Potential Titles: Place
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somethingdarkerThe first liquid the place of beginning life - Linda Addison "Evolving"
Riding through my place in time - Linda Addison "Evolving"
Ascend the ruins of this place - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Place me above the carnivorous sea - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Toward a defined but indeterminate place - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Place galaxies true in their quadrants - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
And placed a lien on your bones - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"
That tether you to this place - Lauren K. Alleyne "Nothing to Declare"
That faraway place where the ruins spoke to poets - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
The whistle of species place in a jar - Zaina Alsous "Ibis"
Nor keep the place from Sorrow - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XCVI: Sleeplessness" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
No first place to human boast - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXIII: The First Toast" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Starts off for an imaginary place - Rae Armantrout "Imaginary Places"
Haunt the place where passions reign - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"
Winter is a place I visit - Cameron Awkward-Rich "What Returns"
an origami placed before a calcified wind - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
Placed that notion on the Mobeius strip - Mary Jo Bang "Don't"
Untie my tangled places - Rachel Barenblat "Untie"
The call of the lonesome place - Djuna Barnes "Call of the Night"
In a place where there is no ground - Rick Barot "Adjacent, Against, Upon"
Haunt me in the quiet places - Oliver Baez Bendorf "New Moon Newton"
Some stars occupy two places - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"
A framework that keeps stars in place - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"
Forceful measures in a narrow place - Craven Langstroth Betts "Pope"
The appointed place of rendezvous - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Hell in the smallest places - Leah Bobet "Hold Fast"
We all need places to disappear to - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
Above the place where I lie desolate - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Trouble knows the place - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
A place the birds made for someone else - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"
A place only forgotten animals tread - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"
To a stagnant place apart - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"
Amaze the place with holier light - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "To George Sand: A Desire"
Whose place of rest is won - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Words of Rosalind's Scroll"
A Glass placed betwixt Nets - John Bunyan "Upon the Lark and the Fowler"
No vacation from running this place - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"
In the thin places of contentment - Anthony Butts "Lessons in Nostalgia"
Alone in this thin place of existence - Anthony Butts "Triptych"
A white candle in a holy place - Joseph Campbell "The Old Woman"
What lovely visions yield their place - Thomas Campbell "The Rainbow"
Your whole body is composed of nesting places - Anthony Vahni Capildeo "Niche"
Fallen into place beside the oldest stones - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"
To the place of starting again - Killarney Clary "[Into the land of youth]"
Song is sweet in a lonely place - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
Place bliss and glory there - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
My soul secure in place - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
But crazy has places to hide me - Leonard Cohen "Crazy to Love You"
At an unexpected place in your journey - Leonard Cohen "The Way Back"
The soft places in the center of the heart - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"
Places where names are hidden - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"
In change of place a change of pain - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Places among the stars - Stephen Crane "Untitled"
The remote, cold place of ultimate dissolution - Adelaide Crapsey "John Keats"
Except it finds a place given - Robert Creeley "Here Only"
Stretches forth from shadowed places - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"
Your scarlet foot so deftly placed - H.D. "The bird-choros of Ion"
By destiny's right placing - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"
A place of stone and entanglements - Kwame Dawes "Dirt"
The wide doors of an abandoned place - Coningsby Dawson "Remembering in Heaven"
The dwelling place for other dodos - Monica de la Torre "View from a Dodo Chair"
The place called morning - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature II: Out of the Morning"
Barricading places I won't go - Katherine Edgren "How to Form a Perfect Callus"
After the agony in stony places - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"
In the place where empathy should be - Chiyuma Elliott "Dear Transformation"
This place where the tide rolls out - Chiyuma Elliott "For Ghosted Girls"
In a place where color speaks - Heid E. Erdich "Kennewick man Swims Laps"
A place beyond everyday clamor - Heid E. Erdich "Quiet Cupboard"
A place forever falling on itself - Heid E. Erdich "Translation"
Had no place on the rocks but a voice - Annie Finch "Edge, Atlantic, July"
In silent places an older silence broods - Robin Flower "The Pipes"
Old objects chained in their places - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten IX"
Lingers in the heart's secret places - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
Shadows cloaked the narrow place - John Freeman "Waiting"
In any rough place where it caught - Robert Frost "The Aim Was Song"
Came singly unto her place - Robert Frost "In a Vale"
We make ourselves a place apart - Robert Frost "Revelation"
A place of rest invisible at dawn - Robert Frost "Stars"
Trapped me in a worse place - Antonio Funches "Coup"
No hard straight place to be - Zona Gale "Hokku"
The causeway to the upper places - Zona Gale "In Arvia's Room"
Hell isn't where I place my bets - Andrea Gibson "Daytime, Somewhere"
Who gently places fallen baby birds back - Nikita Gill "Your Soft Heart"
Finding a place where fear leads to desire - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"
Be a tourist in the memories of that place - Amelia Gorman "Pickling Dog"
Synonymous with place and loss - Rae Gouirand "Language"
In the secret places under my heart - Mona Gould "You, the Sower of Seed"
This unfamiliar and malignant place - Linda Gregerson "No Lion, No Moon"
A place on the tablets of fame - Edgar A. Guest "Looking Back"
Unseal the shut, the hidden places - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"
To the circling around place of time - Joy Harjo "Bless this Land"
Filled the least and the greatest places - Leslie Harrison "[God speaks]"
Those in high places daunted - Seamus Heaney "Anything Can Happen"
Opens inwards to a dark elderberry place - Seamus Heaney "The Grauballe Man"
A place where nothing can die - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
Place squash blossoms and nasturtium on the plate - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"
Your neurons place their bets - Conrad Hilberry "A Dialogue Between the Body and Soul"
Mozart lets the chords fall in place - Conrad Hilberry "Divertimento 563"
As you place your question in the stone of the city's gate - Carlie Hoffman "Point of View Where Orpheus Makes a Pit Stop at a Fortune Teller in St Germain"
Laughing in all the wrong places - Langston Hughes "Movies"
Leave the place of night and clouds - "III: Occe al Mismo Tono Tlamelauhcayotl | Another Plain Song, to the Same Tune" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Stood some place beyond desire - Mark Irwin "Purple"
place the world inside the light and look - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Light of the World"
make small steps. in this wild place - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving at the Sipsey River"
Placed her in perpetual twilight - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"
From inside their locked, glass places - Laura Kasischke "Ubi Sunt"
Places sadness shouldn’t live - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
In every place where infant Orpheus slept - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Take the new skin this place has offered - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"
Hold time in place under her tongue - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Left Behind"
Permanently into Their Vanishing Places - Galway Kinnell "Driftwood from a Ship"
Gave the Hyssop and Cedar their place - Rudyard Kipling "Banquet Night"
Dare not leave a place for her - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"
Hours that grind us in our places - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"
Floats from some warmer place - Ted Kooser "In Early April"
Carefully placed upon the future - Ted Kooser "This Paper Boat"
In obscure places on several continents - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"
A good place for the stolen mind - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"
Placed in your especial care - Henry S. Leigh "Clumsy Servant"
In places we cannot see - Keegan Lester "Huntington Beach"
How many places stained with their tears - Lu Yu "Border Mountain Moon" transl. by Burton Watson
This place of nine parts death - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson
Battling over the places my body lands - Tariq Luthun "Finding Myself in the Direct Messages of Someone I Do Not Know Is in Kuwait"
Not a place to become yesterday - Tariq Luthun "I Go to the Backyard to Pick Mint Leaves for My Mother"
And drag the lightning from its hiding-place - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"
Have strayed from silent places - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Indian Summer"
The trees give place to bushes - Dorothea Mackellar "High Places"
The secret place of thunders - Kate Seymour MacLean "Bird Song"
In such a place, love met me once - Jeannette Marks "The Railroad Station"
Placing a loyal hand on the star that refused to die - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
Leaving that place of daffodils - John Masefield "The Return"
Placed his head on your doorstep - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (9)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
I go to a place forgotten - Edgar Lee Masters "Johnny Appleseed"
The best places to hide - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Rise to behold the satyr in their place - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Crops walloped in their places of birth - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
Not a place made for knowledge - W.S. Merwin "Walled Place above the River"
A place of palaces and pinnacles - Charlotte Mew "I Have Been Through the Gates"
A place with the lights gone out - Charlotte Mew "I Have Been Through the Gates"
No place to dream - Edna St Vincent Millay "Low-Tide"
We are together in strange places - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"
Place driftwood in my left hand - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"
One place without connection - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"
Forever boiling in deep places - Harriet Monroe "In the Yellowstone"
A place for the genuine - Marianne Moore "Poetry"
Placed my grief in the mouth of language - Lisel Mueller "When I Am Asked"
Falling asleep in a safe place - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"
On pillars that nameless workers placed - Mark Nepo "Under the Temple"
The serious place of bread - Pablo Neruda "Sex" transl. by Alastair Reid
Secret places tangled in roots - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Until their hearts were locked in place - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"
Across place and the hereafter - Tim Newcomb "Evocative Montana"
The Seraph in his height of place - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Places his lonely altars on them - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Death placed him in command - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"
Placed one toe in the river of gloom - Naomi Shihab Nye "Coming Soon"
Aligned in a place of wisdom - Naomi Shihab Nye "Elementary"
Holding their places between - Naomi Shihab Nye "Meteor Watch"
Because every life needs a hidden place - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stone House"
A place that let us all sorrow - Naomi Shihab Nye "Unforgettable"
As the place where spiders braid - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
The brambles in their places - Mary Oliver "West Wind 9"
Cover the place of each sorrow - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"
capable of being two places at once - Ugonna-Ora Owoh "Syndrome"
A place of unimagined reds and golds - Linda Pastan "All Nights"
As energy and matter bow and switch places - Linda Pastan "The Conservation of Matter"
Into the places where I retreat myself - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"
A crowd around my hiding place - Andre F. Peltier "Six Feet Under"
A place for running away from fame - Po Chu'i "Writing Again on the Same Theme" transl. by Burton Watson
The place your heart inhabits - Emilio Porta
Leave it in your place and depart - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"
Sweet are the silent places - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Silent Places"
To mark the place of salvation or surrender - Charles Rafferty "Hotel Bible"
Flood all the place of tears - Theodore H. Rand "The Tireless Sea"
To hold Earth's architrave in place - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"
Seeking out the darkest places of the world - Herbert Randall "The Tryst of Nations"
Coal gouged out to fuel the light in other places - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
Like the place you were from never existed - m.s. RedCherries "finding tomorrow"
The rupture marks her final place - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
Placed at the ancient heart of a temple - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
Sometimes that unfamiliar place is closer - Kurt Rhode in a letter to Diane Seuss (quoted as part of her poem, "What Is It You Feel I Asked Kurt")
As it comes in empty places - Lola Ridge "Celia"
A coiling and dark place - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"
Dance in the dim violet places - Lola Ridge "Snow-Dance for the Dead"
The border resumed its usual place - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"
In this border place and time - Alberto Ríos "Day of the Refugios"
The spirit of lilies in a leafy place - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"
A place inside the current - Kay Ryan "Breather"
Always willing to move one place along - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"
Found a place for the betrayal - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: IV. The Fall and Explulsion from Paradise" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Slippery frozen places of the earth - Carl Sandburg "Four Steichen Prints"
A place you walk into backwards - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"
The past, that place where everything goes - Jason Schneiderman "House with a Hot Tub and Pool"
In the burned places where light is ash - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"
A seed's commitment to its place on the ground - Teresa J. Scollon "Mid-Life, I'm Lost"
Pouring sparks through a narrow place - Teresa J. Scollon "Summer Solstice in Black River Falls"
Placed close within destruction's scope - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Upon the silent face of a dark dial in a sunless place - "The Sea of Death"
Home to your place of power and pride - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
Stones of worth they thinly placed - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LII"
Of all old hours and places - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
Still our feet trod the warm, even places - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
Put in his place a changeling - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Fairy Changeling"
And thrust the phantom from its place - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Skeleton in the Cupboard"
In shelters and in secret places - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: The Lamentation of Fand When She Is About to Leave Cuchulain"
Who sing from a distant place - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"
Find my place in this shifting world - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Curl of Cat"
Reimagining can take place at the root of time - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"
Twisted in a peculiar way and fallen in an unlikely place - Charles Simic "First Thing in the Morning"
The place of vanishings - Charles Simic "Quick Eats"
The sky places an arm on the near hills - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"
The fret in place of a hero's rage - Bruce Smith "Ferment"
In the place where nothing stirs - James Stephens "The Goat Paths"
The wind of lonely places - George Sterling "The Muse of the Incommunicable"
Places of perfect order and broken patterns - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
Who seem so strangely out of place - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Another curio to place in her long gallery - Marion Strobel "Collectors"
The beach freezes footprints in place - Alison Swan "Wish"
Placed a tulip on his tongue - May Swenson "The Blindman"
Silver wind for your dancing place - May Swenson "Earth Your Dancing Place"
Toward stark and solitary places - Genevieve Taggard "With Child"
Promises in place of a goodbye - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart"
Until herons returned in spring to claim their place - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"
A silent place that once rang loud - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
Pain emerging from unexpected places - Russell Thorburn "Sunday Jazz"
To place my gains beyond the reach of tides - Henry David Thoreau "The Fisher's Boy"
Slaughter night, that day might have a place - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"
The fatal place itself unmarked - Too-qua-stee "Truth Is Mortal"
Trying to quiver into place - Jean Toomer "As the Eagle Soars"
Getting past the hardest places - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson
Go into the places of trade - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Possession"
No place for Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Spring on Broadway"
a bricolage of place & memory - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Blueprint For An African American Space Station"
Drifting to some lost and fading place - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Stardust"
Appears, crosses the hollow place, and goes again - Mark Van Doren "River Snow"
Pass through this place of reckoning - "VI: Otro Chalcayotl, Canto de Tetlepan Quetzanitzin | Another Chalco-Song, a Poem of Tetlepan Quetzanitzin" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Flowers in the place of riches - "VII: Otro | Another" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Because light finds a place to fall - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: Preconceptions Without Delay"
To a place without command - Joshua Weiner "In the Event"
Mosaics which have crumbled out of place - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"
The place where tragic armies meet - Helen Hay Whitney "The Days"
And eat the air of the place - William Carlos Williams "History"
A drink and a dry place to stand - Allan Wolf "Earth: Your Mother I'll Be"
Were in this place the guests of chance - William Wordsworth "Stepping Westward"
An unsubstantial, fairy place - William Wordsworth "To the Cuckoo"
To walk hard in the bright places - Charles Wright "Bitter Herbs to Eat, and Dipped in Honey"
Little puddles of sunlight collect in low places - Charles Wright "Return of the Prodigal"
That tight place where most of us live - Charles Wright "Well, Get Up, Rounder, Let a Working Man Lay Down"
His squatter's claim on a place that doesn't exist - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
Destroyed in our dwelling place - "XI: Otro | Another" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
To the place where nothing shines - Lynn Xu "Earth Light: I"
Into the place of decayed flowers - "XVII: Xochicuicatl | A Flower Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Fly away, sprout and grow again in another place - Shuyi Yin "Growing Chair"
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
The birthplace of jewels and gold - Samuel Lover "The Fairy Tempter"
Past the birthplace of the sun - Sara Teasdale "In Memoriam F. O. S."
Out of the birth-place of sighs - Priscilla Jane Thompson "A Valentine"
Commonplace.
Displace.
Darkness in thy dwelling-place - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
From the hiding-place of memory - Walter de la Mare "The Journey"
Myrtle bushes and fresh hiding-places - Ada Negri "Make Way!" transl. by Lynn Lawner
Vast, profound, primeval hiding-place - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"
Misplaced a pen in the chaos of text and symbol - Robert Frazier "Imageography"
Shards of glass like misplaced stars - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
Misplaced hope in the system - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"
Misplaced my faith in Tennessee - Randall Mann "End Words"
The mistaken flavor of misplaced thunder - Jay Wright "Kumu"
Found a resting-place for laughter - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"
On our sweet earth and in their unplaced sky - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Misplace.
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Riding through my place in time - Linda Addison "Evolving"
Ascend the ruins of this place - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Place me above the carnivorous sea - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
Toward a defined but indeterminate place - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Place galaxies true in their quadrants - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
And placed a lien on your bones - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"
That tether you to this place - Lauren K. Alleyne "Nothing to Declare"
That faraway place where the ruins spoke to poets - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"
The whistle of species place in a jar - Zaina Alsous "Ibis"
Nor keep the place from Sorrow - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XCVI: Sleeplessness" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)
No first place to human boast - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXIII: The First Toast" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Starts off for an imaginary place - Rae Armantrout "Imaginary Places"
Haunt the place where passions reign - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"
Winter is a place I visit - Cameron Awkward-Rich "What Returns"
an origami placed before a calcified wind - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
Placed that notion on the Mobeius strip - Mary Jo Bang "Don't"
Untie my tangled places - Rachel Barenblat "Untie"
The call of the lonesome place - Djuna Barnes "Call of the Night"
In a place where there is no ground - Rick Barot "Adjacent, Against, Upon"
Haunt me in the quiet places - Oliver Baez Bendorf "New Moon Newton"
Some stars occupy two places - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"
A framework that keeps stars in place - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"
Forceful measures in a narrow place - Craven Langstroth Betts "Pope"
The appointed place of rendezvous - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Hell in the smallest places - Leah Bobet "Hold Fast"
We all need places to disappear to - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
Above the place where I lie desolate - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Trouble knows the place - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
A place the birds made for someone else - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"
A place only forgotten animals tread - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"
To a stagnant place apart - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"
Amaze the place with holier light - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "To George Sand: A Desire"
Whose place of rest is won - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Words of Rosalind's Scroll"
A Glass placed betwixt Nets - John Bunyan "Upon the Lark and the Fowler"
No vacation from running this place - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"
In the thin places of contentment - Anthony Butts "Lessons in Nostalgia"
Alone in this thin place of existence - Anthony Butts "Triptych"
A white candle in a holy place - Joseph Campbell "The Old Woman"
What lovely visions yield their place - Thomas Campbell "The Rainbow"
Your whole body is composed of nesting places - Anthony Vahni Capildeo "Niche"
Fallen into place beside the oldest stones - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"
To the place of starting again - Killarney Clary "[Into the land of youth]"
Song is sweet in a lonely place - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"
Place bliss and glory there - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
My soul secure in place - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
But crazy has places to hide me - Leonard Cohen "Crazy to Love You"
At an unexpected place in your journey - Leonard Cohen "The Way Back"
The soft places in the center of the heart - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"
Places where names are hidden - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"
In change of place a change of pain - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Places among the stars - Stephen Crane "Untitled"
The remote, cold place of ultimate dissolution - Adelaide Crapsey "John Keats"
Except it finds a place given - Robert Creeley "Here Only"
Stretches forth from shadowed places - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"
Your scarlet foot so deftly placed - H.D. "The bird-choros of Ion"
By destiny's right placing - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"
A place of stone and entanglements - Kwame Dawes "Dirt"
The wide doors of an abandoned place - Coningsby Dawson "Remembering in Heaven"
The dwelling place for other dodos - Monica de la Torre "View from a Dodo Chair"
The place called morning - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature II: Out of the Morning"
Barricading places I won't go - Katherine Edgren "How to Form a Perfect Callus"
After the agony in stony places - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"
In the place where empathy should be - Chiyuma Elliott "Dear Transformation"
This place where the tide rolls out - Chiyuma Elliott "For Ghosted Girls"
In a place where color speaks - Heid E. Erdich "Kennewick man Swims Laps"
A place beyond everyday clamor - Heid E. Erdich "Quiet Cupboard"
A place forever falling on itself - Heid E. Erdich "Translation"
Had no place on the rocks but a voice - Annie Finch "Edge, Atlantic, July"
In silent places an older silence broods - Robin Flower "The Pipes"
Old objects chained in their places - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten IX"
Lingers in the heart's secret places - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
Shadows cloaked the narrow place - John Freeman "Waiting"
In any rough place where it caught - Robert Frost "The Aim Was Song"
Came singly unto her place - Robert Frost "In a Vale"
We make ourselves a place apart - Robert Frost "Revelation"
A place of rest invisible at dawn - Robert Frost "Stars"
Trapped me in a worse place - Antonio Funches "Coup"
No hard straight place to be - Zona Gale "Hokku"
The causeway to the upper places - Zona Gale "In Arvia's Room"
Hell isn't where I place my bets - Andrea Gibson "Daytime, Somewhere"
Who gently places fallen baby birds back - Nikita Gill "Your Soft Heart"
Finding a place where fear leads to desire - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"
Be a tourist in the memories of that place - Amelia Gorman "Pickling Dog"
Synonymous with place and loss - Rae Gouirand "Language"
In the secret places under my heart - Mona Gould "You, the Sower of Seed"
This unfamiliar and malignant place - Linda Gregerson "No Lion, No Moon"
A place on the tablets of fame - Edgar A. Guest "Looking Back"
Unseal the shut, the hidden places - Ivor Gurney "Song at Morning"
To the circling around place of time - Joy Harjo "Bless this Land"
Filled the least and the greatest places - Leslie Harrison "[God speaks]"
Those in high places daunted - Seamus Heaney "Anything Can Happen"
Opens inwards to a dark elderberry place - Seamus Heaney "The Grauballe Man"
A place where nothing can die - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
Place squash blossoms and nasturtium on the plate - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"
Your neurons place their bets - Conrad Hilberry "A Dialogue Between the Body and Soul"
Mozart lets the chords fall in place - Conrad Hilberry "Divertimento 563"
As you place your question in the stone of the city's gate - Carlie Hoffman "Point of View Where Orpheus Makes a Pit Stop at a Fortune Teller in St Germain"
Laughing in all the wrong places - Langston Hughes "Movies"
Leave the place of night and clouds - "III: Occe al Mismo Tono Tlamelauhcayotl | Another Plain Song, to the Same Tune" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Stood some place beyond desire - Mark Irwin "Purple"
place the world inside the light and look - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Light of the World"
make small steps. in this wild place - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving at the Sipsey River"
Placed her in perpetual twilight - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"
From inside their locked, glass places - Laura Kasischke "Ubi Sunt"
Places sadness shouldn’t live - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
In every place where infant Orpheus slept - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Take the new skin this place has offered - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"
Hold time in place under her tongue - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Left Behind"
Permanently into Their Vanishing Places - Galway Kinnell "Driftwood from a Ship"
Gave the Hyssop and Cedar their place - Rudyard Kipling "Banquet Night"
Dare not leave a place for her - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"
Hours that grind us in our places - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"
Floats from some warmer place - Ted Kooser "In Early April"
Carefully placed upon the future - Ted Kooser "This Paper Boat"
In obscure places on several continents - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"
A good place for the stolen mind - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"
Placed in your especial care - Henry S. Leigh "Clumsy Servant"
In places we cannot see - Keegan Lester "Huntington Beach"
How many places stained with their tears - Lu Yu "Border Mountain Moon" transl. by Burton Watson
This place of nine parts death - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson
Battling over the places my body lands - Tariq Luthun "Finding Myself in the Direct Messages of Someone I Do Not Know Is in Kuwait"
Not a place to become yesterday - Tariq Luthun "I Go to the Backyard to Pick Mint Leaves for My Mother"
And drag the lightning from its hiding-place - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"
Have strayed from silent places - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Indian Summer"
The trees give place to bushes - Dorothea Mackellar "High Places"
The secret place of thunders - Kate Seymour MacLean "Bird Song"
In such a place, love met me once - Jeannette Marks "The Railroad Station"
Placing a loyal hand on the star that refused to die - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
Leaving that place of daffodils - John Masefield "The Return"
Placed his head on your doorstep - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (9)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
I go to a place forgotten - Edgar Lee Masters "Johnny Appleseed"
The best places to hide - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Rise to behold the satyr in their place - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Crops walloped in their places of birth - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
Not a place made for knowledge - W.S. Merwin "Walled Place above the River"
A place of palaces and pinnacles - Charlotte Mew "I Have Been Through the Gates"
A place with the lights gone out - Charlotte Mew "I Have Been Through the Gates"
No place to dream - Edna St Vincent Millay "Low-Tide"
We are together in strange places - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"
Place driftwood in my left hand - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"
One place without connection - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"
Forever boiling in deep places - Harriet Monroe "In the Yellowstone"
A place for the genuine - Marianne Moore "Poetry"
Placed my grief in the mouth of language - Lisel Mueller "When I Am Asked"
Falling asleep in a safe place - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"
On pillars that nameless workers placed - Mark Nepo "Under the Temple"
The serious place of bread - Pablo Neruda "Sex" transl. by Alastair Reid
Secret places tangled in roots - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Until their hearts were locked in place - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"
Across place and the hereafter - Tim Newcomb "Evocative Montana"
The Seraph in his height of place - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Places his lonely altars on them - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Death placed him in command - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"
Placed one toe in the river of gloom - Naomi Shihab Nye "Coming Soon"
Aligned in a place of wisdom - Naomi Shihab Nye "Elementary"
Holding their places between - Naomi Shihab Nye "Meteor Watch"
Because every life needs a hidden place - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stone House"
A place that let us all sorrow - Naomi Shihab Nye "Unforgettable"
As the place where spiders braid - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
The brambles in their places - Mary Oliver "West Wind 9"
Cover the place of each sorrow - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"
capable of being two places at once - Ugonna-Ora Owoh "Syndrome"
A place of unimagined reds and golds - Linda Pastan "All Nights"
As energy and matter bow and switch places - Linda Pastan "The Conservation of Matter"
Into the places where I retreat myself - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"
A crowd around my hiding place - Andre F. Peltier "Six Feet Under"
A place for running away from fame - Po Chu'i "Writing Again on the Same Theme" transl. by Burton Watson
The place your heart inhabits - Emilio Porta
Leave it in your place and depart - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"
Sweet are the silent places - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Silent Places"
To mark the place of salvation or surrender - Charles Rafferty "Hotel Bible"
Flood all the place of tears - Theodore H. Rand "The Tireless Sea"
To hold Earth's architrave in place - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"
Seeking out the darkest places of the world - Herbert Randall "The Tryst of Nations"
Coal gouged out to fuel the light in other places - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
Like the place you were from never existed - m.s. RedCherries "finding tomorrow"
The rupture marks her final place - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
Placed at the ancient heart of a temple - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
Sometimes that unfamiliar place is closer - Kurt Rhode in a letter to Diane Seuss (quoted as part of her poem, "What Is It You Feel I Asked Kurt")
As it comes in empty places - Lola Ridge "Celia"
A coiling and dark place - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"
Dance in the dim violet places - Lola Ridge "Snow-Dance for the Dead"
The border resumed its usual place - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"
In this border place and time - Alberto Ríos "Day of the Refugios"
The spirit of lilies in a leafy place - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"
A place inside the current - Kay Ryan "Breather"
Always willing to move one place along - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"
Found a place for the betrayal - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: IV. The Fall and Explulsion from Paradise" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Slippery frozen places of the earth - Carl Sandburg "Four Steichen Prints"
A place you walk into backwards - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"
The past, that place where everything goes - Jason Schneiderman "House with a Hot Tub and Pool"
In the burned places where light is ash - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"
A seed's commitment to its place on the ground - Teresa J. Scollon "Mid-Life, I'm Lost"
Pouring sparks through a narrow place - Teresa J. Scollon "Summer Solstice in Black River Falls"
Placed close within destruction's scope - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Upon the silent face of a dark dial in a sunless place - "The Sea of Death"
Home to your place of power and pride - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
Stones of worth they thinly placed - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LII"
Of all old hours and places - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"
Still our feet trod the warm, even places - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
Put in his place a changeling - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Fairy Changeling"
And thrust the phantom from its place - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Skeleton in the Cupboard"
In shelters and in secret places - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: The Lamentation of Fand When She Is About to Leave Cuchulain"
Who sing from a distant place - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"
Find my place in this shifting world - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Curl of Cat"
Reimagining can take place at the root of time - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"
Twisted in a peculiar way and fallen in an unlikely place - Charles Simic "First Thing in the Morning"
The place of vanishings - Charles Simic "Quick Eats"
The sky places an arm on the near hills - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"
The fret in place of a hero's rage - Bruce Smith "Ferment"
In the place where nothing stirs - James Stephens "The Goat Paths"
The wind of lonely places - George Sterling "The Muse of the Incommunicable"
Places of perfect order and broken patterns - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
Who seem so strangely out of place - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
Another curio to place in her long gallery - Marion Strobel "Collectors"
The beach freezes footprints in place - Alison Swan "Wish"
Placed a tulip on his tongue - May Swenson "The Blindman"
Silver wind for your dancing place - May Swenson "Earth Your Dancing Place"
Toward stark and solitary places - Genevieve Taggard "With Child"
Promises in place of a goodbye - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart"
Until herons returned in spring to claim their place - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"
A silent place that once rang loud - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
Pain emerging from unexpected places - Russell Thorburn "Sunday Jazz"
To place my gains beyond the reach of tides - Henry David Thoreau "The Fisher's Boy"
Slaughter night, that day might have a place - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"
The fatal place itself unmarked - Too-qua-stee "Truth Is Mortal"
Trying to quiver into place - Jean Toomer "As the Eagle Soars"
Getting past the hardest places - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson
Go into the places of trade - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Possession"
No place for Spring - Louis Untermeyer "Spring on Broadway"
a bricolage of place & memory - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Blueprint For An African American Space Station"
Drifting to some lost and fading place - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Stardust"
Appears, crosses the hollow place, and goes again - Mark Van Doren "River Snow"
Pass through this place of reckoning - "VI: Otro Chalcayotl, Canto de Tetlepan Quetzanitzin | Another Chalco-Song, a Poem of Tetlepan Quetzanitzin" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Flowers in the place of riches - "VII: Otro | Another" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Because light finds a place to fall - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: Preconceptions Without Delay"
To a place without command - Joshua Weiner "In the Event"
Mosaics which have crumbled out of place - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"
The place where tragic armies meet - Helen Hay Whitney "The Days"
And eat the air of the place - William Carlos Williams "History"
A drink and a dry place to stand - Allan Wolf "Earth: Your Mother I'll Be"
Were in this place the guests of chance - William Wordsworth "Stepping Westward"
An unsubstantial, fairy place - William Wordsworth "To the Cuckoo"
To walk hard in the bright places - Charles Wright "Bitter Herbs to Eat, and Dipped in Honey"
Little puddles of sunlight collect in low places - Charles Wright "Return of the Prodigal"
That tight place where most of us live - Charles Wright "Well, Get Up, Rounder, Let a Working Man Lay Down"
His squatter's claim on a place that doesn't exist - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
Destroyed in our dwelling place - "XI: Otro | Another" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
To the place where nothing shines - Lynn Xu "Earth Light: I"
Into the place of decayed flowers - "XVII: Xochicuicatl | A Flower Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Fly away, sprout and grow again in another place - Shuyi Yin "Growing Chair"
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
The birthplace of jewels and gold - Samuel Lover "The Fairy Tempter"
Past the birthplace of the sun - Sara Teasdale "In Memoriam F. O. S."
Out of the birth-place of sighs - Priscilla Jane Thompson "A Valentine"
Commonplace.
Displace.
Darkness in thy dwelling-place - "Lament of Morian Shehone for Miss Mary Rourke" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
From the hiding-place of memory - Walter de la Mare "The Journey"
Myrtle bushes and fresh hiding-places - Ada Negri "Make Way!" transl. by Lynn Lawner
Vast, profound, primeval hiding-place - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"
Misplaced a pen in the chaos of text and symbol - Robert Frazier "Imageography"
Shards of glass like misplaced stars - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
Misplaced hope in the system - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"
Misplaced my faith in Tennessee - Randall Mann "End Words"
The mistaken flavor of misplaced thunder - Jay Wright "Kumu"
Found a resting-place for laughter - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"
On our sweet earth and in their unplaced sky - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Misplace.
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