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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"
Until the perfect closing of the night - William Allingham "Aeolian Harp"
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"
Through all the close entanglements of earth - Amir "[I shall not try to flee the sword of Death]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook
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"
Closes, sewn shut in cloud and rain - Ryu Ando "The Oblique Light at Kakushima (A Memory of Persimmons)" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]
With its hand closing around my throat - Ally Ang "Masculinity Ode"
Whose heart beats close to mine - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]
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"
When Night her starry mansion closes - Park Benjamin "An Epistle to Fanny" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]
The Earth in slumber closes her great eye - Park Benjamin "Evening" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]
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]
Closed in the elemental tide - Witter Bynner "Beyond a Mountain"
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"
In sad laments that ne'er shall reach their close - Miguel de Cervantes "Galatea Book I" transl. by H. Oelsner & A.B. Welford
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"
As close as mourning barreling into night - Ama Codjoe "If They Come in the Morning"
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"
This close to the earth they have nothing to say - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
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
Close round one instant in one floating flower - Hart Crane "Voyages II"
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"
Before the shuddering moment closes all - Geoffrey Dearmer "Keats, Before Action"
A closed cage walled in by fire and sea - Geoffrey Dearmer "Mudros After the Evacuation"
Power to close sin's bleeding wounds - Delta "The Message of Seth: An Oriental Tradition" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
The parasitic closing on our thumbprint - Toi Derricotte "In Knowledge of Young Boys"
I keep my dreams close - Kym Deyn "Wolpertinger at Thebes"
To hold each moment close as a sand flea - Rachel Dillon "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem"
As the moon leans in close to laugh at me - Kaily Dorfman "The Wolf"
Her strong hand closed on her blunted sword - Arthur Conan Doyle "Victrix"
When beagles press close behind - William Henry Drummond "Madeleine Vercheres"
Where wormholes close and open like anemone - Kendall Evans "Oracle"
And deck their season to its close - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
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"
Shades of death are round me closing - Fanny Forrester "A Last 'Good-Night'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.31-v.I, 2 Aug. 1884]
Now riots summer in these magic closes - Nora May French "The Garden of Dolores"
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"
Too warm, too close, and not enough like pain - Thom Gunn "Lament"
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"
Bright days may light the closing of our year - J.H. [Jessie C. Howden per the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry site] "A Bright Day in November" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.152--v.III, 27 Nov. 1886]
Bound me close by a mystery - Katherine Hale "She Who Paddles"
The fatal hour that closed its note of time - John Stockdale Hardy "On the Destruction of the Royal Exchange by Fire on the Night of January 10, 1838"
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"
By close computation I found it came near - Percy Hendon "On Lord Grosvenor's Annual Income" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.335, 11 Oct. 1828]
Now closing up the broken ranks - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Crows"
My music shows you have your closes - Herbert "Song [Sweet day, so cool, so calm]" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 24, 18 Aug. 1832]
And the deepest shadows close behind the gleaming arcs - Walter Léon Hess "Feline Philosophy by Thomas Cat: Twelfth Caterwaul"
Come close to the Mojave's affection - Faylita Hicks "Self-Care"
That hides so close and shuts away - Aileen Cleveland Higgins "A Quandry"
November closing the store - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"
Close their ears to the truth - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
The walls around you kept closing in - Edward Hirsch "What the Last Evening Will Be Like"
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"
I know the knives are close behind - David Hornibrook "Versions of a Summer"
Closed our war with Time - William H.C. Hosmer "My Study"
Matter and mind woven together in so close a mesh - Aldous Huxley "The Defeat of Youth: V"
Opened our eyes when his own were closed - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
How all the roads to the past have been closed - Richard Jackson "The Italian Phrase Book"
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)
Iron left men bent so close to the earth - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
Leave it close wrapped in silence - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
The house of day is closing its eastern shutters - D.H. Lawrence "At the Window"
The healing days close up the open darkness - D.H. Lawrence "Scent of Irises"
A closing tide will leave no record - Mary L. Lawson "The Belle" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
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]
The telescope on the pyre swivels to the closest planet - Angela Liu "The Church at the Edge of Time" [Strange Horizons 14 April 2025]
Arbors close the ends of dreaming paths - Amy Lowell "Behind a Wall"
Close fitting, impervious still to rain or dew - Alastair MacDonald "On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog" transl. by Alexander Stewart [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.706, 7 July 1877]
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"
How the solar system closed its vaulted gateway - Harry Martinson "Aniara 4" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Our gold-dense gravity was close to losing equilibrium - Harry Martinson "Aniara 90" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Like a melody, sweetest at its close - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]
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)
Close enough to set our coats on fire - Roger Mitchell "Going Back"
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"
The darkening colors of closing time - A.L. Nielsen "Consensus"
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"
Closing the silent gates of night - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
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)
Closed them in a cage of woven gold - Kostes Palamas "The Sonnets" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
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"
Then I closed my lips on a curse - Margaret J. Preston "Saint Martin's Temptation" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.12, no.33, Dec. 1873]
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"
And gather me close in the oil-choked morning - Lalini Shanela Ranaraja "Tricona" [Strange Horizons 14 March 2022]
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"
And close my eyes and quench my breath - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"
Silent benedictions closing autumn's gorgeous ritual - Marjorie Allen Seiffert "November Afternoon" [The Little Review, Apr. 1917, v.3, no.10]
Inside the closed circle of memory - M. Bartley Seigel "Blood Sonnet"
Huddled close within, bound tight - M. Bartley Seigel "We'll Learn to Kindle a Slight Blue Flame"
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"
Not till the Peace had closed our quarrels - B. Simmons "London Cries" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
If you let those sleepy eyes stay closed - Mrs. L.L. Sloanaker "The Birds' Concert" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
With gorgeous music glowing to a close - Alexander Smith "[Joy, like a stream, flows]" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
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
My heart from hence is closed - Anne Spencer "I Have a Friend" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And birds sit close for comfort on broken boughs - Leonora Speyer "April on the Battlefields"
Oblivion's shadows close around their triumphs - Charles Sprague "An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City"
At the close of a thousand eons - Robert J.C. Stead "The Mothering"
Close pity's heart against his woes - James Stephens "Donnelly's Orchard"
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"
Breathless with hurry gains the closing gate - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
I limped too close to night and too far - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Sumptuous flame closed up in alabaster - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta LVI: The Soul to the Body"
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"
A hundred worries close mind's depths - Wang An-Shih "Meeting an Old Friend at Splendor-Hoard Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
Draw you close with siren whispers - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"
The icy spill of moonlight so close to her cave - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]
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"
And the hands that destroy clasped it close - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Ghosts"
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"
Go on hunting, one secret closing, another ensuing - Dean Young "Colophon"
The unknown's display of emeralds closes in an hour - Dean Young "Easy as Falling Down Stairs" [Poetry Nov. 2007]
A magician closed you in his hand and opened it suddenly empty - Yuan Chen "An Elegy" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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"
felt closer than ever to inspiration - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"
Fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"
Shifted the sidewalk twelve inches closer to the sky - David Hornibrook "Motion & Eclipse"
One step closer to annihilation - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
In my hands, we are closer than secret - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"
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"
Be brought to nearer and closer inspection - Marion H. Rand "The Real and the Ideal" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
Our country moving closer to its own truth and dread - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"
Our suspension in the sky brings us closer - Matthew Shenoda "The Pigeons Rose from the Floor of the Earth; A Clamoring of Wings to Disturb the Silence"
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"
Passed from out the close-barred room of time - Violet Jacob "The Little Dragon"
Snaps the close-entwining chord - Quince "Absence" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Traced the wide curve of the close-grappling lines - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"
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"
In vain perused her Baedeker's close-printed sheets - Leonard Bacon "Fame"
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"
Looking through the lens for a close-up - Elise Paschen "Aperture"
Disclose/Undisclosed.
Enclose.
Someone else's dream foreclosed - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Oak Falls"
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May the trains bring our hearts close together - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"
Until the perfect closing of the night - William Allingham "Aeolian Harp"
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"
Through all the close entanglements of earth - Amir "[I shall not try to flee the sword of Death]" transl. by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook
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"
Closes, sewn shut in cloud and rain - Ryu Ando "The Oblique Light at Kakushima (A Memory of Persimmons)" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]
With its hand closing around my throat - Ally Ang "Masculinity Ode"
Whose heart beats close to mine - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]
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"
When Night her starry mansion closes - Park Benjamin "An Epistle to Fanny" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]
The Earth in slumber closes her great eye - Park Benjamin "Evening" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]
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]
Closed in the elemental tide - Witter Bynner "Beyond a Mountain"
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"
In sad laments that ne'er shall reach their close - Miguel de Cervantes "Galatea Book I" transl. by H. Oelsner & A.B. Welford
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"
As close as mourning barreling into night - Ama Codjoe "If They Come in the Morning"
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"
This close to the earth they have nothing to say - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
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
Close round one instant in one floating flower - Hart Crane "Voyages II"
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"
Before the shuddering moment closes all - Geoffrey Dearmer "Keats, Before Action"
A closed cage walled in by fire and sea - Geoffrey Dearmer "Mudros After the Evacuation"
Power to close sin's bleeding wounds - Delta "The Message of Seth: An Oriental Tradition" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXIII, Jan. 1851, v.LXIX]
The parasitic closing on our thumbprint - Toi Derricotte "In Knowledge of Young Boys"
I keep my dreams close - Kym Deyn "Wolpertinger at Thebes"
To hold each moment close as a sand flea - Rachel Dillon "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem"
As the moon leans in close to laugh at me - Kaily Dorfman "The Wolf"
Her strong hand closed on her blunted sword - Arthur Conan Doyle "Victrix"
When beagles press close behind - William Henry Drummond "Madeleine Vercheres"
Where wormholes close and open like anemone - Kendall Evans "Oracle"
And deck their season to its close - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]
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"
Shades of death are round me closing - Fanny Forrester "A Last 'Good-Night'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.31-v.I, 2 Aug. 1884]
Now riots summer in these magic closes - Nora May French "The Garden of Dolores"
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"
Too warm, too close, and not enough like pain - Thom Gunn "Lament"
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"
Bright days may light the closing of our year - J.H. [Jessie C. Howden per the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry site] "A Bright Day in November" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.152--v.III, 27 Nov. 1886]
Bound me close by a mystery - Katherine Hale "She Who Paddles"
The fatal hour that closed its note of time - John Stockdale Hardy "On the Destruction of the Royal Exchange by Fire on the Night of January 10, 1838"
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"
By close computation I found it came near - Percy Hendon "On Lord Grosvenor's Annual Income" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.335, 11 Oct. 1828]
Now closing up the broken ranks - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Crows"
My music shows you have your closes - Herbert "Song [Sweet day, so cool, so calm]" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 24, 18 Aug. 1832]
And the deepest shadows close behind the gleaming arcs - Walter Léon Hess "Feline Philosophy by Thomas Cat: Twelfth Caterwaul"
Come close to the Mojave's affection - Faylita Hicks "Self-Care"
That hides so close and shuts away - Aileen Cleveland Higgins "A Quandry"
November closing the store - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"
Close their ears to the truth - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"
The walls around you kept closing in - Edward Hirsch "What the Last Evening Will Be Like"
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"
I know the knives are close behind - David Hornibrook "Versions of a Summer"
Closed our war with Time - William H.C. Hosmer "My Study"
Matter and mind woven together in so close a mesh - Aldous Huxley "The Defeat of Youth: V"
Opened our eyes when his own were closed - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"
How all the roads to the past have been closed - Richard Jackson "The Italian Phrase Book"
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)
Iron left men bent so close to the earth - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"
Leave it close wrapped in silence - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
The house of day is closing its eastern shutters - D.H. Lawrence "At the Window"
The healing days close up the open darkness - D.H. Lawrence "Scent of Irises"
A closing tide will leave no record - Mary L. Lawson "The Belle" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.3, Mar. 1848]
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]
The telescope on the pyre swivels to the closest planet - Angela Liu "The Church at the Edge of Time" [Strange Horizons 14 April 2025]
Arbors close the ends of dreaming paths - Amy Lowell "Behind a Wall"
Close fitting, impervious still to rain or dew - Alastair MacDonald "On a Pet Dove Killed by a Dog" transl. by Alexander Stewart [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.706, 7 July 1877]
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"
How the solar system closed its vaulted gateway - Harry Martinson "Aniara 4" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Our gold-dense gravity was close to losing equilibrium - Harry Martinson "Aniara 90" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Like a melody, sweetest at its close - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]
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)
Close enough to set our coats on fire - Roger Mitchell "Going Back"
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"
The darkening colors of closing time - A.L. Nielsen "Consensus"
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"
Closing the silent gates of night - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
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)
Closed them in a cage of woven gold - Kostes Palamas "The Sonnets" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
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"
Then I closed my lips on a curse - Margaret J. Preston "Saint Martin's Temptation" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.12, no.33, Dec. 1873]
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"
And gather me close in the oil-choked morning - Lalini Shanela Ranaraja "Tricona" [Strange Horizons 14 March 2022]
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"
And close my eyes and quench my breath - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"
Silent benedictions closing autumn's gorgeous ritual - Marjorie Allen Seiffert "November Afternoon" [The Little Review, Apr. 1917, v.3, no.10]
Inside the closed circle of memory - M. Bartley Seigel "Blood Sonnet"
Huddled close within, bound tight - M. Bartley Seigel "We'll Learn to Kindle a Slight Blue Flame"
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"
Not till the Peace had closed our quarrels - B. Simmons "London Cries" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
If you let those sleepy eyes stay closed - Mrs. L.L. Sloanaker "The Birds' Concert" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
With gorgeous music glowing to a close - Alexander Smith "[Joy, like a stream, flows]" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
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
My heart from hence is closed - Anne Spencer "I Have a Friend" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And birds sit close for comfort on broken boughs - Leonora Speyer "April on the Battlefields"
Oblivion's shadows close around their triumphs - Charles Sprague "An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City"
At the close of a thousand eons - Robert J.C. Stead "The Mothering"
Close pity's heart against his woes - James Stephens "Donnelly's Orchard"
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"
Breathless with hurry gains the closing gate - U.T. "The College.--A Sketch in Verse" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
I limped too close to night and too far - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Sumptuous flame closed up in alabaster - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta LVI: The Soul to the Body"
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"
A hundred worries close mind's depths - Wang An-Shih "Meeting an Old Friend at Splendor-Hoard Monastery" transl. by David Hinton
Draw you close with siren whispers - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"
The icy spill of moonlight so close to her cave - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]
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"
And the hands that destroy clasped it close - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Ghosts"
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"
Go on hunting, one secret closing, another ensuing - Dean Young "Colophon"
The unknown's display of emeralds closes in an hour - Dean Young "Easy as Falling Down Stairs" [Poetry Nov. 2007]
A magician closed you in his hand and opened it suddenly empty - Yuan Chen "An Elegy" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
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"
felt closer than ever to inspiration - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"
Fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"
Shifted the sidewalk twelve inches closer to the sky - David Hornibrook "Motion & Eclipse"
One step closer to annihilation - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
In my hands, we are closer than secret - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"
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"
Be brought to nearer and closer inspection - Marion H. Rand "The Real and the Ideal" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXII no.6, June 1848]
Our country moving closer to its own truth and dread - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"
Our suspension in the sky brings us closer - Matthew Shenoda "The Pigeons Rose from the Floor of the Earth; A Clamoring of Wings to Disturb the Silence"
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"
Passed from out the close-barred room of time - Violet Jacob "The Little Dragon"
Snaps the close-entwining chord - Quince "Absence" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
Traced the wide curve of the close-grappling lines - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"
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"
In vain perused her Baedeker's close-printed sheets - Leonard Bacon "Fame"
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"
Looking through the lens for a close-up - Elise Paschen "Aperture"
Disclose/Undisclosed.
Enclose.
Someone else's dream foreclosed - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Oak Falls"
Unclose.
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