Potential Titles: Mountain
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somethingdarkerMountains are a language - Etel Adnan "Night"
Floating mountains dreaming - Francisco X. Alarcon "Clouds"
Tender breath of mountains - Francisco X. Alarcon "Mountain Mist"
The mighty mountains become music - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"
In the mountain's adamantine heart - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "In Westminster Abbey"
On a mountain of sand - Meena Alexander "Stone Oven"
Baseless mountain of sand - Alise Alousi "Password"
Where torrid suns the mountains burn - Lennox Amott "Ah, Hast Thou Gone?"
Who this universe of mountains hurled - William Anderson "The Alpine Horn"
From the brow of old mountain crests - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"
Better dwell with youth upon the mountains - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXX: Youth and Age" transl. by Sir John Bowring
I am so many mountains - Atticus "Magic in Words"
The anguish of stones and mountains - Chimengul Awut (Chimenqush) "Cry, Wind" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
As the mountains glaze the sun - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"
Deep in the silt of a mythic mountain - Mary Jo Bang "I Could Have Been Better"
Leopards masking the faces of mountains - Mary Jo Bang "Etched, Tetched, Touched"
Where a line turned into a mountain - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"
Repair the mountain again - Mary Jo Bang "The Oracle"
The horn that shook the mountain tall - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"
Shaped the color and sound of mountains - Elizabeth Bartlett "Even if We Did"
to mountain height of sky - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"
Made rivers part and mountains cry - Elizabeth Bartlett "Reflected in Brass"
When distant mountains bend - Elizabeth Bartlett "Time Will Tell"
Mist snakes the mountains - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
Fling to them mountains to overcome - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
Lost in colossal stone, my newer mountains - William Rose Benét "The City"
On some neighbouring mountain's brow - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"
Fawn as white as mountain snow - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"
Held invisible mountains - Robert Bly "A Dream of the Blacksmith's Room"
A mountain emancipated by humour - Maxwell Bodenheim "Fantasy"
Daunting mountains and bitterroots - Jaswinder Bolina "Sunday, Sunday"
Thick oaks grow on the mountain - "The Book of Odes: No.132. Swift Is That Falcon" transl. by Burton Watson
Thick cherries on the mountain - "The Book of Odes: No.132. Swift Is That Falcon" transl. by Burton Watson
Upon a mountain stirring a surmise of floods - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
Step from the star to the mountain - Thomas Boyd "Love on the Mountain"
The dark rain veil making a bride of the mountain - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"
Mountains circling every side - Emily Bronte "I [A little while, a little while]"
Warmth within the mountain's breast - Stopford A. Brooks "The Spring of Love"
Fresher than a mountain stream - Stopford A. Brooks "The Spring of Love"
To mine a deep mountain of truth - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"
The lofty mountains of the sky - Bliss Carman "A Mountain Gateway"
To mountains of surprise - George Spencer Cautley "Sunset on Campagna of Rome"
Down from your mountains of emerald and gold - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
born in the mountains of the moon - Lucille Clifton "shadows"
Gave my heart to a mountain - Leonard Cohen "No One After You"
Playmates of the mountain-storm - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"
Spells from buried mountain oracles - Arthur Colton "Verses from 'The Canticle of the Road'"
Once I saw Mountains angry, and ranged in battle-front - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Mountain ranges and great rifts that break the land - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
Feel the mountains grow - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"
Riding the mountain down into the silver dawn - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"
Four tall stags at a green mountain - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"
The height of a great mountain forested with night - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
Mountain voices calling vibrate there - Rubén Darío "Nightfall in the Tropics" Thomas Walsh
Your voice reaching back to the mountains - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"
Climbed the mountain of fear - Jose Hernandez Diaz "The Mountain Man"
Rest your cheek on the shoulder of the mountain - Chris Dombrowski "Tablet"
White as the snow on pathless mountains - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
A mountain in its motion - Max Eastman "Sea-Shore"
Thunder of spring over distant mountains - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"
Shrouds the mountains and silences the roads - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
The mountain's twisted ribs - Anthony Euwer "Nature's Totems"
The night is fractured with mountains - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"
Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
Echoes in the mountains of your lamentations - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
I remember an ancient sea and mountains older - Robin Flower "The Pipes"
The mountain's time-cut teeth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"
Scaling the mountain's time-cut teeth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"
Call down moose from the mountain - Carolyn Forche "Calling Down the Moose"
Daisies spangled the mountain's crest - Arthur M. Forrester "The Red-Heart Daisy"
The mountains bread and honey - Colin Francis "Tony O"
Hid the sun and moon inside a mountain - Carol Frost "Song of the City at Night"
Where the mountain waters play - Alfred C. Gellis "To the Wenem Mame River"
What melody rolls over mountains and water? - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Intolerant mountains of iron and ice - Louis Golding "The Quest"
The dyes of your mountain and lake - Alfred Perceval Graves "Lough Leane"
Over the mountain and over the tide - "Great Heart" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]
Though the silent mountains should defy me - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"
How bright upon the mountain - Robert Hayden "On Lookout Mountain"
Climb the wild mountain's airy brow - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "Hymn of Nature"
Mountains kneel to drink - Conrad Hilberry "Four Kentucky Poems: Rust"
The mountaintop of experience - Edward Hirsch "Marina Tsvetaeva"
The song of mountains, moths and men - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
The mountain matted with Sisyphus' sweat - Carlie Hoffman "Panorama After Foreclosure"
Touched the hem of the dark mountain's robe - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Watch the light forget the mountains - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"
A mountain of sugar-candy - Arno Holz "Phantasus" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky
When the mountain peach unfurls its crimson petals - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Replying to a Poem from My Cousin Hui-lien" transl. by Burton Watson
Grey ghost in the mountain - Aldous Huxley "By the Fire"
Where mountains throw their silent spell - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"
This chaff a mountain crested with fire - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
Not for joy the worn mountain stands - Robinson Jeffers "Joy"
The mountain's peak like a blade above - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"
Weave a whole roof to the mountain - Kakuhaku "Sennin Poem" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)
The gleamings of his mountain brass - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Even the mountain tops are crushed - Mahmud Kashgari "Alp Er Tunga" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken
When your spirit has crushed mountains - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
Sleeping woods and sheltering mountains - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"
The mountains with their tangled hair - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"
Anthems from the thunder's mountain throne - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"
that strips mountain and bullet - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Forms of Range and Loathing"
The mountains unmake them in their sleep - D.H. Lawrence "Men in New Mexico"
Relayed the new gospels across mountains - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"
The mountains have no word for ocean - Philip Levine "Our Valley"
To receive the black gifts of a mountain road - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
And wisdom's mountain scale - Vachel Lindsay "The Comet of Prophecy"
Mountains singing in all directions - Manny Loley "Let There Be"
Uprooted is our mountain oak - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
Mountains multiply, streams double back - Lu Yu "A Trip to a Mountain West Village" transl. by Burton Watson
Mountains and seas vast between us - Lu Yun "For Ku Yen-hsien, a Poem for Him to Give to His Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
Spreads its pulsing web between the mountains - Mario Luzi "Las Animas" transl. by Dana Gioia
Starlit camps on the mountain - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Quest of Youth"
On the blast of the mountain, come - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: II"
Trying to capture mountains of somewhere - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"
the word finding refuge in the mountain - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"
the mountain, the mouth, the memory - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"
The mountain diademed with stars - Douglas Malloch "To a Caged Bird"
A mountain peak with its one gold star - Jeannette Marks "Last Dawn"
In age I knew the mountains - Edgar Lee Masters "Alexander Throckmorton"
Descending the slopes of every mountain - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
The mountains tattooed with asphalt - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Mist crawling toward violet mountains - Colleen J. McElroy "Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You"
Climbing the glass mountain to save her brothers - Mary McMyne "The Mother Searches for Her Own Story"
In the endless dream of the mountains - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"
The anger etched into the undulating mountains - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
Armed to split a mountain - George Meredith "King Harald's Trance"
To inhale the mountain's bodily dark - Sara S. Messenger "Ampersand"
Mountains made from valleys - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"
When I am no mountain - Anis Mojgani "Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget"
Mountains rising black from the underworld - N. Scott Momaday "The First Day"
Air above mountains, buildings in our hands - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"
When the crowded mountains had been subdued - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
The Five Mountains drumming and dancing - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
The heart is a quiet mountain - Vi Khi Nao "How Can Something So Unmoving Move Everything Around It"
Forty rainy suns over the mountains - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The silence of these mountain coffers - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Like an avenging mountain - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1936)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Falls on metallic mountains - Pablo Neruda "Night" transl. by Alastair Reid
Horses and runaway mountains - Pablo Neruda "Superstitions" transl. by Alastair Reid
Flew around the mountains of sorrow - Pablo Neruda "Time that Wasn't Lost" transl. by William O'Daly
The hard mountains walked with time - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
In the naked mountain's compass - Pablo Neruda "Winter in the South, on Horseback" transl. by Jack Schmitt
On the mountain's frowning brow - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
Each tree a forest, each rock a mountain - Jacqueline Osherow "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets"
Call to the seas and mountains - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Meditations"
On mountain crest reposed the Ark - M.P. "The Mountain" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]
Strange mountain in late bloom - Kiki Petrosino "The Shop at Monticello"
Olives on the mountain's crest - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Sunday in Liguria"
The mountains are closing their eyes - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"
Over the Silver Mountains - Sir Walter Raleigh "Pilgrimage"
Mountains turned hazard-orange mid-air - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
Quiescent as at the roots of mountains - Lola Ridge "Circuit"
On the drawn knees of the mountain - Lola Ridge "The Edge"
Bone and sinew dragging mountains down - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
Blazoning his face above the mountains - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
In endless reverberations under the mountain - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"
Fly to the mountains for one safe bough - Lola Ridge "Reveille"
Running along the roots of the mountains - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
His feet upon the mountain and his shadow on the pass - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"
Fury on the mountains - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The meaning of a mountain of masks - Lauren Russell "Exposition"
All of the tongues of the mountain - Clinton Scollard "The Hunter"
Pluck up mountains by the roots - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"
Lordly mountains soar in scorn - Robert W. Service "The Land God Forgot"
Where the mountains are nameless - Robert W. Service "The Spell of the Yukon"
Mountains of oyster shells gleaming silver - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"
Bring the mountain into your lips - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"
Though mounted on the wind - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LI"
And breathed upon the frozen mountains - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
A walk along the edge of our mountain - Michael Simms "Sometimes I Wake Early"
A mountain's utmost eminence of snow - Clark Ashton Smith "The Last Night"
Fluctuates between the mountains and the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Climb a seven-story mountain - Richard Solomon "Orpheus at Fifty"
Awake the mountain echo in her cell - William Somerville "The Chase"
The mountains and the ravines of the soul - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger
Because of mountains in my heart - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"
A savor of marjoram and mountain thyme - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"
Once mirror to the mountain - George Sterling "The First Born"
In that ruined mountain city - Gerald Stern "The Hammer"
Deer walk upon our mountains - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
The black mountain eagle drinking the sun - Alfred B. Street "At Rest"
Of foes who lift great mountains - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 107: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
An immovable mountain of error - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 212: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Mountains and rivers know no season of change - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
When the mountain is swathed in flame - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Whose song might move even the mountains - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Mountains and rivers and crimson sunbirds - Keith Taylor "Picasso and the Taj Mahal"
Black smoke looming like dark mountains - Keith Taylor "Prairie Fire"
Sheep on the mountains of sleep - Edward Thomas "Roads"
Ask the mountain - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Manifest"
Like a mountain which forgets - Too-qua-stee "Dignity"
And nursed the seas and mountains - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"
Making her a mountain of smoke - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"
Mountained islands jutting up - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Viewing the Ocean" transl. by Burton Watson
Mountain fruits served for rations - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson
And the mountains howl like wolves - Perhat Tursun "The Tarim River" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The mountains were five times as wide - Edward van de Vendel "Grandma Knitting"
The mountain has grown weary of its stone - Mark Van Doren "High Meadows"
Who carry dreams over mountains - Ocean Vuong "Headfirst"
The winds enfold the mountains - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
Mountains pillaring the perfect sky - William Watson "The Glimpse"
As the stag leaps down the mountain - Arthur Weir "Fleurs de Lys: The Captured Flag"
The strength that mountains need - Nancy Wood "Sacred Love: A Ritual"
The doors to the mountain remain shut - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie V"
Four or five mountains gone rust in twilight - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie VI"
The mountains of the past berate me - Charles Wright "Remember Me When the Candlelight Is Gleaming"
The ancients had their mountains of sorrow - Yang Wan-li "Relaxing in the Evening in My Study, the Wo-chi-chai" transl. by Burton Watson
The mountain of art and philosophy - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Clouds turn into mountains - Jordan Zandi "Riddle"
Mountain-firm vows go on forever - Lu Yu "[Pink tender hand]" transl. by Burton Watson
Archives so vast they fill mountainsides - Kinsale Drake "(Re)location"
Up the mountain-sides of thought - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"
Built a huge ball of masonry upon a mountain-top - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Submerging mountaintops in stormwater - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
The mountain-tops, where once Hope stood - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"
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Floating mountains dreaming - Francisco X. Alarcon "Clouds"
Tender breath of mountains - Francisco X. Alarcon "Mountain Mist"
The mighty mountains become music - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"
In the mountain's adamantine heart - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "In Westminster Abbey"
On a mountain of sand - Meena Alexander "Stone Oven"
Baseless mountain of sand - Alise Alousi "Password"
Where torrid suns the mountains burn - Lennox Amott "Ah, Hast Thou Gone?"
Who this universe of mountains hurled - William Anderson "The Alpine Horn"
From the brow of old mountain crests - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"
Better dwell with youth upon the mountains - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXXX: Youth and Age" transl. by Sir John Bowring
I am so many mountains - Atticus "Magic in Words"
The anguish of stones and mountains - Chimengul Awut (Chimenqush) "Cry, Wind" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
As the mountains glaze the sun - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"
Deep in the silt of a mythic mountain - Mary Jo Bang "I Could Have Been Better"
Leopards masking the faces of mountains - Mary Jo Bang "Etched, Tetched, Touched"
Where a line turned into a mountain - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"
Repair the mountain again - Mary Jo Bang "The Oracle"
The horn that shook the mountain tall - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"
Shaped the color and sound of mountains - Elizabeth Bartlett "Even if We Did"
to mountain height of sky - Elizabeth Bartlett "in the wake of sleep"
Made rivers part and mountains cry - Elizabeth Bartlett "Reflected in Brass"
When distant mountains bend - Elizabeth Bartlett "Time Will Tell"
Mist snakes the mountains - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
Fling to them mountains to overcome - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"
Lost in colossal stone, my newer mountains - William Rose Benét "The City"
On some neighbouring mountain's brow - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"
Fawn as white as mountain snow - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"
Held invisible mountains - Robert Bly "A Dream of the Blacksmith's Room"
A mountain emancipated by humour - Maxwell Bodenheim "Fantasy"
Daunting mountains and bitterroots - Jaswinder Bolina "Sunday, Sunday"
Thick oaks grow on the mountain - "The Book of Odes: No.132. Swift Is That Falcon" transl. by Burton Watson
Thick cherries on the mountain - "The Book of Odes: No.132. Swift Is That Falcon" transl. by Burton Watson
Upon a mountain stirring a surmise of floods - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
Step from the star to the mountain - Thomas Boyd "Love on the Mountain"
The dark rain veil making a bride of the mountain - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"
Mountains circling every side - Emily Bronte "I [A little while, a little while]"
Warmth within the mountain's breast - Stopford A. Brooks "The Spring of Love"
Fresher than a mountain stream - Stopford A. Brooks "The Spring of Love"
To mine a deep mountain of truth - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"
The lofty mountains of the sky - Bliss Carman "A Mountain Gateway"
To mountains of surprise - George Spencer Cautley "Sunset on Campagna of Rome"
Down from your mountains of emerald and gold - James G. Clark "Battle Invocation" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
born in the mountains of the moon - Lucille Clifton "shadows"
Gave my heart to a mountain - Leonard Cohen "No One After You"
Playmates of the mountain-storm - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"
Spells from buried mountain oracles - Arthur Colton "Verses from 'The Canticle of the Road'"
Once I saw Mountains angry, and ranged in battle-front - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Mountain ranges and great rifts that break the land - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
Feel the mountains grow - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"
Riding the mountain down into the silver dawn - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"
Four tall stags at a green mountain - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"
The height of a great mountain forested with night - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva
Mountain voices calling vibrate there - Rubén Darío "Nightfall in the Tropics" Thomas Walsh
Your voice reaching back to the mountains - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"
Climbed the mountain of fear - Jose Hernandez Diaz "The Mountain Man"
Rest your cheek on the shoulder of the mountain - Chris Dombrowski "Tablet"
White as the snow on pathless mountains - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"
A mountain in its motion - Max Eastman "Sea-Shore"
Thunder of spring over distant mountains - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"
Shrouds the mountains and silences the roads - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
The mountain's twisted ribs - Anthony Euwer "Nature's Totems"
The night is fractured with mountains - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"
Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
Echoes in the mountains of your lamentations - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
I remember an ancient sea and mountains older - Robin Flower "The Pipes"
The mountain's time-cut teeth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"
Scaling the mountain's time-cut teeth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"
Call down moose from the mountain - Carolyn Forche "Calling Down the Moose"
Daisies spangled the mountain's crest - Arthur M. Forrester "The Red-Heart Daisy"
The mountains bread and honey - Colin Francis "Tony O"
Hid the sun and moon inside a mountain - Carol Frost "Song of the City at Night"
Where the mountain waters play - Alfred C. Gellis "To the Wenem Mame River"
What melody rolls over mountains and water? - "The Geraldine's Daughter" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]
Intolerant mountains of iron and ice - Louis Golding "The Quest"
The dyes of your mountain and lake - Alfred Perceval Graves "Lough Leane"
Over the mountain and over the tide - "Great Heart" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]
Though the silent mountains should defy me - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"
How bright upon the mountain - Robert Hayden "On Lookout Mountain"
Climb the wild mountain's airy brow - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "Hymn of Nature"
Mountains kneel to drink - Conrad Hilberry "Four Kentucky Poems: Rust"
The mountaintop of experience - Edward Hirsch "Marina Tsvetaeva"
The song of mountains, moths and men - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
The mountain matted with Sisyphus' sweat - Carlie Hoffman "Panorama After Foreclosure"
Touched the hem of the dark mountain's robe - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Watch the light forget the mountains - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"
A mountain of sugar-candy - Arno Holz "Phantasus" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky
When the mountain peach unfurls its crimson petals - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Replying to a Poem from My Cousin Hui-lien" transl. by Burton Watson
Grey ghost in the mountain - Aldous Huxley "By the Fire"
Where mountains throw their silent spell - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"
This chaff a mountain crested with fire - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
Not for joy the worn mountain stands - Robinson Jeffers "Joy"
The mountain's peak like a blade above - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"
Weave a whole roof to the mountain - Kakuhaku "Sennin Poem" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)
The gleamings of his mountain brass - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Even the mountain tops are crushed - Mahmud Kashgari "Alp Er Tunga" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken
When your spirit has crushed mountains - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"
Sleeping woods and sheltering mountains - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"
The mountains with their tangled hair - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"
Anthems from the thunder's mountain throne - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"
that strips mountain and bullet - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Forms of Range and Loathing"
The mountains unmake them in their sleep - D.H. Lawrence "Men in New Mexico"
Relayed the new gospels across mountains - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"
The mountains have no word for ocean - Philip Levine "Our Valley"
To receive the black gifts of a mountain road - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
And wisdom's mountain scale - Vachel Lindsay "The Comet of Prophecy"
Mountains singing in all directions - Manny Loley "Let There Be"
Uprooted is our mountain oak - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
Mountains multiply, streams double back - Lu Yu "A Trip to a Mountain West Village" transl. by Burton Watson
Mountains and seas vast between us - Lu Yun "For Ku Yen-hsien, a Poem for Him to Give to His Wife" transl. by Burton Watson
Spreads its pulsing web between the mountains - Mario Luzi "Las Animas" transl. by Dana Gioia
Starlit camps on the mountain - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Quest of Youth"
On the blast of the mountain, come - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: II"
Trying to capture mountains of somewhere - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"
the word finding refuge in the mountain - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"
the mountain, the mouth, the memory - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"
The mountain diademed with stars - Douglas Malloch "To a Caged Bird"
A mountain peak with its one gold star - Jeannette Marks "Last Dawn"
In age I knew the mountains - Edgar Lee Masters "Alexander Throckmorton"
Descending the slopes of every mountain - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
The mountains tattooed with asphalt - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Mist crawling toward violet mountains - Colleen J. McElroy "Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You"
Climbing the glass mountain to save her brothers - Mary McMyne "The Mother Searches for Her Own Story"
In the endless dream of the mountains - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"
The anger etched into the undulating mountains - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
Armed to split a mountain - George Meredith "King Harald's Trance"
To inhale the mountain's bodily dark - Sara S. Messenger "Ampersand"
Mountains made from valleys - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"
When I am no mountain - Anis Mojgani "Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget"
Mountains rising black from the underworld - N. Scott Momaday "The First Day"
Air above mountains, buildings in our hands - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"
When the crowded mountains had been subdued - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
The Five Mountains drumming and dancing - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
The heart is a quiet mountain - Vi Khi Nao "How Can Something So Unmoving Move Everything Around It"
Forty rainy suns over the mountains - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The silence of these mountain coffers - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Like an avenging mountain - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1936)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Falls on metallic mountains - Pablo Neruda "Night" transl. by Alastair Reid
Horses and runaway mountains - Pablo Neruda "Superstitions" transl. by Alastair Reid
Flew around the mountains of sorrow - Pablo Neruda "Time that Wasn't Lost" transl. by William O'Daly
The hard mountains walked with time - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
In the naked mountain's compass - Pablo Neruda "Winter in the South, on Horseback" transl. by Jack Schmitt
On the mountain's frowning brow - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"
Each tree a forest, each rock a mountain - Jacqueline Osherow "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets"
Call to the seas and mountains - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Meditations"
On mountain crest reposed the Ark - M.P. "The Mountain" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.15 v.I, April 12 1884]
Strange mountain in late bloom - Kiki Petrosino "The Shop at Monticello"
Olives on the mountain's crest - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Sunday in Liguria"
The mountains are closing their eyes - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"
Over the Silver Mountains - Sir Walter Raleigh "Pilgrimage"
Mountains turned hazard-orange mid-air - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
Quiescent as at the roots of mountains - Lola Ridge "Circuit"
On the drawn knees of the mountain - Lola Ridge "The Edge"
Bone and sinew dragging mountains down - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"
Blazoning his face above the mountains - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
In endless reverberations under the mountain - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"
Fly to the mountains for one safe bough - Lola Ridge "Reveille"
Running along the roots of the mountains - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"
His feet upon the mountain and his shadow on the pass - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"
Fury on the mountains - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The meaning of a mountain of masks - Lauren Russell "Exposition"
All of the tongues of the mountain - Clinton Scollard "The Hunter"
Pluck up mountains by the roots - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"
Lordly mountains soar in scorn - Robert W. Service "The Land God Forgot"
Where the mountains are nameless - Robert W. Service "The Spell of the Yukon"
Mountains of oyster shells gleaming silver - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"
Bring the mountain into your lips - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"
Though mounted on the wind - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LI"
And breathed upon the frozen mountains - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"
A walk along the edge of our mountain - Michael Simms "Sometimes I Wake Early"
A mountain's utmost eminence of snow - Clark Ashton Smith "The Last Night"
Fluctuates between the mountains and the stars - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Climb a seven-story mountain - Richard Solomon "Orpheus at Fifty"
Awake the mountain echo in her cell - William Somerville "The Chase"
The mountains and the ravines of the soul - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger
Because of mountains in my heart - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"
A savor of marjoram and mountain thyme - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"
Once mirror to the mountain - George Sterling "The First Born"
In that ruined mountain city - Gerald Stern "The Hammer"
Deer walk upon our mountains - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
The black mountain eagle drinking the sun - Alfred B. Street "At Rest"
Of foes who lift great mountains - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 107: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
An immovable mountain of error - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 212: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Mountains and rivers know no season of change - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Substance, Shadow, and Spirit" transl. by Burton Watson
When the mountain is swathed in flame - Bayard Taylor "Earth-Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Whose song might move even the mountains - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Mountains and rivers and crimson sunbirds - Keith Taylor "Picasso and the Taj Mahal"
Black smoke looming like dark mountains - Keith Taylor "Prairie Fire"
Sheep on the mountains of sleep - Edward Thomas "Roads"
Ask the mountain - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Manifest"
Like a mountain which forgets - Too-qua-stee "Dignity"
And nursed the seas and mountains - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"
Making her a mountain of smoke - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"
Mountained islands jutting up - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Viewing the Ocean" transl. by Burton Watson
Mountain fruits served for rations - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson
And the mountains howl like wolves - Perhat Tursun "The Tarim River" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The mountains were five times as wide - Edward van de Vendel "Grandma Knitting"
The mountain has grown weary of its stone - Mark Van Doren "High Meadows"
Who carry dreams over mountains - Ocean Vuong "Headfirst"
The winds enfold the mountains - Charles William Wallace "A Mortal"
Mountains pillaring the perfect sky - William Watson "The Glimpse"
As the stag leaps down the mountain - Arthur Weir "Fleurs de Lys: The Captured Flag"
The strength that mountains need - Nancy Wood "Sacred Love: A Ritual"
The doors to the mountain remain shut - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie V"
Four or five mountains gone rust in twilight - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie VI"
The mountains of the past berate me - Charles Wright "Remember Me When the Candlelight Is Gleaming"
The ancients had their mountains of sorrow - Yang Wan-li "Relaxing in the Evening in My Study, the Wo-chi-chai" transl. by Burton Watson
The mountain of art and philosophy - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Clouds turn into mountains - Jordan Zandi "Riddle"
Mountain-firm vows go on forever - Lu Yu "[Pink tender hand]" transl. by Burton Watson
Archives so vast they fill mountainsides - Kinsale Drake "(Re)location"
Up the mountain-sides of thought - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"
Built a huge ball of masonry upon a mountain-top - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Submerging mountaintops in stormwater - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
The mountain-tops, where once Hope stood - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"
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