Potential Titles: Pass
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somethingdarkerA great impassable gate of tumult - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"
Creates one great impassable division twixt us and our desire - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"
Through impassable armour of iron - Zheng Min "Images of the Heart #4: It" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Sow strangeness where you pass - Rasha Abdulhadi "Quailing"
To hear death passing by - Delmira Agustini "The Vampire" (translated by Alejandro Caceres)
Obvious to the passing clown - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
And passing clouds cast shadows - Louisa May Alcott "Clover-Blossom"
Homeward stealing when they had passed - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"
All the years and come and pass like human fears - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]
Dionysus passes through the dust - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen "Dionysus" transl. by Allan Francovich
Passes through the void with no resistance - Rae Armantrout "Chirality"
The world smiled and passed by - Matthew Arnold "Written in Emerson's Essays"
Passing with the flight of time - B. "Two Pictures: Love Celestial" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Other themes all passed beneath her spell - Grant Balfour "Christmas Eve"
Passing through a furious fire called time - Mary Jo Bang "No More"
Climb the dark pass - Basho transl. by David Young
The spent sun passes out beneath an arch - Charles Baudelaire "Meditation" transl. by David Yezzi
Passed the gates of bronze - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"
Pass through bodies like summer heat - Remica Bingham-Risher "Interrogation Suite: Where did you come from/how did you arrive?"
Pass home with stealthy feet - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"
Passing by clouds and dreams long lost - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
I may pass through centuries of death - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
When first you passed beneath the jungle tapestries - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
A release from light years passed - Bruce Boston "The Music of Deep Spacers"
Used and spent, and then abandoned and passed by - Gordon Bottomley "New Year's Eve, 1913"
Remember no man's foot can pass - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
When our omens came to pass - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
We pray pestilence will pass - Antoinette Brim-Bell "Insomniac Tankas"
Passing the earth's store - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Tears for the passing of winter - Sue Budin "Little Things"
While the coat cut for Peter is pass'd on to Paul - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
And pass the heartless day - Robert Burns "Winter: A Dirge"
Passed through the guarded gates - Frank Oliver Call "The Obelisk"
For the shriekings that pass into silence - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"
Passed and mounted through the fields of air - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"
With acid teeth bite the wind as it passes - Rosario Castellanos "Silence Concerning an Ancient Stone" transl. by George D. Schade
Every golden star that passed - Willa Cather "The Star Dial"
Both have trackless pass'd away - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Passing like potato blossoms - Jos Charles "Seagull, Tiny"
Pass a cloudy gate - Hilda Conkling "Venice Bridge"
Through infinite gradations pass - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Hearing on the winds the passing knell - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
For I pass their buckles by - "The Country of Mayo, or the 'Lament of Thomas Flavell, or Lavell'" c.1660 transl. by George Fox
And passed in dust away - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"
And walls of stone they safely pass - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
The silvered passing of a ship at night - Stephen Crane "War Is Kind"
Like the steps of passing ghosts - Adelaide Crapsey "November Night"
When the pomp is passed away - Adelaide Crapsey "Warning to the Mighty"
Pass, frost-white ghost - Arthur Shearly Cripps "A Lyke-Wake Carol"
And the mendicant bees that pass - George Cronyn "The Flower's Way"
Quaint echoes of the passing time - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"
the passing of all shining things - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VIII)"
whose white voices pass upon forgetting - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Nothing more than a passing dream in his eternal sleep - Najwan Darwish "Near the Shrine of Saint Naum" transl. by Kareem James Abu-Zeid
Where life's shadows pass - Walter de la Mare "The Fool's Song"
Have never passed her haunted house - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature XIV: A Well"
The pomp of all passions passed - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Praise of Shame"
And the hours forgot to pass - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Summer"
What fills a tunnel after a locomotive passes - Stephen Dunn "The Unsaid"
And pass among them like a flame - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"
A thrill before it passes - Max Eastman "Sea-Shore"
From the passing wings of night - B. Edwards "The Man Who Has Forgotten Time"
Tap the backs of passing beetles - Dara Yen Elerath "The White Paws"
Flutes which passing angels blew - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
My thoughts catch rides with passing airplanes - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "My First Love"
Instructing the horsemen to pass - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Appalling incantations late have passed - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VII. In a Bar Room"
When shadows pass gigantic on the sands - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
The pilgrimage of grey souls passing - John Gould Fletcher "Court Lady Standing Under a Plum Tree"
My thoughts are sparrows passing - John Gould Fletcher "Fugitive Thoughts"
Passing themselves on the way out - Nick Flynn "The Incomprehensibility"
The blurred periphery of its passing - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VIII"
To pass the day with bright misfortune - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 4"
When the storm shall pass away - "For the Hour of Triumph" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]
Without passing through thought - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"
As the soft-shod hours passed - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Pass six tall hollyhocks red and white - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Enchanted Tale of Banbury Cross"
A pass at the infinite - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"
Pass out of utter grief - Robert Frost [untitled]
Saw their shimmering cohorts pass - Rose Fyleman "The Hayfield"
Nearer with each passing year - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]
Pass for sterling truth in open day - "The Ghost of Chatham"
Dusty wings that crumble as they pass - Lydia Gibson "Lost Treasure"
Had passed some milestone unaware - Dana Gioia "The Road"
I can pass until I speak - C.S. Giscombe "First Dream"
Until time passes them on to his kin - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"
Have passed life's whirlpool - Ellen Glasgow "To My Dog"
Like a bright light passing through - Louise Gluck "Faithful and Virtuous Night"
And pass the worship on intact - Edmund Gosse "Alere Flammam"
And watch the cloud ships as they pass - Mona Gould "Nocturne"
Fauns who pass in mocking masque among the trees - Mona Gould "You Being Dead (For J.R.T.)"
The passing tribute of a sigh - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
Pass through the fire of Moloch - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
The echoes that once passed through us - Nathalie Handal "White Trees"
Passing often into shadow - Leslie Harrison "[God speaks]"
The passing breath of flowers bright - F.W. Harvey "The Wind's Grief"
Hundreds of missions passed & failed - Yona Harvey "Dark and Lovely After Take-Off (A Future)"
Surviving empires pass'd away - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"
Freely pass the kindly joke - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"
Only in the music of passing cars - Jackson Holbert "Waking in the City"
The sparrow passing thither at the falcon's luring cry - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The glad silent moments as they pass - Leigh Hunt "The Grasshopper and the Cricket"
Pass checks through cigarette asphyxiation - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
And sell their Reputations passing cheap - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Sharks should pass Odysseus by - Honoree Fanonne Jeffers "Blues: Odysseus"
Steadfast in passing the ketchup - Louis Jenkins "Diner"
Loosening the stitches to pass time - Allison Eir Jenks "The Burial of Two Strangers"
To spare till the shadows pass - Charles Bertram Johnson "A Song of Hope"
Be hid beneath some passing shame - James Johnson "Sugar and Spice"
Ere I pass life's sunset stile - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"
Searching for homes that we have already passed - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"
With our passing reflected in them - Laura Kasischke "Prayer"
The teeth of a passing clown - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"
kept her tears where they'd pass for shotgun - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"
All fair things had passed away - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"
The last sunset of hope pass away - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"
Allowing evils to pass by - Kim Unsong "Confession to God (3)"
Everything that passes through that moon - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"
I would sing as the canary passes - Rickey Laurentiis "Because we love each other"
Where the sculptured shadows pass - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"
Loud noise of passing things - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
As curlew, hern, and bittern pass - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Pass the sweet fire of day - D.H. Lawrence "Man and Bat"
Passed the gift of power from palm to palm - Ruth Lechlitner "Only the Years"
And the shadow people pass - Francis Ledwidge "The Shadow People"
Had passed six idle years - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"
Fruit of the fear just passed - Giacomo Leopardi "Calm After Storm" transl. by Frederick Townsend
The sound shall echo ever when we shall have passed away - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
When the Sea Demon passes by - Li T'ai-Po "The Crosswise River" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Who before me passed this Door of Trouble - Mary Wallace Bundy Little "The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband"
And all fire passes through me - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"
And all smoke passes through me - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"
Singing out within the crash of passing sun - Audre Lorde "Coal"
Force me forever through the passing days - Amy Lowell "A Fairy Tale"
Some elf in play passed by - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
The wild things from without passed through - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"
Have passed like clouds - Denis Florence MacCarthy "A Lament"
While we unheeding pass - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"
When the line of battle passed - Douglas Malloch "The Chickamauga Oak"
A penny from the passing crowd - John Masefield "On Growing Old"
Lovelier for passing through a storm - Claude McKay "The Harlem Dancer"
Have passed from praise - Claude McKay "Heritage"
Throughout passing days of sirens - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"
Has passed him vapour to the sun - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
We pass the breath of thought - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"
Passes like an underground river - W.S. Merwin "The Archaic Maker"
Will stay to watch you drift apart and pass away - Harold Monro "Journey"
Then one by one subside again and pass - Harold Monro "Solitude"
Pass out on scaffolds of cotton - Maggie Nelson "Vespers"
Sharp right angles passed heading northward - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Passing over humid continents - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Bees" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
The steps of tomorrow will pass by - Pablo Neruda "Tina Modotti Is Dead" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The pit of the passing peach - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly
And sometimes a shadow passing by - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"
The pang of death-despair pass over - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson
Your hands passing over the world - Mary Oliver "Pipefish"
As history laments its own passing - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
May pass for a tender word spoken - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"
Passeth Pygmalion's artifice - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Passes wisdom's means - Walter S. Percy "The Snail and Star"
Rhythms passed on by previous purveyors of stardust - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"
The damselflies pass as they would - Carl Phillips "Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm"
Rumor passing through suspicion's fingers - Carl Phillips "Foliage"
Thus unlamented pass - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"
As a thought passes - Kevin Prufer "Rain"
The garments of the passing hours - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Summer Thought"
And pass the goblet on to you - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To --"
In an endless passing knell - Theodore H. Rand "Nora Lee"
And passing brings the rainbow - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Pass in some bright avalanche of dew - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Pass this message onward as energy fades - Julia Rios "On Where to Find Strange Horizons, and How to Get There"
On all who pass the Stygian wave - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
His feet upon the mountain and his shadow on the pass - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"
To replace the lie passed down to you - Valencia Robin "Naming Yourself"
Over the whole world's sea-board the shadow of Odin passed - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
And pass where whirlwinds go - Rennell Rodd "When I Am Dead"
With each quick-passing impulse - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Trust in God"
When passing clouds obscured its light - Joshua Ross "My Ruling Star"
Dream unto dream may pass - George William Russell "A Call of the Sidhe"
A star delivered from a passing cloud - F.E.S. "The Stray Blossom" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.36-v.I, 6 Sept. 1884]
Hid beneath some passing shadows gray - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
On a dark night when lovers pass whispering - Carl Sandburg "Still Life"
The hum and the hurry of passing footfalls - Carl Sandburg "Under a Hat Rim"
When kings pass and perish - D.L. Sayers "For Phaon"
And stars a freight train passing - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [This beauty that I see]"
Pass great worlds of silent stone - Frederick George Scott "My Lattice"
That he will work ere he pass onward - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
I'd lie and listen to eternity passing over - Robert W. Service "Heart o' the North"
See the future pass - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Fragment: Questions"
Deep in the dust let all such pass away - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Strange lights shall open as we pass - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: III. The Landsman"
The gleam of the milestones you must pass - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XI. The Lodger"
Announced the thunderous entry of passing souls - Marge Simon "The Holes Through which the Scarabs Come"
That blackens with the passing of the fire - Clark Ashton Smith "Finis"
Where all may pass who pay their toll - Leonora Speyer "Ballad of a Lost House"
Dawn moon passing ruined forts - Ssu-k'ung Shu "The Rebellion Over, I See Off a Friend Who Is Returning North" transl. by Burton Watson
To pass the sable gates - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
Stars that pass in alien fire - George Sterling "Charles Warren Stoddard"
The sifted sunlight passed - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
The rain's grey army passed - George Sterling "A Visitor"
Passing from mirage to final dust - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"
Stilled for the passing of her dreaming feet - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
Where the starving crow would pass - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
I have threaded narrows, and I have passed through perils - Arthur Stringer "Protestations"
What years have passed of sorrow - Rev. William B. Tappan "Stanzas" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Passing unnoticed among dunes or woodland marshes - Keith Taylor "The Gardener Remembers"
Light builds a monument to its passing - Tess Taylor "Solstice"
passing rainbows amongst them - Alexander Te Pohe "Luna"
Passed the door of heaven - Sara Teasdale "Chance"
Shadows that should pass for very substance - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: XI"
A dim fear passed through buttress, and roof, and beam - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: II. The Summons"
To passers of light and dusk - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
Fizzes as the sunlight passes through - Laurel Trivelpiece "The Turkish Bee"
With cordial welcome for all who pass by - Nancy Byrd Turner "Apple-Tree Inn" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
The dark itself parted to let us pass - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Latent"
Passing on his temporal elm-wood bier - W.J. Turner "Death"
Passed like fleeting dreams - Walter J. Turner "Romance"
Hardly acknowledged our passing - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Forget-Me-Nots"
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
Lift so his wings can pass - Derek Walcott "The Three Musicians"
Cast only a passing shadow - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"
Passed at midnight from her portal - William Watson "The Lute-Player"
Dear gnomon of the passing hour - Harvey Maitland Watts "To a Roadside Cedar"
Violence passing close like a storm - Joshua Weiner "Art Pepper"
Brave the passing wind of many winters - Henry Kirk White "Time"
And pass to fitting spheres - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
Beggar thoughts pass down the lanes - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"
The passing shadow of a cloud - Joseph R. Wilson "Sunrise from the Alvarado Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico"
With the powdered stars will walk and pass - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by - William Wordsworth "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
Pass from knowing to being - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"
And entire eternities would pass me by - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"
Into crystal they pass - Elinor Wylie "Silver Filigree"
Knelt to the passing time - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season"
Trying each passing town on for size - Jenny Xie "Rootless"
From whose forms shadows pass - Lynn Xu "[And as the procession]"
Soft as wind it passes - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]
Pass through time like swallows - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Milkweeds dance-standing as the wind passes - Ray Young Bear "John Whirlwind's Doublebeat Songs, 1956"
Drifting clouds passing over a border - 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
Who pass through multiformed earth - Zitkála-Šá "The Indian's Awakening"
Time passing the dance of cold fire - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver
For her the passing-bell did toll - "The History of Will Worthy and Nancy Wilmot"
Before they can tempt any passerby into rescuing them - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"
Encounter only Death, the Passer-by - William Theodore Peters "Death and Love"
Stranded in the Caribbean without a passport - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"
Waving passports in the still air - Regio Cabico "Mango Poem"
A passport to hell - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Prodigal Daughter"
Without passports or means of escape - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"
A country we have no passport for - Charles Wright "No Entry"
The password of the leaves upon the cottonwood - Alexander Posey "To Wahilla Enhotulle"
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Creates one great impassable division twixt us and our desire - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"
Through impassable armour of iron - Zheng Min "Images of the Heart #4: It" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Sow strangeness where you pass - Rasha Abdulhadi "Quailing"
To hear death passing by - Delmira Agustini "The Vampire" (translated by Alejandro Caceres)
Obvious to the passing clown - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
And passing clouds cast shadows - Louisa May Alcott "Clover-Blossom"
Homeward stealing when they had passed - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"
All the years and come and pass like human fears - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]
Dionysus passes through the dust - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen "Dionysus" transl. by Allan Francovich
Passes through the void with no resistance - Rae Armantrout "Chirality"
The world smiled and passed by - Matthew Arnold "Written in Emerson's Essays"
Passing with the flight of time - B. "Two Pictures: Love Celestial" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Other themes all passed beneath her spell - Grant Balfour "Christmas Eve"
Passing through a furious fire called time - Mary Jo Bang "No More"
Climb the dark pass - Basho transl. by David Young
The spent sun passes out beneath an arch - Charles Baudelaire "Meditation" transl. by David Yezzi
Passed the gates of bronze - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"
Pass through bodies like summer heat - Remica Bingham-Risher "Interrogation Suite: Where did you come from/how did you arrive?"
Pass home with stealthy feet - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"
Passing by clouds and dreams long lost - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"
I may pass through centuries of death - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
When first you passed beneath the jungle tapestries - Arna Bontemps "The Return"
A release from light years passed - Bruce Boston "The Music of Deep Spacers"
Used and spent, and then abandoned and passed by - Gordon Bottomley "New Year's Eve, 1913"
Remember no man's foot can pass - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
When our omens came to pass - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
We pray pestilence will pass - Antoinette Brim-Bell "Insomniac Tankas"
Passing the earth's store - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
Tears for the passing of winter - Sue Budin "Little Things"
While the coat cut for Peter is pass'd on to Paul - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
And pass the heartless day - Robert Burns "Winter: A Dirge"
Passed through the guarded gates - Frank Oliver Call "The Obelisk"
For the shriekings that pass into silence - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"
Passed and mounted through the fields of air - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"
With acid teeth bite the wind as it passes - Rosario Castellanos "Silence Concerning an Ancient Stone" transl. by George D. Schade
Every golden star that passed - Willa Cather "The Star Dial"
Both have trackless pass'd away - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Passing like potato blossoms - Jos Charles "Seagull, Tiny"
Pass a cloudy gate - Hilda Conkling "Venice Bridge"
Through infinite gradations pass - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Hearing on the winds the passing knell - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
For I pass their buckles by - "The Country of Mayo, or the 'Lament of Thomas Flavell, or Lavell'" c.1660 transl. by George Fox
And passed in dust away - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"
And walls of stone they safely pass - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
The silvered passing of a ship at night - Stephen Crane "War Is Kind"
Like the steps of passing ghosts - Adelaide Crapsey "November Night"
When the pomp is passed away - Adelaide Crapsey "Warning to the Mighty"
Pass, frost-white ghost - Arthur Shearly Cripps "A Lyke-Wake Carol"
And the mendicant bees that pass - George Cronyn "The Flower's Way"
Quaint echoes of the passing time - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"
the passing of all shining things - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VIII)"
whose white voices pass upon forgetting - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Nothing more than a passing dream in his eternal sleep - Najwan Darwish "Near the Shrine of Saint Naum" transl. by Kareem James Abu-Zeid
Where life's shadows pass - Walter de la Mare "The Fool's Song"
Have never passed her haunted house - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature XIV: A Well"
The pomp of all passions passed - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Praise of Shame"
And the hours forgot to pass - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Summer"
What fills a tunnel after a locomotive passes - Stephen Dunn "The Unsaid"
And pass among them like a flame - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"
A thrill before it passes - Max Eastman "Sea-Shore"
From the passing wings of night - B. Edwards "The Man Who Has Forgotten Time"
Tap the backs of passing beetles - Dara Yen Elerath "The White Paws"
Flutes which passing angels blew - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
My thoughts catch rides with passing airplanes - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "My First Love"
Instructing the horsemen to pass - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Appalling incantations late have passed - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VII. In a Bar Room"
When shadows pass gigantic on the sands - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
The pilgrimage of grey souls passing - John Gould Fletcher "Court Lady Standing Under a Plum Tree"
My thoughts are sparrows passing - John Gould Fletcher "Fugitive Thoughts"
Passing themselves on the way out - Nick Flynn "The Incomprehensibility"
The blurred periphery of its passing - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VIII"
To pass the day with bright misfortune - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 4"
When the storm shall pass away - "For the Hour of Triumph" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]
Without passing through thought - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"
As the soft-shod hours passed - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Pass six tall hollyhocks red and white - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Enchanted Tale of Banbury Cross"
A pass at the infinite - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"
Pass out of utter grief - Robert Frost [untitled]
Saw their shimmering cohorts pass - Rose Fyleman "The Hayfield"
Nearer with each passing year - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]
Pass for sterling truth in open day - "The Ghost of Chatham"
Dusty wings that crumble as they pass - Lydia Gibson "Lost Treasure"
Had passed some milestone unaware - Dana Gioia "The Road"
I can pass until I speak - C.S. Giscombe "First Dream"
Until time passes them on to his kin - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"
Have passed life's whirlpool - Ellen Glasgow "To My Dog"
Like a bright light passing through - Louise Gluck "Faithful and Virtuous Night"
And pass the worship on intact - Edmund Gosse "Alere Flammam"
And watch the cloud ships as they pass - Mona Gould "Nocturne"
Fauns who pass in mocking masque among the trees - Mona Gould "You Being Dead (For J.R.T.)"
The passing tribute of a sigh - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
Pass through the fire of Moloch - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
The echoes that once passed through us - Nathalie Handal "White Trees"
Passing often into shadow - Leslie Harrison "[God speaks]"
The passing breath of flowers bright - F.W. Harvey "The Wind's Grief"
Hundreds of missions passed & failed - Yona Harvey "Dark and Lovely After Take-Off (A Future)"
Surviving empires pass'd away - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"
Freely pass the kindly joke - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"
Only in the music of passing cars - Jackson Holbert "Waking in the City"
The sparrow passing thither at the falcon's luring cry - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The glad silent moments as they pass - Leigh Hunt "The Grasshopper and the Cricket"
Pass checks through cigarette asphyxiation - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
And sell their Reputations passing cheap - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Sharks should pass Odysseus by - Honoree Fanonne Jeffers "Blues: Odysseus"
Steadfast in passing the ketchup - Louis Jenkins "Diner"
Loosening the stitches to pass time - Allison Eir Jenks "The Burial of Two Strangers"
To spare till the shadows pass - Charles Bertram Johnson "A Song of Hope"
Be hid beneath some passing shame - James Johnson "Sugar and Spice"
Ere I pass life's sunset stile - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"
Searching for homes that we have already passed - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"
With our passing reflected in them - Laura Kasischke "Prayer"
The teeth of a passing clown - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"
kept her tears where they'd pass for shotgun - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"
All fair things had passed away - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"
The last sunset of hope pass away - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"
Allowing evils to pass by - Kim Unsong "Confession to God (3)"
Everything that passes through that moon - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"
I would sing as the canary passes - Rickey Laurentiis "Because we love each other"
Where the sculptured shadows pass - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"
Loud noise of passing things - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
As curlew, hern, and bittern pass - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Pass the sweet fire of day - D.H. Lawrence "Man and Bat"
Passed the gift of power from palm to palm - Ruth Lechlitner "Only the Years"
And the shadow people pass - Francis Ledwidge "The Shadow People"
Had passed six idle years - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"
Fruit of the fear just passed - Giacomo Leopardi "Calm After Storm" transl. by Frederick Townsend
The sound shall echo ever when we shall have passed away - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
When the Sea Demon passes by - Li T'ai-Po "The Crosswise River" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Who before me passed this Door of Trouble - Mary Wallace Bundy Little "The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband"
And all fire passes through me - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"
And all smoke passes through me - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"
Singing out within the crash of passing sun - Audre Lorde "Coal"
Force me forever through the passing days - Amy Lowell "A Fairy Tale"
Some elf in play passed by - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
The wild things from without passed through - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"
Have passed like clouds - Denis Florence MacCarthy "A Lament"
While we unheeding pass - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"
When the line of battle passed - Douglas Malloch "The Chickamauga Oak"
A penny from the passing crowd - John Masefield "On Growing Old"
Lovelier for passing through a storm - Claude McKay "The Harlem Dancer"
Have passed from praise - Claude McKay "Heritage"
Throughout passing days of sirens - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"
Has passed him vapour to the sun - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
We pass the breath of thought - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"
Passes like an underground river - W.S. Merwin "The Archaic Maker"
Will stay to watch you drift apart and pass away - Harold Monro "Journey"
Then one by one subside again and pass - Harold Monro "Solitude"
Pass out on scaffolds of cotton - Maggie Nelson "Vespers"
Sharp right angles passed heading northward - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Passing over humid continents - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Bees" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
The steps of tomorrow will pass by - Pablo Neruda "Tina Modotti Is Dead" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The pit of the passing peach - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly
And sometimes a shadow passing by - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"
The pang of death-despair pass over - Dermot O'Curnan "Love's Despair" transl. by George Sigerson
Your hands passing over the world - Mary Oliver "Pipefish"
As history laments its own passing - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
May pass for a tender word spoken - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"
Passeth Pygmalion's artifice - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Passes wisdom's means - Walter S. Percy "The Snail and Star"
Rhythms passed on by previous purveyors of stardust - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"
The damselflies pass as they would - Carl Phillips "Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm"
Rumor passing through suspicion's fingers - Carl Phillips "Foliage"
Thus unlamented pass - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"
As a thought passes - Kevin Prufer "Rain"
The garments of the passing hours - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Summer Thought"
And pass the goblet on to you - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To --"
In an endless passing knell - Theodore H. Rand "Nora Lee"
And passing brings the rainbow - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Pass in some bright avalanche of dew - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Pass this message onward as energy fades - Julia Rios "On Where to Find Strange Horizons, and How to Get There"
On all who pass the Stygian wave - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"
His feet upon the mountain and his shadow on the pass - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"
To replace the lie passed down to you - Valencia Robin "Naming Yourself"
Over the whole world's sea-board the shadow of Odin passed - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
And pass where whirlwinds go - Rennell Rodd "When I Am Dead"
With each quick-passing impulse - Alice Wellington Rollins "A Trust in God"
When passing clouds obscured its light - Joshua Ross "My Ruling Star"
Dream unto dream may pass - George William Russell "A Call of the Sidhe"
A star delivered from a passing cloud - F.E.S. "The Stray Blossom" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.36-v.I, 6 Sept. 1884]
Hid beneath some passing shadows gray - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
On a dark night when lovers pass whispering - Carl Sandburg "Still Life"
The hum and the hurry of passing footfalls - Carl Sandburg "Under a Hat Rim"
When kings pass and perish - D.L. Sayers "For Phaon"
And stars a freight train passing - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [This beauty that I see]"
Pass great worlds of silent stone - Frederick George Scott "My Lattice"
That he will work ere he pass onward - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
I'd lie and listen to eternity passing over - Robert W. Service "Heart o' the North"
See the future pass - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Fragment: Questions"
Deep in the dust let all such pass away - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Strange lights shall open as we pass - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: III. The Landsman"
The gleam of the milestones you must pass - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XI. The Lodger"
Announced the thunderous entry of passing souls - Marge Simon "The Holes Through which the Scarabs Come"
That blackens with the passing of the fire - Clark Ashton Smith "Finis"
Where all may pass who pay their toll - Leonora Speyer "Ballad of a Lost House"
Dawn moon passing ruined forts - Ssu-k'ung Shu "The Rebellion Over, I See Off a Friend Who Is Returning North" transl. by Burton Watson
To pass the sable gates - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
Stars that pass in alien fire - George Sterling "Charles Warren Stoddard"
The sifted sunlight passed - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
The rain's grey army passed - George Sterling "A Visitor"
Passing from mirage to final dust - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"
Stilled for the passing of her dreaming feet - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
Where the starving crow would pass - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
I have threaded narrows, and I have passed through perils - Arthur Stringer "Protestations"
What years have passed of sorrow - Rev. William B. Tappan "Stanzas" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
Passing unnoticed among dunes or woodland marshes - Keith Taylor "The Gardener Remembers"
Light builds a monument to its passing - Tess Taylor "Solstice"
passing rainbows amongst them - Alexander Te Pohe "Luna"
Passed the door of heaven - Sara Teasdale "Chance"
Shadows that should pass for very substance - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: XI"
A dim fear passed through buttress, and roof, and beam - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: II. The Summons"
To passers of light and dusk - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"
Fizzes as the sunlight passes through - Laurel Trivelpiece "The Turkish Bee"
With cordial welcome for all who pass by - Nancy Byrd Turner "Apple-Tree Inn" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
The dark itself parted to let us pass - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Latent"
Passing on his temporal elm-wood bier - W.J. Turner "Death"
Passed like fleeting dreams - Walter J. Turner "Romance"
Hardly acknowledged our passing - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Forget-Me-Nots"
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
Lift so his wings can pass - Derek Walcott "The Three Musicians"
Cast only a passing shadow - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"
Passed at midnight from her portal - William Watson "The Lute-Player"
Dear gnomon of the passing hour - Harvey Maitland Watts "To a Roadside Cedar"
Violence passing close like a storm - Joshua Weiner "Art Pepper"
Brave the passing wind of many winters - Henry Kirk White "Time"
And pass to fitting spheres - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
Beggar thoughts pass down the lanes - Helen Hay Whitney "Disguised"
The passing shadow of a cloud - Joseph R. Wilson "Sunrise from the Alvarado Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico"
With the powdered stars will walk and pass - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by - William Wordsworth "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
Pass from knowing to being - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"
And entire eternities would pass me by - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"
Into crystal they pass - Elinor Wylie "Silver Filigree"
Knelt to the passing time - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season"
Trying each passing town on for size - Jenny Xie "Rootless"
From whose forms shadows pass - Lynn Xu "[And as the procession]"
Soft as wind it passes - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]
Pass through time like swallows - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Milkweeds dance-standing as the wind passes - Ray Young Bear "John Whirlwind's Doublebeat Songs, 1956"
Drifting clouds passing over a border - 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
Who pass through multiformed earth - Zitkála-Šá "The Indian's Awakening"
Time passing the dance of cold fire - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver
For her the passing-bell did toll - "The History of Will Worthy and Nancy Wilmot"
Before they can tempt any passerby into rescuing them - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"
Encounter only Death, the Passer-by - William Theodore Peters "Death and Love"
Stranded in the Caribbean without a passport - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"
Waving passports in the still air - Regio Cabico "Mango Poem"
A passport to hell - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Prodigal Daughter"
Without passports or means of escape - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"
A country we have no passport for - Charles Wright "No Entry"
The password of the leaves upon the cottonwood - Alexander Posey "To Wahilla Enhotulle"
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