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One glass of water that did not contain war - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"

In one language of gestures - Elizabeth Acevedo "Ode to the Head Nod"

Ignorance can result in one of them devouring you - Duane Ackerson "Black Hole Hunter's Guide"

Holding the deceased one's name in memory forever - Duane Ackerson "A Ghost Story"

Just one little moon among many - Duane Ackerson "Giving Back the Moon"

The one that shines for lunatics, lovers, and poets - Duane Ackerson "Giving Back the Moon"

One specter rises from the campfire - Duane Ackerson "Little Ghosts"

Drinks the liquid coating destined for one - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Mirror Man"

A human one with moonflowers for eyes - Liz Adair "Dragon in the E.R."

One good turn on the luxuriant wheel - Carl Adamshick "Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging"

Where one crow balances - Kim Addonizio "Salmon"

Built their sky one story and one stellar cluster at a time - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"

One hanging strand of cobweb - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"

One does not chatter with a continent - Mary Aldis "Ellie"

Turning the brittle edge of one high wave - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Yet I hold one hour beyond all price - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Held just one thing back - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"

The one whose kiss she chose to return - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

One endless night, stolen contraband - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

Adds one more sweet hymn - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"

Death in one bright peerless day - William Talbot Allison "Vanishings"

the ones you dream of losing - Alise Alousi "Bite It"

Our factories sleep with one eye open - Alise Alousi "Detroit 1998, a reminiscence"

Hear a chorus in one voice - Julia Alvarez "Small Portions"

How many times can I repeat myself in one night? - Hala Alyan "Siri as Mother"

One of the concrete possibilities of uncertainties - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"

The ones who never experienced transplanting - Mouna Ammar "1 Zmagria Place"

One sentinel stood faithful - Duncan Anderson "The Death of Wolfe"

With golden peacock proudly on one shoulder - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXII: The Peacock and the Nightingale" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Around our wrists one long, red string - Diannely Antigua "Blessing the Baby"

More than one eye on your lies - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

In calling one thing by another's name - Rae Armantrout "Scumble"

When one of our myths reverts to abstraction - Rae Armantrout "Upper World"

Our shadows forever one - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"

One holy dream of rapture - William Thompson Bacon "Pen and Ink"

Bear not one gem of all her store - George A. Baker "A Rosebud in Lent"

To trust one’s terror - James Baldwin "Conundrum (on my birthday) (for Rico)"

That faint, persistent whisper that drives one to speak - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

A convincing conspiracy of one - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"

One for comfort and twice for fear - Mary Jo Bang "Ritual Gestures"

One fragment kissed another - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"

The tormented arithmetic of one minus one - Mary Jo Bang "Utopian Longing Becomes More Absurd"

From one life to the next - Rachel Barenblat "So Much (Ahavah Rabbah)"

Tramping millions drifting from one pole - Maurice Baring "Beethoven"

One cast from the fractured past - Elizabeth Bartlett "Vision"

Set small fires to prevent larger ones - Ennis Rook Bashe "How to Hallucinate Your Zombie Lover"

The kingdom of one ivory petal - Ellen Bass "Roses"

Only one rainy cave of hollow gloom - Charles Baudelaire "The Remorse of the Dead" transl. not credited

Swoon like one trembling heart - Charles Baudelaire "Sunset" transl. not credited

Whom one great desire gnaws - Charles Baudelaire "The Swan" transl. not credited

Allowing the syntax of one life to persist - Michael Bazzett "The Revisionist"

Biting open one thing to leave another - Jan Beatty "I'll Write the Girl"

In a house with one wall - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"

I've only got the one death to my name - Josh Bell "The War Against Birthdays"

One death and I'm not going to ruin it - Josh Bell "The War Against Birthdays"

Made half the sky one darkness - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Saying one name for a thousand years - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Steal one note from the silver babble - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

Puzzle for days on one particular stare - Stephen Vincent Benet "Portrait of Young Love"

In one vast hunger of desire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

Could build the universe from one tiny part - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

No key of mine unlocks one lock of one gate - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Breaking their shells one by one - Margo Berdeshevsky "Dusk"

One part of me would become a ghost - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"

One visitor disguised as a primrose - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Pegasus"

Played in one breath - Jen Bervin "shakuhachi repertoire, handwritten from liner notes"

One heart the devil could wound - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"

And down in one hole they did dwell - G. Boare "What Became of Them?"

Years loosen one sand grain - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Horned Toad"

Fastened to one pathetic puzzle - Max Bodenheim "Baby"

Who mistakes one shiver for immortality - Maxwell Bodenheim "Concerning America"

One long circle of despairing grace - Maxwell Bodenheim "Rattlesnake Mountain Fable I"

Deliver themselves one photon at a time - Jaswinder Bolina "Apologia Matilde"

As one who condescends unto to the sea - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"

After the one that kills us - Susan Briante "13 Questions for the Next Economy"

One sweet breath of memory - Anne Bronte "Memory"

Wild as one whom demons seize - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert III: The Welcome Home"

Start on one side of the day - Jericho Brown "Crossing"

Let us not with one stone kill - Nickole Brown "Parable"

Only one thing worth hearing - Nickole Brown "Parable"

One of those old-fashioned peeping keyholes - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

With one plunge leaped down the sheer abyss - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

One side boils and the other blows away - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"

One whole eclipse not knowing any fire - Francis Burrows "The Prayer to Demeter"

Not the darkest one I know - Anthony Butts "Song of Starry-Eyed Children"

By seven vineyards on one hill - Witter Bynner "The Mystic"

In one mingled soul reside - Witter Bynner "The New World II"

Opens a thousand windows into one - Witter Bynner "The New World VII"

Beyond one rustic ancestor of reason - Scott Cairns "Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous"

One far kind glance - Jeremiah John Callanan "The Outlaw of Loch Lene"

If one arise to tell this truth - Tommaso Campanella "XXV. The People" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Crumbled in one red crucible - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Last Prayer"

One of the mart-made helots - W. Wilfred Campbell "Sebastian Cabot"

Swept away in one great gulf of flame - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Of one speech and one endeavour - Giosue Carducci "Voice of God" transl. by Frank Sewall

One white hour of life - Bliss Carman "A Sea Child"

One inside the other as torqued ellipses - Anne Carson "Thunderstorm Stack"

In one little, moving plot of dust - Roger Casement "The Streets of Catania"

One mighty blaze shall tell - Roger Casement "The Triumph of Hugh O'Neill"

The ones rage has twisted into minotaurs - Cyrus Cassells "Soul Make a Path Through Shouting"

Is ever worth one thought - Willa Cather "Evening Song"

Only one can be called home - K-Ming Chang "Closet Space"

Kafka's number one fan - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

Hush not one fervent strain - John Vance Cheney "Love and Youth"

One turret of smoke like ivory - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"

One far fierce hour and sweet - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"

One parting, ten thousand regrets - Ch'in Chia [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)

Too rich for one soul to swallow - May Chong "Catering"

Determined to drag one down to their bottom line - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"

where is the light of one leaf falling? - Lucille Clifton "consulting the book of changes: radiation"

the saddest lies are the ones we tell ourselves - Lucille Clifton "1994"

While the rose and the song are one - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"

That one brief unit of loose time - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

One flitting moment's chance reflection - Arthur Hugh Clough "Jacob's Wives"

From one far unforgotten year - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Silver Wedding"

Who were never the one - Leonard Cohen "Crazy to Love You"

Lived a thousand years in one - Leonard Cohen "Half the Perfect World"

My angel with one red eye - CR Colby "The Last Punk Rock Band in the Zombie Apocalypse"

Whose thousand evil tongues are one - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witches' Wood"

One more sign for anguish poured - CAConrad "Saturn.1"

Time and Eternity were of one hue - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

Clasped in the compass of one sun - Susan Coolidge "Savoir C'est Pardonner"

The sea rejects not any one - Susan Coolidge "Savoir C'est Pardonner"

And for one moment raise the mystic veil - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Eat from every plant except for the bitter one - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

This one that always chaps and cracks - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Only one will not be defeated: the one that is still missing - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

One parting dream of summer - Christopher Pearce Cranch "December"

Yield attendance to one crucial sign - Hart Crane "Recitative"

In one merciless white blade - Hart Crane "Voyages V"

Forever taking one eternal bath - Nathalia Crane "Diana"

Keep one red tower in sight - Arthur Shearly Cripps "Essex"

Had Imps and Witches many a one - Rev. William Crowe "The Spleen"

In the dark recess where one weeps for Grendel - Shutta Crum "Always, there are mothers"

one by one stars flutter into dust - E. E. Cummings "Amores (V)"

One pure trembling drop of cadence - E. E. Cummings "Sunset"

One petal like a shell is broken - H.D. "Sea Iris"

One of many unnamed fields - Jim Daniels "Foundation"

Add one burden to distress - Russell W. Davenport "Poems IV"

But this one thought possessed his mind - William H. Davies "A Bird's Anger"

While one temple pulses an arrhythmic lament - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"

This dread will one day stand in this soil - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"

Close-seated in one crimson boat - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

One more day Eternity devours - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

A dusk where one dim lamp burns - Walter de la Mare "Before Dawn"

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

One whom Fortune would not have me see - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Since, O my Love, I may behold no more]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

I've lost myself in every lifetime but this one - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"

Suck the juice from one more pear - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Eve Revisited"

Joined two lakes into one - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"

How does one re-enter a calendar? - Jay Deshpande "Actually Very Simple"

One day we shall not kiss or quarrel any more - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"

Gather lifetimes on one small petal - Dante Di Stefano "My Eighteen-Month-Old Daughter Talks to the Rain as the Amazon Burns"

One lone-wind-whipped weed - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Things Said When He Was Gone"

He is not one to pity fragileness - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "To an Icicle"

Echoed with the dark ones' footfall - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

Dark ones seeking milk and honey - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

Or help one fainting robin - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life VI"

The privilege of one another's eyes - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love XV: Resurrection"

One dignity delays for all - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity I"

The ones that Midas touched - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XIII: The Oriole"

Stop one heart from breaking - Emily Dickinson [untitled]

Not one of them thrives - Mary Mapes Dodge "Poor Crow!"

A plank one might walk to horizon's edge - Chris Dombrowski "Epithalamium"

The trees exhale their one green breath - Chris Dombrowski "Heron Rookery Aubade"

Makes one little room an everywhere - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"

Entreat one other tear to fall - John Donne "Lovers' Infiniteness"

Fire taking one bright liberty after another - Timothy Donnelly "By Night with Torch and Spear"

The spell of the sea's one scent - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"

If pleasure steal from toil one hour - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset "Think Before You Speak; Or, The Three Wishes"

On one leg of wick - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Candle Flame"

The earth beneath one finger - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Classroom Globe"

Of one brief moment in a sunset - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

Shape themselves around that one bright seizure - Rita Dove "Prose in a Small Space"

Three of one fellowship - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

One bird sang the song I chose - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"

One lone cry of sorrow - Edward Dowden "Where Wert Thou?"

That one hunger devouring all others - Cheryl Dumesnil "Instinct"

Only one chair at your table - Camille T. Dungy "Characteristics of Life"

Growing one with its silent stream - A.E. "By the Margin of the Great Deep"

The sad ones discrowned in the night - A.E. "Love"

One with the twilight's dream - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

One part honey, one part curse - Cornelius Eady "Miss Look's Dream (Miss Look)"

One bright, enchanting moment - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"

Hold forest-fire in one hand - Carolina Ebeld "There Is a Devil Inside Me"

Revive one blossom for Thy bliss - Helen Parry Eden "Post-Communion"

Light one sombre pyramid - Helen Parry Eden "Trees"

All one web with vibrant ether - George Eliot "I Grant You Ample Leave"

Wither away beneath the false one's power - Eliza "The Broken Heart" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Drink water from one well - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"

By one who breathes with love - George Allan England "My Garden"

One hand against the strand - Fatihah Quadri Eniola "Down-Streaming"

Mark of one song ending - Heid E. Erdich "Blood Chimera"

One shallow dish of eerie golden fire - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"

Perhaps one less, perhaps one more - "Fairy's Album: II. The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe"

Girdled life and death in one - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"

Of bread one pennyworth - "Father Prout's Inaugurative Ode: To the Author of "Vanity Fair""

The world turned its one good eye - RK Fauth "Playing with the Bees"

We never were strangers to one another - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

One heart held open to another - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"

Whispered from one listening ear to another - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"

One of your talking wounded - James Fenton "In Paris with You"

One kiss from her honey mouth - Sir Samuel Ferguson "Molly Asthore"

Home is where one starts from - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

In one of those strange hours - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

How one more season will alter and range - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

One of the leaves in the crown is gold - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

Only one night is her door - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"

Let one Eye his watches keep - John Fletcher "Folding the Flocks"

One mad stray bold from the zenith - John Gould Fletcher "Lincoln"

As one recedes to the vanishing point - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 5"

One the only antidote for the other - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VII"

For one sentence of iridescence - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XIII"

Mine inward plight is one that stands alone - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

A cloud of one desire - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"

From east to west, chased by one wild grey cloud - John Freeman "The Wakers"

As one climbs from water up to land - John Freeman "Waking"

One luminary clock against the sky - Robert Frost "Acquainted with the Night"

For one more battle passage yet - Robert Frost "In Equal Sacrifice"

Release one leaf at break of day - Robert Frost "October"

One born for two worlds - Zona Gale "Terza Rima"

The first one to an eighteen-wheeler accident - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: III"

Offered whole in one gesture - Forrest Gander "Pastoral"

One white line of praise - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"

One leaf left to bear witness - George Garrett "Or Death and December"

One day when blades are red - Theodosia Garrison "The Victor"

One hundred years of oxygen - Andrea Gibson "First Love"

One's close to nothing - C.S. Giscombe "Portland Parish/The Blue Mountains"

Strange to one another - Louise Gluck "Lamentations"

For one reckless action done - Goethe "Haste Not, Rest Not"

Slip from one black cloak into another - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"

One more spill of secrets - Rigoberto Gonzalez "La Pelona as Birdwoman"

Where one can view new stars - Regan Good "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows from a Drain"

One set of bootprints back where two had come - Lore Graham "Absence"

Black as the night with one star - Alfred Perceval Graves "O Drimin dhu Deelish"

When one has almost just expected - Leah Naomi Green "Almanac"

That drains with one deep draught the wine of life - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

One last stand in my soul - Kimberly Grey "Conjugated"

My one squared escape - Kimberly Grey "A Deconstruction of Memory"

Sculpting one world - Laurie Ann Guerrero "Blessing"

The one they shape by hand and foot - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"

A matrix of tales that are one - Marilyn Hacker "Ghazal (Ya Lateef!)"

One more invented memory - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"

Into one net of hell - J.B.S. Haldane "Complaint of the Blasphemous Bombers at Beit Aiessa"

One document at dawn - Han Yu "Written on My Way into Exile When I Reached the Lan-t'ien Pass and Shown to My Brother's Grandson Hsiang" transl. by Burton Watson

The cry of one who fears not death - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On the Fly-Leaf of the Rubaiyat"

Just that one memory I thought banished - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

One last gem from the heart of the mine - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

One last cup from the veins of the vine - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

Falling from one sky to another - Joy Harjo "Blue Elliptic"

That one you circle back to - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"

One of those old homemade heartbreak songs - Joy Harjo "Washing My Mother's Body"

I'd keep one trick in my ear - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

On one sore knee before beauty - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"

One long breath - Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser "Braided Creek"

For one golden memory - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Parting Rosary"

One ghostly fragrance lingering - Mercy Harvey "Song"

One of the four Royal Stars - Yona Harvey "Q"

Existence pouring out its one meaning - Robert Hass "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"

The ones that feast on grief - Robert Hass "Habits of Paradise"

One of the earth-starred denizens - Seamus Heaney "Freedman"

Fastened us to one common frame of mind - Michael Heffernan "The Empress"

One dewdrop from her countless store - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Vainly seeks one votive stone - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

When a hazard has made them one - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender XXII"

Taunts me with just one memory of the past - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "A Shadow"

One more Toast before we go - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"

One million doves in the driver seat - fei hernandez "Singing Funeral"

One lone star stands a fiery sentinel - Jennie Earngey Hill "Alone"

One stray emblem of returning spring - Jennie Earngey Hill "A Bit o' Cheer"

One small silver nothing - Brenda Hillman "Micro-minutes on Your Way to Work"

As if it were one you had chosen - Jane Hirshfield "Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World"

One's gain was not the other lessened - Jane Hirshfield "Solstice"

Streaked by one touch of the careless brush - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"

A cello forgiving one note as it goes - Jane Hirshfield "Zero Plus Anything Is a World"

One Tuesday night's unhappiness - Tony Hoagland "Real Estate"

One part water and three parts smoke - Florence Hoatson "Jerry"

Since beauty and the stars were one - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

I am here as one hungry to eat - Linda Hogan "Home in the Woods"

In one swift sweep of vision - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

One constant element in luck - Oliver Wendell Holmes "A Rhymed Lesson" (selections)

One handful of dream-dust - Langston Hughes "Dream Dust"

One blaring trumpet note of sun - Langston Hughes "Fantasy in Purple"

One new and precious memory - Aldous Huxley "Return to an Old Home"

Let one grave our relics hold, entwined - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]

One fostering sunbeam matured the rich gem - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "Removed from Vain Fashion"

With one breath of impatience - Sade Iverson "Voices"

The only ones that don't keep count - Gary Jackson "Kansas"

Beyond what one was able to foresee - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"

Rising with copper in one hand and cadmium in the other - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

In one lonely lingering hour - Helene Johnson "A Southern Road"

One foot on the battlements - James Weldon Johnson "The Judgment Day"

Through one short space of fretfulness - James Weldon Johnson "Life"

One glitter-spritzed black hole - Jenny Johnson "In the Dream"

Just one true thing about the soul - Kate Knapp Johnson "The Meadow"

Flame of one long, lone desire - Lionel Johnson "To a Spanish Friend"

A lute with one string left unstrung - Annie Fellows Johnston "October"

One alto note of joy is gone - Annie Fellows Johnston "October"

As one who seeks a knife - Ebenezer Jones "The Hand"

One step closer to annihilation - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"

Silenced Beethoven with one paw - Rodney Jones "For Katy"

Across a hundred and one faces - Fady Joudah "Domicile, House, Cusp"

That pour beneath one bridge - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

One always caught in the clutch of another - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

One field sparrow song down-falling - Janet Kauffman "Air Here"

One wall flies out the window - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"

Maybe one or two things not quite right - Janet Kauffman "Keratella Offshore"

Just because one thing follows another - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time"

That old one with time unstuck - Janet Kauffman "The Original Brain"

Give Harlem's king one spoon - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"

Goldfinches one by one will drop - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

Without one cooling tear - John Keats "Lamia [Left to herself]"

In one eternal pang of memory - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Lady, whom my beloved loves so well!]"

One dark, fatal, deep eclipse - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

Filling the brief space of one mortal hour - Fanny Kemble "To --- [I would I might be with thee, when the year]"

Listen now to that one note - Fanny Kemble "To the Nightingale"

One spot secure from change - Henry Kendall "After Many Years"

One with the daughters of dolour and night - Henry Kendall "Australia Vindex"

One lightning storm away from igniting - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Remade"

One Moment in Annihilation's Waste - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Pan rides the foremost one - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"

Becomes all one vast remembering - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"

Receiving the wound and the venom in one - Rudyard Kipling "[Late Came the God]"

Invent one out of sheer air - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"

Fronds unfurl from the joints of older ones - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"

One stalk of corn can't bear fruit - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"

The tail has only one dog - Christopher Kondrich "Previously Forgotten"

To estimate one's position without instruments - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"

Having related one thing to another - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"

Rooted at one level in the painter's art - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Portrait of the Mad Scientist's Wife"

One of us outside, one inside - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

which all meaning requires one to reject - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

One medicated season slid into the next - Edgar Kunz "Day Moon"

Nor would one memory awaken - M.E.L. "A Farewell" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

Asking each question but one - Nick Laird "Miscegenation"

The one roof we all share - Michael Lauchlan "Rain"

One of a billion small miracles - Dorianne Laux "Third Rock from the Sun"

Coequal heirs in one wild Past - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

Sweeps in one all-mastering flood - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

Clutching for one second's pause - D.H. Lawrence "Man and Bat"

In one motion depart from each other - D.H. Lawrence "Tommies in the Train"

In one routed army of misfortune - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

One fundamental chord of constant pain - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

That blend in one low chorus - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

Or cast one pebble on the sand - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

just one last prickly conundrum - Mary Soon Lee "What Cacti Read"

Persisting bleakly for one end alone - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"

One hour of sojourn on the wide blue sea - Henry S. Leigh "A Fit of the Blues"

A common thing to turn to gold when one is able - Henry S. Leigh "Midas"

And one by one the bulbs went dark - Keith Leonard "Museum"

One step closer to the edge of truth - Philip Levine "Another Song"

At one sitting three hundred cups - Li Po "Drinking Song" transl. by Arthur Waley

Outdo one another in clamour and confusion - Li T'ai-Po "The Perils of the Shu Road" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

Wear the epitaph of one of your old suits - Gary Copeland Lilley "Unmarked Grave"

Every one of us with a bear inside - Ada Limon "Territory"

Memories that one has forgotten how to have - Tan Lin "RPT MC-60 00.27 8"

All for one hidden butterfly - Vachel Lindsay "Kalamazoo"

One scorched phoenix that mourned in the dew - Vachel Lindsay "Kalamazoo"

One quick breath of peach-bloom fantasy - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

The boundless, unknowable loneliness of one universe - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"

But always there was one unbidden guest - Amy Lowell "A Fairy Tale"

One music with a thousand cadences - Amy Lowell "Listening"

Drumming the Old One's own tattoo - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

With one sad color are imbued - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"

Twenty sympathize for one that blames - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"

One long sigh piled on another - Lu Yu "Long Sigh: Written When Spending the Night at Green Mountain Store" transl. by Burton Watson

With her one ghost eye - George MacDonald "The Wind and the Moon"

Are one with flaming spheres - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Cosmos"

One ceaseless shower of gold - Dorothea Mackellar "Burning Off"

At one with the Lord of Eternity - Fiona MacLeod "Lullaby"

You two with your one life - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"

In one long dream of sorrow - Arthur Macy "At Twilight Time"

One cracked bowl holding absolutely nothing - Naomi Long Madgett "Packrat"

You're the ones who made me hide - Mack W. Mani "Trans Rage 2: The Reckoning"

Cast one glance westward - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong on Silent Films"

One moon has many phantoms - Edwin Markham "The Desire of Nation"

One azure word turned kiss - Jeannette Marks "Bubbles"

A mountain peak with its one gold star - Jeannette Marks "Last Dawn"

Should one thought cry against me - Jeannette Marks "Your Sunlit Way"

At one with her branded Cains - Don Marquis "New York"

How can one fight the sliding moonlight - Don Marquis "The Struggle"

For one clean hour of struggle - John Masefield "The Khalif's Judgment"

Gleam from one towering prison - John Masefield "The South-West Wind"

The orderly rows collapsing into one another - Donna Masini "My Father Teaches Me to Play Solitaire"

One lethed hour that duty never brings - Florence Ripley Mastin "Moth Moon"

Every one of the unconcerned streetlamps - Adrian Matejka "Mural with HUD Housing & School Bus (1980)"

One talon for the olive branch - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Only one sun-rust afternoon - Airea D. Matthews "Sexton Texts a Backslider After Breaking Lent"

Or pluck one pang of sorrow - Theodore Maynard "Mater Desolata"

At one new touch of wizardry - Theodore Maynard "There Was an Hour"

One spider is rapidly tying me here - Marilyn McCabe "Web"

The phantom of absent loved ones - George Marion McClellan "The Sun Went Down in Beauty"

Moving the one mind of leaves - Anne Haven McDonnell "Owl"

Yields to a sprig with one leaf unfurling - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"

The one lesson hope has to give - Wesley McNair "The Future"

No one sang until one person began - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"

We are Starseeds every one of us - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"

As one admitted to the door - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"

Trees arrowed through one another - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

For giving their one spirit voice - George Meredith "The Lark Ascending"

One straight bolt can check - George Meredith "My Theme"

The rusted towers haunting one hill - M.S. Merwin "Letters"

In one or two lives - Elizabeth Metzger "Won Exit"

One flame within those mutual eyes - Alice Meynell "Reflections"

One can hardly blame the artist - Jane Miller "A Young Poet"

One more gift I squandered to survive - Claire Millikin "Floyd Burroughs' Second Pack of Cigarette"

One place without connection - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"

i am one with the chill of steel - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"

i am one with the upturned dirt - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"

A forgery that will one day burn - Rajiv Mohabir "Ode to Richmond Hill"

Then one by one subside again and pass - Harold Monro "Solitude"

Solitude walks one heavy step more near - Harold Monro "Solitude"

This world is one Gethsemane - Duncan Moore "To the Lost One"

Stealing first one breath and then the next - Jim Moore "The Need Is So Great"

Long nights and the whisperings of new ones - William Moore "Dusk Song"

One lone heart for Summer silent grieves - William Moore "Here in the Time of the Winter Morn"

That one's heart must be steeled against the east wind - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"

When our heartbeat was one shared song - Edgar Morales "Swim"

As I listen to its winds one last time - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"

From my memory raze one hour - Anna Cora Mowatt "To My Sisters: Written After Their Departure for Europe"

Wandering from one body to ash - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

One ant following another - Harryette Mullen "Conversation in Isolation"

One of time's swiftest sprinters - Lutpulla Mutellip "Answer to the Years" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

On one of so many birthdays - Eileen Myles "Fifty-Three"

This one long night where we'd emerged - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

Death's secrets in one heart - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly

One darling fantasy shattered - Maggie Nelson "Eighteen Days Until Christmas"

Imprisoned in one of Petrach's sonnets - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: X" transl. by William O'Daly

All the honey of one day - Pablo Neruda "Goodbye to the Snow" transl. by Alastair Reid

Not one single drop of sleep - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Double Autumn" transl. by Mark Eisner

A word is one wing of silence - Pablo Neruda "One Hundred Love Sonnets: XLIV" transl. by Rafael Campo

Ancient cities stacked one atop another - Robbi Nester "Rot"

Mozart is the only one who understands - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

If one may settle the score for five - Henry Newbolt "He Fell Among Thieves"

Breaking them, one by one - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

As one who goes to try a Mystery - Robert Nichols "Farewell to Place of Comfort"

Of ones who remember - Margaret Noodin "Nimbawaadaan Akiing/I Dream a World"

For one time-conquering soul - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

One phrase of the secret music - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Ascending from one living spiral thread - Alfred Noyes "An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin"

Heard the music of one law - Alfred Noyes "Goethe I: The Discoverer"

In one small grain of this immortal wheat - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"

Songs of the absent ones - Naomi Shihab Nye "Alien Rescue"

One hand out against the earth - Naomi Shihab Nye "All I Can Do"

One hand up against the sky - Naomi Shihab Nye "All I Can Do"

Placed one toe in the river of gloom - Naomi Shihab Nye "Coming Soon"

Linking one town to its memory of mortar - Naomi Shihab Nye "Lunch in Nablus City Park"

Where laws stay on one bank of the river - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

One more sweet-as-honey answer - Mary Oliver "Something"

One hot sentence after another - Mary Oliver "Stars"

Your one wild and precious life - Mary Oliver "The Summer Day"

One of the ways to enter fire - Mary Oliver "Sunrise"

How quickly one carves out a corner of the cosmos - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"

One nation under this vaulted roof - January Gill O'Neil "Old South Meeting House"

Born with a knife in one hand and a wound in the other - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

One grief to both impart - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"

One serpent thought that fled not - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "My Seal-Ring"

To every weaver one golden strand - John Oxenham "Weavers All"

One realm enfolding half the globe - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

An idea one almost has - Ron Padgett "Life without You"

In body one with the hermit folk - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson

One endless white furrow of water - Patrick Philips "Elegy with Oil in the Bilge"

The one in the mind called doubt - Carl Phillips "Blow it Back"

One bright, flashing hammer of love - Carl Phillips "Initial Descent"

One last bright chance to believe - Carl Phillips "Of California"

If one wish begets a next one - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"

To bloom from one dream to the next - Carl Phillips "When We Get There"

One daughter of light be indulged in her flight - John Pierpont "E Pluribus Unum" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

One sleeping self inside a woken self - Sasha Pimentel "Lament of Submerged Persons"

End up with one ox-hair worth of gain - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

A Fairy Temple with one niche empty - Po-Chu-i "Taoism and Buddhism" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Crow whose one wing rests on the evening - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"

The one who's going nowhere - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"

Just one slip in the whole of forever - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Plate Spinning"

Soft dew-drop of my heart's one flower - Geo. D. Prentice "Lines Written on St. Valentine's Day"

One chance stalk of wheat - "Presence" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

One word dispel a cloud of tears - John Presland "November"

Life promises only one sweet memory - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"

Keep just one thread of doubt - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: A Warning"

They move well in only one direction - Charles Rafferty "Advice for Beautiful Daughters Entering a World of Scoundrels"

Not one of the galaxy wanted address - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Monstrous either one apart - John Crowe Ransom "Winter Remembered"

Racing one another towards joy - Barbara Ras "You Can't Have It All"

From one moment of coincidence - Bino A. Realuyo "Euler's Equation"

These lines force one foot in front of the other - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Relinquenda"

These steps are the ones I have to take - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Relinquenda"

Dreaming of the bright ones that are gone - "RÊVES ET SOUVENIRS" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)

From one dark street to another - Charles Reznikoff "Rhythms (Section I)"

One in the vast coil of silence - Lola Ridge "Circuit"

Only in silence can one hear - Lola Ridge "Eyrie (To E.A.R.)"

Meet in one clear symphony - Lola Ridge "Eyrie (To E.A.R.)"

One dark note weaving endlessly - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

Nor withheld one bright jot - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Sweet as many roses on one stem - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

One mane of a thousand lions - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 3: Lullaby"

One more pebble in the pack - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Watching all roads at one time - Lola Ridge "Jude"

Fly to the mountains for one safe bough - Lola Ridge "Reveille"

As one who fears old ambush - Lola Ridge "Shadow"

How the moon is one with the snow - Lynn Riggs "Shadow on Snow"

The broken promise is the one we remember - Alberto Rios "The Broken"

A pie gets one chance - Alberto Rios "Perfect for Any Occasion"

And one was some fennel up on the shore - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "At the Water"

One was the smell of cool wet moss - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "At the Water"

One edge away from disappearing - Mg Roberts "Cylanders II"

One who should have soared - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Discovery"

By the one light of his one thought - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Flying Dutchman"

What the dawn of one more day shall give them - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Wrench one banner from the western skies - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Sonnet [Oh for a poet--]"

Some alteration of in the landscape of one mind - Catherine Rockwood "In Memoriam Maureen K. Speller"

Grew to perfect summer in one day - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"

And one star waits for the dawning light - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"

One picture of that immemorial land - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"

One word spoken, one whisper of regret - Rennell Rodd "A Song of Autumn"

Nine fair sisters in one home - Amy Redpath Roddick "England's Oldest Colony"

Sudden blossoming of one more rose - Alice Wellington Rollins "Influence"

Trust in one & infinity - Sahar Romani "Afternoon in Andalusia"

Wins our hearts with one accord - Christina Rossetti "Christmas Day"

Hold me one moment longer - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"

One day's contempt and anger - Mrs. Kāminī Roy "Call and Bring Her" transl. Miss Whitehouse

Beneath one great canopy - Kāminī Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse

In the ray of one great sun - Kāminī Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse

Taste one sip of an answer - Rumi "Who Says Words with My Mouth?" transl. by Coleman Barks

Always willing to move one place along - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"

One side in the shadow, one in vivid heat - V. Sackville-West "Convalescence"

One leg tense with the burden of earth - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"

How one builds a house from the inside - Janice Lobo Sapigao "HomeGoods"

One donation and the right peach - Philip Schultz "IGA"

Crime & punishment made one - Ann K. Schwader "Gone to Ground"

In one swift Lenten smear of ash - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"

One lotus night tinged blue with deja vu - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"

The ones that scream to announce themselves - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

A thousand pathways in one spot resulting - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems VI"

A time machine made out of zeroes and ones - Salik Shah "Straw-Fitted Elephants"

By adding one thing to my purpose - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XX"

To one more rich in hope - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIX"

One angel in another's hell - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLIV"

From my veins the pull of one long pulse - Charif Shanahan "Passing"

Every one of my gestures symbolic - Brenda Shaughnessy "Nachtraglichkeit"

The secrets of many revealed as one - Brenda Shaughnessy "Why Is the Color of Snow?"

One vast mass of mingling shade - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

One echo from a world of woes - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

In one spirit meet and mingle - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"

Who am made one with grief - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"

Choose, of all the old dreams, one - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"

One to the thief of Versailles - Taras Shevchenko "To the Goddess of Fame" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Breathing to one's individuality - Brandon Shimoda "The Desert"

One of the offices of the moon - David Shumate "Teaching a Child the Art of Confession"

The one thing they cannot make their own - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

The gray ones that linger at wood's edge - Joyce Sidman "The Gray Ones"

The one whose hands are full of sky - Joyce Sidman "Illness: A Conversation"

Soften to one smooth horizon - Joyce Sidman "Invocation for Sandcastles"

The only ones still singing are the frogs - Joyce Sidman "Letter to the Sun"

One of death's juggling red balls - Charles Simic "The Initiate"

Wisely one sweet instrument to choose - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets I: Chaucer" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

When one's mind unfurls its wings - H. Simpson "'There Are Quantities of Things...'"

The one whom suns had sought - Clark Ashton Smith "Echo of Memnon"

Desert years in one deep kiss - Clark Ashton Smith "Ecstasy"

One with dust and wind - Clark Ashton Smith "A Fragment"

As one whom spells restrain - Clark Ashton Smith "In Saturn"

Drink at one draught a universe - Clark Ashton Smith "Lethe"

In one swifter hour of flame - Clark Ashton Smith "Remembered Light"

The starlings choose one piece of sky - Maggie Smith "Starling"

Either one could be erased - Maggie Smith "Written Deer"

The years poured back from one cracked jar into a perfect basin - Cynthia So "The Unicorn's Question"

One smile could sustain me - Analicia Sotelo "Bitch Instinct"

Sliding from one world to another - Analicia Sotelo "Eating the Moon in Cotulla, TX"

Made myself one with a dream - Frank Stanford "The Cape"

One with the reaches of infinity - George Sterling "Duandon"

One with the wine of night - George Sterling "With the Strength of Dreams"

Not for one good second - Gerald Stern "Grass and Water"

One last look at the ducks - Wallace Stevens "The Hermitage at the Centre"

One of the ciphers that haunt it - Robert J.C. Stead "The Prairie"

One bud from off the tree of Earth - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

This slenderest thread of one thin pulse - Arthur Stringer "The Life on the Table"

Brine and honey in one bed - Muriel Stuart "Lady Hamilton"

One of the wind's stories - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"

One branch of chrysanthemum holds out against frost - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson

One hour worth a thousand gold coins - Su Tung-p'o "Spring Night" transl. by Burton Watson

One speck where the river swallows the sky - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson

One moment see that which before me lies - Alan Sullivan "Confession, Creed, and Prayer"

Creates one great impassable division twixt us and our desire - Alan Sullivan "A Vision"

In one rich embassy of gold - "The Summer"

One touch of the present dissolves the light dream - Miss Caroline E. Sutton "The Past" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

But one tires of scented time - Algernon Charles Swinburne "Before Parting"

The ones that steal starlight - Alison Swan "One by One"

For death is one, and the fates are three - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The swords in my heart for one were seven - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

One endeared by Friendship's strongest ties - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

One sweet, dilating wave thrills the pure deep - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Save this one spark of burning grief - J. Bayard Taylor "A Requiem in the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

That one immeasurable moment at sunset - Keith Taylor "Acolytes in the Bird-While"

Disappearing one warm night when I forget to look - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

For one white singing hour - Sara Teasdale "Barter"

Served one master ill - Edward Thomas "An Old Song"

The one sound under the sky - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"

The one crop that never failed - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

One grass-blade in its veins - Francis Thompson "All Flesh"

One mourner to a thousand dead - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

Together, intertwined, one enemy - "Three Poetry Fragments Unearthed at Turpan Bezeklik" transl. by Dolkun Kamberi and Jeffrey Yang

When brave hearts bleed and faint ones break - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Scarce one trace of its deep burning - J.A. Tinnon "I'll Blame Thee Not"

All folded into one darkness - To-Em-Mei "The Unmoving Cloud" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)

One of us is lying always - TC Tolbert "felo-de-se-- Melissa"

The finches threaten one another - TC Tolbert "Nine Haiku"

One day for every particle of sand - Edwin Torres "When Does the Game Begin"

Lack the answer of one heart - Richard Chenevix Trench "Dedicatory Lines"

As one turns, forgetting, from the past - Natasha Trethewey "Pilgrimage"

One moment fled out of immortal lands - W.J. Turner "Death"

The ones that are snapshots of fear - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"

The first shadows are supple ones - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"

The future moves from one part to another - Chase Twichell "Inland"

Holding thorns in one hand - U Tak "2270" (transl. not credited but assumed, due to poet's dates, not to be the poet)

As one remembers in a fairy tale - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Forget-Me-Nots"

Not one with the conquering year - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"

As one does when experiencing mortality - Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca "Had Been There"

One long champagne binge - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

All of life catapulted into one day - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"

A land that cannot cast one sparkle back - Mark Van Doren "In Time of Drouth"

Not one path is open through the snow - Mark Van Doren "River Snow"

Comes one day to the minds of waiting men - Mark Van Doren "Waterfall Sound"

One bite of winter lingers - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Wintergreen"

For one sweet strain of silence - Henry van Dyke "If All the Skies"

Opens one's heart to the law - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Life" transl. by Alma Strettell

All one ferment of varied gold - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: St. George" transl. by Alma Strettell

One tumult of haggard gold - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: St. George" transl. by Alma Strettell

One of us had to falter - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Time, Two-Headed: Corpus Christi, 1984"

One must die three times - Hersart de la Villemarque "The Prophecy of Gwic'hlan" transl. by Edward Ramos

Made one with my horizon - Derek Walcott "A Latin Primer"

The circle of one century - Derek Walcott "Storm Figure"

To have loved one horizon - Derek Walcott "Tomorrow, Tomorrow"

A cement mixer stuck in one motion - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"

One destiny to perish over all - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: v) Godzilla at Colonos"

Leaking one's soul for want of an angel - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"

In the dream blindfold and bandage are one - Jackie Wang "Masochism of the Knees"

Still one joy remains - Thomas Warton "To the River Lodon"

One in transgression and one in remorse - William Watson "England to Ireland"

One last light of rapture give - William Watson "The Flight of Youth"

One flash of Byron's lightning - William Watson "On Exaggerated Deference to Foreign Literary Opinion"

To soothe one sorrow - Kate Louise Wheeler "My Petition"

Faint with one music - John Hall Wheelock "Legend"

Weaves the one self she wears - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"

In the silence speak one quiet word - Helen Hay Whitney "Enough of Singing"

One amber dawn's delight - Helen Hay Whitney "Persephone"

One hand on the mason's trowel - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Without one spark of gratitude display'd - "The Whore"

A cloak behind which to change one's power - Phillip B. Williams "And Now Upon My Head the Crown"

Has sent one golden needle - William Carlos Williams "Complaint"

One thing braver than all flowers - William Carlos Williams "Immortal"

Gold and silver mixed to one - William Carlos Williams "Love"

One opaque stone of a cloud - William Carlos Williams "Winter Sunset"

One foot in each world - Katie Willingham "Dear Charlie"

Chooses one direction only - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"

One single heart undone - Charlotte Wilson "The Heart Knoweth"

The dawn in which one bird believes - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"

The one end I know complete - Matthew Wimberley "The Celebrated Colors of the Local Sunsets"

We were never ones to avoid pain - Tanaya Winder "For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It's the Quickest Way Through"

Both are bound in the orb of one outrageous star - Humbert Wolfe "Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton"

One made of wind and starlight - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"

History and future test one another - Nancy Wood "Wisdom of the Elders"

One last starry daffodil excess - Tobias Wray "The Last Orgasm"

And stop at the one with the golden script - Charles Wright "I Shall Be Released"

And one slips into wanting nothing more - Charles Wright "In Praise of What Is Missing"

Our lives have been one constant mistake - Charles Wright "Road Warriors"

Leading to one vast ultimate stop - Charles Wright "Walking Beside the Diversion Ditch Lake"

As one within a moated tower - Edith Wyatt "Sympathy"

In the smothering dark one white star - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"

The earth closing its one good eye - Wendy Xu "Praxis"

In no act forsaking one another - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson

The one stitched to your soul - Yee Heng Yeh "Lost and Found"

Half the world in one red bonfire - Francis Brett Young "Slender Themes"

Lit with one slow-burning flame - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

With one talon over the wet snow - Ray Young Bear "Our Bird Aegis"

The moment just after one has chosen - Matthew Zapruder "Come On All You Ghosts"

Then stumble one step back - Zheng Min "Student" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

One of their own eliminated by the math - Art Zilleruelo "Arrangements"

The ones that sleep in their ink - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 3" transl. by Katherine Silver


In this field of tens and one-eyed jacks - Joy Harjo "A Winning Hand"

The one-eyed vulture in the glass - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"


Forests shrill with one-legged goblins - Lu Yu "Sending Tsu-lung Off to a Post in Chi-chou" transl. by Burton Watson


Their one-sided written constitution - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

One-sided skins of truth - Dylan Thomas "Our eunuch dreams"


On the one-way shore - Leonard Cohen "Song to Make Me Still"

Death is a one way street - Kim Unsong "One Way Street"


My ghost is my plus-one tonight - Saeed Jones "Grief #213"


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