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Potential Titles: Drop
My misery dropped golden tears - Harold Acton "Greenness Unsecreted"
To squeeze a drop of venom or of honey - Elizabeth Alexander "Equinox"
The penny dropped ends its run - Alise Alousi "Forgiveness is the smell of crushed flowers"
Drops each ghost into a water hole - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"
If drops of blood are made from pearls - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The nightshade's dew in venomed drops - Benjamin West Ball "Proem"
Drop with sprigs of rosemary and rue - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"
As old as the first drop of mortal tears - Maurice Baring "Harvest in Russia"
A drop from the nodding sea - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
drops through the darkness and forgets - Elizabeth Bartlett "measured interval"
Cannot take up stitches dropped - Ardelia Maria Barton "Meridian"
The sacred drops to pity due - James Beattie "Elegy"
Two hawks courting in a dead drop - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"
The first gray drops of dew - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
And the kites drop down in a ring - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
And dropped its sightless heaven - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"
The white clock dropping gray minutes - Max Bodenheim "Silence"
Drop the axe and leave the timber - Arna Bontemps "Close Your Eyes!"
And not a drop of substance - Lucie Brock-Broido "The Deerhunting"
Clouds drop baptismal showers of rain - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Dropped a rose of gold - William Canton "Song"
Dropping brambles and silky-spite - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"
Intent on draining you of every last drop - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
Drop that golden spear - Hilda Conkling "Song for a Play"
That gold watch you dropped into hot coals - CAConrad "Home.3"
Bitter drop in bloom and sweet - Susan Coolidge "Solstice"
One pure trembling drop of cadence - E. E. Cummings "Sunset"
Fruit cannot drop through this thick air - H.D. "Garden"
Burden the trees with black drops - H.D. "Storm"
Dropped it while the fuse was still burning - Mary Carolyn Davies "Songs of a Girl"
Opulent boughs that dropped with nectarines - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
By drops, distil my streaming heart - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz "A Satirical Romance" transl. by Judith Thurman
Every drop is as wise as Solomon - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"
Subtracting till my fingers dropped - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love VI"
The name they dropped upon my face - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XIV: Love's Baptism"
Diadems drop and Doges surrender - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity IV"
The key dropped by memory - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XLI: The Forgotten Grave"
As stars that drop anonymous - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XXXIV"
The last drops of daylight shimmering - Chris Dombrowski "Late Evening Fugue"
Each drop accounted for - Heid E. Erdich "Vial"
Dropped the third strike with two outs - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"
The trailing clematis dropped on the sundial - Eleanor Farjeon "Dwellers in the Garden"
Between the drop and the diffusion - B. K. Fischer "Museum of Menstruation"
Dropped into the ocean of herself - B. K. Fischer "Museum of Menstruation"
Drops the moonlight through my heart - James Elroy Flecker "Santorin"
Wander towards chaos and drop into hell - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming "Come Let Us Be Friends"
Dew droppings sweet from starry spheres - Mary Freeman Goldbeck "On Hearing a 'Trio'" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Drop the bloodless stars into the sea - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Mortui Vivos Docent"
And dropped his thirsty lance - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
A drop of blue light - Kimberly Grey "Modern Sentences"
Crimson or gold dropping away - Angelina Weld Grimke "The Eyes of My Regret"
Nine drops of water bead the jessamine - Thomas Hardy "A Wet August"
A drop or two of honey around the top - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"
Each drop recalls the diamond absolutes - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"
The bitter tear-drop of despair - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
A vacancy between drops of rain - Conrad Hilberry "Junior Powell, Sand Gap, Kentucky, with a Borrowed Guitar"
My promises have cracked and dropped away - Conrad Hilberry "Script for a Cold Christmas"
Earth dropped its dark clock - Brenda Hillman "The Eighties"
Sunbeam, breeze, and drop of dew - Robert Hogg "Oh, What Are the Chains of Love Made Of?"
Drinking the dewdrop's mystery - Langston Hughes "Snail"
A blazing comet drop down hail - "I Saw a Peacock"
There drops no kindred tear - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]
Nor drop nor morsel deign'd to share - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]
In the dropping rain's despite - Jean Ingelow "Contrasted Songs: A Lily and a Lute"
Fire dropped from the veins of my thought - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
Drop sweetness like the ripening peach - Islwyn "The Poets of Wales" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
A stick in my hand and a drop in my eye - "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Roses dropping from his hair - Henry Johnstone "Love Penitent"
Dropped through holes in the sidewalk - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
An orbed drop of light - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Goldfinches one by one will drop - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
thought's diamond drop squeezed - Kaie Kellough "if who"
drop squeezed from an enraged zero - Kaie Kellough "if who"
As its bright drops fall starlike - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"
Every acorn has to drop - "The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Never drops an answer from those worlds unknowns - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"
Glittering, compact drops of dawn - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"
Beyond day's purple limit dropped - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"
The dropped fruit lies beneath its tree - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"
A sickle dropped in high grass - Hailey Leithauser "Guillotine"
Fling these bitter drops to the wild swans - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
Drink the drops of freezing dew - Li T'ai-Po "The Northern Flight" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Dropping beneath the usual swing of things - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Dropped a veil of changing light - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Shelter and Fellowship"
Veteran of sheer drops and near misses - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"
Drops a denser shadow on my pillow - George Martin "Laleet"
Ripe apples drop about my head - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
Dropped fantastic shadows down - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"
The moon's dropped child - Charlotte Mew "Fame"
Gems that drop from off a Calif's crown - Adam Mickiewicz "Alushta By Day" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Watched the swans drop from the dark air - Anis Mojgani "Leda"
Dropping amber crystals on the needles of evergreens - N. Scott Momaday "Torrent"
And drop into the frosty arms of Winter - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Before I drop my farewell tear - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
A drop of sky from Paradise - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Chronicle of an Execution" transl. by Joshua Freeman
the sun drops his knee on fog - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"
Not a drop of time fell - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Last drop of pure forgetfulness - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
A drop of time assaulted by scales - Pablo Neruda "The Clock Fallen into the Sea" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Dropping from your cascading hands - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
The whole sky drop by drop - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid
Not one single drop of sleep - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Double Autumn" transl. by Mark Eisner
The last bitter drops of sobbing - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh
In the transparent kingdom of a drop of water - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
From each pole a dream-wreath drops - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "Hop Picking"
Drop straight into a very electric flight - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Ode to Sitting in a Booth"
Cold and deadly drops of fear - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"
In every rainbow's glittering drop - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VII. Sonnet: Our Dead"
Told on rosaries of drops of snow - Meredith Nicholson "Before the Fire"
Drop fire from the sky - Iain Haley Pollock "the smoke of the country went up"
A veil she planned to drop - C.G. Poore "A Maiden Lady"
More glory in a drop of dew - Alexander Posey "The Dew and the Bird"
Sweating drops of liquid plutonium - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Each with a timid drop of dew - Geo. D. Prentiss "Lines [The Sunset's sweet and holy blush]"
Swallowing salted prayer drops - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"
Bees may drain a drop of hone - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Found bitter drops in every cup - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Jewels dropped from heaven - Herbert Randall "A Garland"
A single drop would overfill - A.J. Requier "A Charm"
Sweet dark drops of your spirit - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"
Braiding in drops of the gloaming - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Glen All Is Still"
With the drops of the deep-lying dew - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"
In the drop poised upon the thorn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"
A poke of the pitchfork, a drop of fire - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
A loss for every other drop of rain - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"
Drops of shivering quiet - Isaac Rosenberg "Sleep"
Spatter a few red drops for history to remember - Carl Sandburg "I am the People, the Mob"
A few red drops for history to remember - Carl Sandburg "I Am the People, the Mob"
Dropped through crimson gloom to darkness - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"
The last few drops of light drain silently - Edward Shanks "A Night-Piece"
just a plashless drop of mercury - Evie Shockley "women's voting rights at one hundred (but who's counting?)"
Drops down from the echoing room of night - Joyce Sidman "Bat Wraps Up"
To contain a drop of the void - Tom Sleigh "Space Station"
Horse droppings and hard candy - Maggie Smith "Accidental Pastoral"
Descend again in molten drops - Gertrude Stein "Golden Bough"
Her poppies dropped in flight - George Sterling "Hesperian"
And danced on five dew drops - George Sterling "Insincerities"
Sunlight drops its gold upon the moss - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Squeezing drops from many moons - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 6: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Hunting for the bitter drop - Sonya Taaffe "He Should Marry the Daughter of the Angel of Death"
A drop of ink in a dish of milk - Gretchen Tessmer "A Jar of Condensed Milk"
Spun by light and dropped into shadow - Amber Flora Thomas "Damaged Photos"
Have dropped before thy sight - Eloise Bibb Thompson "Ode to the Sun"
Sparkles of hope, and drops of fear - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
Dropped into a cold marble bowl of thought - Russell Thorburn "Many Miles from Home"
A living veil drops down from the sky - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"
The ill-omened drum of dropping rain - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"
Dropped from the gleanings of relentless time - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
As minutes drop from life - John Updike "Endpoint"
Dropped like pearls of melody - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin
In drops of patience - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"
As Peter's chains dropped for the Angel - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"
By the chance dropping of a tiny seed - Helen Hay Whitney "The Coming of Love"
Each time a baobab drops a beetle - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"
Darkness is dropping inches beneath the earth - Charles Wright "Terrestrial Music"
Little gilt bees in amber drops - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"
Peace comes dropping slow - W.B. Yeats "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
Tiny drops of crystal rain - Zitkála-Šá "Iris of Life"
Build a backdrop of the faceless - Mary Jo Bang "O Means the Mouth"
A backdrop of black velvet and rhinestones - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"
Set against an infinite backdrop of space - Kien Lam "Big Bang Theory"
Against a backdrop of bare time - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (II)" transl. by Alastair Reid
Broken chains, lying cankered with old blood-drops - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
A dropdown menu of dreams - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"
Eavesdrop.
Raindrop.
A frenzy of riverdrops, riot of current - Marilyn McCabe "Web"
Teardrop.
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To squeeze a drop of venom or of honey - Elizabeth Alexander "Equinox"
The penny dropped ends its run - Alise Alousi "Forgiveness is the smell of crushed flowers"
Drops each ghost into a water hole - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"
If drops of blood are made from pearls - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The nightshade's dew in venomed drops - Benjamin West Ball "Proem"
Drop with sprigs of rosemary and rue - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"
As old as the first drop of mortal tears - Maurice Baring "Harvest in Russia"
A drop from the nodding sea - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"
drops through the darkness and forgets - Elizabeth Bartlett "measured interval"
Cannot take up stitches dropped - Ardelia Maria Barton "Meridian"
The sacred drops to pity due - James Beattie "Elegy"
Two hawks courting in a dead drop - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"
The first gray drops of dew - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
And the kites drop down in a ring - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
And dropped its sightless heaven - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"
The white clock dropping gray minutes - Max Bodenheim "Silence"
Drop the axe and leave the timber - Arna Bontemps "Close Your Eyes!"
And not a drop of substance - Lucie Brock-Broido "The Deerhunting"
Clouds drop baptismal showers of rain - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Dropped a rose of gold - William Canton "Song"
Dropping brambles and silky-spite - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"
Intent on draining you of every last drop - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
Drop that golden spear - Hilda Conkling "Song for a Play"
That gold watch you dropped into hot coals - CAConrad "Home.3"
Bitter drop in bloom and sweet - Susan Coolidge "Solstice"
One pure trembling drop of cadence - E. E. Cummings "Sunset"
Fruit cannot drop through this thick air - H.D. "Garden"
Burden the trees with black drops - H.D. "Storm"
Dropped it while the fuse was still burning - Mary Carolyn Davies "Songs of a Girl"
Opulent boughs that dropped with nectarines - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
By drops, distil my streaming heart - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz "A Satirical Romance" transl. by Judith Thurman
Every drop is as wise as Solomon - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"
Subtracting till my fingers dropped - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love VI"
The name they dropped upon my face - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XIV: Love's Baptism"
Diadems drop and Doges surrender - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity IV"
The key dropped by memory - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XLI: The Forgotten Grave"
As stars that drop anonymous - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XXXIV"
The last drops of daylight shimmering - Chris Dombrowski "Late Evening Fugue"
Each drop accounted for - Heid E. Erdich "Vial"
Dropped the third strike with two outs - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"
The trailing clematis dropped on the sundial - Eleanor Farjeon "Dwellers in the Garden"
Between the drop and the diffusion - B. K. Fischer "Museum of Menstruation"
Dropped into the ocean of herself - B. K. Fischer "Museum of Menstruation"
Drops the moonlight through my heart - James Elroy Flecker "Santorin"
Wander towards chaos and drop into hell - Sarah Lee Brown Fleming "Come Let Us Be Friends"
Dew droppings sweet from starry spheres - Mary Freeman Goldbeck "On Hearing a 'Trio'" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Drop the bloodless stars into the sea - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Mortui Vivos Docent"
And dropped his thirsty lance - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"
A drop of blue light - Kimberly Grey "Modern Sentences"
Crimson or gold dropping away - Angelina Weld Grimke "The Eyes of My Regret"
Nine drops of water bead the jessamine - Thomas Hardy "A Wet August"
A drop or two of honey around the top - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"
Each drop recalls the diamond absolutes - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"
The bitter tear-drop of despair - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"
A vacancy between drops of rain - Conrad Hilberry "Junior Powell, Sand Gap, Kentucky, with a Borrowed Guitar"
My promises have cracked and dropped away - Conrad Hilberry "Script for a Cold Christmas"
Earth dropped its dark clock - Brenda Hillman "The Eighties"
Sunbeam, breeze, and drop of dew - Robert Hogg "Oh, What Are the Chains of Love Made Of?"
Drinking the dewdrop's mystery - Langston Hughes "Snail"
A blazing comet drop down hail - "I Saw a Peacock"
There drops no kindred tear - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]
Nor drop nor morsel deign'd to share - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]
In the dropping rain's despite - Jean Ingelow "Contrasted Songs: A Lily and a Lute"
Fire dropped from the veins of my thought - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
Drop sweetness like the ripening peach - Islwyn "The Poets of Wales" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
A stick in my hand and a drop in my eye - "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Roses dropping from his hair - Henry Johnstone "Love Penitent"
Dropped through holes in the sidewalk - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
An orbed drop of light - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Goldfinches one by one will drop - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
thought's diamond drop squeezed - Kaie Kellough "if who"
drop squeezed from an enraged zero - Kaie Kellough "if who"
As its bright drops fall starlike - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"
Every acorn has to drop - "The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Never drops an answer from those worlds unknowns - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"
Glittering, compact drops of dawn - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"
Beyond day's purple limit dropped - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"
The dropped fruit lies beneath its tree - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"
A sickle dropped in high grass - Hailey Leithauser "Guillotine"
Fling these bitter drops to the wild swans - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall
Drink the drops of freezing dew - Li T'ai-Po "The Northern Flight" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell
Dropping beneath the usual swing of things - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Dropped a veil of changing light - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Shelter and Fellowship"
Veteran of sheer drops and near misses - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"
Drops a denser shadow on my pillow - George Martin "Laleet"
Ripe apples drop about my head - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"
Dropped fantastic shadows down - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"
The moon's dropped child - Charlotte Mew "Fame"
Gems that drop from off a Calif's crown - Adam Mickiewicz "Alushta By Day" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Watched the swans drop from the dark air - Anis Mojgani "Leda"
Dropping amber crystals on the needles of evergreens - N. Scott Momaday "Torrent"
And drop into the frosty arms of Winter - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
Before I drop my farewell tear - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
A drop of sky from Paradise - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Chronicle of an Execution" transl. by Joshua Freeman
the sun drops his knee on fog - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"
Not a drop of time fell - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Last drop of pure forgetfulness - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
A drop of time assaulted by scales - Pablo Neruda "The Clock Fallen into the Sea" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Dropping from your cascading hands - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
The whole sky drop by drop - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid
Not one single drop of sleep - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Double Autumn" transl. by Mark Eisner
The last bitter drops of sobbing - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh
In the transparent kingdom of a drop of water - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
From each pole a dream-wreath drops - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "Hop Picking"
Drop straight into a very electric flight - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Ode to Sitting in a Booth"
Cold and deadly drops of fear - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"
In every rainbow's glittering drop - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VII. Sonnet: Our Dead"
Told on rosaries of drops of snow - Meredith Nicholson "Before the Fire"
Drop fire from the sky - Iain Haley Pollock "the smoke of the country went up"
A veil she planned to drop - C.G. Poore "A Maiden Lady"
More glory in a drop of dew - Alexander Posey "The Dew and the Bird"
Sweating drops of liquid plutonium - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Each with a timid drop of dew - Geo. D. Prentiss "Lines [The Sunset's sweet and holy blush]"
Swallowing salted prayer drops - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"
Bees may drain a drop of hone - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Found bitter drops in every cup - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Jewels dropped from heaven - Herbert Randall "A Garland"
A single drop would overfill - A.J. Requier "A Charm"
Sweet dark drops of your spirit - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"
Braiding in drops of the gloaming - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Glen All Is Still"
With the drops of the deep-lying dew - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"
In the drop poised upon the thorn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"
A poke of the pitchfork, a drop of fire - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
A loss for every other drop of rain - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"
Drops of shivering quiet - Isaac Rosenberg "Sleep"
Spatter a few red drops for history to remember - Carl Sandburg "I am the People, the Mob"
A few red drops for history to remember - Carl Sandburg "I Am the People, the Mob"
Dropped through crimson gloom to darkness - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"
The last few drops of light drain silently - Edward Shanks "A Night-Piece"
just a plashless drop of mercury - Evie Shockley "women's voting rights at one hundred (but who's counting?)"
Drops down from the echoing room of night - Joyce Sidman "Bat Wraps Up"
To contain a drop of the void - Tom Sleigh "Space Station"
Horse droppings and hard candy - Maggie Smith "Accidental Pastoral"
Descend again in molten drops - Gertrude Stein "Golden Bough"
Her poppies dropped in flight - George Sterling "Hesperian"
And danced on five dew drops - George Sterling "Insincerities"
Sunlight drops its gold upon the moss - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Squeezing drops from many moons - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 6: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Hunting for the bitter drop - Sonya Taaffe "He Should Marry the Daughter of the Angel of Death"
A drop of ink in a dish of milk - Gretchen Tessmer "A Jar of Condensed Milk"
Spun by light and dropped into shadow - Amber Flora Thomas "Damaged Photos"
Have dropped before thy sight - Eloise Bibb Thompson "Ode to the Sun"
Sparkles of hope, and drops of fear - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"
Dropped into a cold marble bowl of thought - Russell Thorburn "Many Miles from Home"
A living veil drops down from the sky - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"
The ill-omened drum of dropping rain - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"
Dropped from the gleanings of relentless time - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
As minutes drop from life - John Updike "Endpoint"
Dropped like pearls of melody - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin
In drops of patience - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"
As Peter's chains dropped for the Angel - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"
By the chance dropping of a tiny seed - Helen Hay Whitney "The Coming of Love"
Each time a baobab drops a beetle - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"
Darkness is dropping inches beneath the earth - Charles Wright "Terrestrial Music"
Little gilt bees in amber drops - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"
Peace comes dropping slow - W.B. Yeats "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
Tiny drops of crystal rain - Zitkála-Šá "Iris of Life"
Build a backdrop of the faceless - Mary Jo Bang "O Means the Mouth"
A backdrop of black velvet and rhinestones - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"
Set against an infinite backdrop of space - Kien Lam "Big Bang Theory"
Against a backdrop of bare time - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (II)" transl. by Alastair Reid
Broken chains, lying cankered with old blood-drops - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
A dropdown menu of dreams - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"
Eavesdrop.
Raindrop.
A frenzy of riverdrops, riot of current - Marilyn McCabe "Web"
Teardrop.
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