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Watch 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.

Sideways.

Continents traveling the skyway - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"

Someone underway and expressing it - Brian Blanchfield "Eclogue Onto an Idea"


Wayfare.


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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