Potential Titles: Past
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somethingdarkerThe past stored in your filaments - Aria Aber "Ode to My Hair"
The world made new by past tears - Linda Addison "Evolving"
Voyaging juncture between past and future - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"
Past the dark pool your voice makes - Elizabeth Alexander "Stray"
Where nothing lasts past a moment's trends - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."
The old immortals of past time - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.III--Noonday"
Past aloof stars - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"
Each ancestor who lights your past - Fatimah Asghar "Ghareeb"
Can't see past the silence - Fatimah Asghar "How We Left: Film Treatment"
Fearing its best days are past - A.B. "Autumn in the Woods" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.717, 22 Sept. 1877]
Past bulldozers and trucks pouring tarmac - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"
Past the sceptre of Uriel - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
An incarnation of grandmothers past - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
A city polluted by the past - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
The deaths past and present in ashes - Mary Jo Bang "Once Upon a Time"
Somewhere past the point of fading - Mary Jo Bang "The Perpetual Night She Went Into"
Past language into anachronistic light - Catherine Barnett "The Specious Present"
Our ressurected [sic] past through dreams appears - Natalie Clifford Barney "Easter Day"
That speak the reign of winter past - Charles H. Barstow "Spring's Advent" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.116-v.III, 20 March 1886]
the ghosts of years file past - Elizabeth Bartlett "black sun"
The light years of the past - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"
One cast from the fractured past - Elizabeth Bartlett "Vision"
the future in the past - Elizabeth Bartlett "weather forecast"
The brighter silk of summers past - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"
That have sanctified the past - Cora C. Bass "Listen, Comrades"
Read the future by the past - Cora C. Bass "The Sum of Life"
Singer and shepherd of the lonely past - Lucius Beebe "Autumn Lament"
If you must bring up the past - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"
In the glorious picnics of the past - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"
The old fool who mumbles of days past - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Forever trembling just past the reach of mind - William Rose Benét "The City"
Returning, as always, to the past - Frank Bidart "California Plush"
In the debris of the past - Frank Bidart "California Plush"
To look past the coming night - Sherwin Bitsui "Knives Whistle"
To change the future, change the past - Jenny Blackford "Beneath the Wheeler Centre"
Read my footprints like my past - Richard Blanco "Como Tu/Like You/Like Me"
Long past the edge of anything calendrical - Julia Bloch "Valley Oak"
spilled past the footlights - Leah Bobet "Notable Escapes"
Our infinite realms contain our past - Daniel Borzutsky "Painblank"
A dynamic rendition of the hospscotched [sic] past - Bruce Boston "Futurity Wears the Head"
Building past his knowledge - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
All past and vanquished in this sullen cold - Louise Morey Bowman "Oranges"
To hide our white-lightning past - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Traipsing past dusk - Lucie Brock-Broido "The Deerhunting"
Will cheer me for my wanderings past - Anne Bronte "Lines Written from Home"
Memory of the Past may die - Charlotte Bronte "Evening Solace"
Dream footsteps wandering past us - Caris Brooke "March Violets"
Somewhere past the map's rough edge - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"
While hours sauntered past - Sterling A. Brown "Return"
Past the range of starry travel - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"
Of ancestors a century past - Joseph Bruchac "Prints"
A dulled archipelago of air stretching past my arms - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
And bear this fragile moment past - Gerald Bullett "Home"
From the dead Past the gravestone to move - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Sure that the Past is from the Future shut - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Why mourn the perished glories of the past? - George S. Burleigh "Death" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Across oceans' roads past rows of ghosts - Richard Ford Burley "I Fight Monsters"
Footbridges love the past - Stephanie Burt "At the Providence Zoo"
Laughs with the wind as it saunters past - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
To glean from the deep memories of the past - W.G.C. "Yesterday" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Still back from the past is bringing - Phoebe Cary "Otway"
Past the Cape of Forgotten Obstacles - Marianne Chan "Counterargument that Goes All the Way Around"
Hold the past with both arms - Marianne Chan "Some Words of the Aforesaid Heathen Peoples"
Into the neckbone of the past - Tina Chang "Lion"
Past the pinnacle of scoured light - Tina Chang "Revolutionary Kiss"
A birthmark with visions to see past illusions - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"
The sound of my past catching up with yours - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"
Past the toy town of the postgraduates - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
Because of past excess - Alba Cid "An Apocryphal History of the Discovery of Migration, or the Sacrifice of the Pfeilstorchen" (translated by Jacob Rogers)
in which the past is always flowing - Lucille Clifton "the mississippi river empties into the gulf"
The day of loss past hope - Arthur Hugh Clough "Peschiera"
Peering past the promise - Aaron Coleman "South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills" [erasure poem]
Concentres all the rays of all the ages past - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Make a grave for the dreams of the Past - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
His transient respite past - William Cowper "The Cast-Away"
In varied fortune past - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"
I shall be gone, past night, past day - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Over the Hills and Far Away"
As the past sees through us - Steven Cramer "Pentimento"
From the tomb of some enchanted past - Olive Custance "Black Butterflies"
Remembering past enchantments and past ills - H.D. "Helen"
Remembering the past in this dark house - Edward L. Davison "In This Dark House"
The past wants to be remembered - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"
Loves quench'd, hopes past, friends lost, and pleasures fled - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
Past the vivid clocks of your childhood - Carl Dennis "Bimini Queen"
Into costumes of the past - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Whistled up past the Woolworth - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
The easy glide of our past tense - Matt Donovan "Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More"
Fill the Cup that clears TODAY of past Regrets - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"
All the trembling ages past - A.E. "The Great Breath"
sometime in the dimming past - Safia Elhillo "Transport"
Paddling past pebbly beaches - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Past the oily eddies sweeping - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Can shake the past - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"
Not the gods can shake the Past - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"
Wrote the past in characters of rock and fire - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"
March past the threshold of tears - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Get past all human walls - Heid E. Erdich "Breaking and Entering"
Glean'd from the mighty casket of the past - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
History repeated past all logic - Mari Evans "Alabama Landscape"
The past as constant present - Mari Evans "How Sudden Dies the Blooming"
Dark silhouette hurrying past - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"
Your bones are as heavy as the past - Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi "Letter from a Hot Air Balloon"
Summarize the past by theft and allusion - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Americus, Book I [excerpt]"
Past the perilous garden gate - Hannah G. Fernald "A Voyage" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Past the rocks where the mermaids sing - Hannah G. Fernald "A Voyage" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Pardoned our past-blotted pages - George Blackstone Field "The Rodman's Dream"
Crams our cold memories out past the sun - Annie Finch "Final Autumn"
Each time your traces come past the shadows - Annie Finch "Final Autumn"
Past their eyes where the black night lives - Annie Finch "Frozen In"
Along the corridors of the past - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"
What the past is to us - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"
All the fictions of the past - Maxwell E. Foster "More Modern Love"
Withdraw silently into the past - Jazno Francoeur "Fountain Street"
The past becomes a broken altar-stone - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
That go blindly pouring past - Robert Frost [untitled]
Ages past the dawn of days - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"
Come wiser than the past - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"
My past where no one knows me - Dana Gioia "Reunion"
As the past is buried in the future - Louise Gluck "A Summer Garden"
The bitter memory of a sweetness past - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
And conjure up vague theories of the past - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Past chattering rills of quartz - Edmund Gosse "On Yes Tor"
Strong thirst past satisfaction - Ivor Gurney "Winter Beauty"
In the houses of our past - Nathalie Handal "Dor"
Where the gate was past finding - Thomas Hardy "Lonely Days"
Shadows past the candle-gleam - Ruth Guthrie Harding "Song"
No map for how to live past this - Leslie Noyes Harrison "The Four Elements"
Awakens my buried past - Bret Harte "A Newport Romance"
Past its brief time of blooming - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Fallen Leaves"
For my past and future assassin - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"
A full reward for every danger past - William Hayley "On the Fear of Death: an Epistle to a Lady 1768"
Taunts me with just one memory of the past - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "A Shadow"
In an ecstasy past all control - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"
Past the serpentine border of eels - Conrad Hilberry "Music"
Watch the past blow by - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"
New minutes set in past danger - Brenda Hillman "& After the Power Came Back"
Walked past pines to their hearts' desire - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
At the precipice past dread or Thursdays - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
The dream went back past the signs - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
Between summer's sprawling past and winter's hard revision - Edward Hirsch "Fall"
Explodes past them in a fury - Edward Hirsch "Fast Break"
Every color backed away into the past - Jackson Holbert "Unsent Letter to Jakob"
In return for a shadowed and comfortless past - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Far out of the wretched past - William D. Howells "While She Sang"
Past confining flesh - Andrew Hudgins "In"
A stream past fabulous shores - Aldous Huxley "Stanzas"
The present, past, and future, all one they are - O.S.B. Father Ignatius "The Holy Isle: A Legend of Bardsey Abbey"
Forgetful of all our past blessings - "In Trouble" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]
Done no damage to the past - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"
Sunset-panthers past her run to caverns of the Sun - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Where all my Pasts within the Future wait - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Past the open gates of night - Marcus Jackson "What of Fire?"
Which opens your door to the past - Sarah Jackson "The Time Bureau Came to Careers Day"
A colorful exterior of a painful past - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
Walked past rows of jeweled honeysuckle - John James "April, Andromeda"
Barren architecture of creatures long past - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Hidden from the cop car sleeking innocently past - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
Entangled by myth's past tense - Honoree Fanonne Jeffers "Blues: Odysseus"
Move past like a pool of dust - Allison Eir Jenks "The Burial of Two Strangers"
Brood not over the broken past - James Weldon Johnson "The Gift to Sing"
Forgetting all past sorrow - James Weldon Johnson "Only Trust Me"
The future restages the past - Jenny Johnson "Aria"
Past the flaming walls afar - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
The past will sometimes rise - Annie Fellows Johnston "Echoes from Erin"
Within the Convent of the Past - Annie Fellows Johnston "Retrospection"
My fingers grow past crayon outlines - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"
Fades past the near meadows - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
The dust of continents past - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Safe from my past and its interpretations - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"
Toward a past swallowed by stone - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Still playing in videos past her presence - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
Sings past even the sadness that begins it - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"
Their present all their future and their past - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"
As the present falls upon the past - Christopher Kondrich "Bellfounding"
Run backward into the past - Ted Kooser "A Jacquard Shawl"
Brushes brown varnish over the past - Ted Kooser "A Sepia Photograph"
And the past has become a new world - Ted Kooser "Tectonics"
Through which they hastened out of the past - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"
Because the past is angry for being forgotten - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"
That makes the past a dream to me - M.E.L. "A Farewell" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Past all metaphor - Nick Laird "The Vehicles and the Tenor"
Flow past birch and hawthorn - Emily Lawless "From the Burren V: To a Hurrying Streamlet"
Coequal heirs in one wild Past - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Burrow past sunless lives - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
Spluttering grievances of a thousand years' past - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
River breaks past its banks of ash - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: The New Craft"
Through the dim vista of past years - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
Drawing our hope from the past - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Urging the past out of its pockets of silence - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
The future and the past are dead - Amy Levy "Magdalen"
Spirits of the past and future days - Amy Levy "Sinfonia Eroica"
The river that flows past me forever - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
Past the corrective of the afterworld - Sandra Lim "Certainty"
Trapped by past evil forever still about to happen - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"
Breaks skin, soars past bone - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Modern Fiction"
Forged a path between past & Jupiter - Nabila Lovelace "Sojourned"
Cradling the future in a glorious past - Amy Lowell "Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H."
My moorings to the past snap - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
From habit past to present fact - James Russell Lowell "Fact or Fancy?"
A relic of the shipwrecked past - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
Past the reach of moth and rust - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Shelter and Fellowship"
To come to me from out the past - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]
Past dying stars and exploding suns - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "lark"
Rush past the bewildered lives before us - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
Careless of dangers past - George Martin "The Blind Minstrel of the Market Place"
Strutted along a rusted past - David Tomas Martinez "from Forgetting Willie James Jones"
Leading her backward to the buried past - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Flies past with the heart of a clock - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"
My past was its own face - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Past the thick memory of molasses - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Speak of myself in past tense - Colleen J. McElroy "Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You"
Which Memory flings around the past - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Past the cyclones of our sadness - Orlando Ricardo Menes "Tower of Babel"
With spirit past the sense - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
This sudden hour retrieves the purpose of the past - Alice Meynell "The Two Poets"
Why don't you leave the past behind you? - Andy Miller "Diana"
Slipped past me like a wraith - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"
Refracted into the prisms of the past - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
In relation to moons past - Kamilah Aisha Moon "What Is Believed In Is True"
That has haunted all the past - T. Sturge Moore "Renaissance"
Past the everyday fade - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"
Forwarding them past dust - Jennifer Moxley "The Imprint"
Our love past dust - Jennifer Moxley "The Imprint"
Past these indefinitely tensed lines - Jerome Ellison Murphy "Hanging"
More than the step past you - Walter Dean Myers "Lawrence Hamm, 19, Student Athlete"
Remember not past years - John Henry (Cardinal) Newman "Lead Kindly Light"
The past tense of sing is not singed - Hoa Nguyen "Diep Before Completion"
Sweeping water past the window - Naomi Shihab Nye "In That Time"
The ghost of a star's past life - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
And sorely repent of the past - Old Humphrey "The Sabbath Breaker Reclaimed; or, a pleasing history of Thomas Brown"
Past the mirrors and night windows - Sharon Olds "Wonder as Wander"
From the dry bowl of the very far past - Mary Oliver "Mornings at Blackwater"
So rich with the bewildering past - James Oppenheim "A Handful of Dust"
Under the sombre shadow of the past - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
To each distance of past desolation - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"
Reduced his past to cinders - Linda Pastan "Life and Death on Masterpiece"
Traces of the past showing through - Linda Pastan "Thanksgiving Ghost"
Only the memory of times past - Florence Peacock "Lost at Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.137-v.III, 14 Aug. 1886]
Draws a fine grid over the past - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"
Without the past's precision - Carl Phillips "As for that Piece of Sundown You've Been Wanting"
That cannot calm the past - Carl Phillips "Morning in the Bowl of Night"
Nor cast a single shade upon the past - J. Pitman (who died in 1825) "Lines to a Young Lady on Her Birthday" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.743, 23 March 1878]
Out in the dark the wind rides past - Miriam Clark Potter "Tea Time"
Now sweeter for a bitter past - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Rest"
The past suffers from anxiety too - Ben Purkert "The Past Suffers Too"
Carved its past out of God's shoulder - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"
For attachment past attachment's end - Khadijah Queen "Epilogue for Personae"
To shutter the past in our ignorance - Khadijah Queen "Monologue for Personae"
What's past resistance to change - Khadijah Queen "Tower"
Till seven years were past and gone - "The Queen of Elfland"
Bring not back the past, to brim our cup of sorrow - Edward S. Rand "Fallen" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
From the past no closing light can borrow - Rebecca "The Heiress" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
To find a future brighter than the past - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
From the dark caverns of the past - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
End past compass or compute - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
In the dim phantom boat that glided past - Rainer Maria Rilke "Lament" transl. by Jessie Lemont
When the last bitterness was past - Rennell Rodd "Actea"
Dreaming for the weary heart of the past - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
Using the Past's own export vessels - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"
The long starless night of our past - Abram Joseph Ryan (aka Father Ryan) "Song of the Deathless Voice"
The human moment past - Kay Ryan "Bunched Clothes"
the toxins of past memories - Rachelle Saint Louis "Manman Ak Pitit"
Rushing past like angels headlong - Reg Saner "The Red Poppy"
The past, that place where everything goes - Jason Schneiderman "House with a Hot Tub and Pool"
Speak the wisdom of worlds past - Ann K. Schwader "Alexandria Next Time"
Chaos ravening past sight - Ann K. Schwader "Fatal Constellations"
A truth bitter past bearing - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"
Lifted her past midnight into truth - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
Tongues parched centuries past silence - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"
All its golden past a dirge - Clinton Scollard "Saint Sepulchre's Beside the Sea"
Luminously bonded to my past - Richard Scott "Peridot"
my skin is a mirror of past lives - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"
Down the facing mirrors of future and past - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"
Behold the violet past prime - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XII"
The dead, blundering planets raining past - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Night"
Cool scarves of air whipping past - Joyce Sidman "Riding a Bike at Night"
The first right past Saturn - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Says the End Is Near"
Past visible borders and boundaries - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
Strands pulled from the past, locked in the present - Claire Smith "Exhibits from Schneewittchen"
Lifted past the level years - Clark Ashton Smith "Desire of Vastness"
Enigma past and mystery foreseen - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
The rapture of moonlight past - Clark Ashton Smith "The Night Forest"
Ghouls that batten on the past - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"
Gold from the mines of the past - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
That woke the echoes of the Past - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"
Tell the past the truth about itself - Maggie Smith "Joke"
Shouldering past the swirling dust motes - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"
A soul with a pockmarked, bitten past - Elizabeth Spires "Badger Disguised as a Monk"
An agony past all correction - A.E. Stallings "Dead Language Lesson"
Full of the golden past - A.E. Stallings "Olives"
If the past is not a dream - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Old Love and the New"
Past the crystal thresholds of the dawn - George Sterling "The Caged Eagle"
Are half the music of the Past - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
Beside the ocean of the Past - George Sterling "Memory"
The portals of the ruined past - George Sterling "Memory of the Dead"
Of kingdoms past and gods undone - George Sterling "The Night of Gods"
Across the tumult wake the Past - George Sterling "Sonnets on the Sea's Voice"
Reach past the departed sun - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
In nameless cities of the past - George Sterling "The Wind"
The figures of the past - Wallace Stevens “Poesie Abrutie”
A future which contains no past - Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard "The Wife Speaks"
Beheld the Past before me - R.H. Stoddard "Rome"
The present upon the patterns of the past - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"
My way of turning away from the past - Joyce Sutphen "The Temptation to Invent"
But laden with the knowledge of the past - Carmen Sylva "Night"
That embalm the past in mute forgiveness - Carmen Sylva "A Room"
Generations past in the face of what is yet to be - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
Resounds with the purpose of generations past - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
Reminding you of past missteps - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
Hiding just past the edge of my loneliness - Keith Taylor "Banff: Running Away"
And water running freely past the remnants - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"
Past all those barriers thrown up by the gods - Keith Taylor "The Sickness That Comes from the Longing for Home"
Down past empty baseball diamonds - Keith Taylor "The Skateboard Park, Seen from Afar"
Slips past the sun's long kiss - Tess Taylor "Solstice"
To the shades of eternity past - Te-con-ees-kee "Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation"
Past the birthplace of the sun - Sara Teasdale "In Memoriam F. O. S."
Has drowned the Future and the Past - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"
Wild November raged that hope was past - Edward William Thomson "The Bad Year"
Great ruins of an unremembered past - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Past all removal till the world were done - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: VI"
Survey the landscape of the past - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"
The past is kept in bubbles - Elizabeth Torres "The Voyage"
Good for viewing the lingering past - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"
A few dark days of terror past - Melesina Trench "On Being Pressed to Go to a Masqued Ball not Many Months After the Death of My Child"
Our perilous voyage past - Richard C. Trench "The Kingdom of God"
As one turns, forgetting, from the past - Natasha Trethewey "Pilgrimage"
Getting past the hardest places - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson
Lifted from a dream of the past - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Forget-Me-Nots"
Past the cold and breathless dark - Louis Untermeyer "In the Subway"
Rocks in the sea of its own primordial past - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Universe We Are"
The Camp-fires of the Past are burning - Henry van Dyke "Indian Summer"
Makes amends for all the wintry past - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"
Of kindred echoes from past years - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours III" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
Two spectres conjured up the buried past - Paul Verlaine "Colloque Sentimental" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Can blame the past - Jeanann Verlee "Helen Considers Leaving Troy"
One jet trail arching past Venus - John Moncure Wettarau "Talking to Myself"
Peer past the stripped arms of the rose - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"
From the hoards of the golden past - Edith Wharton "June and December"
And the past that comes no more - Edith Wharton "October"
And fell into that pit of the past - John Wieners "For Huncke"
A frozen road past midnight - William Carlos Williams "Complaint"
Past knowledge and past counting - Humbert Wolfe "The Sicilian Expedition"
The past becomes such a mirror - Charles Wright "On the Night of the First Snow, Thinking About Tennessee"
The mountains of the past berate me - Charles Wright "Remember Me When the Candlelight Is Gleaming"
The threshing floor of the past - Charles Wright "Sentences II"
Oblivion of the Present, Future, Past - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]
The shape of an absolute past - Jay Wright "Kumu"
Eating only the past - Jenny Xie "Corfu"
So what becomes past cannot breed - Jenny Xie "Lunar New Year, 1988"
Ropes of firecrackers that irradiate the past - Jenny Xie "Memory Soldier"
Which routes you past all burning - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
A past rinsed clear of old tradition - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
That inoculates against the past tense - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
The past sticks to the present like glue - John Yau "Russian Letter"
The hiss of empty air swirling past - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
To unlock or to invent the past - Matthew Zapruder "Haiku"
Just past vision's humming line - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Past view come here often - Zheng Min "A Small Room" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
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The world made new by past tears - Linda Addison "Evolving"
Voyaging juncture between past and future - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"
Past the dark pool your voice makes - Elizabeth Alexander "Stray"
Where nothing lasts past a moment's trends - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."
The old immortals of past time - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.III--Noonday"
Past aloof stars - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"
Each ancestor who lights your past - Fatimah Asghar "Ghareeb"
Can't see past the silence - Fatimah Asghar "How We Left: Film Treatment"
Fearing its best days are past - A.B. "Autumn in the Woods" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.717, 22 Sept. 1877]
Past bulldozers and trucks pouring tarmac - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"
Past the sceptre of Uriel - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
An incarnation of grandmothers past - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
A city polluted by the past - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
The deaths past and present in ashes - Mary Jo Bang "Once Upon a Time"
Somewhere past the point of fading - Mary Jo Bang "The Perpetual Night She Went Into"
Past language into anachronistic light - Catherine Barnett "The Specious Present"
Our ressurected [sic] past through dreams appears - Natalie Clifford Barney "Easter Day"
That speak the reign of winter past - Charles H. Barstow "Spring's Advent" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.116-v.III, 20 March 1886]
the ghosts of years file past - Elizabeth Bartlett "black sun"
The light years of the past - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"
One cast from the fractured past - Elizabeth Bartlett "Vision"
the future in the past - Elizabeth Bartlett "weather forecast"
The brighter silk of summers past - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"
That have sanctified the past - Cora C. Bass "Listen, Comrades"
Read the future by the past - Cora C. Bass "The Sum of Life"
Singer and shepherd of the lonely past - Lucius Beebe "Autumn Lament"
If you must bring up the past - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"
In the glorious picnics of the past - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"
The old fool who mumbles of days past - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Forever trembling just past the reach of mind - William Rose Benét "The City"
Returning, as always, to the past - Frank Bidart "California Plush"
In the debris of the past - Frank Bidart "California Plush"
To look past the coming night - Sherwin Bitsui "Knives Whistle"
To change the future, change the past - Jenny Blackford "Beneath the Wheeler Centre"
Read my footprints like my past - Richard Blanco "Como Tu/Like You/Like Me"
Long past the edge of anything calendrical - Julia Bloch "Valley Oak"
spilled past the footlights - Leah Bobet "Notable Escapes"
Our infinite realms contain our past - Daniel Borzutsky "Painblank"
A dynamic rendition of the hospscotched [sic] past - Bruce Boston "Futurity Wears the Head"
Building past his knowledge - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
All past and vanquished in this sullen cold - Louise Morey Bowman "Oranges"
To hide our white-lightning past - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Traipsing past dusk - Lucie Brock-Broido "The Deerhunting"
Will cheer me for my wanderings past - Anne Bronte "Lines Written from Home"
Memory of the Past may die - Charlotte Bronte "Evening Solace"
Dream footsteps wandering past us - Caris Brooke "March Violets"
Somewhere past the map's rough edge - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"
While hours sauntered past - Sterling A. Brown "Return"
Past the range of starry travel - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"
Of ancestors a century past - Joseph Bruchac "Prints"
A dulled archipelago of air stretching past my arms - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
And bear this fragile moment past - Gerald Bullett "Home"
From the dead Past the gravestone to move - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Sure that the Past is from the Future shut - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Why mourn the perished glories of the past? - George S. Burleigh "Death" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Across oceans' roads past rows of ghosts - Richard Ford Burley "I Fight Monsters"
Footbridges love the past - Stephanie Burt "At the Providence Zoo"
Laughs with the wind as it saunters past - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
To glean from the deep memories of the past - W.G.C. "Yesterday" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Still back from the past is bringing - Phoebe Cary "Otway"
Past the Cape of Forgotten Obstacles - Marianne Chan "Counterargument that Goes All the Way Around"
Hold the past with both arms - Marianne Chan "Some Words of the Aforesaid Heathen Peoples"
Into the neckbone of the past - Tina Chang "Lion"
Past the pinnacle of scoured light - Tina Chang "Revolutionary Kiss"
A birthmark with visions to see past illusions - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"
The sound of my past catching up with yours - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"
Past the toy town of the postgraduates - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
Because of past excess - Alba Cid "An Apocryphal History of the Discovery of Migration, or the Sacrifice of the Pfeilstorchen" (translated by Jacob Rogers)
in which the past is always flowing - Lucille Clifton "the mississippi river empties into the gulf"
The day of loss past hope - Arthur Hugh Clough "Peschiera"
Peering past the promise - Aaron Coleman "South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills" [erasure poem]
Concentres all the rays of all the ages past - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Make a grave for the dreams of the Past - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
His transient respite past - William Cowper "The Cast-Away"
In varied fortune past - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"
I shall be gone, past night, past day - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Over the Hills and Far Away"
As the past sees through us - Steven Cramer "Pentimento"
From the tomb of some enchanted past - Olive Custance "Black Butterflies"
Remembering past enchantments and past ills - H.D. "Helen"
Remembering the past in this dark house - Edward L. Davison "In This Dark House"
The past wants to be remembered - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"
Loves quench'd, hopes past, friends lost, and pleasures fled - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
Past the vivid clocks of your childhood - Carl Dennis "Bimini Queen"
Into costumes of the past - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Whistled up past the Woolworth - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
The easy glide of our past tense - Matt Donovan "Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More"
Fill the Cup that clears TODAY of past Regrets - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"
All the trembling ages past - A.E. "The Great Breath"
sometime in the dimming past - Safia Elhillo "Transport"
Paddling past pebbly beaches - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Past the oily eddies sweeping - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Can shake the past - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"
Not the gods can shake the Past - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"
Wrote the past in characters of rock and fire - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"
March past the threshold of tears - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Get past all human walls - Heid E. Erdich "Breaking and Entering"
Glean'd from the mighty casket of the past - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
History repeated past all logic - Mari Evans "Alabama Landscape"
The past as constant present - Mari Evans "How Sudden Dies the Blooming"
Dark silhouette hurrying past - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"
Your bones are as heavy as the past - Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi "Letter from a Hot Air Balloon"
Summarize the past by theft and allusion - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Americus, Book I [excerpt]"
Past the perilous garden gate - Hannah G. Fernald "A Voyage" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Past the rocks where the mermaids sing - Hannah G. Fernald "A Voyage" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Pardoned our past-blotted pages - George Blackstone Field "The Rodman's Dream"
Crams our cold memories out past the sun - Annie Finch "Final Autumn"
Each time your traces come past the shadows - Annie Finch "Final Autumn"
Past their eyes where the black night lives - Annie Finch "Frozen In"
Along the corridors of the past - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"
What the past is to us - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"
All the fictions of the past - Maxwell E. Foster "More Modern Love"
Withdraw silently into the past - Jazno Francoeur "Fountain Street"
The past becomes a broken altar-stone - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
That go blindly pouring past - Robert Frost [untitled]
Ages past the dawn of days - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"
Come wiser than the past - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"
My past where no one knows me - Dana Gioia "Reunion"
As the past is buried in the future - Louise Gluck "A Summer Garden"
The bitter memory of a sweetness past - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
And conjure up vague theories of the past - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Past chattering rills of quartz - Edmund Gosse "On Yes Tor"
Strong thirst past satisfaction - Ivor Gurney "Winter Beauty"
In the houses of our past - Nathalie Handal "Dor"
Where the gate was past finding - Thomas Hardy "Lonely Days"
Shadows past the candle-gleam - Ruth Guthrie Harding "Song"
No map for how to live past this - Leslie Noyes Harrison "The Four Elements"
Awakens my buried past - Bret Harte "A Newport Romance"
Past its brief time of blooming - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Fallen Leaves"
For my past and future assassin - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"
A full reward for every danger past - William Hayley "On the Fear of Death: an Epistle to a Lady 1768"
Taunts me with just one memory of the past - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "A Shadow"
In an ecstasy past all control - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"
Past the serpentine border of eels - Conrad Hilberry "Music"
Watch the past blow by - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"
New minutes set in past danger - Brenda Hillman "& After the Power Came Back"
Walked past pines to their hearts' desire - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
At the precipice past dread or Thursdays - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
The dream went back past the signs - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
Between summer's sprawling past and winter's hard revision - Edward Hirsch "Fall"
Explodes past them in a fury - Edward Hirsch "Fast Break"
Every color backed away into the past - Jackson Holbert "Unsent Letter to Jakob"
In return for a shadowed and comfortless past - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Far out of the wretched past - William D. Howells "While She Sang"
Past confining flesh - Andrew Hudgins "In"
A stream past fabulous shores - Aldous Huxley "Stanzas"
The present, past, and future, all one they are - O.S.B. Father Ignatius "The Holy Isle: A Legend of Bardsey Abbey"
Forgetful of all our past blessings - "In Trouble" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]
Done no damage to the past - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"
Sunset-panthers past her run to caverns of the Sun - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Where all my Pasts within the Future wait - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Past the open gates of night - Marcus Jackson "What of Fire?"
Which opens your door to the past - Sarah Jackson "The Time Bureau Came to Careers Day"
A colorful exterior of a painful past - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"
Walked past rows of jeweled honeysuckle - John James "April, Andromeda"
Barren architecture of creatures long past - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Hidden from the cop car sleeking innocently past - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"
Entangled by myth's past tense - Honoree Fanonne Jeffers "Blues: Odysseus"
Move past like a pool of dust - Allison Eir Jenks "The Burial of Two Strangers"
Brood not over the broken past - James Weldon Johnson "The Gift to Sing"
Forgetting all past sorrow - James Weldon Johnson "Only Trust Me"
The future restages the past - Jenny Johnson "Aria"
Past the flaming walls afar - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
The past will sometimes rise - Annie Fellows Johnston "Echoes from Erin"
Within the Convent of the Past - Annie Fellows Johnston "Retrospection"
My fingers grow past crayon outlines - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"
Fades past the near meadows - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
The dust of continents past - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Safe from my past and its interpretations - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"
Toward a past swallowed by stone - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Still playing in videos past her presence - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
Sings past even the sadness that begins it - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"
Their present all their future and their past - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"
As the present falls upon the past - Christopher Kondrich "Bellfounding"
Run backward into the past - Ted Kooser "A Jacquard Shawl"
Brushes brown varnish over the past - Ted Kooser "A Sepia Photograph"
And the past has become a new world - Ted Kooser "Tectonics"
Through which they hastened out of the past - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"
Because the past is angry for being forgotten - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"
That makes the past a dream to me - M.E.L. "A Farewell" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Past all metaphor - Nick Laird "The Vehicles and the Tenor"
Flow past birch and hawthorn - Emily Lawless "From the Burren V: To a Hurrying Streamlet"
Coequal heirs in one wild Past - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Burrow past sunless lives - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
Spluttering grievances of a thousand years' past - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
River breaks past its banks of ash - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: The New Craft"
Through the dim vista of past years - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
Drawing our hope from the past - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Urging the past out of its pockets of silence - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
The future and the past are dead - Amy Levy "Magdalen"
Spirits of the past and future days - Amy Levy "Sinfonia Eroica"
The river that flows past me forever - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
Past the corrective of the afterworld - Sandra Lim "Certainty"
Trapped by past evil forever still about to happen - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"
Breaks skin, soars past bone - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Modern Fiction"
Forged a path between past & Jupiter - Nabila Lovelace "Sojourned"
Cradling the future in a glorious past - Amy Lowell "Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H."
My moorings to the past snap - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
From habit past to present fact - James Russell Lowell "Fact or Fancy?"
A relic of the shipwrecked past - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
Past the reach of moth and rust - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Shelter and Fellowship"
To come to me from out the past - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]
Past dying stars and exploding suns - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "lark"
Rush past the bewildered lives before us - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
Careless of dangers past - George Martin "The Blind Minstrel of the Market Place"
Strutted along a rusted past - David Tomas Martinez "from Forgetting Willie James Jones"
Leading her backward to the buried past - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Flies past with the heart of a clock - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"
My past was its own face - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Past the thick memory of molasses - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Speak of myself in past tense - Colleen J. McElroy "Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You"
Which Memory flings around the past - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Past the cyclones of our sadness - Orlando Ricardo Menes "Tower of Babel"
With spirit past the sense - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
This sudden hour retrieves the purpose of the past - Alice Meynell "The Two Poets"
Why don't you leave the past behind you? - Andy Miller "Diana"
Slipped past me like a wraith - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"
Refracted into the prisms of the past - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
In relation to moons past - Kamilah Aisha Moon "What Is Believed In Is True"
That has haunted all the past - T. Sturge Moore "Renaissance"
Past the everyday fade - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"
Forwarding them past dust - Jennifer Moxley "The Imprint"
Our love past dust - Jennifer Moxley "The Imprint"
Past these indefinitely tensed lines - Jerome Ellison Murphy "Hanging"
More than the step past you - Walter Dean Myers "Lawrence Hamm, 19, Student Athlete"
Remember not past years - John Henry (Cardinal) Newman "Lead Kindly Light"
The past tense of sing is not singed - Hoa Nguyen "Diep Before Completion"
Sweeping water past the window - Naomi Shihab Nye "In That Time"
The ghost of a star's past life - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
And sorely repent of the past - Old Humphrey "The Sabbath Breaker Reclaimed; or, a pleasing history of Thomas Brown"
Past the mirrors and night windows - Sharon Olds "Wonder as Wander"
From the dry bowl of the very far past - Mary Oliver "Mornings at Blackwater"
So rich with the bewildering past - James Oppenheim "A Handful of Dust"
Under the sombre shadow of the past - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
To each distance of past desolation - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"
Reduced his past to cinders - Linda Pastan "Life and Death on Masterpiece"
Traces of the past showing through - Linda Pastan "Thanksgiving Ghost"
Only the memory of times past - Florence Peacock "Lost at Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.137-v.III, 14 Aug. 1886]
Draws a fine grid over the past - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"
Without the past's precision - Carl Phillips "As for that Piece of Sundown You've Been Wanting"
That cannot calm the past - Carl Phillips "Morning in the Bowl of Night"
Nor cast a single shade upon the past - J. Pitman (who died in 1825) "Lines to a Young Lady on Her Birthday" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.743, 23 March 1878]
Out in the dark the wind rides past - Miriam Clark Potter "Tea Time"
Now sweeter for a bitter past - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Rest"
The past suffers from anxiety too - Ben Purkert "The Past Suffers Too"
Carved its past out of God's shoulder - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"
For attachment past attachment's end - Khadijah Queen "Epilogue for Personae"
To shutter the past in our ignorance - Khadijah Queen "Monologue for Personae"
What's past resistance to change - Khadijah Queen "Tower"
Till seven years were past and gone - "The Queen of Elfland"
Bring not back the past, to brim our cup of sorrow - Edward S. Rand "Fallen" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]
From the past no closing light can borrow - Rebecca "The Heiress" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
To find a future brighter than the past - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
From the dark caverns of the past - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
End past compass or compute - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
In the dim phantom boat that glided past - Rainer Maria Rilke "Lament" transl. by Jessie Lemont
When the last bitterness was past - Rennell Rodd "Actea"
Dreaming for the weary heart of the past - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
Using the Past's own export vessels - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"
The long starless night of our past - Abram Joseph Ryan (aka Father Ryan) "Song of the Deathless Voice"
The human moment past - Kay Ryan "Bunched Clothes"
the toxins of past memories - Rachelle Saint Louis "Manman Ak Pitit"
Rushing past like angels headlong - Reg Saner "The Red Poppy"
The past, that place where everything goes - Jason Schneiderman "House with a Hot Tub and Pool"
Speak the wisdom of worlds past - Ann K. Schwader "Alexandria Next Time"
Chaos ravening past sight - Ann K. Schwader "Fatal Constellations"
A truth bitter past bearing - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"
Lifted her past midnight into truth - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
Tongues parched centuries past silence - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"
All its golden past a dirge - Clinton Scollard "Saint Sepulchre's Beside the Sea"
Luminously bonded to my past - Richard Scott "Peridot"
my skin is a mirror of past lives - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"
Down the facing mirrors of future and past - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"
Behold the violet past prime - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XII"
The dead, blundering planets raining past - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Night"
Cool scarves of air whipping past - Joyce Sidman "Riding a Bike at Night"
The first right past Saturn - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Says the End Is Near"
Past visible borders and boundaries - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
Strands pulled from the past, locked in the present - Claire Smith "Exhibits from Schneewittchen"
Lifted past the level years - Clark Ashton Smith "Desire of Vastness"
Enigma past and mystery foreseen - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"
The rapture of moonlight past - Clark Ashton Smith "The Night Forest"
Ghouls that batten on the past - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"
Gold from the mines of the past - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"
That woke the echoes of the Past - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"
Tell the past the truth about itself - Maggie Smith "Joke"
Shouldering past the swirling dust motes - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"
A soul with a pockmarked, bitten past - Elizabeth Spires "Badger Disguised as a Monk"
An agony past all correction - A.E. Stallings "Dead Language Lesson"
Full of the golden past - A.E. Stallings "Olives"
If the past is not a dream - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Old Love and the New"
Past the crystal thresholds of the dawn - George Sterling "The Caged Eagle"
Are half the music of the Past - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"
Beside the ocean of the Past - George Sterling "Memory"
The portals of the ruined past - George Sterling "Memory of the Dead"
Of kingdoms past and gods undone - George Sterling "The Night of Gods"
Across the tumult wake the Past - George Sterling "Sonnets on the Sea's Voice"
Reach past the departed sun - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"
In nameless cities of the past - George Sterling "The Wind"
The figures of the past - Wallace Stevens “Poesie Abrutie”
A future which contains no past - Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard "The Wife Speaks"
Beheld the Past before me - R.H. Stoddard "Rome"
The present upon the patterns of the past - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"
My way of turning away from the past - Joyce Sutphen "The Temptation to Invent"
But laden with the knowledge of the past - Carmen Sylva "Night"
That embalm the past in mute forgiveness - Carmen Sylva "A Room"
Generations past in the face of what is yet to be - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
Resounds with the purpose of generations past - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
Reminding you of past missteps - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
Hiding just past the edge of my loneliness - Keith Taylor "Banff: Running Away"
And water running freely past the remnants - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"
Past all those barriers thrown up by the gods - Keith Taylor "The Sickness That Comes from the Longing for Home"
Down past empty baseball diamonds - Keith Taylor "The Skateboard Park, Seen from Afar"
Slips past the sun's long kiss - Tess Taylor "Solstice"
To the shades of eternity past - Te-con-ees-kee "Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation"
Past the birthplace of the sun - Sara Teasdale "In Memoriam F. O. S."
Has drowned the Future and the Past - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"
Wild November raged that hope was past - Edward William Thomson "The Bad Year"
Great ruins of an unremembered past - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Past all removal till the world were done - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: VI"
Survey the landscape of the past - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"
The past is kept in bubbles - Elizabeth Torres "The Voyage"
Good for viewing the lingering past - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"
A few dark days of terror past - Melesina Trench "On Being Pressed to Go to a Masqued Ball not Many Months After the Death of My Child"
Our perilous voyage past - Richard C. Trench "The Kingdom of God"
As one turns, forgetting, from the past - Natasha Trethewey "Pilgrimage"
Getting past the hardest places - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson
Lifted from a dream of the past - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Forget-Me-Nots"
Past the cold and breathless dark - Louis Untermeyer "In the Subway"
Rocks in the sea of its own primordial past - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Universe We Are"
The Camp-fires of the Past are burning - Henry van Dyke "Indian Summer"
Makes amends for all the wintry past - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"
Of kindred echoes from past years - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours III" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
Two spectres conjured up the buried past - Paul Verlaine "Colloque Sentimental" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Can blame the past - Jeanann Verlee "Helen Considers Leaving Troy"
One jet trail arching past Venus - John Moncure Wettarau "Talking to Myself"
Peer past the stripped arms of the rose - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"
From the hoards of the golden past - Edith Wharton "June and December"
And the past that comes no more - Edith Wharton "October"
And fell into that pit of the past - John Wieners "For Huncke"
A frozen road past midnight - William Carlos Williams "Complaint"
Past knowledge and past counting - Humbert Wolfe "The Sicilian Expedition"
The past becomes such a mirror - Charles Wright "On the Night of the First Snow, Thinking About Tennessee"
The mountains of the past berate me - Charles Wright "Remember Me When the Candlelight Is Gleaming"
The threshing floor of the past - Charles Wright "Sentences II"
Oblivion of the Present, Future, Past - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]
The shape of an absolute past - Jay Wright "Kumu"
Eating only the past - Jenny Xie "Corfu"
So what becomes past cannot breed - Jenny Xie "Lunar New Year, 1988"
Ropes of firecrackers that irradiate the past - Jenny Xie "Memory Soldier"
Which routes you past all burning - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
A past rinsed clear of old tradition - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
That inoculates against the past tense - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
The past sticks to the present like glue - John Yau "Russian Letter"
The hiss of empty air swirling past - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
To unlock or to invent the past - Matthew Zapruder "Haiku"
Just past vision's humming line - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Past view come here often - Zheng Min "A Small Room" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
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