Potential Titles: Lie/Lying
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somethingdarkerNo distinction made between untruths and reclining in this post. Sorting them would be work.
I lie down each numbered night - Anne Carly Abad "Exchange"
Small sun caught up in the quicksilver lies - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"
Watery reflections where the wisdom lies - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
In the livery of a lie - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"
In a raindrop's compass lie a planet's elements - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
Although the spoiler's hand lies heavy - Lewis Alexander "Africa" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A thousand Persephones lie bleeding in the Lethe - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"
Still lies just outside the edge of my mind - Mike Allen "Space War"
Around this valley lies a golden wall - Leslie J. Anderson "In the Valley of Midas"
And sold herself for a lie - H.M. Andrews "Song"
Thread my voice with lies - Maya Angelou "How Can I Lie to You"
Half-truths told and entire lies - Maya Angelou "In a Time"
More than one eye on your lies - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
Whisper white lies to the dead - Rae Armantrout "Djinn"
Tread lightly where he lies - Martin Armstrong "On a Little Bird"
Lie before us like a land of dreams - Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"
My hilt lies broken in pieces three - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
In bed forever with a lie - James Baldwin "A Lover’s Question"
We lie in the shadow of a future we cannot name - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Where ancient kings enchanted lie - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Survival lies in resistance - Mary Jo Bang "Apology for Want"
Sometimes flowers folded lie - William Francis Barnard "A Sonnet for Poets" [The Fly Leaf, v.1 no.2, Jan. 1896]
What dream lies walled within - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Cave"
that lies on the floor of atlantis - Elizabeth Bartlett "log for a voyage"
Lies wrapped in golden glory - Cora C. Bass "Sea and Cliff"
Where the wound lies I've never understood - Charles Baudelaire "The Fountain of Blood" transl. by Rachel Hadas
A swarming, seething pot of plots and lies - Stephen Vincent Benet "De Bellow Civili"
Made up of fear and failure, lies and loss - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
Where forgotten gods lie thirsting - Paul Bernstein "A Prayer for the Departed"
Hopes that lie within their grave - Maxwell Bodenheim "East-Side: New York"
The ferocious lies of ice - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
Retire to the slow digesting of his lie - Maxwell Bodenheim "Portraits. VII: Old Actor"
Above the place where I lie desolate - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Herein lies the hard pentagonal truth - Bruce Boston "The Canticles of Rage"
Stolen armor and lies - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"
But now lie under oleander - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
All the lies I should have told - Geoffrey Brock "Orpheus Variations. 2 In Which He Turns Inward"
Where knotted grass neglected lies - Anne Bronte "Home"
Within each hour the precious minutes lie - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"
Mouths too busy for small talk but not for lies - F. Douglas Brown "Aubade with Edits"
Unable to spin or spend even a nickel's worth of lies - F. Douglas Brown "Aubade with Edits"
Every goodbye a lie - Jericho Brown "Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park"
A map that charts more bloody lies - Paul Cameron Brown "Humboldt's Current"
Props to heighten necessary lies - Paul Cameron Brown "Investiture"
Preach her the lies about Jordan - Sterling A. Brown. "Maumee Ruth"
Lie still upon his heart--which breaks below thee - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Dead Rose"
Worked on the bone of a lie - R. Browning "Master Hughes of Saxe-Gotha"
Where the sun-flecked shadows lie - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Out we'll sail where the treasures lie - Frank Oliver Call "Hidden Treasure"
Entwined with lies and snares - Tommaso Campanella "VI. An Exhortation to Mankind" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Pastured on lies and shadows - Tommaso Campanella "XLI. A Prophecy of Judgment. No.2. The Doom of the Impious" transl. by John Addington Symonds
A honeycomb of lies - Paul Carroll "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"
How secretly they lie - Anne Carson "Short Talk on Pain"
Infused with lies and nitrogen - Ana Castillo "A Storm upon Us"
No lie poured down the stairs - Tina Chang "Infinite and Plausible"
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie - Ralph Chaplin "Mourn not the Dead"
Lies to choke your dying breath - Ralph Chaplin "The Red Feast"
Where seven sunken Englands lie buried - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
the saddest lies are the ones we tell ourselves - Lucille Clifton "1994"
Must die for the lie in his voice - Leonard Cohen "A Singer Must Die"
In dungeons of ourselves we lie - Arthur Colton "Verses from 'The Canticle of the Road'"
Every merciful and smiling lie - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
Heart-tossed shadows in them lie - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
A faint, dim breath of bitter lies - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"
Rejecting all that lies beyond her view - George Crabbe "The Library"
A thousand tongues, and nine and ninety-nine lie - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
How near the heavens lie - Adelaide Crapsey "My Birds that Fly No Longer"
They lie and wait for time to grind them to dust - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"
Vanishing in a lie - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Formed with the letters of the first lie - Jim Daniels "Lip Gloss, Belgium"
As here alone and half hidden I lie - Catharine Davidson "The First Primrose" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.734, 19 Jan. 1878]
The bloodless doll of social lies - Julia de Burgos "To Julia de Burgos" transl. by Grace Schulman
I lie at the bottom, shattered and dangerous - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Lies in ceaseless rosemary - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXV"
Lies silent in the shimmering heat - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
All manner of allegations, bold claims and public lies - Rita Dove "Trans-"
Where the whole shadow lies deep - Edward Dowden "Brother Death"
Lies most palpable, uncouth, forlorn - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The inner sense which neither cheats nor lies - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The little lives that lie deep hid - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"
Cold as the winter moon that lies - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs"
No matter what lies beyond - Caleb Edmondson "In 2025, His Rings Will Disappear"
Truth must hidden lie if unlit by Sorrow's eye - George Eliot "Self and Life"
City where the great crown lies - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle
Whose eyes lie mirrored in your cup - Eleanor Farjeon "By the Fountain"
The wind lies open on your lap - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"
Belonging to too many lies - Camonghne Felix "Yes, It Is Possible"
When the bolt lies deep in the door - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"
The blame lies in that glass from the tap - Calvin Forbes "Homing"
Because a sorrow on dark midnight lies - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Who lie apart as pole from pole - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]
Where light without a shadow lies - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]
Lie upon her grave like flowers - Zona Gale "One Dawn She Woke Me--"
Make every dark wish lie down - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"
For new-born lies have barter'd ancient law - "The Ghost of Chatham"
Her laughter a holy lie - Andrea Gibson "Black and White Angel"
That lies are often truth-shaped - Nikita Gill "Questions for the Daughters of Nyx"
The gorgeous mask of whatever quick-witted lie will keep her alive - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
More than political and diplomatic lies - Theodora Goss "The Princess and the Frog"
While in floods the harvest lies - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
And Sir Galahad lies hid - Robert Graves "Babylon"
Within its earthbound depths did lie - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
That lies beyond Time's rugged shore - Geo. W.H. Harrison "A Prison Vision"
Lie in the velvet depths of silence - Ben Hecht "My Island"
Where so many lies remain lost to winter - Gordon Henry "It Was Snowing on the Monuments"
Lie awake at night wondering - S*an D. Henry-Smith "remedies I"
Nothing can need a lie - George Herbert "Courage"
Moons not hers lie mirror'd on her sea - Ralph Hodgson "Reason Has Moons"
We will not down in languor lie - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]
With every word that held a lie - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"
And though our paths lie separate now - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "To an Absent Sister" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Where the fairy desert lies - Walter Edwards Houghton, Jr. "Just To-day"
Lie spent in star-defeated sighs - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XV"
Lie down in the shadow - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"
As cloth-of-gold the fallen leaves lie - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Who will invent a Mirror that will lie? - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Prone he lies in Warp of dreamless Sleep - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Lie too near the sky - Charles Bertram Johnson "Snow"
The shadow of the panther lies - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"
Legions of wanton lies - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
Where soul with soul lies prisoned - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXII"
The leaves lie thick upon the way of memories - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXXII"
A lie, a limit, the crimped stalks of beech - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"
They lie down and roar and burn - Janet Kauffman "Slashed"
Divine things lie concealed - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Upon my heart lies his first token - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"
Buried lie in purple beds of thyme - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Cover me with your everlasting arms]"
In Time's storehouse lie days, hours, and moments - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Say thou not sadly, "never," and "no more,"]"
Lie bound with thongs of fire - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"
Where the sun's shafts lie bound - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"
And all my sorrow lie with thee - anonymous? "Kemp Owyne"
Your golden lie of Tir-na-n'Og - T.M. Kettle "Dedication Sonnet to My Wife"
Let the birds build nests out of your lies - Vandana Khanna "Fable"
And therefore the land lies in peril - "The King-Slaying in Finderup, 1285" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Lie down for an aeon or two - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"
a small lie buried in a garden - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"
Still lies in debt to you - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Respect or the lies like it - Aimee Le "Where I Learn to Shrink"
The dropped fruit lies beneath its tree - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"
Whose lies are shadow roads - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Strange things to my spirit-eyes lie bare - H.L. Leonard "My Treasure" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
To lie down on your inconsistent shore - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Even the moon lies - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Summer"
A creed is the shell of a lie - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"
Lies of no consequence - Mina Loy "Cafe du Neant"
Borne on the vaporous breath of poisoning lies - Francis J. Lys "Justitia Excedens Terris"
Where the fields lie lonely and untended - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"
The tremulously mirrored clouds lie deep - Archibald MacLeish "Imagery"
Time to lie and mean it - Anthony Madrid "Bottles and Cans"
Have worshipped so many lies - Sally Wen Mao "Occidentalism"
Lies cold on the heart - George Martin "Bound to the Wheel"
Proud palaces of cumbrous lies - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
Amid the lies that haunt the day - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
That lies outside and always far beyond - Harry Martinson "Aniara 6" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Stripped of all the golden lies - John Masefield "Truth"
And listening nature will breathless lie - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"
Fine-tuning the orchestra of lies - Airea D. Matthews "From the Pocket of His Lip"
Dreams in bodies that won't hold a lie - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"
Where half our memories lie - John McCrae "The Pilgrims"
Lie and dream among the harps - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"
To catch each dream that lies hidden - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
We two will lie and burn - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"
With your loveliest lie - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]
Nor in broad rumour lies - John Milton "Lycidas"
Lie in the mud and howl for them - Harold Monro "Overheard on a Saltmarsh"
And my lies still don't believe in me - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
Threadbare stones lie cramped in the ravine - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "History" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
A ship with sails as big as a lie - Angel Nafis "TarBaby Fly!"
But the heart lies still - Vi Khi Nao "How Can Something So Unmoving Move Everything Around It"
In the bristling age of the lie - Pablo Neruda "Insurgent America (1800)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The sky lies easy to his plow - Pablo Neruda "To the Dead Poor Man" transl. by Alastair Reid
In the twilight's arms the day lies dead - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"
We know the sweetness held in lies - Mari Ness "Gretel's Bones"
Hard to regret beauty and easy to lie - Caroline Harper New "The Bioluminescent Bays of Vieques"
An orchard of white lies - Hieu Minh Nguyen "A/S/L"
Memory lies dreaming there - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
The lie may steal an hour - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
We boiled down the lies in another pan - Naomi Shihab Nye "Truth Serum"
Only when some heart lies dead - O. "Good-Night" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.446, 17 July 1852]
That can make any lie seem true - Achy Obejas "Conceits"
Vessels, wind-forsaken, on the waveless waters lie - "October Afternoon in the Highlands" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct, 1863 - no.IV]
From lies of vaunting Treason caught - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]
Hushed and calm the breezes lie - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"
If your soul in dread torments should lie - Old Humphrey "The Sabbath Breaker Reclaimed; or, a pleasing history of Thomas Brown"
Not telling a lie for anyone - Sharon Olds "Suddenly"
a caste of lies is built as cells - Ugonna-Ora Owoh "Syndrome"
Do not lie dwindling in the dust - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
Sweetly tint the paling lies - Dorothy Parker "Recurrence"
Should you dare to introduce a lie - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"
Of lies and intentions unspent - Robert Pinsky "First Things to Hand: 4. Jar of Pens"
Not a stone tell where I lie - Alexander Pope "Ode on Solitude"
Lies broken as with centuries - E.J. Pratt "Sea Variations"
And the terror of what lies under - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"
To lie beneath your foot in hell - John Presland "A Villa on the Bay of Naples"
In fruit most tempting, ashes hidden lie - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Appearances" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
Whose smouldering embers lie, sad relics - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
A head that lies where Saul's has lain - Adrienne Rich "David's Boyhood"
Lie between two lions paws - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Censored lies that mimic truth - Lola Ridge "The Tidings (Easter 1916)"
A slumbering silence lies - Rainer Maria Rilke "In April"
The shadow of Vesuvius lies gray across the land - Lloyd Roberts "The Trail from Napoli"
Beyond the alders where the long swamps lie - Lloyd Roberts "The Wind Tongues"
Amid the twinkling green and silver, lies - H.W. Rockwell "Mohawk" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
The wreck of their marble glory lies - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
The sea of disillusion that lies beyond the gate - Rennell Rodd "Disillusion"
Where the sorrows of our singers lie - Rennell Rodd "From the Hills of Gardens"
In a jacket of lies - Luis J. Rodriguez "Piece by Piece"
To replace the lie passed down to you - Valencia Robin "Naming Yourself"
Lie becalmed in sight of strand - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"
Nor mock with laughter his most subtle lies - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
A mighty oak here ruined lies - Friedrich Schiller "Spinosa"
Permission to lie down forever - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #24"
Before I lie down in bed with my coins and shroud - Alexandra Seidel "Seven Truths and the In-Between"
I'd lie and listen to eternity passing over - Robert W. Service "Heart o' the North"
A famine where abundance lies - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"
Devise some virtuous lie - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXII"
In these uneven walls a wave lies prisoned - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"
Light in the dust lies dead - Shelley "When the Lamp Is Shattered"
Seeing his fields lie barren in the sun - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"
Dreamed in the House of Lies - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Doubt"
And how the shadow lies on it forever - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Lies modified by art - Bruce Smith "Ballad and Proposition"
Lies unstirred at summer's heart - Clark Ashton Smith "The Winds"
We lie to the sun, but the sun doesn't notice - Danez Smith "Two Deer in a Southside Cemetery"
Not a lie if the teller believes it - Maggie Smith "Parachute"
The lie I've decided to hear - Patricia Smith "To 3, No One in the Place"
A skirt shimmering with sequins and lies - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"
Lie quiet as bedrock beneath - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"
A sweet lie in the cold, cold air - Gary Soto "San Francisco Fog"
A mystery, enshrouded in lies - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "We're in the Chorus Now"
A shadow lies cloaked in velvet wrappings - James Stephens "The Shadow"
Time's whitest loves lie radiant - George Sterling "To Browning"
Would lie on shattered roses - George Sterling "To Vera (5)"
All the dreaming Long Ago lies wide and luring - Arthur Stringer "Persephone"
One moment see that which before me lies - Alan Sullivan "Confession, Creed, and Prayer"
Unshed tears that lie like stones upon it - Carmen Sylva "Sadness"
Where Ozymandius the strong lies in colossal ruin - J.B. Tabb "Shelley" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
The cloistered Soul lies frozen in her trances - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta I: The Prelude"
Only at your lies - Sara Teasdale "To a Loose Woman"
The sun on the celandines lie redoubled - Edward Thomas "Celandine"
Dreamless long-dead Amen-hotep lies - Edward Thomas "Swedes"
As a fly lies casketed in amber - Iris Tree "[Long hath the pen lain idle in my hand]"
The dust heap where our memories lie - Iris Tree "Streets"
Swallows his lies without measure - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"
Lending all her light to gild a lie - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]
Lie within the shadow of the sword - Tu Fu "Restless Night" transl. by Burton Watson
Within whose chalice lies the heart - Rudolph Valentino "Heart Flower"
The mind lies down among them - Mark Van Doren "The Hills of Little Cornwall"
A lie my misery was finished by - Mark Van Doren "To a Great Lady in My Small House"
Will lie in barns and laugh at the lightning - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"
Chain'd by frosts, the waters lie - B.T.W. "The Coming of Winter" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
The dust of Hell lies round our feet - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
That a question is open to lies - Jo Walton "Nemi"
And lies keep you turning to follow - Jo Walton "Nemi"
Whichever way the difference lies between - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"
And either way there lies a doubt - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"
Lies under the swinging moon - Helen Hay Whitney "On the White Road"
We lie down weeping with the night - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"
Where Amaryllis lies in state - Oscar Wilde "Theocritus"
A tongue that never lies - Joseph R. Wilson "A Country Romance"
In lies We've exposed for centuries - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"
Beautiful unsupported lies that simulate a universe - Humbert Wolfe "The Skies"
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
When haughty expectations prostrate lie - William Wordsworth "On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm"
Lie upon the plain and listen - William Wordsworth "To the Cuckoo"
See that never thread lie wrong - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]
The heart of the world lies open - Charles Wright "The Evening Is Tranquil, and Dawn Is a Thousand Miles Away"
Your country which lies beyond the thunder - Charles Wright "Flannery's Angel"
Plums lie open to the blackbird's beak - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"
So wills the law that willed a lie - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Autumnal Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]
Capable of incredible lies - C. Dale Young "Myth"
About this, even diamonds do not lie - Dean Young "Elegy on a Toy Piano" [Poetry Oct. 2003]
Lie down with lava and rise with snow - Dean Young "Everyday Escapees" [Poetry April 2013]
Where old sorrows lie forgotten - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Lying on the edge of nothing - Mary Jo Bang "Goodbye Is Another Word for Not"
Lying to my escapist heart - Joshua Bennett "VCR&B"
Lying hymn-barren on the dirt - Chase Berggrun "Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula'"
The lying prophets speak - Lyman Bryson "The Prophet"
Lying mobs of sighs and laughs - Max Bodenheim "Compulsory Tasks"
Long in ashes lying - Willa Cather "A Likeness: Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome"
All the heart's treasure lying bare - Danske Dandridge "The Moth and the Evening Primrose"
Lying beneath a hundred seas of sleep - John Freeman "Waking"
The vanished words lying with their companions - Louise Gluck "Cornwall"
My car tires swishing on the lying water - Kerry Hardie "Acceptance"
Lying on Love's ruin - Yone Noguchi "I Am Like a Leaf"
Lying in the backseat behind all my questions - Naomi Shihab Nye "Making a Fist"
Broken chains, lying cankered with old blood-drops - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Lying with imprisoned wings - Walter S. Percy "The Chrysalis"
My image lying in the stream - Alexander Posey "The Deer"
Only where a snare is lying low - A.J. Requier "Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Fox smell lying heavy on the wind - Tom Sleigh "The Fox"
Thick with lying - Patricia Smith "Remembering to Sing"
The lying sword, still dripping with my truth - Leonora Speyer "I'll Be Your Epitaph!"
Do we not bloom after lying in wait - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
Lying, robed in snowy white - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"
One of us is lying always - TC Tolbert "felo-de-se-- Melissa"
When rain is lying in shattered bright pools - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"
Lying for warmth against my heart - Mark Van Doren "Three Friends"
With the drops of the deep-lying dew - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"
Submerging the low-lying stars - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Answering to limitless immeasurably far-outlying Hades - Harry Martinson "Aniara 10" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Falsehood.
Lay.
Liar.
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I lie down each numbered night - Anne Carly Abad "Exchange"
Small sun caught up in the quicksilver lies - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"
Watery reflections where the wisdom lies - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
In the livery of a lie - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"
In a raindrop's compass lie a planet's elements - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
Although the spoiler's hand lies heavy - Lewis Alexander "Africa" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A thousand Persephones lie bleeding in the Lethe - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"
Still lies just outside the edge of my mind - Mike Allen "Space War"
Around this valley lies a golden wall - Leslie J. Anderson "In the Valley of Midas"
And sold herself for a lie - H.M. Andrews "Song"
Thread my voice with lies - Maya Angelou "How Can I Lie to You"
Half-truths told and entire lies - Maya Angelou "In a Time"
More than one eye on your lies - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"
Whisper white lies to the dead - Rae Armantrout "Djinn"
Tread lightly where he lies - Martin Armstrong "On a Little Bird"
Lie before us like a land of dreams - Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"
My hilt lies broken in pieces three - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
In bed forever with a lie - James Baldwin "A Lover’s Question"
We lie in the shadow of a future we cannot name - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Where ancient kings enchanted lie - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"
Survival lies in resistance - Mary Jo Bang "Apology for Want"
Sometimes flowers folded lie - William Francis Barnard "A Sonnet for Poets" [The Fly Leaf, v.1 no.2, Jan. 1896]
What dream lies walled within - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Cave"
that lies on the floor of atlantis - Elizabeth Bartlett "log for a voyage"
Lies wrapped in golden glory - Cora C. Bass "Sea and Cliff"
Where the wound lies I've never understood - Charles Baudelaire "The Fountain of Blood" transl. by Rachel Hadas
A swarming, seething pot of plots and lies - Stephen Vincent Benet "De Bellow Civili"
Made up of fear and failure, lies and loss - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
Where forgotten gods lie thirsting - Paul Bernstein "A Prayer for the Departed"
Hopes that lie within their grave - Maxwell Bodenheim "East-Side: New York"
The ferocious lies of ice - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
Retire to the slow digesting of his lie - Maxwell Bodenheim "Portraits. VII: Old Actor"
Above the place where I lie desolate - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
Herein lies the hard pentagonal truth - Bruce Boston "The Canticles of Rage"
Stolen armor and lies - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"
But now lie under oleander - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
All the lies I should have told - Geoffrey Brock "Orpheus Variations. 2 In Which He Turns Inward"
Where knotted grass neglected lies - Anne Bronte "Home"
Within each hour the precious minutes lie - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"
Mouths too busy for small talk but not for lies - F. Douglas Brown "Aubade with Edits"
Unable to spin or spend even a nickel's worth of lies - F. Douglas Brown "Aubade with Edits"
Every goodbye a lie - Jericho Brown "Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park"
A map that charts more bloody lies - Paul Cameron Brown "Humboldt's Current"
Props to heighten necessary lies - Paul Cameron Brown "Investiture"
Preach her the lies about Jordan - Sterling A. Brown. "Maumee Ruth"
Lie still upon his heart--which breaks below thee - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Dead Rose"
Worked on the bone of a lie - R. Browning "Master Hughes of Saxe-Gotha"
Where the sun-flecked shadows lie - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Out we'll sail where the treasures lie - Frank Oliver Call "Hidden Treasure"
Entwined with lies and snares - Tommaso Campanella "VI. An Exhortation to Mankind" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Pastured on lies and shadows - Tommaso Campanella "XLI. A Prophecy of Judgment. No.2. The Doom of the Impious" transl. by John Addington Symonds
A honeycomb of lies - Paul Carroll "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"
How secretly they lie - Anne Carson "Short Talk on Pain"
Infused with lies and nitrogen - Ana Castillo "A Storm upon Us"
No lie poured down the stairs - Tina Chang "Infinite and Plausible"
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie - Ralph Chaplin "Mourn not the Dead"
Lies to choke your dying breath - Ralph Chaplin "The Red Feast"
Where seven sunken Englands lie buried - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
the saddest lies are the ones we tell ourselves - Lucille Clifton "1994"
Must die for the lie in his voice - Leonard Cohen "A Singer Must Die"
In dungeons of ourselves we lie - Arthur Colton "Verses from 'The Canticle of the Road'"
Every merciful and smiling lie - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
Heart-tossed shadows in them lie - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
A faint, dim breath of bitter lies - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"
Rejecting all that lies beyond her view - George Crabbe "The Library"
A thousand tongues, and nine and ninety-nine lie - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
How near the heavens lie - Adelaide Crapsey "My Birds that Fly No Longer"
They lie and wait for time to grind them to dust - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"
Vanishing in a lie - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
Formed with the letters of the first lie - Jim Daniels "Lip Gloss, Belgium"
As here alone and half hidden I lie - Catharine Davidson "The First Primrose" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.734, 19 Jan. 1878]
The bloodless doll of social lies - Julia de Burgos "To Julia de Burgos" transl. by Grace Schulman
I lie at the bottom, shattered and dangerous - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Lies in ceaseless rosemary - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXV"
Lies silent in the shimmering heat - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"
All manner of allegations, bold claims and public lies - Rita Dove "Trans-"
Where the whole shadow lies deep - Edward Dowden "Brother Death"
Lies most palpable, uncouth, forlorn - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The inner sense which neither cheats nor lies - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The little lives that lie deep hid - George William Russell aka A.E. "A Summer Night"
Cold as the winter moon that lies - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs"
No matter what lies beyond - Caleb Edmondson "In 2025, His Rings Will Disappear"
Truth must hidden lie if unlit by Sorrow's eye - George Eliot "Self and Life"
City where the great crown lies - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle
Whose eyes lie mirrored in your cup - Eleanor Farjeon "By the Fountain"
The wind lies open on your lap - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"
Belonging to too many lies - Camonghne Felix "Yes, It Is Possible"
When the bolt lies deep in the door - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"
The blame lies in that glass from the tap - Calvin Forbes "Homing"
Because a sorrow on dark midnight lies - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"
Who lie apart as pole from pole - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]
Where light without a shadow lies - M.Y.G. "My Spirit's Home" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.462, 6 Nov. 1852]
Lie upon her grave like flowers - Zona Gale "One Dawn She Woke Me--"
Make every dark wish lie down - Frank X. Gaspar "The One God Is Mysterious"
For new-born lies have barter'd ancient law - "The Ghost of Chatham"
Her laughter a holy lie - Andrea Gibson "Black and White Angel"
That lies are often truth-shaped - Nikita Gill "Questions for the Daughters of Nyx"
The gorgeous mask of whatever quick-witted lie will keep her alive - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
More than political and diplomatic lies - Theodora Goss "The Princess and the Frog"
While in floods the harvest lies - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]
And Sir Galahad lies hid - Robert Graves "Babylon"
Within its earthbound depths did lie - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
That lies beyond Time's rugged shore - Geo. W.H. Harrison "A Prison Vision"
Lie in the velvet depths of silence - Ben Hecht "My Island"
Where so many lies remain lost to winter - Gordon Henry "It Was Snowing on the Monuments"
Lie awake at night wondering - S*an D. Henry-Smith "remedies I"
Nothing can need a lie - George Herbert "Courage"
Moons not hers lie mirror'd on her sea - Ralph Hodgson "Reason Has Moons"
We will not down in languor lie - "Honour to the Plough" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXIII, v.LX, Nov. 1846]
With every word that held a lie - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"
And though our paths lie separate now - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "To an Absent Sister" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]
Where the fairy desert lies - Walter Edwards Houghton, Jr. "Just To-day"
Lie spent in star-defeated sighs - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XV"
Lie down in the shadow - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"
As cloth-of-gold the fallen leaves lie - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Who will invent a Mirror that will lie? - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Prone he lies in Warp of dreamless Sleep - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Lie too near the sky - Charles Bertram Johnson "Snow"
The shadow of the panther lies - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"
Legions of wanton lies - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"
Where soul with soul lies prisoned - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXII"
The leaves lie thick upon the way of memories - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXXII"
A lie, a limit, the crimped stalks of beech - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"
They lie down and roar and burn - Janet Kauffman "Slashed"
Divine things lie concealed - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Upon my heart lies his first token - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"
Buried lie in purple beds of thyme - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Cover me with your everlasting arms]"
In Time's storehouse lie days, hours, and moments - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Say thou not sadly, "never," and "no more,"]"
Lie bound with thongs of fire - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"
Where the sun's shafts lie bound - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"
And all my sorrow lie with thee - anonymous? "Kemp Owyne"
Your golden lie of Tir-na-n'Og - T.M. Kettle "Dedication Sonnet to My Wife"
Let the birds build nests out of your lies - Vandana Khanna "Fable"
And therefore the land lies in peril - "The King-Slaying in Finderup, 1285" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Lie down for an aeon or two - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"
a small lie buried in a garden - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"
Still lies in debt to you - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Respect or the lies like it - Aimee Le "Where I Learn to Shrink"
The dropped fruit lies beneath its tree - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"
Whose lies are shadow roads - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Strange things to my spirit-eyes lie bare - H.L. Leonard "My Treasure" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
To lie down on your inconsistent shore - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Even the moon lies - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Summer"
A creed is the shell of a lie - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"
Lies of no consequence - Mina Loy "Cafe du Neant"
Borne on the vaporous breath of poisoning lies - Francis J. Lys "Justitia Excedens Terris"
Where the fields lie lonely and untended - Sidney Royse Lysaght "A Deserted Home"
The tremulously mirrored clouds lie deep - Archibald MacLeish "Imagery"
Time to lie and mean it - Anthony Madrid "Bottles and Cans"
Have worshipped so many lies - Sally Wen Mao "Occidentalism"
Lies cold on the heart - George Martin "Bound to the Wheel"
Proud palaces of cumbrous lies - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
Amid the lies that haunt the day - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
That lies outside and always far beyond - Harry Martinson "Aniara 6" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Stripped of all the golden lies - John Masefield "Truth"
And listening nature will breathless lie - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"
Fine-tuning the orchestra of lies - Airea D. Matthews "From the Pocket of His Lip"
Dreams in bodies that won't hold a lie - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"
Where half our memories lie - John McCrae "The Pilgrims"
Lie and dream among the harps - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"
To catch each dream that lies hidden - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"
We two will lie and burn - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"
With your loveliest lie - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]
Nor in broad rumour lies - John Milton "Lycidas"
Lie in the mud and howl for them - Harold Monro "Overheard on a Saltmarsh"
And my lies still don't believe in me - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
Threadbare stones lie cramped in the ravine - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "History" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
A ship with sails as big as a lie - Angel Nafis "TarBaby Fly!"
But the heart lies still - Vi Khi Nao "How Can Something So Unmoving Move Everything Around It"
In the bristling age of the lie - Pablo Neruda "Insurgent America (1800)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The sky lies easy to his plow - Pablo Neruda "To the Dead Poor Man" transl. by Alastair Reid
In the twilight's arms the day lies dead - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"
We know the sweetness held in lies - Mari Ness "Gretel's Bones"
Hard to regret beauty and easy to lie - Caroline Harper New "The Bioluminescent Bays of Vieques"
An orchard of white lies - Hieu Minh Nguyen "A/S/L"
Memory lies dreaming there - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
The lie may steal an hour - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
We boiled down the lies in another pan - Naomi Shihab Nye "Truth Serum"
Only when some heart lies dead - O. "Good-Night" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.446, 17 July 1852]
That can make any lie seem true - Achy Obejas "Conceits"
Vessels, wind-forsaken, on the waveless waters lie - "October Afternoon in the Highlands" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct, 1863 - no.IV]
From lies of vaunting Treason caught - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]
Hushed and calm the breezes lie - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"
If your soul in dread torments should lie - Old Humphrey "The Sabbath Breaker Reclaimed; or, a pleasing history of Thomas Brown"
Not telling a lie for anyone - Sharon Olds "Suddenly"
a caste of lies is built as cells - Ugonna-Ora Owoh "Syndrome"
Do not lie dwindling in the dust - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
Sweetly tint the paling lies - Dorothy Parker "Recurrence"
Should you dare to introduce a lie - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"
Of lies and intentions unspent - Robert Pinsky "First Things to Hand: 4. Jar of Pens"
Not a stone tell where I lie - Alexander Pope "Ode on Solitude"
Lies broken as with centuries - E.J. Pratt "Sea Variations"
And the terror of what lies under - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"
To lie beneath your foot in hell - John Presland "A Villa on the Bay of Naples"
In fruit most tempting, ashes hidden lie - Quince "Sonnets: By 'Quince': Appearances" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
Whose smouldering embers lie, sad relics - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
A head that lies where Saul's has lain - Adrienne Rich "David's Boyhood"
Lie between two lions paws - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Censored lies that mimic truth - Lola Ridge "The Tidings (Easter 1916)"
A slumbering silence lies - Rainer Maria Rilke "In April"
The shadow of Vesuvius lies gray across the land - Lloyd Roberts "The Trail from Napoli"
Beyond the alders where the long swamps lie - Lloyd Roberts "The Wind Tongues"
Amid the twinkling green and silver, lies - H.W. Rockwell "Mohawk" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
The wreck of their marble glory lies - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"
The sea of disillusion that lies beyond the gate - Rennell Rodd "Disillusion"
Where the sorrows of our singers lie - Rennell Rodd "From the Hills of Gardens"
In a jacket of lies - Luis J. Rodriguez "Piece by Piece"
To replace the lie passed down to you - Valencia Robin "Naming Yourself"
Lie becalmed in sight of strand - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"
Nor mock with laughter his most subtle lies - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"
A mighty oak here ruined lies - Friedrich Schiller "Spinosa"
Permission to lie down forever - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #24"
Before I lie down in bed with my coins and shroud - Alexandra Seidel "Seven Truths and the In-Between"
I'd lie and listen to eternity passing over - Robert W. Service "Heart o' the North"
A famine where abundance lies - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"
Devise some virtuous lie - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXII"
In these uneven walls a wave lies prisoned - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"
Light in the dust lies dead - Shelley "When the Lamp Is Shattered"
Seeing his fields lie barren in the sun - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"
Dreamed in the House of Lies - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Doubt"
And how the shadow lies on it forever - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Lies modified by art - Bruce Smith "Ballad and Proposition"
Lies unstirred at summer's heart - Clark Ashton Smith "The Winds"
We lie to the sun, but the sun doesn't notice - Danez Smith "Two Deer in a Southside Cemetery"
Not a lie if the teller believes it - Maggie Smith "Parachute"
The lie I've decided to hear - Patricia Smith "To 3, No One in the Place"
A skirt shimmering with sequins and lies - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"
Lie quiet as bedrock beneath - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"
A sweet lie in the cold, cold air - Gary Soto "San Francisco Fog"
A mystery, enshrouded in lies - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "We're in the Chorus Now"
A shadow lies cloaked in velvet wrappings - James Stephens "The Shadow"
Time's whitest loves lie radiant - George Sterling "To Browning"
Would lie on shattered roses - George Sterling "To Vera (5)"
All the dreaming Long Ago lies wide and luring - Arthur Stringer "Persephone"
One moment see that which before me lies - Alan Sullivan "Confession, Creed, and Prayer"
Unshed tears that lie like stones upon it - Carmen Sylva "Sadness"
Where Ozymandius the strong lies in colossal ruin - J.B. Tabb "Shelley" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
The cloistered Soul lies frozen in her trances - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta I: The Prelude"
Only at your lies - Sara Teasdale "To a Loose Woman"
The sun on the celandines lie redoubled - Edward Thomas "Celandine"
Dreamless long-dead Amen-hotep lies - Edward Thomas "Swedes"
As a fly lies casketed in amber - Iris Tree "[Long hath the pen lain idle in my hand]"
The dust heap where our memories lie - Iris Tree "Streets"
Swallows his lies without measure - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"
Lending all her light to gild a lie - "Truth and Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVII, v.LIX, May 1846]
Lie within the shadow of the sword - Tu Fu "Restless Night" transl. by Burton Watson
Within whose chalice lies the heart - Rudolph Valentino "Heart Flower"
The mind lies down among them - Mark Van Doren "The Hills of Little Cornwall"
A lie my misery was finished by - Mark Van Doren "To a Great Lady in My Small House"
Will lie in barns and laugh at the lightning - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"
Chain'd by frosts, the waters lie - B.T.W. "The Coming of Winter" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
The dust of Hell lies round our feet - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"
That a question is open to lies - Jo Walton "Nemi"
And lies keep you turning to follow - Jo Walton "Nemi"
Whichever way the difference lies between - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"
And either way there lies a doubt - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"
Lies under the swinging moon - Helen Hay Whitney "On the White Road"
We lie down weeping with the night - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Year"
Where Amaryllis lies in state - Oscar Wilde "Theocritus"
A tongue that never lies - Joseph R. Wilson "A Country Romance"
In lies We've exposed for centuries - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"
Beautiful unsupported lies that simulate a universe - Humbert Wolfe "The Skies"
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
When haughty expectations prostrate lie - William Wordsworth "On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm"
Lie upon the plain and listen - William Wordsworth "To the Cuckoo"
See that never thread lie wrong - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]
The heart of the world lies open - Charles Wright "The Evening Is Tranquil, and Dawn Is a Thousand Miles Away"
Your country which lies beyond the thunder - Charles Wright "Flannery's Angel"
Plums lie open to the blackbird's beak - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"
So wills the law that willed a lie - "The Year of Sorrow.--Ireland--1849: Autumnal Dirge" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXVII, July 1850, v.LXVIII]
Capable of incredible lies - C. Dale Young "Myth"
About this, even diamonds do not lie - Dean Young "Elegy on a Toy Piano" [Poetry Oct. 2003]
Lie down with lava and rise with snow - Dean Young "Everyday Escapees" [Poetry April 2013]
Where old sorrows lie forgotten - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Lying on the edge of nothing - Mary Jo Bang "Goodbye Is Another Word for Not"
Lying to my escapist heart - Joshua Bennett "VCR&B"
Lying hymn-barren on the dirt - Chase Berggrun "Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula'"
The lying prophets speak - Lyman Bryson "The Prophet"
Lying mobs of sighs and laughs - Max Bodenheim "Compulsory Tasks"
Long in ashes lying - Willa Cather "A Likeness: Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome"
All the heart's treasure lying bare - Danske Dandridge "The Moth and the Evening Primrose"
Lying beneath a hundred seas of sleep - John Freeman "Waking"
The vanished words lying with their companions - Louise Gluck "Cornwall"
My car tires swishing on the lying water - Kerry Hardie "Acceptance"
Lying on Love's ruin - Yone Noguchi "I Am Like a Leaf"
Lying in the backseat behind all my questions - Naomi Shihab Nye "Making a Fist"
Broken chains, lying cankered with old blood-drops - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Lying with imprisoned wings - Walter S. Percy "The Chrysalis"
My image lying in the stream - Alexander Posey "The Deer"
Only where a snare is lying low - A.J. Requier "Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Fox smell lying heavy on the wind - Tom Sleigh "The Fox"
Thick with lying - Patricia Smith "Remembering to Sing"
The lying sword, still dripping with my truth - Leonora Speyer "I'll Be Your Epitaph!"
Do we not bloom after lying in wait - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
Lying, robed in snowy white - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"
One of us is lying always - TC Tolbert "felo-de-se-- Melissa"
When rain is lying in shattered bright pools - W.J. Turner "Ecstasy"
Lying for warmth against my heart - Mark Van Doren "Three Friends"
With the drops of the deep-lying dew - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"
Submerging the low-lying stars - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Answering to limitless immeasurably far-outlying Hades - Harry Martinson "Aniara 10" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Falsehood.
Lay.
Liar.
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