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Hatred turned shrapnel - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

When fickle fate against her turned - "Abroad"

Turning on its slightly askew axis - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"

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

Turning the landscape into an epiphany - Etel Adnan "Night"

Innocent souls turned carrion birds - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Turns out tempered resilience outlasts regimes - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

Turn absence into silver ribbons - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger

My throat turning to rubies - Jose A. Alcantara "Archilocus Colubris"

Rose out of the turning seasons in December - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Who lightly turn from History's page - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"

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

Made of all your wrong turns - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"

Even as the effort turned to poison - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

See the chalice turn into an ax - Julia Alvarez "Addison's Vision"

Turn the beggars loose on my vegetables - Julia Alvarez "Ars Politica"

Turned me to this paper solitude - Julia Alvarez "By Accident"

Rich, clear, and soft, and sweet by turns - 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]

Even the stories turn into gold - Leslie J. Anderson "In the Valley of Midas"

Turn to black for comfort - Maya Angelou "Late October"

When silence turns the key - Maya Angelou "Now Long Ago"

Ubiquity hasn't turned up here - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel of ubiquity"

And turn the hand of Cain - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel to its mother"

Evil turned inside out like a glove - Margaret Atwood "Half Hanged Mary"

Ruthless as a turning wheel - James Baldwin "Confession"

Passion at every turning - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

The spectacle of stars turning in on themselves - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Five paper airplanes poking at turned dirt - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"

Where a line turned into a mountain - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"

Sobbing knife turn in the neck of grief - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"

A turned cup over barbed wire and heart break - Mary Jo Bang "Metaphor as Symptom of Reason's Despair"

Turning the leaves into teas - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"

Appeasement turned bitter - Mary Jo Bang "This Supposed Alchemy"

A camera turned on a mirror - Mary Jo Bang "The Wake Was a Line and We Watched"

Turn to speak and find a vacant chair - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"

With melancholy eyes turned toward her love - Djuna Barnes "I'd Have You Think of Me"

Turns dim against the dawn - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"

Masked in bad silence, turned against their star - Natalie Clifford Barney "The Near Enemy"

the shadow turned crow - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"

I've seen green land turn to salt - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Barren Fig Tree"

Till waterfalls are turned to stone - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Cave"

Turned in its lost beginning - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"

Is hid by turning aside - Cora C. Bass "Do Not Say That the World Is Cold"

Lost together in a wood turned rock - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"

Would not turn for the thunderclap - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

Falling off the round, turning world - Elizabeth Bishop "In the Waiting Room"

Landscapes turned inside out - Terry Blackhawk "Sonny Rollins and the redemptive handrail"

Turn to the older congress of the sun - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"

Turning all desire into light - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Blue-Bird"

Ribbon turning to circles of stone - Max Bodenheim "The Operation"

Turning baser metals to golden illumination - Bruce Boston "The Last Alchemist"

All the isles that fleck this turning star - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"

Iron misused must turn to blight - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"

Take the pencil in its turn - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

So she turned him into strong evidence - Catherine Bowman "Provisional"

The sudden turn of life on the air - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Turning like the hinge of hours - William Brewer "The Good News"

And turned to wormwood there - Anne Bronte "If This Be All"

Turned the sea to silver, the earth to gold - Caris Brooke "[Never a hand on the cottage door]"

In a midnight turn of the bottle - Paul Cameron Brown "Bravura"

Even after the fertile soil turned over - Mahogany L. Browne "Ego-Tripp(ed)"

My idol that has turned to clay - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Shattered Hopes"

With all his blood turned lead - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"

By each star distracted in turn - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

A thought to turn us from ourselves - Calder Campbell "By the Sea" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.425, 21 Feb. 1852]

Turn your hands into time machines - Crys S. Campbell "(How to be a) Fast Girl"

Turned again to beauty - Bliss Carman "The Deserted Pasture"

Each working the grindstone in turn - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

To turn the soul-shaking planet - Cyrus Cassells "The World That the Shooter Left Us"

To spare me wrath turned inward - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Brown Estate, 2018 Tempranillo"

Turn into tumults of incense - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Fire"

Triples with each turning season - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"

Would turn our prints to water - Wendy Chen "No use to say"

And turned him to a conquered land - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"

If I can concentrate I might turn sharp - Dan Chiasson "Thread"

How many a wanderer to the skies it turned - "The Christian Hero's Epitaph" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Waiting for a leaf to turn - John Ciardi "Everywhere that Universe"

Turns into a memory of treasures - James Cihlar "The Way Words Echo in Our Heads"

My pockets turned out to tiny ghosts - Gabrielle Civil "Three of Cups"

The fly's bass turned a lion's roar - John Clare "I Hid My Love"

An urgency to turn home - Killarney Clary "[Backlit by the glitter-chopped horizon,]"

Turned the world topsy-turvy, with no reason or rhyme - Ellen C. Clayton "The Birds and the Fishes"

your mother's face turned to water - Lucille Clifton "memory"

Turned to the rock and thorn - Virginia Woodward Cloud "The Gate"

My wind is turned to bitter north - Arthur Hugh Clough "A Song of Autumn"

Turn with sharp stings upon itself - Arthur Hugh Clough "τὸ καλόν."

A mirror turning back to sand - Aaron Coleman "The Broken Man's Permission"

People of the Turned Future - Aaron Coleman "South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills" [erasure poem]

The cups of red wine turned pale - Mary Coleridge "Unwelcome"

Each tear turns to steam - Donte Collins "what the dead know by heart"

Turns round a stony face - Arthur Colton "When All the Brooks Have Run Away"

So your roses turned to bread - Susan Coolidge "To J.H. and E.W.H."

In amorous orbit turned - James H. Cousins "Copernicus"

By various turns of the celestial dance - Abraham Cowley "To the Royal Society"

Has turned his children's love away - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"

Her turning shoulders wind the hours - Hart Crane "Voyages II"

Where nothing turns but dead sands - Hart Crane "Voyages V"

The seeds that turned to stone - Nathalia Crane "The Dinosaur's Eggs"

Turning as with serious purpose before stupid winds - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

when the wind turns to sugared maple - jason b crawford "Untitled 1975-86"

A satyr turned to stone - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"

All the torches turned to ashes - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Answer"

The murmuring turn of the tide - Kurt Cyrus "Hotel Deep"

Turned each to his own self - H.D. "Circe"

All their humour turned to gall - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"

All light to darkness turning - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"

And turn these mortals into trees - William H. Davies "The Mind's Liberty"

Light turned into a sleeve of blades - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"

Turned into a bluebird last summer - Tyree Daye "Miss Mary Mack Introduces Her Wings"

Some turn of Fortune's wheel destroy his power - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

All to stand upon the turning of a die - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Turns away from the whispering shore - Walter de la Mare "The World of Dream"

When the clouds have turned to suede - Diane DeCillis "Ingratiating the Monster"

Regret turned like a sunflower toward that scientific sun - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

Turn from the visible world - Carl Dennis "A Landscape"

Turn & twist myself like a rag - Toi Derricotte "Invisible Dreams"

Look at me without turning - Mary Mapes Dodge "That's What We'd Do"

The gears of the universe turning - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"

Turning the light from their wings - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"

Which turns a sudden venomous asp - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"

Which turn my sweets to sours - William Drummond "Sonnet"

Stir the dark weeds with the turn of the tide - Paul Laurence Dunbar "The Murdered Lover"

Where their good luck turned hard - Cornelius Eady "Home (Running Man)"

The barges drift with turning tide - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land III: The Fire Sermon"

Turned and departed silent - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Days"

Turn the key and bolt the door - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Past"

My soothing words are turned to dust - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Turning things into thoughts - Elaine Equi "The Objects in Fairy Tales"

Trolls are grown up by the time they turn eight - Daniel Errico "The Three Brothers of Maladime"

Nor hath shadow of turning - John Erskine "Ash Wednesday"

They wait their turn to testify - Martin Espada "Mad Love"

For then my needles turn to gold - Anthony Euwer "The Tamarack"

Had turned into beds for grenades and shells and shrapnel - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "In One Sentence"

Twisting and turning across these lifetimes - Tarfia Faizullah "The Poem You've Been Waiting For"

Turning your fingers to glass - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"

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

Turned sour by sun's neglect - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"

Turns like a key, opening air - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

Turn me into salt - Nick Flynn "Homily"

When we turn time toward sequence - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 2"

Turned their berries to stone - Carolyn Forche "The Place That Is Feared I Inhabit"

The fort remains after each in his turn - "The Fort of Rathangan"

Could not turn them back against the inferno - Robert Frazier "Wereman"

Who lived in turning to fresh tasks - Robert Frost "The Wood-pile"

Turns in half-unconscious quest to those forgotten lullabies - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]

The leaves of Spring turn gold - Zona Gale "Half Thought"

Turn it into oxygen for easy breathing - Nikita Gill "The Forest"

Could turn cities hollow - Nikita Gill "The Sun God"

My spirit has turned honey-moth - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"

The earth and sky taking turns - Louise Gluck "Cornwall"

To give that rapier lightning turn - Mona Gould "Sung in High Dudgeon!"

The memories of the lost turning in their burnished locks - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"

We turned and faced you full to land - Alfred Percival Graves "Herring is King"

Turn stubborn instead of turning back - Nikki Grimes "Lessons"

Turned from the splendor of silver and gold - Edgar A. Guest "Looking Back"

Then time's hinges will turn - Margherita Guidacci "All Saints' Day" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann

And never should his eyes turn back - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

At every jagged, ugly turn - Katherine Hale "Going North II: Grey Willows"

Fear that turns to strings - Nathalie Handal "The Violins"

Turning pain into hummingbirds - Nathalie Handal "Ways of Rebelling"

When the mythic spiral of time turned - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"

Turns on the heels of sunset - Joy Harjo "Original Memory"

No golden weights can turn the scale - Frances E.W. Harper "A Double Standard"

Turned from the sun's fierce glare - Frances E.W. Harper "Go Work in My Vineyard"

Gravity would turn off its meter and wait - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

Your own path of hard turns - K.D. Harryman "Whipping"

The years have turned the rusted key - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Around the Boree Log"

The haunted heart that turns - F.W. Harvey "Identity"

Its roses turned to holly - F.W. Harvey "The Philosopher Visits the Night Club"

Smiling destiny turns back the page - H.C. Harwood "Return"

Turned to ash in the brutal light - Terrance Hayes "Cocktails with Orpheus"

Turn need into want - Terrance Hayes "Elegant Tongue"

Turns and plays the deuce with Spring - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: April"

this disguise turns its back on me - Jim Heston "In the Time of Lycanthropy"

Turns ever the eyes of memory - Mary E. Hewitt "The Hearth of Home"

The alder's veins turn crimson - Ella Higginson "When the Birds Go North Again"

Turned on a lathe of light - Conrad Hilberry "Egg"

The Paradise whither insurance men turned - C.C. Hine "Mrs. Leary's Cow"

For what turned out to be the last time - Edward Hirsch "Cotton Candy"

The void's turn, mournful and absolute - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

Evolution might have turned left - Jane Hirshfield "Day Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station and a Full Moon Over the Gulf of Mexico and All Its Invisible Fishes"

A Darkness on the stair will not be turned - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Turn west toward granite - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"

Your idols' feet never turned to clay - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Wafts the turning season on - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XVI: Spring Morning"

As we turned the last windy corner - Marie Howe "Walking Home"

I turned my shadow back - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Replying to a Poem from My Cousin Hui-lien" transl. by Burton Watson

Have turned all the corners - Langston Hughes "Final Curve"

I have turned my soul to face the grave - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

An old ox turned by thirst down to the river - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

Turns in balm on the immortal side - Leigh Hunt "Death" [International Weekly Miscellany v. 1 no.2, July 1850]

Of lilies dead and turned to roses - Aldous Huxley "Variations on a Theme of LaForgue"

Though it turn to ash at the end - Aldous Huxley "Waking"

Dry air turned oxygen - Emily Igwike "my mother prepares ofe egusi"

A single step turned a silent truce - Emily Igwike "my mother prepares ofe egusi"

Made Orpheus turn back - Gary Jackson "Kansas"

Turned three essences where it stood - Laura Riding Jackson "The Quids"

Prisons turn prisoners into movie endings - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

Turns my arms and legs into branches of oak - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

Eying the spiral turn of the plum tree's gentle confetti - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

The eucalyptus trees have turned to stone - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"

Turns another into a robot or a parasite or a maniac - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"

Move until the ocean turns - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Delfonic"

The gracious Muses turn to Furies - Lionel Johnson "The Dark Angel"

Turn the river in me - Taylor Johnson "Go-Go Ode"

Turning round with face unscathed - Ebenezer Jones "When the World is Burning"

In the language of sharp turns - Saeed Jones "Jasper, 1998"

Turns to mirage when touched - Saeed Jones "Meridian"

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

Where anger turns into beauty - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"

Who could blame us for turning - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"

Do not turn the current of your heart - John Keats "To Fanny"

Turned still further inward - Jane Kenyon "Lines for Akhmatova"

After all my wildness turned to white - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"

The reluctant who turn their backs on wooded fires - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 3"

All their sour history turned to rot - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"

From my Eden turn in grief - Joyce Kilmer "Matin"

Turn to sunlight for answers - Joanna Klink "Given"

Turning life into gray moss - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

To turn a midnight corner & never come back - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

Not sure of the paths & turns taken - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"

Turns the pages of rain - Ted Kooser "A Rainy Morning"

Underground dogs turning the tide - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "I'd Had a Lot of Rum, but Still..."

Twisting and tightening the stars that have turned off - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

Which turns the liquid air to gold - L.E.L. "The Skylark"

Just before the air itself turns to snow - Nick Laird "Miscegenation"

Turned bright gold and left - Joan Larkin "Afterlife"

In the grape turning raisin - D.H. Lawrence "Medlars and Sorb-Apples"

At the round-turning mill - D.H. Lawrence "The Revolutionary"

A monstrous wheel is turning - Richard Le Gallienne "Sunset in the City"

Lost beneath the turning wheel - Ruth Lechlitner "Change Must Be Served"

Abandoned cities where no seasons turn - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

Turns round to face each post-apocalyptic dawn - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"

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

Our close resemblance turn'd the tide - Henry S. Leigh "The Twins"

Turn it into fire or the sound of fire - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"

Watch the same wall turn fifty reds - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

Watch the light turning the room every color - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

Turn this traitor from the door - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

And the keys were turned on fate - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

Turning my life to shame and candle - J. Patrick Lewis "the Auntie"

With nine turns in a hundred steps - Li Po "The Szechwan Road" transl. by Arthur Waley

Turned toward some invisible turmoil - Marisa Lin "Tiananmen Square, 1989"

Pits so deep a torch turns to a star - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

Storm clouds turned to blue-bell flowers - Vachel Lindsay "In Memory of My Friend Joyce Kilmer, Poet and Soldier"

As the Indus turns him back - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

Turn you to ash for a glimpse of god - Angela Liu "The Subway Is Another Place to Die"

An immeasurable wheel turning for evermore - Longfellow "Rain in Summer"

Intend to turn to gold myself - Thomas Lynch "A Note on the Rapture to His True Love"

They turn to gold and vanish - Thomas Lynch "A Note on the Rapture to His True Love"

Acre upon acre of tiny suns turned skyward - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "daisy"

Turns field to pyre, sand to grass - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "weasel"

Turning away inside the apostrophe - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"

Never a look or a turning back - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Wanderlust"

Turn away and leave it crying on the doorstep - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"

One azure word turned kiss - Jeannette Marks "Bubbles"

Turned the key on my existence - Rafael Arevalo Martinez "My Life Is a Memory" transl. by William George Williams

And our hearts are turned to flame - John Masefield "Lyrics from 'The Buccaneer'"

How seed turns to leaf regardless of its earth - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"

Turns on his wheel of light - Philip Matthews "The Morning Star"

The dandelion turns into a pinata - John McCarthy "Planting"

Turn into a thousand dark miles of water - Brandy Nālani McDougall "On Finding My Father's First Essay"

When the turn of the violet comes - Medbh McGuckian "Painting by Moonlight"

Turn to dust on the steps we climbed to get here - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"

Crows are turning hostile architecture into homes - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"

Turn forward our blown lamps - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

Until all the knowing turns to nonsense - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"

Will turn to me at midnight - Edna St Vincent Millay "What lips my lips have kissed (Sonnet XLIII)"

The spool of destiny turned slowly - Arthur Milliken "To--"

To turn the heart to bitter gall - "The Misanthrope"

Who have turned the Devil's Grindstone - Ruth Comfort Mitchell "He Went for a Soldier"

The immutable turn of constellations - Jenny Molberg "Atropos"

Turn inward on a wall of books - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"

the roundtable turned square - jessica Care moore "She Was"

Whose scales turn aside the sun's sword - Marianne Moore "An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish"

Light moves on your turning shoulders - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan "Without a Philosophy"

Turn this white page of nothing into a night sky - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"

Turn terroring towards the demon in your heart - William Mountain "Dies Irae"

Somersaulting in continuous turns - Emma E. Murray "Drowning Machine"

He turns inside their names - Carol Muske-Dukes "After Skate"

The circles of grief turn pale - Pablo Neruda "General Franco in Hell" translated by Richard Schaaf

Counts the hours until it can turn toward the sun - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

Screws turn a quarter of a rotation - Carsten Rene Nielsen "Night"

That mourners in their turn were mourned - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)

And turns their brightness to dark despair - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Turning to defiant metal - Alice Notley "Individual Time"

Beyond the turn to the forest - Idra Novey "Nearly"

After the forest turned to ashes - Idra Novey "Nearly"

A sea-shell turned to stone - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"

The wheel of stars that Egypt turned - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

But Death had turned the hour-glass - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "Missing" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.136-v.III, 7 Aug. 1886]

Three thousand years have turned to dust - Thomas O'Hagan "Achilles' Tomb"

I am the pledge of emptiness that turned around - Mary Oliver "I am the one"

Lilies turning from the wind - Mary Oliver "Work"

This smoke turns people into shadows - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Four: Smoke"

Turned my steps to the retreating hills - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

Perplex the mind till tired reflection turns - 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]

On settled poles turn solid joys - Coventry Patmore "Joy"

And lilies turned to light - Walter S. Percy "Two Frames"

Some would blind you if you didn't turn away - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"

Dizzied among hairpin turns - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"

A few turns of the kaleidoscope - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"

Your turn to be the bonfire - Carl Phillips "Now in Our Most Ordinary Voices"

How to turn away from what's familiar - Carl Phillips "That It Might Save, or Drown Them"

The sweetest vintage at last turns sour - Po-Chu-i "Children" (translated by Arthur Waley)

I thought each turn would be the last - Miriam Clark Potter "Roads"

Fields plowed and turned to winter - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"

The ruby in turn supports an angel - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"

Any friend that's been turned down is bound to be a friend of mine - John Prine

Turn each cool grey shadows into a world of fears - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Murmurs" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]

Following the turns a frozen creek - Charles Rafferty "Snowfall After Hearing Hard News"

Lest the living flame to ashes turn - Theodore H. Rand "The Nightingale"

Mountains turned hazard-orange mid-air - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"

Turn every head into a cautious metronome - Roger Reeves "Brazil"

Sun would turn him commonplace - Paisley Rekdal "Driving to Santa Fe"

After the scabs have turned to stars - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"

The key was turned in that rusty door - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Turning harsh things to beauty - Lola Ridge "Mother"

Through all the thirty-six folds of the turning and twisting waters - Rihaku "Exile's Letter" transl. by Ezra Pound

Turn toward the shadowy morn - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont

plans for turning back any move forward - Ed Roberson "(...As for the Swallows, All They Were Doing)"

Turned with malign kiss - Isaac Rosenberg "On Receiving the First News of the War"

Rising from long forgetfulness I turn - George William Russell "Desire"

Hovers above the ground as the world turns - Nicky Russell "The World Is a Curio"

Turning out for tea at midnight - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

A few surprising turns follow us everywhere - Ira Sadoff "A Few Surprising Turns"

Until we go faultless in our turn - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: IV. The Fall and Explulsion from Paradise" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Until you turn to star-shine - Margaret E. Sangster "Intangible"

Hunger turned the very stones to food - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"

Turns the ashen sphere about the rusted poles - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Sundered flakes of crimson twist and turn - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

When each immortal turned his face away - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

No turning from the hounds of Time - Ann K. Schwader "Gone to Ground"

Starlight turned them shrill as crystal - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"

Roads and terrible things in dark turnings - Tobias Seamon "Near Life Experience"

Turned into carnations for parade floats - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"

And every tear would turn a mill - "Shule Aroon" transl. by Eleanor Hull

And turns the roots of the riven flowers - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Ploughing of the Sword"

A dark page I am trying to turn - Safiya Sinclair "Hands"

and the night turns over a millennia - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

So that our histories turn to glass - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"

Turned my back on the abstract - Bruce Smith "Untitled [I turned my back on the color fields]"

Turned the unprinted snow to flame - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

And turn the skies to perfume - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

The world turned on in the lathe of time - Langdon Smith "Evolution"

Turn your beseeching to vapor - Patricia Smith "Up on the Roof"

The fire that turned ritual into reality - Richard Solomon "Ba'al Teshuva"

Allowed them to turn somersaults - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Hearts sooner turn to stone than break - "Sorrow and My Heart" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]

An unanswered crying turned to stone - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Would turn the eyes of Nero green - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"

And then from each I turned in dignity - James Stephens "The Fur Coat"

Turn my gaze to the dawn - George Sterling "Rainbow's End"

The wind's kisses turn rough - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

Order breaks tension where the lines turn - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"

Laid bare in the last line's turn - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "When You're Away, I Consider Form"

Turn the old sands in the failing glass of Time - R. H. Stoddard "The World" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Turns noiselessly in memory's wards - William W. Story "The Violet"

Made me turn liquid with sorrow - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

The outland peace of the trail that never turns back - Arthur Stringer "Letters from Home"

Then song turns sour on my lips - Arthur Stringer "The Question"

The turn in the road is a promise - Arthur Stringer "Ultimata"

Turns to the last game of all - L.A.G. Strong "Eena-Mena-Mina-Mo"

Turns to naught the lilac's miracle - Muriel Stuart "The Father"

Like a trodden snake you turned - Muriel Stuart "The Father"

Nor turn your lips away from Phryne's silver limbs - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"

Stroll where late sunlight turns - Su Tung-p'o "[Mountains shine through forest breaks]" transl. by Burton Watson

Can turn your gold to glass - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 230: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

My way of turning away from the past - Joyce Sutphen "The Temptation to Invent"

Deep down in my mind where it all turns inside out - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"

Until the wind turns from the west - Keith Taylor "Circle in the Wind"

Language that turns me cruel and useful - Fargo Tbaki "Palestine Is a Futurism: The Dream"

Thrice turn round and shut your eyes - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"

Change an object simply by turning - TC Tolbert "felo-de-se-- Melissa"

Dust turned to waves in the desert - TC Tolbert "This Is What You Are"

A Big-Top tent turned fallout zone - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"

A book turning its own bright pages - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"

The soft wine turned to bloom - Herbert Trench "Musing on a Great Soldier"

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

Never turn down a sedative - David Trinidad "Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera"

Endless rains turn the trail to mud - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson

When every night turns into a dream - Perhat Tursun "The Heart" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

All pockets turned up empty afterwards - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

The driest dust must turn - Louis Untermeyer "In the Berkshire Hills"

Turn ourselves into the question - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Pole| |Sport"

A swift dark wind that turns the maples pale - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"

Storms turn to music, clouds to smiles and air - Henry Vaughan "The Rainbow"

The turn wasn't taut enough - Vickie Vertiz "Under the Spell of Conjunto"

Awake and turn toward the south - "VI: Otro Chalcayotl, Canto de Tetlepan Quetzanitzin | Another Chalco-Song, a Poem of Tetlepan Quetzanitzin" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

A turning mood speaking itself - Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Laughing below, the unimagined room]"

Turns to laughter in our laps - Ocean Vuong "Immigrant Haibun"

Turning bones into sonatas - Ocean Vuong "Queen Under the Hill"

My psyche can turn you round - Wa Wa Chaw "My Psyche and Wassaja"

The hills never turned in their sleep - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament IV"

That turns an idea to acid - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XXI"

And lies keep you turning to follow - Jo Walton "Nemi"

Making ten thousand turnings - Wang Wei "The Blue-Green Stream" (translated by Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell)

And turn our thoughts on deeds of blood - Alaric A. Watts "Stanzas [Oh! why amid this hallowed scene]" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

Turned for the last compassion - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking I"

My mouth turning into snow - Allison Benis White "Description of Symptoms"

Turning dew into threads - Roberta Hill Whiteman "A Nation Wrapped in Stone"

With faces turn'd sideways - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"

Emptied houses turned shuttered eyes to the sea - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Low"

Traveller, turn a mournful eye - Iolo Aneurin Williams "A Monument (After an Ancient Fashion)"

Seeing the stars turning over you - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"

By virtue of brown eyes turning back the seasons - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Turn bitter in the end - William Carlos Williams "Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!"

Turn around and become ash bone - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"

Alembics turn to stranger things - Elinor Wylie "Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water--on Turning Latin into English"

Truth and fiction taking turns - Jenny Xie "Square Cells"

The dial turned to green downpour - Dean Young "Spring Reign"

Turning my knots to butter - Kevin Young "Hurricane Song"

Clouds turn into mountains - Jordan Zandi "Riddle"

Turning away in search of another likeness - Matthew Zapruder "Frankenstein Love"

To turn my blood into thread - Matthew Zapruder "Little Voice"

A siren song turned pennywhistle - Cynthia Zarin "Ouija Board"

The mill wheel turning the sleeve of the sky - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

The most treacherous moment is the turning - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

On a day the clouds turn dark green - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"

Turned to dust in my eye - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 15" transl. by Katherine Silver

Turn instead to the unmade choices - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"


Time with ever-turning multiplying wheels - Iris Tree "The Complex Life"


With fearless foot and heaven-turned eye - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]


Altars unfed and temples overturned - Matthew Arnold "Mycerinus"


But today was a turncoat - Mary Jo Bang "Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be"


Stumbling drunk through the subway turnstile - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"


My head unturned lest my dream should fade - Thomas Hardy "The Shadow on the Stone"

Leaving most of the world unturned - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"


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