Potential Titles: Word
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somethingdarkerAll the words we spoke in truth - W.E.A. "The Buried Flower" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]
To protect the words gathered by light - Elmaz Abinader "Losing Words Fast"
The last words you hear on earth - Jessica Abughattas "Failed Poems"
The wrong words followed by the wrong deeds - Duane Ackerson "Giving Back the Moon"
Listen for a green word from the redwoods - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
Covered with his own words - Etel Adnan "Night"
in this code where every word means obey - Kaveh Akbar "Against Dying"
God's word is a melody I sang once then forgot - Kaveh Akbar "I Wouldn't Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance"
Some words die caged - Francisco X. Alarcon "Words Are Birds"
They sang words without falsehood - "Alexander the Great"
Your demon words borne high on wings of song - Mike Allen "Ascending"
Words trickled through the sand - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
A word the mouth has forgotten - Threa Almontaser "Heritage Emissary"
Like words, like truth, like blood - Leslie J. Anderson "In the Valley of Midas"
I give you the archaeology of my words - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Our war of mocking words - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"
I reached the border of every word - Jarid Arraes "Movement"
Words that stumble into stars and hide - Joseph Auslander "I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come"
Profaning heaven's own air with words unclean - A.B. "Sonnet to Clarkson" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
Words tumbling from absent-minded lips - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Grieve every word lost - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
As interesting as a word repeated until emptied - Ari Banias "A Sunset"
Word for home that could also mean journey - Ari Banias "Villagers"
A foreign word that you are ashamed to learn - Carmen Bardeguez-Brown "Rican Issues"
The nimble words have fled - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
An infidel in thought and word and grief - Natalie Clifford Barney "The Love of Judas"
Blood can have the last word - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
Nearby I take your words to water - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
The distance between words and waves - Elizabeth Bartlett "Air Bridge"
Not needing the support of words - Elizabeth Bartlett "I Think I Am"
yellow was first word for gold - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
An insubstantial repository of final words - Ennis Rook Bashe "How to Hallucinate Your Zombie Lover"
A gentle word in sorrow's ear - Cora C. Bass "No Blessing Ever Comes by Chance"
Ranged themselves in winsome words - Clara Doty Bates "Goody Two-Shoes" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]
Idyll built of innocent words - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited
And paint with poppied words - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"
The last word of a thousand years - Clive Bell "The Last Infirmity"
Loose net of words to deeds - Stephen Vincent Benet "Music"
Inscribed upon their leaves the words - Park Benjamin "Lines Sent with a Bouquet"
Brown poems of dark words and prehistoric rhythms - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Advice" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The keen precision of your words wove a silver thread - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Advice" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Returned to barren words and old cold truth - Stella Benson "The Dog Tupman"
Counting each hour a word - Stella Benson "New Year, 1918"
Shut your lips to words that are forbidden - Stella Benson "To the Unborn"
Luminous is a better word than translucent - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Lux"
Once without a word was told - G. Clifton Bingham "Sweet Day of Days" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.156, v.III, 25 Dec. 1886]
Where words have no leverage - Tommye Blount "An Act of Love"
Who no traitor word know - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "How Shall I Build"
With words as deliberate as wind - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"
Waiting for the conquest of words - Maxwell Bodenheim "Cry, Naked and Personal"
Crowding life into seven words - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
The avaricious words of a meager, petrified man - Maxwell Bodenheim "Nondescript Typist"
An unbidden word whitening the death of a smile - Maxwell Bodenheim "An Old Man Humming a Song" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
I would not wake at your word - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"
The words waiting for music - Louise Bogan "Words for Departure"
With a smile and words of hope - Sarah Knowles Bolton "The Inevitable"
And listened to the words of men now dead - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Words that die before meaning - Sara Borjas "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"
My lonely joy in your words - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
The empty words of a dream - Robert Bridges "I Love All Beauteous Things"
How hollow rings that word - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"
The early winds took up the words - Jonathan Henderson Brooks "The Resurrection" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Every last word is contagious - Jericho Brown "Heartland"
Weaving each burden into words - Lauren L. Brown "Willie Mae Brown (1909-1980)"
With words so sweet and dense - Lauren L. Brown "Willie Mae Brown (1909-1980)"
A word to be eaten with persimmon and pears - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"
in the incidental pauses between words - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"
The words I hear in the curlew's cry - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Regret"
To suit thy empty words - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Fills me like honeyed words - Sue Budin "Ripe Fruit"
No word of hope you've spoken - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Filled with You"
Chasms hidden between words - Anthony Butts "Embers"
Words bending thoughts like light - Anthony Butts "Mist and Fog"
And words of prophet-flame - W. Wilfred Campbell "In Holyrood"
The word that girdles the world - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Lazarus of Empires"
Let us remain in word and action strangers - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Humanity"
Such cheerful words to borrow - Lewis Carroll "Melancholetta"
A statue made of words - Paul Carroll "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"
But her words never came - Victoria Chang "OBIT"
That words trick us - Jos Charles "Seagull, Tiny"
Which words to carry in the arsenal - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"
The word of the world's desire - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"
Petrified words to reveal the infinite - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
Used what words we had - Franny Choi "We Used Our Words We Used What Words We Had"
Words to ward off sleep - Franny Choi "We Used Our Words We Used What Words We Had"
Gild his words with glucose - May Chong "Catering"
My spleen's above the power of words - "The Chosen One" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no.377, June 27, 1829, credited London Magazine]
The words here inscribe shall again be approved - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
A word that replaces beauty with doom - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "Why Is the Forest Lonely?"
A few harsh words of doubting - Rosie Churchill "This Is All..." [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, No.151--v.III, 20 November, 1886]
Just a word beyond recall - Rosie Churchill "This Is All..." [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, No.151--v.III, 20 November, 1886]
And could words unseal the spell - John Clare "The Meeting"
To unripe words and rugged verse - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
The words you sang were wrong - Leonard Cohen "Teachers"
Words which give the true metallic ring - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Ask for a remission of words - Susan Comninos "Our Father, Our King"
The words I was missing - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"
Blight of a broken word - Katherine Eleanor Conway "Saturninus"
Words of dull negation darkly fell - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
At the point where words retreat - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Some words die in cages - Eduardo C. Corral "To Francisco X. Alarcon (1954-2016)"
A thousand spires speak gilded words - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"
Eroding words between brothers - Shutta Crum "How Poetry Reframes the Moment"
How strangely cold these few yet bitter words - Charlotte Cushman "Duchess de la Valliere"
In that cage of words wild thoughts were pent - Olive Custance "A Dream"
Through secret words of prophets - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)
Algebra and geometry breathing seducing words - Michelle Dang "Calculating U"
But never change the words that were within - Mary Carolyn Davies "A Casualty List"
Built of words you have said - Mary Carolyn Davies "Love Song"
Fill my silences with your words - Hayes Davis "Thhhat was great"
Drowning with words sublime the dreaded thunder - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
And mouths his words at earless owls - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"
Warbled sweetly strange enchanted words - Walter de la Mare "As Lucy Went a-Walking"
With secret symbol of line and word - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"
Each word of a neighbor's argument - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"
Fashioned symphonies of thought and word - Geoffrey Dearmer "The Shadow"
That make wind chimes of words - Diane DeCillis "Nest"
Captive sky gathering words that burn and rise - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"
Scrolling through Merriam Webster's youngest words - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"
Whose words burn my hands - Diana Marie Delgado "Tracing the Horse"
A word which bears a sword - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love X: Forgotten"
My words will be your only wine - Thomas M. Disch "Ballade of the New God"
Words stained by hunger - Jordi Doce "With Eyes Opened on the Edge of the World"
Hope: the last word spoken - Rita Dove "Testimony: 1968"
And words of delicate breath - Edward Dowden "Brother Death"
Too soon the irrevocable word - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"
Pronounce the dread condemning word - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"
Forgive these wild, blasphemous words - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Locked her words in rocks - Bruce Ducker "Picnic"
Swallowed some wild prophet's words - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"
And hot enamel on the words - Max Eastman "A Visit"
The words pollinated the dark - Carolina Ebeid "[You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior]"
Each word is sacrificed to a sword - Bijan Elahi "Five Scenes from Icarus" transl. by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian
The words you link false inference with - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"
Whose streams in words and acts appear - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Morning"
Words more soft than rain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Character"
My soothing words are turned to dust - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Crawl beneath her mighty words - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Mighty words and clever counsel - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 33. E-Dimgalkalama, the Temple of Ishtaran in Der" transl. by Sophus Helle
Amidst their chirping he hears words - Daniel Errico "Prescott Hawthorne"
That lost, stardust word glowing black - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"
Words of wonder and words of truth - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"
All the words the signpost tells - "Fairy's Album: V. Fairy's Dream"
Words that knew no bounds - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Again it is September"
Naught have you and I but frozen tears, and stifled words - Jessie Fauset "Fragment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Stifled words, and once a sharp caught cry - Jessie Fauset "Fragment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Had no need of my words anymore - Annie Finch "Edge, Atlantic, July"
A word of flame and force - John Gould Fletcher "The Rock"
Will gentle words feed me - "The Flower of Nut-Brown Maids" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Its leftover words in my mouth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"
Must read some dark or words to-night - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Then tears came fast instead of words - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Words spoken by the coals - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"
Behind light words that tease and flout - Robert Frost "Revelation"
Speaks a word like burning light - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
Spoke some unremembered word - Zona Gale "Light"
Some cruel word uttered carelessly - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"
Putting banned words in bottles to bury - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"
Parrots for prattling words are prized - John Gay "Fable XXV: The Scold and Parrot" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Delights a little net of words may hold - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Rupert Brooke"
Gets your heart broken over cruel words - Nikita Gill "Your Soft Heart"
The vanished words lying with their companions - Louise Gluck "Cornwall"
Her sharply worded silences - Louise Gluck "Faithful and Virtuous Night"
Each word rings out over our terrified heads - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
Each word dressed for burial - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
Every breath was a soldier word - Rigoberto Gonzalez "The Soldier of Mictlan"
Bitter, blinding, binding words - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
Five words of unfinished prayer - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes"
Weave a web of lovely words - Mona Gould "Bend Your Head"
Words lost in boreal winds - Lore Graham "Absence"
Cheated space with inadvertant motion or word - Robert Graves "Down"
To speak brave words for truth and right - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [In the wet rice-swamps]"
Some word of earnest meaning - Grenville Grey "Write Thou Upon Life's Page"
But words the faltering tongue denies - Anastasius Grün "The 'Old Player'" transl. by Adam Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
Evidence of body not of word - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"
Speaking sins words - S.R.H. "Mabel" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.3)
A word unwelcome to his ears - W.H.C.H. "Death of Rob Roy" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
And through it blows a laughing word - Katherine Hale "CalvÉ in Blue"
And words all coloured with the sun - Katherine Hale "I Who Cut Patterns"
By the power of his word - Jupiter Hammon "A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death"
Nor any words that lips can teach - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
For a word from the lips of Truth - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Without winds becoming words - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Even words are creatures of habit - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"
Magic burned into the roots of antelope words - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
Words that sting like bitter limes - Joy Harjo "Resurrection"
As if words could mend - Leslie Harrison "[I keep throwing words at the problem because words]"
Words imposing on my tongue like obols - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 5. Fosterage"
Fabric stitched to breath and words - Conrad Hilberry "Julia Elsas, 'untitled 2009,' fabric, thread"
Words and the curl of numbers - Conrad Hilberry "A Thin Song for a Girl"
Words like a blur of blackbirds - Conrad Hilberry "A Thin Song for a Girl"
And wrote in words of fire - F.A. Hillard "The Poet's Pen" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.98, Feb. 1876]
Lay these words on the dead man's eyelids - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
The words have united in grief - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
What body defies the word? - Jen Hofer "future somatics to-do list"
Formations that resemble extinct words - Jackson Holbert "Evil Nature"
Widely scattered words remembered - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
To you the words are ashes - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry"
These words alone should work a charm - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]
Rich with ripe sorrow, needful of no word - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Found no words to tell the thoughts - Lucy H. Hooper "Farewell" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]
With every word that held a lie - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"
Warning struggled in my word - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"
That spells are made of words - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"
When words break through a surface - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"
Until all my words vanished - Katerina Iliopoulou "Cape Tenaron" transl. by Jackson Watson
The words which burn upon my tongue - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Hope sounds like the adult word for magic - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"
Lips whose lightest word is dear - G.C.J. "En Passant" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.35-v.I, 30 Aug. 1884]
Gave me a new word to say for home - Mark Jarman "The Mermaid"
Chromatic words, seraphic symphonies - Helene Johnson "Magalu"
Words kindred to the wind - Lionel Johnson "Celtic Speech"
Breathe words from the wave - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Breathe words from the field - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Using the world less and words more - Rodney Jones "The Language of Love"
Redeem the words of our beginning - June Jordan "Moving towards Home"
Words live in the spirit of her face - June Jordan "A Song for Soweto"
The stars are forming strange new words - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
No word nor any sign can make amend - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XVII"
And a little ashes their words come to - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XVIII"
An arrangement of uncalled-for words - Janet Kauffman "Uncalled-For"
The only word your mouth remembers - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
a distance of hard words hissed - Douglas Kearney "There's no 'sass' in 'dissociation'"
That word found way unto Olympus - John Keats "Hyperion"
Their Words to Scorn are scatter'd - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
In a carven censer of burnished words - Joyce Kilmer "Thurifer"
Words often harsh - Kim Unsong "World Cheerful"
No word more bitter than sweet honey - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
As lurks a bitter sting in honeyed words - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
Until light is the holy word - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"
Would hold a swarm of words inside his belly - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"
I'll break you most dearly with sweet words - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"
Beg with words of the unborn - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Devil Comes on Horseback"
The words are trapped behind her lips - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"
Every aching word we whispered - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"
My heart clings to her pretty words - "Lady Violet" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Sweet voices and words bright - Archibald Lampman "Winter Hues Recalled"
Not yet a word from the underworld - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"
The harsh sweetness of strange words - Joan Larkin "Mozart's Songbook"
A heart that loves beyond the shallow word - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Unperfected"
The leaves fly over the window and utter a word - D.H. Lawrence "At the Window"
Threw me words that rang with a brassy, shallow chime - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"
Lending elf-music to thy harshest word - Emma Lazarus "Echoes"
And love you without word or tear - Richard Le Gallienne "Desiderium"
my seizure breaking word and world - Joseph Lease "The Dead Lands"
The words my lute can never say - Frances Ledwidge "In September"
With words collapse, distorted - Yoon Ha Lee "Stella Rosetta"
Hell's first wild useless word - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "On Signorelli's Fresco of the Binding of the Lost"
Forgetting old words for the heart - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"
Collecting words in a different language - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"
Expects a grin at every word - Henry S. Leigh "Men I Dislike"
Perusing these words once or twice - Henry S. Leigh "Songs of the Sick Room No.2: Night and Morning"
The long, slow words of its rule - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
The mountains have no word for ocean - Philip Levine "Our Valley"
Before the dark whispers the last word - Philip Levine "Unholy Saturday"
Their last words reach us in the language of light - Philip Levine "Waking in March"
How one tiny word can be sacred - Robin Coste Lewis "The Ark: Self-Portrait as Aphrodite Using Her Dress for a Sail, ii"
Under the seams of his words - Sandra Lim "Certainty"
The impasse between word and world - Sandra Lim "Certainty"
Will endow the words with nonsense - Ada Limon "The Echo Sounder"
Spaces between words and stars - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"
The first word I say is listen - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
No wanton cares to win with words - D. Lodge "Solitariness" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Every single word my mother could not whisper - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"
And wild and sweet the words repeat - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Christmas Bells"
Lyrebird speaking stolen words - Amari Low "Themself"
The wild white honey of your words - Amy Lowell "Carrefour"
Your words in mournful cadence toll - Amy Lowell "The End"
A radium of the word - Mina Loy "Gertrude Stein"
The poet of iron words - Thomas Lux "Vaticide"
Words to paint her frantic sorrow - Isabella MacFarlane "The Two Southern Mothers" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
Expired words buried in open graves - Naomi Long Madgett "Packrat"
the word finding refuge in the mountain - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"
Night is flirty words with fiends - Randall Mann "Realtor"
Eventually all words waste magic - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
Wonderful beyond the wildest word - Edwin Markham "Joy of the Morning"
One azure word turned kiss - Jeannette Marks "Bubbles"
Before their conquering word - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"
Some loose-tongued prophet's meddling word - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"
Surpasses the compass of words - George Martin "To a Young Lady"
A blind-man buff of words avoiding words - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Changing every word from smoke to splendor - Harry Martinson "Aniara 48" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Where words of comfort found no welcome - Harry Martinson "Aniara 95" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Poisoned with the anonymous words - Edgar Lee Masters "Editor Whedon"
Words of your clandestine soul - Edgar Lee Masters "Editor Whedon"
Words of wheat across years of salt - Khaled Mattawa "Revisiting Hekale"
Warring gods vying for last words - Airea D. Matthews "Psyche on Prozac"
Giving me flashes of your life without words - Wes Matthews "Immortality"
The words arrayed in glass - Farid Matuk "For a Daughter/No Address"
Wander in a fog of words astray - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of a Ferocious Catholic"
Utterance of whirling words - Theodore Maynard "The Return"
Invented new words for waiting - Shara McCallum "Gravid Gravitas"
Words of rapture or grief - J.D. McClatchy "Wolf's Tree"
His words dissolving in your mind - Jeffrey McDaniel "Compulsively Allergic to the Truth"
Think of all the lost words, still unspoken - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Words to unburden them of their meanings - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Reverting to the old knowing words - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Like the words, wet with music - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."
The word like a wave lightning and then thunder - Mark McMorris "Dear Michael (2)"
Dante got the last word - Diane Mehta "Walking to Athena"
Again in disorderly words - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Her great word of life - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
What words from Wisdom come - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Condemned to follow words into a book - Michael Mesic "Night Letter"
Crowns thee lord of an unpurchasable word - Alice Meynell "Why Wilt Thou Chide"
The last words your fingers wrote - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Interim"
And a bitter word - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Souvenir"
Just another arrow poisoned with words - Andy Miller "Diana"
The Great Migration of words - E. Ethelbert Miller "The Ear is an Organ Made for Love"
But finds the soul snatched from his words - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Snuffed Out"
No words without shadows - Claire Millikin "Bright Shadows"
Every word a path through darkness - Claire Millikin "The Hunt"
His word was our arrow - Thomas Moore "Sound the Loud Timbrel"
To create an echoing hollow inside every word - Rusty Morrison "To measure internal activity while it turns all I know to rubble"
He has fourteen other senses there are no words for - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
The last word still tender - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Even words grow thin - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
And Payment punctual to their Word - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]
True in word and strict in vow - "Nala and Damayanti" (translated by Henry Hart Milman)
A stubborn, enduring skeleton of words - Pablo Neruda "Celebration" transl. by Richard Schaaf
A word is one wing of silence - Pablo Neruda "One Hundred Love Sonnets: XLIV" transl. by Rafael Campo
This song of dark words - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The atmosphere quivers with the first word uttered - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
Approach across the edge of words - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
Maternal source of words - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
A word is one wing of the silence - Pablo Neruda "XLIV: You must know that I do not love and that I love you"
Wooed by the wind's soft word - E. Nesbit "Mummy Wheat"
His words on your face as scars - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"
When his quill strikes the words - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Breaking the bread of our deepest words - Grace Nichols "In the Fleeting Now"
Idle words breathed of the dead - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "[I know that thou wilt sorrow]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]
Plays his role to the last whispered word - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"
Then what avail the scornful words - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
Their words of scorn and malice proved - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
Small calcium words uttered in sequence - Naomi Shihab Nye "Different Ways to Pray"
Live inside his old words - Naomi Shihab Nye "Ellipse"
Hiding everywhere beneath your words - Naomi Shihab Nye "Hidden"
Learns all the words to all the songs - Naomi Shihab Nye "Hugging the Jukebox"
Barricades of words and wire - Naomi Shihab Nye "Morning Song"
Answer, if you hear the words under the words - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Words Under the Words"
Words of Light alone our javelins hurled - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]
carve words in the dark - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"
words jetting out like jamboree - Porsha Olayiwola "Notorious"
Her work of words no less at home than his work of creation - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"
the words of lovers testing new hypothesis - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh "Hypercapnia" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]
Dark and fearful whispered words - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Huge twig-piles of words - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
May pass for a tender word spoken - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"
a matter of a single uttered word - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
These last loving words in vain - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"
Words of the unhealed wounds - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Underground"
May loiter with a word of praise - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)
To fit my fancies with harmonious words - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
And drink your rushing words with eager lips - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"
Spoke worn words to hallow my sleep - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Signposts leading to other words - Linda Pastan "All Nights" [Yes, 'words' is right.]
The little words of truth - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
The little words of love - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
The little words of hope - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
The little words of trust - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
And words the way to break it - Carl Phillips "A Little Closer Though, If You Can, For What Got Lost Here"
The chosen word of a journey - Emilio Porta "Paradise"
Give the echo to your dancing words - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"
One word dispel a cloud of tears - John Presland "November"
Squaring accounts for word and deed - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Indoctrinated words of oppression - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Spectral words that haunt the air - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Roses"
Cages of words have dissolving bars - Charles Rafferty "Words"
Have a word with all the gods that failed me - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"
The stranger that entered without a word - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Because you said we should take words to the world - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"
A comforting word the prophet spoke - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"
Trying to breathe that word into the well's ear - Adrienne Rich "Well in Ruined Courtyard"
These words to my worst friends and best enemies - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
A word molten out of the mouth of God - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Against the words of princes - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
The welcoming smell of words - Jack Ridl "The Nonattachment of Buddhism"
A word the color of dawn - Lynn Riggs "Spring Morning--Santa Fe"
Form words for reluctant ears - Lynn Riggs "Those Who Speak in Whispers"
Will keep forever their sky-lost words - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Primrose"
All those leased words - Valencia Robin "Insomnia"
One word spoken, one whisper of regret - Rennell Rodd "A Song of Autumn"
Music too sweet for words to speak - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Mind of the Mystic"
Words of sorrowing tenderness - Alice Wellington Rollins "The Difference"
Words wing'd with fate and fire - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
A word of rescue from the great eyes - Muriel Rukeyser "The Poem as Mask"
Will hearts for words be still? - J.S. "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
By word and image deeply wedded - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
a drone floats on the spine of my words - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"
The unspoken word is born - Sonia Sanchez "Wounded in the House of a Friend: Set No. 1"
Words of quiet silver - Tomas Sanchez Santiago "The Arrival"
Heard three red words - Carl Sandburg "Threes"
Each word sharpening a knife - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"
Spoke such a tender word - May Sarton "Small Joys: New Year 1990"
Spilling blue words like soft rain - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"
Each word a dark psalm - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"
A revolutionary of sundered words - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Four"
Siren gusts like tides beneath their words - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"
All my word was wisdom - Clinton Scollard "A King in Kerry"
Allowing the night to have the last word - Nicole Sealey "cento for the night i said, 'i love you'"
The violence done to the mind by the weaponized word - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"
A worded freedoms in a clarity the horizon affords - Prageeta Sharma "I Am Learning to Find the Horizons of Peace"
Ever is a double-edged word - Brenda Shaughnessy "Never Ever"
The far-off hills cry a golden word of you - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: V. A Song in August"
The word a rose breathes to a bird - Frank Dempster Sherman "At Her Window"
Their seamless smiles, their measured words - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
A word hunting its own meaning - Joyce Sidman "He"
To utter a word with meaning fraught - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"
Themes from a lifetime of words on paper - Marge Simon "Sturgeon Crosses Over"
Whispering terrific and sacred words - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
Bandy high words with an insolent dragon - Frank E. Smedley "Ye Right Ancient Ballad of ye Combat of King Tidrich with ye Dragon"
Spelling words with pills spilled - Aaron Smith "Still Life with Antidepressants"
No shining words of stone - Clark Ashton Smith "A Precept"
Where Rigel sends no word of might - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Wrap each word and hold it - Hope Anita Smith "Words"
My words keep slithering away from me - Marin Sorescu "Creation" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea
Profit of pain, joy by the weight of a word - Leonora Speyer "Measure Me, Sky!"
Mellowed with bitter and sweet words - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "We're in the Chorus Now"
Every word a newer sadness - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Hope Deferred"
No word but peace - George Sterling "Afternoon"
Put mantles on our words - Wallace Stevens "Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly"
In the poverty of their words - Wallace Stevens "The Planet on the Table"
Flawed words and stubborn sounds - Wallace Stevens "The Poems of Our Climate"
The true word of welcome was spoken - Robert Louis Stevenson "Home No More Home to Me"
For the shade of a word - Robert Louis Stevenson "If This Were Faith"
Wise words suppress the need of swords - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
The word that silences the timorous nightingale - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"
Over-scored with faded words and stained with time - Arthur Stringer "Sappho's Tomb"
Each word pouring deathless nectar - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 13: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The pleasures of ambrosial words - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 46: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Such coarse, arid words - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 132: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
If I'd known you'd break your word - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 172: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Brimming with unuttered words - Alison Swan "Catalogue"
The word on the lips of the rose - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Remembering days and words that were - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"
A soundless word, a ghostly whisper - Carmen Sylva "Sadness"
Whispers your words in sensations of taste and delicate touch - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Treasonable heart and perverse words - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta X: The Mirror-Cases II"
Because their words had forked no lightning - Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night"
Translate the word the cuckoo cries - Edward Thomas "She Dotes"
A few words whispered at dusk - Matthew Thorburn "Gray Light on an Unmade Bed"
No trivial bridge of words - Henry David Thoreau "Friendship"
Each word of mine to false convert - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: I"
Thoughts enclosed in words of granite - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Quote each stuttered word - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"
Few words that hour were spoken - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Wind with the last word - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Sleep"
Hike and hustle and invent curse words - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Between silences too big for words - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"
A reminder to set the spell down word after word - Ali Trotta "Of Water, Always Seeking" [Strange Horizons 13 Jan. 2025]
the words dry up in the palm of my hand - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges
His words were chains and torments - Johann Ludwig Uhland "The Minstrel's Curse" transl. by A. Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXX, v.LX, Aug. 1846]
The bloody words of ruffian war - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
Tell a rondelay in words of yesterday - Rudolph Valentino "Introduction"
Every word I spoke to the wind - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"
Drinking their words until they became mine - Pramila Venkateswaran "Body Language"
Without speech to drown our words - Cecilia Vicuna "The Disappeared" (translated by Rosa Alcala)
A word exiled from the prayer - Ocean Vuong "Queen Under the Hill"
The exit wounds of every misfired word - Ocean Vuong "To My Father/To My Future Son"
Penned these words on which we gaze - H.K.W. "Lines Written After Perusing a Letter Written by Robert Burns" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.737, 9 Feb. 1878]
Let not my name still be a word of grief - Mrs. E.R.B. Waldo "The Dead Child to its Mother" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]
And lungs full of words - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"
As surely as words are pleasure - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: The Problem with Pronouns"
No words for tonight's blossoms and rain - Wang An-Shih "Radiance-Hut" transl. by David Hinton
There's no word near these thoughts - Wang An-Shih "Thoughts as I Lie Alone" transl. by David Hinton
Words were not made for us - Sharon Wang "Radial Scent"
Those winged words my thoughts had sent - Mrs. Alaric Watts "The Ship's First Voyage" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.452, 28 Aug. 1852]
With neither word nor pause - Charles Weekes "Dreams"
Have always followed your word - Joshua Weiner "Psalm"
Finding new words for salt and starlight - Marjory Wentworth "The Music of the Earth: Celebrating Pablo Neruda"
No language ever brought a living word - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"
Butterfly words from the sun - Helen Hay Whitney "Butterfly Words"
In the silence speak one quiet word - Helen Hay Whitney "Enough of Singing"
All his words have perished - John Greenleaf Whittier "Abram Morrison"
Word and work irrevocably done - John Greenleaf Whittier "Response"
The door of useless words - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Neutral"
The word that sways, and stirs, and stays - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Word"
Work on your word a thousand weeks - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Word"
The bright abyss that opens in that word - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"
Done with wearing gold words upon my heart - Humbert Wolfe "Dedication [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"
There are no words between my fingers - Charles Wright "The Last Word"
My frugal mouth spends the only foreign words it owns - Jenny Xie "Rootless"
Scattering the words of my song - "XXI: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of the Huexotzincos" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Patient like a word - Wendy Xu "Pledge"
With words lighter than air - W.B. Yeats "The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods"
Words that called up the lightning - W.B. Yeats "Maid Quiet"
All four meanings of the word regret - C. Dale Young "Eclipse"
Would take word form from excited electrons - Dean Young "Bird-Shaped Cliff"
Though silence always has the last word - Adam Zagajewski "Radio Street"
How you chew the word panic - Felicia Zamora "The Exercise of Forgiving"
Bitter words swallowed - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer "Grace"
Possesses neither word nor cadence - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver
And with fire establish the word - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 8" transl. by Katherine Silver
The graveyard for ambitions, the by-word for hell - Frank J. Cotter "Dedicated to Alaska"
Freedom's sweet keynote and commission-word - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
The satisfaction of crossword puzzles - brian g. gilmore "detroit airport, december 2009 (a sermon)"
Only these hungry miser-words - Muriel Stuart "Sic Transit--"
The password of the leaves upon the cottonwood - Alexander Posey "To Wahilla Enhotulle"
Sister-words of blame - Edward Dowden "From April to October: III. The Dawn"
Unworded songs and musics never heard - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
Will be a watchword and a battle hymn - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
The deep watchword of the rushing storm - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
To solve the doubt, watchword and countersign - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
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Keep the meddlesome chthonic wordslingers cranky - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"
That improvised word-spun truth - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
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To protect the words gathered by light - Elmaz Abinader "Losing Words Fast"
The last words you hear on earth - Jessica Abughattas "Failed Poems"
The wrong words followed by the wrong deeds - Duane Ackerson "Giving Back the Moon"
Listen for a green word from the redwoods - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
Covered with his own words - Etel Adnan "Night"
in this code where every word means obey - Kaveh Akbar "Against Dying"
God's word is a melody I sang once then forgot - Kaveh Akbar "I Wouldn't Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance"
Some words die caged - Francisco X. Alarcon "Words Are Birds"
They sang words without falsehood - "Alexander the Great"
Your demon words borne high on wings of song - Mike Allen "Ascending"
Words trickled through the sand - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
A word the mouth has forgotten - Threa Almontaser "Heritage Emissary"
Like words, like truth, like blood - Leslie J. Anderson "In the Valley of Midas"
I give you the archaeology of my words - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Our war of mocking words - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"
I reached the border of every word - Jarid Arraes "Movement"
Words that stumble into stars and hide - Joseph Auslander "I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come"
Profaning heaven's own air with words unclean - A.B. "Sonnet to Clarkson" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
Words tumbling from absent-minded lips - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Grieve every word lost - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
As interesting as a word repeated until emptied - Ari Banias "A Sunset"
Word for home that could also mean journey - Ari Banias "Villagers"
A foreign word that you are ashamed to learn - Carmen Bardeguez-Brown "Rican Issues"
The nimble words have fled - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"
An infidel in thought and word and grief - Natalie Clifford Barney "The Love of Judas"
Blood can have the last word - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
Nearby I take your words to water - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
The distance between words and waves - Elizabeth Bartlett "Air Bridge"
Not needing the support of words - Elizabeth Bartlett "I Think I Am"
yellow was first word for gold - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"
An insubstantial repository of final words - Ennis Rook Bashe "How to Hallucinate Your Zombie Lover"
A gentle word in sorrow's ear - Cora C. Bass "No Blessing Ever Comes by Chance"
Ranged themselves in winsome words - Clara Doty Bates "Goody Two-Shoes" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]
Idyll built of innocent words - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited
And paint with poppied words - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"
The last word of a thousand years - Clive Bell "The Last Infirmity"
Loose net of words to deeds - Stephen Vincent Benet "Music"
Inscribed upon their leaves the words - Park Benjamin "Lines Sent with a Bouquet"
Brown poems of dark words and prehistoric rhythms - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Advice" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The keen precision of your words wove a silver thread - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Advice" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Returned to barren words and old cold truth - Stella Benson "The Dog Tupman"
Counting each hour a word - Stella Benson "New Year, 1918"
Shut your lips to words that are forbidden - Stella Benson "To the Unborn"
Luminous is a better word than translucent - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Lux"
Once without a word was told - G. Clifton Bingham "Sweet Day of Days" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.156, v.III, 25 Dec. 1886]
Where words have no leverage - Tommye Blount "An Act of Love"
Who no traitor word know - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "How Shall I Build"
With words as deliberate as wind - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"
Waiting for the conquest of words - Maxwell Bodenheim "Cry, Naked and Personal"
Crowding life into seven words - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
The avaricious words of a meager, petrified man - Maxwell Bodenheim "Nondescript Typist"
An unbidden word whitening the death of a smile - Maxwell Bodenheim "An Old Man Humming a Song" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
I would not wake at your word - Louise Bogan "Tears in Sleep"
The words waiting for music - Louise Bogan "Words for Departure"
With a smile and words of hope - Sarah Knowles Bolton "The Inevitable"
And listened to the words of men now dead - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Words that die before meaning - Sara Borjas "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"
My lonely joy in your words - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
The empty words of a dream - Robert Bridges "I Love All Beauteous Things"
How hollow rings that word - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"
The early winds took up the words - Jonathan Henderson Brooks "The Resurrection" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Every last word is contagious - Jericho Brown "Heartland"
Weaving each burden into words - Lauren L. Brown "Willie Mae Brown (1909-1980)"
With words so sweet and dense - Lauren L. Brown "Willie Mae Brown (1909-1980)"
A word to be eaten with persimmon and pears - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"
in the incidental pauses between words - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"
The words I hear in the curlew's cry - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Regret"
To suit thy empty words - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Fills me like honeyed words - Sue Budin "Ripe Fruit"
No word of hope you've spoken - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Filled with You"
Chasms hidden between words - Anthony Butts "Embers"
Words bending thoughts like light - Anthony Butts "Mist and Fog"
And words of prophet-flame - W. Wilfred Campbell "In Holyrood"
The word that girdles the world - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Lazarus of Empires"
Let us remain in word and action strangers - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Humanity"
Such cheerful words to borrow - Lewis Carroll "Melancholetta"
A statue made of words - Paul Carroll "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"
But her words never came - Victoria Chang "OBIT"
That words trick us - Jos Charles "Seagull, Tiny"
Which words to carry in the arsenal - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"
The word of the world's desire - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"
Petrified words to reveal the infinite - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"
Used what words we had - Franny Choi "We Used Our Words We Used What Words We Had"
Words to ward off sleep - Franny Choi "We Used Our Words We Used What Words We Had"
Gild his words with glucose - May Chong "Catering"
My spleen's above the power of words - "The Chosen One" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no.377, June 27, 1829, credited London Magazine]
The words here inscribe shall again be approved - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
A word that replaces beauty with doom - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "Why Is the Forest Lonely?"
A few harsh words of doubting - Rosie Churchill "This Is All..." [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, No.151--v.III, 20 November, 1886]
Just a word beyond recall - Rosie Churchill "This Is All..." [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, No.151--v.III, 20 November, 1886]
And could words unseal the spell - John Clare "The Meeting"
To unripe words and rugged verse - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
The words you sang were wrong - Leonard Cohen "Teachers"
Words which give the true metallic ring - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Ask for a remission of words - Susan Comninos "Our Father, Our King"
The words I was missing - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"
Blight of a broken word - Katherine Eleanor Conway "Saturninus"
Words of dull negation darkly fell - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
At the point where words retreat - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Some words die in cages - Eduardo C. Corral "To Francisco X. Alarcon (1954-2016)"
A thousand spires speak gilded words - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"
Eroding words between brothers - Shutta Crum "How Poetry Reframes the Moment"
How strangely cold these few yet bitter words - Charlotte Cushman "Duchess de la Valliere"
In that cage of words wild thoughts were pent - Olive Custance "A Dream"
Through secret words of prophets - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)
Algebra and geometry breathing seducing words - Michelle Dang "Calculating U"
But never change the words that were within - Mary Carolyn Davies "A Casualty List"
Built of words you have said - Mary Carolyn Davies "Love Song"
Fill my silences with your words - Hayes Davis "Thhhat was great"
Drowning with words sublime the dreaded thunder - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
And mouths his words at earless owls - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"
Warbled sweetly strange enchanted words - Walter de la Mare "As Lucy Went a-Walking"
With secret symbol of line and word - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"
Each word of a neighbor's argument - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"
Fashioned symphonies of thought and word - Geoffrey Dearmer "The Shadow"
That make wind chimes of words - Diane DeCillis "Nest"
Captive sky gathering words that burn and rise - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"
Scrolling through Merriam Webster's youngest words - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"
Whose words burn my hands - Diana Marie Delgado "Tracing the Horse"
A word which bears a sword - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love X: Forgotten"
My words will be your only wine - Thomas M. Disch "Ballade of the New God"
Words stained by hunger - Jordi Doce "With Eyes Opened on the Edge of the World"
Hope: the last word spoken - Rita Dove "Testimony: 1968"
And words of delicate breath - Edward Dowden "Brother Death"
Too soon the irrevocable word - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"
Pronounce the dread condemning word - Edward Dowden "New Hymns for Solitude"
Forgive these wild, blasphemous words - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Locked her words in rocks - Bruce Ducker "Picnic"
Swallowed some wild prophet's words - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"
And hot enamel on the words - Max Eastman "A Visit"
The words pollinated the dark - Carolina Ebeid "[You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior]"
Each word is sacrificed to a sword - Bijan Elahi "Five Scenes from Icarus" transl. by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian
The words you link false inference with - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"
Whose streams in words and acts appear - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Morning"
Words more soft than rain - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Character"
My soothing words are turned to dust - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Crawl beneath her mighty words - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Mighty words and clever counsel - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 33. E-Dimgalkalama, the Temple of Ishtaran in Der" transl. by Sophus Helle
Amidst their chirping he hears words - Daniel Errico "Prescott Hawthorne"
That lost, stardust word glowing black - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"
Words of wonder and words of truth - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"
All the words the signpost tells - "Fairy's Album: V. Fairy's Dream"
Words that knew no bounds - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Again it is September"
Naught have you and I but frozen tears, and stifled words - Jessie Fauset "Fragment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Stifled words, and once a sharp caught cry - Jessie Fauset "Fragment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Had no need of my words anymore - Annie Finch "Edge, Atlantic, July"
A word of flame and force - John Gould Fletcher "The Rock"
Will gentle words feed me - "The Flower of Nut-Brown Maids" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Its leftover words in my mouth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"
Must read some dark or words to-night - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Then tears came fast instead of words - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Words spoken by the coals - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"
Behind light words that tease and flout - Robert Frost "Revelation"
Speaks a word like burning light - Zona Gale "Half Thought"
Spoke some unremembered word - Zona Gale "Light"
Some cruel word uttered carelessly - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"
Putting banned words in bottles to bury - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"
Parrots for prattling words are prized - John Gay "Fable XXV: The Scold and Parrot" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Delights a little net of words may hold - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Rupert Brooke"
Gets your heart broken over cruel words - Nikita Gill "Your Soft Heart"
The vanished words lying with their companions - Louise Gluck "Cornwall"
Her sharply worded silences - Louise Gluck "Faithful and Virtuous Night"
Each word rings out over our terrified heads - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
Each word dressed for burial - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"
Every breath was a soldier word - Rigoberto Gonzalez "The Soldier of Mictlan"
Bitter, blinding, binding words - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"
Five words of unfinished prayer - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Ye Wearie Wayfarer, hys Ballad In Eight Fyttes"
Weave a web of lovely words - Mona Gould "Bend Your Head"
Words lost in boreal winds - Lore Graham "Absence"
Cheated space with inadvertant motion or word - Robert Graves "Down"
To speak brave words for truth and right - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [In the wet rice-swamps]"
Some word of earnest meaning - Grenville Grey "Write Thou Upon Life's Page"
But words the faltering tongue denies - Anastasius Grün "The 'Old Player'" transl. by Adam Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]
Evidence of body not of word - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"
Speaking sins words - S.R.H. "Mabel" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.3)
A word unwelcome to his ears - W.H.C.H. "Death of Rob Roy" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
And through it blows a laughing word - Katherine Hale "CalvÉ in Blue"
And words all coloured with the sun - Katherine Hale "I Who Cut Patterns"
By the power of his word - Jupiter Hammon "A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death"
Nor any words that lips can teach - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
For a word from the lips of Truth - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Without winds becoming words - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Even words are creatures of habit - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"
Magic burned into the roots of antelope words - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"
Words that sting like bitter limes - Joy Harjo "Resurrection"
As if words could mend - Leslie Harrison "[I keep throwing words at the problem because words]"
Words imposing on my tongue like obols - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 5. Fosterage"
Fabric stitched to breath and words - Conrad Hilberry "Julia Elsas, 'untitled 2009,' fabric, thread"
Words and the curl of numbers - Conrad Hilberry "A Thin Song for a Girl"
Words like a blur of blackbirds - Conrad Hilberry "A Thin Song for a Girl"
And wrote in words of fire - F.A. Hillard "The Poet's Pen" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.98, Feb. 1876]
Lay these words on the dead man's eyelids - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
The words have united in grief - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"
What body defies the word? - Jen Hofer "future somatics to-do list"
Formations that resemble extinct words - Jackson Holbert "Evil Nature"
Widely scattered words remembered - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"
To you the words are ashes - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry"
These words alone should work a charm - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]
Rich with ripe sorrow, needful of no word - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Found no words to tell the thoughts - Lucy H. Hooper "Farewell" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]
With every word that held a lie - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"
Warning struggled in my word - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"
That spells are made of words - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"
When words break through a surface - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"
Until all my words vanished - Katerina Iliopoulou "Cape Tenaron" transl. by Jackson Watson
The words which burn upon my tongue - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Hope sounds like the adult word for magic - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"
Lips whose lightest word is dear - G.C.J. "En Passant" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.35-v.I, 30 Aug. 1884]
Gave me a new word to say for home - Mark Jarman "The Mermaid"
Chromatic words, seraphic symphonies - Helene Johnson "Magalu"
Words kindred to the wind - Lionel Johnson "Celtic Speech"
Breathe words from the wave - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Breathe words from the field - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Using the world less and words more - Rodney Jones "The Language of Love"
Redeem the words of our beginning - June Jordan "Moving towards Home"
Words live in the spirit of her face - June Jordan "A Song for Soweto"
The stars are forming strange new words - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
No word nor any sign can make amend - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XVII"
And a little ashes their words come to - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XVIII"
An arrangement of uncalled-for words - Janet Kauffman "Uncalled-For"
The only word your mouth remembers - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
a distance of hard words hissed - Douglas Kearney "There's no 'sass' in 'dissociation'"
That word found way unto Olympus - John Keats "Hyperion"
Their Words to Scorn are scatter'd - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
In a carven censer of burnished words - Joyce Kilmer "Thurifer"
Words often harsh - Kim Unsong "World Cheerful"
No word more bitter than sweet honey - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
As lurks a bitter sting in honeyed words - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"
Until light is the holy word - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"
Would hold a swarm of words inside his belly - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"
I'll break you most dearly with sweet words - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"
Beg with words of the unborn - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Devil Comes on Horseback"
The words are trapped behind her lips - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"
Every aching word we whispered - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"
My heart clings to her pretty words - "Lady Violet" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Sweet voices and words bright - Archibald Lampman "Winter Hues Recalled"
Not yet a word from the underworld - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"
The harsh sweetness of strange words - Joan Larkin "Mozart's Songbook"
A heart that loves beyond the shallow word - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Unperfected"
The leaves fly over the window and utter a word - D.H. Lawrence "At the Window"
Threw me words that rang with a brassy, shallow chime - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"
Lending elf-music to thy harshest word - Emma Lazarus "Echoes"
And love you without word or tear - Richard Le Gallienne "Desiderium"
my seizure breaking word and world - Joseph Lease "The Dead Lands"
The words my lute can never say - Frances Ledwidge "In September"
With words collapse, distorted - Yoon Ha Lee "Stella Rosetta"
Hell's first wild useless word - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "On Signorelli's Fresco of the Binding of the Lost"
Forgetting old words for the heart - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"
Collecting words in a different language - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"
Expects a grin at every word - Henry S. Leigh "Men I Dislike"
Perusing these words once or twice - Henry S. Leigh "Songs of the Sick Room No.2: Night and Morning"
The long, slow words of its rule - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
The mountains have no word for ocean - Philip Levine "Our Valley"
Before the dark whispers the last word - Philip Levine "Unholy Saturday"
Their last words reach us in the language of light - Philip Levine "Waking in March"
How one tiny word can be sacred - Robin Coste Lewis "The Ark: Self-Portrait as Aphrodite Using Her Dress for a Sail, ii"
Under the seams of his words - Sandra Lim "Certainty"
The impasse between word and world - Sandra Lim "Certainty"
Will endow the words with nonsense - Ada Limon "The Echo Sounder"
Spaces between words and stars - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"
The first word I say is listen - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"
No wanton cares to win with words - D. Lodge "Solitariness" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Every single word my mother could not whisper - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"
And wild and sweet the words repeat - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Christmas Bells"
Lyrebird speaking stolen words - Amari Low "Themself"
The wild white honey of your words - Amy Lowell "Carrefour"
Your words in mournful cadence toll - Amy Lowell "The End"
A radium of the word - Mina Loy "Gertrude Stein"
The poet of iron words - Thomas Lux "Vaticide"
Words to paint her frantic sorrow - Isabella MacFarlane "The Two Southern Mothers" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
Expired words buried in open graves - Naomi Long Madgett "Packrat"
the word finding refuge in the mountain - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"
Night is flirty words with fiends - Randall Mann "Realtor"
Eventually all words waste magic - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
Wonderful beyond the wildest word - Edwin Markham "Joy of the Morning"
One azure word turned kiss - Jeannette Marks "Bubbles"
Before their conquering word - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"
Some loose-tongued prophet's meddling word - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"
Surpasses the compass of words - George Martin "To a Young Lady"
A blind-man buff of words avoiding words - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Changing every word from smoke to splendor - Harry Martinson "Aniara 48" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Where words of comfort found no welcome - Harry Martinson "Aniara 95" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Poisoned with the anonymous words - Edgar Lee Masters "Editor Whedon"
Words of your clandestine soul - Edgar Lee Masters "Editor Whedon"
Words of wheat across years of salt - Khaled Mattawa "Revisiting Hekale"
Warring gods vying for last words - Airea D. Matthews "Psyche on Prozac"
Giving me flashes of your life without words - Wes Matthews "Immortality"
The words arrayed in glass - Farid Matuk "For a Daughter/No Address"
Wander in a fog of words astray - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of a Ferocious Catholic"
Utterance of whirling words - Theodore Maynard "The Return"
Invented new words for waiting - Shara McCallum "Gravid Gravitas"
Words of rapture or grief - J.D. McClatchy "Wolf's Tree"
His words dissolving in your mind - Jeffrey McDaniel "Compulsively Allergic to the Truth"
Think of all the lost words, still unspoken - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Words to unburden them of their meanings - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Reverting to the old knowing words - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Like the words, wet with music - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."
The word like a wave lightning and then thunder - Mark McMorris "Dear Michael (2)"
Dante got the last word - Diane Mehta "Walking to Athena"
Again in disorderly words - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"
Her great word of life - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
What words from Wisdom come - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Condemned to follow words into a book - Michael Mesic "Night Letter"
Crowns thee lord of an unpurchasable word - Alice Meynell "Why Wilt Thou Chide"
The last words your fingers wrote - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Interim"
And a bitter word - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Souvenir"
Just another arrow poisoned with words - Andy Miller "Diana"
The Great Migration of words - E. Ethelbert Miller "The Ear is an Organ Made for Love"
But finds the soul snatched from his words - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Snuffed Out"
No words without shadows - Claire Millikin "Bright Shadows"
Every word a path through darkness - Claire Millikin "The Hunt"
His word was our arrow - Thomas Moore "Sound the Loud Timbrel"
To create an echoing hollow inside every word - Rusty Morrison "To measure internal activity while it turns all I know to rubble"
He has fourteen other senses there are no words for - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
The last word still tender - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Even words grow thin - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
And Payment punctual to their Word - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]
True in word and strict in vow - "Nala and Damayanti" (translated by Henry Hart Milman)
A stubborn, enduring skeleton of words - Pablo Neruda "Celebration" transl. by Richard Schaaf
A word is one wing of silence - Pablo Neruda "One Hundred Love Sonnets: XLIV" transl. by Rafael Campo
This song of dark words - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The atmosphere quivers with the first word uttered - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
Approach across the edge of words - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
Maternal source of words - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid
A word is one wing of the silence - Pablo Neruda "XLIV: You must know that I do not love and that I love you"
Wooed by the wind's soft word - E. Nesbit "Mummy Wheat"
His words on your face as scars - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"
When his quill strikes the words - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Breaking the bread of our deepest words - Grace Nichols "In the Fleeting Now"
Idle words breathed of the dead - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "[I know that thou wilt sorrow]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]
Plays his role to the last whispered word - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"
Then what avail the scornful words - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
Their words of scorn and malice proved - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
Small calcium words uttered in sequence - Naomi Shihab Nye "Different Ways to Pray"
Live inside his old words - Naomi Shihab Nye "Ellipse"
Hiding everywhere beneath your words - Naomi Shihab Nye "Hidden"
Learns all the words to all the songs - Naomi Shihab Nye "Hugging the Jukebox"
Barricades of words and wire - Naomi Shihab Nye "Morning Song"
Answer, if you hear the words under the words - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Words Under the Words"
Words of Light alone our javelins hurled - O. "Invocation" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.450, 14 Aug. 1852]
carve words in the dark - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"
words jetting out like jamboree - Porsha Olayiwola "Notorious"
Her work of words no less at home than his work of creation - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"
the words of lovers testing new hypothesis - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh "Hypercapnia" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]
Dark and fearful whispered words - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Huge twig-piles of words - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
May pass for a tender word spoken - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"
a matter of a single uttered word - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
These last loving words in vain - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"
Words of the unhealed wounds - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Underground"
May loiter with a word of praise - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)
To fit my fancies with harmonious words - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
And drink your rushing words with eager lips - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"
Spoke worn words to hallow my sleep - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"
Signposts leading to other words - Linda Pastan "All Nights" [Yes, 'words' is right.]
The little words of truth - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
The little words of love - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
The little words of hope - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
The little words of trust - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
And words the way to break it - Carl Phillips "A Little Closer Though, If You Can, For What Got Lost Here"
The chosen word of a journey - Emilio Porta "Paradise"
Give the echo to your dancing words - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"
One word dispel a cloud of tears - John Presland "November"
Squaring accounts for word and deed - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Indoctrinated words of oppression - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Spectral words that haunt the air - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Roses"
Cages of words have dissolving bars - Charles Rafferty "Words"
Have a word with all the gods that failed me - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"
The stranger that entered without a word - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Because you said we should take words to the world - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"
A comforting word the prophet spoke - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"
Trying to breathe that word into the well's ear - Adrienne Rich "Well in Ruined Courtyard"
These words to my worst friends and best enemies - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
A word molten out of the mouth of God - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Against the words of princes - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
The welcoming smell of words - Jack Ridl "The Nonattachment of Buddhism"
A word the color of dawn - Lynn Riggs "Spring Morning--Santa Fe"
Form words for reluctant ears - Lynn Riggs "Those Who Speak in Whispers"
Will keep forever their sky-lost words - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Primrose"
All those leased words - Valencia Robin "Insomnia"
One word spoken, one whisper of regret - Rennell Rodd "A Song of Autumn"
Music too sweet for words to speak - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Mind of the Mystic"
Words of sorrowing tenderness - Alice Wellington Rollins "The Difference"
Words wing'd with fate and fire - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
A word of rescue from the great eyes - Muriel Rukeyser "The Poem as Mask"
Will hearts for words be still? - J.S. "The Luckless Lover" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
By word and image deeply wedded - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
a drone floats on the spine of my words - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"
The unspoken word is born - Sonia Sanchez "Wounded in the House of a Friend: Set No. 1"
Words of quiet silver - Tomas Sanchez Santiago "The Arrival"
Heard three red words - Carl Sandburg "Threes"
Each word sharpening a knife - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"
Spoke such a tender word - May Sarton "Small Joys: New Year 1990"
Spilling blue words like soft rain - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"
Each word a dark psalm - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"
A revolutionary of sundered words - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Four"
Siren gusts like tides beneath their words - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"
All my word was wisdom - Clinton Scollard "A King in Kerry"
Allowing the night to have the last word - Nicole Sealey "cento for the night i said, 'i love you'"
The violence done to the mind by the weaponized word - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"
A worded freedoms in a clarity the horizon affords - Prageeta Sharma "I Am Learning to Find the Horizons of Peace"
Ever is a double-edged word - Brenda Shaughnessy "Never Ever"
The far-off hills cry a golden word of you - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: V. A Song in August"
The word a rose breathes to a bird - Frank Dempster Sherman "At Her Window"
Their seamless smiles, their measured words - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
A word hunting its own meaning - Joyce Sidman "He"
To utter a word with meaning fraught - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"
Themes from a lifetime of words on paper - Marge Simon "Sturgeon Crosses Over"
Whispering terrific and sacred words - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
Bandy high words with an insolent dragon - Frank E. Smedley "Ye Right Ancient Ballad of ye Combat of King Tidrich with ye Dragon"
Spelling words with pills spilled - Aaron Smith "Still Life with Antidepressants"
No shining words of stone - Clark Ashton Smith "A Precept"
Where Rigel sends no word of might - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Wrap each word and hold it - Hope Anita Smith "Words"
My words keep slithering away from me - Marin Sorescu "Creation" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea
Profit of pain, joy by the weight of a word - Leonora Speyer "Measure Me, Sky!"
Mellowed with bitter and sweet words - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "We're in the Chorus Now"
Every word a newer sadness - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Hope Deferred"
No word but peace - George Sterling "Afternoon"
Put mantles on our words - Wallace Stevens "Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly"
In the poverty of their words - Wallace Stevens "The Planet on the Table"
Flawed words and stubborn sounds - Wallace Stevens "The Poems of Our Climate"
The true word of welcome was spoken - Robert Louis Stevenson "Home No More Home to Me"
For the shade of a word - Robert Louis Stevenson "If This Were Faith"
Wise words suppress the need of swords - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
The word that silences the timorous nightingale - Arthur Stringer "Hephaestus"
Over-scored with faded words and stained with time - Arthur Stringer "Sappho's Tomb"
Each word pouring deathless nectar - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 13: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The pleasures of ambrosial words - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 46: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Such coarse, arid words - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 132: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
If I'd known you'd break your word - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 172: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Brimming with unuttered words - Alison Swan "Catalogue"
The word on the lips of the rose - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"
Remembering days and words that were - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"
A soundless word, a ghostly whisper - Carmen Sylva "Sadness"
Whispers your words in sensations of taste and delicate touch - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
Treasonable heart and perverse words - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta X: The Mirror-Cases II"
Because their words had forked no lightning - Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night"
Translate the word the cuckoo cries - Edward Thomas "She Dotes"
A few words whispered at dusk - Matthew Thorburn "Gray Light on an Unmade Bed"
No trivial bridge of words - Henry David Thoreau "Friendship"
Each word of mine to false convert - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: I"
Thoughts enclosed in words of granite - "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
Quote each stuttered word - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"
Few words that hour were spoken - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Wind with the last word - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Sleep"
Hike and hustle and invent curse words - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Between silences too big for words - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"
A reminder to set the spell down word after word - Ali Trotta "Of Water, Always Seeking" [Strange Horizons 13 Jan. 2025]
the words dry up in the palm of my hand - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges
His words were chains and torments - Johann Ludwig Uhland "The Minstrel's Curse" transl. by A. Lodge [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXX, v.LX, Aug. 1846]
The bloody words of ruffian war - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)
Tell a rondelay in words of yesterday - Rudolph Valentino "Introduction"
Every word I spoke to the wind - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"
Drinking their words until they became mine - Pramila Venkateswaran "Body Language"
Without speech to drown our words - Cecilia Vicuna "The Disappeared" (translated by Rosa Alcala)
A word exiled from the prayer - Ocean Vuong "Queen Under the Hill"
The exit wounds of every misfired word - Ocean Vuong "To My Father/To My Future Son"
Penned these words on which we gaze - H.K.W. "Lines Written After Perusing a Letter Written by Robert Burns" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.737, 9 Feb. 1878]
Let not my name still be a word of grief - Mrs. E.R.B. Waldo "The Dead Child to its Mother" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]
And lungs full of words - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"
As surely as words are pleasure - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: The Problem with Pronouns"
No words for tonight's blossoms and rain - Wang An-Shih "Radiance-Hut" transl. by David Hinton
There's no word near these thoughts - Wang An-Shih "Thoughts as I Lie Alone" transl. by David Hinton
Words were not made for us - Sharon Wang "Radial Scent"
Those winged words my thoughts had sent - Mrs. Alaric Watts "The Ship's First Voyage" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.452, 28 Aug. 1852]
With neither word nor pause - Charles Weekes "Dreams"
Have always followed your word - Joshua Weiner "Psalm"
Finding new words for salt and starlight - Marjory Wentworth "The Music of the Earth: Celebrating Pablo Neruda"
No language ever brought a living word - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"
Butterfly words from the sun - Helen Hay Whitney "Butterfly Words"
In the silence speak one quiet word - Helen Hay Whitney "Enough of Singing"
All his words have perished - John Greenleaf Whittier "Abram Morrison"
Word and work irrevocably done - John Greenleaf Whittier "Response"
The door of useless words - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Neutral"
The word that sways, and stirs, and stays - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Word"
Work on your word a thousand weeks - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Word"
The bright abyss that opens in that word - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"
Done with wearing gold words upon my heart - Humbert Wolfe "Dedication [for Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton]"
There are no words between my fingers - Charles Wright "The Last Word"
My frugal mouth spends the only foreign words it owns - Jenny Xie "Rootless"
Scattering the words of my song - "XXI: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of the Huexotzincos" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Patient like a word - Wendy Xu "Pledge"
With words lighter than air - W.B. Yeats "The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods"
Words that called up the lightning - W.B. Yeats "Maid Quiet"
All four meanings of the word regret - C. Dale Young "Eclipse"
Would take word form from excited electrons - Dean Young "Bird-Shaped Cliff"
Though silence always has the last word - Adam Zagajewski "Radio Street"
How you chew the word panic - Felicia Zamora "The Exercise of Forgiving"
Bitter words swallowed - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer "Grace"
Possesses neither word nor cadence - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver
And with fire establish the word - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 8" transl. by Katherine Silver
The graveyard for ambitions, the by-word for hell - Frank J. Cotter "Dedicated to Alaska"
Freedom's sweet keynote and commission-word - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
The satisfaction of crossword puzzles - brian g. gilmore "detroit airport, december 2009 (a sermon)"
Only these hungry miser-words - Muriel Stuart "Sic Transit--"
The password of the leaves upon the cottonwood - Alexander Posey "To Wahilla Enhotulle"
Sister-words of blame - Edward Dowden "From April to October: III. The Dawn"
Unworded songs and musics never heard - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
Will be a watchword and a battle hymn - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
The deep watchword of the rushing storm - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
To solve the doubt, watchword and countersign - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Wordless.
Keep the meddlesome chthonic wordslingers cranky - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"
That improvised word-spun truth - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
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