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A candle in a night of storms - Maxwell Anderson "Earth Evanescent"

Light a mourner's candle - Rachel Barenblat "Yahrzeit"

Seeing how frail is the candle - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

Collect the candle's tears - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

those destined candles of the mind - Elizabeth Bartlett "pilgrimage"

Candles lighted at full noon - Charles Baudelaire "The Living Flame" transl. not credited

Before the candles are lit - Kyce Bello "Far Country"

Ruffians dicing long beneath blurred candles - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two More Muses"

A hollowed-out candle left burning - Julia Bouwsma "Feeble-Minded"

The lighted candles lent their gold - Scott Cairns "Draw Near"

A white candle in a holy place - Joseph Campbell "The Old Woman"

Lit my candle to make a song for you - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"

A bromide or a borderland candle - Cyrus Cassells "Courage Song for Scott Warren"

For every candle lit in my name - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"

Question mark of candles - Gabrielle Civil "19th Birthday in Paris"

Telling time by rain and candles - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."

The red candles of garden brambles - Hilda Conkling "Poems"

The candles all were laughing - Nathalia Crane "The Chess Game"

My candle a silent fire - Walter de la Mare "Alone"

One last candle burning low - Walter de la Mare "Mistletoe"

In flame of candle and hearth - Walter de la Mare "The Revenant"

Beneath the candle of the moon - Jose Hernandez Diaz "Hey,"

Cake and candle celebrations - Stephen Dunn "A Card from Me to Me"

And candle false hope - Cornelius Eady "Revenge (Running Man)"

Two seeming candles shine - Helen Parry Eden "Vox Clamantis"

The smoky candle end of time - T.S. Eliot "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"

In the dark room shifting the candles - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"

Four wax candles in a darkened room - T.S. Eliot "Portrait of a Lady"

The chestnut gives them candles - Rose Fyleman "Trees and Fairies"

the candles' glow grows rusty - Gloria Gervitz "Migrations" [excerpt] transl. by Mark Schafer

Lit those candles daily and prayed - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"

Ask me about candles on countertops - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"

Tread a measure against bright candles - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"

Carry your candles like holy things - Mona Gould "Small Christmas Tree (For F.G.)"

Candle wax from last year's vigil - francine j. harris "what you'd find buried in the dirt under charles f. kettering sr. high school"

With candles between their wings - Robert Hayden "Kodachromes of the Island"

My midnight lamp and candle - Alfred Hayes "My Study"

Except for candles and their faltering shadows - Conrad Hilberry "Crete: The Diktaean Cave"

A candle in a world of wrong - Jennie Earngey Hill "Life's Day"

How low the candles of my knowledge glow - Leslie Pickney Hill "The Teacher"

Vital candle in close heart's vault - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Candle Indoors"

And you had your Candle's worth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

To match the candle with the sun - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "The Excellency of His Love"

Candles drowning in gold - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"

A lit candle saved for when the power goes out - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"

A Box whose Candle is the Sun - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

My life candle burning still - Kim Unsong "Life Candle"

After feasting by shining candles - "The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Trick candles on the victory cake - Dana Levin "You Will Never Get Death/Out of Your System"

A living candle in the hand of earth - Philip Levine "Bitterness"

Goes ahead burning the little candle of his breath - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"

Turning my life to shame and candle - J. Patrick Lewis "the Auntie"

Red-glazed candles of petition - Audre Lorde "The Night-Blooming Jasmine"

His eyes are flint to the candles - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: Third Movement"

Two candles at her head - Jeannette Marks "Two Candles"

Sustained by a candle flame - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm Under Siege"

The Sabbath queen blessed my candles - Kadia Molodowsky "Song of the Sabbath" transl. by Jean Valentine

The candles are not wired for electricity - Marianne Moore "Picking and Choosing"

A candle lit from the great unending fire - Mark Nepo "The Clearing"

Candles may serve, if there should be no day - E. Nesbit "Retro Sathanas"

Their candle gives a single light - Dorothy Parker "Interview"

Held imagination's candle high - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"

Bring not suspicions candle to the glass - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"

From these inverted candles - Rumi "The Journey to the Beloved" transl. by R.A. Nicholson

Deep-shadowed from the candle's guttering gold - Siegfried Sassoon "The Dug-Out"

A failing candle I dare not extinguish - Ann K. Schwader "Eating Mummy"

When those glimmering candles swell to suns - "Self-Reliance" [The Continental Monthly, v.1, no.2, February 1862]

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

Six wax candles still alight - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Priest's Brother"

A curtain near a candle - A.E. Stallings "Accident Waiting to Happen"

How a candle instructed me - Gerald Stern "Winter Thirst"

How high that highest candle - Wallace Stevens "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"

Sit in front of two candles - Jacqueline Suskin "How to Fall in Love with Yourself"

Shadows of candles flickering red - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"

This candle guides none living - Sonya Taaffe "Night Boat"

Holding black candles and waiting - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"

As a candle lit at noon - Sara Teasdale "'I Am Not Yours'"

Because someone blew out the candle - Matthew Thorburn "Forgotten Until You Find It"

The candles crossed like swords - Matthew Thorburn "Relic"

The cake with thirty candles - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"

Silver groves of candles playing - Herbert Trench "Musing on a Great Soldier"

As a candle repeats the moment - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament IV"

The single lance of a candle - Derek Walcott "Roman Peace"

A candle will guard his sleep - Derek Walcott "Roman Peace"

No cauldrons, no candles, no hickory wands - Amie Whittemore "Spell for the End of Grief"

All vain souls candles when noon is - William Carlos Williams "Homage"

My candle died with love - Humbert Wolfe "Pierrot"

The pallid candles of my vain regrets - Adolf Wolff "In Memoriam"

Mist candles down below - Charles Wright "Well, Roll On, Buddy, Don't You Roll Too Slow"

Sleepless Candle - W.B. Yeats "The Phases of the Moon"

Steadfast as the altar candle's flame - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"

Candles shaped like faces - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"


Tomorrows brighter than candle-blown - P. H. Low "Ode"


Candlelight.


Candelabra lit with flowers - Helen Parry Eden "The Ascent"

Beneath the many-branching candelabrum - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"

Dry candelabras of bristling stature - Pablo Neruda "Climates" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A candelabra for the spiders' silvery halo - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"


The aura of each candle-flame - L.P. Hartley "Candlemas"

As candle-flames that near the socket - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"

When candle-flames burn blue - G.B. Stuart "Haunted"


Shadows past the candle-gleam - Ruth Guthrie Harding "Song"


Candle-smoke curls around my sight - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

Inside it whispers candlesmoke - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Brussels"


Her moon-candle burns till dawn - Frederick George Scott "In the Woods"


Wick/Candlewick.


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