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Potential Titles: Land
Pulsing at the threshold of air & land - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"
To burn alive with my land - Leena Aboutaleb "Art Exhibition: West Bank Girl on Fire"
Go to the land and find relief - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"
The white cliffs of our own native land - "Abroad"
Ride winged steeds to distant lands - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"
The oar guiding their course in this land of 'milk and honey' - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"
In the land of strangers pity is sweet and rare - Ellen Tracy Alden "Marie"
And all the land is red with war - Ellen Tracy Alden "Princess Gerda"
Gold and houses and lands encumber - Ellen Tracy Alden "[Wandering, wandering all the world over]"
The first time he followed her beyond the grey lands - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Lie before us like a land of dreams - Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"
In trails of fire across the land - Rosalie Arthur "October"
This land is made for resurrection - Julie Babcock "Johnny Appleseed Proposes"
That Land beyond the ether's sea - Albion Fellows Bacon "A Song"
The many mansions of the angel land - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"
Hear the call from a hundred lands - William Francis Barnard "The Tongues of Toil"
I've seen green land turn to salt - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Barren Fig Tree"
Marked on a shifting land - Elizabeth Bartlett "World of Tomorrow"
The guilty land is washed in innocent blood - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
Who rules a land of rains - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. not credited
Seeker after lands that flee - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
In distant lands and evil times - Lucius Beebe "Autumn Lament"
The drowning shadow of a fading land - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
A mad prophet in a land of dearth - Stephen Vincent Benet "Nos Immortales"
Dry is the land that holds you - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
Beyond the land of day - Clare Bevan "Sleepy Song"
For the dirty thirst of this land - Richard Blanco "Como Tu/Like You/Like Me"
To keep sailing and not land - Robert Bly "On the Oregon Coast"
To cover every land and dream of afterwhile - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
In a land of ice and mirth and explicit premise - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"
Lands on a trail of blood kisses - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "A Tale of Collaboration"
Wandered over all earth's lands - J. Crosby Brown, Jr. "Sonnet"
Through the eyes of the land - Joseph Bruchac "Speaking"
Nurture the root of every land - Witter Bynner "Beyond a Mountain"
A cat's rough tongue scraping land back to waves - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
That broke the hilly land for bread - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "I Am the Mountainy Singer"
Lands of winter and death - W. Wilfred Campbell "To the Ottawa"
The heart of her haunted lands - W. Wilfred Campbell "The World-Mother"
When Summer walked the land - Ethna Carbery "Mea Culpa"
At the gate of dark oblivion's lands - Giosue Carducci "Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto" transl. by Frank Sewall
Land of the uncorrupted heart - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Land where my soul was nourished - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Ride through the silent earthquake lands - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
A lost land of boulders and broken men - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"
And turned him to a conquered land - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"
Through a land ambushed with guile - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob"
How can our land be bright? - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"
That I must depart for foreign lands - "The Country of Mayo, or the 'Lament of Thomas Flavell, or Lavell'" c.1660 transl. by George Fox
Spreads desolations round a guilty land - George Crabbe "The Library"
And spread their guardian terrors round the land - George Crabbe "The Library"
From the land of the farther suns - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Mountain ranges and great rifts that break the land - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
And shun the land too perilous - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
The spoil of injured lands - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Spoken in the Theatre, Oxford, at the Installation of the Chancellor, Lord Grenville, July 10, 1810, by Henry Crowe, a Commoner of Wadham College"
In a land of scarlet suns and brooding winds - Countee Cullen "Brown Boy to Brown Girl"
And land the glistening captures of the night - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]
Strange midnight lands adorning - Coningsby Dawson "Dreamland Love"
The land murmurs in our hands - Tyree Daye "No Ghost Abandoned"
From the remote borders of the land of oblivion - Julián del Casal "Vas Doloris" transl. by William George Williams
Except how water touches land - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
Bound to opposing lands - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XIII: Renunciation"
Strews the land with opal bales - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XIII: The Sea of Sunset"
Haunted by native lands - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LII"
A bracelet adorning the land's pale wrist - Chris Dombrowski "Was it a sign? I think it probably was"
My cities rose in every land - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"
A trackless land divides us - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"
Ships from strange and storied lands - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"
Land unscrubbed to rust - Rebecca Dunham "Atavism at Twilight"
On this dark land of water - Katherine Edgren "Muskies and Reveries: Reverie on the Invisible Twitch"
Drags along the land of history - Merdan Ehet'Eli "Common Night" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
The land that is sown with the harvest of despair - "Enceladus" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]
Teaching the land how to fear - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
The thorns of foreign lands - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Outstanding in all lands - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Lands of lapis and red carnelian - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
You stand on a land of wrath - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 7. E-Kesh, the Temple of Ninhursanga in Kesh" transl. by Sophus Helle
Came from a land of hunger - Heid E. Erdich "One Girl"
To land upon this sea of flames - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "The Sunset and the Flowered Tree"
Wax burned in the land of milk - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"
for our people who touch the land - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"
From that mythical land of horrors - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Peering toward some stony land - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
The devil controls the land - George Blackstone Field "The Answer"
My sentinels of the land - George Blackstone Field "My Sentinels"
Jangled freshets to a dewless land - Michael Field "From the Highway"
I own not one inch of the land - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]
As one climbs from water up to land - John Freeman "Waking"
Fearless of ever finding open land - Robert Frost "Into My Own"
Language springs from the land - John Gallaher "My Life in Brutalist Architecture #1"
Building their confidence on stolen land - Andrea Gibson "Your Life"
Outside of which is but a land of dreams - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Strange spices from uncharted lands - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
What land where the winds meet - Louis Golding "The Wind, Whence Blowing"
Blue as a thwack of sky on stolen land - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
The herbs grew flowering over the land - Mona Gould "This Bitter Brew"
Each frail pilgrim of the thorny land - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
We turned and faced you full to land - Alfred Percival Graves "Herring is King"
Spur to a land of no name - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wild Ride"
The dead land oppressed me - Ivor Gurney "Trees"
To that luxuriant land - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Fidelity"
Empty promises of a broken land - Hawa Haji-Hassan "Carrying Anticipation"
Rapture from a land of thorns - Katherine Hale "Pavlowa Dancing"
Outcast of the older lands - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
From out these parched and thirsty lands - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Enter a daisy-and-buttercup land - Thomas Hardy "Growth in May"
And the hurricane shakes the solid land - Thomas Hardy "I Found Her Out There"
When the wind raved round the land - Thomas Hardy "Trafalgar"
Upon the silent sea-swept land - Sadakichi Hartmann "Nocturne"
And bless his dreaming land - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
Call on the watchers of the land to rise - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
The Debateable Land between their place and ours - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
Awakened in the land of the unseen - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
Their prey hidden in land folded and patched - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"
Who brought hunger from other lands - Linda Hogan "Map"
Rest on the parching land - Robert Hogg "A Wish Burst"
Back to your lands of light - Norah M. Holland "O Littlest Hands and Dearest"
Who haunts a land without a sun - William H.C. Hosmer "Impromptu: Written on Receiving a Rose-Bud from a Lady"
A land of fifty cross-roads - Walter Edwards Houghton, Jr. "Benediction"
A land of fragrant water - Langston Hughes "Our Land"
This land where joy is wrong - Langston Hughes "Our Land"
Let comets land in my mouth - K. Iver "Because You Can't"
The fate of the land is the fate of man - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"
Had returned from dry land back to water - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
I go to the land of the Stranger - Charles Jefferys "Let Me Rest in the Land of My Birth"
Crying from roseless lands - Lionel Johnson "In England"
In a land built from death - Ashley M. Jones "All Y'all Really from Alabama"
A land of pebbles and pests - Camisha L. Jones "Haunted"
An army charging upon the land - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"
Layer upon layer of land submerged - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"
In faery lands forlorn - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
The rampart of a land at war - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Bid the fountains leap in thirsty lands - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
A fragrant land with flowers wrought - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
That far land where fall no blights - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"
Dim lands in troubled dreams - Fanny Kemble "Song [Pass thy hand through my hair, lore]"
No desert in the land of life - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Blaspheme not thou thy sacred life, nor turn]"
Ghost of a land by the ghost of a sea - Henry Kendall "Beyond Kerguelen"
Of sea and land the monarch - Khushal Khan Khattak "[Know thou well this world its state...]" transl. by C.E. Biddulph
This land is littered with granite - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
And therefore the land lies in peril - "The King-Slaying in Finderup, 1285" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
A sacred bond of sympathy 'twixt sea and land - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Crocheting holes in the land - Jennifer L. Knox "Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa"
Or lute in land of dreams - E.A.L. "To Adhemar" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]
A wanderer in enchanted lands - Archibald Lampman "April in the Hills"
Through darkness on an evil land - Archibald Lampman "Chione"
Out to the ashen lands - Archibald Lampman "In October"
Gold-seeking hucksters in a noble land - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"
In the land of forbidden sweet - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XVI: Love Afar"
Buildings that take root inside the land - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"
Came back from the broken land - Li Po "In Yuch Viewing the Past" transl. by Burton Watson
Glorify the land of rust - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
That distant lands his steps might trace - Kirton Lindsey "Fanny" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.17 no.481, March 19, 1831]
An annual guest in other lands - John Logan "Ode to the Cuckoo"
And unhouses the land - Nabila Lovelace "By Inch-Meal a Disease"
Lands prone in the jeering water - Amy Lowell "Convalescence"
Battling over the places my body lands - Tariq Luthun "Finding Myself in the Direct Messages of Someone I Do Not Know Is in Kuwait"
Lean with the weight of land - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"
A land of too much sleep - Jamaal May "To Detroiters I Too May Have Called by the Wrong Names"
Earns his bread in strange new lands - Laurens Maynard "Ave Post Saecula"
Pilgrimage to fabled lands - Theodore Maynard "Sonnet for the Fifth of October"
Starry lands where mystic roses shine - Theodore Maynard "The Universal Mother"
Before the land was tamed by industry - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Pō"
Crucified Land of Sorrows - Louis J. McQuilland "The Song of the Flag"
A miracle peace reclaims the land - Tony Medina "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"
Our cruel trampling of the land - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"
Reducing land to barren sea - George Meredith "Hard Weather"
Over the indulgent land - Edna St Vincent Millay "Doubt No More That Oberon"
Those walls are all thy lands - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"
The bird of fortune will land on you - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The lost lore of mournful lands - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"
To some free land of exile - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Phaedra"
The key of the happy golden land - William Morris "The Blue Closet"
A greeting from this other land - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"
Like a black atom in the arid land - Pablo Neruda "Evening LXIII" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Asperities of land and thorns - Pablo Neruda "Land and Man Unite" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Crows sing sadder songs in this haunted land - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Lands of olive and the rose - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"
Within the garden lands of love - Meredith Nicholson "Twas Never Night in Love's Domain"
A strip of land where nobody walks - Naomi Shihab Nye "Footfall"
A land of lights and shadows - John Oxenham "India"
Looking on cruel lands - Dorothy Parker "A Well-Worn Story"
Hold your breath when you land - Lauren Parker "Miranda"
They first tax the nation and then pawn the land - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"
My haunting terror by wave and land - "The Parting of Goll from His Wife"
Unfurled triumphing green above the barren lands - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Through the land of Toulouse-Lautrec - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"
The land of a thousand dances - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"
Some land of wind and drifting leaves - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"
Rushing in from jungle lands of sky - Miriam Clark Potter "The March Wind"
Great bleak wind from northern lands - Miriam Clark Potter "Princess Fire"
From drowsy lands of purpleness the winds come - Miriam Clark Potter "The Twilight Man"
Kissing the dust of the Holy Land - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Rest"
But ever quits our western lands before the winter pale - "Q--The Quail" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
That shadow land of lost illusions - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Laying of Ghosts"
Storms sweep the land - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On the Sea-Shore"
A land whose hopes find no fruition - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Where the land that was once gone is ours now back - m.s. RedCherries "this is what kafka really meant when he wished to be a red indian"
Land in the viscera of night - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"
The silence of a desolate land - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"
The harsh fruit of the land - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"
On the margin of moonshine land - James W. Riley "The Lugubrious Whing-Whang"
The dark foundations of the land - Charles G.D. Roberts "Ascription"
Lilting back to the land of air - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "The Hill People"
The shadow of Vesuvius lies gray across the land - Lloyd Roberts "The Trail from Napoli"
One picture of that immemorial land - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"
With his gold and wasted lands - John Jerome Rooney "The Empire Builder"
When tyrants fled our rescued land - "Rule, Columbia" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Have dreamed of this land of the oak and the vine - I.A.S. "In the Rhine Woods: Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.24-v.I, 14 June 1884]
the land remembering its tragedies - Rachelle Saint Louis "Manman Ak Pitit"
In the shadow land between streetlights - Ann K. Schwader "Mardi Gras Postmortem"
This dead life on loan and on land - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
The kind of love that lands like a leaf - Tim Seibles "Naive"
A land of ice and fire beneath ether shores - Alexandra Seidel "Give Me Pluto"
When the lands are bathed in welcome rain - P. Seshadri "Raksha Bandhan"
Nimble thought can jump both sea and land - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLIV"
Strange truths in undiscovered lands - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Pale exile from the holy land - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Gems I held from every land - Frank Dempster Sherman "Pebbles"
Lands no dream may name - Clark Ashton Smith "The Infinite Quest"
A windless land of livid dreams - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
Clear flame in lands extreme - Clark Ashton Smith "A Vision of Lucifer"
Constantly thirsty in a dry land - Richard Solomon "Salt Doll's Destiny"
The land the wall wants to eat - Brandon Som "Resistors"
Vanished into the land of the yellow jackets - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"
Down in the land of roses - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "[Down in the land of roses]"
Enthralled by war in distant lands - Kim Stafford "Wren's Nest in a Shed Near Aurora"
Silence crouches on the land - James Stephens "The Shadow"
Lost in a still, enchanted land - George Sterling "White Magic"
The bright land of his hopes - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
When that ashen land was young - Arthur Stringer "Sappho's Tomb"
A warm stream in frozen lands - Muriel Stuart "The Tryst"
A herd of elk flows over the land - Alison Swan "True Story"
Thunder rolling like irony across this rainless land - Keith Taylor "Almost Storm"
A hollow land as vast as heaven - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"
rescue the outcome before it lands - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"
Memory of the land and the hands that remade them - Paul Tran "Terroir"
To spite the land and the hands I'd been dealt - Paul Tran "Terroir"
In the land of mangroves and abandonment - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
Some hidden nest in brighter lands - Richard Chenevix Trench "To England"
Armor donned for the altars of the land - Tu Fu "Passing Chao-ling Again" transl. by Burton Watson
One moment fled out of immortal lands - W.J. Turner "Death"
Welcome such with the freedom of the land - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]
Drifting lands close on ancient seas - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"
A land that cannot cast one sparkle back - Mark Van Doren "In Time of Drouth"
To rest in the lee of the high hill land - Henry van Dyke "Turn o' the Tide"
Revoked edge of water and dry land - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"
And only bitter land was washed away - Margaret Walker "Childhood"
Birds that wander from a softer land - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"
Charging the water and the land - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
Will bloom within those trackless lands - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"
In the withered hollow of this land - Oscar Wilde "The New Remorse"
Queen of a land of terror - Joseph R. Wilson "Dreams"
Land of wind-swept plains and blood - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"
Myths of the land of the missing - Jennifer Wong "Calling the dead"
In the land of the unutterable - Charles Wright "No Angel"
On a land that feels like sand - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"
Borderland.
Cloudland's curves and grading colors - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Dreamland.
Who hear the sprites from Elf-land call - Elizabeth Anderson "To EARL and GEORGIA"
The horns of Elfland faintly blowing - Alfred Tennyson "The Splendor Falls"
Fairyland.
Grasslands extending as if without limit - Mary Soon Lee "The Sign of the King"
From headlands of celestial gold - George Sterling "The City of Music"
Through the hinterlands of justice - Mary Oliver "The Oak Tree at the Entrance to Blackwater Pond"
Exiles in their own homeland - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"
We fled inland with our flocks - H.D. "The Helmsman"
All that spun and landed here - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
Landed at the mouth of neon waters - Tina Chang "Sugar"
Landed on a tar pit's surface - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
When dusk fell, a clutch of black birds landed - Michael Hettich "The Angels"
Your chariot landed upon rough rock - Zilka Joseph "Prophet of the Rock"
Of a landfall won barely - Carl Phillips "Said the Horse to the Light"
Greet us at landfall - May Sarton "Coming Into Eighty"
The cry of a stork landing on the roof - Anna Akhmatova [Untitled] transl. Richard McKane
Every landing a new abyss - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
A bad penny landing same side up - Rachel Barenblat "Chord"
A sun's landing between eucalyptus trees - Lou Barrett "At a Jerusalem Market"
Opening the view to thousands of landing geese - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"
Landing on its bitter brilliance - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #9"
The pitter-patter of feet landing on rhymes - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"
A safe eternal landing - Allison Eir Jenks "Night Train from Barcelona"
A coin always landing tails - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
My hummingbird landing in a stranger's palm - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Two old swans landing downstream - Richard Solomon "The River Through Your Eyes (For Linda)"
Landlocked behind the barbed wire - Sheila Maldonado "herederos de cero"
Who with his landlord stands deuce high - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
And retain the landmark's weight - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"
The territory it claims as landmark - Camisha L. Jones "Scars"
Sheltering bounds of landmarks old - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
Beyond the landmarks of the present hour - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Landscape.
No voice from these on any landward wind - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"
A marshland of snakes - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 8. E-Kishnugal, the Temple of Nanna in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle
Across the marshlands of my heart - Mary Oliver "Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard"
Over moorland waste and crag - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]
Pipes of the misty moorlands - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"
Between two sister moorland rills - William Wordsworth "The Danish Boy"
Queen of the fleets of No-Man's-Land - Vachel Lindsay "Dancing for a Prize"
The outland peace of the trail that never turns back - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"
Promised Land.
Dusky depths of shadowlands - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
Elusive spirit of the shadow-land - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"
northward fire twists around the shrublands - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"
Our myriads swarm in the southlands warm - William Francis Barnard "The Tongues of Toil"
In the summer-land of dreams - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Upland.
Wasteland.
Prowling the wetlands for ghost crabs - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
A silky frenzy steeps the wetlands - Philip Schultz "Welcome to the Springs"
The implications of our wonderland - Noel Coward "Nothing Is Lost"
A declining wonderland - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Imagine"
There is no room left for my wonderland - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
Woodland.
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To burn alive with my land - Leena Aboutaleb "Art Exhibition: West Bank Girl on Fire"
Go to the land and find relief - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"
The white cliffs of our own native land - "Abroad"
Ride winged steeds to distant lands - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"
The oar guiding their course in this land of 'milk and honey' - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"
In the land of strangers pity is sweet and rare - Ellen Tracy Alden "Marie"
And all the land is red with war - Ellen Tracy Alden "Princess Gerda"
Gold and houses and lands encumber - Ellen Tracy Alden "[Wandering, wandering all the world over]"
The first time he followed her beyond the grey lands - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"
Lie before us like a land of dreams - Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"
In trails of fire across the land - Rosalie Arthur "October"
This land is made for resurrection - Julie Babcock "Johnny Appleseed Proposes"
That Land beyond the ether's sea - Albion Fellows Bacon "A Song"
The many mansions of the angel land - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"
Hear the call from a hundred lands - William Francis Barnard "The Tongues of Toil"
I've seen green land turn to salt - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Barren Fig Tree"
Marked on a shifting land - Elizabeth Bartlett "World of Tomorrow"
The guilty land is washed in innocent blood - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]
Who rules a land of rains - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. not credited
Seeker after lands that flee - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
In distant lands and evil times - Lucius Beebe "Autumn Lament"
The drowning shadow of a fading land - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
A mad prophet in a land of dearth - Stephen Vincent Benet "Nos Immortales"
Dry is the land that holds you - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
Beyond the land of day - Clare Bevan "Sleepy Song"
For the dirty thirst of this land - Richard Blanco "Como Tu/Like You/Like Me"
To keep sailing and not land - Robert Bly "On the Oregon Coast"
To cover every land and dream of afterwhile - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
In a land of ice and mirth and explicit premise - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"
Lands on a trail of blood kisses - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "A Tale of Collaboration"
Wandered over all earth's lands - J. Crosby Brown, Jr. "Sonnet"
Through the eyes of the land - Joseph Bruchac "Speaking"
Nurture the root of every land - Witter Bynner "Beyond a Mountain"
A cat's rough tongue scraping land back to waves - Andrew Calis "The Sea / Is Sacred Still"
That broke the hilly land for bread - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "I Am the Mountainy Singer"
Lands of winter and death - W. Wilfred Campbell "To the Ottawa"
The heart of her haunted lands - W. Wilfred Campbell "The World-Mother"
When Summer walked the land - Ethna Carbery "Mea Culpa"
At the gate of dark oblivion's lands - Giosue Carducci "Passa la nave mia, sola, tra il pianto" transl. by Frank Sewall
Land of the uncorrupted heart - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Land where my soul was nourished - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Ride through the silent earthquake lands - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
A lost land of boulders and broken men - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"
And turned him to a conquered land - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"
Through a land ambushed with guile - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob"
How can our land be bright? - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"
That I must depart for foreign lands - "The Country of Mayo, or the 'Lament of Thomas Flavell, or Lavell'" c.1660 transl. by George Fox
Spreads desolations round a guilty land - George Crabbe "The Library"
And spread their guardian terrors round the land - George Crabbe "The Library"
From the land of the farther suns - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Mountain ranges and great rifts that break the land - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"
And shun the land too perilous - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
The spoil of injured lands - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Spoken in the Theatre, Oxford, at the Installation of the Chancellor, Lord Grenville, July 10, 1810, by Henry Crowe, a Commoner of Wadham College"
In a land of scarlet suns and brooding winds - Countee Cullen "Brown Boy to Brown Girl"
And land the glistening captures of the night - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]
Strange midnight lands adorning - Coningsby Dawson "Dreamland Love"
The land murmurs in our hands - Tyree Daye "No Ghost Abandoned"
From the remote borders of the land of oblivion - Julián del Casal "Vas Doloris" transl. by William George Williams
Except how water touches land - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
Bound to opposing lands - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XIII: Renunciation"
Strews the land with opal bales - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XIII: The Sea of Sunset"
Haunted by native lands - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LII"
A bracelet adorning the land's pale wrist - Chris Dombrowski "Was it a sign? I think it probably was"
My cities rose in every land - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"
A trackless land divides us - Edward Dowden "Speakers to God"
Ships from strange and storied lands - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"
Land unscrubbed to rust - Rebecca Dunham "Atavism at Twilight"
On this dark land of water - Katherine Edgren "Muskies and Reveries: Reverie on the Invisible Twitch"
Drags along the land of history - Merdan Ehet'Eli "Common Night" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
The land that is sown with the harvest of despair - "Enceladus" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]
Teaching the land how to fear - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
The thorns of foreign lands - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Outstanding in all lands - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
Lands of lapis and red carnelian - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
You stand on a land of wrath - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 7. E-Kesh, the Temple of Ninhursanga in Kesh" transl. by Sophus Helle
Came from a land of hunger - Heid E. Erdich "One Girl"
To land upon this sea of flames - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "The Sunset and the Flowered Tree"
Wax burned in the land of milk - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"
for our people who touch the land - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"
From that mythical land of horrors - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"
Peering toward some stony land - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
The devil controls the land - George Blackstone Field "The Answer"
My sentinels of the land - George Blackstone Field "My Sentinels"
Jangled freshets to a dewless land - Michael Field "From the Highway"
I own not one inch of the land - Fanny Forrester "The Poet's Treasures" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.129-v.III, 19 June 1886]
As one climbs from water up to land - John Freeman "Waking"
Fearless of ever finding open land - Robert Frost "Into My Own"
Language springs from the land - John Gallaher "My Life in Brutalist Architecture #1"
Building their confidence on stolen land - Andrea Gibson "Your Life"
Outside of which is but a land of dreams - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
Strange spices from uncharted lands - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
What land where the winds meet - Louis Golding "The Wind, Whence Blowing"
Blue as a thwack of sky on stolen land - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"
The herbs grew flowering over the land - Mona Gould "This Bitter Brew"
Each frail pilgrim of the thorny land - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"
We turned and faced you full to land - Alfred Percival Graves "Herring is King"
Spur to a land of no name - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wild Ride"
The dead land oppressed me - Ivor Gurney "Trees"
To that luxuriant land - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Fidelity"
Empty promises of a broken land - Hawa Haji-Hassan "Carrying Anticipation"
Rapture from a land of thorns - Katherine Hale "Pavlowa Dancing"
Outcast of the older lands - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
From out these parched and thirsty lands - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Enter a daisy-and-buttercup land - Thomas Hardy "Growth in May"
And the hurricane shakes the solid land - Thomas Hardy "I Found Her Out There"
When the wind raved round the land - Thomas Hardy "Trafalgar"
Upon the silent sea-swept land - Sadakichi Hartmann "Nocturne"
And bless his dreaming land - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"
Call on the watchers of the land to rise - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
The Debateable Land between their place and ours - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
Awakened in the land of the unseen - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
Their prey hidden in land folded and patched - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"
Who brought hunger from other lands - Linda Hogan "Map"
Rest on the parching land - Robert Hogg "A Wish Burst"
Back to your lands of light - Norah M. Holland "O Littlest Hands and Dearest"
Who haunts a land without a sun - William H.C. Hosmer "Impromptu: Written on Receiving a Rose-Bud from a Lady"
A land of fifty cross-roads - Walter Edwards Houghton, Jr. "Benediction"
A land of fragrant water - Langston Hughes "Our Land"
This land where joy is wrong - Langston Hughes "Our Land"
Let comets land in my mouth - K. Iver "Because You Can't"
The fate of the land is the fate of man - Major Jackson "Song as Abridge Thesis of George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature"
Had returned from dry land back to water - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
I go to the land of the Stranger - Charles Jefferys "Let Me Rest in the Land of My Birth"
Crying from roseless lands - Lionel Johnson "In England"
In a land built from death - Ashley M. Jones "All Y'all Really from Alabama"
A land of pebbles and pests - Camisha L. Jones "Haunted"
An army charging upon the land - James Joyce "I Hear an Army"
Layer upon layer of land submerged - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"
In faery lands forlorn - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
The rampart of a land at war - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Bid the fountains leap in thirsty lands - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
A fragrant land with flowers wrought - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"
That far land where fall no blights - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"
Dim lands in troubled dreams - Fanny Kemble "Song [Pass thy hand through my hair, lore]"
No desert in the land of life - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Blaspheme not thou thy sacred life, nor turn]"
Ghost of a land by the ghost of a sea - Henry Kendall "Beyond Kerguelen"
Of sea and land the monarch - Khushal Khan Khattak "[Know thou well this world its state...]" transl. by C.E. Biddulph
This land is littered with granite - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
And therefore the land lies in peril - "The King-Slaying in Finderup, 1285" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
A sacred bond of sympathy 'twixt sea and land - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Crocheting holes in the land - Jennifer L. Knox "Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa"
Or lute in land of dreams - E.A.L. "To Adhemar" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.6, June 1852]
A wanderer in enchanted lands - Archibald Lampman "April in the Hills"
Through darkness on an evil land - Archibald Lampman "Chione"
Out to the ashen lands - Archibald Lampman "In October"
Gold-seeking hucksters in a noble land - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"
In the land of forbidden sweet - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XVI: Love Afar"
Buildings that take root inside the land - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"
Came back from the broken land - Li Po "In Yuch Viewing the Past" transl. by Burton Watson
Glorify the land of rust - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
That distant lands his steps might trace - Kirton Lindsey "Fanny" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.17 no.481, March 19, 1831]
An annual guest in other lands - John Logan "Ode to the Cuckoo"
And unhouses the land - Nabila Lovelace "By Inch-Meal a Disease"
Lands prone in the jeering water - Amy Lowell "Convalescence"
Battling over the places my body lands - Tariq Luthun "Finding Myself in the Direct Messages of Someone I Do Not Know Is in Kuwait"
Lean with the weight of land - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"
A land of too much sleep - Jamaal May "To Detroiters I Too May Have Called by the Wrong Names"
Earns his bread in strange new lands - Laurens Maynard "Ave Post Saecula"
Pilgrimage to fabled lands - Theodore Maynard "Sonnet for the Fifth of October"
Starry lands where mystic roses shine - Theodore Maynard "The Universal Mother"
Before the land was tamed by industry - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Pō"
Crucified Land of Sorrows - Louis J. McQuilland "The Song of the Flag"
A miracle peace reclaims the land - Tony Medina "Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku"
Our cruel trampling of the land - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"
Reducing land to barren sea - George Meredith "Hard Weather"
Over the indulgent land - Edna St Vincent Millay "Doubt No More That Oberon"
Those walls are all thy lands - Thomas Miller "Summer Morning"
The bird of fortune will land on you - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
The lost lore of mournful lands - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"
To some free land of exile - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Phaedra"
The key of the happy golden land - William Morris "The Blue Closet"
A greeting from this other land - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"
Like a black atom in the arid land - Pablo Neruda "Evening LXIII" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Asperities of land and thorns - Pablo Neruda "Land and Man Unite" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Crows sing sadder songs in this haunted land - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Lands of olive and the rose - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"
Within the garden lands of love - Meredith Nicholson "Twas Never Night in Love's Domain"
A strip of land where nobody walks - Naomi Shihab Nye "Footfall"
A land of lights and shadows - John Oxenham "India"
Looking on cruel lands - Dorothy Parker "A Well-Worn Story"
Hold your breath when you land - Lauren Parker "Miranda"
They first tax the nation and then pawn the land - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"
My haunting terror by wave and land - "The Parting of Goll from His Wife"
Unfurled triumphing green above the barren lands - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Through the land of Toulouse-Lautrec - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"
The land of a thousand dances - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"
Some land of wind and drifting leaves - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"
Rushing in from jungle lands of sky - Miriam Clark Potter "The March Wind"
Great bleak wind from northern lands - Miriam Clark Potter "Princess Fire"
From drowsy lands of purpleness the winds come - Miriam Clark Potter "The Twilight Man"
Kissing the dust of the Holy Land - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Rest"
But ever quits our western lands before the winter pale - "Q--The Quail" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
That shadow land of lost illusions - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Laying of Ghosts"
Storms sweep the land - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On the Sea-Shore"
A land whose hopes find no fruition - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Where the land that was once gone is ours now back - m.s. RedCherries "this is what kafka really meant when he wished to be a red indian"
Land in the viscera of night - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"
The silence of a desolate land - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"
The harsh fruit of the land - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"
On the margin of moonshine land - James W. Riley "The Lugubrious Whing-Whang"
The dark foundations of the land - Charles G.D. Roberts "Ascription"
Lilting back to the land of air - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "The Hill People"
The shadow of Vesuvius lies gray across the land - Lloyd Roberts "The Trail from Napoli"
One picture of that immemorial land - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"
With his gold and wasted lands - John Jerome Rooney "The Empire Builder"
When tyrants fled our rescued land - "Rule, Columbia" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Have dreamed of this land of the oak and the vine - I.A.S. "In the Rhine Woods: Cuckoo! Cuckoo!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.24-v.I, 14 June 1884]
the land remembering its tragedies - Rachelle Saint Louis "Manman Ak Pitit"
In the shadow land between streetlights - Ann K. Schwader "Mardi Gras Postmortem"
This dead life on loan and on land - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
The kind of love that lands like a leaf - Tim Seibles "Naive"
A land of ice and fire beneath ether shores - Alexandra Seidel "Give Me Pluto"
When the lands are bathed in welcome rain - P. Seshadri "Raksha Bandhan"
Nimble thought can jump both sea and land - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLIV"
Strange truths in undiscovered lands - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"
Pale exile from the holy land - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Gems I held from every land - Frank Dempster Sherman "Pebbles"
Lands no dream may name - Clark Ashton Smith "The Infinite Quest"
A windless land of livid dreams - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"
Clear flame in lands extreme - Clark Ashton Smith "A Vision of Lucifer"
Constantly thirsty in a dry land - Richard Solomon "Salt Doll's Destiny"
The land the wall wants to eat - Brandon Som "Resistors"
Vanished into the land of the yellow jackets - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"
Down in the land of roses - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "[Down in the land of roses]"
Enthralled by war in distant lands - Kim Stafford "Wren's Nest in a Shed Near Aurora"
Silence crouches on the land - James Stephens "The Shadow"
Lost in a still, enchanted land - George Sterling "White Magic"
The bright land of his hopes - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
When that ashen land was young - Arthur Stringer "Sappho's Tomb"
A warm stream in frozen lands - Muriel Stuart "The Tryst"
A herd of elk flows over the land - Alison Swan "True Story"
Thunder rolling like irony across this rainless land - Keith Taylor "Almost Storm"
A hollow land as vast as heaven - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"
rescue the outcome before it lands - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"
Memory of the land and the hands that remade them - Paul Tran "Terroir"
To spite the land and the hands I'd been dealt - Paul Tran "Terroir"
In the land of mangroves and abandonment - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"
Some hidden nest in brighter lands - Richard Chenevix Trench "To England"
Armor donned for the altars of the land - Tu Fu "Passing Chao-ling Again" transl. by Burton Watson
One moment fled out of immortal lands - W.J. Turner "Death"
Welcome such with the freedom of the land - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]
Drifting lands close on ancient seas - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"
A land that cannot cast one sparkle back - Mark Van Doren "In Time of Drouth"
To rest in the lee of the high hill land - Henry van Dyke "Turn o' the Tide"
Revoked edge of water and dry land - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"
And only bitter land was washed away - Margaret Walker "Childhood"
Birds that wander from a softer land - Maurice Weyland "A Valentine"
Charging the water and the land - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"
Will bloom within those trackless lands - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"
In the withered hollow of this land - Oscar Wilde "The New Remorse"
Queen of a land of terror - Joseph R. Wilson "Dreams"
Land of wind-swept plains and blood - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"
Myths of the land of the missing - Jennifer Wong "Calling the dead"
In the land of the unutterable - Charles Wright "No Angel"
On a land that feels like sand - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"
Borderland.
Cloudland's curves and grading colors - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Dreamland.
Who hear the sprites from Elf-land call - Elizabeth Anderson "To EARL and GEORGIA"
The horns of Elfland faintly blowing - Alfred Tennyson "The Splendor Falls"
Fairyland.
Grasslands extending as if without limit - Mary Soon Lee "The Sign of the King"
From headlands of celestial gold - George Sterling "The City of Music"
Through the hinterlands of justice - Mary Oliver "The Oak Tree at the Entrance to Blackwater Pond"
Exiles in their own homeland - Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"
We fled inland with our flocks - H.D. "The Helmsman"
All that spun and landed here - Christopher Buckley "Desire"
Landed at the mouth of neon waters - Tina Chang "Sugar"
Landed on a tar pit's surface - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
When dusk fell, a clutch of black birds landed - Michael Hettich "The Angels"
Your chariot landed upon rough rock - Zilka Joseph "Prophet of the Rock"
Of a landfall won barely - Carl Phillips "Said the Horse to the Light"
Greet us at landfall - May Sarton "Coming Into Eighty"
The cry of a stork landing on the roof - Anna Akhmatova [Untitled] transl. Richard McKane
Every landing a new abyss - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"
A bad penny landing same side up - Rachel Barenblat "Chord"
A sun's landing between eucalyptus trees - Lou Barrett "At a Jerusalem Market"
Opening the view to thousands of landing geese - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"
Landing on its bitter brilliance - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #9"
The pitter-patter of feet landing on rhymes - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"
A safe eternal landing - Allison Eir Jenks "Night Train from Barcelona"
A coin always landing tails - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
My hummingbird landing in a stranger's palm - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Two old swans landing downstream - Richard Solomon "The River Through Your Eyes (For Linda)"
Landlocked behind the barbed wire - Sheila Maldonado "herederos de cero"
Who with his landlord stands deuce high - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
And retain the landmark's weight - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"
The territory it claims as landmark - Camisha L. Jones "Scars"
Sheltering bounds of landmarks old - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
Beyond the landmarks of the present hour - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
Landscape.
No voice from these on any landward wind - Rennell Rodd "Atalanta"
A marshland of snakes - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 8. E-Kishnugal, the Temple of Nanna in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle
Across the marshlands of my heart - Mary Oliver "Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard"
Over moorland waste and crag - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]
Pipes of the misty moorlands - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"
Between two sister moorland rills - William Wordsworth "The Danish Boy"
Queen of the fleets of No-Man's-Land - Vachel Lindsay "Dancing for a Prize"
The outland peace of the trail that never turns back - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"
Promised Land.
Dusky depths of shadowlands - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
Elusive spirit of the shadow-land - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"
northward fire twists around the shrublands - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"
Our myriads swarm in the southlands warm - William Francis Barnard "The Tongues of Toil"
In the summer-land of dreams - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Upland.
Wasteland.
Prowling the wetlands for ghost crabs - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
A silky frenzy steeps the wetlands - Philip Schultz "Welcome to the Springs"
The implications of our wonderland - Noel Coward "Nothing Is Lost"
A declining wonderland - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Imagine"
There is no room left for my wonderland - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
Woodland.
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