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For fate admits my soul's decree - Charlotte Bronte "The Wife's Will"

What I can know and admit to - Katie Ford "All I Ever Wanted"

Admits no memory of choice - Robert Frost "The Trial by Existence"

A rose would never admit me - Zona Gale "Roses"

Opens upward to admit the sunlight's gleam - Emanuel Geibel "[Schöne Lilie]" transl. by Edith Wharton

And death admit me to the silent ways - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"

No one wanted to admit me a necessity - Nikita Gill "Echidna to Typhon"

Too late to admit the lost - Allison Eir Jenks "Canvas"

Admitted this name could not belong to me - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Lips admit their ownership - Maxine Kumin "After Love"

To admit the murdered into rooms of vast crushed comfort - Youna Kwak "After"

Admits the presence of the End - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Power Against Power [Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1864]"

Admit mosquitos were a mistake - Mary Soon Lee "I, Universe"

Admitting no common air - Audre Lorde "What It Means to Be Beautiful"

As one admitted to the door - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"

Ceased to admit what I, too, cease to admit - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"

Machines that admit of no appeal - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger

Admitted to the cabalas of the light - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

The first to admit gaps in his knowledge - Keith Taylor "The Sickness That Comes from the Longing for Home"


Knocked at every door, yet no admittance found - Calder Campbell "By the Sea" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.425, 21 Feb. 1852]

Seek admittance there in vain - "Heaven" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]


The unadmitted terror - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"


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