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The low lit ceiling of night - Mary Jo Bang "Visiting"

A crownless king laid low - Ardelia Maria Barton "Man Defying the Dying Sun"

In a low harshness of diminished sound - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Beneath their circles of low packed smoke - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"

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

From the low earth round you - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Feeble their tones and low - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

And silence brooded low - D.A. Casey "The Spouse of Christ"

Until the gasoline burns low - CR Colby "The Last Punk Rock Band in the Zombie Apocalypse"

Where voices low and sweet the hours beguiled - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Four lean hounds crouched low - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

Weave a low and druid chant - Fanny Stearns Davis "Profits"

One last candle burning low - Walter de la Mare "Mistletoe"

Held low to freezing lips - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXVI"

By a life's low venture - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXV: The Goal"

The low music of an angel's hymn - Julia C.R. Dorr "A Mother's Question"

The low tones that thrilled my heart - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Wife's Last Gift"

Breathed low mystery of song - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

Brought low by the thorn - Katherine Edgren "The Subterranean Splinter Blues"

And walked among the lowest of the dead - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land III: The Fire Sermon"

Under sky's low ceiling - Elaine Equi "Trenton Local"

O'er her low head grey and dim - Samuel Ferguson "The Fairy Thorn"

In the lowly mart of tremulous darkness - Darrell Figgis "[Friends vanish at my face]"

The future sobs a low, sad warning - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Low in the chambers of the west - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

A heart's low moaning over wasted days - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Disappointment"

How low the candles of my knowledge glow - Leslie Pickney Hill "The Teacher"

A low and stubborn fever - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"

From this low fraction of expiring time - Mary Gardiner Horsford "The Lost Pleiad"

The low night-wind had fled - Mary Gardiner Horsford "The Pilgrims' Fast"

Beside the low tide of the world - June Jordan "Poem for Haruko"

A voice low in the sunset woods - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [I hear a voice low in the sunset woods]"

In low, silent voices - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"

Under the birds' low song-swept radiances - Joanna Klink "A Welcome"

Low sunk in sapphire shadows - Archibald Lampman "Winter Hues Recalled"

When the moon bends low - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

That blend in one low chorus - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

Each chief is now a vassal low - Donnchad Ruadh MacNamara, c.1730 "The Fair Hills of Eire" transl. by George Sigerson

Low through vales of tears - Naomi Long Madgett "Wedding Song"

Some new low dream of fear - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

Pitched so low your ear can't find it - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

The flap of the bat's low flight - Charlotte Mew "On the Road to the Sea"

The low tone bells of changing song ring clear - William Moore "Here in the Time of the Winter Morn"

For the sweet oil is low - John Oxenham "Nightfall"

Rainbows held low in their lanes - Jon Pineda "Delayed Harvest"

To rise from my low camouflage - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

Only where a snare is lying low - A.J. Requier "Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Silvery, low, slow-sliding - James Whitcombe Riley "Through Sleepy-Land"

Sweet grace of low replies - Rennell Rodd "Requiescat"

A sword over the low horizon - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"

Above the wind's low laughter - Margaret E. Sangster "At Dawn: II. The Pioneer"

A low private conversation with the air - Brenda Shaughnessy "The Home Team"

Till being's wine is low - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"

Lived long in a low solstice - Danez Smith "anti poetica"

On his ear a low rumble - Alfred B. Street "Buttermilk Falls: Racket River"

The hopvine's tresses sweeping the low roof - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Thunder, low and far, remembering nothing - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"

Low stars and difficult earth - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"

Toiled in low meadows of gray asphodel - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

When the tides of life run low - Helen Hay Whitney "To the Beloved"

Heard her voice in a low thunder - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Little puddles of sunlight collect in low places - Charles Wright "Return of the Prodigal"

With the light knifing low from right to left - Charles Wright "Stiletto"

Dreaming's low boiling point - Jenny Xie "Expenditures"



When the ceilings lower themselves - Harriet Dean "Blue-Prints: The Pillar"

A crystal ball lowered into low-hanging helium - Ian Goh "Firework"

Lowering clouds of doubts and fears - Herbert H. Gowen "The Quest for the Christ"

Cooing in the lower boughs - D.H. Lawrence "St John"

The fountain of a lower key - J. Michael Martinez "Treaty of Guadalupe"

The flaw and turmoil of the lower deep - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VII. Sonnet: Our Dead"

The soul can take no lower flight - J.G. Percival "The Soul"

A lower form of immortality - Mary Jo Salter "The Upper Story"

Whose floor is the lower void - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"

A hook lowered into the depths of echo - Jenny Xie "Alternative Endings"


Low-breathed music's echoed measure - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Low-breathed air and inwoven melody - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"


Low-built nests where robins sing - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"


Allowing lowercase sand to spill from me - Christopher Kondrich "Ruin Valley"


Underground tunnel to the lowest rung - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"

Draws her favors to the lowest ebb - Robert Southwell "Times Go by Turns"


A crystal ball lowered into low-hanging helium - Ian Goh "Firework"


As lowly spices gone to sleep - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature IX: The Grass"

On the bright sward in lowly homage kneeling - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]


Submerging the low-lying stars - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"


Could not pierce these meshed and low-slung skies - Li Ho "The Northland in Cold" transl. by Burton Watson


Ghostwriting the low-tide mark - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


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