Potential Titles: Stone

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As if the stone were glass fired and into beauty blown - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Clinging to a stone in space - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"

Or focus meditation on a stone - Derek Adams "Skrying"

Dew-drops sing to the garden stones - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

Where the stone horses metamorphose into birds - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"

Primal sculpture illimitably trapped in stone - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"

In the arms of a stone stairway - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"

Stone touched by her fingertips took flight - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Recurring pails of stones - Zaina Alsous "Species-Being free-write"

Skips stones across the pond of longing - Julia Alvarez "Tone"

Layers the stones like lichen - Hala Alyan "The Female of the Species"

Bordered with flowers of stone - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"

To cure their hearts of stone - Maya Angelou "Alone"

High pyramids of stone and question - Maya Angelou "For Us, Who Dare Not Dare"

In a bonfire of stone - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel who never was"

With uneven stones - Rae Armantrout "Decor"

Water over a thrown stone - Margaret Atwood "Half Hanged Mary"

Will set their stones and ribbons at your door - Ruth Awad "Reasons to Live"

The anguish of stones and mountains - Chimengul Awut (Chimenqush) "Cry, Wind" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

Who pick up sticks and stones - Nina Bagley "Gathering"

Fear pressed against stone - Mary Jo Bang "The Clairvoyant"

Dripping onto a broken stone floor - Mary Jo Bang "The Echo"

Tuesday, the oracle of stone - Mary Jo Bang "Slow Dancer"

Be only known by the gray ruin and the mouldering stone - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Survey the stone where Alexander's ashes lay - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

We write on stony water - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"

Till waterfalls are turned to stone - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Cave"

with stones to cling to by my teeth - Elizabeth Bartlett "cold wakening"

Would stumble over the same stones - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Mistake"

Grapes from stones, thirst into wine - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sacrament"

I'd rather put my trust in stones - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sower"

The stones I had to seal my mind - Elizabeth Bartlett "Time Will Tell"

A stone the builder needs - Ardelia Maria Barton "Nature's Plan"

gaudy with cobalt wishing stones - Samiya Bashir "Field Theories"

To move the stumbling stone - Cora C. Bass "Is There Not Something We Can Do?"

Upon the altar stone of truth - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Song"

Lovely as a dream in stone - Charles Baudelaire "Beauty" transl. not credited

Don't learn from stones - E.C. Belli "Vows"

A hundred little towns of stone - Hilaire Belloc "Dedicatory Ode"

In the primal slumber of stones - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

From that drum of terrible stone - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Stone and ghost and dream - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Strikes the stones with his oaken stick - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

Two stone posts and a gate between - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

Strains at the weight of a buried stone - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

And makes us less divisible than stone - Stephen Vincent Benet "Positively the Last Performance!"

Lost in colossal stone, my newer mountains - William Rose Benét "The City"

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

Fire that feeds on stones - Elizabeth Bishop "At the Fishhouses"

Belches molten stone and globes of fire - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Flowing from a heart of stone - Richard Blanco "Torsos at the Louvre"

The honeycomb of scored stone - Edmund Blunden "Sheet Lightning"

Since first I was made of stone - "The Boatman's Hymn" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

The sordid boast of stone and brick - Max Bodenheim "City Streets"

Ribbon turning to circles of stone - Max Bodenheim "The Operation"

Dust shall yet devour the stones - Arna Bontemps "Golgotha Is a Mountain"

Tender grass will hide the rugged stone - Arna Bontemps "My Heart Has Known Its Winter"

The stones have scored you bitterly - Arna Bontemps "To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country"

Come back to seek the girl she was in these familiar stones - Arna Bontemps "To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country"

Hidden in the branching veins of earthbound stone - Bruce Boston "Marble People"

A charm of river stones and coiled hair - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, I wake wishing my body"

Written on the smooth gray stone - Louise Morey Bowman "The Witch"

Washing over the voiceless stones - William Brewer "Halfway House Diary"

By many a storm-worn stone - E.J. Bronte "The Outcast Mother"

Let us not with one stone kill - Nickole Brown "Parable"

Reverbing even the hum of stone - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

Stone calendars sown by the seasons - Joseph Bruchac "Neh Tsoi"

Where stones are the heartbeat of flame - Joseph Bruchac "Speaking"

And makes the gray stone burn - F. O. Call "Cathedral Vespers"

Their worn shoes scratch against the paths of stone - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"

A shroud of glooming stone - W. Wilfred Campbell "Departure"

Stands loaded with wood and stone - Tommaso Campanella "XXV. The People" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Dashed upon its bed of stone - "The Cascade"

Some gesture of mysterious wrought stone - Rosario Castellanos "Silence Concerning an Ancient Stone" transl. by George D. Schade

Sorrow keeps a stone house - Willa Cather "In Rose-Time"

The gray stones beneath you feel young again - Norla Chee "Navajo Mountain"

On bare stone with open meridians - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"

A deep pact between stone and water - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"

Fallen into place beside the oldest stones - James Salvius Cheng "Cat Amongst the Cabbages"

The secret stones of kings - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

Piled up small stones to make a town - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"

Tongues of stone - Gabrielle Civil "19th Birthday in Paris"

Can forge a way through stone - Jeremy Michael Clark "One Fire, Quenched with Another"

who gathered the five smooth stones - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"

the fifth was the stone of my regret - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"

squat in the hungry desert fingering stones - Lucille Clifton "dear fox"

A stone in David's sling - Aaron Coleman "Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)"

Unmusical of earth and stone - Mary Coleridge "In Dispraise of the Moon"

My hands are stone - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witch"

Gossiping with the other stones - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "He Mea Mālo'elo'e #3"

Gifting the sea's new strange stones - Donte Collins "they need some of us to die"

No music in dead stones - Arthur Colton "The Poet and the Fountain"

Horned demons that leered in stone - Helen Gray Cone "The House of Hate"

And his pillow is a stone - Benjamin Copeland "Bethel"

A stone idol, patient, to be dissolved with a crash - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

This bright, hard, polished stone of rage - Andrea Cote-Botero "Dear Beth" (translated by Sasha Pimentel)

Stones of Truth among your dreaming - James H. Cousins "Copernicus"

Those three standing stones - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"

Fire only works on the brim of stone - Brody Parrish Craig "Southern Comfort"

The seeds that turned to stone - Nathalia Crane "The Dinosaur's Eggs"

Still catches the stones - Robert Creeley "Waldoboro Eve"

A satyr turned to stone - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"

The pulse forgotten in the flow of stone - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Sleeps on the stones of Delphi - H.D. "Demeter"

From amber stones to onyx flecked with violet - H.D. "Thetis"

Foreheads touching the wall's stone - Krystyna Dąbrowska "White Chairs" transl. by Karen Kovacik

Friendless and all alone on this unsweetened stone - W.H. Davies "The Example"

Whose happy heart has power to make a stone a flower - W.H. Davies "The Example"

Knows not flowers from stones - William H. Davies "The Hawk"

Do not take a stone from my shores - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"

Rise up out of the stone you took - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"

A place of stone and entanglements - Kwame Dawes "Dirt"

Built lasting monuments of severe stone - Kwame Dawes "Requiem"

Froze his passion with a heart of stone - C.W. Day "Lines to J.T. of Ireland" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

These stones by time in ruin laid - Walter de la Mare "The Corner Stone"

The cricket shrills from stone to stone - Walter de la Mare "The Ruin"

Their carver with heart of stone - Walter de la Mare "Sunk Lyonesse"

Dead like stone - Christine de Pisan

The gray gull flaps the written stones - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

Beside this pile of stones - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"

The stones at bottom of my mind - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XXXV: Disenchantment"

As cool to speech as stone - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XVII: Asleep"

Raise up my faith in stone - Eric Dickinson "Three Sonnets I"

A pattern scratched upon a pretty stone - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

Water on a rain-spattered stone - Chris Dombrowski "Inscription"

Redeem all other god-cast stones - Chris Dombrowski "Lunar Calendar"

Built with towers of fretted stone - Julia C.R. Dorr "Heirship"

Built of stone or built of air - Theodore Dreiser "The Spring Recital"

Living witness in the chiselled stone - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

For years in the stones of my eyes - Michael Dumanis "The Forecast"

Chisel the rude stone with trembling hand - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "My Purest Longings Spring"

Form prayers to broken stone - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"

After the agony in stony places - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"

Tiny arias on the edge of a stone basin - Chiyuma Elliott "A Blessing Compared to a Window"

These trees and stones are audible - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"

And crouched no more in stone - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Sphinx"

Can make teeth crush stone - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Breaks down walls of stone - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

And heart of stone within- The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"

Hidden in their deep stones - CJ Evans "Elegy in Limestone"

That drank this miracle of stone - Donald Evans "The Jade Vase"

Risen like this cold stone in the darkness - Joseph Fasano "The Moon"

Still she stands vigil like stone - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

Shut as a spice in precious stone - Michael Field "Relics"

Dark stones from the torrent wrenched - Michael Field "Stones of the Brook"

Originating from a single cast stone - Ashanti Files "Ripples"

Troy towers for my delight and crumbles stone by stone - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

Dashed on a soundless stone - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Blood Moon Triptych"

On history's worn stone steps - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen n"

Balled up like a stone - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Resurrection"

In a stream clear with flowering stones - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen D"

For music carved on Sumerian stones - Carolyn Forche "Dulcimer Maker"

Turned their berries to stone - Carolyn Forche "The Place That Is Feared I Inhabit"

Entering the stomach of stones - Carolyn Forche "Song Coming Toward Us"

Frowning cliff and wayside stone - E. Foxton "The New Search After Happiness"

Did not shed a stone tear - Vievee Francis "The Bone Boiler"

That engulfs an empire of stone - Vievee Francis "The Scale of Empire"

Every stone becomes a church - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Post-Apocalypse Postcard with Love Note"

Meekly bear the stones of fate - Goethe "Haste Not, Rest Not"

Shall not stammer into stone - Louis Golding "Unnamed Fruit"

Exhausted from the weight of stones - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"

A trove of pearls and stones - Rigoberto Gonzalez "La Pelona as Birdwoman"

Here stand the dreams of men articulate in stone - Mona Gould "You Wrote"

Shaking stones in a basket - Cynthia Grady "Kaleidoscope"

If his heart be not of steel or stone - C. L. Graves "'Bleak House'"

A pale gap in stone's imagination - torrin a. greathouse "Medusa with the Head of Perseus"

A stone in his pocket - Leah Naomi Green "Week Five: Measure"

To which the stone is nothing - Linda Gregerson "The Chapel Doom"

This stone on your spirit - Linda Gregerson "My Father Comes Back from the Grave"

Twisted stones of shaken street - Bartholomew F. Griffin "The Other Army"

Stones for his captain's bed - Louise Imogen Guiney "A Chouan"

The valleys are long and strewn with stones - Han-Shan "[I climb the road to Cold Mountain]" transl. by Burton Watson

Torn apart by stones of fear - Joy Harjo "The Creation Story"

A fox of fire, a bird of stone - Joy Harjo "Desire's Dog"

Stones bearing libraries of the winds - Joy Harjo "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War"

Make prayers of clear stone - Joy Harjo "We Must Call a Meeting"

Pressed to my lips a stone - Frances E.W. Harper "A Double Standard"

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

A world-tree of balanced stones - Seamus Heaney "Belderg"

Vainly seeks one votive stone - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

Cast the stones from your heart - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed (Hendan) "Returning to the Fire" transl. by author and edited by Darren Byler

Through my pores of stone - Alice Corbin Henderson "From the Stone Age"

Mists still haunt the stony street - William Ernest Henley "In Hospital I. Enter Patient"

Corridors and stairs of stone and iron - William Ernest Henley "In Hospital I. Enter Patient"

Sober walls of weathered stone - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"

Stone did not become apple - Jane Hirshfield "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me"

Our extended allegiance to stones - Tony Hoagland "Upward"

As you place your question in the stone of the city's gate - Carlie Hoffman "Point of View Where Orpheus Makes a Pit Stop at a Fortune Teller in St Germain"

Where the stone wishes to blossom - Linda Hogan "Home in the Woods"

I'll shudder through root and stone - Cynthia Hogue "The Changeling"

Little rutilant stones sunk in black basalt - Aldous Huxley "Behemoth"

Of drought and dust and stone - Aldous Huxley "Italy"

In a flame of chiselled stone - Aldous Huxley "Stanzas"

From under brows of stone - Aldous Huxley "Waking"

Snow-clad Cenis' heart of stone might melt - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]

About stones and wolves - Carly Inghram "What Sort of Animal Are You?"

The stone moon descends to brush his shoulders clean - John James "Other Adam"

The eucalyptus trees have turned to stone - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"

Our collective weight against stone - Marlin M. Jenkins "Pokedex Entry #260: Swampert"

And fold between the stones - Allison Eir Jenks "Lament"

Polished stones hardened from ichor - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "false sonnet embroidered w/four loko empties"

That mystic bleeding stone - James Weldon Johnson "Vashti"

A voice mistook for stone - Saeed Jones "Anthracite"

Wet black stones for pillows - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"

The cooking pot sentineled by unscoured stone - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"

The stone fist of his heart began to bang - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

Water rolls the stone away - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"

Two branches clap two stones together - Janet Kauffman "Slashed"

Repeat each stone syllable - Leora Kava "pronunciation"

New England's tapestry of stone - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Who counted every stone blessed - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Swallow each day like a stone - Donika Kelly "Commandments"

From stony rifts of granite gray - Fanny Kemble "To the Wissahiccon"

Toward a past swallowed by stone - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Not even stones grow - Faye Kicknosway "He Has Been Threshed Out"

Hear the steel strike stone - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Sparkled scatter of mica and stone chips - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Flesh interrogating a stone - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Whispering a stone's promise - Yusef Komunyakaa "Guernica"

And the fish crawled into stones to sleep - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Pockets of graveled stone beneath the bank - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"

That warps about the stone - anonymous? "The Laidley Worm o' Spindleston-Heughs"

Let there be a stone of suffering - Danusha Laméris "U-Pick Orchards"

Sweet sleep in carven stone - Archibald Lampman "Sleep"

Stone by stone go singing - Archibald Lampman "To the Prophetic Soul"

With their silent fronts of stone - Archibald Lampman "The Woodcutter's Hut"

Stony before I was laid in stone - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"

Stones still hold transfigured grief - Michael Lauchlan "Reading Herodotus"

The universe we circled aiming jagged stones - Dorianne Laux "My Mother's Colander"

Will again be stone - Dorianne Laux "Third Rock from the Sun"

Just a stone to anyone asking for bread - D.H. Lawrence "The American Eagle"

Pomegranates like bright green stone - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"

Among the stones of the bitter sea - D.H. Lawrence "St John"

The glaring streets of brick and stone - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

Who had flung their faces on the stones - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"

Fretted with burning stones, and trellised with red gold - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

A toad eternally prisoned in stone - Richard Le Gallienne "The Destined Maid: A Prayer"

Black and mighty shapes of iron and stone - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

On a pathway beset with jagged stone - Ida Lee "The Promise"

Stone heads of sphinxes nod - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

Heaved lava over carved stone and manuscript - R.B. Lemberg "Ranra's Unbalancing"

Whispered in language of stone and rock - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"

Stones that fear no flood - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Stone"

The stones that hear no steps - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Stone"

Birthing stone from seed - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"

Stone and mortar to imbue with light - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"

drink from stones of frost - Michael Leong "For My Cats Gaspara & Alfonsina"

With vows that bound the leaf and stone - Jessica Lévai "Rochambeau"

Stone children in bibs and hats - Dana Levin "Zozo-ji"

Neither on a cloud of soot nor a roof of stone - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

A Sisyphus with the world for stone - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"

For those meals of ash, now you have no stone - Gary Copeland Lilley "Unmarked Grave"

Bruised by the stone glare of the limelight - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"

Replaced by lasercut urns and polished stones - Sandra J. Lindow "Tombstone Tapestries"

The black stones took on flame - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"

Lifts a key of crimson stone - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Artist working only with light and stone - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

Build it up with stone so strong - "London Bridge"

Ghosts emerging suddenly from stone - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Modern Fiction"

A lady of clay and two stone men - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"

Your lovers of dull grey stone - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"

Judged as stone and judged as clay - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"

The round, grey stones of the market-place - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"

His ears are stone to the organ - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: Third Movement"

Veiling with garlands Moloch's bloody stone - James Russell Lowell "Bankside"

Aimed for a heart of steel and stone - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson

As a time-worn stone - Denis Florence MacCarthy "A Lament"

Sing against her thirsty stones - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Unchanged"

Wheel rut in the ruined stone - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"

Four stones with their heads of moss - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XII: Ryno, Alpin"

To unresponsive walls of stone - Douglas Malloch "Inspiration"

Cooling honey to stone - Cynthia Manick "A Taste of Blue"

The stones cry from the walls - Edwin Markham "To High-born Poets"

Against the towers of stone and steel - Don Marquis "Lower New York--A Storm"

Picking black daffodils in the shades of broken stones - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"

Prophecy strewn across stones - Daria-Ann Martineau "Carnivorous, with a varied and opportunistic diet"

Into the stones of his eyes - David Tomas Martinez "Trap Music"

My blood burns on the stones - John Masefield "A Dramatic Poem: Madman"

The stony road that artists tread - John Masefield "King Cole"

As the day's foundation stone - John Masefield "King Cole"

Jagged stones that were pillars - Jamaal May "Make Believe"

A square stone above my dreamless head - Theodore Maynard "Requiem"

A heart that can melt stones - Heather McHugh "A Physics"

A bird with stones in its beak - Shara McCallum "The News"

Trapped, stone-mad - Sandra McPherson "Pregnancy"

To waken laughter from cold stones - George Meredith "The Appeasement of Demeter"

That sing his soul in stone - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

Up the stone like an unmoored flame - W.S. Merwin "One Valley"

Boutique sticks stones dead flowers - Claire Meuschke "zero in on"

Weaves a pattern on dull stones - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

The grace from simple stone - Edna St Vincent Millay "Elegy Before Death"

Forever on the mutual stone -  Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet X from Second April

having flung d'artagnan clear to luna's tepid stone - Andy Miller "All Those Bleached Bones"

Stones under the moss of the viridescent storm - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

What lessons have you writ in stone - Joaquin Miller "Mother Egypt"

Rhododendra grow through stone - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"

In a body not made of stone - Jenny Molberg "The Muse, Posing as Maria"

The void is calendared in stone - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"

Standing stones form distant islands - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"

A rattlesnake slithers among the stones - N. Scott Momaday "Jornada del Muerto"

Living relic of stone - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Eternal Stand"

And broke the dial stone of old Time - Dugald Moore "To the Clyde"

The stone joy of being unnoticed - Jim Moore "I Call It Joy"

Stone torch posts mark her trail - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"

A path of gold on stones worn grey - K. Mounsey "To a Little House in Oxford"

Cut from the same shadowed stone - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Threadbare stones lie cramped in the ravine - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "History" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

Filled with stone and grief and ash - Joan Murray "Survivors--Found"

Like a sailing ship made of stone - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Forcing the sword back into the stone - Jaye Nasir "November"

An orchestra of water, stone, and iron - Pablo Neruda "Beyond Your Lands, America" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Striking across the centuries in stone - Pablo Neruda "The Blind Statue" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Pierced your stone heart like a sword - Pablo Neruda "Brother Cordillera" transl. by Alastair Reid

Its day of drowsy stone - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Not seeing the stone in agony - Pablo Neruda "The Celestial Poets [Canto General]" transl. by Martin Espada

A river that carried more stones than water - Pablo Neruda "Disasters" transl. by William O'Daly

Among castles of tired stone - Pablo Neruda "Exile" transl. by Alastair Reid

Death in its stone aspect - Pablo Neruda "Fully Empowered" transl. by Alastair Reid

All were born of stone - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Carved from stone of pride - Pablo Neruda "Horses" transl. by Alastair Reid

Joy in bread and stone - Pablo Neruda "How Much Happens in a Day" transl. by Alastair Reid

Nourished on stone and grief - Pablo Neruda "The Judges" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The forefathers of stone - Pablo Neruda "Land and Man Unite" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Between frost and stones - Pablo Neruda "Landscape After a Battle" translated by Richard Schaaf

This coast full of wild stones - Pablo Neruda "Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas (1949)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The blue stone of the sailing night - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid

Rolled at your feet of stone - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf

Echoes on the deeply wounded stones - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf

Rivers splintered by ancient stone - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

Your barefoot stones concealed a tempest - Pablo Neruda "Minerals" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Sacred stone of our kitchens - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Maize" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Spent our childhood counting stones - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Numbers" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Each day was a transparent stone - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Time [Elemental Odes]" transl. by Jane Hirshfield

The hostile stones broken - Pablo Neruda "The People" transl. by Alastair Reid

With his leather drum and stone trumpet - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid

A stubborn boat of stone and music - Pablo Neruda "The Ship" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Brothers of coal and stone - Pablo Neruda "Solar Ode to the Army of the People" translated by Richard Schaaf

On the continent of solitary stone - Pablo Neruda "The Stones and the Birds" transl. by Dennis Maloney

A hand of stone winnowed cobbles - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Stones of honor for her labyrinth - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney

A spider of transparent stone - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Her banner of pure stone - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney

The churning genesis of glowing and growing stones - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XI" transl. by James Nolan

Combing out the stones - Pablo Neruda "To the Dead Poor Man" transl. by Alastair Reid

Writes letters with water and stone - Pablo Neruda "To the Traveler" transl. by Dennis Maloney

On the brutal temple stone - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Submerged in the stones' salt - Pablo Neruda "Untilled Zones" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Surrounded by abstract stones of silence - Pablo Neruda "What Spain Was Like" translated by John Felstiner

The cold stone of the South's night - Pablo Neruda "Winter in the South, on Horseback" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The interminable spine of stone and night - Pablo Neruda "Winter in the South, on Horseback" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A fly traversing a cliff of stone - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: Battle III. Comrades: An Episode"

The stone sternum of night - Urayoan Noel "cinquains written during a tropical storm"

A sea-shell turned to stone - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"

Wave the flag of stone and seed - Naomi Shihab Nye "Blood"

Puts a stone inside your heart - Naomi Shihab Nye "Breaking the Fast"

The deliberate stones crossing this season - Naomi Shihab Nye "A Definite Shore"

Tying the shoelace to the stone - Naomi Shihab Nye "His Secret"

Pretending power over my stones - Naomi Shihab Nye "Jerusalem's Smile"

Inside the steady gaze of stones - Naomi Shihab Nye "Those Whom We Do Not Know"

Sharp stones beneath the wayward lemongrass - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

The difference between water and stone - Mary Oliver "Work"

The stone whose flower opens inward - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

essential for the colors of the stone - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

The last descendant of the stone dynasty - Ekhmetjan Osman "Uyghur Impressions 6: Thousand Buddha Caves" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

A mass of black, unseemly stone - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Imperfect Thoughts"

Each stone a prayer - John Oxenham "Everymaid"

Chase of steel on stone - John Oxenham "Everymaid"

In stony hands that pray for ever - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)

And walked barefoot on the sharp stones - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"

Skipping stones into that sweet vanishing point - Andre F. Peltier "Dissolving Daylight Sundae"

Stones worn smooth with patience - Kiki Petrosino "Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County"

Burned in my skin like a stone - Kiki Petrosino "Pastoral"

To steal blood from stone - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"

Near its stones and chapel doors - Jon Pineda "Cinque Terre"

Not a stone tell where I lie - Alexander Pope "Ode on Solitude"

Echoed from the dungeon stone - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Red Fisherman; or, the Devil's Decoy"

A scorpion under every stone - Praxilla "Adonis, Dying" (transl. by John Dillon)

The stone forest alive with limestone - Khadijah Queen "Reclusionary"

The last flat stone in a river - Paige Quinones "Ode to Loss"

A stone wall smothered by what fell - Charles Rafferty "Snowfall After Hearing Hard News"

A field with a stone on its heart - Dahlia Ravikovich "The Blue West" transl. by Chana Bloch

Because we lifted a stone from the bloodless river - Roger Reeves "Beneath the Perseids"

Tears rolled down a cheek of stone - Ariana Reines "The Economy"

Thumb-printed on the quarried stone - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

As the vulture fell like a flung stone - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

In the gray stone of your face - Lola Ridge "To Alexander Berkman"

In the cold lap of alien stones - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Be set free from the stone - Rainer Maria Rilke "Song of the Statue" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Weep always for my stone - Rainer Maria Rilke "Song of the Statue" transl. by Jessie Lemont

In the lap of alien stones - Rainer Maria Rilke "What Will You Do?"

The stone cried out for vengeance - Rennell Rodd "Une Heure Viendra Qui Tout Paiera"

Now her own sister in stone - Isaac Rosenberg "Spring, 1916"

Which gold and stone and spices bear - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"

Fill our lap with dust and stones - Rumi "Aspiration" transl. by R.A. Nicholson

Becoming again an opaque stone - Rumi "New Moon, Hilal" transl. by Coleman Barks

Throw stones at a mirror - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks

Reborn in stone in wind in water - Sonia Sanchez "On the Occasion of Essence's Twenty-fifth Anniversary"

Stone and steel of your sleeping numbers - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

With shattered stones of life - Margaret E. Sangster "The Phoenix"

Underneath a wall of mottled stone - Margaret E. Sangster "Wood Magic"

Brightens the galaxy of sister stones - George Santayana "Avila"

The stone endures in silence - George Santayana "Mont Brevent"

Hunger turned the very stones to food - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"

Stumbling over stock and stone - Friedrich Schiller "The Peasants"

Stones charcoaled with ritual fire - Ann K. Schwader "Cave Bear Dreams"

Built their lives of stone & gold - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"

Each stone a miracle of memory - Teresa J. Scollon "Poem to My Brothers and Sisters"

With eyes that cursed her very stones - Frederick George Scott "Dion"

Pass great worlds of silent stone - Frederick George Scott "My Lattice"

A second shock boiling its stone to your heart - Anne Sexton "All My Pretty Ones"

Stones of worth they thinly placed - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LII"

Like weights of icy stone - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

An ocean raging within a stone - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"

Sweet green woods with heart of stone - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Lover"

Eyes of glass hooves of stone - Joyce Sidman "The Gray Ones"

Throw a few stones into the belly of the night - Joyce Sidman "Heartless"

Formed kingdoms at the foot of a vanishing stone - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

Narrow miracles and answers set to stone - Jake Skeets "Anthropocenic"

Masons laying courses of stone ascending - Tom Sleigh "The Parallel Cathedral"

In the grim serenity of stone - Clark Ashton Smith "Image"

Mirrors made of lucid stone - Clark Ashton Smith "Impression"

That rots the stone of fundamental spheres - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"

No shining words of stone - Clark Ashton Smith "A Precept"

Prison is a plantation made of stone & steel - Danez Smith "C.R.E.A.M."

Like a small stone against her back - Hope Anita Smith "Sleepover"

A monument of moon-white stone - Tracy K. Smith "Everybody's Autobiography"

A cloud of bees from the stone - Brian Sneeden "Memory is Blood Soluble"

Ancient boundary stone on the edge - Marin Sorescu "To the Sea" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Slow-withering stick and stone - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"

An unanswered crying turned to stone - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Thrown me down on a stony shore - Elizabeth Spires "Troubadour at a Fork in the Road"

The luck of all the draws is the weight of stone - A.E. Stallings "Sisyphus"

Lift the anchor from each stone boat - Frank Stanford "My Day Is Over"

Anger in oil and stone - George Sterling "Earth Song"

The twilight of those sapphire stones - George Sterling "Ocean Sunsets"

The boat was built of stones - Wallace Stevens "Prologues to What Is Possible"

The stones in your boots are the rubble of time - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

Break your breast in murdering stone - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

A stratum of solid blue stone - Su Tung-p'o "White Crane Hill" transl. by Burton Watson

Unshed tears that lie like stones upon it - Carmen Sylva "Sadness"

Preconceptions dug in stone and atmosphere - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]

Endless prayers in stone - Jane Taylor "The Squire's Pew"

Kicking stones across the temple yard - Keith Taylor "Aegina: After School"

Balanced on a strand of swaying stone - Edward Wyndham Tennant "Home Thoughts in Laventie"

Viewing time is a stoning - Russell Thorburn "The TV Guide as the Book of Job"

The smallest stone of the self - Susan Tichy "Public Speech"

The stone of self-control - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Big Bang as Seen on a Chrysanthemum Stone"

Follow the bleached stones home - Kristen Tracy "Contemplating Light"

Making each stone a matchbook - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"

A crown of curious stones - Iris Tree "Flame"

I laid my heart on a stone - Iris Tree "[I laid my heart on a stone]"

Sketched by moths holding to nearby stones - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"

The dead stand up in stone - Natasha Trethewey "Pilgrimage"

This stone river knows what you have done - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

Falls among tiles and stones - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson

A garnet stone to match my gift - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

Faintly on the stone symbols of his desire - W.J. Turner "The Caves of Auvergne"

Count down stone steps into the dark - Chase Twichell "Downstairs in Dreams"

Between the moss and the stone - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"

Piercing the stubborn stones - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

Agonies of iron and stone - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

Surged from the stars and stones - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"

The fallen stones give shape to a new structure - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

Stardust standing amidst a field of stones - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Stardust"

The mountain has grown weary of its stone - Mark Van Doren "High Meadows"

Their walls are compacted of heavy stones - Henry van Dyke "The Great Cities"

Bright joy amid my stones - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: St. George" transl. by Alma Strettell

Like stones fallen from the sky - Ocean Vuong "Aubade with Burning City"

The stone slabs of forces fallen - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament I"

Coming home to cook white stones - Wei Ying-wu "Sent to the Taoist Holy Man of Ch'uan-chiao" transl. by Burton Watson

Moss gentles my broken stones - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Hore Abbey"

Sand and stones and bits of shell - Paul West "The Cumberbunce"

Which married star to stone - Richard Wilbur "Trismegistus"

Lips of flame and heart of stone - Oscar Wilde "Impression du Matin"

Crimson petals spilled among the stones - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

Lady of rivers strewn with stones - William Carlos Williams "First Praise"

To reconcile the people and the stones - William Carlos Williams "A Sort of a Song"

Morning brown-stone and slate - William Carlos Williams "To a Solitary Disciple"

One opaque stone of a cloud - William Carlos Williams "Winter Sunset"

Without the power of stone - Nancy Wood "The Sacred Songs of Our Ancestors"

On the stones of the imagination - Charles Wright "Four Dog Night"

Life in stone bound fast - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]

Bubbles blown from the opal stone - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"

Slanted pastures fenced with stone - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"

Intoxicated with gems and precious stones - "X: Mexica Xopancuicatl Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song of the Mexicans, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Beloved stones rain down - "XII: Xopancuicatl Nenonotzalcuicatl Ipampa in Aquique Amo on Mixtilia in Yaoc | A Spring Song, a Song of Exhortation, Because Certain Ones Did Not Go to the War" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Trod upon like paving stones - "XV: Tezozomoctli ic Motecpac | The Reign of Tezozomoctli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Strong as a cavern of stone - "XV: Tezozomoctli ic Motecpac | The Reign of Tezozomoctli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Cementing together precious stones - "XXI: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of the Huexotzincos" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Mother of Stone, Cybele - Stephen Yenser "Petition on Santorini"
In bitter London's heart of stone - Francis Brett Young "The Pavement"

I had no stone of scorn to fling - Francis Brett Young "The Pavement"

The dandelion blooms in a garden of stone - Kevin Young "Snapdragon"

No shatter and stone - Javier Zamora "Pump Water from the Well"

There is a discretion in stone - Matthew Zapruder "Brooklyn with a New Beginning"

In a deep place, pillowed by stone - Zheng Min "The Gift of Life #6" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

Over the backbones of old stones - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 11" transl. by Katherine Silver


The past becomes a broken altar-stone - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"


Made of birthstone & birchbark - John McCarthy "I Wanted to Save Her but the Trailer Park Was a Chasm"


The names those noteless burial-stones display - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan


Cobble/Cobblestone.


Jesus leaned on the cornerstone - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"

The cornerstone in Truth is laid - Henry van Dyke "For the Friends at Hurstmont"


A grapestone choked Anacreon and hushed his song - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"


The groom among the gravestones - Sonya Taaffe "He Should Marry the Daughter of the Angel of Death"

Still as gravestones and as hard - Jane Yolen "Baba Yaga Has Tea with Kostchai the Deathless"


Where Life is at her grindstone set - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

Who have turned the Devil's Grindstone - Ruth Comfort Mitchell "He Went for a Soldier"


Hailstones galloping across the hard earth - Chris Dombrowski "Strange Lullaby"


Where headstones claw up through the clouds - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

The milestones into headstones change - James Russell Lowell "Sixty-Eighth Birthday"


Hearthstone.


Righteousness in inkstone underfoot - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"

Wine mixing with cherry blossoms and inkstone - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"


The keystone of his airy bridge - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"


The stone forest alive with limestone - Khadijah Queen "Reclusionary"

Through limestone caverns of mistakes - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"


Had passed some milestone unaware - Dana Gioia "The Road"

The milestones into headstones change - James Russell Lowell "Sixty-Eighth Birthday"

The gleam of the milestones you must pass - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XI. The Lodger"


Millstone.


With a sandstone faith still worn - Rebecca G. Biber "Artichoke"


A slingstone whirled for the desperate - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"


Platters of fungus climbing like stepping stones - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"

Stepping-stones of dust - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"

Beneath their feet a living stepping-stone - Margaret Widdemer "The Old Suffragist"


Stone-dust on his tongue - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"


Graffiti on the stonework - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"


To tempt the stony foot of time - Elizabeth Bartlett "All This, Before"

The dry wind through stony streets - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Refugees"

Stony wings and bleak glory - Louise Bogan "Late"

Turns round a stony face - Arthur Colton "When All the Brooks Have Run Away"

In the stony deserts of the city - Helen Gray Cone "Soldiers of the Light"

And bare each stony scar - Christopher Pearce Cranch "December"

The stony sermons of the street - Austin Dobson "Prologue"

These heights of stony solitude - Helen Parry Eden "The Ascent"

Peering toward some stony land - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"

Making his stony ribs thy stony stairs - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Her stony eyes revealed - G.H. Johnstone "Summer"

The ways of stony London's waifs and strays - Henry S. Leigh "A Very Common Child"

Out of my stony heart has struck a tear - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"

Eyes stony smooth shut in moonlight - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

Stony face with bulldog jaws - Diane Wakoski "The Photos"


The thunder-stone flung forth - Edward Dowden "A Day of Defection"


The fiery tombstone of a cabbage - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"

Tombstone tapestries of digital memories - Sandra J. Lindow "Tombstone Tapestries"

Dread of making another tombstone - Robert Pinsky "First Things to Hand: 2. Book"


Your names as a talisman and a touchstone - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"


Listened for his whetstone on the breeze - Robert Frost "The Tuft of Flowers"


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