Potential Titles: Measure
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somethingdarkerWherever we point on a map of the measurable universe - Joshua Bennett "Reparation"
Sunlight takes no measure of what is - Chris Abani "Flay"
measure your pace, keep time with quiet hands - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"
Measures the opposite of time - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"
A measured phrase of bells - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"
Yielding gratefullest repose to their consorted measure - Mark Akenside "Hymn to the Naiads. 1746"
Pours out a measure at the guest's command - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
Soon to measure back the ebon distances - Wm. Alexander "Sonnet--The Comet" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.4, Oct. 1852]
Measuring the earth's door - Threa Almontaser "Heritage Emissary"
Measure the miles with pebbles - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"
How many generations still left to measure? - T.J. Anderson III "Ancestors Are Calling"
That give us neither quarter nor measure - T.J. Anderson III "Pollinator"
Until by measured compass I can meet the place I started - Louis K. Anspacher "My Psalm of Life" [The Menorah Journal, v.1, 1915]
Of pearls two measures--of gold but three - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XLVIII: The Sultaness" transl. by Sir John Bowring
In measures of solitude - Cynthia Arrieu-King "Poem"
the latitude is measured out of grief - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
Measured by his steady midnight breathing - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Measuring an immense span of glass - Mary Jo Bang "The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans"
Measuring in lofty thought the march of Time - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
as the sky measures breath - Elizabeth Bartlett "the lovers"
to heights out of time and measure - Elizabeth Bartlett "while I live"
A rhythmic measure's mellow flow - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"
Like this my blood measures its flowing - Charles Baudelaire "The Fountain of Blood" transl. by Rachel Hadas
The measured trample of Liberty's horses - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"
Luxury can be measured in seconds - Marina Berlin "Survival in Six Easy Steps" [Strange Horizons 20 Aug. 2018]
Forceful measures in a narrow place - Craven Langstroth Betts "Pope"
But measure not the things denied - Ambrose Bierce "The Transmigrations of a Soul"
My heart no measure knows - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "Song"
Measures out the earth in lines of life - Gordon Bottomley "The Ploughman"
The woodland minstrels sing changes of measure - Caris Brooke "[Girdled with gold my little lady's bower]"
Holding on for some measures longer than expected - Jenny Browne "Late Fermata"
Measure out the distances from good - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Bent with duty's measured pull - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"
Looking out on the blank grey measure of another year - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
The measures trod by the angels - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Wander-Lovers"
Move to the quick measure of the hours - Walter Richard Cassels "Spring"
To measure the sky - Jennifer Chang "About Trees"
Exceptional measures are required - M.C. Childs "The Admiral Pub Pinball Repairman Repairs Witch Mountain" [Strange Horizons 19 May 2025]
Charms many praise beyond all measure - "The Chosen One" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no.377, June 27, 1829, credited London Magazine]
How to fill my onyx body with slick measures - Tiana Clark "Bear Witness"
Evolved or constructed some measure of your situation - Chris Clemens "A Distressing Absence of Eyes" [Strange Horizons 4 Aug. 2025]
With the measures of a bitter song - Leonard Cohen "I Draw Aside the Curtain"
A meditative measure of wind and rain - CAConrad "(Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread"
Poison in the water's measure - Flower Conroy "Frog"
Measured out the fleeting sands of life - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Of mighty measures and sublime - James H. Cousins "To Algernon Charles Swinburne"
Of both the might and measure - "Crown Jewels" [The Catholic World v.XX Oct. 1874 to Mar. 1875]
That mercurial measure of contact - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Harmony (I)"
Coax a measured flood - Imani Davis "Kink"
Swallowed by the gulf no plummet measures - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
Measure and inexplicable substance - Monica de la Torre "Divagar"
The only true measure of the grid - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"
The noise and measured beat of marching men - Geoffrey Dearmer "Reality"
Measure nuances in the sky - Diane DeCillis "When You Cannot Sleep"
The tenants of Air were enraged beyond measure - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset "The Peacock 'At Home' by a Lady"
Measured out my life with coffee spoons - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Measures the heavens and outlines the earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 42. E-Zagin, the Temple of Nisaba in Eresh" transl. by Sophus Helle
Measure the miles in vines - Heid E. Erdich "Red Vines: Lines for Deloria"
Low-breathed music's echoed measure - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Owned wealth in a measure supreme - Eleanor Farjeon "The Unspoken Word"
The score of a life you did not measure - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"
At measured stages for the meet relays - Edward Edwin Foot "Jane Hollybrand; of Virtue Rewarded"
As measured against maple, birch, and oak - Robert Frost "The Onset"
Measured not nor priced - Ellen Glasgow "A Creed"
Cash is the measure of the heart - S.G. Goodrich "Farewell to a Fashionable Acquaintance"
In measured rhythm the planets whirl their course - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Poetry [I had rather write one word upon the rock]"
Tread a measure against bright candles - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"
My breath measuring length - Leah Naomi Green "Week Five: Measure"
Trooping down dim flights of measured air - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"
Dim flights of measured air - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"
Weaving without stint or measure - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
A way to measure out the wind - Robert Herrick "God Unsearchable"
Of happiness measured against all the dark - Jane Hirshfield "The Weighing"
Poured out its measured tides - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
A measured fall upon the iron ground - Violet Jacob "New Year's Eve"
Measures of oil for others - Emily Pauline Johnson "In Grey Days"
Who measures desire by stillness - Jenny Johnson "Pedal"
Measures dawn by absence of desire - Karan Kapoor "Time Is a Motherfucker"
The path you now measure - Fanny Kemble "An Apology"
In glad unstinted measure - Jan Kochanowski "Laments VI" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall
Only a measure of shadow - Ted Kooser "A Box of Pastels"
New minerals and precisely measured constants - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"
Splintering by measured denials - Philip Lamantia "Untitled [To see this evil from its core]"
Measured roar and iron ring - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"
Measure the dust in his palm - Archibald Lampman "One Day"
Measure my strength against her strength - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]
Measure my single grain of grief - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"
Measured in minute particles of moisture - Yoon Ha Lee "When Soft the Water Fell"
Measure time using my growing hurt of loneliness - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
I measure my departure - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"
Measure chance against truth - Herbert Woodward Martin "Five Finger Exercise"
Marketing grace with merchant's measure - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
Her speed as measured by the scale of space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 13" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Set to measure out the time in seconds - Harry Martinson "Aniara 67" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Once mocked for their tears beyond measure - Harry Martinson "Aniara 81" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Fastened by the measure of limitation - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"
Were measured but in inches - John McCrae "The Unconquered Dead"
Like a light innocent of measure - W.S. Merwin "Note"
While she measures the leagues of dark - Alice Meynell "The Divine Privilege"
Archimedes still holds his measured home - Joaquin Miller "As It Is Written"
Fling down that map and measure - Joaquin Miller "Usland to the Boers"
Who keep the spun and measured threads of life - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Sonnet to Nemesis, Goddess of Remorse"
Thus I would measure my strength - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Two Monologues II: His Rival Speaks"
The measure of the heart's broken pulse - N. Scott Momaday "Remembering Milosz and Esse"
Sound the cosmic depths for the measure of glory - William Moore "Dusk Song"
Measuring what my exoskeleton withstands - Rusty Morrison "Measurement Fable"
Can neither watch nor measure you - Pablo Neruda "Amazon" transl. by Jack Schmitt
A honey that measured the earth - Pablo Neruda "To Miguel Hernandez, Murdered in the Prisons of Spain" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Joy's full measure knew - Meredith Nicholson "My Paddle Gleamed"
doing the magic of measuring - Anton Nimblett "Balance"
A life measured by sighs - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"
Is linked in mystic measure - Thomas O'Hagan "The Song My Mother Sings"
Measure the force of the blow - Sharon Olds "Not Once"
Has no final measure - Mary Oliver "There you were, and it was like spring"
That with uncommon measure echo forth - Kostes Palamas "The Beginning" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
What power measures the measureless - Kostes Palamas "A Talk with the Flowers" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Measure in his broken strength - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Measuring the crinolines of leaves - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"
Till I lost all measure of good or ill - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
They measure it by their orbits - Jessy Randall "Cassini's Mini-Packets Home"
Where the long wave breaks in measured time - Robert Reid "Poesie"
Time was not its measure - Alberto Rios "Faithful Forest"
By many a doom-resounding measure - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
Dip contempt's broad ladle for a measure - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"
The way the wind measures the weather - Carl Sandburg "How Much?"
Measure your pulse by their dying breaths - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"
Leashed with a measure of anchor rope - Diane Seuss "Jesus, with his cup"
Thus far the miles are measured - William Shakespeare "Sonnet L"
All measures of delightful sound - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
Their seamless smiles, their measured words - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Less than the measure of desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Measuring the crescendo of the brasses - Jean M. Snyder "Rhythm"
Measure by parallelogram construction - "Song of the Screw"
The sun that measures heaven all day long - Spenser "Rest" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Measured wisdom of wide symphonies - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"
Who measures each chime, in its rapt contemplation? - Albert E. Stembridge "Serenade" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.18-v.I, 3 May 1884]
Never to measure its full depth - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 71: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
A measure of faith travels the distance between - Avia Tadmor "Nothing Promised"
Measured but steady drifting under pink, penumbral light - Avia Tadmor "Nothing Promised"
Measured by an eye that's hidden above - Keith Taylor "Landscape of Fear"
For the measured dawns - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"
Dancing with a measured step from wrecked and shattered towns - Edward Wyndham Tennant "Home Thoughts in Laventie"
Nearly equal measures of hope - Matthew Thorburn "Forgotten Until You Find It"
Swallows his lies without measure - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"
With finer threads the verses' measure spin - Joseph Victor von Scheffel "The Trumpeter of Säkkingen: Preface to the Second Edition" transl. by Rebecca Brünnow
An ultramarathon whose prize is some measure of autonomy - Izzy Wasserstein "Come Back Wrong" [Strange Horizons 5 May 2025]
Cadence, measure, rest, inflection - Adolf Wolff "Immortality"
Their thoughts I cannot measure - William Wordsworth "Lines Written in Early Spring"
To the adequate measure of night - Jay Wright "Kumu"
That measures its life in olive groves - Jay Wright "Somewhere between here and Belen"
To measure your life in debts - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season"
The blinded measuring snake a Moebius strip - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Light enough to ride the East's measured breaths - Sophia Zhao "An Inheritance of Air; or, You Are Cordially Invited to Attend My Presentation on Genealogy" [Strange Horizons 9 Mar. 2026]
Gliding in close-measured rhythm - Lady Lindsay "From a Venetian Balcony" [The Charm of Venice, 1908, ed. by Alfred H. Hyatt]
Immeasurable.
Measureless.
Uncertain measurement of time - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"
Unmeasured.
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Sunlight takes no measure of what is - Chris Abani "Flay"
measure your pace, keep time with quiet hands - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"
Measures the opposite of time - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"
A measured phrase of bells - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"
Yielding gratefullest repose to their consorted measure - Mark Akenside "Hymn to the Naiads. 1746"
Pours out a measure at the guest's command - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
Soon to measure back the ebon distances - Wm. Alexander "Sonnet--The Comet" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.4, Oct. 1852]
Measuring the earth's door - Threa Almontaser "Heritage Emissary"
Measure the miles with pebbles - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"
How many generations still left to measure? - T.J. Anderson III "Ancestors Are Calling"
That give us neither quarter nor measure - T.J. Anderson III "Pollinator"
Until by measured compass I can meet the place I started - Louis K. Anspacher "My Psalm of Life" [The Menorah Journal, v.1, 1915]
Of pearls two measures--of gold but three - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XLVIII: The Sultaness" transl. by Sir John Bowring
In measures of solitude - Cynthia Arrieu-King "Poem"
the latitude is measured out of grief - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
Measured by his steady midnight breathing - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Measuring an immense span of glass - Mary Jo Bang "The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans"
Measuring in lofty thought the march of Time - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
as the sky measures breath - Elizabeth Bartlett "the lovers"
to heights out of time and measure - Elizabeth Bartlett "while I live"
A rhythmic measure's mellow flow - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"
Like this my blood measures its flowing - Charles Baudelaire "The Fountain of Blood" transl. by Rachel Hadas
The measured trample of Liberty's horses - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"
Luxury can be measured in seconds - Marina Berlin "Survival in Six Easy Steps" [Strange Horizons 20 Aug. 2018]
Forceful measures in a narrow place - Craven Langstroth Betts "Pope"
But measure not the things denied - Ambrose Bierce "The Transmigrations of a Soul"
My heart no measure knows - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt "Song"
Measures out the earth in lines of life - Gordon Bottomley "The Ploughman"
The woodland minstrels sing changes of measure - Caris Brooke "[Girdled with gold my little lady's bower]"
Holding on for some measures longer than expected - Jenny Browne "Late Fermata"
Measure out the distances from good - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"
Bent with duty's measured pull - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"
Looking out on the blank grey measure of another year - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
The measures trod by the angels - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Wander-Lovers"
Move to the quick measure of the hours - Walter Richard Cassels "Spring"
To measure the sky - Jennifer Chang "About Trees"
Exceptional measures are required - M.C. Childs "The Admiral Pub Pinball Repairman Repairs Witch Mountain" [Strange Horizons 19 May 2025]
Charms many praise beyond all measure - "The Chosen One" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no.377, June 27, 1829, credited London Magazine]
How to fill my onyx body with slick measures - Tiana Clark "Bear Witness"
Evolved or constructed some measure of your situation - Chris Clemens "A Distressing Absence of Eyes" [Strange Horizons 4 Aug. 2025]
With the measures of a bitter song - Leonard Cohen "I Draw Aside the Curtain"
A meditative measure of wind and rain - CAConrad "(Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread"
Poison in the water's measure - Flower Conroy "Frog"
Measured out the fleeting sands of life - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Of mighty measures and sublime - James H. Cousins "To Algernon Charles Swinburne"
Of both the might and measure - "Crown Jewels" [The Catholic World v.XX Oct. 1874 to Mar. 1875]
That mercurial measure of contact - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Harmony (I)"
Coax a measured flood - Imani Davis "Kink"
Swallowed by the gulf no plummet measures - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
Measure and inexplicable substance - Monica de la Torre "Divagar"
The only true measure of the grid - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"
The noise and measured beat of marching men - Geoffrey Dearmer "Reality"
Measure nuances in the sky - Diane DeCillis "When You Cannot Sleep"
The tenants of Air were enraged beyond measure - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset "The Peacock 'At Home' by a Lady"
Measured out my life with coffee spoons - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Measures the heavens and outlines the earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 42. E-Zagin, the Temple of Nisaba in Eresh" transl. by Sophus Helle
Measure the miles in vines - Heid E. Erdich "Red Vines: Lines for Deloria"
Low-breathed music's echoed measure - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Owned wealth in a measure supreme - Eleanor Farjeon "The Unspoken Word"
The score of a life you did not measure - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"
At measured stages for the meet relays - Edward Edwin Foot "Jane Hollybrand; of Virtue Rewarded"
As measured against maple, birch, and oak - Robert Frost "The Onset"
Measured not nor priced - Ellen Glasgow "A Creed"
Cash is the measure of the heart - S.G. Goodrich "Farewell to a Fashionable Acquaintance"
In measured rhythm the planets whirl their course - Hanford Lennox Gordon "Poetry [I had rather write one word upon the rock]"
Tread a measure against bright candles - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"
My breath measuring length - Leah Naomi Green "Week Five: Measure"
Trooping down dim flights of measured air - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"
Dim flights of measured air - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"
Weaving without stint or measure - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
A way to measure out the wind - Robert Herrick "God Unsearchable"
Of happiness measured against all the dark - Jane Hirshfield "The Weighing"
Poured out its measured tides - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
A measured fall upon the iron ground - Violet Jacob "New Year's Eve"
Measures of oil for others - Emily Pauline Johnson "In Grey Days"
Who measures desire by stillness - Jenny Johnson "Pedal"
Measures dawn by absence of desire - Karan Kapoor "Time Is a Motherfucker"
The path you now measure - Fanny Kemble "An Apology"
In glad unstinted measure - Jan Kochanowski "Laments VI" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall
Only a measure of shadow - Ted Kooser "A Box of Pastels"
New minerals and precisely measured constants - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"
Splintering by measured denials - Philip Lamantia "Untitled [To see this evil from its core]"
Measured roar and iron ring - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"
Measure the dust in his palm - Archibald Lampman "One Day"
Measure my strength against her strength - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]
Measure my single grain of grief - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"
Measured in minute particles of moisture - Yoon Ha Lee "When Soft the Water Fell"
Measure time using my growing hurt of loneliness - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"
I measure my departure - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"
Measure chance against truth - Herbert Woodward Martin "Five Finger Exercise"
Marketing grace with merchant's measure - "Martin Luther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
Her speed as measured by the scale of space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 13" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Set to measure out the time in seconds - Harry Martinson "Aniara 67" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Once mocked for their tears beyond measure - Harry Martinson "Aniara 81" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Fastened by the measure of limitation - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"
Were measured but in inches - John McCrae "The Unconquered Dead"
Like a light innocent of measure - W.S. Merwin "Note"
While she measures the leagues of dark - Alice Meynell "The Divine Privilege"
Archimedes still holds his measured home - Joaquin Miller "As It Is Written"
Fling down that map and measure - Joaquin Miller "Usland to the Boers"
Who keep the spun and measured threads of life - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Sonnet to Nemesis, Goddess of Remorse"
Thus I would measure my strength - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Two Monologues II: His Rival Speaks"
The measure of the heart's broken pulse - N. Scott Momaday "Remembering Milosz and Esse"
Sound the cosmic depths for the measure of glory - William Moore "Dusk Song"
Measuring what my exoskeleton withstands - Rusty Morrison "Measurement Fable"
Can neither watch nor measure you - Pablo Neruda "Amazon" transl. by Jack Schmitt
A honey that measured the earth - Pablo Neruda "To Miguel Hernandez, Murdered in the Prisons of Spain" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Joy's full measure knew - Meredith Nicholson "My Paddle Gleamed"
doing the magic of measuring - Anton Nimblett "Balance"
A life measured by sighs - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"
Is linked in mystic measure - Thomas O'Hagan "The Song My Mother Sings"
Measure the force of the blow - Sharon Olds "Not Once"
Has no final measure - Mary Oliver "There you were, and it was like spring"
That with uncommon measure echo forth - Kostes Palamas "The Beginning" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
What power measures the measureless - Kostes Palamas "A Talk with the Flowers" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Measure in his broken strength - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Measuring the crinolines of leaves - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"
Till I lost all measure of good or ill - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
They measure it by their orbits - Jessy Randall "Cassini's Mini-Packets Home"
Where the long wave breaks in measured time - Robert Reid "Poesie"
Time was not its measure - Alberto Rios "Faithful Forest"
By many a doom-resounding measure - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
Dip contempt's broad ladle for a measure - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"
The way the wind measures the weather - Carl Sandburg "How Much?"
Measure your pulse by their dying breaths - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"
Leashed with a measure of anchor rope - Diane Seuss "Jesus, with his cup"
Thus far the miles are measured - William Shakespeare "Sonnet L"
All measures of delightful sound - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to a Skylark"
Their seamless smiles, their measured words - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Less than the measure of desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Measuring the crescendo of the brasses - Jean M. Snyder "Rhythm"
Measure by parallelogram construction - "Song of the Screw"
The sun that measures heaven all day long - Spenser "Rest" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Measured wisdom of wide symphonies - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"
Who measures each chime, in its rapt contemplation? - Albert E. Stembridge "Serenade" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.18-v.I, 3 May 1884]
Never to measure its full depth - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 71: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
A measure of faith travels the distance between - Avia Tadmor "Nothing Promised"
Measured but steady drifting under pink, penumbral light - Avia Tadmor "Nothing Promised"
Measured by an eye that's hidden above - Keith Taylor "Landscape of Fear"
For the measured dawns - Sara Teasdale "Vignettes Overseas"
Dancing with a measured step from wrecked and shattered towns - Edward Wyndham Tennant "Home Thoughts in Laventie"
Nearly equal measures of hope - Matthew Thorburn "Forgotten Until You Find It"
Swallows his lies without measure - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"
With finer threads the verses' measure spin - Joseph Victor von Scheffel "The Trumpeter of Säkkingen: Preface to the Second Edition" transl. by Rebecca Brünnow
An ultramarathon whose prize is some measure of autonomy - Izzy Wasserstein "Come Back Wrong" [Strange Horizons 5 May 2025]
Cadence, measure, rest, inflection - Adolf Wolff "Immortality"
Their thoughts I cannot measure - William Wordsworth "Lines Written in Early Spring"
To the adequate measure of night - Jay Wright "Kumu"
That measures its life in olive groves - Jay Wright "Somewhere between here and Belen"
To measure your life in debts - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season"
The blinded measuring snake a Moebius strip - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Light enough to ride the East's measured breaths - Sophia Zhao "An Inheritance of Air; or, You Are Cordially Invited to Attend My Presentation on Genealogy" [Strange Horizons 9 Mar. 2026]
Gliding in close-measured rhythm - Lady Lindsay "From a Venetian Balcony" [The Charm of Venice, 1908, ed. by Alfred H. Hyatt]
Immeasurable.
Measureless.
Uncertain measurement of time - Caris Brooke "Resurgam"
Unmeasured.
Navigation Links:
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Go to word indices.
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