Potential Titles: Dim
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somethingdarkerSultry clouds her blazing eyes bedim - Maurice Baring "Phedre"
How dim the dawn of truth - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Who are calling out of the dimness vague and vast - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"
Visionary fabrics dim and vast - Benjamin West Ball "A Hermitage"
Dim his red nocturnal torch - Benjamin West Ball "Morning"
The dim reaches of a watchdog's yawn - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"
Back from the margin of the dim abyss - Maurice Baring "Julian Grenfell"
In skies not dark but only dim - Maurice Baring "A June Night in Russia"
Winged messengers from eyries dim - Maurice Baring "Wagner"
Turns dim against the dawn - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"
In waves of light upon the far, dim shades of night - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Wheel for dim, celestial wars - Stephen Vincent Benet "Campus Sonnet: 1. Before an Examination"
Dim and aimless on a dolorous way - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"
When all dim heaven is trembling into stars - William Rose Benét "Unforgotten"
That cherish dim waters - Gordon Bottomley "The Crier by Night"
Dreams the dim hills of the future - Vera M. Brittain "Daphne"
Through the dim horizon's haze - Anne Bronte "Fluctuations"
Makes Olympian glory dim - Charlotte Bronte "Pilate's Wife's Dream"
The dim moon struggling in the sky - Emily Bronte "Faith and Despondency"
Dimmed their tapers of gold - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Dryad"
Where walk dim ghosts of thoughts - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Dim curtains of duskfire and dew - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
Over the dim blue hills - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"
Sinking in the distance dim - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Dimmed by the lightning's ever-fitful glow - Ralph Chaplin "Prison Nocturne"
Dim landscapes of despair - Ralph Chaplin "Prison Shadows"
With this dim diadem invested - King Charles I "A Royal Lamentation"
Dim green or torn with golden scars - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
A faint, dim breath of bitter lies - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"
Names dim with Time's dull rust - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
And count some dim inheritance of sand - Hart Crane "The Wine Menagerie"
a slender dimness in the unshapeful hour - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
In the golden gloom of dreamland dim - Olive Custance "Twilight" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
And dim in quicksands seems to fly - 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]
Shed dim tears in Sorrow's pew - Jean de Esque "[To those that felt the wand of Muse]"
Tales told in dim Eden - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"
A dusk where one dim lamp burns - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"
Whose beauty dims my waking eyes - Walter de la Mare "Music"
Grass between dim lonely dunes of sand - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"
That dim star that crowns its summit - Dulcie Deamer "The Dreamer"
O'er the billowy waste of dim oblivion's flood - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
Dimly stirred by tropic hint - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XII: Psalm of the Day"
Dim as the border star - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXIII: Requiem"
Dim Night is monarch now - Irving Sidney Dix "Starlight Lake"
Murmur dim melodious secrets - Edward Dowden "The Fountain"
On dimmest wing in Twilight's train - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VII. The Pause of Evening"
Bound in a cobweb dungeon dim - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
Rugged and dim was his onward track - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
That dim Dock where Charon loads his Ship - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"
With dim realms of more enraptured rest - A.E. "The Feast of Age"
The dim and silver end of the day - George William Russell aka A.E. "Forgiveness"
Who moves in the twilight dim - A.E. "Unconscious"
Haunting dim memory with the early glory - Elizabeth J. Eames "Early English Poets: Addison" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
Many long years have sped, and dimmed in dust - Elizabeth J. Eames "Early English Poets: Shakespeare" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.2, Feb. 1848]
sometime in the dimming past - Safia Elhillo "Transport"
Not thus eclipsed and dim - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"
In the dim of the kerosene lamps - Martin Espada "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramon Emeterio Betances"
As vesper chimes grow dimmer and more faint - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
A dim chord of flame between his lips - Joseph Fasano "October"
O'er her low head grey and dim - Samuel Ferguson "The Fairy Thorn"
Some dim and tranquil world of golden pagodas - Arthur Davison Ficke "Three Japanese Paintings: II. Dream of a Chinese Rock Promontory (A Screen by Sesshu)" [The Little Review, May 1916, v.3, no.3]
And pink bindweed dimly, steadily flower - Michael Field "The Depths of the Grass"
A purple lure of love divine and dim - Nora May French "Mirage"
Wash the dim shores of old Eternity - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)
Dim grey with shade - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
To the cold constellations dim and high - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Rupert Brooke"
Dim paths that lead to odorous glooms - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
Beneath her wings of lilac dim - Edmund Gosse "A Dream of November"
October's gold is dim - David Gray "Sonnet"
Your gracious ways that are patterned in dim stones - Katherine Hale "Poetesses"
Trooping down dim flights of measured air - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"
Dim flights of measured air - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"
On paper wings flit dimly through the night - Reginald Heber "The Whippiad: A Satirical Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
That lie in the dim shadow of the years - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "Doubt"
When the sky was dim from some worn glory - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "A Dream"
Dim spectres tread that haunted verge - Jennie Earngey Hill "Alone"
Dimmed each star in memory's sky - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "Homeward Bound" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
Dreaming of a day less dim, dreaming of a time less far - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"
Engulf the last dim star - William D. Hodjkiss "Song of the Storm Swept-Plain"
On empty stages of the years awake in the dim light - Samuel Hoffenstein "The Theatre Scrub-Woman Dreams a Dream" [The Broadway Anthology]
To dim the sense of not belonging here - Cynthia Hogue "The Loire Valley (Solstice 2015)"
The dog-star of treason grows dim - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Last Charge" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]
Over this dim indistinguishable country - David Hornibrook "Shadow Country"
A dream of happiness remembered dim - William D. Howells "Vagary"
Dim that travelling eye - Richard Hughes "Cottager is given the Bird (1921)"
Round the world's dim fringes tossed - Aldous Huxley "Leda"
Dim intermediate space with parallels of luminous dust - Aldous Huxley "Morning Scene"
A dimness on the grasses - Jean Ingelow "The Star's Monument"
The starry light upon your forehead dims - "John Bull to Jonathan" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
The dim lit avenues of the mind - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Wall"
Never see the glory of this perfect day grow dim - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I Want to Die While You Love Me" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The dim phantoms of o'er shadowed pleasures - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]
Webs and dim branching, cross-firing - Janet Kauffman "Cut the Lure"
A dim undying hearth for loves that roam - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"
Dim planets hung above the trembling trees - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"
The dim echoes of old Triton's horn - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
How dim and strange your features - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"
Dim lands in troubled dreams - Fanny Kemble "Song [Pass thy hand through my hair, lore]"
A pillar dim of gathered gusts and fiery rain - Henry Kendall "A Death in the Bush"
Dim with dreams of sudden storms and gusty surge - Henry Kendall "Drowned at Sea"
With flying fringes dim as smoke - Archibald Lampman "After Rain"
Heard a mellow hunting horn make dim report - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
I heard her sing in wood paths dim - Lucy Larcom "November"
With the dim light of full, healthy life - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
These dim, gray outer courts of her fantastic palace - Emma Lazarus "Fog" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]
Through the dim vista of past years - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
Whose soft dim light would rise to bless each summer - "Lines in Humble Imitation of an Inimitable Scottish Poet" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
The lilac's dim explosion fills the air - Katinka Loeser "Spring Is the Time for Flowers"
Twilight woods that brood dim in the gulfs beyond - H.P. Lovecraft "Fungi from Yuggoth" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
Which day dims from our vision - Amy Lowell "In Darkness"
A dim red glare through mud bespattered glass - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"
To burn our souls before altars dim - Amy Lowell "New York at Night"
Wipes no dimness from the glass - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
Dim shone the golden crown - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"
Along the dim hills of dreamland - P.H.B. Lyon "The Deserted Garden"
Climbed the dim and dreaming streets - James Allan Mackereth "Ioläus"
Seek among the dim realms of the dead - Frederic Manning "Demeter Mourning"
Into the dim fabric of his dream - Edwin Markham "Midsummer Noon"
Hands dim with loneliness - Jeannette Marks "Ravello"
Dimmed lights adrift from nobler dreams - Don Marquis "Proem"
The dim souls of the crocuses - Edgar Lee Masters "Inexorable Deities"
Folding into the dim fringes of themselves - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
Dim shrines of sweet forgotten art - Theodore Maynard "Beauty I: Relative"
Melodies of dim remembered runes - Claude McKay "I Shall Return"
Music dims against the complicated bramble - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"
Bear dim relations to our common doom - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
From the dream-mist doubtful and dim - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope V: New Birth"
Rocks in dim confusion rise - Thomas Morrison "A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq."
In cool aisles of forests dim - Irene Elder Morton "Browning"
To view the dim unshelter'd Waste - Francis Noel Clarke Mundy "The Fall of Needwood"
My salt of the dim week - Pablo Neruda "Love Song" transl. by William O'Daly
Dim are the depths of the City of Dis - Robert Winkworth Norwood "Dives in Torment"
Your memories are cooling, dimming - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
And time could dim a vow - Dorothy Parker "The False Friends"
Dim terrors in the gloomy deep - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
Clogs the head and dims the eyes - "Pleasures of Snuff-Taking" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.333, 27 Sept. 1828]
From the dim hereafter - Jack Prelutsky "The Haunted House"
Mists of passion dimmed my sight - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "One Night"
midnight dreams a dim reflection of a lifetime - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
Through all their chambers dim and vast - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The dim torch that Zarathustra blew on - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Overflowed the dim gold vase of evening - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
The dim pulse of the rye - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Against the dimmer arc of heaven - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 1: Mary of Magdala"
Dance in the dim violet places - Lola Ridge "Snow-Dance for the Dead"
The dim chaos of the roofs - Lola Ridge "Solo"
In the dim phantom boat that glided past - Rainer Maria Rilke "Lament" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Softly falls at that dim hour - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
From age-old tombs in dim dimensions hid - Duane W. Rimel "Dreams of Yith" [Fantasy Fan v.1, no.11, July 1934]
Amid dim hills that poison mosses blast - Duane W. Rimel "Dreams of Yith" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]
Veils the secrets of those dim retreats - Duane W. Rimel "Dreams of Yith" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]
Dim shores of emptiness - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Ideal"
The dead years seemed fallen dim and strange - D.J. Robertson "The Return" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.119--v.III, 10 April 1886]
Through dim uncertain paths - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Proem"
Tapers burning in the dim half-light - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
Red and gold strike down the twilight dim - Rennell Rodd "In Chartres Cathedral"
Whose dim foreknowledge is at rest - Rennell Rodd "In Chartres Cathedral"
Thro' their arched walks, dim at noonday - Samuel Rogers "Ginevra"
Sorrows by time made dim - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems VI: Northumbria.--A Dirge"
Through the dim distant years it resoundeth - I.A.S. "In the Rhine Woods: Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.24-v.I, 14 June 1884]
The dim uncertain music in the shadows played - V. Sackville-West "The Banquet"
In this dim palace of grey Solitude - "A Sacred Grove" [Household Words no.26, Sept. 21, 1850]
The dim edge of sleep - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"
Dim gardens of fire - Evelyn Scott "From Brooklyn"
Dimmed with tobacco and dream - Robert W. Service "Good-Bye, Little Cabin"
The wide pathless desert of dim sleep - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Ancient arches dim with caverned twilight - Odell Shepard "Laus Mariae"
Till Time's expiring lights grow dim - B. Simmons "Columbus (A Print after a Picture by Parmeggiano)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]
Is grown a dimmer gold - Clark Ashton Smith "Autumnal"
Each dim atom of the system manifest - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
The dim wattage of time - Patricia Smith "10 Ways to Get Ray Charles and Ronald Reagan into the Same Poem"
A dim nimbus on my head - A.E. Stallings "Evil Eye"
The swallows of dreams through its dim fields dart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"
In the dim alcoves of grief - Bianca Stone "A Brief Topography of the MSCOG"
With the dim charnel gloom damply around - G.P.T. "Thaptopsis" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Where the sundering shoals of day vex the dim sails - John B. Tabb "Dawn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Nov. 1889]
Your dry soul crumbles by dim degrees - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXXII: The Sum of Things to Another Woman"
Dim drachmas of his infinite arrears - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XLIV: The Conquest of Immortality"
By night the same great roof of stars is dim - Sara Teasdale "Enough"
A dim fear passed through buttress, and roof, and beam - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: II. The Summons"
The dim psychic crystals of my soul - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"
Whose shadows fall grotesque and dim - Nora C. Usher "Mistletoe" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.49--v.I, 6 Dec. 1884]
Until it becomes my own dim map - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Dark the night and dim the day - Henry van Dyke "From Glory Unto Glory"
From depths of evening's treasury dim - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
That makes birds dream where dim boughs sway - Paul Verlaine "Nocturne" transl. by Clara Shanafelt [The Little Review, May 1916, v.3, no.3]
Until the eyes of the world grow dim - George Sylvester Viereck "The Ballad of the Golden Boy"
Dim earth's beauty with stain and spot - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]
These dim vaults of clay - Thomas Walsh "Coelo et in Terra"
Dim world of lonely light - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Dim wisdoms that outweary Time - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
The gray of a glass of water in a dimly lit room - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
Where the dim tides are hurled- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Their lines strain toward blood-dimmed collapse - Ryu Ando "The Drum Star (Orion's Ghost" [Strange Horizons Fund Drive Special 2017]
Reposed on some dim-curtained shelf and tasted peace - Samuel Hoffenstein "The Star Is Waiting to See the Manager" [The Broadway Anthology]
Dimly-glowing bells of sleeping sea-anemones - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"
Falling on dream-dimmed eyes - W.B. Yeats "He tells of a Valley full of Lovers"
Of fear-undimmed endeavor- Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"
Eyes and their undimmed lattices of flame - Hart Crane "Lachrymae Christi"
Come quietly and be undimmed - Alice Fulton "Tough Zinnias"
Undimmed by hovering wraith of doubt - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours IV" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
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How dim the dawn of truth - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
Who are calling out of the dimness vague and vast - William Allingham "Twilight Voices"
Visionary fabrics dim and vast - Benjamin West Ball "A Hermitage"
Dim his red nocturnal torch - Benjamin West Ball "Morning"
The dim reaches of a watchdog's yawn - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"
Back from the margin of the dim abyss - Maurice Baring "Julian Grenfell"
In skies not dark but only dim - Maurice Baring "A June Night in Russia"
Winged messengers from eyries dim - Maurice Baring "Wagner"
Turns dim against the dawn - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"
In waves of light upon the far, dim shades of night - J.R. Barrick "To Miss Light Underwood" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Wheel for dim, celestial wars - Stephen Vincent Benet "Campus Sonnet: 1. Before an Examination"
Dim and aimless on a dolorous way - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"
When all dim heaven is trembling into stars - William Rose Benét "Unforgotten"
That cherish dim waters - Gordon Bottomley "The Crier by Night"
Dreams the dim hills of the future - Vera M. Brittain "Daphne"
Through the dim horizon's haze - Anne Bronte "Fluctuations"
Makes Olympian glory dim - Charlotte Bronte "Pilate's Wife's Dream"
The dim moon struggling in the sky - Emily Bronte "Faith and Despondency"
Dimmed their tapers of gold - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Dryad"
Where walk dim ghosts of thoughts - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
Dim curtains of duskfire and dew - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"
Over the dim blue hills - John K. Casey "Maire, my Girl"
Sinking in the distance dim - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Dimmed by the lightning's ever-fitful glow - Ralph Chaplin "Prison Nocturne"
Dim landscapes of despair - Ralph Chaplin "Prison Shadows"
With this dim diadem invested - King Charles I "A Royal Lamentation"
Dim green or torn with golden scars - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"
A faint, dim breath of bitter lies - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"
Names dim with Time's dull rust - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
And count some dim inheritance of sand - Hart Crane "The Wine Menagerie"
a slender dimness in the unshapeful hour - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
In the golden gloom of dreamland dim - Olive Custance "Twilight" [The Yellow Book v.III, Oct. 1894]
And dim in quicksands seems to fly - 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]
Shed dim tears in Sorrow's pew - Jean de Esque "[To those that felt the wand of Muse]"
Tales told in dim Eden - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"
A dusk where one dim lamp burns - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"
Whose beauty dims my waking eyes - Walter de la Mare "Music"
Grass between dim lonely dunes of sand - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"
That dim star that crowns its summit - Dulcie Deamer "The Dreamer"
O'er the billowy waste of dim oblivion's flood - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
Dimly stirred by tropic hint - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XII: Psalm of the Day"
Dim as the border star - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XXXIII: Requiem"
Dim Night is monarch now - Irving Sidney Dix "Starlight Lake"
Murmur dim melodious secrets - Edward Dowden "The Fountain"
On dimmest wing in Twilight's train - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VII. The Pause of Evening"
Bound in a cobweb dungeon dim - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
Rugged and dim was his onward track - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
That dim Dock where Charon loads his Ship - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"
With dim realms of more enraptured rest - A.E. "The Feast of Age"
The dim and silver end of the day - George William Russell aka A.E. "Forgiveness"
Who moves in the twilight dim - A.E. "Unconscious"
Haunting dim memory with the early glory - Elizabeth J. Eames "Early English Poets: Addison" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
Many long years have sped, and dimmed in dust - Elizabeth J. Eames "Early English Poets: Shakespeare" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.2, Feb. 1848]
sometime in the dimming past - Safia Elhillo "Transport"
Not thus eclipsed and dim - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"
In the dim of the kerosene lamps - Martin Espada "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramon Emeterio Betances"
As vesper chimes grow dimmer and more faint - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
A dim chord of flame between his lips - Joseph Fasano "October"
O'er her low head grey and dim - Samuel Ferguson "The Fairy Thorn"
Some dim and tranquil world of golden pagodas - Arthur Davison Ficke "Three Japanese Paintings: II. Dream of a Chinese Rock Promontory (A Screen by Sesshu)" [The Little Review, May 1916, v.3, no.3]
And pink bindweed dimly, steadily flower - Michael Field "The Depths of the Grass"
A purple lure of love divine and dim - Nora May French "Mirage"
Wash the dim shores of old Eternity - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)
Dim grey with shade - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"
To the cold constellations dim and high - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Rupert Brooke"
Dim paths that lead to odorous glooms - Howard Glyndon "At Odds" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XI, no.26, May 1873]
Beneath her wings of lilac dim - Edmund Gosse "A Dream of November"
October's gold is dim - David Gray "Sonnet"
Your gracious ways that are patterned in dim stones - Katherine Hale "Poetesses"
Trooping down dim flights of measured air - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"
Dim flights of measured air - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"
On paper wings flit dimly through the night - Reginald Heber "The Whippiad: A Satirical Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
That lie in the dim shadow of the years - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "Doubt"
When the sky was dim from some worn glory - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "A Dream"
Dim spectres tread that haunted verge - Jennie Earngey Hill "Alone"
Dimmed each star in memory's sky - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "Homeward Bound" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
Dreaming of a day less dim, dreaming of a time less far - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"
Engulf the last dim star - William D. Hodjkiss "Song of the Storm Swept-Plain"
On empty stages of the years awake in the dim light - Samuel Hoffenstein "The Theatre Scrub-Woman Dreams a Dream" [The Broadway Anthology]
To dim the sense of not belonging here - Cynthia Hogue "The Loire Valley (Solstice 2015)"
The dog-star of treason grows dim - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Last Charge" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]
Over this dim indistinguishable country - David Hornibrook "Shadow Country"
A dream of happiness remembered dim - William D. Howells "Vagary"
Dim that travelling eye - Richard Hughes "Cottager is given the Bird (1921)"
Round the world's dim fringes tossed - Aldous Huxley "Leda"
Dim intermediate space with parallels of luminous dust - Aldous Huxley "Morning Scene"
A dimness on the grasses - Jean Ingelow "The Star's Monument"
The starry light upon your forehead dims - "John Bull to Jonathan" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
The dim lit avenues of the mind - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Wall"
Never see the glory of this perfect day grow dim - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I Want to Die While You Love Me" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The dim phantoms of o'er shadowed pleasures - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]
Webs and dim branching, cross-firing - Janet Kauffman "Cut the Lure"
A dim undying hearth for loves that roam - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"
Dim planets hung above the trembling trees - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"
The dim echoes of old Triton's horn - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
How dim and strange your features - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"
Dim lands in troubled dreams - Fanny Kemble "Song [Pass thy hand through my hair, lore]"
A pillar dim of gathered gusts and fiery rain - Henry Kendall "A Death in the Bush"
Dim with dreams of sudden storms and gusty surge - Henry Kendall "Drowned at Sea"
With flying fringes dim as smoke - Archibald Lampman "After Rain"
Heard a mellow hunting horn make dim report - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
I heard her sing in wood paths dim - Lucy Larcom "November"
With the dim light of full, healthy life - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
These dim, gray outer courts of her fantastic palace - Emma Lazarus "Fog" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]
Through the dim vista of past years - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
Whose soft dim light would rise to bless each summer - "Lines in Humble Imitation of an Inimitable Scottish Poet" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
The lilac's dim explosion fills the air - Katinka Loeser "Spring Is the Time for Flowers"
Twilight woods that brood dim in the gulfs beyond - H.P. Lovecraft "Fungi from Yuggoth" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
Which day dims from our vision - Amy Lowell "In Darkness"
A dim red glare through mud bespattered glass - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"
To burn our souls before altars dim - Amy Lowell "New York at Night"
Wipes no dimness from the glass - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
Dim shone the golden crown - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"
Along the dim hills of dreamland - P.H.B. Lyon "The Deserted Garden"
Climbed the dim and dreaming streets - James Allan Mackereth "Ioläus"
Seek among the dim realms of the dead - Frederic Manning "Demeter Mourning"
Into the dim fabric of his dream - Edwin Markham "Midsummer Noon"
Hands dim with loneliness - Jeannette Marks "Ravello"
Dimmed lights adrift from nobler dreams - Don Marquis "Proem"
The dim souls of the crocuses - Edgar Lee Masters "Inexorable Deities"
Folding into the dim fringes of themselves - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
Dim shrines of sweet forgotten art - Theodore Maynard "Beauty I: Relative"
Melodies of dim remembered runes - Claude McKay "I Shall Return"
Music dims against the complicated bramble - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"
Bear dim relations to our common doom - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
From the dream-mist doubtful and dim - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope V: New Birth"
Rocks in dim confusion rise - Thomas Morrison "A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq."
In cool aisles of forests dim - Irene Elder Morton "Browning"
To view the dim unshelter'd Waste - Francis Noel Clarke Mundy "The Fall of Needwood"
My salt of the dim week - Pablo Neruda "Love Song" transl. by William O'Daly
Dim are the depths of the City of Dis - Robert Winkworth Norwood "Dives in Torment"
Your memories are cooling, dimming - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
And time could dim a vow - Dorothy Parker "The False Friends"
Dim terrors in the gloomy deep - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"
Clogs the head and dims the eyes - "Pleasures of Snuff-Taking" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.333, 27 Sept. 1828]
From the dim hereafter - Jack Prelutsky "The Haunted House"
Mists of passion dimmed my sight - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "One Night"
midnight dreams a dim reflection of a lifetime - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"
Through all their chambers dim and vast - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The dim torch that Zarathustra blew on - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"
Overflowed the dim gold vase of evening - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
The dim pulse of the rye - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Against the dimmer arc of heaven - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 1: Mary of Magdala"
Dance in the dim violet places - Lola Ridge "Snow-Dance for the Dead"
The dim chaos of the roofs - Lola Ridge "Solo"
In the dim phantom boat that glided past - Rainer Maria Rilke "Lament" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Softly falls at that dim hour - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont
From age-old tombs in dim dimensions hid - Duane W. Rimel "Dreams of Yith" [Fantasy Fan v.1, no.11, July 1934]
Amid dim hills that poison mosses blast - Duane W. Rimel "Dreams of Yith" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]
Veils the secrets of those dim retreats - Duane W. Rimel "Dreams of Yith" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.1, Sept. 1934]
Dim shores of emptiness - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Ideal"
The dead years seemed fallen dim and strange - D.J. Robertson "The Return" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.119--v.III, 10 April 1886]
Through dim uncertain paths - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Proem"
Tapers burning in the dim half-light - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
Red and gold strike down the twilight dim - Rennell Rodd "In Chartres Cathedral"
Whose dim foreknowledge is at rest - Rennell Rodd "In Chartres Cathedral"
Thro' their arched walks, dim at noonday - Samuel Rogers "Ginevra"
Sorrows by time made dim - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems VI: Northumbria.--A Dirge"
Through the dim distant years it resoundeth - I.A.S. "In the Rhine Woods: Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.24-v.I, 14 June 1884]
The dim uncertain music in the shadows played - V. Sackville-West "The Banquet"
In this dim palace of grey Solitude - "A Sacred Grove" [Household Words no.26, Sept. 21, 1850]
The dim edge of sleep - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"
Dim gardens of fire - Evelyn Scott "From Brooklyn"
Dimmed with tobacco and dream - Robert W. Service "Good-Bye, Little Cabin"
The wide pathless desert of dim sleep - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Ancient arches dim with caverned twilight - Odell Shepard "Laus Mariae"
Till Time's expiring lights grow dim - B. Simmons "Columbus (A Print after a Picture by Parmeggiano)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]
Is grown a dimmer gold - Clark Ashton Smith "Autumnal"
Each dim atom of the system manifest - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to Music"
The dim wattage of time - Patricia Smith "10 Ways to Get Ray Charles and Ronald Reagan into the Same Poem"
A dim nimbus on my head - A.E. Stallings "Evil Eye"
The swallows of dreams through its dim fields dart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"
In the dim alcoves of grief - Bianca Stone "A Brief Topography of the MSCOG"
With the dim charnel gloom damply around - G.P.T. "Thaptopsis" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
Where the sundering shoals of day vex the dim sails - John B. Tabb "Dawn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Nov. 1889]
Your dry soul crumbles by dim degrees - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXXII: The Sum of Things to Another Woman"
Dim drachmas of his infinite arrears - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XLIV: The Conquest of Immortality"
By night the same great roof of stars is dim - Sara Teasdale "Enough"
A dim fear passed through buttress, and roof, and beam - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: II. The Summons"
The dim psychic crystals of my soul - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"
Whose shadows fall grotesque and dim - Nora C. Usher "Mistletoe" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.49--v.I, 6 Dec. 1884]
Until it becomes my own dim map - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Dark the night and dim the day - Henry van Dyke "From Glory Unto Glory"
From depths of evening's treasury dim - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
That makes birds dream where dim boughs sway - Paul Verlaine "Nocturne" transl. by Clara Shanafelt [The Little Review, May 1916, v.3, no.3]
Until the eyes of the world grow dim - George Sylvester Viereck "The Ballad of the Golden Boy"
Dim earth's beauty with stain and spot - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]
These dim vaults of clay - Thomas Walsh "Coelo et in Terra"
Dim world of lonely light - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Dim wisdoms that outweary Time - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
The gray of a glass of water in a dimly lit room - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"
Where the dim tides are hurled- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"
Their lines strain toward blood-dimmed collapse - Ryu Ando "The Drum Star (Orion's Ghost" [Strange Horizons Fund Drive Special 2017]
Reposed on some dim-curtained shelf and tasted peace - Samuel Hoffenstein "The Star Is Waiting to See the Manager" [The Broadway Anthology]
Dimly-glowing bells of sleeping sea-anemones - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"
Falling on dream-dimmed eyes - W.B. Yeats "He tells of a Valley full of Lovers"
Of fear-undimmed endeavor- Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"
Eyes and their undimmed lattices of flame - Hart Crane "Lachrymae Christi"
Come quietly and be undimmed - Alice Fulton "Tough Zinnias"
Undimmed by hovering wraith of doubt - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours IV" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
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