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Clothing made of cold earthen clay - (Anonymous) Traditional English song collected by Cecil Sharp

She has her secret scotch against the cold - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"

From the cold wattage of loneliness - Elmaz Abinader "In the Throat III: Mind to Gut"

Cold shame is mine for all the masks I wear - Léonie Adams "Apostate"

Dip her two cold sandals in the stream - Léonie Adams "Early Waking"

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

Fever in cold weather - Etel Adnan "Night"

And share my cold and regal sway with nobody - Joan Aiken "Π in the Sky"

The cold silence of clouds - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"

Left half cold on Caesar's plate - Richard Aldington "Lesbia"

Cold against the sky the blue jays cried - Lewis Alexander "Tanka IV" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Long years of grief have frozen me cold and lonely - Kazim Ali "The Man in 119"

Consume cold dwarfs and exploding nebulas - Mike Allen "Deluge"

Torn from within a cold glassy fire - Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen "The Mirrors" transl. by Allan Francovich

Cold hearts and thankless tongues - Matthew Arnold "Mycerinus"

Better to keep your breath cold - Attar "Looking for Your Own Face" transl. by Coleman Barks

In a melody of cold and hot - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Some cold and charitable visit - A.H. Jerriod Avant "Who Can Govern Themselves Out of Governance?"

Full of diamonds and cold triangles - Julie Babcock "The Moundbuilders Country Club"

In the smiles of fortune cold - Benjamin West Ball "Concetto"

Sweet Finesse and her cold friend, Necessity - Mary Jo Bang "Girls Dress Well to Stave Off Chaos"

Born in this cold fast food of a mall of a country - Carmen Bardeguez-Brown "Rican Issues"

ends with a dawn cold white - Elizabeth Bartlett "pilgrimage"

Carved of minerals pure and cold - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited

And howls as if a ghost could hate the cold - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

The cold snail and crawling toad unseen - Charles Baudelaire "Sunset" transl. not credited

Cold gliding in the thorny brake - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited

Love cold steel and powder - Charles Baudelaire "A Madrigal of Sorrow" transl. not credited

Where revels the cold wind - Charles Baudelaire "Mist and Rain" transl. not credited

Cold and rayless in the starless gloom - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Loved the moon more than the cold sun - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"

And Helen and Troy are cold as the stars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

A glittering torture of cold stars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

Colder than leopards' eyes the arc - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

Knotted and cramped by fingering cold - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

Returned to barren words and old cold truth - Stella Benson "The Dog Tupman"

Where young hot hopes grow cold beneath - Stella Benson "Saint Bride"

Into heaven's cold uncertain light - Paul Bernstein "The Commuters"

From the cold hard mouth of the world - Elizabeth Bishop "At the Fishhouses"

Cold countless quaking windflowers - Edmund Blunden "The March Bee"

Smiles in cold seclusion - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

All past and vanquished in this sullen cold - Louise Morey Bowman "Oranges"

Ask the honest cold how - William Brewer "The Messenger of Oxyana"

A cold conspiracy of blood and springwater - Geoffrey Brock "The Rat Snake Gospel"

Cold seas of azure and topaz - Ruth Margaret Muskrat [Bronson] "In Class"

Coldly spreads the couch of snow - E.J. Bronte "The Outcast Mother"

In a season that had forgotten how to be cold - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Until the floor stung my feet awake with cold - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"

That abundance of cold yellow eye - Paul Cameron Brown "Mangroves"

Warms the cold heart of the moon - Marie Hedderwick Browne "In an Old Orchard"

Coffee growing cold between us - Sarah Browning "Praisesong"

Despite cold walls and roses - Sue Budin "Looking for My Brother's Grave"

When rain falls like cold missiles - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"

The cold objectivity of autumn sun - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"

Rouses the bitter armies of the cold - W. Wilfred Campbell "September in the Laurentian Hills"

Inexorable truth with its cold shadow - Giosue Carducci "To Phoebus Apollo" transl. by Frank Sewall

The cold Norns who pattern life and rest - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"

Exhales cold confusion - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

The constant cold departure - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

A steady cold channel of headwind - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"

A house to keep us from the cold - Alice Cary "From Bad to Worse" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

The cold pale patina of sky - John R. Chamberlain "Lines"

Too cold for human knowledge - Jennifer Chang "Patsy Cline"

Could be solved by traveling somewhere cold - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"

Pure and cold and never seeing light - Michael Chant "In the Shade of the Tree of Knowledge"

Water so cold it hurt his bones - Ch'en Lin "Song: I Watered My Horse at the Long Wall Caves" transl. by Burton Watson

A kiss so cold you'll catch your death - Roshani Chokshi "Miracle Babies"

A silence proud and cold - Rosie Churchill "This Is All..." [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, No.151--v.III, 20 November, 1886]

A wind that always blows colder - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"

baggage cold in a stranger's hand - Lucille Clifton "from the cadaver"

into the winter of a cold and mortal body - Lucille Clifton "1994"

Perfectly painted the color of cold - Misha Collins "Clasped"

The cold, the asphyxiation, the extinction - S. R. Compton "On the K-T Boundary"

No cold canvas of dead color - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

The cold at the corners of lips - Andrea Cote-Botero "Dear Beth" (translated by Sasha Pimentel)

The remote, cold place of ultimate dissolution - Adelaide Crapsey "John Keats"

The hard cold knuckle of the year - Barbara Crooker "Ordinary Life"

The cold ripple sneering on the rocks - E. E. Cummings "Sunset"

How strangely cold these few yet bitter words - Charlotte Cushman "Duchess de la Valliere"

The smile that grows all cold and strange - J.D. [Julia Day] "To a Blind Girl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]

Shadows erect their cold scaffolding - Jim Daniels "Final/Not Final"

And leave all cold the radiance - Russell W. Davenport "Poems XI"

Went to bed with a cold fact - Starr Davis "Today, God"

The great hearthstone opens cold and black - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"

Yawning caverns cold and bleak - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"

Time's cold had closed my heart about - Walter de la Mare "The Remonstrance"

Sorry cheer and comfort cold - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ever blessed be the day]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Where cold damp clusters under skin - Jen DeGregorio "No Isms Except Neologism"

This cloud, this flame will vanish and be cold - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"

Warm as whiskey chased down with cold water - Chris Dombrowski "Nostrums (Bill Monroe)"

Bath'd in a cold quicksilver sweat - John Donne "Apparition"

Joy and a kind of cold beauty - Camille T. Dungy "Notes on what is always with us"

Cold as the winter moon that lies - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs"

The bluest and coldest of flames - Bijan Elahi "Five Scenes from Icarus" transl. by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian

Before cold shrines and at dead altars kneel - George Allan England "Ricordatevi Di Mi!"

Flames trembling like cold - Elaine Equi "The Objects in Fairy Tales"

In her own cold isolation - Mari Evans "Modern American Suite in Four Movements"

Coldly and bright draws in the day - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]

The moment's bloom is sunk again in cold - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]

The hopes that fade to cold regrets - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]

The mourner lays his head on the cold oak - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"

Risen like this cold stone in the darkness - Joseph Fasano "The Moon"

A brutal, cold wind of memory - Andrew Feld "Crying Uncle"

A perpetual resident of cold endings - Camonghne Felix "Tonya Harding's Fur Coats"

We became legions of cold compassion - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

To the cold wind free - Sir Samuel Ferguson "Cean Dubh Deelish"

Hollow gifts to cold children - Annie Finch "Another Reluctance"

Crams our cold memories out past the sun - Annie Finch "Final Autumn"

Set in the cold where the old seasons belong - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

When winter's cold brought frost and snow - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"

sirens sing fire in the cold night - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"

Dissolved in the cold acid of death - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

The cold and naked wind runs shivering - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"

Cold, gray streams of lead - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7"

In the star's cold machinery - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sail"

Out in the cold of the winter - "For the Children" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

Colder grown by force or art - "For the Last Page of 'Our Album'" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCVI, Aug. 1849, v.LXVI]

Prayers to altars of cold death - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2 (February 1923)"

And disturb a cold river of stars with a touch - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"

In that cold trance the earth was held - John Freeman "Stone Trees"

The deep, black jaws of cold annihilation - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

When the world's cold heart no more is stirred - Fritz "The Poet's Power" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.461, 30 Oct. 1852]

Join hands in the dew coming coldly - Robert Frost "Asking for Roses"

How the cold creeps in as the fire dies - Robert Frost "Storm Fear"

The cold extravagance of tiny bells - Tess Gallagher "Two of Anything"

The taste of cold July - Suzanne Gardinier "Gapped Sonnet"

Huge with a cold load of growls - George Garrett "Or Death and December"

Keen January with cold eyes and clear - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"

And serve Minerva's colder law - Charles Gibson "Sonnets IV"

Aware of its cold music - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Gorse"

To the cold constellations dim and high - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Rupert Brooke"

With the cold spell of her enchantments - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

Slow constricting centuries of cold - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "How Would You?"

Long pain that turns us bitter cold - Howard Glyndon "Seniority" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Aug. 1878]

That the cold light of the moon would burn her - Theodora Goss "The Sensitive Woman"

Pierce our hearts with cold death frost - James Roane Gregory "Nineteenth Century Finality"

Soft and cold as ash - Madeline Grigg "The Giantess Angrboða Drowns All the Mirrors in the House When Her Husband Loki Leaves"

Graze the cold hands of the moon - Nicolás Guillén "The Aconcagua" transl. by Aaron Coleman

Break from gravity's cold grip - Lesley Hart Gunn "The Exorcism of Icarus"

Pure and cold your radiance - Ivor Gurney "Requiem"

My heart is cold, and withered, and worn - J.C.H. "Long Ago" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.736, 2 Feb. 1878]

'Tis winter cold for the heart that grieves - J.C.H. "Long Ago" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.736, 2 Feb. 1878]

Through the shock of cold and glare - Marilyn Hacker "Nearly a Valediction"

Yet angels' hearts were cold - Hafiz "The Divan XXVII" (translated by H. Bicknell)

Cold as the heart of a colorless rose - Katherine Hale "Christmas Eve"

Clasping my knees in the whispering cold - Han-Shan "[I think of all the places I've been]" transl. by Burton Watson

The glory of the moon's cold smile - C.R.S. Harris "Sonnet"

Enough cold locked inside you - francine j. harris "rub against it, where"

In the cold stars' wake - Reginald Harris "Song [My heart was blithe at morning]"

Under the cold feet of the night - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"

Cold aversion's snow - Bret Harte "The Personified Sentimental"

In the blueblack cold - Robert Hayden "Those Winter Sundays"

As if there were no such cold thing - George Herbert "The Flower"

And sing for the cold seed - Conrad Hilberry "Script for a Cold Christmas"

Cold will soon be fast upon us - Jennie Earngey Hill "Bonny Bunny"

The nights were long and cold and bittersweet - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"

Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Chambered Nautilus"

Mind and will fought the cold duel - H.J. Hope "The Patrol"

Feel the frost of cold neglect - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Cold through the clouds of sunset - William D. Howells "While She Sang"

Her cold volcanoes tell - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part I."

Climb, but heights are cold - Jean Ingelow "A Mother Showing the Portrait of Her Child"

Throwing cold light through the black matter - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"

Cold and colorless as glass - Robinson Jeffers "The First Grass"

A flawless crystal coldly clear - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

Memory's stars that shake for cold - Elinor Jenkins "Sunset"

These cold winds circling - James Weldon Johnson "The Passionate Lover"

A cold, corrupting, fate - Lionel Johnson "The Destroyer of a Soul"

No cold gradations of decay - Samuel Johnson "On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet"

A cold and vanished year - Joshua Henry Jones "A Wish"

expecting only coldness and hard times - Tanque R. Jones "Fractions"

The stove is cold so salt won't burn - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Coldly and shuddering breaks the dawn of Truth - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VII" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]

The cold moonlight piercing - Kaneko Misuzu "Snow Pile" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

Disrobe in night's cold maw - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

Wrestling with the bitter cold - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

A cold and bitter consciousness - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [There's not a fibre in my trembling frame]"

Into a cold river of shadows - Ted Kooser "The Old People"

Where a cold wind pinches clothespins down an empty line - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"

Made cold prisons of my faery caves - Chaman Lall "'Thirty Years After'"

Cold creatures of man's colder brain - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]

In a cold stream of memory - Michael Lauchlan "Backyard Ice"

Threaded with filigree silver, and uncanny cold - D.H. Lawrence "The Bride"

Coldness clogged the sea, till it ceased to croon - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"

That raw and ancient cold deadened me through - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"

The deep cold that had sunk to my soul - D.H. Lawrence "Coldness in Love"

A cold, rebellious, jeering devil - D.H. Lawrence "Elephant"

Life has grown strange and cold - Emma Lazarus "Age and Death"

With breathings from a colder clime - Henry S. Leigh "Clumsy Servant"

When the circle of cold contemplation's complete - Lermontof "How Weary! How Dreary!" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

The waves prefer their cold free-will - Lermontof "[One wave upon another leaps]" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

The earth, still cold, still silent, still ungiving - Philip Levine "Gospel"

Silence more cold than the wind - Amy Levy "The Sequel to 'A Reminiscence'"

And the flame of Love grow cold - Amy Levy "To Death"

The marble walls of men's cold hearts - Amy Levy "Xantippe"

Becomes colder than water - J. Patrick Lewis "The Arctic and Antarctica: Which Is Colder"

Referring to the cold, as if that were the point - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

A wave struck cold in midair - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

Cold night heavy with medicine fumes - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson

Stars rest cold by shoals of cloud - Li Ho "For the Examination at Ho-nan-fu: Songs of the Twelve Months (with Intercalary Month)" transl. by Burton Watson

Only cold beads of dew on swords and shields - Li Po "Weep Not, Young Women" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Colder than the blood in my heart - M.L. Liebler "Winter Meditation"

Cold and mighty as his name - Vachel Lindsay "Yankee Doodle"

Your fingers warm after a life in the cold - P. H. Low "Ode"

Velvet courtesy or caution cold - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Too cold and dry for spiritual small potatoes - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"

Eloquence, pathos, or wit in cold blood - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

To match our blood against the cold - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

An empty phantom as cold as summer dew - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."

As cold as the summer dew - E.M. "Part I. To Bridget. The Invocation"

Afraid of coats and the cold - Sheila Maldonado "herederos de cero"

How I am cold around your burning - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

And listened to the cold song of the grass - Katherine Mansfield "The Earth-Child in the Grass"

My song shall not sound cold to him - Katherine Mansfield "The Earth-Child in the Grass"

a Galatea in Python too cold to share a bed with - Caroline Mao "When My Father Reprograms My Mother {"

The coldest winter since weather went live - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Rates the Runway"

Toward dawn a cold spell - Mao Wen-hsi "[I mustn't ask about him]" transl. by Burton Watson

From wide cold eyes of fire - Jeannette Marks "Sea Gulls"

Lies cold on the heart - George Martin "Bound to the Wheel"

Armors that devil-star in helium and cold - Harry Martinson "Aniara 11" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

To cast an eye upon the only cloud in this cold sky - Harry Martinson "Aniara 17" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Those tears for all their authenticity were cold - Harry Martinson "Aniara 22" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Of dreams to live upon in cold and evil years - Harry Martinson "Aniara 26" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

In these last rations of the Martian cold - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Suppose that in our arms cold died - Harry Martinson "Aniara 42: Libidel's Song at the Mirror" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Cold darkness came and settled in forever - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Coldly elapsing without other trace - Harry Martinson "Aniara 63" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

I invoke the devastator of all cold - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Hung so sparsely scattered in eternal cold - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The silence of the cold stones met the ear - Harry Martinson "Aniara 100" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

When the shepherds feel the cold - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"

Before the smile upon the Sphinx was cold - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Sweet and cold as the wine of apples - Edgar Lee Masters "Johnny Appleseed"

Cross that cold and dark abyss - D.M. Matheson "An Elegy Written in Richmond"

With the cold, dark fruit under our tongues - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

To tell time in the cold - Marc McKee "Hello, New Year"

From some cold arson of the mind - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

Sleeping in the cold blue light - Erika Meitner "Untitled [and the moon once it stopped was sleeping]"

Which Time's cold blast had rudely torn - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

The moon lights up cold in its twisted pine-branch - Mêng Hai jan "Waiting for You" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

To waken laughter from cold stones - George Meredith "The Appeasement of Demeter"

All vein and artery on cold sky - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

Untouched across the cold - W.S. Merwin "The Curlew"

Carry their cold wild honey - Alice Meynell "The Rainy Summer"

The sound of cold sweet water - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet V from Second April

The skies of night, crystal and cold - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "A Winter Lullaby"

From which dreams of cold clarity emerge - Claire Millikin "Amatorium"

The cold unhindered swell of time - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"

Must wear the hue and coldness of despair - Morna "Ianthe"

How coldly bright the memory of their parted light - Morna "Ianthe"

Memory's tears are cold upon thy face - Sarojini Naidu "Imperial Delhi"

Cold language of fuchsias - Pablo Neruda "Botany" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Shepherd of the cold swan - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

The cold oven at the lush forest's heart - 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

Caught the lightning of the cold - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

A white phantom in cold garments - Pablo Neruda "The Egoist" transl. by William O'Daly

Geometry of roofs under a cold sun - Pablo Neruda "I Explain a Few Things [Residence on Earth]" transl. by Galway Kinnell

Buried you in cold edicts - Pablo Neruda "The Judges" transl. by Jack Schmitt

By cold, by chains, by moon and tides - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Cold tower of the world - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XII" transl. by William O'Daly

The coldest summit of my heart - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems XIII" translated by W.S. Merwin

Your cold sense of oblivion - Pablo Neruda "Tyranny" Translated by Donald D. Walsh

Wrapped in cold rain and bells - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly

The cold stone of the South's night - Pablo Neruda "Winter in the South, on Horseback" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Fire has its cold half - Pablo Neruda "XLIV: You must know that I do not love and that I love you"

In the cold and the outer night - E. Nesbit "Accession"

Cold as the north wind's heart - Mari Ness "ICE"

The taste of thin gold shielding cold brass - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Your cold secrets wrapped in a storied veil - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

A wreath of cold December's snow - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"

Cold and deadly drops of fear - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "The Midnight Dream"

The cold surge beneath the gull - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath II. Alone"

Enfolding but the cold, unspeaking dust - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"

Clothed in wind and cold - Lorine Niedecker "Poems at the Porthole"

Feel the shadow closing cold - Roden Noel "The Pity of it"

Cold sunshine greets a hard wind - Margaret Noodin "They Arrive" transl. by the author

The kindly-beaming eye grow cold and strange - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "Love Not"

A colder cup of hemlock - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Colder than the cynical snarl of Nero - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"

As at the gaze of his own cold Medusa - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"

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

All winds blow cold at last - Mary Oliver "The Orchard"

In a sea congealed with cold - Caitriona O'Reilly "II. The Mermaid (from The Sea Cabinet)"

Sad glories on the cold wave burn - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

The clays of a cold star - Wilfred Owen "Futility"

From the cold Caspian to the Volga thus the sturgeons pour - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

Brick parapets burning cold orange - Mayra Paris "New York, 2009"

Cover with ashes our love's cold crater - Dorothy Parker "Nocturne"

In cold complicity the stars comply - Linda Pastan "Ash"

Cold nights of moral darkness - J.G. Percival "The Soul"

Cold queen among the dead - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"

Cold, reflected light just wishing to hang on - Marisca Pichette "Waning, Waning"

The cold sceptre of despair - L.J. Pierson "Woman's Dower"

The light of the mind, cold and planetary - Sylvia Plath "The Moon and the Yew Tree"

Time, cold and fire - Hyam Plutzik "To My Daughter"

Rustle of rain on cold hills - Po Chu'i "Pine Sounds" transl. by Burton Watson

Cold and eternal gales - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"

From the clutches of the cold, remorseless wave - Alexander Posey "My Fancy"

The wind is rude and cold - Alexander Posey "A Vision of Rest"

To your cold realms I banish you - Miriam Clark Potter "Princess Fire"

All magnificent, but cold and far away - Miriam Clark Potter "The Yellow City Lights"

And remind myself what the cold feels like - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Engulfer"

Swimming through the coldest depths of space - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"

An empty pool of calmness and of cold - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"

Estranged and cold in heaven - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Beyond"

The rust of the cold day breaking - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

Slow to relinquish cold - Khadijah Queen "The Rule of Opulence"

Suns and satellites grown cold - Herbert Randall "Rose of Plymouth"

The absence and the cold - John Crowe Ransom "Winter Remembered"

Standing on the cold, grey moon - William Reichard "In the Evening"

The cold perfection threaded through with rage - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"

In my vigils cold and lone - "RÊVES ET SOUVENIRS" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)

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

On her own terms in cold, in silence - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

In orbits flaming or cold - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

From those cold petals subtler power - Edgell Rickword "Grave Joys"

Towers squatting graven and cold - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Late snow beats with cold white fists - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Flowing immune and cold - Lola Ridge "Mother"

Evades the cold extortion of your eye - Lola Ridge "Sonnet (To E.S.)"

In the grasp of Time's cold palm - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"

In the cold lap of alien stones - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

More cold than hungry - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"

A cold news in stark announcement - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"

Threw forward its cold, unconquered lines - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"

Warm instruments for the cold news of loss - Catherine Rockwood "In Memoriam Maureen K. Speller"

Fresh tears wet upon the hard cold face - Rennell Rodd "Imperator Augustus"

Found me in cold cheerless ways - Alice Wellington Rollins "Miracle"

Cold water and the jar that pours - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks

Danced the floors of cold longshoremen's halls - David St. John "Guitar"

Onto her cold and bruised shoulders - David St. John "Iris"

Lowering Neptune in the cold, outermost rings - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Takes from darkness and cold their undivided victories - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

To revenge themselves on winter's north wind cold - Friedrich Schiller "Thoughts on the 1st October, 1781"

Deep inside cold January - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #49"

Conversations twining cold between my vertebrae - Ann K. Schwader "Medusa, Becoming"

When cold has stilled the wind - Duncan Campbell Scott "Frost"

Folly, age, and cold decay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XI"

Those boughs which shake against the cold - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXIII"

Cold fireside and alienated home - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

A cold jail cell flooded with light - Simon Shieh "Poem Addressed to You"

Chained and frozen cold - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Ballad of the Fairy Thorn-Tree"

Cold within your clenching hand - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"

Where nature swings its wettest, coldest fist - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

A cold curiosity regarding the husk they've left - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

The cold came creeping - Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen "Dream of the Tundra Swan"

Cold as my Despair - Charlotte Smith from "Montalbert"

The tide of cold and leaden loneliness - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Wasted Heart"

Under a cold gray dragon of a sky - Richard Solomon "Report to the Bodhisattvas on the Heart Sutra After Dying in the Up on the Sturgeon River"

Tired of living with the cold - Richard Solomon "Wormwood (For Linda)"

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

Those cold qualms and bitter pangs - Robert Southwell "Upon the Image of Death"

Cruised among cold silences - Elizabeth Spires "Coelacanth"

In deep darkness on a cold twig - Kim Stafford "For the Bird Singing Before Dawn"

For I fear you will die of the cold - James Stephens "The Appointment"

Climbing the cold glass up and down - James Stephens "Charlotte Street"

White as the moon's cold hands - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

An ivory poison, sweet and cold - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"

Sorrow's star, forlornly cold - George Sterling "Reborn"

After the hottest May and the coldest June - Gerald Stern "Dandelions"

The shadow of cloud and cold - Wallace Stevens "Two Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It"

The cold glories of the dawn - Robert Louis Stevenson "The House Beautiful"

Above the city's cold twilight - Trumbull Stickney "Six O'Clock"

The night more bitter cold will bring - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"

When the cold North-wind kissed her pallid lips - William Albert Sutliffe "Song of the Spirit of the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

In the cracks of your cold volcanoes - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"

And cowslips cold in his hands - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Cold and clean as her faint salt flowers - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The cold old crimes and the deeds thrown by - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

How deep the cost can sink in cold equations - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"

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

Innumerable needles of cold - Mutsuo Takahashi "Dead Boy" transl. by Jeffrey Angles

Sit'st alone within her void, cold halls - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The blue moon wanes into another cold month - Keith Taylor "After the Holidays"

Protected by seven months of cold and ice - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

Pace the calm cold terraces of age - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta III: The Peace to Be"

Flame-broidered trance and starless cold confusion - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XLVII: Comfort I"

The language of survival cold within my teeth - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "The Dream of the Anit-Ekphrasis"

Through a cold infinity - Sara Teasdale "August Moonrise"

Coldly kind - Sara Teasdale "November"

The cold insistence of the tide - Sara Teasdale "Sea Longing"

The cold burning of hail and wind - Edward Thomas "March"

Dropped into a cold marble bowl of thought - Russell Thorburn "Many Miles from Home"

Say not that our hearts are cold - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIII. The Return"

Look coldly at us with their frostbitten eyes - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"

Boll-weevil's coming, and the winter's cold - Jean Toomer "November Cotton Flower" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Gathering the cold grey lilies of the stars - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

That cold house and dinner alone - Natasha Trethewey "Amateur Fighter"

My heart is cold beneath thy glance - Trevor "Release" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]

Prisoner in this cold fortress - Tu Fu "Captivity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

That star-boy who does not flee from cold - Tu Fu "I Will Be Alone" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

There all cold creatures can take shelter - Tu Fu "The Wind-Torn Roof" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Cold tracks of language collapse into cinders - Chase Twichell "To the Reader: If You Asked Me"

Keenly, coldly, the north winds blow - Florence Tylee "Bird Notes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.125-v.III, 22 May 1886]

A sheet of golden water, cold and sweet - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"

The cold complacency of earth - Louis Untermeyer "Challenge"

Past the cold and breathless dark - Louis Untermeyer "In the Subway"

Early seeds lay cold in the ground - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"

Blossoms into a hyacinth-flower, cold, fragrant, white - Maximilian Voloshin "The Birth of a Poem" transl. by A. S. K. [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

The blood in his veins was flowing cold - Wa Wa Chaw "The Trial of the Mission Indian"

Cold as an archangel's cheek - Derek Walcott "The Three Musicians"

Crows grow faint in outland cold - Wang An-Shih "Climbing Up to Treasure-Master's Grave-Shrine" transl. by David Hinton

Twenty autumns deserted and cold - Wang An-Shih "Pure-Apparent Monastery" transl. by David Hinton

A place so deep among cold clouds - Wang An-Shih "Sent to Abbot Whole-Quiet" transl. by David Hinton

Ravaged grasses, clouds gone cold - Wang An-Shih "Sent to Candor-Sky" transl. by David Hinton

The feverish offering of our cold water sacrifices - Lucy A.E. Ward "Haystacks"

Leave the clanging cockroach cold behind - John Moncure Wettarau "On Looking at a Mediocre Painting"

Cold signals on the wind - Roberta Hill Whiteman "Depot in Rapid City"

With the cold flushed sky behind - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"

No cold exemption - Helen Maria Williams "To Sensibility"

Broken against cold winds - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Cold with dead men's tears - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"

Wise trees stand sleeping in the cold - William Carlos Williams "Winter Trees"

Burns so coldly - Katie Willingham "A Partial List of Overwriting Errors"

Of a body that burns so coldly - Katie Willingham "A Partial List of Overwriting Errors"

The cold triumphant ending of the sun - Humbert Wolfe "Caesar and Anthony"

Cold with the knowledge of decay - Willard Huntington Wright "What of the Night?"

Cold silver on a sky of slate - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"

Today you wear the cold - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today"

New-kindled in cold flame - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

The cold spell that catches us - Kevin Young "Ditty"

Through its testament of cold light - Ray Young Bear "Four Hinterland Abstractions"

A ribbon of cold in the leaves - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Fragment"

Time passing the dance of cold fire - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 1" transl. by Katherine Silver


The scarlet rhapsodies and beryl-cold sonatas - Iris Tree "[O faces that look so coldly at me]"

Bone-cold root of nowhere - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Cold-blooded, faint-hearted changeling - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "Bruce's Address"

Gray-robed and cold-breathed and frozen-eyed - Lucy H. Hooper "Winter" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873]

Their bones are coldsleep coral now - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

And still the winds are hungry-cold - Lloyd Roberts "One Morning when the Rain-Birds Call"

Naught save the harsh sea and ice-cold wave - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

Then Heart grew kettle-cold - Richard Hughes "Cottager is given the Bird (1921)"

Lost in the slate-cold sky - Theodore Maynard "The Stirrup Cup"


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