"

Churning up an army of wild horses - Grace Nichols "Atlantic"

Eddying up over the precipice - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

eating up the neighborhood like a june bug - Emory Noakes "In Which My Grandma Kicks Ass and Takes Names During the Zombie Apocalypse"

Drying up all tears of my soul - Yone Noguchi "How Near to Fairyland"

Up the mountain-sides of thought - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"

Up the immeasurable abyss - Alfred Noyes "The Wings"

One hand up against the sky - Naomi Shihab Nye "All I Can Do"

And the desert soaking up echoes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Those Whom We Do Not Know"

The weeds that grow up spidery by the side - Naomi Shihab Nye "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change"

The usual flames rising up from the cracks of everything we know - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"

The kind of power that lifts you up - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"

Our birth was given up to screaming - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"

Up the river to spawn in eclipse water - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

a serpent coiling up getting thicker - Jose Olivarez "you the business folk"

How the distances light up - Mary Oliver "Bear"

The wind roused up in the oak trees - Mary Oliver "Stars"

Instead of being locked up in gold - Mary Oliver "This World"

Money piled up under the turbined lamplight - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

We built up the blocks for nearly a mile - "One Afternoon" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]

Picking up a fistful of sand - January Gill O'Neil "Early Memory"

The sighs that follow him up the golden stair - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Filling up the vast storehouses of his mind - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

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

Setting up an idol all of earth - Robert Owen "A Prayer" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

They shut him up in walls of night - Herbert E. Palmer "Courage"

Made up of slander, corruption, and spleen - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"

Until they lined up shoulder to shoulder - Mara Pastor "Los Bustos de Martí/The Busts of Martí" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong

Shut up a burnt-out heart - Karolina Pavlova "To Madame A. V. Pletneff" transl. by Paul Schmidt

Lighting up the clouds of doubt - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

Soaking up the cell's red smear - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"

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

The trumpet vine that grows up the ginko's trunk - Carl Phillips "Fall Colors"

Holding a mirror up to Apollo - Carl Phillips "Reasonable Doubt"

Pulled up wild from the sea - Carl Phillips "Spring"

Up from the twists and thorns - Carl Phillips "Why So This Quiet"

Rhinestones dressing up inevitability - Marisca Pichette "Are You A Good Witch"

Good and bad like rhinestones dressing up inevitability - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

Shored up by haunts - Robert Pinsky "Gulf Music"

Then get up for two bowls of tea - Po Chu'i "After Eating" transl. by Burton Watson

Don't go climbing up to blue clouds - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

End up with one ox-hair worth of gain - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

Shut up with long forgotten ways - Alexander Posey "Tulledega"

To fish up dreams for just us three - Miriam Clark Potter "A Ballad of Three"

Tiny reaper folk go piling up the hay - Miriam Clark Potter "The Highest Hill in Happy Town"

Had builded it up at the rainbow's end - Miriam Clark Potter "The Laughter-Mill"

Up on the waves of the great sea-sky - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Ships"

Come up with us in the pasture sky - Miriam Clark Potter "The Two Little Flocks"

Hearts up from the dust - Ezra Pound "Near Perigord"

Ammut snapped up their hearts and swallowed - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"

Counting up varied treasures - "Preparing for Christmas" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Up the solemn aisle of thought - Margaret J. Preston "Francesca's Worship" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

Hoisted up their sails of silk all on the golden mast - "Queen Dagmar's Bridal, 1205" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Used up on hard ground - Khadijah Queen "Anodyne"

Twined up in loose fog, time-shocked - Khadijah Queen "Dementia Is One Way to Say Fatal Brain Failure"

Both living and dying require giving up - Khadijah Queen "Tower"

Will be looking up at moss - Sina Queyras "Cut"

Rolls up the breathless blue - Theodore H. Rand "The Arethusa"

Line up and wait to fall - Matt Rasmussen "Ekphrastifilia"

Climb up to the borders of the sun - Dahlia Ravikovich "The Blue West" transl. by Chana Bloch

Spray paint odes for boarded up storefronts - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"

Following you up stairwells of scarred oak - Adrienne Rich "Modotti"

Draw up his regiment all in a row - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "The Baby's Future"

Send a whisper up by a moonbeam - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "The Ballad of the Fairy Spoon"

Burn up Manhattan like a reed - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

Swarming up the mauve mist - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

And held my heart up like a cup - Lola Ridge "The Edge"

Picking up the slipped threads - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

When you scoop a sunbeam up - Lola Ridge "Jude"

A black chimney throwing up sparks - Lola Ridge "Jude"

Standing up in its shaken deeps - Lola Ridge "Moscow Bells, 1917"

Rise up with singing roots - Lola Ridge "Sons of Belial"

Scoop up the shallow moonlight - Lola Ridge "Ward X"

the golden caskets of days coming up false - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"

And one was some fennel up on the shore - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "At the Water"

Let the spring of life well up and drown the empty quest - Lloyd Roberts "Young Blood"

In pent up wrath and fury rages - Amy Redpath Roddick "Armageddon"

As they burn up in the heat of her escape - Mark Rudolph "Tarot Cards and UFOs"

Call up a hundred phantoms - Rumi "I Well Cherish the Soul" transl. by R.A. Nicholson

Treasured up earth's glorious things - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Lighting up vestiges almost divine - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

A red poppy gone up to the sky - Reg Saner "The Red Poppy"

Sets up knaves and murders kings - George Santayana "Six Wise Fools"

Took up her dwelling in that house of clay - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

Up to the farthest hilltops - Fritz Schnack "Evening Gift" transl. by William Saphier

The magnolias open their goblets up - James Marcus Schuyler "April"

The wind tears up the sun - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [The wind tears up the sun]"

And even the goldfinches have given up - Teresa J. Scollon "Untitled"

Pluck up mountains by the roots - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"

To be starving on rabbits up there - Robert W. Service "I'm Scared of it All"

Soaring up to heaven as a symbol and a sign - Robert W. Service "The Song of the Camp-Fire"

The gracious light lifts up his burning head - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VII"

Drink up the monarch's plague - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXIV"

Pyramids built up with newer might - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXIII"

To patch up fragments of a dream - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Fragment: Questions"

Tempted the sheep to scramble up their height - "The Shepherd Boy" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 23, 11 Aug. 1832]

The Jasmine clambers up the wall to twine her wreaths - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Has this House hoarded up its silences - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

Wake up and catch the melody - Fannie Isabelle Sherrick "Easter"

Grows me up into the green of trees - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"

Keep up the shout of freedom - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"

Sent up the heart's o'erboiling flood - B. Simmons "Columbus (A Print after a Picture by Parmeggiano)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]

Whose restless pines were beckoning up the moon - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]

The Thunder, rolling up behind the Deep - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]

When Freedom leagued with Crime to hurl up Earth's foundations - B. Simmons "Lines on the Landing of His Majesty King Louis Philippe, Tuesday, October 8, 1844" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]

Stretching its spiral arms up the curve of my backbone - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"

Agony lights up the darkness - L. Virginia Smith "Bless the Homestead Law"

Picking up the pieces of a broken mirror - Richard Solomon "The Charnel Ground"

A devil who offers up candy - Richard Solomon "Daddy Long Legs of the Evening ... Hope!"

Call me up to the attic again - Richard Solomon "Spring Cleaning"

Rotaries strung up to starlight & empire - Brandon Som "Resistors"

Our shadows struggling to keep up - Gary Soto "Itching to Travel"

Fetched up from the weeds of the drowned - A.E. Stallings "The Catch"

Something impossible up your sleeve - A.E. Stallings "Fairy-tale Logic"

Likewise props up scarecrow silences - A.E. Stallings "Sestina: Like"

Sent up from the depths of hell - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Estelle"

Up to her knees in scarlet foam - George Sterling "Ballad of the Grapes"

Ruined altars yielding up their fire - George Sterling "The Evanescent City"

Send shivers up your neighbors' cornstalks - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

A melody made up of rain - M. Letitia Stockett "Sounds"

Close up, and form the band - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"

Up stairs of orchard foam - L.A.G. Strong "In the Garden"

Flashed up the startled skies - Muriel Stuart "Forgotten Dead, I Salute You"

Broke up the roof for kindling - Su Tung-p'o "Lament of the Farm Wife of Wu" transl. by Burton Watson

Put up no umbrellas to the rain - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson

While symphonies filled up the gaps she made - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Murmuring numbers that never added up - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"

Convoluted Enochian cyphers occupying and freeing up the mind - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"

Take up the mantle but beware the war - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]

Left to hold up the sky's condolences - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"

Taxis rubbing up against each other's paint - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"

In midsummer storing up clear shade - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Matching a Poem by Secretary Kuo, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

Calling up its brothers and sisters from the Earth's hot core - Keith Taylor "Conditions"

To coax up ephemerals in spring - Keith Taylor "The Gardener Remembers"

Past all those barriers thrown up by the gods - Keith Taylor "The Sickness That Comes from the Longing for Home"

Up the bright stair of Wonder - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXIII: The Justification"

Sumptuous flame closed up in alabaster - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta LVI: The Soul to the Body"

Vomits up the sludge of abandonment - Fargo Tbaki "Palestine Is a Futurism: The Dream"

Up from the shadow of years - Te-con-ees-kee "Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation"

Up heaven's broad blue stair - Sara Teasdale "I Know the Stars"

Binding up wounds, but pouring in no balm - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"

A rococo footbridge hard at work holding up some dumb illusion - Brian Tierney "Catering"

Caught up with what it was - Edwin Torres "This Is Not the Conversation That I Started the Conversation With"

Dreaming up ways to thwart the crows - Kristen Tracy "To the Tender"

The fire that pillars up the stars - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

Sweeps up the rags of our shadows - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"

Stack up against the seasons - Natasha Trethewey "Accounting"

Holding his body up to pain - Natasha Trethewey "Amateur Fighter"

The dead stand up in stone - Natasha Trethewey "Pilgrimage"

the words dry up in the palm of my hand - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges

Mountained islands jutting up - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Viewing the Ocean" transl. by Burton Watson

Burps up the summer's burnt dust - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

All pockets turned up empty afterwards - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

In the rickshaw mixing up cultures - Mike Tyler "Palazzo Tartaruga"

Yield up the harvest of our hours - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"

The King himself bore up the bier - "Valdemar and Tove (A)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Fences draw their feet up out of the sod - Mark Van Doren "High Meadows"

As trilobites filled up my hand - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Fossil"

Two spectres conjured up the buried past - Paul Verlaine "Colloque Sentimental" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Throwing the sea's harvest up like honey - "The Vision of Mac Conglinne"

Memory no longer holds up - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"

Up from the gray of earth - Charles William Wallace "To Thee Above"

As they glide off up to Lethe - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"

No one cares about patching up ruined lives - Wang An-Shih "Above the River" transl. by David Hinton

Scrambling up out of shadowy treetops - Wang An-Shih "Ninth Month, Yi Year of the Snake, On Climbing Metal-Forge Wall" transl. by David Hinton

Another bundle of dry grain stored up - Wang An-Shih "Visiting River-Serene" transl. by David Hinton

For they wanted to grow up wise - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"

They built huge castles up with sand - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"

With a white and blue light that fountains up - Noah Warren "Shuttle"

Now leaps a livid lightning up - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Line up brooms with triangle skirts - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Come Shaker Life"

Spoons dip up the sugars of youth - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Who Really Stirs the World"

All the old life bubbling up in me - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"

The sap struggling up unseen in the clematis - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"

The long light that Beauty leaves up her fallen veils - Edith Wharton "Mistral in the Maquis"

And the sky holds up her stars - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Washed up on shores of silence - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Up the clear stair of the eternal sky - John Hall Wheelock "The Fish-Hawk"

Hold up the hollow of your hand - Helen Hay Whitney "Sigh Not for Love"

Bleak trees stand up against the sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"

Look up the etymology of melancholia - Amie Whittemore "Lunar Eclipse"

We rise up laughing with the light - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"

And sends up a lighthouse to peer from - William Carlos Williams "Great Mullen"

Wake up from a long night of walking - Elizabeth Willis "The Steam Engine"

Under an orange rind you'll rustle up a star - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"

And wreathes of smoke sent up - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

Built my life up from very shaky ground - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"

Everything is scarce up here but distance - Charles Wright "Another Night in the Purcells"

Most everything else is up for grabs - Charles Wright "Crystal Declension"

The sunset pulling the full moon up - Charles Wright "Grace II"

Only the night is wound up tight - Charles Wright "Time Is a Graceless Enemy, but Purls as It Comes and Goes"

Their allotted track up to the upside down - Charles Wright "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted..."

Seal it up with spice and salt - Elinor Wylie "Valentine"

With the lifting up of sands - "XVIII: Nican Ompehua Teponazcuicatl | Here Begin Songs for the Teponaztli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Words that called up the lightning - W.B. Yeats "Maid Quiet"

Look up to me alone - William Butler Yeats "Two Songs of a Fool"

A pair of wild parrots startle up - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

The squirrels go to stir up their old quarrels - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

Wake up in pieces - Jane Yolen "Papa Says, Mama Says"

a chessboard pawn that rears up into a castle - Monica Youn "Blueacre"

Up here, we make our own darkness - Dean Young "Folklore"

Of never going up and never sliding down - Dean Young "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green"

Years before burning up in the atmosphere - Dean Young "Sneeze Ode" [Poetry July 2006]

Rising up through a hailstorm - Matthew Zapruder "As I Cross the Heliopause at Midnight, I Think of My Mission"

Look up the skirt of the night sky - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

Walking up inside the lilies - Cynthia Zarin "Flowers"

Rolled up the map of Angers - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Put up with the devastation of wind - Zheng Min "Poverty" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Partaking of the glowing exfoliating cleanup - Dean Young "The New Optimism" [Poetry Oct. 2010]


Grown-Up.


Heaped-up sods upon the fire - Padraic Colum "An Old Woman of the Roads"


The atom of a pent-up dream - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Butter-Cup"

With a pent-up hunger of hate - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"


Ideals higher than the piled-up clouds - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson


Up and down a chain of moods - Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"

Lazy paws of light claw idly up and down - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"

Chasing this small white ball up and down the fairway - Stacey Lynn Brown "Polaroid: Links"

Wheel like a maelstrom up and down - Rebecca Dunham "Mnemosyne to the Poet"

Music up and down the wind - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"

Tossed me up and down the years - Beulah Field "Needles and Pins"

Its cunning corrective to up and down - Linda Gregerson "Over Easy"

Were beating up and down the dark - Thomas Hardy "Trafalgar"

Walked up and down my barren rows - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"

Cranes and gaudy parrots go up and down - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

Go up and down the burning sky - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

Swagger up and down the shore - Tracy K. Smith "In Brazil"

Climbing the cold glass up and down - James Stephens "Charlotte Street"

Falter up and down a tracery of years - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"

Up and down the funnels of evolution - Chad Sweeney "Prophecy of a Monday"

Walk up and down the main streets of town - Emilio Villa "What's New" transl. by Dominic Siracusa


The wavering flames upcaught - Archibald Lampman "The Woodcutter's Hut"


To imagine my upcoming absence - Mary Jo Bang "One Glass Negative"


Rise on anger's updrafts - Cornelius Eady "Running Man"


To catch the upheaval of triumph - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

An upheaval in daily drifting - Richard Greenfield "Hither Come Hither"


Uphold/Upheld.


In the discipline of upkeep - Khadijah Queen "The Rule of Opulence"


Upland.


My festival upleaping from an ember - Agnes Lee "The Silent House"


Uplift.


The wind of the upper air - Richard Aldington "Au Vieux Jardin"

Light lost in the upper ether - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

Photons from the upper atmosphere - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"

The causeway to the upper places - Zona Gale "In Arvia's Room"

An outcome of the upper sky - Eric MacKay "Letter I. Prelude"

Desire in the upper leaves - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

There to buoy us into upper worlds - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

Raiment spun from upper air - Plesheef "Spring" transl. by John Pollen

Swerving in their upper kingdoms - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"


A wrecking ball swung an uppercut - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"


What throne can dawn upraise - Winifred Welles "Exile"


Upright.


Uprise.


The massed memory of upriver rain - Michael Lauchlan "Lips"


Uproot.


Hostage to the hazy upshot - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"


Upside Down.


A sky-lark in his strength upsprung - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"


Upturn.


Upward.


Used-up plantations worn and dry - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

Lost among the used-up cinders - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"


Old worm of wrapped-up gossamer - Walter S. Percy "The Chrysalis"


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