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The rain pours down and the four winds blow - Ellen Tracy Alden "Cluck, Cluck"

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

Four autumn suns gone by - Mrs. E.W. Caswell "My Bird Has Flown" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Yoking four jade dragons to a phoenix - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

To the end of the four directions - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Four dividing into two scavenging pairs - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"

The four square circle of a ring - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"

Four lean hounds crouched low - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

Four fleet does at a gold valley - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

Four tall stags at a green mountain - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

Four elements with man proclaim the unequal war - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Four great walls have hemmed me in - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Four Walls"

The four austere custodians of to-day - Helen Parry Eden "A Prayer for St Innocent's Day"

Four wax candles in a darkened room - T.S. Eliot "Portrait of a Lady"

Four high gates to the garden - Eleanor Farjeon "King Laurin's Garden"

The four dimensions fold into a sandcastle - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Origin of Planets"

Four letters in painted plywooden proclamation - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

Their hearts brave the Four Oceans - Fu Hsuan "Woman" (translated by Arthur Waley)

And four amber sea agates - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"

Four years I spent beneath his rule - C. L. Graves "The House-Master"

Folding outward in twos and fours and sixes - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"

My fist speaks in four languages - Roy G. Guzman "The Age of Aquarius"

One of the four Royal Stars - Yona Harvey "Q"

Ten bundles and four great piles - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"

Four kinds of forever visit you - Brenda Hillman "Some Kinds of Forever Visit You"

They swept me in four ways - Brenda Hillman "Wood's Edge"

To manifest four humours in the arc - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"

The four songs unsung - Langston Hughes "Night: Four Songs"

The four bells she's awaiting - Langston Hughes "Summer Evening"

Within the four chambers of a sparrow's heart - Mark Irwin "And"

Cruising through four octaves - Jenny Johnson "Aria"

Four years in the asylum - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

The four dimensions of breathing - Ilya Kaminsky "Galya's Toast"

Who mops the four corners of my world - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"

The four winds trumpet over dunes - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"

At four in the never noon - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"

Youngest and fairest of the four - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"

Out of four other shades of grace - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Adjusts vision from three dimension to four - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"

Four beets in a bag - Susan Landers "Holly Says Sobriety Is Paying Attention"

Lay four eggs at random in the garden - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"

The thresholds of the four winds - Richard Le Gallienne "May Is Building Her House"

four horsemen summoning apocalypse - Mary Soon Lee "What Cacti Read"

And profess four strange languages - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

Four stones with their heads of moss - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XII: Ryno, Alpin"

And trod as if on the Four Winds - Andrew Marvell "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn"

All four seasons at once - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Their gutters fill with all four seasons - John McCarthy "The Weight of Dirt and Rust"

Four stars spinning in my palm - Anis Mojgani "4 stars"

Four blazing cups on the table - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

The four stormy stations of the wind - Pablo Neruda "Getaway" transl. by Alastair Reid

The four stations of the soul - Pablo Neruda "How Much Happens in a Day" transl. by Alastair Reid

This day of four chords - Pablo Neruda "I Am Grateful" transl. by William O'Daly

Four numbers like four lucky birds - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (II)" transl. by Alastair Reid

Of four o'clocks now and to come - Frank O'Hara "Chez Jane"

Four floors of guilt - Diana O'Hehir "Riding the San Francisco Train"

The four threads of the compass - E.J. Pratt "The Fog"

Swing the doors to the four great winds - Lloyd Roberts "There's Music in My Heart To-day"

The eternal way of the four chief doors - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Her four elements are locked in the arms of decay - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

The four great winds rejoice - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Rover"

Waiting a foe where four roads meet - Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard "Before the Mirror"

Four fateful years of mortal strife - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"

Four apples on the bough - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"

Clock set on your four different geographies - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini

Ambitions wide as the four seas - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Poem without a Category, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson

Four grey walls, and four grey towers - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"

The bridle of the four winds - Marina Tsvetayeva "Insomnia" transl. by Elaine Feinstein and Angela Livingstone

The four wide winds of evening - Helen Hay Whitney "Etoiles d'Enfer"

Our island sang four chanteys - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Ebb"

My days are four times boiling hot - Allan Wolf "Mercury: Given to Extremes"

Four or five mountains gone rust in twilight - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie VI"

The four walls of my murky inheritance - Wendy Xu "Interim Poetics"

All four meanings of the word regret - C. Dale Young "Eclipse"


Her grief to me is a fourfold fear - John Drinkwater "A Man's Daughter"

In its own fourfold embrace - Francis Thompson "New Year's Chimes"

Gleams forth in fourfold rays - "XIV" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton


Painted with four-leaf clovers - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"


In the fourth dimension of the soul - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"

At the fourth hour of the night - Frank Bidart "Love Incarnate"

The voice of the fourth person singular - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "To the Oracle at Delphi"

To the third and fourth generations - Kimberly Johnson "Farrow"


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