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In love with the idea of staying - Hanif Abdurraqib "It's Not Like Nikola Tesla Knew All of Those People Were Going to Die"

Telling the light to stay outside - Etel Adnan "Night"

The hard work of staying alive - Julia Alvarez "Keeping Watch"

Stay away as fever rages - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

My hands stay empty - Fatimah Asghar "When the Orders Came"

Stay suspended in ether's abiding - Mary Jo Bang "The Harbor"

The grief of staying apart - Rachel Barenblat "Fix"

To stay and sing their sad sweet requiem - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Stay young in a bubble of speed - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"

Wrenched of every stay but Heaven - Robert Burns "To a Mountain Daisy"

Stay alive to witness tomorrow - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "I Do Not Wish to Carry so Much Burden"

A charm to stay the morning star - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

To flee because home wouldn't let us stay - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

Will never stay in the mansions of despair - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Thou, O Love, the traitor art]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Until Time's pulse is stayed - Edward Dowden "Nocturne"

What's dead might not stay dead - Denise Dumars "The Golem"

Part of us always stays back - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Heart Has Four Chambers"

Because they know they cannot stay - Julie Fogliano "Fall, October 15"

Nothing gold can stay - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

The mechanics of staying afloat - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"

The dawn stayed till the last had gone - Theodosia Garrison "The Neighbors"

Perhaps my heart will stay uncertain - Nathalie Handal "The City"

Who stay here to care for memory - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"

Cannot stay so dull and grey - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XLVIII"

Metal of what stays behind - Jane Hirshfield "Dog Tag"

And the stale snow stays all season - Jackson Holbert "Fragment [As if to begin some process]"

Two swans stayed faithful and fierce - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"

The sidewalks stay empty of my steps - Camisha L. Jones "No Longer Commuting with Chronic Pain"

Stayed aloft until the waters dried - Zilka Joseph "What Ravens Do"

Fail his ruthless hand to stay - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

And stayed his awful penance - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

My wandering heart returned to stay - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"

With a finger stay'd Ixion's wheel - John Keats "Hyperion"

Stay their crystal fretting - John Keats "In drear nighted December"

Stayed on the threshold of memory - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Even the peacocks refuse to stay - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"

The membrane between us stayed transparent - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"

Who wouldn't stay for his mother's madness - Susan Landgraf "Flower"

Hoping for a gift that stays ungiven - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"

Stay here at the precipice - Brooke McNamara "Listen Back"

Does wind stay trapped in a room - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"

Will stay to watch you drift apart and pass away - Harold Monro "Journey"

Thought to stay blameless - Rusty Morrison "in the flood"

A fraternity ghost waiting to stay home - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"

Where laws stay on one bank of the river - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Joy stayed with me a night - Dorothy Parker "Light of Love"

Camelot will not stay - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Not a minute stopped or stayed he - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"

Who stayed behind to count the void that is - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"

The version of him that stayed - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"

To stay the tides that speak - A.J. Requier "A Charm"

From hearts that stay unmended - Margaret E. Sangster "From Paris to Chateau Thierry"

How the sun stays lit during an eclipse - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"

Can't stay anchored - May Sarton "Coming Into Eighty"

To have a sky that stays there - Nicole Sealey "cento for the night i said, 'i love you'"

And moons never stay put - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

The conceit of this inconstant stay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XV"

When home won't let you stay - Warsan Shire "Home"

Ever in motion to stay alive - Marge Simon "The Native Finds Her in the Wreckage"

My bones begging to stay - Richard Solomon "The Charnel Ground"

The sun that still rises and the dead that stay dead - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"

Too late to stay the same - Chris Tonelli "from "A Test of Company""

Thought it not safe near such Justice to stay - "The Trial and Execution of the Sparrow for Killing Cock Robin"

To stay Art's toppling Ark - Eugene R. White "Reward"

Too still and heavy stays - Margaret Widdemer "Old Wine"

Stayed to keep the ghost watch - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Slack"

Let the polished plows stay idle - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"

Weave a net your soul to stay - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]

Tell the waves stay back - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"


Overstayed our party in the heavenly city - Elizabeth Willis "The Steam Engine"


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