Potential Titles: Thousand
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somethingdarkerA thousand mocking notes of mirth - H.J.A. "To a Lyre-Bird" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
A thousand vassals dwelt around - W.E.A. "The Old Scottish Cavalier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLVI, v.LVI, Aug. 1844]
Across thousands of miles of sky - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"
As the thoughts of those thousands stray - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Child on the Battle-field"
Glory fades in a thousand shifting shades - Ellen Tracy Alden "He Will Come Back"
A thousand monsters of the deep with formless arms - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
After the lapse of thrice a thousand years - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"
A thousand Persephones lie bleeding in the Lethe - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"
A thousand more cross on Charon's armada - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"
Feed a thousand chains of regret through greasy barrels - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"
Infused those thousands of canvases with hidden arcana - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
Uncountable thousands of divisions in the stream of time - Mike Allen "Pulse"
A thousand chances are to one I never may return - William Allingham "The Winding Banks of Erne"
Disperse through thousands of traveling veins - Mouna Ammar "Invocation"
Hymns from a thousand throats - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.II--Morning Further Advanced"
Went its thousand crazy ways - Simon Armitage "The Empire"
And demand of all the thousand nothings - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"
A thousand foolish things to do - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
Lost and found a thousand times - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
In a room with a thousand doors - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"
As if he knew a thousand more - Albion Fellows Bacon "Sufficiency"
A thousand leagues into the western sky - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"
Thousands will be left there still - Mrs. Sale Barker "Cowslip Gathering"
A thousand torch songs calling out - Ellen Bass "Pearls"
Through a thousand labyrinths flown - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited
A shout cried by a thousand sentinels - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited
A thousand years have seen it shine - James Beattie "Ode on Lord Hay's Birth-Day. 13th May, 1767"
The last word of a thousand years - Clive Bell "The Last Infirmity"
Thousands of footprints stamped in the red sand - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
Saying one name for a thousand years - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
A thousand glittering spears of sun - Stephen Vincent Benet "Road and Hills"
Answered by a thousand shouts - Henry Kirby Benner "Ballads of the Campaign in Mexico no.III: Monterey"
One altar to a thousand aisles - Stella Benson "The Orchard"
A thousand years would fail to blur the still profiled reproach - John Berryman "Dream Song 29"
The winds a thousand devils hold - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
The thousand technologies of ecstasy - Frank Bidart "For the Twentieth Century"
The weight of many thousand dreams - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"
The wisdom of a thousand years - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"
Death's thousand doors stand open - Robert Blair "The Grave"
In infinite thousands the fairies arose - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Shepherd's Dream"
In a thousand minor lines - Maxwell Bodenheim "Short Story in Sonnet Form"
Growing in a thousand creeks under her ground - Lee Ann Brown "House of Green Thunder"
Mighty organ of a thousand keys - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Down by the Sea"
A thousand thoughts beneath the sun - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
And hear the tramp of thousands - William Cullen Bryant "Song of Marion's Men"
All those thousand good maxims we coin - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Opens a thousand windows into one - Witter Bynner "The New World VII"
This the man of thousand thrones - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
A thousand eyes in vulgar wonder scanned - A.Y. Campbell "The Dromedary"
Garment of a thousand loves - W. Wilfred Campbell "Departure"
Of the splendid thousand years - W. Wilfred Campbell "England"
Scarred by a thousand winters - Bliss Carman "A Mountain Gateway"
Signing allegiance of a thousand hearts - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
The soft murmur of a thousand rills - Walter Richard Cassels "Spring"
Perfumed with a thousand years - Willa Cather "London Roses"
Hoofs of a thousand gales - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
Incorporate a thousand facts - Ceiriog "The Traitors of Wales" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Through a thousand years of wrong - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Crush him or serve a thousand years - Ralph Chaplin "Up from Your Knees"
Fought to attain a thousand years - Ralph Chaplin "Up from Your Knees"
Bought with your blood a thousand years - Ralph Chaplin "Up from Your Knees"
In His hands a thousand spheres - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"
That for a thousand years had dwelt within the glen - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Like clocks wound for a thousand years - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."
Lived a thousand years in one - Leonard Cohen "Half the Perfect World"
A thousand kisses deep - Leonard Cohen "Thousand Kisses Deep"
Whose thousand evil tongues are one - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witches' Wood"
More for peril than a thousand swords - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
From every Wind tumultuous thousands pour - William Combe "The First of April"
A thousand miles from land are we - Barry Cornwall "The Stormy Petrel" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17, July 7, 1832]
For a thousand years the Devil cursed - Frank J. Cotter "The Birth of the Land"
A thousand spires speak gilded words - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"
Found answer in a thousand throats - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Unmarked by thousands - James H. Cousins "The Railway Arch"
To the music of a thousand harps - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Gods and Heroes of the Gael"
Spilling a thousand scarlet sirens - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Says She's Not the Madwoman in the Attic"
A thousand tongues, and nine and ninety-nine lie - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Where Beauty met me in a thousand moods - Olive Custance "The Vision"
Thousands of puppies loose - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org
A thousand years, a single yesterday - G.A. Davis "The Sea's Secret" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
In thousand fragments shattered, wrecked and torn - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
A thousand nights of torment borne - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "To Galatea's Bird" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
A thousand footsteps marching home - Diane DeCillis "Postcards of Home and Homesick"
Opening the view to thousands of landing geese - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"
By means of a thousand strange herbs - Lizzie Doten "Love and Latin"
Broke the water into a thousand needles - Rita Dove "Someone's Blood"
And shine with a thousand changing dyes - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
To meet the thousand eyes of night - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
Mete justice from a thousand starry thrones - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dana"
Bestowing a thousand graces - Maurice Francis Egan "Vigil of the Immaculate Conception"
With a thousand small deliberations - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Bring to me a thousand visions bright - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"
Unhurt by a thousand storms - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
Faithful through a thousand years - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
A thousand dazzling phantoms - Heid E. Erdich "Blood Chimera"
The cargo of a thousand crafts of fire - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"
A thousand threaded images of flight - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"
The night stretching away thousands long behind - Annie Finch "Samhain"
A hundred horizons wearing a thousand crowns - Sandy Florian "Abacus"
Beckoning a thousand mouths - T'ai Freedom Ford "past life portrait: machete, circa 1791"
Through her silver ocean rides a thousand fathoms deep - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "Wee Willie Winkie"
The wind and dust of a thousand miles - Fu Hsuan "Woman" (translated by Arthur Waley)
And shape the thousand joys that never may exist - Thomas Gent "Poems"
The story of a thousand disappearing tenants - Sandra M. Gilbert "October Cobwebs"
A thousand stars silently bursting - Nikita Gill "After the Visit"
The silver of a thousand sweet moons - Nikita Gill "When Love Dies"
Sweeter far a thousand times - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Summer with a thousand birds - Louis Golding "For Now Comes Summer"
Thrushes of a thousand moods - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
And thousands of voices will sing in pride - "Great Heart" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]
Idly pluck a thousand meek-faced daisies - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Fragrance of a thousand tales - Ivor Gurney "Passionate Earth"
I sailed a thousand rivers - Han-Shan "[I think of all the places I've been]" transl. by Burton Watson
Already a thousand years divide us - Han Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson
And played a thousand merry pranks - Rev. J. Wesley Hanson "The Fairy's Gift" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]
Wrap you in its thousand arms - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"
A crystal wall with a thousand mouths - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
A thousand mile escape homeward - Joy Harjo "Leaving"
The sound of a thousand silences - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
You are a thousand priests - francine j. harris "confessional poetry"
Touches a thousand open cities - Anne Hebert "Spring Over the City" transl. by Kathleen Weaver
A thousand songs in days gone by - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
Wake their echoes to a thousand songs - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
Vengeance for a thousand woes - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"
A thousand rocks, deep-hid - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
And Albyn's thousand harps awake - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
A cheer rose from a Thousand Throats - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"
Who has a thousand heads at least - Oliver Herford "The Hydra"
Steals across a thousand floors - Florence Hoatson "The Friend of Santa Claus"
While thousands on the course are lost - "Horse Racing" [W. Belch's British Sports, for the Amusement of Children]
Where thousands met to die - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "Thermopylae"
With a thousand minstrels comes the light - William D. Howells "The Long Days"
The echoes from a thousand cliffs - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"
Into a thousand lights of sun - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"
Into a thousand whirling dreams - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"
Frightened a thousand miles away - Langston Hughes "Migrant"
Country crossed with a thousand furrow-lines - Victor Hugo "Letter II.vi." transl. by E.H. and A.M. Blackmore
A thousand rain-drops glisten - A.A.I. "An April Day"
Strange tenant of a thousand homes - Washington Irving "Written in the Deepdene Album"
Seize the rule of the many thousands - "The Isles of the Happy" transl. by Kuno Meyer
The image of a thousand hidden things - J.T.J. "The Death of Socrates" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
How many thousand moons - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Dog Star Rising"
The music of a thousand wings - E. Pauline Johnson "Shadow River"
Blossoms with a thousand thorns afret - Emily Pauline Johnson "Thistle-down"
Bursting, lets a thousand colors fly - James Weldon Johnson "Down By the Carib Sea (VI: Sunset in the Tropics)"
thousands of particles stretched wide - Camisha L. Jones "In/Ability"
The flocks which feed on a thousand hills - Edward Smyth Jones "A Song of Thanks"
So many thousands of leaves - Holly Karapetkova "Holiday"
To guard a thousand flocks - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Perplexed her with a thousand things - John Keats "The Eve of Saint Mark"
Through all its thousand courts - John Keats "Hyperion"
A thousand thoughts of sunny weather - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"
Day and its thousand torturing moments - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"
A thousand germs of light and beauty - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
Wherein a thousand winged minstrels meet - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
Spring's thousand tender greens - Jane Kenyon "The Clearing"
A thousand Blossoms with the Day - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
A thousand forms of memory whirl - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Had us in charge for a thousand days - Rudyard Kipling "The Changelings"
A few thousand more stars to go - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"
From out a thousand furnace doors - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"
Ringing with a thousand spears - Archibald Lampman "Indian Summer"
And sorrowed in a thousand worlds - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
To his thousand moons - Rickey Laurentiis "Black Gentleman"
Home of a thousand varying fears - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Thousands of feet below the olive-roots - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"
Thousands of feet below the lava fire - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"
These lone exiles of a thousand years - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"
Behind a thousand flimsy masks - Aimee Le "Faith"
Make a thousand angels gaze up - Stephen Leggett "Making Angels"
A thousand things more nice than true - Henry S. Leigh "Wisdom and Water"
Where thousands must yield up their breath - Chas. G. Leland "The Wolf Hunt" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
Spluttering grievances of a thousand years' past - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
And wake to thousands in the morning - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
A thousand years of petty, weak disputings - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
The voiceless thousands at the edge of the curtain - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"
By a thousand broken paths - Li Po "A Dream of T'ien-Mu Mountain" transl. by Arthur Waley
Drive away the sorrows of a thousand years - Li Po "Drinking Song" transl. by Arthur Waley
Drown the sorrow of a thousand generations - Li Po "Let Us Drink Wine" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Thunder in a thousand valleys - Li Po "The Szechwan Road" transl. by Arthur Waley
A thousand sheets of snow - Li Yu "[Wave blossoms for my delight]" transl. by Burton Watson
That I must travel a thousand miles of mist and rain - Li Yung "Parting in Autumn" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Motes among a thousand other motes - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"
Let a thousand prophets have their due - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"
A thousand burnt up years behind - Vachel Lindsay "Harps in Heaven"
The powers of a thousand dreaming skies - Vachel Lindsay "Meeting Ourselves"
Set a thousand guards upon her - Anonymous "Love's Enterprise"
One music with a thousand cadences - Amy Lowell "Listening"
The gleaming rushes lean a thousand ways - James Russell Lowell "To the Dandelion"
When a thousand voices chanted deep - A.M. "The Exile's Song" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)
The door broke in a thousand fragments - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
Getting dealt a thousand scratches by a million splinters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
And eager thousands grasp the sword - R.W. MacGowan "Our Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Answers from a thousand throats - Dorothea Mackellar "September"
A thousand, thousand tender ties - Norman MacLeod "Farewell to Fiunary"
Breathing a thousand vows - Charles Mair "The Voice of the Pines"
A thousand deserts between us - Joyce Mansour "Auditory Hallucination" transl. by Carol Cosman
A thousand hateful evils - George Martin "Marguerite"
A child of nights in thousands with no glimpse of day - Harry Martinson "Aniara 48" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
When springtimes of a thousand years turned winter without end - Harry Martinson "Aniara 56" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Will have reposed a thousand years in sand - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Commingled now among the thousands - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The thundering of a thousand sheep - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"
These many thousand hours - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Endure a thousand dangers - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (8)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
A thousand years the sun has witnessed - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Those dyes of one and thousand autumn tints - D.M. Matheson "Petoobok"
The water behind a thousand mirages - Khaled Mattawa "Now That We Have Tasted Hope"
On behalf of a thousand justifiable causes - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"
The runes and legends of a thousand years - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of the Best Song in the World"
Upon a thousand little hills - Theodore Maynard "The Holy Spring"
In a thousand miles of ugly scrubby waste and desolation - Harry McCann "Killed in Action" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Turn into a thousand dark miles of water - Brandy Nālani McDougall "On Finding My Father's First Essay"
My thousand dreams of waters - Claude McKay "I Shall Return"
The apricots from a thousand trees ripening - W.S. Merwin "West Wall"
Closed in these thousand leaves articulate - Alice Meynell "The Two Poets"
Sweet garden of a thousand years - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Interim"
The coat lined with a thousand invisible scars - Claire Millikin "Peacock Coat"
Thousands at his bidding speed - John Milton "Service"
With thousand echoes still prolongs - John Milton "Verses from the Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity"
And their thousand dying verses - Jenny Molberg "Sound of the Spinning Wheel"
The darling of a thousand hearts - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
A thousand grieving seeds - Rachel Moritz "Poem for Rebecca Wight"
Dripping a thousand sugars - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Foam like thousands of orchids - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
A thousand alternate universe version of me - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"
A thousand stems leading to a thousand worlds - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"
Cork the mouths of a thousand bottles - A.R. Narayanan "Man"
Into the night of a thousand fates - Maggie Nelson "Zero"
Lifts up its thousand-handed face - Pablo Neruda "Born in the Woods" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A thousand rainless years - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The doleful thousand-paged wheel - Pablo Neruda "Disaction" translated by Donald D. Walsh
With a thousand small golden hands - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The wild air with its thousand hands - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
A flower with thousands of nameless petals - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
A thousand answers on contemptuous lips - Pablo Neruda "Men XIV" transl. by William O'Daly
Used to having a thousand brothers - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid
Contain a thousand years' sorrow - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)
After twice a thousand years - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
The creatures of a thousand aeons - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"
The thousand small birds of January - Naomi Shihab Nye "Postscript"
Where people might shop forever or throw a thousand stories away - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Story, around the Corner"
In the thousand streets beyond reach - Naomi Shihab Nye "Wind and the Sleeping Breath of Men"
Went down like a thousand roses - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"
And again a thousand opportunities - Mary Oliver "Riprap"
A thousand paper coffins laid end to end - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"
A thousand roads lead to it - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
Tens of thousands upon the tongue - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Study Guide Toward Naturalization of the Mouth"
The thousand little deaths my heart has died - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"
A thousand sweet objects the mind to delight - James Parkerson "A Description of the Pine-apple at Towse"
Thousands of them mocked us with their hymns - Nome Emeka Patrick "Naked"
The thousand broken names and way - Josephine Preston Peabody "Noon at Paestum"
Thousands of miles spent in solitude - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"
The land of a thousand dances - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"
A thousand starlets glisten in the robe of night - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
Conquered Doubt and faced a thousand alarms - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"
Giving trust a thousand reasons - Walter S. Percy "The Shut and Open Hand: The Open Hand"
A thousand tales of near escapes - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"
While shouting thousands lined the road - J. Rheyn Piksohn "A Contrasted Picture: from 'Passion Ode,' an Unpublished Poem" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
To unravel panic's thousand fingers - Khadijah Queen "Tower"
To forge a thousand theories of the rocks - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Titania"
Forever ending on the archipelago of thousand - Danni Quintos "Five Hundred Years & Three Weeks Ago We Killed Magellan"
Dreamed a thousand dreams and found them all untrue - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
With a thousand prying eyes - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An August Night"
Glowed in thousands all along - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Rustic Courting XXII: Primrose Flowers"
With rainbows of a thousand storms - Theodore H. Rand "The Old Fisher's Song"
Has known a thousand years of shock - Theodore H. Rand "The Tireless Sea"
The self is a thousand localities - Diane Raptosh "American Amnesiac [The self is a thousand localities]"
Splinters and spines from a thousand dreams - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"
Thousands eager to hear your views - Ishmael Reed "A Black Genius"
Bearing the produce of a thousand marts - "Rhyming Ruminations on Old London Bridge" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20, no.557, 14 July 1832]
Rose heart of many thousand mornings - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Bustling on her thousand ways - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
One mane of a thousand lions - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 3: Lullaby"
A thousand winters in my bones - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"
The languor of a thousand springs - Lola Ridge "Ward X"
Into a valley of the thousand bright flowers - Rihaku "Exile's Letter" transl. by Ezra Pound
Go out through a thousand miles of dead grass - Rihaku "Four Poems of Departure: Taking Leave of a Friend" transl. by Ezra Pound
White with a thousand frosts - Rihaku "Lament of the Frontier Guard" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)
Our wine is rich for a thousand cups - Rihaku "The River Song" transl. by Ezra Pound
In a thousand streets unfurled - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Knight" transl. by Jessie Lemont
With a thousand sorrows forgotten - Charles G.D. Roberts "A Nocturne of Trysting"
A thousand little summer winds are singing in the wheat - Lloyd Roberts "England's Fields"
As they pitch the bearded barley in a thousand tents of gold - Lloyd Roberts "The Homesteader"
Announced as in a thousand silences - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
The salt of a thousand dry kisses - Luis J. Rodriguez "Making Medicine"
Crowd over the thousand gates - Rosoriu "Old Idea of Choan" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)
In every thorn-bush are thousands slain - Rumi "The Call of the Beloved" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
I had twenty thousand desires - Rumi "Thou Art the Soul of the World" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
To-day and yesterday and thrice a thousand years behind - George William Russell "Babylon"
A thousand joys may foam - Father Ryan "The Rosary of My Years"
Broke his anger to a thousand shards - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Over the graves of the thousand - Carl Sandburg "Graves"
Comes and touches you with a thousand memories - Carl Sandburg "Under the Harvest Moon"
Touches you with a thousand memories - Carl Sandburg "Under the Harvest Moon"
A thousand leagues of silence roll - George Santayana "Midnight"
A thousand times that mirrored glory fled - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"
Where thousand terrors on him glare - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
A thousand shadows of the pure grotesque - Ann K. Schwader "The Night of Her Return"
Which has braved a thousand storms - Frederick George Scott "Dion"
A thousand pathways in one spot resulting - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems VI"
Lamps of a thousand flames - "Sean Dana"
A thousand years of worry - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
A thousand errors note - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLI"
A thousand crickets scream my name - Joyce Sidman "Oak After Dark"
A thousand thrones of vanquish'd monarchs burn - B. Simmons "Mahmood the Ghazavide" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLIX, v.LVIII, Sept. 1845]
In bubbling thousands swept away - B. Simmons "To a Caged Skylark, Regent's Circus, Piccadilly" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCV, v.LXIV, Sept. 1848]
Shared our thousand harmonies - B. Simmons "Vanities in Verse: Letters of the Dead: Parting Precepts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Some thousand miles of sea, wild tract, and weary - W. Gilmore Simms "Sonnet: To Mrs. -- -- --" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
While all her thousand fingers play - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"
So grand that a thousand rabbits could feast - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
Woven of a thousand strands - May Sinclair "The Dark Night (XVIII)"
A thousand arrows pointing in unison - Maggie Smith "Starling"
Into a thousand skins - Patricia Smith "Siblings"
With thousands under umbrellas - Richard Solomon "Chicago Affair"
A thousand bees in the backyard plum - Richard Solomon "The Great Masturbator"
A thousand thronging curses burst - William Somerville "The Chase"
A thousand cranes curtain the window - Cathy Song "The Youngest Daughter"
Upon branches of a thousand blossoms - "The Song of the Thrush"
Twisting a thousand beauties - George Soule "Winter's Pride"
Although he fall a thousand times - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"
At the close of a thousand eons - Robert J.C. Stead "The Mothering"
Miser of a thousand years - Robert J.C. Stead "The Plow"
Music of a thousand ages gone - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
A thousand shocks of ice - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
Fling a thousand banners out - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"
More than a thousand ages old - James Stephens "The Old Man"
May teach a thousand things unsaid - George Sterling "Revelation"
A wind that blew a thousand years ago - Richard Henry Stoddard "The End of All" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]
One hour worth a thousand gold coins - Su Tung-p'o "Spring Night" transl. by Burton Watson
Flashes with an anger a thousand times brighter - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 115: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
With shafts by thousands aimed - Algernon Swinburne "Eros"
That hoards the many destinies of thousand years - Carmen Sylva "Night"
Lightning's thousand sulfur eyes - Dorothea Tanning "All Hallow's Eve"
A thousand suns will stream - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "A Farewell"
A thousand moons will quiver - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "A Farewell"
Her thousand streams of wealth untold - Rose Terry "Then"
One mourner to a thousand dead - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Amid the flux of many thousand years - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]
In a thousand anguish'd accents flows - "The Times" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
The wind's thousand thin fingers - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Correction"
A thousand floating motes of gold - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"
Reinvent you a thousand times - Natasha Trethewey "Mythmaker"
Whispers of a thousand lures - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
A thousand evil poisons - Louis Untermeyer "A Voice from the Sweat-Shops"
Set back the clock a thousand years - Henry van Dyke "Lights Out"
A thousand accidents control - Henry van Dyke "Rendezvous"
While a thousand chimneys vomit gloom - Henry van Dyke "Sea-Gulls of Manhattan"
A thousand bells go chiming after her - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets: 3. Moving Bells"
Thousands of moments spooling out - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"
Across a thousand hundred-twist trails - Wang An-Shih "Across a thousand" transl. by David Hinton
In a thousand seething waves, there's no trace of a heart - Wang An-Shih "East Ridge" transl. by David Hinton
Isolate and towering thousands of feet high - Wang An-Shih "A Lone Kindred-Tree" transl. by David Hinton
A thousand years of empty hopes - Wang An-Shih "South of Town, Leaving" transl. by David Hinton
A thousand death-winged messengers - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Thousands of years shimmer in the mist - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Hore Abbey"
Life on her thousand thrones - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Strive to undo us still, a thousand ways - "The Whore"
Work on your word a thousand weeks - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Word"
A thousand woes surround me - Richard Wilke "A Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
A thousand tropics in an apple blossom - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]
Water from a thousand runnels - William Carlos Williams "Spring Storm"
With each success, a thousand futile tries - Allan Wolf "For Those Who Light the Candle"
That hugs me with a thousand waves - Adolf Wolff "Questionings"
I heard a thousand blended notes - William Wordsworth "Lines Written in Early Spring"
Slicing through thousands of miles - Jenny Xie "The Game"
Silver tree with your thousand roadways - Lynn Xu "[Sun-messenger]"
The seeds of a thousand saplings - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
That sailed from Tyre a thousand years ago - Francis Brett Young "The Dhows"
Mirrored a thousand laughing faces - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"
A debt of thousands of years - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #11" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
The resentment of thousands of years - Zheng Min "A False Image" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Thousands of years of yesterday - Zheng Min "If Curses aren't Accompanied by Deep Thought #9: The Forgotten Yesterday (A dirge of ancient culture)" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Children in their thousand-acre forests - August Huerta "The Woods"
Those witless sentinels guarding thousand-autumn dust - Wang An-Shih "Reading History" transl. by David Hinton
Headless mannequins in thousand-dollar shift dresses - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
Waited in the light of our thousand-flower sun - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
They knew their deficiencies were thousandfold - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Shaping the thousandth tendril - Louise Imogen Guiney "Garden Chidings"
Split an inch into thousandths - Lola Ridge "The Legion of Iron"
Dancing on a thousand thousand trees - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
The thousand-year empire was about to see the light - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Each sight opens thousand-year dreams - Wang An-Shih "Radiance-Hut" transl. by David Hinton
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A thousand vassals dwelt around - W.E.A. "The Old Scottish Cavalier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLVI, v.LVI, Aug. 1844]
Across thousands of miles of sky - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"
As the thoughts of those thousands stray - Ellen Tracy Alden "The Child on the Battle-field"
Glory fades in a thousand shifting shades - Ellen Tracy Alden "He Will Come Back"
A thousand monsters of the deep with formless arms - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
After the lapse of thrice a thousand years - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"
A thousand Persephones lie bleeding in the Lethe - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"
A thousand more cross on Charon's armada - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"
Feed a thousand chains of regret through greasy barrels - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"
Infused those thousands of canvases with hidden arcana - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
Uncountable thousands of divisions in the stream of time - Mike Allen "Pulse"
A thousand chances are to one I never may return - William Allingham "The Winding Banks of Erne"
Disperse through thousands of traveling veins - Mouna Ammar "Invocation"
Hymns from a thousand throats - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.II--Morning Further Advanced"
Went its thousand crazy ways - Simon Armitage "The Empire"
And demand of all the thousand nothings - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"
A thousand foolish things to do - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
Lost and found a thousand times - Atticus "Love Her Wild"
In a room with a thousand doors - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"
As if he knew a thousand more - Albion Fellows Bacon "Sufficiency"
A thousand leagues into the western sky - Benjamin West Ball "The Cemetery in Summer"
Thousands will be left there still - Mrs. Sale Barker "Cowslip Gathering"
A thousand torch songs calling out - Ellen Bass "Pearls"
Through a thousand labyrinths flown - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited
A shout cried by a thousand sentinels - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited
A thousand years have seen it shine - James Beattie "Ode on Lord Hay's Birth-Day. 13th May, 1767"
The last word of a thousand years - Clive Bell "The Last Infirmity"
Thousands of footprints stamped in the red sand - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
Saying one name for a thousand years - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
A thousand glittering spears of sun - Stephen Vincent Benet "Road and Hills"
Answered by a thousand shouts - Henry Kirby Benner "Ballads of the Campaign in Mexico no.III: Monterey"
One altar to a thousand aisles - Stella Benson "The Orchard"
A thousand years would fail to blur the still profiled reproach - John Berryman "Dream Song 29"
The winds a thousand devils hold - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"
The thousand technologies of ecstasy - Frank Bidart "For the Twentieth Century"
The weight of many thousand dreams - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"
The wisdom of a thousand years - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"
Death's thousand doors stand open - Robert Blair "The Grave"
In infinite thousands the fairies arose - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Shepherd's Dream"
In a thousand minor lines - Maxwell Bodenheim "Short Story in Sonnet Form"
Growing in a thousand creeks under her ground - Lee Ann Brown "House of Green Thunder"
Mighty organ of a thousand keys - Marie Hedderwick Browne "Down by the Sea"
A thousand thoughts beneath the sun - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"
And hear the tramp of thousands - William Cullen Bryant "Song of Marion's Men"
All those thousand good maxims we coin - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
Opens a thousand windows into one - Witter Bynner "The New World VII"
This the man of thousand thrones - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
A thousand eyes in vulgar wonder scanned - A.Y. Campbell "The Dromedary"
Garment of a thousand loves - W. Wilfred Campbell "Departure"
Of the splendid thousand years - W. Wilfred Campbell "England"
Scarred by a thousand winters - Bliss Carman "A Mountain Gateway"
Signing allegiance of a thousand hearts - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"
The soft murmur of a thousand rills - Walter Richard Cassels "Spring"
Perfumed with a thousand years - Willa Cather "London Roses"
Hoofs of a thousand gales - Madison J. Cawein "Accolon of Gaul"
Incorporate a thousand facts - Ceiriog "The Traitors of Wales" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Through a thousand years of wrong - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Crush him or serve a thousand years - Ralph Chaplin "Up from Your Knees"
Fought to attain a thousand years - Ralph Chaplin "Up from Your Knees"
Bought with your blood a thousand years - Ralph Chaplin "Up from Your Knees"
In His hands a thousand spheres - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"
That for a thousand years had dwelt within the glen - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Like clocks wound for a thousand years - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."
Lived a thousand years in one - Leonard Cohen "Half the Perfect World"
A thousand kisses deep - Leonard Cohen "Thousand Kisses Deep"
Whose thousand evil tongues are one - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witches' Wood"
More for peril than a thousand swords - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
From every Wind tumultuous thousands pour - William Combe "The First of April"
A thousand miles from land are we - Barry Cornwall "The Stormy Petrel" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17, July 7, 1832]
For a thousand years the Devil cursed - Frank J. Cotter "The Birth of the Land"
A thousand spires speak gilded words - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"
Found answer in a thousand throats - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Unmarked by thousands - James H. Cousins "The Railway Arch"
To the music of a thousand harps - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Gods and Heroes of the Gael"
Spilling a thousand scarlet sirens - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Says She's Not the Madwoman in the Attic"
A thousand tongues, and nine and ninety-nine lie - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Where Beauty met me in a thousand moods - Olive Custance "The Vision"
Thousands of puppies loose - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org
A thousand years, a single yesterday - G.A. Davis "The Sea's Secret" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
In thousand fragments shattered, wrecked and torn - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell
A thousand nights of torment borne - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "To Galatea's Bird" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]
A thousand footsteps marching home - Diane DeCillis "Postcards of Home and Homesick"
Opening the view to thousands of landing geese - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"
By means of a thousand strange herbs - Lizzie Doten "Love and Latin"
Broke the water into a thousand needles - Rita Dove "Someone's Blood"
And shine with a thousand changing dyes - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
To meet the thousand eyes of night - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"
Mete justice from a thousand starry thrones - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dana"
Bestowing a thousand graces - Maurice Francis Egan "Vigil of the Immaculate Conception"
With a thousand small deliberations - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Bring to me a thousand visions bright - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"
Unhurt by a thousand storms - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
Faithful through a thousand years - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"
A thousand dazzling phantoms - Heid E. Erdich "Blood Chimera"
The cargo of a thousand crafts of fire - Joseph Fasano "Hymn"
A thousand threaded images of flight - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"
The night stretching away thousands long behind - Annie Finch "Samhain"
A hundred horizons wearing a thousand crowns - Sandy Florian "Abacus"
Beckoning a thousand mouths - T'ai Freedom Ford "past life portrait: machete, circa 1791"
Through her silver ocean rides a thousand fathoms deep - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "Wee Willie Winkie"
The wind and dust of a thousand miles - Fu Hsuan "Woman" (translated by Arthur Waley)
And shape the thousand joys that never may exist - Thomas Gent "Poems"
The story of a thousand disappearing tenants - Sandra M. Gilbert "October Cobwebs"
A thousand stars silently bursting - Nikita Gill "After the Visit"
The silver of a thousand sweet moons - Nikita Gill "When Love Dies"
Sweeter far a thousand times - Glasynys "Blodeuwedd and Hywel" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Summer with a thousand birds - Louis Golding "For Now Comes Summer"
Thrushes of a thousand moods - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
And thousands of voices will sing in pride - "Great Heart" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]
Idly pluck a thousand meek-faced daisies - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Fragrance of a thousand tales - Ivor Gurney "Passionate Earth"
I sailed a thousand rivers - Han-Shan "[I think of all the places I've been]" transl. by Burton Watson
Already a thousand years divide us - Han Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson
And played a thousand merry pranks - Rev. J. Wesley Hanson "The Fairy's Gift" [Small Means and Great Ends - PG. 1851. Edited by Mrs. M.H. Adams]
Wrap you in its thousand arms - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"
A crystal wall with a thousand mouths - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
A thousand mile escape homeward - Joy Harjo "Leaving"
The sound of a thousand silences - Joy Harjo "Summer Night"
You are a thousand priests - francine j. harris "confessional poetry"
Touches a thousand open cities - Anne Hebert "Spring Over the City" transl. by Kathleen Weaver
A thousand songs in days gone by - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
Wake their echoes to a thousand songs - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
Vengeance for a thousand woes - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"
A thousand rocks, deep-hid - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
And Albyn's thousand harps awake - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
A cheer rose from a Thousand Throats - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"
Who has a thousand heads at least - Oliver Herford "The Hydra"
Steals across a thousand floors - Florence Hoatson "The Friend of Santa Claus"
While thousands on the course are lost - "Horse Racing" [W. Belch's British Sports, for the Amusement of Children]
Where thousands met to die - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "Thermopylae"
With a thousand minstrels comes the light - William D. Howells "The Long Days"
The echoes from a thousand cliffs - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"
Into a thousand lights of sun - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"
Into a thousand whirling dreams - Langston Hughes "As I Grew Older"
Frightened a thousand miles away - Langston Hughes "Migrant"
Country crossed with a thousand furrow-lines - Victor Hugo "Letter II.vi." transl. by E.H. and A.M. Blackmore
A thousand rain-drops glisten - A.A.I. "An April Day"
Strange tenant of a thousand homes - Washington Irving "Written in the Deepdene Album"
Seize the rule of the many thousands - "The Isles of the Happy" transl. by Kuno Meyer
The image of a thousand hidden things - J.T.J. "The Death of Socrates" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
How many thousand moons - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Dog Star Rising"
The music of a thousand wings - E. Pauline Johnson "Shadow River"
Blossoms with a thousand thorns afret - Emily Pauline Johnson "Thistle-down"
Bursting, lets a thousand colors fly - James Weldon Johnson "Down By the Carib Sea (VI: Sunset in the Tropics)"
thousands of particles stretched wide - Camisha L. Jones "In/Ability"
The flocks which feed on a thousand hills - Edward Smyth Jones "A Song of Thanks"
So many thousands of leaves - Holly Karapetkova "Holiday"
To guard a thousand flocks - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"
Perplexed her with a thousand things - John Keats "The Eve of Saint Mark"
Through all its thousand courts - John Keats "Hyperion"
A thousand thoughts of sunny weather - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"
Day and its thousand torturing moments - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"
A thousand germs of light and beauty - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
Wherein a thousand winged minstrels meet - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
Spring's thousand tender greens - Jane Kenyon "The Clearing"
A thousand Blossoms with the Day - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)
A thousand forms of memory whirl - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
Had us in charge for a thousand days - Rudyard Kipling "The Changelings"
A few thousand more stars to go - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"
From out a thousand furnace doors - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"
Ringing with a thousand spears - Archibald Lampman "Indian Summer"
And sorrowed in a thousand worlds - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
To his thousand moons - Rickey Laurentiis "Black Gentleman"
Home of a thousand varying fears - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"
Thousands of feet below the olive-roots - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"
Thousands of feet below the lava fire - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"
These lone exiles of a thousand years - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"
Behind a thousand flimsy masks - Aimee Le "Faith"
Make a thousand angels gaze up - Stephen Leggett "Making Angels"
A thousand things more nice than true - Henry S. Leigh "Wisdom and Water"
Where thousands must yield up their breath - Chas. G. Leland "The Wolf Hunt" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]
Spluttering grievances of a thousand years' past - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
And wake to thousands in the morning - Eliza Lucy Leonard "The Miller and His Golden Dream"
A thousand years of petty, weak disputings - "The Lesson of the Hour" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]
The voiceless thousands at the edge of the curtain - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"
By a thousand broken paths - Li Po "A Dream of T'ien-Mu Mountain" transl. by Arthur Waley
Drive away the sorrows of a thousand years - Li Po "Drinking Song" transl. by Arthur Waley
Drown the sorrow of a thousand generations - Li Po "Let Us Drink Wine" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Thunder in a thousand valleys - Li Po "The Szechwan Road" transl. by Arthur Waley
A thousand sheets of snow - Li Yu "[Wave blossoms for my delight]" transl. by Burton Watson
That I must travel a thousand miles of mist and rain - Li Yung "Parting in Autumn" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Motes among a thousand other motes - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"
Let a thousand prophets have their due - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"
A thousand burnt up years behind - Vachel Lindsay "Harps in Heaven"
The powers of a thousand dreaming skies - Vachel Lindsay "Meeting Ourselves"
Set a thousand guards upon her - Anonymous "Love's Enterprise"
One music with a thousand cadences - Amy Lowell "Listening"
The gleaming rushes lean a thousand ways - James Russell Lowell "To the Dandelion"
When a thousand voices chanted deep - A.M. "The Exile's Song" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)
The door broke in a thousand fragments - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
Getting dealt a thousand scratches by a million splinters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
And eager thousands grasp the sword - R.W. MacGowan "Our Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Answers from a thousand throats - Dorothea Mackellar "September"
A thousand, thousand tender ties - Norman MacLeod "Farewell to Fiunary"
Breathing a thousand vows - Charles Mair "The Voice of the Pines"
A thousand deserts between us - Joyce Mansour "Auditory Hallucination" transl. by Carol Cosman
A thousand hateful evils - George Martin "Marguerite"
A child of nights in thousands with no glimpse of day - Harry Martinson "Aniara 48" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
When springtimes of a thousand years turned winter without end - Harry Martinson "Aniara 56" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Will have reposed a thousand years in sand - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Commingled now among the thousands - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The thundering of a thousand sheep - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"
These many thousand hours - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Endure a thousand dangers - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (8)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
A thousand years the sun has witnessed - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Those dyes of one and thousand autumn tints - D.M. Matheson "Petoobok"
The water behind a thousand mirages - Khaled Mattawa "Now That We Have Tasted Hope"
On behalf of a thousand justifiable causes - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"
The runes and legends of a thousand years - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of the Best Song in the World"
Upon a thousand little hills - Theodore Maynard "The Holy Spring"
In a thousand miles of ugly scrubby waste and desolation - Harry McCann "Killed in Action" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Turn into a thousand dark miles of water - Brandy Nālani McDougall "On Finding My Father's First Essay"
My thousand dreams of waters - Claude McKay "I Shall Return"
The apricots from a thousand trees ripening - W.S. Merwin "West Wall"
Closed in these thousand leaves articulate - Alice Meynell "The Two Poets"
Sweet garden of a thousand years - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Interim"
The coat lined with a thousand invisible scars - Claire Millikin "Peacock Coat"
Thousands at his bidding speed - John Milton "Service"
With thousand echoes still prolongs - John Milton "Verses from the Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity"
And their thousand dying verses - Jenny Molberg "Sound of the Spinning Wheel"
The darling of a thousand hearts - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]
A thousand grieving seeds - Rachel Moritz "Poem for Rebecca Wight"
Dripping a thousand sugars - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Foam like thousands of orchids - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
A thousand alternate universe version of me - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"
A thousand stems leading to a thousand worlds - Kyle Tran Myhre "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"
Cork the mouths of a thousand bottles - A.R. Narayanan "Man"
Into the night of a thousand fates - Maggie Nelson "Zero"
Lifts up its thousand-handed face - Pablo Neruda "Born in the Woods" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A thousand rainless years - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The doleful thousand-paged wheel - Pablo Neruda "Disaction" translated by Donald D. Walsh
With a thousand small golden hands - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The wild air with its thousand hands - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
A flower with thousands of nameless petals - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly
A thousand answers on contemptuous lips - Pablo Neruda "Men XIV" transl. by William O'Daly
Used to having a thousand brothers - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid
Contain a thousand years' sorrow - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)
After twice a thousand years - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
The creatures of a thousand aeons - Alfred Noyes "Night and the Abyss"
The thousand small birds of January - Naomi Shihab Nye "Postscript"
Where people might shop forever or throw a thousand stories away - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Story, around the Corner"
In the thousand streets beyond reach - Naomi Shihab Nye "Wind and the Sleeping Breath of Men"
Went down like a thousand roses - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"
And again a thousand opportunities - Mary Oliver "Riprap"
A thousand paper coffins laid end to end - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"
A thousand roads lead to it - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"
Tens of thousands upon the tongue - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Study Guide Toward Naturalization of the Mouth"
The thousand little deaths my heart has died - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"
A thousand sweet objects the mind to delight - James Parkerson "A Description of the Pine-apple at Towse"
Thousands of them mocked us with their hymns - Nome Emeka Patrick "Naked"
The thousand broken names and way - Josephine Preston Peabody "Noon at Paestum"
Thousands of miles spent in solitude - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"
The land of a thousand dances - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"
A thousand starlets glisten in the robe of night - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
Conquered Doubt and faced a thousand alarms - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"
Giving trust a thousand reasons - Walter S. Percy "The Shut and Open Hand: The Open Hand"
A thousand tales of near escapes - Stephen Phillips "Orestes"
While shouting thousands lined the road - J. Rheyn Piksohn "A Contrasted Picture: from 'Passion Ode,' an Unpublished Poem" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
To unravel panic's thousand fingers - Khadijah Queen "Tower"
To forge a thousand theories of the rocks - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Titania"
Forever ending on the archipelago of thousand - Danni Quintos "Five Hundred Years & Three Weeks Ago We Killed Magellan"
Dreamed a thousand dreams and found them all untrue - A. R. "Life's Young Dream" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
With a thousand prying eyes - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An August Night"
Glowed in thousands all along - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Rustic Courting XXII: Primrose Flowers"
With rainbows of a thousand storms - Theodore H. Rand "The Old Fisher's Song"
Has known a thousand years of shock - Theodore H. Rand "The Tireless Sea"
The self is a thousand localities - Diane Raptosh "American Amnesiac [The self is a thousand localities]"
Splinters and spines from a thousand dreams - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"
Thousands eager to hear your views - Ishmael Reed "A Black Genius"
Bearing the produce of a thousand marts - "Rhyming Ruminations on Old London Bridge" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20, no.557, 14 July 1832]
Rose heart of many thousand mornings - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Bustling on her thousand ways - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"
One mane of a thousand lions - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 3: Lullaby"
A thousand winters in my bones - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"
The languor of a thousand springs - Lola Ridge "Ward X"
Into a valley of the thousand bright flowers - Rihaku "Exile's Letter" transl. by Ezra Pound
Go out through a thousand miles of dead grass - Rihaku "Four Poems of Departure: Taking Leave of a Friend" transl. by Ezra Pound
White with a thousand frosts - Rihaku "Lament of the Frontier Guard" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)
Our wine is rich for a thousand cups - Rihaku "The River Song" transl. by Ezra Pound
In a thousand streets unfurled - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Knight" transl. by Jessie Lemont
With a thousand sorrows forgotten - Charles G.D. Roberts "A Nocturne of Trysting"
A thousand little summer winds are singing in the wheat - Lloyd Roberts "England's Fields"
As they pitch the bearded barley in a thousand tents of gold - Lloyd Roberts "The Homesteader"
Announced as in a thousand silences - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"
The salt of a thousand dry kisses - Luis J. Rodriguez "Making Medicine"
Crowd over the thousand gates - Rosoriu "Old Idea of Choan" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)
In every thorn-bush are thousands slain - Rumi "The Call of the Beloved" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
I had twenty thousand desires - Rumi "Thou Art the Soul of the World" transl. by R.A. Nicholson
To-day and yesterday and thrice a thousand years behind - George William Russell "Babylon"
A thousand joys may foam - Father Ryan "The Rosary of My Years"
Broke his anger to a thousand shards - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Over the graves of the thousand - Carl Sandburg "Graves"
Comes and touches you with a thousand memories - Carl Sandburg "Under the Harvest Moon"
Touches you with a thousand memories - Carl Sandburg "Under the Harvest Moon"
A thousand leagues of silence roll - George Santayana "Midnight"
A thousand times that mirrored glory fled - George Santayana "Odi et Amo"
Where thousand terrors on him glare - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
A thousand shadows of the pure grotesque - Ann K. Schwader "The Night of Her Return"
Which has braved a thousand storms - Frederick George Scott "Dion"
A thousand pathways in one spot resulting - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems VI"
Lamps of a thousand flames - "Sean Dana"
A thousand years of worry - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson
A thousand errors note - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLI"
A thousand crickets scream my name - Joyce Sidman "Oak After Dark"
A thousand thrones of vanquish'd monarchs burn - B. Simmons "Mahmood the Ghazavide" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLIX, v.LVIII, Sept. 1845]
In bubbling thousands swept away - B. Simmons "To a Caged Skylark, Regent's Circus, Piccadilly" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCV, v.LXIV, Sept. 1848]
Shared our thousand harmonies - B. Simmons "Vanities in Verse: Letters of the Dead: Parting Precepts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Some thousand miles of sea, wild tract, and weary - W. Gilmore Simms "Sonnet: To Mrs. -- -- --" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]
While all her thousand fingers play - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"
So grand that a thousand rabbits could feast - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"
Woven of a thousand strands - May Sinclair "The Dark Night (XVIII)"
A thousand arrows pointing in unison - Maggie Smith "Starling"
Into a thousand skins - Patricia Smith "Siblings"
With thousands under umbrellas - Richard Solomon "Chicago Affair"
A thousand bees in the backyard plum - Richard Solomon "The Great Masturbator"
A thousand thronging curses burst - William Somerville "The Chase"
A thousand cranes curtain the window - Cathy Song "The Youngest Daughter"
Upon branches of a thousand blossoms - "The Song of the Thrush"
Twisting a thousand beauties - George Soule "Winter's Pride"
Although he fall a thousand times - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"
At the close of a thousand eons - Robert J.C. Stead "The Mothering"
Miser of a thousand years - Robert J.C. Stead "The Plow"
Music of a thousand ages gone - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
A thousand shocks of ice - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
Fling a thousand banners out - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"
More than a thousand ages old - James Stephens "The Old Man"
May teach a thousand things unsaid - George Sterling "Revelation"
A wind that blew a thousand years ago - Richard Henry Stoddard "The End of All" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]
One hour worth a thousand gold coins - Su Tung-p'o "Spring Night" transl. by Burton Watson
Flashes with an anger a thousand times brighter - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 115: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
With shafts by thousands aimed - Algernon Swinburne "Eros"
That hoards the many destinies of thousand years - Carmen Sylva "Night"
Lightning's thousand sulfur eyes - Dorothea Tanning "All Hallow's Eve"
A thousand suns will stream - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "A Farewell"
A thousand moons will quiver - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "A Farewell"
Her thousand streams of wealth untold - Rose Terry "Then"
One mourner to a thousand dead - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"
Amid the flux of many thousand years - James Thomson "Summer" [Harper's New Monthly v.4 June 1851]
In a thousand anguish'd accents flows - "The Times" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]
The wind's thousand thin fingers - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Correction"
A thousand floating motes of gold - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Story of Justin Martyr"
Reinvent you a thousand times - Natasha Trethewey "Mythmaker"
Whispers of a thousand lures - Louis Untermeyer "Summons"
A thousand evil poisons - Louis Untermeyer "A Voice from the Sweat-Shops"
Set back the clock a thousand years - Henry van Dyke "Lights Out"
A thousand accidents control - Henry van Dyke "Rendezvous"
While a thousand chimneys vomit gloom - Henry van Dyke "Sea-Gulls of Manhattan"
A thousand bells go chiming after her - Henry van Dyke "Three Alpine Sonnets: 3. Moving Bells"
Thousands of moments spooling out - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"
Across a thousand hundred-twist trails - Wang An-Shih "Across a thousand" transl. by David Hinton
In a thousand seething waves, there's no trace of a heart - Wang An-Shih "East Ridge" transl. by David Hinton
Isolate and towering thousands of feet high - Wang An-Shih "A Lone Kindred-Tree" transl. by David Hinton
A thousand years of empty hopes - Wang An-Shih "South of Town, Leaving" transl. by David Hinton
A thousand death-winged messengers - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Thousands of years shimmer in the mist - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Hore Abbey"
Life on her thousand thrones - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Strive to undo us still, a thousand ways - "The Whore"
Work on your word a thousand weeks - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Word"
A thousand woes surround me - Richard Wilke "A Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
A thousand tropics in an apple blossom - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]
Water from a thousand runnels - William Carlos Williams "Spring Storm"
With each success, a thousand futile tries - Allan Wolf "For Those Who Light the Candle"
That hugs me with a thousand waves - Adolf Wolff "Questionings"
I heard a thousand blended notes - William Wordsworth "Lines Written in Early Spring"
Slicing through thousands of miles - Jenny Xie "The Game"
Silver tree with your thousand roadways - Lynn Xu "[Sun-messenger]"
The seeds of a thousand saplings - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
That sailed from Tyre a thousand years ago - Francis Brett Young "The Dhows"
Mirrored a thousand laughing faces - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"
A debt of thousands of years - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #11" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
The resentment of thousands of years - Zheng Min "A False Image" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Thousands of years of yesterday - Zheng Min "If Curses aren't Accompanied by Deep Thought #9: The Forgotten Yesterday (A dirge of ancient culture)" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Children in their thousand-acre forests - August Huerta "The Woods"
Those witless sentinels guarding thousand-autumn dust - Wang An-Shih "Reading History" transl. by David Hinton
Headless mannequins in thousand-dollar shift dresses - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
Waited in the light of our thousand-flower sun - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"
They knew their deficiencies were thousandfold - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Shaping the thousandth tendril - Louise Imogen Guiney "Garden Chidings"
Split an inch into thousandths - Lola Ridge "The Legion of Iron"
Dancing on a thousand thousand trees - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
The thousand-year empire was about to see the light - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Each sight opens thousand-year dreams - Wang An-Shih "Radiance-Hut" transl. by David Hinton
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