Potential Titles: Secret
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somethingdarkerShe has her secret scotch against the cold - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"
What are bodies if not secrets promised - Lydia Abedeen "Birangona Song in a Walmart Parking Lot"
Soar against the cruel secrets of the door - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XLV" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
Where the secrets beat in the heart - Linda Addison "Evolving"
Another of God's secrets wasted on me - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog"
Secret spells of some kind sage - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
The secrets of a wine which warms the heart - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. They are not wisest who are conscious most] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
Reading the secret of drought on the palms - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger
A secret charm for sending grief astray - Ellen Tracy Alden "Neighbor Edith"
In this most awful secret laboratory - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
The thorned secrets our tongues have learned - Lauren K. Alleyne "How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter,"
To carry a pall of secrets - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"
Opens up a secret that slept - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "About the angels"
Each snowflake whispered a secret - James Armstrong "First Snow"
An inspiration and a secret flame - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
The betrayal of unworthy secrets - Ingeborg Bachmann "Every Day" transl. by Michael Hamburger
And birth our anger in secret - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Their own secret inflection of want - Mary Jo Bang "The Medicinal Cotton Clouds Come Down to Cover Them"
Urged some bitter secret - Djuna Barnes "From Fifth Avenue Up"
The night's secret dissolves at dawn - Lou Barrett "Address Book"
The secret scent of ancient waters - Lou Barrett "Young Fisher King"
That was worse for being secret - Elizabeth Bartlett "Along That Road"
leaps secret with wonder - Elizabeth Bartlett "art"
On folded wings secret and silent - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"
On secret tides of air - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sleepwalkers"
Intricately ribboned like a secret code - Ellen Bass "Fungus on Fallen Alder at Lookout Creek"
Hides so many secrets as my brain - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
To trace the secrets of the skies - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"
Secrets that only the lilacs know - Clive Bell "March"
Lit with secrets - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Evergreen"
In his secret shrine hallows a wealth of gods - Stephen Vincent Benet "Hymn in Columbus Circle"
The secret form of the soul is there in its terror - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Light towards the dark secret heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Contraband or some secret knowledge - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"
All my dead secrets arise - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"
Bind your heart lest it find secrets out - Stella Benson "To the Unborn"
I don't know what your secrets are - Emily Berry "Allegiances"
Which crawl on secret errands - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"
Your eyes have a secret highway - Rebecca G. Biber "Internal"
Hold our secret shames so close - Sheila Black "The Earth"
With secret, chained thoughts - Maxwell Bodenheim "Boarding-House Episode"
Sounds not the secrets of its silences beneath - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"
May find the secret of the skies - Gordon Bottomley "The Quest"
The whispered secret of a deed of blood - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
And none can hear my secret call - Anne Bronte "The Doubter's Prayer"
In secret kept, in silence sealed - Charlotte Bronte "Evening Solace"
On his path a secret light - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"
Hiding secret fires from view - Charlotte Bronte "Preference"
Their strange beauty my secret - Susan Browne "Becoming a Poet"
The secrets that live inside us - Sue Budin "Totality"
From secret hoards of scarlet - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"
Its twisted grin in on all my secrets - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"
In the midst of secret things - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall
The nightingale pours forth her secret boon - Giosue Carducci "Virgil" transl. by Frank Sewall
Soothed her secret sorrow - Lewis Carroll "Melancholetta"
The trees with their secrets and green faces - Paul Carroll "Untitled [I want to write a poem the birds will understand]"
How secretly they lie - Anne Carson "Short Talk on Pain"
All that the secret pages can reveal - Walter Richard Cassels "Beatrice di Tenda"
Through the secret light - Charles Causley "The Swan"
My terror is not secret - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"
Like eating a secret - Jennifer Chang "We Found the Body of a Young Deer Once"
Hide the crimson secret of your sunset - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Worship"
The secret stones of kings - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Scrawled screens and secret gardens - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"
our best secret - Lucille Clifton "crabbing"
The closed mouth of secrets - Antonio Colinas "Song XXXV"
A secret from the brown earth steal - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
More secrets than yesterday - Hilda Conkling "Moon Doves"
Lightning bares each secret form - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Will question the well for my secret - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Way-Side Well"
Withholds the secret of the skies - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"
Tasting the secret letters of your history - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
Through secret words of prophets - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)
All the anguish borne in secret - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"
With secret benefits and obvious liabilities - Jim Daniels "Good Reception"
Ancient secrets by the lonely shore - G.A. Davis "The Sea's Secret" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
Know the secret that you told me long ago - G.A. Davis "The Sea's Secret" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
The minor intimacy of that secret - Geffrey Davis "For the Child's Mole"
A secret he knows better than to share - Armen Davoudian "The Yellow Swan"
The secrets of my calming beauty - Kwame Dawes "How I Pray in the Plague"
The wallpapered shadow of a secret self - Meg Day "Big Sky Domestic"
Should some escape the secret snare - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
With secret symbol of line and word - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"
Secret herbs their spices shower - Walter de la Mare "The Sunken Garden"
The flower that shares her secret with the moon - Geoffrey Dearmer "B.E.F. Missing"
Tiny seeds like secrets of the universe - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"
Puzzled roots in a wilderness of secrets - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Nature"
As if we didn't like secrets - Rita Dove "Borderline Mambo"
Told their secrets to the trees - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
Murmur dim melodious secrets - Edward Dowden "The Fountain"
The secret of his brother's heart - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"
To command the secrets of the soul - John William Draper "Thomas de Quincey"
To know the feral secrets - Katherine Edgren "On the Prowl"
Gleans the secrets of the world - Dara Yen Elerath "The White Paws"
where we all knew each other's secrets - Safia Elhillo "spring"
That secret the wind kept from the surface of the sea - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"
The secret of their mutual flame - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
With secret tumult heaved - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
The secret music of the street - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"
What that secret grief hath been - "Forget-Me-Not: Myosotis Avensis" transl. from German by Fitz-Greene Halleck [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Lingers in the heart's secret places - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
Mothers with secrets know better - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"
The secret shape of once-seen, sweet and oft-dreamed loveliness - John Freeman "Shadows"
The secret issues of the soul - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]
The secret stir of nameless dead - Zona Gale "A Meeting"
These secrets told are ruin - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Like the inside of a secret - Carmen Gimenez "Redaction"
The secret terms of their surrender - Dana Gioia "At the Crossroads"
The secrets of your lunar embassy - Dana Gioia "Pardon Me, Pilgrim"
Trace the secret transits of our joy - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"
The secrets Hell exists to hide - Dana Gioia "The Underworld: V. Their Secrets"
Have read the secrets of the night - Ellen Glasgow "The Hunter"
Search for secrets of the dust - Ellen Glasgow "The Hunter"
How deep two secret rivers run - Laird Shields Goldsborough "Confession"
One more spill of secrets - Rigoberto Gonzalez "La Pelona as Birdwoman"
And has taught them all the secrets - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
In the secret places under my heart - Mona Gould "You, the Sower of Seed"
secret imaginings of romance and jasmine - Layla Azmi Goushey "Dream Particles"
Rattling and rocketing down in secret void - Robert Graves "Down"
The secret of my grief - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The mighty secrets of his power - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
Its daughters' honeyed secrets - Pamela Gross "The Hive"
Unprotected in the secret Antarctica - Wendy Guerra "Winter Sports" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
The central fires of secret memory - Ivor Gurney "That County"
Tell deep secrets to the Flower - Hafiz "The Divan XL" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Each had a secret unconfessed - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
With the secret antelope of compassion - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
Though secretly longing to join the diversion - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"
Each fond aspiration in secret milled - Mrs. M.E. Hewitt "The Bride's Reverie" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no. 2, July 1850]
Secret white mirror - Edward Hirsch "Blue Hydrangea"
A tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore - Edward Hirsch "Widening Sky"
Wells where Truth in secret lay - William D. Howells "A Poet"
Old secrets unforgotten - Aldous Huxley "The Mirror"
But my secret thoughts have not escaped - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
The houses where we keep our secrets - Helen Hunt Jackson "Dreams"
Poised to disclose some secret - John James "At Assateague"
The soul held secret from all sight - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
The secret ambition of the sun - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Worry the Rosemary"
The secret of fair souls - Lionel Johnson "The Classics"
Prepare the secret of the fatal hours - Lionel Johnson "Mystic and Cavalier"
To understand a banished secret - Lionel Johnson "Renegade"
Red is a secret in the trees - Taylor Johnson "Art Movie"
Learning the secrets of cirrhosis - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"
Knows the secrets in my gaze - Allison Joseph "Incognito Grief: A Blues"
Chafe against the secret spell - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
In my hands, we are closer than secret - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"
While her parents redrew her secretly into being - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
The secret of your serene repose - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Nor the slipped hound of hate track that soul's secret ways - T.M. Kettle "Parnell"
Be acquainted with this secret - Khushal Khan Khattak "[Know thou well this world its state...]" transl. by C.E. Biddulph
Shaped for secret oaths - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Clay Army"
Showed them the secret of stealing honey - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"
Secret rapture in their breast did glow - Ivan Kozloff "Kiéff" transl. by T.B. Shaw [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
Seek to quell its secret burning - M.E.L. "A Farewell" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
In secret thickets grey - Archibald Lampman "April"
Save the wind's secret stir - Archibald Lampman "In November"
A pleasure secret and austere - Archibald Lampman "In November"
In the secret ways of thought - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
The voices of earth's secret soul - Archibald Lampman "Voices of Earth"
In secret moods of mercy - Archibald Lampman "Winter"
With many a curse and many a secret tear - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
Life's secret is not guessed at yet - Lucy Larcom "November"
Secret and silent their footsteps - Emily Lawless "From the Burren XIII: Evening"
A gate that could open secrets - Joan Larkin "Mozart's Songbook"
The half-secret gleam of a passion-flower - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
Your self-conscious secret fruits - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
The dark door of the secret earth - D.H. Lawrence "Snake"
My myriad secret streams - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
His Art's deep secret and clear crown - Emma Lazarus "Teresa di Faenza" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
All day at her secret looms - Richard Le Gallienne "May Is Building Her House"
In memory where all our secrets go - Stephen Leggett "Flywheels"
With their secret ponds and streams unknown - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"
Through adobe walls and secret gardens - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
Secreter than valleys in the tops of clouds - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"
A secret combination of frowns - J. Patrick Lewis "the child"
Secret chants from the deep - M.L. Liebler "Upon Christ's Entry into Liverpool"
Find the secret of universal cohesion - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"
Her secret forest's floor and lawn - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"
The power of unshared secrets - Audre Lorde "Legacy -- His"
Through secret eyes of malachite - Audre Lorde "Parting"
Whispered the secrets of earth to the flowers - Amy Lowell "The Way"
Secrets that the noonday keeps - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Meadow secrets, forest clues - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Shelter and Fellowship"
The secret clue we followed - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The World's End"
Folded hearts where secrets hide - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Crocus Bed"
With a secret tide to a secret sea - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Down at the Docks"
A young and secret moon - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "I Watch Swift Pictures"
Betray the secrets of the lily - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Secret"
Whose soul is secret as the evening-star - James Allan Mackereth "Hail and Farewell"
While earth its scented secrets told - James Allan Mackereth "Ioläus"
Whose secrets flee from silence unaware - James Allan Mackereth "Ioläus"
The secret place of thunders - Kate Seymour MacLean "Bird Song"
Let its secrets leak out into the starlight - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"
Unmask the secret face of night - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"
The cicada's larva reveals narrow secrets - J. Michael Martinez "[Untitled]"
Many a secret fate whose marks on fortitude are deep and hard to bear - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Old secrets of the landscape told - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"
Broke open spirit secrets - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
Like secret unremembered sins - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
The secret honey of the Cliff - Theodore Maynard "The Glory of the Oriflamme"
Held dead Queens' secret jewels - Theodore Maynard "Sonnet for the Fifth of October"
The secret of the woodland's sleep - Theodore Maynard "Wed"
Betray the secret of your soul - Claude McKay "A Red Flower"
Learn the secret of the shrouded death - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
Touch not this day's secret - Alice Meynell "Spring on the Alban Hills"
From the secret earth shall rise - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Elegy"
In the secret earth securely - Edna St Vincent Millay "Elegy"
Asking Evening the secret of Night - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "The Spirit of Evening"
From the rabbits' more secret house - Claire Millikin "Rabbit Theory"
Where souls could be mended in secret - Claire Millikin "Witness"
To note their secret depths - "The Misanthrope"
Shadowy fires that burn in secret - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Learned the burden of secrets - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"
The broken secrets of our pride - Sarojini Naidu "To a Buddha Seated on a Lotus"
Death's secrets in one heart - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Resting on the hard secret of power - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Secret images unearthed by time - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
To the secret logic of rock - Pablo Neruda "Farewell to the Offerings of the Sea" transl. by Maria Jacketti and Dennis Maloney
Keys spread out in secret rocks - Pablo Neruda "From Above (1942)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The ground charged with secrets - Pablo Neruda "Gold" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The secret wing's of bereavement's ship - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The secret world of locusts - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
Set afire by a secret ruby - Pablo Neruda "Ode to a Stamp Album" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Tower of the secret icehouses - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XII" transl. by William O'Daly
Translucent fingers of the secret salt - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The secret hearts of clocks - Pablo Neruda "To Don Asterio Alacaron, Clocksmith of Valparaiso" transl. by Alastair Reid
Secret in stubborn solitude - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The old chest which crouches over secrets - Mari Ness "Gretel's Bones"
Your cold secrets wrapped in a storied veil - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Secret places tangled in roots - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Gave their secrets to his own heart's keeping - Meredith Nicholson "Three Friends"
When spaces hold secrets - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"
The secret harmony of law - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
One phrase of the secret music - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"
Only the secret music of his mind - Alfred Noyes "Goethe II: The Prophet"
That secretly applauds this army of catalogues - Naomi Shihab Nye "Catalogue Army"
But you need your own secret - Naomi Shihab Nye "Fundamentalism"
Three secret hours before dawn - Naomi Shihab Nye "Muchas Gracias por Todo"
A legacy of secret tears - Naomi Shihab Nye "Working on his Sermon"
Dashed a tear in secret from his eye - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Except within my secret ears - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"
Steals the light of Love's secret - James F. Otis "To the New Moon"
Like secret tidal pools doomed by salt - Linda Pastan "The Grandfathers"
Lizards nodded away the world's secrets - Nome Emeka Patrick "Naked"
Made from secret herbs - Lucia Perillo "Christmas at Forty"
Each time she sings their secret song - Patrick Phillips "The Singing"
When the sun betrays their secret - Xan Forest Phillips "I Never Used to Write About Birds"
The secret name of subtler sins - Lynn Powell "Slow Elegy from Afar"
The secret chambers of my thought - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Drachenfels: L'Envoi IV"
The secret riddle of this universe - John Presland "The Deluge"
Secret nature's treasure room - John Presland "To April"
The shimmering secret kept by rain - Rena Priest "Tour of a Salmonberry"
to learn the secret of cruelty - Kadijah Queen "Violence, I know you"
Her secret none can utter - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Alma Mater"
Of incense mist and secret prayers - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Italy"
Secret weeping over your barrenness - Rahel "To My Country" transl. by Diane Mintz
The secret of the fiery dew - Theodore H. Rand "The Cirrus Cloud"
Like a secret honeycomb adrip - Theodore H. Rand "In the Cool of the Day"
The glow of secret heat - Theodore H. Rand "The Rose"
The secrets of the mighty dead - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"
If I crave the secret corners of your city - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"
Stolen secrets in the cleft reside - Adrienne Rich "Four Short Poems 4"
Go veiled on secret silver thresholds - Lola Ridge "Eyrie (To E.A.R.)"
With a mellow and secret laughter - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Hooding all dark secrets of the flesh - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Wishful in secret to forget - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Caparisoned in your secret darkness - Lola Ridge "Seed"
Secret darkness full of green banners - Lola Ridge "Seed"
We live in secret cities - Alberto Rios "The Cities Inside Us"
We are the secret citizens of the city - Alberto Rios "The Cities Inside Us"
And all its hideous secrets start to light - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
The secret roots of the sun - Isaac Rosenberg "Chagrin"
More secret than desert light - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
The wordless secrets of death's deep - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"
In the secret of our numbers - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"
In easy riddles taught the secret - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
A second obol secret beneath my tongue - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
To know the secrets of the sea - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Shell"
In each man's heart a secret temple - Frederick George Scott "Idols"
Secret admirer to the all-alone - Tobias Seamon "A Daybook of Devils"
But we have secrets I won't tell - "Secrets" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Their silk ties and their secret economies - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"
Has hidden it in the secret heart of the Wild - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
To make your secret anguish your secret weapon - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"
Float the secrets on the waters - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"
The stars in secret influence comment - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XV"
Secret after beveled secret - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"
The secrets of many revealed as one - Brenda Shaughnessy "Why Is the Color of Snow?"
The secret food of fires - Percy Bysshe Shelley "When Passion’s Trance Is Overpast"
In shelters and in secret places - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: The Lamentation of Fand When She Is About to Leave Cuchulain"
A secret, silent, sparkling sight - Joyce Sidman "In the Almost-Light"
Drank in secrets and wonderings - Joyce Sidman "Lament for Teddy"
Free to strike the sweet harp of the secret soul - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Huguenot Fort"
Its secret in the slippery wheels - Charles Simic "The Pieces of the Clock Lie Scattered"
Renewal of life's secret spring - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"
Hate them for the watery secrets they keep - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"
Passion in our secret veins - Clark Ashton Smith "Ecstasy"
Sun of secret worlds incredible - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Another friend that you could trust with a secret - Marin Sorescu "Thieves" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea
Our other earth opens a secret hand - Nathan Spoon "The Genie Speaks"
Read the secret of the Seven - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"
Still may fear the secret test - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"
Self with self in secret tourney - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Secret with the homeless wind - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"
The abiding secret of our tears - George Sterling "Visual Beauty"
Only the song of a secret bird - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"
The secrets of the sepulchres of hell - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
Secrets filched and heralded abroad - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
The secrets we stopper within our own mouths - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
The secret spice of those veiled hours - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXXVI: Art and Women"
The fragile secret of a flower - Sara Teasdale "I Have Loved Hours at Sea"
The common wages of their most secret heart - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"
Secret by the unmourning water - Dylan Thomas "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"
Half untold their secret keep - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
The tree uses a secret algebra - McKenzie Toma "Disintegrating Calculus Problem"
The partner of my secret counsels - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"
The secret of each other's knowing - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
Armed with irresistible secrets - Kristen Tracy "Half-Hatched"
Aware of all the world's worst secrets - Kristen Tracy "To the Tender"
A moonstone hieroglyphed with secret letters - Iris Tree "Flame"
Crave the pale secrets of the moon - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"
Spangling a secret radiance on adoring hands - Iris Tree "[Of all who died in silence far away]"
Opens the secret chambers of our hopes - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"
The secret of seawater - Dorothy Tse "Cloth Birds"
An azure flower secretly blooms - Perhat Tursun "The Tarim River" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Tell me the secret of what comes next - Leah Umansky "I Want to be Stark[like]" [Poetry Jan. 2014]
In secret for loving the spring - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"
while its secrets shape the court - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"
The god of the secret world-on-fire - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
A secret down in the deep of my dark - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
All the shadows secretly meditate - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours VI" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
With secret and sarcastic mien - Paul Verlaine "Le Faune" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Hold secret a bird's flowering - Jose Garcia Villa "Lyrics: II (17)"
Secret rivers that darkness feeds on - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"
The clue to my secret lurking-place - Susan E. Wallace "The Mistletoe Bough"
Within the secret caves of Mind - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
The secret to survival is to disappear - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
Though steep her secret dwelling clings - Edith Wharton "Dieu d'Amour [a Castle in Cyprus]"
Have made a secret pact with Sleep - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Have climbed with you by secret ways - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Afraid of beauty's dreadful secret - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Silence speaks the secret of the world - Helen Hay Whitney "Be Still"
Earth holds no sweeter secret - Helen Hay Whitney "My Brook"
Redbuds dispersing their ruby secrets - Amie Whittemore "Ghosting Aubade"
A finished thing guarding its secret - William Carlos Williams "It Is a Small Plant"
The secret's in the extra ice - Allan Wolf "Saturn: And the Winner for Best Wardrobe Is..."
The weight of gravity toward that secret center - James F. Yockey "What If"
that sheaths its lethal secret in silence - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"
Go on hunting, one secret closing, another ensuing - Dean Young "Colophon"
Who have ravish'd beauty's secret ways - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Hauling out the secret ledger - Art Zilleruelo "Arrangements"
In secrecy a hopeless hope to nurse - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Till secrecy's seal from their lips be removed - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
In range of wild secrecies - Michael Field "Real Presence"
In secrecy were ripening their doubt - Harry Martinson "Aniara 38" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The secrecy our smiles take on - Frank O'Hara "Having a Coke with You"
For the white blossoms, and the secrecy - Mary Oliver "Someday"
The blazing secrecy of noon - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"
The echoing cry of one secretive bird - Keith Taylor "Outside"
When I secreted zero at the bone - Cynthia Hogue "The Daughter"
Secrete the bitter essence of the Past - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XV: Memoria Submersa"
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What are bodies if not secrets promised - Lydia Abedeen "Birangona Song in a Walmart Parking Lot"
Soar against the cruel secrets of the door - Abu'l-Ala "The Diwan XLV" (transl. by Henry Baerlein)
Where the secrets beat in the heart - Linda Addison "Evolving"
Another of God's secrets wasted on me - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog"
Secret spells of some kind sage - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"
The secrets of a wine which warms the heart - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. They are not wisest who are conscious most] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt
Reading the secret of drought on the palms - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger
A secret charm for sending grief astray - Ellen Tracy Alden "Neighbor Edith"
In this most awful secret laboratory - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
The thorned secrets our tongues have learned - Lauren K. Alleyne "How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter,"
To carry a pall of secrets - Zaina Alsous "Southern Accent"
Opens up a secret that slept - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "About the angels"
Each snowflake whispered a secret - James Armstrong "First Snow"
An inspiration and a secret flame - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"
The betrayal of unworthy secrets - Ingeborg Bachmann "Every Day" transl. by Michael Hamburger
And birth our anger in secret - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"
Their own secret inflection of want - Mary Jo Bang "The Medicinal Cotton Clouds Come Down to Cover Them"
Urged some bitter secret - Djuna Barnes "From Fifth Avenue Up"
The night's secret dissolves at dawn - Lou Barrett "Address Book"
The secret scent of ancient waters - Lou Barrett "Young Fisher King"
That was worse for being secret - Elizabeth Bartlett "Along That Road"
leaps secret with wonder - Elizabeth Bartlett "art"
On folded wings secret and silent - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"
On secret tides of air - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sleepwalkers"
Intricately ribboned like a secret code - Ellen Bass "Fungus on Fallen Alder at Lookout Creek"
Hides so many secrets as my brain - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
To trace the secrets of the skies - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"
Secrets that only the lilacs know - Clive Bell "March"
Lit with secrets - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Evergreen"
In his secret shrine hallows a wealth of gods - Stephen Vincent Benet "Hymn in Columbus Circle"
The secret form of the soul is there in its terror - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Light towards the dark secret heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Contraband or some secret knowledge - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"
All my dead secrets arise - Stella Benson "Song [If I have dared to surrender]"
Bind your heart lest it find secrets out - Stella Benson "To the Unborn"
I don't know what your secrets are - Emily Berry "Allegiances"
Which crawl on secret errands - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"
Your eyes have a secret highway - Rebecca G. Biber "Internal"
Hold our secret shames so close - Sheila Black "The Earth"
With secret, chained thoughts - Maxwell Bodenheim "Boarding-House Episode"
Sounds not the secrets of its silences beneath - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"
May find the secret of the skies - Gordon Bottomley "The Quest"
The whispered secret of a deed of blood - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"
And none can hear my secret call - Anne Bronte "The Doubter's Prayer"
In secret kept, in silence sealed - Charlotte Bronte "Evening Solace"
On his path a secret light - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"
Hiding secret fires from view - Charlotte Bronte "Preference"
Their strange beauty my secret - Susan Browne "Becoming a Poet"
The secrets that live inside us - Sue Budin "Totality"
From secret hoards of scarlet - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"
Its twisted grin in on all my secrets - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"
In the midst of secret things - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall
The nightingale pours forth her secret boon - Giosue Carducci "Virgil" transl. by Frank Sewall
Soothed her secret sorrow - Lewis Carroll "Melancholetta"
The trees with their secrets and green faces - Paul Carroll "Untitled [I want to write a poem the birds will understand]"
How secretly they lie - Anne Carson "Short Talk on Pain"
All that the secret pages can reveal - Walter Richard Cassels "Beatrice di Tenda"
Through the secret light - Charles Causley "The Swan"
My terror is not secret - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"
Like eating a secret - Jennifer Chang "We Found the Body of a Young Deer Once"
Hide the crimson secret of your sunset - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Worship"
The secret stones of kings - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"
Scrawled screens and secret gardens - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"
our best secret - Lucille Clifton "crabbing"
The closed mouth of secrets - Antonio Colinas "Song XXXV"
A secret from the brown earth steal - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"
More secrets than yesterday - Hilda Conkling "Moon Doves"
Lightning bares each secret form - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Will question the well for my secret - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Way-Side Well"
Withholds the secret of the skies - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"
Tasting the secret letters of your history - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
Through secret words of prophets - "Cynewulf's Elene" (translated by James M. Garnett c.1900, revised 1911)
All the anguish borne in secret - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"
With secret benefits and obvious liabilities - Jim Daniels "Good Reception"
Ancient secrets by the lonely shore - G.A. Davis "The Sea's Secret" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
Know the secret that you told me long ago - G.A. Davis "The Sea's Secret" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
The minor intimacy of that secret - Geffrey Davis "For the Child's Mole"
A secret he knows better than to share - Armen Davoudian "The Yellow Swan"
The secrets of my calming beauty - Kwame Dawes "How I Pray in the Plague"
The wallpapered shadow of a secret self - Meg Day "Big Sky Domestic"
Should some escape the secret snare - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle
With secret symbol of line and word - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"
Secret herbs their spices shower - Walter de la Mare "The Sunken Garden"
The flower that shares her secret with the moon - Geoffrey Dearmer "B.E.F. Missing"
Tiny seeds like secrets of the universe - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"
Puzzled roots in a wilderness of secrets - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Nature"
As if we didn't like secrets - Rita Dove "Borderline Mambo"
Told their secrets to the trees - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
Murmur dim melodious secrets - Edward Dowden "The Fountain"
The secret of his brother's heart - Ernest Dowson "Carthusians"
To command the secrets of the soul - John William Draper "Thomas de Quincey"
To know the feral secrets - Katherine Edgren "On the Prowl"
Gleans the secrets of the world - Dara Yen Elerath "The White Paws"
where we all knew each other's secrets - Safia Elhillo "spring"
That secret the wind kept from the surface of the sea - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"
The secret of their mutual flame - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
With secret tumult heaved - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
The secret music of the street - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"
What that secret grief hath been - "Forget-Me-Not: Myosotis Avensis" transl. from German by Fitz-Greene Halleck [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Lingers in the heart's secret places - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"
Mothers with secrets know better - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"
The secret shape of once-seen, sweet and oft-dreamed loveliness - John Freeman "Shadows"
The secret issues of the soul - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]
The secret stir of nameless dead - Zona Gale "A Meeting"
These secrets told are ruin - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Like the inside of a secret - Carmen Gimenez "Redaction"
The secret terms of their surrender - Dana Gioia "At the Crossroads"
The secrets of your lunar embassy - Dana Gioia "Pardon Me, Pilgrim"
Trace the secret transits of our joy - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"
The secrets Hell exists to hide - Dana Gioia "The Underworld: V. Their Secrets"
Have read the secrets of the night - Ellen Glasgow "The Hunter"
Search for secrets of the dust - Ellen Glasgow "The Hunter"
How deep two secret rivers run - Laird Shields Goldsborough "Confession"
One more spill of secrets - Rigoberto Gonzalez "La Pelona as Birdwoman"
And has taught them all the secrets - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
In the secret places under my heart - Mona Gould "You, the Sower of Seed"
secret imaginings of romance and jasmine - Layla Azmi Goushey "Dream Particles"
Rattling and rocketing down in secret void - Robert Graves "Down"
The secret of my grief - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull
The mighty secrets of his power - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"
Its daughters' honeyed secrets - Pamela Gross "The Hive"
Unprotected in the secret Antarctica - Wendy Guerra "Winter Sports" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
The central fires of secret memory - Ivor Gurney "That County"
Tell deep secrets to the Flower - Hafiz "The Divan XL" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Each had a secret unconfessed - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"
With the secret antelope of compassion - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"
Though secretly longing to join the diversion - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"
Each fond aspiration in secret milled - Mrs. M.E. Hewitt "The Bride's Reverie" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no. 2, July 1850]
Secret white mirror - Edward Hirsch "Blue Hydrangea"
A tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore - Edward Hirsch "Widening Sky"
Wells where Truth in secret lay - William D. Howells "A Poet"
Old secrets unforgotten - Aldous Huxley "The Mirror"
But my secret thoughts have not escaped - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
The houses where we keep our secrets - Helen Hunt Jackson "Dreams"
Poised to disclose some secret - John James "At Assateague"
The soul held secret from all sight - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"
The secret ambition of the sun - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Worry the Rosemary"
The secret of fair souls - Lionel Johnson "The Classics"
Prepare the secret of the fatal hours - Lionel Johnson "Mystic and Cavalier"
To understand a banished secret - Lionel Johnson "Renegade"
Red is a secret in the trees - Taylor Johnson "Art Movie"
Learning the secrets of cirrhosis - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"
Knows the secrets in my gaze - Allison Joseph "Incognito Grief: A Blues"
Chafe against the secret spell - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith
In my hands, we are closer than secret - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"
While her parents redrew her secretly into being - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"
The secret of your serene repose - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Nor the slipped hound of hate track that soul's secret ways - T.M. Kettle "Parnell"
Be acquainted with this secret - Khushal Khan Khattak "[Know thou well this world its state...]" transl. by C.E. Biddulph
Shaped for secret oaths - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Clay Army"
Showed them the secret of stealing honey - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"
Secret rapture in their breast did glow - Ivan Kozloff "Kiéff" transl. by T.B. Shaw [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
Seek to quell its secret burning - M.E.L. "A Farewell" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]
In secret thickets grey - Archibald Lampman "April"
Save the wind's secret stir - Archibald Lampman "In November"
A pleasure secret and austere - Archibald Lampman "In November"
In the secret ways of thought - Archibald Lampman "A Vision of Twilight"
The voices of earth's secret soul - Archibald Lampman "Voices of Earth"
In secret moods of mercy - Archibald Lampman "Winter"
With many a curse and many a secret tear - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
Life's secret is not guessed at yet - Lucy Larcom "November"
Secret and silent their footsteps - Emily Lawless "From the Burren XIII: Evening"
A gate that could open secrets - Joan Larkin "Mozart's Songbook"
The half-secret gleam of a passion-flower - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
Your self-conscious secret fruits - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"
The dark door of the secret earth - D.H. Lawrence "Snake"
My myriad secret streams - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"
His Art's deep secret and clear crown - Emma Lazarus "Teresa di Faenza" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]
All day at her secret looms - Richard Le Gallienne "May Is Building Her House"
In memory where all our secrets go - Stephen Leggett "Flywheels"
With their secret ponds and streams unknown - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"
Through adobe walls and secret gardens - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"
Secreter than valleys in the tops of clouds - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"
A secret combination of frowns - J. Patrick Lewis "the child"
Secret chants from the deep - M.L. Liebler "Upon Christ's Entry into Liverpool"
Find the secret of universal cohesion - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"
Her secret forest's floor and lawn - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"
The power of unshared secrets - Audre Lorde "Legacy -- His"
Through secret eyes of malachite - Audre Lorde "Parting"
Whispered the secrets of earth to the flowers - Amy Lowell "The Way"
Secrets that the noonday keeps - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Meadow secrets, forest clues - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Shelter and Fellowship"
The secret clue we followed - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The World's End"
Folded hearts where secrets hide - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Crocus Bed"
With a secret tide to a secret sea - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Down at the Docks"
A young and secret moon - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "I Watch Swift Pictures"
Betray the secrets of the lily - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Secret"
Whose soul is secret as the evening-star - James Allan Mackereth "Hail and Farewell"
While earth its scented secrets told - James Allan Mackereth "Ioläus"
Whose secrets flee from silence unaware - James Allan Mackereth "Ioläus"
The secret place of thunders - Kate Seymour MacLean "Bird Song"
Let its secrets leak out into the starlight - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"
Unmask the secret face of night - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"
The cicada's larva reveals narrow secrets - J. Michael Martinez "[Untitled]"
Many a secret fate whose marks on fortitude are deep and hard to bear - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Old secrets of the landscape told - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"
Broke open spirit secrets - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"
Like secret unremembered sins - Theodore Maynard "The Ascetic"
The secret honey of the Cliff - Theodore Maynard "The Glory of the Oriflamme"
Held dead Queens' secret jewels - Theodore Maynard "Sonnet for the Fifth of October"
The secret of the woodland's sleep - Theodore Maynard "Wed"
Betray the secret of your soul - Claude McKay "A Red Flower"
Learn the secret of the shrouded death - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"
Touch not this day's secret - Alice Meynell "Spring on the Alban Hills"
From the secret earth shall rise - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Elegy"
In the secret earth securely - Edna St Vincent Millay "Elegy"
Asking Evening the secret of Night - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "The Spirit of Evening"
From the rabbits' more secret house - Claire Millikin "Rabbit Theory"
Where souls could be mended in secret - Claire Millikin "Witness"
To note their secret depths - "The Misanthrope"
Shadowy fires that burn in secret - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson
Learned the burden of secrets - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"
The broken secrets of our pride - Sarojini Naidu "To a Buddha Seated on a Lotus"
Death's secrets in one heart - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Resting on the hard secret of power - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Secret images unearthed by time - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
To the secret logic of rock - Pablo Neruda "Farewell to the Offerings of the Sea" transl. by Maria Jacketti and Dennis Maloney
Keys spread out in secret rocks - Pablo Neruda "From Above (1942)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The ground charged with secrets - Pablo Neruda "Gold" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The secret wing's of bereavement's ship - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The secret world of locusts - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
Set afire by a secret ruby - Pablo Neruda "Ode to a Stamp Album" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Tower of the secret icehouses - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XII" transl. by William O'Daly
Translucent fingers of the secret salt - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney
The secret hearts of clocks - Pablo Neruda "To Don Asterio Alacaron, Clocksmith of Valparaiso" transl. by Alastair Reid
Secret in stubborn solitude - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The old chest which crouches over secrets - Mari Ness "Gretel's Bones"
Your cold secrets wrapped in a storied veil - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Secret places tangled in roots - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"
Gave their secrets to his own heart's keeping - Meredith Nicholson "Three Friends"
When spaces hold secrets - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"
The secret harmony of law - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
One phrase of the secret music - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"
Only the secret music of his mind - Alfred Noyes "Goethe II: The Prophet"
That secretly applauds this army of catalogues - Naomi Shihab Nye "Catalogue Army"
But you need your own secret - Naomi Shihab Nye "Fundamentalism"
Three secret hours before dawn - Naomi Shihab Nye "Muchas Gracias por Todo"
A legacy of secret tears - Naomi Shihab Nye "Working on his Sermon"
Dashed a tear in secret from his eye - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
Except within my secret ears - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"
Steals the light of Love's secret - James F. Otis "To the New Moon"
Like secret tidal pools doomed by salt - Linda Pastan "The Grandfathers"
Lizards nodded away the world's secrets - Nome Emeka Patrick "Naked"
Made from secret herbs - Lucia Perillo "Christmas at Forty"
Each time she sings their secret song - Patrick Phillips "The Singing"
When the sun betrays their secret - Xan Forest Phillips "I Never Used to Write About Birds"
The secret name of subtler sins - Lynn Powell "Slow Elegy from Afar"
The secret chambers of my thought - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Legend of the Drachenfels: L'Envoi IV"
The secret riddle of this universe - John Presland "The Deluge"
Secret nature's treasure room - John Presland "To April"
The shimmering secret kept by rain - Rena Priest "Tour of a Salmonberry"
to learn the secret of cruelty - Kadijah Queen "Violence, I know you"
Her secret none can utter - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Alma Mater"
Of incense mist and secret prayers - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "To Italy"
Secret weeping over your barrenness - Rahel "To My Country" transl. by Diane Mintz
The secret of the fiery dew - Theodore H. Rand "The Cirrus Cloud"
Like a secret honeycomb adrip - Theodore H. Rand "In the Cool of the Day"
The glow of secret heat - Theodore H. Rand "The Rose"
The secrets of the mighty dead - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"
If I crave the secret corners of your city - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"
Stolen secrets in the cleft reside - Adrienne Rich "Four Short Poems 4"
Go veiled on secret silver thresholds - Lola Ridge "Eyrie (To E.A.R.)"
With a mellow and secret laughter - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Hooding all dark secrets of the flesh - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Wishful in secret to forget - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"
Caparisoned in your secret darkness - Lola Ridge "Seed"
Secret darkness full of green banners - Lola Ridge "Seed"
We live in secret cities - Alberto Rios "The Cities Inside Us"
We are the secret citizens of the city - Alberto Rios "The Cities Inside Us"
And all its hideous secrets start to light - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
The secret roots of the sun - Isaac Rosenberg "Chagrin"
More secret than desert light - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
The wordless secrets of death's deep - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"
In the secret of our numbers - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"
In easy riddles taught the secret - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited
A second obol secret beneath my tongue - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"
To know the secrets of the sea - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Shell"
In each man's heart a secret temple - Frederick George Scott "Idols"
Secret admirer to the all-alone - Tobias Seamon "A Daybook of Devils"
But we have secrets I won't tell - "Secrets" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Their silk ties and their secret economies - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"
Has hidden it in the secret heart of the Wild - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
To make your secret anguish your secret weapon - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"
Float the secrets on the waters - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"
The stars in secret influence comment - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XV"
Secret after beveled secret - Solmaz Sharif "An Otherwise"
The secrets of many revealed as one - Brenda Shaughnessy "Why Is the Color of Snow?"
The secret food of fires - Percy Bysshe Shelley "When Passion’s Trance Is Overpast"
In shelters and in secret places - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: The Lamentation of Fand When She Is About to Leave Cuchulain"
A secret, silent, sparkling sight - Joyce Sidman "In the Almost-Light"
Drank in secrets and wonderings - Joyce Sidman "Lament for Teddy"
Free to strike the sweet harp of the secret soul - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Huguenot Fort"
Its secret in the slippery wheels - Charles Simic "The Pieces of the Clock Lie Scattered"
Renewal of life's secret spring - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"
Hate them for the watery secrets they keep - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"
Passion in our secret veins - Clark Ashton Smith "Ecstasy"
Sun of secret worlds incredible - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"
Another friend that you could trust with a secret - Marin Sorescu "Thieves" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea
Our other earth opens a secret hand - Nathan Spoon "The Genie Speaks"
Read the secret of the Seven - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"
Still may fear the secret test - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"
Self with self in secret tourney - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Secret with the homeless wind - George Sterling "Autumn (StC)"
The abiding secret of our tears - George Sterling "Visual Beauty"
Only the song of a secret bird - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"
The secrets of the sepulchres of hell - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
Secrets filched and heralded abroad - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
The secrets we stopper within our own mouths - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"
The secret spice of those veiled hours - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXXVI: Art and Women"
The fragile secret of a flower - Sara Teasdale "I Have Loved Hours at Sea"
The common wages of their most secret heart - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"
Secret by the unmourning water - Dylan Thomas "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London"
Half untold their secret keep - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
The tree uses a secret algebra - McKenzie Toma "Disintegrating Calculus Problem"
The partner of my secret counsels - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The White Man's Burden"
The secret of each other's knowing - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
Armed with irresistible secrets - Kristen Tracy "Half-Hatched"
Aware of all the world's worst secrets - Kristen Tracy "To the Tender"
A moonstone hieroglyphed with secret letters - Iris Tree "Flame"
Crave the pale secrets of the moon - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"
Spangling a secret radiance on adoring hands - Iris Tree "[Of all who died in silence far away]"
Opens the secret chambers of our hopes - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"
The secret of seawater - Dorothy Tse "Cloth Birds"
An azure flower secretly blooms - Perhat Tursun "The Tarim River" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Tell me the secret of what comes next - Leah Umansky "I Want to be Stark[like]" [Poetry Jan. 2014]
In secret for loving the spring - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"
while its secrets shape the court - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "This Kiln Isn't For Everyone"
The god of the secret world-on-fire - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
A secret down in the deep of my dark - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
All the shadows secretly meditate - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours VI" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
With secret and sarcastic mien - Paul Verlaine "Le Faune" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Hold secret a bird's flowering - Jose Garcia Villa "Lyrics: II (17)"
Secret rivers that darkness feeds on - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"
The clue to my secret lurking-place - Susan E. Wallace "The Mistletoe Bough"
Within the secret caves of Mind - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"
The secret to survival is to disappear - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"
Though steep her secret dwelling clings - Edith Wharton "Dieu d'Amour [a Castle in Cyprus]"
Have made a secret pact with Sleep - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Have climbed with you by secret ways - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"
Afraid of beauty's dreadful secret - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"
Silence speaks the secret of the world - Helen Hay Whitney "Be Still"
Earth holds no sweeter secret - Helen Hay Whitney "My Brook"
Redbuds dispersing their ruby secrets - Amie Whittemore "Ghosting Aubade"
A finished thing guarding its secret - William Carlos Williams "It Is a Small Plant"
The secret's in the extra ice - Allan Wolf "Saturn: And the Winner for Best Wardrobe Is..."
The weight of gravity toward that secret center - James F. Yockey "What If"
that sheaths its lethal secret in silence - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"
Go on hunting, one secret closing, another ensuing - Dean Young "Colophon"
Who have ravish'd beauty's secret ways - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Hauling out the secret ledger - Art Zilleruelo "Arrangements"
In secrecy a hopeless hope to nurse - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Till secrecy's seal from their lips be removed - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
In range of wild secrecies - Michael Field "Real Presence"
In secrecy were ripening their doubt - Harry Martinson "Aniara 38" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
The secrecy our smiles take on - Frank O'Hara "Having a Coke with You"
For the white blossoms, and the secrecy - Mary Oliver "Someday"
The blazing secrecy of noon - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"
The echoing cry of one secretive bird - Keith Taylor "Outside"
When I secreted zero at the bone - Cynthia Hogue "The Daughter"
Secrete the bitter essence of the Past - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XV: Memoria Submersa"
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