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somethingdarkerNot close enough to be cherished - Hanif Abdurraqib "It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off"
May the trains bring our hearts close together - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"
His menagerie lined up close behind - Alise Alousi "Back to School"
Clothesline holding the doors closed - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"
Dante's dark wood closing in - Julia Alvarez "Last Trees"
Closest to the heart's timed beat - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"
Too scared to stand that close to emotion - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"
With its hand closing around my throat - Ally Ang "Masculinity Ode"
Mouths closed so tight they're lipless - Margaret Atwood "Half Hanged Mary"
This vault door's hollow closing crash - Mary Jo Bang "Beneath the Din"
A record of a permanent closed door - Mary Jo Bang "Provisional Doubt as an Architectural Space"
The cleansing that closes winter - Mary Jo Bang "Reign of Unreason"
The closer you are to an irreversible apocalypse - Catherine Barnett "Amor Fati"
The doors of evening must not close - Elizabeth Bartlett "Civilized Spring"
Who close the eyes of Sorrow - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
The pain of the close-drawing darkness - William Rose Benet "Lights Through the Mist"
In meaning close to sacrament - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Hold our secret shames so close - Sheila Black "The Earth"
Where the odyssey yet is a closed calendar - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"
Closed on the moon's face - Richard Blanco "Time as Art in The Eternal City"
Go through the gates with closed eyes - Arna Bontemps "Close Your Eyes!"
In the closing months of the year - "The Book of Odes: No.167. We Pick Ferns, We Pick Ferns" transl. by Burton Watson
More closely press upon that midnight air - Gordon Bottomley "New Year's Eve, 1913"
This crocheted fog I wrap close - Julia Bouwsma "Annie in the Boat"
Day closes its jaws - William Brewer "Oxyana, West Virginia"
Close engirdled by your vines - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Closed the heart's fraternal gate - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
Nowhere close to forgiving - Julie Byrne "I Live Now as a Singer"
The mortgage closed, outruns the lease - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Last Prayer"
All night with closed eyes - Anne Carson "O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love"
Mastered distance by living too close - Jennifer Chang "Pastoral"
Close to the whistling ground - Ching-In Chen "South in Hundreds"
Close our eyes against regret - Lucille Clifton "mirror"
Close up clear eyes - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Hidden Love"
Close your eyes in the storm - Leonard Cohen "The News You Really Hate"
The closed labyrinth of your eyes - Antonio Colinas "Nocturne"
The closed mouth of secrets - Antonio Colinas "Song XXXV"
And closing my heart to truth - Katherine Eleanor Conway "The Heaviest Cross of All"
Close to the fountain of our tears - Benjamin Copeland "St. Augustine"
While linked in closest brotherhood, invincible - "Cor Unum, Via Una: God Bless Our Native Land!" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Those who don't close the circle - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
As by conflicting winds close driven - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
With prudence close allied - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Time's cold had closed my heart about - Walter de la Mare "The Remonstrance"
Some seasons come close to monotonous - Monica de la Torre "No mode of excitement is absolutely colorless"
The parasitic closing on our thumbprint - Toi Derricotte "In Knowledge of Young Boys"
I keep my dreams close - Kym Deyn "Wolpertinger at Thebes"
As the moon leans in close to laugh at me - Kaily Dorfman "The Wolf"
Where wormholes close and open like anemone - Kendall Evans "Oracle"
Held close by flowers too beauteous for the day - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
Your feet are closest to spring - Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi "Letter from a Hot Air Balloon"
The door Night had closed over the world - Monica Ferrell "In Safranbolu"
Hugged close by the cool rhododendron - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
That nestles safe close to the heart of France - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Close my eyes with coins - Carolyn Forche "Plain Song"
The ceremony of the closing in - Katie Ford "Koi"
With doors that none but the wind ever closes - Robert Frost "Asking for Roses"
Close the windows and not hear the wind - Robert Frost "Now Close the Windows"
Yellow I see is my close friend - Zona Gale "Hokku"
Close by the spreading beech - A.J. Gault "Twenty Years Ago"
Beneath the iron bell close-bound - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Slag"
Close my ears to the beat of your tides - Dana Gioia "Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles"
One's close to nothing - C.S. Giscombe "Portland Parish/The Blue Mountains"
As I close my eyes for silence on a Wednesday - Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake "Someday I'll Love--"
Closed the windows of my soul - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"
Close tighter than midnight knows - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
Closed is the book we used to read - Eliza Paul Gurney "In a Season of Bereavement"
Sanctuary of love close guarded - Ivor Gurney "The Farm"
Our clock should be the closing flowers - Thomas Hardy "Dream of the City Shopwoman"
Close not heart nor hand - Frances E.W. Harper "Burial of Sarah"
Before my heart's closed door - Frances E.W. Harper "The Refiner's Gold"
Quite close to nothing - Leslie Harrison "[Summa mathematica]"
While starvation mounts the throne close beside you - Robert M. Hart "Words of Sympathy" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
When Summer closes her pageantry - F.W. Harvey "June"
Knocking wildly at a closed door in a dream - Robert Hass "The Apple Trees at Olema"
Now closing up the broken ranks - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Crows"
Come close to the Mojave's affection - Faylita Hicks "Self-Care"
November closing the store - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"
Close their ears to the truth - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
The language burns on the other side of a closed window - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"
The exit already closing from below - Carlie Hoffman "Point of View Where Orpheus Makes a Pit Stop at a Fortune Teller in St Germain"
Vital candle in close heart's vault - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Candle Indoors"
Closed our war with Time - William H.C. Hosmer "My Study"
Opened our eyes when his own were closed - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
closed doors that refuse to open - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"
Can call a rainbow close - Susan Katz "Rainbow Lorikeets"
For more precision, close your eyes completely - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Crumbling pain on the cabinets that never closed - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"
The closed fingers of the ferns - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Existence closing your Account - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Leave it close wrapped in silence - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Our close resemblance turn'd the tide - Henry S. Leigh "The Twins"
Crowded close in serried phalanx - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Arbors close the ends of dreaming paths - Amy Lowell "Behind a Wall"
Close your eyes and cease your searches - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "silver birch"
On the closed curtains of my eyes - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "I Watch Swift Pictures"
Knocked at Fame's closed gate - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Inheritance"
Let the muses close the horror shop - Randall Mann "End Words"
Must seek close kinship with forgetfulness - George Martin "Celestine"
Pockets full of closed fists - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Forever with a scarred, closed fist - John McCarthy "Portrait of a Preacher's Secret, Dekalb, Illinois"
closes over your point of entry - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"
Apple of my closed eye - Jeffrey McDaniel "Jonathan"
In the King's orchard close - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"
Not close the gates of my heart - Phillip Metres "My Heart like a Nation"
Before the grey gate closes - Charlotte Mew "Jour des Morts (Cimetiere Montparnasse)"
When sleep comes to close each difficult day - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"
Closed in these thousand leaves articulate - Alice Meynell "The Two Poets"
And no blossom close - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"
A close mess of buttered brushstrokes - Tyler Mills "House of Pere Lacroix"
And the circle keeps closing - Gabriela Mistral "The Teller of Tales" (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
With their fifty chimneys close and high - Harold Monro "Journey"
Must lay December's closing record here - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Planted eggplant too close to the cucumbers - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Frightened waters huddle close - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Each letter a closed house - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
A closed palace for the lost gods - Pablo Neruda "The Ship" transl. by Dennis Maloney
A traitor nestling close at home - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Eyes closed in the glancing - Hoa Nguyen "Swell"
Feel the shadow closing cold - Roden Noel "The Pity of it"
Close our eyes and savor the precious air - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"
In a book too heavy to close - D. Nurkse "Overseas Accounts"
The vault of his face closes - Naomi Shihab Nye "His Life"
Close to the skim of honey - Mary Oliver "How Everything Adores Being Alive"
Time is a wound that can't close - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"
close by each golden tent a golden torch - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
As he closed his balance-sheet - W.P.P. "Epistle to the Editor" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
How close abundance is to excess - Carl Phillips "Troubadours"
From the sands of your closed lips - Marie-Francoise Prager
That neither wind nor frost could close - E.J. Pratt "The Ice-Floes"
Thoth closed his book of records and wept - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Close all the havens with iron bands - "Queen Bengerd" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
The mountains are closing their eyes - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"
The closest and carefullest scrutiny bears - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
Close to the blackberry wall - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Summer Shower"
From the past no closing light can borrow - Rebecca "The Heiress" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Paying close attention to the rapidly changing current - Tennessee Reed "Fantasy"
Watch his comrades close down the sky - Roger Reeves "The Head of the Cottonmouth"
Sometimes that unfamiliar place is closer - Kurt Rhode in a letter to Diane Seuss (quoted as part of her poem, "What Is It You Feel I Asked Kurt")
Entrusted to close the box - Adrienne Rich "Veteran's Day"
So close to the flowing dark - Lola Ridge "Caesar"
Drew their sundered spirits close - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Through the closed crevice of its silent door - Alice Wellington Rollins "Closed"
Close the curtains of branched evergreen - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
Placed close within destruction's scope - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
So in the peace of the closing day - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Close to the coast of Fear - Virna Sheard "Before the Dawn"
Closed my hands upon a moth - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Beware"
Folded close beneath whisker and chin - Joyce Sidman "Shhh! They Are Sleeping"
See better with eyes closed - Charles Simic "Caged Fortuneteller"
Your heart is closed - Clark Ashton Smith "The Exile"
Closes the soul in a crypt of dread - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Close to the zones of solar fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of a Comet"
Closed eyes in dark cellars - Marin Sorescu "Paintings" transl. by Gabriela Dragnea
At the close of a thousand eons - Robert J.C. Stead "The Mothering"
Close up, and form the band - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
The arms of the Far-away have drawn us close - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"
Close them behind eyelid doors - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 74: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Close from the wind and at ease from the tide - Algernon Swinburne "In Harbour"
I limped too close to night and too far - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Death closes all - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"
Hard my path on earth is closed - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut
Close to the dancing heels of the day - Iris Tree "[Oh canst thou not hear in my heart all its whispering fears]"
Closed the portal of thought - Miss Augusta C. Twiggs "Night"
the flora of the open palm closing - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"
Drifting lands close on ancient seas - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"
When we're this close to the devil - Ocean Vuong "Untitled (Blue, Green, and Brown): oil on canvas: Mark Rothko: 1952"
The closely matted branches of the mesquite - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "A Mojave Lullaby"
Draw you close with siren whispers - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"
Violence passing close like a storm - Joshua Weiner "Art Pepper"
Shall speak to us with lips the darkness closes - Edith Wharton "Elegy"
Your false eyes closed forever - Helen Hay Whitney "The Forgiveness"
The tired daffodil has closed its gilded doors - Oscar Wilde "Endymion"
Whatever is closest to shadow - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"
Little roads closed to the public - Michelle Wirth "Campus"
With air that closes underneath my feet - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"
Clarity of occurrence returning to hold us close - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie IV"
To close that clear brittle door - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"
The earth closing its one good eye - Wendy Xu "Praxis"
A black door that will always remain closed - Matthew Zapruder "Poem for a Suicide"
A voice of closeness to the earth - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
A closeness like disorientation - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"
Constantly destroyed by the closeness of the sacred - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"
Get closer to forgiving - Sheila Black "The Earth"
Knowing better, the closer they get - Rio Cortez "Driving at Night"
Feathered closer to grace each time - Trace Howard DePass "[th(e)reat] --> siege engine"
May the trees kneel closer - Nicole Terez Dutton "Magnitude and Bond"
Fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"
One step closer to annihilation - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
So much closer into the dark - Petra Kuppers "Forest Starships"
One step closer to the edge of truth - Philip Levine "Another Song"
The peering gulls wheeled closer - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
further from me and closer to power - Catherine O'Ciarmacain "Steelwife"
As time slowly propels us closer - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"
Closer by an inch to the sun - Gerald Stern "Places You Wouldn't Believe"
a sun you thought existed much closer - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
A magical closure of particles - Linda Bierds "The Ghost Trio: 3. Wedgwood: 1790 --Josiah Wedgwood, 1730-1795"
Now your dominion comes to closure - Boris Dralyuk "The Passing of the Bungalows"
Snaps the close-entwining chord - Quince "Absence" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Followed the close-heard beat of love's wide wings - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
That web of close-knit darkness - John Presland "The Deluge"
The close-mouthed tantrum of her fevers - Safiya Sinclair "A Bell, Still Unrung"
Close-seated in one crimson boat - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
Raccoons too ready for their close-ups - Dorsey Craft "Women Tell Me How to Be Safe"
Enclose.
Someone else's dream foreclosed - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Oak Falls"
The twisted fern uncloses - Ethna Carbery "In Tir-na'n-Og"
Swift the waiting reeds unclose - Rose Fyleman "This Island"
Autumn's wind uncloses the heart of all your flowers - Rennell Rodd "A Song of Autumn"
All things unclose their portions - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]
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May the trains bring our hearts close together - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"
His menagerie lined up close behind - Alise Alousi "Back to School"
Clothesline holding the doors closed - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"
Dante's dark wood closing in - Julia Alvarez "Last Trees"
Closest to the heart's timed beat - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"
Too scared to stand that close to emotion - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"
With its hand closing around my throat - Ally Ang "Masculinity Ode"
Mouths closed so tight they're lipless - Margaret Atwood "Half Hanged Mary"
This vault door's hollow closing crash - Mary Jo Bang "Beneath the Din"
A record of a permanent closed door - Mary Jo Bang "Provisional Doubt as an Architectural Space"
The cleansing that closes winter - Mary Jo Bang "Reign of Unreason"
The closer you are to an irreversible apocalypse - Catherine Barnett "Amor Fati"
The doors of evening must not close - Elizabeth Bartlett "Civilized Spring"
Who close the eyes of Sorrow - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"
The pain of the close-drawing darkness - William Rose Benet "Lights Through the Mist"
In meaning close to sacrament - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
Hold our secret shames so close - Sheila Black "The Earth"
Where the odyssey yet is a closed calendar - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"
Closed on the moon's face - Richard Blanco "Time as Art in The Eternal City"
Go through the gates with closed eyes - Arna Bontemps "Close Your Eyes!"
In the closing months of the year - "The Book of Odes: No.167. We Pick Ferns, We Pick Ferns" transl. by Burton Watson
More closely press upon that midnight air - Gordon Bottomley "New Year's Eve, 1913"
This crocheted fog I wrap close - Julia Bouwsma "Annie in the Boat"
Day closes its jaws - William Brewer "Oxyana, West Virginia"
Close engirdled by your vines - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Closed the heart's fraternal gate - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
Nowhere close to forgiving - Julie Byrne "I Live Now as a Singer"
The mortgage closed, outruns the lease - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Last Prayer"
All night with closed eyes - Anne Carson "O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love"
Mastered distance by living too close - Jennifer Chang "Pastoral"
Close to the whistling ground - Ching-In Chen "South in Hundreds"
Close our eyes against regret - Lucille Clifton "mirror"
Close up clear eyes - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Hidden Love"
Close your eyes in the storm - Leonard Cohen "The News You Really Hate"
The closed labyrinth of your eyes - Antonio Colinas "Nocturne"
The closed mouth of secrets - Antonio Colinas "Song XXXV"
And closing my heart to truth - Katherine Eleanor Conway "The Heaviest Cross of All"
Close to the fountain of our tears - Benjamin Copeland "St. Augustine"
While linked in closest brotherhood, invincible - "Cor Unum, Via Una: God Bless Our Native Land!" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
Those who don't close the circle - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
As by conflicting winds close driven - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
With prudence close allied - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
Time's cold had closed my heart about - Walter de la Mare "The Remonstrance"
Some seasons come close to monotonous - Monica de la Torre "No mode of excitement is absolutely colorless"
The parasitic closing on our thumbprint - Toi Derricotte "In Knowledge of Young Boys"
I keep my dreams close - Kym Deyn "Wolpertinger at Thebes"
As the moon leans in close to laugh at me - Kaily Dorfman "The Wolf"
Where wormholes close and open like anemone - Kendall Evans "Oracle"
Held close by flowers too beauteous for the day - J.B.F. "Mehalah" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no.153, vol.III, Dec. 4, 1886]
Your feet are closest to spring - Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi "Letter from a Hot Air Balloon"
The door Night had closed over the world - Monica Ferrell "In Safranbolu"
Hugged close by the cool rhododendron - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
That nestles safe close to the heart of France - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Close my eyes with coins - Carolyn Forche "Plain Song"
The ceremony of the closing in - Katie Ford "Koi"
With doors that none but the wind ever closes - Robert Frost "Asking for Roses"
Close the windows and not hear the wind - Robert Frost "Now Close the Windows"
Yellow I see is my close friend - Zona Gale "Hokku"
Close by the spreading beech - A.J. Gault "Twenty Years Ago"
Beneath the iron bell close-bound - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Slag"
Close my ears to the beat of your tides - Dana Gioia "Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles"
One's close to nothing - C.S. Giscombe "Portland Parish/The Blue Mountains"
As I close my eyes for silence on a Wednesday - Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake "Someday I'll Love--"
Closed the windows of my soul - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"
Close tighter than midnight knows - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
Closed is the book we used to read - Eliza Paul Gurney "In a Season of Bereavement"
Sanctuary of love close guarded - Ivor Gurney "The Farm"
Our clock should be the closing flowers - Thomas Hardy "Dream of the City Shopwoman"
Close not heart nor hand - Frances E.W. Harper "Burial of Sarah"
Before my heart's closed door - Frances E.W. Harper "The Refiner's Gold"
Quite close to nothing - Leslie Harrison "[Summa mathematica]"
While starvation mounts the throne close beside you - Robert M. Hart "Words of Sympathy" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
When Summer closes her pageantry - F.W. Harvey "June"
Knocking wildly at a closed door in a dream - Robert Hass "The Apple Trees at Olema"
Now closing up the broken ranks - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Crows"
Come close to the Mojave's affection - Faylita Hicks "Self-Care"
November closing the store - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"
Close their ears to the truth - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
The language burns on the other side of a closed window - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"
The exit already closing from below - Carlie Hoffman "Point of View Where Orpheus Makes a Pit Stop at a Fortune Teller in St Germain"
Vital candle in close heart's vault - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Candle Indoors"
Closed our war with Time - William H.C. Hosmer "My Study"
Opened our eyes when his own were closed - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
closed doors that refuse to open - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"
Can call a rainbow close - Susan Katz "Rainbow Lorikeets"
For more precision, close your eyes completely - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Crumbling pain on the cabinets that never closed - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"
The closed fingers of the ferns - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Existence closing your Account - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)
Leave it close wrapped in silence - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Our close resemblance turn'd the tide - Henry S. Leigh "The Twins"
Crowded close in serried phalanx - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]
Arbors close the ends of dreaming paths - Amy Lowell "Behind a Wall"
Close your eyes and cease your searches - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "silver birch"
On the closed curtains of my eyes - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "I Watch Swift Pictures"
Knocked at Fame's closed gate - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Inheritance"
Let the muses close the horror shop - Randall Mann "End Words"
Must seek close kinship with forgetfulness - George Martin "Celestine"
Pockets full of closed fists - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Forever with a scarred, closed fist - John McCarthy "Portrait of a Preacher's Secret, Dekalb, Illinois"
closes over your point of entry - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"
Apple of my closed eye - Jeffrey McDaniel "Jonathan"
In the King's orchard close - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"
Not close the gates of my heart - Phillip Metres "My Heart like a Nation"
Before the grey gate closes - Charlotte Mew "Jour des Morts (Cimetiere Montparnasse)"
When sleep comes to close each difficult day - Alice Meynell "Renouncement"
Closed in these thousand leaves articulate - Alice Meynell "The Two Poets"
And no blossom close - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"
A close mess of buttered brushstrokes - Tyler Mills "House of Pere Lacroix"
And the circle keeps closing - Gabriela Mistral "The Teller of Tales" (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
With their fifty chimneys close and high - Harold Monro "Journey"
Must lay December's closing record here - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Planted eggplant too close to the cucumbers - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Frightened waters huddle close - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Each letter a closed house - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
A closed palace for the lost gods - Pablo Neruda "The Ship" transl. by Dennis Maloney
A traitor nestling close at home - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"
Eyes closed in the glancing - Hoa Nguyen "Swell"
Feel the shadow closing cold - Roden Noel "The Pity of it"
Close our eyes and savor the precious air - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"
In a book too heavy to close - D. Nurkse "Overseas Accounts"
The vault of his face closes - Naomi Shihab Nye "His Life"
Close to the skim of honey - Mary Oliver "How Everything Adores Being Alive"
Time is a wound that can't close - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"
close by each golden tent a golden torch - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
As he closed his balance-sheet - W.P.P. "Epistle to the Editor" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
How close abundance is to excess - Carl Phillips "Troubadours"
From the sands of your closed lips - Marie-Francoise Prager
That neither wind nor frost could close - E.J. Pratt "The Ice-Floes"
Thoth closed his book of records and wept - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"
Close all the havens with iron bands - "Queen Bengerd" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
The mountains are closing their eyes - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"
The closest and carefullest scrutiny bears - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
Close to the blackberry wall - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Summer Shower"
From the past no closing light can borrow - Rebecca "The Heiress" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)
Paying close attention to the rapidly changing current - Tennessee Reed "Fantasy"
Watch his comrades close down the sky - Roger Reeves "The Head of the Cottonmouth"
Sometimes that unfamiliar place is closer - Kurt Rhode in a letter to Diane Seuss (quoted as part of her poem, "What Is It You Feel I Asked Kurt")
Entrusted to close the box - Adrienne Rich "Veteran's Day"
So close to the flowing dark - Lola Ridge "Caesar"
Drew their sundered spirits close - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Through the closed crevice of its silent door - Alice Wellington Rollins "Closed"
Close the curtains of branched evergreen - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
Placed close within destruction's scope - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
So in the peace of the closing day - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]
Close to the coast of Fear - Virna Sheard "Before the Dawn"
Closed my hands upon a moth - Dora Sigerson Shorter "Beware"
Folded close beneath whisker and chin - Joyce Sidman "Shhh! They Are Sleeping"
See better with eyes closed - Charles Simic "Caged Fortuneteller"
Your heart is closed - Clark Ashton Smith "The Exile"
Closes the soul in a crypt of dread - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"
Close to the zones of solar fire - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of a Comet"
Closed eyes in dark cellars - Marin Sorescu "Paintings" transl. by Gabriela Dragnea
At the close of a thousand eons - Robert J.C. Stead "The Mothering"
Close up, and form the band - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
The arms of the Far-away have drawn us close - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"
Close them behind eyelid doors - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 74: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Close from the wind and at ease from the tide - Algernon Swinburne "In Harbour"
I limped too close to night and too far - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Death closes all - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"
Hard my path on earth is closed - Miguel Teurbe Tolón "Last Song of the Exile" transl. by Francisco Javier Vingut
Close to the dancing heels of the day - Iris Tree "[Oh canst thou not hear in my heart all its whispering fears]"
Closed the portal of thought - Miss Augusta C. Twiggs "Night"
the flora of the open palm closing - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"
Drifting lands close on ancient seas - Steven Utley "Seven Silurian Scenes"
When we're this close to the devil - Ocean Vuong "Untitled (Blue, Green, and Brown): oil on canvas: Mark Rothko: 1952"
The closely matted branches of the mesquite - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "A Mojave Lullaby"
Draw you close with siren whispers - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"
Violence passing close like a storm - Joshua Weiner "Art Pepper"
Shall speak to us with lips the darkness closes - Edith Wharton "Elegy"
Your false eyes closed forever - Helen Hay Whitney "The Forgiveness"
The tired daffodil has closed its gilded doors - Oscar Wilde "Endymion"
Whatever is closest to shadow - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"
Little roads closed to the public - Michelle Wirth "Campus"
With air that closes underneath my feet - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"
Clarity of occurrence returning to hold us close - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie IV"
To close that clear brittle door - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"
The earth closing its one good eye - Wendy Xu "Praxis"
A black door that will always remain closed - Matthew Zapruder "Poem for a Suicide"
A voice of closeness to the earth - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
A closeness like disorientation - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"
Constantly destroyed by the closeness of the sacred - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"
Get closer to forgiving - Sheila Black "The Earth"
Knowing better, the closer they get - Rio Cortez "Driving at Night"
Feathered closer to grace each time - Trace Howard DePass "[th(e)reat] --> siege engine"
May the trees kneel closer - Nicole Terez Dutton "Magnitude and Bond"
Fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"
One step closer to annihilation - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
So much closer into the dark - Petra Kuppers "Forest Starships"
One step closer to the edge of truth - Philip Levine "Another Song"
The peering gulls wheeled closer - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
further from me and closer to power - Catherine O'Ciarmacain "Steelwife"
As time slowly propels us closer - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"
Closer by an inch to the sun - Gerald Stern "Places You Wouldn't Believe"
a sun you thought existed much closer - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"
A magical closure of particles - Linda Bierds "The Ghost Trio: 3. Wedgwood: 1790 --Josiah Wedgwood, 1730-1795"
Now your dominion comes to closure - Boris Dralyuk "The Passing of the Bungalows"
Snaps the close-entwining chord - Quince "Absence" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Followed the close-heard beat of love's wide wings - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"
That web of close-knit darkness - John Presland "The Deluge"
The close-mouthed tantrum of her fevers - Safiya Sinclair "A Bell, Still Unrung"
Close-seated in one crimson boat - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"
Raccoons too ready for their close-ups - Dorsey Craft "Women Tell Me How to Be Safe"
Enclose.
Someone else's dream foreclosed - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Oak Falls"
The twisted fern uncloses - Ethna Carbery "In Tir-na'n-Og"
Swift the waiting reeds unclose - Rose Fyleman "This Island"
Autumn's wind uncloses the heart of all your flowers - Rennell Rodd "A Song of Autumn"
All things unclose their portions - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]
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