Potential Titles: Once
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somethingdarkerThe dream of power once broken - W.E.A. "Charles Edward at Versailles on the Anniversary of Culloden" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]
Pass once more in fiery fight against the foe - W.E.A. "The Heart of the Bruce" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
Once immortal in the spring thaw - Rasha Abdulhadi "this bitter bud"
Alive in both worlds at once - Kim Addonizio "Wine Tasting"
Once upon a second time - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"
God's word is a melody I sang once then forgot - Kaveh Akbar "I Wouldn't Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance"
That Sinbad once sailed to Gaza - Ammiel Alcalay "My Apologies"
Who once had wakened their scorn - Louisa May Alcott "Clover-Blossom"
Pity the sky once - Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"
Who tried to warn us once before - Mike Allen "Ascending"
To show him views from all angles at once - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
Sharpened the vision that saw from all sides at once - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
I'd never once speak of all my grief - William Allingham "The Girl's Lamentation"
Too much beauty inhaled at once - Alise Alousi "Forgiveness is the smell of crushed flowers"
On sacred spots which once he knew - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]
Confess myself for once deceived - "Another Peep at the Links"
That rescues us once more - Rae Armantrout "Provenance"
Earth had doors to heaven once, wide on golden hinges - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]
A chance to bloom anywhere once - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Ghost of Anne Frank"
His vigilance for once relaxed - Cora C. Bass "Washington"
The apparition that had once been Troy - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Spectral as men once met or crucified - John Berryman "The Possessed"
Dying sugars of once growing fruit - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"
Looking back only once - Rebecca G. Biber "Away, Russia"
Once without a word was told - G. Clifton Bingham "Sweet Day of Days" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.156, v.III, 25 Dec. 1886]
Everything not or once alive - Lucie Brock-Broido "How Can It Be I Am No Longer I"
Gladdened once our humble sphere - Anne Bronte "Reminiscence"
Once a brier loved a rose, at her feet adoring - B.C. "Love Lights" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.10-v.I, 8 March 1884]
Once the hills were clad in scarlet - E.W.C. "November" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
Once I broke from its iron hold - R.M.C. "Lay of the Madman" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Once smelled a rose in sleep - Willa Cather "Thou Art the Pearl"
The golden beads of joy that once were mine - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
opened once and was gone - Lucille Clifton "jasper texas 1998"
You must have died once in Seville - Andrea Cohen "More Stones"
Once so familiar with glory - Leonard Cohen "The Flowers that I Left in the Ground"
Once the oceans open up - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "Our Red Road"
When once the task we undertake - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"
Once I saw Mountains angry, and ranged in battle-front - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Dust, through which proud blood once flowed - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And their armies march once more - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Once more at night's soft noon - H.D. (active 1877) "Desolate" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.729, 15 Dec. 1877]
Where once I stood alone - H.D. "We Two"
Until the mask was slipped once more in place - Clarissa Scott Delany "The Mask" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Bliss is sold just once - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life LII"
Once the symptoms start to make sense - Rita Dove "Borderline Mambo"
A wizard once of dreaded power - "The Dwarf and the Oak Tree: A Vision of 1850" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Blood river once between you - Heid E. Erdich "Microchimerism"
That once spoke the tongue of smoke - Martin Espada "Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World"
Ghosts that once were firs and pines - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"
Once sought the wind - Mari Evans "Through a Glass"
Of all bells that rang once in old London - Eleanor Farjeon "The Children's Bells"
Stifled words, and once a sharp caught cry - Jessie Fauset "Fragment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Once smeared on the mandible of a bee - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"
Once sawdust becomes my sea - Nick Flynn "Alcoholism"
Where a haunted house once stood - Adam Ford "A House Is Not a Home!"
Relit once more her brilliant stars - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
The wind once blew itself untaught - Robert Frost "The Aim Was Song"
And too much world at once - Robert Frost "The Exposed Nest"
Once more before we meet elsewhere - Robert Frost "The Generations of Men"
Wrapped once more in dreams - Rose Fyleman "Smith Square, Westminster"
Once there was a bridge I couldn't cross - Elisa Gabbert "The Bridge"
Once reigned supreme among bushels and pits - Deborah Garrison "Her Majesty Loses Her Touch"
Once reigned supreme among bushels and pits - Deborah Garrison "Her Majesty Loses Her Touch"
Once your exile begins - Louise Gluck "Departure"
A thing that was once wild is never tame - Theodora Goss "The Fox Wife"
Once pregnant with celestial fire - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
Once freed to mortal ears - Louise Imogen Guiney "For a Child"
Before immediately slipping into the nightmare once again - Thom Gunn "Lament"
And God once more seems kind - Ivor Gurney "Letters"
Earth and sky to eyes once disenchanted - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
The echoes that once passed through us - Nathalie Handal "White Trees"
The harp once loved by thine - Felicia Hemans "Dirge of the Highland Chief in 'Waverley'"
Once ambition burned my breast - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Endie"
That once could empty out an hour - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"
A cosmic particle seen once - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
That survived once the terrors of his hoof - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"
A wall that was once a window - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"
What would the world be, once bereft - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Inversnaid"
Once bereft of wet and wildness - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Inversnaid"
When once they learn'd the spell - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
Once drunk with blood - Percy Adams Hutchison "The Swordless Christ"
we stand in many doorways at once - fahima ife "post-acid"
Hold once more their shattered fragrance - Fay Inchfawn "On All Soul's Eve"
Once lay at the breast of the moon - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Moving in several directions at once - Mark Irwin "Nike of Samothrace"
That once grew into our nerves and veins - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Broke at once the vital chain - Samuel Johnson "On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet"
Who once has lost an Eden - Annie Fellows Johnston "Felipa, Wife of Columbus"
Once was held by mystic sway - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"
Once our skulls shut up their nasty talk - Mary Karr "Country Fair"
These dark days be once gone by - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"
Once, before we sever, fill me one brimming cup - Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler "The Parting Pledge" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
The mountain-tops, where once Hope stood - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"
When once my sail is shadowed - Fanny Kemble "To the Wissahiccon"
Be mistaken for someone you once loved - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Calls a Truce"
Buried the names you once were called - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"
Told by Homer once - Joyce Kilmer "Age Comes A-Wooing"
Once our genes were our own - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Excess Baggage"
Once they got good at keeping warm - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Last Time, We Trust"
That resemble what might once have been - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"
Once I owned the key to an umbrageous trail - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
That once its precincts haunted - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
Once again with everything - Dorothea Lasky "The Miscarriage"
With jewels of passion once broken through - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
Floors where reverent feet once trod - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"
The empty spaces you once filled - Aimee Le "Poem Written by Aimee's Imaginary Roommate, Charles"
Churn and buttermilk at once - Aimee Le "So the Love Story Started"
No returning to the future you once inhabited - Mary Soon Lee "Advice for Time Travelers"
That Jove once prevailed upon Juno - Henry S. Leigh "The Olympic Ball"
Perusing these words once or twice - Henry S. Leigh "Songs of the Sick Room No.2: Night and Morning"
And once more meet each object in my wandering gaze - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
You only get to savor it once - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"
Song sparrows that tremble all at once - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"
Once more escaped its chain - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"
We once tended the oracles - Cecilia Llompart "Omens"
His children once beggars rise into guerrillas - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"
Raze the world once and raise it twice - P. H. Low "Ode"
And waits to be made free once more - Amy Lowell "The Coal Picker"
Which once had quenched my bitter thirst - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"
Except a burning learned just once - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"
Chateaus where mammoth Queens once ruled - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"
The ends of paths that once were endless - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Youth"
In such a place, love met me once - Jeannette Marks "The Railroad Station"
Like a jaguar that once drank rain - David Tomas Martinez "The Only Mexican"
A path a harp once followed - J. Michael Martinez "Death to Paint Us"
Once mocked for their tears beyond measure - Harry Martinson "Aniara 81" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Once grim with sacrificial fires - John Masefield "The Daffodil Fields"
All four seasons at once - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
A moon once married to the sea - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
The castles that were once your pride - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ruins of Balaclava" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
A gate that once was there - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Little Ghost"
Which depended once on you - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Your To-morrow"
What was once lost now leaps before you - Rajiv Mohabir "Why Whales Are Back in New York City"
By running up the staircase once again - Harold Monro "Journey"
The vows that once were said - Harriet Monroe "Shadows"
Giving Trouble the once over - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fibroids"
Could once my heart-strings madly thrill - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Solidifies what once was vapor - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Put flags where my life ventured once - J. Alan Nelson "Flags and Maps"
Once again the heart distills them - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Dictionary" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
At once Baroque and Paleolithic - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
That once cupped an ocean in its peak - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Juniper"
And only once is the journey made - Sarah Noble-Ives "On the Shining Way"
Once shared veins became a way of life - Margaret Noodin "Daughters" transl. by the author
Double and nothing all at once - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop"
Once felt is always - Joyce Carol Oates "Five Confessions: III. Pain"
Once by your music thrilled - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To Miss R. B."
capable of being two places at once - Ugonna-Ora Owoh "Syndrome"
Once shook to surging overflow - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"
Once my dreams were wise - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"
All the brightness earth had once for me - Florence Peacock "Lost at Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.137-v.III, 14 Aug. 1886]
Once loyal to a cruel master - Carl Phillips "That Part in the Music"
Once with fish and once with wine - D.A. Powell "The Miracle of Giving"
Where sacred fires once burned - E.J. Pratt "The Hidden Scar"
But once the sacred summons rings - Alexander Pushkin "The Poet" transl. by John Pollen
Only dust departs and remains at once - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"
Once stole from underneath my mother's dream - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Is it distance or is it a far god?"
Where the land that was once gone is ours now back - m.s. RedCherries "this is what kafka really meant when he wished to be a red indian"
Three thousand miles from what I once called home - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
As lilacs in the dooryard once bound me - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
In a lonely wood I wandered once - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"
Once more my hand will clasp your hand - D.J. Robertson "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.144-v.III, 2 Oct. 1886]
That once have tasted the fairy banquet's bliss - T.W. Rolleston "The Spell-Struck"
When once the dregs are emptied - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"
All pleasure lost in cursing once - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Remnants of the heavens we both once were - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #40"
This suspicion once wove Atlantis through us - Ann K. Schwader "To Theia"
The Law once given in fire - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
Each vow the heart could once supply - B. Simmons "Moonlight Memories [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
How died at once abstraction's air - B. Simmons "Vanities in Verse: Letters of the Dead: To Livia" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
The celestial swan that once dreamed itself a person - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
A door you can be on both sides of at once - Maggie Smith "Threshold" [Poetry Feb. 2020]
Float once more on sheer survival - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"
This bird once shook the forest - Lyz Soto "Today I Am Full of Birds"
A foam-white arm that beckoned once - George Sterling "Duandon"
Once mirror to the mountain - George Sterling "The First Born"
Echo of a music once supreme - George Sterling "The Tides of Change"
Once sighted over seas of blood - George Sterling "To the Goddess Liberty"
All our lost jewels shall be found once more - Stuart Sterne "Into Thy Hands" [Lippincott's Magazine, Sept. 1885]
Wandering along a waste where once a city stood - Richard Henry Stoddard "The End of All" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]
Decades of dry winds that whisper once - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
Whisper once into the heart of the agave - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
An aging pin that juggler sun once threw - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"
Who once saved me a sunflower to pluck - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"
Used to make such riot once - Rabindranath Tagore "Spring that in My Courtyard"
Not once caring about honor - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"
That once was singing gold - Sara Teasdale "Let It Be Forgotten"
A silent place that once rang loud - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
These dogs once hunted polar bears - Matthew Thorburn "How We Found Our Way"
A wisp of straw once coiled about their shoots - Henry David Thoreau "Sic Vita"
Spectral Joy once murdered in a rage - Iris Tree "[I could explain]"
Once, you handed me half a heart - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
The white sun all at once lost in the west - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
they once offered asylum to the Sun - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"
What once was woven 'round my heart - Rudolph Valentino "Shadows"
Once you start listening to this loom of sound - Wang An-Shih "Following the Rhymes of Abbot Elder-Guide's Poem The Sound of Majestic Pines" transl. by David Hinton
Once I was a Venetian with my last gold coin - John Moncure Wettarau "Every Moment"
Wall flowers that once were flame - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"
As the thrush once waited for childhood's end - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"
What ravens were unto a prophet once - Adolf Wolff "The Artists"
Memories once yours are now mine - J. Deery Wray "Eidetic"
What stars once telegraphed to the river - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Once could be charmed with our salads - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]
Do not weep but once - Kevin Young "Eulogy"
The secret shape of once-seen, sweet and oft-dreamed loveliness - John Freeman "Shadows"
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Pass once more in fiery fight against the foe - W.E.A. "The Heart of the Bruce" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLV, v.LVI, July 1844]
Once immortal in the spring thaw - Rasha Abdulhadi "this bitter bud"
Alive in both worlds at once - Kim Addonizio "Wine Tasting"
Once upon a second time - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"
God's word is a melody I sang once then forgot - Kaveh Akbar "I Wouldn't Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance"
That Sinbad once sailed to Gaza - Ammiel Alcalay "My Apologies"
Who once had wakened their scorn - Louisa May Alcott "Clover-Blossom"
Pity the sky once - Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"
Who tried to warn us once before - Mike Allen "Ascending"
To show him views from all angles at once - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
Sharpened the vision that saw from all sides at once - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
I'd never once speak of all my grief - William Allingham "The Girl's Lamentation"
Too much beauty inhaled at once - Alise Alousi "Forgiveness is the smell of crushed flowers"
On sacred spots which once he knew - Alexander Anderson "Wild-flowers from Alloway and Doon" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.26-v.I, 28 June 1884]
Confess myself for once deceived - "Another Peep at the Links"
That rescues us once more - Rae Armantrout "Provenance"
Earth had doors to heaven once, wide on golden hinges - M.E. Atteridge "To a Child" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.5-v.I, 2 Feb. 1884]
A chance to bloom anywhere once - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Ghost of Anne Frank"
His vigilance for once relaxed - Cora C. Bass "Washington"
The apparition that had once been Troy - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Spectral as men once met or crucified - John Berryman "The Possessed"
Dying sugars of once growing fruit - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"
Looking back only once - Rebecca G. Biber "Away, Russia"
Once without a word was told - G. Clifton Bingham "Sweet Day of Days" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.156, v.III, 25 Dec. 1886]
Everything not or once alive - Lucie Brock-Broido "How Can It Be I Am No Longer I"
Gladdened once our humble sphere - Anne Bronte "Reminiscence"
Once a brier loved a rose, at her feet adoring - B.C. "Love Lights" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.10-v.I, 8 March 1884]
Once the hills were clad in scarlet - E.W.C. "November" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
Once I broke from its iron hold - R.M.C. "Lay of the Madman" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Once smelled a rose in sleep - Willa Cather "Thou Art the Pearl"
The golden beads of joy that once were mine - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
opened once and was gone - Lucille Clifton "jasper texas 1998"
You must have died once in Seville - Andrea Cohen "More Stones"
Once so familiar with glory - Leonard Cohen "The Flowers that I Left in the Ground"
Once the oceans open up - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "Our Red Road"
When once the task we undertake - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"
Once I saw Mountains angry, and ranged in battle-front - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Dust, through which proud blood once flowed - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
And their armies march once more - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Once more at night's soft noon - H.D. (active 1877) "Desolate" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.729, 15 Dec. 1877]
Where once I stood alone - H.D. "We Two"
Until the mask was slipped once more in place - Clarissa Scott Delany "The Mask" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Bliss is sold just once - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life LII"
Once the symptoms start to make sense - Rita Dove "Borderline Mambo"
A wizard once of dreaded power - "The Dwarf and the Oak Tree: A Vision of 1850" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Blood river once between you - Heid E. Erdich "Microchimerism"
That once spoke the tongue of smoke - Martin Espada "Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World"
Ghosts that once were firs and pines - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"
Once sought the wind - Mari Evans "Through a Glass"
Of all bells that rang once in old London - Eleanor Farjeon "The Children's Bells"
Stifled words, and once a sharp caught cry - Jessie Fauset "Fragment" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Once smeared on the mandible of a bee - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"
Once sawdust becomes my sea - Nick Flynn "Alcoholism"
Where a haunted house once stood - Adam Ford "A House Is Not a Home!"
Relit once more her brilliant stars - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]
The wind once blew itself untaught - Robert Frost "The Aim Was Song"
And too much world at once - Robert Frost "The Exposed Nest"
Once more before we meet elsewhere - Robert Frost "The Generations of Men"
Wrapped once more in dreams - Rose Fyleman "Smith Square, Westminster"
Once there was a bridge I couldn't cross - Elisa Gabbert "The Bridge"
Once reigned supreme among bushels and pits - Deborah Garrison "Her Majesty Loses Her Touch"
Once reigned supreme among bushels and pits - Deborah Garrison "Her Majesty Loses Her Touch"
Once your exile begins - Louise Gluck "Departure"
A thing that was once wild is never tame - Theodora Goss "The Fox Wife"
Once pregnant with celestial fire - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"
Once freed to mortal ears - Louise Imogen Guiney "For a Child"
Before immediately slipping into the nightmare once again - Thom Gunn "Lament"
And God once more seems kind - Ivor Gurney "Letters"
Earth and sky to eyes once disenchanted - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)
The echoes that once passed through us - Nathalie Handal "White Trees"
The harp once loved by thine - Felicia Hemans "Dirge of the Highland Chief in 'Waverley'"
Once ambition burned my breast - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Endie"
That once could empty out an hour - Conrad Hilberry "The Savory Wheel"
A cosmic particle seen once - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
That survived once the terrors of his hoof - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"
A wall that was once a window - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"
What would the world be, once bereft - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Inversnaid"
Once bereft of wet and wildness - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Inversnaid"
When once they learn'd the spell - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen
Once drunk with blood - Percy Adams Hutchison "The Swordless Christ"
we stand in many doorways at once - fahima ife "post-acid"
Hold once more their shattered fragrance - Fay Inchfawn "On All Soul's Eve"
Once lay at the breast of the moon - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Moving in several directions at once - Mark Irwin "Nike of Samothrace"
That once grew into our nerves and veins - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
Broke at once the vital chain - Samuel Johnson "On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet"
Who once has lost an Eden - Annie Fellows Johnston "Felipa, Wife of Columbus"
Once was held by mystic sway - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"
Once our skulls shut up their nasty talk - Mary Karr "Country Fair"
These dark days be once gone by - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"
Once, before we sever, fill me one brimming cup - Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler "The Parting Pledge" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
The mountain-tops, where once Hope stood - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"
When once my sail is shadowed - Fanny Kemble "To the Wissahiccon"
Be mistaken for someone you once loved - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Calls a Truce"
Buried the names you once were called - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"
Told by Homer once - Joyce Kilmer "Age Comes A-Wooing"
Once our genes were our own - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Excess Baggage"
Once they got good at keeping warm - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Last Time, We Trust"
That resemble what might once have been - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"
Once I owned the key to an umbrageous trail - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
That once its precincts haunted - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]
Once again with everything - Dorothea Lasky "The Miscarriage"
With jewels of passion once broken through - D.H. Lawrence "Obsequial Ode"
Floors where reverent feet once trod - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"
The empty spaces you once filled - Aimee Le "Poem Written by Aimee's Imaginary Roommate, Charles"
Churn and buttermilk at once - Aimee Le "So the Love Story Started"
No returning to the future you once inhabited - Mary Soon Lee "Advice for Time Travelers"
That Jove once prevailed upon Juno - Henry S. Leigh "The Olympic Ball"
Perusing these words once or twice - Henry S. Leigh "Songs of the Sick Room No.2: Night and Morning"
And once more meet each object in my wandering gaze - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
You only get to savor it once - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"
Song sparrows that tremble all at once - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"
Once more escaped its chain - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"
We once tended the oracles - Cecilia Llompart "Omens"
His children once beggars rise into guerrillas - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"
Raze the world once and raise it twice - P. H. Low "Ode"
And waits to be made free once more - Amy Lowell "The Coal Picker"
Which once had quenched my bitter thirst - Maria White Lowell "The Alpine Sheep"
Except a burning learned just once - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"
Chateaus where mammoth Queens once ruled - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"
The ends of paths that once were endless - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Youth"
In such a place, love met me once - Jeannette Marks "The Railroad Station"
Like a jaguar that once drank rain - David Tomas Martinez "The Only Mexican"
A path a harp once followed - J. Michael Martinez "Death to Paint Us"
Once mocked for their tears beyond measure - Harry Martinson "Aniara 81" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Once grim with sacrificial fires - John Masefield "The Daffodil Fields"
All four seasons at once - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
A moon once married to the sea - Lo Kwa Mei-en "Pinocchia, you must not stop for a friend"
The castles that were once your pride - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ruins of Balaclava" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood
A gate that once was there - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Little Ghost"
Which depended once on you - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Your To-morrow"
What was once lost now leaps before you - Rajiv Mohabir "Why Whales Are Back in New York City"
By running up the staircase once again - Harold Monro "Journey"
The vows that once were said - Harriet Monroe "Shadows"
Giving Trouble the once over - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fibroids"
Could once my heart-strings madly thrill - George P. Morris "I Never Have Been False to Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Solidifies what once was vapor - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Put flags where my life ventured once - J. Alan Nelson "Flags and Maps"
Once again the heart distills them - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Dictionary" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
At once Baroque and Paleolithic - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
That once cupped an ocean in its peak - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Juniper"
And only once is the journey made - Sarah Noble-Ives "On the Shining Way"
Once shared veins became a way of life - Margaret Noodin "Daughters" transl. by the author
Double and nothing all at once - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop"
Once felt is always - Joyce Carol Oates "Five Confessions: III. Pain"
Once by your music thrilled - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To Miss R. B."
capable of being two places at once - Ugonna-Ora Owoh "Syndrome"
Once shook to surging overflow - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"
Once my dreams were wise - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"
All the brightness earth had once for me - Florence Peacock "Lost at Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.137-v.III, 14 Aug. 1886]
Once loyal to a cruel master - Carl Phillips "That Part in the Music"
Once with fish and once with wine - D.A. Powell "The Miracle of Giving"
Where sacred fires once burned - E.J. Pratt "The Hidden Scar"
But once the sacred summons rings - Alexander Pushkin "The Poet" transl. by John Pollen
Only dust departs and remains at once - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"
Once stole from underneath my mother's dream - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Is it distance or is it a far god?"
Where the land that was once gone is ours now back - m.s. RedCherries "this is what kafka really meant when he wished to be a red indian"
Three thousand miles from what I once called home - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
As lilacs in the dooryard once bound me - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
In a lonely wood I wandered once - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"
Once more my hand will clasp your hand - D.J. Robertson "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.144-v.III, 2 Oct. 1886]
That once have tasted the fairy banquet's bliss - T.W. Rolleston "The Spell-Struck"
When once the dregs are emptied - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"
All pleasure lost in cursing once - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Remnants of the heavens we both once were - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #40"
This suspicion once wove Atlantis through us - Ann K. Schwader "To Theia"
The Law once given in fire - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]
Each vow the heart could once supply - B. Simmons "Moonlight Memories [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIII, v.LXV, May 1849]
How died at once abstraction's air - B. Simmons "Vanities in Verse: Letters of the Dead: To Livia" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
The celestial swan that once dreamed itself a person - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"
A door you can be on both sides of at once - Maggie Smith "Threshold" [Poetry Feb. 2020]
Float once more on sheer survival - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"
This bird once shook the forest - Lyz Soto "Today I Am Full of Birds"
A foam-white arm that beckoned once - George Sterling "Duandon"
Once mirror to the mountain - George Sterling "The First Born"
Echo of a music once supreme - George Sterling "The Tides of Change"
Once sighted over seas of blood - George Sterling "To the Goddess Liberty"
All our lost jewels shall be found once more - Stuart Sterne "Into Thy Hands" [Lippincott's Magazine, Sept. 1885]
Wandering along a waste where once a city stood - Richard Henry Stoddard "The End of All" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]
Decades of dry winds that whisper once - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
Whisper once into the heart of the agave - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
An aging pin that juggler sun once threw - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"
Who once saved me a sunflower to pluck - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"
Used to make such riot once - Rabindranath Tagore "Spring that in My Courtyard"
Not once caring about honor - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"
That once was singing gold - Sara Teasdale "Let It Be Forgotten"
A silent place that once rang loud - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
These dogs once hunted polar bears - Matthew Thorburn "How We Found Our Way"
A wisp of straw once coiled about their shoots - Henry David Thoreau "Sic Vita"
Spectral Joy once murdered in a rage - Iris Tree "[I could explain]"
Once, you handed me half a heart - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"
The white sun all at once lost in the west - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
they once offered asylum to the Sun - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"
What once was woven 'round my heart - Rudolph Valentino "Shadows"
Once you start listening to this loom of sound - Wang An-Shih "Following the Rhymes of Abbot Elder-Guide's Poem The Sound of Majestic Pines" transl. by David Hinton
Once I was a Venetian with my last gold coin - John Moncure Wettarau "Every Moment"
Wall flowers that once were flame - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"
As the thrush once waited for childhood's end - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"
What ravens were unto a prophet once - Adolf Wolff "The Artists"
Memories once yours are now mine - J. Deery Wray "Eidetic"
What stars once telegraphed to the river - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Once could be charmed with our salads - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]
Do not weep but once - Kevin Young "Eulogy"
The secret shape of once-seen, sweet and oft-dreamed loveliness - John Freeman "Shadows"
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