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Potential Titles: Fill
Filled with mercury memory - Elmaz Abinader "Lines of Demarcation"
Filling the cage of your chest - Elmaz Abinader "This House My Bones"
The changes begin to fill the corners of your eyes - Duane Ackerson "The Painting Speaks"
Dark red circles filled with dust - Harold Acton "Green grow the Rushes, O"
The shale night filling with rain - Carl Adamshick "The solitude of an apricot"
Fill my heart with quiet music - Medora C. Addison "The Days to Come"
Drew blood to fill our cups of dream-dark wine - Mike Allen "Ascending"
Filled his arms with hues and shadows - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
The webbing of her mind filled with tangles of light - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"
Filled with the music of cicadas - Lae Astra "Binary Star System"
Of silver he shall have his fill - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Filled with dripping water and locked doors - Julie Babcock "Wolfwoman"
Pockets filled with remnants of a day - Nina Bagley "Gathering"
Whose veins are filled with fluid fire - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"
Anything to fill the vacuum of time - Mary Jo Bang "Filming the Doomsday Clock"
Bread fills a cup - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Metal filings filled the hour - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"
tantalus drink your fill - Elizabeth Bartlett "ekstasis"
fill it with maple trees gone gaudy - Samiya Bashir "Field Theories"
Deepens into a well filled with roots - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
Filling the waves with colored fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The City Revisited"
Their years they fill with dross - Paul Bewsher "To Hilda"
Filled with the intent to be lost - Elizabeth Bishop "One Art"
Filling my dreams with broken windows - Terry Blackhawk "From the Roof"
The echo of old names and weighted fill of rocks - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"
But only fill afresh his meed of laughter, his cup of tears - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
The buttercup's bright goblet fill - Anne Bronte "Memory"
Light cannot fill the craving eye - Anne Bronte "Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas"
Filled with haunting fears - Charlotte Bronte "Regret"
The tears that fill the years - Rupert Brooke "Beauty and Beauty"
Like a prophet filled with fears - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Autumn"
That fills the wall of the crystal heaven - William Cullen Bryant "The Hurricane"
The empty space not filled - Sue Budin "Jigsaw"
Fills me like honeyed words - Sue Budin "Ripe Fruit"
Filled each leafy vein with dew - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"
Fills my lungs with longing - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
A decade filled with mighty deeds - Roger Casement "Oliver Cromwell 1650-1659"
Thought to fill my soul with grief - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices
A cavern that refuses to be filled - Marianne Chan "The Lives of Saints"
Thorns and weeds fill the palace chamber - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Gaps knowing cannot fill - Jeremy Michael Clark "One Fire, Quenched with Another"
And filled with Sabbath peace my mind - Willis Gaylord Clark "Stanzas Written in Indisposition"
imagine his growl filling the wind - Lucille Clifton "imagining bear"
To find it filled with melodies - Arthur Colton "In Port To-Day"
Dying echoes fill the valley - Henry Rutgers Conger "The Purple Hills"
Outposts filled with Saturn's mercenaries - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"
He filled his hands with stars - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
And all her body filled with May - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
Fills the empty vault of Night with shimmering bars - E. E. Cummings "Summer Silence"
To fill the empty stretch of hours between alms - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
Fill my silences with your words - Hayes Davis "Thhhat was great"
Filled me with pine needles & pecan halves - Tyree Daye "Dream Book"
mind filled with a light returning - Tyree Daye "The Lord's Corner"
Walking through a forest filled with alabaster heads - Oliver de la Paz "Dear Empire [these are your temples]"
Filled with wide-shining wonder - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"
Fills with the strange rain of stars - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Filled with dawn's initial hue - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"
Winter fills summer's buckets - Chris Dombrowski "Runt Puppies in the Shade under the Porch"
A kite without a wind to fill it - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
Fills the ages with its light - Eleanor C. Donnelly "Mary Immaculate"
Silence filling like a cup - Edward Dowden "Burdens"
Filled the heaven like brass - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
To fill my lap with violets - Edward Dowden "Winter Noontide"
Fill it full of thistledown - Theodore Dreiser "The Spring Recital"
What fills a tunnel after a locomotive passes - Stephen Dunn "The Unsaid"
Many thorns fill the path to my goal - Hemantabālā Dutt "Open Thou Thy Door of Mercy" transl. by Miss Whitehouse
Filling its darkness with bright things - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Fill the torches cup by cup - Bijan Elahi "Five Scenes from Icarus" transl. by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian
But fill the void with definition - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"
Forest voices fill the air - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
And filled their hearts with flame - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"
Filling my chlorophyll with galactic energy - Charlie Espinosa "Sunflower Astronaut"
With flood tides filled thy bosom - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
From all pockets fills her box - John Gay "The Jugglers"
Sudden stillness fills my heart - Emanuel Geibel "[Schöne Lilie]" transl. by Edith Wharton
Filled now with wild alarms - Ieuan Glan Geirionydd "The Strand of Rhuddlan" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Filled my hand with mist - Kahlil Gibran "Sand and Foam"
Mistakes enough to fill an ocean - Nikita Gill "In This Story"
Filled with tangents and distractions - Louise Gluck "An Endless Story"
Their fill of average joys and sorrows - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"
And fill my eyes with looking - Mona Gould "Wise Child"
Will fill you in with sky - Kimberly Grey "Invention"
Watch the ink fill in your body - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
Her needle mouth filling with water - Myronn Hardy "Mosquito"
Enough to fill the whole sky - francine j. harris "(i belong to that voice. it owns what i breathe.)"
While the oil fills your spines with salt - francine j. harris "rub against it, where"
Filled the least and the greatest places - Leslie Harrison "[God speaks]"
And drink my fill of their perfumes - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "When June Comes"
My love's despairing cry filled hell with melody - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Eurydice"
Fills the wall of the crystal heavens - José María Heredia "The Hurricane" transl. by William Cullen Bryant
The dark is filling with toads - Conrad Hilberry "Toads"
Filling each space with aroma - Donna Hilbert "Ribollita"
Fill the ocean with melted ice - Arden Eli Hill "None of the Star Trek Ships Are Named After Confederate Generals"
This rupture filled the space - Cynthia Hogue "Spells for Dread"
Filled with intoxication of delight - Victor Hugo "The Genesis of Butterflies" transl. by Andrew Lang
Fame's parchment to fill - J. Hunt, Jr. "The Cottage"
Who fills oft the Cup of mortal fire - Umar Ibn al-Farid "Khamriyyah" [selections] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
We'll fill Time's glass with ruby tears - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Filling our mouths with ghosts - Allison Eir Jenks "The Church of St. Sulspicious"
Expansive enough to fill years' worth of slumber - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Fill up your throat with laughter - Helene Johnson "Magalu"
Fill all solitary haunts with prophecy - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
Fill their twisted mouths with lament - Camisha L. Jones "My Anxieties Learn to Pray"
Her coffers filled with their countless worth - Edward Smyth Jones "A Song of Thanks"
In fields filled with jagged rocks - Tanque R. Jones "Slave-Feet"
The opiate that fills you dream - Fredoon Kabraji "Tulip"
Orderly cupboards filled with nothing - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"
Orderly cupboards filled with blood - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"
Filling the brief space of one mortal hour - Fanny Kemble "To --- [I would I might be with thee, when the year]"
Filling with awful harmony the air - Fanny Kemble "Written on Cramond Beach]"
Never enough to fill the hole your doubt dug - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"
Arms filled with sickles and swords - Vandana Khanna "Hindu Mythology in Shorthand"
The first to fill in its spaces - Amy King "You Make the Culture"
And fill the room my heart keeps empty - Henry King "The Exequy"
Filling the night with whispers - Lam Lai "I, New York"
The mess of crows that fills the apple tree - Danusha Laméris "Omens"
With dock and ragweed filled - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes I: The Awaited Leader"
Fills her days with duties done - Emma Lazarus "Work"
The empty spaces you once filled - Aimee Le "Poem Written by Aimee's Imaginary Roommate, Charles"
Throats of music filled with sand - Richard Le Gallienne "Autumn"
The waves fill my hand with blue memories - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
That filled their destined hours - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory of the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"
Kept filling up with time - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"
His ribcage filled with tiny boats - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"
Filling the forest with diamonds - Stephen Leggett "Seven Winter Poems"
Cannot be filled but only altered or cut away - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
The lilac's dim explosion fills the air - Katinka Loeser "Spring Is the Time for Flowers"
Fill my lap with roses gathered in the milky way - Amy Lowell "The Crescent Moon"
Age fills the cup with serious tea - James Russell Lowell "Arcadia Rediviva"
By veins from Odin filled - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
Fames that earth's tin trumpets fill - James Russell Lowell "Joseph Winlock"
With pockets filled for life - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"
Filled with phantoms flitting furtively from sight - William Lumley "Shadows" [Fantasy Fan v.1 no.9, May 1934]
To fill my arms with the sun - Tariq Luthun "People, Drunk at Parties, Tell Me They Love Me"
Which filled and built an ache in our lungs - Thomas Lux "Haystack of Needles"
And life be filled with light - Fiona MacLeod "The Sorrow of Delight"
That filled all earth with flame - James Clarence Mangan "The One Mystery"
More filled with signs and portents - Edwin Markham "The Man with the Hoe"
Let the dry heart fill its cup - Edwin Markham "A Prayer"
Fill their trumpets with the noise - Furnley Maurice "The Soldier Band"
How the bed is filled with weather - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Their gutters fill with all four seasons - John McCarthy "The Weight of Dirt and Rust"
That filled my soul like cooling wine - Claude McKay "Memorial"
Hearts all filled with plans - Frank J. Medina "Life's Reality"
Then the tidepool of my power fills - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"
The town square is filled with ghosts - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
Liquid hydrogen filled a thermos - Tyler Mills "'Mike' Test"
Vase filled with smoke's children - Matthew Minicucci "Nostalgia"
A hall filled with a hungry diaspora - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"
The history of this particular star is filled with tears - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"
Till the drugged earth has drunk her fill - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"
Filled with stone and grief and ash - Joan Murray "Survivors--Found"
Woods filled with nests and whispers - Ada Negri "Make Way!" transl. by Lynn Lawner
Fills its nest with lemons - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: I" transl. by William O'Daly
Like funnels filled with teeth - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Filling them with holes and birds - Pablo Neruda "I Explain a Few Things [Residence on Earth]" transl. by Galway Kinnell
Then dawn filled all the goblets - Pablo Neruda "Morning" transl. by Stephan Tapscott
A bottle filled with thirsty salt - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Filled with teeth and lightning - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
To fill our hearts with salt water - Pablo Neruda "Perhaps, perhaps oblivion..." transl. by Jack Schmitt
Like horses filled with smoke - Pablo Neruda "Spain Poor Through the Fault of the Rich" translated by Richard Schaaf
To eat his fill of heaven - Pablo Neruda "To the Dead Poor Man" transl. by Alastair Reid
Filling a cauldron with verdant herbs - Mari Ness "The Restoration of Youth"
Our hands filled with bread and dates - Mari Ness "Sisters"
Carrying water in containers filled with holes - Mari Ness "Sisters"
The uproar of whose toil filled your green vaults - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"
Filled the woods with rapture - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
Filled with memory moons - Ekhmetjan Osman "Uyghur Impressions 7: Muselles Wine" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
To shoes filled with tears - Linda Pastan "At the Edge"
I fill my plate with rain - Kiki Petrosino "Nocturne"
Filling the broken compromise - Xan Forest Phillips "I Never Used to Write About Birds"
Did not quite fill the trumpet of his fame - Philo "The Tribute"
Filled with shattered beams of light - Alexander Posey "On the Hills of Dawn"
Two moons that fill my palms - Sina Queyras "Morning Song"
A paper lantern the hornets fill - Jacques J. Rancourt "Where to Begin?"
Filled with perfect ozone - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
April fills its jar with bloom - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Till waters scream in anger and the wide-mouthed valley fills - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
A fury fill the veins of time - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
Fill our lap with dust and stones - Rumi "Aspiration" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
And told how Lethe's banks are filled - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems II: An Afternoon Soliloquy"
Till all the rooms of warmth fill with smoke - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"
Take your fill of intimate remorse, perfume sorrow - Carl Sandburg "The Right to Grief"
Many a head that's filled with smoke - Friedrich Schiller "Bacchus in the Pillory"
Who fills the future with your own blood - Ollie Schminkey "The First Rule of Buoyancy"
And to fill with light the thirsty - Fritz Schnack "Evening Gift" transl. by William Saphier
Filled with faces divine - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"
Filled your canvas curves with rose - Duncan Campbell Scott "Off Riviere du Loup"
Fills my veins with rivers of excess - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"
Filling the auditoriums with empty skulls - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"
What giddy raptures fill the brain - "Sequel to The Belles of Williamsburg"
Caskets filled with black feathers - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"
That fills the night's blue cup - Frank Dempster Sherman "At Her Window"
There I'd sit and cry my fill - "Shule Aroon" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Fill us with your splendid breath - Joyce Sidman "Come, Happiness"
A full wind filling the trees - Michael Simms "Sometimes I Wake Early"
Filled with circumgalactic stardust and the void - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"
Filled with a wild winter emptiness - Elizabeth Spires "Nightgown"
That may fill out life's score - Clarence Victor Stahl "Sing It"
Pillows filled with hawk feathers - Frank Stanford "In this House"
To fill the mouths of hungry souls - "Stool-Ball"
While symphonies filled up the gaps she made - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
As my tears fill her bed - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Filled with the eyes of their wings - Milo K. Szyszka "A Tale of Moths and Home (of Bones and Breathing) (of Extrinsic Restrictive Lung Disease)"
Fills like sand between glass marbles - Adeeba Shahid Talukder "A Love Note"
Fills the earth and thrills the heavens - Maurice Thompson "The Final Thought"
Towers filled with murder - Leah Tieger "I-30, I-20, Farm to Market Road"
Fills the hollows of my surrender - Angela Narciso Torres "Self-Portrait as Water"
My open window filled with advice - Kristen Tracy "Taming the Dog"
Filled with rose-water and myrrh - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"
Filled with a blurred glory - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Rain"
Her absence is filling a quota - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Measured"
As trilobites filled up my hand - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Fossil"
Fills a teacup with champagne - Ocean Vuong "Aubade with Burning City"
Filled with all the colors of the sky - Ocean Vuong "To My Father/To My Future Son"
Fill with echoes of evening - Wang Yu-ch'eng "Journey to a Village" transl. by Burton Watson
Fills the varied interval between - Thomas Warton "To the River Lodon"
A schoolhouse filled with dust - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Low"
Filled a basket with crashing birds - Elizabeth Willis "The Steam Engine"
A night filled with pinpricks instead of stars - Rin Willis "After the Wolf"
And filled the empty caverns of the air - Humbert Wolfe "The Sicilian Expedition"
The bright filled us so deep and long - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
Filling the air with silver and water - Valerie Worth "Wood Thrush"
And drink of bliss my fill - John Wright "An Autumnal Cloud"
Fill my heart with mud - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
An empty envelope filling with news - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
Drank their fill of the wine of forgetfulness - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #4: Looking into the Distance" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Governed by fill in the blank - Ira Sadoff "A Few Surprising Turns"
Half-filled with wine from the cliffs - Paul Tran "Terroir"
Singing through moon-filled teeth - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
A cloth kept in a moth-filled closet - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"
Never overfilling from this banquet - Elizabeth W. Garber "Feasting"
A single drop would overfill - A.J. Requier "A Charm"
In the pressure-filled waters of heartbreak - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Sliding down the rain-filled darkness - Kevin Prufer "Rain"
Caught sturgeon in the reed-filled Caspian - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"
And the belated moor refilled her sphere - George Santayana "Cathedrals by the Sea"
Ancient algae, reptile tread, soot-filled skies - Shutta Crum "On the Beach"
As an astronomer looks at the star-filled sky - Adolf Wolff "Lines Inspired on Meeting a Lady: To A. L."
Wild horses of the storm-filled plains - Ellen Hinsey "The Multitude"
A gilded curtsy to the sunfill - Elizabeth Acevedo "Ode to the Head Nod"
Frauds of the unfilled heart - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"
Like two flagons yet unfilled - Lola Ridge "Unburnt Offering"
Unto the wine-filled rose - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 26"
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Filling the cage of your chest - Elmaz Abinader "This House My Bones"
The changes begin to fill the corners of your eyes - Duane Ackerson "The Painting Speaks"
Dark red circles filled with dust - Harold Acton "Green grow the Rushes, O"
The shale night filling with rain - Carl Adamshick "The solitude of an apricot"
Fill my heart with quiet music - Medora C. Addison "The Days to Come"
Drew blood to fill our cups of dream-dark wine - Mike Allen "Ascending"
Filled his arms with hues and shadows - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
The webbing of her mind filled with tangles of light - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"
Filled with the music of cicadas - Lae Astra "Binary Star System"
Of silver he shall have his fill - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Filled with dripping water and locked doors - Julie Babcock "Wolfwoman"
Pockets filled with remnants of a day - Nina Bagley "Gathering"
Whose veins are filled with fluid fire - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"
Anything to fill the vacuum of time - Mary Jo Bang "Filming the Doomsday Clock"
Bread fills a cup - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"
Metal filings filled the hour - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"
tantalus drink your fill - Elizabeth Bartlett "ekstasis"
fill it with maple trees gone gaudy - Samiya Bashir "Field Theories"
Deepens into a well filled with roots - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
Filling the waves with colored fire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The City Revisited"
Their years they fill with dross - Paul Bewsher "To Hilda"
Filled with the intent to be lost - Elizabeth Bishop "One Art"
Filling my dreams with broken windows - Terry Blackhawk "From the Roof"
The echo of old names and weighted fill of rocks - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"
But only fill afresh his meed of laughter, his cup of tears - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
The buttercup's bright goblet fill - Anne Bronte "Memory"
Light cannot fill the craving eye - Anne Bronte "Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas"
Filled with haunting fears - Charlotte Bronte "Regret"
The tears that fill the years - Rupert Brooke "Beauty and Beauty"
Like a prophet filled with fears - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Autumn"
That fills the wall of the crystal heaven - William Cullen Bryant "The Hurricane"
The empty space not filled - Sue Budin "Jigsaw"
Fills me like honeyed words - Sue Budin "Ripe Fruit"
Filled each leafy vein with dew - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"
Fills my lungs with longing - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"
A decade filled with mighty deeds - Roger Casement "Oliver Cromwell 1650-1659"
Thought to fill my soul with grief - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices
A cavern that refuses to be filled - Marianne Chan "The Lives of Saints"
Thorns and weeds fill the palace chamber - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Gaps knowing cannot fill - Jeremy Michael Clark "One Fire, Quenched with Another"
And filled with Sabbath peace my mind - Willis Gaylord Clark "Stanzas Written in Indisposition"
imagine his growl filling the wind - Lucille Clifton "imagining bear"
To find it filled with melodies - Arthur Colton "In Port To-Day"
Dying echoes fill the valley - Henry Rutgers Conger "The Purple Hills"
Outposts filled with Saturn's mercenaries - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"
He filled his hands with stars - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
And all her body filled with May - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
Fills the empty vault of Night with shimmering bars - E. E. Cummings "Summer Silence"
To fill the empty stretch of hours between alms - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
Fill my silences with your words - Hayes Davis "Thhhat was great"
Filled me with pine needles & pecan halves - Tyree Daye "Dream Book"
mind filled with a light returning - Tyree Daye "The Lord's Corner"
Walking through a forest filled with alabaster heads - Oliver de la Paz "Dear Empire [these are your temples]"
Filled with wide-shining wonder - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"
Fills with the strange rain of stars - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Filled with dawn's initial hue - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"
Winter fills summer's buckets - Chris Dombrowski "Runt Puppies in the Shade under the Porch"
A kite without a wind to fill it - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
Fills the ages with its light - Eleanor C. Donnelly "Mary Immaculate"
Silence filling like a cup - Edward Dowden "Burdens"
Filled the heaven like brass - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"
To fill my lap with violets - Edward Dowden "Winter Noontide"
Fill it full of thistledown - Theodore Dreiser "The Spring Recital"
What fills a tunnel after a locomotive passes - Stephen Dunn "The Unsaid"
Many thorns fill the path to my goal - Hemantabālā Dutt "Open Thou Thy Door of Mercy" transl. by Miss Whitehouse
Filling its darkness with bright things - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Fill the torches cup by cup - Bijan Elahi "Five Scenes from Icarus" transl. by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian
But fill the void with definition - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"
Forest voices fill the air - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
And filled their hearts with flame - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Boston Hymn"
Filling my chlorophyll with galactic energy - Charlie Espinosa "Sunflower Astronaut"
With flood tides filled thy bosom - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
From all pockets fills her box - John Gay "The Jugglers"
Sudden stillness fills my heart - Emanuel Geibel "[Schöne Lilie]" transl. by Edith Wharton
Filled now with wild alarms - Ieuan Glan Geirionydd "The Strand of Rhuddlan" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Filled my hand with mist - Kahlil Gibran "Sand and Foam"
Mistakes enough to fill an ocean - Nikita Gill "In This Story"
Filled with tangents and distractions - Louise Gluck "An Endless Story"
Their fill of average joys and sorrows - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"
And fill my eyes with looking - Mona Gould "Wise Child"
Will fill you in with sky - Kimberly Grey "Invention"
Watch the ink fill in your body - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
Her needle mouth filling with water - Myronn Hardy "Mosquito"
Enough to fill the whole sky - francine j. harris "(i belong to that voice. it owns what i breathe.)"
While the oil fills your spines with salt - francine j. harris "rub against it, where"
Filled the least and the greatest places - Leslie Harrison "[God speaks]"
And drink my fill of their perfumes - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "When June Comes"
My love's despairing cry filled hell with melody - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Eurydice"
Fills the wall of the crystal heavens - José María Heredia "The Hurricane" transl. by William Cullen Bryant
The dark is filling with toads - Conrad Hilberry "Toads"
Filling each space with aroma - Donna Hilbert "Ribollita"
Fill the ocean with melted ice - Arden Eli Hill "None of the Star Trek Ships Are Named After Confederate Generals"
This rupture filled the space - Cynthia Hogue "Spells for Dread"
Filled with intoxication of delight - Victor Hugo "The Genesis of Butterflies" transl. by Andrew Lang
Fame's parchment to fill - J. Hunt, Jr. "The Cottage"
Who fills oft the Cup of mortal fire - Umar Ibn al-Farid "Khamriyyah" [selections] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
We'll fill Time's glass with ruby tears - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Filling our mouths with ghosts - Allison Eir Jenks "The Church of St. Sulspicious"
Expansive enough to fill years' worth of slumber - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Fill up your throat with laughter - Helene Johnson "Magalu"
Fill all solitary haunts with prophecy - Lionel Johnson "Gwynedd"
Fill their twisted mouths with lament - Camisha L. Jones "My Anxieties Learn to Pray"
Her coffers filled with their countless worth - Edward Smyth Jones "A Song of Thanks"
In fields filled with jagged rocks - Tanque R. Jones "Slave-Feet"
The opiate that fills you dream - Fredoon Kabraji "Tulip"
Orderly cupboards filled with nothing - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"
Orderly cupboards filled with blood - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"
Filling the brief space of one mortal hour - Fanny Kemble "To --- [I would I might be with thee, when the year]"
Filling with awful harmony the air - Fanny Kemble "Written on Cramond Beach]"
Never enough to fill the hole your doubt dug - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"
Arms filled with sickles and swords - Vandana Khanna "Hindu Mythology in Shorthand"
The first to fill in its spaces - Amy King "You Make the Culture"
And fill the room my heart keeps empty - Henry King "The Exequy"
Filling the night with whispers - Lam Lai "I, New York"
The mess of crows that fills the apple tree - Danusha Laméris "Omens"
With dock and ragweed filled - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes I: The Awaited Leader"
Fills her days with duties done - Emma Lazarus "Work"
The empty spaces you once filled - Aimee Le "Poem Written by Aimee's Imaginary Roommate, Charles"
Throats of music filled with sand - Richard Le Gallienne "Autumn"
The waves fill my hand with blue memories - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
That filled their destined hours - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory of the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"
Kept filling up with time - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"
His ribcage filled with tiny boats - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"
Filling the forest with diamonds - Stephen Leggett "Seven Winter Poems"
Cannot be filled but only altered or cut away - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
The lilac's dim explosion fills the air - Katinka Loeser "Spring Is the Time for Flowers"
Fill my lap with roses gathered in the milky way - Amy Lowell "The Crescent Moon"
Age fills the cup with serious tea - James Russell Lowell "Arcadia Rediviva"
By veins from Odin filled - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
Fames that earth's tin trumpets fill - James Russell Lowell "Joseph Winlock"
With pockets filled for life - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"
Filled with phantoms flitting furtively from sight - William Lumley "Shadows" [Fantasy Fan v.1 no.9, May 1934]
To fill my arms with the sun - Tariq Luthun "People, Drunk at Parties, Tell Me They Love Me"
Which filled and built an ache in our lungs - Thomas Lux "Haystack of Needles"
And life be filled with light - Fiona MacLeod "The Sorrow of Delight"
That filled all earth with flame - James Clarence Mangan "The One Mystery"
More filled with signs and portents - Edwin Markham "The Man with the Hoe"
Let the dry heart fill its cup - Edwin Markham "A Prayer"
Fill their trumpets with the noise - Furnley Maurice "The Soldier Band"
How the bed is filled with weather - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Their gutters fill with all four seasons - John McCarthy "The Weight of Dirt and Rust"
That filled my soul like cooling wine - Claude McKay "Memorial"
Hearts all filled with plans - Frank J. Medina "Life's Reality"
Then the tidepool of my power fills - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"
The town square is filled with ghosts - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
Liquid hydrogen filled a thermos - Tyler Mills "'Mike' Test"
Vase filled with smoke's children - Matthew Minicucci "Nostalgia"
A hall filled with a hungry diaspora - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"
The history of this particular star is filled with tears - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"
Till the drugged earth has drunk her fill - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"
Filled with stone and grief and ash - Joan Murray "Survivors--Found"
Woods filled with nests and whispers - Ada Negri "Make Way!" transl. by Lynn Lawner
Fills its nest with lemons - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: I" transl. by William O'Daly
Like funnels filled with teeth - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Filling them with holes and birds - Pablo Neruda "I Explain a Few Things [Residence on Earth]" transl. by Galway Kinnell
Then dawn filled all the goblets - Pablo Neruda "Morning" transl. by Stephan Tapscott
A bottle filled with thirsty salt - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Filled with teeth and lightning - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
To fill our hearts with salt water - Pablo Neruda "Perhaps, perhaps oblivion..." transl. by Jack Schmitt
Like horses filled with smoke - Pablo Neruda "Spain Poor Through the Fault of the Rich" translated by Richard Schaaf
To eat his fill of heaven - Pablo Neruda "To the Dead Poor Man" transl. by Alastair Reid
Filling a cauldron with verdant herbs - Mari Ness "The Restoration of Youth"
Our hands filled with bread and dates - Mari Ness "Sisters"
Carrying water in containers filled with holes - Mari Ness "Sisters"
The uproar of whose toil filled your green vaults - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"
Filled the woods with rapture - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
Filled with memory moons - Ekhmetjan Osman "Uyghur Impressions 7: Muselles Wine" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
To shoes filled with tears - Linda Pastan "At the Edge"
I fill my plate with rain - Kiki Petrosino "Nocturne"
Filling the broken compromise - Xan Forest Phillips "I Never Used to Write About Birds"
Did not quite fill the trumpet of his fame - Philo "The Tribute"
Filled with shattered beams of light - Alexander Posey "On the Hills of Dawn"
Two moons that fill my palms - Sina Queyras "Morning Song"
A paper lantern the hornets fill - Jacques J. Rancourt "Where to Begin?"
Filled with perfect ozone - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
April fills its jar with bloom - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
Till waters scream in anger and the wide-mouthed valley fills - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"
A fury fill the veins of time - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
Fill our lap with dust and stones - Rumi "Aspiration" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
And told how Lethe's banks are filled - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems II: An Afternoon Soliloquy"
Till all the rooms of warmth fill with smoke - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"
Take your fill of intimate remorse, perfume sorrow - Carl Sandburg "The Right to Grief"
Many a head that's filled with smoke - Friedrich Schiller "Bacchus in the Pillory"
Who fills the future with your own blood - Ollie Schminkey "The First Rule of Buoyancy"
And to fill with light the thirsty - Fritz Schnack "Evening Gift" transl. by William Saphier
Filled with faces divine - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"
Filled your canvas curves with rose - Duncan Campbell Scott "Off Riviere du Loup"
Fills my veins with rivers of excess - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"
Filling the auditoriums with empty skulls - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"
What giddy raptures fill the brain - "Sequel to The Belles of Williamsburg"
Caskets filled with black feathers - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"
That fills the night's blue cup - Frank Dempster Sherman "At Her Window"
There I'd sit and cry my fill - "Shule Aroon" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Fill us with your splendid breath - Joyce Sidman "Come, Happiness"
A full wind filling the trees - Michael Simms "Sometimes I Wake Early"
Filled with circumgalactic stardust and the void - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"
Filled with a wild winter emptiness - Elizabeth Spires "Nightgown"
That may fill out life's score - Clarence Victor Stahl "Sing It"
Pillows filled with hawk feathers - Frank Stanford "In this House"
To fill the mouths of hungry souls - "Stool-Ball"
While symphonies filled up the gaps she made - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
As my tears fill her bed - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Filled with the eyes of their wings - Milo K. Szyszka "A Tale of Moths and Home (of Bones and Breathing) (of Extrinsic Restrictive Lung Disease)"
Fills like sand between glass marbles - Adeeba Shahid Talukder "A Love Note"
Fills the earth and thrills the heavens - Maurice Thompson "The Final Thought"
Towers filled with murder - Leah Tieger "I-30, I-20, Farm to Market Road"
Fills the hollows of my surrender - Angela Narciso Torres "Self-Portrait as Water"
My open window filled with advice - Kristen Tracy "Taming the Dog"
Filled with rose-water and myrrh - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"
Filled with a blurred glory - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Rain"
Her absence is filling a quota - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Measured"
As trilobites filled up my hand - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Fossil"
Fills a teacup with champagne - Ocean Vuong "Aubade with Burning City"
Filled with all the colors of the sky - Ocean Vuong "To My Father/To My Future Son"
Fill with echoes of evening - Wang Yu-ch'eng "Journey to a Village" transl. by Burton Watson
Fills the varied interval between - Thomas Warton "To the River Lodon"
A schoolhouse filled with dust - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Low"
Filled a basket with crashing birds - Elizabeth Willis "The Steam Engine"
A night filled with pinpricks instead of stars - Rin Willis "After the Wolf"
And filled the empty caverns of the air - Humbert Wolfe "The Sicilian Expedition"
The bright filled us so deep and long - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
Filling the air with silver and water - Valerie Worth "Wood Thrush"
And drink of bliss my fill - John Wright "An Autumnal Cloud"
Fill my heart with mud - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
An empty envelope filling with news - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
Drank their fill of the wine of forgetfulness - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #4: Looking into the Distance" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Governed by fill in the blank - Ira Sadoff "A Few Surprising Turns"
Half-filled with wine from the cliffs - Paul Tran "Terroir"
Singing through moon-filled teeth - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
A cloth kept in a moth-filled closet - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"
Never overfilling from this banquet - Elizabeth W. Garber "Feasting"
A single drop would overfill - A.J. Requier "A Charm"
In the pressure-filled waters of heartbreak - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"
Sliding down the rain-filled darkness - Kevin Prufer "Rain"
Caught sturgeon in the reed-filled Caspian - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"
And the belated moor refilled her sphere - George Santayana "Cathedrals by the Sea"
Ancient algae, reptile tread, soot-filled skies - Shutta Crum "On the Beach"
As an astronomer looks at the star-filled sky - Adolf Wolff "Lines Inspired on Meeting a Lady: To A. L."
Wild horses of the storm-filled plains - Ellen Hinsey "The Multitude"
A gilded curtsy to the sunfill - Elizabeth Acevedo "Ode to the Head Nod"
Frauds of the unfilled heart - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"
Like two flagons yet unfilled - Lola Ridge "Unburnt Offering"
Unto the wine-filled rose - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 26"
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