Potential Titles: Form
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somethingdarkerTo hide in the form of something beautiful - Anne Carly Abad "Where the Waves Meet"
A prayer in the form of a failed poem - Jessica Abughattas "Failed Poems"
Glowing forms in silk embroideries - Harold Acton "Hilarity"
Bright forms of excellence attend - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
With all the band of painted forms - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Each purple cluster forms a mystic sign - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
Hexagons find their way toward curved forms - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
Formed of sunset light, of fleeting umbral fire - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
Forms refused the restrictions he imposed - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Drew vectors that would tear through fragile forms - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Melancholy improvising on form - Zaina Alsous "capture produces a series of remains"
Finds forms in the darkness - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
Waiting fate takes the form of Ariadne - Mary Jo Bang "Mask Photo"
Action in the form of a rabbit - Mary Jo Bang "R Equals the Royal Road to Reality"
A tree trunk formed from a handful of ashes - Mary Jo Bang "Still as in a Still After Still"
By dividing the form from void - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
Wheeling in ordered state to form the runes - Stephen Vincent Benet "Always the Sonnetteer"
The secret form of the soul is there in its terror - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Vague, terrible, wounded forms - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
The void comes into form - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
Formed by acts of other entities - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"
The form of a perceived star - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"
Form a garland of revenge - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"
My form in all its glory stands - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"
Forgotten forms tremble into wholeness - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"
Shattered forms scattered across the landscape - Bruce Boston "Beyond the Clouds of Paradise"
First forms of earth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Another form of air or clay - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXVII. No Escape from Love" transl. by John Addington Symonds
In some fair form designed - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXIII. First Reading. A Prayer to Nature. Amor Redivivus" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Thorns form footholds by which to reach the rose - E.B.C. "Streck-Verse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
A vision formed by tears - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"
Hybrid forms leave fences open - Tina Chang "Hybrida: A Zuihitsu"
Patience in the form of gravity overdressed - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"
Whose enigmatic forms amaze - Jose Santos Chocano "The Orchids" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
Combine to form my chosen treasure - "The Chosen One" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no.377, June 27, 1829, credited London Magazine]
Who lays foundations formed to last - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Forms and melts the surging haze - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Rearing dizzy forms on high - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Lightning bares each secret form - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
While you formed a ring around her - George Cooper "Little Games" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Patterns from circled & inverted forms - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"
Formed with the letters of the first lie - Jim Daniels "Lip Gloss, Belgium"
Notes forming the music of exile - Diane DeCillis "Postcards of Home and Homesick"
And leaving first is a form of loss - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
That pave heaven's highway with their bright and burning forms - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
Bones that contort into many forms - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"
Reflected forms that fancies wake - Irving Sidney Dix "Starlight Lake"
The spectral forms of anaconda - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Nymphs of brightest Form appear - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"
On the brink of losing my form - Cheryl Dumesnil "Prayer for Beginning"
Forms the soil for noble deeds - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "The Meadow Lands"
Form prayers to broken stone - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"
With fairy form and rainbow hue - William Hodgson Ellis "Consider the Lilies of the Field"
The sweetest form of courage - Margarita Engle "First Friend"
What formed the muddy storm - Heid E. Erdich "Paint These Streets"
Seven empty chairs form a circle - Sandy Florian "Abacus"
What form my dreaming was about to take - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"
Called from the depths of chaos form and might - Miss Mary Gardiner "The Deity" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)
Loneliness and all forms of desire - Dana Gioia "Prayer at Winter Solstice"
The forms our dreams have seen - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
They form predictable vacuums - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
Formed by private ironies - Robert Hass "Art and Life"
Rear'd her form in tenfold power - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"
The fair forms by sculpture wrought - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"
Form & light, extra space in the ampersand - Brenda Hillman "Unendangered Moths of the Mid-Twentieth Century"
Its noblest forms and boldest flights - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
All form the trembling, vast procession - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The mirror gave me back a form - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
I stood amid the forms of light - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Fantastic monsters take new forms - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
Through all forms of grief and strife - Robinson Jeffers "To his Father"
The forms my heart recalls - Annie Fellows Johnston "Voices of the Old, Old Days"
Undertake terrestrial forms of everything unspeakable - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"
The stars are forming strange new words - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
Shadowy forms that mock and flee - Sir Nizamat Jung "Prologue"
Hundreds of old pianos forming a bridge - Ilya Kaminsky "What We Cannot Hear"
Some outward form of inner scorn - Mary Karr "Country Fair"
Warring factions agreed up the date and final form - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"
Only tie me in this zombie form - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"
Include forms and fantasies - Mia King "Abracadabra"
A thousand forms of memory whirl - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Leaving first is a form of loss - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Form a galaxy of fantasies - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Warlord's Garden"
Pyramids of russet sawdust formed - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Stumbles over pebbles with the form of building - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"
A shadowed form before the light - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"
The unending impulse to form a sigil in the sand - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
The cloud that formed above the rivers of our blood - Philip Levine "Picture Postcard from the Other World"
Formed by curious disciplines - Mina Loy "Apology of Genius"
Dead phantom of a form yet living - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
Rippling iridescent serpents form - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie
The forms of her decay - Theodore Maynard "Beauty I: Relative"
An imperfect form of knowledge - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
That singed us into current form - Rachel McKibbens "Minneapolipstick"
This poppy formed of flame - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Time's Garden"
Standing stones form distant islands - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
Spirit creates form - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"
Absorbed into forms of circulation - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
Formed by urgent love and geometry - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The gift of colour's mystic form - Grace Nichols "Rivers"
To crumble and form sepulchres for woes - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"
A Scylla in the form of rushes - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: II. The Second or Cartgate Hole"
Forms more agreeable to the terrestrial gaze - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"
form a connection of liquid silver - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
To shape a form for glory's shrine - W.P.P. "Epistle to the Editor" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Dark forms yearning upward - Linda Pastan "Vertical"
Competing forms of betrayal - Carl Phillips "Blow it Back"
Permanence in the form of a star - Carl Phillips "Chivalry"
A fairer form of stubborn - Carl Phillips "In This World to Be Lost"
The sputtering stench of an expiring form - Terese Mason Pierre "A New Face"
With a need for fire in human form - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 666"
Of forms familiar - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
Dark reproaches taking form - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson
His stillness a form of motion - D.A. Powell "The Artist's Hand"
Had known each other's form - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Form trenches for the frailer flowers - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "In the Hardt Wald"
O form of eternal prime - Theodore H. Rand "The White Rose"
Forms from the verge of chance - Bino A. Realuyo "Euler's Equation"
Form words for reluctant ears - Lynn Riggs "Those Who Speak in Whispers"
Hues upon the angel's form - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
These affections for outward forms - Rumi "Love the Source of Light Rather than Vanishing Form" transl. by E.H. Whinfield
A lower form of immortality - Mary Jo Salter "The Upper Story"
Whose twisted arabesques suggest no single form - Ann K. Schwader "The Night of Her Return"
To set a form upon desired change - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXIX"
No form delivers to the heart - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXIII"
Formed from plunges and positions - Prageeta Sharma "My Poem for My Stepdaughter"
And all the forms of radiant frost - Shelley "Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou"
Formed kingdoms at the foot of a vanishing stone - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"
Orange juice in the form of air - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"
Formed of fire and brass - Clark Ashton Smith "In Saturn"
That form the raiment of the soul - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
A moving form or rigid mass - "Song of the Screw"
Chasms form inside me and fog - Marin Sorescu "Poisons" transl. by Michael Hamburger
Darling of spirit and form - Anne Spencer "At the Carnival"
The terror of form dissolving - Elizabeth Spires "Nightgown"
And forms in restless crimson dyed - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
No fury in transcendent forms - Wallace Stevens "A Quiet Normal Life"
Close up, and form the band - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
Such forms as haunt our loveliest dreams - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"
Cleverness in finely powdered form - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 161: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Moving vision without form or breath - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Shadowy form of midnight vision - Henry David Thoreau "Smoke"
Form the sulphurous grain of war - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"
Forms a rivering ribbon - Edwin Torres "Swerver Says Sweeeee"
Forming a gesturing circle beneath the Moon - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
Nude as spirit's outer form - John Updike "Lucian Freud"
Whose seething fires can find no form, nor vent - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Wondrous was their form and fashion - F.C.W. "Forest-Teachings" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.424, 14 Feb. 1852]
The hard flint flaked to form - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "Arrow-Heads"
Manage their work in such regular forms - Isaac Watts "The Ant, or Emmet"
The finale of visible forms - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
Embodiment in plastic form - Adolf Wolff "The Liberty I Loathe"
In their slow drift toward received form - Charles Wright "The Gospel According to Somebody Else"
Opens another form of illusion - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"
From whose forms shadows pass - Lynn Xu "[And as the procession]"
Shadow in pursuit of form - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson
Shall form a coronet for the regal year - "The Year" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Demons for every form of desire - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #2: The Rec' Room" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
No grinning imps deform our blazing hearth - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"
Deformed by symmetry - Bianca Stone "All the Single Mothers"
Face the flower-formed mirror - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Evening comes with an onslaught]" transl. by Burton Watson
Formless.
Malformed figs taste of sand - Roger Dutcher & Joanne Merriam "Heatwave"
Who pass through multiformed earth - Zitkála-Šá "The Indian's Awakening"
The jagged glass reforming into a narrative - Mary Jo Bang "The Wake Was a Line and We Watched"
The chains postwar empire was reforming - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"
Revolution disguised as Reform - "Huzza for the Rule of the Whigs!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]
In cloaks of unformed suns - Edwin Torres "Waiting Young with Nothing There"
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A prayer in the form of a failed poem - Jessica Abughattas "Failed Poems"
Glowing forms in silk embroideries - Harold Acton "Hilarity"
Bright forms of excellence attend - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
With all the band of painted forms - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Each purple cluster forms a mystic sign - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
Hexagons find their way toward curved forms - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
Formed of sunset light, of fleeting umbral fire - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
Forms refused the restrictions he imposed - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Drew vectors that would tear through fragile forms - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
Melancholy improvising on form - Zaina Alsous "capture produces a series of remains"
Finds forms in the darkness - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
Waiting fate takes the form of Ariadne - Mary Jo Bang "Mask Photo"
Action in the form of a rabbit - Mary Jo Bang "R Equals the Royal Road to Reality"
A tree trunk formed from a handful of ashes - Mary Jo Bang "Still as in a Still After Still"
By dividing the form from void - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
Wheeling in ordered state to form the runes - Stephen Vincent Benet "Always the Sonnetteer"
The secret form of the soul is there in its terror - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Vague, terrible, wounded forms - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
The void comes into form - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"
Formed by acts of other entities - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"
The form of a perceived star - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"
Form a garland of revenge - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"
My form in all its glory stands - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"
Forgotten forms tremble into wholeness - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"
Shattered forms scattered across the landscape - Bruce Boston "Beyond the Clouds of Paradise"
First forms of earth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Another form of air or clay - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXVII. No Escape from Love" transl. by John Addington Symonds
In some fair form designed - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXIII. First Reading. A Prayer to Nature. Amor Redivivus" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Thorns form footholds by which to reach the rose - E.B.C. "Streck-Verse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
A vision formed by tears - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"
Hybrid forms leave fences open - Tina Chang "Hybrida: A Zuihitsu"
Patience in the form of gravity overdressed - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"
Whose enigmatic forms amaze - Jose Santos Chocano "The Orchids" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell
Combine to form my chosen treasure - "The Chosen One" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no.377, June 27, 1829, credited London Magazine]
Who lays foundations formed to last - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
Forms and melts the surging haze - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Rearing dizzy forms on high - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Lightning bares each secret form - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
While you formed a ring around her - George Cooper "Little Games" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Patterns from circled & inverted forms - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"
Formed with the letters of the first lie - Jim Daniels "Lip Gloss, Belgium"
Notes forming the music of exile - Diane DeCillis "Postcards of Home and Homesick"
And leaving first is a form of loss - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"
That pave heaven's highway with their bright and burning forms - Delta "Gloaming" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
Bones that contort into many forms - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"
Reflected forms that fancies wake - Irving Sidney Dix "Starlight Lake"
The spectral forms of anaconda - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Nymphs of brightest Form appear - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"
On the brink of losing my form - Cheryl Dumesnil "Prayer for Beginning"
Forms the soil for noble deeds - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "The Meadow Lands"
Form prayers to broken stone - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"
With fairy form and rainbow hue - William Hodgson Ellis "Consider the Lilies of the Field"
The sweetest form of courage - Margarita Engle "First Friend"
What formed the muddy storm - Heid E. Erdich "Paint These Streets"
Seven empty chairs form a circle - Sandy Florian "Abacus"
What form my dreaming was about to take - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"
Called from the depths of chaos form and might - Miss Mary Gardiner "The Deity" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)
Loneliness and all forms of desire - Dana Gioia "Prayer at Winter Solstice"
The forms our dreams have seen - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
They form predictable vacuums - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
Formed by private ironies - Robert Hass "Art and Life"
Rear'd her form in tenfold power - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"
The fair forms by sculpture wrought - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"
Form & light, extra space in the ampersand - Brenda Hillman "Unendangered Moths of the Mid-Twentieth Century"
Its noblest forms and boldest flights - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
All form the trembling, vast procession - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The mirror gave me back a form - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
I stood amid the forms of light - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Fantastic monsters take new forms - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
Through all forms of grief and strife - Robinson Jeffers "To his Father"
The forms my heart recalls - Annie Fellows Johnston "Voices of the Old, Old Days"
Undertake terrestrial forms of everything unspeakable - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"
The stars are forming strange new words - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
Shadowy forms that mock and flee - Sir Nizamat Jung "Prologue"
Hundreds of old pianos forming a bridge - Ilya Kaminsky "What We Cannot Hear"
Some outward form of inner scorn - Mary Karr "Country Fair"
Warring factions agreed up the date and final form - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"
Only tie me in this zombie form - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"
Include forms and fantasies - Mia King "Abracadabra"
A thousand forms of memory whirl - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Leaving first is a form of loss - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"
Form a galaxy of fantasies - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Warlord's Garden"
Pyramids of russet sawdust formed - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Stumbles over pebbles with the form of building - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"
A shadowed form before the light - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Suicide"
The unending impulse to form a sigil in the sand - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
The cloud that formed above the rivers of our blood - Philip Levine "Picture Postcard from the Other World"
Formed by curious disciplines - Mina Loy "Apology of Genius"
Dead phantom of a form yet living - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
Rippling iridescent serpents form - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie
The forms of her decay - Theodore Maynard "Beauty I: Relative"
An imperfect form of knowledge - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
That singed us into current form - Rachel McKibbens "Minneapolipstick"
This poppy formed of flame - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Time's Garden"
Standing stones form distant islands - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
Spirit creates form - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"
Absorbed into forms of circulation - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"
Formed by urgent love and geometry - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The gift of colour's mystic form - Grace Nichols "Rivers"
To crumble and form sepulchres for woes - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"
A Scylla in the form of rushes - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: II. The Second or Cartgate Hole"
Forms more agreeable to the terrestrial gaze - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"
form a connection of liquid silver - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
To shape a form for glory's shrine - W.P.P. "Epistle to the Editor" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Dark forms yearning upward - Linda Pastan "Vertical"
Competing forms of betrayal - Carl Phillips "Blow it Back"
Permanence in the form of a star - Carl Phillips "Chivalry"
A fairer form of stubborn - Carl Phillips "In This World to Be Lost"
The sputtering stench of an expiring form - Terese Mason Pierre "A New Face"
With a need for fire in human form - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 666"
Of forms familiar - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"
Dark reproaches taking form - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson
His stillness a form of motion - D.A. Powell "The Artist's Hand"
Had known each other's form - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Form trenches for the frailer flowers - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "In the Hardt Wald"
O form of eternal prime - Theodore H. Rand "The White Rose"
Forms from the verge of chance - Bino A. Realuyo "Euler's Equation"
Form words for reluctant ears - Lynn Riggs "Those Who Speak in Whispers"
Hues upon the angel's form - A former student of the Male Sem. "The Rose of Cherokee" 1855 (per Changing Is Not Vanishing)
These affections for outward forms - Rumi "Love the Source of Light Rather than Vanishing Form" transl. by E.H. Whinfield
A lower form of immortality - Mary Jo Salter "The Upper Story"
Whose twisted arabesques suggest no single form - Ann K. Schwader "The Night of Her Return"
To set a form upon desired change - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXIX"
No form delivers to the heart - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXIII"
Formed from plunges and positions - Prageeta Sharma "My Poem for My Stepdaughter"
And all the forms of radiant frost - Shelley "Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou"
Formed kingdoms at the foot of a vanishing stone - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"
Orange juice in the form of air - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"
Formed of fire and brass - Clark Ashton Smith "In Saturn"
That form the raiment of the soul - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
A moving form or rigid mass - "Song of the Screw"
Chasms form inside me and fog - Marin Sorescu "Poisons" transl. by Michael Hamburger
Darling of spirit and form - Anne Spencer "At the Carnival"
The terror of form dissolving - Elizabeth Spires "Nightgown"
And forms in restless crimson dyed - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"
No fury in transcendent forms - Wallace Stevens "A Quiet Normal Life"
Close up, and form the band - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
Such forms as haunt our loveliest dreams - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"
Cleverness in finely powdered form - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 161: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Moving vision without form or breath - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Complaint of Lisa" [inspired by Bocaccio's Decameron X.7]
Shadowy form of midnight vision - Henry David Thoreau "Smoke"
Form the sulphurous grain of war - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"
Forms a rivering ribbon - Edwin Torres "Swerver Says Sweeeee"
Forming a gesturing circle beneath the Moon - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
Nude as spirit's outer form - John Updike "Lucian Freud"
Whose seething fires can find no form, nor vent - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Wondrous was their form and fashion - F.C.W. "Forest-Teachings" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.424, 14 Feb. 1852]
The hard flint flaked to form - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "Arrow-Heads"
Manage their work in such regular forms - Isaac Watts "The Ant, or Emmet"
The finale of visible forms - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
Embodiment in plastic form - Adolf Wolff "The Liberty I Loathe"
In their slow drift toward received form - Charles Wright "The Gospel According to Somebody Else"
Opens another form of illusion - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"
From whose forms shadows pass - Lynn Xu "[And as the procession]"
Shadow in pursuit of form - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson
Shall form a coronet for the regal year - "The Year" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Demons for every form of desire - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #2: The Rec' Room" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
No grinning imps deform our blazing hearth - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"
Deformed by symmetry - Bianca Stone "All the Single Mothers"
Face the flower-formed mirror - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Evening comes with an onslaught]" transl. by Burton Watson
Formless.
Malformed figs taste of sand - Roger Dutcher & Joanne Merriam "Heatwave"
Who pass through multiformed earth - Zitkála-Šá "The Indian's Awakening"
The jagged glass reforming into a narrative - Mary Jo Bang "The Wake Was a Line and We Watched"
The chains postwar empire was reforming - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"
Revolution disguised as Reform - "Huzza for the Rule of the Whigs!" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCIII, July 1848, v.LXIV]
In cloaks of unformed suns - Edwin Torres "Waiting Young with Nothing There"
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