Potential Titles: Fire

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Hands afire with a vision of two great towers - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Set afire by a secret ruby - Pablo Neruda "Ode to a Stamp Album" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

We foxes can set the night afire - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"


To amaze the dark heads with strange fire - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

The blood a trickling fire - George Abraham "Essay on Submission"

The click of a lighter that sparks but doesn't fire - Duane Ackerson "Little Ghosts"

Ankleted with yawning fire - Harold Acton "After"

Austere as faded fire - Harold Acton "Capriccio Espagnol"

Crackled like a yawn of fire - Harold Acton "Trepak"

I would rather bear fruit than fire - Liz Adair "Dragon in the E.R."

When fire inhales your house - Kim Addonizio "This Too Shall Pass"

Sometimes the sea catches fire - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"

Sung like fire through beating veins - Conrad Aiken "Romance"

Liquid fire pouring a flood - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

Short fires and stubble on a monsoon coast - Meena Alexander "Central Park, Carousel"

Formed of sunset light, of fleeting umbral fire - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

Wrinkled fire in a mini vase - Hari Alluri "Spiral"

Enter like a fire into my soul - Turghun Almas "Remembering" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Judgment in the shape of fire and brimstone - Nada Almosa "Queer Arab Dictionary"

The careful brushstrokes of a fire - Julia Alvarez "Tom"

Drift only shell and fire - Maxwell Anderson "Earth Evanescent"

The grain of salt takes fire - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

Torn from within a cold glassy fire - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen "The Mirrors" transl. by Allan Francovich

In ashes our hearth fire is hidden - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Prepare cattle & rapid fire - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

The way wood changes to fire - William Archila "El Mozote"

Distilled from a banana republic in fire - William Archila "Spirits"

Lost in a fire's spiraling notes - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"

The frozen fire of the imagination - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Virgin angel"

A thirst to spend our fire - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"

In trails of fire across the land - Rosalie Arthur "October"

The air on fire under him - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

Some surprises with Cloud and Fire - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Whose veins are filled with fluid fire - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

While a painting dries in a furnace fire - Mary Jo Bang "Complications of Morning"

Passing through a furious fire called time - Mary Jo Bang "No More"

Breathless in the remnant of a fire - Mary Jo Bang "The Star's Whole Secret"

Flung to us a spark, a thread of fire - Maurice Baring "Diffugere Nives, 1917"

The glorious sun for funeral fire - Maurice Baring "Icarus"

A hidden sanctuary of fire and light - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"

Bloodrust fire, fleshtorn ground - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

Like the fire on our tongues - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"

Survive the force of fire - Elizabeth Bartlett "Landscape: With Bread"

Set small fires to prevent larger ones - Ennis Rook Bashe "How to Hallucinate Your Zombie Lover"

Lighting fires in the empty rooms - Ellen Bass "Not Dead Yet"

A being made of gauze and fire - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited

The Fay with wings of fire - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited

And cast their diamond fires - Charles Baudelaire "The Living Flame" transl. not credited

A chest made of barley fire - b: william bearhart "No More Fire Here: A Sestina"

Never copper but always fire - b: william bearhart "No More Fire Here: A Sestina"

Let it arrive as fire - b: william bearhart "No More Fire Here: A Sestina"

And freedom fires the soul - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

A portion of celestial fire - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

The voice and fire of seraphim - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

Allay the fever's fire - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book II"

Who ride the hurricanes of fire - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

And quench the animating fire - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

Beauty of brass, beauty of fire - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien

Under a sunset of perpetual fire - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

And fire to strike men blind - Stephen Vincent Benet "Campus Sonnet: 2. Talk"

Filling the waves with colored fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The City Revisited"

Only immortal fires to rend - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Now fire has parched the vine - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Dreadful as consuming fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The General Public"

Praised with the lovely softness of fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "Hymn in Columbus Circle"

Quickened the wraith with fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Reeds when fire goes over the fen - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Within whose heart no spark of ancient fire burns - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"

Four hoofs of fire beat out refrain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

Until her darkest streets ran weltering fire - William Rose Benét "The City"

Fretful and full of fire - Henry Kirby Benner "Ballads of the Campaign in Mexico no.III: Monterey"

Comparing crystals and fire - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

A memory of each mad sunset's fire - Paul Bewsher "Autumn Regrets"

Like an egg of fire - Elizabeth Bishop "The Armadillo"

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

Spilling over in rivulets of fire - Elizabeth Bishop "In the Waiting Room"

Like ashes concealing fire - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"

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

What the hand dare seize the fire? - William Blake "The Tiger"

Into the conspiring fires of souls - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"

The wordless dream of the fire - Max Bodenheim "Silence"

Torn fire glares on beauty - Louise Bogan "A Tale"

A blackened fire grown emberless - John Philip Bourke "The Leaden Hoof"

Burning in the sun's red fire - Thomas Boyd "Love on the Mountain"

Green above and fire beneath - Ana Bozicevic "About Mayakovsky"

Go out and gather the oldest fires of the universe - Russell Brakefield "The Perseids"

In a flask of fire - Lucie Brock-Broido "Girl at the Border of Her Own Allegory"

Hiding secret fires from view - Charlotte Bronte "Preference"

Robed in fires of hell - Emily Bronte "The Prisoner"

A right to the fire in her hands - Jericho Brown "Heartland"

Absent as what fire leaves behind - Jericho Brown "The Interrogation"

Numbness is a quiet fire - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"

I needed to fire an arrow of my damn own - Nickole Brown "Self-Portrait as Land Snail"

Then melt openly into layers of fire - Paul Cameron Brown "Cienfuegos"

Clarity of the temporal fire - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"

Fire set by the staccato of man's rhythm - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"

Round the passage of the fire - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Where clouds on fire were swept along - George W. Bungay "The Autograph of God" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Which stole the hues and fires of Paradise - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XLIX. Love's Excuse" transl. by John Addington Symonds

To foes an unassaulted fire - Francis Burrows "The Giant's Dirge"

One whole eclipse not knowing any fire - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"

Drew from an alien fire - "By Proxy" [anonymous in Oxford Poetry, 1918]

A rod of fire in her hand - Witter Bynner "The New World V"

Like the thief of fire from heaven - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"

Of spun fire and woven gloom - F. O. Call "Calvary"

The young dawn's golden fire - F. O. Call "On a Swiss Mountain"

Set the sky on blue fire and shook the ground - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"

A golden rocket trailing fire - Roy Campbell "The Porpoise"

Commanding fires of death - Thomas Campbell "Hohenlinden"

When soul of fire was ours - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

His great chariot built of fire - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

Veils of fierce cobwebby fires - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

Clod of clay with heart of fire - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Spring Song"

Devours the darkness of our hearts with fire - Edward Carpenter "The Fellowship of Suffering"

From fire to shelter to fire - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

The fires of all the winds - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

Nightingale with note of fire - Willa Cather "Arcadian Winter"

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

Fires fueled by a distant hunger - Tina Chang "Fury"

Holds out midst flood and fire - Joseph Horatio Chant "Brotherhood"

Flooding his limbs with unquenchable fire - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Imagery"

A mystic dog with paws of fire - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Noon"

Castles in the fire - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

Their torches tossed a ladder of fire - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

Cover with silver plumes of fire - W.R. Childe "Les Hallucines"

Stab our souls with seeds of sworded fire - W.R. Childe "Les Hallucines"

Neither tree nor fire - Chiwan Choi "portraitures and erasures"

And new fire through the veins - Annie Rothwell Christie "After the Battle"

Sends him forth to face fire and ice - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

Ringing fire songs in her ears - Tiana Clark "How to Find the Center of a Circle"

on fire a hundred years - Lucille Clifton "winnie song"

The fire and the water agree - "Cobbe's Prophecies"

We kissed goodbye in fire - Leonard Cohen "Nothing I Can Lose"

Then lay your rose on the fire - Leonard Cohen "The Window"

Heaped-up sods upon the fire - Padraic Colum "An Old Woman of the Roads"

In a wreath of fire - Hilda Conkling "Two Songs"

Shone with metallic lustre, sombre fire - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

Streamed malignant lines of fire - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Hold a pitchfork and set the forest on fire - Dorsey Craft "Rainy-Day Games with Kyle"

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

Or is the truth bitter as eaten fire? - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

With hope of Promethean fire - George Cronyn "Clouds"

With the spell of Fire and Dew - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Answer"

All these I summon to rise up and bring fire - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

With the fire of cities burnt - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Intended to Have Been Spoken in the Theatre to the Duke of Portland, at His Installation as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in the Year 1793"

The golden night of mingling fire - Aleister Crowley "Tannhauser"

Roses have set the borders on fire - Barbara Crooker "This Summer Day"

Blossoms of opal fire - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"

Under a sky of opal fire - Olive Custance "Primrose Hill"

The kiss of your white fire - H.D. "Cassandra"

Till fire shatter the dark - H.D. "Demeter"

Fire darted aloft and met fire - H.D. "Fragment Forty"

Patterned in fire and letters - H.D. "Prisoners"

Write my name with fire - Jim Daniels "Self-portrait with Cigarette"

Radiance, fragrance, fire and joy - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva

Quench with fire the living coal - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets IV"

Across the spent fires of the night - Russell W. Davenport "Poems III"

That wild, screaming fire of angry song - William H. Davies "A Bird's Anger"

From all the aeons' blood and fire - Fanny Stearns Davis "Profits"

Apples of orange and copper fire - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"

Seeds of fire to rouse the thunders - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Hell's keen fires still for revenge athirst - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Buy it with blood, and fire, and ruin wide - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Passion's fire alone that draws him - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

My candle a silent fire - Walter de la Mare "Alone"

With fire in his skull for torch - Walter de la Mare "Sunk Lyonesse"

In waves of backpacks and barrel fires - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"

A pillar of cloud, a pillar of fire - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"

Ashes denote that fire was - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XXX: Fire"

Fire taking one bright liberty after another - Timothy Donnelly "By Night with Torch and Spear"

Too busy peddling my fire - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"

A rush through terror and fire and death - Jeanne d'Orge "The Kiss (Fifteen Years)"

From an urn she poured live fire - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Praise of Shame"

Where the volcano's fires were dead - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

Two jewels of green fire - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"

Compact of spirit and fire and dew - Edward Dowden "Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl's Version of Vigny's 'Chatterton'"

And fire shall be my flower - Edward Dowden "Winter Noontide"

Swift passage to the fire - Ernest Dowson "Benedictio Domini"

Assayed in what strange fire - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"

Love's ancient fire - Ernest Christopher Dowson "In Tempore Senectutis"

A Ball of Fire the further thrown - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"

Wake to bouquets of fire - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"

Like gold we must be tried by fire - Toru Dutt "Savitri"

Put out all other Fire - E.E. (might be by Edmund Elys per speculation by the editor of the book in which I found it) "On the Death of The Truly Virtuous Mrs. Anne Killigrew who was Related to my (Deceased) Wife"

Sobbing in torture of that vivid fire - Max Eastman "The Lonely Bather"

Sombre with imprisoned fire - Max Eastman "X Rays"

Hushed and sombre with imprisoned fire - Max Eastman "X Rays"

The last spark of Saint Anthony's fire - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"

Across the sea you bore the sacred fire - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."

Lost all its fires - Paul Eluard "The Phoenix"

Wrote the past in characters of rock and fire - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Song of Nature"

Raging rainfall of fire - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Embroidered with fire - Louise Erdrich "Bidwell Ghost"

One shallow dish of eerie golden fire - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"

I beg for invisible fire - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star"

Fire kissed us and laughed - Eve L. Ewing "I come from the fire city"

Red ivy iron fire and the brick blossoms florid - Eve L. Ewing "I come from the fire city"

The heart of a flower on fire - Eleanor Farjeon "King Laurin's Garden"

Fire in my blood and breath - Eleanor Farjeon "The Moral"

The moon's brute music touching them with fire - Joseph Fasano "Hermitage"

The cargo of a thousand crafts of fire - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"

Now I woo my dancing fire - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Rain Fugue"

Won't reveal the fire I held in my mouth - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

Frostbitten false fire - Andrew Feld "Best and Only"

A great fire muted by holy water - Camonghne Felix "Yes, It Is Possible"

Old salamander basking in the fire - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"

sirens sing fire in the cold night - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"

In fire the great boat beats the seas - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"

The fire blazes behind us - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

Termite trails to the heart of the fire - Evelyn Flores "The Flame Tree"

Dreamt of a lake on fire - Sandy Florian "But This Is Ambiguous"

A small knot of fire - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 2"

The right angles of fire - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 11"

Tongues of fire tied together - Carolyn Forche "Alfansa"

Clean as pine root boiled in fire - Carolyn Forche "Alfansa"

Always on the other side of the fire - Katie Ford "The Fire"

The thronging fires of thought - G.G. Foster "To an Old Rock"

Cannot reach to steal that Titan fire - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 1 (February 1923)"

Pouring white-flecked fire - Florence Kiper Frank "Dawn in the Hills"

In fume and fire to sheathe us - Gilbert Frankau "Eyes in the Air"

Lit her body with lamps of fire - John Freeman "The Body"

The mind's own fire beneath the cool skin - John Freeman "The Body"

That hears fire, train and echo and all - John Freeman "Shadows"

The horizon's verge of liquid fire - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

I hold with those who favor fire - Robert Frost "Fire and Ice"

And the smell of fire drowned in rain - Robert Frost "The Kitchen Chimney"

How the cold creeps in as the fire dies - Robert Frost "Storm Fear"

More sundered than water and fire - Fu Hsuan "Woman" (translated by Arthur Waley)

That the fire understands - Zona Gale "In Arvia's Room"

The cheer of lamp and fire - Zona Gale "Violin"

The cool burn of something not quite on fire - Eric Gamalinda "Zero Gravity"

The fires of hell rage fierce and warm - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Golden maze of stinging scented fire - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Gorse"

Between the poppies' barren fires - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Notre Dame de la Belle-Verriere"

A core of unseen fire - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Slag"

Whispering their fables by the fire - Dana Gioia "The Ancient Ones"

The fangs of the hungry fire - Ellen Glasgow "Death-in-Life"

Priestess of altar fire - Ellen Glasgow "Mary"

The fire of my own heart - Louise Gluck "The Red Poppy"

Like a fire lit by a survivor - Louise Gluck "A Work of Fiction"

Fevered blaze of backyard brush fires - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"

Rose stark in ecstasy of fire - Louis Golding "Bird, Bird, Bird"

Reproach with acid fire - Louis Golding "Cold Stars"

To freeze or shrivel with whitest fires - Louis Golding "Ghost and Body"

Banners of white fire and rose - Louis Golding "The Midmost Field in Kent"

Tip my feet with points of fire - Louis Golding "Prophet and Fool"

Our very breath is fuel to the fire - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

The first condition of the universe is fire - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

When fire says remember - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

Making a fire that marries fire - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

Who will contest the ownership of fire? - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

The mosaic of the dwindling fire - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

And served the same memorial fire - Edmund Gosse "Alere Flammam"

Fair Italy with atmosphere of fire - David Gray "The Luggie I [sonnet]"

Once pregnant with celestial fire - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire - Thomas Gray "On the Death of Richard West"

Banked their fires in deference to the sun - Linda Gregerson "Chronic"

Dies by water as well as fire - Linda Gregerson "Dido in Darkness"

Heaven's swift sparkling fire lash - James Roane Gregory "Storm Lights"

With the fire that made them bright - Julian Grenfell "To a Black Greyhound"

A speck, like kindling for its own distant fire - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

Unable to fathom my fire - Nikki Grimes "Through the Eyes of Artists"

For selfless valour and the primal fire - Ivor Gurney "Hospital Pictures 5. The Miner"

The central fires of secret memory - Ivor Gurney "That County"

Pass through the fire of Moloch - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

New and afire with longing - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Fidelity"

A rose of fire and snow - Katherine Hale "Pavlowa Dancing"

Cherries shine with crimson fire - Han-Shan "[The birds and their chatter]" transl. by Burton Watson

To walk in shoes of fire - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"

Of fire in the prophecy wind - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"

Your fire scorched my lips - Joy Harjo "Deer Ghost"

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

An ice horse galloping into fire - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: IV. Ice Horses"

Emerging from the floods and fires - Joy Harjo "Singing Everything"

The pledge forever runs to guard their sacred fires - "Hark to the Tread" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

When fire and brimstone rained on that nice little house - J.D. Harlock "I Thought the End of the World Would Be a Bit More Exciting Than This"

Through a path of flame and fire - Frances E.W. Harper "Death of the Old Sea-King"

Flesh of kerosene and black fire - Duriel E. Harris "What he thought belly down, when I was 8 years old"

In snowflake fire - Leslie Harrison "[December]"

Tiny spark of mortal fire - F.W. Harvey "Gloucestershire Men"

Made banked fires blaze - Robert Hayden "Those Winter Sundays"

See how fire changes everything - Terrance Hayes "Cocktails with Orpheus"

Weakened by the fire's etherial afterglow - Terrance Hayes "The Golden Shovel"

The rim of the fire - Anne Hebert "Bread Is Born"

That waving pyramid of fire - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

Like their own volcano's fire - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"

To feel the hero's fire - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

Delusion in its meteor fire - Felicia Hemans "The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra"

Creatures of fire and ether - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"

Became instinct with fire - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Strange fire upon his altars burn - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Pyramids of fire in lurid splendour - Felicia Hemans "The Wife of Asdrubal"

Rising in the glow of Love's own fire - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "A Shadow"

Till fire runs in the maples and ice goes out - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "January Thaw"

The fire of time that burns everything - Bob Hicok "No Stones"

Boots in the ashes of a wood fire - Conrad Hilberry "Abandon"

The final room is fire - Conrad Hilberry "Crete: The Diktaean Cave"

All the elements but fire - Conrad Hilberry "Spotted Sandpiper"

No abstract fires or vague births - Conrad Hilberry "Wise Man"

Tiny fires with hurt earth spirits - Brenda Hillman "Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways"

Evidence of inner fire - Brenda Hillman "Sediments of Santa Monica"

As fires lift only in sparks - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"

As kingfishers catch fire - Gerard Manley Hopkins "As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame"

Your fading fire mend first - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Candle Indoors"

As smoke from the roof of a world on fire - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

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

Through their reins in ice and fire - A.E. Houseman "A Shropshire Lad, XXX"

Of the burning heart of the world on fire - Richard Hovey "The Death Song of Taliesin"

Brain bright with her fire - Andrew Hudgins "Asleep with the Dog"

Scratching in the dead fire's ashes - Langston Hughes "The South"

Honey mixed with liquid fire - Langston Hughes "Trumpet Player"

Fire hitched to the air we breathe - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"

Drink fire of the sunshine - Aldous Huxley "The Flowers"

With its ageless starry fire - Aldous Huxley "The Reef"

A narrow turmoil of troubled fire - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"

A rose of fire that must blossom - Aldous Huxley "Waking"

Fire from every glowing string shall mingle - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Frozen pulse and heart of fire - Helen Hunt Jackson "January"

Who fills oft the Cup of mortal fire - Umar Ibn al-Farid "Khamriyyah" [selections] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

Whatever fate singes with fire - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"

Rein in your most incomplete fire - Carly Inghram "This Woman's Work"

This chaff a mountain crested with fire - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

Cast fire on the skirt of discretion - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

Fire dropped from the veins of my thought - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

Forged in the fires of the sun - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

This breath of fire - Tsitsi Ella Jaji "Ritual Object"

Through the wave of Fire into Annihilation - Jami "Salaman and Absal: The Burning of Absal" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald

the fire necessary to make glass - Marlin M. Jenkins "against cleansing"

Through fire and broken glass - Marlin M. Jenkins "Pokedex Entry #260: Swampert"

A potion to protect your lover's skin from fire - Emily Jiang "Life Lessons"

Wind through the dreaming fire - Emily Pauline Johnson "Moonset"

Like network threads of fire - Emily Pauline Johnson "Nocturne"

Quenched the fires lit by their breath - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"

The hoofs of his horse struck fire - James Weldon Johnson "Go Down Death--A Funeral Sermon"

Swallowing the fires of hell - James Weldon Johnson "The Prodigal Son"

A woeful want of pristine fire - James Weldon Johnson "Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day"

Break fire out of night - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

Amass the spirit of dead fire - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"

Among soft fires can drink - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"

A great fire of dreams - Lionel Johnson "Wales"

When I step outside I become fire - Sara Eliza Johnson "Combustion"

Into hot battles' hell-lit fires - Edward Smyth Jones "Flag of the Free"

In our souls the quenchless fire - Edward Smyth Jones "The Sylvan Cabin"

Breathing dragons' magic fire - Patricia Spears Jones "Jim"

Should the battle end by fire - Tanque R. Jones "Scipio"

The golden bowl with its glowing fire - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "A Song of Life"

Prince of pure heaven's fire - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"

The fire the possible becomes - A.M. Juster "The impossible in which I believe"

No wine to fire the captive heart - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Fire from a match you never lit - Ilya Kaminsky "Alfonso Stands Answerable"

Air here at the edge of small fires - Janet Kauffman "Air Here"

Sheltered the fateful fires - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Hallowed and touched with fire - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Hills of fire gave back the light - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

Lie bound with thongs of fire - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"

The wings of fire are furled - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"

Grappled spikes and crags of fire - Henry Kendall "Christmas Creek"

The reluctant who turn their backs on wooded fires - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 3"

My bones, traitors who dream of fire - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 2"

All those false steps around the fire - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

Pinned the sky with arrows of fire - Vandana Khanna "Hindu Mythology in Shorthand"

Who pushes you back toward the fire - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

In the fire of Spring - Omar Khayyam "Action"

The Shadow from a Soul on fire - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Converted was to Fire - Anne Killigrew "Love, the Soul of Poetry"

Fire and food in the royal court - "The King-Slaying in Finderup, 1285" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

The affirmative fire - Galway Kinnell "Middle of the Night"

gyre with dead fire alarm tears - Aristilde Kirby "Daria Ukiyo-e"

Blaze with the fire of Semele - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

The leaf-red fire warmed no one's hands - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"

A small fire in the brain - Stephen Kuusisto "Essay on November"

Though yet the sacred fire be dull - Archibald Lampman "The Clearer Self"

Tipped with violet fire - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"

Watching the fierce fire flare - Archibald Lampman "The King's Sabbath"

Whose mock fires for ever dance - Archibald Lampman "To the Prophetic Soul"

By all that comes at last from fire - Michael Lauchlan "Smoke"

A fire sinking into itself - Dorianne Laux "Blossom"

The ragged fires of the sorrel's cresset - D.H. Lawrence "Last Hours"

Pass the sweet fire of day - D.H. Lawrence "Man and Bat"

Thousands of feet below the lava fire - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"

Bleeding its fires upon the mist - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"

Chant psalms of victory till the heart takes fire - Emma Lazarus "The Feast of Lights"

High above flood and fire - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

Our Lady of the fire - Richard Le Gallienne "The Destined Maid: A Prayer"

With leaping fire and boiling roar of rain - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

fire floods the cities - Joseph Lease "Falling"

Drawn in living fire and dew - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"

Music drawn in living fire and dew - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"

Fed the haze of a hundred fires - Agnes Lee "A Roman Doll (In a Museum)"

Gutted by fire and disaster - Muna Lee "Vendor of Green Coconuts"

Flames in her love from the fires above - Henry S. Leigh "The Seasons"

Rise up mindful and consider fire - Hailey Leithauser "Inspiration"

A blade of fire to cleanse and smooth - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

In the avalanche of fire and ash - R.B. Lemberg "Ranra's Unbalancing"

Turn it into fire or the sound of fire - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

The heart of ice is fire waiting - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

Stir the fire with my hairpin of jade - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall

delivered her the ashes of my creative fire - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"

Scented of roses and fire - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"

That pen will drip with moonlight and with fire - Vachel Lindsay "The Dream of All the Springfield Writers"

Strung with threads of purple fire - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

The fire of the star-souled Lucifer - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Flood to fire, loss to drought - Marissa Lingen "The Plural of Apocalypse"

And all fire passes through me - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

Rang like fire in the sun - Audre Lorde "The Night-Blooming Jasmine"

Glowing with a saffron fire - Amy Lowell "Apples of Hesperides"

The topaz fire of votive urns - Amy Lowell "The Coal Picker"

Keenness of fire - Amy Lowell "The Giver of Stars"

Summer had run like fire through its veins - Amy Lowell "A Japanese Wood-Carving"

Under the fire of the great moon - Amy Lowell "The Letter"

Cloud charged with searching fire - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Then the fire with spices swell - James Russell Lowell "Eleanor Makes Macaroons"

Veins where fire is hid - James Russell Lowell "On Burning Some Old Letters"

Arsonist of all smaller fires - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

An arm all nerve and a heart all fire - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Flying from former fires into cerulean skies - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."

By virtue of the sacred fire - E.M. "Part III. The Lathe of Morpheus"

When his heart should feel that fire - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"

Those eyes of wandering fire - Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "A Northern Love Song"

Bearer of fire and space-invader - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"

Fret the east with lines of fire - J.W. Mackail "On the Death of Arnold Toynbee"

All hail the king of fire - Dorothea Mackellar "Burning Off"

When the waves are mingled milk and fire - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

Where the Sun spends his fires - Fiona MacLeod "The Sorrow of Delight"

Who rides on that meteor of fire - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: III"

Redeemed from thunder, fire and will - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

Went down in jewelled fire - Stephane Mallarme "L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune" (translated by Aldous Huxley)

Kindled by some chance fire - Stephane Mallarme "L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune" (translated by Aldous Huxley)

A song is but fire for those who dwell in hell - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

When there's fire in heaven - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

In a rush of whirlwind fire - Edwin Markham "Divine Vision"

A tempest flinging fire - Edwin Markham "To High-born Poets"

Hurrying across a sea of fire - Jeannette Marks "Cloud"

Fire on a cloud of gray - Jeannette Marks "Last Dawn"

From wide cold eyes of fire - Jeannette Marks "Sea Gulls"

Blown garments bright as fire - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

Clothes them with music and fire - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Bursts in a bloom of fire - Don Marquis "A Mood of Pavlowa"

And wrenched the fire from Zeus - Don Marquis "This Is Another Day"

Once grim with sacrificial fires - John Masefield "The Daffodil Fields"

The golden birds became a fire - John Masefield "Fragments"

Jaws that dripped with bitter fire - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"

These million leagues of fires - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

From dead things striking fire - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

A fire's in my heels - John Masefield "A Wanderer's Song"

And crown the spring with fire - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"

A ladder of fire for climbing - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"

Awakened by kisses of fire - Edgar Lee Masters "Toward the Gulf"

Fire for the siege - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

Fire for ancient reason - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

Plains of mingled fire and glass - Theodore Maynard "Apocalypse"

A cloak wrought of glory and fire - Theodore Maynard "The Joy of the World"

Sinking in a sea of jewelled fire - Theodore Maynard "Sunset"

How best to enflame the holy fire - Marilyn McCabe "Web"

That burns with sacred fire - George Marion McClellan "Love is a Flame"

Becomes a small raft of fire - Michael McGriff "Men Keep on Dying"

I would have brought you fire - Arch Alfred McKillen "I Would Have Brought You Fire"

The fire and song of the martyrs - D'Arcy McNickle "Man Hesitates but Life Urges"

Things that breathe air or fire - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"

That streamed from morning's fire - George Meredith "Archduchess Anne"

Of a fire beaten flat - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Confused in veins of fire - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Burning through with inherited fire - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Fathering desire of fire to reach fire - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

Jets of a dreadful fire within - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Planting joy in constant fire - George Meredith "The Star Sirius"

Enrobed in morning's mounted fire - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"

Fire in water hued as wine - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Where wheeling fires shine - Helen M. Merrill "The Blue Flower"

Snake with a circle of fire - W.S. Merwin "The Stranger"

Shines on us like altar fires - Ruth Comfort Mitchell "The Sin Eater"

Ash and smoke will play fire games - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"

Or does it know this sky to hold more fire? - Sneha Mohidekar "Null Path Catalog"

Keep alive the holy fires - N. Scott Momaday "In the Forest"

Grew out of hell's fire - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"

Nor life's affections transient fire - James Montgomery "Friends"

A shrine of cloudy fire flamed redly awful - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Heaven" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Apart, upon a throne of living fire - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Hell" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Had the feeling and the fire - Dugald Moore "Julia"

Within whose soul the fire of the eternal lived - George L. Moore "Keats"

Ashes from last year's fire - jessica Care moore "After Heaven is All Goodbyes (for Tongo Eisen-Martin)"

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

And the summer fire my blood - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

Smitten by the fire of sense - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

Till our hope grow a wrathful fire - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"

The winging fire of days - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Shadowy fires that burn in secret - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

With their backbones of fire - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Winnowed from the water & the fire - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Stilling the fire that does not cease - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"

Under the lightning's muzzle fire - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff

the spirits have refused to die by fire - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

Blaze the face of my heart's fire - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (4)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Touch the air with fire - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (4)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Envelop in fire the tapering cypress - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (4)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Your soulful, ardent fires - Francis Neilson "Nature's Loveliness"

Golden fires consumed dawn's keep - Francis Neilson "When You Were Born"

A candle lit from the great unending fire - Mark Nepo "The Clearing"

Fought over by fire and dew - Pablo Neruda "Ars Magnetica" transl. by Alastair Reid

Guardians of dead fire - Pablo Neruda "Brother Cordillera" transl. by Alastair Reid

The cathedrals heaved with walls of fire - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

The horse that escaped the fire - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

The fire of naked catastrophes - Pablo Neruda "Caribbean Birds" transl. by Miguel Algarin

With a helmet of noble fire - Pablo Neruda "Evening LXXVI" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

Lashed my blood with her tail of fire - Pablo Neruda "The Fickle One" transl. by Donald D. Walsh

A fire of enduring velocity - Pablo Neruda "Guayaquil (1822)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

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

A belt of fire at my waist - Pablo Neruda "Letter on the Road" transl. by Donald D. Walsh

Black fire of an exiled planet - Pablo Neruda "Leviathan" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The scrutiny of water and fire - Pablo Neruda "Lost Letters" transl. by Alastair Reid

Made fire of blood and flint - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Serpents of fire, men of dust - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

Full of fire and blizzards - Pablo Neruda "My Crazy Friends" transl. by Alastair Reid

The dormant fire and the ruined salt - Pablo Neruda "Sonata and Destruction" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Though iron and fire pierce you - Pablo Neruda "Song to Stalingrad" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Tore off the arms of the fire - Pablo Neruda "The Strike [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly

A fire prowling in the fields - Pablo Neruda "Superstitions" transl. by Alastair Reid

Seared with curls of fire - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems XVII" translated by W.S. Merwin

Ancient rivers of green fire - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

The lips that kissed fire - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Among buffalos on fire - Pablo Neruda "What We Accept Without Wanting To" transl. by Alastair Reid

Fire has its cold half - Pablo Neruda "XLIV: You must know that I do not love and that I love you"

Blasted with ice and fire - E. Nesbit "The Old Dispensation"

So lovingly made with iron fire - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

And of refreshment after fire - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Fire without its light - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

The tiger lily's orange fires - Effie Lee Newsome "Pansy"

The small fire of pennies - Susan Nguyen "The Body as a Series of Questions"

Upward swept by tongues of fire - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

With tempest of fire, and storm of steel - "The Northmen are Coming" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Cracked gold on fire - Alice Notley "Individual Time"

When my sleeve caught fire - Idra Novey "Nearly"

From his right hand a fire that lit the world - Alfred Noyes "An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin"

In whose hand the first fire shone - Alfred Noyes "Farabi and Avicenna"

Nine miles of mist and fire - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"

Savory smoke from ancient fires - Naomi Shihab Nye "Grandfathers Say"

A fire inside your mouth - Naomi Shihab Nye "How Palestinians Keep Warm"

Eighteen-hundred miles to a river of fire - Achy Obejas "Inner Core"

And girt afar with Heaven's Promethean fire - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

Wounding wind that burns as fire - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

Borne on the wind's wings, flashing fire - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

Like a million flowers on fire - Mary Oliver "The Buddha’s Last Instruction"

Enter the fire of the world - Mary Oliver "Moccasin Flowers"

In the sudden fire of its mouth - Mary Oliver "Night and the River"

One of the ways to enter fire - Mary Oliver "Sunrise"

Knowing that fire in childhood - January Gill O'Neil "Early Memory"

Saw the wall of hills on fire - Gregory Orr "Two Lines from the Brothers Grimm"

With untamed fire their broad eyes glowing - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Captured Wild Horse"

Swept bare by cleansing fires - John Oxenham "Gadara, A.D. 31"

With eyes washed in the fire - John Oxenham "Philosopher's Garden"

Standing near the spitting fire - Paul Park "Ragnarok"

Fire and devils blazed at night - Elise Paschen "Division Street"

Let our anger be as fire, blasting chains and tyranny - "The Patriot's Address" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Heaven's fire in dark-browed storms - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

But fire to refuse - Walter S. Percy "Friendship"

A fire no flame can burn - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"

Tongues & yarns of fire - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"

The fire's wake dressed in ash - Xan Forest Phillips "Classification and Dissection"

Waiting, winged with fire - Frederick Erastus Pierce "God and the Farmer"

With a need for fire in human form - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 666"

Time, cold and fire - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"

The fire that burns in your rage - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

Drop fire from the sky - Iain Haley Pollock "the smoke of the country went up"

Whose root claws at the midworld fire - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"

Where sacred fires once burned - E.J. Pratt "The Hidden Scar"

Sent vast leagues of silver fire - E.J. Pratt "Sea Variations"

Beneath the fire of kisses - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "One Night"

Kindles the holy fires that sleep - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Prayer"

Hot springs of turbid fire - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Italy"

Snow-flakes that fall upon fire - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"

His fingers on fire and welded to pain - Charles Rafferty "Catena"

When Chaos was baptized in fire - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"

Dives like a flash of fire - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"

Dying flame of life's last fire - G.A. Raybold "The Joys of Former Years Have Fled"

Just a house fire ignored - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"

The market is made of fire - Roger Reeves "Tag at Pullman National Monument"

Set ourselves on fire looking for infinity - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"

The fire her bones remember - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Has Walked Into the Wild, Palms Open"

Across the strings of magic fire - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [I saw her once--her eye's deep light]"

A zigzag fire leapt in our sockets - Lola Ridge "The Everlasting Return"

The day was arteried with fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

Rocked like a trapeze of fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

A trampled fire begins again to glow - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

In an envelope of fire not yet struck to flame - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

This hollow at the red pith of fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 2: Madness in the Field"

Faint beneath the kiss of fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Apples of fire ripened and fell - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Pouring a brimming fire in their eyes - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Left within it graft of alien fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Freed from the harsh fires of the soul - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Wrote on my heart with stylus of fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"

A wand of fire immaculate - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"

Where men are fed into the fires - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"

Torches spluttering silver fire - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Spices drifted out of the blown fire - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"

Two points of amber fire - Lola Ridge "Shadow"

Life deleted of its old raw fire - Lola Ridge "The White Bird"

Pale ruin with a heart of fire - Lola Ridge "A Worn Rose"

The fire of Treason's blazing gun - James Whitcombe Riley "The Silent Victors"

A poke of the pitchfork, a drop of fire - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

Starting a century of fires - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"

Wood was also the keeper of fires - Alberto Rios "Faithful Forest"

Holding paper bags around a barrel fire - Joseph Rios "For Henry's Bar"

Who boldly did aspire to steal the sun's etherial fire - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"

Soul of fire and seed of sod - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Recessional"

White fire and amethyst - Charles George Douglas Roberts "The Silver Thaw"

Or wish me to those everlasting fires - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Washed out of the world with fire and blood - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

A kind of fire persisting unafraid - Kristina Kay Robinson "Contemplating Extinction as Theme in Basquiat's 'Pez Dispenser 1984'"

Woven of frost and fire - Alice Wellington Rollins "October"

Flashing light of jeweled fire - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)

Fire blown bright by thought - Isaac Rosenberg "Expression"

A web threaded with fading fire - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"

Feet of fire on banks of ice - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"

His dust is fire and seed - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"

Like fire pouring through a lattice - Margaret Ross "Evolution"

He lit a fire with icicles - Kay Ryan "He Lit a Fire with Icicles"

In miracles of fire - "Sacrifice"

The soul of fire fell - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"

Ready for the dust and fire and wind - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"

Bannered with fire and gold - Carl Sandburg "Monotone"

Spools of fire wind - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

A fire that hollows me out - Chris Santiago "Insurrecto"

To the heart of iron and fire - D.L. Sayers "For Phaon"

Under our curtain of fire - Robert Haven Schauffler "The White Comrade"

Whom she ordained to feed her holy fire - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

From truth's own glass of fire - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

Behold the hidden and the giant fires - Friedrich Schiller "The Invincible Armada" transl. not credited

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

Bearing fire & sharp obsidian - Ann K. Schwader "Fiesta of Our Lady"

Whose prophecies scrawl tongues of fire - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"

Tongues of fire across our midnight sky - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"

Dim gardens of fire - Evelyn Scott "From Brooklyn"

Slakes desire with liquid fire - Frederick George Scott "The Sting of Death"

Beneath the inward fire sinks down - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems II"

A land of ice and fire beneath ether shores - Alexandra Seidel "Give Me Pluto"

Wrestled with God for the sacred fire - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"

Hug them to my eager heart of fire - Robert W. Service "The Song of the Camp-Fire"

Where Cupid got new fire - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLIII"

So many fires start in my head - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"

Among the springs of fire and poison - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Clothed in rainbow and in fire - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

With white fire laden - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Cloud"

With trains of bickering fire - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

A lamp of vestal fire burning - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

Like a cloud of fire - Percy Bysshe Shelley "To a Sky-Lark"

The secret food of fires - Percy Bysshe Shelley "When Passion's Trance Is Overpast"

Arrows of fire across the shadows hurled - Frank Dempster Sherman "Song at Daybreak"

Suck the breath from your fire - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"

northward fire twists around the shrublands - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"

Resolving into a human shape of fire - Tom Sleigh "Three Wishes"

On wings of lyric fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Butterfly"

That blackens with the passing of the fire - Clark Ashton Smith "Finis"

Towers of night and fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

Formed of fire and brass - Clark Ashton Smith "In Saturn"

A fugitive uncapturable fire - Clark Ashton Smith "Laus Mortis"

Music forced by hands of fire - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"

The fire and dust of perished sphere - Clark Ashton Smith "The Orchid"

Close to the zones of solar fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of a Comet"

Rises and ebbs in a tide of fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of the Stars"

The tears of mist and fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Tears of Lilith"

The levin's blighting fire comes - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"

To stare fire in the eye - Tracy K. Smith "Soulwork"

The fire that turned ritual into reality - Richard Solomon "Ba'al Teshuva"

Stealing fire means taking sides - Richard Solomon "Possession III: Ball"

Unending thoughts on fire - Richard Solomon "A Riddle"

There is fire in our father's ashes - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]

The coal fire cherished by the bellows - A.E. Stallings "The Rosehead Nail"

Born of fire and nursed by rain - Frank Stanford "The Cape"

Such a fire of silks and laces - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"

Wake the fires of old tradition - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

Woke no answering fire - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Montagu"

In robes of gold and crimson fire - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Sleigh-Ride"

And love offended lights a fire - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"

A timeless vision and a ghostly fire - George Sterling "Afterward (BtB)"

Menaced by invading fire - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

And all his mind took fire - George Sterling "A Character"

Stars that pass in alien fire - George Sterling "Charles Warren Stoddard"

Go winged with crystal fire - George Sterling "The Common Cult"

Ruined altars yielding up their fire - George Sterling "The Evanescent City"

Float with unheeded fire - George Sterling "The Light-Giver"

My heart is hungered fire - George Sterling "The New Goddess"

Clinging fire from Heaven's arsenal - George Sterling "The Swoon"

Her transitory throne of fire - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"

From the dark a dust of fire - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"

I am fire to the bold - George Sterling "Witch-Fire"

Consume in solid fire - Wallace Stevens "Esthetique du Mal"

Veins of glory and fire - Robert Louis Stevenson "If This Were Faith"

Homestead and harvest had vanished in fire - Alfred B. Street "Averill's Raid" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Glory in folly and fire and ruin - Arthur Stringer "Atavism"

Out of the fury and the fires of mortal passion - Arthur Stringer "The Steel Workers"

Another offering for the fire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 36: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Burn in the fire of separation - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 45: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Scorched by the fire of separation - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 145: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Assembles according to some fierce green fire - Alison Swan "Lifeboat"

Fires in the spheres of stars - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

A fire of heart untamed - Algernon Swinburne "Eros"

Fainter with fear of the fires - A.C. Swinburne "Nephelidia"

The flames of remembered fires - Algernon Swinburne "Recollections"

Where the soul's delight takes fire - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

When all the clouds have spent their fire - Carmen Sylva "The Glowworm"

And not a tear will quench that fire - Carmen Sylva "'Vengeance Is Mine,' Saith the Lord"

Unknowing of the bright and quenchless fire - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

And the fire of the end begin to burn - Arthur Symons "The Crying of Water"

Fires crackling in jagged lines - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"

The shadow stitchery of Paracelsus and Prometheus' fire - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"

With chill December beside the evening fire - John B. Tabb "An Interview"

Hopes that clash like ice and fire - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Poem without a Category, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson

A nature of fire and feeling allied - Te-con-ees-kee "Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation"

Fusing with intenser fire - Sara Teasdale "August Moonrise"

Fire in the heart - Sara Teasdale "Dooryard Roses"

Too sorrowful a fire - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"

With beating hearts of fire - Sara Teasdale "Stars"

A raiment made of fire - Sara Teasdale "To E"

And beat the twilight into flakes of fire - Alfred Tennyson "Tithonus"

On the days made of fire and dust - Shveta Thakrar "A Love in Twelve Feathers"

A cup of milk and honey blent with fire - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"

As long as youth breathes living fire - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIV. The Flags"

And the tired forest catches fire - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"

The river a library on fire - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"

The fire that pillars up the stars - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

How they struggle in a mist of fire - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 1 A. M."

Tremendous in a coat of fire - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 1 A. M."

Fire walked in crimson armour - Iris Tree "Zeppelins: 3 A. M."

The world and its innumerable fires - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

Open to the love of fire - Nadia Tueni [Untitled] transl. by Carol Cosman

To equip and grade thy purging fire - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

Her tears that burnt like fire - Katherine Tynan "The Little Ghost"

Had neither fire nor candle-light - Katharine Tynan "A Song of Christmas"

Rose and fire together - Katherine Tynan "Winter Sunset"

Freedom lights anew her waning fires - "The Union Marseillaise" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Lost in a forest of fire - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"

Made of rose and fire and mist - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

Your ballad's grief, your lyric's fire - Louis Untermeyer "The Dying Decadent"

With the fires of April - Louis Untermeyer "Interludes"

With all its million fires - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"

And snapped in my own fires - Louis Untermeyer "Monolog from a Mattress"

Melts in a sunset of fire - Louis Untermeyer "Revelation"

A fire of my expectation and the brightening of an eye - Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca "Had Been There"

Even with all the forgetting the fire endured - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"

Saw the light of fires along a distant shore - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "There Is a Fire"

Knock and enter and be fed with fire and wine - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"

Whose seething fires can find no form, nor vent - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Flooded our horizons with neon fire - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"

Fire with hands of boiling gold - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Bell-Ringer" transl. by Alma Strettell

The eyes from their sockets of fire - Charles William Wallace "There's a Laugh"

Around the many Council fires - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "King Philip (Pometacom)"

When the fire burns hollow - Rosamund Marriott Watson "The Open Door"

August's panting heart of fire - William Watson "Autumn"

Its mystery of fire and the light - Afaa Michael Weaver "This Morning, This First Poem"

A wound made of fire opening in the sky - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"

A chastened glow from fires celestial caught - Edith Wharton "Raffaelle to the Fornarina"

Fades out in fire - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"

Enough pain to set fires - Roberta Hill Whiteman "A Nation Wrapped in Stone"

O quenchless, indispensable fire - Walt Whitman "Still Though the One I Sing"

Where all the fires of fame burned glory - Helen Hay Whitney "Ambition and Love"

Altars to their souls' fine fires - Helen Hay Whitney "The Joy of Life"

Felt the fire of passion's sway - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"

Fire of my heart's grief - Margaret Widdemer "The Forgotten Soul"

Till angels wrap the spheres in fire - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

Those fleas that escaped earth and fire - William Carlos Williams "Complete Destruction"

The fire roots that circle him - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"

Who know all fires out of the bodies - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

The swoon of love that soars in fire to fall - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"

Some bones to break in the years of fire - Nicholas Wong "Intergenerational"

For the fist of fire - Nancy Wood "When the Morningstars Sang Together"

In her upturned eye of fire - William Wordsworth "The Kitten and the Falling Leaves"

The kingfisher falls through fire - Charles Wright "Walking Beside the Diversion Ditch Lake"

Treacherous to circular fire - Jay Wright "Sasa"

And frost bakes clay as fire bakes - Elinor Wylie "Winter Sleep"

Balance of holy fire - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"

The seed of the fire - W.B. Yeats "The Song of the Old Mother"

your body rendered glasslike by fire - Monica Youn "Whiteacre"

Who inhabited this fire - C. Dale Young "Curio"

A finer fire touched my lips - Francis Brett Young "Lament"

Tormented creature of fire and ice - Francis Brett Young "104 Fahrenheit"

Where the fell fire of poison smoulders - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Folds an origami house on fire - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

An origami house on fire - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Wait for a bolt of lightning's fire - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #9" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

Time passing the dance of cold fire - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver

All tattooed with the curse of fire - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver

And with fire establish the word - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 8" transl. by Katherine Silver


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

The gun on the wall never fired - Mary Jo Bang "The Fall"

Fired with frost and heaving breath - D'Arcy McNickle "The Mountains"

Fired to do the will of gods - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"

By the frost nearly fired - Sara Teasdale "Places"


While they front the firing line - Roscoe Conkling Jamison "The Negro Soldiers"

Firing bullets of wet light - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Football players firing glory-cannons downfield - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"


Bale-fires burn and cities wrapped in flame - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"


Bonfire.


Time was a brushfire burning - Mary Jo Bang "The Still Knife Still Suspended"


Campfire.


Webs and dim branching, cross-firing - Janet Kauffman "Cut the Lure"


In a crown-fire forest blaze - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"


With scathing breath the deluge-fire of a descending hell - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]


Dim curtains of duskfire and dew - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"


Fen-fire that conducts her to her doom - William Watson "Ireland (December 1, 1890)"


The storm that douse the firebird - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"


Firebright blessings of fallen leaves - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"


A dynamo of swirled memory, of fire-bursts - Ian Goh "Firework"


Fighting him off with firecrackers - Chen Chen "First Light"

A deep quiet plucked by firecrackers - Naomi Shihab Nye "New Year"

Ropes of firecrackers that irradiate the past - Jenny Xie "Memory Soldier"

Their meteor go-cart running on a firecracker - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


My voice a fire extinguisher - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"


Fire-eyed wraiths of daffodils - Elinor Jenkins "The Lovers' Walk"


Crawled under fire-forgotten rocks - Brenda Hillman "& After the Power Came Back"


Where the fire-haired comet runs - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"


Firelight.


The fire-lit pewter glowing - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"


Firemen hacking into the heart of the blaze - Mark Rudolph "Tarot Cards and UFOs"


Fire-ships through the tamed seas glancing - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"


Disturbs my fireside's stillness - Eleanor Hull "The Old Woman of Beare"

Where firesides and altars govern hearts - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Cold fireside and alienated home - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"


The smoke of fire-spangled passion - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"


My paws no good for fire-starting - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"


Won't hold me back from the firestorm - Marlane Quade Cook "Breaking"


A fire-tipped spear of corn - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt


A fire-white ghost - Tracy K. Smith "Einstein's Mother"


A fire-wind funneled to order - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "From the Front of the Fourth World"


Fire-winged cats that light the nights - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"


Hold forest-fire in one hand - Carolina Ebeld "There Is a Devil Inside Me"

The defiance of forest fires - Tarfia Faizullah "The Distance Between Fire and Stone"

To quaff down a forest fire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 18: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The burning of this forest fire - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 169: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley


When fox fire glimmers through drizzling rain - Lu Yu "In a Boat on a Summer Evening, I Heard the Cry of a Water Bird. It was Very Sad and Seemed to Be Saying, 'Madam Is Cruel!' Moved, I Wrote This Poem" transl. by Burton Watson

A skein of foxfire and the bruised scent of vervain - Sonya Taaffe "Night Boat"


Gunfire barks its questions - Seamus Heaney "The Betrothal of Cavehill"


Through tempests of hell-fire - Ivor Gurney "Serenity"

Of hell-fire, of the venomous flame - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

And the light of hell-fire flows - Robert W. Service "The Heart of the Sourdough"


A love-fire sharp like pain - Langston Hughes "When Sue Wears Red"


The exit wounds of every misfired word - Ocean Vuong "To My Father/To My Future Son"


Ash and cinder of star-fire - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"


Sun-fires course in all the veins of me - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"

Clothed in obsidian and sunfire - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Catching play of sun-fire - Carl Sandburg "In a Breath"


Tempest-fires and surging storm - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"


A watchfire that smoulders and dwindles - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"

Kept vigil with the watchfires of the sky - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

In the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps - Julia Ward Howe "Battle-Hymn of the Republic"


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


Wildfire.


Clad in the garb of wonder-fire - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"


The god of the secret world-on-fire - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"


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