Potential Titles: Stand/Stood
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somethingdarkerStanding upon the awful brink - A.L.O.E. "Death-Bed Hymn"
Silent stands, with no money in his hands - "Abroad"
Stand on the bridge with my camera - Kim Addonizio "Salmon"
And stand idly by while our fellows bear stones - Horatio Alger Jr "Nothing to Do"
Too scared to stand that close to emotion - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"
A caged bird stands on the grave of dreams - Maya Angelou "Caged Bird"
Standing ready to collect their songs - Lae Astra "Binary Star System"
Heart-broken shapes that stand in field and sky - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Structures"
Stand in the net of light together - Julie Babcock "Wolfwoman"
Stand in converse with the skies - Albion Fellows Bacon "The Prophet"
Weak reeds which by the rivers stand - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
On what rock stands this pride - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Where 'zero' stands for the treason of warmth - Mary Jo Bang "Renunciation of Dream and Such"
And learn to stand on air, alone - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Test"
My soul stands at the door - Richard Baxter "The Valediction"
Standing in the garden and gazing out - Emily Berry "Freud's Beautiful Things"
We stand again in debt - John Berryman "Minnesota Thanksgiving"
My form in all its glory stands - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"
Death's thousand doors stand open - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Bids the stream of passion stand - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
Stands of trees bearing false oranges - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
And in the waterfall stand and speak - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
And poplars stand there still as death - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"
Singers standing on the outer rim - John Philip Bourke "John Philip Bourke"
Could stand without family - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"
That doesn't move for fear of standing still - Russell Brakefield "Distances Between the Head and Chest"
Stand on a lawn of frozen dark - William Brewer "Resolution"
Before me truth can stand alone - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"
Stands at the portals of a world in flower - Caris Brooke "[Girdled with gold my little lady's bower]"
Stand up high on the dusty shelves - Abbie Farwell Brown "Poor Old Books" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Stands loaded with wood and stone - Tommaso Campanella "XXV. The People" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Stand like a poisoned wind - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"
The old gods stand silently - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: In the Forest"
Stand silently behind the silent trees - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: In the Forest"
Where the standing corn whispers - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"
Who can make the earth stand still - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for my Aggressive Forehead"
Where you are the tree left standing - Tina Chang "My Father. A Tree."
Stand to-day on higher ground - Joseph Horatio Chant "Aspiration"
Standing alone in the light - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"
stands in the tents of history - Lucille Clifton "what manner of man"
Stand in high aspiring pride - Arthur Hugh Clough "High and Low"
So stand the doctrine's half - Arthur Hugh Clough "The New Sinai"
In my proper semblance stand - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Shadow"
Where you promised to stand guard - Leonard Cohen "Field Commander Cohen"
Dare not stand in the blast - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witch"
With a minstrel standing by - "Come Lasses and Lads"
Stands appalled before its dark abyss - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Those three standing stones - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"
Stern stands and bitter runs for glory - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
When love stands with such radiant wings - H.D. "Fragment Forty"
And sheep stand to their necks in grass so deep - W.H. Davies "In May"
Standing in the fields of praise - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"
This dread will one day stand in this soil - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"
Stand within Time's crumbling walls - Benjamin De Casseres "The-Circle-That-Looks-Like-A-Line"
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]
The Pleiads seven stand watch - Walter de la Mare "The Flight"
That stand between this knowing and the end - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"
The Soul should stand in Awe - Emily Dickinson "The Soul unto itself (683)"
And stand like sentinels asleep - Irving Sidney Dix "Starlight Lake"
Save where the altar stands - Ernest Dowson "Benedictio Domini"
The door that barely stands ajar - Helen Parry Eden "'Sidera Sunt Testes Et Matutina Pruina'"
You stand on a land of wrath - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 7. E-Kesh, the Temple of Ninhursanga in Kesh" transl. by Sophus Helle
Bull standing in the canebrake - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 8. E-Kishnugal, the Temple of Nanna in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle
Stand wide upon the earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 32. E-Igikalama, the Temple of Lugal-Marada in Marada" transl. by Sophus Helle
Still she stands vigil like stone - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"
On the broken walls you stand - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
I stand in these shadows to kiss her - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"
Stand at the edge of a hundred horizons - Sandy Florian "Abacus"
Mine inward plight is one that stands alone - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Ajax stands in the Trojan torchlight - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
How the volcanoes stand piously over the water - Ariel Francisco "On the Shore of Lake Atitlán, Apparently I Ruined Breakfast"
To stand together on the crater's verge - Robert Frost "The Generations of Men"
If you stand at the crossroads long enough - Dana Gioia "At the Crossroads"
Here stand the dreams of men articulate in stone - Mona Gould "You Wrote"
From age to age in silent witness stand - Herbert H. Gowen "Jerusalem 1917"
May stand upon a dizzy precipice - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
And Love stands watching by the deep - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
They stand to him each one a friend - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"
One last stand in my soul - Kimberly Grey "Conjugated"
Clouds standing over hills of dream - F.W. Harvey "Since I Have Loved"
Stand on a rock in the darkness - Ben Hecht "My Island"
A pair of sevens standing in the rain - Conrad Hilberry "The Double Flail or Double Hook"
One lone star stands a fiery sentinel - Jennie Earngey Hill "Alone"
The wolf stands ever howling at their door - Jennie Earngey Hill "Winter"
To stand on the lip of a question - Jane Hirshfield "A Well Runs Out of Thirst"
Learning how to stand a shock - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"
Stand without settling - Jen Hofer "future somatics to-do list"
I shall stand and bear it still - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad LI"
we stand in many doorways at once - fahima ife "post-acid"
Who with his landlord stands deuce high - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
And stony hearts can't stand up long - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
The scarecrow standing sentinel in the dark - John James "Scarecrow"
Not for joy the worn mountain stands - Robinson Jeffers "Joy"
Stands watching day return - Elizabeth Jennings "Old Woman"
Tartarus stands undisputed - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Tar Baby"
Existence stands with an appeal we cannot shun - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]
Could drown standing up - Parneshia Jones "My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea"
I stand before my routine reflection - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
Stand against the wind - Patricia Spears Jones "Autumn, New York, 1999"
Standing hushed in the aisles of bookstores - Allison Joseph "Notebooks"
Pain often, stands by pleasures [sic] side - "Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes"
Standing by a glass furnace - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Gravestones"
My cats stand watch in the window - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"
Made treaty with Time to stand still - Rudyard Kipling "[Late Came the God]"
Standing behind mirrored windows, disapproving - Ted Kooser "Chocolate Checkers"
Could stand the shadow of your sleeping face - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"
Determined to stand on the highest peak - D.H. Lawrence "He-Goat"
Pillars of white bronze standing rigid - D.H. Lawrence "The Revolutionary"
A twisted thorn-tree still in the evening stands - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"
To stand and stare at nothingness - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
Who stands in front of the sun - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
To stand in the strong spine of rivers - Sandra Lim "Certainty"
Standing on the watery extension of time - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Stand at the portal and knock - John Gunter Lipe "To Miss Vic"
Stands to the censor's scythe - Mina Loy "Apology of Genius"
Standing guard and keeping vigils - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "silver birch"
Stand stripped to stick and thorn - Dorothea Mackellar "Flower and Thorn"
My ghost shall stand in the wind - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: X"
In the street, standing in the dust - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
Standing in the dust of saloons and public squares - José Martí "Love in the City" transl. by Esther Allen
A peak among peaks I stand - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
Firm in old bones your walls' foundations stand - John Masefield "The Haunted"
To stand the test of brine - John Masefield "Ships"
Standing drenched with the spindrift - John Masefield "Sorrow of Mydath"
Standing blind in train tracks - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
Stand in rage - Brandy Nalani McDougall "Resist"
Stands alone in infamy and crime - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Who'll stand and speak for London - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"
Stand a barrier to eternity - Alice Meynell "To a Daisy"
The wager standing for centuries - Joseph Millar "Job"
Stand fixed in steadfast gaze - John Milton "Hymn: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"
Standing stones form distant islands - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
Stand mysterious among the stars - N. Scott Momaday "The Essence of Belonging"
Standing still in the glitter of ancient glass - N. Scott Momaday "Jornada del Muerto"
stand on the shoulders of a smaller atlas - Achy Obejas "Heroes in exile"
The holy burden of being the last on standing - Achy Obejas "Recountal"
And you don't like standing in its light - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"
Only those standing in a row in the night - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Standing in their beloved water - Mary Oliver "Walking to Indian River"
Between hotdog stands and hallelujahs - Matthew Olzmann "My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency"
Stands at night beside a ruined house - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"
Standeth as a goddess stands - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Three Flowers of Modern Greece II. The Fair Maid and the Sun"
ecstatic ovations from thick stands of golden birch - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
Just let me stand here with an open eye - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
Standing near the spitting fire - Paul Park "Ragnarok"
Stand uncovered, torn and battle-spent - Walter S. Percy "When I Survey"
Standing among the thorns of memory - Phan Nhien Hao "9/11 - Hue Massacre" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
To stand in for reluctance - Carl Phillips "Last Night"
Stand secure on sliding fate - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Splendid Spur"
A skulk of white foxes stands watch - Paige Quinones "Canopy"
Stand against the stress of weather - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On the Sea-Shore"
Standing on the cold, grey moon - William Reichard "In the Evening"
An old clock in the corner stands - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Only time standing well off - Lola Ridge "Emma Goldman"
Standing up in its shaken deeps - Lola Ridge "Moscow Bells, 1917"
Where benches stand expectant - Rainer Maria Rilke "Maidens. II" transl. by Jessie Lemont
We shall stand above the thunder - Rennell Rodd "When I Am Dead"
A July ghost standing - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"
Will not keep you standing at the door - Christina Rossetti "Up-Hill"
Never stand still on the path - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
The cut glass vases standing slender - Carl Sandburg "Child of the Romans"
Standing in their brave array - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"
The wary dog stands by - Duncan Campbell Scott "A Flock of Sheep"
A stand of hawthorns blocking my view - Lisa Sewell "Letter from a Haunted Room"
Roses fearfully on thorns did stand - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCIX"
Small shadows standing lost in the huge night - Edward Shanks "The Glow-Worm"
Stands immortal upon earth - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
To stand again on these stolen hills - Taras Shevchenko "A Dream" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Owning every foot on which we stand - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"
To stand while all the seasons fly - Joyce Sidman "Oak After Dark"
Standing in a constant cone of light - Richard Siken "Seaside Improvisation"
Claiming a little piece of where we stand - Tracy K. Smith "Everything that Ever Was"
Leave the chicory where it stands - Leonora Speyer "Bavarian Roadside"
Wind brushing through stands of spears - A.E. Stallings "Epic Simile"
In the Museum of Sorrow stand - A.E. Stallings "Funereal Stelae: Kerameikos, Athens"
Stand equal in their flame - George Sterling "Love's Mercy"
Standing on the dust of kings - George Sterling "Romance"
Nor stand in flame beside me - George Sterling "To Pain"
Stand for me as a cipher - Gerald Stern "Pag"
The bright obvious stands motionless - Wallace Stevens "Man Carrying Thing"
Where the maple changing stands - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Autumn"
Whom the years forbade to stand - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Stand unshaken at the helm of life's wrecked craft - Carmen Sylva "Unrest"
The cherry blossoms standing guard - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Surrounded by tall stands of elm and cottonwood - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"
We stand amid blown cypresses - Tess Taylor "Eighteenth Century Remains"
Ash-trees standing ankle-deep in brier - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
In the ashes I stand on - Edwin Torres "The Circle at One End"
To stand apart from perspective and light - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
As they stand in this future catacomb - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"
Stands on flaming ramparts - Iris Tree "Smoke"
Stand before the gate of brass - Iris Tree "Streets"
The dead stand up in stone - Natasha Trethewey "Pilgrimage"
stand tiptoe to gather stars that capsize - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges
commanding dark algebraic emblems to stand - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"
Stardust standing amidst a field of stones - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Stardust"
Where hollyhocks stand tall - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Joy" transl. by Alma Strettell
Better to stand bewildered - Derek Walcott "Pentecost"
No feud of family could stand against - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: ii) Godzilla in Shakespeare"
Here stands alone the grail of Adam's blood - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"
Whose grotto stands upon the topmost rock - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"
Where the wind stands straight - Edith Weaver "Lost Cinderella"
Stands alone in its iron-red power - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Uluru"
And then stand looking back and sighing at our choice - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"
Stands face to face with bitter Truth - A.D.T. Whitney "Bo-Peep"
Bleak trees stand up against the sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"
Of bounding pulses that stand still and ache - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
And watch a lark in heaven stand - Iolo Aneurin Williams "From a Flemish Graveyard"
To make roses stand before thorns - William Carlos Williams "The Ivy Crown"
Wise trees stand sleeping in the cold - William Carlos Williams "Winter Trees"
By standing where a world is ending - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"
A drink and a dry place to stand - Allan Wolf "Earth: Your Mother I'll Be"
A witness standing by your loneliness - Nicholas Wong "101, Taipei"
Standing on love's complementary estate - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"
Stand tall against the wind - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"
Stand high on the yellow rushes - "XXI: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of the Huexotzincos" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Milkweeds dance-standing as the wind passes - Ray Young Bear "John Whirlwind's Doublebeat Songs, 1956"
Stands at death's frontier checkpoint - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #17" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Stand contented with the silence - Art Zilleruelo "Ghost Story"
In the backstand of our existence - m.s. RedCherries "the end cannot be me"
Bystanders back from the river of light - Charles Wright "I've Been Sitting Here Thinking Back Over My Life..."
The last freestanding rebellion - Faylita Hicks "The Fantastic Life of My Guardian Angels"
Standalone heron borrowing a pylon - Brian Blanchfield "Edge of Water, Portage Bay, Washington"
A stand-in for complexities - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "You Are Here"
Hurled an instant standstill to our haywire - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"
One sentinel stood faithful - Duncan Anderson "The Death of Wolfe"
No matter the soil we stood on - Kay Ulanday Barrett "Root Systems"
Stood inside a shattered room - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Dream of Samarkand"
Stood firm in dry dust - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 3: Sufferation"
Stood on supreme heights - Rupert Brooke "Sonnet Reversed"
The fearful deer of death stood not - Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst "Midnight"
Stood forth silver and necessary - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"
Until all of existence stood still - Cheng Him "Declaration"
The door stood open at our feast - Mary Coleridge "Unwelcome"
That proudly stood to meet the whirlwind - William Cory "Asterope"
Where once I stood alone - H.D. "We Two"
Stood defiantly abandoned - Jim Daniels "Exterior with Quiet"
Three and thirty birds there stood - Walter de la Mare "Melmillo"
When the soul stood vindicated - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
October stood in silence - Michael Earls, S.J. "An Autumn Rose-Tree"
Wandering along a waste where once a city stood - "The End of All" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]
Six green singers stood at my door - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"
Where a haunted house once stood - Adam Ford "A House Is Not a Home!"
Where Death stood to win - Thomas Hardy "Before Marching, and After"
Where the dead last stood - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Stood outside the gates of permissible sound - Brenda Hillman "Angrily Standing Outside in the Wind"
Stood before the iron sleet - Charles Fenno Hoffman "Monterey"
That stood on the railing, puffed up with sky - Chloe Honum "Devonport"
I stood amid the forms of light - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Stood some place beyond desire - Mark Irwin "Purple"
Turned three essences where it stood - Laura Riding Jackson "The Quids"
Has ever stood the best in this world's show - James Johnson "The Busy Bees"
The mountain-tops, where once Hope stood - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"
And stood out blackly from a tender sky - Amy Levy "Xantippe"
Stood at the door to my childhood - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"
Radiant I stood in silver - Lynn Riggs "Moon"
Ere she stood before the queen Persephone - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"
Stood full at blessed noon - Christina Rossetti "At Home"
Earth stood hard as iron - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [In the bleak mid-winter]"
Stood before hell's mighty czar - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Stood to savor the seconds - Solmaz Sharif "Visa"
When the year stood still at June - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
Where trampling years have stood - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Stood in silent ranks expectant - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Stood in the cool of spent emotions - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"
Stood bathed in a wonder crowned with pain - Arthur Stringer "Spring Floods"
Stood a long time in twilight mist - Su Tung-p'o "I Travel Day and Night" transl. by Burton Watson
A mask of shadow that stood between - May Swenson "First Walk on the Moon"
The last thin acre of stalks that stood - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"
And I stood naked among stars - Mark Van Doren "Possession"
Stood within a dreadful court - F.E. Weatherly "Bell's Dream"
And insect stood revealed - Blanco White "Night and Death"
Stood and loved you while you slept - Miller Williams "A Poem for Emily"
A wolf stood on the periphery of lamplight - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"
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Silent stands, with no money in his hands - "Abroad"
Stand on the bridge with my camera - Kim Addonizio "Salmon"
And stand idly by while our fellows bear stones - Horatio Alger Jr "Nothing to Do"
Too scared to stand that close to emotion - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"
A caged bird stands on the grave of dreams - Maya Angelou "Caged Bird"
Standing ready to collect their songs - Lae Astra "Binary Star System"
Heart-broken shapes that stand in field and sky - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Structures"
Stand in the net of light together - Julie Babcock "Wolfwoman"
Stand in converse with the skies - Albion Fellows Bacon "The Prophet"
Weak reeds which by the rivers stand - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"
On what rock stands this pride - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Where 'zero' stands for the treason of warmth - Mary Jo Bang "Renunciation of Dream and Such"
And learn to stand on air, alone - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Test"
My soul stands at the door - Richard Baxter "The Valediction"
Standing in the garden and gazing out - Emily Berry "Freud's Beautiful Things"
We stand again in debt - John Berryman "Minnesota Thanksgiving"
My form in all its glory stands - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"
Death's thousand doors stand open - Robert Blair "The Grave"
Bids the stream of passion stand - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
Stands of trees bearing false oranges - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
And in the waterfall stand and speak - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"
And poplars stand there still as death - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"
Singers standing on the outer rim - John Philip Bourke "John Philip Bourke"
Could stand without family - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"
That doesn't move for fear of standing still - Russell Brakefield "Distances Between the Head and Chest"
Stand on a lawn of frozen dark - William Brewer "Resolution"
Before me truth can stand alone - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"
Stands at the portals of a world in flower - Caris Brooke "[Girdled with gold my little lady's bower]"
Stand up high on the dusty shelves - Abbie Farwell Brown "Poor Old Books" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Stands loaded with wood and stone - Tommaso Campanella "XXV. The People" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Stand like a poisoned wind - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"
The old gods stand silently - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: In the Forest"
Stand silently behind the silent trees - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: In the Forest"
Where the standing corn whispers - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"
Who can make the earth stand still - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for my Aggressive Forehead"
Where you are the tree left standing - Tina Chang "My Father. A Tree."
Stand to-day on higher ground - Joseph Horatio Chant "Aspiration"
Standing alone in the light - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"
stands in the tents of history - Lucille Clifton "what manner of man"
Stand in high aspiring pride - Arthur Hugh Clough "High and Low"
So stand the doctrine's half - Arthur Hugh Clough "The New Sinai"
In my proper semblance stand - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Shadow"
Where you promised to stand guard - Leonard Cohen "Field Commander Cohen"
Dare not stand in the blast - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witch"
With a minstrel standing by - "Come Lasses and Lads"
Stands appalled before its dark abyss - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Those three standing stones - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"
Stern stands and bitter runs for glory - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
When love stands with such radiant wings - H.D. "Fragment Forty"
And sheep stand to their necks in grass so deep - W.H. Davies "In May"
Standing in the fields of praise - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"
This dread will one day stand in this soil - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"
Stand within Time's crumbling walls - Benjamin De Casseres "The-Circle-That-Looks-Like-A-Line"
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]
The Pleiads seven stand watch - Walter de la Mare "The Flight"
That stand between this knowing and the end - Babette Deutsch "Hibernal"
The Soul should stand in Awe - Emily Dickinson "The Soul unto itself (683)"
And stand like sentinels asleep - Irving Sidney Dix "Starlight Lake"
Save where the altar stands - Ernest Dowson "Benedictio Domini"
The door that barely stands ajar - Helen Parry Eden "'Sidera Sunt Testes Et Matutina Pruina'"
You stand on a land of wrath - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 7. E-Kesh, the Temple of Ninhursanga in Kesh" transl. by Sophus Helle
Bull standing in the canebrake - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 8. E-Kishnugal, the Temple of Nanna in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle
Stand wide upon the earth - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 32. E-Igikalama, the Temple of Lugal-Marada in Marada" transl. by Sophus Helle
Still she stands vigil like stone - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"
On the broken walls you stand - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"
I stand in these shadows to kiss her - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"
Stand at the edge of a hundred horizons - Sandy Florian "Abacus"
Mine inward plight is one that stands alone - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Ajax stands in the Trojan torchlight - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
How the volcanoes stand piously over the water - Ariel Francisco "On the Shore of Lake Atitlán, Apparently I Ruined Breakfast"
To stand together on the crater's verge - Robert Frost "The Generations of Men"
If you stand at the crossroads long enough - Dana Gioia "At the Crossroads"
Here stand the dreams of men articulate in stone - Mona Gould "You Wrote"
From age to age in silent witness stand - Herbert H. Gowen "Jerusalem 1917"
May stand upon a dizzy precipice - Grace Greenwood "The Spanish Princess to the Moorish Knight" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
And Love stands watching by the deep - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
They stand to him each one a friend - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"
One last stand in my soul - Kimberly Grey "Conjugated"
Clouds standing over hills of dream - F.W. Harvey "Since I Have Loved"
Stand on a rock in the darkness - Ben Hecht "My Island"
A pair of sevens standing in the rain - Conrad Hilberry "The Double Flail or Double Hook"
One lone star stands a fiery sentinel - Jennie Earngey Hill "Alone"
The wolf stands ever howling at their door - Jennie Earngey Hill "Winter"
To stand on the lip of a question - Jane Hirshfield "A Well Runs Out of Thirst"
Learning how to stand a shock - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"
Stand without settling - Jen Hofer "future somatics to-do list"
I shall stand and bear it still - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad LI"
we stand in many doorways at once - fahima ife "post-acid"
Who with his landlord stands deuce high - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
And stony hearts can't stand up long - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
The scarecrow standing sentinel in the dark - John James "Scarecrow"
Not for joy the worn mountain stands - Robinson Jeffers "Joy"
Stands watching day return - Elizabeth Jennings "Old Woman"
Tartarus stands undisputed - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Tar Baby"
Existence stands with an appeal we cannot shun - Edwin R. Johnson "Death in Life" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.5, Nov. 1864]
Could drown standing up - Parneshia Jones "My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea"
I stand before my routine reflection - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
Stand against the wind - Patricia Spears Jones "Autumn, New York, 1999"
Standing hushed in the aisles of bookstores - Allison Joseph "Notebooks"
Pain often, stands by pleasures [sic] side - "Juvenile Sports; or, Youth's Pastimes"
Standing by a glass furnace - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Gravestones"
My cats stand watch in the window - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"
Made treaty with Time to stand still - Rudyard Kipling "[Late Came the God]"
Standing behind mirrored windows, disapproving - Ted Kooser "Chocolate Checkers"
Could stand the shadow of your sleeping face - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"
Determined to stand on the highest peak - D.H. Lawrence "He-Goat"
Pillars of white bronze standing rigid - D.H. Lawrence "The Revolutionary"
A twisted thorn-tree still in the evening stands - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"
To stand and stare at nothingness - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
Who stands in front of the sun - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"
To stand in the strong spine of rivers - Sandra Lim "Certainty"
Standing on the watery extension of time - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Stand at the portal and knock - John Gunter Lipe "To Miss Vic"
Stands to the censor's scythe - Mina Loy "Apology of Genius"
Standing guard and keeping vigils - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "silver birch"
Stand stripped to stick and thorn - Dorothea Mackellar "Flower and Thorn"
My ghost shall stand in the wind - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: X"
In the street, standing in the dust - Jose Marti "Love in the City" (translated by Esther Allen)
Standing in the dust of saloons and public squares - José Martí "Love in the City" transl. by Esther Allen
A peak among peaks I stand - José Martí "Simple Verses" transl. by Anne Fountain
Firm in old bones your walls' foundations stand - John Masefield "The Haunted"
To stand the test of brine - John Masefield "Ships"
Standing drenched with the spindrift - John Masefield "Sorrow of Mydath"
Standing blind in train tracks - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
Stand in rage - Brandy Nalani McDougall "Resist"
Stands alone in infamy and crime - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Who'll stand and speak for London - Charlotte Mew "In Nunhead Cemetery"
Stand a barrier to eternity - Alice Meynell "To a Daisy"
The wager standing for centuries - Joseph Millar "Job"
Stand fixed in steadfast gaze - John Milton "Hymn: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"
Standing stones form distant islands - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"
Stand mysterious among the stars - N. Scott Momaday "The Essence of Belonging"
Standing still in the glitter of ancient glass - N. Scott Momaday "Jornada del Muerto"
stand on the shoulders of a smaller atlas - Achy Obejas "Heroes in exile"
The holy burden of being the last on standing - Achy Obejas "Recountal"
And you don't like standing in its light - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"
Only those standing in a row in the night - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Standing in their beloved water - Mary Oliver "Walking to Indian River"
Between hotdog stands and hallelujahs - Matthew Olzmann "My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency"
Stands at night beside a ruined house - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"
Standeth as a goddess stands - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Three Flowers of Modern Greece II. The Fair Maid and the Sun"
ecstatic ovations from thick stands of golden birch - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
Just let me stand here with an open eye - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
Standing near the spitting fire - Paul Park "Ragnarok"
Stand uncovered, torn and battle-spent - Walter S. Percy "When I Survey"
Standing among the thorns of memory - Phan Nhien Hao "9/11 - Hue Massacre" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
To stand in for reluctance - Carl Phillips "Last Night"
Stand secure on sliding fate - Arthur Quiller-Couch "The Splendid Spur"
A skulk of white foxes stands watch - Paige Quinones "Canopy"
Stand against the stress of weather - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On the Sea-Shore"
Standing on the cold, grey moon - William Reichard "In the Evening"
An old clock in the corner stands - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Only time standing well off - Lola Ridge "Emma Goldman"
Standing up in its shaken deeps - Lola Ridge "Moscow Bells, 1917"
Where benches stand expectant - Rainer Maria Rilke "Maidens. II" transl. by Jessie Lemont
We shall stand above the thunder - Rennell Rodd "When I Am Dead"
A July ghost standing - Isaac Rosenberg "Midsummer Frost"
Will not keep you standing at the door - Christina Rossetti "Up-Hill"
Never stand still on the path - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
The cut glass vases standing slender - Carl Sandburg "Child of the Romans"
Standing in their brave array - George Santayana "The Bottles and the Wine"
The wary dog stands by - Duncan Campbell Scott "A Flock of Sheep"
A stand of hawthorns blocking my view - Lisa Sewell "Letter from a Haunted Room"
Roses fearfully on thorns did stand - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCIX"
Small shadows standing lost in the huge night - Edward Shanks "The Glow-Worm"
Stands immortal upon earth - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"
To stand again on these stolen hills - Taras Shevchenko "A Dream" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Owning every foot on which we stand - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"
To stand while all the seasons fly - Joyce Sidman "Oak After Dark"
Standing in a constant cone of light - Richard Siken "Seaside Improvisation"
Claiming a little piece of where we stand - Tracy K. Smith "Everything that Ever Was"
Leave the chicory where it stands - Leonora Speyer "Bavarian Roadside"
Wind brushing through stands of spears - A.E. Stallings "Epic Simile"
In the Museum of Sorrow stand - A.E. Stallings "Funereal Stelae: Kerameikos, Athens"
Stand equal in their flame - George Sterling "Love's Mercy"
Standing on the dust of kings - George Sterling "Romance"
Nor stand in flame beside me - George Sterling "To Pain"
Stand for me as a cipher - Gerald Stern "Pag"
The bright obvious stands motionless - Wallace Stevens "Man Carrying Thing"
Where the maple changing stands - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Autumn"
Whom the years forbade to stand - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"
Stand unshaken at the helm of life's wrecked craft - Carmen Sylva "Unrest"
The cherry blossoms standing guard - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Surrounded by tall stands of elm and cottonwood - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"
We stand amid blown cypresses - Tess Taylor "Eighteenth Century Remains"
Ash-trees standing ankle-deep in brier - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
In the ashes I stand on - Edwin Torres "The Circle at One End"
To stand apart from perspective and light - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
As they stand in this future catacomb - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"
Stands on flaming ramparts - Iris Tree "Smoke"
Stand before the gate of brass - Iris Tree "Streets"
The dead stand up in stone - Natasha Trethewey "Pilgrimage"
stand tiptoe to gather stars that capsize - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges
commanding dark algebraic emblems to stand - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"
Stardust standing amidst a field of stones - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Stardust"
Where hollyhocks stand tall - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Joy" transl. by Alma Strettell
Better to stand bewildered - Derek Walcott "Pentecost"
No feud of family could stand against - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: ii) Godzilla in Shakespeare"
Here stands alone the grail of Adam's blood - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"
Whose grotto stands upon the topmost rock - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"
Where the wind stands straight - Edith Weaver "Lost Cinderella"
Stands alone in its iron-red power - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Uluru"
And then stand looking back and sighing at our choice - Edith Wharton "Some Woman to Some Man"
Stands face to face with bitter Truth - A.D.T. Whitney "Bo-Peep"
Bleak trees stand up against the sky - Helen Hay Whitney "Trees of the Wilderness"
Of bounding pulses that stand still and ache - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"
And watch a lark in heaven stand - Iolo Aneurin Williams "From a Flemish Graveyard"
To make roses stand before thorns - William Carlos Williams "The Ivy Crown"
Wise trees stand sleeping in the cold - William Carlos Williams "Winter Trees"
By standing where a world is ending - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"
A drink and a dry place to stand - Allan Wolf "Earth: Your Mother I'll Be"
A witness standing by your loneliness - Nicholas Wong "101, Taipei"
Standing on love's complementary estate - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"
Stand tall against the wind - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"
Stand high on the yellow rushes - "XXI: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of the Huexotzincos" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Milkweeds dance-standing as the wind passes - Ray Young Bear "John Whirlwind's Doublebeat Songs, 1956"
Stands at death's frontier checkpoint - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #17" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Stand contented with the silence - Art Zilleruelo "Ghost Story"
In the backstand of our existence - m.s. RedCherries "the end cannot be me"
Bystanders back from the river of light - Charles Wright "I've Been Sitting Here Thinking Back Over My Life..."
The last freestanding rebellion - Faylita Hicks "The Fantastic Life of My Guardian Angels"
Standalone heron borrowing a pylon - Brian Blanchfield "Edge of Water, Portage Bay, Washington"
A stand-in for complexities - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "You Are Here"
Hurled an instant standstill to our haywire - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"
One sentinel stood faithful - Duncan Anderson "The Death of Wolfe"
No matter the soil we stood on - Kay Ulanday Barrett "Root Systems"
Stood inside a shattered room - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Dream of Samarkand"
Stood firm in dry dust - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 3: Sufferation"
Stood on supreme heights - Rupert Brooke "Sonnet Reversed"
The fearful deer of death stood not - Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst "Midnight"
Stood forth silver and necessary - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"
Until all of existence stood still - Cheng Him "Declaration"
The door stood open at our feast - Mary Coleridge "Unwelcome"
That proudly stood to meet the whirlwind - William Cory "Asterope"
Where once I stood alone - H.D. "We Two"
Stood defiantly abandoned - Jim Daniels "Exterior with Quiet"
Three and thirty birds there stood - Walter de la Mare "Melmillo"
When the soul stood vindicated - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
October stood in silence - Michael Earls, S.J. "An Autumn Rose-Tree"
Wandering along a waste where once a city stood - "The End of All" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]
Six green singers stood at my door - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"
Where a haunted house once stood - Adam Ford "A House Is Not a Home!"
Where Death stood to win - Thomas Hardy "Before Marching, and After"
Where the dead last stood - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"
Stood outside the gates of permissible sound - Brenda Hillman "Angrily Standing Outside in the Wind"
Stood before the iron sleet - Charles Fenno Hoffman "Monterey"
That stood on the railing, puffed up with sky - Chloe Honum "Devonport"
I stood amid the forms of light - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Stood some place beyond desire - Mark Irwin "Purple"
Turned three essences where it stood - Laura Riding Jackson "The Quids"
Has ever stood the best in this world's show - James Johnson "The Busy Bees"
The mountain-tops, where once Hope stood - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"
And stood out blackly from a tender sky - Amy Levy "Xantippe"
Stood at the door to my childhood - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"
Radiant I stood in silver - Lynn Riggs "Moon"
Ere she stood before the queen Persephone - Rennell Rodd "A Roman Mirror"
Stood full at blessed noon - Christina Rossetti "At Home"
Earth stood hard as iron - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [In the bleak mid-winter]"
Stood before hell's mighty czar - Friedrich Schiller "The Hypochondriacal Pluto"
Stood to savor the seconds - Solmaz Sharif "Visa"
When the year stood still at June - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"
Where trampling years have stood - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"
Stood in silent ranks expectant - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Stood in the cool of spent emotions - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"
Stood bathed in a wonder crowned with pain - Arthur Stringer "Spring Floods"
Stood a long time in twilight mist - Su Tung-p'o "I Travel Day and Night" transl. by Burton Watson
A mask of shadow that stood between - May Swenson "First Walk on the Moon"
The last thin acre of stalks that stood - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"
And I stood naked among stars - Mark Van Doren "Possession"
Stood within a dreadful court - F.E. Weatherly "Bell's Dream"
And insect stood revealed - Blanco White "Night and Death"
Stood and loved you while you slept - Miller Williams "A Poem for Emily"
A wolf stood on the periphery of lamplight - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"
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