Potential Titles: Little
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somethingdarkerHow dare the water belittle my thirst - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"
Just one little moon among many - Duane Ackerson "Giving Back the Moon"
Five little sparrows sitting in a row - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Five Little Sparrows"
A little blood left dripping on the holly - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"
Little flowers in rustic ways remote - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
Each fragment paints its little hour - Alice M. Ardagh "Sic Passim"
little does it matter the prediction - Jarid Arraes "Movement"
little lines run crazy across the lettuce - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"
This little bit of Lethe water - Mary Jo Bang "A Place"
What does Narcissus see in that little disk? - Mary Jo Bang "A Portrait of Love"
Feel a little less, know a little more - Catherine Barnett "Epistemology"
our little green where lilies were - Elizabeth Bartlett "the lovers"
A hundred little towns of stone - Hilaire Belloc "Dedicatory Ode"
Little split hearts beckoned - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Dysphoria"
Found a little whisky-flask of Irony - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"
Caesar will listen with a little smile - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
Chicken little in a broken shell - Paul Bernstein "Day One of the Deluge"
A little stone without a star - Paul Bernstein "Worlds Apart"
A little fleet of anchored ships - Paul Bewsher "The Dawn Patrol"
With little dignity or none - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"
Bear the strife of little tongues and coward insults - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Your little breath of contemplation - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Butter-Cup"
The little universe of music pent in me - Maxwell Bodenheim "After Feeling Deux Arabesques by Debussy"
Like the birth of little winds - Max Bodenheim "Silence"
Men who unrolled little souls on plates - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Handpainted Chinaware" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
God suffer little men the taste of soul's desire - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
My still heart will sing a little while - Arna Bontemps "My Heart Has Known Its Winter"
Little ships that are too worn for sailing - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne of the Wharves"
With little hope of reaching our destinations - Bruce Boston "Chess People"
Against my hand a little crumbling dust - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"
The miniature moon of some perfect little planet - Russell Brakefield "After the Labor Day Procession"
No little token of distraction - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
In a little garden all alone - William Browne "The Rose"
Grant in this obscurity a little light - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalm 12"
A little space between shopping malls - Scott Cairns "A Lot"
The little province of the saints - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
A dismal little number - Anne Carson "Pinplay" [selections]
You have little grounds to complain - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"
In one little, moving plot of dust - Roger Casement "The Streets of Catania"
Were huddled little dreams - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
Steady for a little space - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
A little psalm in the moon-struck snow - Andres Cerpa "The Vault"
Just a little need for air - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"
Teach me a little bit of nothing - Chen Chen "The School of Night & Hyphens"
burned you into little shells and stars - Lucille Clifton "in the same week"
A little silt of golden things forgotten - Arthur Colton "Who May with the Shrewd Hours Strive?"
Encircled by no little line - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"
Three little birds in a row sat musing - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Jostle over lunch's little scraps - Barbara Crooker "Ordinary Life"
With eyes a little sorry - e e cummings "in just-spring"
From the brittle little throat of a clay bird - Salomón de la Selva "A Song for Wall Street"
A little vial of sure malignancy - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"
Little care I if a rain drop laughs or cries - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"
A millionaire in little wealths - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love III"
Little I could care for pearls - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life I: Real Riches"
The little toil of love - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XXII"
Your little draught of life - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love IX"
little sisters belong beneath crowns - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"
No zephyrs kiss the little lake - Irving Sidney Dix "Twin Lake: In the Wayne Highlands"
Stir a little sawdust - Chris Dombrowski "Elegy with Fall's Last Filaments"
Knowing little of cathedrals - Chris Dombrowski "The Roofers Listen to Heart's "Crazy on You" as They Work"
Makes one little room an everywhere - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"
Little ghostly syllables of speech - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Coveting little pieces of light - Stephen Dunn "A Concise History of the Future"
No release from little things - Amelia Earhart "Courage"
New to our little outlaw fingers - Henry Farnan "How to Make Contact with a Lost Star System"
We shall go always a little further - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
A little village of crawling crabs - Laura Foley "Lost and Found"
A little burnt sorrow - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"
Saturn's little ring of smoke - Denice Frohman "Shooting in the Dark"
A little bird before the mystery of glass - Robert Frost "The Hill Wife"
Who see so little they tell no tales - Robert Frost "Pan with Us"
Find me little doors of air - Zona Gale "Non Nobis"
Of silence in a little sheath - Zona Gale "Violin"
Those little economies of the blood - Tess Gallagher "Sad Moments"
Sits a little while at Sorrow's feet - Theodosia Garrison "The Gifts of Gold"
His little boxes change the grain - John Gay "The Jugglers"
And the little stars are listening, too - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "Flower Babies"
Little orange willow switches hardly bending - Mona Gould "Colour in the Willows"
The little tyrant of his fields - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
Melted a little of itself out of sheer boredom - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"
The little knoll where we mark its winter twin - Lucy Griffith "Attention"
Throws its gaunt shadow o'er our little life - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
A little more grief every day - Marilyn Hacker "Ghazal (Ya Lateef!)"
When fire and brimstone rained on that nice little house - J.D. Harlock "I Thought the End of the World Would Be a Bit More Exciting Than This"
for the little solace we found - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."
The stars are little devils - Ben Hecht "Sorrow"
A little of love and a deathless song - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
Little thistles between the humans & non-humans - Brenda Hillman "& After the Power Came Back"
Little zeroes between mystery & meaning - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"
Kite now a little higher on gold air - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
A little skein of tangled floss - Margaret Houston "The Baby's Curls"
Little rutilant stones sunk in black basalt - Aldous Huxley "Behemoth"
The brilliant sun's little sister - ascribed to St Cellach of Killala "Hymn to the Dawn" transl. by Eleanor Hull
A little gold will buy me - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"
Breaking into little universes - Carly Inghram "This Woman's Work"
My little home, where I weep when I please - Sade Iverson "The Milliner" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Stitched our little nest of silence - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Between Work"
With little more than hope for history - Amanda Johnston "We Named You Mercy"
Your kisses were little poisons - Ashley M. Jones "Love Note: Surely"
Little poisons gripping tight my lips - Ashley M. Jones "Love Note: Surely"
Made of stubbornness and a little air - Ilya Kaminsky "Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air"
Like the little gifts shame gives us - Courtney Kampa "Confiteor"
That little fence against the war with dark - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"
But a little way to flutter - Omar Khayyam "Action"
Little patience with darkness - Ted Kooser "A Box of Pastels"
The little gifts of loneliness come wrapped by nervous fingers - Ted Kooser "Pocket Poem"
Being a little weary of Roman virtue - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"
A little portion of the green, ambitious earth - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"
A little space of fiery wedding - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love V: The Day of the Two Daffodils"
Feast richly on a little bread - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XIII: Met Once More"
Little chips of dream flake off my skin - Joseph Lease "America [Try saying wren]"
Little gray hunger that nibbles the night - Hailey Leithauser "Charm against Insomnia"
Singing faint little bell-notes of joy - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"
Goes ahead burning the little candle of his breath - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"
Little thimble of chalk and hard water - Cecilia Llompart "The Barnacle and the Gray Whale"
Little white skeletons playing the fiddle - Amy Lowell "Katydids"
A little spring from memory welled - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"
Their little bites distracting you from harder pain - Alessandra Lynch "Meditation on Rain"
The little voices of the air - Katherine Mansfield "Voices of the Air"
Haunted by little winds and daffodils - Edwin Markham "The Valley"
Little shepherd moon and flock of stars - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"
Impassioned little minstrel of the cage - George Martin "To My Canary Bird"
In its little globe's extent - Andrew Marvell "A Drop of Dew"
Hopes for little after months of rain - John Masefield "King Cole"
Their little axes hack and tease - Donna Masini "Anxieties"
Little bright stars watch us too - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Kiss Refused" transl. by John Pollen
Above each little cloistered field - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of Sheep Bells"
Upon a thousand little hills - Theodore Maynard "The Holy Spring"
The little Imp of Laughter - Theodore Maynard "A Song of Laughter"
a little jut of thought in her jaw - Pattie McCarthy "a woman peeling apples, with a small child"
The little memories of you - George Marion McClellan "To Theodore"
Exquisite song of the little grey days - D'Arcy McNickle "Minuet in G"
Little wrens soar on borrowed wings - Meng Chiao "On Failing the Examination" transl. by Burton Watson
Our little wind-blown hearts - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
A little blind reaching - Rusty Morrison "in the flood"
Little white boxes of ash - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"
Why punch holes in our little hopes - Joan Murray "Chrysalis"
A little bit true - Eileen Myles "A Little Bit"
A little bit wrong - Eileen Myles "A Little Bit"
Sad and vagrant little coins - Howard Nemerov "Pockets"
Little ginko fans confettied on the sidewalk - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"
A little fragment of the eternal order - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard I: The Rock of the Good Virgin"
Practicing little gestures of rapture - D. Nurkse "Letters from the Capital"
With their little fragrant faith - Naomi Shihab Nye "Grocery Store"
Can spare myself little sleep - Frank O'Hara "Meditations in an Emergency"
The little hurricane of the hummingbird - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"
The little murmurs of the broken blossoms - Mary Oliver "Goldenrod, Late Fall"
Little clocks with silver pendulums - Matthew Olzmann "Astronomers Locate a New Planet"
Little flowers made from red tape - Matthew Olzmann "Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz"
Wearing a little necklace of blood pearls - Gregory Orr "The Teeth of Sleep"
Little knowledge by much toil of feet - 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]
The thousand little deaths my heart has died - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"
Just one more little song - Walter S. Percy "The Last Song"
The little words of truth - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
The little words of love - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
The little words of hope - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
The little words of trust - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
Countless little charming things - Walter S. Percy "A Vision"
So little different from the light - Carl Phillips "What They Did, Who They Did it With"
The little souls that are so hard to find - Marjorie L.C. Pickthall "Mary Shepherdess"
Little pearls falling on a plate of jade - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson
Little ripples joining hands - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "By the River"
And anger but a little silence - Lola Ridge "Altitude"
Little hatreds and chiming loves - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Little white runners before the dawn - Lola Ridge "To the Free Children"
Little kindred of the grass - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Recessional"
Little comrades of the sky - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Recessional"
For my little Moses hidden where no one could see - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Among the Rushes"
A thousand little summer winds are singing in the wheat - Lloyd Roberts "England's Fields"
the little heart of our language - Giovannai Rosa "a force is a push, or a pull (5.8 million puerto ricans in america)"
Life's little lantern between dark and dark - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Leave me a little love - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"
Whose samite masks veil little more than entropy - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"
Leaving us little but bitter ashes - Ann K. Schwader "If Cold Is a War"
Trust a little less in certainties so fragile - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
Sees little grain to reap - Clinton Scollard "A Song for Joyce's Country"
A little beat within the heart of Time - Robert W. Service "Just Think!"
Little gods and devils trying out their wings - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"
The little spell of emptiness - Bruce Smith "Ferment"
Claiming a little piece of where we stand - Tracy K. Smith "Everything that Ever Was"
How little we had mended - Tracy K. Smith "An Old Story"
Weighed down with many a red-cheeked little Cain - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"
My little primrose lift its head - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "March"
The little Dust blown from their bitter mouths - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
The happy clatter of little goslings - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 225: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The little snakes that eat my heart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
On the tender tongue of the little snakes - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
The angel's giving her a little piece of honeycomb to eat - Mary Szybist "Girls Overheard While Assembling a Puzzle"
Trust these little waves to bear my message - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
To little worlds of flame - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"
Nothing could touch the little soul of the grain - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"
The crocus runs in little brooks - Henry van Dyke "Flood-Tide of Flowers in Holland"
Reserve a little for myself - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
A little crowd of people to adore you - Arthur Waugh "The Growing Colt"
The hours of the harness know little rest - Arthur Waugh "The Toilsome Goat"
Had trillions of little arcs - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Arcs"
And brown ants in the little wells - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
When every little gosling sings - A.D.T. Whitney "Brahmic"
Swerve so little from my dream - Helen Hay Whitney "Amor Mysticus"
With little rainbow rifts of seraph's eyes - Helen Hay Whitney "The Golden Fruit"
A wild little gnome in the wood - Helen Hay Whitney "The Grave of Hope"
A little mist by ghosts made magical - Helen Hay Whitney "The Pattern of the Earth"
Through a little roof of glass - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
The little night-owl make her throne - Oscar Wilde "The Grave of Shelley"
Little loaves of sweet smells - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"
The leaves are little yellow fish - William Carlos Williams "Metric Figure"
On your little grey-black hillock - William Carlos Williams "Trees"
The little hunger dreams of crickets - Katie Willingham "In Defense of Nature Poetry"
Such little work required of me - Katie Willingham "Internal Reasons and the Obscurity of Blame"
A little evanescent on the rim - Elizabeth Willis "The Steam Engine"
Little roads closed to the public - Michelle Wirth "Campus"
Through your very own little reckoning - Sam Witt "The First Law of Entanglement: From the Swimming Pool Where You Drowned, to an Underworld Hospital, to Your .357 Magnum Sinking Down Forever to the Harbor Bed"
A door to dreams, a little road to heaven - Humbert Wolfe "Gabriel"
A little way station just beyond silence - Charles Wright "Future Tense"
Little puddles of sunlight collect in low places - Charles Wright "Return of the Prodigal"
A little dew on the sunrise grass - Charles Wright "Tomorrow"
Rub a little dust upon your eyes - Elinor Wylie "The Crooked Stick"
Little gilt bees in amber drops - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"
This little bag of dreams - W.B. Yeats "Fergus and the Druid"
Dream toward a little calm - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
After a little of what true misery loves - Rachel Zucker "Nice Arse Poetica"
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Just one little moon among many - Duane Ackerson "Giving Back the Moon"
Five little sparrows sitting in a row - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Five Little Sparrows"
A little blood left dripping on the holly - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"
Little flowers in rustic ways remote - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XII--Twilight"
Each fragment paints its little hour - Alice M. Ardagh "Sic Passim"
little does it matter the prediction - Jarid Arraes "Movement"
little lines run crazy across the lettuce - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"
This little bit of Lethe water - Mary Jo Bang "A Place"
What does Narcissus see in that little disk? - Mary Jo Bang "A Portrait of Love"
Feel a little less, know a little more - Catherine Barnett "Epistemology"
our little green where lilies were - Elizabeth Bartlett "the lovers"
A hundred little towns of stone - Hilaire Belloc "Dedicatory Ode"
Little split hearts beckoned - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Dysphoria"
Found a little whisky-flask of Irony - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"
Caesar will listen with a little smile - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
Chicken little in a broken shell - Paul Bernstein "Day One of the Deluge"
A little stone without a star - Paul Bernstein "Worlds Apart"
A little fleet of anchored ships - Paul Bewsher "The Dawn Patrol"
With little dignity or none - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"
Bear the strife of little tongues and coward insults - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Your little breath of contemplation - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Butter-Cup"
The little universe of music pent in me - Maxwell Bodenheim "After Feeling Deux Arabesques by Debussy"
Like the birth of little winds - Max Bodenheim "Silence"
Men who unrolled little souls on plates - Maxwell Bodenheim "To Handpainted Chinaware" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
God suffer little men the taste of soul's desire - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"
My still heart will sing a little while - Arna Bontemps "My Heart Has Known Its Winter"
Little ships that are too worn for sailing - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne of the Wharves"
With little hope of reaching our destinations - Bruce Boston "Chess People"
Against my hand a little crumbling dust - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"
The miniature moon of some perfect little planet - Russell Brakefield "After the Labor Day Procession"
No little token of distraction - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
In a little garden all alone - William Browne "The Rose"
Grant in this obscurity a little light - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalm 12"
A little space between shopping malls - Scott Cairns "A Lot"
The little province of the saints - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"
A dismal little number - Anne Carson "Pinplay" [selections]
You have little grounds to complain - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"
In one little, moving plot of dust - Roger Casement "The Streets of Catania"
Were huddled little dreams - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
Steady for a little space - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
A little psalm in the moon-struck snow - Andres Cerpa "The Vault"
Just a little need for air - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"
Teach me a little bit of nothing - Chen Chen "The School of Night & Hyphens"
burned you into little shells and stars - Lucille Clifton "in the same week"
A little silt of golden things forgotten - Arthur Colton "Who May with the Shrewd Hours Strive?"
Encircled by no little line - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"
Three little birds in a row sat musing - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Jostle over lunch's little scraps - Barbara Crooker "Ordinary Life"
With eyes a little sorry - e e cummings "in just-spring"
From the brittle little throat of a clay bird - Salomón de la Selva "A Song for Wall Street"
A little vial of sure malignancy - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"
Little care I if a rain drop laughs or cries - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"
A millionaire in little wealths - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love III"
Little I could care for pearls - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life I: Real Riches"
The little toil of love - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XXII"
Your little draught of life - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love IX"
little sisters belong beneath crowns - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"
No zephyrs kiss the little lake - Irving Sidney Dix "Twin Lake: In the Wayne Highlands"
Stir a little sawdust - Chris Dombrowski "Elegy with Fall's Last Filaments"
Knowing little of cathedrals - Chris Dombrowski "The Roofers Listen to Heart's "Crazy on You" as They Work"
Makes one little room an everywhere - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"
Little ghostly syllables of speech - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"
Coveting little pieces of light - Stephen Dunn "A Concise History of the Future"
No release from little things - Amelia Earhart "Courage"
New to our little outlaw fingers - Henry Farnan "How to Make Contact with a Lost Star System"
We shall go always a little further - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
A little village of crawling crabs - Laura Foley "Lost and Found"
A little burnt sorrow - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"
Saturn's little ring of smoke - Denice Frohman "Shooting in the Dark"
A little bird before the mystery of glass - Robert Frost "The Hill Wife"
Who see so little they tell no tales - Robert Frost "Pan with Us"
Find me little doors of air - Zona Gale "Non Nobis"
Of silence in a little sheath - Zona Gale "Violin"
Those little economies of the blood - Tess Gallagher "Sad Moments"
Sits a little while at Sorrow's feet - Theodosia Garrison "The Gifts of Gold"
His little boxes change the grain - John Gay "The Jugglers"
And the little stars are listening, too - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "Flower Babies"
Little orange willow switches hardly bending - Mona Gould "Colour in the Willows"
The little tyrant of his fields - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
Melted a little of itself out of sheer boredom - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"
The little knoll where we mark its winter twin - Lucy Griffith "Attention"
Throws its gaunt shadow o'er our little life - E.O.H. "Dreams" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
A little more grief every day - Marilyn Hacker "Ghazal (Ya Lateef!)"
When fire and brimstone rained on that nice little house - J.D. Harlock "I Thought the End of the World Would Be a Bit More Exciting Than This"
for the little solace we found - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."
The stars are little devils - Ben Hecht "Sorrow"
A little of love and a deathless song - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "The Long Twilight"
Little thistles between the humans & non-humans - Brenda Hillman "& After the Power Came Back"
Little zeroes between mystery & meaning - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"
Kite now a little higher on gold air - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
A little skein of tangled floss - Margaret Houston "The Baby's Curls"
Little rutilant stones sunk in black basalt - Aldous Huxley "Behemoth"
The brilliant sun's little sister - ascribed to St Cellach of Killala "Hymn to the Dawn" transl. by Eleanor Hull
A little gold will buy me - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"
Breaking into little universes - Carly Inghram "This Woman's Work"
My little home, where I weep when I please - Sade Iverson "The Milliner" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]
Stitched our little nest of silence - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Between Work"
With little more than hope for history - Amanda Johnston "We Named You Mercy"
Your kisses were little poisons - Ashley M. Jones "Love Note: Surely"
Little poisons gripping tight my lips - Ashley M. Jones "Love Note: Surely"
Made of stubbornness and a little air - Ilya Kaminsky "Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air"
Like the little gifts shame gives us - Courtney Kampa "Confiteor"
That little fence against the war with dark - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"
But a little way to flutter - Omar Khayyam "Action"
Little patience with darkness - Ted Kooser "A Box of Pastels"
The little gifts of loneliness come wrapped by nervous fingers - Ted Kooser "Pocket Poem"
Being a little weary of Roman virtue - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"
A little portion of the green, ambitious earth - Richard Le Gallienne "The Cry of the Little Peoples"
A little space of fiery wedding - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love V: The Day of the Two Daffodils"
Feast richly on a little bread - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love XIII: Met Once More"
Little chips of dream flake off my skin - Joseph Lease "America [Try saying wren]"
Little gray hunger that nibbles the night - Hailey Leithauser "Charm against Insomnia"
Singing faint little bell-notes of joy - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"
Goes ahead burning the little candle of his breath - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"
Little thimble of chalk and hard water - Cecilia Llompart "The Barnacle and the Gray Whale"
Little white skeletons playing the fiddle - Amy Lowell "Katydids"
A little spring from memory welled - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"
Their little bites distracting you from harder pain - Alessandra Lynch "Meditation on Rain"
The little voices of the air - Katherine Mansfield "Voices of the Air"
Haunted by little winds and daffodils - Edwin Markham "The Valley"
Little shepherd moon and flock of stars - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"
Impassioned little minstrel of the cage - George Martin "To My Canary Bird"
In its little globe's extent - Andrew Marvell "A Drop of Dew"
Hopes for little after months of rain - John Masefield "King Cole"
Their little axes hack and tease - Donna Masini "Anxieties"
Little bright stars watch us too - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Kiss Refused" transl. by John Pollen
Above each little cloistered field - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of Sheep Bells"
Upon a thousand little hills - Theodore Maynard "The Holy Spring"
The little Imp of Laughter - Theodore Maynard "A Song of Laughter"
a little jut of thought in her jaw - Pattie McCarthy "a woman peeling apples, with a small child"
The little memories of you - George Marion McClellan "To Theodore"
Exquisite song of the little grey days - D'Arcy McNickle "Minuet in G"
Little wrens soar on borrowed wings - Meng Chiao "On Failing the Examination" transl. by Burton Watson
Our little wind-blown hearts - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"
A little blind reaching - Rusty Morrison "in the flood"
Little white boxes of ash - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"
Why punch holes in our little hopes - Joan Murray "Chrysalis"
A little bit true - Eileen Myles "A Little Bit"
A little bit wrong - Eileen Myles "A Little Bit"
Sad and vagrant little coins - Howard Nemerov "Pockets"
Little ginko fans confettied on the sidewalk - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"
A little fragment of the eternal order - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard I: The Rock of the Good Virgin"
Practicing little gestures of rapture - D. Nurkse "Letters from the Capital"
With their little fragrant faith - Naomi Shihab Nye "Grocery Store"
Can spare myself little sleep - Frank O'Hara "Meditations in an Emergency"
The little hurricane of the hummingbird - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"
The little murmurs of the broken blossoms - Mary Oliver "Goldenrod, Late Fall"
Little clocks with silver pendulums - Matthew Olzmann "Astronomers Locate a New Planet"
Little flowers made from red tape - Matthew Olzmann "Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz"
Wearing a little necklace of blood pearls - Gregory Orr "The Teeth of Sleep"
Little knowledge by much toil of feet - 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]
The thousand little deaths my heart has died - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"
Just one more little song - Walter S. Percy "The Last Song"
The little words of truth - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
The little words of love - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
The little words of hope - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
The little words of trust - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"
Countless little charming things - Walter S. Percy "A Vision"
So little different from the light - Carl Phillips "What They Did, Who They Did it With"
The little souls that are so hard to find - Marjorie L.C. Pickthall "Mary Shepherdess"
Little pearls falling on a plate of jade - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson
Little ripples joining hands - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "By the River"
And anger but a little silence - Lola Ridge "Altitude"
Little hatreds and chiming loves - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
Little white runners before the dawn - Lola Ridge "To the Free Children"
Little kindred of the grass - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Recessional"
Little comrades of the sky - Charles George Douglas Roberts "Recessional"
For my little Moses hidden where no one could see - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Among the Rushes"
A thousand little summer winds are singing in the wheat - Lloyd Roberts "England's Fields"
the little heart of our language - Giovannai Rosa "a force is a push, or a pull (5.8 million puerto ricans in america)"
Life's little lantern between dark and dark - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Leave me a little love - Carl Sandburg "At a Window"
Whose samite masks veil little more than entropy - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"
Leaving us little but bitter ashes - Ann K. Schwader "If Cold Is a War"
Trust a little less in certainties so fragile - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
Sees little grain to reap - Clinton Scollard "A Song for Joyce's Country"
A little beat within the heart of Time - Robert W. Service "Just Think!"
Little gods and devils trying out their wings - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"
The little spell of emptiness - Bruce Smith "Ferment"
Claiming a little piece of where we stand - Tracy K. Smith "Everything that Ever Was"
How little we had mended - Tracy K. Smith "An Old Story"
Weighed down with many a red-cheeked little Cain - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"
My little primrose lift its head - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "March"
The little Dust blown from their bitter mouths - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
The happy clatter of little goslings - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 225: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
The little snakes that eat my heart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
On the tender tongue of the little snakes - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
The angel's giving her a little piece of honeycomb to eat - Mary Szybist "Girls Overheard While Assembling a Puzzle"
Trust these little waves to bear my message - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
To little worlds of flame - Louis Untermeyer "Landscapes"
Nothing could touch the little soul of the grain - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"
The crocus runs in little brooks - Henry van Dyke "Flood-Tide of Flowers in Holland"
Reserve a little for myself - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
A little crowd of people to adore you - Arthur Waugh "The Growing Colt"
The hours of the harness know little rest - Arthur Waugh "The Toilsome Goat"
Had trillions of little arcs - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Arcs"
And brown ants in the little wells - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
When every little gosling sings - A.D.T. Whitney "Brahmic"
Swerve so little from my dream - Helen Hay Whitney "Amor Mysticus"
With little rainbow rifts of seraph's eyes - Helen Hay Whitney "The Golden Fruit"
A wild little gnome in the wood - Helen Hay Whitney "The Grave of Hope"
A little mist by ghosts made magical - Helen Hay Whitney "The Pattern of the Earth"
Through a little roof of glass - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
The little night-owl make her throne - Oscar Wilde "The Grave of Shelley"
Little loaves of sweet smells - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"
The leaves are little yellow fish - William Carlos Williams "Metric Figure"
On your little grey-black hillock - William Carlos Williams "Trees"
The little hunger dreams of crickets - Katie Willingham "In Defense of Nature Poetry"
Such little work required of me - Katie Willingham "Internal Reasons and the Obscurity of Blame"
A little evanescent on the rim - Elizabeth Willis "The Steam Engine"
Little roads closed to the public - Michelle Wirth "Campus"
Through your very own little reckoning - Sam Witt "The First Law of Entanglement: From the Swimming Pool Where You Drowned, to an Underworld Hospital, to Your .357 Magnum Sinking Down Forever to the Harbor Bed"
A door to dreams, a little road to heaven - Humbert Wolfe "Gabriel"
A little way station just beyond silence - Charles Wright "Future Tense"
Little puddles of sunlight collect in low places - Charles Wright "Return of the Prodigal"
A little dew on the sunrise grass - Charles Wright "Tomorrow"
Rub a little dust upon your eyes - Elinor Wylie "The Crooked Stick"
Little gilt bees in amber drops - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"
This little bag of dreams - W.B. Yeats "Fergus and the Druid"
Dream toward a little calm - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
After a little of what true misery loves - Rachel Zucker "Nice Arse Poetica"
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