Potential Titles: Shadow

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Shadows mark the brightest light - A.L.O.E. "Blanche"

From fears that are the shadow of delight - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Light comes not but shadow comes - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

A shadow on a map of blood - Elmaz Abinader "After Breakfast"

Where memory resigns to shadows - Elmaz Abinader "Save Yourself; Remember Nothing"

Between a choice & its airless shadow - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"

Like shadows gripping at realities - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

No more shall shadows entertain - "The Actual" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]

Tonight, I have invited my shadow - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"

This body made of layers of shadows - Etel Adnan "Night"

Shadows across the windows - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

No shadow to soften his loneliness - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger

And passing clouds cast shadows - Louisa May Alcott "Clover-Blossom"

My shadow walking away from your house - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"

Long shadows under the marble arches - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"

A bird might have dreamt its shadow - Meena Alexander "Muse"

Filled his arms with hues and shadows - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

In the bands of shadow cordoning the trees - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"

Shedding confinements of skin and shadow - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Where shadows of the dead have rest - William Allingham "Aeolian Harp"

A shadow that follows you like a dog - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

Weaving a web of shadow and sheen - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Brook"

A sorrow in those shadows as they lengthen - Lennox Amott "When the Twilight Shadows Deepen"

Rose-tinted shadows of beauty and light - S.D. Anderson "A May Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Shadows of untangling vines - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"

My shadow in the street - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"

Won't see his own shadow hit bottom - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Red light district"

Caught hold of its ancestors' shadows - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The shadow went on walking"

The foundations of that shadowy throne - Matthew Arnold "Written in Butler's Sermons"

Swinging their shadows to the sun - Fatimah Asghar "How We Left: Film Treatment"

Our shadows forever one - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"

All I dream is for our shadows - Atticus "Magic in Youth"

the lingering discontent of bodies relegated to the shadows - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"

Sprints into his shadow - Cameron Awkward-Rich "The Little Girl Dreams of Dying"

The shadowy realm where all is grief and gloom - B. "Two Pictures: Love Terrestrial" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Crossed by shadows of the bending fern - Albion Fellows Bacon "Winter Beauty"

We lie in the shadow of a future we cannot name - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Glides the shadow round the dial - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

In its shadow dreams are brooding - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

Took their shadows and went - Mary Jo Bang "Eclipsed"

A fork in the shadow of a cup - Mary Jo Bang "Time Speeds, Said Louise, When a Fever Rises"

repenting the body's shadow - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"

the shadow unstitched from its body - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"

the shadow turned crow - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"

The drifting shaft of shadows - Elizabeth Bartlett "Afternoon of a Journey"

Walking griefwards with his shadow - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sacrament"

Must first merge with his shadow - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Test"

Treading the shadows silently - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited

The long pageant of your shadows - Charles Baudelaire "Mist and Rain" transl. not credited

Embark upon the Shadowy Sea - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Scenting the shadows at set of sun - James C. Bayles "In the Gloaming"

Shadow's agony song - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"

The cypress shadows creeping - Clive Bell "To A.V.S. with a Book"

The drowning shadow of a fading land - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Evening's shadows softly intervene - Park Benjamin "Audubon's Blindness"

And all things robed in shadow - Park Benjamin "Sonnet [Loved of my soul! I seek in vain for thee]"

Their shadows having risen and consumed them - Wendell Berry "My Great-Grandfather's Slaves"

Associating with their shadows - Elizabeth Bishop "At the Fishhouses"

Put those shadows in your painting - Terry Blackhawk "In Duple Time"

Deep ochre and cobalt shadows - Terry Blackhawk "Of Course"

The shadow blood leaves - Tommye Blount "Then Practice Losing Farther; Losing Faster"

Death's shadow at the door - Edmund Blunden "Almswomen"

The sun flings off the shadows - Edmund Blunden "The March Bee"

A stream of accidental shadows - Maxwell Bodenheim "Fifth Avenue (New York)"

The shifting shadow of a stain on your rigid lines - Maxwell Bodenheim "To --" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

A long shadow and a light sound - Louise Bogan "Knowledge"

Blossoming in the shadow of the mind - Tanella Boni "There where it's so bright in me" transl. by Todd Fredson

The sea-green shadows of your dream - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne of the Wharves"

A shadow dream of emerald possession - Bruce Boston "Children of the Mutant Rain Forest"

Throw fantastic shadows on the grass - John Philip Bourke "The Golden Age"

Like the camel's shadow on the sands - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

Views her shadow in the stream - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

Set the rose-shrouded sundial in shadow - Louise Morey Bowman "Green Apples"

Their shadows dwindled to bare and patchy masses - Russell Brakefield "Effigy"

Cut by the shadow song of theft - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Shorn and hung with sly shadows - Russell Brakefield "This Is America and We Are Boys"

Making shadows inside you - Shannon Bramer "You Speak Violets"

Some perishing mute shadow - Robert Bridges "There Is a Hill"

Life's mingled lights and shadows - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"

The summit of life's shadowed hill - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"

By no shadows or memories haunted - Vera M. Brittain "Daphne"

Seeking the shadow of a dream - Vera M. Brittain "Roundel ('Died of Wounds')"

Yearning for shadows and the darkened hours - Caris Brooke "March Violets"

Shreds of shadowy laughter - Rupert Brooke "Beauty and Beauty"

Because we understand shadows - Jericho Brown "Trojan"

The mysticism of basic shadows - Paul Cameron Brown "Skootematta"

In the shadow of thy change - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

The shadow on thy face - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Threw a lonely shadow straight - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"

A shadow for the noontide hour - William Cullen Bryant "The Planting of the Apple Tree"

Throw thin shadows on the ground - William Cullen Bryant "The Planting of the Apple Tree"

Shadow spilling out onto the street - Sue Budin "City"

Cast its shadow across the line - Sue Budin "False Borders"

The shadow of a stop sign - Sue Budin "Little Things"

The sun has never met its shadow - Sue Budin "Totality"

The giant swirled with grey and shadow - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"

To friends a shadow shedding stars - Francis Burrows "The Giant's Dirge"

Suffer its broad flung shadow not - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"

Cast anchor where no shadows fall - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Drifting"

Witches chasing down shadows - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"

Under the shadow of a thrust - Witter Bynner "Passing Near"

Called through the shadow-swept air - Mary C.G. Byron "The Tryst of the Night (M. C. Gillington)"

Where the sun-flecked shadows lie - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Gaunt shadow-ships drift silent - F. O. Call "A River Sunset"

Pastured on lies and shadows - Tommaso Campanella "XLI. A Prophecy of Judgment. No.2. The Doom of the Impious" transl. by John Addington Symonds

The hearthstone broods in shadow - Joseph Campbell "The Mother"

The thunder of shadowy horses - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"

Keep me under the shadow of your wings - Anthony Vahni Capildeo "Niche"

This endless fraud and shadow - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Inexorable truth with its cold shadow - Giosue Carducci "To Phoebus Apollo" transl. by Frank Sewall

The weeping shadow left behind - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"

Dreaming of clouds through their shadows - Will Carleton "Wealth"

The shadowy princedom of the soul - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

Be reprieved from the shadowy challenge of death - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"

Their bright fantastic shadows - Alice Cary "Music"

Up from the shadows of gallows trees - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"

A shadow recessed in shadow - Wo Chan "my mother's face"

Crushing the legs of my shadow - Tina Chang "Duality"

Forgot the shadow on his soul - G.K. Chesterton "To Enid who acted the Cat in private Pantomime"

Shadows stretched into sylphs - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"

The fretting of shadow and sun - Patricia Clark "Creed"

brushing against the shadows - Lucille Clifton "one year later"

the thread running forever in shadow - Lucille Clifton "shadows"

Just the shadow of my wound - Leonard Cohen "Avalanche"

The shadow of my reach - Leonard Cohen "Came so Far for Beauty"

Against that shadowy day - Wanda Coleman "Dear Mama (4)"

Muses while the shadows sleep - Arthur Colton "Faustine"

Asleep beside their shadows - Arthur Colton "In Port To-Day"

Cast an elongated shadow - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"

Through the wood of shadows - Hilda Conkling "Adventure"

Have often seen your shadow - Hilda Conkling "Pegasus"

A leaf-gray shadow that sings - Hilda Conkling "Tree-Toad"

Heart-tossed shadows in them lie - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Joining the list of the shadowy army - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Rain Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Caught from some shadowy memory - Susan Coolidge "A Blind Singer"

Told in shadows on the grass - Benjamin Copeland "The Larger Life"

Brown shadows leaping up the wall - Frances Cornford "Autumn Evening"

Your shadow will outlive my father - Eduardo C. Corral "To a Blossoming Saguaro"

Blacker than the shadows on the moon - Mary Elizabeth Counselman "Witch-Burning" [Weird Tales October 1936]

All the shadow-haunted space - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Gods and Heroes of the Gael"

The shadow of a bandit's mask - Dorsey Craft "Women Tell Me How to Be Safe"

Conscripted to their shadows’ glow - Hart Crane "The Wine Menagerie"

The values of shadows - Nathalia Crane "Eva"

A shadow and reflection quarelled [sic] - Nathalia Crane "The History of Painting"

The hours by their shadows - Adelaide Crapsey "The Sun-Dial"

A shadow to intention - Robert Creeley "Shadow"

The forked tree's chained shadows - George Cronyn "Clouds"

We grieved like the shadow that gives birth to worlds - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Eternal shapes of shadowly light - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"

My winged shadow pressed against their windows - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"

Stretches forth from shadowed places - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"

Out of the shadows of immortal things - Olive Custance "The Magic Mirrors"

Print a shadow like a thin twig - H.D. "Sea Iris"

Shadows erect their cold scaffolding - Jim Daniels "Final/Not Final"

In shadows not yet bodiless - Russell W. Davenport "Poems III"

Throws shadows o'er the song she weaves - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"

When daylight blends with the pensive shadows - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"

Blends with the pensive shadows - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"

Kiss their shadows as they dance - William H. Davies "Oh, Sweet Content"

Shadowed by the swirling clouds - Kwame Dawes "At Anchor: The Real Situation"

Covered in light and shadow - Kwame Dawes "At Anchor: The Real Situation"

By legioned shadows pressed - Coningsby Dawson "Daybreak"

The wallpapered shadow of a secret self - Meg Day "Big Sky Domestic"

Traveling through the dark of another's shadow - Meg Day "The Permanent Way"

Making a maple tree's shadow jealous - Tyree Daye "Dirt Cakes"

Mute shadows creeping slow - Walter de la Mare "The Dark House"

Mute shadows creeping slow - Walter de la Mare "The Empty House"

Where life's shadows pass - Walter de la Mare "The Fool's Song"

Out from the elm-tree's noonday shadow - Walter de la Mare "Off the Ground"

Under the elm trees' lengthening shadow - Walter de la Mare "Sam's Three Wishes; or Life's Little Whirligig"

Shadowing the dizzied street - Walter de la Mare "The Two Houses"

Her sunrise scattering squads of shadows - Carl Dennis "Help from the Audience"

Shadows hold their breath - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXXI"

The shadows of last year's fields - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"

Even the silos' shadows freeze - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

Two shallow cups of shadow - Chris Dombrowski "A Toast"

When we are shadows - John Donne "Elegy V: His Picture"

Laughing back the startled shadows - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Up from the shadows of a factory warehouse - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"

And the shadows were not yet long - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Summer"

Where the whole shadow lies deep - Edward Dowden "Brother Death"

In cool and shadowy limit - Edward Dowden "From April to October: IV. The Skylark"

Counterfeiting shadows and vain dreams - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"

Let the shadows troop to darkness - Edward Dowden "To Hester"

Century-silent, shadowy mazes - Edward Dowden "To Hester"

Bid every shadow dance - Edward Dowden "The Winnower to the Winds"

Flings loose its shadows - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"

And gashed their shadowy limbs of wind - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

Sweetgrass ash in the shadows - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"

Cast a shadow circlewise - Theodore Dreiser "The Spring Recital"

Oblivion has your shadow - Lauri Garcia Duenas "O" (translated by Olivia Lott)

Prayed to our shadows for clouds - Stephen Dunn "A Concise History of the Future"

The shadows illumination creates - Stephen Dunn "A Small Part"

Appreciating the shadows - Stephen Dunn "Split: 1962"

That sees the shadow of the hawk - Toru Dutt "Savitri"

This whirling shadow of invisible things - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

To what my shadow demands - Cornelius Eady "Failure (Running Man)"

Forth shadowed in perfect loveliness - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Of shadows and their giant wars - Helen Parry Eden "Lullaby for a Little Girl"

Shadows made by even the tiniest pebbles - Katherine Edgren "Trails: Morning Walk"

No shadow in that light - Claudia Emerson "Leave No Trace"

Watched you become shadowless - Claudia Emerson "Pitching Horseshoes"

Nor hath shadow of turning - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"

Where the shadow falls the deepest - Ettrick Shepherd "A Boy's Song"

Soft dawns that danced a shadow fete - Donald Evans "Buveuse d'Absinthe"

Shadows like black roses - B. H. Fairchild "The Big Bands: Liberal, Kansas, Summer of 1955"

The morning's flustered shadows - Tarfia Faizullah "What This Elegy Wants"

A world of wraiths and shadows - Eleanor Farjeon "The Mysterious Forest"

Kitfoxes asleep beside their shadows - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"

Rose above the shadows their names cast - Andrew Feld "Great Hill Lyric"

Her shadow would make day - Sir Samuel Ferguson "Molly Asthore"

Cast its shadow in eternity - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 19"

Pelican shadows veer over me - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

Her coasts of perils and shadows - George Blackstone Field "The Breaker of the Trail"

Wresting us far from the shadow - George Blackstone Field "The Price of the Line"

Where shadowy phantoms tread - George Blackstone Field "Yesterday"

Each time your traces come past the shadows - Annie Finch "Final Autumn"

All cast shadows come home - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"

I stand in these shadows to kiss her - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"

And my shadow grows deeper than blood - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"

And paints the shadows green and red - James Elroy Flecker "The Gates of Damascus"

And winds and shadows fall toward the West - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

When shadows pass gigantic on the sands - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Planes of light and shadow - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Hollow caverns of cool blue shadow - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Feathered shadows on the concrete wall - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten II"

The shadow of the Enemy had left his heart and face - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Unruffled by shadow of care - Arthur M. Forrester "Black Loris"

The shadow of a winged figure - Chad Frame "A Union Victory"

Would leave their shadows for dead - Vievee Francis "Three Hundred and Seventy-Two Miles from Home: Chihuahua, 1849"

Shadows cloaked the narrow place - John Freeman "Waiting"

The steady shadows shook and thinned and died - John Freeman "The Wakers"

With a host of burning shadows - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Preventing shadow until the moon prevail - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"

Slides from under shadow - Tracy Fuad "Eclipse Season"

The shadow of the awful grove - Zona Gale "Why Am I Silent?"

Strange shadows led me down - Theodosia Garrison "The Child"

Leaning against the shadow of dead cells - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"

Cast their shadows on the stream - Alfred C. Gellis "The Sacremento River"

What shadow flits dark'ning the face of the water? - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Into the shadows of a water colored world - Charles Ghigna "Early Evening"

Fleeing in fear from their own shadows - Charles Gibson "Sonnets IX"

The shadows nesting in your neck - Carmen Gimenez "Like an Auto-Tune of Authentic Love"

Where fleeting shadows twisted in the depths - Dana Gioia "Haunted"

Like a person who casts no shadow - Louise Gluck "In the Plaza"

Merging with the shadows of the roses - Louise Gluck "A Summer Garden"

Beneath the shadow of five trees - Louis Golding "Numbers"

Gathering the shadows to their roots - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Unpeopled Eden"

Denser shadows veil the light - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Podas Okus"

Don't want to know your shadow - Rae Gouirand "Inheritance"

Weaving violet shadows on their shining surface - Mona Gould "Tasting the Earth"

The shadow of the Grail falls like a silver whisper - Mona Gould "You Wrote"

Under shadow of myrtle - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"

Your shadow casts itself - Leah Naomi Green "Arrival"

That plucks its joy in the shadow of death's wing - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

The light and shadow so disposed - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"

You bring back a shadow upon it now - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Whatever sorrow shadows you - Nikki Grimes "Crucible of Champions"

To the company of shadows - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"

The fragrant shadows scarred with light - Louise Imogen Guiney "Spring"

Descend not to the shadowy tomb - Eliza Paul Gurney "Heaven and Earth"

Throws its gaunt shadow o'er our little life - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Slow shadow, sailing far on high - G.H. "The Blue Bird" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

To hold the feet of shadows - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"

A shadow split in two - Nathalie Handal "As We Wait"

Shadows past the candle-gleam - Ruth Guthrie Harding "Song"

Black willow shadows for walls - Joy Harjo "The Black Room"

Shadows breathed in cool wind - Joy Harjo "The Black Room"

Stumbled down into your own shadow - Joy Harjo "The Returning"

The way a sober shadow might - Derrick Harriell "Underground King"

Born in the long shadow - Jim Harrison "Limb Dancers"

Passing often into shadow - Leslie Harrison "[God speaks]"

While round them shadows gathered faster - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

Fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

The coolness of sheltering shadows - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Wind in Mexico"

That envious shadowy old king - F.W. Harvey "Sonnet III (from Farewell)"

Snuffed out candlewick shadow - Yona Harvey "But for now the music swings from her lacquered radio"

Holding the shadow of a name - Terrance Hayes "Coffin for Head of State"

Straightened by its shadow - Terrance Hayes "The Golden Shovel"

A silver jewel in the ebony arms of shadows - Ben Hecht "My Island"

Where the deep elm-shadows fall - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "The Haunted House"

Shadow from the tempest of the mind - Felicia Hemans "The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra"

Their feet are lost in the shadows - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender: Envoy"

Sky-born shadows mirrored on a stream - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender XV"

Shadows lurch to the leap of the flame - William Ernest Henley "In Hospital VII. Vigil"

As the sun walks behind the shadow - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"

And often yearned in the shadows - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"

Giant shadowed guardians of the port - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "An Evening in October"

Cast aside those wide involving shadows - José María Heredia "Niagara" transl. by Thatcher Taylor Payne

Keyed to walking shadows - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "Night on a Mountain"

The shadow trailing the core of time - Faylita Hicks "Coded Binaries"

Shadowy fingers of approaching Dusk - B. Higgins "Eventide"

Except for candles and their faltering shadows - Conrad Hilberry "Crete: The Diktaean Cave"

Sorting shadows long in the grass - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"

While artful shadows come and go - Jennie Earngey Hill "Distance"

Red's arid shadow on the other side - Brenda Hillman "A Short Rhyme for Amiri Baraka"

Fading back into shadows - Edward Hirsch "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

My destiny of furious shadows - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"

A rusty shadow neither hunting nor playing - Jane Hirshfield "Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight"

A shadow under gold streaks - Millie Ho "Beasts of New France"

Mocked by its inverse shadow - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

In return for a shadowed and comfortless past - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Shadow built the walls - Joan Houllihan "RAG SMELL. FIRE"

Like morning's fleeting shadow - "Hours of Childhood"

I turned my shadow back - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Replying to a Poem from My Cousin Hui-lien" transl. by Burton Watson

Lie down in the shadow - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"

A naked shadow on a gnarled and naked tree - Langston Hughes "Song for a Dark Girl"

Noonday golds and shadows - Ellen MacKay Hutchinson "June"

Roses of lucid shadow - Aldous Huxley "Italy"

Beside them, the shadow children play - Jess Hyslop "After"

Shadows so blinding I ache - Jess Hyslop "After"

Basking between the shadows - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part I."

The day draws out her shadows - Jean Ingelow "The Star's Monument"

All the doors are shadows - Mark Irwin "'Who'"

Frail as the shadow of an emerald - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"

When we want to feel our shadows - Perry Janes "Nearly all my friends call me spoiled and ungrateful"

Shadows overthrown trooped back - Juan Ramon Jimenez "One Night" transl. by Thomas Walsh

Stitch lightning to shadow - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Strawberry"

To spare till the shadows pass - Charles Bertram Johnson "A Song of Hope"

Wherein cloud shadows burn - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Idlers"

Some shadow of your eyes - E. Pauline Johnson "Through Time and Bitter Distance"

Steals twilight and its shadows - Emily Pauline Johnson "Marshlands"

A break of a cloud's coiling shadow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Promise"

Torn webs of shadows - Helene Johnson "Trees at Night"

Shadowed by Sorrow's somber wing - James Weldon Johnson "The Gift to Sing"

The shadow of the panther lies - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"

All her small perfect shadows - Jenny Johnson "Little Apophat"

The gold lilies and their shadows - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"

If each atom has a shadow - Sara Eliza Johnson "Combustion"

Their shadows merging into a shadow galaxy - Sara Eliza Johnson "Combustion"

If echoes are shadows of sounds - Sara Eliza Johnson "Combustion"

That caught its shadow in a dream - Annie Fellows Johnston "Through an Amber Pane"

From shadows into a locus of light - Patricia Spears Jones "Defiant"

Alive with shapes and shadows - Richard Jones "Rest"

Spine stitched to shadow's edge - Saeed Jones "Eclipse of My Third Life"

Watch him wrestle my shadow - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"

Mistake yourself for shadows - Saeed Jones "Sleeping Arrangement"

Long shadows of the cypress gloom - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "The Island"

Dancing to the shadow drums - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

Ecstatic as a shadow emerged - Zilka Joseph "Gourami Fish Tale"

In the shadow of a stranger tongue - Fady Joudah "Taurus"

Shadowy forms that mock and flee - Sir Nizamat Jung "Prologue"

The dim phantoms of o'er shadowed pleasures - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Its shadow glued to everything - Shilpa Kamat "Consequences"

Nothing left but our shadows - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"

Casting the shadows of their silver jets - Laura Kasischke "Daysleep"

A shadowy duet of parsimony and elegance - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Dancing in the shadow of the long hand - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Carried away the small shadows - Janet Kauffman "Abandoned"

Beyond the shadow of a dream - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

The shadows fall more soothing - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"

That o'er our shadowy earth hang brooding - Fanny Kemble "Lines Written at Night"

When once my sail is shadowed - Fanny Kemble "To the Wissahiccon"

Every shadow thrown by flickering light - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"

And time has shadows waiting in predestined ways - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"

Sister of the flying beam and speedy shadow - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"

Whispering wind of the shadow - Arthur Ketchum "The Wind's Word"

A stranger, spine whittled to shadow - Vandana Khanna "Monologue for a Goddess in Her First Incarnation"

Against shadows of all that burning - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

The Shadow from a Soul on fire - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Of castles and the fruits of shadows - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

If the shadow is golden - Rosamond S. King "Breathe. As in. (shadow)"

Delivered from the shadows I pursue - Rudyard Kipling "Alnaschar and the Oxen"

Giving head to your shadow - Elizabeth Knapp "My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard"

Syllables and the shadows of telephone poles - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"

Furnished with shadows - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Clay Army"

Rides a shadow at daybreak - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Devil Comes on Horseback"

Days of splintered shadows - Yusef Komunyakaa "Guernica"

Made the shadows kneel - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Helmet"

Teach the shadows - Yusef Komunyakaa 'from "The Last Bohemian of Avenue A"'

Only a measure of shadow - Ted Kooser "A Box of Pastels"

By brooding on its shadow - Ted Kooser "In the Hall of Bones"

In the copperplate script of its shadows - Ted Kooser "Moon Shadows"

Into a cold river of shadows - Ted Kooser "The Old People"

Could stand the shadow of your sleeping face - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

In gold and shadow spun - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"

Cleaving the cedar shadows - Archibald Lampman "April"

With the pale gray shadowy plumes - Archibald Lampman "By an Autumn Stream"

A dark wave of clapping shadows - Archibald Lampman "Chione"

Shakes all the stalking shadows - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"

The ministers of sun and shadow - Archibald Lampman "In May"

Shadow of some former dream - Archibald Lampman "In November"

Where shadows rebuild and unweave - Archibald Lampman "Inter Vias"

The rounds of glare and shadow - Archibald Lampman "The Poet's Song"

Wheeling shadows black with rain - Archibald Lampman "The Poet's Song"

Across the river's shadow-haunted floor - Archibald Lampman "September"

Strewn with shadowy boulders - Archibald Lampman "September"

Shadows of transfigured faces - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"

Things of drift and shadow - Archibald Lampman "White Pansies"

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

The shadow of a builder god - Michael Lauchlan "Outside the Community Center"

Caught at false shadows - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes I: The Awaited Leader"

Where sleeps a shadow - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway I: The Shadow on the Shore"

A shadow of unmitigated gloom - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway I: The Shadow on the Shore"

Where the sculptured shadows pass - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

Queen of moods and shadows - Emily Lawless "From the Burren X: A Garden"

Sewing the shadows together - D.H. Lawrence "Bat"

From the arch of shadow emerging - D.H. Lawrence "Evolutions of Soldiers"

Fall asleep under the fleece of shadow - D.H. Lawrence "The Little Town at Evening"

The shadowy house below is out of bounds - D.H. Lawrence "Nostalgia"

On the shadow's dark red rim - D.H. Lawrence "The Red Wolf"

Cliffs abutting in shadow a drear grey sea - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"

In every shaken morsel I see our shadow tremble - D.H. Lawrence "Shades"

Spring's unquiet shadow listening - Ruth Lechlitner "How Many Summers"

Where brown leaves gather shadow - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"

And the shadow people pass - Francis Ledwidge "The Shadow People"

A shadow rests on earth and sky - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

Creeps the tide of shadow - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sister Mary of the Plague"

By the shadowy outline of complete combustion - Stephen Leggett "Seven Winter Poems"

A shadow of shroud and pall - Henry S. Leigh "The Seasons"

Under the leafy shadow of lindens - Henry P. Leland "Wounded" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

Whose lies are shadow roads - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

That casts a bitter shadow into the waters - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Waves of shadow fret the yellowing fields - Lermontof "When--Then" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

My shadow, in your dark boat - Denise Levertov "A Defeat"

With his shadow on equal terms - Denise Levertov "The Sculptor (Homage to Chillida)"

The long shadows settle down to rest - Philip Levine "For the Country: The Garden"

Where grief a shadow grows - Amy Levy "The End of the Day"

Lay in shadow and dreamed of fame - Amy Levy "The Last Judgment"

Vain shadows in a dream - Amy Levy "Last Words"

Sudden seized with shadowy apprehension - Amy Levy "Medea"

The shadow of a kindred woe - Amy Levy "The Two Terrors"

My shadow tangles and breaks - Li Po "Drinking Alone by Moonlight" transl. by Arthur Waley

Shadowed in thin mist - Li Yu "[Blossoms bright, the moon dark]" transl. by Burton Watson

The crane's scissoring shadow - Ada Limon "Paseo del Bosque"

Gone to join the shadows - Vachel Lindsay "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"

The shadows shone with eyes - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"

Two sad shadows over the old nations - Vachel Lindsay "The Fever Called War"

Erupting out of the shadows into the burning streets - Angela Liu "The Witches Are Without Work"

In longing for shadowy planets - Federico Garcia Lorca "Ghazal of the Terrible Presence" (translated by Catherine Brown)

The dirt of shadows - Federico Garcia Lorca (trans. By Sarah Arvio) "[To find a kiss of yours]"

Taunting the rocks' long shadow - Audre Lorde "Change"

As the evening shadows walked - Audre Lorde "Hugo I"

Riding the shadows of conquering air - Audre Lorde "The Night-Blooming Jasmine"

The light and shadow of all springs - Amy Lowell "Lilacs"

Spotted and sprigged with shadows - Amy Lowell "Market Day"

With shadows faintly crimson - Amy Lowell "The Weather-Cock Points South"

Deep shadows on the grass - James Russell Lowell "To the Dandelion"

Our shadow lengthen in your fear - Mina Loy "The Dead"

A city wrought of shadows - William Lumley "Shadows" [Fantasy Fan v.1 no.9, May 1934]

Whose body is shadow and light - Alessandra Lynch "[The lamp is like a capsized ship]: Two Voices Muse over the Speaker"

Shadows thronged the winding stair - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Soon the shadows will claim the light - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "silver birch"

Green shadow in a golden net - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Spring in Nazareth"

Aslant the shadows of my prayer - Archibald MacLeish "The Altar"

The vast and ever climbing shadow grow - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"

Toward shadows of Gethsemane - Naomi Long Madgett "If There Were Songs to Sing"

Shadows of Eden beckon you - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

Casting shadows in three dimensions - Ruth Madievsky "Fog"

Cloud shadows in the failing light - Trebor Mai "The Shepherd's Love" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Give your shadow a name - Cynthia Manick "Things I Will Tell My Children About Destiny"

With its deepening onyx shadows - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

Under this tunnel of endless shadows - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"

Faint footfalls and soft shadows - Edwin Markham "The Valley"

Sand shadowed with memories - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"

And here in the shadows I wait - Don Marquis "Haunted"

Shadows smile and hair grows thick on toads - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"

Drops a denser shadow on my pillow - George Martin "Laleet"

Weep away the fears of shadows - Herbert Woodward Martin "Contemplations on Snow"

The shadow you cast is a memory - Herbert Woodward Martin "Variations on Some Index Phrases Borrowed from Kenneth Rexroth"

Searching for sun's shadow - Airea D. Matthews "Descent of the Composer"

Up from shadow water - Airea D. Matthews "HERO(i)N"

Arms outstretched and casting no shadow - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"

Their shadows to keep me company - Jamaal May "The Spirit Names of Stolen Books"

As shadow pierced by sun - Jamaal May "There Are Birds Here"

Light parted by shadow-dance - Jamaal May "There Are Birds Here"

Soft as shadows in a pool - Theodore Maynard "Sunset"

Casting a spider's shadow - Shara McCallum "Diva"

With tinted shadows in her hands - James M'Carroll "Dawn"

Where shadows exhale their spirits of smoke - John McCarthy "Portrait of a Preacher's Secret, Dekalb, Illinois"

Leave our shadows under pillows - John McCarthy "Toughness"

The lengthening shadow of the galaxy's sweep - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"

Dropped fantastic shadows down - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"

The shadow I had carried lightly - Shane McCrae "America Gives Its Blackness Back to Me"

Shadows deeper with the breath of owls - Anne Haven McDonnell "Owl"

Detained a fragile shadow - Claude McKay "Morning Joy"

With the sun and their shadows - Maureen N. McLane "Mesh"

Where cloistered shadows flit - Louis J. McQuilland "Queens in Red and White"

My lone shadow under the moon - Mei Yao-ch'en "Marrying Again" transl. by Burton Watson

Within the shadow of a leaping sea - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"

Shadows of a vulture's claw - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Round you Death his shadows dense - George Meredith "To a Friend Lost (T. T.)"

Stormful shadows against the gold - Helen M. Merrill "The Promise of Spring"

My ear of shadow - W.S. Merwin "At the Bend"

An older utterance out of the shadows - W.S. Merwin "The Causeway"

Wading into their shadows - M.S. Merwin "Gate"

Shadows that possess no future - M.S. Merwin "Green Fields"

As lengthening shadows merge - W.S. Merwin "Long Afternoon Light"

How the weeks walk into shadows - W.S. Merwin "The Solstice"

The quick shadows of the sparrows fall - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"

Watching black shadows on green lawns - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"

This pure shadow of travel - Claire Millikin "After Ballet"

No words without shadows - Claire Millikin "Bright Shadows"

Shadowing backyard pear trees - Claire Millikin "Doll Collectors"

The long shadow of gravity - Claire Millikin "Escalator"

The mannequin's shadow, perfect and bereft - Claire Millikin "The Mannequins"

Shadows of birds crossing a road - Claire Millikin "Pierced Dolls"

Flesh, pulse and shadow's ventriloquisms - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"

From my mind's shadowed corners - Jenny Molberg "Echolocation"

That swarm into the shadows of legend - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"

Deep in the shadow of distance - N. Scott Momaday "Linguist"

A vagrant shadow in the trees - N. Scott Momaday "A Presence in the Trees"

Cage governed by shadows - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"

A shadow that evades pursuit - Duncan Moore "To the Lost One"

Rhododendron start the process of shadows - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan "Without a Philosophy"

Don't cast a shadow - Valzhyna Mort "Guest"

Shadowy fires that burn in secret - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

The only waves are shadows stretching darkly - T. Emmett Mueller "Purified on the Only Visible Moon"

With the echo of a shadow - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

[In moon-swallowed shadows - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"]

Sweet vowels of shadow - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Owls swell the shadows - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

A shadow shoed in fur - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Cut from the same shadowed stone - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Two red shadows falling - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

And our skin with shadows - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Shadows from his mouth - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Sweeping shadow of the beast - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Netted in the shadow - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

On this dial the condor's shadow cruises - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

The shadows half-opened - Pablo Neruda "The Creation" transl. by Dennis Maloney

That truth may thunder between shadows - Pablo Neruda "Elegy: XIV" transl. by Ilan Stavans

The shouts of the wind in the shadow - Pablo Neruda "Epithalamium" transl. by Donald D. Walsh

Keep this taste of shadow - Pablo Neruda "Landscape After a Battle" translated by Richard Schaaf

My customary lack of shadows - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Criticism" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

The iron clamor of shadows - Pablo Neruda "On the Coast" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Of shadow recently fleeing - Pablo Neruda "One Day Stands Out" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Between the shadow and the soul - Pablo Neruda "Sonnet XXV"

Ships of shadow and illumination - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A convoy of suspended shadows - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

This shadow without stars - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Sphinxes asleep in shadow in the South - Amado Nervo "To Leonora" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell

The images tremble in our shadowed minds - Mari Ness "Sisters"

The mood fetched by the shadow - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"

I see the shadow of his flight - Mari Ness "Tongueless"

Chased shadows in frantic, endless circles - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"

The silence of the shadows' makers - Tim Newcomb "The Smoke Within the Fire's Ring"

Shadows of moons we don't yet know - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Naming the Heartbeats"

Riding shadows on the wall of death - Hoa Nguyen "The Flying Motorist Artist"

And find when you lose your shadow - Hoa Nguyen "Haunted Sonnet"

Whose shadow still haunts the sun - Grace Nichols "Tea with Demerara Sugar"

And sometimes a shadow passing by - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"

Feel the shadow closing cold - Roden Noel "The Pity of it"

Lay down in the deepest shadow - Grace Fallow Norton "Love Is a Terrible Thing"

Time dwindled to a shadow - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

The touch of his long stealing shadow - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Shadowy towers crimsoned with sunset - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"

That reeling gulf of amethyst shadows - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"

A shadow in the light - Bruce Nugent "Shadow"

I could choose myself in all my shadow - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"

Longer grow the deepening shadows - "October Afternoon in the Highlands" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct, 1863 - no.IV]

A shadow wandering at the boundary of light - Omodero David Oghenekaro "Questions for the Fallen"

The moon shadow grows to sun loops - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

The plunge back into the shadows - Mary Oliver "Looking for Snakes"

Followed our long shadows back - Mary Oliver "November"

Each of us wears a shadow - Mary Oliver "The Pond"

Like a noose of golden shadow - James Oppenheim "We Dead"

This smoke turns people into shadows - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Four: Smoke"

A land of lights and shadows - John Oxenham "India"

Had heard their shadowy step before - Thomas W. Parsons "Stanzas"

Under the shadow of their umbrellas - Linda Pastan "It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank"

The sun fixes each shadow - Linda Pastan "The Still Point"

Who decide to take their shadows with them - Walter Pavlich "Awareness"

Shadows the color of moss at dusk - Walter Pavlich "Road with Five Waterfalls"

The world's grim shadow glooms between - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

As my soul's eye raised the shadows - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

No one took a cat nap in the shadows - Andre F. Peltier "Christ at the Comedy Store"

His green shadow condenses - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Tall smoke of his shadow - Kiki Petrosino "I Married a Horseman"

The shadow I can't quite catch - Kiki Petrosino "The Maiden"

When shadows grew long and slanted - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"

Into the daylight world of shadows - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"

Done with fading shadows - Hai-Dang Phan "River to River"

Whose every shadow is memory - Carl Phillips "Civilization"

Compassion's shadow, pity - Carl Phillips "Overheard, Under a Dark Enchantment"

Like the storm-shook shadows of themselves - Carl Phillips "Rockabye"

To shadow us in context - Carl Phillips "Snow Globe"

The shadow-stitched perimeter - Carl Phillips "Why So This Quiet"

To return shadows into the river - Jon Pineda "Delayed Harvest"

Silent in the birth of another shadow - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"

Among the shadows of the Terrace of Night - Po-Chu-i "Dreaming of Yuan Chen" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Sing on till light and shadow meet - Alexander Posey "To a Morning Warbler"

The shadows of love's dream - Geo. D. Prentice "Unhappy Love"

Shadows cast by palace walls - John Presland "The Deluge"

Long shadows across the untouched snow - Alison Prine "Long Love"

Losing his shadow at night - John Prine

In that shadow our work is done - Adelaide Anne Proctor "A Chant"

A keen longing which shadows forth regret - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Returned -- "Missing" (Five Years After)"

The room's shadow hid the rest - Anne Proctor "Verse: A Legend of Provence"

Frowns at its shadow's answering frown - Kate Putnam "Our Martyrs" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Ravenously gnawing at their shadows - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The camp -- is it possible?"

Walking alongside his shadow - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "If this is my face, so be it"

See beyond our feet and their shadow - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"

Peering into our minds' shadowed corners - Paige Quinones "Elegy Ending on the Ocean Floor"

Dark in the shadow of sycamores - Danni Quintos "Where Good People Live"

The road winds down in deepening shadow - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Dawn Among the Olive Groves"

That shadow land of lost illusions - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Laying of Ghosts"

In the grace of lengthening shadows - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Sunday in Liguria"

Shadows gathered from the noon - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Sunday in Liguria"

Investigators conspire to bar us from shadows - Jacie Ragan "The Secret Lives of Fingerprints"

A shadowy hallway of locked doors - Nen G. Ramirez "Love poem with a dying cat"

Shuttles of shadow and light - Theodore H. Rand "Fairy Glen"

The spirit shadowed in wraith - Theodore H. Rand "I Am"

Faint shadows on the arc - Theodore H. Rand "Resistless Fate"

Time's shadows on the voyage - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

And in the deeper shadowed hearts - Theodore H. Rand "The Veiled Presence"

A shadow tiptoes down the blue - Herbert Randall "Sundown on the Marshes"

Over grass and elm shadow - Diane Raptosh "World Upside Down"

Such rifts among life's shadows - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "Limitations"

Within the shadow of the sail - T. Buchanan Read "Drifting"

Hand me my shadow - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

Shadows brood among the silent valleys - Edward S. Rend, Jr. "Promise" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]

All their changing shadows died - William Renton "Mountain Twilight"

And shadows on the arras flit - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Followed three shadows against the moon - Ernest Rhys "Ballad of the Buried Sword"

Of shadow found a voice - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"

Until the twilight shadows creep - Grantland Rice "Play Ball"

Until the final shadows fall - Grantland Rice "Play Ball"

Your shadow with its enormous eyes - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"

Whose stubborn shadow covered you - Adrienne Rich "Through Cottalitos Under Rolls of Cloud"

With her fingers of shadowy light - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"

A shadow with its eyes full - Lola Ridge "Betty"

Cleaving shadows in their dance - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"

The locked shadow of their wings - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

So the shadows have it their way - Lola Ridge "Jude"

Nimble shadows out of the jigging tree - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

That wear no shadow on their nakedness - Lola Ridge "Sonnet (To E.S.)"

The recurrent shadow of the night - Lola Ridge "Sonnet (To E.S.)"

Rest easily in the shadow - Lynn Riggs "The Hollow"

Lifting their velvet shadows - Lynn Riggs "Spring Morning--Santa Fe"

Grope in the shadows of the slain - Ameen Rihani "Gone with the Swallows"

A realm of light and shadow mystical - James Whitcombe Riley "Three Singing Friends"

Shadows lay upon the dials' faces - Rainer Maria Rilke "Autumnal Day" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Shadows on the foot-worn threshold fall - Rainer Maria Rilke "Initiation" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Turn toward the shadowy morn - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont

The gray, phantom shadows of dawn - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Plunged into the most frightful shadow - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell [Delirium I]" transl. by James Sibley Watson

A voice that shakes the shadows - Charles G.D. Roberts "Twilight on Sixth Avenue"

His feet upon the mountain and his shadow on the pass - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"

The shadow of Vesuvius lies gray across the land - Lloyd Roberts "The Trail from Napoli"

Yellow sun and shadow are spinning gold behind - Lloyd Roberts "The Wood Trail"

Cathedral of shadow and grass - Valencia Robin "Cathedral"

A shadow on the commonplace - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Neighbors"

Through the yew-trees shadowy row - Mrs. Mary Robinson "All Alone"

Look into the shadow with moon-dazed eyes - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"

She holds a shadowy mirror to her eyes - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"

Over the whole world's sea-board the shadow of Odin passed - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"

Some hard dark shadow - Lee Ann Roripaugh "#to my mother's dementia #kaze no denwa"

Through the shadow of the pomegranates - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"

Fleeting shadows of beautiful days - Thomas Runciman "Songs V"

Hid beneath some passing shadows gray - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

The dim uncertain music in the shadows played - V. Sackville-West "The Banquet"

One side in the shadow, one in vivid heat - V. Sackville-West "Convalescence"

what the night forgets to cover in its shadows - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"

Wind in the shadow of time - Gilbert Saenz "Dream Journey"

The shadows draw over in terrible lines - David Salisbury "On Mars"

Where she curled in shadow - Mary Jo Salter "The Upper Story"

Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"

The changing shores of shadow - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"

The smoke changes its shadow - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

Shadow-dance and laugh at the cost - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

Swift shadows on the wall - Margaret E. Sangster "From My Room"

In these shadows knotted through the stars - Ann K. Schwader "Cave Bear Dreams"

That murders sight in canyon shadows - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"

Shadows crawl in hieroglyphs of prophecy - Ann K. Schwader "Eating Mummy"

Hold to shadow as the last reality - Ann K. Schwader "Flash Specters"

May sustain itself by shadows at the edge of sight - Ann K. Schwader "Giving Up the Ghost"

In the shadow land between streetlights - Ann K. Schwader "Mardi Gras Postmortem"

A thousand shadows of the pure grotesque - Ann K. Schwader "The Night of Her Return"

Shadow on a shattered concrete sky - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"

The caribou shadow the shining plain - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

Weird shadows jigged athwart the gloom - Robert W. Service "The Dreamer"

Where the weird shadows slant - Robert W. Service "The Spell of the Yukon"

Queens of the Dreams, and Kings of the Shadows - Adi K. Sett "Roshanara"

Millions of strange shadows on you - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIII"

Shadowy vessels floating out of sight - Edward Shanks "Boats at Night"

Small shadows standing lost in the huge night - Edward Shanks "The Glow-Worm"

From shadow to shape to gait - Solmaz Sharif "Visa"

Shadows with swift wings - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

The hard shadow of the moon - Matthew Shenoda "Traces"

For us the long shadows and the end of day - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: V. A Song in August"

Beckoned us beyond the shadows - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XII. March Wind"

Arrows of fire across the shadows hurled - Frank Dempster Sherman "Song at Daybreak"

Bathing your shadow in ice water - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"

As the shadow follows its substance - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

Our blood and state are shadows - James Shirley "The Same"

Grow like shadows in the late sun - Evie Shockley "color bleeding"

From out the shadows wondering - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Bird from the West"

Out through the door of my own shadow - Joyce Sidman "Song of Bravery"

The orchestration needs tufts of black shadow - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

Before the shadows converge - Charles Simic "Matches"

Except for my long shadow - Charles Simic "The Tiger"

Blood on leather, a rain of shadows - Marge Simon "Spacers' Prison"

To make shadow play of their contents on the walls - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

Who strips us of our shadows - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"

Whose shadow was punctured by unnumbered shafts - Bruce Smith "Garden"

Beneath a greater shadow's wings - Clark Ashton Smith "The Eldritch Dark"

Usurp the shadowy interval - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

Shadow of errant winds - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"

Whereon the shadows lay like rust - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

Find sustenance in shadows - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"

Shadow in everyone's throat - Patricia Smith "Gettin' His Twang On"

The shadowy bliss we exist to explore - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"

Where maple shadows sleep - William Wye Smith "The Canadians on the Nile"

Our shadows struggling to keep up - Gary Soto "Itching to Travel"

But a faint shadow of uncertain light - Edmund Spenser "The House of Richesse"

Where sun is sieved to shadow - Elizabeth Spires "A Little Song"

Shadows worse than any tooth or talon - Elizabeth Spires "Troubadour at a Fork in the Road"

All my rhymes were shadowed - Elizabeth Spires "Troubadour at a Fork in the Road"

In the shadow of the Alamo - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "[Down in the land of roses]"

We walk out like shadows of a doubt - A.E. Stallings "Evil Eye"

Beneath the shadows of these piers - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

Others, shadows of the first - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"

Of golden shadows in our dream - George Sterling "Compensation"

Gone like the shadow of a vanished cloud - George Sterling "Duandon"

On wizard roads of shadow - George Sterling "Farm of Fools"

Woven with the shadows of my dream - George Sterling "The Killdee"

Her chords of shadowy gold - George Sterling "Music"

The seas of shadow call - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"

The shadow of the wings of Time - George Sterling "Strange Waters"

Shadows caught with our mouths open - Gerald Stern "Ted Rosenberg"

Bronze shadows heaped on high horizons - Wallace Stevens "The Idea of Order at Key West"

Only in silent shadows and in dreams - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

The mood traced in shadow - Wallace Stevens "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"

The shadow of cloud and cold - Wallace Stevens "Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It"

Of the shadow on the household - Robert Louis Stevenson "Christmas at Sea"

For the shadow of coming ills - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Song of Rahero: I. The Slaying of Tamatea"

I only see Time's shadow now - Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard "Nameless Pain"

A swan and shadow floating down - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

From my fount of shadowy glass - Alfred B. Street "The Ausable"

Beneath your whispering shadow - Arthur Stringer "The Day"

When the huddling shadows swarm - Arthur Stringer "Hunter and Hunted"

The lucid moment and the shadow across the lintel - Arthur Stringer "The Question"

Nor can I find peace in the shadows - Arthur Stringer "Ultimata"

The table throws its weight of shadow - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"

Throws its weight of shadow - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"

Illumination leaves its shadow in our care - Patricia Omozele Sukore "Where Did the Cockerel Story Start?"

That Eternity whose shadows are so deep - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Through the shadows gray and umber - E. Sutton "The Drum"

A mask of shadow that stood between - May Swenson "First Walk on the Moon"

Shadows of candles flickering red - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"

The shadow stitchery of Paracelsus and Prometheus' fire - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"

The shadow waves of satin - Dujie Tahat "On Desire"

For light as space for shadow - Mutsuo Takahashi "Dead Boy" transl. by Jeffrey Angles

The bitterness both of Substance and Shadow - Tao Yuanming "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Arthur Waley

Where Pelion's twilight shadow falls - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"

In oblique shadows on the walls - Jane Taylor "The Squire's Pew"

White shadows descending through long twilight - Keith Taylor "The Roads to Cordoba"

Up from the shadow of years - Te-con-ees-kee "Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation"

In the moving shadows - Sara Teasdale "May Night"

My shy and shadowy mood - Sara Teasdale "To E"

Shadows shaken on the snow - Sara Teasdale "Winter Stars"

Spun by light and dropped into shadow - Amber Flora Thomas "Damaged Photos"

In its rusty evolution toward shadow - Amber Flora Thomas "Shed"

By the shadow of my hand - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

Shadowy form of midnight vision - Henry David Thoreau "Smoke"

In and out the enchanted shadows flee - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"

They slink from daydreams to shadows - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"

With a Knight of ghosts and shadows - "Tom o' Bedlam"

That shadowed wind - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Bat"

In a shadow waiting - Z.G. Tomaszewski "If I Last the Night"

In the trail of his shadow - Edwin Torres "Neptune's Elegia"

Your shadow along the solitary roads - Iris Tree "[My devotion kneels to you]"

Sweeps up the rags of our shadows - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"

Lie within the shadow of the sword - Tu Fu "Restless Night" transl. by Burton Watson

The first shadows are supple ones - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"

The shadows of her flashing feet - Louis Untermeyer "Dorothy Dances"

an array of shadows in my lungs - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

our caravan of many shadows - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "A Blues For Eunice Waymon"

Hands outstretched groping through shadows - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The White Buffalo Painting"

To heave their shadows far and high - Mark Van Doren "Midwife Cat"

Shadows of the memory haunting your spirit - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

All the shadows secretly meditate - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours VI" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Downs of gold beflecked with shadows' flight - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Silence" transl. by Alma Strettell

A saint shadowed by the axe - R.A. Villanueva "This dark is the same dark as when you close"

Keeps its shadow by swallowing it - Ocean Vuong "Into the Breach"

A blade of honey between our shadows - Ocean Vuong "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"

Children and shadows and singularities - Claire Wahmanholm "Poem with No Children in It"

Magnify his shadow - Derek Walcott "Roman Peace"

To shorten the shadow - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"

Cast only a passing shadow - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"

Gentleness in the shade of shadows - Loretta Diane Walker "Imagining my Neighbor"

Who was the shadow and who was the sunlight - Jo Walton "Nemi"

Quiet under its covering of shadows - Wang An-shih "Impromptu: Late Spring at Pan-shan" transl. by Burton Watson

Who cannot from their shadow flee - William Watson "Nay, Bid Me Not My Cares to Leave"

The chestnut tree admires her large-leaved shadow - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"

With two small shadows following after - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"

to see what casts a shadow - Chaun Webster "[by way of entry you sit with an object]"

Under a pale sky where no shadows fall - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

On the mist our shadows saw - Edith Wharton "The Mortal Lease. II"

Shadows of moving armies - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Hunger, the shadow cast by death - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Among the shadows where the starlight fails - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Toward the same shadows - John Hall Wheelock "Plaint"

Shifting light and overshadowing cloud - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"

Shadow winnowed through the skies - Eugene R. White "Reward"

Serene within the shadow - Helen Hay Whitney "Lyric Love"

Dancing shadows on the snow - Helen Hay Whitney "A Song of the Oregon Trail"

No shadow where I crossed - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"

Shadow and silence encompass our camp - "Wife of my Bosom" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

No shadows in the gauzy light - Dana Wilde "Abductions"

Deep silence where the shadows cease - Oscar Wilde "Impressions"

The shadow under a bush - William Carlos Williams "Primrose"

Could fathom the guts of shadows - William Carlos Williams "Sub Terra"

Whatever is closest to shadow - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"

Blended her shadow with mine - Joseph R. Wilson "One Sweet Moment"

The passing shadow of a cloud - Joseph R. Wilson "Sunrise from the Alvarado Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico"

Healing slowly in its shadow - Michelle Wirth "Campus"

Dance where the shadows and music be - Humbert Wolfe "The Wind"

The jealous shadows of yesterday - Nancy Wood "Beginning Time"

An interval of changing shadows - Nancy Wood "The Meaning of Daylight"

The shadow of creation - Nancy Wood "Shaman's Circle"

In the shadow of December - Margaret L. Woods "Gaudeamus Igitur"

Fir shadows needling out of the woods - Charles Wright "Consolation and the Order of the World"

Grant us shadows and their cohorts - Charles Wright "Lullaby"

Tell them the shadows are already gone - Charles Wright "Shadow and Smoke"

In the shadows of city lights - Emanuel Xavier "How Some of Us Survived Cuando El Mundo Did Not Want Us"

A shadow you walk in to avoid the light - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"

Barefoot and shadow-cropped - Jenny Xie "No Animal"

From whose forms shadows pass - Lynn Xu "[And as the procession]"

Shadow in pursuit of form - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson

And instructs it in shadow - Yao Feng (aka Yao Jingming) "Searching for Light" transl. by Julia Sanches

Of their shadows deep - W.B Yeats "When You Are Old"

Slow as a shadow in my steps - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

The sound of a shadow forgetting - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

the shadow zone at the core of the flame - Monica Youn "Blueacre"

And my shadowy avatars renounced - Francis Brett Young "Envoi"

And shadows of children playing - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"

The bent shadows late in the day - Kevin Young "Halter"

Cast meaningful shadows - Matthew Zapruder "January"

Shadows drag their shadows - Matthew Zapruder "There Is a Light"

Full of rented shadows - Matthew Zapruder "Water Street"

With so many shadows to instruct you - Matthew Zapruder "You Have Astounding Cosmic News"

A space carved from shadow and air - Cynthia Zarin "The Impulse Wants Company"

The rain rubbing out their shadows - Cynthia Zarin "Meltwater"

But for a shadow crossing your path - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

A set of moving mirrored shadows - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

A graph of absent shadow - Art Zilleruelo "Someone's Property"

Spider webs woven into the shadows - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 17" transl. by Katherine Silver


Deep-shadowed from the candle's guttering gold - Siegfried Sassoon "The Dug-Out"


Foreshadowing April's face - Charles George Douglas Roberts "The Silver Thaw"


Beside the glory-shadowed gate - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"


Half-shadowings of the thing I meant - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Original Impulse"


Overshadowed by cypress and pine - "The Ch'u Tz'u: The Mountain Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson


About their shadow-haunted circle clings - Rennell Rodd "On the Border Hills"


Twisted in a pallid shadow-knot - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"


Dusky depths of shadowlands - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"

Elusive spirit of the shadow-land - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"

In the shadow land between streetlights - Ann K. Schwader "Mardi Gras Postmortem"


A mind new-made of shadowless delight - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"

And shadowless trees rootlessly paused - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"

The meed of high and shadowless renown - Wm. H.C. Hosmer "A Voice for Poland" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

In the shadowless vault of lucid air - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

Made of smokeless flame and shadowless light - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"


A specter's gem in the shadow-playtime - Stephen Vincent Benet "Boarding-House Hall"


The shadow-stitched perimeter of childhood - Carl Phillips "Why so this Quiet"


The fish in shadow-waved herds - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"


Unshadowed flame of phantom suns - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"


Violet-shadows to haunt the shade - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]


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