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

Foxfire designed to lead us deeper into the swamp - Duane Ackerson "Giving Back the Moon"

Every treacherous step leading elsewhere - Mike Allen "Space War"

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

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

Lead me in, to see Eden-land together - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]

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"

A warm caress leading me by the hand - Esther Belin "Personal Poem"

Leading the van of the long parade - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"

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

A gate that leads to nowhere - Emily Berry "Unexhausted Time"

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"

No lead sheet for this lament - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

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"

Not behind but leading in our visible estate - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"

Leading us into a new dawn of Omega 3's & prosperity - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"

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"

Through a landscape of stairways leading nowhere - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

Lead me back into the sunny years - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "Ethel: Fitz Fashion's Wife" [The Continental Monthly v.III - April, 1863 - no.IV]

The produce of conceit and lead - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"

Leading up Insects and Birds to Parnassus - "The Council of Dogs"

To lead the willing mind through History's mazes - George Crabbe "The Library"

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

And safe will lead me to the eternal goal - Robert W. Cryan "Picciola" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.139-v.III, 28 Aug. 1886]

lead us into the serious steep darkness - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VIII)"

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

Of maps that lead to vacancies - Meg Day "Batter My Heart, Transgender'd God"

A woman of gunpowder & lead - Meg Day "Once All the Hounds Had Been Called Home"

Where error's glittering phantoms lead the way - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

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"

As much credit as lead can buy - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

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"

leading only to false rooms beyond - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"

That lead to the far confluence of delights - Robin Flower "Say Not that Beauty"

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"

Finding a place where fear leads to desire - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"

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

Nor lead nor steel shall reach him - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"

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

For the daring shall lead them to triumph - Robert M. Hart "Sweet Maid of Erin" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

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"

Let Fury lead the way - Jennie Earngey Hill "Sailing"

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

Bright-shielded Mars, who leads the host - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "A Vision" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

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

leading me through another night of dreams - Tanque R. Jones "Morning Time"

Fashioned the compass that leads to the creaky side door - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

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

A factory line where molten lead spilled - Mary Karr "All This and More"

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"

Such paths can never lead to woe - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "The Roads that Meet"

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

Breath by breath to lead me out - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

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

Lead to mercurial doomsdays - Mina Loy "Lunar Baedeker"

Beyond the verge of vision leads - Francis J. Lys "Life's Voyage"

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

Leading her backward to the buried past - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

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"

A thousand stems leading to a thousand worlds - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"

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.]

The flat dials of sunflowers leading back to speech - Kiki Petrosini "De Jure Sanguinis" [excerpt]

Their Shadow-King in silence leads them - Miriam Clark Potter "The March of the Shadows"

The road that leads from Glad Today - Miriam Clark Potter "The Road to Glad Tomorrow"

Open windows that lead to oblivion - M. Regan "The Hollow"

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

Roofed in with a load of lead - Christina Rossetti "The Poor Ghost"

The dancing flame that leads afar - George William Russell "The Master Singer"

Lead to the soul's desire - "Sacrifice"

Hermes waits to lead me home - Jessie M.E. Saxby "Persephone: A Lay of Spring" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.114-v.III, 6 March 1886]

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

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

In the life we do not lead - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"

So I followed where thought should lead - Arthur Stringer "My Heart Stood Empty"

And he had not much lead or gold - Edward Thomas "Under the Woods"

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"

Lead the train of joys withheld - A.D.T. Whitney "Bo-Peep"

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

With such a sky to lead him on - William Wordsworth "Stepping Westward"

Who lead them beside the dry waters - Charles Wright "The Children of the Plain"

Leading to one vast ultimate stop - Charles Wright "Walking Beside the Diversion Ditch Lake"

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


Lightens on the comb of leaden waves - Robert Bridges "The Clouds Have Left the Sky"

Realism hastening down that leaden street - Paul Cameron Brown "The Gathering of Dead Wood"

In hurricanes of flame and leaden hail - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

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"

With the leaden weight of sorrowing years - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Athwart the leaden sky - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"

The hours have tumbled their leaden, monotonous sands - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"

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"

'Tween two storms of leaden rain - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]

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"


Leader without Machiavellian teeth - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"

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


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

Sweet chance, that led my steps abroad - W.H. Davies "A Great Time"

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

Empty porticoes that led to nowhere - Deborah L. Davitt "Drowning in this Sunken City"

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

And followed wherever the sturgeon led - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

The path on my map led us slightly askew - Daniel Errico "The Island of Bum Bum Ba Loo"

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"

A cyclone in my spirit led to divorce - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"

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

The sojourners led by Moses into the wilderness - Zilka Joseph "Man hu? Man Hu?"

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"

Aurelian led in his triumphant train - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Out where pasture led to brackish waters - Airea D. Matthews "Temptation of the Composer"

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

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

And led the soul along a way of tears - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Doubt"

With the dawn my tireless feet were led - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Regret"

Who led the iron-throated harmonies of war - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"

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"


When the moon-led waters flow - Henry Newbolt "Cities Drowned"


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