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Ever 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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