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The seed of a perfect moon - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"

Bathed in bubbles of the moon - Harold Acton "The Investiture of a Spinster Hob-Goblin"

Raven-feathers in the moon's reflex - Harold Acton "These Consolations"

Seek scratches over the moon's face - Etel Adnan "Night"

In the miraculous sessions of the moon - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "In Westminster Abbey"

Twinkles beneath an onion moon - Hala Alyan "The Female of the Species"

Gold rose petals spilled by the moon - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"

Makes the Moon say something new - Raymond Antrobus "Happy Birthday Moon"

Under the muddied moon - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"

Splintered the silver arrows of the moon - Matthew Arnold "Mycerinus"

With silver moon rivers and sailing ships - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Give me only the moon - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

That cries to the old joke moon - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Down half the moon of sky - Atticus "Magic in Her"

Orange moon, pale night, and cricket hum - Joseph Auslander "I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come"

Planted on the moon - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Steal silver away from the moon - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Under the dying grass moon - Mary Jo Bang "Given to Believe"

The moon as an outburst of lyric - Mary Jo Bang "In the Present and Probable Future"

The Moon embalmed in Egypt - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"

The moon hums a slow psalm - Lou Barrett "Cradle Song"

The earth bled till the moon shone red - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Barren Fig Tree"

Behind a desert moon now green - Elizabeth Bartlett "Civilized Spring"

A continent full of moons - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Mistake"

In the valley of moon trees - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"

to pick apart the carcass moon - Elizabeth Bartlett "washday in the tropics"

Kisses as icy as the moon - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited

Reached the moon, upborn by geese - James Beattie "Epistle to the Honourable C. B."

The 23rd mansion of the moon - Erin Belieu "Field"

Smoothed out for the moon - Andrea Blancas Beltran "Year of the Rat, Full Moon in Aries, and Coltrane Plays"

Strangled the waning moon - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

The moon's black horses - Paul Bernstein "Dusk: a Cinquain"

Every time the moon rises full - Terry Blackhawk "Query"

Alone with the moon on its path - Richard Blanco "Somewhere to Paris"

Closed on the moon's face - Richard Blanco "Time as Art in The Eternal City"

Obedient to some other moon - Robert Bly "Thomas and the Codfish's Psalm"

A quest for daisies in the moon - Max Bodenheim "Girl"

A briefer length of moon - Arna Bontemps "Length of Moon"

The dim moon struggling in the sky - Emily Bronte "Faith and Despondency"

In the train of the moon - Paul Cameron Brown "When I was a Much Younger Man"

Warms the cold heart of the moon - Marie Hedderwick Browne "In an Old Orchard"

Birches white before the moon - Witter Bynner "The New World VIII"

As the moon drags the flood tide - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: The Flood Tide"

Stars and moons still move inside our arteries - Paul Carroll "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"

A chill fragment of the moon - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

A swan and the moon - Leila Chatti "I Went Out to Hear"

Then start a moon garden - Chen Chen "i love you to the moon &"

When we went under a dragon moon - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

Cry of the palms and the purple moons - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

born in the mountains of the moon - Lucille Clifton "shadows"

Put the moon in a microscope - Leonard Cohen "The Change"

His plan to counterfeit the moon - Leonard Cohen "My Lawyer"

And kiss the cheek of the moon - Leonard Cohen "The Window"

The slender moon to her mooring rides - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"

As the sea yearns after the moon - Arthur Colton "Verses from 'The Canticle of the Road'"

Goes pulling the moon - Hilda Conkling "Moon Song"

Hoping the moon may say something - Hilda Conkling "Night Goes Rushing By"

The scope of thrice a dozen moons - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

To the moon's high mandate move - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Gods and Heroes of the Gael"

Out of old Moons was busy cutting Stars - Rev. William Crowe "Written When Buonaparte Was Altering the Governments of Germany"

From sunset gardens of the moon - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"

Hide your passion from the moon - Olive Custance "Dance Song"

In the white gardens of the moon - Olive Custance "The Prisoner of God"

Take the moon in your hands - H.D. "The Moon in Your Hands"

And this poison of the moon - Noemia da Sousa "Poem of Distant Childhood" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver

Softly stepping from the slender Moon - Danske Dandridge "Silence"

Studying the phrases of the moon - Jim Daniels "Lip Gloss, Belgium"

The moon's last dark smudge - Jim Daniels "Lip Gloss, Belgium"

There's no saving the moon - Jim Daniels "On Tears"

The spell and music of the moon - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva

The moon would still express - Russell W. Davenport "Poems III"

Seek the woods, the nightingale, and moon - William H. Davies "Wasted Hours"

The great black beautiful seeds of the Moon - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"

The subtle swift seeds of the Moon - Fanny Stearns Davis "Two Songs of Conn the Fool: Moon Folly"

Beneath a withered moon - Coningsby Dawson "Hallowe'en"

Beneath the branches of the moon - Walter de la Mare "The Horn"

The shining footsteps of the moon - Walter de la Mare "Nocturne"

Light from the moon she nurtures - Diane DeCillis "Creation of Birds -- after the painting by Remedios Varo"

Maps to other moons - Diane DeCillis "Mr. Right"

By moon, noon, and night - J.C. Denovan "Oh Dermot, Dear Loved One!"

Beneath the candle of the moon - Jose Hernandez Diaz "Hey,"

Mistake the pool for moon water - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

The moon on the disbelieving cliffs - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

Reached arms to pluck the moon - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

Sad pleasure in the moon's control - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

From sun far-set or moon unrisen - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

Driven up the moon's path - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"

Beckoned by finger of the moon - Carol Ann Duffy "Beautiful"

Indifference to the moon - Stephen Dunn "Essay on Sanity"

Offered them a cup of moon - Stephen Dunn "Moonrakers"

Cold as the winter moon that lies - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs"

Transmuted at the keen moon's cost - Helen Parry Eden "'Sidera Sunt Testes Et Matutina Pruina'"

Our sentimental friend the moon - T.S. Eliot "Conversation Galante"

Circles of the stormy moon - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"

A devil hides in the bright Moon - Aziz Isa Elkun "Clouds Hid the Moon" transl. by author

Tried to persuade the moon - Chiyuma Elliott "When I Was a Wave"

When the moon mocks the sad - George Allan England "Hesperides"

Beneath a scandalous moon - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"

Cracks in the bell of the moon - Martin Espada "Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World"

A rainbow behind the moon - The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"

The pale green light of distant moons - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"

The moon reaping God's blue fields - Eleanor Farjeon "A Sheaf of Nature-Songs VII"

The frost of the moon fell over my floor - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"

Errands in the moon's embrace - Maggie Farren "Palms"

The moon's brute music touching them with fire - Joseph Fasano "Hermitage"

If the moon's hands should discover you - Joseph Fasano "Testimony"

In air among hallucinary [sic] moons - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"

Countries where the white moons burn - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"

The moon's fine clothing - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 4"

Behind the black bark of the moon - Jennifer Foerster "from 'Shadow Poems'"

No moon to break myself against - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Apricots"

Moons the earth has forgotten - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Refrain"

By midnight moons - Philip Freneau "The Indian Burying Ground"

Hold the moon in his teeth - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Introduction to Engineering by Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius"

The moon new-risen from the dead - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

From the moon's high loom - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Of moons forgotten with their tides - Zona Gale "A Meeting"

With wild black flame at full of moon - Zona Gale "Terza Rima"

The dry basin of the moon - Eric Gamalinda "Zero Gravity"

We were ready to walk on the moon - Eric Gamalinda "Zero Gravity"

The moon that never changed allegiances - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"

Cells nightgowned in moon - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"

Weave a pathway for the dawning moon - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

Held the moon up as a looking-glass - Nikita Gill "Chaos to Nyx, Goddes of the Night"

The devotion the sun has to the moon - Nikita Gill "The Sun and the Moon"

The silver of a thousand sweet moons - Nikita Gill "When Love Dies"

As the toothed moon rises - Louise Gluck "All Hallows"

Maybe the moon will send the seas - Louise Gluck "Sunrise"

The grey willow that danced to the moon - Goethe "The Erl-King" transl. by Sir Walter Scott

Ceramic tributes to the moon - Ira Goga "The Kitchen, Indexed"

Through cowering moons and stellar dins - Louis Golding "Fires of Change"

Make moons thy pebbles - Louis Golding "For My Friend"

In a country of seventeen moons - Louis Golding "Ghost and Body"

Moons entangled in cosmic trees - Louis Golding "A Journey South"

Used to keep the moon for company - Leah Naomi Green "Week Five: Measure"

The moon will give you her shoes - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Eight: Mitosis"

Open your palms to the moon - Linda Gregerson "An Offering"

Like the ample moon and free - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"

From my Moon removed her veil - Hafiz "The Divan XLI" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Of what another moon will bring - Thomas Hardy "Summer Schemes"

Fallen moon rolling up the bone railroad - Joy Harjo "Backwards"

Velvet deer stalking the moon - Joy Harjo "Blue Elliptic"

Takes the hand of the moon - Joy Harjo "Heartbeat"

Remember the moon - Joy Harjo "Remember"

Who waltzed nightly on the moon - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"

The glory of the moon's cold smile - C.R.S. Harris "Sonnet"

In parking lots with moons in my mouth - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

Grasping the cusp of the moon - Jim Harrison "Singer"

From off the cheeks of the moon - Marsden Hartley "Fishmonger"

A caress to the rising moon - Sadakichi Hartmann "Drifting Flowers of the Sea"

Vigilance under the staring moon - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Three Poems of Christmas Eve: Last Night"

The serious moon, the flickering star - Alfred Hayes "My Study"

Hurt where the moon should be - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for Wanda C."

Rush to you and embrace the moon - Ben Hecht "My Island"

Do not be confined by the moon - Stephanie Hemphill "Dance"

A moon drowned flower - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Evermore"

Lay lonely to the moon - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Moon Dazzle"

Languished under many moons - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Sea Hunger"

Asterisk of the sun, hyphen of the moon - Faylita Hicks "Coded Binaries"

Seven years' worth of blood moons - Faylita Hicks "Photo of X, 2010: A Box of Wine"

The moon has seen too much to care - Conrad Hilberry "The Cur"

The sudden scarred face of the moon - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"

Hung aloft the rounding moon - Leslie Pickney Hill "Summer Magic"

The beaten brass of the moon - Langston Hughes "A House in Taos"

The wind has undressed the moon - Langston Hughes "March Moon"

Cutting the darkness and kissing the moon - Langston Hughes "Moonlight Night: Carmel"

The two moons and the seventeen stars - Langston Hughes "Night: Four Songs"

Dangerous as a sliver of the moon - Langston Hughes "Sliver"

Leads the withering moon on cloudy stairs - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

The withering moon on cloudy stairs - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"

Wind summons a black moon at dawn - fahima ife "porous aftermath"

The moon's floodlights burning - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"

The faded moon forgets - Jean Ingelow "Contrasted Songs: Song for the Night of Christ's Resurrection"

With the moon's own sadness - Jean Ingelow "Divided"

Ghost of some moon departed - Jean Ingelow "Requiescat In Pace!"

Pollinating the white face of the moon - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"

The moon's hushed excursion - Major Jackson "Selling Out"

The pale rust of this moon - Elizabeth Jacobson "Blood Moon"

Face to face with the moon - Elizabeth Jacobson "14 Love Songs"

As if the moon had unraveled - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Another Epitaph for Nino"

How many thousand moons - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Dog Star Rising"

No thread of bow or moon - Charles Bertram Johnson "A Song of Hope"

The hush of the golden moon - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Lost Lagoon"

The spoils of the hunger's moon - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Train Dogs"

When you whisper to the moon - Emily Pauline Johnson "Where Leaps the Ste. Marie"

A strand of the pale moon's hair - Helene Johnson "What do I care for morning"

A mystery under the moon - James Weldon Johnson "The River"

Play in a red moon's dance - Lionel Johnson "In England"

Who waits for the moon to drown - Saeed Jones "Last Call"

If the moon decided to hold its breath - Saeed Jones "Mercy"

Searched the rooms of the moon - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

Outfaces now my silver moon - John Keats "To Fanny"

With gray eyes lifted to the moon - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [It was harvest time: the broad, bright moon]"

Eclipse the midnight moon's soft ray - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."

Ere the better Moon arose - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

From the dream-laden moon - Joyce Kilmer "Prayer to Bragi"

Names that soften at moon - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

The solemn moon in tears - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Blinded by the moon's indifference - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Towers"

The evening sun with its mask of moon - Christopher Kondrich "Clearing"

Everything that passes through that moon - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"

Each bullet hole suffused with moon - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"

Rub grains of the moon in my hands - Stephen Kuusisto "Learning Braille at Thirty-Nine"

Broken glimmers of the moon - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"

So silvered by the familiar moon - Archibald Lampman "Personality"

Woven of water and the moon - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"

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

To see last night's moon - Susan Landgraf "Reading 'Lives of the Animals' by Robert Wrigley"

To his thousand moons - Rickey Laurentiis "Black Gentleman"

Through which a moon steers - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VII: A Reproach"

Gathered all that grey and moony light - Emily Lawless "From the Burren X: A Garden"

Instinct more delicate than the moon's - D.H. Lawrence "Grapes"

Moon of the wild wild honey - Richard Le Gallienne "To My Wife, Mildred"

When the moon bends low - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Dreams again until the rising moon - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

A single Tree stretched black on the moon - Ruth Lechlitner "At the Road's Turn"

Spun from the moon and woven dark with willow - Ruth Lechlitner "How Many Summers"

With the moon in her head - Dennis Lee "Silverly"

The moon's my favorite easy chair - Hailey Leithauser "The Old Woman Gets Drunk with the Moon"

Hell bent on spawning a moon - Hailey Leithauser "Romance"

Bowed to the moon - Megan Levad "Foundling"

Tranquil as this young moon - Denise Levertov "In California: Morning, Evening, Late January"

The moon ghosting a hole through a rainbow - Dana Levin "Ghosts That Need Reminding"

The rainbow's rage to efface the moon - Dana Levin "Ghosts That Need Reminding"

The moon no one sings to - Philip Levine "The Evening Turned Its Back Upon Her Voice"

Winds Off the Moon - Philip Levine "In a Light Time"

Understood the moon - Philip Levine "Smoke"

Surprised by moon - J. Patrick Lewis "The Repast of the Lion"

And frolic with the water-borne moon - Li Po "Autumn Cove" transl. by Burton Watson

I beckon the bright moon - Li Po "Drinking Alone by Moonlight" transl. by Arthur Waley

The silver cup idly glinting at the moon - Li Po "Drinking Song" transl. by Arthur Waley

Curving them away from the moon - Li T'ai-Po "Songs of the Marches" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

Splendid as the winter moon - Li T'ai-Po "Written in the Character of a Beautiful Woman Grieving Before Her Mirror" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

The desperation of the moon - M.L. Liebler "Winter Meditation"

Plundering deep in the moon's ring - Ada Limon "Sting"

And wrestle on the moon - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"

Even the moon lies - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Summer"

Moon rolling down the gutter of the same sky - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

Under the eye of a golden moon - Amy Lowell "Clear, with Light Variable Winds"

Gemmed with the moon - Amy Lowell "Clear, with Light Variable Winds"

Conversations with an early moon - Amy Lowell "Lilacs"

Hurling clouds at a bright moon - Amy Lowell "Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme"

The printless summer sandals of the moon - James Russell Lowell "Bon Voyage!"

In the museums of the moon - Mina Loy "Lunar Baedeker"

The beat of kettles hurries the sinking moon - Lu Yu "Border Mountain Moon" transl. by Burton Watson

To perch atop the moon - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria de Lourdes Song of Plenty"

The spectral lances of the moon - E.M. "Part IV. The Vision Glorious"

But the day erased the grievance of the moon - Alain Mabanckou "When the Rooster Announces the Dawn of Another Day" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson

But the Moon she knew nothing - George MacDonald "The Wind and the Moon"

Who lately tried to touch the moon - Eric MacKay "Letter II. Sorrow"

A young and secret moon - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "I Watch Swift Pictures"

Acquainted with the moon - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Intrusion"

Whose folds are flameless moons - Fiona MacLeod "The Rune of Age"

He fell as the moon in a storm - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: VII"

One moon has many phantoms - Edwin Markham "The Desire of Nation"

The moon's fair face is broken - Edwin Markham "A Lyric of the Dawn"

Little shepherd moon and flock of stars - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"

Climbing for stars and wanting the moon - Jeannette Marks "Little Miss Hilly"

Bells mellow as the moon - Jeannette Marks "Somewhere Tonight"

Pallid wraiths of long-dead moons - Don Marquis "At Last"

Let us abandon the moon - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Sonnet for Judith"

Under a sheet of callow moon - Herbert Woodward Martin "Variations on Some Index Phrases Borrowed from Kenneth Rexroth"

Spitting smoke and cinders at the moon - John Masefield "A Ballad of Cape St. Vincent"

Upon his last moon's granites die - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Licking the moons from heaven - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Knocking on his moons - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Drained me like a fevered moon - Edgar Lee Masters "Fletcher McGee"

Stars & moon blinking in agitated water - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

Why all fairies live in moons - Furnley Maurice "Neely Lorst"

But I fear the moon may spy - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Kiss Refused" transl. by John Pollen

Beyond the whirling moons and stars - Theodore Maynard "Don Quixote"

Trying to crush beer cans against the moon - John McCarthy "Ghost Friends, Sangamon County"

Gnawing the green roots from a blinded moon - Michael McGriff "Inversion"

Into a symbol of the tender moon - Claude McKay "On a Primitive Canoe"

The moon like a piece of blackening crystal - Mei Yao-ch'en "Lunar Eclipse" transl. by Burton Watson

My lone shadow under the moon - Mei Yao-ch'en "Marrying Again" transl. by Burton Watson

A moon once married to the sea - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"

Blurred as in red mirror moons - Cecilia Meireles "The Dead Horse" transl. by James Merrill

The night cut by the moon - Erika Meitner "What Follows Is a Reconstruction Based on the Best Available Evidence"

The dawn moon struggles to shine - Meng Chiao "On Failing the Examination" transl. by Burton Watson

As a thundercloud swings on the moon - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Lucid in the moon - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Beneath the mad moon's face - Michael Mesic "Swallows"

The moon's dropped child - Charlotte Mew "Fame"

Left me under the Druid moon - Joseph Millar "One Day"

Slate moons huddle on the horizon - Jonah Mixon-Webster "Territory"

The shiver of the mirrored moon - N. Scott Momaday "The Essence of Belonging"

The fading moon and the vanguard of the sun - N. Scott Momaday "The First Day"

Wolves rising to the tooth of the moon - N. Scott Momaday "The Listener"

On nights of the spilling moon - N. Scott Momaday "Revenant"

In relation to moons past - Kamilah Aisha Moon "What Is Believed In Is True"

In red mirror moons - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Verses that flow toward the moon - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "Chronicle of an Execution" transl. by Joshua Freeman

Flowing up to the moon - Walter Dean Myers "Willie Arnold, 30, Alto Sax Player"

Who announces the ages of the moon - "The Mystery of Amergin" (translated by Dr Douglas Hyde)

The moon to reflect certainty - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

And smells like the moon - Maggie Nelson "Eighteen Days Until Christmas"

Between moon and knives - Pablo Neruda "Brussels" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Battling moon and twilight - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Of bread kneaded on the moon - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

That fuel the moon's envy - Pablo Neruda "Evening LXXVI" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

Dry moon poured upon scars - Pablo Neruda "From Above (1942)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The indifference camels have for the moon - Pablo Neruda "I Still Get Around" transl. by William O'Daly

The globes of the glacial moon - Pablo Neruda "Leviathan" transl. by Jack Schmitt

In the crystals of the polar moon - Pablo Neruda "Leviathan" transl. by Jack Schmitt

My clear windowpane moon - Pablo Neruda "Love Song" transl. by William O'Daly

The moon caught up in the jasmine - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid

The waltz of the tranquil moon - Pablo Neruda "Night LXXX" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

A girl of paper and moon - Pablo Neruda "Nuptial Substance" translated by Donald D Walsh

By cold, by chains, by moon and tides - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney

On their entire moon of cowards - Pablo Neruda "To Miguel Hernandez, Murdered in the Prisons of Spain" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Moons of a faraway planet - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You"

Shadows of moons we don't yet know - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Naming the Heartbeats"

As the drying of the moon - Lorine Niedecker "His Carpets Flowered"

As the wave on the moon's path - Alfred Noyes "A Tale of Old Japan"

Silhouette on the face of the moon - Bruce Nugent "Shadow"

Rudolph Valentino of the moon - Frank O'Hara "To the Film Industry in Crisis"

The moon shadow grows to sun loops - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

I have died so many midnight moons - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"

Tossed the white moon upward - Mary Oliver "Nature"

In each heartbeat of the moon - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "What I Almost Say"

Filled with memory moons - Ekhmetjan Osman "Uyghur Impressions 7: Muselles Wine" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

Light your tinsel moon - Dorothy Parker "August"

The moon goes on relentless - Linda Pastan "Ash"

Emerges like the hollow moon - Robert Pinsky "Work Songs"

Here in the bright moon's presence - Po Chu'i "Pine Sounds" transl. by Burton Watson

Who says the moon has no heart? - Po Chu'i "The Traveler's Moon" transl. by Burton Watson

No help in that daytime moon - Lynn Powell "July's Proverb"

In the treasury of the moon - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Haunted Tree"

The moon's slow tapers burning - E.J. Pratt "The Dead Calm"

Bade the sterile moon to multiply - E.J. Pratt "Sea Variations"

Plant your roots when the moon is dark - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"

Silver dollars like tarnished moons - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"

Crushed the bones of the moon - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Two moons that fill my palms - Sina Queyras "Morning Song"

The amorous moon of honeycomb - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Titania"

See the moon by opening a door - Julie Quiroz "Superpowers"

To walk through the moon's sea - Jacques J. Rancourt "Mt. Diablo"

And winds make faces at the moon - Herbert Randall "Twin Lights"

The moons of unknown planets - Melissa Range "All Creation Wept"

A rancid moon beneath our legs - Roger Reeves "Black Laws"

Standing on the cold, grey moon - William Reichard "In the Evening"

The moon wheels its white shoulder - Paisley Rekdal "何日/What Day"

Shone from the liquid moon - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"

Followed three shadows against the moon - Ernest Rhys "Ballad of the Buried Sword"

At night when the moon is hidden - Grantland Rice "Ghosts of the Argonne"

The moon ablaze in every quarter - Adrienne Rich "Char"

Thrown husk of a moon - Adrienne Rich "Darklight"

With its back to the moon - Lola Ridge "Betty"

Dissolved like an old moon - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"

As moons silver the Dead Sea - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IX: Resurrection 2: John Walks in the Morning"

Nude glory of the moon - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

The frail moon worn to a silvery tissue - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

How the moon is one with the snow - Lynn Riggs "Shadow on Snow"

Where the ghost of the moon looks blue - James Whitcombe Riley "The Frog"

A shyer kind of moon - Lee Ann Roripaugh "#to my mother's dementia #kaze no denwa"

Beyond the wandering moon - Christina Rossetti "Somewhere Or Other"

Lit with lemon, thin slice of moon - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"

Throwin' horseshoes at the moon - Tom Russell "Throwin' Horseshoes at the Moon"

But only the moon remembers - Carl Sandburg "I Sang"

To conquer the insults of the moon - Carl Sandburg "Long Guns"

For a hidden and glimpsing moon - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

A slouching, foolish moon - Carl Sandburg "They Met Young"

On the horn of an Arctic moon - Carl Sandburg "Two Strangers Breakfast"

The moon a parabola to our party - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"

Spun of the floss of the moon - Clinton Scollard "A Kerry Garden"

Bare their fangs unto the moon - Robert W. Service "The Heart of the Sourdough"

And moons never stay put - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

Squinting to see into a camera's moon - Prageeta Sharma "Glacier National Park and the Elegy"

A cradle that the moon rocks - Virna Sheard "The Sea"

As ocean's moon looks on the moon in heaven - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

The moon rains out her beams - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"

The hard shadow of the moon - Matthew Shenoda "Traces"

The liquid light of silver moons - Nathaniel G. Shepherd "A Summer Reminiscence"

On the moon's right brain - Brandon Shimoda "The Desert"

One of the offices of the moon - David Shumate "Teaching a Child the Art of Confession"

A moon heavy as loss - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Is Slow to Love"

Like the sound of the moon - Marilyn Singer "First Good Snap"

And fret a moon of yellow ivory - Clark Ashton Smith "Arabesque"

Dead moons that wander - Clark Ashton Smith "The Exile"

Pours out the moon's white mercy - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hope of the Infinite"

After the frail and perished moon - Clark Ashton Smith "Love Is Not Yours, Love Is Not Mine"

The magic circle which the moon draws - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

The corroded moon a dust upon the gulfs - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"

Fleeing moons a traveller sees - Clark Ashton Smith "Strangeness"

A June's worth of moons - Danez Smith "in lieu of a poem, i'd like to say"

Irritated by the moon - Patricia Smith "Mississippi's Legs"

Beguiled by the moon's lunatic luster - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"

Eons from even our own moon - Tracy K. Smith "Sci-Fi"

Dawn moon passing ruined forts - Ssu-k'ung Shu "The Rebellion Over, I See Off a Friend Who Is Returning North" transl. by Burton Watson

White as the moon's cold hands - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

Past the green and scarlet moons - George Sterling "The Apothecary's"

No moon nor friendly stars attain - George Sterling "From the Gloom"

The lilies of the moon - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"

A rain of pearl from crumbling moons - George Sterling "White Magic"

The moon is the mother of pathos and pity - Wallace Stevens "Lunar Paraphrase"

With the sleepiness of the moon - Wallace Stevens "Madame la Fleurie"

Crown of the moon - Wallace Stevens "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle"

The sun, the moon and the imagination - Wallace Stevens "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together"

Discovered the colors of the moon - Wallace Stevens "Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It"

Here shall the wizard moon ascend - Robert Louis Stevenson "The House Beautiful"

In the delicate snow of the moon - Alfred B. Street "The Bell Owl"

The blue and silver herons of the moon - L.A.G. Strong "The Bird Man"

Six years the moon shone at mid-autumn - Su Tung-p'o "Mid-Autumn Moon" transl. by Burton Watson

Squeezing drops from many moons - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 6: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Crowned with all their moons - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 106: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

All the immortals drink from the moon - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 119: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The red moons wane to white - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"

Three hours before the moon - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"

By the midsummer moon misguided - Algernon Swinburne "Flower-Pieces: II. Love in a Mist'

Paths that the moon of memory cheers - Algernon Swinburne "Recollections"

Till the last moon droop and the last tide fail - Arthur Symons "The Crying of Water"

The peering moon went pale - Genevieve Taggard "Skull Song"

Tell my sorrows to the Moon - Abdikheyir Khelil Tawakkul "Sharing My Sorrow" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

A thousand moons will quiver - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "A Farewell"

Reflex of a winter moon - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Isabel"

Echo on echo dies to the moon - Lord Tennyson "Minnie and Winnie"

Come from the dying moon - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Sweet and Low"

The signal moon is zero in their voids - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

When only the moon rages - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"

Feeling the moon's ridges - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Becoming an Astronaut"

Leaving shore to charm the moon - Jean Toomer "Evening Song"

No moon without a sun - Edwin Torres "Bit by Bite"

Moon in chimes of five - Edwin Torres "Temporality at 5 a.m."

Fur holding the light of a whole moon - Kristen Tracy "Taming the Dog"

A blanched moon full of fear - Iris Tree "Bahama Islands I"

Crave the pale secrets of the moon - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"

Showering their crystals to the moon - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

Fits a mask of silver to the moon - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Alleys to the moon - Iris Tree "[There are songs enough of love]"

Drawn backward from the moon - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

Silver as the moon is pale - Katherine Tynan "The Riders"

Like a city of moons - Louis Untermeyer "In a Cab"

Sing strife or rising moons - Louis Untermeyer "Songs and the Poet"

Stray chunks of the undeveloped moon - John Updike "Phoenix"

Lamplight when the moon rises - Emily van Kley "Birches --for A & D VK"

Grasp of their particular moons - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal [cross symbol]

Escape a patrolling moon - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Thirteen"

An overheated moon pulling at the waters - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Tropical Depression"

Begs to be made the moon - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "The Way Back"

With scarlet moons for eyes - Derek Walcott "White Magic"

Thrown from the rolling moon - Charles William Wallace "To Fancy"

Croon to the moon asleep - Charles William Wallace "To Fancy"

Lies under the swinging moon - Helen Hay Whitney "On the White Road"

Forgets to crave the moon - Helen Hay Whitney "Youth"

A sadder light than waning moon - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Moons perched on dark spires - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"

On the seventh night of the seventh moon - John Wieners "For Huncke"

To touch fingers with the moon - William Carlos Williams "Pastoral"

By the force of the moon - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"

Wanderer moon smiling - William Carlos Williams "Summer Song"

How motionless the eaten moon - William Carlos Williams "To a Solitary Disciple"

The jasmine lightness of the moon - William Carlos Williams "To a Solitary Disciple"

My eyes are the backs of moons - Keith S. Wilson "Impression of a Rib"

Fourteen faithful moons to call your own - Allan Wolf "The Moons of Neptune: Roses Are Red, Neptune is Blue"

Fickle lover of a fickle moon - Adolf Wolff "Byron"

Making blind moons of all your eyes - Elinor Wylie "Escape"

Made of the moon - Elinor Wylie "Silver Filigree"

From the moon's brink - Elinor Wylie "Sunset on the Spire"

Pure moon of the doorway - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]

Each step from the moon - Yanyi "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"

The crumbling of the moon - William Butler Yeats "The Phases of the Moon"

Across the earless face of the moon - Jane Yolen "Bird Watcher"

Scarecrow punting at the moon - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

But the moon sings their music - Lisa Zimmerman "Lake at Night"


Full Moon.


The glasscut-moon healing into midday sky - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"


Our honeymoon hangs in the sky - Eleanor Farjeon "From an Old Garden"

With honeymoons in their bloodstreams - Andrea Gibson "Living Proof"


Assembled in mad-moon crowd - Louis Golding "Gallop"


Moon and Sun/Sun and Moon.


Her moon-candle burns till dawn - Frederick George Scott "In the Woods"


a shiny silver moon-coin to play - Evie Shockley "black love"


Only to return moondrunk, bramble-laden - Taylor Johnson "Nocturne"


On a night of moon-enchanted tides - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

Like a moon-enchanted boy - Louis Golding "Still Life in France"


Irradiated with citrine moonglow - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"


Petals of moon-kissed roses - Joyce Kilmer "Slender Your Hands"


On moonless eves to weep - Charles Baudelaire "Mist and Rain" transl. not credited

In the moonless octave below midnight - Lynn Powell "Kind of Blue"

Some night with its moonless weather - Grantland Rice "Ghosts of the Argonne"


A room inside an icy moonlet - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"


These moonmad swans and ecstatic ganders - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"


Moon-paint on a colorless house - Maxwell Bodenheim "Gifts"


Herons wearing the moonrise like lace - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"

Wearing the moonrise - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"


A mesh of moonrock's lapis soup - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"


Cynical, moon-scarred and old - Louis Untermeyer "Summer Night--Broadway"


Moonstone.


A little psalm in the moon-struck snow - Andres Cerpa "The Vault"


High and moon-suspended fountains - Clark Ashton Smith "Artemis"


[In moon-swallowed shadows - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"]


A monument of moon-white stone - Tracy K. Smith "Everybody's Autobiography"


Of moon-wrought marvel and of mystery - Clinton Scollard "Summer by the Sea"


New Moon.


The Queen-Moon is on her throne - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"


Sliver-moons seen between the waves - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 99: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley


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