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The clock would stop and the doors swing wide - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

The earth gaped wide and swallowed - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Casts a widening pool of light - Elizabeth Alexander "Praise Song for the Day"

Lapsed again into Nature's wide domain - William Allingham "The Ruined Chapel"

Walked through the briars with her eyes wide open - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

Earth had doors to heaven once, wide on golden hinges - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]

to disappear into a song wide enough to drown - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"

A drifting log on the world's wide sea - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"

Toward some wide conclusion moves - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"

Spreads wide a saffron glow - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

height of climb and width of free - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"

To tip the rim of that day's widened cup - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Refugees"

The wide sweeping sea of unrest - Cora C. Bass "Laugh and Be Happy"

Wide night darkens this room of yours - John Berryman "The Possessed"

Widen out in the silence of air - Maxwell Bodenheim "Images of Life and Death: Death"

Against the wide malevolence of space - Max Bodenheim "Topsy-Turvy"

Life's circles spread their limits wider - John Philip Bourke "At Parting"

Wide shoes to fool the ice - Elizabeth Bradfield "A Grim Place for Ponies"

Wide before the eye as laughter - Jari Bradley "You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See"

Their narrow voices widened - Geoffrey Brock "Orpheus Variations. 2 In Which He Turns Inward"

Consoled by a continent as wide - Witter Bynner "The New World II"

Fling wide immortality's portal - C.S. Calverley "Flight"

The road widens to glory - Tina Chang "Color"

Under the sun's widening eye - Gillian Clarke "Cuckoo"

Truth is the widest embrace - Leonard Cohen "Jan 15, 2007 Sicily Cafe"

Wide open with chickpeas and ivy - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

The seal's wide spindrift gaze - Hart Crane "Voyages II"

Tell wider prophecies to me - Isabella Valancy Crawford "The Axe of the Pioneer"

Burst wide their glowing jaws - Isabella Valancy Crawford "The Sword"

Alarm of danger widely spread - Rev. William Crowe "Verses to the Honour of the London Pastrycook, Who Marked 'No Popery' on His Pies, &C."

Hidden in that wider dark - Jon Davis "Gratitude"

The wide doors of an abandoned place - Coningsby Dawson "Remembering in Heaven"

Buy it with blood, and fire, and ruin wide - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Wide are the meadows of night - Walter de la Mare "Wanderers"

The wide arcs of crows - Chris Dombrowski "I Canonize Dick Curran"

The doors of centuries opened wide - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

Passion's wide and shoreless sea - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Absence"

Linger in wide sky spaces - B. Edwards "The Man Who Has Forgotten Time"

With widening retrospect that bred despair - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

Feeling manifold with vision blent to wider thought - George Eliot "Self and Life"

Stand wide upon the earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 32. E-Igikalama, the Temple of Lugal-Marada in Marada" transl. by Sophus Helle

Yawning red and wide - Zona Gale "Violin"

Wide and blue and lone - Zona Gale "Wind Song"

Cast wide nets and tentative - Zinaida Gippius "[I seek for rhythmic whisperings]" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

Will still endure on Time's wide stream - Mona Gould "If This Be Good..."

To leave this widening night - Peter Grandbois "When your son abandons the lawnmower for the second time in as many days"

A wide expanse of grass dead to the night - John Grey "Skywatching"

A wide and deep torrent of harmony - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

Across the wide bewildering track of countless eons - Paul Hamilton Hayne "Pre-Existence"

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

A wide city under a bronze sky - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"

These wide rooms of devious line - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"

Cross a width of draft - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"

Widely scattered words remembered - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

The wide beams of thy full constellation - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"

Deep and wide as an old Cyclops' drinking bowl - Aldous Huxley "Behemoth"

Cloudy stairs over the heaven's wide arch - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

thousands of particles stretched wide - Camisha L. Jones "In/Ability"

Divided the silence wide enough for music - Camisha L. Jones "Ode to My Hearing Aids"

Wide awake in their nightmares - Parneshia Jones "My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea"

On the wide night's manifest - Mary Karr "Belongings"

In a river a hundred years wide - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess as Jilted Lover"

Wide eyes of welcome open to you - Ted Kooser "Barn Owl"

What hunger fierce and wide - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"

Wide pardon flowing with the breezes - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Grace"

One hour of sojourn on the wide blue sea - Henry S. Leigh "A Fit of the Blues"

Jeweler to the wide rebellious sky - R.B. Lemberg "The Ash Manifesto"

Adorned in all the wide rebellious sky - R.B. Lemberg "The Ash Manifesto"

Doubles and smears the night across the wide world - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

With all your wide futures promised - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"

Embers scattering wide at a stronger gust - Amy Lowell "March Evening"

The wide expanse of crimsoned plain - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Who spanned the wide ocean - Mrs Elizabeth A (MacQueen) MacLeod "Sieur de Maisonneuve, or The Founding of Montreal"

From wide cold eyes of fire - Jeannette Marks "Sea Gulls"

Red knowledge of a window flung wide - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Speed away westward on swift wide wings - Theodore Maynard "Dawn"

Under the trees whose arms spread wide - Annie Willis McCullough "The Journey" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Through widening chambers of surprise - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

Across the wide sound of being - W.S. Merwin "What the Bridges Hear"

Broken splendor years have scattered wide - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ruins of Balaclava" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Tastes the wide seas of death - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"

That jarred wider as the circle ran - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Yon severing tide is not fordless or wide - "My Brother and I" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

The wide sky guards their flight - E. Nesbit "The Poet to His Love"

The sea widens for you tonight - Hoa Nguyen "Sacred Ficus Sonnet"

An ocean wide we must cross to-day - Sarah Noble-Ives "An Ocean Voyage"

Into the sky's wide ear - Naomi Shihab Nye "Almost, Never"

Through this wide mind - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Richter"

Beneath the hazels spreading wide - Isobel Pagan "Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes"

The wide imagined water - Grace Paley "Suddenly There's Poughkeepsie"

Opens heaven's lattice wide - Charles Phillips "Music"

Within the circle of his wide domain - Philo "The Tribute"

Scatters her golden lustre far and wide - Philo "The Tribute"

Swing wide to let the sunset through - Herbert Randall "The Winnetuxet"

Greet the great wide savannahs - Diane Raptosh "American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument"

Blazing a wide path to Rome - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

Where all hearts were open wide - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

Wider than wasted tyrannies - Raquel Salas Rivera "the independence (of puerto rico)"

And presently the gates of sun swung wide - Lloyd Roberts "Flowers of the Sky"

Spread wide its venom'd pow'r - Mrs. Mary Robinson "The Alien Boy"

Though wide was the flood - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull

The despair that flows down in widest rivers - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"

Death made wide a million gates - George William Russell "The Memory of Earth"

Over the whale's acre, would wander wide - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

With the width of a world between - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

The wide world and all her fading sweets - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIX"

The wide hallways of a great endowment - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"

The wide pathless desert of dim sleep - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

A wide and melancholy waste - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Followed the close-heard beat of love's wide wings - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"

A bed both wide and hollow - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Ballad of the Fairy Thorn-Tree"

Climb a hill where the sky is wide - Joyce Sidman "Heartless"

The wide desire of kings - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"

Cities of the wide mirage - Clark Ashton Smith "Psalm"

Measured wisdom of wide symphonies - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"

Into a wood too wide to circle - Elizabeth Spires "Troubadour at a Fork in the Road"

Into the open day of wide forgetfulness - Carmen Sylva "Lethe"

Ambitions wide as the four seas - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Poem without a Category, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson

Challenges and menaces to the wide sky - Edward Thomas "Ambition"

Wide as range of eye or mind - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"

Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end - "Tom o' Bedlam"

The stars flew by the cave's wide door - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"

The mountains were five times as wide - Edward van de Vendel "Grandma Knitting"

Leaves the doors between them open wide - Edith Wharton "Heaven"

The four wide winds of evening - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"

Shakes the wide domains of air - William Henry Withrow "Cloud Castles"

A wide membrane holding eternity back - Charles Wright "Life Lines"

Until my voice and throat cracked open wide - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"

The wide hinge of banalities - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

Poured abroad widely by the drum - "XII: Xopancuicatl Nenonotzalcuicatl Ipampa in Aquique Amo on Mixtilia in Yaoc | A Spring Song, a Song of Exhortation, Because Certain Ones Did Not Go to the War" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

And wide seas tarnish in the sun - Francis Brett Young "Lettermore"


Wide-eyed as Athena's wired owl - Diane Raptosh "American Amnesiac [Is it possible to let the sleeping life seep into day--]

Control with gossamer threads wide-flown - James Russell Lowell "The Dancing Bear"

Till waters scream in anger and the wide-mouthed valley fills - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"

Filled with wide-shining wonder - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"

The wide-sweeping meadows of truth - Cora C. Bass "The Future"

To try the world-wide cry - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "King Philip (Pometacom)"


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