Potential Titles: Touch
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somethingdarkerBetter grasp the red-hot steel, than touch another's gold - A.L.O.E. "Ragged Boy's Hymn"
Lips touched with living flame - A.L.O.E. "Soldier's Hymn"
We shouldn't touch things we can't keep - Anne Carly Abad "Where the Waves Meet"
Not breaking on a violation of touch - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"
The blade of touch grows too keen - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"
At the chilly touch of the Frost-king - Ellen Tracy Alden "Good-by, Little Bird"
Stone touched by her fingertips took flight - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
That touched the ancient folds around his eyes - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Striving for the elixir of his touch - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"
Or touch the tears unwept of bitter love - William Allingham "The Lover and Birds"
Lifted her beyond a single touch of fear - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]
Rise like foliage and human touch - Ralph Angel "Sampling"
Blessed with a magician's touch - Simon Armitage "Poundland"
Don't even register as touch - James Arthur "Wind"
The weeping face of love touched in the dark - Natalie Clifford Barney "More Night!"
And touched the cosmic plan - Elizabeth Bartlett "In His Image"
Learned touch from air - Jan Beatty "Drag"
The consciousness of each star we touch - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"
Touch inner space with heaven - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Scalar"
Nothing to lose by touching down - Terry Blackhawk "Query"
To touch the pieces of glory with our hands - Arna Bontemps "Golgotha Is a Mountain"
My sorrow touches none - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
At the height of hopeless touching - Jericho Brown "Psalm 150"
We know we will not touch ground - Stephanie Burt "White Lobelias"
Uplifted till we touch a star - Witter Bynner "The New World I"
No ruthless hand shall touch thee - Professor Campbell "To the Lily of the Valley" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Reciprocal, illicit beyond touch - Wo Chan "the shoes"
Touched by the finger-tip of Memory - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Until my touch wouldn't burn - Ching-In Chen "Breath for Metal"
What she touched was hers - Lucille Clifton "My Mama moved among the days"
For summer's mellowing touch must wait - Florence Earle Coates "Probation"
Do not touch her roots - "Counsel to a Bridegroom" transl. from Mandinka by Bala Saho
And in all touch he found the sting - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Alter them with a touch - H.D. "Circe"
Foreheads touching the wall's stone - Krystyna Dąbrowska "White Chairs" transl. by Karen Kovacik
For all our fears of touch - Toi Derricotte "For Telly the Fish"
With touches of fruitful irrationality - Joel Dias-Porter "Three Wrong Notes"
Except how water touches land - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
And touched the curious wine - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life L: Hunger"
The ones that Midas touched - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XIII: The Oriole"
Through perturbing touch of doubt - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"
Robes of angels touch these heights - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"
Elude all mortal touch - Edward Dowden "Poesia"
Touched the wings of immortality - John Drinkwater "On Reading the Ms. of Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals"
Touching those lost spaces inside his name - Camille T. Dungy "soldier's girl"
The time it takes to touch - Katherine Edgren "Deep"
Unharmed by the touch of human hand - Lucinda Elliott "The Linnaea Borealis" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.418, 3 Jan. 1852]
Touch the soil & bring the rain - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"
The moon's brute music touching them with fire - Joseph Fasano "Hermitage"
If you don't mind a touch of hell - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "The world is a beautiful place"
for our people who touch the land - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"
May give kingdoms with its touch - Michael Field "Sicut Parvuli"
Not to touch the wild trillium - Katie Ford "Breaking Across Us Now"
And disturb a cold river of stars with a touch - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
Touched by the extensive reach of mutation - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"
A tarnish that goes at the touch of a hand - Robert Frost "Blueberries"
Touch the texture of the light - Zona Gale "Light"
Touched by youth's wayward astonishment - Dana Gioia "Autumn Inaugural"
What they would touch if they fell - Leah Naomi Green "Helping"
Another needless touch of Greece - Grace Greenwood "Babie Annie to Cousin J--, acknowledging the Christmas-gift of a chain"
Knew some touch of sacred wonder - Ivor Gurney "The Day of Victory"
Not touched by Death's disaster - Ivor Gurney "To Certain Comrades"
What strange keels touched her shore - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
Gullies of snow summer hasn't touched yet - Robert Hass "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"
Touch the chords of a sepulchral lyre - William Hayley "Felpham: An Epistle to Henrietta of Lavant 1814"
Touched by sweetbriar and tangled vetch - Seamus Heaney "Come to the Bower"
Touch its silence - Anne Hebert "Bread Is Born"
Touches a thousand open cities - Anne Hebert "Spring Over the City" transl. by Kathleen Weaver
A lamplit bridge touching the troubled sky - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
That touched the shafts of wavering fire - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
The field no plow has touched - Bob Hicok "No Stones"
Where the glass houses of our minds can touch - Bob Hicok "No Stones"
Something invisible and weightless touching our shoulders - Edward Hirsch "Fall"
Streaked by one touch of the careless brush - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
Touched the hem of the dark mountain's robe - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Touched by a moonlight wand - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Touch like a long goodbye - Jennifer Huang "Neighborhood Walk"
Touch some jutting peak of memory - Islwyn "Thought" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Turns to mirage when touched - Saeed Jones "Meridian"
Touched its head in poisonous salute - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"
How jewelweed snaps its seeds at a touch - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time"
Touch'd with shade of bronzed obelisks - John Keats "Hyperion"
Touched the sacred springs of grief - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"
Hallowed and touched with fire - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
An oar touches the water's rim - Kevin Killian "Deep Red"
Within touching distance of the doorknob - Kevin Killian "The Door into Darkness"
And still defy the crumbling touch of Time - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The determined touch of softness - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
The haze of Wall Street touching clouds of double consciousness - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
A touch of dawn was again nightfall - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"
Why the intrepid sun touched the bayonet - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"
Between reaching and touching - Christopher Kondrich "Division of Labor"
The wizard touching minds of men - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Power Against Power [Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1864]"
Touched the ends of the horizon - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
A doll that sleeps with nothing to touch the springs - Henry S. Leigh "A Child's Twilight"
Wears a touch of the picturesque - Henry S. Leigh "The Diligence Driver"
Having touched your naked singularity - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"
Giants afar still touch the sky - Vachel Lindsay "In Memory of My Friend Joyce Kilmer, Poet and Soldier"
Moon marked and touched by sun - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"
Now time can't touch me - Nabila Lovelace "Sojourned"
Only when touched by reverent hands - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"
I touch the blade of you and cling - Amy Lowell "Granadilla"
Touch the rim of your brightness - Amy Lowell "In Excelsis"
Touched aeolian dulcimers - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Who lately tried to touch the moon - Eric MacKay "Letter II. Sorrow"
Chilled their hearts with his icy touch - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things I" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Touched and held the stars - Naomi Long Madgett "Time Is No Thief"
Circumferences touching randomly - Naomi Long Madgett "Two"
A touch of blue devotion - Sarah Mangold "The Atom No. 18"
Faint touches of the Final Truth - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
Touched with racing light - Jeannette Marks "Only Your Name"
Touch your years with mine - Jeannette Marks "Sun-Path"
As if you were making an afterlife with your touch - Wes Matthews "Immortality"
Curving inward while touching the outside - Farid Matuk "When I Look at Pictures"
At one new touch of wizardry - Theodore Maynard "There Was an Hour"
To touch their dream's circumference - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"
At Memory's touch returns again - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Touch not this day's secret - Alice Meynell "Spring on the Alban Hills"
Will touch a hundred flowers - Edna St Vincent Millay "Afternoon on a Hill"
The skin touching nothing - Tyler Mills "Zinnias"
Has touched the rim of eternity - N. Scott Momaday "Northern Dawn"
If a Pelican touched the banner prized - "Monroe to Farragut" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
The spell of half-memories, the touch of half tears - William Moore "Dusk Song"
To touch me with the smile of moon and star - William Moore "Expectancy"
Give back to sorrow's touch a token - Morna "Ianthe"
Touch the pulse of my lonely heart - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Touch the air with fire - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (4)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Touches hurtling mute waters - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The opposite of touch - Hieu Minh Nguyen "My First"
The touch of his long stealing shadow - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
At whose touch time opened - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"
No tender spot that sympathy may touch - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "No Tears" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.43-v.I, 25 Oct. 1884]
Of centuries touched by genius into life - Thomas O'Hagan "Trouble in the Louvre"
Beyond touch of sunrise - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Portrait of My Father as a Pianist"
Happening in a time we can't touch - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"
Touched by an April mood - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"
The devil touched my tongue - Dorothy Parker "Fighting Words"
With touching zeal to mend - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"
Touching the colorful cacophony of sounds - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"
A truth more difficult to touch - Carl Phillips "His Master's Voice"
Touches her where her heart should be - Meghan Phillips "The Bride of Frankenstein Considers Her Options"
Touched me without leaving fingerprints - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 411"
Touch not the bowl that burns - "Pledge" [The Pearl Box. No date. Credited to 'A Pastor.']
From a gray rock-hill that touches the moon - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"
Touched them with his magic torch of light - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Lighter"
Touched by the holy wand of memory - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"
Without forcing them to touch - Ben Purkert "The Past Suffers Too"
The touch of my curbing rein - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"
Which touch the infinite - Theodore H. Rand "The Sea Undine"
That shakes at touch of light - John Reade "Kings of Men"
Stains all its light touches - William Reichard "In the Evening"
Touching and whirled apart - Lola Ridge "Electricity"
Touch a glowworm for your star - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"
Touching the current of the beam - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"
Dainty antennae for the touch and withdrawal - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Have touched their deep quietness - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
That strain to touch their tips with stars - Lola Ridge "Re-birth"
Remembered terror in your touch - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"
Tradition, touching all he sees - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Eros Turannos"
Touched only by star and the wild - Hester J. Rook "Under Silver Waves"
The doorsill where two worlds touch - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks
An example of cliché so profuse it touched my heart - David St. John "The Park"
Comes and touches you with a thousand memories - Carl Sandburg "Under the Harvest Moon"
Touches you with a thousand memories - Carl Sandburg "Under the Harvest Moon"
Joy that touches pain - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: II. The Park Band"
To anchor earth, to touch the sky - Joyce Sidman "Oak After Dark"
Ungentle touch would crush it - "Sorrow and My Heart" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
Morning frost touched by sunshine - Nathan Spoon "Poem of Thankfulness"
When everything you touch makes a spark - Frank Stanford "Freedom, Revolt, and Love"
A whisper touched the wind - George Sterling "Justice"
A wilder glory touched the wood - George Sterling "Moonlight in the Pines"
Had touched the world to grey - George Sterling "To Ruth Chatterton"
Never touched his heart - Wallace Stevens "Chocorua to Its Neighbor"
One touch of the present dissolves the light dream - Miss Caroline E. Sutton "The Past" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Fade at forethought's touch - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Ultra"
Touch comes before sight - Arthur Sze "Sleepers"
Never touched what made me holy - Dujie Tahat "On Desire"
Whispers your words in sensations of taste and delicate touch - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
For the touch of a vanished hand - Tennyson "Break, Break, Break"
Touched the roar with silence - Edward Thomas "Ambition"
Touched by Ariel's power, free of air, and earth, and waves - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
The gentle touch of dripping dew - Iris Tree "[I laid my heart on a stone]"
Echoing tones your touch unpenned - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"
a southern philter with a touch of botulism - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Abstrack Africana"
Nothing could touch the little soul of the grain - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"
Touching voice of our despair - Paul Verlaine "En Sourdine" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Touch us into extinction - Michael Wasson "So Call it Grace"
And touch the skirts and fringes of your fame - William Watson "To Lord Tennyson"
The deeper touch of awe - Edith Wharton "The Mortal Lease. II"
Touched to love this heart - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"
A rare touch of most effective art - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"
Made chilly by traitor touch of snows - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Love is a broken lily]"
To touch fingers with the moon - William Carlos Williams "Pastoral"
Touching a grey, broken sky - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"
As if death had no power to touch him - N.P. Willis "The Shunamite"
That touch the heart like tears - Charlotte Wilson "Evening"
Or the unimaginable touch of Time - William Wordsworth "Mutability"
A finer fire touched my lips - Francis Brett Young "Lament"
If I touch your volcanic face - Javier Zamora "El Salvador"
And refuse to touch their gloves - Paul Zimmer "Suck It Up"
Touched the horizon with its sword - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 17" transl. by Katherine Silver
The silver of moon-touched magnolias - Amy Lowell "Opal"
Photos retouched for accuracy - Achy Obejas "Recountal"
Star-touched, across the fading trail - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"
Arms curve over a touchless embrace - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"
The final touchpoints of calligraphy - Rumi "Sanai" transl. by Coleman Barks
Your names as a talisman and a touchstone - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"
wilting like the wind-touched crops - Giovannai Rosa "a force is a push, or a pull (5.8 million puerto ricans in america)"
Everything wild and wonder-touched - Gretchen Tessmer "A Jar of Condensed Milk"
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Lips touched with living flame - A.L.O.E. "Soldier's Hymn"
We shouldn't touch things we can't keep - Anne Carly Abad "Where the Waves Meet"
Not breaking on a violation of touch - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"
The blade of touch grows too keen - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"
At the chilly touch of the Frost-king - Ellen Tracy Alden "Good-by, Little Bird"
Stone touched by her fingertips took flight - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
That touched the ancient folds around his eyes - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Striving for the elixir of his touch - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"
Or touch the tears unwept of bitter love - William Allingham "The Lover and Birds"
Lifted her beyond a single touch of fear - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]
Rise like foliage and human touch - Ralph Angel "Sampling"
Blessed with a magician's touch - Simon Armitage "Poundland"
Don't even register as touch - James Arthur "Wind"
The weeping face of love touched in the dark - Natalie Clifford Barney "More Night!"
And touched the cosmic plan - Elizabeth Bartlett "In His Image"
Learned touch from air - Jan Beatty "Drag"
The consciousness of each star we touch - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"
Touch inner space with heaven - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Scalar"
Nothing to lose by touching down - Terry Blackhawk "Query"
To touch the pieces of glory with our hands - Arna Bontemps "Golgotha Is a Mountain"
My sorrow touches none - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"
At the height of hopeless touching - Jericho Brown "Psalm 150"
We know we will not touch ground - Stephanie Burt "White Lobelias"
Uplifted till we touch a star - Witter Bynner "The New World I"
No ruthless hand shall touch thee - Professor Campbell "To the Lily of the Valley" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]
Reciprocal, illicit beyond touch - Wo Chan "the shoes"
Touched by the finger-tip of Memory - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Until my touch wouldn't burn - Ching-In Chen "Breath for Metal"
What she touched was hers - Lucille Clifton "My Mama moved among the days"
For summer's mellowing touch must wait - Florence Earle Coates "Probation"
Do not touch her roots - "Counsel to a Bridegroom" transl. from Mandinka by Bala Saho
And in all touch he found the sting - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
Alter them with a touch - H.D. "Circe"
Foreheads touching the wall's stone - Krystyna Dąbrowska "White Chairs" transl. by Karen Kovacik
For all our fears of touch - Toi Derricotte "For Telly the Fish"
With touches of fruitful irrationality - Joel Dias-Porter "Three Wrong Notes"
Except how water touches land - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
And touched the curious wine - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life L: Hunger"
The ones that Midas touched - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XIII: The Oriole"
Through perturbing touch of doubt - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"
Robes of angels touch these heights - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"
Elude all mortal touch - Edward Dowden "Poesia"
Touched the wings of immortality - John Drinkwater "On Reading the Ms. of Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals"
Touching those lost spaces inside his name - Camille T. Dungy "soldier's girl"
The time it takes to touch - Katherine Edgren "Deep"
Unharmed by the touch of human hand - Lucinda Elliott "The Linnaea Borealis" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.418, 3 Jan. 1852]
Touch the soil & bring the rain - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"
The moon's brute music touching them with fire - Joseph Fasano "Hermitage"
If you don't mind a touch of hell - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "The world is a beautiful place"
for our people who touch the land - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"
May give kingdoms with its touch - Michael Field "Sicut Parvuli"
Not to touch the wild trillium - Katie Ford "Breaking Across Us Now"
And disturb a cold river of stars with a touch - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"
Touched by the extensive reach of mutation - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"
A tarnish that goes at the touch of a hand - Robert Frost "Blueberries"
Touch the texture of the light - Zona Gale "Light"
Touched by youth's wayward astonishment - Dana Gioia "Autumn Inaugural"
What they would touch if they fell - Leah Naomi Green "Helping"
Another needless touch of Greece - Grace Greenwood "Babie Annie to Cousin J--, acknowledging the Christmas-gift of a chain"
Knew some touch of sacred wonder - Ivor Gurney "The Day of Victory"
Not touched by Death's disaster - Ivor Gurney "To Certain Comrades"
What strange keels touched her shore - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
Gullies of snow summer hasn't touched yet - Robert Hass "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"
Touch the chords of a sepulchral lyre - William Hayley "Felpham: An Epistle to Henrietta of Lavant 1814"
Touched by sweetbriar and tangled vetch - Seamus Heaney "Come to the Bower"
Touch its silence - Anne Hebert "Bread Is Born"
Touches a thousand open cities - Anne Hebert "Spring Over the City" transl. by Kathleen Weaver
A lamplit bridge touching the troubled sky - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
That touched the shafts of wavering fire - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
The field no plow has touched - Bob Hicok "No Stones"
Where the glass houses of our minds can touch - Bob Hicok "No Stones"
Something invisible and weightless touching our shoulders - Edward Hirsch "Fall"
Streaked by one touch of the careless brush - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"
Touched the hem of the dark mountain's robe - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Touched by a moonlight wand - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"
Touch like a long goodbye - Jennifer Huang "Neighborhood Walk"
Touch some jutting peak of memory - Islwyn "Thought" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
Turns to mirage when touched - Saeed Jones "Meridian"
Touched its head in poisonous salute - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"
How jewelweed snaps its seeds at a touch - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time"
Touch'd with shade of bronzed obelisks - John Keats "Hyperion"
Touched the sacred springs of grief - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"
Hallowed and touched with fire - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
An oar touches the water's rim - Kevin Killian "Deep Red"
Within touching distance of the doorknob - Kevin Killian "The Door into Darkness"
And still defy the crumbling touch of Time - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The determined touch of softness - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"
The haze of Wall Street touching clouds of double consciousness - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
A touch of dawn was again nightfall - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"
Why the intrepid sun touched the bayonet - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"
Between reaching and touching - Christopher Kondrich "Division of Labor"
The wizard touching minds of men - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Power Against Power [Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1864]"
Touched the ends of the horizon - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
A doll that sleeps with nothing to touch the springs - Henry S. Leigh "A Child's Twilight"
Wears a touch of the picturesque - Henry S. Leigh "The Diligence Driver"
Having touched your naked singularity - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"
Giants afar still touch the sky - Vachel Lindsay "In Memory of My Friend Joyce Kilmer, Poet and Soldier"
Moon marked and touched by sun - Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks"
Now time can't touch me - Nabila Lovelace "Sojourned"
Only when touched by reverent hands - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"
I touch the blade of you and cling - Amy Lowell "Granadilla"
Touch the rim of your brightness - Amy Lowell "In Excelsis"
Touched aeolian dulcimers - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Who lately tried to touch the moon - Eric MacKay "Letter II. Sorrow"
Chilled their hearts with his icy touch - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things I" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Touched and held the stars - Naomi Long Madgett "Time Is No Thief"
Circumferences touching randomly - Naomi Long Madgett "Two"
A touch of blue devotion - Sarah Mangold "The Atom No. 18"
Faint touches of the Final Truth - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"
Touched with racing light - Jeannette Marks "Only Your Name"
Touch your years with mine - Jeannette Marks "Sun-Path"
As if you were making an afterlife with your touch - Wes Matthews "Immortality"
Curving inward while touching the outside - Farid Matuk "When I Look at Pictures"
At one new touch of wizardry - Theodore Maynard "There Was an Hour"
To touch their dream's circumference - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"
At Memory's touch returns again - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Touch not this day's secret - Alice Meynell "Spring on the Alban Hills"
Will touch a hundred flowers - Edna St Vincent Millay "Afternoon on a Hill"
The skin touching nothing - Tyler Mills "Zinnias"
Has touched the rim of eternity - N. Scott Momaday "Northern Dawn"
If a Pelican touched the banner prized - "Monroe to Farragut" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
The spell of half-memories, the touch of half tears - William Moore "Dusk Song"
To touch me with the smile of moon and star - William Moore "Expectancy"
Give back to sorrow's touch a token - Morna "Ianthe"
Touch the pulse of my lonely heart - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (3)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Touch the air with fire - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (4)" transl. by Dennis Daly
Touches hurtling mute waters - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The opposite of touch - Hieu Minh Nguyen "My First"
The touch of his long stealing shadow - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
At whose touch time opened - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"
No tender spot that sympathy may touch - Nannie Power O'Donoghue "No Tears" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.43-v.I, 25 Oct. 1884]
Of centuries touched by genius into life - Thomas O'Hagan "Trouble in the Louvre"
Beyond touch of sunrise - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Portrait of My Father as a Pianist"
Happening in a time we can't touch - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"
Touched by an April mood - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"
The devil touched my tongue - Dorothy Parker "Fighting Words"
With touching zeal to mend - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"
Touching the colorful cacophony of sounds - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"
A truth more difficult to touch - Carl Phillips "His Master's Voice"
Touches her where her heart should be - Meghan Phillips "The Bride of Frankenstein Considers Her Options"
Touched me without leaving fingerprints - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 411"
Touch not the bowl that burns - "Pledge" [The Pearl Box. No date. Credited to 'A Pastor.']
From a gray rock-hill that touches the moon - Miriam Clark Potter "The Common Things"
Touched them with his magic torch of light - Miriam Clark Potter "The Star-Lighter"
Touched by the holy wand of memory - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"
Without forcing them to touch - Ben Purkert "The Past Suffers Too"
The touch of my curbing rein - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"
Which touch the infinite - Theodore H. Rand "The Sea Undine"
That shakes at touch of light - John Reade "Kings of Men"
Stains all its light touches - William Reichard "In the Evening"
Touching and whirled apart - Lola Ridge "Electricity"
Touch a glowworm for your star - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"
Touching the current of the beam - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"
Dainty antennae for the touch and withdrawal - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Have touched their deep quietness - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"
That strain to touch their tips with stars - Lola Ridge "Re-birth"
Remembered terror in your touch - Lola Ridge "South-East Wind"
Tradition, touching all he sees - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Eros Turannos"
Touched only by star and the wild - Hester J. Rook "Under Silver Waves"
The doorsill where two worlds touch - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks
An example of cliché so profuse it touched my heart - David St. John "The Park"
Comes and touches you with a thousand memories - Carl Sandburg "Under the Harvest Moon"
Touches you with a thousand memories - Carl Sandburg "Under the Harvest Moon"
Joy that touches pain - Margaret E. Sangster "Music of the Slums: II. The Park Band"
To anchor earth, to touch the sky - Joyce Sidman "Oak After Dark"
Ungentle touch would crush it - "Sorrow and My Heart" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
Morning frost touched by sunshine - Nathan Spoon "Poem of Thankfulness"
When everything you touch makes a spark - Frank Stanford "Freedom, Revolt, and Love"
A whisper touched the wind - George Sterling "Justice"
A wilder glory touched the wood - George Sterling "Moonlight in the Pines"
Had touched the world to grey - George Sterling "To Ruth Chatterton"
Never touched his heart - Wallace Stevens "Chocorua to Its Neighbor"
One touch of the present dissolves the light dream - Miss Caroline E. Sutton "The Past" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
Fade at forethought's touch - Algernon Swinburne "Plus Ultra"
Touch comes before sight - Arthur Sze "Sleepers"
Never touched what made me holy - Dujie Tahat "On Desire"
Whispers your words in sensations of taste and delicate touch - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"
For the touch of a vanished hand - Tennyson "Break, Break, Break"
Touched the roar with silence - Edward Thomas "Ambition"
Touched by Ariel's power, free of air, and earth, and waves - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"
The gentle touch of dripping dew - Iris Tree "[I laid my heart on a stone]"
Echoing tones your touch unpenned - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"
a southern philter with a touch of botulism - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Abstrack Africana"
Nothing could touch the little soul of the grain - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"
Touching voice of our despair - Paul Verlaine "En Sourdine" transl. by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Touch us into extinction - Michael Wasson "So Call it Grace"
And touch the skirts and fringes of your fame - William Watson "To Lord Tennyson"
The deeper touch of awe - Edith Wharton "The Mortal Lease. II"
Touched to love this heart - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"
A rare touch of most effective art - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"
Made chilly by traitor touch of snows - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Love is a broken lily]"
To touch fingers with the moon - William Carlos Williams "Pastoral"
Touching a grey, broken sky - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"
As if death had no power to touch him - N.P. Willis "The Shunamite"
That touch the heart like tears - Charlotte Wilson "Evening"
Or the unimaginable touch of Time - William Wordsworth "Mutability"
A finer fire touched my lips - Francis Brett Young "Lament"
If I touch your volcanic face - Javier Zamora "El Salvador"
And refuse to touch their gloves - Paul Zimmer "Suck It Up"
Touched the horizon with its sword - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 17" transl. by Katherine Silver
The silver of moon-touched magnolias - Amy Lowell "Opal"
Photos retouched for accuracy - Achy Obejas "Recountal"
Star-touched, across the fading trail - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"
Arms curve over a touchless embrace - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"
The final touchpoints of calligraphy - Rumi "Sanai" transl. by Coleman Barks
Your names as a talisman and a touchstone - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"
wilting like the wind-touched crops - Giovannai Rosa "a force is a push, or a pull (5.8 million puerto ricans in america)"
Everything wild and wonder-touched - Gretchen Tessmer "A Jar of Condensed Milk"
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