Potential Titles: Wall

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Yesterdays and tomorrows being the walls of our prisons - Etel Adnan "Night"

Carving your name on the cell wall - Daisy Aldan "Your Letter"

Clanking irons chained to the wall of stone - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

On my wall is a glimpse of Rome - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Snow" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

Upon the whitened walls of Jericho - Willis Boyd Allen "Blind"

That makes the walls themselves remember - Mouna Ammar "Ode to Ammou"

Around this valley lies a golden wall - Leslie J. Anderson "In the Valley of Midas"

Knowing the world means dissolving its walls - Ryu Ando "The Oblique Light at Kakushima (A Memory of Persimmons)" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]

Who droops in gloom beyond the wall - Auguste Angellier "Resignation" transl. by Henry van Dyke

The wild walled kingdoms of herself - Atticus "Magic in Her"

A fig leaf against a smashed wall - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

They tambourine the light on the wall - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

The gun on the wall never fired - Mary Jo Bang "The Fall"

The walls of time dissolve whenever the lights are turned off - Mary Jo Bang "How will it feel months from now"

Irises edging a back wall - Mary Jo Bang "An Individual Equinox Suitable for Framing"

A false wall that holds nothing back - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"

Palm trees pinned against a wall - Mary Jo Bang "A Room in Cleopatra's Palace"

What dream lies walled within - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Cave"

Spin bodies to the wall and back - Samiya Bashir "At Harlem Hospital across the street from the Schomburg the only thing to eat is a Big Mac"

Finds a way through the thickest of walls - Clara Doty Bates "Saarchinkold!" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]

A strangling cavern wall - Charles Baudelaire "The Sky" transl. not credited

Beyond the mighty walls of fog - Charles Baudelaire "The Swan" transl. not credited

In a house with one wall - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"

Rivers under ancient walls flowing - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"

Built my house with Pain for wall - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

Through the ebon walls of night - Park Benjamin "Press On"

Writing magic things in flame, upon the wall of night - Stella Benson "The Inevitable"

Unbuilt all walls of thought - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"

Retreats in a wall of brown foam - Elizabeth Bishop "The Moose"

Will paper their walls with maps and broken promises - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"

Runs in blood down palace walls - William Blake "London"

Echoed off the undulating walls - Laurel Blossom "Bonnie Blue"

Paced their dollhouse walls - Leah Bobet "Hold Fast"

Down a glaring maze of walls - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Forest"

Thorn vine on the wall - "The Book of Odes: No.46 Thorn Vine on the Wall" transl. by Burton Watson

Migrate through the walls of deserted homes - Bruce Boston "Ghost People"

Against the frozen wall of what is known - Elizabeth Bradfield "Polar Explorer Capt. John Cleves Symmes (1820)"

Along cracking walls of sky - Shannon Bramer "Dreaming Upside Down"

With gray walls compassed round - Anne Bronte "Home"

A passionate music stirs without her walls - Caris Brooke "[Girdled with gold my little lady's bower]"

The murderous scrawl of languages on walls - Fleda Brown "Afternoons at the Lake"

Sniffing out the edge of completed walls - Paul Cameron Brown "Ambergris City"

Water wears its way through granite walls - Evelyn Gage Browne "Faith"

A meaningless refrain to empty walls - Marie Hedderwick Browne "My House Is Left Unto Me Desolate"

Only the old grey walls remain - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Abbey Walls"

That fills the wall of the crystal heaven - William Cullen Bryant "The Hurricane"

A fragment of some mighty wall - William Cullen Bryant "Monument Mountain"

Despite cold walls and roses - Sue Budin "Looking for My Brother's Grave"

Brushing indigo along the wall - Sue Budin "Synesthesia"

Ghosts that leave smudges on the walls - Sue Budin "Totality"

With a wall of visible music - Gerald Bullett "Home"

High are its walls so can't see o'er - Adelbert Farrington Caldwell "A Prison House"

A lone weed beside the garden wall - Adelbert Farrington Caldwell "With Out-Stretched Cup"

my heart was a clock on the kitchen wall - Nicole Callihan "dwelling"

Count the living stars upon the walls - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"

By a petty wall of time - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

The blank wall by my window - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"

On the wall of this House of Doom - Bliss Carman "Seven Things"

Through the broken walls of time - Alice Cary "Music"

Deny your right within these walls - Roger Casement "Oliver Cromwell 1650-1659"

Built strong walls and high - C.P. Cavafy "Walls" transl. from modern Greek by John Cavafy

The walls scream for mercy - Chia-Lun Chang "Vote Your Way to Hell"

Through iron bars on prison walls - Ralph Chaplin "I.W.W. Prison Song"

Their walls of stone and bars of steel - Ralph Chaplin "I.W.W. Prison Song"

Smite these stubborn walls and lay them low - Ralph Chaplin "The Warrior Wind"

The dismal walls, smoke-tainted green - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XI"

Lived in a house with no walls - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"

Last year's extinctions paint the wall - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"

The pile of turf against the wall - Padraic Colum "An Old Woman of the Roads"

I the wall which barred the way - Susan Coolidge "At the Gate"

The clear, mocking walls - Susan Coolidge "Gulf-Stream"

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

And walls of stone they safely pass - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"

The long low sun on the level wall - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Over the Hills and Far Away"

The wall which bounds the universe - Rev. William Crowe "Written When Buonaparte Was Altering the Governments of Germany"

How the shadows crawl surely up your crumbling wall - Countee Cullen "Lines to Our Elders" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Watched the shadow of a tree flicker on the wall - Waring Cuney "The Death Bed" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Foreheads touching the wall's stone - Krystyna Dąbrowska "White Chairs" transl. by Karen Kovacik

A strong wall about me - Mary Carolyn Davies "Love Song"

Massy walls of unhewn agate towered - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Where the ivy crept around the ruined coping of the wall - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]

How pity beat the wall of prudence down - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"

Stand within Time's crumbling walls - Benjamin De Casseres "The-Circle-That-Looks-Like-A-Line"

Rasp the stationed walls of night - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"

The swallow's eggs are laid along the belfry walls - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

A closed cage walled in by fire and sea - Geoffrey Dearmer "Mudros After the Evacuation"

All the questions that lead to a broken wall - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"

While drones infest the walls - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"

Four great walls have hemmed me in - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"

And never dread to strike a wall - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"

My tired wings might crave a wall - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"

Jericho still has her high wall - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

The old house shivers, and the walls begin to moan - Lionel Dilbeck "The Ghoul's Parade" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]

Never hindered by man-made walls - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"

Interrogates a wall for being in his way - Mark Dimaisip "Where Frequencies Talk Over" [Strange Horizons 10 Feb. 2025]

The tasseled trees frown from the wall - Irving Sidney Dix "The Glen"

A crowd of eyes against an asphalt wall - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"

In a picture framed on an invisible wall - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Imagination"

Austere walls no voices penetrate - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"

The walls of flesh grow weak - Ernest Dowson "Extreme Unction"

Skin walls and blood rivers - Peg Edera "Harbors of Miracle"

Run into a softer wall - Katherine Edgren "The Gift of Warning"

No choice but to read the city walls - Tongo Eisen-Martin "I Do Not Know the Spelling of Money"

Touched on the awful walls of night - Erastus W. Ellsworth "Meditations on the Last Judgment" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.4, Oct. 1852]

Breaks down walls of stone - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Get past all human walls - Heid E. Erdich "Breaking and Entering"

That vitriolic atmosphere just outside the ever-eroding walls - Timons Esaias "Venusian Cuisine"

Beheld these walls demolished - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Tortuous tunnels walled with light - Anthony Euwer "The Caves of Josephine"

Vast mosaic walls full of the scenes of Olympus - Bernadine Evaristo "Amo Amas Amat"

An arrow aimed at a wall - Blas Falconer "My Son Wants to Know Who His Biological Father Is"

Where wreathed Bacchantes float on every wall - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

The walls of that catacomb she walks at night - Monica Ferrell "Poetry"

Walled in with solitude - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

On the broken walls you stand - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"

Moon has dusks for walls - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"

Scrawl on the walls of night - John Gould Fletcher "Sharaku Dreams"

Thick with suspicious walls - Sandy Florian "House"

Skirt the eddy's whirlpooling walls - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen a"

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

Shackled against the shooting wall - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XI"

A reliquary in a wall of silence - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"

Paintings of high art along the wall - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 3"

Like Jericho's falling wall - Vievee Francis "Gettysburg: Blue and Grey"

To make no more of a wall than an open gate - Robert Frost "The Cow in Apple Time"

Left no trace but the cellar walls - Robert Frost "Ghost House"

Something there is that doesn't love a wall - Robert Frost "Mending Wall"

We keep the wall between us as we go - Robert Frost "Mending Wall"

Ask to know what I was walling in - Robert Frost "Mending Wall"

That wall which bounds the future and the past - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

No echo without a wall - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson

A wall between the thirst and the river - Andrea Gibson "Dear Trump Voter,"

Right there by the crack in the wall - "Grandmamma Spider" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]

Perched on a wall fulfilling fancy's needs - Robert Graves "The Martyred Decadents: A Sympathetic Satire"

Time leans forward with his glassy wall - Robert Graves "The Red Ribbon Dream"

Water will outwit a wall - Linda Gregerson "Waterborne"

A concave wall down-ribbed with shine - Thom Gunn "From the Wave"

Who watch the stars through broken walls - Ivor Gurney "From Omiecourt"

Forced us through rocky walls - Katherine Hale "Going North IV: Painted Rock"

The grass walls of a teenage wasteland - Aaron Tyler Hand "Self-Portrait as Combinations Taco Bell/Pizza Hut/KFC"

Make use of broken walls - Nathalie Handal "How to Bite Hard"

Imprinted their dreams on its walls - Thomas Hardy "The Strange House"

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

Sunlight on a scarlet canyon wall - Joy Harjo "The Bloodletting"

A crystal wall with a thousand mouths - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"

Walls of eyes and teeth - Duriel E. Harris "What he thought belly down, when I was 8 years old"

Saw white Helen on the walls of Troy - F.W. Harvey "The Moon"

A country by my own heart walled - F.W. Harvey "Since I Have Loved"

Fills the wall of the crystal heavens - José María Heredia "The Hurricane" transl. by William Cullen Bryant

Walling up its crystal wealth - Geo. Canning Hill "Theodora: a Ballad of the Woods"

Sober walls of weathered stone - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"

By Lima's crumbling walls I'd pondered - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "Homeward Bound" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]

Nowhere without walls - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"

The walls around you kept closing in - Edward Hirsch "What the Last Evening Will Be Like"

A wall that was once a window - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

No directions printed on the cavern walls - David Hornibrook "Pony"

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

Aisles with walls like marble foam - Robert E. Howard "Shadows on the Road"

From the hollows of the walls - William Dean Howells "The Empty House"

Down the blank visage of the wall - William D. Howells (uncredited) "The Old Homestead" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

The adverse walls of fate - Aldous Huxley "Out of the Window"

Kept in by a wall that already exists - Maria Ibarra-Frayre "Awareness"

The walls painted with myths - Carly Inghram "That Which Carries Breath or the Living Wind"

The monster's shadow stained the walls - Mark Irwin "Monster"

The moon sweating in the fields outside the walls - Richard Jackson "The Italian Phrase Book"

A reverence for the green outside these walls - Geoffrey Jacques "The Calculus of Acceptable Sins"

Explain these monstrous walls - Allison Eir Jenks "Transfiguration of the Golden Bird"

Cement walls stable enough to cover them - Jacqueline Jiang "If My Body Is Dying, Tell Me You Love Me"

The paper walls of time - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Past the flaming walls afar - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"

The outdated map on his wall - Douglas S. Jones "A Tuesday Night"

The blur of a voice behind the wall - Janet Kauffman "The Blur of"

One wall flies out the window - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"

Melting walls and circling vultures - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

The wall is an Iliad of granite - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Mingled in the spring song of the walls - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Walls wrought in unfaltering effort - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

A breach in the wall of darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Built my tomb walls strong enough to keep me safe - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"

Wicked wolves without the wall at night - Rudyard Kipling "Shiv and the Grasshopper"

Controlling clocks on kitchen walls - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Beneath the straining wall of darkness - Ted Kooser "Telescope"

Murderers entombed behind Arkham's walls - Andrew Kozma "The Black Death" [Strange Horizons 8 Sept. 2025]

All its weary height of walls - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"

A wall in the center of the night - Rickey Laurentiis "Epithalamion"

Before that Wall's forestalling future - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"

Crushed amid iron walls - Emily Lawless "From the Burren IV: Night Sounds"

Who sit 'twixt darkened walls - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

Through the lattice high in yon dead wall - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

To climb forbidden walls - Richard Le Gallienne "Cor Cordium"

Enameled cities their walls anointed in myrrh - R.B. Lemberg "In the Third Cycle"

Battered the walls with catapult and fire - William Ellery Leonard "Menorah" [The Menorah Journal, v.1, 1915]

And mocked the strength of Babylon's haughty wall - "The Lesson of War" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.1, Jan. 1862]

Through adobe walls and secret gardens - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

The marble walls of men's cold hearts - Amy Levy "Xantippe"

Catch a sight of lands beyond the wall - C.S. Lewis "Spirits in Bondage part III: The Escape: XXXII. Our Daily Bread"

Watch the same wall turn fifty reds - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

Until then, praise the walls - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

I'd scale the walls of hell - "Lost Love"

Pounds her fists on the walls of my dreams - Amanda Lovelace "the princess saves herself in this one"

Cleaving a path between blown walls of sleet - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"

Against the jutting angle of a wall - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"

From deep study of brick walls - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"

The deathwatch tickt behind the wall - James Russell Lowell "Rosaline" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.2, Feb. 1842]

If implicit could be nailed to the wall - Thomas Lux "Nullius in Verba (Take Nobody's Word for It)"

Around beleaguered walls rang - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Rears its dark walls, invincible to time - G.T.M. "The Danish Sailor" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.1, July 1864]

Powder seeping down walls - D. Keali'i MacKenzie "Miracles Welcome"

Shifting pictures glimpsed in the crystal walls - Maurice Maeterlinck "Bell-Glasses" transl. by Bernard Miall

To unresponsive walls of stone - Douglas Malloch "Inspiration"

The stones cry from the walls - Edwin Markham "To High-born Poets"

Swept away the human wall - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"

The walls of our collective resurrection - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"

A mirage from walls that shut out an intolerable space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

You would have thought nothing of the wall - Cate Marvin "The Truth"

Firm in old bones your walls' foundations stand - John Masefield "The Haunted"

Which side of the wall we die on - Jamaal May "The Whetting of Teeth"

A boundless wall of red - John McCrae "The Unconquered Dead"

The breathless road between the walls - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

Listening to the wind and looking at the wall - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Philosopher"

Shadowing walls of stone-and-granite gloom - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "April in Fourth Avenue"

To haunt the walls the flames have charred - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "The Burning of Chambersburg [July 30, 1864]"

Those walls are all thy lands - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"

Turn inward on a wall of books - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"

A silence on the ancient walls - N. Scott Momaday "Torrent"

beats against the wall of the waterless - Valzhyna Mort "crossword"

On cloistered walls - Glenn Mott "Amaryllis"

Count on these walls - Jennifer Moxley "The Imprint"

A wall between today and insanity - Walter Dean Myers "John Brambles, 55, Numbers Runner"

These vertical walls of copper - Pablo Neruda "Brother Cordillera" transl. by Alastair Reid

The cathedrals heaved with walls of fire - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

On the walls a rising rancor - Pablo Neruda "Insomnia" transl. by Alastair Reid

Yesterday's pictures on the walls - Pablo Neruda "The Unknown One" transl. by Alastair Reid

The silver chill caught in our wind-woven walls - Mari Ness "ICE"

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

Whose walls are glass, whose gates are gold - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Winding between the huge Plutonian walls - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"

Roof and walls of vine - Naomi Shihab Nye "Last August Hours Before the Year 2000"

Shrinking back from the walls of the brain - Naomi Shihab Nye "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change"

A field could show how to sleep without walls - Naomi Shihab Nye "Yellow Glove"

Has banged into your wall of air - Frank O'Hara "For James Dean"

Cut crystal against rainbow walls - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"

Tang of salt in the walls - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Saw the wall of hills on fire - Gregory Orr "Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm"

Above the wall that shows no gate - R.O.P. "Malanoth (To Clark Ashton Smith)" [Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.3, Nov. 1934]

They shut him up in walls of night - Herbert E. Palmer "Courage"

But sing for whom the walls shut in - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

The ghosts in the walls - Carl Phillips "Interior: All the Leaves Shake Off Their Light"

A self without walls, with surface tension - Marie Ponsot "Springing"

Huddling against the dark blue wall of the Night - Esther Popel "Theft"

Walls that are fragile - Emilio Porta

The walls of the infinite - Emilio Porta "Circle"

The seasonless monotonies of walls - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"

Our shadows are big on the wall - Miriam Clark Potter "Tea Time"

The road away to the walls of Twilight Town - Miriam Clark Potter "Twilight Town"

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

A stone wall smothered by what fell - Charles Rafferty "Snowfall After Hearing Hard News"

Under the walls of Paradise - T. Buchanan Read "Drifting"

Lightning's hand illumes the wall of day - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Close to the blackberry wall - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Summer Shower"

Till the crystal wall of Eden trembled - W.H. Rhodes "Lost and Found"

Within these walls a Babel tumult sound - W.H. Rhodes "The Merchant's Exchange"

Stark precipice of walls - Lola Ridge "Back Yards"

The wall pour forth without aim - Lola Ridge "Back Yards"

The walls rise in a man's face - Rihaku "Four Poems of Departure: Leave-taking Near Shoku" transl. by Ezra Pound

Crested o'er the golden walls - James Whitcombe Riley "The Song I Never Sing"

As from a prison walled with hate - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Let the walls be hung with black - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"

Wanted to paper the walls with butterflies - Margaret Ross "Evolution"

A wall of leaping darkness over her - Muriel Rukeyser "Painters"

demands we graffiti on the levee wall - C.T. Salazar "River"

Broken walls of ruin and story - Carl Sandburg "Follies"

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

Underneath a wall of mottled stone - Margaret E. Sangster "Wood Magic"

The lyric a border wall - Cintia Santana "apocalyptic lyric"

Unshaken as the steadfast walls - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"

Spells that writhe on the pulsing quartz walls - Lorraine Schein "Merlin"

Between our walls of phantom data - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"

These walls incised with nightmare - Ann K. Schwader "Last Light, Frijoles Canyon"

Hunched inside a walled city built of books - M. Bartley Seigel "Afterword"

More difficult than to break the time's wall - Salik Shah "The Last Scan"

A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"

In these uneven walls a wave lies prisoned - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"

Mute thoughts on the mute walls around - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

The Jasmine clambers up the wall to twine her wreaths - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

The death watch ticks within the walls - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Skeleton in the Cupboard"

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

Mute, unsentried walls and turrets climb - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"

On the shifting walls of time - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

Through the walls of hollow cloud - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"

Over the walls of my heart - Hope Anita Smith "Sleuthing"

The land the wall wants to eat - Brandon Som "Resistors"

The sapphire walls of noon forbid - George Sterling "Stars of Noon"

Trapped between papered walls - Melissa Studdard "Everyone in Me Is a Bird"

Collapsed wall tangled in vines - Su Tung-p'o "Eastern Slope" transl. by Burton Watson

Dealing with walls being built on straw - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 139: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Can't be contained by walls of sand - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 158: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

A labyrinth walled and roofed with woe - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"

As they pace the crystal walls of Heaven - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

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

Attacking the necessary and impenetrable wall - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

The paths made new by walls of moving mist - Sara Teasdale "A November Night"

Four grey walls, and four grey towers - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"

Splendour falls on castle walls - Tennyson "The Splendour Falls"

Inside the walls of the dream - Susan Tichy "Public Speech"

Against a wall of wind and sand - Edwin Torres "Neptune's Elegia"

Builded round with diamond walls - Richard Chenevix Trench "To E--"

Becoming hammers tearing the walls down - John Trudell "Beauty in a Fade/49 Wait for Me"

River villages with mountains for walls - Tu Mu "Spring South of the Yangtze" transl. by David Hinton

A sigh in the chimney, a roar on the wall - Nancy Byrd Turner "A Rainy Day Plan" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Cherries in nets against the wall - Katharine Tynan "The Choice"

And clutch the crumbling walls - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"

And whispers through your walls - Louis Untermeyer "Spring on Broadway"

behind our walls of thatch and moss and tin - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"

A slave prisoned by the walls of fate - Rudolph Valentino "Slavery (To E.A.P.)"

The walls are dead with dust - Mark Van Doren "In Time of Drouth"

Their walls are compacted of heavy stones - Henry van Dyke "The Great Cities"

Among the golden fruit upon the wall - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Joy" transl. by Alma Strettell

Burn these walls to the ground - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"

Like that fierce writing on the wall - "Verses for an Album" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

A countryside plowed by war, outside the city walls - Emilio Villa "What's New" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

Yolks needed to bind portraits to walls - R.A. Villanueva "When Doves"

Mistake these walls for skin - Ocean Vuong "Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong"

The holly bright shone on the old oak wall - Susan E. Wallace "The Mistletoe Bough"

And lurked before the walls of Elsinore - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: ii) Godzilla in Shakespeare"

Spring wind past stone walls remembers best - Wang An-Shih "Golden-Tomb City" transl. by David Hinton

Weed-tangled city walls wrap around ruins - Wang An-Shih "Thinking of Golden-Tomb City Long Ago" transl. by David Hinton

The sky moved crying through your walls - Noah Warren "Wind"

Where high walls shade the steep old streets - Mary Webb "Market Day"

Knew the silent gates and walls - Charles Weekes "Dreams"

A wall of flame from the brilliant sky - A. Ethelwyn Wetherald "Autumn Fire"

Grey on the great wall of Thought - Helen Hay Whitney "Age"

Walled and overlaid with dazzling crystal - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The wild tulip shall outlast the prison wall - John Wieners "Private Estate"

In the futile darkness of a wall - William Carlos Williams "Keller Gegen Dom"

Walk until you hit a wall - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"

As We heard your walls crumbling - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"

My damaged life mask of Keats on the wall - David Wojahn "Another Epistle to Frank O'Hara"

The four walls of my murky inheritance - Wendy Xu "Interim Poetics"

Occupy the walls that surround me - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Broken on the wall of time - Jane Yolen "I See a Bony Hand First"

Walls that display the bare mortar and brick - "The Young Author's Dream" [The Continental Monthly, v.5 no.4, April 1864]

Plaster crumbles on the lonely walls - Francis Brett Young "An Old House"

Happiness ran through the walls - Jordan Zandi "Inside"

Through the walls of an empty house - Jordan Zandi "Solarium"

Death and birth the two infinite walls - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"


Thrice three times it was enwalled - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"


Solar wind strokes the ice-wall into light - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"


Heard the bitterns call from ruined palace-wall - Robert Graves "In the Wilderness"


Building seawalls higher and higher - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Seawall soliloquy number two: she built a seawall"

Bruised from battered jetty and sea-wall - Leonora Speyer "This City Wind"


In a seven-walled prison - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe


Tradition built this guarded shadow-wall - Robert Winkworth Norwood "His Lady of the Sonnets"


watched a star burn through your wall-length windows - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"


Wallpaper.


In her wind-walled palace - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"


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