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No attempt made to sort elemental lead from verb lead.


Lead me through a cavern of longing - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"

An Ariadne string that leads you out - Julia Alvarez "Touching Bottom"

Stairs leading back to a dynasty - Cynthia Arrieu-King "Ming the Clam"

Half a staircase leading up - David Baker "Gravel"

Will lead through parching sands - Julia A. Baker "Mizpah"

Leading an orchestra of stars - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

Leading to a corridor of black mirrors - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Understanding"

Like twisted charms of hot lead - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

That leads me to the thorny maze - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"

Leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake "Proverbs of Hell"

The parrots leading the cheering - Howard Futhey Brinton "Jumbo's Dream"

With all his blood turned lead - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"

The leading star of love - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

Ladders leading up to light - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

A vortex above the leading edge - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"

Skill to lead by pathways rife - Roger Casement "Parnell"

Call'd a rebel out to lead the van - John Castillo "Old Sam! or the Effects of the Gospel"

Heart of lead and wry despair - George Cronyn "Song (After an old English tune)"

Leading chained rivers - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

All the questions that lead to a broken wall - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"

With those same boots of lead - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XXX"

Like hot lead into foreign ears - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni "Indian Movie, New Jersey"

Wasn't worth a lead dollar - Mary Mapes Dodge "The Dainty Miss Rose"

Holy Mother of Arsenic and Lead - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

The breakfast of lead - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Pencil Sharpener"

Lead me over a ballet of bridges - Safia Elhillo "Amsterdam"

The magnolias leading the fray - Bernard Ferguson "awaiting a carriage, any"

Cold, gray streams of lead - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7"

Molten lead along the sullen sky - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Lead unconscious lives, old, deep - Zona Gale "There Are Within Us Lives We Never Live"

As from a throat of molten lead - L. Gielgud "Summer Delivery"

The high leading of her soul - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping"

The sunset falls like lead - Louis Golding "Lyric in Gloom"

A lead line into the spirit world - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"

Lead disciples to their sun - F. Hartmann "Endlich bricht der heisse Tiegel" transl. by James W. Alexander

Leads me through muted labyrinths - Anne Hebert "The Tomb of Kings" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

What thread of Ariadne leads me - Anne Hebert "The Tomb of Kings" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

Feeding myself pretty lyrics and lead - Faylita Hicks "Self-Care"

A paper lantern leading the way - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

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

A narrow staircase leading upwards into nothing - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"

Leads Dante to the happy stars - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"

Lead Without - Rudyard Kipling

A very old ornament of lead - Chaman Lall "'Thirty Years After'"

Lead outward into eternity - Archibald Lampman "The Moon-Path"

By tempests of iron and lead - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Hunting the King 1792"

War-god banners lead us - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"

Lead to mercurial doomsdays - Mina Loy "Lunar Baedeker"

A crown of lead upon my brain - John Masefield "King Cole"

His ghost leads holy armies - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Angel"

Leads but to death in the dark - William Morris "The Pilgrims of Hope II: The Bridge and the Street"

An immense tear of blood and lead - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Lead you now by distant shores - Meredith Nicholson "Good Night and Pleasant Dreams"

And never lead to summer's dust - Meredith Nicholson "A Prince's Treasure"

Leads the tiger to pursue - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Cuvier: The Vera Causa"

Lead paint and sulfur dioxide - Matthew Olzmann "Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now"

A thousand roads lead to it - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

leading Eurydice back to the underworld - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

Signposts leading to other words - Linda Pastan "All Nights" [Yes, 'words' is right.]

Leads her to her own blue sphere - Sam C. Reid, Jr. "Summer's Night"

The bridges that lead to Dream - Rainer Maria Rilke "Maidens. I" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Lead to the soul's desire - "Sacrifice"

A lush, unsolvable labyrinth leading deeper into ambiguity - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Two"

Never-resting time leads summer on - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"

Of all hell's hosts he took the lead - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "A Vision of the End"

Confident of your ability to lead the revolution - Ursula Vernon "It Was a Day"

Eat a crown of lead - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Malinche"

Down these slopes of sunset lead - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Birthday"

Lead the dance of death - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"

Leading to the valleys of dust - John Yau "Overnight"



No paths lead out - Jane Yolen "All Paths Lead Here"

Burdens the air with feet of lead - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver


The leaden loaf of care - W. Wilfred Campbell "Her Look"

In the dull coinage of leaden tears - Eleanor Farjeon "Sonnet III"

This dead and leaden thing - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Dead Fires"

Athwart the leaden sky - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"

The brink of leaden waters - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Lethe"

The leaden demon in my feet - Amy Levy "A Wall Flower"

Painting the leaden sky - Ann Whitford Paul "My Dog and I"

Leaden rain and iron hail - John Pierpont "Warren's Address"

Under the arch of a leaden sky - Clinton Scollard "The Spectral Rowers"

The tide of cold and leaden loneliness - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"

Draws a charm that leads the heart - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

In Winter's leaden air - Joseph R. Wilson "Winter's Sorrows"

Leaden saints all in a ring - J.L. Wing "Louis Onze"


Be the leader of a nation of woe - Edwin Torres "Viva la Viva"


Led me through the gossip trees - Madison Cawein "The Speckled Trout"

That led my steps abroad - William H. Davies "A Great Time"

The path of being led into terror - Kwame Dawes "How I Pray in the Plague"

By impatient visions led - Arthur Davison Ficke "Sonnet XXIX"

Strange shadows led me down - Theodosia Garrison "The Child"

By lonely Contemplation led - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

To Ambition's altar led - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"

As the blazing pillar led the host - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

Dust-born, dustward led - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

When the road led nowhere - Suji Kwock Kim "Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border"

Fleeing hosts by flaming angels led - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"

Led by invisible chariots - Maggie Nelson "For Lily on Her 25th Birthday"

Led us freely into the moonlight - Ruben Quesada "XI"

Where your despot feet have led - Iris Tree "Flame"

Led by the violins of discontent - Iris Tree "[Like flocks of tired birds]"

I led to the altar of truth - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"

Led by slightly better versions of us - Matthew Zapruder "Yellowtail"


By guileful Hope misled - James Beattie "Retirement"

Misled by glamour from heaven - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Chaco and Olivia"

Even more by luck misled - Tommaso Campanella "XXXI. To Poland" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Misled, misguided barques - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway IV: Vagrants"


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