Potential Titles: Way
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somethingdarkerWatch the way clouds salt over stars - Sheikha A. "Nesters"
No way out of the holy well - Rasha Abdulhadi "ZamZam Baby"
I float heedless on my way - Joan Aiken "Π in the Sky"
Hexagons find their way toward curved forms - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
Could stay their fiery steeds upon the way - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
For her ways defy conjecture - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"
Mine is the glacier's way - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Thalia"
Finding untried ways to interlock - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Breakdown way more wicked than Noah's flood - Mike Allen "Deluge"
Struggling to navigate my own way - Julia Alvarez "Passing On"
The only way out ahead - Hala Alyan "Step Two: Higher Power"
Dazzling feet pursue their silent way - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"
Little flowers in rustic ways remote - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
The way of indifferent suns - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"
The way wood changes to fire - William Archila "El Mozote"
And the way back won't bear scrutiny - Rae Armantrout "Upper World"
The way the clouds exchange white scraps in glory - Rae Armantrout "Upper World"
Went its thousand crazy ways - Simon Armitage "The Empire"
The cost of looking the other way - Fatimah Asghar "When the Orders Came"
Jealous of the way she shone - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
In love with all the ways we were - Atticus "Magic in Love"
Who walked with Science to mark the lights along dark ways - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Pathmaker (To Maria Mitchell)"
The way memory deepens with light - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"
The most dreadful way to be alone - James Baldwin "Song (for Skip)"
A far better way of gaining possession of a new reality - Mary Jo Bang "Madonna Overview"
Found a way to go to the bottom of the world - Mary Jo Bang "On the Nature of Hardwiring"
On his way to a donkey-headed nowhere - Mary Jo Bang "P Equals Pie"
The labyrinth door swings two ways - Mary Jo Bang "The Raven Feeds Reynard"
A cloud on its way to becoming amnesia - Mary Jo Bang "The Transformation Anxiety Dream"
The mystery of bluebell-haunted ways - Maurice Baring "Vita Nuova"
Save radiances on the way home - Lou Barrett "Notes on a Thursday Feast"
The door swinging open both ways - Lou Barrett "Seachange"
The dreary ways your faltering feet must go - Charles H. Barstow "Spring's Advent" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.116-v.III, 20 March 1886]
by the scrupled ways of acquisition - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"
When harsh winds blow the wrong way - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dry Sanctuary"
The wilder ways of chance they choose - Elizabeth Bartlett "Self-Evident"
The way to trap time - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Trap"
Journey in kindred ways - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"
Finds a way through the thickest of walls - Clara Doty Bates "Saarchinkold!" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]
His way is hedged with thorns - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Dim and aimless on a dolorous way - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"
Beyond Babylon its ways were regal - William Rose Benét "The City"
The way anything buried aspires - Joshua Bennett "On Blueness"
Down guilty and delightful ways - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"
Tangled roots perplex her ways - William Blake "The Voice of the Ancient Bard"
Wants a river that makes its own way - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
Beating a way for the rising sun - Arna Bontemps "The Day-Breakers"
The way the world unravels - Marianne Boruch "Those visits home, the way the young"
Fate points out our different ways - John Philip Bourke "The End of the Episode"
All the way to the end of tomorrow - Ana Bozicevic "The Mystery of the Seagulls"
When snowdrifts block the traveler's way - "The Brave Dog of St. Bernard" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
The way the stars ambush their loneliness - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"
Wild on its way to the sea - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "The Hunter's Wooing"
Threw Eden sunshine on life's way - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
Who now would tread the wild hill's pathless ways? - Caris Brooke "Before Parting"
Nor spill one dewdrop by the way - Jonathan Henderson Brooks "The Resurrection" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A hundred different ways to wander off - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"
A rusty vane with rickety ways - Sterling A. Brown "Effie"
Beacons to blaze out the way - Sterling A. Brown "Salutamus"
Water wears its way through granite walls - Evelyn Gage Browne "Faith"
Meet discomfort on the way - Sue Budin "Following the Thread"
Each knot a way to relive the day - Sue Budin "I Dream About Weaving"
Go their way like withered dreams - Gerald Bullett "The strength, the mellow music, and the laughter"
Unless you find a way to wake - Scott Cairns "Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous"
The Way is long so Bread we'll take - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Solicitude"
All the friendless way hedged with offence - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"
Showers red rain on the shining way - Edward Carpenter "In a Canoe"
Hand pointing the indigo way inward - Adrian Castro "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
Find your way home inside the infinite - Adrian Castro "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
Gold enough to pave the way - Willa Cather "Provencal Legend"
Whose ways are all unknown - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
And leave me to the empty ways of earth - Thomas S. Chard "The Blessed Vale"
Love is but an inn upon life's way - Jose Santos Chocano "A Song of the Road" transl. by John Pierrepont Rice
Where the path has lost its way - John Clare "An Invite to Eternity"
Can forge a way through stone - Jeremy Michael Clark "One Fire, Quenched with Another"
Through gloomy caverns threads his way - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto II"
Safe wisdom's peaceful way - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob"
I was silent the whole way - Jie Cohen "Venus Limbs"
Strafed by the Milky Way - Leonard Cohen "The Lists"
Down the wet ways of despair - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
A bird's way of singing - Hilda Conkling "First Songs: XII"
No new way to feel alone - CAConrad "[everyone asks for the you they remember]"
I the wall which barred the way - Susan Coolidge "At the Gate"
Looking backward on our dreary way - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
That comes to make way for the dawn - Marion Couthouy "Three Watches" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Dec. 1878]
When new ideas cross their way - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
To teach the folks the proper way - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Celebration"
Through silent streets pursued their way - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"
I know each step of the fearsome way - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Don't Be Afraid"
Index misty ways of joy - Nathalia Crane "The History of Honey"
Making cunning noiseless travel down the ways - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
By ways uncharted blown - George Cronyn "The Derelict"
by responding ways cloaked with renewal - E. E. Cummings "Amores (X)"
Smiles through my narrow window way - Alice Turner Curtis "The Lady Moon" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Without a falter moves upon its way - Wesley Curtwright "The Close of Day" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The rudely number'd stone on life's broad way - J.D. [Julia Day] "On the Old Year" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
To dig all the way to hell - Jim Daniels "Elegy for the Nasty Neighbor"
Grasp at stars in their uncertain way - Russell W. Davenport "Poem"
The way of naming the enemy - Kwame Dawes "from 'A Coda to History: 28. It Is Not As If'"
In the inadequate way of symbols - Kwame Dawes "from 'A Coda to History: 28. It Is Not As If'"
Our meeting on the lonely way - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]
Where error's glittering phantoms lead the way - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Counted all the ways love hurt me - Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz "Love Opened a Mortal Wound" (translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique)
The way his face yields to the light - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"
The way moments like this explode - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"
The way a border on a map twists into thorns - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
Ways to exceed the edges of shapes - Monica de la Torre "Theorem of Sorts"
The primal curse, working its deadly way - Delta "The Message of Seth: An Oriental Tradition" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
Dante when he lost his way - Carl Dennis "Help from the Audience"
Take form in ways only experts can decipher - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Interrogates a wall for being in his way - Mark Dimaisip "Where Frequencies Talk Over" [Strange Horizons 10 Feb. 2025]
No way out of memory's labyrinth - Tove Ditlevesen "Morning" transl. by Nadia Christensen
Until the offending dream gave way - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"
Brittle leaves sketching their way to rest - Chris Dombrowski "Wintering"
Every effort botched in its own wrong way - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"
Resurrecting the food we've abandoned along the way - Rita Dove "Family Reunion"
The weird glee of finding my way without incident - Rita Dove "Insomnia Etiquette"
Ways of cloud and terror - Edward Dowden "Brother Death"
Brought into the way of peace - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"
As a beggar walks unfriended ways - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Show us the way and point us the path - 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]
The only way to enter death - Cheryl Dumesnil "Colossal Failure of Human Design, We Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Your Death"
When we don't want nuance to get in the way - Cornelius Eady "I'm a Fool to Love You"
As hyacinths make way - Maurice Francis Egan "He Made Us Free"
The dust of devious ways - George Allan England "The Finish"
Wise Men lost on their way to Bethlehem - Martin Espada "Flowers and Bullets"
The way a snake bites its tail - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"
A way of hating snow - Anthony Euwer "Oregon Snow"
The clouds fall back to yield him way - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
And drove me into devious ways - J.F. "The Better Thought" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.460, 23 Oct. 1852]
Lost her way on the edge of Fairyland - "Fairy's Album: V. Fairy's Dream"
Scissoring your ancient way through - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"
Warranted a new way of listening - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"
Gallant music to cheer it on its way - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
Submerged in all the ways we have wept - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
While Homer makes his slow way home - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"
Passing themselves on the way out - Nick Flynn "The Incomprehensibility"
Many ways of rearranging dust - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Painter"
The various ways to leave - Carolyn Forche "Selective Service"
Electrons find their paths in subtle ways - John M. Ford "Sonnet: Against Etropy"
Until the water rusted its way in - Vievee Francis "Given to Rust"
a pidgin picking its way into a creole - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"
Sometimes I wander out of beaten ways - Robert Frost "An Encounter"
Leave us so to the way we took - Robert Frost "In Neglect"
In the way of true apparitions - Tess Gallagher "Ring"
Look back or lose your way - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"
And win your way past comprehending - John Gay "Fable LIX: The Jackall [sic], Leopard, and Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
A kinder way to say my own name - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"
To look with grief on the culprit's way - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Flings its radiance over life's changing way - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Must always come around by Dreamland way - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "The Fairies' Ball"
When the long ways have all been trod - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Evening"
And death admit me to the silent ways - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"
To adapt the way water does - Nikita Gill "Ares, After"
In the way of small miracles - Nikita Gill "The Book"
Look at the way the stars burn - Nikita Gill "Endings"
Hands have a way of betraying things - Mona Gould "Hands"
Our solitude a two-way mirror - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Eight: Mitosis"
No way to be only kind - Kimberly Grey "The First Marriage"
Because leaving is the hardest way to travel - Kimberly Grey "Heroic Sentences"
And the way so blank and sorrowed - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Walk old ways alone - Ivor Gurney "Afterwards"
Your ways of varying love - Ivor Gurney "That County"
Whose track was Fortune's way - Hafiz "The Divan VI" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Burning out its way with torches - Katherine Hale "Crimson Pool"
Your gracious ways that are patterned in dim stones - Katherine Hale "Poetesses"
Often the right way becomes unavailable - Mark Halliday "Hoops with Nets"
The way a heart can light a world - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"
Ways to occupy loneliness - Nathalie Handal "Counting Time"
Nor a star abroad the way to show - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Iter Supremum"
Diverse their ways from the western door - Thomas Hardy "Side by Side"
All the way to sunrise - Joy Harjo "For Earth's Grandsons"
The ways the stars entered your blood - Joy Harjo "What Music"
The way an almost granted wish does - Derrick Harriell "Underground King"
Imagine a way of shape that doesn't strangle - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"
the way that soap loves an airborne virus - francine j. harris "There are inanimate things out there loving each other"
Each travelling on its different way - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"
Talked our way home over starlit plains - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 4. Summer 1969"
Middle with no way out - Stephanie Heit "Chronic"
The blazing pillar of her way - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
A way through tempests to the sun - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
Thought the longer thoughts and gone the shorter way - Ernest Hemingway "Chapter Heading"
A way to measure out the wind - Robert Herrick "God Unsearchable"
A way to talk about raw force - Mary Hickman "Helen"
A paper lantern leading the way - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk
Whispers finding their way down and out - Conrad Hilberry "Bowl"
The way you salvage bruised tomato - Donna Hilbert "Ribollita"
In the broad way of wonder - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"
Let Fury lead the way - Jennie Earngey Hill "Sailing"
They swept me in four ways - Brenda Hillman "Wood's Edge"
The way a saint pulls the best from a soul - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
That's the way the season changes its tense - Edward Hirsch "Fall"
All ways the molten colours run - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Winter with the Gulf Stream"
My feet upon the moonlit dust pursue the ceaseless way - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXXVI"
All the way to zero - Susan Howe "Periscope"
Clouds and water block the way home - Hsiang Ssu "The Ailing Japanese Monk" transl. by Burton Watson
The way your eyes elope - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"
Myriad corpse-lights glimmer on their way - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
The way blue might want for green - fahima ife "spirit of the times, the spirit of death"
Death comes by way of fragments - fahima ife "spirit of the times, the spirit of death"
Full of thought and microbes wend their way - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Falling athwart the shadows of a sombre way - G.C.J. "En Passant" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.35-v.I, 30 Aug. 1884]
Standing in the way of the human storm - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"
Whose stalks will soon give way to a harvester's blade - Major Jackson "Thinking of Frost"
The way a trellis shadow cages light - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Pointing the way to the pearly everlasting - Mark Jarman "Then Saw the Problem"
Filtered the dross that has cumbered the way - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Service" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A kindlier way than tears - Lionel Johnson "Oracles"
A fairer way than discontent - Lionel Johnson "Oracles"
Thirst is a way of knowing - Taylor Johnson "Club 2718"
I shoulder my way into a crowded heaven - Ashley M. Jones "Song of My Muhammad"
As it whispers the way forward - Camisha L. Jones "No Longer Commuting with Chronic Pain"
Chase me down death's way - June Jordan "I guess it was my destiny to live so long"
The leaves lie thick upon the way of memories - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXXII"
By the way of memories shall we depart - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXXII"
When the ways are growing dark - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VII" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
A spirit pushes its way through the busted geometry - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
The only way we will be able to gossip in peace - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"
The death-blow of Oppression in a better time and way - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
If you do we will look the other way and wait - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]
All the other ways of saying history - Leora Kava "pronunciation"
That word found way unto Olympus - John Keats "Hyperion"
Who with me on my way did walk - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"
And time has shadows waiting in predestined ways - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"
And the ways narrow down to decision - T.M. Kettle "A Nation's Freedom"
Nor the slipped hound of hate track that soul's secret ways - T.M. Kettle "Parnell"
But a little way to flutter - Omar Khayyam "Action"
Through what wild ways of mystery - Joyce Kilmer "Chevely Crossing"
In all the ways an apocalypse can be - Jessica Kim "Montage"
Death is a one way street - Kim Unsong "One Way Street"
In a variety show of deathbed ways - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
This way, I know the dead can find me - Elizabeth Knapp "Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak"
In our people's way of wearing our dead - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
Twelve ways to be wrong - Yusef Komunyakaa "Canticle"
Burned our way into the wood - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Follow Up"
Sky clear all the way up to the stars - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"
Will we always unknow each other in this way? - Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers "After a Rochester Wedding"
Good luck arrives only on its way to someone else - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
How odd the way a watch keeps going - Danusha Laméris "The Watch"
In the secret ways of thought - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
Every bliss is built this way - Deborah Landau "Flesh"
The proper way to eat a fig - D.H. Lawrence "Figs"
As I make my way in twilight now to rest - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"
Lost among graveyards and riverward ways - Henry S. Leigh "A Cockney's Evening Song"
Some friend in his generous way - Henry S. Leigh "Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly"
The ways of stony London's waifs and strays - Henry S. Leigh "A Very Common Child"
Fate never fails to find a way - Chas. G. Leland "The Proclamation [September 22, 1862]" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
The way I feel about persimmons - Ada Limon "Crush"
The world's soul-squandering ways - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
The gleaming rushes lean a thousand ways - James Russell Lowell "To the Dandelion"
Climbing up the starry way - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"
The way the loss of light proceeds - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"
And tidings of unventured ways - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
With steady wingbeats boosts his way - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heron"
As Wisdom trod in Reason's dusty way - A.G. Marius "Wisdom and Fancy" transl. by William Hodgson Ellis
Clothes have a way of telling stories - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"
Your youth upon its golden way - Jeannette Marks "Sun-Path"
Up the starrier ways of time - Don Marquis "Hymn (1914)"
Gravitate to ways of shame - George Martin "Marguerite"
Dwindled through the world's entropic ways - Harry Martinson "Aniara 87" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Who do not know the ways of the wind - Edgar Lee Masters "Serepta Mason"
The way loss befriends lament - Khaled Mattawa "Constance Song"
Starts one way to end another - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"
The way she commands water - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"
The way a hurricane breathes - Jamaal May "Megalophobia"
Only first step on the way - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "A Little Picture: After the Proclamation of the 19th Feb., 1861, Freeing the Serfs"
The way to pay tribute to glory - Marilyn McCabe "Web"
Across the fleeing squadron's way - John McCrae "The Captain"
The way old grief is gentle - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"
Choose a way to hear the world - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
The brutal ways of the minute - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"
The way the night tastes - W.S. Merwin "Blueberries After Dark"
The ivy knew the way - M.S. Merwin "Oak Time"
As ever eagle cleaved his way - Joaquin Miller "Usland to the Boers"
Discontent with men's unmended ways - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Hymn for Humanity"
Rehearse the ways you might escape - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"
The way a sky shuts with rain - Claire Millikin "Escalator"
And cease to haunt these wooded ways - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"
Let me at least malfunction in a way that shines - Arianna Monet "I'm rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time"
Always finish the same way - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Perfect Form"
A gibbering goblin that bars the way - Marianne Moore "My Lantern"
The fireflies light the soundless panther's way - Sarojini Naidu "Leili"
The way darkness embraces the day - Pablo Neruda "Men X" transl. by William O'Daly
The black ways of the condor - Pablo Neruda "Superstitions" transl. by Alastair Reid
Trod dead leaves in chill and wintry ways - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "[Not Summer's crown of scent]"
Salamanders use the stars to find their way - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"
Emerging from nowhere, on its way to nowhere - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"
Whose face would greet me in hell's fiery way - Robert Nichols "To ---"
Once shared veins became a way of life - Margaret Noodin "Daughters" transl. by the author
To trace the way by inches - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"
If one way could satisfy the infinite heart - Naomi Shihab Nye "Fundamentalism"
Soft-sandalled in misty ways - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
The way his labors are singing nature - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"
One of the ways to enter fire - Mary Oliver "Sunrise"
always a way to keep those parasites competing against us - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh "Hypercapnia" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]
Sparkles its way through infinity - Matthew Olzmann "Astronomers Locate a New Planet"
Devious ways tangled with blooming - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Seraphitus"
As the wanderer pursues his way - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."
That ways of love are never new - Dorothy Parker "Incurable"
Starlight bespangles the way of your dreams - Dorothy Parker "Lullaby"
Some grim comfort has come my way - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"
The thousand broken names and way - Josephine Preston Peabody "Noon at Paestum"
Flee winding error through the flowery way - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Track carnage on her gory way - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
As the light gave way to another endless night - Andre F. Peltier "Petoskey Sun Set, 4 July 2010"
Making honest people bankrupt is the way to make them buy - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
Do not weep in your way of ghosts - Kiki Petrosino "Let Me Tell You People Something"
Walk the wrong way into history - Phan Nhien Hao "Song of Trees" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
The way the present cuts into history - Carl Phillips "Back Soon; Driving--"
The way disruption can punctuate with meaning - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"
Remembering somehow a way through panic - Carl Phillips "Correction"
The way detachment can resemble confidence - Carl Phillips "Everything All of It"
And words the way to break it - Carl Phillips "A Little Closer Though, If You Can, For What Got Lost Here"
To understand hesitation both ways - Carl Phillips "Said the Horse to the Light"
Ripples the way oblivion does - Carl Phillips "Something to Believe In"
The way light includes everything - Carl Phillips "To a Legend"
The way all histories begin - Carl Phillips "To Lie Down. To Wear Nothing at All"
The way that the sea fails to drown itself - Emilia Phillips "I Tried to Write a Poem Called "Imposter Syndrome" and Failed"
No other way to tether love - Xan Forest Phillips "Never Have I Ever"
Who prays you all the way home - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Brown Love"
Play out our fantasies in real life way - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
To light unbidden the checkered mazes of the exile's way - "The Poetical Character" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Shut up with long forgotten ways - Alexander Posey "Tulledega"
And warms the earth in a learned way - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"
My earnest and wanton way - Lynn Powell "Indian Summer"
The calculated way the wind uprises - E.J. Pratt "Overheard in a Cove"
Where sandy ground gives way to water - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"
Belonging in failed ways - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"
The way the blue jay loves the sparrow egg - Dean Rader "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
There are many ways to be broken - Laura Read "Love Poem with Staples"
And serves to light our solemn way - A.J. Requier "Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The way stones underwater reflect grief - Andrea Rexilius "New Organism [I want to think like a magi]"
If the game isn't going the way she'd like - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Creed"
This time, my way, and new - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"
Its own ways of making people disappear - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"
The wheedling ways of conquest - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Bustling on her thousand ways - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
So the shadows have it their way - Lola Ridge "Jude"
A jewel set to shine adown Time's misty ways - D.J. Robertson "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.144-v.III, 2 Oct. 1886]
Far now from all the bannered ways - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Dark Hills"
From the ways that our feet have chosen - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
All stormy ways and wanderings - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"
Far off from the mad world's ways - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
We asked our way of the swallow - Rennell Rodd "Those Days Are Long Departed"
A way to pay the infinite tax - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"
A right way to send someone back to the lap of God - Brittany Rogers "Dressing the Body"
A blankness giving way to sky - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Found me in cold cheerless ways - Alice Wellington Rollins "Miracle"
Tread false ways instead - Alice Wellington Rollins "With a Crystal Lion"
Pursuing vice or folly's way - Joshua Ross "On a Lady's Eyes"
On the way to Mecca, many dangers - Rumi "Someone Digging in the Ground" transl. by Coleman Barks
Search for the high austere and lonely way - George William Russell "Desire"
By unnumbered ways of dream - George William Russell "Immortality"
The commanding way they matter - Kay Ryan "The Pieces That Fell To Earth"
The eternal way of the four chief doors - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Your great way of forgetting - Carl Sandburg "Graves"
The way the wind measures the weather - Carl Sandburg "How Much?"
Singing his way out of hell - Reg Saner "Spring Song"
The mind has a way of remembering explosions - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #124"
Ancient opener of all ways to darkness - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
Until the ravaged earth gave way - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"
I'm driving with no way to steer - Tim Seibles "Zombie Blues Villanelle"
Cast forth to find their way alone - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]
Strewed flowers upon the barren way - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
Our feet should know fair ways to travel - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
And led the soul along a way of tears - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Doubt"
Nor any stars resume their ancient ways - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Night"
And the wind's strange way was their way - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
Echoing on unknown ways - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Unknown Ideal"
Twisted in a peculiar way and fallen in an unlikely place - Charles Simic "First Thing in the Morning"
The elves upon their midnight way - Clark Ashton Smith "Fairy Lanterns"
The thread and weaving of his way - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Had traveled darksome ways - Effie Waller Smith "At the Grave of the Forgotten"
Taught me a hundred ways to win - Richard Solomon "A Toast for Ed"
The crooked paths go every way - James Stephens "The Goat Paths"
On the ways of dream I go - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"
Twin stars above those azure ways - George Sterling "Duandon"
The labrinthine ways of my own mind - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"
My way of turning away from the past - Joyce Sutphen "The Temptation to Invent"
Drawn down through desperate ways - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
Thronging the ways of the wind - Algernon Swinburne "Recollections"
The wind's way in the deep sky's hollow - Algernon Swinburne "The Way of the Wind"
Shows the swallow the wind's way - Algernon Swinburne "The Way of the Wind"
A counterfeiter of ways flowering like snow - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"
And long the way from Colchis - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"
Learn the proper way to band a fire - Keith Taylor "The 8:35 Bus"
what the birds know is the way home - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
Where all must lose their way, however straight - Edward Thomas "Lights Out"
His feet ill-starred in ways erroneous wandered - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Her will and way had ne'er been crossed - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Lighting the watery way - M.B.M. Toland "Aegle"
Dreaming up ways to thwart the crows - Kristen Tracy "To the Tender"
Through dark ways underground - Richard C. Trench "The Kingdom of God"
The way blades of grass are alone - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Belonging"
Self-righteous, fragile in the way of water - Ali Trotta "Of Water, Always Seeking" [Strange Horizons 13 Jan. 2025]
when the sun loses its way - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges
Jackals and wolves lurk by the way - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
Across our way ragged Robin flaunted red - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]
Have trudged along a stony way - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]
The way evening attaches to us - Leah Umansky "The Ambassadors -- Part 5" [Poetry March 2016]
The way that spark sat above me - Leah Umansky "Unleashed" [Poetry Nov. 2020]
The power of might used in an earthy way - Rudolph Valentino "The Sphinx (To B.H.)"
Where a thought, doubling upon itself, considers the way - Mark Van Doren "The Hills of Little Cornwall"
And wonder when a rain will come that way - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"
As they went on their iron way - Henry van Dyke "The Red Flower
The way thirst holds water - Ocean Vuong "A Little Closer to the Edge"
The way to charm all kinds of rebels - M.R.W. "The Way to Walk" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
the fist of new snow on its way to melting - Asiya Wadud "number four"
My way was all through fairy ground - Thomas Warton "To the River Lodon"
But the way itself has no flavor, the way itself has no sound - "The Way of Virtue: The Way of the Way" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Traveling the heart's way, alone, unsure - John Moncure Wettarau "[For Catherine, someday]"
Too big to find our way by song - John Moncure Wettarau "Too Big"
By the way the roots kept pushing - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"
Have climbed with you by secret ways - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Whichever way the difference lies between - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"
And either way there lies a doubt - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"
Advances on the starry way - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
The wondrous oracle in both ways read - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"
Show us crimson in some tragic way - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"
Strive to undo us still, a thousand ways - "The Whore"
Keeping your hope when the way seems long - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
Keeping to true ways - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"
The sacred way to Nebuchadnezzar's throne - William Carlos Williams "March"
Lining the way to an old altar - William Carlos Williams "March"
The way water thinks about the desert - Elizabeth Willis "Ephemeral Stream"
And to his way committed him - N.P. Willis "The Shunamite"
Betelgeuse is a hell of a way to spend a night - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"
The way the horizon sounds - Yolanda Wisher "west of philly"
Dwelt among the untrodden ways - William Wordsworth "She dwelt among the untrodden ways"
Since faith knows its way before hand - Baron Wormser "Anecdotes"
Osiris has shown us the way to cross - Charles Wright "Celestial Waters"
Either way we're stuck in the middle - Charles Wright "Drift Away"
Mapping his way through sun-strikes - Charles Wright "In Memory of the Natural World"
A sly way with rhythm - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"
On their way to a stainless heaven - Jane Yolen "Here Where the Path of Healing Starts"
Looking for the sound of another way - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"
Vaguer divinities blocking your way - Dean Young "Sleep Cycle"
Who have ravish'd beauty's secret ways - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
A bend is a way of leaving - Jordan Zandi "A Lesson in Botany"
Down alleyways of dreams - Countee Cullen "Harlem Wine"
Halfway.
Roads burn fuses into nightways - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
On the one-way shore - Leonard Cohen "Song to Make Me Still"
Roadway.
Continents traveling the skyway - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"
Someone underway and expressing it - Brian Blanchfield "Eclogue Onto an Idea"
That brings the wayfarer his recompense - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
Wayfared at the nadir of the sun - Thomas Hardy "Murmurs in the Gloom (Nocturne)"
Keep watch over the wayfarers - Richard Jones "Rest"
The heat has been too fierce for wayfarers - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
Met in random wayfare - Arthur Symons "Stella Maris"
My ancient way-fellows convene - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Waylaid by a merry ghost at every lamp - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
In some vile alley of the night waylaid - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
Frowning cliff and wayside stone - E. Foxton "The New Search After Happiness"
Trodden underfoot like wayside flowers - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
No dust upon the wayside thorn - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"
At many a wayside worshipped - John Hall Wheelock "Legend"
A little way station just beyond silence - Charles Wright "Future Tense"
Before they became wayweeds - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"
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No way out of the holy well - Rasha Abdulhadi "ZamZam Baby"
I float heedless on my way - Joan Aiken "Π in the Sky"
Hexagons find their way toward curved forms - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
Could stay their fiery steeds upon the way - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
For her ways defy conjecture - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"
Mine is the glacier's way - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Thalia"
Finding untried ways to interlock - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Breakdown way more wicked than Noah's flood - Mike Allen "Deluge"
Struggling to navigate my own way - Julia Alvarez "Passing On"
The only way out ahead - Hala Alyan "Step Two: Higher Power"
Dazzling feet pursue their silent way - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"
Little flowers in rustic ways remote - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
The way of indifferent suns - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"
The way wood changes to fire - William Archila "El Mozote"
And the way back won't bear scrutiny - Rae Armantrout "Upper World"
The way the clouds exchange white scraps in glory - Rae Armantrout "Upper World"
Went its thousand crazy ways - Simon Armitage "The Empire"
The cost of looking the other way - Fatimah Asghar "When the Orders Came"
Jealous of the way she shone - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
In love with all the ways we were - Atticus "Magic in Love"
Who walked with Science to mark the lights along dark ways - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Pathmaker (To Maria Mitchell)"
The way memory deepens with light - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"
The most dreadful way to be alone - James Baldwin "Song (for Skip)"
A far better way of gaining possession of a new reality - Mary Jo Bang "Madonna Overview"
Found a way to go to the bottom of the world - Mary Jo Bang "On the Nature of Hardwiring"
On his way to a donkey-headed nowhere - Mary Jo Bang "P Equals Pie"
The labyrinth door swings two ways - Mary Jo Bang "The Raven Feeds Reynard"
A cloud on its way to becoming amnesia - Mary Jo Bang "The Transformation Anxiety Dream"
The mystery of bluebell-haunted ways - Maurice Baring "Vita Nuova"
Save radiances on the way home - Lou Barrett "Notes on a Thursday Feast"
The door swinging open both ways - Lou Barrett "Seachange"
The dreary ways your faltering feet must go - Charles H. Barstow "Spring's Advent" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.116-v.III, 20 March 1886]
by the scrupled ways of acquisition - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"
When harsh winds blow the wrong way - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dry Sanctuary"
The wilder ways of chance they choose - Elizabeth Bartlett "Self-Evident"
The way to trap time - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Trap"
Journey in kindred ways - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"
Finds a way through the thickest of walls - Clara Doty Bates "Saarchinkold!" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]
His way is hedged with thorns - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Dim and aimless on a dolorous way - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"
Beyond Babylon its ways were regal - William Rose Benét "The City"
The way anything buried aspires - Joshua Bennett "On Blueness"
Down guilty and delightful ways - Stella Benson "The Slave of God"
Tangled roots perplex her ways - William Blake "The Voice of the Ancient Bard"
Wants a river that makes its own way - Robert Bly "Men and Women"
Beating a way for the rising sun - Arna Bontemps "The Day-Breakers"
The way the world unravels - Marianne Boruch "Those visits home, the way the young"
Fate points out our different ways - John Philip Bourke "The End of the Episode"
All the way to the end of tomorrow - Ana Bozicevic "The Mystery of the Seagulls"
When snowdrifts block the traveler's way - "The Brave Dog of St. Bernard" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
The way the stars ambush their loneliness - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"
Wild on its way to the sea - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "The Hunter's Wooing"
Threw Eden sunshine on life's way - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
Who now would tread the wild hill's pathless ways? - Caris Brooke "Before Parting"
Nor spill one dewdrop by the way - Jonathan Henderson Brooks "The Resurrection" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A hundred different ways to wander off - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"
A rusty vane with rickety ways - Sterling A. Brown "Effie"
Beacons to blaze out the way - Sterling A. Brown "Salutamus"
Water wears its way through granite walls - Evelyn Gage Browne "Faith"
Meet discomfort on the way - Sue Budin "Following the Thread"
Each knot a way to relive the day - Sue Budin "I Dream About Weaving"
Go their way like withered dreams - Gerald Bullett "The strength, the mellow music, and the laughter"
Unless you find a way to wake - Scott Cairns "Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous"
The Way is long so Bread we'll take - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Solicitude"
All the friendless way hedged with offence - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"
Showers red rain on the shining way - Edward Carpenter "In a Canoe"
Hand pointing the indigo way inward - Adrian Castro "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
Find your way home inside the infinite - Adrian Castro "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
Gold enough to pave the way - Willa Cather "Provencal Legend"
Whose ways are all unknown - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
And leave me to the empty ways of earth - Thomas S. Chard "The Blessed Vale"
Love is but an inn upon life's way - Jose Santos Chocano "A Song of the Road" transl. by John Pierrepont Rice
Where the path has lost its way - John Clare "An Invite to Eternity"
Can forge a way through stone - Jeremy Michael Clark "One Fire, Quenched with Another"
Through gloomy caverns threads his way - Thomas Clarke "Sir Copp canto II"
Safe wisdom's peaceful way - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob"
I was silent the whole way - Jie Cohen "Venus Limbs"
Strafed by the Milky Way - Leonard Cohen "The Lists"
Down the wet ways of despair - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
A bird's way of singing - Hilda Conkling "First Songs: XII"
No new way to feel alone - CAConrad "[everyone asks for the you they remember]"
I the wall which barred the way - Susan Coolidge "At the Gate"
Looking backward on our dreary way - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
That comes to make way for the dawn - Marion Couthouy "Three Watches" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Dec. 1878]
When new ideas cross their way - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"
To teach the folks the proper way - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Celebration"
Through silent streets pursued their way - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"
I know each step of the fearsome way - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Don't Be Afraid"
Index misty ways of joy - Nathalia Crane "The History of Honey"
Making cunning noiseless travel down the ways - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
By ways uncharted blown - George Cronyn "The Derelict"
by responding ways cloaked with renewal - E. E. Cummings "Amores (X)"
Smiles through my narrow window way - Alice Turner Curtis "The Lady Moon" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Without a falter moves upon its way - Wesley Curtwright "The Close of Day" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The rudely number'd stone on life's broad way - J.D. [Julia Day] "On the Old Year" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
To dig all the way to hell - Jim Daniels "Elegy for the Nasty Neighbor"
Grasp at stars in their uncertain way - Russell W. Davenport "Poem"
The way of naming the enemy - Kwame Dawes "from 'A Coda to History: 28. It Is Not As If'"
In the inadequate way of symbols - Kwame Dawes "from 'A Coda to History: 28. It Is Not As If'"
Our meeting on the lonely way - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]
Where error's glittering phantoms lead the way - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
Counted all the ways love hurt me - Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz "Love Opened a Mortal Wound" (translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique)
The way his face yields to the light - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"
The way moments like this explode - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"
The way a border on a map twists into thorns - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
Ways to exceed the edges of shapes - Monica de la Torre "Theorem of Sorts"
The primal curse, working its deadly way - Delta "The Message of Seth: An Oriental Tradition" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
Dante when he lost his way - Carl Dennis "Help from the Audience"
Take form in ways only experts can decipher - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Interrogates a wall for being in his way - Mark Dimaisip "Where Frequencies Talk Over" [Strange Horizons 10 Feb. 2025]
No way out of memory's labyrinth - Tove Ditlevesen "Morning" transl. by Nadia Christensen
Until the offending dream gave way - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"
Brittle leaves sketching their way to rest - Chris Dombrowski "Wintering"
Every effort botched in its own wrong way - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"
Resurrecting the food we've abandoned along the way - Rita Dove "Family Reunion"
The weird glee of finding my way without incident - Rita Dove "Insomnia Etiquette"
Ways of cloud and terror - Edward Dowden "Brother Death"
Brought into the way of peace - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"
As a beggar walks unfriended ways - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Show us the way and point us the path - 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]
The only way to enter death - Cheryl Dumesnil "Colossal Failure of Human Design, We Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Your Death"
When we don't want nuance to get in the way - Cornelius Eady "I'm a Fool to Love You"
As hyacinths make way - Maurice Francis Egan "He Made Us Free"
The dust of devious ways - George Allan England "The Finish"
Wise Men lost on their way to Bethlehem - Martin Espada "Flowers and Bullets"
The way a snake bites its tail - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"
A way of hating snow - Anthony Euwer "Oregon Snow"
The clouds fall back to yield him way - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
And drove me into devious ways - J.F. "The Better Thought" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.460, 23 Oct. 1852]
Lost her way on the edge of Fairyland - "Fairy's Album: V. Fairy's Dream"
Scissoring your ancient way through - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"
Warranted a new way of listening - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"
Gallant music to cheer it on its way - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
Submerged in all the ways we have wept - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
While Homer makes his slow way home - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"
Passing themselves on the way out - Nick Flynn "The Incomprehensibility"
Many ways of rearranging dust - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Painter"
The various ways to leave - Carolyn Forche "Selective Service"
Electrons find their paths in subtle ways - John M. Ford "Sonnet: Against Etropy"
Until the water rusted its way in - Vievee Francis "Given to Rust"
a pidgin picking its way into a creole - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"
Sometimes I wander out of beaten ways - Robert Frost "An Encounter"
Leave us so to the way we took - Robert Frost "In Neglect"
In the way of true apparitions - Tess Gallagher "Ring"
Look back or lose your way - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"
And win your way past comprehending - John Gay "Fable LIX: The Jackall [sic], Leopard, and Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
A kinder way to say my own name - Andrea Gibson "Good Light"
To look with grief on the culprit's way - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Flings its radiance over life's changing way - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Must always come around by Dreamland way - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "The Fairies' Ball"
When the long ways have all been trod - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Evening"
And death admit me to the silent ways - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"
To adapt the way water does - Nikita Gill "Ares, After"
In the way of small miracles - Nikita Gill "The Book"
Look at the way the stars burn - Nikita Gill "Endings"
Hands have a way of betraying things - Mona Gould "Hands"
Our solitude a two-way mirror - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Eight: Mitosis"
No way to be only kind - Kimberly Grey "The First Marriage"
Because leaving is the hardest way to travel - Kimberly Grey "Heroic Sentences"
And the way so blank and sorrowed - "Guerdon" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Walk old ways alone - Ivor Gurney "Afterwards"
Your ways of varying love - Ivor Gurney "That County"
Whose track was Fortune's way - Hafiz "The Divan VI" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Burning out its way with torches - Katherine Hale "Crimson Pool"
Your gracious ways that are patterned in dim stones - Katherine Hale "Poetesses"
Often the right way becomes unavailable - Mark Halliday "Hoops with Nets"
The way a heart can light a world - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"
Ways to occupy loneliness - Nathalie Handal "Counting Time"
Nor a star abroad the way to show - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Iter Supremum"
Diverse their ways from the western door - Thomas Hardy "Side by Side"
All the way to sunrise - Joy Harjo "For Earth's Grandsons"
The ways the stars entered your blood - Joy Harjo "What Music"
The way an almost granted wish does - Derrick Harriell "Underground King"
Imagine a way of shape that doesn't strangle - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"
the way that soap loves an airborne virus - francine j. harris "There are inanimate things out there loving each other"
Each travelling on its different way - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"
Talked our way home over starlit plains - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 4. Summer 1969"
Middle with no way out - Stephanie Heit "Chronic"
The blazing pillar of her way - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
A way through tempests to the sun - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
Thought the longer thoughts and gone the shorter way - Ernest Hemingway "Chapter Heading"
A way to measure out the wind - Robert Herrick "God Unsearchable"
A way to talk about raw force - Mary Hickman "Helen"
A paper lantern leading the way - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk
Whispers finding their way down and out - Conrad Hilberry "Bowl"
The way you salvage bruised tomato - Donna Hilbert "Ribollita"
In the broad way of wonder - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"
Let Fury lead the way - Jennie Earngey Hill "Sailing"
They swept me in four ways - Brenda Hillman "Wood's Edge"
The way a saint pulls the best from a soul - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
That's the way the season changes its tense - Edward Hirsch "Fall"
All ways the molten colours run - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Winter with the Gulf Stream"
My feet upon the moonlit dust pursue the ceaseless way - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXXVI"
All the way to zero - Susan Howe "Periscope"
Clouds and water block the way home - Hsiang Ssu "The Ailing Japanese Monk" transl. by Burton Watson
The way your eyes elope - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"
Myriad corpse-lights glimmer on their way - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
The way blue might want for green - fahima ife "spirit of the times, the spirit of death"
Death comes by way of fragments - fahima ife "spirit of the times, the spirit of death"
Full of thought and microbes wend their way - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
Falling athwart the shadows of a sombre way - G.C.J. "En Passant" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.35-v.I, 30 Aug. 1884]
Standing in the way of the human storm - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"
Whose stalks will soon give way to a harvester's blade - Major Jackson "Thinking of Frost"
The way a trellis shadow cages light - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Pointing the way to the pearly everlasting - Mark Jarman "Then Saw the Problem"
Filtered the dross that has cumbered the way - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Service" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A kindlier way than tears - Lionel Johnson "Oracles"
A fairer way than discontent - Lionel Johnson "Oracles"
Thirst is a way of knowing - Taylor Johnson "Club 2718"
I shoulder my way into a crowded heaven - Ashley M. Jones "Song of My Muhammad"
As it whispers the way forward - Camisha L. Jones "No Longer Commuting with Chronic Pain"
Chase me down death's way - June Jordan "I guess it was my destiny to live so long"
The leaves lie thick upon the way of memories - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXXII"
By the way of memories shall we depart - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXXII"
When the ways are growing dark - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VII" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
A spirit pushes its way through the busted geometry - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
The only way we will be able to gossip in peace - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"
The death-blow of Oppression in a better time and way - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
If you do we will look the other way and wait - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]
All the other ways of saying history - Leora Kava "pronunciation"
That word found way unto Olympus - John Keats "Hyperion"
Who with me on my way did walk - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"
And time has shadows waiting in predestined ways - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"
And the ways narrow down to decision - T.M. Kettle "A Nation's Freedom"
Nor the slipped hound of hate track that soul's secret ways - T.M. Kettle "Parnell"
But a little way to flutter - Omar Khayyam "Action"
Through what wild ways of mystery - Joyce Kilmer "Chevely Crossing"
In all the ways an apocalypse can be - Jessica Kim "Montage"
Death is a one way street - Kim Unsong "One Way Street"
In a variety show of deathbed ways - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
This way, I know the dead can find me - Elizabeth Knapp "Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak"
In our people's way of wearing our dead - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"
Twelve ways to be wrong - Yusef Komunyakaa "Canticle"
Burned our way into the wood - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Follow Up"
Sky clear all the way up to the stars - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"
Will we always unknow each other in this way? - Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers "After a Rochester Wedding"
Good luck arrives only on its way to someone else - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"
How odd the way a watch keeps going - Danusha Laméris "The Watch"
In the secret ways of thought - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
Every bliss is built this way - Deborah Landau "Flesh"
The proper way to eat a fig - D.H. Lawrence "Figs"
As I make my way in twilight now to rest - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"
Lost among graveyards and riverward ways - Henry S. Leigh "A Cockney's Evening Song"
Some friend in his generous way - Henry S. Leigh "Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly"
The ways of stony London's waifs and strays - Henry S. Leigh "A Very Common Child"
Fate never fails to find a way - Chas. G. Leland "The Proclamation [September 22, 1862]" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
The way I feel about persimmons - Ada Limon "Crush"
The world's soul-squandering ways - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
The gleaming rushes lean a thousand ways - James Russell Lowell "To the Dandelion"
Climbing up the starry way - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"
The way the loss of light proceeds - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"
And tidings of unventured ways - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
With steady wingbeats boosts his way - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heron"
As Wisdom trod in Reason's dusty way - A.G. Marius "Wisdom and Fancy" transl. by William Hodgson Ellis
Clothes have a way of telling stories - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"
Your youth upon its golden way - Jeannette Marks "Sun-Path"
Up the starrier ways of time - Don Marquis "Hymn (1914)"
Gravitate to ways of shame - George Martin "Marguerite"
Dwindled through the world's entropic ways - Harry Martinson "Aniara 87" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Who do not know the ways of the wind - Edgar Lee Masters "Serepta Mason"
The way loss befriends lament - Khaled Mattawa "Constance Song"
Starts one way to end another - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"
The way she commands water - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"
The way a hurricane breathes - Jamaal May "Megalophobia"
Only first step on the way - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "A Little Picture: After the Proclamation of the 19th Feb., 1861, Freeing the Serfs"
The way to pay tribute to glory - Marilyn McCabe "Web"
Across the fleeing squadron's way - John McCrae "The Captain"
The way old grief is gentle - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"
Choose a way to hear the world - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
The brutal ways of the minute - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"
The way the night tastes - W.S. Merwin "Blueberries After Dark"
The ivy knew the way - M.S. Merwin "Oak Time"
As ever eagle cleaved his way - Joaquin Miller "Usland to the Boers"
Discontent with men's unmended ways - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Hymn for Humanity"
Rehearse the ways you might escape - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"
The way a sky shuts with rain - Claire Millikin "Escalator"
And cease to haunt these wooded ways - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"
Let me at least malfunction in a way that shines - Arianna Monet "I'm rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time"
Always finish the same way - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Perfect Form"
A gibbering goblin that bars the way - Marianne Moore "My Lantern"
The fireflies light the soundless panther's way - Sarojini Naidu "Leili"
The way darkness embraces the day - Pablo Neruda "Men X" transl. by William O'Daly
The black ways of the condor - Pablo Neruda "Superstitions" transl. by Alastair Reid
Trod dead leaves in chill and wintry ways - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "[Not Summer's crown of scent]"
Salamanders use the stars to find their way - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"
Emerging from nowhere, on its way to nowhere - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"
Whose face would greet me in hell's fiery way - Robert Nichols "To ---"
Once shared veins became a way of life - Margaret Noodin "Daughters" transl. by the author
To trace the way by inches - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"
If one way could satisfy the infinite heart - Naomi Shihab Nye "Fundamentalism"
Soft-sandalled in misty ways - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
The way his labors are singing nature - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"
One of the ways to enter fire - Mary Oliver "Sunrise"
always a way to keep those parasites competing against us - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh "Hypercapnia" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]
Sparkles its way through infinity - Matthew Olzmann "Astronomers Locate a New Planet"
Devious ways tangled with blooming - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Seraphitus"
As the wanderer pursues his way - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."
That ways of love are never new - Dorothy Parker "Incurable"
Starlight bespangles the way of your dreams - Dorothy Parker "Lullaby"
Some grim comfort has come my way - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"
The thousand broken names and way - Josephine Preston Peabody "Noon at Paestum"
Flee winding error through the flowery way - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Track carnage on her gory way - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
As the light gave way to another endless night - Andre F. Peltier "Petoskey Sun Set, 4 July 2010"
Making honest people bankrupt is the way to make them buy - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
Do not weep in your way of ghosts - Kiki Petrosino "Let Me Tell You People Something"
Walk the wrong way into history - Phan Nhien Hao "Song of Trees" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
The way the present cuts into history - Carl Phillips "Back Soon; Driving--"
The way disruption can punctuate with meaning - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"
Remembering somehow a way through panic - Carl Phillips "Correction"
The way detachment can resemble confidence - Carl Phillips "Everything All of It"
And words the way to break it - Carl Phillips "A Little Closer Though, If You Can, For What Got Lost Here"
To understand hesitation both ways - Carl Phillips "Said the Horse to the Light"
Ripples the way oblivion does - Carl Phillips "Something to Believe In"
The way light includes everything - Carl Phillips "To a Legend"
The way all histories begin - Carl Phillips "To Lie Down. To Wear Nothing at All"
The way that the sea fails to drown itself - Emilia Phillips "I Tried to Write a Poem Called "Imposter Syndrome" and Failed"
No other way to tether love - Xan Forest Phillips "Never Have I Ever"
Who prays you all the way home - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Brown Love"
Play out our fantasies in real life way - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
To light unbidden the checkered mazes of the exile's way - "The Poetical Character" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Shut up with long forgotten ways - Alexander Posey "Tulledega"
And warms the earth in a learned way - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"
My earnest and wanton way - Lynn Powell "Indian Summer"
The calculated way the wind uprises - E.J. Pratt "Overheard in a Cove"
Where sandy ground gives way to water - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"
Belonging in failed ways - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"
The way the blue jay loves the sparrow egg - Dean Rader "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
There are many ways to be broken - Laura Read "Love Poem with Staples"
And serves to light our solemn way - A.J. Requier "Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The way stones underwater reflect grief - Andrea Rexilius "New Organism [I want to think like a magi]"
If the game isn't going the way she'd like - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Creed"
This time, my way, and new - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"
Its own ways of making people disappear - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"
The wheedling ways of conquest - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Bustling on her thousand ways - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
So the shadows have it their way - Lola Ridge "Jude"
A jewel set to shine adown Time's misty ways - D.J. Robertson "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.144-v.III, 2 Oct. 1886]
Far now from all the bannered ways - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Dark Hills"
From the ways that our feet have chosen - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
All stormy ways and wanderings - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"
Far off from the mad world's ways - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
We asked our way of the swallow - Rennell Rodd "Those Days Are Long Departed"
A way to pay the infinite tax - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"
A right way to send someone back to the lap of God - Brittany Rogers "Dressing the Body"
A blankness giving way to sky - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Found me in cold cheerless ways - Alice Wellington Rollins "Miracle"
Tread false ways instead - Alice Wellington Rollins "With a Crystal Lion"
Pursuing vice or folly's way - Joshua Ross "On a Lady's Eyes"
On the way to Mecca, many dangers - Rumi "Someone Digging in the Ground" transl. by Coleman Barks
Search for the high austere and lonely way - George William Russell "Desire"
By unnumbered ways of dream - George William Russell "Immortality"
The commanding way they matter - Kay Ryan "The Pieces That Fell To Earth"
The eternal way of the four chief doors - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Your great way of forgetting - Carl Sandburg "Graves"
The way the wind measures the weather - Carl Sandburg "How Much?"
Singing his way out of hell - Reg Saner "Spring Song"
The mind has a way of remembering explosions - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #124"
Ancient opener of all ways to darkness - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"
Until the ravaged earth gave way - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"
I'm driving with no way to steer - Tim Seibles "Zombie Blues Villanelle"
Cast forth to find their way alone - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]
Strewed flowers upon the barren way - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
Our feet should know fair ways to travel - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
And led the soul along a way of tears - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Doubt"
Nor any stars resume their ancient ways - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Night"
And the wind's strange way was their way - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
Echoing on unknown ways - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Unknown Ideal"
Twisted in a peculiar way and fallen in an unlikely place - Charles Simic "First Thing in the Morning"
The elves upon their midnight way - Clark Ashton Smith "Fairy Lanterns"
The thread and weaving of his way - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Had traveled darksome ways - Effie Waller Smith "At the Grave of the Forgotten"
Taught me a hundred ways to win - Richard Solomon "A Toast for Ed"
The crooked paths go every way - James Stephens "The Goat Paths"
On the ways of dream I go - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"
Twin stars above those azure ways - George Sterling "Duandon"
The labrinthine ways of my own mind - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"
My way of turning away from the past - Joyce Sutphen "The Temptation to Invent"
Drawn down through desperate ways - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
Thronging the ways of the wind - Algernon Swinburne "Recollections"
The wind's way in the deep sky's hollow - Algernon Swinburne "The Way of the Wind"
Shows the swallow the wind's way - Algernon Swinburne "The Way of the Wind"
A counterfeiter of ways flowering like snow - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"
And long the way from Colchis - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"
Learn the proper way to band a fire - Keith Taylor "The 8:35 Bus"
what the birds know is the way home - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
Where all must lose their way, however straight - Edward Thomas "Lights Out"
His feet ill-starred in ways erroneous wandered - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Her will and way had ne'er been crossed - "To Burn's Highland Mary" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]
Lighting the watery way - M.B.M. Toland "Aegle"
Dreaming up ways to thwart the crows - Kristen Tracy "To the Tender"
Through dark ways underground - Richard C. Trench "The Kingdom of God"
The way blades of grass are alone - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Belonging"
Self-righteous, fragile in the way of water - Ali Trotta "Of Water, Always Seeking" [Strange Horizons 13 Jan. 2025]
when the sun loses its way - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges
Jackals and wolves lurk by the way - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
Across our way ragged Robin flaunted red - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]
Have trudged along a stony way - Florence Tylee "A Song of Rest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.138-v.III, 21 Aug. 1886]
The way evening attaches to us - Leah Umansky "The Ambassadors -- Part 5" [Poetry March 2016]
The way that spark sat above me - Leah Umansky "Unleashed" [Poetry Nov. 2020]
The power of might used in an earthy way - Rudolph Valentino "The Sphinx (To B.H.)"
Where a thought, doubling upon itself, considers the way - Mark Van Doren "The Hills of Little Cornwall"
And wonder when a rain will come that way - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"
As they went on their iron way - Henry van Dyke "The Red Flower
The way thirst holds water - Ocean Vuong "A Little Closer to the Edge"
The way to charm all kinds of rebels - M.R.W. "The Way to Walk" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
the fist of new snow on its way to melting - Asiya Wadud "number four"
My way was all through fairy ground - Thomas Warton "To the River Lodon"
But the way itself has no flavor, the way itself has no sound - "The Way of Virtue: The Way of the Way" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Traveling the heart's way, alone, unsure - John Moncure Wettarau "[For Catherine, someday]"
Too big to find our way by song - John Moncure Wettarau "Too Big"
By the way the roots kept pushing - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"
Have climbed with you by secret ways - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Whichever way the difference lies between - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"
And either way there lies a doubt - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"
Advances on the starry way - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
The wondrous oracle in both ways read - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"
Show us crimson in some tragic way - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"
Strive to undo us still, a thousand ways - "The Whore"
Keeping your hope when the way seems long - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
Keeping to true ways - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things That Count"
The sacred way to Nebuchadnezzar's throne - William Carlos Williams "March"
Lining the way to an old altar - William Carlos Williams "March"
The way water thinks about the desert - Elizabeth Willis "Ephemeral Stream"
And to his way committed him - N.P. Willis "The Shunamite"
Betelgeuse is a hell of a way to spend a night - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"
The way the horizon sounds - Yolanda Wisher "west of philly"
Dwelt among the untrodden ways - William Wordsworth "She dwelt among the untrodden ways"
Since faith knows its way before hand - Baron Wormser "Anecdotes"
Osiris has shown us the way to cross - Charles Wright "Celestial Waters"
Either way we're stuck in the middle - Charles Wright "Drift Away"
Mapping his way through sun-strikes - Charles Wright "In Memory of the Natural World"
A sly way with rhythm - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"
On their way to a stainless heaven - Jane Yolen "Here Where the Path of Healing Starts"
Looking for the sound of another way - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"
Vaguer divinities blocking your way - Dean Young "Sleep Cycle"
Who have ravish'd beauty's secret ways - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
A bend is a way of leaving - Jordan Zandi "A Lesson in Botany"
Down alleyways of dreams - Countee Cullen "Harlem Wine"
Halfway.
Roads burn fuses into nightways - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
On the one-way shore - Leonard Cohen "Song to Make Me Still"
Roadway.
Continents traveling the skyway - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"
Someone underway and expressing it - Brian Blanchfield "Eclogue Onto an Idea"
That brings the wayfarer his recompense - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
Wayfared at the nadir of the sun - Thomas Hardy "Murmurs in the Gloom (Nocturne)"
Keep watch over the wayfarers - Richard Jones "Rest"
The heat has been too fierce for wayfarers - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]
Met in random wayfare - Arthur Symons "Stella Maris"
My ancient way-fellows convene - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Waylaid by a merry ghost at every lamp - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
In some vile alley of the night waylaid - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
Frowning cliff and wayside stone - E. Foxton "The New Search After Happiness"
Trodden underfoot like wayside flowers - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
No dust upon the wayside thorn - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"
At many a wayside worshipped - John Hall Wheelock "Legend"
A little way station just beyond silence - Charles Wright "Future Tense"
Before they became wayweeds - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"
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