Potential Titles: Air

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Too freely through the fields of air - A.L.O.E. "Blanche"

Fluorescent critters drawing ribbons in the air - Anne Carly Abad "Where the Waves Meet"

Only ashes to ornament the air - Rasha Abdulhadi "little bat"

Pull air over embers of grief - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Blessing the air with light - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

As the moon did into clear air move - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Pulsing at the threshold of air & land - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"

The air and its grains of memory - Elmaz Abinader "Coming Clean"

An ashen cup of neutral air - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"

An air less rare than longing might - Leonie Adams "A Gull Goes Up"

For cold air and cigarettes - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"

Swimming up the sweet air to reach you - Kim Addonizio "Mermaid Song"

So purely yonder in soft air - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

The full choir of water, air, and earth - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Whirlwinds rend the howling air - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Sprout feathers and take to the air - Jose A. Alcantara "Archilocus Colubris"

Give a queenly air to this crimson robe of mine - Louisa May Alcott "The Flower's Lesson"

Comes floating by on the fragrant air - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"

Charged on a shore of air - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"

The wind of the upper air - Richard Aldington "Au Vieux Jardin"

Phantom of the crystal Air - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Echo-Song"

Like the air that folds a star - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"

Flat silence on the air - Hervey Allen "The Bride of Huitzil"

Breaths of fresh air injected in the frantic - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

Until something resonated in the very air - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

Stilling the breathless air - Lauren K. Alleyne "How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter,"

Shards of broken air - Maya Angelou "To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough"

The hands of the air - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "An angel sleeping"

Riding over galleries of air - James Arthur "Wind"

Rumor was loose in the air - Margaret Atwood "Half Hanged Mary"

The air that inhabits you - Margaret Atwood "Variation on the Word Sleep"

The air on fire under him - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

Beat the empty air - James Baldwin "The giver (for Berdis)"

In the middle of the terrifying air - James Baldwin "Munich, Winter 1973 (for Y.S.)"

Amid the calm and liberal air - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"

Sucked the air with Ariel's greed - Benjamin West Ball "The Autumnal Ride"

Swim in zones of windless air - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Forever fixed on Brahma's airy throne - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Charms of taintless air - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"

The rosy veils of pure celestial air - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"

Built your bones out of air and hurt - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Air ripe with arrested intention - Mary Jo Bang "Ham Paints a Picture to Illustrate an Early Lesson: O Trauma!"

The diamond-point engraving done by air - Mary Jo Bang "Mistress Mary, Quite"

Light unhinges air from rock - Mary Jo Bang "A Tour of the March Equinox"

Speak them in the passage of an air - Maurice Baring "Mozart"

Fled into the air like frightened birds - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 II"

The black and gold glassed-in air - J. Mae Barizo "Diorama"

Their arrows in the shallow air - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"

felt the purple air's dissent - Elizabeth Bartlett "dusk I love"

Having lost my terror of the air - Elizabeth Bartlett "Free-Fall"

Inevitable as air and light - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"

On secret tides of air - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sleepwalkers"

And learn to stand on air, alone - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Test"

The circuit of earth and or air - Cora C. Bass "Joy"

Hope spreads her airy pinions - Cora C. Bass "Longest Lanes Must Have a Turning"

Till liquid sweetness stirs the air - Cora C. Bass "A Song to the Zephyr"

For the solace of the damp air - Ellen Bass "Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of My Fur"

The cruel and curious demons of the air - Charles Baudelaire "La Beatrice" transl. not credited

When the air clenches its fist and strikes - Dan Beachy-Quick "Onta"

Learned touch from air - Jan Beatty "Drag"

A bird of bones and air - Robin Becker "Hummingbird"

Trembled in their fierce desire for air - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"

Order such shapes as a wizard air - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"

A wizard air weaves out of dreams - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"

Let them air the inn they keep - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Into the free companionship of air - Stephen Vincent Benet "Nos Immortales"

Clasps his hands in the wine-chill air - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

Lift the air that weighs like ice - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

Plumage stirred by golden air - Park Benjamin "Audubon's Blindness"

Untrammelled in the boundless air - Paul Bewsher "The Joy of Flying"

The evening's hollow feathered air - Rebecca G. Biber "Bird II"

Through an airy maze of motion - Laurence Binyon "The Little Dancers"

To glitter the air with strangeness - Sheila Black "Radium Dream"

Perfect sunny fives haphazard in the air - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"

The warm air webbed with dew - Edmund Blunden "Forefathers"

Marshalled armies in the silent air - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

Widen out in the silence of air - Maxwell Bodenheim "Images of Life and Death: Death"

Upon the blue tomb of the air - Maxwell Bodenheim "Minna (IX)"

Whales were exiled from the air - Jaswinder Bolina "Oops Canary"

More closely press upon that midnight air - Gordon Bottomley "New Year's Eve, 1913"

That the very air was miraculous - Elizabeth Bradfield "Why They Went"

The sudden turn of life on the air - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Floating in a hole in the air - William Brewer "To the Addict Who Mugged Me"

Flies scratch cursive in the air - William Brewer "We Burn the Bull"

The hushed air tense as a cry - Eloise Briton "The Acrobat"

A sorrow on the air I taste but cannot name - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Airy dreams of high ambition - Marie Hedderwick Browne "At Last"

Set in crystal air - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

And utter all myself into the air - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Soul's Expression"

Wild hymns upon the scented air - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

Another form of air or clay - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXVII. No Escape from Love" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Hailed the purple robe of air - Witter Bynner "The Last Words of Tolstoi"

Echoes that throng the air - May Byron "Sea-Ghosts"

Called through the shadow-swept air - Mary C.G. Byron "The Tryst of the Night (M. C. Gillington)"

Waving passports in the still air - Regio Cabico "Mango Poem"

When hope's wings fanned the air - W. Wilfred Campbell "Love"

In a world of stifling air alone - Giosue Carducci "A questi di prima io la vidi. Uscia" transl. by Frank Sewall

Passed and mounted through the fields of air - Edward Carpenter "The Artist to His Lady"

Rising to greet the bitter air - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"

Just a little need for air - Judith Chalmer "Pocket"

A frenzy of air to fan it to inferno - Tina Chang "Fury"

Air kisses the wine - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Brown Estate, 2018 Tempranillo"

The red wound wailing in the air - Ken Chen "Fingernails"

Gripped the ground and grasped the air - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book I. The Vision of the Kings"

Precise in the panic-blue air - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"

The radiant kisses of the air - Wilfred Childe "Rosa Innocens"

When shapes fall from the air - John Ciardi "Abundance"

A commotion in the air and in the blood - John Ciardi "Abundance"

Have torn blue midnight air - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"

The spirit poured on the air unused - Arthur Colton "Snow"

Sifting through thick air - Nandi Comer "The Check In"

The air is full of tolerant embraces - Susan Comninos "Our Father, Our King"

On air above the garden - Hilda Conkling "Humming-Bird"

Leave him to the air and liberty - Carolina Coronado "The Lost Bird" transl. by William Cullen Bryant

Leaving a scent of lilies on the air - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"

A chain saw gnawing the bruised air - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"

And empty its mysteries into the air - James Crews "Self-Compassion"

Tosses maple seeds in the air to spiral - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

And leap into the ripe air - ee cummings "Crepuscule"

opening in a rare Slowness of gloried air - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"

Fruit cannot drop through this thick air - H.D. "Garden"

A honeyed stab on the air - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"

The gold-dusted curtains of the air - Ruben Dario "Autumnal" transl. by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva

The common air absorbs my mind - William H. Davies "The Hawk"

As swallows swerve in the fallow air - Geffrey Davis "The Epistemology of Rosemary"

Set the wild air humming for rot - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"

Edging across the twilight air - Walter de la Mare "The Honey Robbers"

stigmas on the body of air - Ekaterina Derysheva "stigmas on the body of air" transl. by Ryan Hardy, Asher Maria, and Kevin M.F. Platt

Across my air & through his water - Toi Derricotte "For Telly the Fish"

The air broken by lighting - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

Anecdotes of air in dungeons - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXVII"

Air through a windmill's vanes - Chelsea Dingman "Reconstructing the Saints"

Face and wings of air - John Donne "Air and Angels"

Phantom tendrils through parlor air - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

The name you chose is etched into air - Cass Donish "You, Emblazoned"

The floor becomes air - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Beauty's Daydream"

Never a sunrise mars the luminous air - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

Skies of snow and bitter air - Edward Dowden "Burdens"

Through lucid fields of air - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"

A zone of golden air - Edward Dowden "Windle-Straws"

Built of stone or built of air - Theodore Dreiser "The Spring Recital"

Travel through the singing air of dawn - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

Fixed and glowing on the air - John Drinkwater "May Garden"

A bubble blown up in the air - William Drummond "This Life"

Air slips between my teeth - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"

And palaces of air - Paul Laurence Dunbar "The Dreamer"

Out of the choir of air - Camille T. Dungy "Ars Poetica: Cove Song"

Necessary and imperceptible as air - Camille T. Dungy "There are these moments of permission"

Consumed in the friction of air - Roger Dutcher "More Than Distance"

Beyond earth's tainted air - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "My Purest Longings Spring"

With no space or air - Peg Edera "Harbors of Miracle"

The air and the water lose their separateness - Katherine Edgren "Mornings and River Currents: Morning on Cass Lake"

The distractions of the night air - Katherine Edgren "Muskies and Reveries: Seeing Mars"

Forest voices fill the air - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

This elastic air convey - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

The alive air of the universe - Heid E. Erdich "Red Vines: Lines for Deloria"

To move when trouble stirs the air - Anthony Euwer "The Caves of Josephine"

Who scrapes the skies and cleaves the patient air - "False Estimations" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

The impulses of air and sky - Catharine M. Fanshawe "An Imitation of Wordsworth"

From a billion blue-gold caverns of air - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"

Airy shapes of Oreads circling free - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"

Back into rash light, dust, and air - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

In air among hallucinary [sic] moons - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"

Turns like a key, opening air - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

In deep blue seas of air - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

As you become air - Nick Flynn "The Washing of the Body"

Ribboned the air into a new weather - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen p"

Of rented rooms and white air - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"

And all that hum of summer air - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"

Only the wandering air that grows with dawn - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

Raw, gold coiling whirled against air - Carol Frost "The Part of the Bee's Body Embedded in the Flesh"

Walked so light on air in heavy shoes - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"

Serve to remind me of castles I used to build in air - Robert Frost "The Kitchen Chimney"

And freshen in this air of withering sweetness - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"

The air is purged of gold - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

White reefs of clouds on airy shores - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Fair Yellow in the air - Zona Gale "Half Thought"

Find me little doors of air - Zona Gale "Non Nobis"

Thrill the air like birds - Zona Gale "To a Poet"

Fragrance shed on the desert air - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

A shower of cinders through the air - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Slag"

Inhale the spices of the midnight air - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"

The hundred year old air in Macy's - Natalie Goldberg "Home"

Furnishing the air like ghosts - Stefania Gomez "At the New York City AIDS Memorial"

Read the air for ghost-tongues - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

Through hot air as through grass - Edmund Gosse "Lying in the Grass"

Waste its sweetness on the desert air - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

Through the azure deep of air - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

Air that feeds his bones - Leah Naomi Green "To the Cardinal, Attacking His Reflection in the Window"

Make penance of the air - Linda Gregerson "Double Portrait with American Flags"

The self-same knots of air and ice - Linda Gregerson "Spring Snow"

In the air Death moans and sings - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"

A pale bird, circling you with air - Kimberly Grey "What We Have Lost"

Across obliterating air - Louise Imogen Guiney "To a Young Poet"

Dusk-airs and breaths of half-light - Ivor Gurney "De Profundis"

Swaddled in strange air - Marilyn Hacker "Nearly a Valediction"

Dim flights of measured air - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"

Old Dante's voice encircles all the air - Arthur Henry Hallam "Sonnet"

This mansion made of thinnest air - Patricia Hampl "This Is How Memory Works"

November blew forth its bleared airs - Thomas Hardy "On One Who Lived and Died Where He Was Born"

Put on youth in her look and air - Thomas Hardy "A Wife Comes Back"

Dissolved from metal to salt air - Joy Harjo "Death Is a Woman"

A blackbird laughing in the frozen air - Joy Harjo "Transformations"

While the air lifts geese, indifferent - francine j. harris "rub against it, where"

Remembering this air - francine j. harris "Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monstitch Past 45"

Breathe there an ampler air - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXIX"

Gives off stillness to the air - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"

Vibrating still upon the air - Robert Hayden "On Lookout Mountain"

Acquiring air under water - Terrance Hayes "Fish Head for Katrina"

Climb the wild mountain's airy brow - Felicia Dorothea Hemans "Hymn of Nature"

The cadence melting into air - Felicia Hemans "To Mr Edwards, the Harper of Conway"

With all the blessings of the outer air - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Disappointment"

The scorched air breathes its opiate - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Noon"

Air reduced to polished bronze - Conrad Hilberry "A Bird"

All the March air lacks - Conrad Hilberry "Garlic Mustard"

To master this mosaic of air - Conrad Hilberry "Music"

Pervades the air my spirit breathes - Jennie Earngey Hill "My Tribute"

Till circling air seems drunken quite - Jennie Earngey Hill "A Sleighing Song"

Kite now a little higher on gold air - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"

All the dark feathered beings will rivet the air - Cynthia Hogue "The Changeling"

Fire hitched to the air we breathe - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"

And bitterly hang on the flowerless air - Richard Hughes "The Image"

In the glens of the air - Douglas Hyde "The Breedyeen"

Seven dancers measureless as air - fahima ife "porous aftermath"

Gather the fine amber dust in the air - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"

Dry air turned oxygen - Emily Igwike "my mother prepares ofe egusi"

A hold against the host of the air - Robinson Jeffers "To the House"

The air is a red drum - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Other Women's Children"

Still frets the evening air - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"

Held in trance by the sweet air - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"

That clears the air for peace - Lionel Johnson "Bronte"

Chivalries of air, unreconciled - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

And wound the golden air - Lionel Johnson "Enthusiasts"

Airs of high memory - Lionel Johnson "A Friend"

Sleep beneath her sweetest airs - Lionel Johnson "Laleham"

Whirled about the unconscious air - Lionel Johnson "Lucretius"

Wake at the bidding of the air - Lionel Johnson "Oracles"

A crow gasping for air - Amanda Johnston "Facing US"

Kitchen smoke and calm night air - Ashley M. Jones "Harriette Winslow and Aunt Rachel Clean Collard Greens on Prime Time Television"

The air escaping my throat's prison - Saeed Jones "Grief #213"

When the air becomes crowded with want - Saeed Jones "Kudzu"

Great rush of wrecked air - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

Into a bat's wing-brush of air - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Lighting the entire soft lace of the air - June Jordan "Poem for Haruko"

My bones breathe only air - Zilka Joseph "For the Birds"

Made of stubbornness and a little air - Ilya Kaminsky "Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air"

Air here at the edge of small fires - Janet Kauffman "Air Here"

Flying through sheds and airy quadrants - Janet Kauffman "Instead of Flying in Water"

Air settles on their shoulders, infiltrates their hair - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Far round the horizon's crystal air - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

Strange music startle the still air - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"

That now breathe the universal air - Fanny Kemble "The Vision of Life"

Filling with awful harmony the air - Fanny Kemble "Written on Cramond Beach]"

Naked on the Air of Heaven ride - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Jest and Scorn of Earth and Aire - Anne Killigrew "An Ode"

Nothing to breathe but air - Ben King "The Pessimist"

Raw airs uncloven by speech - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"

Invent one out of sheer air - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"

In that air made of loneliness - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Reach over and grasp the dark air - Christopher Kondrich "Schedule for Burning"

An airy thinness gleaming despite the distance - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"

The pale blue fabric of the air - Ted Kooser "Turkey Vultures"

Which turns the liquid air to gold - L.E.L. "The Skylark"

Thrill the blue air with thy song - L.E.L. "The Skylark"

Just before the air itself turns to snow - Nick Laird "Miscegenation"

Her soprano spare and sharp in the night air - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"

The sweet gift of light and air - Archibald Lampman "Vivia Perpetua"

Someone trapped in the air of the world - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"

Pandemonium on the indignant air - D.H. Lawrence "The Ass"

Like sensitive steel in the air - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Almond-Trees"

Prowl the air in circles and evasions - D.H. Lawrence "The Mosquito"

And cheat my brain with airy vanishings - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

Through still, soft air that cry is yet prolonged - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

Sandbirds twittering glance through crystal air - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

The great networks of the screaming air - Ruth Lechlitner "Quiz Program"

The million airs that you pervade - Henry S. Leigh "The Subjects of Song"

The power of earth called up into the ragged air - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

A high thin note trilling the frozen air - Philip Levine "Another Song"

Clouds sailing in polished air - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

After the machines stopped churning the air - Ada Limon "The Angles Made at the Factory"

Still dazzled in the glittered air - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Carving out this pocket of air - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Buoyed by your own coalition with the air - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"

In the relentlessly delighted air - Ada Limon "Overjoyed"

Scenting the air with protective promises - C.H. Lindsay "The Legacy of Granny van Helsing"

Where the precious airs are terraces and roadways - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

The lilac's dim explosion fills the air - Katinka Loeser "Spring Is the Time for Flowers"

Our fingers twist crumbs from air - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"

The limitless realms of the air - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Sandalphon"

Riding the shadows of conquering air - Audre Lorde "The Night-Blooming Jasmine"

Admitting no common air - Audre Lorde "What It Means to Be Beautiful"

Hope snapped in the air - Lois Lorimer "Rescue Dog"

The air of icy centuries of night - Amy Lowell "To Elizabeth Ward Perkins"

Vain conceits of airy blandishments - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

All of honey and milk the air is - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"

Send a golden harvest up the air - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

The keystone of his airy bridge - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

Withered, flavorless, lost to stale air - D. Keali'i MacKenzie "Miracles Welcome"

Small explosions from the folded air - Naomi Long Madgett "Afterthought"

Glorious trinity fashioned of air - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

The knot escapes into the air - Anthony Madrid "Injured Bone"

Opening ourselves sieved throats to breathe new air - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"

Nomads of the air - Douglas Malloch "The Passenger Pigeons"

The little voices of the air - Katherine Mansfield "Voices of the Air"

Perish like the shapes of air - Edwin Markham "These Songs Will Perish"

Splintered with frosty air - Jeannette Marks "Blind Sleep"

Sentences already made in air - Dawn Lundy Martin "Perspective is Supposed to Yield Clarity"

Borne upon the chainless air - George Martin "In Memory of Joseph Guibord"

Softest harmonies of air and ocean - George Martin "Laleet"

No heaven of golden air - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"

Sirens snagging the matted air - Adrian Matejka "Mural with HUD Housing & School Bus (1980)"

Hangs in the air like the start of heartfelt applause - Adrian Matejka "Soave Sia Il Vento"

Enough air to live on - Khaled Mattawa "Season of Migration to the North/Northwest"

Confesses to the power of air - Philip Matthews "The Morning Star"

The air as comforting as wine - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"

The air is valiant with drums - Theodore Maynard "Don Quixote"

Climbs the crimson-flooded air - James M'Carroll "Dawn"

Disappear into thick air - John McCarthy "Ghost Friends, Sangamon County"

The primer of damped air - J.D. McClatchy "Wolf's Tree"

Wait for a signal from the sun and air - Shane McCrae "The Shoots"

A world the old trees make of water and air - Anne Haven McDonnell "Owl"

Whirl fantastic in the misty air - Claude McKay "The Snow Fairy"

Lose them in the vivid air - Diane Mehta "Ode to Patrick Kearns, Funeral Director of the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home, in Queens"

Things that breathe air or fire - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"

This fierce angel of the air - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

Draw the breath of finer air - George Meredith "Internal Harmony"

Off the last vital edge of air - George Meredith "Night of Frost in May"

Whose memory in our vital air - George Meredith "To a Friend Lost (T. T.)"

Stale air and endless commands I can't obey - Joanne Merriam "No Words"

No more hidden than the air itself - W.S. Merwin "Just Now"

The jessamine music on the thin night air - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"

With change of times and change of air - Alice Meynell "The Lady Poverty"

House without air - Edna St Vincent Millay "Wild Swans"

When the air hums green - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

Red needles marking air with rust - Claire Millikin "Dress Like a Girl"

Watched the swans drop from the dark air - Anis Mojgani "Leda"

Into catacombs of air - Jenny Molberg "Echolocation"

The wind burns my wishes on the air - N. Scott Momaday "A Darkness Comes"

All the prisms of the air converged - N. Scott Momaday "Dichos"

Among the prisms of the air - N. Scott Momaday "Nous Avons Vu La Mer"

Haste on to breathe the intoxicating air - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"

With step as noiseless as the summer air - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

That trembled music to the ambrosial airs - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Heaven" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Find solace in thin air - Kamilah Aisha Moon "A Golden Shovel"

No curses cover this air - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"

If spirits can steal from the regions of air - Thomas Moore (1779-1852) "At the Mid Hour of Night"

Of hope that melted in air - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope V: New Birth"

A heft of air - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"

Air above mountains, buildings in our hands - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"

Like death in humid air - Walter Dean Myers "Bill Cash, 30, Boxer"

Of dead souls hanging in the air - Jaye Nasir "November"

Touch the air with fire - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (4)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Light dancers of gold and air - Pablo Neruda "Caribbean Birds" transl. by Miguel Algarin

A cup of bitter air between - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Cold, crystal in the hammered air - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

Grown like the air in autumn - Pablo Neruda "The Disinterred One" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Centers corroded by the air - Pablo Neruda "The Drowned Woman of the Sky" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Our ocean of air and lungs - Pablo Neruda "General Franco in Hell" translated by Richard Schaaf

The wild air with its thousand hands - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly

The air's ultimate consequences - Pablo Neruda "Life and Death of a Butterfly" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Nothing but dreams of air - Pablo Neruda "Men XI" transl. by William O'Daly

In the pure air of honeyed days - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A pristine ladder with treads of air - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Age" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Light which unwinds the air - Pablo Neruda "Spring" transl. by Alastair Reid

Carpeting the caverns of air and water - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XIII" transl. by James Nolan

The air with open veins - Pablo Neruda "The War (1936)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The new air of each day - Pablo Neruda "With Quevedo, In Springtime" transl. by William O'Daly

This maze of blossom and sweet air - E. Nesbit "To Rosamund"

Rush frightened through the air - Effie Lee Newsome "At the Pool"

A small chandelier fostering a golden air - Grace Nichols "Ode to a Daffodil"

Kerosene invades the air - Grace Nichols "Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November"

Whispers fermenting the night air - Grace Nichols "Tea with Demerara Sugar"

A proper balance of water, air and poetry - Lorine Niedecker "Nursery Rhyme"

Our relative the air - Lorine Niedecker [untitled]

Fade away twinkling, flickering in the air of the times - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"

Close our eyes and savor the precious air - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

Ringing like welcome music through the air - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

In that vast hollow of violet air - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"

A streak of patience in the air - Naomi Shihab Nye "Margaret"

Who share the air and the clouds - Naomi Shihab Nye "Messages from Everywhere"

That last tone emptying into air - Naomi Shihab Nye "Music"

Air answers breath remembers - Naomi Shihab Nye "Some Days"

Lifts the air in its path - Naomi Shihab Nye "Travel Alarm"

Plunge from warm waters to cool air - Achy Obejas "Naiad"

That people the depths of air - "Ode: The Birth of Poesy"

The boundless meadows of the air - Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C. "The Dead Musicians"

Has banged into your wall of air - Frank O'Hara "For James Dean"

Here choking on acidic air - dg nanouk okpik "Anthropocene Years"

A taffeta of cold air - dg nanouk okpik "Inupiaq Women"

House made of air - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

The stricken air still aches - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "A Neglected Harp"

release your metal breath into the air - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

Charming the air - Dorothy Parker "Christmas, 1921"

Into the scrolled music of air - Linda Pastan "Dido and Aeneas: After Purcell"

All parts of you surfacing for air - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"

No murmurs of our earthly air - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

Gem of empty air - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

In transparent loops of dug air - Kiki Petrosino "Monticello House Tour"

Your life unfolding in air - Kiki Petrosino "Prophecy"

A glaze of cricket sounds & cool air - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"

Black bat airs wrap me - Sylvia Plath "Nick and the Candlestick"

Raiment spun from upper air - Plesheef "Spring" transl. by John Pollen

High in the solitude of air - Alexander Posey "My Hermitage"

Birds of air dip bright wings in my tide - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"

Blithe spirit of the morning air - Alexander Posey "To a Morning Warbler"

Dusted with air of high June - Andrea Potos "Crocheting in December"

The cheek of the rain-starved air - Lynn Powell "Indian Summer"

Geometry and possibility and vibrations in the air - Tim Pratt "Mask"

By the heat of the heavy air - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Teufel-Haus"

All in November air - E.J. Pratt "Magnolia Blossoms"

In the ashen air - Jack Prelutsky "The Wizard"

Separated by air and the narrowest of voids - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "It is a camp despite the name"

So as not to forget their intentions in the air - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Time"

Escaping greyness and air - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"

Airy notions mix with earth - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Splendid Spur"

Squeeze the air from her birdbone body - Danni Quintos "Letters to Imelda V"

The heavy hanging air of dusk - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On the Potomac River, U.S.A."

Spectral words that haunt the air - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Roses"

The air that will be between us - Charles Rafferty "Drift"

A gnat in the air of greatness - Charles Rafferty "Mal Evans Counting"

Absorbing molasses air - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Despojo"

When witches skim the air - Edwin C. Ranck "Halloween"

To walk forth in the murderous air - John Crowe Ransom "Winter Remembered"

Fisting the air with rage - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"

Cellars cold with air of rivers at night - Charles Reznikoff "[The city breaks in houses to the sea, uneasy with waves]"

Wisteria bulging on spring air - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Air to their purpose - Adrienne Rich "Olivia"

Stings the air like a sharp herb - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

Each netted in transparent air - Adrienne Rich "Through Cottalitos Under Rolls of Cloud"

Awful bridge rising over naked air - Adrienne Rich "Victory"

Drive chariots in air - Lola Ridge "Betty"

Stir the attar of unused air - Lola Ridge "Dedication"

Compounded of light and air - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

Strew an alien luster on the air - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"

Strange signals on the air - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

The larger innocence of air - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

With the air conspire a fiery treason - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"

Covering all avenues of air - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Dried myself in the air of crime - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

Held the air hostage - Valencia Robin "Dutch Elm Disease"

This spicy air and twilight sweet - Henry W. Rockwell "Mohawk: IV"

How much could be gathered out of air - Catherine Rockwood "In Memoriam Maureen K. Speller"

Shining, trackless fields of air - Alice Wellington Rollins "Love Will Find Out a Way"

In the blue air vanishing - Alice Wellington Rollins "She Came and Went"

Could pluck it from the air with my teeth - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"

I struggle not to drown in the air above you - Hester J. Rook "Under Silver Waves"

Hanging in the air unclaimed - Kay Ryan "Tracers"

In the wet air of the future - Leslie Sainz "Sonnet for Ochun"

To escape my persistent air - Sonia Sanchez "Haiku 4"

Intoxication in this air - George Santayana "Athletic Ode"

Embroider the air - May Sarton "Luxury"

To break open the air with your grief - Ollie Schminkey "The First Rule of Buoyancy"

This latest means of never needing air - Ann K. Schwader "It Wears You"

Sun-widowed and veiled with thin air - Frederick George Scott "Thor"

A possessed witch, haunting the black air - Anne Sexton "Her Kind"

Gold candles fix'd in heaven's air - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXI"

A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXX"

A low private conversation with the air - Brenda Shaughnessy "The Home Team"

Voiceless earth and vacant air - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

And fold their wings of braided air - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

My hand holds stems of air - Ely Shipley "Hiatus"

To drink the air and taste the sun - Joyce Sidman "Lake's Promise"

Cool scarves of air whipping past - Joyce Sidman "Riding a Bike at Night"

A desire not to disturb the air - Richard Siken "Little Beast"

A hint of air seeping through glass - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Envisions Death"

Orange juice in the form of air - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"

Of its battlements of air - Helen Simpson "Aeroplane, June 6th"

As if smoke revises the story of the air - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"

The sound of bees perforating the air - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"

Though the thread too is air - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"

With smoke still scumbling the air - R.T. Smith "Still Life: From the Notebook of Ambrose Bierce, 1862"

Accost the air with a sentient beauty - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"

A sweet lie in the cold, cold air - Gary Soto "San Francisco Fog"

Chanted my ardor to the air - George Soule "Solitude"

Sea-weed on the surface of the air - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

The luring airs of Nereid or Siren - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Penelope"

Earth and air in snowy sheen commingle - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Sleigh-Ride"

Every galleon of the air - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"

Crying on the frightened air - James Stephens "The Snare"

And ancient as the air - George Sterling "Duandon"

The crimson gardens of the mourning air - George Sterling "October"

Our own motions in a freedom of air - Wallace Stevens "The Rock I: Seventy Years Later"

On the sweet and drowsy air - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"

Unforbidden clouds in aery harness - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

Twisting bright swift thread on airy looms - Muriel Stuart "The Thief of Beauty"

Playing through the essential air - Alison Swan "In Medias Res"

Gather wild irises out of the air - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"

Might melt with midnight into cold air - Sonya Taaffe "Teinds"

The tense dark air - Sara Teasdale "From the North"

A yard or two nearer the living air - Edward Thomas "Digging"

The eagle plunge to find the air - Francis Thompson "The Kingdom of God"

The crimson beds of sleeping airs - Hugh Miller Thompson "Sleeping" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

Some grains of night tincture the noontide air - Henry David Thoreau "The Fall of the Leaf"

Touched by Ariel's power, free of air, and earth, and waves - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"

The silent air is thinking of nothing - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VII. Ripples"

With a burning spear, and a horse of air - "Tom o' Bedlam"

The naked trees dressed of air - Edwin Torres "Air Is Sham for Light"

And makes silence pollute the air - Elizabeth Torres "The Voyage"

Apricots spicing the air - Kristen Tracy "Undressed"

Moth-winged Cupid painted on the air - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

Low-breathed air and inwoven melody - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"

Pure and bright in the cool evening air - Tu Fu "The Excursion" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough

In the air a breath of newness - Tu Fu "Song of the Beautiful Ladies" transl. by Burton Watson

Dug from still quarries of grey-black air - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

April airs were abroad - Katherine Tynan "Sheep and Lambs"

In the transfixed air - John Updike "Americana"

Lighter than accustomed air - John Updike "Vacation Place"

Smoke scatters summer air - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Puff"

But our worst blows dangled in the air - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"

The dragons of the air, the hell-hounds of the deep - Henry van Dyke "Lights Out"

In the shadowless vault of lucid air - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

And swam the flood of air - Henry van Dyke "Vera"

And timid breaths of vernal air go wandering - Henry van Dyke "When Tulips Bloom"

Storms turn to music, clouds to smiles and air - Henry Vaughan "The Rainbow"

Air beneath my footstep - Suzanne Vega "Fool's Complaint"

Embers of hope upon the ashen air - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

Fireflies strung through sapphired air - Ocean Vuong "Into the Breach"

Out of the window into the air - Wa Wa Chaw "The Indians' Spirit"

A thing hanging in the air at night - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"

Dry air dusty and spinning with flies - Lucy A.E. Ward "Haystacks"

Choking tight fists of air - Jamie Wasserman "German Man Found Dead in Home 5 Years After He Died"

In the woven air of the saints - Afaa Michael Weaver "Midnight Air in Louisville"

Where fainting incense clouds the heavy air - Edith Wharton "Sonnets: II. Vespers"

Lift fretted fronts to the silver air - Edith Wharton "The Tryst"

Through the murmuring air - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

The awful air that flows unbounded - John Hall Wheelock "The Fish-Hawk"

Ran down avenues of air - John Hall Wheelock "Of Day Came Night"

Vollied lightnings cleave the air - Henry Kirk White "Time"

Glory trembling through the air - Helen Hay Whitney "The Message"

Beyond the dull world's heavy air - Helen Hay Whitney "To B.D."

Stinging all the air to life - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"

The air suddenly redolent of borderlands - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"

Burned like a heated opal through air - Oscar Wilde "Impression du Voyage"

And eat the air of the place - William Carlos Williams "History"

Cementing the grooved columns of air - William Carlos Williams "The Rose"

Tense air enjoying the dusty fight - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

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

Shakes the wide domains of air - William Henry Withrow "Cloud Castles"

What blooms on airy precipices grow - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"

With air that closes underneath my feet - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"

And filled the empty caverns of the air - Humbert Wolfe "The Sicilian Expedition"

No trace of a ferocious air - William Wordsworth "The Danish Boy"

Filling the air with silver and water - Valerie Worth "Wood Thrush"

The air remains timeless over the ridge - Charles Wright "Basin Creek Sundown"

Variation water knows from air - Jay Wright "Boli"

Echo in real air and space-time - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"

Separated by a slab of air - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

With words lighter than air - W.B. Yeats "The Lover asks Forgiveness because of his Many Moods"

Air wistful with a few late lavender clusters - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

Letters written in the air - Jane Yolen "Call and Response"

Wish to be silent in this air - C. Dale Young "Praise"

Bright air alive with dragonflies - Francis Brett Young "Bete Humaine"

An air that ancient poets knew - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"

Where no rains abated the fierce air - Francis Brett Young "104 Fahrenheit"

Whose blown dust throttles the hot air - Francis Brett Young "The
Pavement"

The hiss of empty air swirling past - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Sweat fighting the sleepwalking air - Kevin Young "For the Confederate Dead"

The usual ration of air - Josephine Yu "The Failed Revolutionaries Apologize to Their Foreign Sponsors"

A space carved from shadow and air - Cynthia Zarin "The Impulse Wants Company"

As if to reckon absence out of air - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks I: Metaphysick for the New Year"

Whose ripples whet the air her horses reined - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Held small birds in air until they sang - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Each step a rope bridge hung in the air - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday"

miracle of air and yawning horizon - Maria Zoccola "Dry Land"

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


Weigh down the wings of airborn birds - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"


In the air-conditioned underworld - Aimee Le "Movies I"


Between a choice & its airless shadow - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"

Laid out like a beach ball gone airless - Mary Jo Bang "You Know"

Airless corridors staffed by ghosts - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

Our airless desert seared by stars - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"


Hidden behind the airtight jars - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"


Reversing direction mid-air - Cheryl Dumesnil "It's not the Holy Spirit"

Mountains turned hazard-orange mid-air - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"


Born of nothing but salt-air - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"


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