Potential Titles: Draw/Drew
Apr. 6th, 2010 08:50 pmFluorescent critters drawing ribbons in the air - Anne Carly Abad "Where the Waves Meet"
Drawn in a long narrow band of shining oil - Lascelles Abercrombie "The Sale of Saint Thomas" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
How they draw us in their museums - Leena Aboutaleb "Art Exhibition: West Bank Girl on Fire"
To draw chill curtains - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"
Drawing forth Earth's passionate fevers - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Drawn up from the lonely abysses - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Drawing the sunlight from the stooping clouds - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"
Through the tightest drawn evenings - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"
Drew blood to fill our cups of dream-dark wine - Mike Allen "Ascending"
Bad luck drawn away like pilot fish following his wake - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Drew vectors that would tear through fragile forms - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
A magnet for those drawn to our strange fires - Ryu Ando "The Oblique Light at Kakushima (A Memory of Persimmons)" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]
Whom the fiery horse drew - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
From the golden quivers drawn - Benjamin West Ball "Athens"
Arrow drawn from Phoebus' quiver - Benjamin West Ball "To W.P.R."
A line of hibiscus drawn in shade - Taneum Bambrick "After Picasso's 'The Rape'"
A knife draws a line between heaven and earth - Mary Jo Bang "Nothing Compares to Daphne in Green"
A drawing of an all-night sky - Mary Jo Bang "Speaking of the Future, Hamlet"
Drew gossip from mouths of a well - Lou Barrett "The Red Cord"
drew forth an hour's spark - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"
as though a silver magnet drew - Elizabeth Bartlett "mood on a string"
Drawing the sun out of my heart - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited
Drawing all sunlight back to the hot deeps - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
As we draw near the gallows-tree - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"
And drew me out of ageless wars - William Rose Benét "Unforgotten"
To draw my soul's elastic very fine - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"
Drew hearts round the keyholes - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"
Draws a diagonal across my floor - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
The unspent light drawing us to you - Lisa Bickmore "Dear David,"
Draws my dark being up from its secret caves - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: Prelude"
Sages drawn from towers of midnight haunt - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: III. The Undiscovered World"
That drew me like a silver string - Elizabeth Bishop "Behind Stowe"
Draws near to the witching time of night - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Drawing from ceremony sensation - Brian Blanchfield "Eclogue Onto an Idea"
Draw straws for mercy - Russell Brakefield "The Wraith in the Creek"
Drawn with both your arms - Sue Budin "Forgiveness Comes in Two Colors"
Draw the living water of your love - Gerald Bullett "Rest"
Where the twilights of life were first drawn - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Drew from an alien fire - "By Proxy" [anonymous in Oxford Poetry, 1918]
Love will draw all wandering stars - M.W.C. "Amor Patriae Vincit" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
The shutter of Sympathy's never drawn - Adelbert Farrington Caldwell "A Prison House"
And the Ride to the Dark draws nigh - Bliss Carman "Seven Things"
Drawn out of my eyes - Miguel Casado "The Arrival of March, IV"
Drawn out from the soup of your heart - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"
Draw a line beyond your names - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "He Mea Mālo'elo'e #3"
Those impetuous claims that drew me forth - William Cory "Amavi"
A dissonant note from hidden harp-strings drawn - James Henry Cousins "Etain the Beloved"
The hooded snake that drew and watched - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"
How she draws me with her spell - Danske Dandridge "Lost at Sea"
Fancy's pencil draws a world unseen - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Fragment [With snow-clad top,, and far projecting height]"
When the dreaded day draws nigh - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
Family lines drawn and redrawn into travelogues and diaries - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
Passion's fire alone that draws him - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Twilight drew her azure curtains round - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
You drawn your own breath - Tim Dlugos "Great Art"
Water drawn from the cosmos's deepest well - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"
Holographic moth wings that shine like chalk drawings - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
And draw this tranquil breath - Edward Dowden "Watershed"
Drawn back to their lairs of light - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"
Draw the sword of that unswerving law - Erastus W. Ellsworth "Meditations on the Last Judgment" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.4, Oct. 1852]
Milk we drew at the barrier of Time - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
Drew from terrestrial particles its birth - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Coldly and bright draws in the day - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
From which we draw fodder for the desolate streets - Monica Ferrell "The Irresolubleness of Diamonds"
And the day draws to its dark end - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"
Wildfire and smoky patches draw our rage - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Draws me to its bellowing spiral - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen a"
Drawing your vessel to shore - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen C"
Copies created from awkward drawings - Adam Ford "The Strangers Came" [Strange Horizons 5 May 2025]
Draw my name in the sand and defy the rising tide - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
Draw our hearts more distant - Jeannine Hall Gailey "As Venus and Jupiter Come Together, We Fall Apart"
Drew delightful Mammoths on the borders of his cave - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Similar Cases"
Drawn by a thread of time-sunk memory - Robert Graves "The Pier-Glass"
Even gods must obey what's drawn from Urd's well - Christian Gullette "The Fates"
Draw out of memory all bitterness - Ivor Gurney "Song of Pain and Beauty"
Sinew and bone she drew them - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
Who were maps drawn of blood - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
The design drawn from nightmares - Joy Harjo "We Must Call a Meeting"
A promise not to draw blood - francine j. harris "the road to jackson has orchids"
Drew the balsam from the rose - Robert Stephen Hawker "King Arthur's Waes-Hael"
Drew a jewel from the road - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Friendship"
And drawn to solitudes apart - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Worship"
That draw their fellows deep into impiety - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne
Dragonflies draw flame - Gerard Manley Hopkins "As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame"
To draw me into darkness once again - Robert E. Howard "Voices of the Night" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]
The day draws out her shadows - Jean Ingelow "The Star's Monument"
Their blueprint drawn for reascending - K. Iver "The Gotham Hotel"
Drawing a line at the end of the world - Robinson Jeffers "The Loving Shepherdess" [excerpt]
The dawn drawn out and hammered thin - Devin Johnston "Fixed Interval"
Drawn to the easy sound of sleep - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
Did not draw the map that shows the sticky trail - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
Drawing of chalk lines, pastel and charcoal - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Now when the wine is drawn - Rudyard Kipling "A Song to Mithras"
Drew them down and devoured them - Anne Knish "Opus 191"
Searching for property lines drawn in blood - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Nor wanted a spell to draw me from this life apart - Ivan Kozloff "Kiéff" transl. by T.B. Shaw [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
Draw a door for possibilities - Linette Lao "Becoming"
Draws down the winter's frown - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Drawn blades never sheathed - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"
To draw mine inspirations from the common air - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
Children draw about the empty hearth - Emma Lazarus "To R. W. E."
Draw me looking like somebody else - Aimee Le "Analogies, or, Twinkie Is to Egg As"
From its deeps draw out the hidden flower - Richard Le Gallienne "An Ode to Spring"
Drawn in living fire and dew - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Music drawn in living fire and dew - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Drawing our hope from the past - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Drawn to the hazy sprout of light - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
A satchel of notes drawn out of the tub - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"
Make myself a sandcastle and draw myself a door - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Dark force that drew me across uncharted space - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"
From the sobbing viols drew white tears - Stephane Mallarme "Apparition" translated by Wilfrid Thorley
Heard the wind draw out of the west - Jeannette Marks "Dragon"
A god of roses draws nigh - Harry Martinson "Aniara 86: Song from Gond" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The rooks in clamour drew - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"
A slim lilac drew me down - Florence Ripley Mastin "Discovery"
And drew out of his heart Eternity - Claude McKay "Morning Joy"
Draw the breath of finer air - George Meredith "Internal Harmony"
Drew iron tears down Plato's cheek - John Milton "Il Penseroso"
Drawn by kindred impulse over silver tides - Harold Monro "Child of Dawn" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
The line drawn is always in the sand - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
As though drawn by six dragons - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
The mind can draw exquisite prints - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"
Drawn on by my destiny - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid
Drew the dictatorship of flies - Pablo Neruda "United Fruit Co." transl. by Jack Schmitt
The lines they draw seem never true - Meredith Nicholson "Striving"
Just draws the route out of doubt - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"
As I draw thunder from the sky at dusk - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Draw breath from brick - January Gill O'Neil "Old South Meeting House"
The garden draws life from a triple soul - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Drawn like apostles toward Popocatépetl - Mara Pastor "Los Bustos de Martí/The Busts of Martí" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong
Draws a fine grid over the past - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"
Draw your wedding ring in mulch - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"
Drew your time in prudent proportions - Kiki Petrosino "Monticello House Tour"
Meet on beaches drawn to the one wet sea - Marie Ponsot "Springing"
Drawing him in to her bed of infinite recursion - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"
And forth my quivering heart he drew - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen
Our drawn over selves - Matt Rasmussen "Ekphrastifilia"
Studying maps drawn for the absurdity of navigation - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"
Had drawn his dream of spring - Grantland Rice "The Bug's View-Point"
Draw up his regiment all in a row - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "The Baby's Future"
Draws the trembling spirit like a seed - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
On the drawn knees of the mountain - Lola Ridge "The Edge"
Drew their sundered spirits close - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
The fiery point of the drawn star - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
The thrush will pipe at twilight to draw the blossoms out - Lloyd Roberts "One Morning when the Rain-Birds Call"
Drew the breath of battle - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Field of Glory"
False and florid and far drawn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
Into all our dreaming drew the spirit of the stars - Rennell Rodd "A Star-Dream"
Draws about her fiery cloak to vanish in the flames - Doug Rogers "Satan's Mistress" [Futuria Fantasia, v.1, no.2, Fall 1939]
The shadows draw over in terrible lines - David Salisbury "On Mars"
Lucid and endless wrinkles draw in - Carl Sandburg "Sketch"
Drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows - Siegfried Sassoon "Dreamers"
Ere the step of a foeman draws near - Sir Walter Scott "Lullaby of an Infant Chief"
And drew them by the left hand in - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Until a random shard drew scarlet - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
The future draws its crimson thread - Ann K. Schwader "Set in Whitechapel"
The line that I had drawn with bleeding thumb - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Drawn by your own sweet skill - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"
Daily draw my sorrows longer - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"
And draw the shadows down across my eyes - Odell Shepard "Recollection"
Their undeclining circles drew - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Old Watch"
The pearl of matchless Prudence drew - B. Simmons "Lines on the Landing of His Majesty King Louis Philippe, Tuesday, October 8, 1844" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
The magic circle which the moon draws - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Drawn outward by the vampire-lips of Sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"
Shades by nature's pencill drawn - William Somerville "The Chase"
Draws her favors to the lowest ebb - Robert Southwell "Times Go by Turns"
Drawn to the dangerous country - Elizabeth Spires "You Have Flown to the Dangerous Country"
Exertion draws the mind from hope - A.E. Stallings "Sisyphus"
The luck of all the draws is the weight of stone - A.E. Stallings "Sisyphus"
Drawing us with delicate tension upward - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
On the tides of peril drawn - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Till drawn by some new sorrow - George Sterling "Duandon"
He is a picture you never could draw - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Unseen Playmate" [Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories (ed. by Hamilton Wright Mabie, William Byron Forbush, and Edward Everett Hale). 1927]
The arms of the Far-away have drawn us close - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"
A cobra drawn in charcoal - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 18: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
That draws breath so sad - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Drawn down through desperate ways - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
Winter's moon will draw its line in naked truth - Carmen Sylva "The Shadow"
Silken strings would draw a dance - John M. Synge "Beg-Innish"
And draw the wax of the world - Arthur Sze "Water Calligraphy"
Drawn down by each wave that recedes - Sara Teasdale "I Would Live in Your Love"
Drew it back in with pen and pigment - Shveta Thakrar "A Love in Twelve Feathers"
Where no star its breath can draw - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
While the relentless shade draws on its veil - Henry David Thoreau "To a Stray Fowl"
Drawn backward from the moon - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
In which he drew his soul's exalted cry - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"
Drawing silence from my throat - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"
Fences draw their feet up out of the sod - Mark Van Doren "High Meadows"
Draws the horizons in to him - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
By strange wisps to strange abysses drawn - George Sylvester Viereck "At Nightfall"
Songs can the very moon draw down - Virgil "Eclogues VIII" (transl. not identified)
The seas draw down the stars - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
Draw you close with siren whispers - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"
Our gallant army in line of battle drawn - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Ashamed to draw my pay - Wei Ying-wu "To Send to Li Tan and Yuan Hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
Dream flowers drawn by moving veils - Joshua Weiner "In the Event"
Emissaries drawn from near and far - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"
To draw the mounting waters - Edith Wharton "The Mortal Lease. II"
Had drawn that anguish to my arms - John Hall Wheelock "Starless Morning"
You drew your visions on my forearm - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
In a jacket of gold leaves drawn tight - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"
Drawn tight against the city wind - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"
And Ruin draws the curtains - Oscar Wilde "My Voice"
Draws a charm that leads the heart - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
The motion of our drawing apart - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"
Sagittarius has an arrow drawn at the very heart of Scorpio - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
Landscapes drawn in pearly monotones - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"
Drawn to a hidden goal - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Drawing water rings on the ceiling - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
In the picture the fog had drawn - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: The Fogbow"
Why so drawn to the wind? - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver
The pain of the close-drawing darkness - William Rose Benet "Lights Through the Mist"
The drawbacks against the equivalent gains - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Ninety-three years of horse-drawn dreams - Andre F. Peltier "The Ebullient Signpost"
Your only script is the indrawn breath - Joseph Bruchac "Speaking"
In their long-drawn elliptical orbits - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Moon-drawn mysteries, sun-birth ecstasies - J. Wm. Lloyd "Violin"
White rage of desperate moon-drawn waters - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Family lines drawn and redrawn into travelogues and diaries - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
While her parents redrew her secretly into being - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
Head for the narrowest path to redraw the mirage - Samira Negrouche "Minus One" transl. by Marilyn Hacker
Nor leave a battle-blade undrawn - Charles Sprague "An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City"
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Drawn in a long narrow band of shining oil - Lascelles Abercrombie "The Sale of Saint Thomas" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
How they draw us in their museums - Leena Aboutaleb "Art Exhibition: West Bank Girl on Fire"
To draw chill curtains - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"
Drawing forth Earth's passionate fevers - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Drawn up from the lonely abysses - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Drawing the sunlight from the stooping clouds - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"
Through the tightest drawn evenings - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"
Drew blood to fill our cups of dream-dark wine - Mike Allen "Ascending"
Bad luck drawn away like pilot fish following his wake - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Drew vectors that would tear through fragile forms - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
A magnet for those drawn to our strange fires - Ryu Ando "The Oblique Light at Kakushima (A Memory of Persimmons)" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]
Whom the fiery horse drew - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"
From the golden quivers drawn - Benjamin West Ball "Athens"
Arrow drawn from Phoebus' quiver - Benjamin West Ball "To W.P.R."
A line of hibiscus drawn in shade - Taneum Bambrick "After Picasso's 'The Rape'"
A knife draws a line between heaven and earth - Mary Jo Bang "Nothing Compares to Daphne in Green"
A drawing of an all-night sky - Mary Jo Bang "Speaking of the Future, Hamlet"
Drew gossip from mouths of a well - Lou Barrett "The Red Cord"
drew forth an hour's spark - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"
as though a silver magnet drew - Elizabeth Bartlett "mood on a string"
Drawing the sun out of my heart - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited
Drawing all sunlight back to the hot deeps - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"
As we draw near the gallows-tree - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"
And drew me out of ageless wars - William Rose Benét "Unforgotten"
To draw my soul's elastic very fine - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"
Drew hearts round the keyholes - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"
Draws a diagonal across my floor - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
The unspent light drawing us to you - Lisa Bickmore "Dear David,"
Draws my dark being up from its secret caves - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: Prelude"
Sages drawn from towers of midnight haunt - Laurence Binyon "The Sirens: III. The Undiscovered World"
That drew me like a silver string - Elizabeth Bishop "Behind Stowe"
Draws near to the witching time of night - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Drawing from ceremony sensation - Brian Blanchfield "Eclogue Onto an Idea"
Draw straws for mercy - Russell Brakefield "The Wraith in the Creek"
Drawn with both your arms - Sue Budin "Forgiveness Comes in Two Colors"
Draw the living water of your love - Gerald Bullett "Rest"
Where the twilights of life were first drawn - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Drew from an alien fire - "By Proxy" [anonymous in Oxford Poetry, 1918]
Love will draw all wandering stars - M.W.C. "Amor Patriae Vincit" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
The shutter of Sympathy's never drawn - Adelbert Farrington Caldwell "A Prison House"
And the Ride to the Dark draws nigh - Bliss Carman "Seven Things"
Drawn out of my eyes - Miguel Casado "The Arrival of March, IV"
Drawn out from the soup of your heart - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"
Draw a line beyond your names - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "He Mea Mālo'elo'e #3"
Those impetuous claims that drew me forth - William Cory "Amavi"
A dissonant note from hidden harp-strings drawn - James Henry Cousins "Etain the Beloved"
The hooded snake that drew and watched - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"
How she draws me with her spell - Danske Dandridge "Lost at Sea"
Fancy's pencil draws a world unseen - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Fragment [With snow-clad top,, and far projecting height]"
When the dreaded day draws nigh - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
Family lines drawn and redrawn into travelogues and diaries - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
Passion's fire alone that draws him - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Twilight drew her azure curtains round - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
You drawn your own breath - Tim Dlugos "Great Art"
Water drawn from the cosmos's deepest well - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"
Holographic moth wings that shine like chalk drawings - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
And draw this tranquil breath - Edward Dowden "Watershed"
Drawn back to their lairs of light - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"
Draw the sword of that unswerving law - Erastus W. Ellsworth "Meditations on the Last Judgment" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.4, Oct. 1852]
Milk we drew at the barrier of Time - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
Drew from terrestrial particles its birth - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Coldly and bright draws in the day - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
From which we draw fodder for the desolate streets - Monica Ferrell "The Irresolubleness of Diamonds"
And the day draws to its dark end - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"
Wildfire and smoky patches draw our rage - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Draws me to its bellowing spiral - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen a"
Drawing your vessel to shore - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen C"
Copies created from awkward drawings - Adam Ford "The Strangers Came" [Strange Horizons 5 May 2025]
Draw my name in the sand and defy the rising tide - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
Draw our hearts more distant - Jeannine Hall Gailey "As Venus and Jupiter Come Together, We Fall Apart"
Drew delightful Mammoths on the borders of his cave - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Similar Cases"
Drawn by a thread of time-sunk memory - Robert Graves "The Pier-Glass"
Even gods must obey what's drawn from Urd's well - Christian Gullette "The Fates"
Draw out of memory all bitterness - Ivor Gurney "Song of Pain and Beauty"
Sinew and bone she drew them - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
Who were maps drawn of blood - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
The design drawn from nightmares - Joy Harjo "We Must Call a Meeting"
A promise not to draw blood - francine j. harris "the road to jackson has orchids"
Drew the balsam from the rose - Robert Stephen Hawker "King Arthur's Waes-Hael"
Drew a jewel from the road - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Friendship"
And drawn to solitudes apart - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Worship"
That draw their fellows deep into impiety - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne
Dragonflies draw flame - Gerard Manley Hopkins "As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame"
To draw me into darkness once again - Robert E. Howard "Voices of the Night" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]
The day draws out her shadows - Jean Ingelow "The Star's Monument"
Their blueprint drawn for reascending - K. Iver "The Gotham Hotel"
Drawing a line at the end of the world - Robinson Jeffers "The Loving Shepherdess" [excerpt]
The dawn drawn out and hammered thin - Devin Johnston "Fixed Interval"
Drawn to the easy sound of sleep - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
Did not draw the map that shows the sticky trail - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
Drawing of chalk lines, pastel and charcoal - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Now when the wine is drawn - Rudyard Kipling "A Song to Mithras"
Drew them down and devoured them - Anne Knish "Opus 191"
Searching for property lines drawn in blood - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Nor wanted a spell to draw me from this life apart - Ivan Kozloff "Kiéff" transl. by T.B. Shaw [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
Draw a door for possibilities - Linette Lao "Becoming"
Draws down the winter's frown - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Drawn blades never sheathed - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"
To draw mine inspirations from the common air - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
Children draw about the empty hearth - Emma Lazarus "To R. W. E."
Draw me looking like somebody else - Aimee Le "Analogies, or, Twinkie Is to Egg As"
From its deeps draw out the hidden flower - Richard Le Gallienne "An Ode to Spring"
Drawn in living fire and dew - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Music drawn in living fire and dew - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Drawing our hope from the past - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Drawn to the hazy sprout of light - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
A satchel of notes drawn out of the tub - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"
Make myself a sandcastle and draw myself a door - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Dark force that drew me across uncharted space - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"
From the sobbing viols drew white tears - Stephane Mallarme "Apparition" translated by Wilfrid Thorley
Heard the wind draw out of the west - Jeannette Marks "Dragon"
A god of roses draws nigh - Harry Martinson "Aniara 86: Song from Gond" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The rooks in clamour drew - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"
A slim lilac drew me down - Florence Ripley Mastin "Discovery"
And drew out of his heart Eternity - Claude McKay "Morning Joy"
Draw the breath of finer air - George Meredith "Internal Harmony"
Drew iron tears down Plato's cheek - John Milton "Il Penseroso"
Drawn by kindred impulse over silver tides - Harold Monro "Child of Dawn" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
The line drawn is always in the sand - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
As though drawn by six dragons - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
The mind can draw exquisite prints - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"
Drawn on by my destiny - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid
Drew the dictatorship of flies - Pablo Neruda "United Fruit Co." transl. by Jack Schmitt
The lines they draw seem never true - Meredith Nicholson "Striving"
Just draws the route out of doubt - Brandon O'Brien "Anansi Braids Your Stepson's Hair"
As I draw thunder from the sky at dusk - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Draw breath from brick - January Gill O'Neil "Old South Meeting House"
The garden draws life from a triple soul - Kostes Palamas "The Palm Tree" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Drawn like apostles toward Popocatépetl - Mara Pastor "Los Bustos de Martí/The Busts of Martí" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong
Draws a fine grid over the past - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"
Draw your wedding ring in mulch - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"
Drew your time in prudent proportions - Kiki Petrosino "Monticello House Tour"
Meet on beaches drawn to the one wet sea - Marie Ponsot "Springing"
Drawing him in to her bed of infinite recursion - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"
And forth my quivering heart he drew - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen
Our drawn over selves - Matt Rasmussen "Ekphrastifilia"
Studying maps drawn for the absurdity of navigation - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"
Had drawn his dream of spring - Grantland Rice "The Bug's View-Point"
Draw up his regiment all in a row - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "The Baby's Future"
Draws the trembling spirit like a seed - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
On the drawn knees of the mountain - Lola Ridge "The Edge"
Drew their sundered spirits close - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
The fiery point of the drawn star - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
The thrush will pipe at twilight to draw the blossoms out - Lloyd Roberts "One Morning when the Rain-Birds Call"
Drew the breath of battle - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Field of Glory"
False and florid and far drawn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
Into all our dreaming drew the spirit of the stars - Rennell Rodd "A Star-Dream"
Draws about her fiery cloak to vanish in the flames - Doug Rogers "Satan's Mistress" [Futuria Fantasia, v.1, no.2, Fall 1939]
The shadows draw over in terrible lines - David Salisbury "On Mars"
Lucid and endless wrinkles draw in - Carl Sandburg "Sketch"
Drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows - Siegfried Sassoon "Dreamers"
Ere the step of a foeman draws near - Sir Walter Scott "Lullaby of an Infant Chief"
And drew them by the left hand in - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Until a random shard drew scarlet - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
The future draws its crimson thread - Ann K. Schwader "Set in Whitechapel"
The line that I had drawn with bleeding thumb - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Drawn by your own sweet skill - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"
Daily draw my sorrows longer - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVIII"
And draw the shadows down across my eyes - Odell Shepard "Recollection"
Their undeclining circles drew - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Old Watch"
The pearl of matchless Prudence drew - B. Simmons "Lines on the Landing of His Majesty King Louis Philippe, Tuesday, October 8, 1844" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
The magic circle which the moon draws - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Drawn outward by the vampire-lips of Sleep - Clark Ashton Smith "Nirvana"
Shades by nature's pencill drawn - William Somerville "The Chase"
Draws her favors to the lowest ebb - Robert Southwell "Times Go by Turns"
Drawn to the dangerous country - Elizabeth Spires "You Have Flown to the Dangerous Country"
Exertion draws the mind from hope - A.E. Stallings "Sisyphus"
The luck of all the draws is the weight of stone - A.E. Stallings "Sisyphus"
Drawing us with delicate tension upward - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
On the tides of peril drawn - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Till drawn by some new sorrow - George Sterling "Duandon"
He is a picture you never could draw - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Unseen Playmate" [Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories (ed. by Hamilton Wright Mabie, William Byron Forbush, and Edward Everett Hale). 1927]
The arms of the Far-away have drawn us close - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"
A cobra drawn in charcoal - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 18: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
That draws breath so sad - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Drawn down through desperate ways - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
Winter's moon will draw its line in naked truth - Carmen Sylva "The Shadow"
Silken strings would draw a dance - John M. Synge "Beg-Innish"
And draw the wax of the world - Arthur Sze "Water Calligraphy"
Drawn down by each wave that recedes - Sara Teasdale "I Would Live in Your Love"
Drew it back in with pen and pigment - Shveta Thakrar "A Love in Twelve Feathers"
Where no star its breath can draw - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"
While the relentless shade draws on its veil - Henry David Thoreau "To a Stray Fowl"
Drawn backward from the moon - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
In which he drew his soul's exalted cry - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"
Drawing silence from my throat - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"
Fences draw their feet up out of the sod - Mark Van Doren "High Meadows"
Draws the horizons in to him - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
By strange wisps to strange abysses drawn - George Sylvester Viereck "At Nightfall"
Songs can the very moon draw down - Virgil "Eclogues VIII" (transl. not identified)
The seas draw down the stars - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
Draw you close with siren whispers - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"
Our gallant army in line of battle drawn - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Ashamed to draw my pay - Wei Ying-wu "To Send to Li Tan and Yuan Hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
Dream flowers drawn by moving veils - Joshua Weiner "In the Event"
Emissaries drawn from near and far - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"
To draw the mounting waters - Edith Wharton "The Mortal Lease. II"
Had drawn that anguish to my arms - John Hall Wheelock "Starless Morning"
You drew your visions on my forearm - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
In a jacket of gold leaves drawn tight - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"
Drawn tight against the city wind - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"
And Ruin draws the curtains - Oscar Wilde "My Voice"
Draws a charm that leads the heart - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
The motion of our drawing apart - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"
Sagittarius has an arrow drawn at the very heart of Scorpio - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
Landscapes drawn in pearly monotones - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"
Drawn to a hidden goal - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Drawing water rings on the ceiling - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
In the picture the fog had drawn - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: The Fogbow"
Why so drawn to the wind? - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver
The pain of the close-drawing darkness - William Rose Benet "Lights Through the Mist"
The drawbacks against the equivalent gains - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Ninety-three years of horse-drawn dreams - Andre F. Peltier "The Ebullient Signpost"
Your only script is the indrawn breath - Joseph Bruchac "Speaking"
In their long-drawn elliptical orbits - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Moon-drawn mysteries, sun-birth ecstasies - J. Wm. Lloyd "Violin"
White rage of desperate moon-drawn waters - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Family lines drawn and redrawn into travelogues and diaries - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
While her parents redrew her secretly into being - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
Head for the narrowest path to redraw the mirage - Samira Negrouche "Minus One" transl. by Marilyn Hacker
Nor leave a battle-blade undrawn - Charles Sprague "An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City"
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