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A steady lamp in a vast plain of shifting grey - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

Unlike the logic of the lamp - Mary Jo Bang "They Were That and Then"

When their lamps were burning low - Vera M. Brittain "The German Ward"

A street lamp at the outpost of dusk - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"

And lighted alone by the firefly's lamp - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"

Kindle your glimmering lamp in the infinite space - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Fire"

The glow-worm burnishes its lamp - John Clare "Summer Images"

Our lamps we consecrate - Susan Coolidge "A Year"

The flame of a Pompeian lamp - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Cantina"

A dusk where one dim lamp burns - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"

The primrose queen lights her pale lamps - Geoffrey Dearmer "May-June"

And bid our lamp burn brighter - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."

In the dim of the kerosene lamps - Martin Espada "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramon Emeterio Betances"

If tranquil hope but trims her lamp - Frederick William Faber, D.D. "The Eternal Years"

Light my lamp and bar the door - Beulah Field "When I Remember"

With the sun or the moon for a lamp - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"

Lit her body with lamps of fire - John Freeman "The Body"

A garden lamped with lily bells - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

The cheer of lamp and fire - Zona Gale "Violin"

The smoky lamps of our desire - Louis Golding "Cold Stars"

Who saves the resin of the torch and the oil of the lamp - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Lamps up through the larkspur evening - Mona Gould "Rain"

A humble cloud can bust the lamp of Cassiopeta [sic] - John Grey "Skywatching"

My midnight lamp and candle - Alfred Hayes "My Study"

Lamp swollen with wine and blood - Anne Hebert "The Tomb of Kings" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

By the bright lamp of thought - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Waylaid by a merry ghost at every lamp - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"

Out of the sight of lamp and star - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

The evening with its lamps burning - Edward Hirsch "Gabriel" [excerpt]

Three lamps of holy flame - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"

A lamp the great God places near all our mortal things - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen

The lamps round pool of gold - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"

Prophesyings of the midnight lamp - John Keats "Hyperion"

Leaves and lamps and traffic mingled before me - D.H. Lawrence "Brooding Grief"

And truth's perpetual lamp forbid to wane - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"

Orchards burn their lamps of fiery gold - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

The lamps of sin are flaring - Richard Le Gallienne "Sunset in the City"

Where glow-worm shows his tiny lamp - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

lit by translucent jade and celadon lamps - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"

The new heart like a lamp - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"

Holding high his retrospective lamp - Amy Levy "Xantippe"

In that lamp fresh oil to pour - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Heaven's lamps renew their lustre - James Russell Lowell "Absence"

In whose dismal cave the genie of the lamp died - Harry Martinson "Aniara 77" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

When evening hangs her lamp - Theodore Maynard "Nocturne"

The inn where the lamps show plain - Theodore Maynard "The Stirrup Cup"

Turn forward our blown lamps - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

The savage lamp of the setting sun - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Old flints to kindle ancient lamps - Pablo Neruda "Arise to Birth" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

Lighting fuses and lamps - Pablo Neruda "I Come from the South [Song of Protest]" transl. by Miguel Algarin

The lamp of my soul dyes your feet - Pablo Neruda "In My Sky at Twilight" transl. by W.S. Merwin

Burying lamps in the deep solitude - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems XVII" translated by W.S. Merwin

Like lamps between sky and sea - E. Nesbit "St. Valentine's Day"

Lighted with lamps of hope - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

Each one was a lamp for a fairy to hold - Sarah Noble-Ives "Thro' Fairyland"

After the stars hung out their lamps - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Conroy's Gap"

Where fevered lamps are set to stare - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"

The lamp among the bamboo - Po Chu'i "Half in the Family, Half Out" transl. by Burton Watson

As lamps in sepulchres - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

She filled the lamps of evening - Miriam Clark Potter "The Fairy's Name was Whisper"

The lighthouse lamp is fast asleep - Miriam Clark Potter "The Lighthouse Lamp"

As the expiring lamp most brightly glows - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Autumn" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

Speed from thy burning lamp - Theodore H. Rand "Marie Depure"

Burn the unnumbered lamps of life - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse

That powers the lamps of dreams - Kay Ryan "Tune"

Till the new day quenches the lamps - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"

Lamps of a thousand flames - "Sean Dana"

Waste not thy lamps - "Sean Dana"

A lamp of vestal fire burning - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

A tarnished lamp with a genie inside - Tom Sleigh "Three Wishes"

To trick the genie back into the lamp - Tom Sleigh "Three Wishes"

The lamplike thought of you - Clark Ashton Smith "Haunting"

Starry lamps in heaven's blue hall - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"

A lamp above the incorruptible table - Maria Luisa Spaziani transl. by Lynne Lawner

A lamp that shone on nothing - Frank Stanford "Embark"

Lit his garden with a lamp of gold - George Sterling "Charles Warren Stoddard"

Lamps in rooms of pain - George Sterling "Night-Sentries"

Their lamps' uplifted flame revealed - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"

The lamp I give, but not the glimmering flame - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"

To fill and trim their lamps by night - "The Ten Virgins" [The Parables of the Saviour, no date, Project Gutenberg]

We clock out and cross under its lamps - Brian Tierney "Catering"

Bring myriad lamps in clusters - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Share the light of this lamp - Tu Fu "Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement" transl. by Burton Watson

Pure lamp on hermit's shrine - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

Remnant lamp casting halos of darkness - Wang An-Shih "Autumn Night" transl. by David Hinton

When Queen Ashtaroth beat at her lamp and fell - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"

The light retires to the lamp - Yao Feng (aka Yao Jingming) "Searching for Light" transl. by Julia Sanches

The luminescent mantle of the kerosene lamp - Ray Young Bear "The Aura of the Blue Flower That is a Goddess"


Go down to the grotto with your headlamp and crowbar - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"


To lampless glooms descend - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"


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Down the avenue of lamp-posts - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Lampposts and cracked teeth - francine j. harris "to the man on the bus"

A lamp-post race could beat me round the block - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"


A lampshade exhausted by light - John James "Catalogue Beginning with a Line by Plato"


You were every streetlamp that winter - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"

The thin cycle of streetlamps on pavement - Russell Brakefield "This Is America and We Are Boys"

The drifts covered the streetlamps - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "A Story for Winter"

Every one of the unconcerned streetlamps - Adrian Matejka "Mural with HUD Housing & School Bus (1980)"


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