Potential Titles: World

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When the world burst out of an egg - Sheikha A. "Nesters"

An eye that opens on another world - Duane Ackerson "The Blind Man"

Seeing the world through donated eyes - Duane Ackerson "The Blind Man"

Spill blood transported from across the world - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"

Now I'm ready to start seeing the world - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"

And held the insect world in fief - Harold Acton "The Investiture of a Spinster Hob-Goblin"

The world made new by past tears - Linda Addison "Evolving"

Alive in both worlds at once - Kim Addonizio "Wine Tasting"

I am nothing to the vast world - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

Ascend into the world crystal - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"

The light beyond the worlds of space - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

All the recessed corners of the world - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

Catacombs and fragments of old worlds - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Caught in the vapor between this world and that - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"

And opened a world of possible - Kwame Alexander "The Undefeated"

His gaze rose through the shapes behind the world - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Nothing remains of the world I understood - Mike Allen "Space War"

The world mined with betrayals - Julia Alvarez "Fights"

Harboring warmth in the thick of a scary world - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

And the sea bears the reflection of the worlds - Lennox Amott "My Beauty's Home"

Imagine me lost with our home world - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"

And challenge all the world - "Another Peep at the Links"

Have given a child to this world of woe - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXXIX: Reminiscences" transl. by Robert Bulwer Lytton (Owen Meredith)

Nought he takes from out the world - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXVII: The Conditions" transl. by J.W. Wiles

The world will break your blessing - Diannely Antigua "Blessing the Baby"

Created worlds without knowing - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "About the angels"

Manifest to all the world - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel of ubiquity"

In the world's most crowded streets - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"

The world smiled and passed by - Matthew Arnold "Written in Emerson's Essays"

Of how the young world took to sin - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [A hundred years ago the church bells spoke]"

I blast the mist of worlds and years apart - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

Conjuring worlds from dust and storm - Jabari Asim "Some Call It God"

When the world first saw our face - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

'Mid the wrecks of a falling world - Avena "Columbia's Banner"

In the ragdoll physics of this world - R. Christopher Aversa "Gold Foil Experiment"

Like the world hasn't happened - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Cento Between the Ending and the End"

Remake the world as wreckage - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Essay on the Appearance of Ghosts"

Walk into the world of dreams - Cameron Awkward-Rich "The Little Girl Is Not Certain About Ontology"

In this glittering piece-work world - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Ghost House"

World made sweet with thyme - Albion Fellows Bacon "Her Title-Deeds"

Bade the world their lofty queen obey - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"

Found a way to go to the bottom of the world - Mary Jo Bang "On the Nature of Hardwiring"

Awakening to a world of gloom - Maurice Baring "Wagner"

And shape the world to suit myself - Devan Barlow "Dear Charles Perrault"

gained a world not worth the lost - Elizabeth Bartlett "maturity"

As if to wash this dusty world - Basho transl. by David Young

Trod the world's wild maze - Cora C. Bass "A Gift"

Threading the world's delusive maze - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"

Forget the world's alarms - Charles Baudelaire "An Allegory" transl. not credited

The world's onward dream would fade - Charles Baudelaire "An Allegory" transl. not credited

What our world got wrong - Erin Belieu "Dum Spiro Spero"

The raw end of your squared off world - Erin Belieu "Field"

Our world's long spree of Caesars - Erin Belieu "Pity the Doctor, Not the Disease"

Freedom's drums in the blood of the world - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"

Incredible conquests till the whole world reels - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"

When despair for the world grows in me - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"

Pried open for all the world to see - John Berryman "Dream Song 1"

On horizons of other worlds - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"

A world rippled by the years we've left behind - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"

Entered the world a burning storm - Remica Bingham-Risher "Interrogation Suite: Where did you come from/how did you arrive?"

From the cold hard mouth of the world - Elizabeth Bishop "At the Fishhouses"

Falling off the round, turning world - Elizabeth Bishop "In the Waiting Room"

Without surprise the world might change - Elizabeth Bishop "It Is Marvellous..."

A world of books gone flat - Elizabeth Bishop "Visits to St. Elizabeths"

For whom the world darkens - Robert Bly "Prayer for My Father"

The way the world unravels - Marianne Boruch "Those visits home, the way the young"

The substance of the world began to sing - Bruce Boston "When Clock Is Egg"

Forging a symbiosis with the force that rules their world - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"

All the vibrant sunshine in the world - Louise Morey Bowman "Moment Musical"

All things within this fading world - Anne Bradstreet "Before the Birth of One of Her Children"

Though the world's regard may cease - Vera M. Brittain "The Sisters Buried at Lemnos"

And doubly will the dark world grieve - Emily Bronte "Stanzas [I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me]"

Stands at the portals of a world in flower - Caris Brooke "[Girdled with gold my little lady's bower]"

Another door the world slams shut - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"

Rip a tiny tear between this world and that - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Fledgelings in a world ill begotten - Paul Cameron Brown "The Elysian Fields"

Serrated edge of the known world - Paul Cameron Brown "Isles and Rivulets"

Then paint the world in aperture - Paul Cameron Brown "Oriface"

A ransom parleyed against the crowned heads of this world - Paul Cameron Brown "The Treasure Ships"

Colorful living in a world grown dull - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"

Moving against the tide of a world - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"

Of a world breaking its own heart - Mahogany L. Browne "The 19th Amendment & My Mama"

Left silence in the world - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

The cursed are in the world - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Which purer worlds assemble - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Above the world forlorn - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XXV in Sonnets from the Portuguese"

Ambitions make the world unkind - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

Whose roots were in another world - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

Patriarchs of the infant world - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"

The late prism of the metamorphic world - CM Burroughs "The Vital System"

Calm world of zeroes invisible - Anthony Butts "Thin Places"

Till all worlds shall tremble at my nod - H.B.C. "The Kaiser to his Secretary" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

And bite my thumb at the world - C.S. Calverley "First Love"

In the wreck of that ruined world - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Dryad"

The word that girdles the world - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Lazarus of Empires"

That girdles the world with its thunders - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Lazarus of Empires"

In a world of stifling air alone - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall

Disdainful of the present world - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

A world far remote from our daylight - Giosue Carducci "Snowed Under" transl. by Frank Sewall

The noisy workshop of the world - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

The first in worlds we've never seen - Paul Carroll "Untitled [I want to write a poem the birds will understand]"

The blunt, still disillusioning world - Cyrus Cassells "Clarinet"

The courage to dare the world - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"

Outside with the other worlds - Paul Celan "So Many Constellations" (translated by Pierre Joris)

The mollusk that challenged the world - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for my Aggressive Forehead"

Chewed into the wreck of the world - Tina Chang "Lion"

In this great world of rush and riot - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Steps"

Into tomorrow's wet world - Ching-In Chen "South in Hundreds"

When the ends of the world waxed free - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

The word of the world's desire - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"

Spirit voices from an unseen world - Jose Santos Chocano "A Song of the Road" transl. by John Pierrepont Rice

All the things which make real the world - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"

This world a cacophony of competing decibels - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"

In a busily mutating world - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"

About the pathways of the world - Arthur Hugh Clough "Blank Misgivings of a Creature moving about in Worlds not realized"

In base compliance to the world - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

In marriage with the world - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XII"

The world pronounce you free - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"

Before they sawed the world in half - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."

The transparent structure of the world - Henri Cole "Gulls"

Through a door at the back of the world - Billy Collins "Endangered"

The hinges of the spirit world - Billy Collins "Questions About Angels"

Grieves because the world is old - Arthur Colton "Heirs of Time"

The world curtained by meteors, volcanoes, or nuclear blast - S. R. Compton "On the K-T Boundary"

The stretch of the world - Hilda Conkling "Snowstorm"

Clouds of the false world's raising - Katherine Eleanor Conway "Saturninus"

A breath sundrawn from half a world - James H. Cousins "Ireland"

On the ramparts of the world - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Gods and Heroes of the Gael"

An instant of the world - Hart Crane "The Wine Menagerie"

Caught in the stubble of the world - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

The breath of the world that stops - Adelaide Crapsey "The Fiddling Lad"

This frozen forest world of moonlight - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"

Stretching the world far beyond its modest capacity - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"

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

As small as a world and as large as alone - E. E. Cummings "maggie and milly and molly and may"

Build a world with snow - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"

And dives beneath the world - E. E. Cummings "Sunset"

Dead to this dull world - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"

Worth the world's envying - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"

Fancy's pencil draws a world unseen - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Fragment [With snow-clad top,, and far projecting height]"

Trespassed in a golden world - William H. Davies "Early Morn"

A world insistent on your pain - Allison Pitinii Davis "The Function of Humor in the Neighborhood"

Into the everyday teeth of the world - Geffrey Davis "King County Metro"

But leave the world more kind - Coningsby Dawson "Abandon"

And renovate this battered world - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

When Rome's ambition dyed the world with blood - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

How we relate the world through our skin - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"

Half round the world of woe - Aubrey de Vere "Epitaph"

Turn from the visible world - Carl Dennis "A Landscape"

A world we did not conquer - Desdamona "Once and Future"

And pen me in this conscious world with guarded men - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"

Jericho is on the inside of the things the world likes - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

To witness the ten thousand worlds - Chris Dombrowski "Blown Snow"

The hour the world wants most from me - Chris Dombrowski "Whittling"

Some mystic world's enchanted state - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Three Ships"

Bearing thither a world of dreams - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Three Ships"

Conqueror of half the world - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

Heavy with the woe of all the world - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"

Songs the world will hear - Edward Dowden "The Mage"

On the good tide of the world - Edward Dowden "Recovery"

The centre of the world's great wheel - Edward Dowden "The Secret of the Universe: an Ode"

Against the grownup world's uncertain horrors - Boris Dralyuk "Universal Horror"

Fell over the world in flame - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"

We're buying the world's sorrow - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"

Reliquary for what the World has seen - Michael Dumanis "Joseph Cornell, with Box"

Only seven trees left in the world - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #3"

Every pearl in the world releases its oyster - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #4"

In this world of scorns - Helen Parry Eden "A Ballad of Lords and Ladies"

Gleans the secrets of the world - Dara Yen Elerath "The White Paws"

Ether clotted into worlds - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"

To curse all the locks in our world - Aziz Isa Elkun "Chimenqush--A Flower Bird" transl. by author

The crown and flower of the world - William Hodgson Ellis "The Lyric League"

Taking the wages of a world deceived - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"

To make the world an emptier place - Elaine Equi "My Taste"

The world in its everyday rage - Heid E. Erdich "Quiet Cupboard"

Warm on the table of my truce with the world - Martin Espada "After the Goose that Rose Like the God of Geese"

All the world a glad surprise - Anthony Euwer "Little Black Bull"

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

Upon the muffled boundaries of the world - Eleanor Farjeon "Night-Piece"

The world is full of jests like these - Jessie Redmon Fauset "La Vie C'est La Vie"

The world turned its one good eye - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"

A world where swords can still cut - J. Everett Feinberg "Renaissance"

Around the iron circumstances of the world - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

The door Night had closed over the world - Monica Ferrell "In Safranbolu"

The oldest sin of the world - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

That the world would end in snow - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hoktvlwv's Crow"

Without protection from the world - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"

Breaking that the world could be otherwise - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"

The world as it emerges - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"

Box of world and light - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"

In the world of tiny shifting things - Laura Foley "Lost and Found"

A glimpse into the world below the surface - Laura Foley "What Stillness"

On the edge of another blue world - Ariel Francisco "On the Shore of Lake Atitlán, Apparently I Ruined Breakfast"

That beauty's self rose visible in the world - John Freeman "The Body"

Convulsive shudder of dissolving worlds - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

The red altars of a crumbling world - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

And too much world at once - Robert Frost "The Exposed Nest"

Visions of half the world burned black - Robert Frost "The Gum-Gatherer"

this world is not kind to anybody - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"

Winnow the world of its angles - Zona Gale "In Arvia's Room"

One born for two worlds - Zona Gale "Terza Rima"

So the world continues around two corners - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: I"

Two people to bring the world to ruin - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"

The transient world's astonished eyes - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"

Would sing on the other side of the world - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson

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

Separated from all other worlds - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"

Owed the world my disappointment - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"

The world's a book we learn to translate - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"

Hiding treasures from the world - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"

The world beyond the night remains - Louise Gluck "Before the Storm"

Exiled by the world of hope - Louise Gluck "Tributaries"

The wailings of the world's sad heart - Mary Freeman Goldbeck "On Hearing a 'Trio'" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

A honey on the wormwood world - Louis Golding "Slum Evening"

All my wanderings round this world of care - Oliver Goldsmith "Old Age"

A world of always leaving - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Cage"

No longer be crushed with the weight of the world - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Offering the world unnamed things - Rae Gouirand "Fig Suite"

Forgetful of the world of bliss - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"

To seed the severed world of object-things - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Forgetting the world and finding it - Leah Naomi Green "C-section"

Could keep the world without - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Four: Atomic"

All a busy world may hear - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"

Our window on the risen world - Linda Gregerson "Another Diana"

The world so rarely lets us in - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"

The first footprint on strange worlds - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

A world with sky in every direction - Kimberly Grey "The First Marriage"

A world that never explains why - Jennifer Grotz "Staring into the Sun"

Who sustain ships and worlds - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

Sculpting one world - Laurie Ann Guerrero "Blessing"

Bid the world to try me - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"

Know there is spring in the world - Arthur Guiterman "In the Hospital"

Lift the eye of fate to worlds - Eliza Paul Gurney "Heaven and Earth"

Break from the snares of the world - Han-Shan "[I climb the road to Cold Mountain]" transl. by Burton Watson

The way a heart can light a world - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"

A lead line into the spirit world - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"

At the door between worlds - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"

Tasted the bittersweet roots of this crazy world - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"

Into the night of a split world - Joy Harjo "Legacy"

The sacred world lifts up its head to notice - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"

Girdle the world with peace - Frances E.W. Harper "Songs for the People"

Some lambient world of green and gold - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat II"

Of other wonder worlds - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXIX"

Worlds decay and ages move - Frances Ridley Havergal "God Is Love and God Is Light"

To save the world for another war - Robert Hayden "Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves"

Curling over the edge of the world - Ben Hecht "My Island"

Nocturnal prowl on the edge of other worlds - Stephanie Heit "Mad Flora and Fauna Catalog: Hyena"

Voices from worlds we know not - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

Leaving the worlds of ocean - Felicia Hemans "The Domestic Affections"

First crocus in a world of winds and snows - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender IV"

And face the glare and tumult of the busy world - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "A Shadow"

Undrown from the incivility of this world - Niki Herd "The Stuff of Hollywood"

A world from all temptation free - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"

A candle in a world of wrong - Jennie Earngey Hill "Life's Day"

Sing unto the world their hope - Leslie Pickney Hill "Tuskegee"

Zero plus anything is a world - Jane Hirshfield "Zero Plus Anything Is a World"

What would the world be, once bereft - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Inversnaid"

Worlds to dust in fragments crushing - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Curfew's tolling requiems of the dying world - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

As smoke from the roof of a world on fire - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Of the burning heart of the world on fire - Richard Hovey "The Death Song of Taliesin"

Relief when the world gave none - Marie Howe "My Dead Friends"

The charnel stench of the end of the world - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"

Devour the corrupt bones of this world - Langston Hughes "Sunday Morning Prophecy"

In this world of digression - J. Hunt, Jr. "The Cottage"

Rim of the world, smoldering - Allison Hutchcraft "Though from Here I Can't Smell the Smoke"

Music of an altered world - Jean Ingelow "Laurance"

Russia gobbling your world half in - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

Burned unseen by the world's eye - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

No perfect world we haven't fought for - Jordan Jace "I Want"

The pang of worlds we'd rather be - Gary Jackson "The Restoration"

Of inner life in an outer world - Elizabeth Jacobson "14 Love Songs"

The magical misrule of the steep world - Robinson Jeffers "Ocean"

A poem stuck in the world's thought - Robinson Jeffers "Summer Holiday"

Waifs in a blasted world - Elinor Jenkins "Artificial Light"

place the world inside the light and look - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Light of the World"

moving world inside the light - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Light of the World"

in the interval between world and game - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Puppeteer Poetica"

everything that remains in the world you leave behind - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Puppeteer Poetica"

Worlds at the feet of others - Emily Pauline Johnson "In Grey Days"

And the world of the willing hand - Emily Pauline Johnson "Prairie Greyhounds"

Drunk with the wine of the world - James Weldon Johnson "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

That wants the whole vast world - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

If I burned the world around me - Ashley M. Jones "Summer Vacation in the Subjunctive"

Beat the world in falsehood - Ebenezer Jones "The Hand"

The new wreckage of the world - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"

As if only whispers could make the world hear - Patricia Spears Jones "SELF PORTRAIT as retratos de cosas locas y de locos (stolen)"

Using the world less and words more - Rodney Jones "The Language of Love"

Find the heart of the world - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "A Voice from the Far Away"

Beside the low tide of the world - June Jordan "Poem for Haruko"

Wake to a diminished world - A.M. Juster "A Midsummer Night's Hangover"

Monarch of the three great worlds - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Drift tediously to the end of the world - Yuna Kang "Funeral for a Star"

Divide the world into increasingly small squares - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"

Who mops the four corners of my world - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"

I shake the whole world dark again - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

The newsworthy world a nebulous swirl - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

The backbeat of a world of great machines - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"

A Goddess of the infant world - John Keats "Hyperion"

Bringing shapes from the invisible world - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

Beyond the ramparts of the world - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Alive in a green crashing world - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"

Walk a restless world of dreams - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

A flood of glory hands upon the world - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [I hear a voice low in the sunset woods]"

A world of sorrow and of sin - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"

Held the world together with your teeth - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Banished"

Beating me out of this world - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Shows up Late for the End-Of-The-World Party"

Slip unnoticed between this world and the next - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Fails the First Test of Being Holy"

All the doors slammed shut at the end of the world - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"

Who builds the world without you - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

The world is not shaped by your tomato gardens - Eunsong Kim "[asian]"

The world made of wishes - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"

Mysteriously moved the world of fancies - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Praises this blindfold of world - Christopher Kondrich "Caedmon"

Cutting through the breastbone of the world - Christopher Kondrich "Common Things"

Tethered only gently to this world - Ted Kooser "Bank Fishing for Bluegills"

And the past has become a new world - Ted Kooser "Tectonics"

Eyes blazing with alien worlds - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"

Above the world's dark border - Archibald Lampman "April Night"

The mystery of the echoing world - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"

The ancient world's sad glories - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"

Dreams of distant worlds arise - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"

From this world of stormy hands - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"

And sorrowed in a thousand worlds - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"

Someone trapped in the air of the world - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"

Never drops an answer from those worlds unknowns - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"

A forgotten world with rainbow sunrises - Dorothea Lasky "This Beautiful Planet"

From a world gone quiet - Michael Lauchlan "Slab"

Of the world before the floods - D.H. Lawrence "Grapes"

Bitter-stinging white world - D.H. Lawrence "Southern Night"

To watch the world that lingers behind - D.H. Lawrence "Tommies in the Train"

And mystic glories of the world beyond - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

Dazzling sunshine streams upon a newborn world - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

In this new world of light - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"

And the world's light went out - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

Sees new worlds in her mirrored eyes - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"

Lost murdered spirits of the world - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

my seizure breaking word and world - Joseph Lease "The Dead Lands"

live in a burning world - Joseph Lease "Falling"

Speaks from a world of accidents and wars - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"

The spinning world her wheel - Frances Ledwidge "A Rainy Day in April"

Lifetimes searching for the worlds we left - Mary Soon Lee "Advice for Time Travelers"

New worlds defined their shape - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

To conduct the mind through perished worlds - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

Jolted into this world's violent heat - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"

As brittle as the world's burning - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"

A breath as ancient as the world - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Stone"

Wind bearing the voices of the world - Philip Levine "Waking in March"

As the whole world holds its breath - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

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

Queen Luck, that rules the world - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"

A Sisyphus with the world for stone - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"

Too much patience in the world - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"

Pulsed within the fingers of the world - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"

The impasse between word and world - Sandra Lim "Certainty"

Leaving most of the world unturned - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

The perpetual scattering that unspools the world - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

Spin a whole road map of a world - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

The world undresses its wounds - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"

The weight of being infinite in a world that isn't - Theo Nicole Lorenz "Steve Irwin and the Unicorn"

Raze the world once and raise it twice - P. H. Low "Ode"

Invincible pith and marrow of the world - Amy Lowell "The Congressional Library" [excerpt]

The key which hides a world empty of hours - Amy Lowell "The Matrix"

The world's soul-squandering ways - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

Ten thousand affairs of the world - Lu Yu "Feeling Sorry for Myself" transl. by Burton Watson

The velocity of the burning world - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

mirage of a late world - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"

And I saw the world's naked face - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"

Let the world's whispers call you in - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "barn owl"

Weasel whirls through world like wildfire - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "weasel"

I looked at you at the end of the world - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"

A light from worlds before and after - Edwin Markham "Poetry"

To find the silver edges of the world - Jeannette Marks "Cloud"

The ordered worlds speed on - Don Marquis "The Rebel"

Shift her bones to shape the world twelve times - Maya Marshall "Musing onLilith Lost to Time"

Glory on the world's highway - George Martin "Aspiration"

Far other worlds and other seas - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"

Staring into the abyss the world was unfolding - Olga Maslova "The Hunt for the Murderous Monkey Has Ended"

An antitoxin to the world's infections - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

Broad light at the end of the world - Louise Mathias "Quandary"

A trip to the grocery store at the end of the world - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"

Foraging through the wreckage of a lost world - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"

On the bridges to those slippery worlds - Khaled Mattawa "Malouk's Qassida"

The first foundations of the world - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"

Within a world of rank decay - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of a Ferocious Catholic"

And shake the pillars of the world - Theodore Maynard "The Ensign"

When the world's last cities fall - Theodore Maynard "Processional"

Worlds appear in the alley - John McCarthy "The Key"

A world the old trees make of water and air - Anne Haven McDonnell "Owl"

A complete world sealed along cracked lines - Maureen N. McLane "What I'm Looking For"

Thus the world to might becomes the dower - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Smites the dust of the worlds to flame - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"

Bloom of the world's delight - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"

At the unquittable world - Joyelle McSweeney "Simon the Good"

The affections of a world aligned - Diane Mehta "Gala Noise"

Choose a way to hear the world - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

My world too has its sallies and withdrawals - Mei Yao-ch'en "Shih-hou Pointed Out to Me That From Ancient Times There Had Never Been a Poem on the Subject of Lice, and Urged Me to Try Writing One" transl. by Burton Watson

For the natural, wild world, for dust - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"

A breathing map to display the curvature of our world - Nancy Mercado "Going to Work"

Priming our world with light - George Meredith "Grace and Love"

A net rises from the world - W.S. Merwin "The Inevitable Lightness"

Utter silence and the empty world - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"

Move unchained as wind across the world - Adam Mickiewicz "Baydary" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Let the world grow weeds - Edna St Vincent Millay "Interim"

Reflecting on the worlds that might have been - Andy Miller "Diana"

Inhabiting the world I left - Jane Miller "Life's Ironies"

And wake the world with battle shot - Joaquin Miller "Anglo-Saxon Alliance"

Fragments of the broken world - Claire Millikin "Figurine"

Among the world's lost metaphors - Claire Millikin "Floyd Burroughs' Cigarettes"

The attic holds its stopped worlds - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"

The bottom of the monstrous world - John Milton "Lycidas"

To deliver my book into the world - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"

The world before highlighter's applied - Carol Moldaw "Meditation on the Veranda"

Broken from the world's embrace - N. Scott Momaday "Ultimus"

A crystal well where all the world may drink - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"

Within whose glowing sphere is mirrored half a world - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"

Competing with the world - Carlos Montezuma "Changing Is Not Vanishing"

This frail world our only rest - James Montgomery "Friends"

To hail us from a viewless world - Robert Montgomery "Beautiful Influences" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

He sat amid a burning world - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Hell" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

This world is one Gethsemane - Duncan Moore "To the Lost One"

Slavery in a digital world - jessica Care moore "She Was"

Will wander, outcasts, from the great world's gate - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

A worshipper of some far world - Robert Morris "The Student's Dream of Fame"

Whistling from the other world - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

The Queen of the world that is Nero's - Charles Pelham Mulvaney "Poppoea"

Portal doors of all the possible parallel worlds - Erika Murcia "Serpents I"

A thousand stems leading to a thousand worlds - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"

Even after the world ends, there is work to do - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"

The things sequestered from the world - Howard Nemerov "Pockets"

Heavy father of the world's silence - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Under the bells of the world - Pablo Neruda "The Forest" transl. by Alastair Reid

The secret world of locusts - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

Cold tower of the world - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XII" transl. by William O'Daly

All the world kissing his glove - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

In the world that is my soul - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"

The night world scorning - Meredith Nicholson "Good Night and Pleasant Dreams"

The forsaken outback of the world - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

The world's imagination and ghost - Yone Noguchi "I Am Like a Leaf"

Unfurled for the exile, the bondman, the world - "The Northmen are Coming" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

From his right hand a fire that lit the world - Alfred Noyes "An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin"

Washed by a water greater than the world - Alfred Noyes "Goethe I: The Discoverer"

The bones and structure of the world - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"

It takes the world's eternal wars - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"

Our worlds echoing back and forth - Naomi Shihab Nye "Patience Conversations"

That anyway world - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May"

An interdimensional being existing in all worlds - Maura O'Dea "Dad Explains Dimensions at Outback Steakhouse"

And the world is not what it used to be - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Dolly" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, no.113, v.III, Feb. 27, 1886]

Expect a different grace from the world - Akilah Oliver "In Aporia"

In this world of hope and risk - Mary Oliver "I don't want to live a small life"

Enter the fire of the world - Mary Oliver "Moccasin Flowers"

Your hands passing over the world - Mary Oliver "Pipefish"

To the world of my spirit - James Oppenheim "We Dead"

I judge the world from the margins of diaries - Cait Weiss Orcutt "Single Kings of the Valley"

The world remained a storybook - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

The vestige of his small world - Romeo Oriogun "Griot of Strange Places"

Adam's eyes would weary the world - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"

Doesn't the world demand we dance? - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

a connective world with multiple paths - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

Return upon the world - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"

Worlds of starry thoughts appeared - W.P.P. "Epistle to the Editor" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Setting slowly over the cusp of the "new world" - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"

The pixels of light depicting the world - Gregory Pardlo "Atlantic City Sunday Morning"

Lizards nodded away the world's secrets - Nome Emeka Patrick "Naked"

Teaching me how to love the world again - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"

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

Rose again to seek a newer world - Andre F. Peltier "A Long Walk"

A sudden and catastrophic world - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Force Drift (VII)"

Wept till the world looked blue - Kiki Petrosino "The Spell"

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

As if the world were rumor - Carl Phillips "Blow it Back"

To the dull, angry world - Katherine Phillips "Friendships Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia"

Whose Virtue gilds the world below - Philo "The Tribute"

Spreading dark spots to remind the world - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

Bitter bread when the world was bare - Marjorie L.C. Pickthall "Mary Shepherdess"

Hostage to a new world - Robert Pinsky "First Things to Hand: 2. Book"

Upon the lonely waters of the world - V. De S. Pinto "Swans"

A world of sweets and sours - Edgar A. Poe "Israfel"

The black river beneath the desert of the world - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"

Two sisters in the middle of the world - Danni Quintos "Pond's White Beauty"

Of this world's bone-shell - Dean Rader "Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's Funeral and Completed on the First Day of the New Year"

God as he ransacked the world - Charles Rafferty "An Adulterous Spring"

Phantom fists against the plexiglass of the living world - Nen G. Ramirez "Love poem with a dying cat"

Dream on the world's warm heart - Herbert Randall "The Angelus of Plymouth Woods"

And the heart of the world is mine - Herbert Randall "Outside"

Seeking out the darkest places of the world - Herbert Randall "The Tryst of Nations"

In such a changing world as this - G.A. Raybold "The Joys of Former Years Have Fled"

When the world becomes blur of smoke & storm - Molly Raynor "You Know You've Got Covid Brain"

And occupy those distant worlds again - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Deeply mistaken about the end of the world - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"

From the world, conceal a suffering flame - Mayne Reid "To Her Who Can Understand It" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Happy with the waste of the world - Susan Rich "Shadowbox"

Tear at the pillars of the world - Lola Ridge "The Destroyer"

A bitter wine out of the bloody stills of the world - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

On this raft of the world - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

The world's bitter leaven - Lola Ridge "A Toast"

Into the roar of the world - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Knight" transl. by Jessie Lemont

But the world endures the break - Alberto Rios "The Broken"

The coming edge of the winter world - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"

Princesses of the miniature world - Alberto Rios "November 2: Dia de los muertos"

Pray this world has softened you - Joseph Rios "Dear Buffalo, Dear Zeta or To a Few of My Dead or Nearly Dead Tios"

Tips the world's deliberate rim - Charles G.D. Roberts "From the High Window of Your Room"

In other worlds expect another joy - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"

While Death stalks free in the silent world - Lloyd Roberts "At the Year's End"

Washed out of the world with fire and blood - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

The dust of a world forgotten lay under the barren ground - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

From a gloom of a world forgotten to the light of a world to be - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

All things blend in the world's great harmony - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

Far off from the mad world's ways - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

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

Though worlds are trembling round me - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Calm that Comes with Years"

Wonders what world she rendered - Karen A. Romanko "The Glass Blower"

The world is still for three heartbeats - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"

Shake fierce through all the worlds - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"

Ruling the world from a maple tree - Deborah Ruddell "Blue Jay Blues"

The doorsill where two worlds touch - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks

To regard this world as invisible - Rumi "This Is Love" transl. by R.A. Nicholson

Hovers above the ground as the world turns - Nicky Russell "The World Is a Curio"

Of things by the world's crowd unnoticed - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

What did I owe a world that made no sense - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"

That sit and give the world its orders - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"

Voices reaching for the hear of the world - Carl Sandburg "Mask"

Akin to the waking world - Margaret E. Sangster "At Dawn: I. The Caveman"

At the world’s invitation - Tomas Sanchez Santiago "The Arrival"

The doom of worlds in those dark sails - Friedrich Schiller "The Invincible Armada" transl. not credited

Where the world's eye is hid by cheating night - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"

The wealth of the world in her hair - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"

Speak the wisdom of worlds past - Ann K. Schwader "Alexandria Next Time"

Bright dust of a hundred worlds on your feet - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"

From all our wondering, wounded world - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"

The cares of the world in tether - Clinton Scollard "Song"

Pass great worlds of silent stone - Frederick George Scott "My Lattice"

Testing the world with your bold myopia - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

The palpable alchemy of an unreasonable world - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

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

The bedside of the dying world - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

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

Unlearned in the world's false subtleties - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXVIII"

Another duplicity to help double the world - Brenda Shaughnessy "Why Is the Color of Snow?"

The world of night is their kingdom - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"

The clouds which wrap this world - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

One echo from a world of woes - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

From that purple threshold of the world - Frank Dempster Sherman "Song at Daybreak"

The darkness of the three worlds - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

we seed the world with blood - Evie Shockley "du bois in ghana"

Into the sorrows of a weeping world - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Little Dog"

Around the world I'll beg my bread - "Shule Aroon" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Find my place in this shifting world - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Curl of Cat"

Plunge down to deep worlds - Joyce Sidman "Deep Currents"

Had loosened their grip on the world - Joyce Sidman "Illness: A Conversation"

That showed me the world aslant - Joyce Sidman "Lament for My Old Life"

To remake the world each night - Joyce Sidman "Night-Spider's Advice"

This language of mirrors at the end of the world - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"

Happiness in an imagined world - Charles Simic "At the Vacancy Sign"

Smart chickens, rickety world - Charles Simic "Windy Evening"

Immersed in the creation of new worlds - Marge Simon "Sturgeon Crosses Over"

Through worlds they will explore over the coming years - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

On fiery wings to worlds unknown - Clark Ashton Smith "Beyond the Great Wall"

Sun of secret worlds incredible - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

The dead shell of a frozen world - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

Upon the noon of their lost worlds - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"

Broken dreams of higher worlds unfound - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"

Suns and worlds have been thy prey - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"

Of threatened worlds and trembling firmaments - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

Protection against the swords of the world - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"

Caught me from the clasping world - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

A revenant in worlds Edenic - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Wherewith the suns and worlds were dyed - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"

The world turned on in the lathe of time - Langdon Smith "Evolution"

Unravel the world for no reason - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Thursday, August 25, 2005"

All the drowned and desolate world - "Snow" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

While this yellow world is mine - "The Song of the Seven Archangels" transl. by Ernest Rhys

Plastered the whole world with their playbills - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Sliding from one world to another - Analicia Sotelo "Eating the Moon in Cotulla, TX"

Hear all the rumors of the world - Carlos Soto-Roman "The Tell-Tale Heart"

Our world is small and isolated - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"

Into some world not yet imagined - Juliana Spahr "Ode to Goby"

Making a prison of the world - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

And shake the monarchs of the world - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Spirit of War"

Restore the fractured world - A.E. Stallings "Jigsaw Puzzles"

At the pale limits of the world - W. Force Stead "The Burden of Babylon"

The apple of the world - W. Force Stead "The Burden of Babylon"

Upon the summit of the world - W. Force Stead "The Burden of Babylon"

Two sceptic children of the world - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"

The world before the deluge - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

The bustling practice of the world - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"

Upon this iron world - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

Like a wind some hidden world put forth - George Sterling "A Character"

Girdled half of a world in gold - George Sterling "Hesperian"

Had touched the world to grey - George Sterling "To Ruth Chatterton"

Iron litanies of worlds that die - George Sterling "Yosemite"

The world's arisen shade - George Sterling "Yosemite"

The two worlds are asleep - Wallace Stevens "An Old Man Asleep"

Drought that wrings its leather hands above the world - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"

A broken testimony, the history of a world dissolving - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"

The hunter who makes the world his prey - Arthur Stringer "Hunter and Hunted"

Have lived in earlier worlds unknown - Arthur Stringer "March Twilight"

Upon the ridges of her world - L.A.G. Strong "At Punnet's Town"

Of worlds unborn and planets that have been - Alan Sullivan "A Question"

Monarch of all three worlds - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 64: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The magic that's enthralled the world - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 192: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Return and dance to this world's tune - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 230: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

As the world had put new glory on - T.A. Swan "The Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Sleep with the world's eldest dead - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]

That crown the north world's head - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

The worldly schemes that fierce ambition wrought - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

And draw the wax of the world - Arthur Sze "Water Calligraphy"

The scientific world and all its hauntings - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"

Takes sunlight from the world - Genevieve Taggard "The Vast Hour"

On the seashore of endless worlds - Rabindranath Tagore "Gitanjali 60"

With the heart's blood of the three worlds - Rabindranath Tagore "Urvasi"

Fell into the Web of the World's dust - T'ao Ch'ien [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)

Our world's a thin wash of muted tones - Keith Taylor "Sea and Ran: Lake Michigan"

the door opens into the burning of the world - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

To range the world of thought - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"

From the world's tempestuous sea - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"

To unravel the string of the world - Matthew Thorburn "Wouldn't Hold"

Pearled on each sorrow through the world - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: III. Thoughts"

The world where you stopped - TC Tolbert "Dear Melissa [I wish you]"

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

The world spinning towards dusk - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Two Chairs Under an Apple Tree"

To the world's remotest verge - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"

Aware of all the world's worst secrets - Kristen Tracy "To the Tender"

The world and its innumerable fires - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

A world made by displacement - Natasha Trethewey "Monument"

A fence that separates this world from the next - Jacqueline Allen Trimble "Walking Beside the Cemetery, Olivia Street, Key West"

Where worlds of circling light arise and fade - W.J. Turner "Death"

Hollow the world in the moonlit hour - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

Curses a world he cannot mend - "Turvey Top"

To little worlds of flame - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

Until the world was drowned - Louis Untermeyer "Voices"

Burst into the eight million gods of this world - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Became greedy in a world of plenty - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "From the Front of the Fourth World"

Our world so subject to fences - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Universe We Are"

Deliver the lessons of the new world - Fernando Valverde "The Wound Before the Tomb of Walt Whitman" (translated by Carolyn Forche)

Gathers a new world under it and growls - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"

The youthful world's grey fathers - Henry Vaughan "The Rainbow"

From suffering worlds within, hidden from sight - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

The agony of the world will fragment me - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"

Built before the rising of this world's sun - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"

The key that locks me from a world of pain - "La Vie Poetique" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

The outside pillar of your world - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

You who trespass in his world - Rosanna Warren "Man in Stream"

Lay fiery siege to the embattled world - William Watson "Sketch of a Political Character"

The riches of the whole world's rhyme - William Watson "To Lord Tennyson"

This world's kin to trouble - Edwin Waugh "God Bless These Poor Folk!"

This world of wise choices - Afaa Michael Weaver "The Silver Thread"

To let your soul teach the world - Afaa Michael Weaver "This Morning, This First Poem"

Public conquests of a private world - Joshua Weiner "The Not-Yet Child"

That gives its world of azure - Mrs. Amelia B. Welby "The Brother's Lament"

Out on the edge of the world - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Uluru"

And the world their deeds applaud - Kate Louise Wheeler "Thy Place"

Dim world of lonely light - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Some romance from the far world - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"

Whose sorrows overflowed the world - John Hall Wheelock "Tchaikovsky: Fifth Symphony"

Intimate connections between our world and heaven - "Where Is the Spirit World?" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Silence speaks the secret of the world - Helen Hay Whitney "Be Still"

The world deserves its wisdom - Helen Hay Whitney "Lyric Love"

Beyond the dull world's heavy air - Helen Hay Whitney "To B.D."

Unnamed light that floods the world with splendour - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

Face a startled world - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Neutral"

Some gray unfinished world in age-long reverie - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"

The whole world became my garden - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

Enter the new world naked - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]"

One foot in each world - Katie Willingham "Dear Charlie"

Then let the world its malice all combine - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

By standing where a world is ending - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"

Seven times around the world - Allan Wolf "Going the Distance"

That half the world has haunted - Humbert Wolfe "The Gods of the Copy-Book Headings: A Reply"

The world reflected and windless - Charles Wright "Celestial Waters"

A virtual world unfit for the virtuous - Charles Wright "Description's the Art of Something or Other"

The heart of the world lies open - Charles Wright "The Evening Is Tranquil, and Dawn Is a Thousand Miles Away"
The eel's world is not your world - Charles Wright "Heaven's Eel"

The crack between this world and the other - Charles Wright "I'm Going to Take a Trip in that Old Gospel Ship"

Autumn night at the end of the world - Charles Wright "We Hope That Love Calls Us, but Sometimes We're Not So Sure"

And the underbrush of the world - Willard Huntington Wright "What of the Night?"

New from the world - W.B. Yeats "A Faery Song"

Afterwards the world - William Butler Yeats "The Phases of the Moon"

The world on dreaming fed - William Butler Yeats "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"

By whom the world was lost - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"

Half the world in one red bonfire - Francis Brett Young "Slender Themes"

The eye of the world opens - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The eye of the world opens and shuts - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Inscribed on the infinite wax cylinder of the world - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"

The world with a valley of dreams - Zheng Min "If Curses aren't Accompanied by Deep Thought #1: Untitled" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

Too late to describe the world - Rachel Zucker "The Death of Everything Even New York"


Pretending the Doubleworld was acceptable - S*an D. Henry-Smith "remedies I"


Whose root claws at the midworld fire - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"


Old World.


Your otherworldliness preserved in soul - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"

Flecked with otherworldly raindrops - Joseph O. Legaspi "Imagined Love Poem to my Mother from my Father"

That otherworldly moaning glissando - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"


Daft, round-the-world steampunk wagers - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"


To guide the star-worlds of eternity - Adam Mickiewicz "Mountains from the Keslov Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood


Underworld.


Rise victorious from every worldly strife - E.M. "Part VI. The Apologia"

And light my worldly path no more - T.G. Spear "I Cling to Thee"

Unsoiled by worldly dust - Tao Qian (translated by James Hightower) "Returning to the Farm to Dwell I"


The god of the secret world-on-fire - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"


The dark gates of that world-quelling mind - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"


Magnificent gifts to a world-renowned king - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]


A world-tree of balanced stones - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"


World-voices chanting grand arias - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"


There was a loud quarrel, worldwide - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Disintegrating worldwide stock markets - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"

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


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