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Under the sweet breath of branches - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Under the cherry trees and birches - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Dream"

The abyss we sleep under - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"

Sit under a pyramid's shade - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"

Because I have failed under the eye of history - Mary Alexandra Agner "Children of Breath"

Under the rustling twilight of the sea - Conrad Aiken "Seven Twilights"

Long shadows under the marble arches - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"

A muffled echo under the sea - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

Tenderness under the blown red wing - Meena Alexander "Darling Coffee"

Under an evil-eyed fig tree - Zaina Alsous "Universe in which My Father Is a Poet"

Under the weight of heedless travelers' footsteps - Mouna Ammar "ID"

Buried under sleek pavement and spindly landscaping - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

And the men on the nettles under the sky - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XII: Royal Converse" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Under the muddied moon - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"

Conspicuously under threat - Rae Armantrout "Fetch"

No wonder the black mole tunnels under the garden loam - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Ghost House"

Under her knotted boards where wild kittens hide - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Ghost House"

The air on fire under him - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

Anchors under islands haunted - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

Under lock and key in the netherworld - Mary Jo Bang "Awake, I Listened"

Under the dying grass moon - Mary Jo Bang "Given to Believe"

Under satellite and sinew of wire - Mary Jo Bang "A Goddess Shakes Spring Awake"

Tunnel under an avalanche - Mary Jo Bang "The Transformation Anxiety Dream"

Under the heavy weather of the years - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Under her jets of vapor - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien

Under their sheaves of lightnings - Nicolas Beauduin "The New Beauty" transl. by Edward J. O'Brien

Under a sunset of perpetual fire - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

Ink stretches under midnight - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"

Rivers under ancient walls flowing - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"

A riddle basking under its marble - Clive Bell "Letter to a Lady I"

Impatient under affliction - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Dysphoria"

That burning march under a sky of flame - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

Pipes that Pan left whispering under a tree - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

To plant trees under starlight - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Pegasus"

Giant dervishes dancing under the ancient stars - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"

Under the great balanced day - Louise Bogan "Medusa"

Crawl restless under the skin - Lindsey Boldt "A Bartable Enya Afternoon"

Provisional under the permanent sky - Jaswinder Bolina "Body in a Phone Booth"

Under winter's blanket renunciation - Jaswinder Bolina "Tidal"

Burrowed a fever under my skin - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, when I said all I ever wanted was land"

I live under the wallpaper of the house that no longer belongs to me - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"

Under the mound of ciphered sunflowers - Ana Bozicevic "When the Dead Sing Out"

But now lie under oleander - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

Who dreams under the ferns - Rupert Brooke "Tiare Tahiti"

Power under a quilt that won't unravel - Jericho Brown "After Avery R. Young"

Growing in a thousand creeks under her ground - Lee Ann Brown "House of Green Thunder"

Grief borne out under whittled stars - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"

Let me triangulate icy shuffling under snow - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

Night crumbling under shafts of starlight - Paul Cameron Brown "Distemper"

Under an ignited sky of ocean - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"

Neither keeping either under - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Light under his eyelids - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

Blasphemous worship under roofs of gold - William Cullen Bryant "Hymn of the Waldenses"

Darkness under elevated trains at noon - Sue Budin "City"

Born under better auspices - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXIII. Second Reading. A Prayer to Nature. Amor Redivivus" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Sobbing under the wings of time - Francis Burrows "The Well"

Under the pure sequestering snow - Witter Bynner "Passing Near"

Under the shadow of a thrust - Witter Bynner "Passing Near"

Under the blue flame of the sky - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"

Under time lives silence - Lauren Camp "Original Hope"

The waters under the ruined mill - Joseph Campbell "The Old Woman"

Down under the iron hoof - W. Wilfred Campbell "A Present-Day Creed"

Under the white awe of planets - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"

Keep me under the shadow of your wings - Anthony Vahni Capildeo "Niche"

Primal chaos under cosmic law - Bliss Carman "Phi Beta Kappa Poem"

Under a load of time - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

Under the dark tent of heaven - Willa Cather "Macon Prairie"

Sit under the tree waiting for hunger - Tina Chang "Lion"

How to light my name under their skin - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"

Blooming like rust under oil and tender iron - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"

When we went under a dragon moon - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

Of all labours under the sun - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"

A naked people under a naked crown - G.K. Chesterton "The Secret People"

Knotted together under the spotlight - Samantha H. Chung "Time Traveler's Haibun: 2024"

Under the sun's widening eye - Gillian Clarke "Cuckoo"

the black blood under the earth - Lucille Clifton "shadows"

Warm water under silver covers - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

So you know she is smiling under her mask - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"

From every circle under heaven - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"

Those born under the drum - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Under the moment's remains - Cristina Correa "A Study in Eventuality"

Through the deep, and under - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Under seven heavens bright - George Cronyn "Song [A cup full of star-shine]"

incorruptible Nothing under the ample sun - E. E. Cummings "Amores (XI)"

Under a sky of opal fire - Olive Custance "Primrose Hill"

Abiding under the darkness - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett  c.1900, revised 1911)

First tasted under Apollo's lips - H.D. "Evadne"

Under his hand of memory - Fannie Stearns Davis "Wind"

Under the new vastness of this wreckage - Geffrey Davis "The Epistemology of Rosemary"

Under the crush of chlorinated water - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Letdown"

Will threaten to sweep you under - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Letdown"

to walk free again under the darkening sky - Deborah L. Davitt "Unbound" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]

Under the cypresses no nightingales - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Under the Cypresses"

Make magic under midnight moons - Tyree Daye "what the angels eat"

Under the elm trees' lengthening shadow - Walter de la Mare "Sam's Three Wishes; or Life's Little Whirligig"

There is no music under asphodel - Cenizas de Rosas "Bone Flute"

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

Born under the Sign of the Asp - Joel Dias-Porter "Three Wrong Notes"

The fields under a haze of mosquitoes - Chelsea Dingman "Notes on Inheritance"

to live under an infinite eclipse - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"

a remedy tucked under your tongue - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"

Volcanoes under snows - Austin Dobson "Epilogue"

Buried warmly under the quilts - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

Under the flaming wings of cherubim - Edward Dowden "The Initiation"

When the floods are silver under willow - John Drinkwater "May Garden"

Under the calm ascension of the night - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"

Vertigo under the infinite sky - Michael Dumanis "Sehnsucht"

Hidden under autumn's leaves - Cheryl Dumesnil "Ode to October"

Under the light of those fierce stars - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dusk"

Singing under saffron skies - Helen Parry Eden "The Wind"

Under the penitential gates sustained by staring Seraphim - T.S. Eliot "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service"

Every hill that under heaven expands - Ebenezer Elliot "Spring"

Carries a talisman under his tongue - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fate"

Heat under east winds crossed with sleet - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Under these pictures of time - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Sphinx"

Under sky's low ceiling - Elaine Equi "Trenton Local"

Breathless under glass - Heid E. Erdich "That Green Night"

Under an unnoticed moon - Kristina Erny "Abduction"

Evaporating under the pressure of a bright sun - A.M. Fals "Space in Our Relationship"

Visit under my looking-glass fingers - Annie Finch "Final Autumn"

Half hidden under the liquid veil of spring - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

Silent under the steep cone of afternoon - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

Withered under blooms of ash - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hoktvlwv's Crow"

Under tide burrowing shut - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 13"

Who opens in autumn under stolen light - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XIV"

A fault line under Rome - Katie Ford "Colosseum"

Born to crumble under salt and tears - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"

Under the shelter of the family tree - Robert Frost "The Generations of Men"

Slides from under shadow - Tracy Fuad "Eclipse Season"

Under influence of sky - James Galvin "Dear May Eighth"

Outside my door under the ancient oak - Elizabeth W. Garber "Feasting"

A dusty sweetness under fictive eyes - Dana Gioia "Pardon Me, Pilgrim"

Put it away under widow's weeds - "Glorious!" [Continental Monthly v.5 no.4 April 1864]

In the secret places under my heart - Mona Gould "You, the Sower of Seed"

Glowing now under real sunlight - Lore Graham "Absence"

Under this loop of honeysuckle - Robert Graves "The Caterpillar"

A week spent under raining skies - Robert Graves "Limbo"

Under shadow of myrtle - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"

Sweatless as watercolour under glass - Thom Gunn "Autumn Chapter in a Novel"

Under the breath of the winnowing-fan - Thomas Hardy "Without, Not Within Her"

Remember the sky that you were born under - Joy Harjo "Remember"

Feed chlorophyll to gutters under gasoline - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

Under cypress and promise of tree - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Under the ease of my hammer - Jalynn Harris "The Life of a Writer"

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

Vigilance under the staring moon - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Three Poems of Christmas Eve: Last Night"

Under the masonry of state and statute - Seamus Heaney "The Unacknowledged Legislator's Dream"

Naked under bitter lichens - Anne Hebert "Spring Over the City" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

Under the microscope of cultural critics - Stephanie Heit "The Murderer: Primetime"

And the best of our dreams drive under - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Languished under many moons - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Sea Hunger"

Under the wingbeats of moths - Conrad Hilberry "Talk on the Porch"

A wide city under a bronze sky - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"

Crawled under fire-forgotten rocks - Brenda Hillman "& After the Power Came Back"

Under the silent claw of the predator - Brenda Hillman "1951"

Sand under anxious days - Brenda Hillman "To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mother's Garden"

A shadow under gold streaks - Millie Ho "Beasts of New France"

Topple under all those promises - Tony Hoagland "Real Estate"

The needle pulled over and under each displaced gap - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

In the garden under the masterful Sun - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"

Strawberries under the chestnuts grow - William D. Howells "Elegy on John Butler Howells"

Under the ghostly sycamores - William Dean Howells "The Mulberries"

From under brows of stone - Aldous Huxley "Waking"

Broke under the weight of tenancy - fahima ife "post-acid"

Under the shallow sea-fog - Robinson Jeffers "October Evening"

Under the feet of the ocean cavalry - Robinson Jeffers "To the House"

Under the rain's gaping sluices - Johannes V. Jensen "At Memphis Station" transl. by S. Foster Damon

Under the autumn of her skies - James Weldon Johnson "If I Were Paris"

A mystery under the moon - James Weldon Johnson "The River"

Meet under cover of brush and dust - Jenny Johnson "Aria"

Pushed grief under the railings - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"

Under the pure silence, earth - Lionel Johnson "In Memory"

Under old, red-fruited yews - Lionel Johnson "Laleham"

I dream of pebbles under my pillow - Camisha L. Jones "Haunted"

Riptide pulling me under - Camisha L. Jones "Tinnitus"

Unclean under a back-turned sun - Saeed Jones "Terrible Boy"

drifting under a wooden sky - Tanque R. Jones "Eight Months"

Blood rising under the Andes - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

Turned to the Moon from under alien eaves - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]

Under the comfort of Cincinnati fog - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Under the bare feet of their thoughts - Ilya Kaminsky "Search Patrols"

Hip broken under the weight of time - Anoma Kanie "All that You Have Given Me, Africa" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

Sweet-sour fruit under the moon's regard - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

Grieving on his rock under olive trees - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"

Did fire fish tumble under his blades? - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time"

Under the pollution of a hunter's moon - Donika Kelly "The Three Birds of the Milky Way"

Sweet and bleak under a halo of stars - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Calls a Truce"

Hold time in place under her tongue - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Left Behind"

Under cascades of sunlight - Kim Unsong "Golden Poppy"

Straight under pressure - Kim Unsong "O Jackie O"

Smiling under tragedy - Kim Unsong "O Jackie O"

Majestic under pandemonium - Kim Unsong "O Jackie O"

Under our great star - Kim Unsong "Silent Afar"

Under the memory of owls - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"

Under the birds' low song-swept radiances - Joanna Klink "A Welcome"

Our wheelbarrow groaning under a new load - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"

The ore under their breath weighed down the gray sky - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"

Something dead under the foundation - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Under corrugated blowpipes fifty feet high - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

A tiger under a rainbow at nightfall - Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I Are Disappearing"

Under the rocks and hidden machinery - Christopher Kondrich "Passaic, Again"

Under the dome of echo hung - Christopher Kondrich "Remonstrance"

Under the weight of its perseverance - Ted Kooser "In the Hall of Bones"

Under the crust of the next planet - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Supersonic Rocketeers"

The ache of amazement under summer stars - Stephen Kuusisto "Learning Braille at Thirty-Nine"

Afraid to blink under oath - Lam Lai "I, New York"

Fifty years under the greenwood tree - Andrew Lang "The Brigand's Grave"

Hide beauty under beauty still - Lucy Larcom "November"

Now alive under my skin - Dorianne Laux "Blossom"

Hollow under a smooth skin and an upright appearance - D.H. Lawrence "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is"

Fall asleep under the fleece of shadow - D.H. Lawrence "The Little Town at Evening"

Under your fallen skies - D.H. Lawrence "The Revolutionary"

Burning archangels under the sea - D.H. Lawrence "Whales Weep Not!"

The world lay ruined under rain and sliding snows - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

Some song smuggled under my tongue - Aimee Le "Where I Learn to Shrink"

Under elms shaped for sleep - Ruth Lechlitner "Connecticut Countryside"

Dry snow under the storm-locked sills - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"

Under the amber torches of the sky - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"

Rolling all its bridges under - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

Under wraps and off the books - Hailey Leithauser "Sex Circumspect"

Under the leafy shadow of lindens - Henry P. Leland "Wounded" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]

Under the limber fingers of the wind - R.B. Lemberg "Between the Mountain and the Moon"

Under the harvesting of the stars - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Calm us then under a gold sky - Philip Levine "Breath"

Under the billion-acre sky - J. Patrick Lewis "the child"

Under the seams of his words - Sandra Lim "Certainty"

Under clouds of miscalculation - Ada Limon "The Barer the Bones"

Under the fountains and under the graves - Anonymous "Love's Enterprise"

Under the eye of a golden moon - Amy Lowell "Clear, with Light Variable Winds"

Under the fire of the great moon - Amy Lowell "The Letter"

Apple stealing under the sea - Mina Loy "Love Songs to Joannes"

Under a sky fast-blue with change - Alessandra Lynch "Funeral: For Us His Gold"

Enshadowed under falsehood's spell - J.A. M'Donald "In the Distant Years" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art 5th series no.154 v.III, Dec. 11, 1886]

Under the same feckless auspices - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"

Some landscapes under duress - Aditi Machado "Rhapsody"

The wailing from under the floorboards - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"

Under a colourless desolate sky - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Passions" transl. by Bernard Miall

The guards hidden under my tongue - Joyce Mansour "Auditory Hallucination" transl. by Carol Cosman

Under this tunnel of endless shadows - Sally Wen Mao "Resurrection"

The poem slides under your skin - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize

Crushed under its own dream - Dawn Lundy Martin "Perspective is Supposed to Yield Clarity"

Grapes fall under their own command - Herbert Woodward Martin "Standing Beneath Grapes"

Under a sheet of callow moon - Herbert Woodward Martin "Variations on Some Index Phrases Borrowed from Kenneth Rexroth"

Under the beech-roots snugly - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"

Under the golden eagle of the empire - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

I tiptoed backwards toward our door under twisted reeds - Airea D. Matthews "Temptation of the Composer"

Which enters every color under heaven - E.L. Mayo "Letter to My Grandfather's Picture"

Leave our shadows under pillows - John McCarthy "Toughness"

Under the trees whose arms spread wide - Annie Willis McCullough "The Journey" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

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

Under the same dull stars - Claude McKay "When Dawn Comes to the City"

My lone shadow under the moon - Mei Yao-ch'en "Marrying Again" transl. by Burton Watson

Under the shaken ground - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

From under the haunted roof - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

As the road opened under them - W.S. Merwin "The Crust"

An unfamiliar name under a few high clouds - W.S. Merwin "Mementos"

Their big old hearts pounding under your wheels - Sara S. Messenger "Ampersand"

Whistling on under the Winter sky - Charlotte Mew "The Fete"

Cradled under me the thunders sleep - Adam Mickiewicz "Mountains from the Keslov Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Under sorrow’s hand - Edna St Vincent Millay "Kin to Sorrow"

Under centuries of fine dead dust of roses - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet VI from Second April

Under my head till morning - Edna St Vincent Millay "What lips my lips have kissed (Sonnet XLIII)"

Under his autumnal frost - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]

Left me under the Druid moon - Joseph Millar "One Day"

Because the water was under your heels - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

Stones under the moss of the viridescent storm - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

Shimmering under the fluency of skies - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"

Under a splintered mast - Marianne Moore "Talisman"

Under a pillow of clouds - Valzhyna Mori "Guest"

Under the bright lights of this metaphor - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"

Fallen pine needles under fallen snow - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"

Currents that sweep me over and under - Emma E. Murray "Drowning Machine"

Under the spell of dazzling kaleidoscopic lights - Emma E. Murray "Drowning Machine"

Filthy hands kneading dough under the cosmos - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

Under the lightning's muzzle fire - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff

Under a sunset sky of dreams diaphanous - Sarojini Naidu "June Sunset"

Under a sunset sky of dreams - Sarojini Naidu "June Sunset"

Festered bones under the yet unexploded sun - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"

Under seven blankets of dust - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Testament" transl. by Alastair Reid

Under the bells of the world - Pablo Neruda "The Forest" transl. by Alastair Reid

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

Quiver under a cover of locusts - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

The bread baked under the sun - Pablo Neruda "Numbered" transl. by Ilan Stavans

Under the crown of lethargy - Pablo Neruda "Opium in the East" transl. by Alastair Reid

Under the sun's burning treasury - Grace Nichols "Like an Heiress"

Under the dazed and distant sky - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Under the first urge of the wind - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Feast under the hunting moon and light fires to wait for winter - Margaret Noodin "Halfway Away" transl. by the author

Searching for the truth in caves and under the Northern Lights - Margaret Noodin "I Am Undefeated" transl. by the author

Traveling the planet under racks of final sales - Idra Novey "Value City"

Tucked under the wing of the day - Naomi Shihab Nye "Come with Me"

Answer, if you hear the words under the words - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Words Under the Words"

Under the sky of brightness - "Oghuzname Epic" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken

Under a plague of allergies and tears - Frank O'Hara "The Eyelid Has its Storms..."

Under the heavens of the machines - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda"

The cat with feathers under its tongue - Mary Oliver "I am the one"

Look under the sun's brass - Mary Oliver "Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith"

Two fleas under the wing of a gull - Mary Oliver "West Wind 1"

Under the gray waves' spinning threshold - Mary Oliver "West Wind 8"

From under a thumb of bark - Mary Oliver "West Wind 10"

Money piled up under the turbined lamplight - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

We live under a Niagara of star fall - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

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

Under the sombre shadow of the past - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

A scorpion scratches about under a rubbish heap - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"

Under layers of leaves and soft dirt - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"

Under the light of that unwanted dawn - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"

Under the hot honey sun - Julie Paschkis "Rainbow"

Under the shadow of their umbrellas - Linda Pastan "It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank"

Under the yoke of labour and of pain - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]

Under the frigid twinkling of Gemini and Auriga - Andre F. Peltier "Hockey Night in Emmett County"

Under electrified fence and barbed wire - Andre F. Peltier "Snow Angels"

Under the shape of wishes - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"

Others under erasure will disclose the truth - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"

Out under the field of data-points - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"

Abandoned old jetties just under the water - Patrick Philips "Elegy with Oil in the Bilge"

Nor might they under thy roof find any rest - Sir Thomas Phillipps "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" (transl. by Samuel Weller Singer)

Warbler voices resonant under the blossoms - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson

Neither the angels in heaven above nor the demons down under the sea - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"

Under the ward of the Polar Star - Frank L. Pollock "The Trail of Gold"

Under the millet in the potter's plot - D.A. Powell "Useless Landscape"

Sun sparkles under her feet - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"

And the terror of what lies under - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"

A scorpion under every stone - Praxilla "Adonis, Dying" (transl. by John Dillon)

Gills hidden under keloid skin - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"

Sit vigil under a sky of shifting indigo - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist in the NICU"

Under constellations three fists apart - Khadijah Queen "Sky Erasure"

Manifested as sinkholes under permafrost - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"

Fold her under the faded shawl - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Alma Mater"

Withering under a glass dome - Danni Quintos "Age Eleven"

Glass marbles under my skin - Danni Quintos "Breast Pain"

Pretend to recognize the spirit under the skin - Jacie Ragan "The Secret Lives of Fingerprints"

Under the cutlass of her tongue - Shivanee Ramlochan "Witch Hindu"

Under the hollow sky - Theodore H. Rand "Sea Music"

Under the walls of Paradise - T. Buchanan Read "Drifting"

While under occupation by tyrants - Ariana Reines "Beauty"

Under the looms weaving us - Charles Reznikoff "[The city breaks in houses to the sea, uneasy with waves]"

Bent under the shattering skies of harvest - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"

In endless reverberations under the mountain - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"

Under the molten silence of the desert - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Under its iron band of sky - Lynn Riggs "The Arid Land"

Under her big black wing - James Whitcombe Riley "The Frog"

Under more deep ambrosial domes - John Robertson "The Prince of Orange in 1672"

The dust of a world forgotten lay under the barren ground - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

The gravel under the garden path cracks - David St. John "Iris"

Under a violence of stars - Erika L. Sanchez "All of Us"

Under the torched gown of sky - Erika L. Sanchez "Self-Portrait 2"

Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth - Carl Sandburg "Chicago"

Under the terrible burden of destiny - Carl Sandburg "Chicago"

Twisted the roots under my heart - Carl Sandburg "Night Stuff"

Under our curtain of fire - Robert Haven Schauffler "The White Comrade"

Under the arch of a leaden sky - Clinton Scollard "The Spectral Rowers"

Under Venus sings the vesper sparrow - Duncan Campbell Scott "The Fifteenth of April"

Under the heel of tyrants - Frederick George Scott "Dion"

Spectral and uncertain under the fog - Tobias Seamon "Halos"

Under thy dark-blue gates - "Sean Dana"

And fight under the vampire wing - Robert W. Service "L'Envoi"

Each trifle under truest bars to thrust - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLVIII"

Under my transgression bow - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXX"

Under the blow of thralled discontent - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXIV"

under conditions of sufficient pressure - Evie Shockley "playing with fire"

Cities under crowns of snow - Richard Siken "Seaside Improvisation"

Remorse under glass - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Goes to Hell in an Overnight Bag"

A huddle of houses under the clouds - Michael Simms "Sometimes I Wake Early"

sandstone bones are left long under sage - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

Doubled over under greed - Tracy K. Smith "Soulwork"

All under a bush of broom - E.M. Smith-Dampier "The Riding of the Shee"

With thousands under umbrellas - Richard Solomon "Chicago Affair"

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"

Under the tall sky of hope - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney

Under the iron wheels that lift us - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Under the brown banks of the Nile - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"

Waking under the fingernails of Scheherazade - Nathan Spoon "The Genie Speaks"

Under crowding stars to rest - Ssu-k'ung Shu "The Rebellion Over, I See Off a Friend Who Is Returning North" transl. by Burton Watson

Under the roses I hid my heart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"

Sliding sand from under the feet of the years - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Creation of Man"

The waves under my tongue - Mary Szybist "On Gravity"

Sweetly keeping me under Love's command - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]

Will rustle under painful light - Mutsuo Takahashi "Dead Boy" transl. by Jeffrey Angles

Under the florescent butts of night's cigarette - Amber Tamblyn "Epilogue"

Cement cracking under the slow pressure of weeds - Keith Taylor "Conditions"

Alive again under fragile light - Keith Taylor "In the Presence of Large Predators"

Go on to their haven under the hill - Tennyson "Break, Break, Break"

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

Well-nigh extinct under man's fickle care - Henry David Thoreau "To a Stray Fowl"

Sighs mournfully under the midnight moon - "The Tide" [The Continental Monthly v.II - Nov., 1862 - no.VI]

Burgundy air under the Japanese maples - Brian Tierney "Catering"

We clock out and cross under its lamps - Brian Tierney "Catering"

Under the morning light's weight - Z.G. Tomaszewski "First Evening, Mooselung Pond"

Under a spoon of stars - Kristen Tracy "Hanging Up"

Happiness was burned forever under a pile of ashes - Tu Fu "The Ashes of My House" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Before I bury it all under - Leah Umansky "Come, Pioneer"

In all the skies or under - Louis Untermeyer "The Heretic: Blasphemy"

Under the room of what we say - Jean Valentine "At the Conference on Women in the Academy"

Took a betrayal under its wing - Rudolph Valentino "The Carrier (To J.K.)"

Come under the trembling hedge - Mark Van Doren "Spring Thunder"

Gathers a new world under it and growls - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"

Something swift runs under the grass - Mark Van Doren "Wind in the Grass"

Under the branches bending - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"

Under which memories pulse - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

Under the spell of your guilt - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

Under the black rook's reign - Derek Walcott "Steam"

Let it rust under the stairs - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"

Under our transient skins - Valerie Wallace "House of McQueen"

Under a cinnamon tree that blossomed twice - Wan Ts'u "Floating Narcissus" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Quiet under its covering of shadows - Wang An-shih "Impromptu: Late Spring at Pan-shan" transl. by Burton Watson

Under a shawl of stars - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Who Really Stirs the World"

Under a pale sky where no shadows fall - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Creeping down by waterless defiles under an iron midnight - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Lies under the swinging moon - Helen Hay Whitney "On the White Road"

Under sealed orders going - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

Under the wheels of a strange car - John Wieners "A poem for tea heads"

Harbouring ill under a blithe bearing - "Wife's Lament" transl. from Old English by Kemp Malone

Under an oblivious sky - C. K. Williams "War"

Under a cloud of red, stolen feathers - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"

The shadow under a bush - William Carlos Williams "Primrose"

Under the eaves of your spirit - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Until time had been washed finally under - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Under the noise of hours - Eliot Khalil Wilson "While Waiting for the Bus"

Under the lindens we wandered - Joseph R. Wilson "One Sweet Moment"

Under an orange rind you'll rustle up a star - Keith S. Wilson "there aren't enough idioms about the stars"

Under oak trees and watchful eyes of wizards - Michelle Wirth "Campus"

Under the concerted stare of stars - Adolf Wolff "Byron"

Under which some flourished - Cecilia Woloch "Prayer for 2018"

Finding sense under mad Chopin's mask - Constance Fenimore Woolson "Commonplace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]

Under this dark sycamore - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

Under the beneficence of a minor spell - Baron Wormser "Anecdotes"

My tentative statement under the threatening sky - Charles Wright "Four Dog Night"

My dance under sorrow's tree - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"

In hollows under the mangrove root - Elinor Wylie "Escape"

Under the basin of the sun - Jenny Xie "Lineage"

Spread my dreams under your feet - W.B. Yeats "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"

Under starlight or the sun - W.B. Yeats "Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea"

Under the same white stars- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

Waiting for the god under the anthill to speak - Dean Young "Quiet Grass, Green Stone"

Cowered under the shadow of my father - Dean Young "Shamanism 101"

Under the lonely darkness I stumble - Francis Brett Young "Envoi"

Under the lamplight's shielded glare - Francis Brett Young "The Pavement"

Elms that shelter under the ridge - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"

Blown under a wind that grieves - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Under the vast dominion of night - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Under the appalling rending of glacier ice - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Under the door of sky - Matthew Zapruder "A Summer Rainstorm"

A white egret under a waterfall - Cynthia Zarin "Conversazione"

Under the immutable light - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver

Who breathe under the red ash - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


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