Potential Titles: Sand
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somethingdarkerWhose blood mixed with the white sands - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"
Chalky cliffs and miles of sand - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
Sand and surf in curving parallels - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
On a mountain of sand - Meena Alexander "Stone Oven"
Words trickled through the sand - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
Baseless mountain of sand - Alise Alousi "Password"
Long wish for some far off sands - Lennox Amott "Drink"
A tide of lions crashing on sandy shores - Art 25: Art in the 25th Century "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Sand that quakes your throat - Fatimah Asghar "Ghareeb"
Will lead through parching sands - Julia A. Baker "Mizpah"
Across the sand dune of history - Mary Jo Bang "I in a War"
The jigsaw-interlock of sand grains - Mary Jo Bang "Once Upon a Time"
no moment's evidence of sand - Elizabeth Bartlett "cold wakening"
Sands thirst for unquenchable seas - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"
Sand and stars are not enough - Elizabeth Bartlett "Not Just Once"
The pressure of time on sand - Ellen Bass "Marriage"
Herds at rest upon the sands - Charles Baudelaire "The Accursed" transl. not credited
Sad sand upon the desert's verge - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited
Horror's oasis in the sands of sorrow - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
A wind to shuffle the kings to sand - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"
Thousands of footprints stamped in the red sand - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
Nothing but scarlet sand and brassy sky - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
In sandy clouds of flame - William Rose Benet "The Marvelous Munchausen"
Sinless in sand - Chase Berggrun "Eccles. 9:7"
Some record of sand in the rock - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "You Are Here"
Crouching dust and wind-blown sand - Edmund Blunden "The Giant Puffball"
Years loosen one sand grain - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Horned Toad"
No false image in the sand - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
Ropes of sand that bound us - John Philip Bourke "The Pilgrimage"
Like the camel's shadow on the sands - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
With his countless bags of silver sand - Sarah Jeannette Lathbury Brigham "The Sand-Man"
I bleed and the sand grieves - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"
Yet the sands are stirred and wars increase - Francis Burrows "Egyptian"
In loitering mood upon the sand - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
Sea-sands and sorrows - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A Song by the Shore"
Coffee with sand for dregs - Lewis Carroll "A Sea Dirge"
If their foundation rest on the sand - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
Adorned me with sand - Tina Chang "Lion"
The last line that sunders sand and surf - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Snow banks dirty with sand - John Ciardi "Abundance"
Heroism upon historic sand - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Some glass weight washed on the sand - Alicia Cole "Once, I Was a Mermaid"
A mirror turning back to sand - Aaron Coleman "The Broken Man's Permission"
In the sands of memory remain - S. R. Compton "To Atlantis"
The sand holds me back - Hilda Conkling "Adventure"
The weary moments dragged their crimson sands - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Measured out the fleeting sands of life - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Built from the salt sands of her every day - Susan Coolidge "Conqueror"
Pacing the hopeless sand - Susan Coolidge "A Lonely Moment"
The sands of centuries o'er them - E. Coungeau "Peace"
Where nothing turns but dead sands - Hart Crane "Voyages V"
Mile upon mile of snow, ice, burning sand - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Moss-weed root tangled in sand - H.D. "Sea Iris"
Drag up colour from the sand - H.D. "Sea Iris"
Through the sands of the broken hourglass - Jim Daniels "Church Reform"
Cross the paper waves and printed sands - "Datasonnet for Prince Giolo"
Grass between dim lonely dunes of sand - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"
The sand stuck in an hourglass - Sasha Debevec-McKenney "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PRISON!"
Sand flaring in silence as the iron strikes - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"
Listening to billions of sand grains - Chris Dombrowski "The Turn"
Over the frowning sand - Carol Ann Duffy "A Dreaming Week"
As sunlight is free of the glare of sand - Roger Dutcher & Joanne Merriam "Heatwave"
Malformed figs taste of sand - Roger Dutcher & Joanne Merriam "Heatwave"
Rich spice-fields and perfumed sands - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "I Watch the Ships"
Reputed to feed on sand - Chiyuma Elliott "J-572 (431) I"
Their names on the sands of time - George Blackstone Field "Men of the Line"
When shadows pass gigantic on the sands - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
Siphon sand from my throat - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Descent"
Gold and tempests hollow in the sand - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 4"
The sand blowing over her last regret - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Touring the Earth Gallery"
The spirit of the falling sands - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 1 (February 1923)"
Draw my name in the sand and defy the rising tide - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
Where the slow wheel pours the sand - Robert Frost "Into My Own"
Off these sands of Time - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"
A speck of sand in the hourglass of truth - Andrea Gibson "Dear Tinder,"
Walk the length of every sand - Louis Golding "Down Tottenham Court Road"
In this hoarse hard sand - Louis Golding "I Seek a Wild Star"
Of the dust reclaimed from the sand - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Gone"
Still fretted with clotted snow at the sand edge - Mona Gould "Colour in the Willows"
Boats and barges anchored to the sands - Robert Graves "I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned?"
Salt and sand sifted by pain - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
Before our sands had run - Thomas Hardy "On the Tune called the Old-Hundred-and-Fourth"
And our doors were blocked with sand - Thomas Hardy "Trafalgar"
Who were bodies of sand - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Lives in the curves of the sand - Sadakichi Hartmann "Why I Love Thee?"
Write the letters of my name in the sand - Georgia Heard "Room of Ordinary Things"
When the sands of life are spent - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Lines to Death"
Chalices of sand - Ethel M. Hewitt "Heart's Tide"
Even the bitterest rain can sink into sand - Conrad Hilberry "Clue"
Sand is the residue of stars - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
Sand under anxious days - Brenda Hillman "To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mother's Garden"
Doomed to tread the sands alone - E. Curtiss Hine "Christine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Entangled in the sand - Edward Hirsch "Dr. X"
Sand for salt - Mary Ann Hoberman "Oak Leaf Plate"
The child they stole from the sand - Langston Hughes "The Negro Mother"
When my sands of life are run - J. Hunt, Jr. "Evening"
Plow the wave, and sow the sand - Washington Irving "Written in the Deepdene Album"
While the sand whispered spells of protection - Marcus Jackson "Evasive Me"
Buckets of sand, sequins of clay - Elizabeth Jacobson "Blood Moon"
Sounds of the sands have sped - Emily Pauline Johnson "Good-Bye"
Where Lethe glides against the sand - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Their footprints burn holes in the sand - Saeed Jones "Daedalus, After Icarus"
Whose name was written in the sand - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Derelicts"
Tumbled sands and shattered bark - Zilka Joseph "The Angels of Konkan"
Who drowned in salt who breathed the sand - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
Crunched in your teeth like sand - Zilka Joseph "Sweet Malida"
On barren solitudes of sand - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Allowing lowercase sand to spill from me - Christopher Kondrich "Ruin Valley"
Onto the sand of the future - Ted Kooser "Student"
Incandescent sand blew in on the west wind - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"
We built this city out of magic, sand, and dust - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"
Sand from the thistle covered fog - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"
Only bitter broken sand - Archibald Lampman "What Do Poets Want with Gold?"
Its bed of ashes and sand - Dorianne Laux "Blossom"
The hours have tumbled their leaden, monotonous sands - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"
Outrun time's rapid sands - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"
Throats of music filled with sand - Richard Le Gallienne "Autumn"
Find our childhood buried in the sand - Angel Leal "My Mother Dreams of Endlessness"
The unending impulse to form a sigil in the sand - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
Or cast one pebble on the sand - Ida Lee "Suffolk"
Hid among the grains of sand - R.B. Lemberg "The Ash Manifesto"
Grind granite to sand - Denise Levertov "The Blind Man's House at the Edge of the Cliff"
Building a throne of sand - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"
Footprints on the sands of time - H.W. Longfellow "A Psalm of Life"
To make your lives of sand or granite - James Russell Lowell "For a Bell at Cornell University"
On their sand basements lean and crack - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Provide rations of sand - Thomas Lux "Vaticide"
Turns field to pyre, sand to grass - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "weasel"
The sands in Time's ancient glass - Ronald Campbell MacFie "Song"
His mantle of sand so white - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"
On the sands of my heart - Fiona MacLeod "The Closing Doors"
The sand he carried grain by grain - Douglas Malloch "The Bigger Thing"
Wild memories meet upon the sands - Edwin Markham "The Last Furrow"
Dead fountains in the sands - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
See its golden deep of sand - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"
Sand shadowed with memories - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"
With broken hearts for lime and oaths for sand - John Masefield "The Haunted"
Aurelian's soldiers swept the thirsty sands - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Sand that sings its memory of glaciers - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
In the long record the sand has kept - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Treasures sinking in the sand - Claude McKay "America"
The sands of such a life as mine - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet IX from Second April
Smoothed sand in the mouth of an oyster - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"
The line drawn is always in the sand - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
As night sky caresses the murmuring sand - Ed Morales "The Talking Coconut"
By herbless sand and bitter pool - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Phaedra"
Scar over in the colour of sand - Abdushukur Muhammet "My Name" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
Sand falling from a cracked fist - Daniel J. Nadler "Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems"
The pale pleasure of the sand - Pablo Neruda "Goodbye to the Snow" transl. by Alastair Reid
Forgotten in the sand - Pablo Neruda "Midday XL" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Forgotten almonds in the sand - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney
This agitation of bread and sand - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
Became flour and sand - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Kiss the sand in wanton mockery - Effie Lee Newsome "O Sea, That Knowest Thy Strength"
Opal of the drifting desert sand - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"
The sighing zephyrs of sandy Argos - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
The gnarled monuments of sand - "The Ocean Wanderer"
A barbed wire of sand falls - Frank O'Hara "The Eyelid Has its Storms..."
Picking up a fistful of sand - January Gill O'Neil "Early Memory"
A transparent stalk rooted in sand - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"
and a forest beyond the sand - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
All her hours were yellow sands - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph for a Darling Lady"
Elves on the shining sand - Josephine Pollard "The Dance on the Beach"
From the sands of your closed lips - Marie-Francoise Prager
Upon the flux of sand - E.J. Pratt "The Flood Tide"
Where sandy ground gives way to water - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"
An expanse of sand that beggars the Sahara - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"
Bathed herself in wood ash and sand - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Watching the Election Results Come In"
Watch the stretch of burning sand - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"
Obliterating sands upon its bones - Lola Ridge [Firehead untitled prologue]
The scorpions tick-ticking on the sand - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
With lips of coral and silver sand - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"
Plagues to choke me with sand - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Sand at the bottom that bites at your feet - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "The Branch"
Have learnt the riddle of seas and sands - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
Along the shrinking sands will crawl - Alice Wellington Rollins "Andromeda"
She steps silent from the sky onto sand - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"
An arm of sand in the span of salt - Carl Sandburg "Sketch"
The false deeps of all the soul are sand - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"
Shifted like the errant sands of Earth - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Broken hourglasses and their sands - Lorraine Schein "Merlin"
A fast cloud moving against the sand - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #95"
Sand upon the wind's tongue scouring - Ann K. Schwader "Horizon of the Aten"
Upon the stark sand reaches - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Change"
When water undresses into tar sands - Jake Skeets "Anthropocenic"
And sweep the sands to fury - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
manifest then sob in the sand - Jayson P. Smith "on fathers & swords"
Half in sand and half in spray - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
To the twilight of the bitter sands - George Sterling "Betrayal"
Thunder-chorded surf on yellow sands - George Sterling "Duandon"
Be as a rope of sand - George Sterling "England, August 1914"
Where ashen gardens house the pilgrim sands - George Sterling "The Gleaner"
The salt and amber sand - George Sterling "The Lagoon"
Wander on the sands of doom - George Sterling "The Muse of the Incommunicable"
Weary of the rainless sands - George Sterling "An Old Indian Remembers"
On fabled sands of gold - George Sterling "Under the Rainbow"
Dead stars were strewn like sands - George Sterling "The Wine of Illusion"
Left my dusty self upon the sand - M. Letitia Stockett "Sleep"
Turn the old sands in the failing glass of Time - R. H. Stoddard "The World" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The sands telling golden hours - Muriel Stuart "Boys Bathing"
Empty shells on sea-spurned sands - Muriel Stuart "A Song for Old Love"
A tangle of net on the sand - Arthur Stringer "Hill-Top Hours"
Can't be contained by walls of sand - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 158: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Sliding sand from under the feet of the years - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Creation of Man"
Full of blown sand and foam - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"
Dust and laurels and gold and sand - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
A tide of lions crashing on sandy shores - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Fills like sand between glass marbles - Adeeba Shahid Talukder "A Love Note"
On the untroubled sands of ocean - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"
Against a wall of wind and sand - Edwin Torres "Neptune's Elegia"
One day for every particle of sand - Edwin Torres "When Does the Game Begin"
And the desert sands whispered in the wind - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "From the Front of the Fourth World"
Ruined temples half-buried in sand - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"
Whispered a story of creatures in sand - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Fossil"
For the sand's moonlit linen - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"
The sand's broken sticks - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"
With slow scriptures of sand - Derek Walcott "Pentecost"
Reads the palm of the sand - Derek Walcott "Salsa"
Fades into the clouding sand - Derek Walcott "Storm Figure"
They built huge castles up with sand - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"
Numerous as the ocean sand - Arthur Weir "Champlain"
Waiting for you on the sands - Arthur Weir "Pere Brosse"
Sand and stones and bits of shell - Paul West "The Cumberbunce"
Hurls her rage against the sands - Helen Hay Whitney "False"
And left the naked sands forlorn - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"
Full flooded on the fainting sands - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"
The restless sands' incessant fall - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
And new tides sweep the sand - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Ebb"
Tiny monuments in the ever-erasing sands - Charles Wright "The Children of the Plain"
Their strings over the desert sands - Charles Wright "Long Ago and Far Away"
On a land that feels like sand - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"
Feed on sand - Jenny Xie "Long Nights"
With the lifting up of sands - "XVIII: Nican Ompehua Teponazcuicatl | Here Begin Songs for the Teponaztli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Was told women must swallow sand - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"
My ears clams with mouths full of sand - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Across calm indices of sands - Jordan Zandi "Last Beach Motel"
Quicksand.
My goosebumps heavy as a sandbag - Mouna Ammar "Finding Me"
Sandbagging the river of dreams - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"
A whole sandbar full of herons - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson
The four dimensions fold into a sandcastle - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Origin of Planets"
Make myself a sandcastle and draw myself a door - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Felt the smallest sandgrain like a knife - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Streams through our sandgrain skulls - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"
Pursued the colts among the sand-hills - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"
Sandpaper.
A sandstorm whispering in the joints - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"
Fleeing sandstorms, terror, and splendor - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
The shoreline baked in golden sandstorms - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
Scuttle into sand-tubes and hide amongst the spinifex - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"
The rainbow of the salt sand-wave - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"
Go sprinkle the sea-sand upon their eyes - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"
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Chalky cliffs and miles of sand - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
Sand and surf in curving parallels - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"
On a mountain of sand - Meena Alexander "Stone Oven"
Words trickled through the sand - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
Baseless mountain of sand - Alise Alousi "Password"
Long wish for some far off sands - Lennox Amott "Drink"
A tide of lions crashing on sandy shores - Art 25: Art in the 25th Century "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Sand that quakes your throat - Fatimah Asghar "Ghareeb"
Will lead through parching sands - Julia A. Baker "Mizpah"
Across the sand dune of history - Mary Jo Bang "I in a War"
The jigsaw-interlock of sand grains - Mary Jo Bang "Once Upon a Time"
no moment's evidence of sand - Elizabeth Bartlett "cold wakening"
Sands thirst for unquenchable seas - Elizabeth Bartlett "Hunger"
Sand and stars are not enough - Elizabeth Bartlett "Not Just Once"
The pressure of time on sand - Ellen Bass "Marriage"
Herds at rest upon the sands - Charles Baudelaire "The Accursed" transl. not credited
Sad sand upon the desert's verge - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited
Horror's oasis in the sands of sorrow - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited
A wind to shuffle the kings to sand - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"
Thousands of footprints stamped in the red sand - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
Nothing but scarlet sand and brassy sky - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"
In sandy clouds of flame - William Rose Benet "The Marvelous Munchausen"
Sinless in sand - Chase Berggrun "Eccles. 9:7"
Some record of sand in the rock - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "You Are Here"
Crouching dust and wind-blown sand - Edmund Blunden "The Giant Puffball"
Years loosen one sand grain - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Horned Toad"
No false image in the sand - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"
Ropes of sand that bound us - John Philip Bourke "The Pilgrimage"
Like the camel's shadow on the sands - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
With his countless bags of silver sand - Sarah Jeannette Lathbury Brigham "The Sand-Man"
I bleed and the sand grieves - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"
Yet the sands are stirred and wars increase - Francis Burrows "Egyptian"
In loitering mood upon the sand - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"
Sea-sands and sorrows - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A Song by the Shore"
Coffee with sand for dregs - Lewis Carroll "A Sea Dirge"
If their foundation rest on the sand - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"
Adorned me with sand - Tina Chang "Lion"
The last line that sunders sand and surf - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Snow banks dirty with sand - John Ciardi "Abundance"
Heroism upon historic sand - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Some glass weight washed on the sand - Alicia Cole "Once, I Was a Mermaid"
A mirror turning back to sand - Aaron Coleman "The Broken Man's Permission"
In the sands of memory remain - S. R. Compton "To Atlantis"
The sand holds me back - Hilda Conkling "Adventure"
The weary moments dragged their crimson sands - Martha Walker Cook "The Dove" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]
Measured out the fleeting sands of life - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]
Built from the salt sands of her every day - Susan Coolidge "Conqueror"
Pacing the hopeless sand - Susan Coolidge "A Lonely Moment"
The sands of centuries o'er them - E. Coungeau "Peace"
Where nothing turns but dead sands - Hart Crane "Voyages V"
Mile upon mile of snow, ice, burning sand - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Moss-weed root tangled in sand - H.D. "Sea Iris"
Drag up colour from the sand - H.D. "Sea Iris"
Through the sands of the broken hourglass - Jim Daniels "Church Reform"
Cross the paper waves and printed sands - "Datasonnet for Prince Giolo"
Grass between dim lonely dunes of sand - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"
The sand stuck in an hourglass - Sasha Debevec-McKenney "YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PRISON!"
Sand flaring in silence as the iron strikes - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"
Listening to billions of sand grains - Chris Dombrowski "The Turn"
Over the frowning sand - Carol Ann Duffy "A Dreaming Week"
As sunlight is free of the glare of sand - Roger Dutcher & Joanne Merriam "Heatwave"
Malformed figs taste of sand - Roger Dutcher & Joanne Merriam "Heatwave"
Rich spice-fields and perfumed sands - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "I Watch the Ships"
Reputed to feed on sand - Chiyuma Elliott "J-572 (431) I"
Their names on the sands of time - George Blackstone Field "Men of the Line"
When shadows pass gigantic on the sands - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
Siphon sand from my throat - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Descent"
Gold and tempests hollow in the sand - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 4"
The sand blowing over her last regret - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Touring the Earth Gallery"
The spirit of the falling sands - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 1 (February 1923)"
Draw my name in the sand and defy the rising tide - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"
Where the slow wheel pours the sand - Robert Frost "Into My Own"
Off these sands of Time - Robert Frost "Kitty Hawk"
A speck of sand in the hourglass of truth - Andrea Gibson "Dear Tinder,"
Walk the length of every sand - Louis Golding "Down Tottenham Court Road"
In this hoarse hard sand - Louis Golding "I Seek a Wild Star"
Of the dust reclaimed from the sand - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Gone"
Still fretted with clotted snow at the sand edge - Mona Gould "Colour in the Willows"
Boats and barges anchored to the sands - Robert Graves "I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned?"
Salt and sand sifted by pain - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
Before our sands had run - Thomas Hardy "On the Tune called the Old-Hundred-and-Fourth"
And our doors were blocked with sand - Thomas Hardy "Trafalgar"
Who were bodies of sand - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Lives in the curves of the sand - Sadakichi Hartmann "Why I Love Thee?"
Write the letters of my name in the sand - Georgia Heard "Room of Ordinary Things"
When the sands of life are spent - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Lines to Death"
Chalices of sand - Ethel M. Hewitt "Heart's Tide"
Even the bitterest rain can sink into sand - Conrad Hilberry "Clue"
Sand is the residue of stars - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"
Sand under anxious days - Brenda Hillman "To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mother's Garden"
Doomed to tread the sands alone - E. Curtiss Hine "Christine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Entangled in the sand - Edward Hirsch "Dr. X"
Sand for salt - Mary Ann Hoberman "Oak Leaf Plate"
The child they stole from the sand - Langston Hughes "The Negro Mother"
When my sands of life are run - J. Hunt, Jr. "Evening"
Plow the wave, and sow the sand - Washington Irving "Written in the Deepdene Album"
While the sand whispered spells of protection - Marcus Jackson "Evasive Me"
Buckets of sand, sequins of clay - Elizabeth Jacobson "Blood Moon"
Sounds of the sands have sped - Emily Pauline Johnson "Good-Bye"
Where Lethe glides against the sand - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"
Their footprints burn holes in the sand - Saeed Jones "Daedalus, After Icarus"
Whose name was written in the sand - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Derelicts"
Tumbled sands and shattered bark - Zilka Joseph "The Angels of Konkan"
Who drowned in salt who breathed the sand - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
Crunched in your teeth like sand - Zilka Joseph "Sweet Malida"
On barren solitudes of sand - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Allowing lowercase sand to spill from me - Christopher Kondrich "Ruin Valley"
Onto the sand of the future - Ted Kooser "Student"
Incandescent sand blew in on the west wind - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"
We built this city out of magic, sand, and dust - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"
Sand from the thistle covered fog - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"
Only bitter broken sand - Archibald Lampman "What Do Poets Want with Gold?"
Its bed of ashes and sand - Dorianne Laux "Blossom"
The hours have tumbled their leaden, monotonous sands - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"
Outrun time's rapid sands - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"
Throats of music filled with sand - Richard Le Gallienne "Autumn"
Find our childhood buried in the sand - Angel Leal "My Mother Dreams of Endlessness"
The unending impulse to form a sigil in the sand - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"
Or cast one pebble on the sand - Ida Lee "Suffolk"
Hid among the grains of sand - R.B. Lemberg "The Ash Manifesto"
Grind granite to sand - Denise Levertov "The Blind Man's House at the Edge of the Cliff"
Building a throne of sand - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"
Footprints on the sands of time - H.W. Longfellow "A Psalm of Life"
To make your lives of sand or granite - James Russell Lowell "For a Bell at Cornell University"
On their sand basements lean and crack - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Provide rations of sand - Thomas Lux "Vaticide"
Turns field to pyre, sand to grass - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "weasel"
The sands in Time's ancient glass - Ronald Campbell MacFie "Song"
His mantle of sand so white - Charles Mackay "The Kelpie of Corrievreckan"
On the sands of my heart - Fiona MacLeod "The Closing Doors"
The sand he carried grain by grain - Douglas Malloch "The Bigger Thing"
Wild memories meet upon the sands - Edwin Markham "The Last Furrow"
Dead fountains in the sands - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
See its golden deep of sand - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"
Sand shadowed with memories - Jeannette Marks "Even as Here"
With broken hearts for lime and oaths for sand - John Masefield "The Haunted"
Aurelian's soldiers swept the thirsty sands - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Sand that sings its memory of glaciers - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
In the long record the sand has kept - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"
Treasures sinking in the sand - Claude McKay "America"
The sands of such a life as mine - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet IX from Second April
Smoothed sand in the mouth of an oyster - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"
The line drawn is always in the sand - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
As night sky caresses the murmuring sand - Ed Morales "The Talking Coconut"
By herbless sand and bitter pool - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Phaedra"
Scar over in the colour of sand - Abdushukur Muhammet "My Name" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla
Sand falling from a cracked fist - Daniel J. Nadler "Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems"
The pale pleasure of the sand - Pablo Neruda "Goodbye to the Snow" transl. by Alastair Reid
Forgotten in the sand - Pablo Neruda "Midday XL" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Forgotten almonds in the sand - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney
This agitation of bread and sand - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
Became flour and sand - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Kiss the sand in wanton mockery - Effie Lee Newsome "O Sea, That Knowest Thy Strength"
Opal of the drifting desert sand - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"
The sighing zephyrs of sandy Argos - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
The gnarled monuments of sand - "The Ocean Wanderer"
A barbed wire of sand falls - Frank O'Hara "The Eyelid Has its Storms..."
Picking up a fistful of sand - January Gill O'Neil "Early Memory"
A transparent stalk rooted in sand - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"
and a forest beyond the sand - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
All her hours were yellow sands - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph for a Darling Lady"
Elves on the shining sand - Josephine Pollard "The Dance on the Beach"
From the sands of your closed lips - Marie-Francoise Prager
Upon the flux of sand - E.J. Pratt "The Flood Tide"
Where sandy ground gives way to water - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"
An expanse of sand that beggars the Sahara - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"
Bathed herself in wood ash and sand - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Watching the Election Results Come In"
Watch the stretch of burning sand - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"
Obliterating sands upon its bones - Lola Ridge [Firehead untitled prologue]
The scorpions tick-ticking on the sand - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
With lips of coral and silver sand - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"
Plagues to choke me with sand - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu
Sand at the bottom that bites at your feet - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "The Branch"
Have learnt the riddle of seas and sands - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"
Along the shrinking sands will crawl - Alice Wellington Rollins "Andromeda"
She steps silent from the sky onto sand - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"
An arm of sand in the span of salt - Carl Sandburg "Sketch"
The false deeps of all the soul are sand - George Santayana "On an Unfinished Statue"
Shifted like the errant sands of Earth - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Broken hourglasses and their sands - Lorraine Schein "Merlin"
A fast cloud moving against the sand - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #95"
Sand upon the wind's tongue scouring - Ann K. Schwader "Horizon of the Aten"
Upon the stark sand reaches - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Change"
When water undresses into tar sands - Jake Skeets "Anthropocenic"
And sweep the sands to fury - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
manifest then sob in the sand - Jayson P. Smith "on fathers & swords"
Half in sand and half in spray - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
To the twilight of the bitter sands - George Sterling "Betrayal"
Thunder-chorded surf on yellow sands - George Sterling "Duandon"
Be as a rope of sand - George Sterling "England, August 1914"
Where ashen gardens house the pilgrim sands - George Sterling "The Gleaner"
The salt and amber sand - George Sterling "The Lagoon"
Wander on the sands of doom - George Sterling "The Muse of the Incommunicable"
Weary of the rainless sands - George Sterling "An Old Indian Remembers"
On fabled sands of gold - George Sterling "Under the Rainbow"
Dead stars were strewn like sands - George Sterling "The Wine of Illusion"
Left my dusty self upon the sand - M. Letitia Stockett "Sleep"
Turn the old sands in the failing glass of Time - R. H. Stoddard "The World" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
The sands telling golden hours - Muriel Stuart "Boys Bathing"
Empty shells on sea-spurned sands - Muriel Stuart "A Song for Old Love"
A tangle of net on the sand - Arthur Stringer "Hill-Top Hours"
Can't be contained by walls of sand - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 158: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Sliding sand from under the feet of the years - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Creation of Man"
Full of blown sand and foam - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Leave Taking"
Dust and laurels and gold and sand - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"
A tide of lions crashing on sandy shores - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Fills like sand between glass marbles - Adeeba Shahid Talukder "A Love Note"
On the untroubled sands of ocean - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"
Against a wall of wind and sand - Edwin Torres "Neptune's Elegia"
One day for every particle of sand - Edwin Torres "When Does the Game Begin"
And the desert sands whispered in the wind - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "From the Front of the Fourth World"
Ruined temples half-buried in sand - Henry van Dyke "The River of Dreams"
Whispered a story of creatures in sand - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Fossil"
For the sand's moonlit linen - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"
The sand's broken sticks - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"
With slow scriptures of sand - Derek Walcott "Pentecost"
Reads the palm of the sand - Derek Walcott "Salsa"
Fades into the clouding sand - Derek Walcott "Storm Figure"
They built huge castles up with sand - Mrs. Warner-Sleigh "At the Seaside"
Numerous as the ocean sand - Arthur Weir "Champlain"
Waiting for you on the sands - Arthur Weir "Pere Brosse"
Sand and stones and bits of shell - Paul West "The Cumberbunce"
Hurls her rage against the sands - Helen Hay Whitney "False"
And left the naked sands forlorn - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"
Full flooded on the fainting sands - Helen Hay Whitney "The Tide of the Heart"
The restless sands' incessant fall - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
And new tides sweep the sand - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Ebb"
Tiny monuments in the ever-erasing sands - Charles Wright "The Children of the Plain"
Their strings over the desert sands - Charles Wright "Long Ago and Far Away"
On a land that feels like sand - Assétou Xango "Black Womxn Version II"
Feed on sand - Jenny Xie "Long Nights"
With the lifting up of sands - "XVIII: Nican Ompehua Teponazcuicatl | Here Begin Songs for the Teponaztli" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton
Was told women must swallow sand - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"
My ears clams with mouths full of sand - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Across calm indices of sands - Jordan Zandi "Last Beach Motel"
Quicksand.
My goosebumps heavy as a sandbag - Mouna Ammar "Finding Me"
Sandbagging the river of dreams - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"
A whole sandbar full of herons - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson
The four dimensions fold into a sandcastle - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Origin of Planets"
Make myself a sandcastle and draw myself a door - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Felt the smallest sandgrain like a knife - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Streams through our sandgrain skulls - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"
Pursued the colts among the sand-hills - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"
Sandpaper.
A sandstorm whispering in the joints - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"
Fleeing sandstorms, terror, and splendor - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
The shoreline baked in golden sandstorms - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
Scuttle into sand-tubes and hide amongst the spinifex - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"
The rainbow of the salt sand-wave - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"
Go sprinkle the sea-sand upon their eyes - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"
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