Potential Titles: After
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somethingdarkerAttempt an additional step after reaching the top - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"
Layer after folded layer, an endless origami - Duane Ackerson "The Vampire's Reflection"
With drums before and roses showered after - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
After all our toil and trouble - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
New leaves after her dead flowers - Richard Aldington "New Love"
After the lapse of thrice a thousand years - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"
In the strange exhilaration after - Elizabeth Alexander "One Week Later in the Strange"
At peace after many of Fortune's mutations - Horatio Alger Jr "Nothing to Do"
After the bones - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
After the vows and the happy tears - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
A sound of tears the moment after - William Allingham "A Dream"
After the feast of summer - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"
Hungering after memory - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"
Emerging after years underground - Lae Astra "Binary Star System"
After the facts are condensed - Mary Jo Bang "The Electric Eventual"
After the hurricane came through - Mary Jo Bang "In This One World"
Veil after unlifted veil - Mary Jo Bang "This Supposed Alchemy"
References to the serpentine after - Mary Jo Bang "We Took Our Places"
And, even after a century, bloom - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dry Sanctuary"
Seeker after lands that flee - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Perhaps after a chastening apocalypse - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"
After the ambrosia had burned through her veins - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"
End credits after the squall - Jaswinder Bolina "Municipal Vistas"
After the one that kills us - Susan Briante "13 Questions for the Next Economy"
After seasons of silence - Geoffrey Brock "You Are Here"
Even after the fertile soil turned over - Mahogany L. Browne "Ego-Tripp(ed)"
Weary after roaming - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
The stalled time after lunch - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"
Dawn after a journey home - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"
After that there is Thirst - Tina Chang "Evolution of Danger"
edge of before and after - Lucille Clifton "scar"
Love itself flies after - Florence Earle Coates "An Adieu"
As the sea yearns after the moon - Arthur Colton "Verses from 'The Canticle of the Road'"
To-morrow after next - Hilda Conkling "First Songs: XII"
After exterminating wolves and bison - CAConrad "Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return"
Scatter fragrance after winter's gloom - E. Coungeau "If I Might Choose"
Run after a vanishing dream - Adelaide Crapsey "The Properly Scholarly Attitude"
Screen after screen of burnished sapphire - Olive Custance "Peacocks. A Mood"
Will see no visions of after - H.D. "Charioteer"
Tree frogs blossoming after a country rain - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Farmhouse"
Three hours after the celestial attack - Monica de la Torre "Poem in Spanish"
Ill that follows after foolish play - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Most noble ladies, cherish your fair fame]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
the wind finds its voices after - Ekaterina Derysheva "stigmas on the body of air" transl. by Ryan Hardy, Asher Maria, and Kevin M.F. Platt
After the huntsman unwearied - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
After the storm the firmament bled - Chris Dombrowski "September Miniatures with Blood and Mars"
Fire taking one bright liberty after another - Timothy Donnelly "By Night with Torch and Spear"
Hours after the last act is dust - Timothy Donnelly "Habitable Nebula"
An old relic at rest, after everything's done - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
After the phantom of our Freedom died - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"
After a wine-deepened dinner - Stephen Dunn "The Unsaid"
What fills a tunnel after a locomotive passes - Stephen Dunn "The Unsaid"
The hole in the pocket after the money rolls out - Cornelius Eady "Diabolic"
After the agony in stony places - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"
After night burst the dam of day - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"
Things exist long after - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Things Haunt"
After the tides have given up - Nava EtShalom "Proposal"
Seekers after sustenance - Mari Evans "Modern American Suite in Four Movements"
after keeping you up late as my youth last night - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"
After too long an ignorance - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"
After watching the flight of cranes - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
in the still air after a hurricane - Mckendy Fils-Aimé "on superstitions"
After all the visions and prophecies - Katie Ford "Koi"
After learning to shave the gleaming steel - Katie Ford "Koi"
After your heart mines a cavern in your chest - Diamond Forde "Rememory"
The fort remains after each in his turn - "The Fort of Rathangan"
And the Hounds all after him go - "The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate"
The moment after his duel for another's love - Vievee Francis "The Poems Repeat as Dreams as Tears"
Cloud after cloud, in dark array - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
After dark upon the attic stairs - Rose Fyleman "There Are No Wolves in England Now"
lengthens into never into after into before - Gloria Gervitz "Migrations" [excerpt] transl. by Mark Schafer
After the wound of us - Andrea Gibson "Ivy"
Wings taking after the sky - Leah Naomi Green "River and Fugue"
Free-born bird with echo babbling after - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Mile after mile slipping in between - Angelina Weld Grimké "Paradox"
After vigils of frost - Ivor Gurney "Le Coq Francais"
After making three millions in gold - Tom Hall "Why he asked for a Vacation"
The smell of sagebrush after a thunderstorm - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"
whatever we are after this - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."
Ruining your heart over mug after mug of bitter coffee - Edward Hirsch "The Task"
Or the echoes that follow after - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"
And the moss creeps after - Richard Hughes "The Ruin"
After wild doubts and dreaming - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
And weeping shades come after - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Than any night that day comes after - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"
You're not the only lion after Daniel - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Had no great plans to live happily ever after - Linda Susan Jackson "Nailing Things Down"
Long after midnight, swaddled in dreams - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
After the black bite of frost - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
The first winter after their exodus - Fady Joudah "Things You've Never Seen"
We can go everywhere after - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"
After the first flush of blooms - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
After all my wildness turned to white - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"
In an after Rage destroy - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Sent after weeping Eyes - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"
After a dinner crowded with voices - Keetje Kuipers "10,000 Acres Burned"
How to live in the after - Youna Kwak "After"
Only after will locked doors swing amply open - Youna Kwak "After"
Tied to everyone before and after me - Alexis LaMantia "Waiting"
After feasting by shining candles - "The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare" transl. by Kuno Meyer
For easement after grief - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"
After the sumac's banners fall - Ruth Lechlitner "At the Road's Turn"
After three nights of not sleeping, three nights of listening - Robin Coste Lewis "Reason"
To still expect our devotion after creating love - Robin Coste Lewis "Summer"
After the machines stopped churning the air - Ada Limon "The Angles Made at the Factory"
After a question, a pause - Rebecca Lindenberg "Ghostology"
Your fingers warm after a life in the cold - P. H. Low "Ode"
For whatever remains after the sea rises - Tariq Luthun "For Those We Left Behind"
A belt of ghosts trailing after - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
A light from worlds before and after - Edwin Markham "Poetry"
Sport for the winds that come after - Edwin Markham "The Toilers"
Hopes for little after months of rain - John Masefield "King Cole"
The bleating saxophones that come after - Adrian Matejka "Strange Celestial Roads"
After we've reached the ends of darkness - Khaled Mattawa "Now That We Have Tasted Hope"
In desolation seeking after peace - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
After the shattered heavens and the thunder - Theodore Maynard "The Return"
After the wreckage of English and Americans - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"
Quiet after the wind's frenzy - D'Arcy McNickle "The Mountains"
After a long time as water - W.S. Merwin "The Biology of Art"
The silence after your questions - W.S. Merwin "A Letter to Su Tung-p'o"
Wave after wave of unanswered murmur - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"
After a year of silence - Edna St Vincent Millay "Assault"
And a pair of moments after - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Bean-Stalk"
After a year of boundless fasting - Claire Millikin "Anorexic Girl"
That crow is flying after that cuckoo - Harold Monro "The Fresh Air"
After an unholy baptism - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Prodigal Daughter"
After I fumble another conversation about love - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"
After long struggles of despair - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Sisyphus"
Burned up doubt after doubt - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"
Even after the world ends, there is work to do - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"
All after hastens to the noon - E. Nesbit "Resurgam"
The dragon singing or just after - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"
And of refreshment after fire - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Fresh dawning after the dews of blood - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"
After the forest turned to ashes - Idra Novey "Nearly"
After twice a thousand years - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
After so many aeons of ordered law - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"
After the multitude was fed - Mary Oliver "Maybe"
One hot sentence after another - Mary Oliver "Stars"
Sky after sky waiting to fall - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"
After the birthday crowds thin out - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"
After the drums of time - Wilfred Owen "The End"
Throwing good years after bad - Lauren Parker "Miranda"
After the stars hung out their lamps - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Conroy's Gap"
Eyes that fail after a spring deferred - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Long Lane"
After cigarettes and martinis and masks have vanished - Andre F. Peltier "I Definitely Dream in Color"
After years of forgetting - Carl Phillips "A Stillness Between the Hunting and the Chase"
After ill magics and long labours - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"
How many will come after me - Ezra Pound "Dum Capitolium Scandet"
With the ghosts of the before and the after - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Function of inhabiting"
After it but few enquires - "The Queen of Elfland"
What we need after so many bone-bright days - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"
Flicker blue with bright desire after such ghosting - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"
Going into town after Set - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
After we have taken to the sky - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"
After the scabs have turned to stars - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"
Caught in a before and after - Susan Rich "Shadowbox"
All these dead coming after - Alberto Rios "November 2: Dia de los muertos"
A wish after it goes unfulfilled - Purbasha Roy "A Thought for Wishes"
After the sparrow and the spaniel - Ira Sadoff "Self-Portrait"
After the long enduring - May Sarton "After the Long Enduring"
Secret after beveled secret - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"
Those unborn hours that surely follow after - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"
The years flow after them - Taras Shevchenko "A Poem of Exile" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
A terrible gulf between before and after - Joyce Sidman "When Death Comes"
each spring that see storm after storm - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"
After the frail and perished moon - Clark Ashton Smith "Love Is Not Yours, Love Is Not Mine"
Of breath after breath - Danez Smith "say it with your whole black mouth"
After the first disappointment - Hope Anita Smith "Give Me an 'M'"
The phase after ripeness - R.T. Smith "Still Life: From the Notebook of Ambrose Bierce, 1862"
After a week of furies - Richard Solomon "Friday Night Air"
After many hints and premonitions - Elizabeth Spires "Grey Garden"
By the choice of after days - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Thick as swallows after storms - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
After the hottest May and the coldest June - Gerald Stern "Dandelions"
After the fierce day's irritant excess - William Wetmore Story "A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem"
Long after bitter chills - Alfred B. Street "The Loon: Tupper's Lake"
Do we not bloom after lying in wait - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
A restless jackal is after the sacrifice - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 181 : Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
After so long in that cage of mine - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson
And win the love of ages after - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
Even after the mosquitoes hit - Keith Taylor "Botanists in Love"
Deadheading flowers after their first blooming - Keith Taylor "The Gleaners"
Lighting star after star - Sara Teasdale "Places"
After the flitting of the bats - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Mariana"
After the birth of the simple light - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
Young as our streams after rain - Edward Thomas "Words"
After many years retired - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Flesh and Blood"
Kiting off after distant glimmers - Laurel Trivelpiece "The Turkish Bee"
A thousand bells go chiming after her - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets: 3. Moving Bells"
So cheerful after rain - Lucian B. Watkins "The Flower at My Window"
With two small shadows following after - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
Long after it was heard no more - William Wordsworth "The Solitary Reaper"
How the light splays after the storm - Charles Wright "Outscape"
That came centuries after the hour - Jenny Xie "Present Continuous"
After earnest but beautiful failures - C. Dale Young "The Vista"
Long after the roosters had crowed his name - Kevin Young "The Dry Spell"
Awaiting rebirth after apocalypse - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"
After so many days without - Javier Zamora "Let Me Try Again"
The moment just after one has chosen - Matthew Zapruder "Come On All You Ghosts"
The sky's aria after weeks of rain - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Its sunlit reins bucking at before and after - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
The curses chasing after you - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #7" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
After a little of what true misery loves - Rachel Zucker "Nice Arse Poetica"
Shiny with its afterbirth of light - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"
Through the afterburn on my retinas - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Afterglow.
Like the afterhours inside a library - Carolina Ebeid "[You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior]"
The afterimage of ancestral pain - Irene Inatty "Ours"
A flickering afterimage of the nightmare rain - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"
Afterlife.
Aftermath.
Afternoon.
Afterward.
To cover every land and dream of afterwhile - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
In after-wisdom not disowned - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob's Wives"
The rocks of the horrid hereafter - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Across place and the hereafter - Tim Newcomb "Evocative Montana"
From the dim hereafter - Jack Prelutsky "The Haunted House"
The scar of her sandal thereafter - James Whitcombe Riley "Dolores"
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Layer after folded layer, an endless origami - Duane Ackerson "The Vampire's Reflection"
With drums before and roses showered after - Conrad Aiken "Romance"
After all our toil and trouble - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
New leaves after her dead flowers - Richard Aldington "New Love"
After the lapse of thrice a thousand years - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"
In the strange exhilaration after - Elizabeth Alexander "One Week Later in the Strange"
At peace after many of Fortune's mutations - Horatio Alger Jr "Nothing to Do"
After the bones - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"
After the vows and the happy tears - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
A sound of tears the moment after - William Allingham "A Dream"
After the feast of summer - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"
Hungering after memory - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"
Emerging after years underground - Lae Astra "Binary Star System"
After the facts are condensed - Mary Jo Bang "The Electric Eventual"
After the hurricane came through - Mary Jo Bang "In This One World"
Veil after unlifted veil - Mary Jo Bang "This Supposed Alchemy"
References to the serpentine after - Mary Jo Bang "We Took Our Places"
And, even after a century, bloom - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dry Sanctuary"
Seeker after lands that flee - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
Perhaps after a chastening apocalypse - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"
After the ambrosia had burned through her veins - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"
End credits after the squall - Jaswinder Bolina "Municipal Vistas"
After the one that kills us - Susan Briante "13 Questions for the Next Economy"
After seasons of silence - Geoffrey Brock "You Are Here"
Even after the fertile soil turned over - Mahogany L. Browne "Ego-Tripp(ed)"
Weary after roaming - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
The stalled time after lunch - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"
Dawn after a journey home - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"
After that there is Thirst - Tina Chang "Evolution of Danger"
edge of before and after - Lucille Clifton "scar"
Love itself flies after - Florence Earle Coates "An Adieu"
As the sea yearns after the moon - Arthur Colton "Verses from 'The Canticle of the Road'"
To-morrow after next - Hilda Conkling "First Songs: XII"
After exterminating wolves and bison - CAConrad "Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return"
Scatter fragrance after winter's gloom - E. Coungeau "If I Might Choose"
Run after a vanishing dream - Adelaide Crapsey "The Properly Scholarly Attitude"
Screen after screen of burnished sapphire - Olive Custance "Peacocks. A Mood"
Will see no visions of after - H.D. "Charioteer"
Tree frogs blossoming after a country rain - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Farmhouse"
Three hours after the celestial attack - Monica de la Torre "Poem in Spanish"
Ill that follows after foolish play - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Most noble ladies, cherish your fair fame]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
the wind finds its voices after - Ekaterina Derysheva "stigmas on the body of air" transl. by Ryan Hardy, Asher Maria, and Kevin M.F. Platt
After the huntsman unwearied - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
After the storm the firmament bled - Chris Dombrowski "September Miniatures with Blood and Mars"
Fire taking one bright liberty after another - Timothy Donnelly "By Night with Torch and Spear"
Hours after the last act is dust - Timothy Donnelly "Habitable Nebula"
An old relic at rest, after everything's done - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
After the phantom of our Freedom died - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"
After a wine-deepened dinner - Stephen Dunn "The Unsaid"
What fills a tunnel after a locomotive passes - Stephen Dunn "The Unsaid"
The hole in the pocket after the money rolls out - Cornelius Eady "Diabolic"
After the agony in stony places - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"
After night burst the dam of day - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"
Things exist long after - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "Things Haunt"
After the tides have given up - Nava EtShalom "Proposal"
Seekers after sustenance - Mari Evans "Modern American Suite in Four Movements"
after keeping you up late as my youth last night - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"
After too long an ignorance - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"
After watching the flight of cranes - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
in the still air after a hurricane - Mckendy Fils-Aimé "on superstitions"
After all the visions and prophecies - Katie Ford "Koi"
After learning to shave the gleaming steel - Katie Ford "Koi"
After your heart mines a cavern in your chest - Diamond Forde "Rememory"
The fort remains after each in his turn - "The Fort of Rathangan"
And the Hounds all after him go - "The Fox Jumps Over the Parson's Gate"
The moment after his duel for another's love - Vievee Francis "The Poems Repeat as Dreams as Tears"
Cloud after cloud, in dark array - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
After dark upon the attic stairs - Rose Fyleman "There Are No Wolves in England Now"
lengthens into never into after into before - Gloria Gervitz "Migrations" [excerpt] transl. by Mark Schafer
After the wound of us - Andrea Gibson "Ivy"
Wings taking after the sky - Leah Naomi Green "River and Fugue"
Free-born bird with echo babbling after - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Mile after mile slipping in between - Angelina Weld Grimké "Paradox"
After vigils of frost - Ivor Gurney "Le Coq Francais"
After making three millions in gold - Tom Hall "Why he asked for a Vacation"
The smell of sagebrush after a thunderstorm - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"
whatever we are after this - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."
Ruining your heart over mug after mug of bitter coffee - Edward Hirsch "The Task"
Or the echoes that follow after - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"
And the moss creeps after - Richard Hughes "The Ruin"
After wild doubts and dreaming - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
And weeping shades come after - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus
Than any night that day comes after - Jean Ingelow "Afternoon at a Parsonage"
You're not the only lion after Daniel - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Had no great plans to live happily ever after - Linda Susan Jackson "Nailing Things Down"
Long after midnight, swaddled in dreams - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
After the black bite of frost - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"
The first winter after their exodus - Fady Joudah "Things You've Never Seen"
We can go everywhere after - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"
After the first flush of blooms - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
After all my wildness turned to white - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"
In an after Rage destroy - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
Sent after weeping Eyes - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"
After a dinner crowded with voices - Keetje Kuipers "10,000 Acres Burned"
How to live in the after - Youna Kwak "After"
Only after will locked doors swing amply open - Youna Kwak "After"
Tied to everyone before and after me - Alexis LaMantia "Waiting"
After feasting by shining candles - "The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare" transl. by Kuno Meyer
For easement after grief - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"
After the sumac's banners fall - Ruth Lechlitner "At the Road's Turn"
After three nights of not sleeping, three nights of listening - Robin Coste Lewis "Reason"
To still expect our devotion after creating love - Robin Coste Lewis "Summer"
After the machines stopped churning the air - Ada Limon "The Angles Made at the Factory"
After a question, a pause - Rebecca Lindenberg "Ghostology"
Your fingers warm after a life in the cold - P. H. Low "Ode"
For whatever remains after the sea rises - Tariq Luthun "For Those We Left Behind"
A belt of ghosts trailing after - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"
A light from worlds before and after - Edwin Markham "Poetry"
Sport for the winds that come after - Edwin Markham "The Toilers"
Hopes for little after months of rain - John Masefield "King Cole"
The bleating saxophones that come after - Adrian Matejka "Strange Celestial Roads"
After we've reached the ends of darkness - Khaled Mattawa "Now That We Have Tasted Hope"
In desolation seeking after peace - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
After the shattered heavens and the thunder - Theodore Maynard "The Return"
After the wreckage of English and Americans - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"
Quiet after the wind's frenzy - D'Arcy McNickle "The Mountains"
After a long time as water - W.S. Merwin "The Biology of Art"
The silence after your questions - W.S. Merwin "A Letter to Su Tung-p'o"
Wave after wave of unanswered murmur - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"
After a year of silence - Edna St Vincent Millay "Assault"
And a pair of moments after - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Bean-Stalk"
After a year of boundless fasting - Claire Millikin "Anorexic Girl"
That crow is flying after that cuckoo - Harold Monro "The Fresh Air"
After an unholy baptism - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Prodigal Daughter"
After I fumble another conversation about love - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"
After long struggles of despair - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Sisyphus"
Burned up doubt after doubt - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope VI: The New Proletarian"
Even after the world ends, there is work to do - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"
All after hastens to the noon - E. Nesbit "Resurgam"
The dragon singing or just after - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"
And of refreshment after fire - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Fresh dawning after the dews of blood - Effie Lee Newsome "Morning Light"
After the forest turned to ashes - Idra Novey "Nearly"
After twice a thousand years - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
After so many aeons of ordered law - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"
After the multitude was fed - Mary Oliver "Maybe"
One hot sentence after another - Mary Oliver "Stars"
Sky after sky waiting to fall - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"
After the birthday crowds thin out - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"
After the drums of time - Wilfred Owen "The End"
Throwing good years after bad - Lauren Parker "Miranda"
After the stars hung out their lamps - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Conroy's Gap"
Eyes that fail after a spring deferred - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Long Lane"
After cigarettes and martinis and masks have vanished - Andre F. Peltier "I Definitely Dream in Color"
After years of forgetting - Carl Phillips "A Stillness Between the Hunting and the Chase"
After ill magics and long labours - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"
How many will come after me - Ezra Pound "Dum Capitolium Scandet"
With the ghosts of the before and the after - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Function of inhabiting"
After it but few enquires - "The Queen of Elfland"
What we need after so many bone-bright days - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"
Flicker blue with bright desire after such ghosting - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"
Going into town after Set - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
After we have taken to the sky - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"
After the scabs have turned to stars - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"
Caught in a before and after - Susan Rich "Shadowbox"
All these dead coming after - Alberto Rios "November 2: Dia de los muertos"
A wish after it goes unfulfilled - Purbasha Roy "A Thought for Wishes"
After the sparrow and the spaniel - Ira Sadoff "Self-Portrait"
After the long enduring - May Sarton "After the Long Enduring"
Secret after beveled secret - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"
Those unborn hours that surely follow after - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"
The years flow after them - Taras Shevchenko "A Poem of Exile" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
A terrible gulf between before and after - Joyce Sidman "When Death Comes"
each spring that see storm after storm - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"
After the frail and perished moon - Clark Ashton Smith "Love Is Not Yours, Love Is Not Mine"
Of breath after breath - Danez Smith "say it with your whole black mouth"
After the first disappointment - Hope Anita Smith "Give Me an 'M'"
The phase after ripeness - R.T. Smith "Still Life: From the Notebook of Ambrose Bierce, 1862"
After a week of furies - Richard Solomon "Friday Night Air"
After many hints and premonitions - Elizabeth Spires "Grey Garden"
By the choice of after days - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Thick as swallows after storms - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
After the hottest May and the coldest June - Gerald Stern "Dandelions"
After the fierce day's irritant excess - William Wetmore Story "A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem"
Long after bitter chills - Alfred B. Street "The Loon: Tupper's Lake"
Do we not bloom after lying in wait - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
A restless jackal is after the sacrifice - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 181 : Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
After so long in that cage of mine - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson
And win the love of ages after - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
Even after the mosquitoes hit - Keith Taylor "Botanists in Love"
Deadheading flowers after their first blooming - Keith Taylor "The Gleaners"
Lighting star after star - Sara Teasdale "Places"
After the flitting of the bats - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Mariana"
After the birth of the simple light - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"
Young as our streams after rain - Edward Thomas "Words"
After many years retired - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Flesh and Blood"
Kiting off after distant glimmers - Laurel Trivelpiece "The Turkish Bee"
A thousand bells go chiming after her - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets: 3. Moving Bells"
So cheerful after rain - Lucian B. Watkins "The Flower at My Window"
With two small shadows following after - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
Long after it was heard no more - William Wordsworth "The Solitary Reaper"
How the light splays after the storm - Charles Wright "Outscape"
That came centuries after the hour - Jenny Xie "Present Continuous"
After earnest but beautiful failures - C. Dale Young "The Vista"
Long after the roosters had crowed his name - Kevin Young "The Dry Spell"
Awaiting rebirth after apocalypse - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"
After so many days without - Javier Zamora "Let Me Try Again"
The moment just after one has chosen - Matthew Zapruder "Come On All You Ghosts"
The sky's aria after weeks of rain - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Its sunlit reins bucking at before and after - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
The curses chasing after you - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #7" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
After a little of what true misery loves - Rachel Zucker "Nice Arse Poetica"
Shiny with its afterbirth of light - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"
Through the afterburn on my retinas - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Afterglow.
Like the afterhours inside a library - Carolina Ebeid "[You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior]"
The afterimage of ancestral pain - Irene Inatty "Ours"
A flickering afterimage of the nightmare rain - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"
Afterlife.
Aftermath.
Afternoon.
Afterward.
To cover every land and dream of afterwhile - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
In after-wisdom not disowned - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob's Wives"
The rocks of the horrid hereafter - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"
Across place and the hereafter - Tim Newcomb "Evocative Montana"
From the dim hereafter - Jack Prelutsky "The Haunted House"
The scar of her sandal thereafter - James Whitcombe Riley "Dolores"
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