Potential Titles: Deep
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somethingdarkerA red star above the deep - A.L.O.E. "The Beacon"
Nestled deep in the vacuum - Aria Aber "Ode to My Hair"
Deep flood-mark of beauty - Leonie Adams "Midsummer"
My own deep unknown, the human mystery - Mary Alexandra Agner "Be True"
Deep through the rough rock wrought - Ellen Tracy Alden "Princess Gerda"
A thousand monsters of the deep with formless arms - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
From the silence so long and so deep - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
Somewhere parsecs deep behind your eyes - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Old lines sunk deep in the forehead of the intersection - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."
The deep adventure of sleep - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
Fear is etched deep with rune and quill - Ryu Ando "The Drum Star (Orion's Ghost" [Strange Horizons Fund Drive Special 2017]
That still reverberates down deep passages - Ryu Ando "Season of the Ginzakura" [Strange Horizons 13 July 2015]
Deep into the wells that speak your name - Ryu Ando "Season of the Ginzakura" [Strange Horizons 13 July 2015]
Smitten with the deep mystery of things - Louis K. Anspacher "Adam Prometheus" [The Menorah Journal, v.1, 1915]
Allowed my soul to soar to mysteries high or deep - Louis K. Anspacher "Adam Prometheus" [The Menorah Journal, v.1, 1915]
Whom the tide flung landward from the deep - Archias "A Grave by the Sea" transl. by Rennell Rodd
Deep in the pages of a library book - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Listen as deep as to terrible hell - Sir Edwin Arnold "He and She"
In their deep forgetting - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel who never was"
Deep into the ghostly night - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Deep in the unfathomed soul - Charles W. Baird "Spirit-Voices" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
Deep in the silt of a mythic mountain - Mary Jo Bang "I Could Have Been Better"
Deep discontent upon them grew - Jane Barlow "The End of Elfintown: I. The Building"
The rhythm of our veins' deep eloquence - Natalie Clifford Barney "How to Write the Beat of Love"
red for something velvet deep - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
To flowers of thought most deep - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Water Spirit"
And deep they dug the mellow soil - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
flaunt flames deep into december - Samiya Bashir "Some days of wine and pastry"
In lost pagan caverns dark and deep - Charles Baudelaire "The Accursed" transl. not credited
Huntsmen in deep woodlands lost - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited
My dark heart's deep desiring - Charles Baudelaire "The Ideal" transl. not credited
Deep foundations suffer first - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited
The deep heart of a black marble - Charles Baudelaire "The Remorse of the Dead" transl. not credited
Drinking deep pleasure from old Nature's wells - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Deep in your most sequestered bower - James Beattie "Retirement. 1758"
Where the gallant navy rides the deep - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Isis deep in the seasons - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"
All frosty-chill deep down their golden hearts - Henry A. Beers "Water Lilies at Sunset"
Short spasms on the brink of deep chasms - Hilaire Belloc "The Chamois"
Lashingly deep the acid stung - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Drawing all sunlight back to the hot deeps - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
Slow-rising from the deep caves of his heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
Your blades bit deep for their hire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
Blake knew how deep is Hell, and Heaven how high - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
Deep in my heart I shelter a song of you - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Secret" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Deep in the crumbling bridge's shade - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
Deep thrills of ordered sound - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"
Something that's unquarried yet in the deep soul - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: I. The Victories"
Giant feet grounded deep in bedrock - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"
Deep ochre and cobalt shadows - Terry Blackhawk "Of Course"
The rose assumed a dye more deep - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Mocks the deep, unconscious of the storm - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
Infixes deep its restless twists - William Blake "The Book of Thel"
In his root's deep cavern housed - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"
Also inhales the deep - Robert Bly "The Chinese Peaks"
In what distant deeps or skies - William Blake "The Tiger"
I store him deep in my heart - "The Book of Odes: No.228. Swampland Mulberries Are Lovely" transl. by Burton Watson
A deep breath from the eucalyptus breeze - Laure-Anne Bosselaar "Late Afternoon Stroll on the Cliffs"
Traces scars cut deep into the dreamwood - Russell Brakefield "Mackinaw Island"
Deep in the grave where your idol is laid - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Twelve deep vibrations toll - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert III: The Welcome Home"
Cast my anchor of desire deep in unknown eternity - Emily Bronte "Anticipation"
Unlocked a deep fountain - Emily Bronte "III [Loud without the wind was roaring]"
The dangers of the troubled deep - Patrick Bronte "Winter-Night Meditations"
Gazed into the future's deep - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"
A thought encased in deep, riverine bowels - Paul Cameron Brown "Reading the Tides: Petroglyph Park"
Bury her and bury her deep - Sterling A. Brown. "Maumee Ruth"
Into our deep, dear silence - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XXII in Sonnets from the Portuguese"
The Mayan night breathing deep - Joseph Bruchac "Neh Tsoi"
Mouth so deep even the stars fall through - Sue Budin "Passport, 1954"
That hectic and deep brief twilight - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
To mine a deep mountain of truth - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"
Endless the wonders of shallow and deep - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
Deep idolatry on the dark and stormy tides - G.R.C. "The Wreck (For the Mirror)"
To glean from the deep memories of the past - W.G.C. "Yesterday" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Into the spaces of the deep abyss - W. Wilfred Campbell "Lazarus"
As gleams the sunrise on the deep - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Morning o'er the deep shall call us jubilee - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Resentment, deep and just, our only Heritage - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Ill-Timed Levity"
Plunge many fathom deep, and flow unresting - Edward Carpenter "As Round a Lighthouse to--"
So deep a flood of turbulent despair - Edward Carpenter "As Round a Lighthouse to--"
Move forward from the deep in squadrons bright - Edward Carpenter "Beethoven"
To sail Death's unexplored and open deep - Edward Carpenter "By the Mouth of the Arno"
Shared token of our common deep desire - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"
Heaven as bright as this be mirror'd in its deep - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Silvered with sadness, somnolent and deep - Ralph Chaplin "Taps"
The thunder of the deep will be my psalm - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Celestial bread for their deep hungering - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"
The deep dark is an anagram of Jupiter - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"
A deep pact between stone and water - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"
Floating in the deep throat of night - Tiana Clark "Flambeaux"
In footprints made deep - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"
Deep waters where no ground is - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
The trick of deep suppression - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene III"
Within the sceptic darkness deep - Arthur Hugh Clough "The New Sinai"
A thousand kisses deep - Leonard Cohen "Thousand Kisses Deep"
Deep stained with malice, hate and spleen - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
Gladdened the garden's deep gloom - Benjamin Copeland "The Law of Love"
Rebuke the raging of the deep - Benjamin Copeland "Out of the Depths"
Whilst the forest-king strikes high and deep - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
The deep root of rage, sowing what is solid - Andrea Cote "Dear Beth" transl. by Sasha Pimentel
Through the deep, and under - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Probed to the farthest deeps - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Portrays the nightmares of the deep - Palmer Cox "The Brownies and the Whale"
Has ploughed thro' years of sorrow deep - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Going to Work"
Red wells too deep to bring up tears - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"
To the trackless deep they trust - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Tunneled my hunger down deep - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"
Athwart Truth's deep abyss - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Sink his name in deep disgrace - T.D. Curtis "The Cross and Crown: Prologue"
Old deep memories to mar the bliss - H.D. "Leda"
Deep, profound joy and menace - Jim Daniels "Elegy for the Nasty Neighbor"
The complaint from out the deep - Rubén Darío "Nightfall in the Tropics" Thomas Walsh
In basaltic caves imprison'd deep - Erasmus Darwin "The Botanic Garden part 1: The Economy of Vegetation canto I"
And sheep stand to their necks in grass so deep - W.H. Davies "In May"
In darkness buried deep for ever be my ghost - Edward L. Davison "Nocturne"
The deep earth shuddered with delight - John Davidson "A Ballad of a Nun" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
My soul is crying out the deep confusion - Kwame Dawes "Dawn"
As deep as plummet sounds - Kwame Dawes "Last Days"
From haunts of deep obscurity, the fellest Fury rise - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Deep and majestic let the numbers flow - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Power in deep oblivion overthrown - 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]
The sprawling Bear growled deep in the sky - Walter de la Mare "Winter"
Deep in my heart's remembrance and delight - Christine de Pisan "Roundel [Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
On the deep lap of memory - Diane DeCillis "Without Child"
Deep in the moth hour - Diana Marie Delgado "Correspondence"
Steal with a deep supplication to the heart - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
Who sings his deep hoarse undersong - Delta "The Snow" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIII, v.LV, May 1844]
Who bore St George's standards o'er the deep - Delta "Stanzas Written After the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B." [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
A riverbank cut deep enough to bury us - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"
A slow clock in a deep forest - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Time"
In the wood's deep heart I lay me down - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
Dip deep, my darling, into the blank pool - Rita Dove "Trans-"
Where the whole shadow lies deep - Edward Dowden "Brother Death"
Too deep in joy's excess - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VIII. In July"
Psyche slumbering in deep grass - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"
What deep heart of the ancient hills - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel II. In a Mountain Pass"
Powers of the deep below - Edward Dowden "Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl's Version of Vigny's 'Chatterton'"
Dancing on the bosom of the deep - Miss Draper "A Lay of Ruin"
Sinks deep into the dunes of time - Boris Dralyuk "My Hollywood: A Triptych: I. Aspiration"
Deep on moon-washed apples of wonder - John Drinkwater "Moonlit Apples"
The deep mud burned under the thermite's breath - Lord Dunsany "A Dirge of Victory (Sonnet)"
Charms potent and deep - Enna Duval "Invocation to Sleep"
The deep star-chant of the seraphs - A.E. "Love"
Array in harmony amid the deep - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"
The little lives that lie deep hid - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"
Enraptured birds that flew from deeps of old - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Winds of Angus"
Breathed deep breath in heroes dead - George Eliot "Self and Life"
Cutting a deep trail of grief - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
Far in the deeps of history - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"
Reaches down to the fifty Deep Seas - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 8. E-Kishnugal, the Temple of Nanna in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle
To the deep wrong of modern Mammon blind - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"
Deep fjords through the heart - Nava EtShalom "Iteration"
Victorious Greece still feels as deep a wound - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
By adverse winds driven back into the deep - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
And for transgressions past deep smitten with remorse - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Hidden in their deep stones - CJ Evans "Elegy in Limestone"
Other themes of deep distress - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
Poor wanderer on the deep - William Falconer "To a Swallow that Dropped on Deck During a Storm at Sea"
And seeds were planted deep in hell - George Blackstone Field "The Bonnets"
And cave deep into the marble snow - Annie Finch "Frozen In"
Cutting its pathway slow and red and deep - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
When the bolt lies deep in the door - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"
In deep blue seas of air - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Deep withdrawn into the heedless sky - Robin Flower "Sonnet 8 [They say the gods are to the woodlands fled]"
Hunger's sickle sinking deep - Diamond Forde "Rememory"
The heart's deep anguished grave - Mary Weston Fordham "A Reverie"
Tinged deep with Faith's unchanging hue - "Forget-Me-Not: Myosotis Avensis" transl. from German by Fitz-Greene Halleck [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Deep its azure leaves within - "Forget-Me-Not: Myosotis Avensis" transl. from German by Fitz-Greene Halleck [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Heat too deep for me - Krista Franklin "Out of the Woods"
Stream that falls to the deeps of the mind - John Freeman "The Body"
A sleep so dark and so bewilderingly deep - John Freeman "Waking"
Through her silver ocean rides a thousand fathoms deep - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "Wee Willie Winkie"
Deep drinking from that mirrored sky - Nora May French "In Camp"
To melting clouds in endless deeps of air - Nora May French "To Rosy Buds..."
The deep, black jaws of cold annihilation - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
The deep watchword of the rushing storm - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
The rumble so deep it resonates in bone - M. Frost "Pterosaur" [Strange Horizons 22 Sept. 2025]
Look in the deep of me - Zona Gale "In Arvia's Room"
Lit deep within the dark - Zona Gale "The Secret Way"
Lead unconscious lives, old, deep - Zona Gale "There Are Within Us Lives We Never Live"
In the deep of another Spring - Zona Gale "Umbra"
The deep empty longing in the voice of birds - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson
My heart in its deep voice, commanding - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"
And unsuspected moth and rust ate deep - Lydia Gibson "Lost Treasure"
Stirs and thrills anew the severing deep - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "William Denis Browne"
Deep within the moors of my grief - Nikita Gill "Hekate: I'm Sorry"
How deep two secret rivers run - Laird Shields Goldsborough "Confession"
Sorrows more deep than his fears - Dora Read Goodale "The Grumbler" [St. Nicholas v.V no.2, Dec. 1877]
Deep solitude converts to gloom - Mrs. L.S. Goodwin "The Unsepulchred Relics"
If the dust of ages drift five fathoms deep - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Poetry [I had rather write one word upon the rock]"
And quenches them deep in its whirlpools below - Maxim Gorky "The Song of the Storm-Finch" [Mother Earth v.1 no.1, March 1906] transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
A loneliness more deep than quiet death - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"
Deep within the torrent dip - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
To crawl deep inside the silence - Peter Grandbois "When your son abandons the lawnmower for the second time in as many days"
Roots reaching for water and drinking deep - Lora Gray "My Love Wails in the Mending" [Strange Horizons 6 Oct. 2025]
Through the azure deep of air - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
Deep notes across the sombre woods - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull
That drains with one deep draught the wine of life - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
And Love stands watching by the deep - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
A wide and deep torrent of harmony - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
Young Cupid's lances strike as deep as ever - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]
Crystalled dew from the hyacinth's deep hue - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Unheeding the tempestuous deep - J.H. "The Churchyard by the Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.8-v.I, 23 Feb. 1884]
Tell deep secrets to the Flower - Hafiz "The Divan XL" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Deep reflections of a fiery breath - Katherine Hale "Crimson Pool"
One overwhelming flood of deep distress - John Stockdale Hardy "The Wreck"
Strong foundations they planted broad and deep - "Hark to the Tread" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
That rise from the sleepless deep - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
On a sullen, motionless deep - Sadakichi Hartmann "Why I Love Thee?"
Deep in the gulches and hollows - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Fallen Leaves"
Of deep passion or malign desire - Paul H. Hayne "A Comparison" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Oct. 1878]
Ice like Dante's in deep hell - Seamus Heaney "Audenesque"
How deep a mud puddle dips - Georgia Heard "Room of Ordinary Things"
The shape of deep sleep - Anne Hebert "Bread Is Born"
Fearful sound, at midnight deep - Felicia Hemans "Alaric in Italy"
Where the deep elm-shadows fall - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "The Haunted House"
The untrodden kingdoms of the deep - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
The sea desires deep hulls - Ernest Hemingway "Oily Water"
Deep in my gathering garden - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender X"
Wounds that lie too deep for tears - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "Death"
Spirits deep immerse in doubt and trouble - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Futurity"
That draw their fellows deep into impiety - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne
Take refuge in the deep Thesaurus - Oliver Herford "The Fairy Godmother-in-Law IV: The Ball"
Deep and wayward passion - Edward Hirsch "Marina Tsvetaeva"
Deep accordance with the harmony - M.A. Hoare "To Wordsworth" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.423, 7 Feb. 1852]
Corroded too long and too deep to depart - C.V. Hoffman "Le Faineant" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
Mark the gulfs of the yawning deep - Robert Hogg "A Wish Burst"
Through the deep caves of thought - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"
Fearless urge the furrow deep - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]
With that steep or deep - Gerard Manley Hopkins "41 [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,]"
The bosom of this deep, dark pool of oblivion - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
I have drunk deep at your crystal pool - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Drunk deep the deceptive wine of life - Frank Horne "More Letters Found Near a Suicide"
Water poured from a stone, so I drank deep - David Hornibrook "Gone"
Will fester unto deep decay - S.S. Hornor "The Broken Reed"
Deep dread but heightened your mirth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
No stain of deep and Stygian dye - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Glut deep with memory dreams of Hell - Robert E. Howard "Voices of the Night" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]
Deep in the oak's chill core - William D. Howells "In Earliest Spring"
Sheltered away in deep expanses of shadow - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Climbing Green-Cliff Mountain in Yung-chia" transl. by David Hinton
Gaze deep into wind and cloud - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Dwelling in the Mountains 33" transl. by David Hinton
Deep from light and air, until the day of doom - Victor Hugo "The Tomb and the Rose" transl. by A.J.M. [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.694, 14 April 1877]
With deep devotion I've plunged in depths profound - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
Deep and wide as an old Cyclops' drinking bowl - Aldous Huxley "Behemoth"
That stirs the fathomless deep of human minds - Aldous Huxley "The Defeat of Youth: V"
Deep thoughts begot by a jingle upon a pun - Aldous Huxley "Soles Occidere et Redire Possunt"
Golden instants in the deep - Aldous Huxley "Summer Stillness"
Bade the soul drink deep of infinite things - Aldous Huxley "Villiers de l'Isle-Adam"
Share in draughts of joy too deep to bear - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
Buried deep within my heart - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
The phantoms of the deep at play - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: Sea-Mews in Winter Time"
The stars' deep eloquence - Islwyn "Night" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Thoughts deep hidden in the inmost heart - G.C.J. "En Passant" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.35-v.I, 30 Aug. 1884]
Engineered to navigate an illusion of deep water - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
Deeps of woe between us and the long ago - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
Creatures meant for the deep - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "jersey fems in the philly zoo"
To dig my hands wrist deep in pregnant earth - Helene Johnson "Fulfillment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
No change upon the deep - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
And deep and mute attention brought - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Deep within the vase of memory - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "As in a Rose-Jar"
Who sang to the angels of the deep - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
Deep thoughts without a name - Sir Nizamat Jung "IV: Worship"
Scale the height, and strive to sound the deep - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VI" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
A mauve vine corkscrewed up from the deep oblivion - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"
And old forgotten key deep in an unused drawer - Kate "An Old 'Chubb'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.109-v.III, 30 Jan. 1886]
From the nadir deep up to the zenith - John Keats "Hyperion"
Pilgrims of the perilous deep - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
On the wild shore of the eternal deep - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [By the pure spring, whose haunted waters flow]"
One dark, fatal, deep eclipse - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"
Deep in the wooded muscle of your heart - Vandana Khanna "For Some Girls It's Impossible"
An echo left deep down within my heart - Joyce Kilmer "Main Street"
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]
O'er the fallen pillars of the deep and sky - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
No echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep - Rudyard Kipling "The Deep-Sea Cables"
In the punch-clock of deep space - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
Beyond the deep bassoon of frogs - Anne Knish "Opus 150"
Blues & sorrow song called out of the deep night - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"
Deep as abandoned wells - Ted Kooser "Garage Sale"
To ply these frigid currents of the deep - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"
To smooth waters upshaken from the deepest deep - W.E.L. "A Dirge of Love" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.454, 11 Sept. 1852]
The crystal deep of the silence - Archibald Lampman "Morning on the Lievres"
Deep in the noiseless solitudes - Archibald Lampman "The Woodcutter's Hut"
And base it deep as devil's grope - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Cast a firefly radiance down the deep - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Inlet and Shore"
When deep eternity shall look most clear - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "A Song Before Grief"
Pastures deep in rain-fed grass - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Memory with her deep caves - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
The deep cold that had sunk to my soul - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"
The deep sockets of your idealistic skull - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
The deeps of your industrial thicket - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
And kindled you over deep with a cast of gold - D.H. Lawrence "Scent of Irises"
His Art's deep secret and clear crown - Emma Lazarus "Teresa di Faenza" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
In my deep heart harbor quite unguessed - Emma Lazarus "Teresa di Faenza" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
Light welling from the deep springs of night - Richard Le Gallienne "The Country Gods"
In minstrel galleries of the long deep wood - Richard Le Gallienne "An Ode to Spring"
From its deeps draw out the hidden flower - Richard Le Gallienne "An Ode to Spring"
Sealed rooms deep in the dying earth - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"
Far from the deep yearning of gravity wells - Yoon Ha Lee "When Soft the Water Fell"
Mangrove thrusts deep in salty mud - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
How your dear eyes grew deep - Amy Levy "To Sylvia"
Deep mysteries unto her have told - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XIV. The Witch"
Taking us deep into lotus blossoms - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson
Spun deep blue circles over hills - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
Secret chants from the deep - M.L. Liebler "Upon Christ's Entry into Liverpool"
Plundering deep in the moon's ring - Ada Limon "Sting"
Pits so deep a torch turns to a star - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"
While the soul's deep Mississippi sweeps on - Vachel Lindsay "When the Mississippi Flowed in Indiana"
Where the deep Mississippi meanders - "Lines to Miss Florence Huntingdon"
Where cranes dance deep among clouds - Liu Tsung-yuan "Returning to Compass-Line Cliff's Waterfall, I Stay Overnight Below the Cliffwall" transl. by David Hinton
Deeps of unhewn woods alone can cherish - Amy Lowell "Leisure"
To the deeps of ether takes its flight - James Russell Lowell "The Eye's Treasury"
Some bottle deep in cobwebbed dust - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
From deep study of brick walls - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"
Deep shadows on the grass - James Russell Lowell "To the Dandelion"
Diamonds sought in deep Brazilian mines - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
Whispered in the tangled deeps - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
When a thousand voices chanted deep - A.M. "The Exile's Song" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)
A thought shuddered through the silent deep - Thomas MacDonagh "The Night Hunt"
Deep fall the fathoms beyond your beliefs - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "grey seal"
Never a sunrise too deep - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Little Brown Bird"
Electric from the deep - Percy MacKaye "To William Watson in England"
Looking through the sunshot deep - Dorothea Mackellar "Bathing Rhyme"
The tremulously mirrored clouds lie deep - Archibald MacLeish "Imagery"
Hot-house deep in the forest's heart - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Hot-House" transl. by Bernard Miall
The phantom wood in waters deep - Edwin Markham "A Lyric of the Dawn"
See its golden deep of sand - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"
Drink deep of the red mirth - Don Marquis "This Is Another Day"
Deep in the bilges of frigates - David Tomas Martinez "The Mechanics of Men"
Many a secret fate whose marks on fortitude are deep and hard to bear - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
That lift the deep upon their backs - Andrew Marvell "Bermudas"
The angels called from deep to deep - John Masefield "Christmas Eve at Sea"
Which ran to loss in a deep maroon - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"
The deep fulfillment of tears - Edgar Lee Masters "Mirage of the Desert"
Its deep and communal roots - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
The deep repose of the stillest night - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]
Each weary heart is folded deep - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"
The seven deeps of heaven - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"
Drink deep of Disappointment's brine - Kate Slaughter McKinney aka Katydid "Some Day You'll Wish for Me"
Drinking deep of an old delight - Louis J. McQuilland "The Ballad of Sir Kevin O'Keane"
To avoid the deep saves not from the storm - Herman Melville "Clarel" [excerpt - The Hostel]
Derision stirs the deep abyss - Herman Melville "The Conflict of Convictions"
Deep in the midnight roll of black artillery - Herman Melville "The House-top"
The hill-folds gather their deep dark - Mêng Hai jan "Waiting for You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Lost deep in thoughts all distant wandering - Meng Hao-jan "Overnight at Cypress-Peak Monastery on Heaven-Terrace Mountain" transl. by David Hinton
Deep excess of liquor sweet - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"
That drank of havoc deep - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
Sign within him of deep sky and sounded sea - George Meredith "On the Danger of War"
That with deep Earth unites - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Deep snow from which the light comes - W.S. Merwin "Paper"
Too long, too deep a stain - Charlotte Mew "The Cenotaph"
Doom must thunder through the deep - John Milton "Hymn: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"
Light enough to escape notice but deep enough to follow - Carol Moldaw "What We Wanted"
Deep in the shadow of distance - N. Scott Momaday "Linguist"
The silence of deep canyons - N. Scott Momaday "Prayer for Words"
The strong, deep current of your spirit's voice - N. Scott Momaday "Yahweh to Urset"
Forever boiling in deep places - Harriet Monroe "In the Yellowstone"
Without deep revolt - Kamilah Aisha Moon "After Surgery: Riding in My Body with Others in Theirs"
Fell in the depths of the deep, dark sky - William Moore "Dusk Song"
Under a bent when the night was deep - William Morris "From Far Away" [Christmas in Poetry: Carols and Poems. PG. No date]
Deep cargo in the hull - Miguel Murphy "The Sunlight"
Drink deep of the hush of the hyacinth - Sarojini Naidu "Indian Dancers"
Then night must hear from my soul's deep - Francis Neilson "The Music of My Heart"
Airing our differences to the rhythms of deep time - A.L. Nielsen "Consensus"
Deep listening to the welling waves of thought - A.L. Nielsen "Consensus"
The heart with its deep bright colors - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"
Tunnels deep as calendars - Pablo Neruda "Disaction" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Vigil in the deep silence of victory - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
That inhabits its deep corridors - Pablo Neruda "The Poet" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Deep pools in this deep tropic - Pablo Neruda "Rider in the Rain" transl. by John Felstiner
The deep tribes of clay - Pablo Neruda "Tupac Amaru (1781)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Burying lamps in the deep solitude - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems XVII" translated by W.S. Merwin
And honeysuckle in deep beds - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
A gem from the deep mines of savagery - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"
Through the green deeps of leafy spring - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"
The flaw and turmoil of the lower deep - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VII. Sonnet: Our Dead"
Soothed by the charity of the deep sea rain - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: Farewell to Place of Comfort"
Soothed by the charity of the deep sea rain - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"
With what ageless charge of sorrow and deep joy - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"
Deep, bright and most expressive blue - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"
The storms of deep contending passions - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
Not caring what the world's deep voices meant - Robert Winkworth Norwood "His Lady of the Sonnets"
A deep river answering a brook - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"
Brought him unsnared through the castle's deep shadows - Anne E.G. Nydam "Jorinde Remembers" [Strange Horizons 29 Sept. 2025]
Deep evening echoes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Learning to Talk"
A deep quiet plucked by firecrackers - Naomi Shihab Nye "New Year"
Who fly from her like seeds into a deep sky - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Words Under the Words"
The vigils deep of the sable night - Thomas O'Hagan "Mothers"
The wolves' deep snarl be heard - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The deep bells of thunder - Mary Oliver "Sometimes"
The fear deep and futureless as history - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
The deep snow of oblivion - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
A heart beat deep in the quiet hills - Seumas O'Sullivan "The Twilight People"
That a simple sound should reach so deep - P. "Sonnet: On Overhearing a Little Child (a Visitor) Saying 'Mamma' in the Next Room" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, 24 April 1852]
As deep almost in juleps as in debt - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Sow deep into our hearts the seed of the gold tree - Kostes Palamas "The Comrade" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Sink deep into our heart's recesses - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Harmony's voice in Night's deep silence - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
An orbit of deeps - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
Deep in the center of my remade bones - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"
With green deep in their throats - Walter Pavlich "Road with Five Waterfalls"
The little fruitless seed deep sown - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"
At his command the deep is frozen - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Dim terrors in the gloomy deep - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
Spies with cunning deep - Walter S. Percy "Bo-Peep"
Curled deep in her rookery - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"
Spiraling deep in the dusk - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"
Spun deep into the quilt - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"
Over shoreless seas and fathomless deeps - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"
In a deep pit, in a doorless house - Sir Thomas Phillipps "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" (transl. by Samuel Weller Singer)
In deep oblivion's shade - Ann Plato "Forget Me Not"
Where deep thoughts are a duty - Edgar A. Poe "Israfel"
As we lean over the deep well, we whisper - Marie Ponsot "Springing"
Shadows deep behind you - Miriam Clark Potter "Dutch Katrina"
Down deep, among the dungeon weeds - Miriam Clark Potter "The Solemn Frog"
Trenched it deep with many a bitter thought - Louisa Frances Poulter "Imagination, a poem in two parts" [Excerpted in a review in Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]
Deep as Life's pulse the love of fair Renown - Louisa Frances Poulter "Imagination, a poem in two parts" [Excerpted in a review in Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]
Naiad of my soul's deep streams - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"
The deep waves of memory's stream - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"
Deep from the daylight's vulgar gaze - John Presland "Sparrows"
An anguished prayer from the deeps - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
To stir the deep forgotten heart - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Winter on the Zuyder Zee"
The deep's great harmonies - Theodore H. Rand "Of Beauty"
The deep shall thunder its awful chant - Theodore H. Rand "A Red Sunrise"
Stirring to life all my calmer deeps - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe "Wander-Thirst"
The deep waters below me and shallow waters above - Tennessee Reed "Fantasy"
Spanned a chasm dug deep into the clay - W.H. Rhodes "The Merchant's Exchange"
Veils of cloud and sacred deep repose - Cale Young Rice "Submarine Mountains"
Within the deep of wilderness and night - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
Deep as the earth carries her jewels - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Have touched their deep quietness - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Standing up in its shaken deeps - Lola Ridge "Moscow Bells, 1917"
Hidden deep in each bright bud - Rainer Maria Rilke "In April" transl. by Jessie Lemont
With quiet hatred burning deep - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Through the veil of troubled visions deep - Duane W. Rimel "Dreams of Yith" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]
The echoing deeps of time - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Origins"
Deeps of the wind-torn west - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Summons"
Under more deep ambrosial domes - John Robertson "The Prince of Orange in 1672"
Tyrant monsters of the deep - Fayette Robinson "The Zopilotes"
Pervades these deep dark groves of hemlock - H.W. Rockwell "Mohawk" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
While we are deep in dreaming the light - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
In caverns deep where sulphur waters boil - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Ballad of a Bugaboo"
The crabs flee deep into the dunes - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"
Woo all the stars from heaven's blue deep - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
And tumult of deep trance - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
The wordless secrets of death's deep - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"
And tastes the fountain unutterably deep - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
To the deep wells of light - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"
Burn more deep than star-flushed skies - George Rostrevor "Moments"
Through the glimmering deeps to silence - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"
The tempest and tears of the deep - Father Ryan "The Rosary of My Years"
Could not know our true and deep farewell - V. Sackville-West "To Knole"
a billion light years deep into the future - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"
A long ride to the deep - Sonia Sanchez "Sonku"
Slow from deep lungs - Carl Sandburg "Threes"
Somber in your deeps - Margaret E. Sangster "The River and the Tree"
The false deeps of all the soul are sand - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"
The road is long, and hell is deep - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Dug from law its deep foundations - Friedrich Schiller "The Invincible Armada" transl. not credited
Deep inside cold January - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #49"
Through dusky deep solitude - Fritz Schnack "Echo" transl. by William Saphier
Runs deep enough to drown this certainty - Ann K. Schwader "Eating Mummy"
Into night's deep shades - Clinton Scollard "Elusion"
To thy heart's dungeons deep - Frederick George Scott "Te Judice"
Fission-green flaw deep within - Richard Scott "Peridot"
Bring your prayer to the Deep Sea - "Second Hymn" transl. by Sophus Helle (per translator's note, this is addressed to Enheduana)
Deep pillowed in silk and scented down - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"
Superior throbbing her meter deep into the basalt - M. Bartley Seigel "Into the Thicket"
Somewhere deep in my sheltered bones - M. Bartley Seigel "They Say Not to Speak of the Negatives"
What did your deep damnation prove? - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
To view the city wrapped in silence deep - P. Seshadri "Thoughts"
Canker blooms have full as deep a dye - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIV"
For that deep wound it gives - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXIII"
For I have sworn deep oaths - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLII"
Whose waters of deep woe - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Time"
Deep in the dust let all such pass away - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
The deep scars of love - David Shumate "Passing Through a Small Town"
Plunge down to deep worlds - Joyce Sidman "Deep Currents"
Around my deep unchanging heart - Joyce Sidman "Lake's Promise"
Of plunging deep, I have no fear - Joyce Sidman "Song of the Water Boatman and Backswimmer's Refrain"
Hide down deep where the sun is not - Joyce Sidman "Song of the Water Boatman and Backswimmer's Refrain"
And lightly dare the dangerous deep - Lydia H. Sigourney "To a Land Bird at Sea" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]
The Thunder, rolling up behind the Deep - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Meet Morning half way from the deep - B. Simmons "To a Caged Skylark, Regent's Circus, Piccadilly" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCV, v.LXIV, Sept. 1848]
Deep in the sliding ebon tide - Clark Ashton Smith "Ave Atque Vale"
Desert years in one deep kiss - Clark Ashton Smith "Ecstasy"
Yet deep enough to drown - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"
Drowning in dreams as bitter and as deep - Leonora Speyer "This City Wind"
Deep gnawed by rust and stain - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
In deep darkness on a cold twig - Kim Stafford "For the Bird Singing Before Dawn"
And reveal the deep of stars - George Sterling "Music"
From insurgent deeps impelled - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
A beacon on the cosmic deep - George Sterling "Three Sonnets by the Night Sea"
Of the deep life beyond this pallid sun - Stuart Sterne "Into Thy Hands" [Lippincott's Magazine, Sept. 1885]
To move the waters in our soul's deep well - W. Horry Stilwell "Lines to --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
Wailing deep its ancient moan - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "March"
The lute of the deep - Alfred B. Street "My Canoe"
With his deep bassoon chimes in the frog - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Have drunk deep of the well of bitterness - Arthur Stringer "Black Hours"
When strange dreams make deep the idle hour - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
My heart is dyed a color so deep - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 44: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Every nuance hidden deep within - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 219: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
That Eternity whose shadows are so deep - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
To hide in yet more deep disguises - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Ultra"
With eyes that sounded the deep skies - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Song of Italy"
The wind's way in the deep sky's hollow - Algernon Swinburne "The Way of the Wind"
The hushed and silent waters of the deep - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Buried deep in Lethe's magic pool - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
How deep the cost can sink in cold equations - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
Across the deep blue of conceptual space - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Deep down in my mind where it all turns inside out - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Bare, brown branches stark against the deep, blue sky - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"
A dying music, shrouded in deep wells - Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro "Agathè--A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras I" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]
In the deep chasms of everlasting blue - Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro "Agathè--A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras I" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]
From the desolate repose of the deep waters - Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro "Agathè--A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras III" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]
One sweet, dilating wave thrills the pure deep - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Lively as a knife deep in their humid lungs - Keith Taylor "Apologia"
The clear, deep marks of a grizzly's claw - Keith Taylor "To Face the Ordinary"
The past was buried too deep to fear - Sara Teasdale "The Ghost"
From out the boundless deep - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Crossing the Bar"
Deep vase of chilling tears - Tennyson "In Memoriam"
How deep the bitterness alone to grieve - Frederick W. Thomas "The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio"
Gleams in the deep bottom of a well - Matthew Thorburn "Forgotten Until You Find It"
Stern oracles the while spoke ever deep and slow - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Buried deep and buried rough - Eunice Tietjens "Winter Rain"
Scarce one trace of its deep burning - J.A. Tinnon "I'll Blame Thee Not"
Agree to burrow deep into this illusion - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"
Deep enough in the ground to be called roots - TC Tolbert "Dear Melissa [I wish you]"
Hook and net sweeping the deep sea - Kristen Tracy "Urban Animals"
His hand deep in knowledge - Natasha Trethewey "Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956"
Waters are deep and bridges broken - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Song on Enduring the Cold" transl. by Burton Watson
Bright enough to rouse deep dragons - Tu Fu "8th Moon, 17th Night: Facing the Moon" transl. by David Hinton
Dusk's failing flare sends slant light deep - Tu Fu "Skies Clear at Dusk" transl. by David Hinton
Deep in the gloom of days of isolation - W.J. Turner "Soldier in a Small Camp"
In ashes light years deep - John Updike "Lunar Eclipse"
every hieroglyph hidden deep - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"
A secret down in the deep of my dark - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Deep in the earth with a reed to breathe through - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "From the Front of the Fourth World"
The dragons of the air, the hell-hounds of the deep - Henry van Dyke "Lights Out"
Thirsty memory drinks deep - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours III" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
Too deep for language to impart - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XV" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
That deep below are hidden strongest roots - E.G.W. "To a Lady" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.145-v.III, 9 Oct. 1886]
The deep note of existence - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"
As deep as the roots of language - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"
Deep in the heart's confines - Charles William Wallace "The Human Heart"
This silence so perfectly dark and deep - Wang An-Shih "Following the Rhymes of a Poem Sent by Encompass-Anew" transl. by David Hinton
Cottage deep in the intertwining green - Wang An-shih "Impromptu: Late Spring at Pan-shan" transl. by Burton Watson
Adepts gone this deep into night - Wang An-Shih "In Jest on Bell Mountain, Given to Adept Gather-Gain" transl. by David Hinton
A place so deep among cold clouds - Wang An-Shih "Sent to Abbot Whole-Quiet" transl. by David Hinton
Gold on the chill of deep water - Wang An-Shih "Sun west and low" transl. by David Hinton
Yellow warblers in the deep trees singing - Wei Ying-wu "West Creek at Ch'u-chou" transl. by Burton Watson
Too deep they drank of summer's cup - A. Ethelwyn Wetherald "September"
Flick away on currents deep and proper - John Moncure Wettarau "41, in the Honolulu Public Library"
In some deep cleft of quietness remote - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"
And heave with their deep rustle of retreat - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"
Shuddering deeps of shaken thunder - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
From deep to height above - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
The deep mysterious caves forget the distant night - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"
The mystery of ages buried deep - Helen Hay Whitney "To B.D."
Wear its deep impress of changes - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
So vast, so deep, so full of mysteries - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "How Like the Sea"
Propelled by deep voltaic rage - Dana Wilde "Abductions"
Deep silence where the shadows cease - Oscar Wilde "Impressions"
Have borne the deep complaints of woe - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
With what deep thirst we quicken - William Carlos Williams "Smell!"
Mischief deep in ambush lay - Zavarr Wilmshurst "Love and Mischief"
How deep behind burned the blossoms of the mind - Humbert Wolfe "Envoi [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"
The bright filled us so deep and long - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
Impress thoughts of more deep seclusion - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
Cyclotron eyes focusing on the deep - Charles Wright "The Great Blue Heron and the Tree of Night"
The deep, slow currents of evening - Charles Wright "The Great Blue Heron and the Tree of Night"
Going into the deep desire of distance - Charles Wright "Waterfalls"
Have had deep peace to drink - Elinor Wylie "Bells in the Rain"
Not too narrow and not too deep - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Whispers beginning deep in the night - Yang Wan-li "Night Rain at Luster Gap" transl. by David Hinton
From earth's deep heart o'ercharged - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Spring Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]
Deep twilight of rest - W.B. Yeats "He bids his Beloved be at Peace"
In the deep heart's core - W.B. Yeats "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
In the deeps of my heart - W.B. Yeats "The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart"
Of their shadows deep - W.B Yeats "When You Are Old"
Somewhere deep in malfunction - Matthew Zapruder "Water Street"
In a deep place, pillowed by stone - Zheng Min "The Gift of Life #6" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Deep in the nerve - Rachel Zucker "Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs"
Ash-trees standing ankle-deep in brier - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
That deep-browed Homer ruled - John Keats "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
Stainless quarries of deep-buried days - James Russell Lowell "My Portrait Gallery"
Where the deep-cut leaves of the liverwort grow - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Thy threads of wonder deep-entangled - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
Blue at heart deep-frozen - Katharine Coles "You Won't Find Consolation"
The deep-green forests of that epauletted century - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
A thousand rocks, deep-hid - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
The alms of our deep-laden bough - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"
Which deep-leaved June had hidden - Edward Dowden "Winter Noontide"
With the drops of the deep-lying dew - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"
Deep-mirrored in thine eyes - T.A. Daly "To a Plain Sweetheart"
Deep-muffled as the dead-march of a god - Alexander Smith "[Joy, like a stream, flows]" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
Like the wind's deep-muttering breath - John Gould Fletcher "Impromptu"
With things deep-rooted and among the ancient ruins - Kostes Palamas "Life Immovable: Introductory Poem" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Give me the deep-rooted weeds - Charles Rafferty "The Problem with African Violets"
Intermittent deep-sea bells - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"
Deep-shadowed from the candle's guttering gold - Siegfried Sassoon "The Dug-Out"
Music in the strong deep-throated bush - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
The deep-toned yell of hounds - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.X--Autumn, in its Second Aspect"
From the inmost sanctuary burst forth a deep-toned voice of horror - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The old, deep-travelled road from pain - Willa Cather "A Likeness: Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome"
Time's injury, and pain's deep-wandered maze - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: III. The Undiscovered World"
This cup of golden love dream-deep - Jeannette Marks "Beside the Way"
And drink dream-deep life's heady wine - Don Marquis "Proem"
Fighting eons-deep - Tarfia Faizullah "Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth"
School him over-deep in treason - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XVI. The Philosopher"
Buried beneath some snow-deep Alps - T.S. Eliot "A Cooking Egg"
Shadows thrice-deep hid mysteries divine - Kostes Palamas "The Paralytic on the River's Bank" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Knee-Deep.
Deepen.
Deeper.
Deepest.
Deeply.
Grant me the tragic deepness of the cup - Helen Hay Whitney "Pity Me Not!"
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Nestled deep in the vacuum - Aria Aber "Ode to My Hair"
Deep flood-mark of beauty - Leonie Adams "Midsummer"
My own deep unknown, the human mystery - Mary Alexandra Agner "Be True"
Deep through the rough rock wrought - Ellen Tracy Alden "Princess Gerda"
A thousand monsters of the deep with formless arms - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
From the silence so long and so deep - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Rock Me to Sleep"
Somewhere parsecs deep behind your eyes - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
Old lines sunk deep in the forehead of the intersection - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."
The deep adventure of sleep - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"
Fear is etched deep with rune and quill - Ryu Ando "The Drum Star (Orion's Ghost" [Strange Horizons Fund Drive Special 2017]
That still reverberates down deep passages - Ryu Ando "Season of the Ginzakura" [Strange Horizons 13 July 2015]
Deep into the wells that speak your name - Ryu Ando "Season of the Ginzakura" [Strange Horizons 13 July 2015]
Smitten with the deep mystery of things - Louis K. Anspacher "Adam Prometheus" [The Menorah Journal, v.1, 1915]
Allowed my soul to soar to mysteries high or deep - Louis K. Anspacher "Adam Prometheus" [The Menorah Journal, v.1, 1915]
Whom the tide flung landward from the deep - Archias "A Grave by the Sea" transl. by Rennell Rodd
Deep in the pages of a library book - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Listen as deep as to terrible hell - Sir Edwin Arnold "He and She"
In their deep forgetting - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel who never was"
Deep into the ghostly night - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Deep in the unfathomed soul - Charles W. Baird "Spirit-Voices" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
Deep in the silt of a mythic mountain - Mary Jo Bang "I Could Have Been Better"
Deep discontent upon them grew - Jane Barlow "The End of Elfintown: I. The Building"
The rhythm of our veins' deep eloquence - Natalie Clifford Barney "How to Write the Beat of Love"
red for something velvet deep - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
To flowers of thought most deep - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Water Spirit"
And deep they dug the mellow soil - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
flaunt flames deep into december - Samiya Bashir "Some days of wine and pastry"
In lost pagan caverns dark and deep - Charles Baudelaire "The Accursed" transl. not credited
Huntsmen in deep woodlands lost - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited
My dark heart's deep desiring - Charles Baudelaire "The Ideal" transl. not credited
Deep foundations suffer first - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited
The deep heart of a black marble - Charles Baudelaire "The Remorse of the Dead" transl. not credited
Drinking deep pleasure from old Nature's wells - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Deep in your most sequestered bower - James Beattie "Retirement. 1758"
Where the gallant navy rides the deep - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Isis deep in the seasons - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"
All frosty-chill deep down their golden hearts - Henry A. Beers "Water Lilies at Sunset"
Short spasms on the brink of deep chasms - Hilaire Belloc "The Chamois"
Lashingly deep the acid stung - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"
Drawing all sunlight back to the hot deeps - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
Slow-rising from the deep caves of his heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
Your blades bit deep for their hire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
Blake knew how deep is Hell, and Heaven how high - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
Deep in my heart I shelter a song of you - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Secret" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Deep in the crumbling bridge's shade - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
Deep thrills of ordered sound - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"
Something that's unquarried yet in the deep soul - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: I. The Victories"
Giant feet grounded deep in bedrock - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"
Deep ochre and cobalt shadows - Terry Blackhawk "Of Course"
The rose assumed a dye more deep - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Mocks the deep, unconscious of the storm - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"
Infixes deep its restless twists - William Blake "The Book of Thel"
In his root's deep cavern housed - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"
Also inhales the deep - Robert Bly "The Chinese Peaks"
In what distant deeps or skies - William Blake "The Tiger"
I store him deep in my heart - "The Book of Odes: No.228. Swampland Mulberries Are Lovely" transl. by Burton Watson
A deep breath from the eucalyptus breeze - Laure-Anne Bosselaar "Late Afternoon Stroll on the Cliffs"
Traces scars cut deep into the dreamwood - Russell Brakefield "Mackinaw Island"
Deep in the grave where your idol is laid - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Twelve deep vibrations toll - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert III: The Welcome Home"
Cast my anchor of desire deep in unknown eternity - Emily Bronte "Anticipation"
Unlocked a deep fountain - Emily Bronte "III [Loud without the wind was roaring]"
The dangers of the troubled deep - Patrick Bronte "Winter-Night Meditations"
Gazed into the future's deep - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"
A thought encased in deep, riverine bowels - Paul Cameron Brown "Reading the Tides: Petroglyph Park"
Bury her and bury her deep - Sterling A. Brown. "Maumee Ruth"
Into our deep, dear silence - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XXII in Sonnets from the Portuguese"
The Mayan night breathing deep - Joseph Bruchac "Neh Tsoi"
Mouth so deep even the stars fall through - Sue Budin "Passport, 1954"
That hectic and deep brief twilight - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
To mine a deep mountain of truth - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"
Endless the wonders of shallow and deep - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
Deep idolatry on the dark and stormy tides - G.R.C. "The Wreck (For the Mirror)"
To glean from the deep memories of the past - W.G.C. "Yesterday" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Into the spaces of the deep abyss - W. Wilfred Campbell "Lazarus"
As gleams the sunrise on the deep - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Morning o'er the deep shall call us jubilee - "Canadian Loyalty: An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Resentment, deep and just, our only Heritage - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Ill-Timed Levity"
Plunge many fathom deep, and flow unresting - Edward Carpenter "As Round a Lighthouse to--"
So deep a flood of turbulent despair - Edward Carpenter "As Round a Lighthouse to--"
Move forward from the deep in squadrons bright - Edward Carpenter "Beethoven"
To sail Death's unexplored and open deep - Edward Carpenter "By the Mouth of the Arno"
Shared token of our common deep desire - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"
Heaven as bright as this be mirror'd in its deep - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Silvered with sadness, somnolent and deep - Ralph Chaplin "Taps"
The thunder of the deep will be my psalm - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Celestial bread for their deep hungering - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"
The deep dark is an anagram of Jupiter - Chen Chen "Night Falls Like a Button"
A deep pact between stone and water - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"
Floating in the deep throat of night - Tiana Clark "Flambeaux"
In footprints made deep - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"
Deep waters where no ground is - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
The trick of deep suppression - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene III"
Within the sceptic darkness deep - Arthur Hugh Clough "The New Sinai"
A thousand kisses deep - Leonard Cohen "Thousand Kisses Deep"
Deep stained with malice, hate and spleen - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"
Gladdened the garden's deep gloom - Benjamin Copeland "The Law of Love"
Rebuke the raging of the deep - Benjamin Copeland "Out of the Depths"
Whilst the forest-king strikes high and deep - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"
The deep root of rage, sowing what is solid - Andrea Cote "Dear Beth" transl. by Sasha Pimentel
Through the deep, and under - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Probed to the farthest deeps - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Portrays the nightmares of the deep - Palmer Cox "The Brownies and the Whale"
Has ploughed thro' years of sorrow deep - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Going to Work"
Red wells too deep to bring up tears - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"
To the trackless deep they trust - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Tunneled my hunger down deep - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"
Athwart Truth's deep abyss - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Sink his name in deep disgrace - T.D. Curtis "The Cross and Crown: Prologue"
Old deep memories to mar the bliss - H.D. "Leda"
Deep, profound joy and menace - Jim Daniels "Elegy for the Nasty Neighbor"
The complaint from out the deep - Rubén Darío "Nightfall in the Tropics" Thomas Walsh
In basaltic caves imprison'd deep - Erasmus Darwin "The Botanic Garden part 1: The Economy of Vegetation canto I"
And sheep stand to their necks in grass so deep - W.H. Davies "In May"
In darkness buried deep for ever be my ghost - Edward L. Davison "Nocturne"
The deep earth shuddered with delight - John Davidson "A Ballad of a Nun" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
My soul is crying out the deep confusion - Kwame Dawes "Dawn"
As deep as plummet sounds - Kwame Dawes "Last Days"
From haunts of deep obscurity, the fellest Fury rise - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Deep and majestic let the numbers flow - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Power in deep oblivion overthrown - 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]
The sprawling Bear growled deep in the sky - Walter de la Mare "Winter"
Deep in my heart's remembrance and delight - Christine de Pisan "Roundel [Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
On the deep lap of memory - Diane DeCillis "Without Child"
Deep in the moth hour - Diana Marie Delgado "Correspondence"
Steal with a deep supplication to the heart - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
Who sings his deep hoarse undersong - Delta "The Snow" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIII, v.LV, May 1844]
Who bore St George's standards o'er the deep - Delta "Stanzas Written After the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B." [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
A riverbank cut deep enough to bury us - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"
A slow clock in a deep forest - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Time"
In the wood's deep heart I lay me down - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
Dip deep, my darling, into the blank pool - Rita Dove "Trans-"
Where the whole shadow lies deep - Edward Dowden "Brother Death"
Too deep in joy's excess - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VIII. In July"
Psyche slumbering in deep grass - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"
What deep heart of the ancient hills - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel II. In a Mountain Pass"
Powers of the deep below - Edward Dowden "Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl's Version of Vigny's 'Chatterton'"
Dancing on the bosom of the deep - Miss Draper "A Lay of Ruin"
Sinks deep into the dunes of time - Boris Dralyuk "My Hollywood: A Triptych: I. Aspiration"
Deep on moon-washed apples of wonder - John Drinkwater "Moonlit Apples"
The deep mud burned under the thermite's breath - Lord Dunsany "A Dirge of Victory (Sonnet)"
Charms potent and deep - Enna Duval "Invocation to Sleep"
The deep star-chant of the seraphs - A.E. "Love"
Array in harmony amid the deep - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"
The little lives that lie deep hid - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"
Enraptured birds that flew from deeps of old - George William Russell aka A.E. "The Winds of Angus"
Breathed deep breath in heroes dead - George Eliot "Self and Life"
Cutting a deep trail of grief - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
Far in the deeps of history - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"
Reaches down to the fifty Deep Seas - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 8. E-Kishnugal, the Temple of Nanna in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle
To the deep wrong of modern Mammon blind - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"
Deep fjords through the heart - Nava EtShalom "Iteration"
Victorious Greece still feels as deep a wound - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
By adverse winds driven back into the deep - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
And for transgressions past deep smitten with remorse - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Hidden in their deep stones - CJ Evans "Elegy in Limestone"
Other themes of deep distress - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"
Poor wanderer on the deep - William Falconer "To a Swallow that Dropped on Deck During a Storm at Sea"
And seeds were planted deep in hell - George Blackstone Field "The Bonnets"
And cave deep into the marble snow - Annie Finch "Frozen In"
Cutting its pathway slow and red and deep - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
When the bolt lies deep in the door - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"
In deep blue seas of air - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Deep withdrawn into the heedless sky - Robin Flower "Sonnet 8 [They say the gods are to the woodlands fled]"
Hunger's sickle sinking deep - Diamond Forde "Rememory"
The heart's deep anguished grave - Mary Weston Fordham "A Reverie"
Tinged deep with Faith's unchanging hue - "Forget-Me-Not: Myosotis Avensis" transl. from German by Fitz-Greene Halleck [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Deep its azure leaves within - "Forget-Me-Not: Myosotis Avensis" transl. from German by Fitz-Greene Halleck [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Heat too deep for me - Krista Franklin "Out of the Woods"
Stream that falls to the deeps of the mind - John Freeman "The Body"
A sleep so dark and so bewilderingly deep - John Freeman "Waking"
Through her silver ocean rides a thousand fathoms deep - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "Wee Willie Winkie"
Deep drinking from that mirrored sky - Nora May French "In Camp"
To melting clouds in endless deeps of air - Nora May French "To Rosy Buds..."
The deep, black jaws of cold annihilation - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
The deep watchword of the rushing storm - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
The rumble so deep it resonates in bone - M. Frost "Pterosaur" [Strange Horizons 22 Sept. 2025]
Look in the deep of me - Zona Gale "In Arvia's Room"
Lit deep within the dark - Zona Gale "The Secret Way"
Lead unconscious lives, old, deep - Zona Gale "There Are Within Us Lives We Never Live"
In the deep of another Spring - Zona Gale "Umbra"
The deep empty longing in the voice of birds - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson
My heart in its deep voice, commanding - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"
And unsuspected moth and rust ate deep - Lydia Gibson "Lost Treasure"
Stirs and thrills anew the severing deep - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "William Denis Browne"
Deep within the moors of my grief - Nikita Gill "Hekate: I'm Sorry"
How deep two secret rivers run - Laird Shields Goldsborough "Confession"
Sorrows more deep than his fears - Dora Read Goodale "The Grumbler" [St. Nicholas v.V no.2, Dec. 1877]
Deep solitude converts to gloom - Mrs. L.S. Goodwin "The Unsepulchred Relics"
If the dust of ages drift five fathoms deep - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Poetry [I had rather write one word upon the rock]"
And quenches them deep in its whirlpools below - Maxim Gorky "The Song of the Storm-Finch" [Mother Earth v.1 no.1, March 1906] transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
A loneliness more deep than quiet death - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"
Deep within the torrent dip - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
To crawl deep inside the silence - Peter Grandbois "When your son abandons the lawnmower for the second time in as many days"
Roots reaching for water and drinking deep - Lora Gray "My Love Wails in the Mending" [Strange Horizons 6 Oct. 2025]
Through the azure deep of air - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
Deep notes across the sombre woods - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull
That drains with one deep draught the wine of life - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
And Love stands watching by the deep - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
A wide and deep torrent of harmony - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"
Young Cupid's lances strike as deep as ever - E.W.H. "Dream-Fancies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.141-v.III, 11 Sept. 1886]
Crystalled dew from the hyacinth's deep hue - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Unheeding the tempestuous deep - J.H. "The Churchyard by the Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.8-v.I, 23 Feb. 1884]
Tell deep secrets to the Flower - Hafiz "The Divan XL" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Deep reflections of a fiery breath - Katherine Hale "Crimson Pool"
One overwhelming flood of deep distress - John Stockdale Hardy "The Wreck"
Strong foundations they planted broad and deep - "Hark to the Tread" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
That rise from the sleepless deep - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"
On a sullen, motionless deep - Sadakichi Hartmann "Why I Love Thee?"
Deep in the gulches and hollows - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Fallen Leaves"
Of deep passion or malign desire - Paul H. Hayne "A Comparison" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Oct. 1878]
Ice like Dante's in deep hell - Seamus Heaney "Audenesque"
How deep a mud puddle dips - Georgia Heard "Room of Ordinary Things"
The shape of deep sleep - Anne Hebert "Bread Is Born"
Fearful sound, at midnight deep - Felicia Hemans "Alaric in Italy"
Where the deep elm-shadows fall - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "The Haunted House"
The untrodden kingdoms of the deep - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
The sea desires deep hulls - Ernest Hemingway "Oily Water"
Deep in my gathering garden - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender X"
Wounds that lie too deep for tears - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "Death"
Spirits deep immerse in doubt and trouble - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Futurity"
That draw their fellows deep into impiety - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne
Take refuge in the deep Thesaurus - Oliver Herford "The Fairy Godmother-in-Law IV: The Ball"
Deep and wayward passion - Edward Hirsch "Marina Tsvetaeva"
Deep accordance with the harmony - M.A. Hoare "To Wordsworth" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.423, 7 Feb. 1852]
Corroded too long and too deep to depart - C.V. Hoffman "Le Faineant" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
Mark the gulfs of the yawning deep - Robert Hogg "A Wish Burst"
Through the deep caves of thought - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"
Fearless urge the furrow deep - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]
With that steep or deep - Gerard Manley Hopkins "41 [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,]"
The bosom of this deep, dark pool of oblivion - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
I have drunk deep at your crystal pool - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Drunk deep the deceptive wine of life - Frank Horne "More Letters Found Near a Suicide"
Water poured from a stone, so I drank deep - David Hornibrook "Gone"
Will fester unto deep decay - S.S. Hornor "The Broken Reed"
Deep dread but heightened your mirth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
No stain of deep and Stygian dye - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Glut deep with memory dreams of Hell - Robert E. Howard "Voices of the Night" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]
Deep in the oak's chill core - William D. Howells "In Earliest Spring"
Sheltered away in deep expanses of shadow - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Climbing Green-Cliff Mountain in Yung-chia" transl. by David Hinton
Gaze deep into wind and cloud - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Dwelling in the Mountains 33" transl. by David Hinton
Deep from light and air, until the day of doom - Victor Hugo "The Tomb and the Rose" transl. by A.J.M. [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.694, 14 April 1877]
With deep devotion I've plunged in depths profound - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
Deep and wide as an old Cyclops' drinking bowl - Aldous Huxley "Behemoth"
That stirs the fathomless deep of human minds - Aldous Huxley "The Defeat of Youth: V"
Deep thoughts begot by a jingle upon a pun - Aldous Huxley "Soles Occidere et Redire Possunt"
Golden instants in the deep - Aldous Huxley "Summer Stillness"
Bade the soul drink deep of infinite things - Aldous Huxley "Villiers de l'Isle-Adam"
Share in draughts of joy too deep to bear - "Hydro-Bacchus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
Buried deep within my heart - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
The phantoms of the deep at play - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: Sea-Mews in Winter Time"
The stars' deep eloquence - Islwyn "Night" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Thoughts deep hidden in the inmost heart - G.C.J. "En Passant" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.35-v.I, 30 Aug. 1884]
Engineered to navigate an illusion of deep water - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
Deeps of woe between us and the long ago - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
Creatures meant for the deep - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "jersey fems in the philly zoo"
To dig my hands wrist deep in pregnant earth - Helene Johnson "Fulfillment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
No change upon the deep - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
And deep and mute attention brought - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Deep within the vase of memory - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "As in a Rose-Jar"
Who sang to the angels of the deep - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
Deep thoughts without a name - Sir Nizamat Jung "IV: Worship"
Scale the height, and strive to sound the deep - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VI" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
A mauve vine corkscrewed up from the deep oblivion - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"
And old forgotten key deep in an unused drawer - Kate "An Old 'Chubb'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.109-v.III, 30 Jan. 1886]
From the nadir deep up to the zenith - John Keats "Hyperion"
Pilgrims of the perilous deep - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
On the wild shore of the eternal deep - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [By the pure spring, whose haunted waters flow]"
One dark, fatal, deep eclipse - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"
Deep in the wooded muscle of your heart - Vandana Khanna "For Some Girls It's Impossible"
An echo left deep down within my heart - Joyce Kilmer "Main Street"
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]
O'er the fallen pillars of the deep and sky - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
No echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep - Rudyard Kipling "The Deep-Sea Cables"
In the punch-clock of deep space - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
Beyond the deep bassoon of frogs - Anne Knish "Opus 150"
Blues & sorrow song called out of the deep night - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"
Deep as abandoned wells - Ted Kooser "Garage Sale"
To ply these frigid currents of the deep - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"
To smooth waters upshaken from the deepest deep - W.E.L. "A Dirge of Love" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.454, 11 Sept. 1852]
The crystal deep of the silence - Archibald Lampman "Morning on the Lievres"
Deep in the noiseless solitudes - Archibald Lampman "The Woodcutter's Hut"
And base it deep as devil's grope - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Cast a firefly radiance down the deep - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Inlet and Shore"
When deep eternity shall look most clear - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "A Song Before Grief"
Pastures deep in rain-fed grass - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Memory with her deep caves - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
The deep cold that had sunk to my soul - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"
The deep sockets of your idealistic skull - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
The deeps of your industrial thicket - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
And kindled you over deep with a cast of gold - D.H. Lawrence "Scent of Irises"
His Art's deep secret and clear crown - Emma Lazarus "Teresa di Faenza" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
In my deep heart harbor quite unguessed - Emma Lazarus "Teresa di Faenza" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
Light welling from the deep springs of night - Richard Le Gallienne "The Country Gods"
In minstrel galleries of the long deep wood - Richard Le Gallienne "An Ode to Spring"
From its deeps draw out the hidden flower - Richard Le Gallienne "An Ode to Spring"
Sealed rooms deep in the dying earth - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"
Far from the deep yearning of gravity wells - Yoon Ha Lee "When Soft the Water Fell"
Mangrove thrusts deep in salty mud - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
How your dear eyes grew deep - Amy Levy "To Sylvia"
Deep mysteries unto her have told - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XIV. The Witch"
Taking us deep into lotus blossoms - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson
Spun deep blue circles over hills - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
Secret chants from the deep - M.L. Liebler "Upon Christ's Entry into Liverpool"
Plundering deep in the moon's ring - Ada Limon "Sting"
Pits so deep a torch turns to a star - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"
While the soul's deep Mississippi sweeps on - Vachel Lindsay "When the Mississippi Flowed in Indiana"
Where the deep Mississippi meanders - "Lines to Miss Florence Huntingdon"
Where cranes dance deep among clouds - Liu Tsung-yuan "Returning to Compass-Line Cliff's Waterfall, I Stay Overnight Below the Cliffwall" transl. by David Hinton
Deeps of unhewn woods alone can cherish - Amy Lowell "Leisure"
To the deeps of ether takes its flight - James Russell Lowell "The Eye's Treasury"
Some bottle deep in cobwebbed dust - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
From deep study of brick walls - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"
Deep shadows on the grass - James Russell Lowell "To the Dandelion"
Diamonds sought in deep Brazilian mines - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
Whispered in the tangled deeps - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
When a thousand voices chanted deep - A.M. "The Exile's Song" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)
A thought shuddered through the silent deep - Thomas MacDonagh "The Night Hunt"
Deep fall the fathoms beyond your beliefs - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "grey seal"
Never a sunrise too deep - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Little Brown Bird"
Electric from the deep - Percy MacKaye "To William Watson in England"
Looking through the sunshot deep - Dorothea Mackellar "Bathing Rhyme"
The tremulously mirrored clouds lie deep - Archibald MacLeish "Imagery"
Hot-house deep in the forest's heart - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Hot-House" transl. by Bernard Miall
The phantom wood in waters deep - Edwin Markham "A Lyric of the Dawn"
See its golden deep of sand - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"
Drink deep of the red mirth - Don Marquis "This Is Another Day"
Deep in the bilges of frigates - David Tomas Martinez "The Mechanics of Men"
Many a secret fate whose marks on fortitude are deep and hard to bear - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
That lift the deep upon their backs - Andrew Marvell "Bermudas"
The angels called from deep to deep - John Masefield "Christmas Eve at Sea"
Which ran to loss in a deep maroon - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"
The deep fulfillment of tears - Edgar Lee Masters "Mirage of the Desert"
Its deep and communal roots - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
The deep repose of the stillest night - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]
Each weary heart is folded deep - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"
The seven deeps of heaven - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"
Drink deep of Disappointment's brine - Kate Slaughter McKinney aka Katydid "Some Day You'll Wish for Me"
Drinking deep of an old delight - Louis J. McQuilland "The Ballad of Sir Kevin O'Keane"
To avoid the deep saves not from the storm - Herman Melville "Clarel" [excerpt - The Hostel]
Derision stirs the deep abyss - Herman Melville "The Conflict of Convictions"
Deep in the midnight roll of black artillery - Herman Melville "The House-top"
The hill-folds gather their deep dark - Mêng Hai jan "Waiting for You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Lost deep in thoughts all distant wandering - Meng Hao-jan "Overnight at Cypress-Peak Monastery on Heaven-Terrace Mountain" transl. by David Hinton
Deep excess of liquor sweet - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"
That drank of havoc deep - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
Sign within him of deep sky and sounded sea - George Meredith "On the Danger of War"
That with deep Earth unites - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Deep snow from which the light comes - W.S. Merwin "Paper"
Too long, too deep a stain - Charlotte Mew "The Cenotaph"
Doom must thunder through the deep - John Milton "Hymn: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"
Light enough to escape notice but deep enough to follow - Carol Moldaw "What We Wanted"
Deep in the shadow of distance - N. Scott Momaday "Linguist"
The silence of deep canyons - N. Scott Momaday "Prayer for Words"
The strong, deep current of your spirit's voice - N. Scott Momaday "Yahweh to Urset"
Forever boiling in deep places - Harriet Monroe "In the Yellowstone"
Without deep revolt - Kamilah Aisha Moon "After Surgery: Riding in My Body with Others in Theirs"
Fell in the depths of the deep, dark sky - William Moore "Dusk Song"
Under a bent when the night was deep - William Morris "From Far Away" [Christmas in Poetry: Carols and Poems. PG. No date]
Deep cargo in the hull - Miguel Murphy "The Sunlight"
Drink deep of the hush of the hyacinth - Sarojini Naidu "Indian Dancers"
Then night must hear from my soul's deep - Francis Neilson "The Music of My Heart"
Airing our differences to the rhythms of deep time - A.L. Nielsen "Consensus"
Deep listening to the welling waves of thought - A.L. Nielsen "Consensus"
The heart with its deep bright colors - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"
Tunnels deep as calendars - Pablo Neruda "Disaction" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Vigil in the deep silence of victory - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf
That inhabits its deep corridors - Pablo Neruda "The Poet" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Deep pools in this deep tropic - Pablo Neruda "Rider in the Rain" transl. by John Felstiner
The deep tribes of clay - Pablo Neruda "Tupac Amaru (1781)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Burying lamps in the deep solitude - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems XVII" translated by W.S. Merwin
And honeysuckle in deep beds - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
A gem from the deep mines of savagery - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"
Through the green deeps of leafy spring - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"
The flaw and turmoil of the lower deep - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VII. Sonnet: Our Dead"
Soothed by the charity of the deep sea rain - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: Farewell to Place of Comfort"
Soothed by the charity of the deep sea rain - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"
With what ageless charge of sorrow and deep joy - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"
Deep, bright and most expressive blue - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"
The storms of deep contending passions - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
Not caring what the world's deep voices meant - Robert Winkworth Norwood "His Lady of the Sonnets"
A deep river answering a brook - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"
Brought him unsnared through the castle's deep shadows - Anne E.G. Nydam "Jorinde Remembers" [Strange Horizons 29 Sept. 2025]
Deep evening echoes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Learning to Talk"
A deep quiet plucked by firecrackers - Naomi Shihab Nye "New Year"
Who fly from her like seeds into a deep sky - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Words Under the Words"
The vigils deep of the sable night - Thomas O'Hagan "Mothers"
The wolves' deep snarl be heard - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The deep bells of thunder - Mary Oliver "Sometimes"
The fear deep and futureless as history - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
The deep snow of oblivion - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
A heart beat deep in the quiet hills - Seumas O'Sullivan "The Twilight People"
That a simple sound should reach so deep - P. "Sonnet: On Overhearing a Little Child (a Visitor) Saying 'Mamma' in the Next Room" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, 24 April 1852]
As deep almost in juleps as in debt - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Sow deep into our hearts the seed of the gold tree - Kostes Palamas "The Comrade" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Sink deep into our heart's recesses - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Harmony's voice in Night's deep silence - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
An orbit of deeps - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
Deep in the center of my remade bones - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"
With green deep in their throats - Walter Pavlich "Road with Five Waterfalls"
The little fruitless seed deep sown - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"
At his command the deep is frozen - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Dim terrors in the gloomy deep - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
Spies with cunning deep - Walter S. Percy "Bo-Peep"
Curled deep in her rookery - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"
Spiraling deep in the dusk - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"
Spun deep into the quilt - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"
Over shoreless seas and fathomless deeps - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"
In a deep pit, in a doorless house - Sir Thomas Phillipps "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" (transl. by Samuel Weller Singer)
In deep oblivion's shade - Ann Plato "Forget Me Not"
Where deep thoughts are a duty - Edgar A. Poe "Israfel"
As we lean over the deep well, we whisper - Marie Ponsot "Springing"
Shadows deep behind you - Miriam Clark Potter "Dutch Katrina"
Down deep, among the dungeon weeds - Miriam Clark Potter "The Solemn Frog"
Trenched it deep with many a bitter thought - Louisa Frances Poulter "Imagination, a poem in two parts" [Excerpted in a review in Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]
Deep as Life's pulse the love of fair Renown - Louisa Frances Poulter "Imagination, a poem in two parts" [Excerpted in a review in Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]
Naiad of my soul's deep streams - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"
The deep waves of memory's stream - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"
Deep from the daylight's vulgar gaze - John Presland "Sparrows"
An anguished prayer from the deeps - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
To stir the deep forgotten heart - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Winter on the Zuyder Zee"
The deep's great harmonies - Theodore H. Rand "Of Beauty"
The deep shall thunder its awful chant - Theodore H. Rand "A Red Sunrise"
Stirring to life all my calmer deeps - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe "Wander-Thirst"
The deep waters below me and shallow waters above - Tennessee Reed "Fantasy"
Spanned a chasm dug deep into the clay - W.H. Rhodes "The Merchant's Exchange"
Veils of cloud and sacred deep repose - Cale Young Rice "Submarine Mountains"
Within the deep of wilderness and night - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
Deep as the earth carries her jewels - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Have touched their deep quietness - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
Standing up in its shaken deeps - Lola Ridge "Moscow Bells, 1917"
Hidden deep in each bright bud - Rainer Maria Rilke "In April" transl. by Jessie Lemont
With quiet hatred burning deep - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Through the veil of troubled visions deep - Duane W. Rimel "Dreams of Yith" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]
The echoing deeps of time - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Origins"
Deeps of the wind-torn west - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Summons"
Under more deep ambrosial domes - John Robertson "The Prince of Orange in 1672"
Tyrant monsters of the deep - Fayette Robinson "The Zopilotes"
Pervades these deep dark groves of hemlock - H.W. Rockwell "Mohawk" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
While we are deep in dreaming the light - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
In caverns deep where sulphur waters boil - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Ballad of a Bugaboo"
The crabs flee deep into the dunes - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"
Woo all the stars from heaven's blue deep - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
And tumult of deep trance - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
The wordless secrets of death's deep - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"
And tastes the fountain unutterably deep - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
To the deep wells of light - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"
Burn more deep than star-flushed skies - George Rostrevor "Moments"
Through the glimmering deeps to silence - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"
The tempest and tears of the deep - Father Ryan "The Rosary of My Years"
Could not know our true and deep farewell - V. Sackville-West "To Knole"
a billion light years deep into the future - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"
A long ride to the deep - Sonia Sanchez "Sonku"
Slow from deep lungs - Carl Sandburg "Threes"
Somber in your deeps - Margaret E. Sangster "The River and the Tree"
The false deeps of all the soul are sand - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"
The road is long, and hell is deep - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Dug from law its deep foundations - Friedrich Schiller "The Invincible Armada" transl. not credited
Deep inside cold January - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #49"
Through dusky deep solitude - Fritz Schnack "Echo" transl. by William Saphier
Runs deep enough to drown this certainty - Ann K. Schwader "Eating Mummy"
Into night's deep shades - Clinton Scollard "Elusion"
To thy heart's dungeons deep - Frederick George Scott "Te Judice"
Fission-green flaw deep within - Richard Scott "Peridot"
Bring your prayer to the Deep Sea - "Second Hymn" transl. by Sophus Helle (per translator's note, this is addressed to Enheduana)
Deep pillowed in silk and scented down - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"
Superior throbbing her meter deep into the basalt - M. Bartley Seigel "Into the Thicket"
Somewhere deep in my sheltered bones - M. Bartley Seigel "They Say Not to Speak of the Negatives"
What did your deep damnation prove? - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
To view the city wrapped in silence deep - P. Seshadri "Thoughts"
Canker blooms have full as deep a dye - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIV"
For that deep wound it gives - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXIII"
For I have sworn deep oaths - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLII"
Whose waters of deep woe - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Time"
Deep in the dust let all such pass away - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
The deep scars of love - David Shumate "Passing Through a Small Town"
Plunge down to deep worlds - Joyce Sidman "Deep Currents"
Around my deep unchanging heart - Joyce Sidman "Lake's Promise"
Of plunging deep, I have no fear - Joyce Sidman "Song of the Water Boatman and Backswimmer's Refrain"
Hide down deep where the sun is not - Joyce Sidman "Song of the Water Boatman and Backswimmer's Refrain"
And lightly dare the dangerous deep - Lydia H. Sigourney "To a Land Bird at Sea" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]
The Thunder, rolling up behind the Deep - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Meet Morning half way from the deep - B. Simmons "To a Caged Skylark, Regent's Circus, Piccadilly" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCV, v.LXIV, Sept. 1848]
Deep in the sliding ebon tide - Clark Ashton Smith "Ave Atque Vale"
Desert years in one deep kiss - Clark Ashton Smith "Ecstasy"
Yet deep enough to drown - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"
Drowning in dreams as bitter and as deep - Leonora Speyer "This City Wind"
Deep gnawed by rust and stain - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
In deep darkness on a cold twig - Kim Stafford "For the Bird Singing Before Dawn"
And reveal the deep of stars - George Sterling "Music"
From insurgent deeps impelled - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
A beacon on the cosmic deep - George Sterling "Three Sonnets by the Night Sea"
Of the deep life beyond this pallid sun - Stuart Sterne "Into Thy Hands" [Lippincott's Magazine, Sept. 1885]
To move the waters in our soul's deep well - W. Horry Stilwell "Lines to --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
Wailing deep its ancient moan - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "March"
The lute of the deep - Alfred B. Street "My Canoe"
With his deep bassoon chimes in the frog - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Have drunk deep of the well of bitterness - Arthur Stringer "Black Hours"
When strange dreams make deep the idle hour - Arthur Stringer "Sappho in Leucadia"
My heart is dyed a color so deep - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 44: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Every nuance hidden deep within - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 219: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
That Eternity whose shadows are so deep - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
To hide in yet more deep disguises - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Ultra"
With eyes that sounded the deep skies - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Song of Italy"
The wind's way in the deep sky's hollow - Algernon Swinburne "The Way of the Wind"
The hushed and silent waters of the deep - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Buried deep in Lethe's magic pool - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
How deep the cost can sink in cold equations - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
Across the deep blue of conceptual space - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Deep down in my mind where it all turns inside out - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Bare, brown branches stark against the deep, blue sky - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"
A dying music, shrouded in deep wells - Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro "Agathè--A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras I" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]
In the deep chasms of everlasting blue - Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro "Agathè--A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras I" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]
From the desolate repose of the deep waters - Louis Fitzgerald Tasistro "Agathè--A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras III" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]
One sweet, dilating wave thrills the pure deep - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Lively as a knife deep in their humid lungs - Keith Taylor "Apologia"
The clear, deep marks of a grizzly's claw - Keith Taylor "To Face the Ordinary"
The past was buried too deep to fear - Sara Teasdale "The Ghost"
From out the boundless deep - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Crossing the Bar"
Deep vase of chilling tears - Tennyson "In Memoriam"
How deep the bitterness alone to grieve - Frederick W. Thomas "The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio"
Gleams in the deep bottom of a well - Matthew Thorburn "Forgotten Until You Find It"
Stern oracles the while spoke ever deep and slow - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Buried deep and buried rough - Eunice Tietjens "Winter Rain"
Scarce one trace of its deep burning - J.A. Tinnon "I'll Blame Thee Not"
Agree to burrow deep into this illusion - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"
Deep enough in the ground to be called roots - TC Tolbert "Dear Melissa [I wish you]"
Hook and net sweeping the deep sea - Kristen Tracy "Urban Animals"
His hand deep in knowledge - Natasha Trethewey "Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956"
Waters are deep and bridges broken - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Song on Enduring the Cold" transl. by Burton Watson
Bright enough to rouse deep dragons - Tu Fu "8th Moon, 17th Night: Facing the Moon" transl. by David Hinton
Dusk's failing flare sends slant light deep - Tu Fu "Skies Clear at Dusk" transl. by David Hinton
Deep in the gloom of days of isolation - W.J. Turner "Soldier in a Small Camp"
In ashes light years deep - John Updike "Lunar Eclipse"
every hieroglyph hidden deep - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"
A secret down in the deep of my dark - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Deep in the earth with a reed to breathe through - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "From the Front of the Fourth World"
The dragons of the air, the hell-hounds of the deep - Henry van Dyke "Lights Out"
Thirsty memory drinks deep - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours III" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
Too deep for language to impart - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XV" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
That deep below are hidden strongest roots - E.G.W. "To a Lady" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.145-v.III, 9 Oct. 1886]
The deep note of existence - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"
As deep as the roots of language - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"
Deep in the heart's confines - Charles William Wallace "The Human Heart"
This silence so perfectly dark and deep - Wang An-Shih "Following the Rhymes of a Poem Sent by Encompass-Anew" transl. by David Hinton
Cottage deep in the intertwining green - Wang An-shih "Impromptu: Late Spring at Pan-shan" transl. by Burton Watson
Adepts gone this deep into night - Wang An-Shih "In Jest on Bell Mountain, Given to Adept Gather-Gain" transl. by David Hinton
A place so deep among cold clouds - Wang An-Shih "Sent to Abbot Whole-Quiet" transl. by David Hinton
Gold on the chill of deep water - Wang An-Shih "Sun west and low" transl. by David Hinton
Yellow warblers in the deep trees singing - Wei Ying-wu "West Creek at Ch'u-chou" transl. by Burton Watson
Too deep they drank of summer's cup - A. Ethelwyn Wetherald "September"
Flick away on currents deep and proper - John Moncure Wettarau "41, in the Honolulu Public Library"
In some deep cleft of quietness remote - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"
And heave with their deep rustle of retreat - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"
Shuddering deeps of shaken thunder - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
From deep to height above - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
The deep mysterious caves forget the distant night - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"
The mystery of ages buried deep - Helen Hay Whitney "To B.D."
Wear its deep impress of changes - Miss S.J.C. Whittlesey "Fadde and Gone" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
So vast, so deep, so full of mysteries - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "How Like the Sea"
Propelled by deep voltaic rage - Dana Wilde "Abductions"
Deep silence where the shadows cease - Oscar Wilde "Impressions"
Have borne the deep complaints of woe - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
With what deep thirst we quicken - William Carlos Williams "Smell!"
Mischief deep in ambush lay - Zavarr Wilmshurst "Love and Mischief"
How deep behind burned the blossoms of the mind - Humbert Wolfe "Envoi [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"
The bright filled us so deep and long - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
Impress thoughts of more deep seclusion - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
Cyclotron eyes focusing on the deep - Charles Wright "The Great Blue Heron and the Tree of Night"
The deep, slow currents of evening - Charles Wright "The Great Blue Heron and the Tree of Night"
Going into the deep desire of distance - Charles Wright "Waterfalls"
Have had deep peace to drink - Elinor Wylie "Bells in the Rain"
Not too narrow and not too deep - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Whispers beginning deep in the night - Yang Wan-li "Night Rain at Luster Gap" transl. by David Hinton
From earth's deep heart o'ercharged - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Spring Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]
Deep twilight of rest - W.B. Yeats "He bids his Beloved be at Peace"
In the deep heart's core - W.B. Yeats "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
In the deeps of my heart - W.B. Yeats "The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart"
Of their shadows deep - W.B Yeats "When You Are Old"
Somewhere deep in malfunction - Matthew Zapruder "Water Street"
In a deep place, pillowed by stone - Zheng Min "The Gift of Life #6" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Deep in the nerve - Rachel Zucker "Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs"
Ash-trees standing ankle-deep in brier - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
That deep-browed Homer ruled - John Keats "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
Stainless quarries of deep-buried days - James Russell Lowell "My Portrait Gallery"
Where the deep-cut leaves of the liverwort grow - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Thy threads of wonder deep-entangled - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
Blue at heart deep-frozen - Katharine Coles "You Won't Find Consolation"
The deep-green forests of that epauletted century - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
A thousand rocks, deep-hid - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
The alms of our deep-laden bough - E. Nesbit "At the Gate"
Which deep-leaved June had hidden - Edward Dowden "Winter Noontide"
With the drops of the deep-lying dew - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"
Deep-mirrored in thine eyes - T.A. Daly "To a Plain Sweetheart"
Deep-muffled as the dead-march of a god - Alexander Smith "[Joy, like a stream, flows]" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
Like the wind's deep-muttering breath - John Gould Fletcher "Impromptu"
With things deep-rooted and among the ancient ruins - Kostes Palamas "Life Immovable: Introductory Poem" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Give me the deep-rooted weeds - Charles Rafferty "The Problem with African Violets"
Intermittent deep-sea bells - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"
Deep-shadowed from the candle's guttering gold - Siegfried Sassoon "The Dug-Out"
Music in the strong deep-throated bush - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
The deep-toned yell of hounds - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.X--Autumn, in its Second Aspect"
From the inmost sanctuary burst forth a deep-toned voice of horror - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The old, deep-travelled road from pain - Willa Cather "A Likeness: Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome"
Time's injury, and pain's deep-wandered maze - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: III. The Undiscovered World"
This cup of golden love dream-deep - Jeannette Marks "Beside the Way"
And drink dream-deep life's heady wine - Don Marquis "Proem"
Fighting eons-deep - Tarfia Faizullah "Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth"
School him over-deep in treason - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part I: XVI. The Philosopher"
Buried beneath some snow-deep Alps - T.S. Eliot "A Cooking Egg"
Shadows thrice-deep hid mysteries divine - Kostes Palamas "The Paralytic on the River's Bank" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Knee-Deep.
Deepen.
Deeper.
Deepest.
Deeply.
Grant me the tragic deepness of the cup - Helen Hay Whitney "Pity Me Not!"
Depth.
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