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Wrested from these crevices a home - Harold Acton "In the Month of Athyr"

Dreamed a garden in every home - Francisco X. Alarcon "Dream"

Even when the Bolsheviks took his home - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Quilt in the home team's colors - Hala Alyan "Turnpike // Ghost"

Imagine me lost with our home world - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"

Perfectly at home beneath the surface - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"

Ringing with mingled voices of our home - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]

Word for home that could also mean journey - Ari Banias "Villagers"

The phantom ship that brought Ulysses home - Maurice Baring "Greece"

Save radiances on the way home - Lou Barrett "Notes on a Thursday Feast"

Like a wolf looking toward home - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Lux"

Between sky and home - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

The sea calls home his crystal waves - Charles Best "A Sonnet of the Moon"

Pass home with stealthy feet - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"

A barge carrying on ocean home - Jaswinder Bolina "Tidal"

Migrate through the walls of deserted homes - Bruce Boston "Ghost People"

The long-churned distance to any news of home - Elizabeth Bradfield "In the Polar Regions"

Nopales as second line of home defense - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

But Dionysus led them home in a chariot of pain - William Stanley Braithwaite "Rye Bread" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

And bring home a feather of gold - Mrs. S.J. Brigham "A Wish for Wings" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

But knock and there's no one home - Geoffrey Brock "Goodbye"

Like tattered effigies of home - Geoffrey Brock "Ovid Old"

Sound a language that calls all language home - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

When I finally made a home for my body - Nickole Brown "Self-Portrait as Land Snail"

Call your thoughts home - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

On these shores they find no home - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "On the Long Island Indian"

The last sentimental cricket inching home - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"

Forgiveness was sitting in your kitchen when you got home - Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello "The Houseguest"

All forgot were Friends and Home - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Credulity"

That hold our home in the sky - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"

Dawn after a journey home - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"

Find your way home inside the infinite - Adrian Castro "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"

Made a home of everywhere - Jennifer Chang "The Strangers"

Only one can be called home - K-Ming Chang "Closet Space"

Neither foreign or [sic] home - Chiwan Choi "portraitures and erasures"

An urgency to turn home - Killarney Clary "[Backlit by the glitter-chopped horizon,]"

Going home without my sorrow - Leonard Cohen "Going Home"

The possibility of home - Henri Cole "Birthday"

Never think of home - Hilda Conkling "Land of Nod"

A halo round our home - Eliza Cook "Song for the New Year"

Each new stranger parading through your home - Gabriel Cortez "Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale"

Without a battlefield at home - Nathalia Crane "The Battle on the Floor"

And the horned snail leaves home - Walter de la Mare "The Little Green Orchard"

To flee because home wouldn't let us stay - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"

The naked sea-marsh binds her home - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

A thousand footsteps marching home - Diane DeCillis "Postcards of Home and Homesick"

Follow the long scent home - Diane DeCillis "Room Full of Children Staring at Me"

Slow cows wandering home to their sunset - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

What song is there to sing me home? - Woody Dismukes "The Color of the Mule"

Which is news fit to write home about? - Rita Dove "Trayvon, Redux"

Makes a home for the stars - Stephen Dunn "Let's Say"

With the rich green fern around your home - Lucinda Elliott "The Linnaea Borealis" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.418, 3 Jan. 1852]

Bring home the river and sky - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Each and All"

Accelerate down the line to steal home - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"

More intimate than home - Rhina P. Espaillat "Rachmaninoff on the Mass Pike"

Home is a truth stranger than fiction - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "In One Sentence"

Tangles of rain molding our homes from the inside - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

the dark, dank alley the only path toward home - b ferguson "parkside & ocean"

Home is where one starts from - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

But home was just over the hill - Hannah G. Fernald "Pretending" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

home is soil beneath my fingernails - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"

All cast shadows come home - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"

While Homer makes his slow way home - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"

How much of home is held in the mouth - Diamond Forde "Rememory"

Depends on what you mean by home - Robert Frost "The Death of the Hired Man"

The siren cities chant of home - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Thrown in every direction but home - Andrea Gibson "Dear Tinder,"

Run home in a snowstorm - Andrea Gibson "Your Life"

Making homes inside broken hearts - Nikita Gill "Homes"

Went back to a ruined parent's ruined home - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]

Stay and say are two siblings walking home - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"

Home to a house of glass - Hannah Flagg Gould "The Boy and the Cricket"

By destined rumor summoned home - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"

Nowhere to go that late but home - Christian Gullette "Palm Springs"

As our hearts walked home - Joy Harjo "Bourbon and Blues"

Then rob him of half of his home - Robert M. Hart "Words of Sympathy" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Homes of blighted reason - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LIV"

Talked our way home over starlit plains - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 4. Summer 1969"

home withering to a forest darkened - Jim Heston "In the Time of Lycanthropy"

Some first sight of home - Mary Hickman "Helen"

Not even pain can guide it home - Tony Hoagland "A Walk Around the Property"

Rooks came home in scramble sort - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Scarce a tithe of all that host that won back home again - "Holger Danske and Stout Didrik" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Share my harvest and my home - Thomas Hood "Ruth"

My lost home's light still shines for me - Lucy H. Hooper "Farewell" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]

With change abroad and cheer at home - A.E. Housman "Last Poems I: The West"

Come you home a hero, or come not home at all - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad III: The Recruit"

I call you home tomorrow - LeAnne Howe "1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed"

Haunted with the ghost of home - William Dean Howells "The Empty House"

And haunted with the ghost of home - William D. Howells (uncredited) "The Old Homestead" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Clouds and water block the way home - Hsiang Ssu "The Ailing Japanese Monk" transl. by Burton Watson

Dreams of home are ended now - Hsiang Ssu "The Ailing Japanese Monk" transl. by Burton Watson

{too sacred to call it home} - fahima ife "a street in hollygrove"

Strange tenant of a thousand homes - Washington Irving "Written in the Deepdene Album"

My little home, where I weep when I please - Sade Iverson "The Milliner" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

Will always bring you home again - Sarah Jackson "The Time Bureau Came to Careers Day"

Gave me a new word to say for home - Mark Jarman "The Mermaid"

Have come home laughing from the feast for Robert Burns - Mark Jarman "My Parents Have Come Home Laughing"

Waiting to build their homes over my bones - Jacqueline Jiang "If My Body Is Dying, Tell Me You Love Me"

In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home - Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Heart of a Woman" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

About the home of his desire - Lionel Johnson "Plato in London"

Tired of staying at home in the clouds - Marie L. Johnson "The Wind's Frolic" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]

A drop more wine than you can carry home - "Jolly Father Joe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

The face of the confession far from home - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

Unhealed wounds and home fallen to ruins - Zilka Joseph "A Chirota for My Thoughts"

So different from sweets of home - Zilka Joseph "Pantoum for Chik-cha Halwa"

Searching for homes that we have already passed - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Gave them my house as home - Holly Karapetkova "Genesis"

At home in so many bodies of water - Janet Kauffman "Caught Between Rocks"

This home of ten long years - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"

Who possess the Past's most noble home - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]

Taking home the emptiness - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

Around the bend that tried to loop me home - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

For all those forbidden from entering the home - Youna Kwak "After"

And comfort them with whispers of their home - L.L. "The Graves of Gallipoli" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]

Build a home on the moon - Sade LaNay "Entry 003 from I love you and I'm not dead"

Home of a thousand varying fears - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

Batters our elusive homes - Aimee Le "Movies II"

To their dark home of hunger again - Chas. G. Leland "The Wolf Hunt" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]

Our home still anchored in the slumbering star - R.B. Lemberg "Ranra's Unbalancing"

Heading home by evening boat - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson

But at home we never see a returning soldier - Li Po "Waiting on the Tower" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Even in dreams it's hard to go home - Li Yu "[Since we parted, spring half over]" transl. by Burton Watson

The yellow crane winging home - attributed to Liu Hsi-chun "Song of Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

At home in this echoless light - Audre Lorde "Syracuse Airport"

Never home till the crows have gone to rest - Lu Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

That brought the wandering outcast home - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Fountain-Springs"

The heart-haunted home of the ever-faithful - Donnchad Ruadh MacNamara, c.1730 "The Fair Hills of Eire" transl. by George Sigerson

making it hard for your homes to welcome me - Neha Maqsood "Things I Do to Remember Home"

Every song a flight home to you - Jeannette Marks "Cross Roads"

And questioned one another on the road to home - Harry Martinson "Aniara 97" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Our only home became the night of space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 102" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Bringing home the golden sheaves - John McCrae "The Harvest of the Sea"

Though I bring home my sadness - Shane McCrae "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"

The amulets of home entombed for solace - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"

Crows are turning hostile architecture into homes - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"

Tarnishing the homes where water-beasts are born - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"

The moment when the ghosts go home - M.S. Merwin "The Bird"

Mistook the willow tree for a home - Joseph Millar "One Day"

Archimedes still holds his measured home - Joaquin Miller "As It Is Written"

Even evil needs a home - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Eternal Stand"

Home for a hundred immortal spirits - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Memory is all the home you get - John Murillo "Mercy, Mercy, Me"

A firefly desolate, bereft of home - Francis Neilson "Jack O'Lantern"

The mind can build itself a home - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"

Left home to drift near a deeper home - Mark Nepo "Stopped Again by the Sea"

Where rain established its home - Pablo Neruda "The Stones and the Birds" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Every obligation of home - Tim Newcomb "Family"

A traitor nestling close at home - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Your hybrid heart at home - Grace Nichols "In the Shade of a London Plane Tree"

And the weary may go home - Roden Noel "The Old"

Rolled home with brown sacks in our laps - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

Walked home on a desperate road - Naomi Shihab Nye "Yellow Glove"

A fraternity ghost waiting to stay home - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"

Her work of words no less at home than his work of creation - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"

Be quiet heart home - Grace Paley "Suddenly There's Poughkeepsie"

All these years from home - Linda Pastan "All Nights"

Who prays you all the way home - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Brown Love"

Direction betrays my home body - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"

No companion was there to drag me home - Po Chu-i "At Hsien-Yu Temple" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

My flock of dreams come home to me - Miriam Clark Potter "The Flock of Dreams"

Straight my ship sails home to you - Miriam Clark Potter "To the Little Girl Next Door"

Find homes in thunder peals - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"

Time died so that it could return home - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "In arrival, feet flutter like dying birds"

Carve a home in my bones - Sina Queyras "I Am No Lady, Lazarus"

Which made the burning depths of hell its home - Quince "Ambition" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

This is a concrete box that we call home - Dimitri Reyes "[Oye! This is an apartment building ode]"

Three thousand miles from what I once called home - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

Take our worn souls Home - James Whitcombe Riley "Out of the Hitherwhere"

Happy Heart coming home from the hills - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Alpine Primrose"

My heart they choose for home - James Jeffrey Roche "Three Doves"

Their gilded galleys came home from a hundred seas - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

Nine fair sisters in one home - Amy Redpath Roddick "England's Oldest Colony"

Sent straight home from Rome - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull

My heart's quiet home - Christina Rossetti "[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome]"

Many a ruined heart my home - George William Russell "The Grey Eros"

Nor is this splendid cage a home - E.C.S. "The Encaged Bird to His Mistress" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]

The home of my youth would be joyless to me - 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]

inheriting wounds from bodies you make a home in - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"

if my plans include returning home - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"

Build separate homes from red tag items - Janice Lobo Sapigao "HomeGoods"

Hermes waits to lead me home - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]

Comes like a swallow veering home - Duncan Campbell Scott "Memory"

Home to your place of power and pride - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

Cold fireside and alienated home - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

When home won't let you stay - Warsan Shire "Home"

Such the thorny home she offers - "The Sleeping Peri: Lines Suggested by Palmer's Statue" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

At home in his pelt and subtle paws - Tom Sleigh "The Fox"

trying to find a warmth to call home - Danez Smith "juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet"

where is freedom's home? - Danez Smith "three Black poems from August"

Following the wrong god home - William Stafford "A Ritual to Read to Each Other"

Like winds that have no home - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

Exile and a home withheld - George Sterling "The Fall of the Year"

What golden people call it home? - George Sterling "The Last Island"

In a dream last night I came home - Su Shih "A Dream of You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Riding home on the back of an ox - Sun Yun-feng "The Trail Up Wu Gorge" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

Silent in her home oak - Alison Swan "The Old Days"

That the stranger knows what home is yours - Carmen Sylva "The Shadow"

And home with the rovers we ride - John B. Tabb "A Cavalcade"

without pretending that home is an open prison - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"

Stay home to fight invading aphids - Keith Taylor "The 8:35 Bus"

Dancing through the grass toward home - Keith Taylor "Prairie Fire"

We head home in other starlight - Tess Taylor "Solstice"

what the birds know is the way home - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

The nothingness that is their home - Sara Teasdale "A Little While"

Every home a refuge from distress - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"

Follow the bleached stones home - Kristen Tracy "Contemplating Light"

suburb of identical, pillow-mint homes - David Trinidad "9773 Comanche Ave."

Home from the night and rain - Katherine Tynan "The Old House"

Home to my rage - Aldrin Valdez "ars poetica"

The ancient star trails that sang them home - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Beneath the Southern Cross"

And the brook receives it home with a roar - Mark Van Doren "Waterfall Sound"

For they grew in the mermaid's home - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"

Guardian of the humblest homes - Harvey Maitland Watts "To a Roadside Cedar"

Coming home to cook white stones - Wei Ying-wu "Sent to the Taoist Holy Man of Ch'uan-chiao" transl. by Burton Watson

For each is a brother away from home - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "American Boys, Hello!"

If the names sounded like home - Phillip B. Williams "Order of Events"

Winding rivers seeking distant homes - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota--Past and Present"

Carry the voices of lost homes - Yolanda Wisher "west of philly"

Trailing to harvest home the lost Hesperides - Humbert Wolfe "Apples"

To bend a syllable into a home - Assetou Xango "Give Your Daughters Difficult Names"

Coming home with my new heart - Dean Young "Emerald Spider Between Rose Thorns" [Poetry April 2013]

Don't judge my home - Javier Zamora "Instructions for My Funeral"


Many a homebound ship - Walter S. Percy "I'll Be Watching on the Shore"


Making music for my homecoming - Maggie Nelson "After the Holidays"

Like home-coming swallows that seek the old eaves - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "In an Album"


In the chant of a home-faring crew - Algernon Swinburne "At Sea"


With his home-grown quality of dark - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"


Pains of the extinct homeland - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Exiles in their own homeland - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"


Homeless.


To dig the homely artichoke - Jane Gay "Our Childhood"

Homely sympathy that heeds the common life - William Wordsworth "To a Daisy"


One of those old homemade heartbreak songs - Joy Harjo "Washing My Mother's Body"

To mix with nuts and home-made cake - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"

Jelly jars tinted with homemade whiskey - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"


Homesick.


Homespun warp of circumstance - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"


Too many homesteads in black terror weep - Vachel Lindsay "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"

May for ever be hushed in the homesteads of earth - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "The Return to Lezayre" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.456, 25 Sept. 1852]

Homestead and harvest had vanished in fire - Alfred B. Street "Averill's Raid" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]


Homeward.


A carrion flock of homing-birds - John Masefield "A Creed"

A homing device for navigating paradise - J. Patrick Lewis "Great, Good, Bad"

South winds blow my homing heart - Li Po "Sent to My Two Little Children in the East of Lu" transl. by Burton Watson

A haven for homing clouds - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Imitating the Old Poems, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson

Their ghost a homing signal - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal [cross symbol]

A button pushed in the rapture of instinctual homing - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"


know the terror of unhoming - Shailja Patel "Solstice Re-pot"


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