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Potential Titles: Last
Wherever the last domino of my body falls - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"
Wrap the last rose of faith - Rasha Abdulhadi "Quailing"
The last hail-storm to trouble spring - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"
Caught last night in open sea - "Abroad"
The last words you hear on earth - Jessica Abughattas "Failed Poems"
Last winter's kisses, like salt on black ice - Kim Addonizio "Wine Tasting"
Grey shadows of Night's Last Watch fly - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
What odds if we at last are free? - John Albee "Evolution"
The last of the Titan brood - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips"
Finding the last puzzle piece - Julia Alvarez "Leaving English"
Where nothing lasts past a moment's trends - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."
Dig this cigarette as my last - Ralph Angel "Sampling"
Last inspired my pen - "Another Peep at the Links"
for how long will the ligaments last - Jarid Arraes "Movement"
To our very last tomorrows - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Too wild to last, too rare to die - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
To him that speaks the last farewell - B. "Two Pictures: Love Terrestrial" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Till in full worth it breaks at last - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Against the brilliance of the last act - Mary Jo Bang "In the Present and Probable Future"
While a bent hook holds back the last - Mary Jo Bang "Three Trees"
Blood can have the last word - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
should my winter come at last - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"
My heart at last has thawed - Elizabeth Bartlett "Under a Thatched Roof"
the last kiss like the first - Elizabeth Bartlett "weather forecast"
Smooth and even as her last defense - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"
Guarding their last embers - Charles Baudelaire "The Death of Lovers" transl. not credited
The last word of a thousand years - Clive Bell "The Last Infirmity"
The mind's last symbol - Clive Bell "To A.V.S. with a Book"
Tea brewed from last summer's flowers - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
On the verge of taking your last breath - Terry Blackhawk "Of Course"
Upon the last edges of thought - Maxwell Bodenheim "Psychic Clowns"
Down to the last stray molecule and rebel atom - Bruce Boston "The Last Alchemist"
The last alchemist will retreat to a birdsong wood - Bruce Boston "The Last Alchemist"
Where each generation of growth destroys the last - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
When the last bubbles of Atlantis broke - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"
The sky was come upon the earth at last - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"
His acre brought forth roots last year - Gordon Bottomley "The Ploughman"
Disappearing at last in silence's shawl - Julia Bouwsma "Annie in the Boat"
The last things we all agreed on - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Last night in fever dreams - Geoffrey Brock "Forever Street"
This last denial of my faith - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"
The last bird's belated flight - Charlotte Bronte "Stanzas"
Every last word is contagious - Jericho Brown "Heartland"
The last poor tatters the forests wear - Marie Hedderwick Browne "When Love Is Young"
Totems for the last city of gold - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
For nothing but the last crumbs of daylight - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
Till my last sun shall set - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Drifting"
The last sentimental cricket inching home - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"
To drink this last and bitter cup - Thomas Campbell "The Last Man"
Nought but ashes at the last - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
The sun's last rage - Jennifer Chang "The Winter's Wife"
the severity of the last syllable - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"
First light, last scent, lost country - Chen Chen "First Light"
The last line that sunders sand and surf - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Last year's extinctions paint the wall - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"
My fingers around my last dollar were curled - W.E. Christian "The Tale and Wail of a Rookie"
A last abundance correcting our poverties - John Ciardi "Abundance"
Intent on draining you of every last drop - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
Where we are nobody at last - Leonard Cohen "Homage to Morente"
My house at last in order - Leonard Cohen "The Lucky Night!!!!! Sunday March 7, 2004"
The campfire's last grey embers fall - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
A rose lasts all night long - Arthur Colton "Phyllis and Corydon"
Who lays foundations formed to last - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
I save your scarlet heart for last - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
That should never cease while daylight lasted - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Birds in the Snow"
The last knot that love could tie - Richard Crashaw "An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife, Who Died and Were Buried Together"
Be found at last not profitless - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
In this, the last and final room - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
Last night's dream is entering my body again - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"
the last immortal leaf is dead - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VIII)"
Faith's last doubt - e.e. cummings "nothing false and possible is love…"
Soon the last warm sun will set - Danske Dandridge "Indian Summer"
The moon's last dark smudge - Jim Daniels "Lip Gloss, Belgium"
Mark the last sunbeams, while sinking to rest - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"
Cup its first and last notes - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"
Turned into a bluebird last summer - Tyree Daye "Miss Mary Mack Introduces Her Wings"
One last candle burning low - Walter de la Mare "Mistletoe"
Of desire attain at last the height - Christine de Pisan "Roundel [Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Mourn not the joys of the lost last year - "Dead!" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Last year's sundered tune - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature VIII: Summer's Armies"
The shadows of last year's fields - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"
The last drops of daylight shimmering - Chris Dombrowski "Late Evening Fugue"
Escaping with the last unshattered mirror - Chris Dombrowski "Study for the Ridgeline Blue in Winter"
In the weight of last year's skies - Chris Dombrowski "To Carry Water"
The last statues worthy of adoration - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
Ledger of its last minutes - Chris Dombrowski "Windowsill"
This last lamenting kiss - John Donne "The Expiration"
Hours after the last act is dust - Timothy Donnelly "Habitable Nebula"
Hope: the last word spoken - Rita Dove "Testimony: 1968"
The last faint spark of its burning train - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
Last week's rusty eclipse - Cheryl Dumesnil "Lake Dharma"
Restlessness is the last ordinary map - Chiyuma Elliott "The Winter Mirror (Explanation)"
The last spark of Saint Anthony's fire - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"
Alone with the gold last light - Heid E. Erdich "Stung"
Shall starve at last for truth - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"
When the last ancient glacier gleamed blue - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"
As they exhaled their last grief - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"
The last and first star - Tarfia Faizullah "Red-Lipped Poem"
after keeping you up late as my youth last night - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"
Hope destined an hour to last - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VII. In a Bar Room"
Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
From the clock's last chime to the next - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"
Crashing in ruin quiet at last - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
The last track of parting light - "Flora: a Vision"
Last through anxious rain - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 9"
The sand blowing over her last regret - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Touring the Earth Gallery"
Last year's bear asleep - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen L"
Offered its last apparition - Carolyn Forche "Curfew"
Maintain a symmetry to the last - Maxwell E. Foster "More Modern Love"
That last far dawn which is eternity - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
The last light that leaps the night - Gilbert Frankau "The Observers"
But the last choice is still the same - Robert Frost "The Trial by Existence"
When the last star flowers - Zona Gale "A Meeting"
Life walks wreathed at last - Zona Gale "There Are Within Us Lives We Never Live"
No disguise lasts long - Tess Gallagher "After the Chinese"
The last light of each favorite tree - Tess Gallagher "Reading the Waterfall"
Pilfer the last tomatoes of August - Deborah Garrison "Long Weekend at Your House"
The dawn stayed till the last had gone - Theodosia Garrison "The Neighbors"
Last summer's garden buried in snow - Dana Gioia "The Heart of the Matter"
And weave a tale of mystery to the last - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
With his last breath cursed them all - John Woodcock Graves "John Peel"
Whose last lover was flood - Leah Naomi Green "Field Guide to the Chaparral"
One last stand in my soul - Kimberly Grey "Conjugated"
Lasts beyond decaying dust - Ivor Gurney "Eternal Treasure"
At the last of all our partings - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
One last gem from the heart of the mine - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
One last cup from the veins of the vine - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Where the dead last stood - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Waving at the last train to leave - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"
Eating of the last sweet bite - Joy Harjo "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
Candle wax from last year's vigil - francine j. harris "what you'd find buried in the dirt under charles f. kettering sr. high school"
The last of the careless days - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"
To meet at last the desecrated dawn - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Three Poems of Christmas Eve: Tonight"
Like a cinder fading black at last - F.W. Harvey "Prisoners"
Birches inheriting the last light - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"
The heretic has come at last to heel - Seamus Heaney "Whatever You Say Say Nothing"
The last glimmering of your praise - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"
The old resentment lasts like death - William Ernest Henley "Or Ever the Knightly Years Were Gone"
From the foundations to the last edge of the cornerstone - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
At last the fatal morning came - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"
The last freestanding rebellion - Faylita Hicks "The Fantastic Life of My Guardian Angels"
A handful of memory left by the last glacier - Conrad Hilberry "Algae"
Holding that last rhyme off - Conrad Hilberry "Loping Road"
For what turned out to be the last time - Edward Hirsch "Cotton Candy"
Sits long inside his last sorrow - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"
Last year's late-ripening persimmons - Jane Hirshfield "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me"
How long mistakes last - Tony Hoagland "Happy and Free"
Engulf the last dim star - William D. Hodjkiss "Song of the Storm Swept-Plain"
Breaks the last jigsaw of ice - Jackson Holbert "Letter from Nine Mile"
Down to man's last dust - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Sea and the Skylark"
This dust of thoughts be laid at last - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIII: The Immortal Part"
As we turned the last windy corner - Marie Howe "Walking Home"
Flame out a desperate and last surmise - Richard Hughes "Vagrancy"
But there was naught but ashes at the last - Aldous Huxley "Misplaced Love"
Unearthly goblins shriek their last adieu - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
The last note of a clarinet - fahima ife "means of evasion"
Bench where the last mourner lingers - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"
Where its light was last seen - Luisa A. Igloria "Orchard"
Last night I tumbled off the water cart - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Last year's Pledge with this New Year expires - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Last year's fading yield - Elinor Jenkins "To H.S.T."
That last, sweet waltz with you - James Weldon Johnson "The Last Waltz"
The last besieged retreat of love - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"
The last summer of pure breathlessness - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
The last October peaches fall - Lionel Johnson "Comfort"
Last lingering star of hope - Edward Smyth Jones "Flag of the Free"
The last of the disappearing bees - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
To answer your rifle's last question - Saeed Jones "After the First Shot"
This last night of Sodom - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Whalebone Corset"
On whose edges the last escape is infinite - Fady Joudah "Black Hole"
Spring lasts longer than its bloom - Fady Joudah "Venus Cycle"
A harbor for Last Year - Kaneko Misuzu "Last Year" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi
The last beings of the blue star on all spheres of the Sun - Raimo Kangasniemi "October 2026: The End of the Picnic"
The last glance of his vanishing light - Fanny Kemble "The Minstrel's Grave"
The last sunset of hope pass away - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"
'Twixt the last violet and the earliest rose - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"
And guide it safely to the port at last - Fanny Kemble "To Mrs. --- [I never shall forget thee--'tis a word]"
And again the last time my name is said - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"
Honey lasts best in the future - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
October's last straggling days - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Direction and distance traveled from the last known fix - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"
My last refuge from humanity - Alexis LaMantia "Waiting"
To see last night's moon - Susan Landgraf "Reading 'Lives of the Animals' by Robert Wrigley"
As the last tune burns down to embers - Joan Larkin "The Combo"
By all that comes at last from fire - Michael Lauchlan "Smoke"
Giving your last allegiance - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
The last step out of the east - D.H. Lawrence "The Red Wolf"
On Hell's last engine of the Iron Cross - Richard Le Gallienne "To Belgium"
just one last prickly conundrum - Mary Soon Lee "What Cacti Read"
The trade he had last been pursuing - Henry S. Leigh "Shabby-Genteel"
Held locked in the veins till the last fire - Philip Levine "Breath"
Greets me with last year's dead thistles - Philip Levine "Gospel"
Gave back the last hard breath - Philip Levine "Joe Gould's Pen"
Before the dark whispers the last word - Philip Levine "Unholy Saturday"
Their last words reach us in the language of light - Philip Levine "Waking in March"
Last night's planets and stars - Li Shang-yin "[Last night's planets and stars]" transl. by Burton Watson
As winter takes my last dawn - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"
The last of the maroon crabapple ovates - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"
Wearing last year's sunbeams - Sandra J. Lindow "The Theater for Cloud Repair"
Studded with the last universe's stars - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"
My own book of your last hours - Audre Lorde "Legacy -- Hers"
We met last in the distant years - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]
In anger said a last good-bye - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]
But now I know the truth at last - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]
When the last dawn breaks - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Last Things"
With the last good, forgiving, breeze - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
Hurrying like a last eclipse - Edwin Markham "Keats A-Dying"
Beyond that last, gray step - Jeannette Marks "Mist"
Taking the last daylight out in a lightened dusk - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: [It creeps through like night]"
Upon his last moon's granites die - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
The Destinies have surrendered you at last - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"
To the last blade of thought - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
Made from my last pennies - Adrian Matejka "I Say the Thing for the First Time"
In its toxin of last resort - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
Warring gods vying for last words - Airea D. Matthews "Psyche on Prozac"
Shattered in the last crusade - Theodore Maynard "Don Quixote"
The last black anguish of the thief - Theodore Maynard "Faith's Difficulty"
The last of all your silver songs - Theodore Maynard "In Memoriam: Patrick Henry Pearse"
Until the last sad tongue of flame expire - Theodore Maynard "Nocturne"
When the world's last cities fall - Theodore Maynard "Processional"
Last winter's salt stains - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
on the last day in ordinary tide - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"
Turtles bask in the last tatters of afternoon - Campbell McGrath "The Everglades"
The boat-yard of the last gondola maker - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
Last rites in strange establishments - Diane Mehta "Ode to Patrick Kearns, Funeral Director of the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home, in Queens"
Dante got the last word - Diane Mehta "Walking to Athena"
Fight to make mercy last - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
The last echoes of Diana's horn - George Meredith "Appreciation"
My last above the daisies - George Meredith "Juggling Jerry"
Off the last vital edge of air - George Meredith "Night of Frost in May"
Sick Philosophy's last leaves - George Meredith "The Spirit of Shakespeare"
The roots of last year's roses - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: VIII"
The last words your fingers wrote - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Interim"
The last time you mailed a postcard - E. Ethelbert Miller "Postcards"
Carrying the psalm of last chances - Claire Millikin "August Sander's 'Man with Dancing Bear, 1928, Westerwald'"
Ashes from last year's fire - jessica Care moore "After Heaven is All Goodbyes (for Tongo Eisen-Martin)"
The last luckless mollusk adrift in the blast - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"
And joy of that last mile before I reach the sea - William Moore "Expectancy"
As I listen to its winds one last time - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"
The last word still tender - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
My last nerve's lucid music - Harryette Mullen "Page 1/Sapphire's lyre styles"
Last hope tiptoed past - Walter Dean Myers "Terry Smith, 24, Unemployed"
The last assault of an army of flags - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff
Last drop of pure forgetfulness - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The last bitter drops of sobbing - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Who reached the last edge of the knife - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Where the last wave reached her - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Last bright relic of the moon's full gold - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"
Plays his role to the last whispered word - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"
Your last glimpse of the setting sun - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"
His last disciple's wandering son - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Beyond the last horizon of your pain - Alfred Noyes "The Book of Earth X: Epilogue"
Held the lilac last of night - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"
That last tone emptying into air - Naomi Shihab Nye "Music"
The holy burden of being the last on standing - Achy Obejas "Recountal"
The last roses of the sunset - Mary Oliver "The Notebook"
All winds blow cold at last - Mary Oliver "The Orchard"
The last descendant of the stone dynasty - Ekhmetjan Osman "Uyghur Impressions 6: Thousand Buddha Caves" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
These last loving words in vain - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"
Out of the midmost Fire at last - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"
To this last ambush of the Market-place - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
The last relay of dreams - Walter S. Percy "Peep-of-Dawn"
One last bright chance to believe - Carl Phillips "Of California"
The sweetest vintage at last turns sour - Po-Chu-i "Children" (translated by Arthur Waley)
The last little dream was the best of all - Miriam Clark Potter "Dreams for Three"
I thought each turn would be the last - Miriam Clark Potter "Roads"
In the last wallow of hell - Ezra Pound "Near Perigord"
In love with last chances - D. A. Powell "The Imaginal State"
Spare us last catastrophe - John Presland "The Deluge"
Last night and this morning - John Prine "Souvenirs"
Before that last time breaking - Khadijah Queen "Disposed"
Want to have the last sound - Khadijah Queen "Live Unadorned"
The last flat stone in a river - Paige Quinones "Ode to Loss"
Dying flame of life's last fire - G.A. Raybold "The Joys of Former Years Have Fled"
The echo of the last link breaking - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
While the last torch spent its flame - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"
Saying the same thing they said last night - Lynn Riggs "A Letter"
The last gray feather to southward goes - Lloyd Roberts "At the Year's End"
The creak of broken rushes and the last snipe's cry - Lloyd Roberts "The Wind Tongues"
As if the last of days were fading - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Dark Hills"
This last of nights before the last of days - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
When the last bitterness was past - Rennell Rodd "Actea"
To catch the last vestiges of someone's history - Levi Romero "the cherry end of your cigarette against the pale sky"
Where the last anguish deepens - George William Russell "The Place of Rest"
Naming an arch of last goodbyes - David St. John "Venetian Farewells"
And no longer forget who robbed me last year - Carl Sandburg "I am the People, the Mob"
Sleep is the first and last and best of all - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"
A bat flies across the last star - Reg Saner "Spring Song"
The last mysterious voyage - May Sarton "Coming Into Eighty"
To the devil gone at last - Friedrich Schiller "Bacchus in the Pillory"
The pitted pillars of our last and highest cities - Ann K. Schwader "Aurelia Aurita"
Hold to shadow as the last reality - Ann K. Schwader "Flash Specters"
That even last mistakes can be outrun - Ann K. Schwader "Goodnight Aileen"
Allowing the night to have the last word - Nicole Sealey "cento for the night i said, 'i love you'"
Learning the last bright routs - Anne Sexton "Her Kind"
The last few drops of light drain silently - Edward Shanks "A Night-Piece"
Swept at last the shadow from her brow - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Content"
Have won at last this little portion of content - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Until at last Time's legions overthrow - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Last breath, last sight of light - Joyce Sidman "Into the Mud"
We are waiting for every last tear - Joyce Sidman "Illness: A Conversation"
Building things that don't need to last - Joyce Sidman "Invocation for Sandcastles"
Last few hours of gold - Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen "Snake's Lullaby"
Holdover from last season's wilds - Jake Skeets "If Fire"
The last echoes of a thunder spent - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Missed the last train out - Maggie Smith "Twentieth Century"
It was Tuesday all last year - Marin Sorescu "Question" transl. by Michael Hamburger
Those last red relics of departing light - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Had gathered the night's last tear - George Sterling "Hesperian"
One last look at the ducks - Wallace Stevens "The Hermitage at the Centre"
Laid bare in the last line's turn - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "When You're Away, I Consider Form"
While song and jest shall last - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
Turns to the last game of all - L.A.G. Strong "Eena-Mena-Mina-Mo"
Last year's frost and last year's fruit - Muriel Stuart "Leda"
To the last ramparts of disguise - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
Peopled with phantoms too brilliant to last - Miss Caroline E. Sutton "The Past" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Gave their last blood to birds - Alison Swan "After Reading The Late, Great Lakes"
Till the last moon droop and the last tide fail - Arthur Symons "The Crying of Water"
Whose last branch failed to leaf - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"
No mistakes will last - Arthur Sze "Water Calligraphy"
Returns at last to the empty road - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson
This last wild requiem for the lost - J. Bayard Taylor "A Requiem in the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Two more datapoints to prove some things last - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"
Toward the last green barrier island - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"
who stitches together the last sky - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
last sky will empty itself of airplanes - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
The sadness of the owl's last cry - Edward Thomas "Ambition"
Wind with the last word - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Sleep"
How long does a blizzard last? - Kristen Tracy "Waiting for Crocuses"
In their last scorn of sorrow - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"
The last juices from the sun's ripe fruit - Iris Tree "[Lulled are the dazzling colours of the day]"
That then the last high trumpet pours - Herbert Trench "I Heard a Soldier"
Wretched is our last meeting - "The Tryst After Death" transl. by Kuno Meyer
When summer died last year - Katherine Tynan "Shamrock Song"
The last thin acre of stalks that stood - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"
Of mercy in the last day - "The Vision of Seth" (Translated by Edwin Norris)
The last entry into January - Ocean Vuong "Devotion"
Burned his last violin - Ocean Vuong "Immigrant Haibun"
And silent witness give that love shall last - E.G.W. "To a Lady" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.145-v.III, 9 Oct. 1886]
Leave the highlights for last - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"
One last light of rapture give - William Watson "The Flight of Youth"
Last year among the flowers - Wei Ying-wu "To Send to Li Tan and Yuan Hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
Once I was a Venetian with my last gold coin - John Moncure Wettarau "Every Moment"
That we are fellows till the last night falls - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Such undreamed distances as the last planets see - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Turned for the last compassion - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
Reach the last verge and limits - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
Have burned to their last great glow - Helen Hay Whitney "In Autumn"
The great divide of falsehood, hunger and last year - John Wieners "In Public"
The last of the nation's orphaned goats - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"
When the last echoes of my harp expire - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Last autumn's frost, thick as your indifference - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"
The last that dare to struggle - William Wordsworth "November, 1806"
Last ashes of satisfaction - Tobias Wray "The Last Orgasm"
One last starry daffodil excess - Tobias Wray "The Last Orgasm"
Better to be the last chronicler of twilight - Charles Wright "My Old Clinch Mountain Home"
Bear the last trickling tear-drop - John Wright "The Wrecked Mariner"
When foxes eat the last gold grape - Elinor Wylie "Escape"
Last breaths of the disappeared - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
The image of my last content - Francis Brett Young "Lochanilaun"
Lest their last fruit be tears - Francis Brett Young "Testament"
Though silence always has the last word - Adam Zagajewski "Radio Street"
Which is the last savage flower - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"
A painful candidate for lasting fame - George Crabbe "The Library"
Built lasting monuments of severe stone - Kwame Dawes "Requiem"
Thoughts lasting to the end - Aubrey de Vere "Sorrow"
Only solitude is a lasting friend - Jin Ha "A Center" (translated by the author)
The journey lasting more than ten lifetimes - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"
In the face of never lasting - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
Left us a lasting gage of their musical art - Henry S. Leigh "The Two Ages"
Not lasting but repeatable - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May"
Easy sales of lasting pleasure - Francis Quarles "The World's Fallacies"
Full character'd with lasting memory - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXII"
A lasting light along her pathway shed - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"
Steer her through a dream lasting lifetimes - Yee Heng Yeh "Song"
Swap you last-minute with a dream - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
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Wrap the last rose of faith - Rasha Abdulhadi "Quailing"
The last hail-storm to trouble spring - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"
Caught last night in open sea - "Abroad"
The last words you hear on earth - Jessica Abughattas "Failed Poems"
Last winter's kisses, like salt on black ice - Kim Addonizio "Wine Tasting"
Grey shadows of Night's Last Watch fly - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
What odds if we at last are free? - John Albee "Evolution"
The last of the Titan brood - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips"
Finding the last puzzle piece - Julia Alvarez "Leaving English"
Where nothing lasts past a moment's trends - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."
Dig this cigarette as my last - Ralph Angel "Sampling"
Last inspired my pen - "Another Peep at the Links"
for how long will the ligaments last - Jarid Arraes "Movement"
To our very last tomorrows - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
Too wild to last, too rare to die - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
To him that speaks the last farewell - B. "Two Pictures: Love Terrestrial" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
Till in full worth it breaks at last - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
Against the brilliance of the last act - Mary Jo Bang "In the Present and Probable Future"
While a bent hook holds back the last - Mary Jo Bang "Three Trees"
Blood can have the last word - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"
should my winter come at last - Elizabeth Bartlett "swallows return"
My heart at last has thawed - Elizabeth Bartlett "Under a Thatched Roof"
the last kiss like the first - Elizabeth Bartlett "weather forecast"
Smooth and even as her last defense - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"
Guarding their last embers - Charles Baudelaire "The Death of Lovers" transl. not credited
The last word of a thousand years - Clive Bell "The Last Infirmity"
The mind's last symbol - Clive Bell "To A.V.S. with a Book"
Tea brewed from last summer's flowers - Kyce Bello "Far Country"
On the verge of taking your last breath - Terry Blackhawk "Of Course"
Upon the last edges of thought - Maxwell Bodenheim "Psychic Clowns"
Down to the last stray molecule and rebel atom - Bruce Boston "The Last Alchemist"
The last alchemist will retreat to a birdsong wood - Bruce Boston "The Last Alchemist"
Where each generation of growth destroys the last - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
When the last bubbles of Atlantis broke - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"
The sky was come upon the earth at last - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"
His acre brought forth roots last year - Gordon Bottomley "The Ploughman"
Disappearing at last in silence's shawl - Julia Bouwsma "Annie in the Boat"
The last things we all agreed on - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Last night in fever dreams - Geoffrey Brock "Forever Street"
This last denial of my faith - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"
The last bird's belated flight - Charlotte Bronte "Stanzas"
Every last word is contagious - Jericho Brown "Heartland"
The last poor tatters the forests wear - Marie Hedderwick Browne "When Love Is Young"
Totems for the last city of gold - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
For nothing but the last crumbs of daylight - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
Till my last sun shall set - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Drifting"
The last sentimental cricket inching home - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"
To drink this last and bitter cup - Thomas Campbell "The Last Man"
Nought but ashes at the last - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"
The sun's last rage - Jennifer Chang "The Winter's Wife"
the severity of the last syllable - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"
First light, last scent, lost country - Chen Chen "First Light"
The last line that sunders sand and surf - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Last year's extinctions paint the wall - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"
My fingers around my last dollar were curled - W.E. Christian "The Tale and Wail of a Rookie"
A last abundance correcting our poverties - John Ciardi "Abundance"
Intent on draining you of every last drop - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
Where we are nobody at last - Leonard Cohen "Homage to Morente"
My house at last in order - Leonard Cohen "The Lucky Night!!!!! Sunday March 7, 2004"
The campfire's last grey embers fall - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
A rose lasts all night long - Arthur Colton "Phyllis and Corydon"
Who lays foundations formed to last - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
I save your scarlet heart for last - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
That should never cease while daylight lasted - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Birds in the Snow"
The last knot that love could tie - Richard Crashaw "An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife, Who Died and Were Buried Together"
Be found at last not profitless - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"
In this, the last and final room - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
Last night's dream is entering my body again - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"
the last immortal leaf is dead - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VIII)"
Faith's last doubt - e.e. cummings "nothing false and possible is love…"
Soon the last warm sun will set - Danske Dandridge "Indian Summer"
The moon's last dark smudge - Jim Daniels "Lip Gloss, Belgium"
Mark the last sunbeams, while sinking to rest - Lucretia Maria Davidson "Twilight"
Cup its first and last notes - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"
Turned into a bluebird last summer - Tyree Daye "Miss Mary Mack Introduces Her Wings"
One last candle burning low - Walter de la Mare "Mistletoe"
Of desire attain at last the height - Christine de Pisan "Roundel [Laughing grey eyes, whose light in me I bear]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Mourn not the joys of the lost last year - "Dead!" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Last year's sundered tune - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature VIII: Summer's Armies"
The shadows of last year's fields - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"
The last drops of daylight shimmering - Chris Dombrowski "Late Evening Fugue"
Escaping with the last unshattered mirror - Chris Dombrowski "Study for the Ridgeline Blue in Winter"
In the weight of last year's skies - Chris Dombrowski "To Carry Water"
The last statues worthy of adoration - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"
Ledger of its last minutes - Chris Dombrowski "Windowsill"
This last lamenting kiss - John Donne "The Expiration"
Hours after the last act is dust - Timothy Donnelly "Habitable Nebula"
Hope: the last word spoken - Rita Dove "Testimony: 1968"
The last faint spark of its burning train - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
Last week's rusty eclipse - Cheryl Dumesnil "Lake Dharma"
Restlessness is the last ordinary map - Chiyuma Elliott "The Winter Mirror (Explanation)"
The last spark of Saint Anthony's fire - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"
Alone with the gold last light - Heid E. Erdich "Stung"
Shall starve at last for truth - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"
When the last ancient glacier gleamed blue - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"
As they exhaled their last grief - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"
The last and first star - Tarfia Faizullah "Red-Lipped Poem"
after keeping you up late as my youth last night - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"
Hope destined an hour to last - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VII. In a Bar Room"
Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
From the clock's last chime to the next - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"
Crashing in ruin quiet at last - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
The last track of parting light - "Flora: a Vision"
Last through anxious rain - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 9"
The sand blowing over her last regret - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Touring the Earth Gallery"
Last year's bear asleep - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen L"
Offered its last apparition - Carolyn Forche "Curfew"
Maintain a symmetry to the last - Maxwell E. Foster "More Modern Love"
That last far dawn which is eternity - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
The last light that leaps the night - Gilbert Frankau "The Observers"
But the last choice is still the same - Robert Frost "The Trial by Existence"
When the last star flowers - Zona Gale "A Meeting"
Life walks wreathed at last - Zona Gale "There Are Within Us Lives We Never Live"
No disguise lasts long - Tess Gallagher "After the Chinese"
The last light of each favorite tree - Tess Gallagher "Reading the Waterfall"
Pilfer the last tomatoes of August - Deborah Garrison "Long Weekend at Your House"
The dawn stayed till the last had gone - Theodosia Garrison "The Neighbors"
Last summer's garden buried in snow - Dana Gioia "The Heart of the Matter"
And weave a tale of mystery to the last - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
With his last breath cursed them all - John Woodcock Graves "John Peel"
Whose last lover was flood - Leah Naomi Green "Field Guide to the Chaparral"
One last stand in my soul - Kimberly Grey "Conjugated"
Lasts beyond decaying dust - Ivor Gurney "Eternal Treasure"
At the last of all our partings - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
One last gem from the heart of the mine - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
One last cup from the veins of the vine - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
Where the dead last stood - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Waving at the last train to leave - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"
Eating of the last sweet bite - Joy Harjo "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
Candle wax from last year's vigil - francine j. harris "what you'd find buried in the dirt under charles f. kettering sr. high school"
The last of the careless days - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"
To meet at last the desecrated dawn - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Three Poems of Christmas Eve: Tonight"
Like a cinder fading black at last - F.W. Harvey "Prisoners"
Birches inheriting the last light - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"
The heretic has come at last to heel - Seamus Heaney "Whatever You Say Say Nothing"
The last glimmering of your praise - Felicia Hemans "The Aged Indian"
The old resentment lasts like death - William Ernest Henley "Or Ever the Knightly Years Were Gone"
From the foundations to the last edge of the cornerstone - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
At last the fatal morning came - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"
The last freestanding rebellion - Faylita Hicks "The Fantastic Life of My Guardian Angels"
A handful of memory left by the last glacier - Conrad Hilberry "Algae"
Holding that last rhyme off - Conrad Hilberry "Loping Road"
For what turned out to be the last time - Edward Hirsch "Cotton Candy"
Sits long inside his last sorrow - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"
Last year's late-ripening persimmons - Jane Hirshfield "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me"
How long mistakes last - Tony Hoagland "Happy and Free"
Engulf the last dim star - William D. Hodjkiss "Song of the Storm Swept-Plain"
Breaks the last jigsaw of ice - Jackson Holbert "Letter from Nine Mile"
Down to man's last dust - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Sea and the Skylark"
This dust of thoughts be laid at last - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIII: The Immortal Part"
As we turned the last windy corner - Marie Howe "Walking Home"
Flame out a desperate and last surmise - Richard Hughes "Vagrancy"
But there was naught but ashes at the last - Aldous Huxley "Misplaced Love"
Unearthly goblins shriek their last adieu - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
The last note of a clarinet - fahima ife "means of evasion"
Bench where the last mourner lingers - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"
Where its light was last seen - Luisa A. Igloria "Orchard"
Last night I tumbled off the water cart - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Last year's Pledge with this New Year expires - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Last year's fading yield - Elinor Jenkins "To H.S.T."
That last, sweet waltz with you - James Weldon Johnson "The Last Waltz"
The last besieged retreat of love - James Weldon Johnson "The White Witch"
The last summer of pure breathlessness - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"
The last October peaches fall - Lionel Johnson "Comfort"
Last lingering star of hope - Edward Smyth Jones "Flag of the Free"
The last of the disappearing bees - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
To answer your rifle's last question - Saeed Jones "After the First Shot"
This last night of Sodom - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Whalebone Corset"
On whose edges the last escape is infinite - Fady Joudah "Black Hole"
Spring lasts longer than its bloom - Fady Joudah "Venus Cycle"
A harbor for Last Year - Kaneko Misuzu "Last Year" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi
The last beings of the blue star on all spheres of the Sun - Raimo Kangasniemi "October 2026: The End of the Picnic"
The last glance of his vanishing light - Fanny Kemble "The Minstrel's Grave"
The last sunset of hope pass away - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"
'Twixt the last violet and the earliest rose - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"
And guide it safely to the port at last - Fanny Kemble "To Mrs. --- [I never shall forget thee--'tis a word]"
And again the last time my name is said - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"
Honey lasts best in the future - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
October's last straggling days - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Direction and distance traveled from the last known fix - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"
My last refuge from humanity - Alexis LaMantia "Waiting"
To see last night's moon - Susan Landgraf "Reading 'Lives of the Animals' by Robert Wrigley"
As the last tune burns down to embers - Joan Larkin "The Combo"
By all that comes at last from fire - Michael Lauchlan "Smoke"
Giving your last allegiance - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
The last step out of the east - D.H. Lawrence "The Red Wolf"
On Hell's last engine of the Iron Cross - Richard Le Gallienne "To Belgium"
just one last prickly conundrum - Mary Soon Lee "What Cacti Read"
The trade he had last been pursuing - Henry S. Leigh "Shabby-Genteel"
Held locked in the veins till the last fire - Philip Levine "Breath"
Greets me with last year's dead thistles - Philip Levine "Gospel"
Gave back the last hard breath - Philip Levine "Joe Gould's Pen"
Before the dark whispers the last word - Philip Levine "Unholy Saturday"
Their last words reach us in the language of light - Philip Levine "Waking in March"
Last night's planets and stars - Li Shang-yin "[Last night's planets and stars]" transl. by Burton Watson
As winter takes my last dawn - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"
The last of the maroon crabapple ovates - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"
Wearing last year's sunbeams - Sandra J. Lindow "The Theater for Cloud Repair"
Studded with the last universe's stars - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"
My own book of your last hours - Audre Lorde "Legacy -- Hers"
We met last in the distant years - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]
In anger said a last good-bye - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]
But now I know the truth at last - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]
When the last dawn breaks - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Last Things"
With the last good, forgiving, breeze - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
Hurrying like a last eclipse - Edwin Markham "Keats A-Dying"
Beyond that last, gray step - Jeannette Marks "Mist"
Taking the last daylight out in a lightened dusk - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: [It creeps through like night]"
Upon his last moon's granites die - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
The Destinies have surrendered you at last - Edgar Lee Masters "Heaven Is but the Hour"
To the last blade of thought - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
Made from my last pennies - Adrian Matejka "I Say the Thing for the First Time"
In its toxin of last resort - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
Warring gods vying for last words - Airea D. Matthews "Psyche on Prozac"
Shattered in the last crusade - Theodore Maynard "Don Quixote"
The last black anguish of the thief - Theodore Maynard "Faith's Difficulty"
The last of all your silver songs - Theodore Maynard "In Memoriam: Patrick Henry Pearse"
Until the last sad tongue of flame expire - Theodore Maynard "Nocturne"
When the world's last cities fall - Theodore Maynard "Processional"
Last winter's salt stains - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
on the last day in ordinary tide - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"
Turtles bask in the last tatters of afternoon - Campbell McGrath "The Everglades"
The boat-yard of the last gondola maker - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
Last rites in strange establishments - Diane Mehta "Ode to Patrick Kearns, Funeral Director of the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home, in Queens"
Dante got the last word - Diane Mehta "Walking to Athena"
Fight to make mercy last - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
The last echoes of Diana's horn - George Meredith "Appreciation"
My last above the daisies - George Meredith "Juggling Jerry"
Off the last vital edge of air - George Meredith "Night of Frost in May"
Sick Philosophy's last leaves - George Meredith "The Spirit of Shakespeare"
The roots of last year's roses - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: VIII"
The last words your fingers wrote - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Interim"
The last time you mailed a postcard - E. Ethelbert Miller "Postcards"
Carrying the psalm of last chances - Claire Millikin "August Sander's 'Man with Dancing Bear, 1928, Westerwald'"
Ashes from last year's fire - jessica Care moore "After Heaven is All Goodbyes (for Tongo Eisen-Martin)"
The last luckless mollusk adrift in the blast - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"
And joy of that last mile before I reach the sea - William Moore "Expectancy"
As I listen to its winds one last time - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"
The last word still tender - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
My last nerve's lucid music - Harryette Mullen "Page 1/Sapphire's lyre styles"
Last hope tiptoed past - Walter Dean Myers "Terry Smith, 24, Unemployed"
The last assault of an army of flags - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff
Last drop of pure forgetfulness - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The last bitter drops of sobbing - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Who reached the last edge of the knife - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Where the last wave reached her - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Last bright relic of the moon's full gold - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"
Plays his role to the last whispered word - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"
Your last glimpse of the setting sun - Nancy Nishihara "Skeletons in the Sun"
His last disciple's wandering son - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
Beyond the last horizon of your pain - Alfred Noyes "The Book of Earth X: Epilogue"
Held the lilac last of night - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"
That last tone emptying into air - Naomi Shihab Nye "Music"
The holy burden of being the last on standing - Achy Obejas "Recountal"
The last roses of the sunset - Mary Oliver "The Notebook"
All winds blow cold at last - Mary Oliver "The Orchard"
The last descendant of the stone dynasty - Ekhmetjan Osman "Uyghur Impressions 6: Thousand Buddha Caves" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
These last loving words in vain - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"
Out of the midmost Fire at last - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"
To this last ambush of the Market-place - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
The last relay of dreams - Walter S. Percy "Peep-of-Dawn"
One last bright chance to believe - Carl Phillips "Of California"
The sweetest vintage at last turns sour - Po-Chu-i "Children" (translated by Arthur Waley)
The last little dream was the best of all - Miriam Clark Potter "Dreams for Three"
I thought each turn would be the last - Miriam Clark Potter "Roads"
In the last wallow of hell - Ezra Pound "Near Perigord"
In love with last chances - D. A. Powell "The Imaginal State"
Spare us last catastrophe - John Presland "The Deluge"
Last night and this morning - John Prine "Souvenirs"
Before that last time breaking - Khadijah Queen "Disposed"
Want to have the last sound - Khadijah Queen "Live Unadorned"
The last flat stone in a river - Paige Quinones "Ode to Loss"
Dying flame of life's last fire - G.A. Raybold "The Joys of Former Years Have Fled"
The echo of the last link breaking - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
While the last torch spent its flame - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"
Saying the same thing they said last night - Lynn Riggs "A Letter"
The last gray feather to southward goes - Lloyd Roberts "At the Year's End"
The creak of broken rushes and the last snipe's cry - Lloyd Roberts "The Wind Tongues"
As if the last of days were fading - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Dark Hills"
This last of nights before the last of days - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
When the last bitterness was past - Rennell Rodd "Actea"
To catch the last vestiges of someone's history - Levi Romero "the cherry end of your cigarette against the pale sky"
Where the last anguish deepens - George William Russell "The Place of Rest"
Naming an arch of last goodbyes - David St. John "Venetian Farewells"
And no longer forget who robbed me last year - Carl Sandburg "I am the People, the Mob"
Sleep is the first and last and best of all - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"
A bat flies across the last star - Reg Saner "Spring Song"
The last mysterious voyage - May Sarton "Coming Into Eighty"
To the devil gone at last - Friedrich Schiller "Bacchus in the Pillory"
The pitted pillars of our last and highest cities - Ann K. Schwader "Aurelia Aurita"
Hold to shadow as the last reality - Ann K. Schwader "Flash Specters"
That even last mistakes can be outrun - Ann K. Schwader "Goodnight Aileen"
Allowing the night to have the last word - Nicole Sealey "cento for the night i said, 'i love you'"
Learning the last bright routs - Anne Sexton "Her Kind"
The last few drops of light drain silently - Edward Shanks "A Night-Piece"
Swept at last the shadow from her brow - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Content"
Have won at last this little portion of content - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Until at last Time's legions overthrow - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Last breath, last sight of light - Joyce Sidman "Into the Mud"
We are waiting for every last tear - Joyce Sidman "Illness: A Conversation"
Building things that don't need to last - Joyce Sidman "Invocation for Sandcastles"
Last few hours of gold - Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen "Snake's Lullaby"
Holdover from last season's wilds - Jake Skeets "If Fire"
The last echoes of a thunder spent - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Missed the last train out - Maggie Smith "Twentieth Century"
It was Tuesday all last year - Marin Sorescu "Question" transl. by Michael Hamburger
Those last red relics of departing light - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"
Had gathered the night's last tear - George Sterling "Hesperian"
One last look at the ducks - Wallace Stevens "The Hermitage at the Centre"
Laid bare in the last line's turn - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "When You're Away, I Consider Form"
While song and jest shall last - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
Turns to the last game of all - L.A.G. Strong "Eena-Mena-Mina-Mo"
Last year's frost and last year's fruit - Muriel Stuart "Leda"
To the last ramparts of disguise - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"
Peopled with phantoms too brilliant to last - Miss Caroline E. Sutton "The Past" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Gave their last blood to birds - Alison Swan "After Reading The Late, Great Lakes"
Till the last moon droop and the last tide fail - Arthur Symons "The Crying of Water"
Whose last branch failed to leaf - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"
No mistakes will last - Arthur Sze "Water Calligraphy"
Returns at last to the empty road - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson
This last wild requiem for the lost - J. Bayard Taylor "A Requiem in the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Two more datapoints to prove some things last - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"
Toward the last green barrier island - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"
who stitches together the last sky - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
last sky will empty itself of airplanes - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
The sadness of the owl's last cry - Edward Thomas "Ambition"
Wind with the last word - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Sleep"
How long does a blizzard last? - Kristen Tracy "Waiting for Crocuses"
In their last scorn of sorrow - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"
The last juices from the sun's ripe fruit - Iris Tree "[Lulled are the dazzling colours of the day]"
That then the last high trumpet pours - Herbert Trench "I Heard a Soldier"
Wretched is our last meeting - "The Tryst After Death" transl. by Kuno Meyer
When summer died last year - Katherine Tynan "Shamrock Song"
The last thin acre of stalks that stood - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"
Of mercy in the last day - "The Vision of Seth" (Translated by Edwin Norris)
The last entry into January - Ocean Vuong "Devotion"
Burned his last violin - Ocean Vuong "Immigrant Haibun"
And silent witness give that love shall last - E.G.W. "To a Lady" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.145-v.III, 9 Oct. 1886]
Leave the highlights for last - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"
One last light of rapture give - William Watson "The Flight of Youth"
Last year among the flowers - Wei Ying-wu "To Send to Li Tan and Yuan Hsi" transl. by Burton Watson
Once I was a Venetian with my last gold coin - John Moncure Wettarau "Every Moment"
That we are fellows till the last night falls - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Such undreamed distances as the last planets see - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Turned for the last compassion - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"
Reach the last verge and limits - John Hall Wheelock "Sea-Horizons"
Have burned to their last great glow - Helen Hay Whitney "In Autumn"
The great divide of falsehood, hunger and last year - John Wieners "In Public"
The last of the nation's orphaned goats - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"
When the last echoes of my harp expire - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Last autumn's frost, thick as your indifference - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"
The last that dare to struggle - William Wordsworth "November, 1806"
Last ashes of satisfaction - Tobias Wray "The Last Orgasm"
One last starry daffodil excess - Tobias Wray "The Last Orgasm"
Better to be the last chronicler of twilight - Charles Wright "My Old Clinch Mountain Home"
Bear the last trickling tear-drop - John Wright "The Wrecked Mariner"
When foxes eat the last gold grape - Elinor Wylie "Escape"
Last breaths of the disappeared - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
The image of my last content - Francis Brett Young "Lochanilaun"
Lest their last fruit be tears - Francis Brett Young "Testament"
Though silence always has the last word - Adam Zagajewski "Radio Street"
Which is the last savage flower - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"
A painful candidate for lasting fame - George Crabbe "The Library"
Built lasting monuments of severe stone - Kwame Dawes "Requiem"
Thoughts lasting to the end - Aubrey de Vere "Sorrow"
Only solitude is a lasting friend - Jin Ha "A Center" (translated by the author)
The journey lasting more than ten lifetimes - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"
In the face of never lasting - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"
Left us a lasting gage of their musical art - Henry S. Leigh "The Two Ages"
Not lasting but repeatable - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May"
Easy sales of lasting pleasure - Francis Quarles "The World's Fallacies"
Full character'd with lasting memory - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXII"
A lasting light along her pathway shed - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"
Steer her through a dream lasting lifetimes - Yee Heng Yeh "Song"
Swap you last-minute with a dream - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
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