Potential Titles: Smooth
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somethingdarkerSmoothes the earth we trample - Elizabeth Alexander "Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally"
Minor quibbles a clock will iron smooth - Mary Jo Bang "Head-Heavy on its Snakestalk, the Tulip"
Smoothed the seams of her life - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"
Smooth and even as her last defense - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"
Memory's chorus smoothly chimes - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"
That smooths the brow of care - James Beattie "Retirement. 1758"
Smoothed out for the moon - Andrea Blancas Beltran "Year of the Rat, Full Moon in Aries, and Coltrane Plays"
Five smooth stones to make him wise - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
Smooth with its swoop of swallows - Terry Blackhawk "Maumee, Maumee"
Into the smooth curvatures of faith - Max Bodenheim "Three Portraits"
And smooth the crease in my brain - Jaswinder Bolina "Tidal"
Written on the smooth gray stone - Louise Morey Bowman "The Witch"
Smoothed the ruffled path - Howard Futhey Brinton "Mac's (Psychological) Cigar"
At low tide to surface smooth as driftwood - Jenny Browne "Late Fermata"
Sea glass worked smooth and lovely by the sheer fact of time - Sarah Browning "Praisesong"
With smooth attrition of tides - Bliss Carman "Flying Fish"
who gathered the five smooth stones - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"
The smooth order of forgiveness - Henri Cole "Persimmon Tree"
Broken by ice, smoothed by water and time - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
The ocean's heart too smooth, too blue - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXV: Shipwreck"
A smooth dry carpet of velvet - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Across the crease of smooth canoes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"
A smooth continuity of singing fractions - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
My raiment fits smooth to the spirit - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Birth"
Allowed, excused and smoothed away - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Boys Will Be Boys"
That grace can smooth no waters - Thomas Hardy "Murmurs in the Gloom (Nocturne)"
Hear the insects' smooth roulette - Conrad Hilberry "Hunch"
Watch the smooth airships of Zen - Tony Hoagland "Upward"
As a skate's heel sweeps smooth - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Windhover"
Trod it smooth and straight - Margaret Houston "Aftermath"
Smoothing away with silence - Helen Hoyt "Rooming"
In quiet mystery the way runs smooth - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Climbing Green-Cliff Mountain in Yung-chia" transl. by David Hinton
Smooth as eels and slick as soap - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Eternity on slightly smoother surfaces - Tanque R. Jones "Slave-Feet"
In smoothest echoes breaking - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
sandpaper erasures that smooth it to sleep - Kaie Kellough "if who"
Someone to smooth the sharp thorn of my head - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"
Suffering carves smoothness which cannot cut any longer - Alfred Kreymborg "Stones"
To smooth waters upshaken from the deepest deep - W.E.L. "A Dirge of Love" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.454, 11 Sept. 1852]
Hollow under a smooth skin and an upright appearance - D.H. Lawrence "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is"
Tourmaline to smooth my tongue - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
A blade of fire to cleanse and smooth - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Through darkness smooth as amber - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"
Smooth as glass an eke as brittle - "London Lyrics: The Auctioneer's Ode to Mercury" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
To smooth so rough a path - Anonymous "Loyalty Confined"
The mute smoothness of grey pearls - Joanne Merriam "No Words"
A pebble smoothed over in a sea of feathers - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"
Smoothed sand in the mouth of an oyster - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"
Finger those smooth substances spent - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly
Eyes stony smooth shut in moonlight - Alice Notley "At Night the States"
The goddess of the smooth doorway - Alice Notley "The New Brain"
Smooth ripple of the wind's second name - Naomi Shihab Nye "Always Bring a Pencil"
Only night's smooth stare - Naomi Shihab Nye "Fireflies"
A pebble could show you how to be smooth - Naomi Shihab Nye "Yellow Glove"
Stones worn smooth with patience - Kiki Petrosino "Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County"
Smooth as gently breathing gales - Ambrose Philips "To Miss Georgiana Carteret"
Meditation smoothed the wing of thought - Margaret J. Preston "Francesca's Worship" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]
In a sea of smooth pebbles - Khadijah Queen "Live Unadorned"
Smooth over every jagged edge - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Bomba"
We'll smooth your icy pillow - Deborah Ruddell "Penguin's Lullaby"
Soften to one smooth horizon - Joyce Sidman "Invocation for Sandcastles"
The smooth temper of my age - Robert Southey "The Holly Tree"
The path of seals is smooth - "Summer Has Come" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Follow change through rough and smooth - T'ao Chien "Written One Morning in the 5th Moon, After Tai Chu-pu's Poem" transl. by David Hinton
Smoothed earth's furrowed face - Francis Thompson "Daisy"
Worn smooth by precedent - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"
Are not so smoothly fooled - John Updike "Endpoint"
Sharp spines worn smooth by wind - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Seashell"
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Minor quibbles a clock will iron smooth - Mary Jo Bang "Head-Heavy on its Snakestalk, the Tulip"
Smoothed the seams of her life - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"
Smooth and even as her last defense - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"
Memory's chorus smoothly chimes - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"
That smooths the brow of care - James Beattie "Retirement. 1758"
Smoothed out for the moon - Andrea Blancas Beltran "Year of the Rat, Full Moon in Aries, and Coltrane Plays"
Five smooth stones to make him wise - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
Smooth with its swoop of swallows - Terry Blackhawk "Maumee, Maumee"
Into the smooth curvatures of faith - Max Bodenheim "Three Portraits"
And smooth the crease in my brain - Jaswinder Bolina "Tidal"
Written on the smooth gray stone - Louise Morey Bowman "The Witch"
Smoothed the ruffled path - Howard Futhey Brinton "Mac's (Psychological) Cigar"
At low tide to surface smooth as driftwood - Jenny Browne "Late Fermata"
Sea glass worked smooth and lovely by the sheer fact of time - Sarah Browning "Praisesong"
With smooth attrition of tides - Bliss Carman "Flying Fish"
who gathered the five smooth stones - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"
The smooth order of forgiveness - Henri Cole "Persimmon Tree"
Broken by ice, smoothed by water and time - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
The ocean's heart too smooth, too blue - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXV: Shipwreck"
A smooth dry carpet of velvet - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Across the crease of smooth canoes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"
A smooth continuity of singing fractions - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
My raiment fits smooth to the spirit - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Birth"
Allowed, excused and smoothed away - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Boys Will Be Boys"
That grace can smooth no waters - Thomas Hardy "Murmurs in the Gloom (Nocturne)"
Hear the insects' smooth roulette - Conrad Hilberry "Hunch"
Watch the smooth airships of Zen - Tony Hoagland "Upward"
As a skate's heel sweeps smooth - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Windhover"
Trod it smooth and straight - Margaret Houston "Aftermath"
Smoothing away with silence - Helen Hoyt "Rooming"
In quiet mystery the way runs smooth - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Climbing Green-Cliff Mountain in Yung-chia" transl. by David Hinton
Smooth as eels and slick as soap - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Eternity on slightly smoother surfaces - Tanque R. Jones "Slave-Feet"
In smoothest echoes breaking - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
sandpaper erasures that smooth it to sleep - Kaie Kellough "if who"
Someone to smooth the sharp thorn of my head - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"
Suffering carves smoothness which cannot cut any longer - Alfred Kreymborg "Stones"
To smooth waters upshaken from the deepest deep - W.E.L. "A Dirge of Love" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.454, 11 Sept. 1852]
Hollow under a smooth skin and an upright appearance - D.H. Lawrence "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is"
Tourmaline to smooth my tongue - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
A blade of fire to cleanse and smooth - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Through darkness smooth as amber - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"
Smooth as glass an eke as brittle - "London Lyrics: The Auctioneer's Ode to Mercury" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
To smooth so rough a path - Anonymous "Loyalty Confined"
The mute smoothness of grey pearls - Joanne Merriam "No Words"
A pebble smoothed over in a sea of feathers - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"
Smoothed sand in the mouth of an oyster - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"
Finger those smooth substances spent - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly
Eyes stony smooth shut in moonlight - Alice Notley "At Night the States"
The goddess of the smooth doorway - Alice Notley "The New Brain"
Smooth ripple of the wind's second name - Naomi Shihab Nye "Always Bring a Pencil"
Only night's smooth stare - Naomi Shihab Nye "Fireflies"
A pebble could show you how to be smooth - Naomi Shihab Nye "Yellow Glove"
Stones worn smooth with patience - Kiki Petrosino "Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County"
Smooth as gently breathing gales - Ambrose Philips "To Miss Georgiana Carteret"
Meditation smoothed the wing of thought - Margaret J. Preston "Francesca's Worship" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.28, July 1873]
In a sea of smooth pebbles - Khadijah Queen "Live Unadorned"
Smooth over every jagged edge - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Bomba"
We'll smooth your icy pillow - Deborah Ruddell "Penguin's Lullaby"
Soften to one smooth horizon - Joyce Sidman "Invocation for Sandcastles"
The smooth temper of my age - Robert Southey "The Holly Tree"
The path of seals is smooth - "Summer Has Come" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Follow change through rough and smooth - T'ao Chien "Written One Morning in the 5th Moon, After Tai Chu-pu's Poem" transl. by David Hinton
Smoothed earth's furrowed face - Francis Thompson "Daisy"
Worn smooth by precedent - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"
Are not so smoothly fooled - John Updike "Endpoint"
Sharp spines worn smooth by wind - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Seashell"
Navigation Links:
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Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
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