Potential Titles: Tree
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somethingdarkerEven the trees are not blameless - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"
First, we sent away the trees - Duane Ackerson "Exiling the Earth"
Skeleton trees bow down - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"
Fruit trees murdered in the bud - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"
Hanging from the tree of noontime - Francisco X. Alarcon "Summer Sun"
A hidden movie camera in the trees - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Playful ghosts snagged in the trees - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
In the bands of shadow cordoning the trees - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"
Matches near bone-dry trees - Alise Alousi "Lynndie's Other Voice"
Under an evil-eyed fig tree - Zaina Alsous "Universe in which My Father Is a Poet"
Took solace from those locust trees - Julia Alvarez "Locust"
Inherited trees with roots uprooted - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees | ورثنا أشجا"
Inherited trees with twisted branches - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees|ورثنا أشجار"
A bobolink left the bloom of a tree - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Story of a Rose"
With the willing submerged assembly of tree roots - Mouna Ammar "When I see the Suffering of My People"
And in her dream a great tree grew - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVI: Dream of the Holy Virgin" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Afraid of the dark forest trees - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
Best reflects the tree - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "About the angels"
Who made the roots of trees his bed - Matthew Arnold "A Southern Night"
They sit high in unreachable trees - Julie Babcock "Philomel"
The birds are busy choosing trees - Julie Babcock "Preparedness"
The bonfire of exquisite trees - Mary Jo Bang "Goodbye Is Another Word for Not"
Palm trees pinned against a wall - Mary Jo Bang "A Room in Cleopatra's Palace"
A tree trunk formed from a handful of ashes - Mary Jo Bang "Still as in a Still After Still"
The snake wrapped around a rusted tree - Mary Jo Bang "W Is for Whatever"
The axe wrapped in tree roots - Mary Jo Bang "What Is a Mouth?"
Bees sheltered in the trees - Devan Barlow "A Moon Witch at the Party"
A sun's landing between eucalyptus trees - Lou Barrett "At a Jerusalem Market"
The old tree weeps for its blossom - Elizabeth Bartlett "Full Circle"
have shaken the fruitful tree of belief - Elizabeth Bartlett "log for a voyage"
of years grown thick as forest trees - Elizabeth Bartlett "maturity"
In the valley of moon trees - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"
laughter whirling from each tree - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"
trees with roots of red - Elizabeth Bartlett "whatever else may be"
And every tree became an elf - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Breaking Point"
Pour your rain on the bitter tree - Stephen Vincent Benet "8:30 A. M. on 32nd Street"
Pipes that Pan left whispering under a tree - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
A treeful of angels at Peckham Rye - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
There's only two fates for muses, death or tree - Rebecca Bennett "Eurydice Stands with Attitude"
The souls of trees are silent - Paul Bernstein "Footfall"
The deepest rooted dream of a tree - Emily Berry "Unexhausted Time"
To plant trees under starlight - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Pegasus"
Trees and houses keep their careful distance - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"
The mathematics of bending trees - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"
Her wild mantle on the hawthorn-tree - Wilfrid Blunt "A Day in Sussex"
And join the smothered gossip of trees - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"
From the aimless tongues of these trees - Max Bodenheim "Three Portraits"
The oak trees are entirely emptiness - Jaswinder Bolina "Stump Speech"
Stands of trees bearing false oranges - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
With sentinel trees on either side - G.H. Bonner "Sonnet"
And shadowless trees rootlessly paused - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"
Wind through the tree of what I mean - William Brewer "My Somniloquist"
Your voices in the whispering trees - Vera M. Brittain "To Them"
A fast-driving diesel flatbed of felled trees - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
Delighted by a congregation of trees celebrating - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
The hilltop trees still bend like dancers - Joseph Bruchac "Tutuwas"
Our tent the cypress tree - William Cullen Bryant "Song of Marion's Men"
And Autumn rent the garment of the trees - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
The trees translating unremembered memories - Witter Bynner "The New World VII"
While the trees all listen trembling - E.W.C. "November" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
The tree-toad trilled his dream - W. Wilfred Campbell "How One Winter Came"
From roof-trees of slumber - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
Stand silently behind the silent trees - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: In the Forest"
Trees as tall as Tom Thumb - Paul Carroll "Song [To be able to walk along and see]"
The trees with their secrets and green faces - Paul Carroll "Untitled [I want to write a poem the birds will understand]"
Throwing trees against the house - Anne Carson "Thunderstorm Stack"
Beneath whose folds the trees grow pale - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"
Judge the tree by what it bears - Alice Cary "My Creed"
Up from the shadows of gallows trees - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"
Foolish impatient apricot trees - Nina Cassian "Vegetable Destiny" transl. by Michael Impey and Brian Swann
Led me through the gossip trees - Madison Cawein "The Speckled Trout"
Fair apple trees keep ward - Ceiriog "The White Stone" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Sit under the tree waiting for hunger - Tina Chang "Lion"
Where you are the tree left standing - Tina Chang "My Father. A Tree."
Wind tied to a tree - Tina Chang "Wonder Cabinet"
Saw black trees on the battle-height - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
Neither tree nor fire - Chiwan Choi "portraitures and erasures"
The blasted trees will not wither - "Cobbe's Prophecies"
My heart hates the trees - Leonard Cohen "I Draw Aside the Curtain"
Gold apples from the guarded trees - Arthur Colton "The Herb of Grace"
The hands of the trees - Hilda Conkling "Autumn Song"
Like a tree above my head - Hilda Conkling "Blue Grass"
Trees with folded wings - Hilda Conkling "Land of Nod"
Twelve trees is a forest these days - CAConrad "Neptune.4"
The fevered radiance fades from life's doomed tree - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Praying hands in tree and flower - James H. Cousins "Heaven and Earth"
Broken from the withering tree - George Crabbe "The Village"
Prisoner of the tree and its green fingers - Hart Crane "Garden Abstract"
Ghost of the crimson tree - Arthur Shearly Cripps "A Lyke-Wake Carol"
The forked tree's chained shadows - George Cronyn "Clouds"
from huge trees drenched by a rounding moon - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
From each brave eye shall sprout a tree - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IX)"
Burden the trees with black drops - H.D. "Storm"
And turn these mortals into trees - William H. Davies "The Mind's Liberty"
Transported into the net of naked trees - Kwame Dawes "Dawn"
An April bud on winter-haunted trees - Walter de la Mare "Sleeping Beauty"
Resonant as the hum of a growing tree - Diane DeCillis "Mr. Right"
Planting a tree in my palm - Diane DeCillis "Postcards of Home and Homesick"
Pomegranates fell from the trees - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Eve Revisited"
Sat in silence with the trees - Desdamona "Once and Future"
Veil your deathless tree - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XLII"
The tasseled trees frown from the wall - Irving Sidney Dix "The Glen"
And the trees were weak for water - Irving Sidney Dix "The Storm"
Prophesying to the trees - Irving Sidney Dix "The Storm"
The trees exhale their one green breath - Chris Dombrowski "Heron Rookery Aubade"
The old tree burdened with herself - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"
A gathering of larch trees - Chris Dombrowski "The Turn"
Flies in the lace of the trees - Marie-Ovide Dorceley "Sojourner"
Wrinkling out a language of ancient trees - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Praise"
Told their secrets to the trees - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
Only seven trees left in the world - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #3"
May the trees kneel closer - Nicole Terez Dutton "Magnitude and Bond"
Alone and naked by the weeping tree - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"
Among the darkling trees set back - Helen Parry Eden "A Suburban Night's Entertainment"
A marching army of trees - Peg Edera "Harbors of Miracle"
And the dead tree gives no shelter - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land I: The Burial of the Dead"
Somewhere in the flightless trees - Claudia Emerson "The Audubon Collection"
These trees and stones are audible - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"
The tree edge of the future - Heid E. Erdich "Offering: The Child"
Chipping at their tree with a comb - Martin Espada "Wake Up, Mario"
Where all the ghost-trees are - Anthony Euwer "The Long Bet"
Watch you like a faraway tree - Megan Fernandes "Friends with No Benefits"
The trees splash the sky - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
The antlers of three trillion trees - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen f"
Fish from the hollow tree - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 6"
Snapped trees breathe with ghost food - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"
Through the blood trees within us - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"
Beyond my husband there are strange trees growing - Katie Ford "Colosseum"
sleep amidst a barricade of trees - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"
Nor from those chill gray granite trees was music wrought - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
Mirrors among the trees - Carol Frost "Circus City"
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees - Robert Frost "A Prayer in Spring"
Through a bridge of tree limbs - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Remnant"
The last light of each favorite tree - Tess Gallagher "Reading the Waterfall"
As the trees forgiving the books - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"
Do the trees ever tire of their roots? - Nikita Gill "Questions for the Daughters of Nyx"
The trees growing wildly on the other shore - Natalie Goldberg "Home"
Moons entangled in cosmic trees - Louis Golding "A Journey South"
Beneath the shadow of five trees - Louis Golding "Numbers"
Like a slow tree moving - Louis Golding "Shepherd Singing Ragtime"
The sudden chorus of trees ignite - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
Beneath the canopy of ghost-trees - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
A tree's second dream - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
Fauns who pass in mocking masque among the trees - Mona Gould "You Being Dead (For J.R.T.)"
Cut down a tree on top of a hellmouth - Carrie Grigorian "Baking in Different Conditions"
On trees still summer fine - Ivor Gurney "Migrants"
Trees worthy of all worship - Ivor Gurney "Trees"
Haunted their whole lives by trees - Myronn Hardy "Mosquito"
The final verse is always the trees - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Sing it to the guardian trees - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Beneath a banana tree at noon - Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love,"
Mistake the trees for each other - Leslie Noyes Harrison "Pantoum for a Walk in the Woods"
Around the trunks of trees long dead - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "April Will Come"
Glory is a golden snake around Life's tree - F.W. Harvey "The Golden Snake"
The wind imprisons each of the trees - Robert Hass "Tomas Transtromer: Song"
An invisible tree blossoming - Robert Hass "Tomas Transtromer: Song"
Like a winter tree - Anne Hebert "Bread Is Born"
The budding trees all honey sweet - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Farewell"
The old harp in the pine trees - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Tree Sounds"
But never actually awakens the trees - Michael Hettich "The Angels"
Twisted vines on a shagbark tree - Conrad Hilberry "Angles"
Griefs take shelter in the trees - Conrad Hilberry "A Dialogue Between the Body and Soul"
The linked auras in trees - Brenda Hillman "& After the Power Came Back"
The tall night trees between them - Brenda Hillman "Wood's Edge"
Add time to trees - Jane Hirshfield "Zero Plus Anything Is a World"
Flinging its kisses to the budding trees - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]
Down the dark path to the Blasphemous Tree - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"
Suddenly regretting the tree my father planted - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"
No bread in the garden of trees - Linda Hogan "Home in the Woods"
Wet trees hang above the walks - William D. Howells (uncredited) "The Old Homestead" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
The wren in the cherry tree - William Dean Howells "Pleasure-Pain"
A naked shadow on a gnarled and naked tree - Langston Hughes "Song for a Dark Girl"
Hides a devil in a tree - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"
Restless as unappeased trees - Ishion Hutchinson "Aubade"
Tuned my music to the trees - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
How the poplar trees unfold - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Like a crow in a lemon tree - Mark Irwin "Here"
And the trees lean away - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Other Women's Children"
The patient palm tree watching - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"
How bears the walnut tree - Lionel Johnson "Hill and Vale"
Red is a secret in the trees - Taylor Johnson "Art Movie"
a hope exhaled into the trees - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"
each one a hope exhaled into the trees - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving at the Sipsey River"
only the trees are allowed to grieve - Tanque R. Jones "Among the Oaks"
Isolate among the hungers of the trees - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
Whispering imagination to the trees - June Jordan "Poem for South African Women"
Light-winged Dryad of the trees - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
Hide in the cooling trees - John Keats "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"
Even the trees dared not move - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Erasure prologue"
Separate as the trees they fell from - Annie Kim "Eros the Contagion"
Strange trees, reluctant in this forest - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"
The night dangling from the trees - Christopher Kondrich "[I Speak into the Color Blue Cut]"
No movement save the languid beckoning of the trees - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Follow Up"
I would renounce them, wind, leaf, and tree - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"
Fifty years under the greenwood tree - Andrew Lang "The Brigand's Grave"
Braids her hair through the trees - Rickey Laurentiis "Writing an Elegy"
While these trees held a glossary of stars - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"
Every black tree blossomed outright - D.H. Lawrence "The Attack"
A myriad-branching, cloud-aspiring tree - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Pluck from the tree of the years - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love I: 2"
Could change a tree into a wise man - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
A single Tree stretched black on the moon - Ruth Lechlitner "At the Road's Turn"
The dropped fruit lies beneath its tree - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"
While trees unbent and listened - Ida Lee "The Drover's Vision"
Trusting the trees to catch my fall - R.B. Lemberg "Between the Mountain and the Moon"
On the branches of withered trees - Li Po "Fighting" transl. by Arthur Waley
Writhing roots on trees of dream - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
The tree of life has been shaken - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Meeting"
Among the noon-stilled linden-trees - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"
The trees all kept their counsel - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"
Each tree invites the sun - James Russell Lowell "Under the October Maples"
Ten thousand trees wither - Lu Yu "The Stone on the Hilltop" transl. by Burton Watson
A tree that genuflected before the wind - Leopoldo Lugones "Journey" (translated by Muna Lee)
The old house grey among the trees - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"
Where the wind first taught the trees - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The World's End"
Like a whirlwind on the trees - Thomas Babington Macaulay "The Battle of Naseby"
The hard oracular orifices of tree bark - Aditi Machada "Rhapsody"
The trees give place to bushes - Dorothea Mackellar "High Places"
Or warm brown of tree bark - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"
The elm-trees sadden in the hedge - John Masefield "August, 1914"
Tree-tumbling fury of collapse - John Masefield "Biography"
The wren upon the tree-stump carolled - John Masefield "The Return"
Dark trees, gravely conferring - Florence Ripley Mastin "Discovery"
In these perfectly paused trees - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
The owl who just witnessed another tree fall - Jeffrey McDaniel "Compulsively Allergic to the Truth"
A world the old trees make of water and air - Anne Haven McDonnell "Owl"
Star-dust strewn through the laughing trees - Louis J. McQuilland "Gladys in the Woodland"
Ants & trees & the open breeze - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"
Velvet near a laced up tree - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"
Trees arrowed through one another - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
While the trees are flying - W.S. Merwin "Mementos"
The apricots from a thousand trees ripening - W.S. Merwin "West Wall"
Trees that do not care - Charlotte Mew "Fame"
My haunted house beneath the trees - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Shadowing backyard pear trees - Claire Millikin "Doll Collectors"
The tree's traces of changing shade - Tyler Mills "House of Pere Lacroix"
a ghost with trees for feet - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"
who will feed the roots of the tree - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"
Lost, their ghosts suspended in trees - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"
A vagrant shadow in the trees - N. Scott Momaday "A Presence in the Trees"
Crashing against the family tree - jessica Care moore "She Was"
Where no tree of freedom grows - Marianne Moore "He 'Digesteth Harde Yron'"
Planting shade trees upside down - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"
Listening for wind-songs in the tree heights - William Moore "Dusk Song"
Katydids lined-out their hymns in the trees - Robert Morgan "White Autumn"
Branches sliced from the trunk of an old tree - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"
The dreamwork of trees - Lisel Mueller "Why I Need the Birds"
In the dark tree of the self - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
My tree beneath all sound - Shweta Narayan "Triumph XV: Vetala"
because the tree grew into a road - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
must uproot the tree with fingernails - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
The red resume of hazel trees - Pablo Neruda "The Frontier (1904)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
As inexhaustible as a cherry tree - Pablo Neruda "Goodbye to the Snow" transl. by Alastair Reid
A shipwrecked horse crowned with slow trees - Pablo Neruda "I Want to Return to the South (1941)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
By the electric hazel tree's light - Pablo Neruda "I Want to Return to the South (1941)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
With the rectitude of an oak tree - Pablo Neruda "In Memory of Manuel and Benjamin" transl. by William O'Daly
Whose honey nourished the almond trees - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid
Like bitter trees that bury you - Pablo Neruda "October Fullness" transl. by Alastair Reid
The tree of intense summer - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]" transl. by Robert Bly
A fruit from the thirst-tree - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]" transl. by Robert Bly
Drained her immense tree of blood - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
When they replaced lilies and lemon trees - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
The silence of frozen trees - Naomi Shihab Nye "Our Time"
No olive trees or mint leaves in their forest - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay Afloat"
A tree breathing through its spectacles - Frank O'Hara "Having a Coke with You"
Hear the trees in their easy hours - Mary Oliver "Do the Trees Speak?"
In the tree of my heart - Mary Oliver "Now comes the long blue cold"
Against the silence of the trees - Mary Oliver "Spring"
Fell down the side of the maple tree - Mary Oliver "Spring"
The wind roused up in the oak trees - Mary Oliver "Stars"
Into the impossible trees - Mary Oliver "This Morning I Watched the Deer"
The patience of trees in the wind - Mary Oliver "What is the greatest gift"
To the white feet of the trees - Mary Oliver "Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End?"
Banished to the ivy tree - "Once"
An orchard with white-washed trees - David O'Neil "Poems: Moods and Moments"
Sorrow and pleasure grew on the same tree - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Understand"
Each tree a forest, each rock a mountain - Jacqueline Osherow "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets"
write a family tree in chalk - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Crying and calling to me out of the trees - Seumas O'Sullivan "The Twilight People"
The same sentinel trees - Linda Pastan "Ghosts"
Half her face tangled in the trees - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"
How the great thorn trees wept - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
The shark more ancient than trees - Xan Forest Phillips "Nature Poem with Compulsive Attraction to the Shark"
The tree my father planted - Peter Perkins Pitchlynn "Song of the Choctaw Girl"
Trees lean out to save the drowning - Alexander Posey "My Fancy"
The owl that dwells in the hollow tree - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Bridal of Belmont"
The spot where someone should have planted a tree - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist as a Twelve-Year-Old Girl"
The withered leaf clings latest to the tree - Quince "Age" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Joined my prayer to the wind and trees - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Plant a tree on Jordan's quiet banks - Rahel "To My Country" transl. by Diane Mintz
Goblins crouching 'neath the trees - Herbert Randall "The Old Bush Pasture"
Could train a tree for what desire anticipates - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
The tree traffics in a singular astonishment - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
Bare trees and barren ground - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"
The cleft tree-trunk and the wintering ants - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
Fluttering down from the dark trees of night - Edgell Rickword "Winter Prophecies"
Moved amid the multitude of olive trees - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Blew a golden horn among the olive trees - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"
Nimble shadows out of the jigging tree - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Wild trees that strain against the dawn - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"
Ballads of the trees in tongues unknown - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
Its trees are the trees of memory - Alberto Rios "Faithful Forest"
The free exalt of star and tree - Charles G.D. Roberts "Wayfarer of Earth"
A sense of ocean and old trees - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Eros Turannos"
An old shrine forgotten in a forest of new trees - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The False Gods"
Our sacrifice upon the accursed tree - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet IX"
When the trees bow down their heads - Christina Rossetti "Who Has Seen the Wind"
A torn fig eaten straight from the tree - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"
Ruling the world from a maple tree - Deborah Ruddell "Blue Jay Blues"
And also the green tree of grace - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
Still see trees as moral lessons - Ira Sadoff "February"
The dew laughing in the trees - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"
What the wind told the trees - Tim Seibles "Unmarked"
And wakes the gossip in the trees - Evalyn Callahan Shaw "October"
The jewel groves and gem trees - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
Grows me up into the green of trees - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"
Three ancient trees of purple pure - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: Laegh's Description of Fairy-Land" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The pale pewter path of the trees' parting - Joyce Sidman "Riding a Bike at Night"
A full wind filling the trees - Michael Simms "Sometimes I Wake Early"
Shaking the riper trees to dust - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The sequin tree shaking its spangles - Maggie Smith "Poem Beginning with a Line from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
In this wisdom of the Holly Tree - Robert Southey "The Holly Tree"
The silver magic in the trees - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"
Plucked a flame from off a tree - Leonora Speyer "October Trees"
Wind skinning itself in the trees - A.E. Stallings "The Dogdom of the Dead"
Falling out of a tree at midnight - Frank Stanford "Watching a Woman Die"
Each elder tree a king - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
That lack the intelligence of trees - Wallace Stevens "The River of Rivers in Connecticut"
The patterns of the trees - M. Letitia Stockett "The Pool"
One bud from off the tree of Earth - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
The pine-tree's soft melody - Alfred B. Street "My Canoe"
The spell of tree, wave, and dell - Alfred B. Street "Racket River"
When the fir-tree dreams - Alfred B. Street "The Waterfall"
The bridge of the spanning pine-tree - Alfred B. Street "The Waterfall"
A whisper of life in the grey dead trees - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"
The tree that's ready to wait for its forest - Alison Swan "Courage"
Some roof of wildwood tree - Algernon Swinburne "A Dialogue"
Trees in the eastern garden - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Motionless Clouds" transl. by Burton Watson
Grass and trees hold to their constant rule - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
Heaven is higher nor the tree - "There Was a Knight"
That blasts the roots of trees - Dylan Thomas "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower"
Scared from haunted well and tree - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"
Commit a few Thursdays to trees - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"
Circle the tree's girdling roots - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"
The tree uses a secret algebra - McKenzie Toma "Disintegrating Calculus Problem"
Shake crisp leaves from long-dead trees - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"
The naked trees dressed of air - Edwin Torres "Air Is Sham for Light"
Showering the trees with apprehension - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"
From the spreading tree of days - Iris Tree "[How soundly sleepeth the fool]"
Blinking through the oldest tree of wisdom - Iris Tree "[Old woman forever sitting]"
Where silence drips from the trees - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
Phantom trees caged in fog - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
The full story that Eve took from the tree - Marina Tsvetayeva "Poem of the End" transl. by Elaine Feinstein and Angela Livingstone
Trees rose in wild dreams from the earth - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"
Blossoms like the earliest tree - Louis Untermeyer "The Heretic: Mockery"
Every tree is a silent brother - Louis Untermeyer "Summer Night--Broadway"
Trees that always worry - Edward van de Vendel "Tree Sports"
When May bedecks the naked trees - Henry van Dyke "The Maryland Yellow-Throat"
All those mighty trees are mine - Henry van Dyke "The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet"
No doubt the trees eat light - Emily van Kley "Fall Color"
Whose trees know the weight of history - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"
Full of competent trees - Claire Wahmanholm "Poem with No Children in It"
In the surf of trees - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"
The trees and the breath of divine - Jo Walton "Nemi"
Yellow warblers in the deep trees singing - Wei Ying-wu "West Creek at Ch'u-chou" transl. by Burton Watson
Dark trees reaching for far stars - Judy Patterson Wenzel "New Found Land"
Of every silver ripple meet the trees - Helen Hay Whitney "My Brook"
Where trees repeat their prayers - Helen Hay Whitney "Tranquility"
Bleak trees stand up against the sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"
A forest where I do not recognize the trees - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
The season trees begin to dress for death - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"
A black tree trunk icily resplendent - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"
Silken mists above shining trees - William Carlos Williams "Danse Russe"
Wise trees stand sleeping in the cold - William Carlos Williams "Winter Trees"
Carving from the dark this difficult tree - Christian Wiman "Hard Night"
A solitary tree titanic and contorted - Adolf Wolff "Byron"
Featherless birds in the ruined trees - Charles Wright "Remembering Bergamo Alto"
My dance under sorrow's tree - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"
Silver tree with your thousand roadways - Lynn Xu "[Sun-messenger]"
Trees whose blossoms shine no less - Francis Brett Young "Song [I made a song in my love's likeness]"
The thorny crowns of buried trees - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
The green twilight of the forest-trees - Letitia Elizabeth Landon "The Oak"
Gravetree estuaries against the winds of Paradise - Charles Wright "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted..."
Sunlight, treefall, decaying signals, shade - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"
Carrying her fever over the treeline - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"
Their underground tree-root syllables - Chen Chen "I am reminded via email to resubmit my preferences for the schedule"
Tigers hidden in treetops - Mary Jo Bang "Etched, Tetched, Touched"
Treetops full of rain - Basho transl. by David Young
And orchids deck the tree tops - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"
The tree-tops are all music - Charlotte Wilson "Evening"
Spring from knots in tree-trunks - Jose Santos Chocano "The Orchids" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
A world-tree of balanced stones - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"
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First, we sent away the trees - Duane Ackerson "Exiling the Earth"
Skeleton trees bow down - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"
Fruit trees murdered in the bud - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"
Hanging from the tree of noontime - Francisco X. Alarcon "Summer Sun"
A hidden movie camera in the trees - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Playful ghosts snagged in the trees - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
In the bands of shadow cordoning the trees - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"
Matches near bone-dry trees - Alise Alousi "Lynndie's Other Voice"
Under an evil-eyed fig tree - Zaina Alsous "Universe in which My Father Is a Poet"
Took solace from those locust trees - Julia Alvarez "Locust"
Inherited trees with roots uprooted - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees | ورثنا أشجا"
Inherited trees with twisted branches - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees|ورثنا أشجار"
A bobolink left the bloom of a tree - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Story of a Rose"
With the willing submerged assembly of tree roots - Mouna Ammar "When I see the Suffering of My People"
And in her dream a great tree grew - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVI: Dream of the Holy Virgin" transl. by J.W. Wiles
Afraid of the dark forest trees - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
Best reflects the tree - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "About the angels"
Who made the roots of trees his bed - Matthew Arnold "A Southern Night"
They sit high in unreachable trees - Julie Babcock "Philomel"
The birds are busy choosing trees - Julie Babcock "Preparedness"
The bonfire of exquisite trees - Mary Jo Bang "Goodbye Is Another Word for Not"
Palm trees pinned against a wall - Mary Jo Bang "A Room in Cleopatra's Palace"
A tree trunk formed from a handful of ashes - Mary Jo Bang "Still as in a Still After Still"
The snake wrapped around a rusted tree - Mary Jo Bang "W Is for Whatever"
The axe wrapped in tree roots - Mary Jo Bang "What Is a Mouth?"
Bees sheltered in the trees - Devan Barlow "A Moon Witch at the Party"
A sun's landing between eucalyptus trees - Lou Barrett "At a Jerusalem Market"
The old tree weeps for its blossom - Elizabeth Bartlett "Full Circle"
have shaken the fruitful tree of belief - Elizabeth Bartlett "log for a voyage"
of years grown thick as forest trees - Elizabeth Bartlett "maturity"
In the valley of moon trees - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"
laughter whirling from each tree - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"
trees with roots of red - Elizabeth Bartlett "whatever else may be"
And every tree became an elf - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Breaking Point"
Pour your rain on the bitter tree - Stephen Vincent Benet "8:30 A. M. on 32nd Street"
Pipes that Pan left whispering under a tree - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
A treeful of angels at Peckham Rye - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"
There's only two fates for muses, death or tree - Rebecca Bennett "Eurydice Stands with Attitude"
The souls of trees are silent - Paul Bernstein "Footfall"
The deepest rooted dream of a tree - Emily Berry "Unexhausted Time"
To plant trees under starlight - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Pegasus"
Trees and houses keep their careful distance - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"
The mathematics of bending trees - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"
Her wild mantle on the hawthorn-tree - Wilfrid Blunt "A Day in Sussex"
And join the smothered gossip of trees - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"
From the aimless tongues of these trees - Max Bodenheim "Three Portraits"
The oak trees are entirely emptiness - Jaswinder Bolina "Stump Speech"
Stands of trees bearing false oranges - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
With sentinel trees on either side - G.H. Bonner "Sonnet"
And shadowless trees rootlessly paused - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"
Wind through the tree of what I mean - William Brewer "My Somniloquist"
Your voices in the whispering trees - Vera M. Brittain "To Them"
A fast-driving diesel flatbed of felled trees - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
Delighted by a congregation of trees celebrating - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
The hilltop trees still bend like dancers - Joseph Bruchac "Tutuwas"
Our tent the cypress tree - William Cullen Bryant "Song of Marion's Men"
And Autumn rent the garment of the trees - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
The trees translating unremembered memories - Witter Bynner "The New World VII"
While the trees all listen trembling - E.W.C. "November" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
The tree-toad trilled his dream - W. Wilfred Campbell "How One Winter Came"
From roof-trees of slumber - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
Stand silently behind the silent trees - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: In the Forest"
Trees as tall as Tom Thumb - Paul Carroll "Song [To be able to walk along and see]"
The trees with their secrets and green faces - Paul Carroll "Untitled [I want to write a poem the birds will understand]"
Throwing trees against the house - Anne Carson "Thunderstorm Stack"
Beneath whose folds the trees grow pale - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"
Judge the tree by what it bears - Alice Cary "My Creed"
Up from the shadows of gallows trees - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"
Foolish impatient apricot trees - Nina Cassian "Vegetable Destiny" transl. by Michael Impey and Brian Swann
Led me through the gossip trees - Madison Cawein "The Speckled Trout"
Fair apple trees keep ward - Ceiriog "The White Stone" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Sit under the tree waiting for hunger - Tina Chang "Lion"
Where you are the tree left standing - Tina Chang "My Father. A Tree."
Wind tied to a tree - Tina Chang "Wonder Cabinet"
Saw black trees on the battle-height - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
Neither tree nor fire - Chiwan Choi "portraitures and erasures"
The blasted trees will not wither - "Cobbe's Prophecies"
My heart hates the trees - Leonard Cohen "I Draw Aside the Curtain"
Gold apples from the guarded trees - Arthur Colton "The Herb of Grace"
The hands of the trees - Hilda Conkling "Autumn Song"
Like a tree above my head - Hilda Conkling "Blue Grass"
Trees with folded wings - Hilda Conkling "Land of Nod"
Twelve trees is a forest these days - CAConrad "Neptune.4"
The fevered radiance fades from life's doomed tree - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Praying hands in tree and flower - James H. Cousins "Heaven and Earth"
Broken from the withering tree - George Crabbe "The Village"
Prisoner of the tree and its green fingers - Hart Crane "Garden Abstract"
Ghost of the crimson tree - Arthur Shearly Cripps "A Lyke-Wake Carol"
The forked tree's chained shadows - George Cronyn "Clouds"
from huge trees drenched by a rounding moon - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
From each brave eye shall sprout a tree - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IX)"
Burden the trees with black drops - H.D. "Storm"
And turn these mortals into trees - William H. Davies "The Mind's Liberty"
Transported into the net of naked trees - Kwame Dawes "Dawn"
An April bud on winter-haunted trees - Walter de la Mare "Sleeping Beauty"
Resonant as the hum of a growing tree - Diane DeCillis "Mr. Right"
Planting a tree in my palm - Diane DeCillis "Postcards of Home and Homesick"
Pomegranates fell from the trees - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Eve Revisited"
Sat in silence with the trees - Desdamona "Once and Future"
Veil your deathless tree - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XLII"
The tasseled trees frown from the wall - Irving Sidney Dix "The Glen"
And the trees were weak for water - Irving Sidney Dix "The Storm"
Prophesying to the trees - Irving Sidney Dix "The Storm"
The trees exhale their one green breath - Chris Dombrowski "Heron Rookery Aubade"
The old tree burdened with herself - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"
A gathering of larch trees - Chris Dombrowski "The Turn"
Flies in the lace of the trees - Marie-Ovide Dorceley "Sojourner"
Wrinkling out a language of ancient trees - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Praise"
Told their secrets to the trees - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
Only seven trees left in the world - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #3"
May the trees kneel closer - Nicole Terez Dutton "Magnitude and Bond"
Alone and naked by the weeping tree - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"
Among the darkling trees set back - Helen Parry Eden "A Suburban Night's Entertainment"
A marching army of trees - Peg Edera "Harbors of Miracle"
And the dead tree gives no shelter - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land I: The Burial of the Dead"
Somewhere in the flightless trees - Claudia Emerson "The Audubon Collection"
These trees and stones are audible - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"
The tree edge of the future - Heid E. Erdich "Offering: The Child"
Chipping at their tree with a comb - Martin Espada "Wake Up, Mario"
Where all the ghost-trees are - Anthony Euwer "The Long Bet"
Watch you like a faraway tree - Megan Fernandes "Friends with No Benefits"
The trees splash the sky - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
The antlers of three trillion trees - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen f"
Fish from the hollow tree - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 6"
Snapped trees breathe with ghost food - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"
Through the blood trees within us - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"
Beyond my husband there are strange trees growing - Katie Ford "Colosseum"
sleep amidst a barricade of trees - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"
Nor from those chill gray granite trees was music wrought - John Freeman "Stone Trees"
Mirrors among the trees - Carol Frost "Circus City"
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees - Robert Frost "A Prayer in Spring"
Through a bridge of tree limbs - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Remnant"
The last light of each favorite tree - Tess Gallagher "Reading the Waterfall"
As the trees forgiving the books - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"
Do the trees ever tire of their roots? - Nikita Gill "Questions for the Daughters of Nyx"
The trees growing wildly on the other shore - Natalie Goldberg "Home"
Moons entangled in cosmic trees - Louis Golding "A Journey South"
Beneath the shadow of five trees - Louis Golding "Numbers"
Like a slow tree moving - Louis Golding "Shepherd Singing Ragtime"
The sudden chorus of trees ignite - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
Beneath the canopy of ghost-trees - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
A tree's second dream - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
Fauns who pass in mocking masque among the trees - Mona Gould "You Being Dead (For J.R.T.)"
Cut down a tree on top of a hellmouth - Carrie Grigorian "Baking in Different Conditions"
On trees still summer fine - Ivor Gurney "Migrants"
Trees worthy of all worship - Ivor Gurney "Trees"
Haunted their whole lives by trees - Myronn Hardy "Mosquito"
The final verse is always the trees - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Sing it to the guardian trees - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Beneath a banana tree at noon - Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love,"
Mistake the trees for each other - Leslie Noyes Harrison "Pantoum for a Walk in the Woods"
Around the trunks of trees long dead - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "April Will Come"
Glory is a golden snake around Life's tree - F.W. Harvey "The Golden Snake"
The wind imprisons each of the trees - Robert Hass "Tomas Transtromer: Song"
An invisible tree blossoming - Robert Hass "Tomas Transtromer: Song"
Like a winter tree - Anne Hebert "Bread Is Born"
The budding trees all honey sweet - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Farewell"
The old harp in the pine trees - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Tree Sounds"
But never actually awakens the trees - Michael Hettich "The Angels"
Twisted vines on a shagbark tree - Conrad Hilberry "Angles"
Griefs take shelter in the trees - Conrad Hilberry "A Dialogue Between the Body and Soul"
The linked auras in trees - Brenda Hillman "& After the Power Came Back"
The tall night trees between them - Brenda Hillman "Wood's Edge"
Add time to trees - Jane Hirshfield "Zero Plus Anything Is a World"
Flinging its kisses to the budding trees - Henry B. Hirst "Thoughts in Spring" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]
Down the dark path to the Blasphemous Tree - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"
Suddenly regretting the tree my father planted - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"
No bread in the garden of trees - Linda Hogan "Home in the Woods"
Wet trees hang above the walks - William D. Howells (uncredited) "The Old Homestead" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
The wren in the cherry tree - William Dean Howells "Pleasure-Pain"
A naked shadow on a gnarled and naked tree - Langston Hughes "Song for a Dark Girl"
Hides a devil in a tree - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"
Restless as unappeased trees - Ishion Hutchinson "Aubade"
Tuned my music to the trees - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
How the poplar trees unfold - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Like a crow in a lemon tree - Mark Irwin "Here"
And the trees lean away - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Other Women's Children"
The patient palm tree watching - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"
How bears the walnut tree - Lionel Johnson "Hill and Vale"
Red is a secret in the trees - Taylor Johnson "Art Movie"
a hope exhaled into the trees - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"
each one a hope exhaled into the trees - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving at the Sipsey River"
only the trees are allowed to grieve - Tanque R. Jones "Among the Oaks"
Isolate among the hungers of the trees - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
Whispering imagination to the trees - June Jordan "Poem for South African Women"
Light-winged Dryad of the trees - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
Hide in the cooling trees - John Keats "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"
Even the trees dared not move - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Erasure prologue"
Separate as the trees they fell from - Annie Kim "Eros the Contagion"
Strange trees, reluctant in this forest - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"
The night dangling from the trees - Christopher Kondrich "[I Speak into the Color Blue Cut]"
No movement save the languid beckoning of the trees - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Follow Up"
I would renounce them, wind, leaf, and tree - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"
Fifty years under the greenwood tree - Andrew Lang "The Brigand's Grave"
Braids her hair through the trees - Rickey Laurentiis "Writing an Elegy"
While these trees held a glossary of stars - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"
Every black tree blossomed outright - D.H. Lawrence "The Attack"
A myriad-branching, cloud-aspiring tree - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Pluck from the tree of the years - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love I: 2"
Could change a tree into a wise man - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
A single Tree stretched black on the moon - Ruth Lechlitner "At the Road's Turn"
The dropped fruit lies beneath its tree - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"
While trees unbent and listened - Ida Lee "The Drover's Vision"
Trusting the trees to catch my fall - R.B. Lemberg "Between the Mountain and the Moon"
On the branches of withered trees - Li Po "Fighting" transl. by Arthur Waley
Writhing roots on trees of dream - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
The tree of life has been shaken - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Meeting"
Among the noon-stilled linden-trees - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"
The trees all kept their counsel - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"
Each tree invites the sun - James Russell Lowell "Under the October Maples"
Ten thousand trees wither - Lu Yu "The Stone on the Hilltop" transl. by Burton Watson
A tree that genuflected before the wind - Leopoldo Lugones "Journey" (translated by Muna Lee)
The old house grey among the trees - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"
Where the wind first taught the trees - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The World's End"
Like a whirlwind on the trees - Thomas Babington Macaulay "The Battle of Naseby"
The hard oracular orifices of tree bark - Aditi Machada "Rhapsody"
The trees give place to bushes - Dorothea Mackellar "High Places"
Or warm brown of tree bark - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"
The elm-trees sadden in the hedge - John Masefield "August, 1914"
Tree-tumbling fury of collapse - John Masefield "Biography"
The wren upon the tree-stump carolled - John Masefield "The Return"
Dark trees, gravely conferring - Florence Ripley Mastin "Discovery"
In these perfectly paused trees - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
The owl who just witnessed another tree fall - Jeffrey McDaniel "Compulsively Allergic to the Truth"
A world the old trees make of water and air - Anne Haven McDonnell "Owl"
Star-dust strewn through the laughing trees - Louis J. McQuilland "Gladys in the Woodland"
Ants & trees & the open breeze - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"
Velvet near a laced up tree - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"
Trees arrowed through one another - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
While the trees are flying - W.S. Merwin "Mementos"
The apricots from a thousand trees ripening - W.S. Merwin "West Wall"
Trees that do not care - Charlotte Mew "Fame"
My haunted house beneath the trees - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"
Shadowing backyard pear trees - Claire Millikin "Doll Collectors"
The tree's traces of changing shade - Tyler Mills "House of Pere Lacroix"
a ghost with trees for feet - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"
who will feed the roots of the tree - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"
Lost, their ghosts suspended in trees - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"
A vagrant shadow in the trees - N. Scott Momaday "A Presence in the Trees"
Crashing against the family tree - jessica Care moore "She Was"
Where no tree of freedom grows - Marianne Moore "He 'Digesteth Harde Yron'"
Planting shade trees upside down - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"
Listening for wind-songs in the tree heights - William Moore "Dusk Song"
Katydids lined-out their hymns in the trees - Robert Morgan "White Autumn"
Branches sliced from the trunk of an old tree - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"
The dreamwork of trees - Lisel Mueller "Why I Need the Birds"
In the dark tree of the self - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
My tree beneath all sound - Shweta Narayan "Triumph XV: Vetala"
because the tree grew into a road - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
must uproot the tree with fingernails - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"
The red resume of hazel trees - Pablo Neruda "The Frontier (1904)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
As inexhaustible as a cherry tree - Pablo Neruda "Goodbye to the Snow" transl. by Alastair Reid
A shipwrecked horse crowned with slow trees - Pablo Neruda "I Want to Return to the South (1941)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
By the electric hazel tree's light - Pablo Neruda "I Want to Return to the South (1941)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
With the rectitude of an oak tree - Pablo Neruda "In Memory of Manuel and Benjamin" transl. by William O'Daly
Whose honey nourished the almond trees - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid
Like bitter trees that bury you - Pablo Neruda "October Fullness" transl. by Alastair Reid
The tree of intense summer - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]" transl. by Robert Bly
A fruit from the thirst-tree - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]" transl. by Robert Bly
Drained her immense tree of blood - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh
When they replaced lilies and lemon trees - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
The silence of frozen trees - Naomi Shihab Nye "Our Time"
No olive trees or mint leaves in their forest - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay Afloat"
A tree breathing through its spectacles - Frank O'Hara "Having a Coke with You"
Hear the trees in their easy hours - Mary Oliver "Do the Trees Speak?"
In the tree of my heart - Mary Oliver "Now comes the long blue cold"
Against the silence of the trees - Mary Oliver "Spring"
Fell down the side of the maple tree - Mary Oliver "Spring"
The wind roused up in the oak trees - Mary Oliver "Stars"
Into the impossible trees - Mary Oliver "This Morning I Watched the Deer"
The patience of trees in the wind - Mary Oliver "What is the greatest gift"
To the white feet of the trees - Mary Oliver "Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End?"
Banished to the ivy tree - "Once"
An orchard with white-washed trees - David O'Neil "Poems: Moods and Moments"
Sorrow and pleasure grew on the same tree - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Understand"
Each tree a forest, each rock a mountain - Jacqueline Osherow "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets"
write a family tree in chalk - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Crying and calling to me out of the trees - Seumas O'Sullivan "The Twilight People"
The same sentinel trees - Linda Pastan "Ghosts"
Half her face tangled in the trees - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"
How the great thorn trees wept - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
The shark more ancient than trees - Xan Forest Phillips "Nature Poem with Compulsive Attraction to the Shark"
The tree my father planted - Peter Perkins Pitchlynn "Song of the Choctaw Girl"
Trees lean out to save the drowning - Alexander Posey "My Fancy"
The owl that dwells in the hollow tree - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Bridal of Belmont"
The spot where someone should have planted a tree - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist as a Twelve-Year-Old Girl"
The withered leaf clings latest to the tree - Quince "Age" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Joined my prayer to the wind and trees - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The All-Mother's Awakening"
Plant a tree on Jordan's quiet banks - Rahel "To My Country" transl. by Diane Mintz
Goblins crouching 'neath the trees - Herbert Randall "The Old Bush Pasture"
Could train a tree for what desire anticipates - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
The tree traffics in a singular astonishment - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
Bare trees and barren ground - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"
The cleft tree-trunk and the wintering ants - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
Fluttering down from the dark trees of night - Edgell Rickword "Winter Prophecies"
Moved amid the multitude of olive trees - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Blew a golden horn among the olive trees - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"
Nimble shadows out of the jigging tree - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Wild trees that strain against the dawn - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"
Ballads of the trees in tongues unknown - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
Its trees are the trees of memory - Alberto Rios "Faithful Forest"
The free exalt of star and tree - Charles G.D. Roberts "Wayfarer of Earth"
A sense of ocean and old trees - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Eros Turannos"
An old shrine forgotten in a forest of new trees - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The False Gods"
Our sacrifice upon the accursed tree - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet IX"
When the trees bow down their heads - Christina Rossetti "Who Has Seen the Wind"
A torn fig eaten straight from the tree - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"
Ruling the world from a maple tree - Deborah Ruddell "Blue Jay Blues"
And also the green tree of grace - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"
Still see trees as moral lessons - Ira Sadoff "February"
The dew laughing in the trees - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"
What the wind told the trees - Tim Seibles "Unmarked"
And wakes the gossip in the trees - Evalyn Callahan Shaw "October"
The jewel groves and gem trees - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe
Grows me up into the green of trees - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"
Three ancient trees of purple pure - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: Laegh's Description of Fairy-Land" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The pale pewter path of the trees' parting - Joyce Sidman "Riding a Bike at Night"
A full wind filling the trees - Michael Simms "Sometimes I Wake Early"
Shaking the riper trees to dust - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
The sequin tree shaking its spangles - Maggie Smith "Poem Beginning with a Line from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
In this wisdom of the Holly Tree - Robert Southey "The Holly Tree"
The silver magic in the trees - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"
Plucked a flame from off a tree - Leonora Speyer "October Trees"
Wind skinning itself in the trees - A.E. Stallings "The Dogdom of the Dead"
Falling out of a tree at midnight - Frank Stanford "Watching a Woman Die"
Each elder tree a king - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
That lack the intelligence of trees - Wallace Stevens "The River of Rivers in Connecticut"
The patterns of the trees - M. Letitia Stockett "The Pool"
One bud from off the tree of Earth - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"
The pine-tree's soft melody - Alfred B. Street "My Canoe"
The spell of tree, wave, and dell - Alfred B. Street "Racket River"
When the fir-tree dreams - Alfred B. Street "The Waterfall"
The bridge of the spanning pine-tree - Alfred B. Street "The Waterfall"
A whisper of life in the grey dead trees - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"
The tree that's ready to wait for its forest - Alison Swan "Courage"
Some roof of wildwood tree - Algernon Swinburne "A Dialogue"
Trees in the eastern garden - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Motionless Clouds" transl. by Burton Watson
Grass and trees hold to their constant rule - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
Heaven is higher nor the tree - "There Was a Knight"
That blasts the roots of trees - Dylan Thomas "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower"
Scared from haunted well and tree - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"
Commit a few Thursdays to trees - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"
Circle the tree's girdling roots - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"
The tree uses a secret algebra - McKenzie Toma "Disintegrating Calculus Problem"
Shake crisp leaves from long-dead trees - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"
The naked trees dressed of air - Edwin Torres "Air Is Sham for Light"
Showering the trees with apprehension - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"
From the spreading tree of days - Iris Tree "[How soundly sleepeth the fool]"
Blinking through the oldest tree of wisdom - Iris Tree "[Old woman forever sitting]"
Where silence drips from the trees - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
Phantom trees caged in fog - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
The full story that Eve took from the tree - Marina Tsvetayeva "Poem of the End" transl. by Elaine Feinstein and Angela Livingstone
Trees rose in wild dreams from the earth - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"
Blossoms like the earliest tree - Louis Untermeyer "The Heretic: Mockery"
Every tree is a silent brother - Louis Untermeyer "Summer Night--Broadway"
Trees that always worry - Edward van de Vendel "Tree Sports"
When May bedecks the naked trees - Henry van Dyke "The Maryland Yellow-Throat"
All those mighty trees are mine - Henry van Dyke "The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet"
No doubt the trees eat light - Emily van Kley "Fall Color"
Whose trees know the weight of history - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"
Full of competent trees - Claire Wahmanholm "Poem with No Children in It"
In the surf of trees - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"
The trees and the breath of divine - Jo Walton "Nemi"
Yellow warblers in the deep trees singing - Wei Ying-wu "West Creek at Ch'u-chou" transl. by Burton Watson
Dark trees reaching for far stars - Judy Patterson Wenzel "New Found Land"
Of every silver ripple meet the trees - Helen Hay Whitney "My Brook"
Where trees repeat their prayers - Helen Hay Whitney "Tranquility"
Bleak trees stand up against the sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"
A forest where I do not recognize the trees - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
The season trees begin to dress for death - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"
A black tree trunk icily resplendent - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"
Silken mists above shining trees - William Carlos Williams "Danse Russe"
Wise trees stand sleeping in the cold - William Carlos Williams "Winter Trees"
Carving from the dark this difficult tree - Christian Wiman "Hard Night"
A solitary tree titanic and contorted - Adolf Wolff "Byron"
Featherless birds in the ruined trees - Charles Wright "Remembering Bergamo Alto"
My dance under sorrow's tree - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"
Silver tree with your thousand roadways - Lynn Xu "[Sun-messenger]"
Trees whose blossoms shine no less - Francis Brett Young "Song [I made a song in my love's likeness]"
The thorny crowns of buried trees - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
The green twilight of the forest-trees - Letitia Elizabeth Landon "The Oak"
Gravetree estuaries against the winds of Paradise - Charles Wright "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted..."
Sunlight, treefall, decaying signals, shade - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"
Carrying her fever over the treeline - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"
Their underground tree-root syllables - Chen Chen "I am reminded via email to resubmit my preferences for the schedule"
Tigers hidden in treetops - Mary Jo Bang "Etched, Tetched, Touched"
Treetops full of rain - Basho transl. by David Young
And orchids deck the tree tops - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"
The tree-tops are all music - Charlotte Wilson "Evening"
Spring from knots in tree-trunks - Jose Santos Chocano "The Orchids" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
A world-tree of balanced stones - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"
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