Potential Titles: Within
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somethingdarkerWithin the frame we've chosen - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"
Lurk within the forests of the mind - Harold Acton "In the Train de Luxe"
May stand within the world's full view - Lewis Alexander "The Dark Brother" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Seeing a newer light within my eyes - Lewis Alexander "The Dark Brother" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Torn from within a cold glassy fire - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen "The Mirrors" transl. by Allan Francovich
Within that divide - Simon Armitage "Prometheus"
questions within the black smoke - Jarid Arraes "Movement"
Crimson thoughts within me writhe and burn - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Within the beak of a relentless vulture - Benjamin West Ball "Cymindis"
A void within voids - Rita Banerjee "Sleep"
Shaped within a static prayer - Djuna Barnes "First Communion"
What dream lies walled within - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Cave"
What dream lies walled within - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Cave"
within the mesh of failure - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"
be the blood within my bone - Elizabeth Bartlett "guadalajara"
Within that hallway of silence - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Understanding"
When poison writhes within - Stephen Vincent Benet "Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua"
Within whose heart no spark of ancient fire burns - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Flight & failure contained within a single body - Joshua Bennett "Owed to the Durag"
Within your body's bladed frame - Joshua Bennett "X"
Ebb and flow within my tender heart - Charles Best "A Sonnet of the Moon"
Will hold the mind within its limits - Frank Chapman Bliss writing as Octavius "The Naughty Man; or, Sir Thomas Brown"
Hopes that lie within their grave - Maxwell Bodenheim "East-Side: New York"
Within a room of tortured angles - Maxwell Bodenheim "Feminine Talk"
Trapped within these months and years - Max Bodenheim "Poem to a Policeman"
Only finding it within herself - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"
Within my jealous sight - Otto Leland Bohanan "Go Give the World"
Rhythms of change within the heart begun - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
Within the system of blind planets - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"
Knitted up within my mind - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
All things within this fading world - Anne Bradstreet "Before the Birth of One of Her Children"
Within each hour the precious minutes lie - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"
Warmth within the mountain's breast - Stopford A. Brooks "The Spring of Love"
Teach the drum within that dark to drum again - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"
Within the dash of withered bells - Paul Cameron Brown "The Bells"
Within reach of this uncontrolled mitosis - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"
Hope within thee deeper than thy truth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Within its field of lament - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
Glowed within the wines we drank - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall
Deny your right within these walls - Roger Casement "Oliver Cromwell 1650-1659"
To feel the many plagues within - John Castillo "To a Withered Flower!"
Dream within the grape - Willa Cather "Autumn Melody"
Garner'd fondly up within its depths of feeling - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Give faint visions of a paradise within - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell - Ralph Chaplin "Mourn not the Dead"
Within a restless heart I hold a hurricane - Ralph Chaplin "The Warrior Wind"
Within a craft of pearl and crystal light - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
The wound is within you and not - Johnson Cheu "Wail"
Seeks friendship within a veiled temple - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "I Do Not Wish to Carry so Much Burden"
All within the time frame of a melting clock - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
Within the towns was naught but foreign bread - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
That for a thousand years had dwelt within the glen - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
And left within his spirit hope - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob"
Within the sceptic darkness deep - Arthur Hugh Clough "The New Sinai"
Prayer to go unchanged within this water - Aaron Coleman "The Broken Man's Permission"
Within the confines of an hourglass - Billy Collins "On Reading in the Morning Paper that Dreams May Be Only Nonsense"
Within us a hardened astonishment - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Something has flowered within the discontent - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Caring no more to dwell within the house where faith is dead - Joseph S. Cotter Jr "The Deserter" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
As sheep within their folds - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"
Win a glimpse of all the sport within - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
Within myself is lodged the key - Countee Cullen "Harsh World That Lashest Me"
Your doors barred from within - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"
Tempt him not within the door - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
No gift within our hands - H.D. "Prayer"
Within the tangles of my brain - H.D. "We Two"
Awakes a piercing pang within - J.D. [Julia Day] "A Mother to Her Forsaken Child" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]
Lost within hibernation and missing mother-planet - Kyle Dargan "Dear Echo" [Poetry Feb. 2016]
Within the wind a core of sound - John Davidson "In Romney Marsh"
But never change the words that were within - Mary Carolyn Davies "A Casualty List"
Stand within Time's crumbling walls - Benjamin De Casseres "The-Circle-That-Looks-Like-A-Line"
New feet within my garden - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature I"
The bell within the steeple wild - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXVI: The Storm"
Left her within the jaws of death - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset "Think Before You Speak; Or, The Three Wishes"
Begins to disintegrate within my hand - Jasmeet Dosanjh "A Spirit Friend"
Instant within my shrine - Edward Dowden "Recovery"
There is that clamoring and clawing within - 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]
Within rules freely accepted - Stephen Dunn "Lucky"
The waters hold all heaven within their heart - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"
Within my spirit's dark stream - Helen Parry Eden "To E.A.P."
Seek the strange within the same - Katherine Edgren "Prospecting"
Witnessed too many crashing within - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"
Within the rib complex of some dissolved creature - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
Within her Hand a vacant String - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"
Within a realm of filtered light - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"
A scroll within the tomb Unread forever - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"
When light and love within her eyes were one - George Eliot "Self and Life"
That wrote within the law of gratitude - George Eliot "Self and Life"
The morning mist within your grounds - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Park"
And heart of stone within - The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"
Nested like a doll within right now - J. Everett Feinberg "Renaissance"
One grief within her burned - Marie J. Ewen "The Two Prayers" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.457, 2 Oct. 1852]
Strange tumult reigned within her - Marie J. Ewen "The Two Prayers" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.457, 2 Oct. 1852]
Within me surged the grief of years - Jessie Fauset "Rencontre" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Within a body of jewels - Camonghne Felix "Lost Poem: RX"
Planting stones within my heart - Beulah Field "Needles and Pins"
Saw everywhere stars within the darkness - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Through the blood trees within us - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"
Deep its azure leaves within - "Forget-Me-Not: Myosotis Avensis" transl. from German by Fitz-Greene Halleck [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Shrined within my faithful heart - Fanny Forrester "Not Beautiful!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.11-v.I, 15 March 1884]
Reveal an order within the curvature to chaos - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
Lit deep within the dark - Zona Gale "The Secret Way"
Clutched within a miser's hold - John Gay "Fable XVI: Pin and Needle" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Deserves no space within your spirit - Nikita Gill "Anger"
The sword within the sun - Ellen Glasgow "England's Greatness"
Two unextinguished furnaces of woe within - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Within compassion's genial realm - Mrs. L.S. Goodwin "The Unsepulchred Relics"
Deep within the torrent dip - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
The slaughter carried within me - torrin a. greathouse "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"
Holds a world of woe within its little round - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [My first is often caught in church]"
Palmed within an arc of light - Lucy Griffith "Attention"
Within our spirit's garden - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"
Shut away within the night - Angelina Weld Grimké "To Joseph Lee"
Shrined within my memory - J.H. "The Churchyard by the Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.8-v.I, 23 Feb. 1884]
Scenes within her ring of power - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"
Within its earthbound depths did lie - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Rang midnight within - Thomas Hardy "Before Marching, and After"
Within a true circle of motion - Joy Harjo "Eagle Poem"
Within a crescendo of abalone light - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
Within a sunless spring - Avis Harley "Catching a Butterfly (2)"
Within the fair pavilion of thy presence - Frances Ridley Havergal "Coming to the King"
Wakes to behold the void within - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
Within the circle of his breath - George Herbert "Mortification"
Strengthen the hope within my soul - Mary E. Hewitt "The Hearth of Home"
For some reason bred within thy mind - F.A. Hillard "Sonnet [If thou didst love me for imagined fame]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
Vacated a region within himself - Edward Hirsch "Idea of the Holy"
Matching the oblivion within - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"
Safe within the jasper gates - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"
Buried deep within my heart - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Within my narrow garden's greenery - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Wrought within the tombs of Egypt's kings - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Within my bosom are a hundred dawns - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
Within the four chambers of a sparrow's heart - Mark Irwin "And"
Within the Kitchen of the House of Dreams - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Where all my Pasts within the Future wait - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
And find my Muse asleep within an empty Box - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Within the many courtyards of the body - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "What Spells Trouble"
Folding up my little dreams within my heart - Georgia Douglas Johnson "My Little Dreams" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Not a single flower has bloomed within life's desert - Georgia Douglas Johnson "What Need Have I for Memory" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Lived within a mighty age - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"
Lived within a lattice of time - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
Within the breath of autumn woods - Lionel Johnson "The Dark Angel"
Within the shade of freshly chill - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"
Within the unvoyaged sea - Lionel Johnson "Upon a Drawing"
Within the Convent of the Past - Annie Fellows Johnston "Retrospection"
Language conquers from within - Fred L. Joiner "Sovereignty"
Scarce stirred within their azure caves - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Deep within the vase of memory - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "As in a Rose-Jar"
Sweet rosemary within the lane - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Remembrance"
How Doubts and Fears fled from a light within - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VI" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
Within a grudging Island's narrow hold - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: IX: Colonisation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
Within the space of a swallow's nest-door - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Mists of memory locked within - Fanny Kemble "Absence"
Within a summer sun cloud furled - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
Within the Temple caught - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Within the Potter's house alone - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Within touching distance of the doorknob - Kevin Killian "The Door into Darkness"
Folded within my hemisphere - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"
Iron Within - Rudyard Kipling
How desire vibrates within us - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"
Within the first order of wonders - Ted Kooser "Gyroscope"
Within a sullen glow of apocalypse - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Portrait of the Mad Scientist's Wife"
Your singleness within the universe - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
The darkness trapped within a wheel runs into speed - D.H. Lawrence "The Mystic Blue"
Within the hollow arch of night - Richard Le Gallienne "In the Night"
Joy within the gates of duty - Richard Le Gallienne "Paolo and Francesca"
Round pools within a wood to catch the stars - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"
Within the sacred bowl of life - Katy Lederer "Mass Effect"
Within the boundless realm of Horror - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sister Mary of the Plague"
Pulsed within the fingers of the world - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"
Crooked from growing old within a shell - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
Carry yesteryears within our wallets - Vachel Lindsay "A Meditation on the Sun"
Singing out within the crash of passing sun - Audre Lorde "Coal"
Touched with sympathy within - Nancy Luce "No Comfort"
Drifted back within the bounds of space - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"
And peaceless discontentment reigns within - William M. MacKeracher "Lines Written on a Sabbath Morning"
Within the water where the willows sleep - Archibald MacLeish "Imagery"
Sit within a golden field - Jeannette Marks "Stars"
Within these forty centuries - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"
To space and eye within the dwelling of infinity - Harry Martinson "Aniara 32" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A little offering from within of dreams - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
You who became strange within an hour - Cate Marvin "Two Views of a Discarded Mattress"
Within a world of rank decay - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of a Ferocious Catholic"
Here the sword within the soul - Theodore Maynard "In Domo Johannis"
Holding his destiny within his hands - James Edward McCall "The New Negro" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
For the promise within the wreckage - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"
My centripetal life, gathering within - Leslie McIntosh "ANAMNESIS"
Gathering within to become smaller, more defined - Leslie McIntosh "ANAMNESIS"
The blended fires that heat his veins within - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Within the fallen fortress of my will - Arch Alfred McKillen "Sonnet"
Densities of opal within sleep's portico - Cecilia Meireles "The Dead Horse" transl. by James Merrill
Within the shadow of a leaping sea - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
Within that curtain of Charybdis - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
Within the whirlpool presence of a flood - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
An ancient bell within their throats - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Jets of a dreadful fire within - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
Sign within him of deep sky and sounded sea - George Meredith "On the Danger of War"
One flame within those mutual eyes - Alice Meynell "Reflections"
Stroking the bread within the sheaves - Alice Meynell "Summer in England, 1914"
Within this brother's solitary day - Alice Meynell "The Unknown God"
Plunge within the silence, sans thought, breath - Adam Mickiewicz "Baydary" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Over all within their vortex - "The Misanthrope"
Within whose glowing sphere is mirrored half a world - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"
Within whose soul the fire of the eternal lived - George L. Moore "Keats"
Slander's snakes within the verdure lurk - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
To seek within the jaws of death - William Morris "I Know a Little Garden-Close"
Engulfed within the grave of Time - George Murray "The Thistle"
That has slept long years within the bells - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Returns" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Death's brilliance within the emerald - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Within a sleep of sulfur - Pablo Neruda "From Air to Air" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Asleep within the deadest hour of night - Robert Nichols "To ---"
Within the garden lands of love - Meredith Nicholson "Twas Never Night in Love's Domain"
From within come tones of fear - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: V. The Hell Hole"
Showed a sun within its heart - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Dragon-fly"
The drums and the darkness within - Achy Obejas "Recountal"
The God found within the stone - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Within the folding of those azure doors - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Except within my secret ears - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"
Whose floating glory melts within the sky - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Within the dark circle of his demons - Linda Pastan "It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank"
Of fire within the midmost gloom - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"
Shut within earth's jaws - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Digging holes within the sand - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
The mock of law within the letter of the law - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"
Within those snake-bright grottoes - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Confined within cells of bark & wood - Kiki Petrosino "The Spell"
Within view of a rough sea - Carl Phillips "The Last of Fanfare"
Within the circle of his wide domain - Philo "The Tribute"
Within the narrow space of fifty years - Philo "The Tribute"
Within the terrors of eclipse - E.J. Pratt "Ode to December, 1917"
Heaped high within the Judgment Scales - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)
That questions are inherent within the answers - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Foreigners"
Within the larches trembling glade - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Brother Filippo"
Each within a golden shroud - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Mountain Path"
Poured within the brimming cup - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Prayer"
Within the shadow of the sail - T. Buchanan Read "Drifting"
Contain and conduct the sorrow within - Ariana Reines "The Economy"
within the loops and lines of our initial correspondence - jo reyes-boitel "fish bones"
This earth and the bones within it - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
Howling our loneliness within the tribes - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
Within the deep of wilderness and night - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
Within each eye the naked blade - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Left within it graft of alien fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Within the circle of its radiance - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
That sleeps within a harp - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Within his soul a shrine of memories - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Hermit"
Grew dead without and small within - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
Within the happy silence of my heart - Alice Wellington Rollins "Absent-Minded"
That are free within the girdle of captivity - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
One of Raphael's angels held within this hush - David St. John "In the High Country"
Shaped within no narrow limits - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: I. The Creation of the Universe" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Within this blaze of winnowed flames - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Held sparks within their darkness - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Marker Memory"
Fission-green flaw deep within - Richard Scott "Peridot"
A little beat within the heart of Time - Robert W. Service "Just Think!"
Within his bending sickle's compass come - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"
Synthesized within an inch of its life - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"
An ocean raging within a stone - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
Cold within your clenching hand - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"
Crouched within my cup - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Love"
The death watch ticks within the walls - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Skeleton in the Cupboard"
Within which everything is mine - Joyce Sidman "Diving Beetle's Food-Sharing Rules"
No such shock knit within terror - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"
the enemy everywhere within and without - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
While glass'd within my mournful mind - B. Simmons "The Last Walk" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]
Within its pale sad air each angry feeling fades - B. Simmons "Vanities in Verse: Letters of the Dead: To Livia" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Our cherished histories endure within the sea - Marge Simon "The Astronaut's Return"
Within the rain's grey monotone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Dream-Bridge"
Grasped within the hollow hand of Night - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"
All suns are grasped within the hollow hand - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"
Loveliness find root within decay - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"
I wrote your name within my heart - Leonora Speyer "Song Overheard"
Jonah wept within the whale - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"
Gone somewhat within the veil - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
The rendezvous within its vital boundary - Wallace Stevens "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
Within the ancient circles of shapes - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
Within the thought of the wind - Wallace Stevens "Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It"
The dregs within its crystal hours - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"
Felt my soul within me reel and sway - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"
Every nuance hidden deep within - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 219: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The secrets we stopper within our own mouths - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
Sit'st alone within her void, cold halls - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Within the gates of the hushed heart - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XX: The Hidden Reverie"
Gathers it jealously within the gates - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XX: The Hidden Reverie"s
Within the borders of the page - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "The Dream of the Anit-Ekphrasis"
The language of survival cold within my teeth - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "The Dream of the Anit-Ekphrasis"
Wild winds bound within their cell - Tennyson "Mariana"
Stricken bird that cowers within its nest - Frederick W. Thomas "The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio"
Are found within its precincts vast - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Winter is lurking within my moods - Henry David Thoreau "Nature's Child"
Enthroned within a more ethereal blue - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XII. Sunday.--The Hill-Top"
Light is dead within my heart - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut
Pestilence and rot within thy bowers - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"
Drowned within the lurid dregs - Iris Tree "[How often, when the thought of suicide]"
Tasting within the bitter dregs of spleen - Iris Tree "[My pain has all the patience of a nun]"
Revenge of Time that waits within the clock - Iris Tree "[Old woman forever sitting]"
As within a guilty citadel - Richard Chenevix Trench "Vesuvius, as Seen from Capri"
Lit you from within - David Trinidad "Ode to Dusty Springfield"
Lie within the shadow of the sword - Tu Fu "Restless Night" transl. by Burton Watson
Full sun within surrounding stars - Tu Fu "The Emperor Walks" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The slow whirlpool I conceal within myself - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"
Rock the young birds within the nest - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]
The restless stars growing within her - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"
an island of seashells within the rings of Saturn - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
Within whose chalice lies the heart - Rudolph Valentino "Heart Flower"
Within my grasp the sceptre of the universe - Rudolph Valentino "Poverty"
Within the still-point of the song - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
Echoing the well of mystery within me - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Lamplight"
The stars move calm within the brow of night - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
From suffering worlds within, hidden from sight - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Within the chains that language wrought - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours IX" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
Carry the stingy and melancholy beauty within - Emilio Villa "What's New" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
All the ghosts within your breast - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin
And feel my torpid soul within me burn - Hans von Spiegel "June" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Hope within its circling hours to see - Hans Von Spiegel "Sonnet: to the Old Year" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Awhile to sit within its gilded cage - H.J.W. "An Evening Hymn" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)
Within the secret caves of Mind - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
Within this net-work of the wood - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "The First American Alliance"
Stood within a dreadful court - F.E. Weatherly "Bell's Dream"
Within a single pulsing of the quick heart - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
Caged within my breast - John Hall Wheelock "The Black Panther"
Serene within the shadow - Helen Hay Whitney "Lyric Love"
Within the breast of brooding Earth - Helen Hay Whitney "The Supreme Sacrifice"
Will bloom within those trackless lands - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"
The House of Ghosts was bright within - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"
No matter what grows within - John Wieners "Private Estate"
Within the theatre of the mighty dead - Joseph R. Wilson "An Actor's Epitaph"
Within the mansion of my memory - Adolf Wolff "In Memoriam"
As one within a moated tower - Edith Wyatt "Sympathy"
A plethora of forces bound and unbinding within us - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]
Washed within a wave of golden - Francis Brett Young "Testament"
Locked within yourself and asking - Matthew Zapruder "There Is a Light"
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Lurk within the forests of the mind - Harold Acton "In the Train de Luxe"
May stand within the world's full view - Lewis Alexander "The Dark Brother" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Seeing a newer light within my eyes - Lewis Alexander "The Dark Brother" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Torn from within a cold glassy fire - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen "The Mirrors" transl. by Allan Francovich
Within that divide - Simon Armitage "Prometheus"
questions within the black smoke - Jarid Arraes "Movement"
Crimson thoughts within me writhe and burn - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Within the beak of a relentless vulture - Benjamin West Ball "Cymindis"
A void within voids - Rita Banerjee "Sleep"
Shaped within a static prayer - Djuna Barnes "First Communion"
What dream lies walled within - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Cave"
What dream lies walled within - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Cave"
within the mesh of failure - Elizabeth Bartlett "grass flesh"
be the blood within my bone - Elizabeth Bartlett "guadalajara"
Within that hallway of silence - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Understanding"
When poison writhes within - Stephen Vincent Benet "Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua"
Within whose heart no spark of ancient fire burns - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"
Flight & failure contained within a single body - Joshua Bennett "Owed to the Durag"
Within your body's bladed frame - Joshua Bennett "X"
Ebb and flow within my tender heart - Charles Best "A Sonnet of the Moon"
Will hold the mind within its limits - Frank Chapman Bliss writing as Octavius "The Naughty Man; or, Sir Thomas Brown"
Hopes that lie within their grave - Maxwell Bodenheim "East-Side: New York"
Within a room of tortured angles - Maxwell Bodenheim "Feminine Talk"
Trapped within these months and years - Max Bodenheim "Poem to a Policeman"
Only finding it within herself - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"
Within my jealous sight - Otto Leland Bohanan "Go Give the World"
Rhythms of change within the heart begun - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
Within the system of blind planets - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"
Knitted up within my mind - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
All things within this fading world - Anne Bradstreet "Before the Birth of One of Her Children"
Within each hour the precious minutes lie - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"
Warmth within the mountain's breast - Stopford A. Brooks "The Spring of Love"
Teach the drum within that dark to drum again - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"
Within the dash of withered bells - Paul Cameron Brown "The Bells"
Within reach of this uncontrolled mitosis - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"
Hope within thee deeper than thy truth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Within its field of lament - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"
Glowed within the wines we drank - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall
Deny your right within these walls - Roger Casement "Oliver Cromwell 1650-1659"
To feel the many plagues within - John Castillo "To a Withered Flower!"
Dream within the grape - Willa Cather "Autumn Melody"
Garner'd fondly up within its depths of feeling - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Give faint visions of a paradise within - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell - Ralph Chaplin "Mourn not the Dead"
Within a restless heart I hold a hurricane - Ralph Chaplin "The Warrior Wind"
Within a craft of pearl and crystal light - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
The wound is within you and not - Johnson Cheu "Wail"
Seeks friendship within a veiled temple - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "I Do Not Wish to Carry so Much Burden"
All within the time frame of a melting clock - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"
Within the towns was naught but foreign bread - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
That for a thousand years had dwelt within the glen - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
And left within his spirit hope - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob"
Within the sceptic darkness deep - Arthur Hugh Clough "The New Sinai"
Prayer to go unchanged within this water - Aaron Coleman "The Broken Man's Permission"
Within the confines of an hourglass - Billy Collins "On Reading in the Morning Paper that Dreams May Be Only Nonsense"
Within us a hardened astonishment - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Something has flowered within the discontent - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Caring no more to dwell within the house where faith is dead - Joseph S. Cotter Jr "The Deserter" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
As sheep within their folds - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"
Win a glimpse of all the sport within - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
Within myself is lodged the key - Countee Cullen "Harsh World That Lashest Me"
Your doors barred from within - Countee Cullen "Pagan Prayer"
Tempt him not within the door - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
No gift within our hands - H.D. "Prayer"
Within the tangles of my brain - H.D. "We Two"
Awakes a piercing pang within - J.D. [Julia Day] "A Mother to Her Forsaken Child" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXII, v.LVIII, Dec. 1845]
Lost within hibernation and missing mother-planet - Kyle Dargan "Dear Echo" [Poetry Feb. 2016]
Within the wind a core of sound - John Davidson "In Romney Marsh"
But never change the words that were within - Mary Carolyn Davies "A Casualty List"
Stand within Time's crumbling walls - Benjamin De Casseres "The-Circle-That-Looks-Like-A-Line"
New feet within my garden - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature I"
The bell within the steeple wild - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXVI: The Storm"
Left her within the jaws of death - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset "Think Before You Speak; Or, The Three Wishes"
Begins to disintegrate within my hand - Jasmeet Dosanjh "A Spirit Friend"
Instant within my shrine - Edward Dowden "Recovery"
There is that clamoring and clawing within - 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]
Within rules freely accepted - Stephen Dunn "Lucky"
The waters hold all heaven within their heart - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"
Within my spirit's dark stream - Helen Parry Eden "To E.A.P."
Seek the strange within the same - Katherine Edgren "Prospecting"
Witnessed too many crashing within - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"
Within the rib complex of some dissolved creature - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
Within her Hand a vacant String - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"
Within a realm of filtered light - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"
A scroll within the tomb Unread forever - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"
When light and love within her eyes were one - George Eliot "Self and Life"
That wrote within the law of gratitude - George Eliot "Self and Life"
The morning mist within your grounds - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Park"
And heart of stone within - The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"
Nested like a doll within right now - J. Everett Feinberg "Renaissance"
One grief within her burned - Marie J. Ewen "The Two Prayers" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.457, 2 Oct. 1852]
Strange tumult reigned within her - Marie J. Ewen "The Two Prayers" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.457, 2 Oct. 1852]
Within me surged the grief of years - Jessie Fauset "Rencontre" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Within a body of jewels - Camonghne Felix "Lost Poem: RX"
Planting stones within my heart - Beulah Field "Needles and Pins"
Saw everywhere stars within the darkness - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Through the blood trees within us - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"
Deep its azure leaves within - "Forget-Me-Not: Myosotis Avensis" transl. from German by Fitz-Greene Halleck [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Shrined within my faithful heart - Fanny Forrester "Not Beautiful!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.11-v.I, 15 March 1884]
Reveal an order within the curvature to chaos - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
Lit deep within the dark - Zona Gale "The Secret Way"
Clutched within a miser's hold - John Gay "Fable XVI: Pin and Needle" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Deserves no space within your spirit - Nikita Gill "Anger"
The sword within the sun - Ellen Glasgow "England's Greatness"
Two unextinguished furnaces of woe within - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Within compassion's genial realm - Mrs. L.S. Goodwin "The Unsepulchred Relics"
Deep within the torrent dip - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
The slaughter carried within me - torrin a. greathouse "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"
Holds a world of woe within its little round - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [My first is often caught in church]"
Palmed within an arc of light - Lucy Griffith "Attention"
Within our spirit's garden - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"
Shut away within the night - Angelina Weld Grimké "To Joseph Lee"
Shrined within my memory - J.H. "The Churchyard by the Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.8-v.I, 23 Feb. 1884]
Scenes within her ring of power - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Address, at the Opening of a New Theatre"
Within its earthbound depths did lie - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Rang midnight within - Thomas Hardy "Before Marching, and After"
Within a true circle of motion - Joy Harjo "Eagle Poem"
Within a crescendo of abalone light - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
Within a sunless spring - Avis Harley "Catching a Butterfly (2)"
Within the fair pavilion of thy presence - Frances Ridley Havergal "Coming to the King"
Wakes to behold the void within - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
Within the circle of his breath - George Herbert "Mortification"
Strengthen the hope within my soul - Mary E. Hewitt "The Hearth of Home"
For some reason bred within thy mind - F.A. Hillard "Sonnet [If thou didst love me for imagined fame]" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
Vacated a region within himself - Edward Hirsch "Idea of the Holy"
Matching the oblivion within - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"
Safe within the jasper gates - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"
Buried deep within my heart - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Within my narrow garden's greenery - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Wrought within the tombs of Egypt's kings - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Within my bosom are a hundred dawns - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
Within the four chambers of a sparrow's heart - Mark Irwin "And"
Within the Kitchen of the House of Dreams - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Where all my Pasts within the Future wait - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
And find my Muse asleep within an empty Box - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Within the many courtyards of the body - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "What Spells Trouble"
Folding up my little dreams within my heart - Georgia Douglas Johnson "My Little Dreams" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Not a single flower has bloomed within life's desert - Georgia Douglas Johnson "What Need Have I for Memory" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Lived within a mighty age - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"
Lived within a lattice of time - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
Within the breath of autumn woods - Lionel Johnson "The Dark Angel"
Within the shade of freshly chill - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"
Within the unvoyaged sea - Lionel Johnson "Upon a Drawing"
Within the Convent of the Past - Annie Fellows Johnston "Retrospection"
Language conquers from within - Fred L. Joiner "Sovereignty"
Scarce stirred within their azure caves - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Deep within the vase of memory - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "As in a Rose-Jar"
Sweet rosemary within the lane - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Remembrance"
How Doubts and Fears fled from a light within - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VI" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
Within a grudging Island's narrow hold - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: IX: Colonisation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
Within the space of a swallow's nest-door - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Mists of memory locked within - Fanny Kemble "Absence"
Within a summer sun cloud furled - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
Within the Temple caught - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Within the Potter's house alone - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Within touching distance of the doorknob - Kevin Killian "The Door into Darkness"
Folded within my hemisphere - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"
Iron Within - Rudyard Kipling
How desire vibrates within us - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"
Within the first order of wonders - Ted Kooser "Gyroscope"
Within a sullen glow of apocalypse - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Portrait of the Mad Scientist's Wife"
Your singleness within the universe - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"
The darkness trapped within a wheel runs into speed - D.H. Lawrence "The Mystic Blue"
Within the hollow arch of night - Richard Le Gallienne "In the Night"
Joy within the gates of duty - Richard Le Gallienne "Paolo and Francesca"
Round pools within a wood to catch the stars - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"
Within the sacred bowl of life - Katy Lederer "Mass Effect"
Within the boundless realm of Horror - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sister Mary of the Plague"
Pulsed within the fingers of the world - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"
Crooked from growing old within a shell - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
Carry yesteryears within our wallets - Vachel Lindsay "A Meditation on the Sun"
Singing out within the crash of passing sun - Audre Lorde "Coal"
Touched with sympathy within - Nancy Luce "No Comfort"
Drifted back within the bounds of space - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"
And peaceless discontentment reigns within - William M. MacKeracher "Lines Written on a Sabbath Morning"
Within the water where the willows sleep - Archibald MacLeish "Imagery"
Sit within a golden field - Jeannette Marks "Stars"
Within these forty centuries - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"
To space and eye within the dwelling of infinity - Harry Martinson "Aniara 32" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A little offering from within of dreams - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
You who became strange within an hour - Cate Marvin "Two Views of a Discarded Mattress"
Within a world of rank decay - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of a Ferocious Catholic"
Here the sword within the soul - Theodore Maynard "In Domo Johannis"
Holding his destiny within his hands - James Edward McCall "The New Negro" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
For the promise within the wreckage - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"
My centripetal life, gathering within - Leslie McIntosh "ANAMNESIS"
Gathering within to become smaller, more defined - Leslie McIntosh "ANAMNESIS"
The blended fires that heat his veins within - Claude McKay "My House" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Within the fallen fortress of my will - Arch Alfred McKillen "Sonnet"
Densities of opal within sleep's portico - Cecilia Meireles "The Dead Horse" transl. by James Merrill
Within the shadow of a leaping sea - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
Within that curtain of Charybdis - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
Within the whirlpool presence of a flood - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
An ancient bell within their throats - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"
Jets of a dreadful fire within - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
Sign within him of deep sky and sounded sea - George Meredith "On the Danger of War"
One flame within those mutual eyes - Alice Meynell "Reflections"
Stroking the bread within the sheaves - Alice Meynell "Summer in England, 1914"
Within this brother's solitary day - Alice Meynell "The Unknown God"
Plunge within the silence, sans thought, breath - Adam Mickiewicz "Baydary" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
Over all within their vortex - "The Misanthrope"
Within whose glowing sphere is mirrored half a world - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"
Within whose soul the fire of the eternal lived - George L. Moore "Keats"
Slander's snakes within the verdure lurk - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
To seek within the jaws of death - William Morris "I Know a Little Garden-Close"
Engulfed within the grave of Time - George Murray "The Thistle"
That has slept long years within the bells - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Returns" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Death's brilliance within the emerald - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Within a sleep of sulfur - Pablo Neruda "From Air to Air" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Asleep within the deadest hour of night - Robert Nichols "To ---"
Within the garden lands of love - Meredith Nicholson "Twas Never Night in Love's Domain"
From within come tones of fear - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: V. The Hell Hole"
Showed a sun within its heart - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Dragon-fly"
The drums and the darkness within - Achy Obejas "Recountal"
The God found within the stone - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Within the folding of those azure doors - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Except within my secret ears - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"
Whose floating glory melts within the sky - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Within the dark circle of his demons - Linda Pastan "It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank"
Of fire within the midmost gloom - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"
Shut within earth's jaws - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett
Digging holes within the sand - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
The mock of law within the letter of the law - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"
Within those snake-bright grottoes - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
Confined within cells of bark & wood - Kiki Petrosino "The Spell"
Within view of a rough sea - Carl Phillips "The Last of Fanfare"
Within the circle of his wide domain - Philo "The Tribute"
Within the narrow space of fifty years - Philo "The Tribute"
Within the terrors of eclipse - E.J. Pratt "Ode to December, 1917"
Heaped high within the Judgment Scales - Margaret J. Preston "The Hermit's Vigil" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873] (appears to be a typo in the poet's name: Margaret J. Prestox at the end of the poem. I'm assuming it should be Preston)
That questions are inherent within the answers - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Foreigners"
Within the larches trembling glade - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Brother Filippo"
Each within a golden shroud - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Mountain Path"
Poured within the brimming cup - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Prayer"
Within the shadow of the sail - T. Buchanan Read "Drifting"
Contain and conduct the sorrow within - Ariana Reines "The Economy"
within the loops and lines of our initial correspondence - jo reyes-boitel "fish bones"
This earth and the bones within it - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
Howling our loneliness within the tribes - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
Within the deep of wilderness and night - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "My Harp"
Within each eye the naked blade - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Left within it graft of alien fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Within the circle of its radiance - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
That sleeps within a harp - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Within his soul a shrine of memories - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Hermit"
Grew dead without and small within - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
Within the happy silence of my heart - Alice Wellington Rollins "Absent-Minded"
That are free within the girdle of captivity - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
One of Raphael's angels held within this hush - David St. John "In the High Country"
Shaped within no narrow limits - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: I. The Creation of the Universe" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Within this blaze of winnowed flames - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Held sparks within their darkness - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Marker Memory"
Fission-green flaw deep within - Richard Scott "Peridot"
A little beat within the heart of Time - Robert W. Service "Just Think!"
Within his bending sickle's compass come - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"
Synthesized within an inch of its life - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"
An ocean raging within a stone - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
Cold within your clenching hand - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"
Crouched within my cup - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Love"
The death watch ticks within the walls - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Skeleton in the Cupboard"
Within which everything is mine - Joyce Sidman "Diving Beetle's Food-Sharing Rules"
No such shock knit within terror - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"
the enemy everywhere within and without - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"
While glass'd within my mournful mind - B. Simmons "The Last Walk" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCI, May 1848, v.LXIII]
Within its pale sad air each angry feeling fades - B. Simmons "Vanities in Verse: Letters of the Dead: To Livia" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Our cherished histories endure within the sea - Marge Simon "The Astronaut's Return"
Within the rain's grey monotone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Dream-Bridge"
Grasped within the hollow hand of Night - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"
All suns are grasped within the hollow hand - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"
Loveliness find root within decay - Clark Ashton Smith "Retrospect and Forecast"
I wrote your name within my heart - Leonora Speyer "Song Overheard"
Jonah wept within the whale - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"
Gone somewhat within the veil - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"
The rendezvous within its vital boundary - Wallace Stevens "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
Within the ancient circles of shapes - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
Within the thought of the wind - Wallace Stevens "Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It"
The dregs within its crystal hours - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"
Felt my soul within me reel and sway - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"
Every nuance hidden deep within - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 219: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The secrets we stopper within our own mouths - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
Sit'st alone within her void, cold halls - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Within the gates of the hushed heart - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XX: The Hidden Reverie"
Gathers it jealously within the gates - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XX: The Hidden Reverie"s
Within the borders of the page - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "The Dream of the Anit-Ekphrasis"
The language of survival cold within my teeth - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "The Dream of the Anit-Ekphrasis"
Wild winds bound within their cell - Tennyson "Mariana"
Stricken bird that cowers within its nest - Frederick W. Thomas "The Emigrant, or Reflections While Descending the Ohio"
Are found within its precincts vast - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Winter is lurking within my moods - Henry David Thoreau "Nature's Child"
Enthroned within a more ethereal blue - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XII. Sunday.--The Hill-Top"
Light is dead within my heart - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut
Pestilence and rot within thy bowers - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"
Drowned within the lurid dregs - Iris Tree "[How often, when the thought of suicide]"
Tasting within the bitter dregs of spleen - Iris Tree "[My pain has all the patience of a nun]"
Revenge of Time that waits within the clock - Iris Tree "[Old woman forever sitting]"
As within a guilty citadel - Richard Chenevix Trench "Vesuvius, as Seen from Capri"
Lit you from within - David Trinidad "Ode to Dusty Springfield"
Lie within the shadow of the sword - Tu Fu "Restless Night" transl. by Burton Watson
Full sun within surrounding stars - Tu Fu "The Emperor Walks" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
The slow whirlpool I conceal within myself - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"
Rock the young birds within the nest - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]
The restless stars growing within her - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"
an island of seashells within the rings of Saturn - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"
Within whose chalice lies the heart - Rudolph Valentino "Heart Flower"
Within my grasp the sceptre of the universe - Rudolph Valentino "Poverty"
Within the still-point of the song - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
Echoing the well of mystery within me - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Lamplight"
The stars move calm within the brow of night - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
From suffering worlds within, hidden from sight - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Within the chains that language wrought - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours IX" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
Carry the stingy and melancholy beauty within - Emilio Villa "What's New" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
All the ghosts within your breast - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin
And feel my torpid soul within me burn - Hans von Spiegel "June" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Hope within its circling hours to see - Hans Von Spiegel "Sonnet: to the Old Year" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
Awhile to sit within its gilded cage - H.J.W. "An Evening Hymn" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)
Within the secret caves of Mind - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
Within this net-work of the wood - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "The First American Alliance"
Stood within a dreadful court - F.E. Weatherly "Bell's Dream"
Within a single pulsing of the quick heart - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
Caged within my breast - John Hall Wheelock "The Black Panther"
Serene within the shadow - Helen Hay Whitney "Lyric Love"
Within the breast of brooding Earth - Helen Hay Whitney "The Supreme Sacrifice"
Will bloom within those trackless lands - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"
The House of Ghosts was bright within - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"
No matter what grows within - John Wieners "Private Estate"
Within the theatre of the mighty dead - Joseph R. Wilson "An Actor's Epitaph"
Within the mansion of my memory - Adolf Wolff "In Memoriam"
As one within a moated tower - Edith Wyatt "Sympathy"
A plethora of forces bound and unbinding within us - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]
Washed within a wave of golden - Francis Brett Young "Testament"
Locked within yourself and asking - Matthew Zapruder "There Is a Light"
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