Potential Titles: Star

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Watch the way clouds salt over stars - Sheikha A. "Nesters"

A red star above the deep - A.L.O.E. "The Beacon"

A bright star on their swords - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

A jar cut in the substance of a star - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Afraid to shake loose any stars still lodged inside - Duana Ackerson "The Observatory"

Glimpses a new star in the sky - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"

Steer toward the placid stars - Harold Acton "Hilarity"

And leap beyond the stars - Harold Acton "Werther-Introspection"

A great storm had blown out the stars - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"

By the blown fuse of an imploding star - Derek Adams "Historian's Guide to the Galaxy"

With green leaves and a few visible stars - Carl Adamshick "Black Snow [I live between the bus stop]"

The rope of dark stars - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"

The stars when night is darkest - Medora C. Addison "The Days to Come"

The stars drag themselves out from my body - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

Kept vigil with stars - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

The stars and frost so burned - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Houses hanging about the stars - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

Glittering as stars in Orion's belt - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"

A constellation of stars fallen - Francisco X. Alarcon "Our City"

The stars' soft eyes alone may see - Louisa May Alcott "Fairy Song"

While the bright eyed stars their long watch kept - Louisa May Alcott "The Flower's Lesson"

Stars descend to encounter the uncorrupted glaciers - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"

Diamonds were set in the roof for stars - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"

Like the air that folds a star - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"

While angels wait with stars for tapers tall - Cecil Frances Alexander "The Burial of Moses"

Roots in the auguries of our shifting stars - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"

Nags whose foals romped among stars - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

When he learned he could drink the stars - Mike Allen "Deluge"

Chew the baby stars inside like sunflower seeds - Mike Allen "Deluge"

Nearly severed from his star - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

The tiny stars that crawled through river flows - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Those stars were letters swimming at creation's edge - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

stars faint and dancing - Alise Alousi "Bite It"

Nuts like white stars - Alise Alousi "Mess"

The name of the monument to the stars - Alise Alousi "Password"

Their mad career upset a star - Elizabeth Anderson "The Goblins' Christmas"

Facing the hunger between the stars - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"

Flower forests and the petals of stars - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"

The first star of evening has bidden them free - S.D. Anderson "A May Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Each height on which the stars are clustering - William Anderson "The Alpine Horn"

Walks between the stars of Heaven - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIII--Moonlight on Land"

Past aloof stars - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"

Muttering like rumors among the stars - Maya Angelou "Is Love"

Host of stars - Anonymous Chinese poem

Belted with the moonbeams, and flowering with the stars - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXLIII: Angela as Watchman" transl. by Dr. B. Stevenson Stanoyevich

The sky is a bridge of stars - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

You never cringe for star or garter - "April Fools" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]

Stars keep great guard upon you - T.H.W. Armstrong "Watching"

Every whirling, passionate star sings melodies - Charles Ashleigh "The Glorious Adventure of Glorious Me" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

As the stars melted into morning - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

In shooting skies and freckled stars - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

My dark between the stars - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

The dirt of dust and stars - Atticus "Magic in Stars"

Words that stumble into stars and hide - Joseph Auslander "I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come"

And gentlest ray of stars glide down - Rev. Rufus Henry Bacon "Woman's Heart:--A Sonnet. For Julia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

The spectacle of stars turning in on themselves - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

With the queer light of a star's final gasp - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Than thy brother stars can show - Benjamin West Ball "Hymn to Phosphor"

Ancient stars in clusters bright - Benjamin West Ball "Love's Labor Lost"

Skylarks straining to locate a star - Mary Jo Bang "Dark Smudged the Path Untrammeled"

Aligned and fixed like the stars overhead - Mary Jo Bang "Here We All Are With Daphne"

Stars guide the eye across the sky - Mary Jo Bang "How will it feel months from now"

Stars marvel in a heaven of now - Mary Jo Bang "In the Garden Behind the Master's House"

Staring at the open-mouthed stars - Mary Jo Bang "We Took Our Places"

Read the riddle of the smiling stars - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"

Cloud and star and rushing stream - Maurice Baring "Shelley"

Baffled moonbeams and delirious stars - Maurice Baring "Wagner"

All those spiky bits of stars - Devan Barlow "Dear Charles Perrault"

Beneath a sky of cryptic stars - R.H. Barlow "R.E.H."

Sped with travail of the moon and stars - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"

Some hard capricious star - Djuna Barnes "From Fifth Avenue Up"

The silent throb and music of the stars - Natalie Clifford Barney "Ah! Night!"

Pure as stars on the silver midnights - Natalie Clifford Barney "Lines Taken from Poems I Shall Not Write"

Masked in bad silence, turned against their star - Natalie Clifford Barney "The Near Enemy"

freely as the stars that follow - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"

Rotating centuries across the stars - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"

Leading an orchestra of stars - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

That flows through stars and men - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"

Concealed like spectral stars - Elizabeth Bartlett "In His Image"

From beelines to star routes - Elizabeth Bartlett "Landscape: With Bread"

Sand and stars are not enough - Elizabeth Bartlett "Not Just Once"

Mixed by impure stars to common metal - Elizabeth Bartlett "Reflected in Brass"

To outride wind, tide and stars - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sailor's Story"

Build above the stars - Ardelia Maria Barton "Let Us Build Above the Stars"

Among the stars to plough - Ardelia Maria Barton "To a Comet"

Reclaimed emeralds pouring like stars down my neck - Ennis Rook Bashe "We Have Slain the Savage Martians, but Their Princess Escaped"

maybe this quiet is a star - Samiya Bashir "Some days of wine and pastry"

The star of hope eclipse - Cora C. Bass "The Battle of Bunker Hill"

Must return them to the stars - Ellen Bass "Mammogram Callback with Ultrasound"

The solemn legions of the stars - F.N.W. Bateson "Trespassers"

Watch the birth of stars in heaven - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

The clouds that veil a star - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

The influence of malignant star - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

Amid the beaming of love's stars - Thomas Lovell Beddoes "Dirge"

All the stars of hell are crying loud - Stephen Vincent Benet "Before Michael's Last Fight"

Light heavy with drowning stars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

Each white-fire-leaf of a star distinct - Stephen Vincent Benet "Flood-Tide"

Sun-wave or heart of star - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"

And Helen and Troy are cold as the stars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Whispering sea and the stars like lace - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

A glittering torture of cold stars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

I follow the star that's sinking - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

I have herded the stars like cattle - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

Arrayed with stars as a garment - Stephen Vincent Benet "Sir John Rimbeck to the Princess of Acre"

Where all the freezing stars go round - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

Pour me the stars of the seraphim - Stephen Vincent Benet "Wisdom-Teeth"

I lost my wonders as I had lost my stars - William Rose Benét "The City"

A little stone without a star - Paul Bernstein "Worlds Apart"

The burning fuel of dead stars - Emily Berry "Allegiances"

Above me the day-blind stars waiting - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"

Blur of a trillion stars - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"

Intersecting light from every star - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"

Our star's extravagant giveaway of light - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"

To communicate my emotion to a star - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Heart"

As many sparks as stars in the cosmos - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Heart"

This song generates a star - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Jaguar"

That weaves stars with the ground - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Jaguar"

Lost in a jumble of stars - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"

Setting star fields in motion - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Loom"

And become more intimate with its star - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Lux"

Restore our relations with stars - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Pegasus"

The consciousness of each star we touch - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"

Some stars occupy two places - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"

The form of a perceived star - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"

A framework that keeps stars in place - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"

Against night's screen of stars - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

Stars walk among us - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

From every star in our regard - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

Across the blackened fields are only smothered stars - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"

Smothered stars casting their phantom reflections - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"

Rise towards the scattered stars - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"

Giant dervishes dancing under the ancient stars - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"

A brighter star on Hope's horizon - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"

Our stars like chess pieces - John S. Blake "No Room to Form"

When the stars threw down their spears - William Blake "The Tiger"

And early stars wasting away - Richard Blanco "Papa's Bridge"

Beneath a hole full of stars - Tommye Blount "The Black Umbrella"

Fallen plum-bloom stars the green - Edmund Blunden "The Poor Man's Pig"

Stare into the rush of stars - Edmund Blunden "The Watermill"

Can disregard the stars - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Street-Pavement"

I stuffed my ears with faded stars - Maxwell Bodenheim "After Feeling Deux Arabesques by Debussy"

Wanders one step toward the stars - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"

Beneath a field of stars unconstellated - Jaswinder Bolina "Panjandrum"

An unwinking beacon, sister to stars - Nelson S. Bond "The Ballad of Blaster Bill" [Planet Stories summer 1941 issue]

Temporary lodgings beneath the static of the stars - Bruce Boston "The Music of Deep Spacers"

All the isles that fleck this turning star - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"

Postulants for the stars' previous wisdom - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"

And every star seemed listening - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

The wintering den of stars - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

Step from the star to the mountain - Thomas Boyd "Love on the Mountain"

That keeps the stars in cadence - Thomas Boyd "To the Lianhaun Shee"

His blind face battered with stars - William Stanley Braithwaite "Del Cascar" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Bodies shaken out of all but stars - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Opened room enough in the sky for the stars - Russell Brakefield "The Way We Learned to Sing"

a herd of stars coaxed from a river - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]

Against the dashboard of stars - William Brewer "In the Room of the Overdosed, an Ember"

Stars of flowers brightening the moss - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"

The way the stars ambush their loneliness - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"

The stars of God's mercies - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"

The stars of a mellow September - Vera M. Brittain "Daphne"

Sought to rend the stars from Heaven - Vera M. Brittain "To a Fallen Idol"

That Fainter Stars Seem Brilliant - Geoffrey Brock "The Man Outside"

A muster of pale stars - Lucie Brock-Broido "Basic Poem in a Basic Tongue"

Or elsewise, sugared in stars - Julian Talamantez Brolaski "sky hammer"

Be remembered for a star - Rupert Brooke "The Great Lover"

Stars and sunlight there shall meet - Rupert Brooke "Tiare Tahiti"

The classic quality of a star - Gwendolyn Brooks "Gay Chaps at the Bar"

Night with its privacies, its alluringly distant stars - Kurt Brown "Fisherman"

Watch the stars on the horizon revolve around my ankles - Kurt Brown "Road Trip"

Grief borne out under whittled stars - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"

Into canopies through stars - Paul Cameron Brown "Fire Bush"

Breathed among the stars - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Shades instead of stars - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

With the fiery love of stars - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Wild and mournful as a star - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Faster for the stars - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet II in Sonnets from the Portuguese"

The leading star of love - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

A sky blistered with millions of stars - Sue Budin "Markers"

Mouth so deep even the stars fall through - Sue Budin "Passport, 1954"

Stars emerging from the centers of her eyes - Sue Budin "Sally Hawkins Speaks"

To the ultimate dissolution of stars and suns - Gerald Bullett "Alone with these my poems..."

Entitled to take in this very small star - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"

By each star distracted in turn - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

But cannot climb to clasp a star - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXIII. Flesh and Spirit" transl. by John Addington Symonds

To friends a shadow shedding stars - Francis Burrows "The Giant's Dirge"

Like stars rushing toward destruction - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"

Our high Star and true Apostle - "By Memory Inspired" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Uplifted till we touch a star - Witter Bynner "The New World I"

No other ship among the stars - Witter Bynner "The New World II"

Build and share a tenement of stars - Witter Bynner "The New World III"

The orbit of this troubled star - Witter Bynner "The New World V"

A star whose bite is certain death - Witter Bynner "The Wild Star"

Run from stars till you are out of breath - Witter Bynner "The Wild Star"

Stars from a back porch - Julie Byrne "Natural Blue"

And the stars are well - Julie Byrne "The Sea as it Glides"

Love will draw all wandering stars - M.W.C. "Amor Patriae Vincit" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Till our appetites are lit into star spangled flames - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"

Not a single star to whisper - F. O. Call "Calvary"

When the pale stars fade at dawn - C.S. Calverley "Arcades Ambo"

Count the living stars upon the walls - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"

Heralded by stars divine - W. Wilfred Campbell "Glory of the Dying Day"

On steely anvils of the stars - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

Till the rocket tells the star - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"

Ere the morning star mounts in the moonlit heavens - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"

Stars and moons still move inside our arteries - Paul Carroll "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"

Stars in their dark blue bow'rs - G.R. Carter "The Homeward Voyage" [The Mirror of Literature v.20 issue 562, 18 Aug. 1832]

The stars pearl out in the azure sky - J.E.A. Carver "Evening"

Nor sun nor stars sufficed - Roger Casement "Lost Youth"

Hearts that break into clusters of stars - Ana Castillo "Whitman"

The suns and every listless star - Willa Cather "Evening Song"

And watch from every star - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"

A crimson fire that vanquishes the stars - Willa Cather "Prairie Dawn"

Every golden star that passed - Willa Cather "The Star Dial"

Every star in heaven was burning - Willa Cather "The Star Dial"

To fan the stars with flaming wings - George Spencer Cautley "The Girandola at Rome"

The very stars which pierce the veil - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]

Each falser than stars - Jennifer Chang "Sonogram"

The promise of ambition's streaming star - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"

Bright stars drifting on the ethereal tide - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"

Waters and stars and the lone moods of men - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Beyond the Verge of Time"

Veiled in the mystical silence of stars - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Fire"

Fashioned the stars and the moons to the music - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Imagery"

Up through an empty house of stars - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

A star blown on the wind - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

Grey twilight and a yellow star - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"

Wheels of wind and star - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"

To chisel out a star each night - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"

Kept a poultice of stars strapped to her hip - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"

Count the stars beyond the canes - May Chong "Kamcia"

An eastern star set like a pearl atop a steeple - Nicholas Christopher "Lake Como"

The stars sizzling like 4th of July sparklers - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"

The stars of our country are ransomed again - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Out-distances the utmost star - Carrie Williams Clifford "Quest"

burned you into little shells and stars - Lucille Clifton "in the same week"

another star chooses - Lucille Clifton "leda 2"

The bright stars unreproving mix - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Her star beyond my order - Leonard Cohen "Came so Far for Beauty"

The stars eat your body - Leonard Cohen "Lady Midnight"

Never won an inch of star - Leonard Cohen "The Way Back"

Visited all night by troops of stars - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

Each ship beneath its star - Arthur Colton "By the Sea"

Had large experience with the stars - Arthur Colton "The Roman Way"

With the far stars pale above them - Henry Rutgers Conger "The Purple Hills"

As a valley of stars - Hilda Conkling "Moon Doves"

Which strews our midnight thick with stars - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

The stars revealed to me their trackless paths - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

As melts a star into the day - Susan Coolidge "Through the Door"

The troth of flowers and stars - Benjamin Copeland "Beauty"

As stars confess the all-sustaining sun - Benjamin Copeland "By Many Paths"

From the sod to the stars - Benjamin Copeland "The Law of Love"

Hurl in space a red-eyed star - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"

Are stars that Milton saw - James H. Cousins "On Some Twentieth Century Forecasts"

The stars of night grew pale before the morning's light - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"

The bleakest sky has tiny rifts when the stars shine through - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Don't Be Afraid"

No stars tonight but those of memory - Hart Crane "My Grandmother's Love Letters"

Immaculate sigh of stars - Hart Crane "To Brooklyn Bridge"

Salute the crocus lustres of the stars - Hart Crane "Voyages II"

Shred ends from remembered stars - Hart Crane "Voyages V"

Steered by stars that sorrowed - Nathalia Crane "The Salamander Isles"

Among the stars, soft gardens near the sun - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Places among the stars - Stephen Crane "Untitled"

The stars have evaporated - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"

The stars that tread the sky - Adelaide Crapsey "The Fiddling Lad"

And even the veiled stars withdraw - Adelaide Crapsey "The Mourner"

With every finger on a star - George Cronyn "Clouds"

Blossomed with white stars - George Cronyn "Night-Flowers"

Orbit our compass star - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Rain, forgotten between stars - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Out of old Moons was busy cutting Stars - Rev. William Crowe "Written When Buonaparte Was Altering the Governments of Germany"

Go, seek the stars and count them - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"

With the stars strung for a rattle - Countee Cullen "Saturday's Child"

Burned my hands upon a star - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

Tricked a mass of stars into his hair - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

He filled his hands with stars - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

Upon this pale and passion-frozen star - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

And not a single star chime out of tune - Countee Cullen "To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Up with the pale important stars - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"

the bursting of the wafted stars - E. E. Cummings "Amores (IV)"

one by one stars flutter into dust - E. E. Cummings "Amores (V)"

darkness and beauty of stars - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"

where dwells the breath of all persisting stars - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"

never spoke ill of the pretty stars - E. E. Cummings "Amores (XI)"

The utter silence of the untranslated stars - E. E. Cummings "Summer Silence"

As stars look on the night - "Cupid in the Cabinet" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

Shake the stars down for your sake - Olive Custance "Blue Flowers"

A diadem of stars at feet and head - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"

The stars grains of salt - Jim Daniels "On Tears"

Grasp at stars in their uncertain way - Russell W. Davenport "Poem"

When Hope's bright star's the transient guest - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"

Gazing at the stars that bubbled in clear skies - W.H. Davies "In May"

Searched for her stolen flock of stars - W.H. Davies "In May"

While joy gave clouds the light of stars - William H. Davies "The Villain"

The white cascade that's both a bird and star - W.H. Davies "The White Cascade"

The stars die a million years ago - Kwame Dawes "Last Days"

Where tired stars wane - Coningsby Dawson "Childish Travelling"

Cheered by a rising star - Coningsby Dawson "Thalatta! Thalatta!"

A new urban system of star navigation - Holly Day "The Mismanagement of Stars"

Makes allowances for missing stars - Holly Day "The Mismanagement of Stars"

Made a star he couldn't follow - Tyree Daye "To: All Poets From: Northeastern North Carolina"

Graves of stars - Julia de Burgos "Poem to My Death"

Seeker in gutter and star - Benjamin De Casseres "Tantara! Tantaro!"

Burning stars in darkness of the snow - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"

Fields of stars that strangely stir - Walter de la Mare "Beware!"

Take the far stars for fruit - Walter de la Mare "The Disguise"

A night of stars and snow - Walter de la Mare "The Little Salamander: To Margot"

Take the far stars for fruit - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"

Written with stars on a chalkboard sky - Diane DeCillis "View from a Room, NYC"

Who keeps the stars from falling - Diana Marie Delgado "Never Mind I'm Dead"

Through which aspires the blood-metal of stars - Toi Derricotte "The Blessed Angels"

As the stars breathe destiny down on us - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #2"

With the star charts of a sweetness - Dante Di Stefano "Green Burial Unsonnet"

Such trifles as a twinkling star - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"

Punctual as a star - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XVII: The Railway Train"

Dim as the border star - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXIII: Requiem"

Stars the trinkets at her belt - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature XXI: The Moon"

As stars that drop anonymous - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XXXIV"

With benediction of the ultimate stars - Eric Dickinson "Three Sonnets I"

I look to the stars to bring me answers - Woody Dismukes "The Color of the Mule"

An illumined spectre of a star - Irving Sidney Dix "The Comet"

Fills with the strange rain of stars - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

Shoulders slumped with star burden - Chris Dombrowski "Gentle Reader"

Stars draining in their sockets - Chris Dombrowski "Still Life with Starlight"

The glow of heaven's serenest star - Eleanor C. Donnelly "Mary Immaculate"

Beneath as rainstorm of summer stars - Rebecca Dotlich "Room of Place"

Exquisitely nurtured by the stars - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

Saddles tooled with singular stars - Rita Dove "Horse and Tree"

This lost flaring star - Edward Dowden "Durer's 'Melencholia'"

The mother of the stars and winds - Edward Dowden "Helena"

And higher the keen stars - Edward Dowden "Prometheus Unbound"

When the swift stars pale - Edward Dowden "A Song"

The sweet star of your queen - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"

The molten ore of the great stars - Edward Doyle "Chime, Dark Bell"

Make our private misery the star - Boris Dralyuk "The Bureau of Street Lighting"

Of stars or cloud or summer's folded sun - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

Adopted to some Neighbouring Star - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"

The starlike sorrows of immortal eyes - Carol Ann Duffy "Beautiful"

Even if souls are stars - Carol Ann Duffy "Death and the Moon"

Lip-read the heavens talking on in light, syllabic stars - Carol Ann Duffy "New Year"

Your star bulging into a pentagon - Denise Duhamel "Delta Flight 656"

Offered a handful of tinfoil stars - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Heart Has Four Chambers"

Nights holding stars as puncture wounds - Cheryl Dumesnil "Some Days Are Skin as Tinfoil"

Stars whispering behind veils - Cheryl Dumesnil "What You Were Doing Up There"

And tosses a kiss at the stars - Paul Laurence Dunbar "The Rising of the Storm"

Makes a home for the stars - Stephen Dunn "Let's Say"

Multiplying the stars - Stephen Dunn "No Wonder"

Not greatly larger than a star - Lord Dunsany "The Return of Song"

His merit still remains a star - Toru Dutt "Savitri"

When the beacon star's a stranger - Max Eastman "A Hymn to God: In Time of Stress"

Stroke the disheveled stars - Katherine Edgren "Listen to the Trees"

More distant and more solemn than a fading star - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"

Here in this valley of dying stars - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"

Fetch her stars to deck her hair - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

Stars taunt us by a mystery - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"

Stars weave eternal rings - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The World-Soul"

Like the stars to the shore - Heid E. Erdich "In Search of Jane's Grave"

The star map of my arms - Heid E. Erdich "Tick Check"

The burst ropes of stars - Louise Erdrich "The Glass and the Bowl"

We have not even approached the stars - Timons Esaias "Dark Matter"

Merge with another star - Charlie Espinosa "Sunflower Astronaut"

Till the stars of Heaven fell - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"

Trembling stars athwart her spirit's night - Marie J. Ewen "The Two Prayers" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.457, 2 Oct. 1852]

The last and first star - Tarfia Faizullah "Red-Lipped Poem"

Famished with stars - Tarfia Faizullah "West Texas Nocturne"

Wipe discord from this troubled star - Eleanor Farjeon "Colin Clout, Come Home Again!"

With a million stars you pin it to the sky - Eleanor Farjeon "The Night Will Never Stay"

The Knight's eyes dwell on a star's white crest - Eleanor Farjeon "The Quest"

Upon the very boundary of the stars - Eleanor Farjeon "Sonnet VII"

As you walk out into the stars - Joseph Fasano "Letter"

Hung its melancholy maze of stars - Edgar Fawcett "A Vengeance" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]

And the stars of Greece beheld him smile - Edgar Fawcett "A Vengeance" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]

Bearing a dark star inside me - Susan Fawcett "Black Water Diving"

watched a star burn through your wall-length windows - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"

The northern streamers paled Napoleon's lurid star - "The Fireman's Song" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]

Her anatomy in irregular stars - B. K. Fischer "Week 30 (Maternity Bathing Suit)"

Lilies plucked and set like stars - Mahlon Leonard Fisher "The Ancient Sacrifice"

Or stars their long vigils shall keep - "The Flag of the Brave" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Where the fleet of stars is anchored - James Elroy Flecker "The Dying Patriot"

Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Our star to shine on the ruins of Rum - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"

That shatter their stars of bloom - John Gould Fletcher "Court Lady Standing Under Cherry Tree"

Grasses strewn with delicate stars - John Gould Fletcher "The Endless Lament"

A restless green rout of stars - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Ringing toward the stars - Ralph Fletcher "A Writing Kind of Day"

To paint swirls and stars on my skin - Mina Florea "Remember"

A star glimmering through the mist - "The Flower of Nut-Brown Maids" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Brush over star's dust - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Canyon"

A star in the mind is dust - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen m"

Fishnets trawling stars - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7

Circular tracts overcast with stars - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Origin of Planets"

Behind the stars' dull hatchets - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"

Scavengers for stars - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sail"

The stars are your wreckage - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sail"

In the star's cold machinery - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sail"

Stars' dull hatchets - Jennifer Foerster "Shadow Poems"

Stars' dull hatchets behind the black - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 1"

Drenched stars' ancient frieze - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"

Beneath a tattoo of stars - Carolyn Forche "Elegy"

The clouds casketed the stars - Katie Ford "Breaking Across Us Now"

The stars, their death-watch keeping - Fanny Forrester "A Last 'Good-Night'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.31-v.I, 2 Aug. 1884]

The smug stars think they know - Ariel Francisco "Insomniami"

And disturb a cold river of stars with a touch - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"

Smelted in a starless dark - Santee Frazier "Hyperacusis"

Relit once more her brilliant stars - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]

And those stars so gravely still - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"

The fair stars trembling in their light - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

Stars quenched in anger and hate - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

And the earth trembled when the stars were gone - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

If to thee the stars yield victory - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

My cousin & the clustered stars - Denice Frohman "Shooting in the Dark"

Will have roared first and mixed sparks with stars - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"

And string up the tiniest stars I can find - Rose Fyleman "The Goblin to the Fairy Queen"

With stars and dewdrops in her hair - Rose Fyleman "Vision"

Above the fadeless stars on high - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]

The sun-drugged stars - Zona Gale "Ballade of Listening"

The ultimate star was my neighbour - Zona Gale "Enchantment"

When the last star flowers - Zona Gale "A Meeting"

Had forgot the stars are new - Zona Gale "Non Nobis"

With more stars than spaces between - James Galvin "Putting Down the Night"

The stars of night in circling systems moved - Miss Mary Gardiner "The Deity" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)

The star that shines in the midnight sky - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

being alone in a graveyard of buried stars - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"

And the little stars are listening, too - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "Flower Babies"

The glorious stars remember to appear - Manmohan Ghose "A Lament"

Forget the shining of the stars - Manmohan Ghose "[Thou who hast follow'd far]"

Mostly because of dying stars - Andrea Gibson "America, Reloading"

Tumult of red stars exultantly - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Rupert Brooke"

A vaster heaven of unrevealed stars - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

A thousand stars silently bursting - Nikita Gill "After the Visit"

Gleaming stars conspire - Nikita Gill "Athena's Tale"

Look at the way the stars burn - Nikita Gill "Endings"

Fermented the stars alive - Nikita Gill "Eurynome: The Mother of All Things"

The darkness behind your shining star - Nikita Gill "Hades to Persephone"

Every flavour of a star bursting - Nikita Gill "Pallas and Athena"

Falling, starless veils of lace - Aracelis Girmay "Ceremony for Remembering the Doorless World"

Heaven a crystal magnificence of stars - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"

Stars powdered lightly with blue - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"

Has made of the stars its flowers - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"

And been caught in the web of the stars - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"

If the stars be gold or gray - Ellen Glasgow "Reunion"

The stars were sending messages - Louise Gluck "Midsummer"

As pyrotechnic stars fall on already fragile dreams - Ian Goh "Firework"

Imprints itself amongst the iridescent stars - Ian Goh "Firework"

Watching neighbors become stars - Golden "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"

The road of the rebel stars - Louis Golding "Gallop"

The sharp stars of the winter night - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"

As stars burn down like candle-wicks - Louis Golding "The Moon-Clock"

To him are fierce stars clay - Louis Golding "Our Jack"

The stars have cruel hearts - Louis Golding "The Shepherd"

Stars to give his furnace food - Louis Golding "The Singer of High State"

Pricked with stars of song - Louis Golding "Skylark Noon"

With the white stars I commune - Louis Golding "Who Knows Me?"

Drop the bloodless stars into the sea - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Mortui Vivos Docent"

With glittering coronets of stars - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Where one can view new stars - Regan Good "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows from a Drain"

Forged in the breath of stars - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

A silver star caught in the meshes of the moon - Mona Gould "Night Garden"

Cry to the stars that love rides by - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"

Stars and the dead are faithful - Mona Gould "Stars and the Dead"

Black as the night with one star - Alfred Perceval Graves "O Drimin dhu Deelish"

The stars in heaven's hollow - Alfred Perceval Graves "The Sea Singer"

Cloudless jasper sown with stars - David Gray "The Moon II"

With the guidance of no star - Russell Green "De Mundo"

Stabbing the skies for stars - William Griffith "Litany of Nations: Balkan States"

Twin stars through my purpling pane - Angelina Weld Grimké "Dusk"

Will malady your gut with moths and stars - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"

As clouds enmesh a star - Louise Imogen Guiney "Chaluz Castle"

Like a star new-lit - Louise Imogen Guiney "Cyclamen"

The vacillating spirit of that flaring omnipotent star - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Do not touch the stars on its skin - Nicolás Guillén "The Ursa Major" transl. by Aaron Coleman

Below a molten field of stars five years ago - Thom Gunn "Lament"

This hour of stars and music - Ivor Gurney "'Annie Laurie'"

Who watch the stars through broken walls - Ivor Gurney "From Omiecourt"

Not on some strange outlandish star - Ivor Gurney "Home-Sickness"

Rest till stars shall fall - Ieuan Gwynedd "Go and Dig a Grave for me" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

The sphered stars powdered in shining atoms - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

No unregarded star contracts its light - William Habington, born 1605, died 1654 "The Firmament" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 3, April 14, 1832]

Have bound the winds and stars - Katherine Hale "Miracles"

With pale reflection of her star - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"

Where pale stars pierced the dark - Tom Hall "Her Reverie"

Thinner than stars in the flush of dawn - Han Yu "The Girl of Mt. Hua" transl. by Burton Watson

Nor a star abroad the way to show - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Iter Supremum"

A mad star crossed the sky - Thomas Hardy "The Second Night"

The sparks of the star in her pupils - Thomas Hardy "The Second Night"

The stars have learned to say good-bye - Joy Harjo "Desire"

Embracing stars of all colors - Joy Harjo "First Morning"

In one blink of star time - Joy Harjo "First Morning"

From a cup of frothy stars - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"

Each star rang with separate colored hue - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"

Know each of the star's stories - Joy Harjo "Remember"

Thrown open to the need of stars - Joy Harjo "Seven Generations"

Grew plant ladders to the the stars - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"

The ways the stars entered your blood - Joy Harjo "What Music"

alone among the dying stars - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."

In the cold stars' wake - Reginald Harris "Song [My heart was blithe at morning]"

Overpopulated with stars - Jim Harrison "Lunar"

Have misunderstood the stars - Jim Harrison "Midnight Blues Planet"

Mask of stars - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"

Stars behind the daylight - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"

Stars for her benefit made - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"

To gather a rose by the light of stars - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"

Plucks the stars from night's blue vault - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXVIII"

The star realms opening - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXIX"

Stars that shower swift-winged light - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"

One of the four Royal Stars - Yona Harvey "Q"

And stars and stones and seas - Robert Hayden "Words in the Mourning Time"

The serious moon, the flickering star - Alfred Hayes "My Study"

Memories far high reaching as yon palled star - Paul Hamilton Hayne "Pre-Existence"

The stars are little devils - Ben Hecht "Sorrow"

Rich province of the western star - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto II"

That high soul's ascendant star - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

My stars are seeping away - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed (Hendan) "Returning to the Fire" transl. by author and edited by Darren Byler

Out of the sight of lamp and star - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

The wistful stars shine like good memories - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Glittering and keen as the song of the winter stars - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"

Keen as the song of the winter stars - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"

Through the space program and into the ancient sea of stars - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"

Laughter across the intervening stars - R.M. Hewitt "Gaudium in Coelo"

Stars befriend no mortal - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "Night on a Mountain"

Coaxing stars from the attics - Faylita Hicks "Collage of a Dying Sun"

The stars their monuments - B. Higgins "Gallipoli: An Epitaph"

One lone star stands a fiery sentinel - Jennie Earngey Hill "Alone"

Releasing the caged stars - Brenda Hillman "Micro-minutes on Your Way to Work"

Sand is the residue of stars - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

And bring a star to bless this day - Mrs. E. Annette Hills "A Little Girl's Wedding Gift" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Please count my eyes your stars - Mrs. E. Annette Hills "A Little Girl's Wedding Gift" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

And golden stars bring peace at night - Mrs. E. Annette Hills "A Little Girl's Wedding Gift" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Where hidden stars crown a miraculous dome - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"

The faint but certain star of destiny - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

When the faint but certain star of destiny burned clear - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

A pair of stars, faint pins of light - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Since beauty and the stars were one - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Until my eyes were blind with stars - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Engulf the last dim star - William D. Hodjkiss "Song of the Storm Swept-Plain"

Of stars and the memory of cows - Carlie Hoffman "After Translating the Women of the Twentieth Century"

The silver beams of the pale stars - I.G. Holland "To the Spirits of My Three Departed Sisters"

When good stars agree - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: A Tribute"

Raised my eye and saw the stars had not moved - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"

Buttoned it with stars - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Evening"

Cloud that would darken a star - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Union and Liberty"

And stars unrivalled bright - Thomas Hood "Fair Ines"

Shot fierce light against the stars - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Of deeds out-shining stars - Horace "The Survival [Ode 22, Bk. V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling

As well might I aspire to build a star - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

And sets thy hidden stars on fire - George Moses Horton "Memory"

Supplied us timeless stars - A.E. Housman "To My Dear Friend, M. J. Jackson, A Disparager of This Treatise" (translated by A.M. Juster)

Stir in the dark of the stars unborn - Richard Hovey "The Death Song of Taliesin"

As our bodies flake into stars - LeAnne Howe "1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed"

The two moons and the seventeen stars - Langston Hughes "Night: Four Songs"

No memories by the stars - Richard Hughes "The Ruin"

Dropped his golden scythe there in that field of stars - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

To wash overripe stars - Ishion Hutchinson "Aubade"

And chant down stars - Ishion Hutchinson "Roof Nightclub"

And the stars are mirrored across me - Aldous Huxley "Points and Lines"

The shining of some silver-mantled star - "I Am Coming!" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Signal between spore and star - fahima ife "porous aftermath"

And the stars are all dead - Jean Ingelow "Contrasted Songs: A Lily and a Lute"

From the husk of dusk I shake the stars - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

While the tired Dog-Watch hailed the sea-merged Star - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

The stars' deep eloquence - Islwyn "Night" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Through the stars eternity may speak - Islwyn "Night" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

On which the stars could pierce like elfshot - Tracina Jackson-Adams "Shepherds in the Night"

Were experts on stars before astronomy had a name - Tracina Jackson-Adams "Shepherds in the Night"

Drinks from a bucket of stars - John James "Other Adam"

As the stars seep through his window - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"

Stars fizzle in the map of still time - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"

Not for joy the stars burn - Robinson Jeffers "Joy"

Trespassing among the steep stars - Robinson Jeffers "October Evening"

Answers the peace of the stars - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

Choosing far stars to check near objects by - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

Till all the eternal stars shall wane - Elinor Jenkins "H.S.T. Requiescat"

Memory's stars that shake for cold - Elinor Jenkins "Sunset"

Night's first timid star - Elinor Jenkins "Veronica"

With stars falling through your hands - Allison Eir Jenks "Different Ideas of Honor"

More stars than an eye can carry - Allison Eir Jenks "In Search of a Brother"

Until we washed our hair with stars - Allison Eir Jenks "Letters from Our Fathers"

Selling the stars to our mothers - Allison Eir Jenks "War Tribes"

Such as stars could not eclipse - Emily Pauline Johnson "Day Dawn"

My star shall drop singing like a nightingale - Fenton Johnson "When I Die" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars - Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Heart of a Woman" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

With Sappho sleep like the stars at dawn - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Wait with the trembling stars - James Weldon Johnson "Down by the Carib Sea"

The white gleam of our bright star - James Weldon Johnson "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

Stars in their stations set - Lionel Johnson "By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross"

Bare to the stars of doom - Lionel Johnson "By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross"

The wandering stars of midnight - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

While the clear stars shake - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

Of stars and clouds allied - Lionel Johnson "Hill and Vale"

Beneath the vesper star - Lionel Johnson "In England"

Whom the vast stars crown - Lionel Johnson "To a Traveller"

Nebulae beginning to star - Sara Eliza Johnson "Combustion"

Gently stroke the surface of stars - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"

Not a star of my escutcheon shall your fogs eclipse - "Jonathan to John Bull" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

Last lingering star of hope - Edward Smyth Jones "Flag of the Free"

The stars swing back the curtain - Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. "In Summer Twilight"

When stars kneeled from the heavens - Lois P. Jones "Between Fulmination and Adoration"

Winter stars stitched into puddles - Saeed Jones "The Blue Dress"

Shards of glass like misplaced stars - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

Disclosed by the stars and the silence - June Jordan "Poem About My Rights"

And rivers precious to the stars - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

The stars are forming strange new words - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

Wed stars to beget an alphabet - Fady Joudah "Descending, Rising"

On a filament tethered to a star - Fady Joudah "Pisces"

The zone to which the stars aspire - Sir Nizamat Jung "III: Before the Throne"

Deck'd out with stars and colors gay - "Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes"

The Lark was above like a star of song - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]

The fierce aspect of a baleful star - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Third: The Death of Love" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Thick with unfamiliar stars - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Gray Eraser"

The last beings of the blue star on all spheres of the Sun - Raimo Kangasniemi "October 2026: The End of the Picnic"

Whispered stories of stars - Holly Karapetkova "Refugees"

The far star points of his pinned extremities - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

Sparing only stars - Bob Kaufman "Lost Window"

Shake the fading stars from her robes of light - Fanny Kemble "A Farewell"

Followed a star through the darkness - Henry Kendall "Achan"

Sweet and bleak under a halo of stars - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Calls a Truce"

In the old language of dust and mud and stars - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"

Winds that blow against a star - Joyce Kilmer "As Winds That Blow Against a Star"

Through stars and starless space - Joyce Kilmer "Chevely Crossing"

Leads Dante to the happy stars - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"

This young companion of an ancient star - Joyce Kilmer "Mount Houvenkopf"

Could not vex the merry stars - Joyce Kilmer "To a Young Poet Who Killed Himself"

The grave, incurious stars - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

Dwelt among the pleasant stars - Joyce Kilmer "Wherever, Whenever"

Stars made of molten music - Joyce Kilmer "White Bird of Love"

Under our great star - Kim Unsong "Silent Afar"

Strung beneath our star - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"

The shape of our star days - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

Reach toward star and cloud - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"

The star yielded to light - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"

Reflect the burning icy stars of poetry - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

Each with a star at its heart - Ted Kooser "The Bluet"

Far from the edge where the sea pours into the stars - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"

Her eyes like stars fixed on the future - Ted Kooser "A New Potato"

Taken away by the stars - Ted Kooser "Screech Owl"

The depth of the stars - Ted Kooser "Telescope"

Sky clear all the way up to the stars - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Peeling stars from my shoulders - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

How the stars are flicking off like lightbulbs - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

Twisting and tightening the stars that have turned off - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

A few thousand more stars to go - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

The ache of amazement under summer stars - Stephen Kuusisto "Learning Braille at Thirty-Nine"

Burnt stars oceanic gardens - Philip Lamantia "Celestial Estrangement"

The stars emerged to stare at their reflections - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"

Rolls a great and burning star - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"

A vision of the great and burning star - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"

Thin with the many stars - Archibald Lampman "The Frogs"

Grew with the flocking stars - Archibald Lampman "The Land of Pallas"

The mother with her brood of stars - Archibald Lampman "The Return of the Year"

And the pilot stars emerge - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"

Silence and the sharp unpitying stars - Archibald Lampman "Winter Evening"

Temptation overcomes the star - Sade LaNay "Entry 003 from I love you and I'm not dead"

The stars again with their echolalia, their vanishing - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

A star the dawning drives away - Andrew Lang "A Star in the Night"

to the shimmering beat of star twinkle pulses - Jessica Langer "Chaos"

Where a three-point star shall weave his beam - Sidney Lanier "To Charlotte Cushman" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.17, no.99, Mar. 1876]

Each star must round an arduous orbit fly - Sidney Lanier "To Charlotte Cushman" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.17, no.99, Mar. 1876]

Every cloud illumed with flame engulfs a shaken star - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "A Ballad of the Mist"

Not a star lit any side of heaven - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Beyond Utterance"

Stars punched in gray tin - Dorianne Laux "My Mother's Colander"

Noon stars on the pavement - Dorianne Laux "My Mother's Colander"

While these trees held a glossary of stars - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"

To espy some unborn star - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes I: The Awaited Leader"

And knits the stars - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

Writ in some dull foreboding star - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

Immerse the shores of that mysterious star - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

A breath in a bubble spinning brushing the stars - D.H. Lawrence "Elegy"

How many stars in your bowl? - D.H. Lawrence "In a Boat"

The poor waters spill the stars - D.H. Lawrence "In a Boat"

Even stars are not safe in heaven - D.H. Lawrence "In a Boat"

The night's membrane of tranquil stars - D.H. Lawrence "Southern Night"

The winking star that keeps her company - D.H. Lawrence "Week-night Service"

And the stars can chaff the ironic moon - D.H. Lawrence "Week-night Service"

The taper like the steadfast star - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"

Light beyond the netted stars - Ruth Lechlitner "Change Must Be Served"

Round pools within a wood to catch the stars - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"

The stars lost from our shoulders - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

Stars burned out near the beginning of time - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"

Her lone voice speaking for the silenced stars - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"

A beautiful anxious speck of a star - Stephen Leggett "For a Little Wheel"

The stare of clear, cognizant stars - Hailey Leithauser "Boys of L.A."

The sputter and fizz of joy-hissing stars - Hailey Leithauser "Boys of L.A."

Star by star to burn the doubt - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Under the harvesting of the stars - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Our home still anchored in the slumbering star - R.B. Lemberg "Ranra's Unbalancing"

Gleamed with the warm light of an absent star - Philip Levine "Breath"

The haze of stars striking armor - Philip Levine "Drum"

Did the stars keep their appointments - Philip Levine "On 52nd Street"

A river of stars overflowing their bowl - Philip Levine "These Streets"

They can drain the stars of light - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

A few stars come out to share the witness - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

From a dark dungeon see the clear stars shining - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

Stars rest cold by shoals of cloud - Li Ho "For the Examination at Ho-nan-fu: Songs of the Twelve Months (with Intercalary Month)" transl. by Burton Watson

Last night's planets and stars - Li Shang-yin "[Last night's planets and stars]" transl. by Burton Watson

Falling from yesterday's stars - M.L. Liebler "Winter Meditation"

Undelivered ashes of stars - Sandra Lim "Certainty"

Empty stars we've tossed aside - Ada Limon "Marketing Life for Those of Us Left"

Pits so deep a torch turns to a star - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

By noon you raise a sea of stars - Vachel Lindsay "The Dandelion"

With hearts like the stars - Vachel Lindsay "The Firemen's Ball"

Studded with the last universe's stars - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"

This iteration's fossil stars - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"

Spaces between words and stars - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"

The Dancing Stars grow still - Lily A. Long "The Singing Place"

The influence of an unseen star - Henry W. Longfellow "Haunted Houses"

The star of the unconquered will - H.W. Longfellow [untitled]

Continuous as the stars - William Wordsworth Longfellow "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

Playing hide and seek with stars - Amy Lowell "The Crescent Moon"

The evening primrose, comrade of the stars - Amy Lowell "Diya {original title is Greek, Delta-iota-psi-alpha}"

The stars hang thick - Amy Lowell "Hora Stellatrix"

Brightest stars rise from a troubled sea - Amy Lowell "In Darkness"

Catches the stars and pulls them down - Amy Lowell "A Little Song"

Against the jutted stars - Amy Lowell "The Taxi"

Scattering wreaths of stars - Amy Lowell "To John Keats"

Black willows and stars - Amy Lowell "Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme"

I will mix me a drink of stars - Amy Lowell "Vintage"

Large stars with polychrome needles - Amy Lowell "Vintage"

Small stars jetting maroon and crimson - Amy Lowell "Vintage"

The stars crowd through the lilac - Amy Lowell "The Weather-Cock Points South"

Face more pallid than a daylit star - Maria White Lowell "Rouen, Place de la Pucelle"

Who feed upon the wind and stars - Mina Loy "Apology of Genius"

Aligned again with certain kindly stars - Thomas Lynch "Michael's Reply to the White Man"

The guiding spirits of the stars - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"

At the wheel of the northern star - Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "A Northern Love Song"

Of water and frost and star - Thomas MacDonagh "Litany of Beauty"

When the stars begin to blunt - Thomas MacDonagh "The Night Hunt"

All the stars for glancing - George MacDonald "Song"

Past dying stars and exploding suns - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "lark"

With a stroke the stars renewed their burning - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swallow"

The pathways of the furthest star - J.W. Mackail "On the Death of Arnold Toynbee"

To some song-haunted star - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Little Brown Bird"

And seeks from star to star - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Materialist"

And the shining host of stars - Dorothea Mackellar "Canticle"

Scornful stars in the sky - Dorothea Mackellar "Night on the Plains"

The terrible mirth of the stars - Dorothea Mackellar "Night on the Plains"

With the stars' great golden choir - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

We hold the stars already, and we burn, we burn - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

Necessary as sails and stars and harbors - Naomi Long Madgett "Arrival"

The wisdom of the stars sufficient - Naomi Long Madgett "Clock"

The stars precipitously steep - Naomi Long Madgett "Star Journey"

While my soul tips through the stars alone - Naomi Long Madgett "Star Journey"

Touched and held the stars - Naomi Long Madgett "Time Is No Thief"

Not perdition only but a star - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

The kingdom of the fervent stars - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

Promise stars forever bright - Naomi Long Madgett "Wedding Song"

Moon and stars their aid denying - Augusta A.L. Magra "The Walmer Life-Boat" [Chamber's Journal no. 708, July 1877]

The mountain diademed with stars - Douglas Malloch "To a Caged Bird"

The golden brilliance of the stars - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

The twinkling stars pierce me with nostalgia - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

The applause is meant for the stars - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Rates the Runway"

On their cliff of stars - Edwin Markham "The Desire of Nation"

Starless darkness and the rush of rain - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"

Little shepherd moon and flock of stars - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"

A mountain peak with its one gold star - Jeannette Marks "Last Dawn"

Climbing for stars and wanting the moon - Jeannette Marks "Little Miss Hilly"

Not an anarchist except in stars - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"

Wrinkling the light of a drowsy star - Jeannette Marks "Oriole's Nest"

There I pulled the whitest stars - Jeannette Marks "Stars"

Guided by star and blowing wind - Jeannette Marks "Two Candles"

Beating upon the stars with my gold - Jeannette Marks "Wild Grape Vine"

And vanish like plunging stars - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

To the cool stars peering down - Don Marquis "New York"

Placing a loyal hand on the star that refused to die - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain

Systems of stars hang frozen and still - Harry Martinson "Aniara 10" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Buried in that giant star's dense husk - Harry Martinson "Aniara 11" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Fare with undiminished speed toward Lyra's stars - Harry Martinson "Aniara 13" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Changed ever more into a distant star - Harry Martinson "Aniara 19" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Waiting for a star to shake loose from the others - Harry Martinson "Aniara 72: The Song of Karella" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Delivered from the stars' embittered strings - Harry Martinson "Aniara 103" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And Opposition of the Stars - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"

Like the stars sweeping westward - John Masefield "Right Royal"

Who would build a star - Florence Ripley Mastin "Dust"

A star in a riot of war - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"

Stars & moon blinking in agitated water - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

Little bright stars watch us too - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Kiss Refused" transl. by John Pollen

The scorn of the relentless stars - Theodore Maynard "Adam"

A clear and cleansing night of stars - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"

Seven stars bright with awful mystery - Theodore Maynard "The Building of the City"

Beyond the whirling moons and stars - Theodore Maynard "Don Quixote"

The stars which watch Gethsemane - Theodore Maynard "In Domo Johannis"

Who towers above the reeling stars - Theodore Maynard "Laughter"

The stars with their laughter - Theodore Maynard "A Song of Laughter"

Gemmed with stars - George Marion McClellan "A September Night"

The skies are sown with stars tonight - Samuel McCoy "The Off-Shore Wind"

A star, though quenched - James E. McGirt "Victoria the Queen"

Will remain like the eternal stars - Claude McKay "In Bondage"

Under the same dull stars - Claude McKay "When Dawn Comes to the City"

Can strike for the stars at need - Louis J. McQuilland "The Ballad of Sir Kevin O'Keane"

Crowds of stars trailing it down the west - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson

A seed of Stars, the dust of Suns & Moons - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"

Divide about an icy star - George Meredith "Archduchess Anne"

Star in circle his web waits - George Meredith "Seed-Time"

Unraying yet, more pearl than star - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"

Whom Song has made her stars - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Without hesitation or stars - W.S. Merwin "Cargo"

In the light of finished stars - M.S. Merwin "Returning Season"

Stars clenched between your fists - Makena Metz "Equinox"

From the stars to the dark country roads - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

The star of fate is on his brow - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"

All my stars forsake me - Alice Meynell "Song of Night at Daybreak"

A phrase of notes resembling stars - Alice Meynell "A Thrush Before Dawn"

The dreary night hath stars to deck the heaven - Nicholas Michell "The Oases of Libya" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.431, 3 April 1852]

The beckoning stars which sailors call - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ackerman Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

The stars in merry parties - Richard Middleton "The Carol of the Poor Children"

Whose star has guttered out - Edna St Vincent Millay "Interim"

Acquiring stars, losing vision - Tyler Mills "Zinnias"

The stars will taste of what you find tempting - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"

Four stars spinning in my palm - Anis Mojgani "4 stars"

The history of this particular star is filled with tears - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"

When it's hard to find stars in this daily sky - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"

Stand mysterious among the stars - N. Scott Momaday "The Essence of Belonging"

Better than stars or water - Harold Monro "Overheard on a Saltmarsh"

Silent as a dying star - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"

The stars had language of their own - Dugald Moore "Julia"

Studded with stars in belt and crown - Marianne Moore "Baseball and Writing"

Venus' mantle lined with stars - Marianne Moore "Spenser's Ireland"

To touch me with the smile of moon and star - William Moore "Expectancy"

Faint fires of the setting stars - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

The aspect of the unconscious stars - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Phaedra"

Alexander's conquering star - Lewis Morris "Odatis"

Unwedded, lonely as a star - Lewis Morris "Odatis"

To arrive between chaos & star - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Lived quietly among the stars - Harryette Mullen "Black Nikes"

Suffering each invisible star - John Murillo "Variation on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop"

The burning stars, the fainting hours - Francis Neilson "The Keeper of the Kisses"

A dancing star in revel flashed - Francis Neilson "When You Were Born"

Accumulating stars and armaments - Pablo Neruda "Do Not Ask Me" transl. by Miguel Algarin

The friendship of an independent star - Pablo Neruda "A Dog Has Died" transl. by William O'Daly

Great stars clear as vodka - Pablo Neruda "The Future Is Space" transl. by Alastair Reid

By the stars of the sea - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Writing the earth with stars - Pablo Neruda "I Recall the Sea" transl. by Jack Schmitt

With more eyes than a star - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti

As in the heart of an illustrious star - Pablo Neruda "Love for this Book" transl. by Dennis Maloney and Clark M. Zlotchew

A hard star which pierced the jungle - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid

Silences of a prison with a mad star - Pablo Neruda "Meeting Under New Flags" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Followers of the wrong star - Pablo Neruda "Men IX" transl. by William O'Daly

Blunted star, hostile rose - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

With the salt of hard stars - Pablo Neruda "Night" transl. by Alastair Reid

Spreading the star for those who come - Pablo Neruda "Oblivion" transl. by Donald D. Walsh

Will count again the ancient stars - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Numbers" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Of fractured stars like ice - Pablo Neruda "Rider in the Rain" transl. by John Felstiner

A crystal star in its fabric - Pablo Neruda "Rosas (1829-1849)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Building that star of tears - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh

This shadow without stars - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Beneath a fresh republic of stars - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A new star stained with resin - Pablo Neruda "Where the Rain Is Born: The First Journey" transl. by Alastair Reid

To be the stars of Paradise - E. Nesbit "En Tout Cas"

Silver stars upon the jasmine's hair - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

A fading dream of veil and star - E. Nesbit "The Veil of Maya"

Minted dust of stars - Effie Lee Newsome "Peacock Feather"

A sabled evening with no stars - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Chess"

Salamanders use the stars to find their way - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"

Drunk from the stars - Hoa Nguyen "Red She Broke the Cup"

Against the stars and scars of a city - Grace Nichols "A Sacrament of Words"

When gleam the ever-sleepless stars - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "[I know that thou wilt sorrow]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

Whose night brings no guiding star - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath V. Shut of Night"

But not like faithful stars - Meredith Nicholson "Faithless"

The host of stars is scattered - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)

You reveal the stars to me - Nancy Nishihira "The Endless Sky (Mothering)"

Our existence crafted from the stars - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"

Over our heads there were millions of stars - Sarah Noble-Ives "Thro' Fairyland"

I hear nothing in the star mist - Margaret Noodin "Crane" transl. by the author

Forging dreams big as melting stars - Margaret Noodin "Cream City/Doodooshabo'enaande Oodena " transl. by the author

Wearing a necklace of stars visible to our heirs - Margaret Noodin "The Way We Meet" transl. by the author

Gas and dust making new stars and new stories - Margaret Noodin "We Are Returning Always" transl. by the author

Whose quiet stars may see - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"

In the stars of the automatic weapons - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

The difference between chaos and star - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

A grain of dust among the stars - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"

The wheel of stars that Egypt turned - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

It takes the moon and all the stars - Alfred Noyes "Song [What is there hid in the heart of a rose]"

Stars sleep on their pillows of clouds - "Nurse's Song" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Lost love and lonely stars - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

Stars spilling over our huge night - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Wisdom"

The star I thought I wanted - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"

The ghost of a star's past life - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"

Against you are leagued the earth and the stars - Thomas O'Hagan "The Kaiser's 'Place in the Sun'"

Nurtured where the stars have wed the snows - Thomas O'Hagan "Langemarck"

Beyond the stars that burn at night - Thomas O'Hagan "Mothers"

Loaned surnames to stars - Akilah Oliver "In Aporia"

The salt of the stars - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"

Flashes like a star and is gone - Mary Oliver "Pilot Snake"

Friends with the hard white stars - Mary Oliver "Stars"

Even as the stars have twirled - Mary Oliver "Stars"

Where the stars are dressed in light - Mary Oliver "That Tall Distance"

A baggage of stars thudded on the loading bay - Stephen Oliver "An Actual Encounter With The Sun On My Balcony At France Street"

At night, smoke warmed the stars - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

Gods walk out upon a path of stars - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

We live under a Niagara of star fall - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

Carried with him the brightest stars of the age - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Newsreels captured the death of a star - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

And tied themselves to stars - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

Leaps to a laughing star - Shaemas OSheel "He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed"

The clays of a cold star - Wilfred Owen "Futility"

The full, harmonious display of stars and planets - Robert Pack "Big Bang" [Poetry, January 1988]

Waking dead stars to new birth - Herbert E. Palmer "The New Beginning"

See you winking back like the stars - Lauren Parker "Miranda"

Go and curse your star - Dorothy Parker "To a Much Too Unfortunate Lady"

In cold complicity the stars comply - Linda Pastan "Ash"

After the stars hung out their lamps - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Conroy's Gap"

Heaped high by blinded Stars - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"

Because of some commandment in the stars - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"

As a broken star out of the Dark - Josephine Preston Peabody "Gladness"

No memories abide to star the music-haunted dark - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

Flooding the waste of this dishonored Star - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

Keep the watch for stars and sun - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"

More varied and bright than the stars - Cynthia Pelayo "La Noche que en el Sur lo Velaron"

Baptized by the stars and liberated - Cynthia Pelayo "Remordimiento por Cualquier Muerte"

From the steadfast light of a star - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

Know that the stars exist - Walter S. Percy "The Ladder of Cloud"

But by the stars the sailor steers - Walter S. Percy "What Is Truth?"

The stars fall out of bed - Andrew Fusek Peters "Tide and Seek"

More than twenty thousand ancient stars - Kiki Petrosino "The Prince"

I poured water & stars - Kiki Petrosino "Prospera"

While stars fall on my face - Phan Nhien Hao "Don't Die Another Person's Death" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

Enough stars still visible - Carl Phillips "All the Love You've Got"

Permanence in the form of a star - Carl Phillips "Chivalry"

And how the stars swelled the dark - Carl Phillips "Ransom"

Strong enough to bring the stars down - Carl Phillips "This Far In"

Woodsmoke rising to the ashy stars - Patrick Phillips "For Paul"

To sleep without a star - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"

The hot stars in my fingertips - Xan Forest Phillips "I Like the Cold"

The stars burning gainless - Xan Forest Phillips "I Never Used to Write About Birds"

Conjuring stars or demons or cramps - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

The stars outlasting labor - Frederick Erastus Pierce "God and the Farmer"

A thing of stars burnt into hooves - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"

Take away your veil of stars - Ping Hsin "Multitudinous Stars" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

Which those stars address to melancholy - Charles Constantine Pise "Summer Evening"

Flowering blue and mystical over the face of the stars - Sylvia Plath "The Moon and the Yew Tree"

The stars plummet to their dark address - Sylvia Plath "Nick and the Candlestick"

Various are the stars that bloom - Ann Plato "Forget Me Not"

And in the stars the glory - Joseph Plunkett "I See His Blood Upon the Rose"

And anchor ourselves to the stars - Josephine Pollard "A Light Headed Family"

Harness the stars together - Josephine Pollard "The Moon Has a Host of Children"

Sad lagoons to bathe the icy stars - Magda Portal "Film Vermouth: Six O'Clock Show" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver

Sing of stars and candlelight - Miriam Clark Potter "Lady Mother"

The sky is buttoned with the stars - Miriam Clark Potter "The Lady Night"

She must keep the little stars awake - Miriam Clark Potter "Little Sister of the Moon"

The stars must be weeping, and hiding their eyes - Miriam Clark Potter "The Moon in the Pool"

Till he's lost in the stars of the milky way - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"

Standing on the hill-top, he can light the farthest star - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Lighter"

In wreaths of white stars - E.J. Pratt "Flashlights and Echoes"

Rifling Polaris and the Seven Stars - E.J. Pratt "The Fog"

Among the shoals of distant stars - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"

Distant stars and heaving clouds of dust - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"

A holy star in retrospection's sky - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"

So thickly sown with stars - John Presland "The Deluge"

Crowned with stars for flowers - John Presland "The Deluge"

Had written it with the flash of stars - Margaret J. Preston "Francesca's Worship" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]

Dead stars who still sent light - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Telling a Bedtime Story"

Empty your thoughts to the stars - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

A star that beckoned sweetly from its distant throne - Charles Quiet "Starlight" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Dec. 1878]

A flight of hurried stars - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Dawn"

To shake the very stars at night - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Prayer"

Yearning for the pale-eyed star - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Song of the Watcher"

Cry beneath the majesty of 70,000 stars - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"

Time to blow out the stars - Charles Rafferty "A Farewell to Poetry"

Insisting that stars are possible - Charles Rafferty "Reflection"

Like the tides and the stars and the rose - Theodore H. Rand "The Note of Nature"

Given courage of a flying star - Herbert Randall "My Faith"

Echo far beyond the stars - Herbert Randall "New England"

Palm fronds crossed into the stars - Melissa Range "First South"

Cracking a star of rays - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"

When stars stare at sleeping steer - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

For the sweat of stars sliding across his sword - Roger Reeves "Beneath the Perseids"

Glass panes behind which stars rise - Paisley Rekdal "The Cry"

After the scabs have turned to stars - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"

Brood beneath the golden stars - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"

Through the half drowned stars - Kenneth Rexroth "A Singing Voice"

A great ship that steered into the stars - Cale Young Rice "All's Well"

Immortal migrants, the ever-returning stars - Cale Young Rice "Passage"

The nightvault swarming with stars - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Young stars in the belt of Orion - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Fills the stars with sad surprise - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "Baby's Valentine"

Like a tent about the ice-capped stars - Lola Ridge "After Storm"

Make brave sallies at the stars - Lola Ridge "Amy Lowell"

When the stars have gone inside - Lola Ridge "Betty"

Came out with the privy stars at dusk - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"

A tiny silver mirror held to the high stars - Lola Ridge "Fame"

Dragged a load of stars along our wake - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"

The fiery point of the drawn star - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Those shining galleys of the stars - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Touch a glowworm for your star - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"

Lit only by the memories of stars - Lola Ridge "The Garden"

Backed by a nickel star - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

The waste light of stars - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Between the alleys of the stars - Lola Ridge "Interim"

Stalking the first star - Lola Ridge "Jaguar"

Submerging the low-lying stars - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Nickel to ride to the zigzag stars - Lola Ridge "Phyllis"

That strain to touch their tips with stars - Lola Ridge "Re-birth"

And stuck the stars among her hair - Lola Ridge "Sons of Belial"

Breaking the long stride of stars - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"

Struck stars, met hurricanes - Lola Ridge "Two"

Akin to the velocity of a spinning star - Lola Ridge "The White Bird"

Beneath the net of hollow stars - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"

Where the stars drip down - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"

And the high stars trail their heads - James Whitcombe Riley "The Frog"

The light of the laughing stars - James Whitcombe Riley "Leonanie"

With the pulverized rays of a star - James Whitcomb Riley "Spirk Troll-Derisive"

From out the stars into the Solitude - Rainer Maria Rilke "Autumn" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Like stars poised high and still - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Stung by a sinister star - Arthur Rimbaud "Novel" transl. by Wyatt Mason

Gathering weeds by the stars - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"

Hear the stars as a great roar - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"

River bridges and star charts - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"

The drumming of our stars - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"

We wish to curate a garden of stars - Julia Rios "On Where to Find Strange Horizons, and How to Get There"

To grow stars, start with moon dust - Julia Rios "On Where to Find Strange Horizons, and How to Get There"

The slow, eternal drift of stars - Charles G.D. Roberts "Eastward Bound"

And stretch vain hands to stars - Charles George Douglas Roberts "An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy"

The solemn stars, the sacred night - Charles G.D. Roberts "Under the Pillars of the Sky"

The free exalt of star and tree - Charles G.D. Roberts "Wayfarer of Earth"

Dust of stars beyond the bars - Lloyd Roberts "The Kill"

Old to the soul when the stars were new - Lloyd Roberts "There's Music in My Heart To-day"

And one star waits for the dawning light - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"

Into all our dreaming drew the spirit of the stars - Rennell Rodd "A Star-Dream"

Flung from a broken star on its mad race - Amy Redpath Roddick "A Scientific Puzzle"

Let the stars belong to themselves - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"

Kissed by burning stars - Alice Wellington Rollins "Indian Summer"

Touched only by star and the wild - Hester J. Rook "Under Silver Waves"

Thy star my midnight guide - John Jerome Rooney "Ave Maria"

Woo all the stars from heaven's blue deep - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)

Warm as loveliest star of night - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)

Translucent blue with punctures pierced to shape a star - Margaret Ross "Socks"

Before the paling of the stars - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [Before the paling of the stars]"

Where glad stars sing together - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [The Shepherds had an Angel]"

The stars in her hair were seven - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"

We would sweep His stars aside - George William Russell "The Grey Eros"

Of my night I give to you the stars - George William Russell "[I thought, beloved, to have brought to you]"

Lights of infinite pity star the grey dusk - George William Russell "Immortality"

Strange stars that lit the heights - George William Russell "Krishna"

To the stars from which he came - George William Russell "Reconciliation"

Like a star on life's wave - Abram J. Ryan "Song of the Mystic"

A star delivered from a passing cloud - F.E.S. "The Stray Blossom" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.36-v.I, 6 Sept. 1884]

Diamond-glittering mine of ever-burning stars - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Set the course of the seven Stars - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: I. The Creation of the Universe: Measurements of the Universe" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Under a violence of stars - Erika L. Sanchez "All of Us"

A body licked by stars - Erika L. Sanchez "Departure"

Planting our songs among the stars and on the waters - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"

In the republic of the winking stars and spent cataclysms - Carl Sandburg "The Answer"

So many stars and so few hours to dream - Carl Sandburg "Black Horizons"

When the mazy stars neither point nor beckon - Carl Sandburg "Experience"

The law of stars held together - Carl Sandburg "Long Guns"

Among stars shattered in spray - Carl Sandburg "Night Stuff"

Through blue nights into white stars - Carl Sandburg "Prayers of Steel"

Talking to a spread of white stars - Carl Sandburg "Shirt"

Search their heads for meanings, stories, stars - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"

A bat flies across the last star - Reg Saner "Spring Song"

Sweet as a pale, courageous star - Margaret E. Sangster "To an Old Schoolhouse"

Of nights when stars were falling dust - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"

The smiling and inhuman stars - George Santayana "Avila"

Molten from the fierce embrace of stars - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Vast cohorts and constellations of living stars - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Though smitten by the rays of living stars - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

My sickle reaps the lurking stars - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

I dance with lambent torches on the stars - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

The benisons of the stars and suns - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Bannered with youth and lanterned with the stars - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

An arc of atoms resonating with distant stars - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"

Whom the stars praise as they roll - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

And stars a freight train passing - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [This beauty that I see]"

Silt of stars washed down from skies - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Marker Memory"

A star chart might work better than a map - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Missing Time"

As fading stars surrender - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"

Her mystery eclipses tarnished stars - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"

Ancient wisdom like the bitterness of stars - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"

In these shadows knotted through the stars - Ann K. Schwader "Cave Bear Dreams"

The exile our fickle star requires - Ann K. Schwader "Given to the Frost"

Ash of slaughtered stars - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"

On His throne of shattered stars - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah V: Through Certain Angles"

I wandered the asphodel stars - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"

These stars will never shine so bright - Ann K. Schwader "On Any Given Midnight"

What star begot these bones - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"

Dying stars our skies have long forgotten - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

Needed no dismembered star to guide you - Ann K. Schwader "Spiral Scream"

Beyond the fragile light that marks our star - Ann K. Schwader "A Voyage(r) Too Far"

Our airless desert seared by stars - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"

Beneath the river's roof of stars - Duncan Campbell Scott "Off Riviere du Loup"

Like a star behind the polar lights - Frederick George Scott "Columbus"

In the surf of the furthest star's sea - Frederick George Scott "A Dream of the Prehistoric"

The spent stars from their orbits reel - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"

The science of stars caught in these spheres - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"

His eyes blinded shut with night and stars - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"

And the stars are rapier keen - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

A star agleam to guide us - Robert W. Service "The Call of the Wild"

The stars sing an anthem of glory - Robert W. Service "The Three Voices"

The stars in secret influence comment - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XV"

Who are in favour with their stars - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXV"

Whatsoever star that guides my moving - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVI"

The star to every wandering bark - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"

Risen high above the star - Thomas Hall Shastid "Christmas Night"

Shy stars out of the evening skies - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

Their deeds were written with the stars - Virna Sheard "The Young Knights"

Among the stars of mortal night - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

Stars that have a different birth - Percy Bysshe Shelley "To the Moon"

The twilight star hangs above the hidden hills - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: IX. The Seekers"

Nor any stars resume their ancient ways - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Night"

Should haunt the undying stars ten million years - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Wisdom"

The noiseless gleam of scattered stars - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

Stars, that dwell in noonday skies, shine on - Fannie Isabelle Sherrick "Easter"

Who, breathing on the stars, blows out the sun - Dora Sigerson Shorter "I Am the World"

Golden jonquils like a star amid the gloom - "A Sign of Spring" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

the austerity of silver stars in a winter sky - ire'ne lara silva "el abanico" [Poetry April 2025]

A badly translated constellation of extinct stars - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Has Irrepressible Memories"

While stars float away - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Never Learns to Cook or Sew"

Burgeoned by the gravity of blue stars and red dwarfs - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"

The commotion of stars and clouds - May Sinclair "The Dark Night (XVIII)"

Petals blown from flower-hued stars - Edith Sitwell "Fireworks"

Star of the morrow gray - John Skelton "In Praise of Isabel Pennell"

And basks in the warmth of these still-fragile stars - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

Guns and money swamping the stars - Bruce Smith "Beautiful Throat"

And love was a binary star - Bruce Smith "What Are They Doing in the Next Room"

To stars of undiscovered gold - Clark Ashton Smith "Beyond the Great Wall"

The voice of a golden star - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant of Autumn"

Its ears of quivering stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Echo of Memnon"

The names of his conniving stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

A universe of shrouded stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

Like a stream of broken stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

With fealty to the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Infinite Quest"

Across the upturned faces of the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

To mark the tired stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Melancholy Pool"

Phantoms of the pale-white stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Morning Pool"

The sinking stars desire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nereid"

Reaps the flame of mightiest stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"

Thunder of the meeting stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"

Pluck out the light of stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"

Fluctuates between the mountains and the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"

The sentinel stars are dead - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"

Beneath the bright scorn of the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

Startled the haughty stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

March with the diminished stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

Beneath the star's unheeding eyes - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of a Comet"

Tread unharmed the blaze of stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Starward incense of the waning rose - Clark Ashton Smith "To Omar Khayyam"

Some starlike aspiration to attain - Effie Smith "The Recompense"

Stars smolder well into daylight - Maggie Smith "First Fall"

Of heat and no stars - Patricia Smith "Mississippi's Legs"

Send off stars of phosphorous - Jean M. Snyder "A Moment"

Back from trudging among the stars - Richard Solomon "Burning Out"

The stars squeezing their icy light - Gary Soto "Professional Goals"

She tripped and fell against a star - Anne Spencer "Innocence" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

And stumble toward the stars - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"

Reach by a song nearer the stars - Leonora Speyer "Measure Me, Sky!"

Stars cast lingering spells - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "[Down in the land of roses]"

Under crowding stars to rest - Ssu-k'ung Shu "The Rebellion Over, I See Off a Friend Who Is Returning North" transl. by Burton Watson

The ceaseless acclamation of the stars - W. Force Stead "The Burden of Babylon"

Glimpses of a natal star - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Bohemia: a Pilgrimage"

Who craves the brightest star above - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Montagu"

When Night unveils her stars - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"

The stars out of their courses went - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"

Setting the stars alight to wonder at the moon - James Stephens "The Shell"

Blazing behind the utmost star - Riccardo Stephens "A Ballad"

The blaze of peaceless stars - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

What star of Time forsakes her - George Sterling "Autumn"

Stars that pass in alien fire - George Sterling "Charles Warren Stoddard"

A skull that glared upon the stars - George Sterling "The Dream of Wilhelm II"

Nor all the stars' invincible array - George Sterling "Duandon"

The voice of Heaven's whitest star - George Sterling "Duandon"

Twin stars above those azure ways - George Sterling "Duandon"

A famished star made desperate - George Sterling "Fire of Dreams"

And strong to serve the Star - George Sterling "The Fleet"

And the dust as the stars that conceive - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"

No moon nor friendly stars attain - George Sterling "From the Gloom"

In living stars and blazoned bands - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"

Heedless of Time and the jealous stars - George Sterling "Hesperian"

Heard the stars plot evil - George Sterling "Justice"

Hold me exile of their star - George Sterling "Mirage"

And reveal the deep of stars - George Sterling "Music"

Below the migrant winter stars - George Sterling "The Night Migration"

The shaken stars of midnight stir - George Sterling "Nora May French"

With the stars in doubt - George Sterling "Ode on the Centenary of the Birth of Robert Browning"

Far below the crimson star - George Sterling "The Rack"

Sorrow's star, forlornly cold - George Sterling "Reborn"

Your footfall on our star - George Sterling "To a Girl Dancing"

And bid the stars of morning sing - George Sterling "To Germany"

As eastward woke a thorny star - George Sterling "White Magic"

Dead stars were strewn like sands - George Sterling "The Wine of Illusion"

A furious star - Wallace Stevens "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle"

From the zenith stars to the sea-ferns - Trumbull Stickney "At Sainte-Marguerite"

The gold gateway of the stars - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"

While blossom bright the stars - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"

Above my head the stars rejoice - Richard H. Stoddard "Shakespeare" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

The infinite orbits of all God's loneliest stars - Arthur Stringer "Life-Drunk"

Marlowe hurled forth huge stars - Muriel Stuart "Words"

Stars above us, depths beneath us - Alan Sullivan "The Widower's Lullaby"

A fixed abode in the stars - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 205: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

With all her silent train of maiden stars - Howard V. Sutherland "December"

The stars died out with grief - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

When the twilight stars are born - E. Sutton "The Bugle"

Blown to you from between the stars - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"

Fires in the spheres of stars - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

From the crowning star of the seven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Selves more solid than stars - Mary Szybist "Approaching Elegy"

The stations spin like cooling stars - Sonya Taaffe "Radio Banquo"

see a stigma of stars falling across dark fields - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"

Share my grief with the stars - Abdikheyir Khelil Tawakkul "Sharing My Sorrow" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Stars gleam through the twilight vapors of the sea - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

If the world becomes so bright we can't see the stars - Keith Taylor "Conditions"

And dance quietly beneath temporary stars - Keith Taylor "Conditions"

Threw their heads back and whispered to the stars - Keith Taylor "Condoms, Abandoned on the Park Bench"

Again today our patron star - Tess Taylor "Solstice"

Lightly threaded with stars - Sara Teasdale "Afterwards"

Thoughts that star the night - Sara Teasdale "Barter"

Robbing the sky of stars - Sara Teasdale "Broadway"

Bright as the trembling stars - Sara Teasdale "Change"

As rain puts out a star - Sara Teasdale "The Kiss"

Dawn had taken in the stars - Sara Teasdale "Morning Song"

Fleeing again to the stars - Sara Teasdale "New Year's Dawn-- Broadway"

Lighting star after star - Sara Teasdale "Places"

Shall have stars at elbow and foot - Dylan Thomas "And death shall have no dominion"

Hang stars like seeds of light - Edward Thomas "The Dark Forest"

The winds blow fast as the stars are slow - Edward Thomas "Out in the Dark"

The stars that left unlit - Edward Thomas "The Trumpet"

Washed the eyes of the stars - Edward Thomas "The Trumpet"

Where no star its breath can draw - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

Not stir a flower without troubling of a star - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

Star of thy destined morn - John Todhunter "The Sunburst"

Behold the stars at moral wars - "Tom o' Bedlam"

And set each star to blazing - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"

Do the stars feel heavier now? - Michael Torres "Writing Prompt"

Under a spoon of stars - Kristen Tracy "Hanging Up"

The stars did entertain my sense - Thomas Traherne "Wonder"

Of music played among the stars - Iris Tree "[As a nun's face from her black draperies]"

Silver steps to our appointed star - Iris Tree "Islands"

The fire that pillars up the stars - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

Gathering the cold grey lilies of the stars - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Among the silver foliage of the stars - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 3 A. M."

The stars beneath our feet - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"

A parade beneath the stars - Natasha Trethewey "Expectant"

stand tiptoe to gather stars that capsize - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges

And sing until the stars grow pale - Tsiang-Tien "Watching and Wondering" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

But all I can see are stars above it - Tu Fu "Captivity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Full sun within surrounding stars - Tu Fu "The Emperor Walks" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

The stars flew by the cave's wide door - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"

All the pale stars down bright rivers wept - W.J. Turner "Death"

Where the thin silver soul of the stars silently dances - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

Troubling the still soft swarms of fallen stars - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

When stars are singing in dark ecstasy - W.J. Turner "Soldier in a Small Camp"

Plucked them stars out of the sky - Katharine Tynan "A Song of Christmas"

Full of squabbling stars - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"

The restless stars growing within her - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"

Longing for the pierce of stars - Leah Umansky "Desire [even in the time of the tyrant]"

What is fractured is a near-bitten star - Leah Umansky "Khaleesi Says" [Poetry Jan. 2014]

Fling us a handful of stars - Louis Untermeyer "Caliban in the Coal Mines"

Unknown passion of each flaming star - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

Heard the stars rush by - Louis Untermeyer "God's Youth"

Threatens the stars - Louis Untermeyer "God's Youth"

Surged from the stars and stones - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

The noble skies and the inviolate stars - Louis Untermeyer "Sunday Night"

Brimming with silence and the stars - Louis Untermeyer "The Wine of Night"

This stirrup-cup of stars - Louis Untermeyer "The Wine of Night"

Remembers a proximate star - John Updike "Hiroshima, 2000"

his inner stars all spilling out - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

Can eat all the stars and gas giants - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

The ancient star trails that sang them home - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Beneath the Southern Cross"

A black hole swallowing the stars - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Lamplight"

Stars wedded to earth in some grand cosmic tying - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Stardust"

A billion stars pulsating in my veins - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Starry Night"

Singing my light in a universe of endless stars - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Starry Night"

Older than the first burst of stars exploding the darkness - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"

Who knew how to bring the stars down to earth - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"

And I stood naked among stars - Mark Van Doren "Possession"

When every twig and star is dead - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"

If a star were confined - Henry Vaughan "Beyond the Veil"

The stars move calm within the brow of night - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

The foliage of the stars in glittering sheaves - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: The Glory of the Heavens" transl. by Alma Strettell

Swing at the exploding star - Vickie Vertiz "Only we make beautiful things just to destroy them"

Throwing stars and fortune tellers - R.A. Villanueva "This dark is the same dark as when you close"

A ship of welded stars - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Aurelio, Seer Tecolote"

Low stars and difficult earth - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"

The rotated stars - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Sea of Drowned Caves"

The star suborning in its ruptured fields - Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Laughing below, the unimagined room]"

Follows a different star - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"

The stars themselves did nothing - Derek Walcott "Steam"

The seas draw down the stars - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"

The tangled residue of stars - Mark Wallace "Deep Cover Costumes"

Later in star syrup darkness - Lucy A.E. Ward "Haystacks"

Great planets slip their arcs as the small pale stars multiply - Noah Warren "Shuttle"

And you will shine bright as a winter star - Jamie Wasserman "Spontaneous Human Combustion"

A star shorting out and out - Lauren K. Watel "The Last Act"

From dawn till the stars reappear - Arthur Weir "Jules' Letter"

Stars to deck my hair - Winifred Welles "Exile"

Dark trees reaching for far stars - Judy Patterson Wenzel "New Found Land"

Under a shawl of stars - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Who Really Stirs the World"

The stars, and the quiet spaces between - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"

Nearer than my flesh yet distant as a star - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

The sentinel pacings of the outmost stars - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

All the autumn heaven ripe with stars - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Along the pallid rim her lonely star - John Hall Wheelock "Anne"

Strayed beyond the stars - John Hall Wheelock "The Buried Dream"

And the sky holds up her stars - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

That rises with the stars - John Hall Wheelock "Exultation"

Reflecting sea and star - John Hall Wheelock "Mirror"

The stars ran to their windows - Eugene R. White "Reward"

Contented with my flowers for stars - Helen Hay Whitney "As a Pale Child"

They know the stars of Hades - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"

A lost star I wander down your sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Flower of the Clove"

Tears as stars to sparkle in her hair - Helen Hay Whitney "The Last Gift"

The sea dreaming of stars - Helen Hay Whitney "Music"

Strong for the chill of the star - Helen Hay Whitney "Prayers"

Stained by the ardent silver of the stars - Helen Hay Whitney "The Rose-Colored Camelia-Tree"

Catch the sparks that flutter from the stars - Helen Hay Whitney "Sigh Not for Love"

Fighting the stars for glory - Helen Hay Whitney "The Supreme Sacrifice"

Beyond the brick toward choked stars - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"

Which married star to stone - Richard Wilbur "Trismegistus"

That great journey of the stars through space - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A Solar Eclipse"

Green light burning in the stars - Dana Wilde "Abductions"

That is a star she's got in her beak - "Wildlife Encounter"

Seeing the stars turning over you - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"

Stars dancing to the crack of a leaf - William Carlos Williams "Keller Gegen Dom"

Arrows to shoot the stars - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"

Green stars of scrawny weed - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"

Even you the few grey stars - William Carlos Williams "Trees"

A night filled with pinpricks instead of stars - Rin Willis "After the Wolf"

Look at the sky and remember different stars - Rin Willis "After the Wolf"

Malignant stars their influence shed - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Who else will sew you in the stars? - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"

Under an orange rind you'll rustle up a star - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"

Better a cluster of stars than another bad sleep - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"

And catch the light of the right star - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"

I've become a hard star out of focus - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"

His fiddle to the moon with notes like stars - Humbert Wolfe "The Crowder's Tune"

And all the stars are gone in Babylon - Humbert Wolfe "The Crowder's Tune"

With the powdered stars will walk and pass - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"

Both are bound in the orb of one outrageous star - Humbert Wolfe "Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton"

Before the red star strikes again - Humbert Wolfe "Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton"

Lit with this wonder of the moon and star - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"

When for us the stars go down - Humbert Wolfe "V.D.F. (Ave atque Vale.)"

Under the concerted stare of stars - Adolf Wolff "Byron"

The appearance of a new-found star - Adolf Wolff "Lines Inspired on Meeting a Lady: To A. L."

To stars yet unborn - Nancy Wood "Death Ritual"

The curiosity of stars - Nancy Wood "The Old Ways"

When you're found worthy of a higher star - Constance Fenimore Woolson "Commonplace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]

Continuous as the stars that shine - William Wordsworth "[I wandered lonely as a Cloud]"

To cut across the reflex of a star that fled - William Wordsworth "Skating"

The germs of stars infect us - Charles Wright "Cake Walk"

The stars will lean down and stare from their faceless spaces - Charles Wright "Nothing Is Written"

The unbroken flow of a classical star - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"

The thermal equilibrium of stars - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"

In the bones of a star - Jay Wright "Imule"

The exorbitant syntax of stars - Jay Wright "Kumu"

The bluest star and the imponderable water - Jay Wright "Kumu"

The dusty labyrinth of stars - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"

The combined distances between its stars is forever - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

I teach above the stars to fly - Wyat "Virtue" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]

In the smothering dark one white star - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"

Stars are not only found out in the sky - Emanuel Xavier "Legendary"

To collect a load of stars - Xu Zhimo "Second Farewell to Cambridge" (translated by Kai-yu Hsu)

The smoking stars gather together - "XXV" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

The pilots of the stars of tears - William Butler Yeats "Anashuya and Vijaya"

The indifferent stars above - W.B. Yeats "A Dream of Death"

As the outrageous stars incline - W.B. Yeats "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory"

That awakened the stars - W.B. Yeats "Maid Quiet"

That scarce could bathe a star - William Butler Yeats "The Stolen Child"

To smile upon her stars - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

Under the same white stars - W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

Dowered the stars - W.B. Yeats "The Two Trees"

Master of the still stars and of the flaming door - W.B. Yeats "The Valley of the Black Pig"

Hid his face amid a crowd of stars - W.B. Yeats "When You Are Old"

Amid a crowd of stars - W.B Yeats "When You Are Old"

The blue star of twilight - W.B. Yeats "The White Birds"

Scream thrown back to arctic stars - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"

A small star into orbit and revolution - James F. Yockey "What If"

Let us keep our stars to ourselves - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Say Grace"

in all the rearrangements of the stars - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"

Names of flowers and warblers and stars - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

What stars once telegraphed to the river - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

The same stars whisking themselves further off - Dean Young "Dear Bob," [Poetry Nov. 2011]

The impurities of darkness sometimes called stars - Dean Young "Lucifer"

From the time when stars are faint - Francis Brett Young "Before Action"

Have forsaken the splendour of the stars - Francis Brett Young "Envoi"

Whose heart most tender stars illume - Francis Brett Young "The Rain-Bird"

A tired star in stormy darkness - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

The stars remain & do not grey - Kevin Young "Dog Star"

Before a smoldering star's song - Ray Young Bear "Four Hinterland Abstractions"

Caught in the blinding stars of the future - Ray Young Bear "To See as Far as the Grandfather World"

The stars are a map in the noon of it all - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

In the pale stains of stars - Adam Zagajewski "Summer '95"

Wishing stars would fall as rain - Javier Zamora "Exilados"

Toiling like a star - Matthew Zapruder "Luna My Captive"

Orion's arrows pinning fallen stars - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History:IV. At Home"

The tilted abacus of stars - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday VII (The Dream)"

Stampeding across the stars - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer "Cousins of Clouds"


Across that billion-star ocean - Richard Solomon "Salt Doll's Incarnation"


The span of the black-starred zone - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"


He stalks until the dawn-stars burn away - Vachel Lindsay "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"


Hauling remnants of light from these daystars - Pamela Gross "The Hive"

Till the night-stars do the day-star meet - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]

The day-star of celestial Hope - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"


Armors that devil-star in helium and cold - Harry Martinson "Aniara 11" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg


The dog-star of treason grows dim - "The Last Charge" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

The green night-baying of the dog-star - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"


Evening Star.


From Ambition evil-starred - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"


Falling Star.


To be the wanderer's guiding-star - Emily Bronte "The Visionary"


Ill-Starred: See Starred/Ill-Starred.


That lodestar of the ghost - John Masefield "King Cole"


Morning Star.


Till the night-stars do the day-star meet - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]


By North Star or candlelight - Gregory Pardlo "Copyright"


Pole-Star.


Which pressure causes metamorphoses, protostar pre-nucleosynthesis - Chet'la Sebree "An End"


Shooting Star.


A starbeam on the dagger's haft - Don Marquis "Sea Changes III: Moonset"

Through spray of splintered star-beams - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"


Embroideries of starbound silver - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"


That star-boy who does not flee from cold - Tu Fu "I Will Be Alone" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]


And all the myriad star-buds burst in flame - Lloyd Roberts "Flowers of the Sky"


A tremulous star-built stair - W. Wilfred Campbell "Lazarus"

Below a star-built arch - Joaquin Miller "The Sea of Fire"


A minor star-burst of cranes - Sheila Black "Radium Dream"

A starburst compass pointing in all the directions - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"


The deep star-chant of the seraphs - A.E. "Love"


Latest monarch of a star-crossed line - Maurice Baring "Epitaph

Through some starcrossed lineage - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

Star-crossed diamonds on the coffee cup - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Lie spent in star-defeated sighs - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XV"


Drink to the star-drenched latitudes - Rita Dove "Crossing State Lines [Shirtsleeved afternoons]" [excerpt]


A dream of stardrives shattered - Ann K. Schwader "If Cold Is a War"


Stardust.


Star-enchanted hollows of the night - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"


Dons her star-encrusted veil - Cora C. Bass "Life's Temple"


A luminous starfield of questions - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"


As an astronomer looks at the star-filled sky - Adolf Wolff "Lines Inspired on Meeting a Lady: To A. L."


Ash and cinder of star-fire - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"

Starfire of silver flames, lighting the dark beneath - George William Russell "A Call of the Sidhe"


In which eyes burn like star-flame - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"


Irrevokably as a star gazer's charm - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"


Luna, with her star-gemmed, glorious crown - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]


Reap the far star-gold - Charles Baudelaire "The Venal Muse" transl. not credited


Stargrit. Heartlocked. Vowstrung - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"


Delicate lanterns, star-kindled - Louise Morey Bowman "Song [Dew... Delicate lanterns, star-kindled anew]"


Computations astronomical, algorithm and star-law - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"


Starless.


Starlight.


Star-like gems which blow beside pale sorrel - J.C.H. "A Day in Early Summer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.44-v.I, 1 Nov. 1884]

As its bright drops fall starlike - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"


To float through star-littered fields - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"


Grapes of the heaven's star-loaden vine - Francis Thompson "The Dread of Height"


Down Time's star-lucent stream - Louise Imogen Guiney "Cyclamen"


Your body made full with starmilk - Sara Eliza Johnson "Parable of the Unclean Spirit"


All this star-poised frame - James Russell Lowell "The Brakes"


In that star-powdered night - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"


Upon the star-pranked universal vine - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]


The star-pricked West shines hollow - Emily Lawless "From the Burren XI: A Wave"

Shake our star-pricked shell apart, cracks radiating out - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]


Remote in voids star-purged - Louis Golding "The Moon-Clock"


Star-reflected gardens walled with night - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"


Starred/Ill-Starred.


Starry.


The Guests Star-scatter'd on The Grass - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)


We are Starseeds every one of us - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"


Star-sentinelled from our humanity - Edith Wharton "Heaven"


Starshine.


A list of starships decelerating toward us - Kendall Evans "Now We Must Speak in the Shadows of Silence"

Another wave of time-traveling starships - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Not the Home World"


Like light dissolved in star-showers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples"


Into the star-soaked nights - Jenny Molberg "Civilization"


The fire of the star-souled Lucifer - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"


The vast pool of heaven star-spawned - Robert W. Service "The Land of Beyond"


Sifts the star-streams between the Then and the Now - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"


Star-strewn above the new moon - Alfred Perceval Graves "The Sea Singer"

Overwhelmed by the perpetual enigmas of star-strewn galaxies - Harry Martinson "Aniara 97" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

To her star-strewn palace brought - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"


And a star-tipped wand for light - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "The Fairies' Ball"


Star-touched, across the fading trail - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"


The poet's star-tuned harp - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Sleep"


Bringing a myriad star-twinkling dream - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Nocturne" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]


Still feels the star-winds blow - Ann K. Schwader "Lavinia in Autumn"


strung their frosted hex-cells starwise - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"


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


Stellar.


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