Potential Titles: Life
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somethingdarkerEver prompt in the business of life - A.L.O.E. "Hymn of Industry"
None could afford even these surrogates for life - Duane Ackerson "Exiling the Earth"
Usurped his life at a moment's notice - Duane Ackerson "The Killer's Suicide Note"
Though a few show some flicker of life - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"
The first liquid the place of beginning life - Linda Addison "Evolving"
The undead life between my pages - Mary Alexandra Agner "Book of the Dead Woman"
All life's purpose at her feet - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
Life's fountain springing from eternity- Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"
Recognize the habit of his life - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"
Brought to life by the wind only - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"
Join the fray of an awakened life - Julia Alvarez "What We Ask For"
Through every step of life's endurance parade - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"
Carved on Life's facade of hours - Auguste Angellier "The Garland of Sleep" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Forgive life for happening - Maya Angelou "Old Folks Laugh"
In the memorized chain of life - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel of names"
Dead in life, alive in death - Simon Armitage "Poundland"
More than life to me - John Ashbery "The New Higher"
Life whittled down to fiction - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Thin"
Life is lanterned into Dream - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Nantucket Windows"
From the ashes of its first life - Rebecca Baggett "Chestnut"
Joy of strife with life's wild fates - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"
A partisan witness to the uneasy union of life and loss - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
The din of life from yonder towers - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"
Enchantments of art and life - Rita Banerjee "Sleep"
The breathless life of a jar - Mary Jo Bang "Chicago"
The crosshairs of a hidden life - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"
And live the waiting life - Mary Jo Bang "Masquerade: After Beckmann"
From one life to the next - Rachel Barenblat "So Much (Ahavah Rabbah)"
Orpheus sang to life his buried joy - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"
A life's receipts in black and white - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Test"
Smoothed the seams of her life - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"
Culled from out Life's forest - Ardelia Maria Barton "Autumn"
The burdens of life's yesterday - Ardelia Maria Barton "Do Not Borrow Trouble"
The deepest notes of life - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Song"
Pearls strung on Life's chain - Ardelia Maria Barton "To a Friend on Her Birthday"
Life's fragile athlete - Charles Baudelaire "The Soul of Wine" transl. not credited
Allowing the syntax of one life to persist - Michael Bazzett "The Revisionist"
And change life's desert to a living green - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
And climbed the ladder of swords that men call Life - Stephen Vincent Benet "After Pharsalla"
Roll your hands in the honey of life - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
Small and obvious life fogged every wonder - William Rose Benét "The City"
Did thus weld bricks to life - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Dream of Samarkand"
A posse of ghosts chasing down life - Paul Bernstein "Night Mares: a Cinquain"
Washed in life's river - William Blake "Night"
As if life were a visit - Robert Bly "Wallace Stevens and Florence"
To stop the revolving monster of life - Max Bodenheim "Baby"
Crowding life into seven words - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
Who sway in and out of the waters of life - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Handpainted Chinaware" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Some piece of my pristine life - Jaswinder Bolina "Postcards"
Who by a life heroic conquers - Sarah Knowles Bolton "The Inevitable"
To waste the life against a stubborn will - Arna Bontemps "The Day-Breakers"
Roam the empty highways in search of life - Bruce Boston "Ghost People"
The wasted alternatives of life are unveiled - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
When night makes life unwary - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
And speak from the top of life - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
Measures out the earth in lines of life - Gordon Bottomley "The Ploughman"
Life's circles spread their limits wider - John Philip Bourke "At Parting"
That mirrors well my life of yesterday - John Philip Bourke "At Parting"
While Discord plays on life's guitar - John Philip Bourke "The Golden Age"
Dull threads mingle life's woof between - John Philip Bourke "Till Day Is Done"
A kite of hope in life or hope in death - Louise Morey Bowman "The Birth-Night"
The sudden turn of life on the air - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
In life's book of years - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
Life's mingled lights and shadows - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
The summit of life's shadowed hill - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
Behind my mask of life - Eloise Briton "The Two Flames"
In the path of life you sought your prize - Vera M. Brittain "The Only Son"
When all troubled burns life's flame - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
Threw Eden sunshine on life's way - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
If they bear the flowers of life or death - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"
Outside flick of life at the mercy of these coming winds - Nickole Brown "Mercy"
Delighted by life's parade throwing its confetti down - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
Bits of life amidst the spores of stillness - Paul Cameron Brown "Devastation"
Life's puzzle solved - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
And life's June goes for ever - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A June Memory"
Witness of life’s race - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet XXXIX in Sonnets from the Portuguese
Life to guide the fiery barb - William Cullen Bryant "Song of Marion's Men"
The rainbow to the storms of life - Byron [untitled]
All who tossed on life's wild sea - H.C. "Lines to Death" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
That bitter hour drained the life from me - Ethna Carbery "The Love-Talker"
One white hour of life - Bliss Carman "A Sea Child"
The cold Norns who pattern life and rest - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"
In all hours of life and death - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
Sweet life given to a soul in bitterness clad - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"
Life's chalice is empty - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
Brim up Life's chalice - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
The distance between my life and myself - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"
To trust life is a series of orbits - Ty Chapman "Alone in bed thinking about another breakup"
Levelled with the life of Job - King Charles I "A Royal Lamentation"
Dresses your life in the tidiest wallpaper - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"
Love is but an inn upon life's way - Jose Santos Chocano "A Song of the Road" transl. by John Pierrepont Rice
The vast shipwreck of my life's esteems - John Clare "I Am!"
The universal plagues of life - John Clare "What Is Life?"
Legions sent forth from the armies of life - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
galloping down the highway of my life - Lucille Clifton "hag riding"
The strong fresh gale of life - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
This eager rivalry of life - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob"
Reach life's golden summit - Jamie Harris Coleman "Difficulties in Life"
Lives with a separate life - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Written During a Temporary Blindness in the Year 1799"
A knot of life intwined with faith - Vittoria Colonna [Untitled] transl. by Brenda Webster
Art demands what life denies - Arthur Colton "The Herb of Grace"
Flung a challenge in the teeth of life - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
The Sensory Deprivation Tanks for Life Resistant Arrivals(tm) - Katie Condon "The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby's Delivery Will Cost"
The fevered radiance fades from life's doomed tree - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
His burning glance withered by wasting life - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Measured out the fleeting sands of life - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
The silent shuttles of life's loom - Benjamin Copeland "The Font, the Altar, and the Tomb"
Give a verse of baptism to life - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Baptised in a life of tears - James H. Cousins "Schakhe"
Out on Life's wild waters - James H. Cousins "The Southern Cross"
Gold and glamour of Life's lotus - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"
A harp that grieves for life - Countee Cullen "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time"
Though love be a day and life be nothing - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IV)"
With ordered urge toward life - T.A. Daly "To a Thrush"
Liquid life goes on - Jim Daniels "Hit and Run"
Tear life from Time's calendars - Russell W. Davenport "Poem"
To drink the breath of life - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"
Which shines a meteor through life's gloom - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Amid this wilderness of life - Lucretia Maria Davidson "To My Mother"
I am weeping for old memories of my favorite life - Megan E. Davis "My Favorite Life"
Since aspiring to a life more high - Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada "The Soul's Desire" transl. by the Benedictines of Stanbrook
Where life's shadows pass - Walter de la Mare "The Fool's Song"
The sweets of life's luxuriant May - Garcilaso de Vega "Coyed de vuestra alegre primavera" translated by Felicia Hemans
Go back to an electric life - Jay Deshpande "Actually Very Simple"
Grief for my elemental life - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
Your little draught of life - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love IX"
By a life's low venture - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXV: The Goal"
The roses in life's diverse bouquet - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXII: Gone"
Tie the strings to my life - Emily Dickinson "Tie the Strings to my Life, My Lord"
Where life's best ships were wrecked - Eric Dickinson "The Garden"
An earthly life's junctures and maze - Dom "Number Cruncher: Life and Rhetoric I"
By now it's another life's list - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
Diviner of my buried life - Edward Dowden "The Divining Rod"
An emblem fit of human life - Paul Laurence Dunbar "By the Stream"
Into the contours of a shared life - Joanne Durham "Sunrise Sonnet for My Son"
Before I set foot in life's forest - Hemantabālā Dutt "Open Thou Thy Door of Mercy" transl. by Miss Whitehouse
Measured out my life with coffee spoons - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Life is a blank anthem - Chiyuma Elliott "The Winter Mirror (Explanation)"
The jarring chords of life - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."
The fountains of my hidden life - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Friendship"
Variegated life of doubt and hope - "En Avant!" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
The only path through water & life - Fatihah Quadri Eniola "Down-Streaming"
In life's darkening duel - Gavin Ewart "To Margo"
Girdled life and death in one - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"
The score of a life you did not measure - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"
Stepped out of the myths and into his life - Joseph Fasano "Odysseus"
Waited for my life to return from the sea - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"
Bleakness of life's iron spaces - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
All the dogmas of our life - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VI. To an Outrageous Person"
The edge of a thing called life - George Blackstone Field "The Answer"
She danced life upside down - Annie Finch "Strangers"
Living my life unknown by others - Mina Florea "Remember"
In this wilderness of life there's no such crooked road - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Drinking life fully to its twisted lees - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
the amber yellow that entraps life - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"
whose essences can dissolve the black residues of life - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"
Got no parents snapped to life - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"
Life walks wreathed at last - Zona Gale "There Are Within Us Lives We Never Live"
On the edge of my life - James Galvin "Show-and-Tell"
Flings its radiance over life's changing way - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
As your life ignites - Amy Gerstler "Poof"
At the complaint counter of life - Andrea Gibson "Gender in the Key of Lyme Disease"
The truth of life before him laid - Charles Gibson "Sonnets III"
No break in life's unceasing chain - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "For Us"
Have passed life's whirlpool - Ellen Glasgow "To My Dog"
Now that life has triumphed - Louise Gluck "A Summer Garden"
The bread of life dispense - Oliver Goldsmith "Parson Gray"
A knotted life - Cynthia Grady "Log Cabin"
Through life's misty sojourn - Joseph Grant "Love's Adieu"
The brass and gold come to life in her hands - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"
The power, the rapture, and the crown of life - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
That drains with one deep draught the wine of life - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
For your brief life's faded light - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Harvested much from my acres of life - Edgar A. Guest "Looking Back"
Throws its gaunt shadow o'er our little life - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
To believe that life allows moments of sublimity - Mark Halliday "Hoops with Nets"
With hardly a glimmer of light or life - Kerry Hardie "Acceptance"
Whereon to fashion life's citadel - Thomas Hardy "Rake-Hell Muses"
at the end of another life - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."
Life's shattered cords of music - Frances E.W. Harper "Dedication Poem"
Life's dangers and alarms - Frances E.W. Harper "A Grain of Sand"
Whose book of life reads blood and gold - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LV"
Truth deciphered from life's scroll - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"
When fate bereaves life of old joys - F.W. Harvey "The Bond"
Confiding in our threads of life unspun - William Hayley "Felpham: An Epistle to Henrietta of Lavant 1814"
To lift the threads of life - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Breath of Life"
When the sands of life are spent - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Lines to Death"
An oval that's a metaphor for life - Bob Hicok "Calling him back from layoff"
Punctuating the whole of my life - Sean Hill "Hello"
The Breath of pulsing Life - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"
Nor think life's brittle thread to sever - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "Hope On--Hope Ever" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
My life and I made jokes together - Jane Hirshfield "My Life Was the Size of My Life"
The life of the unfolding ages - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Whose wine was life to me - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Bend my life to bridge the tide - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"
In life's rugged pathway - Mrs. Volney E. Howard "The Dusty White Rose"
Who were the arches the pillars of my life - Marie Howe "My Dead Friends"
Grind the fable of my life down - Jane Huffman "On Moving"
When my sands of life are run - J. Hunt, Jr. "Evening"
Scrape life from gnarled hillsides - Allison Hutchcraft "Though from Here I Can't Smell the Smoke"
Doing nothing with my exile of a life - Nazifa Islam "Stability Is a Feeling"
Because life carried on around you - Sarah Jackson "The Time Bureau Came to Careers Day"
Of inner life in an outer world - Elizabeth Jacobson "14 Love Songs"
Through the wound of my life - Omotara James "Pier 52"
The turnstiles of my life - Perry Janes "Nearly all my friends call me spoiled and ungrateful"
the premeditated activities you call life - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Puppeteer Poetica"
Denied the wines of life - Emily Pauline Johnson "Workworn"
Merely chaff from life's storehouse - Fenton Johnson "Harlem: The Black City"
Who breaks the bread of life - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"
6 lanes of life's constant motion - Camisha L. Jones "The Law of Motion"
Serene as our life in our dreams - Edward Smyth Jones "Life in a Dream"
Ere I pass life's sunset stile - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"
The first hour in a life without clocks - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
To nourish life upon the fallen leaf - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Ishtar in the ship of life - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"
No more than an undercurrent in daily life - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
In that Jazz corner of life - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"
All the broken tragedy of life - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
All the woe this life awards - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"
No desert in the land of life - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Blaspheme not thou thy sacred life, nor turn]"
Life's sweetest buds fall withered - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"
Your life a folded telescope - X.J. Kennedy "The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"
Those who would rewrite your life - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Of the Well of Life to taste - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
My life candle burning still - Kim Unsong "Life Candle"
Endowed with finite life - Kim Unsong "Universality (Buddhatva)"
Life's first, irreplaceable lover - Galway Kinnell "December Day in Honolulu"
A whole life of waiting - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"
Turning life into gray moss - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Displaces the current life - Christopher Kondrich "Object Permanence"
Skipped off into summer and the life beyond - Ted Kooser "In Early April"
A fragile old heart, the brown map of a life - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"
All the cogs of our life have broken teeth - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"
All of life compresses into a single molecule - Kien Lam "Big Bang Theory"
Holds, with such precise indifference, all the minutes of his life - Danusha Laméris "The Watch"
No faintest gust of life - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"
And taste the springs of life - Archibald Lampman "April in the Hills"
The strange bright murmur of life - Archibald Lampman "One Day"
A knowledge old as life - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
The burning grasp of life - Archibald Lampman "We Too Shall Sleep"
Life's secret is not guessed at yet - Lucy Larcom "November"
With the dim light of full, healthy life - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
Giving off hues of life - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
Your life a sluice of sensation - D.H. Lawrence "Fish"
Out of life's unfathomable dawn - D.H. Lawrence "Tortoise Shout"
Life has grown strange and cold - Emma Lazarus "Age and Death"
Continuous life beyond this silvery cloud - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
Within the sacred bowl of life - Katy Lederer "Mass Effect"
Smaller than the egg of your first life - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"
Sucking life up from the acrid marsh - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
Sprinkles life with loveliest flowers - Henry S. Leigh "The Ballad of the Barytone"
Considerate friends on life's pilgrimage - Lermontof "Prayer [Praying now earnestly, Mother of God, come I]" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
The frigid cauldron that is life - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"
Turning my life to shame and candle - J. Patrick Lewis "the Auntie"
Into the middle of your life - Robin Coste Lewis "Math"
Left to keep subtracting from my life - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"
Entelechy wrapped in scales of life and death - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"
The soft life of your footprints - Ada Limon "The Same Thing"
A minnow's life in the current - Ada Limon "Sting"
The tree of life has been shaken - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Meeting"
Your fingers warm after a life in the cold - P. H. Low "Ode"
A flaming nebula rims my life - Amy Lowell "Apology"
Leave this shifting life of tents - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
The comedy of life rehearse - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
When life was its own spur - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
Better than a life of caves - James Russell Lowell "Pessimoptimism"
With pockets filled for life - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"
Life's surrender in the fairy towers - Eric MacKay "Letter II. Sorrow"
All bane of life and bitter - Percy MacKaye "Fight: The Tale of a Gunner at Plattsburgh"
And life be filled with light - Fiona MacLeod "The Sorrow of Delight"
You two with your one life - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
This unnamed paradox his life - Douglas Malloch "Life"
The hinge of a better life - Randall Mann "A Better Life"
The briar thrilled into jocund life - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"
And drink dream-deep life's heady wine - Don Marquis "Proem"
I've been practicing curses more than half my life - Maya Marshall "Self-Portrait as a Recurring Reflection Elongated like a Length of Vertebrae"
Of life crushed unripe - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
Wisdom is life upon the tickle edge - John Masefield "Esther"
Your hands mixed the keys of life - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
The life I neglected to live - Ted Mathys "Fool's Gold"
That mysterious flame of life - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Mother" transl. by John Pollen
Two sowers in Life's field - John McCrae "Recompense"
The effort your life requires - Maureen N. McLane "They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century"
Life's wine audacious - Louis J. McQuilland "The House of the Strange Woman"
The inevitability of a scarred life - Erika Meitner "What Follows Is a Reconstruction Based on the Best Available Evidence"
No life is created in a vacuum - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"
Life in soul and shell - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
Her great word of life - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
Where Life is at her grindstone set - George Meredith "Hard Weather"
Sharpened life commands its course - George Meredith "Hard Weather"
With Life and Death I walked - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
Was not worth the life - Elizabeth Metzger "Won Exit"
My seven brief hours of mortal life - "Midges in the Sunshine"
The sands of such a life as mine - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet IX from Second April
Before my life's first gleam - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"
Carry her steps into a new life - Janice Mirikitani "For a Daughter Who Leaves"
Waits at life's swung gates - Harriet Monroe "Love Song"
Nor life's affections transient fire - James Montgomery "Friends"
The vastness of forgotten life - T. Sturge Moore "The Sea is Kind"
A man grown old in in life's dreaming - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
Life and death alike come out of the East - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
The seeds of life's queen flowers - Irene Elder Morton "My Garden Wall"
Rinsing green life's yellow waters - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Colorful Words" transl. by Joshua Freeman
And should life's sky be overcast - John Napier "Who Knows?"
Put flags where my life ventured once - J. Alan Nelson "Flags and Maps"
Defend the live coal of life - Pablo Neruda "Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas (1949)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
For life makes no amends - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
The dreams of Life's treacherous night - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"
Life pulled from impossible hollows - Caroline Harper New "Searching for Amelia [In adapting to her watery home]"
So the lime incense blew into her life - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"
And have new life in autumn's wine - Meredith Nicholson "Grape Bloom"
Spent my life on nothing - Lorine Niedecker [untitled]
Pulses of life that explode in an instant - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"
A life measured by sighs - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"
Fresh from the dawn of life - Sarah Noble-Ives "On the Shining Way"
And victor of life and silence - Yone Noguchi "Upon the Heights"
A ladder of life to heaven - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"
The wild fantastic hosts of life - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"
Because every life needs a hidden place - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stone House"
Offering me life in a different shape - Maura O'Dea "Dad Explains Dimensions at Outback Steakhouse"
The ghost of a star's past life - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Your one wild and precious life - Mary Oliver "The Summer Day"
Life's fainting pilgrims - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To E. C."
Life's threads all sorely tangled - John Oxenham "All's Well!"
Untried pilgrims of life's stormy sea - M.P. "The Vales" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]
The dense improbable life - Grace Paley "Fidelity"
Sought to mend my broken life - "The Parting of Goll from His Wife"
The understudy to her own life - Linda Pastan "Dido and Aeneas: After Purcell"
The fading half life of ambition - Linda Pastan "In the Walled Garden"
Into the gravity of my life - Linda Pastan "The New Dog"
Where life's total sum is sleep - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "An Idyll of Dandaloo"
Mark the life that haunts the emptiness - Coventry Patmore "The Shadow of Night"
The apparel of life and empire - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"
Seeing the ash of my life I burned - Chandler Peters-Durose "Rest Stop"
My life as the glass king - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
Your life lined up like azaleas - Kiki Petrosino "Prophecy"
Your life unfolding in air - Kiki Petrosino "Prophecy"
Wrangling life from the dirt - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"
To a life worth the hardness - Carl Phillips "But Waves, They Scatter"
Play out our fantasies in real life way - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Murmuring sounds of life upon another shore - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
Which life again shall animate and warm - Charles Constantine Pise "Summer Evening"
Come disguised as life - Maya C. Popa "One Way or Another"
The dusty, care-strewn paths of life - Alexander Posey "My Hermitage"
That guard the ports of life - E.J. Pratt "In Retreat"
Filtered from life's confessions - E.J. Pratt "In Retreat"
Weighed against something lighter than life - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Bright rainbow of life's stormy day - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"
Life promises only one sweet memory - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"
Collapsing my life into a vacuum - Joy Priest "When I See the Stars in the Night Sky"
The harmonious echo from our discordant life - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: A Lost Chord"
Many a tortured life is thirsting for a cooling draught - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Life dwells in the neck of the future - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "An infinite outing; or the cemetery"
Grief lives a new life as devotion - Khadijah Queen "Tower"
With life like beaded wine - Theodore H. Rand "At Minas Basin"
While sailing life's surprising ocean - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"
Such rifts among life's shadows - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "Limitations"
Dying flame of life's last fire - G.A. Raybold "The Joys of Former Years Have Fled"
If life could then depart in its contempt of dust - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Imagine another life in which we are together - m.s. RedCherries "the end cannot be me"
the translations of her life - Ariel Resnikoff "ghost canto"
Green with the flare of life - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"
A modest life punctuated with fevers - Adrienne Rich "Plaza Street and Flatbush"
About life's vanishing points - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Life deleted of its old raw fire - Lola Ridge "The White Bird"
Let the spring of life well up and drown the empty quest - Lloyd Roberts "Young Blood"
Waves that foam and riot about the seas of life - Rennell Rodd "Disillusion"
A missive from another life - Sahar Romani "Sign"
Meantime his love maintains my life - Richard Rowlands "Lullaby"
Burn the unnumbered lamps of life - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse
Memory of my torn life - Muriel Rukeyser "The Poem as Mask"
Like a star on life's wave - Abram J. Ryan "Song of the Mystic"
Life's little lantern between dark and dark - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Let life replace memory - Omar Sakr "Where I am Not"
Young love and broken life - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: II. The Park Band"
With shattered stones of life - Margaret E. Sangster "The Phoenix"
Deserted on life's barren strand - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
Through life's gates to where the dead are found - Friedrich Schiller "Man's Dignity"
Life's nervous thread with care to twist - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
Unlock yourself into a stagnant life - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"
Some fragments of his life dissolved - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Missing Time"
Unslaked by any wine save life - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"
Above life's troubled currents shine - Frederick George Scott "To My Wife"
This dead life on loan and on land - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
Live with their life on loan - Tim Seibles "All the Time Blues Villanelle"
I collect photos to collect my life - Alexandra Seidel "Seven Truths and the In-Between"
Welling back from the raw, red dawn of life - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
Free to inhabit my life - Charif Shanahan "If I Am Alive To"
Synthesized within an inch of its life - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"
Imperial light wakes love to life - "She Sits Alone" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
Instinct with infinite life - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
The thorns of life - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
Whose life is but the dying ember's glow - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
In the life we do not lead - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
Finally ready to give that old life away - Joyce Sidman "Lament for My Old Life"
Renewal of life's secret spring - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"
Life sears a path down the throat - Tracy K. Smith "In Brazil"
Cunning life keeps asking for more - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney
The parade of our mutual life - William Stafford "A Ritual to Read to Each Other"
That may fill out life's score - Clarence Victor Stahl "Sing It"
Another leaf from life's wild rose - George Sterling "Hostage"
Where Life looks forth on Time - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
In the space of life - Wallace Stevens "Chocorua to Its Neighbor"
And green vine angering for life - Wallace Stevens "Nomad Exquisite"
Life and death and the brave who walk between - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
Who shake off our fates to grasp again at life - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
No answer for life's grey monotonies - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
A whisper of life in the grey dead trees - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"
Suffering the spear of life - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 214: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Stand unshaken at the helm of life's wrecked craft - Carmen Sylva "Unrest"
The true life that I treasure still - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson
Whence the heart leaps forth to life - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
The lost language of the book of Life - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Life as information encoded in letters - Keith Taylor "Summer Teaching"
Life is but a dream whose shapes return - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
When life contracts into a vulgar span - Henry David Thoreau "Greece"
From my life's outer orbit - Eunice Tietjens "To S"
Because someone has to teach us life's bite - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"
All my life I was a hammer - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"
All my life I swung the wrong things - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"
Youth and strength and life made answer - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
In loneliness of prayer unlit by life - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"
That rivetted life with love - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"
Hoped to pluck the fruits of life - Tso Ssu "The Scholar in the Narrow Street" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Life is not made for meetings - Tu Fu "Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement" transl. by Burton Watson
Sweet trophy of life's morning - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
The difficult harvest of a life - Brian Turner "Thera"
As minutes drop from life - John Updike "Endpoint"
If life were like a rose designed - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"
you scrape for life in a vacuum - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"
Just when life is not afraid - Jean Valentine "Black Wolf"
Making for the door out of your life - Jean Valentine "The Drinker"
That holds the breath to play all songs to life - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
All of life catapulted into one day - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"
My heart in life's winter - Jones Very "The Winter Bird"
Of coral come to life in the night - R.A. Villanueva "Archipelagic"
Still looks like a life - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"
With whirlwinds sweeping all life on earth - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist
Between the seconds of life - Afaa Michael Weaver "This Morning, This First Poem"
All the old life bubbling up in me - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"
And June to brighten our life's December - Edith Wharton "June and December"
Live through a life complete - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
Life on her thousand thrones - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Wandering through life's meadows - John Hall Wheelock "Long Ago"
The life that has exhibited itself - Walt Whitman "To a Historian"
With life's great venture, in an ark of clay - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"
The morning dancing with life - Helen Hay Whitney "Music"
Pour out my life as wine - Helen Hay Whitney "To a Woman"
When the tides of life run low - Helen Hay Whitney "To the Beloved"
Amid the ruins of my shattered life - Helen Hay Whitney "Water and Wine"
Stinging all the air to life - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"
All the jarring notes of life - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"
Pulse of my heart's life - Margaret Widdemer "The Forgotten Soul"
To carry the weight of my life - John Wieners "Billie"
Cutting my life with sleep - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"
Kept my life in a small room - Kirk Wilson "Gifts"
Life's rugged road of thorns - Adolf Wolff "The Artists"
Because the flowers of life are bitter - Adolf Wolff "Confidences"
Your small breath of life - Nancy Wood "Birth Ritual"
Built my life up from very shaky ground - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"
His life from rumors freed - Sir N. Wotton "Character of a Happy Life"
Life in stone bound fast - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]
That measures its life in olive groves - Jay Wright "Somewhere between here and Belen"
To measure your life in debts - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season"
The sharpest edges of this life's perimeter - Jenny Xie "Postmemory"
Coins from another life - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
Who loves a life among fig roots - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
carry it blazing through your irradiated life - Monica Youn "Whiteacre"
Beginning a new life as rot - Dean Young "Spring Reign"
All the beauty and sorrow of my life - Cynthia Zarin "Flowers"
A soap doll coming to life - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Fragment"
Afterlife.
Life-blood in the trench Ulysses made - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Shadow"
Whose pulses play with fullest life-blood - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"
Wanting a transfusion of the reader's life blood - Diane Seuss "Toad"
A call that made the life-blood leap - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "The First American Alliance"
The skin stretched over lifedebts - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of lightning"
No lifeforms exploded from your soil - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Pointing to the life-giving water - William Carlos Williams "The Motor-Barge"
Wading out to sea to lure lifeguards - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"
Count with lifeless breath - John McCrae "Penance"
Pale about the lifeless fountain - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Lifeline.
Suspended like a lifelong doubt - Mary Jo Bang "Mask Photo"
Terracotta for a lifelong love - Gerri Leen "Final Resting Place"
Lifelong stress and toil of tears - E. Nesbit "Love and Life"
My lifelong dispute with time - Valencia Robin "Oil Pastels"
Joy sufficient for my life-old thirst - Naomi Long Madgett "Old Wine"
Hobbies to cheer immortal lifespans - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"
Though fiercer thunder drains my life-springs - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
A lifestyle fueled by vodka - Yona Harvey "You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love"
The cyborg lifestyle has its thrills - Ann K. Schwader "It Wears You"
Lifetime.
Preventing the evolution of xenophobic metalife - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"
Some small folded breath of otherlife - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"
Still Life.
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None could afford even these surrogates for life - Duane Ackerson "Exiling the Earth"
Usurped his life at a moment's notice - Duane Ackerson "The Killer's Suicide Note"
Though a few show some flicker of life - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"
The first liquid the place of beginning life - Linda Addison "Evolving"
The undead life between my pages - Mary Alexandra Agner "Book of the Dead Woman"
All life's purpose at her feet - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"
Life's fountain springing from eternity- Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"
Recognize the habit of his life - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"
Brought to life by the wind only - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"
Join the fray of an awakened life - Julia Alvarez "What We Ask For"
Through every step of life's endurance parade - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"
Carved on Life's facade of hours - Auguste Angellier "The Garland of Sleep" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Forgive life for happening - Maya Angelou "Old Folks Laugh"
In the memorized chain of life - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel of names"
Dead in life, alive in death - Simon Armitage "Poundland"
More than life to me - John Ashbery "The New Higher"
Life whittled down to fiction - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Thin"
Life is lanterned into Dream - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Nantucket Windows"
From the ashes of its first life - Rebecca Baggett "Chestnut"
Joy of strife with life's wild fates - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"
A partisan witness to the uneasy union of life and loss - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
The din of life from yonder towers - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"
Enchantments of art and life - Rita Banerjee "Sleep"
The breathless life of a jar - Mary Jo Bang "Chicago"
The crosshairs of a hidden life - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"
And live the waiting life - Mary Jo Bang "Masquerade: After Beckmann"
From one life to the next - Rachel Barenblat "So Much (Ahavah Rabbah)"
Orpheus sang to life his buried joy - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"
A life's receipts in black and white - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Test"
Smoothed the seams of her life - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"
Culled from out Life's forest - Ardelia Maria Barton "Autumn"
The burdens of life's yesterday - Ardelia Maria Barton "Do Not Borrow Trouble"
The deepest notes of life - Ardelia Maria Barton "Love's Song"
Pearls strung on Life's chain - Ardelia Maria Barton "To a Friend on Her Birthday"
Life's fragile athlete - Charles Baudelaire "The Soul of Wine" transl. not credited
Allowing the syntax of one life to persist - Michael Bazzett "The Revisionist"
And change life's desert to a living green - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
And climbed the ladder of swords that men call Life - Stephen Vincent Benet "After Pharsalla"
Roll your hands in the honey of life - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
Small and obvious life fogged every wonder - William Rose Benét "The City"
Did thus weld bricks to life - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Dream of Samarkand"
A posse of ghosts chasing down life - Paul Bernstein "Night Mares: a Cinquain"
Washed in life's river - William Blake "Night"
As if life were a visit - Robert Bly "Wallace Stevens and Florence"
To stop the revolving monster of life - Max Bodenheim "Baby"
Crowding life into seven words - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
Who sway in and out of the waters of life - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Handpainted Chinaware" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Some piece of my pristine life - Jaswinder Bolina "Postcards"
Who by a life heroic conquers - Sarah Knowles Bolton "The Inevitable"
To waste the life against a stubborn will - Arna Bontemps "The Day-Breakers"
Roam the empty highways in search of life - Bruce Boston "Ghost People"
The wasted alternatives of life are unveiled - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
When night makes life unwary - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
And speak from the top of life - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"
Measures out the earth in lines of life - Gordon Bottomley "The Ploughman"
Life's circles spread their limits wider - John Philip Bourke "At Parting"
That mirrors well my life of yesterday - John Philip Bourke "At Parting"
While Discord plays on life's guitar - John Philip Bourke "The Golden Age"
Dull threads mingle life's woof between - John Philip Bourke "Till Day Is Done"
A kite of hope in life or hope in death - Louise Morey Bowman "The Birth-Night"
The sudden turn of life on the air - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
In life's book of years - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
Life's mingled lights and shadows - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
The summit of life's shadowed hill - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"
Behind my mask of life - Eloise Briton "The Two Flames"
In the path of life you sought your prize - Vera M. Brittain "The Only Son"
When all troubled burns life's flame - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
Threw Eden sunshine on life's way - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
If they bear the flowers of life or death - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"
Outside flick of life at the mercy of these coming winds - Nickole Brown "Mercy"
Delighted by life's parade throwing its confetti down - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
Bits of life amidst the spores of stillness - Paul Cameron Brown "Devastation"
Life's puzzle solved - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
And life's June goes for ever - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A June Memory"
Witness of life’s race - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet XXXIX in Sonnets from the Portuguese
Life to guide the fiery barb - William Cullen Bryant "Song of Marion's Men"
The rainbow to the storms of life - Byron [untitled]
All who tossed on life's wild sea - H.C. "Lines to Death" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
That bitter hour drained the life from me - Ethna Carbery "The Love-Talker"
One white hour of life - Bliss Carman "A Sea Child"
The cold Norns who pattern life and rest - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"
In all hours of life and death - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
Sweet life given to a soul in bitterness clad - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"
Life's chalice is empty - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
Brim up Life's chalice - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
The distance between my life and myself - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"
To trust life is a series of orbits - Ty Chapman "Alone in bed thinking about another breakup"
Levelled with the life of Job - King Charles I "A Royal Lamentation"
Dresses your life in the tidiest wallpaper - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"
Love is but an inn upon life's way - Jose Santos Chocano "A Song of the Road" transl. by John Pierrepont Rice
The vast shipwreck of my life's esteems - John Clare "I Am!"
The universal plagues of life - John Clare "What Is Life?"
Legions sent forth from the armies of life - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
galloping down the highway of my life - Lucille Clifton "hag riding"
The strong fresh gale of life - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
This eager rivalry of life - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob"
Reach life's golden summit - Jamie Harris Coleman "Difficulties in Life"
Lives with a separate life - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Written During a Temporary Blindness in the Year 1799"
A knot of life intwined with faith - Vittoria Colonna [Untitled] transl. by Brenda Webster
Art demands what life denies - Arthur Colton "The Herb of Grace"
Flung a challenge in the teeth of life - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
The Sensory Deprivation Tanks for Life Resistant Arrivals(tm) - Katie Condon "The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby's Delivery Will Cost"
The fevered radiance fades from life's doomed tree - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
His burning glance withered by wasting life - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Measured out the fleeting sands of life - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
The silent shuttles of life's loom - Benjamin Copeland "The Font, the Altar, and the Tomb"
Give a verse of baptism to life - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Baptised in a life of tears - James H. Cousins "Schakhe"
Out on Life's wild waters - James H. Cousins "The Southern Cross"
Gold and glamour of Life's lotus - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"
A harp that grieves for life - Countee Cullen "To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time"
Though love be a day and life be nothing - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IV)"
With ordered urge toward life - T.A. Daly "To a Thrush"
Liquid life goes on - Jim Daniels "Hit and Run"
Tear life from Time's calendars - Russell W. Davenport "Poem"
To drink the breath of life - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"
Which shines a meteor through life's gloom - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"
Amid this wilderness of life - Lucretia Maria Davidson "To My Mother"
I am weeping for old memories of my favorite life - Megan E. Davis "My Favorite Life"
Since aspiring to a life more high - Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada "The Soul's Desire" transl. by the Benedictines of Stanbrook
Where life's shadows pass - Walter de la Mare "The Fool's Song"
The sweets of life's luxuriant May - Garcilaso de Vega "Coyed de vuestra alegre primavera" translated by Felicia Hemans
Go back to an electric life - Jay Deshpande "Actually Very Simple"
Grief for my elemental life - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
Your little draught of life - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love IX"
By a life's low venture - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXV: The Goal"
The roses in life's diverse bouquet - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXII: Gone"
Tie the strings to my life - Emily Dickinson "Tie the Strings to my Life, My Lord"
Where life's best ships were wrecked - Eric Dickinson "The Garden"
An earthly life's junctures and maze - Dom "Number Cruncher: Life and Rhetoric I"
By now it's another life's list - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
Diviner of my buried life - Edward Dowden "The Divining Rod"
An emblem fit of human life - Paul Laurence Dunbar "By the Stream"
Into the contours of a shared life - Joanne Durham "Sunrise Sonnet for My Son"
Before I set foot in life's forest - Hemantabālā Dutt "Open Thou Thy Door of Mercy" transl. by Miss Whitehouse
Measured out my life with coffee spoons - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Life is a blank anthem - Chiyuma Elliott "The Winter Mirror (Explanation)"
The jarring chords of life - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."
The fountains of my hidden life - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Friendship"
Variegated life of doubt and hope - "En Avant!" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
The only path through water & life - Fatihah Quadri Eniola "Down-Streaming"
In life's darkening duel - Gavin Ewart "To Margo"
Girdled life and death in one - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"
The score of a life you did not measure - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"
Stepped out of the myths and into his life - Joseph Fasano "Odysseus"
Waited for my life to return from the sea - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"
Bleakness of life's iron spaces - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
All the dogmas of our life - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VI. To an Outrageous Person"
The edge of a thing called life - George Blackstone Field "The Answer"
She danced life upside down - Annie Finch "Strangers"
Living my life unknown by others - Mina Florea "Remember"
In this wilderness of life there's no such crooked road - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Drinking life fully to its twisted lees - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
the amber yellow that entraps life - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"
whose essences can dissolve the black residues of life - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"
Got no parents snapped to life - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"
Life walks wreathed at last - Zona Gale "There Are Within Us Lives We Never Live"
On the edge of my life - James Galvin "Show-and-Tell"
Flings its radiance over life's changing way - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
As your life ignites - Amy Gerstler "Poof"
At the complaint counter of life - Andrea Gibson "Gender in the Key of Lyme Disease"
The truth of life before him laid - Charles Gibson "Sonnets III"
No break in life's unceasing chain - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "For Us"
Have passed life's whirlpool - Ellen Glasgow "To My Dog"
Now that life has triumphed - Louise Gluck "A Summer Garden"
The bread of life dispense - Oliver Goldsmith "Parson Gray"
A knotted life - Cynthia Grady "Log Cabin"
Through life's misty sojourn - Joseph Grant "Love's Adieu"
The brass and gold come to life in her hands - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"
The power, the rapture, and the crown of life - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
That drains with one deep draught the wine of life - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
For your brief life's faded light - Gretta "The Return to Scenes of Childhood" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Harvested much from my acres of life - Edgar A. Guest "Looking Back"
Throws its gaunt shadow o'er our little life - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
To believe that life allows moments of sublimity - Mark Halliday "Hoops with Nets"
With hardly a glimmer of light or life - Kerry Hardie "Acceptance"
Whereon to fashion life's citadel - Thomas Hardy "Rake-Hell Muses"
at the end of another life - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."
Life's shattered cords of music - Frances E.W. Harper "Dedication Poem"
Life's dangers and alarms - Frances E.W. Harper "A Grain of Sand"
Whose book of life reads blood and gold - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LV"
Truth deciphered from life's scroll - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Sonnet [The whirling stars that shower swift-winged light]"
When fate bereaves life of old joys - F.W. Harvey "The Bond"
Confiding in our threads of life unspun - William Hayley "Felpham: An Epistle to Henrietta of Lavant 1814"
To lift the threads of life - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Breath of Life"
When the sands of life are spent - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Lines to Death"
An oval that's a metaphor for life - Bob Hicok "Calling him back from layoff"
Punctuating the whole of my life - Sean Hill "Hello"
The Breath of pulsing Life - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"
Nor think life's brittle thread to sever - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "Hope On--Hope Ever" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
My life and I made jokes together - Jane Hirshfield "My Life Was the Size of My Life"
The life of the unfolding ages - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Whose wine was life to me - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Bend my life to bridge the tide - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"
In life's rugged pathway - Mrs. Volney E. Howard "The Dusty White Rose"
Who were the arches the pillars of my life - Marie Howe "My Dead Friends"
Grind the fable of my life down - Jane Huffman "On Moving"
When my sands of life are run - J. Hunt, Jr. "Evening"
Scrape life from gnarled hillsides - Allison Hutchcraft "Though from Here I Can't Smell the Smoke"
Doing nothing with my exile of a life - Nazifa Islam "Stability Is a Feeling"
Because life carried on around you - Sarah Jackson "The Time Bureau Came to Careers Day"
Of inner life in an outer world - Elizabeth Jacobson "14 Love Songs"
Through the wound of my life - Omotara James "Pier 52"
The turnstiles of my life - Perry Janes "Nearly all my friends call me spoiled and ungrateful"
the premeditated activities you call life - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Puppeteer Poetica"
Denied the wines of life - Emily Pauline Johnson "Workworn"
Merely chaff from life's storehouse - Fenton Johnson "Harlem: The Black City"
Who breaks the bread of life - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"
6 lanes of life's constant motion - Camisha L. Jones "The Law of Motion"
Serene as our life in our dreams - Edward Smyth Jones "Life in a Dream"
Ere I pass life's sunset stile - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"
The first hour in a life without clocks - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
To nourish life upon the fallen leaf - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Ishtar in the ship of life - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"
No more than an undercurrent in daily life - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
In that Jazz corner of life - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"
All the broken tragedy of life - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
All the woe this life awards - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"
No desert in the land of life - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Blaspheme not thou thy sacred life, nor turn]"
Life's sweetest buds fall withered - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"
Your life a folded telescope - X.J. Kennedy "The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"
Those who would rewrite your life - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Of the Well of Life to taste - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
My life candle burning still - Kim Unsong "Life Candle"
Endowed with finite life - Kim Unsong "Universality (Buddhatva)"
Life's first, irreplaceable lover - Galway Kinnell "December Day in Honolulu"
A whole life of waiting - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"
Turning life into gray moss - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"
Displaces the current life - Christopher Kondrich "Object Permanence"
Skipped off into summer and the life beyond - Ted Kooser "In Early April"
A fragile old heart, the brown map of a life - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"
All the cogs of our life have broken teeth - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"
All of life compresses into a single molecule - Kien Lam "Big Bang Theory"
Holds, with such precise indifference, all the minutes of his life - Danusha Laméris "The Watch"
No faintest gust of life - Archibald Lampman "Alcyone"
And taste the springs of life - Archibald Lampman "April in the Hills"
The strange bright murmur of life - Archibald Lampman "One Day"
A knowledge old as life - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
The burning grasp of life - Archibald Lampman "We Too Shall Sleep"
Life's secret is not guessed at yet - Lucy Larcom "November"
With the dim light of full, healthy life - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
Giving off hues of life - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
Your life a sluice of sensation - D.H. Lawrence "Fish"
Out of life's unfathomable dawn - D.H. Lawrence "Tortoise Shout"
Life has grown strange and cold - Emma Lazarus "Age and Death"
Continuous life beyond this silvery cloud - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
Within the sacred bowl of life - Katy Lederer "Mass Effect"
Smaller than the egg of your first life - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"
Sucking life up from the acrid marsh - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"
Sprinkles life with loveliest flowers - Henry S. Leigh "The Ballad of the Barytone"
Considerate friends on life's pilgrimage - Lermontof "Prayer [Praying now earnestly, Mother of God, come I]" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
The frigid cauldron that is life - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"
Turning my life to shame and candle - J. Patrick Lewis "the Auntie"
Into the middle of your life - Robin Coste Lewis "Math"
Left to keep subtracting from my life - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"
Entelechy wrapped in scales of life and death - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"
The soft life of your footprints - Ada Limon "The Same Thing"
A minnow's life in the current - Ada Limon "Sting"
The tree of life has been shaken - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Meeting"
Your fingers warm after a life in the cold - P. H. Low "Ode"
A flaming nebula rims my life - Amy Lowell "Apology"
Leave this shifting life of tents - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
The comedy of life rehearse - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
When life was its own spur - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
Better than a life of caves - James Russell Lowell "Pessimoptimism"
With pockets filled for life - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"
Life's surrender in the fairy towers - Eric MacKay "Letter II. Sorrow"
All bane of life and bitter - Percy MacKaye "Fight: The Tale of a Gunner at Plattsburgh"
And life be filled with light - Fiona MacLeod "The Sorrow of Delight"
You two with your one life - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
This unnamed paradox his life - Douglas Malloch "Life"
The hinge of a better life - Randall Mann "A Better Life"
The briar thrilled into jocund life - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"
And drink dream-deep life's heady wine - Don Marquis "Proem"
I've been practicing curses more than half my life - Maya Marshall "Self-Portrait as a Recurring Reflection Elongated like a Length of Vertebrae"
Of life crushed unripe - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
Wisdom is life upon the tickle edge - John Masefield "Esther"
Your hands mixed the keys of life - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"
The life I neglected to live - Ted Mathys "Fool's Gold"
That mysterious flame of life - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Mother" transl. by John Pollen
Two sowers in Life's field - John McCrae "Recompense"
The effort your life requires - Maureen N. McLane "They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century"
Life's wine audacious - Louis J. McQuilland "The House of the Strange Woman"
The inevitability of a scarred life - Erika Meitner "What Follows Is a Reconstruction Based on the Best Available Evidence"
No life is created in a vacuum - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"
Life in soul and shell - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
Her great word of life - George Meredith "Earth and Man"
Where Life is at her grindstone set - George Meredith "Hard Weather"
Sharpened life commands its course - George Meredith "Hard Weather"
With Life and Death I walked - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
Was not worth the life - Elizabeth Metzger "Won Exit"
My seven brief hours of mortal life - "Midges in the Sunshine"
The sands of such a life as mine - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet IX from Second April
Before my life's first gleam - R. Monckton Milnes "Unspoken Dialogue"
Carry her steps into a new life - Janice Mirikitani "For a Daughter Who Leaves"
Waits at life's swung gates - Harriet Monroe "Love Song"
Nor life's affections transient fire - James Montgomery "Friends"
The vastness of forgotten life - T. Sturge Moore "The Sea is Kind"
A man grown old in in life's dreaming - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
Life and death alike come out of the East - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
The seeds of life's queen flowers - Irene Elder Morton "My Garden Wall"
Rinsing green life's yellow waters - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Colorful Words" transl. by Joshua Freeman
And should life's sky be overcast - John Napier "Who Knows?"
Put flags where my life ventured once - J. Alan Nelson "Flags and Maps"
Defend the live coal of life - Pablo Neruda "Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas (1949)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
For life makes no amends - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"
The dreams of Life's treacherous night - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"
Life pulled from impossible hollows - Caroline Harper New "Searching for Amelia [In adapting to her watery home]"
So the lime incense blew into her life - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"
And have new life in autumn's wine - Meredith Nicholson "Grape Bloom"
Spent my life on nothing - Lorine Niedecker [untitled]
Pulses of life that explode in an instant - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"
A life measured by sighs - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"
Fresh from the dawn of life - Sarah Noble-Ives "On the Shining Way"
And victor of life and silence - Yone Noguchi "Upon the Heights"
A ladder of life to heaven - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"
The wild fantastic hosts of life - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"
Because every life needs a hidden place - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stone House"
Offering me life in a different shape - Maura O'Dea "Dad Explains Dimensions at Outback Steakhouse"
The ghost of a star's past life - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Your one wild and precious life - Mary Oliver "The Summer Day"
Life's fainting pilgrims - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To E. C."
Life's threads all sorely tangled - John Oxenham "All's Well!"
Untried pilgrims of life's stormy sea - M.P. "The Vales" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]
The dense improbable life - Grace Paley "Fidelity"
Sought to mend my broken life - "The Parting of Goll from His Wife"
The understudy to her own life - Linda Pastan "Dido and Aeneas: After Purcell"
The fading half life of ambition - Linda Pastan "In the Walled Garden"
Into the gravity of my life - Linda Pastan "The New Dog"
Where life's total sum is sleep - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "An Idyll of Dandaloo"
Mark the life that haunts the emptiness - Coventry Patmore "The Shadow of Night"
The apparel of life and empire - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"
Seeing the ash of my life I burned - Chandler Peters-Durose "Rest Stop"
My life as the glass king - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
Your life lined up like azaleas - Kiki Petrosino "Prophecy"
Your life unfolding in air - Kiki Petrosino "Prophecy"
Wrangling life from the dirt - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"
To a life worth the hardness - Carl Phillips "But Waves, They Scatter"
Play out our fantasies in real life way - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Murmuring sounds of life upon another shore - Laura Ann Young Pinney "Within the Golden Gate"
Which life again shall animate and warm - Charles Constantine Pise "Summer Evening"
Come disguised as life - Maya C. Popa "One Way or Another"
The dusty, care-strewn paths of life - Alexander Posey "My Hermitage"
That guard the ports of life - E.J. Pratt "In Retreat"
Filtered from life's confessions - E.J. Pratt "In Retreat"
Weighed against something lighter than life - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Bright rainbow of life's stormy day - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"
Life promises only one sweet memory - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"
Collapsing my life into a vacuum - Joy Priest "When I See the Stars in the Night Sky"
The harmonious echo from our discordant life - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: A Lost Chord"
Many a tortured life is thirsting for a cooling draught - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
Life dwells in the neck of the future - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "An infinite outing; or the cemetery"
Grief lives a new life as devotion - Khadijah Queen "Tower"
With life like beaded wine - Theodore H. Rand "At Minas Basin"
While sailing life's surprising ocean - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"
Such rifts among life's shadows - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "Limitations"
Dying flame of life's last fire - G.A. Raybold "The Joys of Former Years Have Fled"
If life could then depart in its contempt of dust - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Imagine another life in which we are together - m.s. RedCherries "the end cannot be me"
the translations of her life - Ariel Resnikoff "ghost canto"
Green with the flare of life - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"
A modest life punctuated with fevers - Adrienne Rich "Plaza Street and Flatbush"
About life's vanishing points - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Life deleted of its old raw fire - Lola Ridge "The White Bird"
Let the spring of life well up and drown the empty quest - Lloyd Roberts "Young Blood"
Waves that foam and riot about the seas of life - Rennell Rodd "Disillusion"
A missive from another life - Sahar Romani "Sign"
Meantime his love maintains my life - Richard Rowlands "Lullaby"
Burn the unnumbered lamps of life - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse
Memory of my torn life - Muriel Rukeyser "The Poem as Mask"
Like a star on life's wave - Abram J. Ryan "Song of the Mystic"
Life's little lantern between dark and dark - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Let life replace memory - Omar Sakr "Where I am Not"
Young love and broken life - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: II. The Park Band"
With shattered stones of life - Margaret E. Sangster "The Phoenix"
Deserted on life's barren strand - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
Through life's gates to where the dead are found - Friedrich Schiller "Man's Dignity"
Life's nervous thread with care to twist - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"
Unlock yourself into a stagnant life - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"
Some fragments of his life dissolved - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Missing Time"
Unslaked by any wine save life - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"
Above life's troubled currents shine - Frederick George Scott "To My Wife"
This dead life on loan and on land - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
Live with their life on loan - Tim Seibles "All the Time Blues Villanelle"
I collect photos to collect my life - Alexandra Seidel "Seven Truths and the In-Between"
Welling back from the raw, red dawn of life - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
Free to inhabit my life - Charif Shanahan "If I Am Alive To"
Synthesized within an inch of its life - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"
Imperial light wakes love to life - "She Sits Alone" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
Instinct with infinite life - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
The thorns of life - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"
Whose life is but the dying ember's glow - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
In the life we do not lead - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"
Finally ready to give that old life away - Joyce Sidman "Lament for My Old Life"
Renewal of life's secret spring - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"
Life sears a path down the throat - Tracy K. Smith "In Brazil"
Cunning life keeps asking for more - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney
The parade of our mutual life - William Stafford "A Ritual to Read to Each Other"
That may fill out life's score - Clarence Victor Stahl "Sing It"
Another leaf from life's wild rose - George Sterling "Hostage"
Where Life looks forth on Time - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"
In the space of life - Wallace Stevens "Chocorua to Its Neighbor"
And green vine angering for life - Wallace Stevens "Nomad Exquisite"
Life and death and the brave who walk between - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
Who shake off our fates to grasp again at life - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
No answer for life's grey monotonies - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
A whisper of life in the grey dead trees - Alan Sullivan "The White Canoe"
Suffering the spear of life - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 214: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Stand unshaken at the helm of life's wrecked craft - Carmen Sylva "Unrest"
The true life that I treasure still - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson
Whence the heart leaps forth to life - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
The lost language of the book of Life - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Life as information encoded in letters - Keith Taylor "Summer Teaching"
Life is but a dream whose shapes return - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
When life contracts into a vulgar span - Henry David Thoreau "Greece"
From my life's outer orbit - Eunice Tietjens "To S"
Because someone has to teach us life's bite - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"
All my life I was a hammer - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"
All my life I swung the wrong things - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"
Youth and strength and life made answer - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
In loneliness of prayer unlit by life - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"
That rivetted life with love - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"
Hoped to pluck the fruits of life - Tso Ssu "The Scholar in the Narrow Street" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Life is not made for meetings - Tu Fu "Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement" transl. by Burton Watson
Sweet trophy of life's morning - H.T. Tuckerman "To the Violet" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
The difficult harvest of a life - Brian Turner "Thera"
As minutes drop from life - John Updike "Endpoint"
If life were like a rose designed - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"
you scrape for life in a vacuum - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"
Just when life is not afraid - Jean Valentine "Black Wolf"
Making for the door out of your life - Jean Valentine "The Drinker"
That holds the breath to play all songs to life - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
All of life catapulted into one day - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"
My heart in life's winter - Jones Very "The Winter Bird"
Of coral come to life in the night - R.A. Villanueva "Archipelagic"
Still looks like a life - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home"
With whirlwinds sweeping all life on earth - Johan Olof Wallin "The Angel of Death" transl. by August W. Almqvist
Between the seconds of life - Afaa Michael Weaver "This Morning, This First Poem"
All the old life bubbling up in me - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"
And June to brighten our life's December - Edith Wharton "June and December"
Live through a life complete - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"
Life on her thousand thrones - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Wandering through life's meadows - John Hall Wheelock "Long Ago"
The life that has exhibited itself - Walt Whitman "To a Historian"
With life's great venture, in an ark of clay - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"
The morning dancing with life - Helen Hay Whitney "Music"
Pour out my life as wine - Helen Hay Whitney "To a Woman"
When the tides of life run low - Helen Hay Whitney "To the Beloved"
Amid the ruins of my shattered life - Helen Hay Whitney "Water and Wine"
Stinging all the air to life - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"
All the jarring notes of life - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"
Pulse of my heart's life - Margaret Widdemer "The Forgotten Soul"
To carry the weight of my life - John Wieners "Billie"
Cutting my life with sleep - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"
Kept my life in a small room - Kirk Wilson "Gifts"
Life's rugged road of thorns - Adolf Wolff "The Artists"
Because the flowers of life are bitter - Adolf Wolff "Confidences"
Your small breath of life - Nancy Wood "Birth Ritual"
Built my life up from very shaky ground - Baron Wormser "The Poetry of Life: Ten Stories [I rise before the sun does]"
His life from rumors freed - Sir N. Wotton "Character of a Happy Life"
Life in stone bound fast - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]
That measures its life in olive groves - Jay Wright "Somewhere between here and Belen"
To measure your life in debts - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season"
The sharpest edges of this life's perimeter - Jenny Xie "Postmemory"
Coins from another life - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
Who loves a life among fig roots - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
carry it blazing through your irradiated life - Monica Youn "Whiteacre"
Beginning a new life as rot - Dean Young "Spring Reign"
All the beauty and sorrow of my life - Cynthia Zarin "Flowers"
A soap doll coming to life - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Fragment"
Afterlife.
Life-blood in the trench Ulysses made - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Shadow"
Whose pulses play with fullest life-blood - Edward Dowden "The Inner Life"
Wanting a transfusion of the reader's life blood - Diane Seuss "Toad"
A call that made the life-blood leap - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "The First American Alliance"
The skin stretched over lifedebts - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of lightning"
No lifeforms exploded from your soil - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
Pointing to the life-giving water - William Carlos Williams "The Motor-Barge"
Wading out to sea to lure lifeguards - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"
Count with lifeless breath - John McCrae "Penance"
Pale about the lifeless fountain - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Lifeline.
Suspended like a lifelong doubt - Mary Jo Bang "Mask Photo"
Terracotta for a lifelong love - Gerri Leen "Final Resting Place"
Lifelong stress and toil of tears - E. Nesbit "Love and Life"
My lifelong dispute with time - Valencia Robin "Oil Pastels"
Joy sufficient for my life-old thirst - Naomi Long Madgett "Old Wine"
Hobbies to cheer immortal lifespans - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"
Though fiercer thunder drains my life-springs - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
A lifestyle fueled by vodka - Yona Harvey "You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love"
The cyborg lifestyle has its thrills - Ann K. Schwader "It Wears You"
Lifetime.
Preventing the evolution of xenophobic metalife - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"
Some small folded breath of otherlife - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"
Still Life.
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